Unavoidable Battle [AZ D]

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Navy
He/Him
32
October 13th
Slateport
Heterosexual
E4; Gym Leader
Sheriff
I'd go through hell
to hold your hand
5'10" / 177.8 cm height
5'10" / 177.8 cm height
In the warrior's code, there's no surrender. Though his body says stop, his spirit cries, "NEVER!"
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Michael Navidson
Unavoidable Battle [AZ D]
POSTED ON Feb 23, 2024 21:18:29 GMT
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Gotta love this gig, huh?” Navy grins at . The good commissioner loves pairing them up for field work. Maybe the woman understands they work well together. Maybe she’s trying to keep a healer around the Fighting Master, given his propensity for direct confrontation. Either way, he isn’t in the business of turning down good company.[break][break]
They bathe in the light of fantasy. Tera crystals shine like chandeliers above them. Crystals jutting from the ground pulse, terastallizing Pokemon who pass too close. He wonders what worlds they see when they don their crowns. His Pokemon all seem to fight like different creatures altogether after terastallization.[break][break]
You know this place is dangerous when they have people like us running around doing geo surveys.” Nearby, a strange device is pierced into the ground. It collects data from far below, transferred to HQ for and ’s convenience. It was explained to them in very simple, practical terms. Pierce the ground. Press a button. Wait an allotted period. Move on.[break][break]
You’d have to be a caveman to mess that up.[break][break]
Coincidentally, the machine starts to spark. A direction was misremembered. Keep it at least ten feet away from the tera crystals. Ten. Feet.[break][break]
One sits roughly two and a half yards away, just under ten feet. Cursing, Navy goes to collect the device.[break][break]
Damn.” Hoisting it over his shoulder, he turns to continue the conversation. “One of Suicune’s dads tore up a-” Sharp instincts alert him that someone is coming. Tera crystals further up the cave begin to glow with excitement, something it only tends to do with humans.[break][break]
Look sharp.

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The Liberator
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Lavaridge Town
Figuring it Out
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Isaac Merlo
Unavoidable Battle [AZ D]
POSTED ON Feb 24, 2024 1:42:51 GMT
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[attr="class","textbox"]"Gee, was that your first giveaway? And here I thought it was the giant fissure Kyurem assblasted into the middle of the route."[break][break]

Isaac may have given Navy a teasing shoulder nudge, but the situation was really no laughing matter. After all, it was quite recently that Kyurem, Reshiram, and Hoopa were all running causing problems on purpose. Somehow, they weren't even all the legendaries that showed that day. Regice showed up in tow with Rocket. Palkia descended to give its blessing. Hoopa fucked off to parts unknown, Kyurem fucked off to parts known, and Reshiram?[break][break]

Well, if the last AQUA round table was any indication, that'd be another problem for them to tackle.[break][break]

"Still. If I'm gonna be here, glad I've got the best backup in the biz." For a pair of mavericks, they sure knew how to bring out the best in each other. It wasn't even that they kept their respective impulses in check. If anything, they had a way of making each other double down. However, by tapping into their mutual recklessness, they managed to always push each other to new heights. Maybe it was their daring attitude. Maybe it was their refusal to leave their fellow man behind.[break][break]

Maybe it was just the fact that they were both fighting for a better tomorrow, even if they knew it wasn't meant for them.[break][break]

That said, if they wanted that better tomorrow, they were gonna have to work for it. The Great Chasm was enough of a mess on the outside. It only got worse the deeper they went into Area Zero. Isaac's breath hitched at sights more familiar in the Ultra Deep Sea or Lesser Megalopolis. He looked over his shoulder, as if checking to see if he crossed some portal. Nope. Just the region, exactly as he'd left it.[break][break]

"Fuck, man," he said, a mixture of fear and awe building up in his voice as he stared, transfixed. "That meteor hit a year and a half ago. How much of our region is like this now?" More importantly, how much worse was it going to get? Where was it going to be in another year and a half? Would there even be a region left to fight for?[break][break]

And yet here they were, ready to see who could lord over a pile of crystal dust.[break][break]

