With his mortal power, Zeke can only hope to watch as calamity unfolds around him, the glowing beam engulfing Pokemon, stalactites and stones ripping through limbs mercilessly. He can see the girl with the Bastiodon from before clearest; her Carbink reduces to ash and dust before her within an instant. She is left with no other choice but to move on, and so Zeke must, too. With Hyper Beam's immediate dangers behind him, a counterattack will be unanswered and unavoidable.

They are facing one another again, he and the Regirock -- what part of him sparks interest in the golem? He doesn't know. He is staring into the face of the monster, both of their expressions blank, waiting on another moment to pass. For most, the worst seems to be behind them; a creeping feeling leads him to believe he will not be spared their woes as he first suspected.

The menhir that forms the face of the Regirock, dotted with faint circular carvings across it to make some semblance of a visage, begins to glow the same color as the Hyper Beam before deepening to a raven black as they bore into him - through him.

His mind sears, swells, the pain too transient and too immense for his sensory receptors to comprehend. Vomit suddenly threatens to disrupt the battle, Zeke's gaze finally allowed to break the connection between him and the legendary. Regirock falls to his knees, the loud thud drowning out Zeke's scream, a scream so guttural and inherent that his own ears would not recognize it as his own if he could hear it. He cannot, though; his mind is elsewhere, perhaps transported to some other place to protect it from breaking.

Regirock no longer kneels before him in its dying breaths -- the ruins are gone, replaced with sprawling metropolitan architecture. One tower stands out amidst the conurbation, framed in ominous violet light as it looms over him. Slithering of vines on the concrete surface comes from behind him, below him now as they creep toward the tower. Their size doubles, triples, tenfolds and they begin to ensnare the tower.

The creeping brushes his ankle, ensnaring it, too. He is helpless.

Surroundings fade to black, the scene ending. Another instant, and he can feel the ruin floor beneath his palms again. Eyes shoot open and lungs wince for more air, pants begging for breath as he now kneels before Regirock in the remnants of the sandstorm.

Did anyone see that? No -- the world is as it was moments before the vision.

Time does not allot him the grace to think on the vision as Regirock still looms over him, Marin now directly in front of him. Her own glowing amber eyes search his for confirmation of his wellbeing, only to find it in his form slowly returning to a standing position. Nausea does not let him go so easily, and a headache remains, but the searing sensation has dulled -- he will be okay, if only for now.

- zeke watches Silvia Blackmore be strong.
- he tries to seize recharge moment but locks eyes with glowing regirock.
- part of aforementioned vision sets upon him now (hope that's okay spiral??)
- lets the end of the battle unfold.

The crevice he jumps into is not deep, but it is enough to protect him from any stray boulders with a quick duck. The pinching releases from his arm and the Kabuto leaps out of the protective bunker. He allows his Pokemon to do as she pleases but watches her closely, mouth open in preparation to call her back to him.

And call her back he does. "Get back here!" blinding light suddenly fills the stormy area, a Hyper Beam erupting from Regirock('s gaping maw?). With a sweeping motion, it is meant to cleanse the area of its intruders in one fell swoop. The trainer painfully realizes there is no time for the Kabuto to leap into the chasm. 

"Marin, Endure!" his Pokemon is small enough in size that pure chance is likely to protect her from the beam's wrath, but Zeke is no gambler, especially today. His own head disappears into the crack he's hiding in and his heart nearly bursts from his chest.

for zeke: _9svoanH for marin:

The beam passes over the duo mercifully, missing both as stalactites begin to come down around them. Marin's bravery has run out and she clings again to her trainer for comfort, his eyes moving up and over the edge of the crack like a Furret scanning its surroundings. 

He hopes he doesn't find any dead bodies -- or what little would remain of one after that shit.

- they both get off easy and look around to see if anybody (else) is dead.

The regirock's gaze(?) bores into Zeke with all the fear that comes from a legendary Pokemon. This is the first one he's seen, and by the looks of things, the last. Marin clutches tighter as her trainer's gauntlet, and the two of them break for cover. Ensuing chaos does not strip the officer of regirock's bloodlust, and no amount of stony barricading makes him feel safe. Where does one hide when the enemy controls every aspect of the room?

Zeke runs away from the survivors. Perhaps they are his playthings that Regirock will not share. Perhaps it is wisest to let them remain captives until Regirock is dispatched. Perhaps it is wisest to forget about them all together.

Sand picks up in the room to enshroud the massive behemoth in its center, the storm swirling around it like the eye of a hurricane. A flurry of attacks from all over the place are meant to stagger the beast, but scrape and scratch it minimally. He isn't looking at his foe -- stupid -- but he prays it isn't looking at him, either. A rock rises out of the ground in front of him, levitating for a moment before begin to float toward Regirock. Zeke feels his heart flutter, skipping only one beat before stopping him in his tracks. Fuck this Regirock.

He turns to face it -- (not to face it per se) and flings his Kabuto into the air after the rock as it beelined toward its summoner. "Aqua Jet, then let's get to cover!" whether or not the Kabuto is successful, she encases herself in water and blasts into the stone before jetting back to her trainer's back. She clings on and Zeke finds himself leaping into a crevice in the hopes that he goes unspotted.

ETRnueRj

- regirock had locked on to zeke so he's trying to not die @ joey
- avoiding the survivors now thinking regirock is possessive of them
- kabuto uses aqua jet on a healing rock
- they run into a crevice in the ground
- sorry this sucks ok cool