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What comes next is a blur. She remembers pointing the brunt of her attacks toward the Celesteela. She remembers the scream of metal, of fear, of pain, as it comes crashing down. She wasn't the only one desperate to drag it back down to the ground, and it appears that they had all unanimously succeeded. But there is a pitiful cry from the person inside, the alien in charge of this attack.[break][break]

And then after that, everything blows up in their faces. Moltres attempts a TAILWIND to get them out of there, but even the legendary's speed is no match for the PSYCHO BOOST that chases them. It knocks them both off their trajectory and Stormy is blown off the back of the beast. It knocks the wind right out of her and she's sure she's tasting the bite of metal between her teeth.[break][break]

In a desperate attempt to soften her crash-landing, she sprouts her FIERY WINGS, beating them to try and slow her fall. However, after that, the rest is history. It appears she must have hit her head or something. She blinks in and out, watching as an alien creature bursts from a rock, or from the meteorite, or from the Celesteela's corpse. Blood from her head injury blinds her and she struggles to find her footing, to pick herself up to get out of harms way. [break][break]

Her Charizard is quick on the upkeep, flying down to defend her pre-emptively with a PROTECT. She can hear people yelling, arguing, maybe. The world is spinning and her head is pounding as she focuses on collecting herself and recovering. It had been a hell of a landing.[break][break]

Meanwhile, it appears that Stormy's ultra beast killer continues to have a mind of its own. The Silvally lands after taking down the metal arm with the meteorite and immediately launches itself back into the fray. It joins those attempting to KILL the general, or at least, it appears as such. The Silvally attacks with a TRI-ATTACK, sending projectiles into the sky after the Deoxys and its prey.[break][break]

Stormy raises a hand to her forehead, wiping at the cut, exasperated. God, she wanted to go home. Blissey's Pokeball burns something fierce on her belt. The capsule bursts open on its own, revealing the plump medic. She worries over Stormy loudly, applying a warm HEAL PULSE on the woman's head injury. [break][break]

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- stormy and moltres go for a slight crash landing after the PSYCHO CUT. moltres uses TAILWIND to evade but stormy falls off the back of the bird, injuring herself in the crash. she slows her fall with her FIERY WINGS.[break]

- mega charizard y PROTECTS stormy pre-emptively in case anything attempts to harm her in her disoriented state[break]

- silvally is on the offense, attacking the deoxys and the general both with a TRI-ATTACK.[break]

- blissey pops out of her Pokeball to apply HEAL PULSE on stormy.[break]

- choosing the KILL option.

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FERNANDO SILPH, illeana reyes, Laurence Anderson

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Everything hurt as flames rocked across her entire body, burning away at her skin. It was unlike anything she had felt before causing her to yelp out in pain. She knew the risks coming here, but she was still alive and that was all that mattered at the moment. This was no time to dwell on her injuries, it was time to keep pressing forwards despite her pain. She had to physically lean against Grace, breathing heavily. The pain was a startling reminder that this was a life and death situation... Not that she needed one.

A black hole from a familiar Z-Move erupts from beneath the Celesteela as everyone attacks as it begins to slow down and perish and Ruby finally lets out a quiet sigh of relief, hopeful that this whole situation was finally over. However, as the meteor chunks seemed to have strange worms wriggling out of them as the general began to cry out desperately for help it became clear that it wasn't over.

The worm-like limbs reaching out immediately made Ruby uncomfortable, staring with wide eyes as her Urshifu luckily was already dropping back towards her with an ENDURE to not only ensure it could survive the fall but block any damage that might be heading Ruby's way with its own body.

"It's... c-consuming corpses!" Ruby shouted to nobody in particular, simply flabbergasted at the sight. It was absolutely horrifying, and hearing the general of the Megalopolan forces shouting out... she almost felt bad. Nobody deserved a fate like that. She was here to stop the fighting as soon as it could, to heal the sick and wounded afterward... Killing was never on her list, despite it happening all around her. War was frankly terrifying. Ruby clenched her fists, sending out her Hatterene by her side as well to defend against the terrifying attack with a PSYCHIC, attempting to protect Ruby and her pokemon.