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Lisa Bortiforte
She/Her
31
August 30
Camphrier Town, Kalos
Bi/Heteroromantic
Bioterrorist
Underboss
Unattached
Black Widow
5'9" / 175.26 cm height
5'9" / 175.26 cm height
Bury me in the roses and rot; I'll come back thorned.
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Unavoidable Battle [AZ D]
POSTED ON Feb 25, 2024 3:50:26 GMT
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Elisabeth had tuned out the prattling of for the better part of an hour or so.[break][break]

Unmasked as she was, she didn't care to hide the glazed-over expression of sheer boredom that the Head Scientist's observations invited in her. Truthfully, in another time and place, Elisabeth might have even found the insights fascinating.[break][break]

Unfortunately she was in the company of a woman she found irritating beyond all measure, through no fault of the Visionary's own. If anything, the woman's good qualities were what made her such anathema to a woman who served as the manifestation of grudges and resentment.[break][break]

Her dislike of Nomi could be interpreted as a compliment, from that perspective.[break][break]

"It's all tiresome, isn't it?" the underboss interrupted, glancing over the landscape before her eyes narrowed. "All this strange, inexplicable new phenomena. I dislike it." The sight of the Tera Crystals specifically reminded her of the Cave of Origin. It reminded her of the Galarian Moltres, and of the way it looked at .[break][break]

"Birdwatching," had said. How that word still haunted her.[break][break]

Her lips curled into a distasteful sneer as she stifled an undercurrent of fury that had no outlet. No outlet, that is, until they stumbled upon a most fortuitous scenario indeed.[break][break]

"It's our lucky day," Elisabeth murmured in a sing-song voice under her breath, pleased to see two high-profile targets ahead. A Gym Leader and a filthy traitor. What a welcome distraction from this scientific tedium. "Follow my lead."[break][break]

Wo-chien manifested out of the darkness with a SHADOW SNEAK to strike at the visible figures in the distance; the ground shook and trembled underfoot as snarling briars broke through the earth to surround their prey.[break][break]

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Nomi; The Visionary
She/Her
25
November 9
Ecruteak, Johto
Bisexual
Prophetess
Head Scientist
I cannot conceive of a universe
without you in it
5'2" / 157 cm height
5'2" / 157 cm height
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
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Unavoidable Battle [AZ D]
POSTED ON Mar 3, 2024 22:59:41 GMT
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Nomi was tired, but not because of the anomalies, or the science, or her mission. She was tired because 's resentment was heavy, a burden Nomi absolutely, stubbornly refused to set down. Recent findings had proven that Elisabeth's nature was not solely oriented towards hateful grudges, Tapu Fini had blessed her in equal measure, meaning that whatever had drawn the island guardian to Elisabeth was also present within her.[break][break]
And as far as Nomi was concerned, that scrap of hope meant something. It mattered.[break][break]
She ignored Elisabeth's disdainful complaints, continuing to extract samples from each new Tera crystal they encountered within the cavern. It was only when her companion's voice changed octave, from weary boredom to sudden interest, that Nomi looked up, tracking the other woman with her crimson eyes.[break][break]
"Let me send Kal to investigate before we - "[break][break]
But the Underboss was already moving, already attacking. Nomi scrambled to her feet, hurrying forward to see what was ahead, a sudden dread clawing at her chest.[break][break]
Dark vines and violent thorns erupted beneath the feet of two figures. Two extremely familiar figures. Men that Nomi would not have, under any circumstances, wanted to harm.[break][break]
"Oh no," she murmured, blood running cold, the complications she was now facing tearing a hole in her heart.[break][break]
Frantically, Nomi began to formulate a plan. One that would need to seem as if she were aiding , when in fact, she would be doing her absolute best to protect and .[break][break]
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Navy
He/Him
32
October 13th
Slateport
Heterosexual
E4; Gym Leader
Sheriff
I'd go through hell
to hold your hand
5'10" / 177.8 cm height
5'10" / 177.8 cm height
In the warrior's code, there's no surrender. Though his body says stop, his spirit cries, "NEVER!"
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Unavoidable Battle [AZ D]
POSTED ON Mar 4, 2024 10:07:42 GMT
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MORE HUMAN[break]THAN HUMAN
MORE HUMAN[break]THAN HUMAN

