#styler no

[mindovermechanics]

"What the fuck happened to my boat?!"

[mirroredranger]

Styler just barely got away from Shadow and Voodoo. Time to hide away until Val comes in.

There's someone else here! They have blue hair and seem to be hard at work. As quietly as they can, Styler sneaks up behind him, until they're right next to his ear...

And...

They let out a shrill buzzer sound!

@aotoreiki

[mirroredranger]

What’s this?

Valerie had finally hit the sack, allowing Styler to do their nightly recharge in her computer... as well as do what they do best. Snoop.

Ever since that weird dude gave the ranger the cell phone, Styler has been busying themself each night with searching the ranger union’s database. So far, things have been, well, interesting.

And not the type of interesting that Val should be caught unaware of, or be shown unless she is in the right mood.

But now, some of the files Styler had peeked in before for some dirt are missing. Hoo boy, someone was snooping just like them. Only sloppily. They only knew enough to not set off a red flag with the porygon that ran the server’s security... unless the hacker deleted that first.

But, they haven’t met the best hacker in all of Alola! Now, time to see who and where. Easiest way to do that is with a fake. Most of the files deleted already seem to be regarding Alola anyways. Way to be obvious. Styler could always point this out to Val.

Or.

Or make Val go running in attack mode. It’s just like Seren said, none of them are idiots! She’d figure it out if Styler made enough of a ruckus. All they need to do is make a fake report file, download found footage-esque videos taken of Aether, add some files to edit the registry of the device, backdate everything a couple of months to make it look like it was all there...

Done. When they open or modify the file, Styler will know and come running for their face. Now for the name.

Let’s see the hacker touch Aether_UB_Simulation.

@night-gladion-and-their-ghosts​

[mirroredranger]

As exciting as it is for Styler to hang around Braidhead, there are other pokemon around the ballroom to check out. And no other treats were being bribed to keep them away from that nice looking DJ booth. It would be a shame if they changed the song while someone was dancing.

Gotta zap around the ballroom just to make sure that the timing was juuuust right!

@unovasrose​

[mirroredranger]

@evoblue

“Styler, get back here!”

No amount of morning runs could amount to keeping up with the excited ghost-type’s level of energy. Valerie had doubled over to catch her breath as Rotom whizzed off farther ahead. “This is what I get the one time I get permission to bring you to another region.”

After being cooped up in a “rotocarrier” for several hours, Rotom just wanted to fly around free. They hadn’t realized that they had left behind their ranger a while back until stopping. Where did they leave their braid-head? She should be somewhere. As soon as Rotom spotted a human, they flew right to them. If anything, making noise would help find their ranger!

[mirroredranger]

🔎: last 5 search queries

"STYLER!"

Huh, that's Valerie's latest search history. Styler winks before going back.

Rangers ship fanfiction

Rangers fanfiction

Kanto rt 3 Pokemon Center phone number

"Saffron City" tea

Saffron tea

[mirroredranger]

🎙️

"STYLER!"

Styler sent an audio file!

"Giant pokemon... no, not dynamax. He's too small for that. I don't want to see what he looks like dynamaxed. That's a disaster. Unless what causes it is-" the sound of more typing, on a mechanical keyboard. "Huh. They did have that happen years ago. But again, it wasn't permanent. Didn't Nanu mention something about totem? To-tem Poke-mon." More typing.

"Dang, noth-" the sound of something hitting the ground and shattering. "Shit. That was still hot too."

[mirroredranger]

⚡📸

"STYLER!"

Styler sent a photo of Halligan with his fur poofed up, like he had been given one of the rotom's famous electric noogies. Styler is nearby, looking like they're giggling at the confused-looking Arcanine.