As soon as Ruby saw Articuno flying in, Ruby didn't hesitate to command her Gardevoir once more. Anyone flying into that terrifying mess needed all the help that they could get. "HEAL PULSE Articuno, keep them up!" Grace would nod her head, before quickly firing a healing pulse of energy straight towards the legendary bird. "Fly quickly..."



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Hatterene uses Psychic simply to defend Ruby.
Gardevoir uses Heal Pulse on Articuno.
Ruby says SPARE.

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This is not a tea party where Kyle graciously allows Balder to deck him in the mouth to defend some homeless child who can’t read the room. Nor is this the Littleroot debacle where League member after League member disregards basic protocol to flounder what’s considered the worst League operation in modern history. No. This is war and Fernando will not allow the incompetent ideals of the misguided to bleed into his own efforts. Kaida Adachi will be the last person to squander his patience with open pride.

However, in retrospect, she was right about one thing.

It was the work of the enemy.

There is a moment of clairvoyance when he understands primitive words of the Ranger’s feral subhuman — kill. But therein lies the difference between man and beast. Fernando controls his emotions, pushing through the impulsive reaction in order to levy the situation with sound decision making.




“Execute.”

The command is as crisp as the burnt remains of his earlier GRASS KNOT. Although the Houndoom’s FLAMETHOWER has thwarted his own efforts, Ophelia’s cover remains under tight lip. Through the mercy of Fernando’s tendency of judging her to be too useless to be of any real help, he reads the attack as an attempt at restraining the Zerora as opposed to maliciously opposing him. Katherine’s comment about MEGA EVOLUTION being squandered by certain trainers flashes through his memory but he dismisses it with a heavy frown.

Valerio approaches dangerously close, despite Fernando’s orders, but the efforts of Tsubasa’s Reuniclus holds him back. These actions don’t go unnoticed but Fernando does not comment on it outwardly. He doesn’t have time to revolve around so many heads when their target is snatched up by their very own Lars Anderson.

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“League forces, this is a direct order! Resistance will be seen as insubordination! Traitors are to be incapacitated with extreme prejudice.”

These words may not mean anything to an undercover Rocket like Valerio or even the vigilante Pokenger, but Fernando’s orders will be recognized by his own team as well as the surviving League soldiers around them. As endearing as it may seem that the world revolves around a select few individuals, that’s a viewpoint left for the selfish and narcissistic. Those who survive Deoxy’s PSYCHO BOOST will hear the call to action even if they don’t act on it.

So when Kazimir follows up in hot pursuit of General Smohke and Lars’ who is Fernando to demand from others without leading by example?

A battle routine has been set and his Pokemon are already in motion. The momentary hindrance of having to observe Deoxys is short lived as the Pokemon jettisons off into the horizon. That leaves them free to maneuver as they see fit, focused around the new objective of following Fernando’s earlier orders, and therefore running defensive line for Lars’ escape.

The Head Ranger evades the PSYCHO BOOST, General in tow, by TELEPORTING back to the safety of his very own Metagross and Silvally. There, in the sky, Fernando almost mistakes the Head Ranger for Hoenn’s flying expert Alexei as his team remains high above Lillian and Ophelia. His eyes trace along Pokenger’s actions and when they look to nab Smohke his Tapu Fini begins to channel its energy.

Having steadied its CALM MIND prior to its attack, locking onto the airborne target isn’t difficult. It makes channeling its Z-MOVE that much easier. But as the MISTY TERRAIN coagulates, Fernando corrects the Legendary with a single phrase, “Bring down the flyer.”

Instead of Fernando’s signature show of mighty, THE GUARDIAN OF ALOLA, his Tapu Fini opts for a secret technique that they’ve kept under wraps. The Pokemon’s PSYCHIC powers hone in on the Charizard and despite it’s PROTECT the Z-MOVE indiscriminately penetrates whatever barriers the duo can put up.