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The most unlikely creature in all of creation rises from the shadows. A Greninja, miniscule for his species, rises up from the shadows. His own shadow sneak runs counter to the great ruinous beast of grudges. Inky black shuriken form in his hands, launched at the creature. His one red eye looks between the two women. He recognizes them both, even if he doubts the blonde spares him a single thought.[break][break]
Knowing that standing still means death, he returns to the shadows. Shinobi are meant for the darkness, and there they are strongest. The clash is enough to alert at least one of the humans to their presence. Navy’s eyes shoot back. A hand rushes to his hip like a gunslinger drawing in a duel. One pokeball is ripped free, sent out into the fray.[break][break]
Roland has seen better days. Almost a year of warfare sees his chassis beaten, battered, barely holding together. Yet still, he readies himself, setting an electric terrain between the League and Rocket sides of this skirmish. His quark drive hums to life.[break][break]
Glancing between the women, Navy puts on a confident smile. He has no wish to harm either of them. It wouldn’t be chivalrous, and he counts one of them as an ally.[break][break]
Well well, if it ain’t in the flesh. What’s got you so ready to fight? Not too late to turn around, pretend we didn’t see each other.” League protocol demands they try and arrest both her and the Visionary. Instead, he offers an olive branch.[break][break]
What was that you were just saying, Isaac? This place is bad business. Probably runs under half the region. Think we all have better things to do than fight a pointless fight.”[break][break]
Roland does not back down. Every calculation ran by his processor tells him that this will soon escalate into open combat.


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The Liberator
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Lavaridge Town
Figuring it Out
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Unavoidable Battle [AZ D]
POSTED ON Mar 7, 2024 1:36:17 GMT
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[attr="class","textbox"]Isaac would know this blight anywhere.[break][break]

Isaac pressed a hand to the ground, drawing condensation from the frozen stone that lined Area Zero. Once it coated his fingers, he whipped it towards the briars that rose to surround him and Navy on all sides. With a clench of his fists, it shifted from water to ice, settling into the dried foliage and trying to collapse it from within.[break][break]

A grudge, laid gently atop his cheek what felt like ages ago, pulled Isaac's gaze toward Wo-Chien's shadow. As it stretched around them, he followed its path, finally looking up to meet the eyes of two friends turned foe. "Good to see ya too, Scary Godmother," he deadpanned. "Guess that's a no to my invite? Shame. Bet you would've been proud of what I did with the place."[break][break]

She was easy. They'd sparred before, with words and the power of gods alike. Nomi was going to be a lot harder. The idea of him attacking her left his guts turning. She'd also left him holding the bag after their last staged fight went awry. However, for once, she wasn't the first person on his mind.[break][break]

That honor went to .[break][break]

Isaac had tried not being true to himself, once. Ash gunned down four men in cold blood and begged him, pleaded him, to make it convincing. It was a godawful idea. High command knew if anyone was going to commit four and a half murders, it wouldn't be Rocket's softest washout. @cillian and probably laughed themselves shitless at the very thought. But by that point, it was too late. Death was all Ash knew.[break][break]

Nomi wasn't like that. Yet here she was nonetheless.[break][break]

Not wanting to be alone to the party, Isaac tossed a Pokeball beneath his feet. As he hopped into the air, an Iron Thorns took shape beneath him. He reclined against it as it let out a bellow, her own Quark Drive sparking up to life in response to Roland's. Their glow of their overclocked motors practically lit up Area Zero, the wall of dessicated brambles casting dark, clawlike shadows in response.[break][break]

"Yeah. But when's that ever stopped 'em before?" Rocket. The League. Neither of them could see a drop of the region's blood before falling on their hands and knees to see who could lick it up first. "I'm not gonna start shit if you don't. But if you do?" Isaac shifted from his seat atop Akane's chest to her back. As he did, what he was reclining on became clear; a pair of split panels, an orb of blue energy primed and ready to fire beneath them. All his yammering covered up the sound of sliding panels and charging cannons.[break][break]

If Lis or Nomi escalated, Akane's Blizzard would turn Area Zero into Absolute Zero.

