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BATTLEFRONT 2: TRAIN STATION
POSTED ON Oct 27, 2018 22:46:35 GMT
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as things around lillian speed up she does her best to focus in. stretching yourself thin on a battlefield is a grave mistake. send your pokemon too many places, try to accomplish too many goals, or let your mind wander to too many situations and you risk losing sight of the things right in front of you. so she gives the events around her attention enough to recognize they're happening. the boy who fights the fires, the new grunt that comes roaring onto the scene, and the attacks on the trains. but then she zeroes back in on her chosen task.

she smiles watching the masked stranger. he doesn't give her the same respect she gives him. sure his eyes rest on her but his focus? obviously not. he sends one pokemon to continue assaulting the trains and yet another to go assist a teammate (reveals that he has another pokemon and what it is). this leaves only his infernape to protect his person, and against three opponents.

needless to say, lillian doesn't feel intimidated by the display. machamp continues to move her towards the grunt without hesitation. she pulls another pokeball from her jacket and rolls it in her hand.

"dance, petunia."

when she gives the order to her butterfree it's with a quiet voice and an almost innocent smile. like before the pokemon picks up on her meaning quickly and gets to work. it glides through the air in a scripted pattern, wings twitching rhythmically.

a QUIVER DANCE to rouse its spirits before what comes next. of course that movement prompts the infernape to respond. it fires off what would be a fatal FLAMETHROWER if not for lillian's reaction.

the pokeball in her hand is activated and from within bursts her lapras. the approaching flames and a wave from lillian's hands lets it know what it has to do. a HYDRO PUMP soon meets the FLAMETHROWER head on. they clash for only the briefest of moments before the fire is overwhelmed. no longer a threat, it serves as nothing but a guiding track to the monkey that belched it up.

at her side butterfree makes the move infernape so rudely interrupted. beating its wings it creates a shimmering SILVER WIND that quickly rushes in the direction of their opponents.

the QUIVER DANCE makes sure it'll do more than sting, but in reality damage isn't the point. the attack is merely a carrier for the real danger -- the STUN SPORE and SLEEP POWDER that previously coated butterfree's wings.

the POISON GAS begins to descend but lillian is too deep into the station to notice it yet. her focus remains squarely on the fight ahead of her.



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    BATTLEFRONT 2: TRAIN STATION
    POSTED ON Oct 24, 2018 17:50:39 GMT
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    even within the utter disorder that is the train station she can't help but stand out. a vulnerable figure -- a woman wheel-chair bound with a leg wrapped in plaster -- and yet radiating strength for even the senseless crowd parts to give her way. how could they not? the machamp that pushes her towards the trains has dark eyes that threaten anyone who might consider even bumping into his mistress.

    the mistress herself, lillian, regards the chaos with a sharp and steady gaze. while she can't deny that the situation has her heart racing it doesn't show on her face. she needs to make a move but she wont' do so recklessly. she's injured, and the situation came about suddenly. rushing has never been her thing but in this context the need to avoid it is more real than ever.

    thankfully, some of the opposition shows their hand almost instantly. if the screams and flying debris don't give them away the light from the flames does. she nods in their direction and machamp steers her towards the new danger.

    "slow and steady."

    she gives the command with an almost blase coolness. first response isn't now nor has it ever been her job. as they roll cautiously in the direction of the fresh terror she plucks a pokeball from under her jacket. in a flash her butterfree is revealed.

    "dust up."

    the bug-type's wings begin to darken. STUN SPORE and SLEEP POWDER slowly coat their surface.



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    lillian enters the train station in her wheelchair, pushed by machamp.
    notices @creed 's assault on the trains and moves in his direction.
    releases butterfree, who begins collecting STUN SPORE and SLEEP POWDER on its wings.



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    01. ROCKET INVASION
    POSTED ON Oct 22, 2018 0:29:57 GMT
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    league;

    1)dragonair 2)machamp 3)butterfree 4)magneton 5)onix 6)zoroark 7)lapras 8)donphan 9)loudred

    rocket;

    1)floatzel 2)lilligant 3)skiploom 4)roselia
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    KATHARSIS [ kanto | inv | wild | flashback | trigger ]
    POSTED ON Oct 21, 2018 23:29:52 GMT
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    getting upright takes more strength than lillian thought she held in her small frame. her skinned knees and scraped palms from earlier are nothing compared to the raw wounds she now sports on her right side. a mix of friction burns and torn away skin; they seem to radiate pain and quickly become much slicker with blood than any of her previous injuries. still, they're surface wounds. they sting and burn and bring tears to her eyes but they're not debilitating. she limps away from the stains she left on the stony ground and towards the others again.

    behind her tulip slithers quickly to catch up, the pokeball housing the newly caught onix held tight between her teeth.

    on her way to fernando she sees her. the stranger sprawled out on the ground, somehow overwhelmed despite the relatively good shape she's in. for a moment the idea strikes lillian that she can just leave her there. maybe if they push on without her she'll turn tail and run for home, leaving them to finish their journey alone. it's tempting. immature temper stokes the juvenile fantasy almost enough to make her act on it. in the end, though, she finds herself reaching for the girl with her good hand.

    "get up, you're slowing us down."

    there's no charity in her voice -- for she doesn't do this out of charity. lillian tells herself that if she doesn't pick the coward up fernando will have to, and with the way those tremors are growing she doesn't imagine it would be safe.