There is no mercy on the battlefield in the same manner that there is no forgiveness in disobedience. Tapu Fini will not maim or wound the Charizard in order to get it to stop. No. The Vindictive will accomplish its goal by any means necessary. Crippling the dragon’s wings isn’t a full stop measure. Death is. So the Legendary Pokemon goes for the sure kill.

Lobotomy.

Within the powers invested in Hoenn’s Guardian Deity, Tapu Fini begins to tear into the Charizard’s nervous system with a SHATTERED PSYCHE. Psychic powers twist and turn, like a parasite, looking to snap through synapses and render the Pokemon incapable — incapable of flying, incapable of breathing, incapable of thought. If the Pokenger doesn’t have the brain to obey orders then Fernando will make sure that real estate isn’t put to waste.



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But this time it’s more than just business; it’s personal.

Fernando and his Pokemon have no inclination as to whether or not Kazimir’s Charizard has some method of madness to escape a SHATTERED PSYCHE. Personally, even Fernando, an actual user of the move, has yet to find a real preventative measure to evade the attack. So they follow under the assumption that there is no escape, lining up in succession to take down the mount that would find maintaining a PROTECT difficult under such dire circumstances.

Among Fernando’s Pokemon, his Smeargle is the only one incapacitated, crash landing along with Stormy and her Moltres, nursing its wounds as it tries to come to.

However, the rest of Fernando’s party are relatively healthy, relatively unharmed from their climb, while being consistently healed through the combined efforts of Lars, Illeana, and even the Saint of Slateport, Ruby Walker. Their ample strength, in comparison, make it easy to retaliate.

Silvally, the Beast Killer, has no qualms with hunting something other than Ultra Beast. A TERRAIN PULSE launches from the Pokemon’s open maw, absorbing some of the powers of Fernando’s MISTY TERRAIN as it spreads across the battered ground.

Likewise, Fernando’s Zygarde also has no qualms with pelting the trio with any STONE EDGE within reach. Like bullets, the stone shards protrude through the air with their sharp incisions pointed first, eager the tear through flesh, scales, and fur alike.

But the most damaging attack has to be the sudden SPOTLIGHT thrust upon their position by his Clefairy. The move may not harm them outright but there’s a worse fate than being on the opposite end of Fernando’s Legendary Pokemon. And that’s being on the sole target of his team. Flashed in an impossible to ignore glow, those below will find their attacks guided toward the gaudy bullseye of orange, yellow, and green.

And although not all of the League’s soldiers will rally under his command — some may have their doubts as well as their wrong and misguided opinions on the matter — there will be those that fall in line, those that seek to please authority, and those that find their loyalties more suited for one of Hoenn’s most recognizable political figures as opposed to some masked crook.

Fernando expects compliance and that means his temper now becomes the temper of many.

War is not a time for treason.

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- fernando misreads ophelia's FLAMETHROWER as an attempt to thwart zerora.

- notices valerio approach where smohke was but doesn't confront him.

- warns all league members, including npc, that insubordination will not be tolerated.

- tapu fini's CALM MIND from last turn allows it to track whoever follows lars' TELEPORT.

- fernando summons a MISTY TERRAIN (+damage) and tapu fini uses its Z-MOVE.

- Z-MOVES cannot be blocked by PROTECT!

- tapu fini uses SHATTERED PSYCHE to lobotomize kazimir's charizard while it's in flight with the intention to kill.

- smeargle is crashed with moltres and stormy. currently dazed.

- silvally fires a TERRAIN PULSE at pokenger and his mount. MISTY TERRAIN turns the attack into a FAIRY ATTACK and boosts damage.

- zygarde uses STONE EDGE to pelt all three.

- clefairy uses SPOTLIGHT to draw attention to them for the league to follow up with more attacks.