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Lisa Bortiforte
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Camphrier Town, Kalos
Bi/Heteroromantic
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Underboss
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Black Widow
5'9" / 175.26 cm height
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Unavoidable Battle [AZ D]
POSTED ON Mar 7, 2024 7:06:58 GMT
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"Don't patronize me, Navidson. You'd greet my colleagues quite differently."[break][break]

His chivalrous offer insulted her. and would laugh themselves sick to know with what little regard she and were given by two of the League's staunchest defenders.[break][break]

That kindled the GRUDGE within her to new heights, her eyes flashing a startling ochre sheen.[break][break]

The Greninja evaded and parried Wo-chien's SHADOW SNEAK with a mirror of its own, and as the Ruinous Beast hissed with displeasure, the ground blackened beneath their mutual shadows. Stretching out to encompass the entirety of their surroundings beneath frost-touched briars, all present life rapidly sickened and diminished with decay.[break][break]

Much like 's ELECTRIC TERRAIN in the Cave of Origin had vanished, so too did 's before the Ruinous Beast's gluttonous hunger.[break][break]

when wo-chien is on the field, elisabeth can summon a BARREN TERRAIN that clears any existing terrain, while preventing any other from taking form for a period of time. anyone within the terrain will be continually STRENGTH SAPPED, weakening them while also healing elisabeth and wo-chien.
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The world became barren, ripe for the BLIZZARD that planned to unleash on them all. The light of their mutual QUARK DRIVES snuffed out.[break][break]

"As for you, Merlo," she continued coolly, raising her hand to curl fingers into a fist, "who's to say this isn't a response to your invitation?"[break][break]

would determine her own method of attack. As far as Elisabeth knew or suspected, the woman was not much for open combat. In which case, she'd be the firepower between them.[break][break]

The resulting RUINATION shattered whatever peace might have existed between all gathered here, creating an enormous dome of crackling energy that thrust all enemy Pokemon into a pitch-black storm of malcontent.[break][break]

The air itself hung heavy with resentment.[break][break]