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    delirium [c/inv]
    POSTED ON Oct 21, 2018 22:33:24 GMT
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    the gentle, coaxing touch pulls her back to him as if she were stuck to the back of his hand. she turns her head as he strokes down the length of her cheek so that by the time his fingers drag across her chin she's looking at him again. tears still sit, brimming but not spilling, in her eyes and the embarrassing flush still colors her neck and ears but she's looking at him again. the urge to speak runs up against her pride when just the effort of opening her mouth threatens to break her.

    disappointment in herself comes in many colors and she wishes she could express any of them without crushing under their pressure. he's put his faith in her but she can't deliver due to her own sloppiness; and just looking at her leg fills her with dread that her usefulness may be impacted forever. she wants to apologize for her lack of care but she can't without tearing down the emotional dam keeping her face dry. there's nothing she can do right right now aside from look at him, and even that proves more difficult by the moment.

    "i'm. . ."

    already her voice falters and she has to stop to breath before continuing.

    "i'm going to get better as . . . as quickly as possible."

    her throat flexes and her eyes blink throughout her desperate effort to say what she needs to in a way that preserves some ounce of her dignity.

    "i won't keep you waiting."

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    delirium [c/inv]
    POSTED ON Oct 20, 2018 19:59:54 GMT
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    what he says should fill her with joy. it is, in as many words, what she's always longed to hear from him; and yet each increasing praise lands like needles in her chest. instead of smiling she fights against a frown.

    his trust, confidence, is a blessing she's happy to receive but a responsibility she feels woefully unqualified for. the way he offers it sticks in her throat and pushes at the backs of her eyes. if she is his right hand in this moment, he'd be better off learning to work with his left.

    "telling me this now does neither of us any good."

    she looks away from him for the first time since she's been awake and her voice cracks for the first time in she can't say how long. her eyes sting bitterly and she bites at the inside of her cheek. the medicine really has softened her will. embarrassment turns her neck and ears red -- she hopes he won't hate her for this moment of self-pitying weakness.


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    POSTED ON Oct 18, 2018 4:27:35 GMT
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    the words he chooses settle on her like feathers and tickle her ears where they meet. she laughs, but it's not a mocking thing. it's a weak, disbelieving chuckle. the sentence just doesn't feel like him. for the boy who once told her at mt. silver that he not only wouldn't, but couldn't ensure her safety to apologize when she's in a hospital bed? for the man who's spent his whole life jumping headlong into danger to question whether or not he can keep himself safe? it's surreal, and it's sweet, and it's so unbelievably stupid.

    "listen to yourself. . ."

    usually when someone says these words they're followed by some commentary, but she tosses them towards him as a statement of their own -- for he has always been good at listening to himself. it's how he's made the progress he has and how he always keeps himself moving. he listens to his own directions and through them finds the other side of the dark tunnel.

    "you are my world, nando. you're all i see. but you have to look further."

    his affectionate words are met with equal parts admiration and admonishment.

    "the world means the world to you. always has. you can't beat yourself up over a broken tool to get there."

    there's a moment of lucidity as she reaches the end of the sentence. her eyes drift to her leg for a second; to the screws and pins that hold it straight against the urging of her broken bones, and she can't help but live the words she speaks. not only has she let herself fall into disrepair, she's dragged him along with her. she can't let that stand.


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    RETRIBUTION [ INV / ROCKET ]
    POSTED ON Oct 17, 2018 5:00:01 GMT
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    at his prompting she scans the surveillance footage in front of her. she processes the information from them quickly, but not sloppily. practice has made her skilled in a way she'd like to believe is hard to rival. it takes only moments to give him an answer to his question, and she smiles knowing it's the one he likely wants.

    "the target is visible and the gym is clear. parameters have been met, super nova is a go."


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    POSTED ON Oct 17, 2018 4:33:40 GMT
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    between glances at the surveillance monitors she plucks away at the keyboard of her own laptop. all that time in the hospital put her behind in her work so she's forced to do a bit of multi-tasking from time to time. still, the job he's made for her that leaves her sitting behind his desk takes precedence. when she hears his voice she quickly double-checks the maps and cctv footage before giving him her response.

    "affirmative. both have moved outside of the designated area. you're good to go."


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    VICTORY [ CLOSED | FREEFORM | FUTURE ]
    POSTED ON Oct 17, 2018 4:02:23 GMT
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    she sits behind the desk with multiple monitors reflected in her haggard eyes. in recent days she's taken to cutting back on the medication the doctors gave her for her leg pain. it was leaving her in too much of a haze to work efficiently, but now without it the pain is an exhausting hurdle to constantly jump. on the upside it keeps her sharp. when his question comes through she can respond with certainty -- her voice carrying only the slightest hint of what she's experiencing.

    "affirmative, both have moved outside of the designated area."


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    POSTED ON Oct 17, 2018 3:44:18 GMT
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    over the years she's developed a resistance to his pull. usually when he touches her she can ignore his warmth, and when he's near she can keep her eyes on other things. yet in this moment she's vulnerable. the buffer between her impulses and her actions is reduced to nothing by the morphine and so she leans into his touch. the gentleness of it urges her to sink into it. her eyes close for a moment and she sighs, the most comfortable she's been in . . . however long it's been since she was brought to the hospital.

    at his apology her eyes flutter open and search his face. they're soft when they find his, almost as if his words are humorous. what a silly thing to say to her. she can't help but think he should know by now that they aren't necessary. since their first adventures together she's claimed ownership for the fault in all her injuries, they are -- after all -- little more than the results of her own stubbornness. the inevitable effect of choosing to take on his risks as her own.

    "don't be."

    she almost chastises him with the words, grinning through them.

    "i know what being at your side means, and i stay anyway. my choice, my blame."