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Something soft brushes Stormy's leg and the woman pauses, vision blurring back into focus as the image of Fernando's Smeargle wobbles in front of her. The woman squats down slowly, sucking in a breath at the wave of nausea that overcomes her. But she reaches for the dazed Pokemon, pulling it into her arms and in the safety of her likely now-tattered jacket. Her throat feels hoarse, as if she's swallowed the entirety of a smokescreen, but she lifts her head, pulling away from Blissey's concern, to call out.[break][break]

"F-Fernando?"[break][break]

There is fear in her voice- but not for her. In her fall she hadn't seen what had happened to the rest, what had happened to Smohke, to her friends, her allies. [break][break]

Moltres screams but it appears that the legendary is unharmed, just irritated and grounded temporarily. While overhead, another war is breaking out, Stormy is oblivious to it. The sharp throb in her head is disorienting and she only has one goal. Her hand absently strokes the Smeargle in her arms and she stumbles past Blissey and Charizard on her way to Fernando.[break][break]

The fact that he's angry isn't surprising, and she isn't the least bit deterred by the rage in his eyes. He's yelling, commanding orders, threats, warnings, and his Pokemon take aim after the Pokkenger - but she has no interest in pursuing that issue. [break][break]

"Fernando--"[break][break]

Blissey chases after her in a mild panic, acutely aware of how unsteady her trainer is on her feet and how close she is to falling down. The woman's mega Charizard stays on the ground. Amidst the confusion, the beast chooses not to get involved, not without direct orders from Stormy. And currently, Stormy is nigh incomprehensible. [break][break]

And now that the Deoxys has rocketed back up into the sky, the woman's Silvally is without a clear target. It stands down, too, breathing heavily as it comes back to its senses and attempts to recover.[break][break]

Stormy's boots scuff the ground as she continues to approach Fernando. Her free hand continues wiping blood leaking from her forehead away from her eyes. When she sees it, however, the crimson slick against her fingertips, her pace falters and she hesitates, stunned into silence. She can taste it against her lips and the realization of the horror they've all survived seems to come crashing down on her. Though her vision is fuzzy and confusing, she can see now that Lillian and several on-site medics are gathered around what she assumes to be mateo martinez. [break][break]

She stumbles forward, closing the distance unless Fernando decided to let her fall-- and she fully intends to hang onto him. She presses her cheek against his, focusing on him and only him until she regains her footing. Her hand searches for his to hold onto.[break][break]

"Fern.. I-I need your help."[break][break]

- stormy picks up smeargle and makes her way to fernando. she's rattled and afraid and badly hurt.[break][break]

- moltres remains on the ground, catching its breath.[break][break]

- mega charizard y also remains on the ground, unwilling to get involved without direct orders.[break][break]

- blissey chases stormy, concerned for her wellbeing.[break][break]

- silvally ceases fire.[break][break]

- stormy stumbles into fernando and asks him for help.

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FERNANDO SILPH, illeana reyes, Laurence Anderson

Today was apparently when he would be overshooting his own personal quota of one stupidly dangerous action a day.

Well, today had actually shattered that resolution into a million tiny bits. He didn’t know what had compelled him to fly and snatch the ‘space lady’, but by Arceus, it was like there was some fantastical other deity watching over him.

Who knew if his sister, beyond the cosmos, had sent him her infectious luck and energy to get him through the day? This was certainly unprecedented. The moment he’d managed to grab the enemy general (who was now screaming in pain) the Gardevoir had warped them away from the explosion—

Right towards the anchor where Ro was still floating far overhead, Amir eyeing the sudden appearance of the Articuno with its passengers. At the sight of the lady, the now-Silvally began to snarl, but Lars gave him a look so scathing, it practically shut him up.

And then—

And then everything devolved into chaos.

There was one corner of his vision that was turning… a rather unpleasant crimson color before the familiar metallic stench assaulted his nostrils. But the more pressing matter was the fact that there was something headed his way, and if he needed to get the fuck out of the way—he would.