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Nomi; The Visionary
She/Her
25
November 9
Ecruteak, Johto
Bisexual
Prophetess
Head Scientist
I cannot conceive of a universe
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5'2" / 157 cm height
5'2" / 157 cm height
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Unavoidable Battle [AZ D]
POSTED ON Mar 9, 2024 20:21:19 GMT
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Nomi was not immune to the GRUDGE of Wo-Chien.[break][break]
Resentment burned its way through her like a forest fire, reducing her apprehension to ash and kindling anger in its wake. 's swift adherence to violence, her sole orientation towards opposition, was no different than the approach had taken with Nomi. Why did these women refuse to listen? There was no sense in killing one another when the region needed all of them. They could settle their differences once they had secured a future in which they all survived. The DRK Triad would win the moment those with the greatest chance of protecting Hoenn fell to the tragic pointlessness of the faction conflict; they would be their own doom if this behavior continued.[break][break]
Even had stepped up to fight, and Nomi understood why, but she hated it just as much. Hated that she had been forced to put him in a terrible position during their last meeting; hated that he would be forced to view her as an enemy now, which she herself had asked of him, for the "greater good."[break][break]
You're my greater good.[break][break]
The memory of 's voice, her love for Nomi, cut through the haze of ruination, briefly clearing the Head Scientist's mind. An idea came to her, then, a long shot - but one that might make as much of a difference here as it had with .[break][break]
She needed to bait the DRK Triad out, make them appear. For only then could she properly direct Elisabeth's aggression at the true enemy, as well as show all three of these people exactly what they ought to be focusing on.[break][break]
So, with a heavy heart, she held out her hand, and willed reality to change.[break][break]
All around them, light flared. Every single Tera crystal in the cavern began to glow with a blinding brilliance. They shattered as the resonance took them, and in the confusion, she teleported directly behind Navy and Isaac - a maneuver that would hopefully, to Elisabeth, look like a flanking tactic...but in truth, it allowed her to softly hiss, amidst the cracking of stone -[break][break]
"I will protect you, but I cannot stop her. I am hoping to direct her elsewhere - if you give me time."[break][break]
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Navy
He/Him
32
October 13th
Slateport
Heterosexual
E4; Gym Leader
Sheriff
I'd go through hell
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In the warrior's code, there's no surrender. Though his body says stop, his spirit cries, "NEVER!"
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Unavoidable Battle [AZ D]
POSTED ON Mar 10, 2024 23:18:50 GMT
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Battle, true battle, is messy. Pokemon Leagues across the world paint a beautiful picture for the masses: fresh-mowed pitches, roaring crowds, two people facing off with sportsmanlike grace. and her cabal of criminals have shown the world an ugly truth time and time again. There is nothing beautiful about battle once the pretense is stripped away.[break][break]
Briars creep up his leg from barren rock. A voice in the back of his mind reminds him of old grudges. These are the people who killed his brother – if not directly, then with the harsh truths they spread. These are the people that destroyed a fragile peace. Rocket has spread ruin into Hoenn’s soul, thumbing at old faultlines until they fracture.[break][break]
They hurt Isaac. They hunt him down like a dog for daring to be better. They indoctrinate children like in distant Kanto. His soul oozes with old grudges, even as he feels the first hunger pang of a barren land.[break][break]
The Visionary serves as the voice of reason. Her voice is like the eye of a hurricane. It offers a moment of calm, where he can see clearly. Months ago, before his first death, she told him about the real enemy.[break][break]
It’s not the woman in front of them. Though her words seep with contempt, he refuses to stoop that low. We have to be better. He tells his government. Or Rocket wins.[break][break]
Eternatus wins. The Triad wins.[break][break]
That flower you sent was real pretty, Ms. Fiorelli. You haven’t lost your touch.” It’s a total non sequitur. “Roland. Engage Wo-Chien. Make sure not to harm the avatars.” His words are calm, spoken without condescension or malice. He will not hate this woman.[break][break]
His iron knight steps forward, across the waste land Elisabeth creates by simply existing. Thorns do little to hamper his progress. Even without an active quark drive, he marches on. Moonlight gathers around his blade, though it looks more like a rainbow in the light of terastal possibility. Roland’s moonblast fires at the Grudgekeeper, a bid to hold it at bay for just a little while.
Hattori, back up Isaac. Keep the other lady off his back.”[break][break]
Hattori springs from Isaac’s shadow like a missile. From far away, he looks like a dark comet on a collision course with the Visionary. Instead, it’s a narrow miss, sending him skirting past her. Shuriken fly, aimed in a predictable attack vector that her Unown can easily avoid.[break][break]
You sure you weren’t a Beast, man? You’ve got history with every Rocket we meet!” Somehow, through resentment so thick he could cut it with a Skarmory feather, he smiles at in the light of a rainbow.


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The Liberator
he/him/his
23
April 10
Lavaridge Town
Figuring it Out
Penitent
Renegade
Turned on my friends and brought them pain. I have no right to show I can change. But I gotta try!
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Unavoidable Battle [AZ D]
POSTED ON Mar 11, 2024 2:28:05 GMT
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[attr="class","textbox"]Decay met destruction as Akane unleashed her payload. The storms, pitch black and blinding white, engulfed one another in a furor. Akane got the worst of the exchange, tendrils of ruination lashing out against her chassis and sending sparks flying with each strike. Try and she might to make use of what remained of her Quark Drive, she was opposing a Legendary in its own specialization. At best, even her strongest attack could do little more than delay the inevitable.[break][break]

Over the roar of the storms, Isaac almost missed Nomi's whisper. Had it been anyone but Nomi, he may well have done so entirely. Yet even at her quietest, Nomi had a way of commanding Isaac's attention. A part of him wanted to be suspicious. Their big plan last time left him stranded in a hot zone with eyes fixed to the back of his head. Isaac's brow furrowed, resentment festering in Lis' shadow.[break][break]

Yet they'd both come out of it okay, and he knew even with reality at her fingertips Nomi couldn't make everything perfect. He shook the thought as quickly as it came, biting down on his cheek to jolt himself back to his senses. Not wanting to make his assent too obvious, he simply kept his eyes fixed forward. He was putting his trust in Nomi by hearing her out. She'd have to put her trust in him in turn.[break][break]

Besides, there was one key difference from last time. Unlike their brawl in Kyurem's shadow, Navy had no interest in propping up the veil. He outright ordered his Pokemon to avoid attacking Lis or Nomi, even as they started this fight. He was true to himself, and he didn't give a damn who was watching. It was a conviction so much easier to stick to when they weren't alone.[break][break]

"You kidding? It was nothing like that. But I did teach her how to drive." Really, his monkey taught her how to drive. But that little detail didn't stop Isaac from returning Navy's radiant grin, fondness fighting through the haze of resentment. "And then we got wasted in a Cheesecake Factory. Talked about life, the multiverse, and everything. It was nice."[break][break]

His smile took on a sadder tone as he turned to face Lis. "I miss those days. But I know that's not who you are anymore."[break][break]

In half, it was acknowledgment. Lis had made this choice for herself. He knew all too well that she was tired of people acting like she hadn't. Whatever her reasons were, they were for her to work out on her own time. All he could do was wait on the other side of the chasm, hoping that the time may come where she'd take his outstretched hand. He was a Liberator, not a savior.[break][break]

In half, it was a warning. He hoped against hope that Nomi would see the bitter husk of a woman he'd once admired and realize what her time in Rocket had done to her. It wasn't that Rocket had brainwashed her or anything. If was right, they didn't do that anymore. It was worse. It gave her an excuse to feed her every worst impulse, giving her enough barbed chain to hang herself with.[break][break]

He didn't want to believe it was too late for Elisa. He feared the idea that it could ever be too late for Nomi.[break][break]

Akane didn't have nearly so much inner turmoil. Instead, she simply detached her iron thorns from her back, the barbs surrounding her like an array of miniature satellites. She kept up the pressure on Wo-Chien, the thorns raining down in a relentless shower of Pin Missiles. With each shot, she took another step forward, hoping to be able to get into proper close quarters combat with the source of her ire.[break][break]

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Lisa Bortiforte
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August 30
Camphrier Town, Kalos
Bi/Heteroromantic
Bioterrorist
Underboss
Unattached
Black Widow
5'9" / 175.26 cm height
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Elisabeth Fiorelli
Unavoidable Battle [AZ D]
POSTED ON Mar 11, 2024 3:33:19 GMT
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The biting chill of the BLIZZARD swept around them, howling and screaming with the unvoiced frustration of all present. In the endless white haze, black bolts of the RUINATION flashed to life before fading.[break][break]

When it did, the blanched rays of a MOONBLAST and the thin needles of a PIN MISSILE all hurled towards the Ruinous Beast, like it was a lightning rod for all the grudges present in the room.[break][break]

The way that threw her old profession in her face, whether out of mockery or worse, pity. The sorrowful gaze gave her, reminiscent of her own father's look of disappointment. The heightened sense of indignation and resentment that all this inspired in Elisabeth herself.[break][break]

The Ruinous Beast savored it all, drinking from the font of misery with obvious relish.[break][break]

Wo-chien furled up in a SPIKY SHIELD to deflect, seeming to hulk bigger and more hideously the more it drank in the presence of the GRUDGES of those present. The barren landscape had weakened their blows, STRENGTH SAPPED as the creature feasted on the life that it had stolen from them and the earth itself.[break][break]

"You both must have me confused with someone else," she remarked drily. "Any flowers I'd send you now would wilt and decay."[break][break]

A SPRINGTIME STORM swept through the vicinity, blackened petals reflecting the truth of that statement as Wo-chien hissed loudly, each striking with the sharpness of knives as they hurled towards all foes present -- trainers included.[break][break]

"And there's nothing to miss about the past, Merlo. Whatever you thought you knew of me, I assure you--it wasn't real."[break][break]

That woman never existed, as far as she was concerned. That had just been a feeble attempt at pretending to be someone she wasn't.[break][break]

's quiet plea had gone unheard. So much else consumed her attention, the whispering of her Unown had been neither expected nor acknowledged by the underboss.[break][break]

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nellethiel

Nomi; The Visionary
She/Her
25
November 9
Ecruteak, Johto
Bisexual
Prophetess
Head Scientist
I cannot conceive of a universe
without you in it
5'2" / 157 cm height
5'2" / 157 cm height
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
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Naomi Sato
Unavoidable Battle [AZ D]
POSTED ON Mar 15, 2024 19:14:15 GMT
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Hattori was a familiar presence - she remembered him from Dewford Beach, where he'd deposited 's bruised and bleeding body onto the sand, then waited patiently for Nomi to appear. She had not feared him then, and she did not fear him now. She'd heard the acquiescence in 's voice, the unwavering trust he had in her. She knew he - and his Pokemon - would not harm her.[break][break]
She also understood that he had to convince Elisabeth otherwise. So she followed his lead, throwing herself out of the way as if she had really expected the Greninja to collide with her. Kallistatus shot a beam of HIDDEN POWER after Hattori, inches off target - expertly toeing the line of real battle. Nomi's breathing came quickly, half out of exertion and half out of anxiety - for Elisabeth was fighting to kill.[break][break]
Please, she begged - of the Triad? Or of Arceus? There are three Avatars here. Sense us. Come for us.[break][break]
With the flick of her wrist, she casually summoned shards of glittering crystal, a beautiful echo of Akane's PIN MISSILES, hurtling them at the two League men. From the other side of the cavern, Elisabeth would likely find it difficult to tell whether the attack was truly aimed at them or meant to counter the razor-edged petals of Wo-Chien's attack. She could not destroy them all, for that would look too suspicious - instead, she took out as many as she dared, and hoped her secret allies would be able to properly evade the rest.[break][break]
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Teddie

Navy
He/Him
32
October 13th
Slateport
Heterosexual
E4; Gym Leader
Sheriff
I'd go through hell
to hold your hand
5'10" / 177.8 cm height
5'10" / 177.8 cm height
In the warrior's code, there's no surrender. Though his body says stop, his spirit cries, "NEVER!"
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Unavoidable Battle [AZ D]
POSTED ON Mar 17, 2024 3:11:29 GMT
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Sounds like a fun day.” There’s a tiny tinge of good-natured envy. When he had time for such luxuries, he loved driving for the sake of driving. Road trips, especially ones with good food and better company, enrich the soul.[break][break]
Kallistatus and Hattori dance. It looks like they both fight for their lives. Their colors are a mirror of what their species are supposed to look like. Deep black skirts away from brilliant blue, landing him right in his Lord’s shadow. Razor sharp petals, spring’s beauty put towards ruinous ends, fly at the League men.[break][break]
Guess my memory’s star-” Navy disappears mid-sentence. Smoke billows where he once stood. In his place stands a substitute. Hattori has disappeared, as shinobi love to do, taking his Lord with him wherever shadows go. A green replica smiles up at all of them.[break][break]
Roland is afforded no such luxury. Whether by necessity or trust, the Iron Valiant must weather the storm on his own. Petals shear his skirt. His blade catches some, but the machine knows he is slowing down. In the cold red world of perfect logic, his processor tells him that something is sapping his energy.[break][break]
Petals stick out of the one-armed knight. He has been given an order, and so he moves to carry it out. Unaware there is any deception in play, he plays his part perfectly. Inch by inch, he moves closer to the snail, until his blade at last strikes out in a rainbow-edged spirit break.



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Wanderer

The Liberator
he/him/his
23
April 10
Lavaridge Town
Figuring it Out
Penitent
Renegade
Turned on my friends and brought them pain. I have no right to show I can change. But I gotta try!
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Unavoidable Battle [AZ D]
POSTED ON Mar 25, 2024 21:43:41 GMT
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[attr="class","textbox"]"Hey now. Who said I was talking about you?"[break][break]

He was, and he wasn't. Isaac's feelings on Rocket were far, far more complex than a single person could sum up. Even if they could, much as he cared for her, Lis was never that person. They were acquaintances, friends-of-a-dearest one pulled into one another's orbit. She would never know the depths of his struggles, and he would never know hers.[break][break]

If she wanted to pretend such days never happened? So be it.[break][break]

From one side, sickly-sweet decay peeled off of Wo-Chien's shell. From the other came its mirror, barbs painstakingly carved from the purest, most reflective crystal. They flew towards Isaac less like an X and more like a V, meeting in the middle decidedly short of where he stood. Were he to just stand there, the brunt of the attack would cancel itself out.[break][break]

As if he could do that to Nomi. Instead, he sank into a fighter's stance, making a show of slinging water toward petals of both kinds. Those that collided were surely just knocked off course. He even made a point of "dodging" one of Nomi's the wrong way, letting a bloom of crimson spread across his arm as it sliced into his flesh. A small price to pay.[break][break]

After all, she'd know from his tone who he truly meant before.[break][break]

Petals and barbs clattered tp the ground, yet stopped short before they could hit the floor. An Extrasensory force pulled them together, the yin and yang forming an orb of tightly compressed power. Light and darkness twisted around one another in equal measure as mist leaked from the space behind Isaac and Navy.[break][break]

Footsteps heralded the return of a familiar foe for Wo-Chien. Suicune's eyes narrowed, nearly a mirror of the snail's own gaze.[break][break]

"I'll take it from here, buddy," Isaac said, slinging one last lash of water around the composite attack. As he did, he coiled it around and around, wielding the attack as if it were some makeshift yoyo. He set his stance, gave it a spin, and whipped it towards Wo-Chien with all of his might.[break][break]

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Lisa Bortiforte
She/Her
31
August 30
Camphrier Town, Kalos
Bi/Heteroromantic
Bioterrorist
Underboss
Unattached
Black Widow
5'9" / 175.26 cm height
5'9" / 175.26 cm height
Bury me in the roses and rot; I'll come back thorned.
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Elisabeth Fiorelli
Unavoidable Battle [AZ D]
POSTED ON Mar 26, 2024 5:22:16 GMT
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The idea that might be acting against her had never occurred to . For what reason would a woman decorated by Rocket choose to consort with the likes of a traitor and an Elite Four, flaunting the dangerous realities of Rocket's hierarchy? If Elisabeth had known, to her the opposite would seem more likely: that the woman was playing both men like a fiddle, setting them up for an inevitable betrayal.[break][break]

It was what Elisabeth herself would have done.[break][break]

The arrival of Suicune stirred a deep-seated GRUDGE, those familiar eyes echoing of another pair that had belonged to another deity. You killed her, those eyes seemed to silently accuse Elisabeth in their judgment. Celebi.[break][break]

Wo-chien's TABLETS OF RUIN flared anew as Elisabeth felt her chest tighten, her breathing becoming rapid and furious. Who was this worthless man, this pathetic excuse for the strength that Rocket offered, to be given the blessing of such a self-righteous deity? How dare he judge her, or his patron judge her, for all that she'd been and become?[break][break]

"Perhaps it's time we truly get to know one another," Elisabeth said then, and her eyes became familiar, too: ochre flecked with autumnal rot. He'd remember the first time he'd seen that unsettling gaze on her face, rendering her something not quite human. "Come, boy. Let us face you like the man the bounty on your head demands you be."[break][break]

A new name blazed across the bamboo, etching another addition to its litany of resentments: .[break][break]

The GIGA DRAIN that unleashed from Wo-chien towards the watery Johto deity resembled the bitter chill of fading autumn, stripping away life in preparation for winter. The more it drank of its enemy's emotional state, the more the Ruinous Beast began to grow in size, hulking as its BARREN TERRAIN nourished patron and Avatar alike at the expense of those gathered.[break][break]

"This one is ours," Elisabeth snapped at with vicious possession, eyes locked on a man who'd dared to face her with any familiarity. It went without saying that she wasn't speaking of the Head Scientist, when she spoke of herself and another.[break][break]

The very presence of Wo-chien demanded that much.[break][break]

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