Instead of the Telekinesis deploying to hold the enemy general hostage, Lars pointed his head at the incoming… threat. “Ro, change of plans! Push that away! Redirect! Amir, help Ro! Do what you have to—I trust you.”

It was those last three words that made the Silvally stop and outright stare at him, before the Metagross lurched forward from his mid-air position, throwing out the Telekinesis as a protective barrier to hopefully repel what was headed their way. The Silvally then saw the incoming threat, and decided to distract further with a cavalcade of falling rocks—a Rock Slide!

“Lynette, take us to wherever Ruby is, or at least close enough to someone who can help,” he said, pointing in the general direction where Ruby was. Barring that, they were going to get as close to where Fernando was currently located.

“We gotta get out of here.”

Even if his ‘companion’ was to protest, he would bark back, “Would you want to DIE?!” and hopefully that shut her up. The Gardevoir then looped her arms around Lars and the ‘space lady’, before Teleporting away from the Articuno’s back.

This then left the ice deity to look at whatever was coming—and then pondered for a few moments at what the Metagross and Silvally were doing. Hoping that it was going to serve as the flashiest distraction they could deploy, the Articuno gathered the arctic energy from within and opened fire with a non-lethal, but still very potent, Ice Beam.

It was aiming to severely incapacitate or at the very least hamper whatever was coming to something that was no longer there.

It felt like an eternity, but Lars felt his balance sway before finally hitting the ground again. Oh, Arceus, how the fuck did his friend not get airsick after staying up in the air for so long?! Damn it. Either way, the Gardevoir stood guard, ready to attack whatever would be coming down where they had landed. To be on the safe side, they had appeared close to where Fernando stood, now accompanied by Stormy.

“Lady. LADY!” he shouted as he reached for the emergency pack he carried on him at all times. “If you want to live—I mean it, you’re losing a lot of fucking blood—then shut up and let me work!”

Ripping the zipper open, he bit his lower lip—fuck, she was losing so much blood it was alarming. Quickly reaching for the alcohol, he roughly cleaned his hands before reaching for the gauze and bandages, working as fast as he could because fucking shit that was a lot of blood.

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck! He thought frantically as he ripped the gauze apart and applied it to stopper whatever was going to be left of her leg, before ripping the roll of bandages open and fashioning a tourniquet around the leg stump. The important thing was that he had to stop the bleeding, and fast.

“Someone get me the girl with the shiny Gardevoir, STAT!” he shouted as his hands became wet with blood while he worked, staving away the damage as best as he could, hoping to wrap that tourniquet as tightly as he could.

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Ruby braces herself for impact as her Pokemon work to protect her, gritting her teeth as the psychic wave of energy crashes over them. Luckily, it seemed her pokemon were able to hold back the brunt of the force but it was clear they took quite a bit of damage themselves. Her eyes narrowed as she looked at the strange thing, wondering if they were going to have to fight it too. However, it seemed to look around and almost transform into a different, yet similar form as it just flew away. A problem for another day, perhaps.

And yet, Ruby let out a heavy sigh of relief. It seemed the fighting to be over for the most part. Almost instinctively, Ruby slumped against Whisper as the pokemon easily caught her weight and supported her up. Perhaps she had grown used to the violence and the fighting, but the physical toll on her body was much higher than in the past. The burns all over her body attested to that fact quite obviously.

Her eyes slowly scanned the scene as she attempted to calm herself down from the adrenaline high. League Rangers injured, as well as their pokemon. There no doubt was going to be a lot of work to do. Patching people up, getting them back in operating states so that they could help others.

She wasn't surprised when she heard through a few friendly rangers still standing that someone was demanding her presence, but she had been expecting to be chastised for her arrival, for arriving at a warfront. After all, she was quite obviously still underage, there wasn't really any hiding that anymore. Regardless, Ruby recalled her heavily injured Urshifu as her Hatterene and Gardevoir led her over towards Lars.

What she wasn't expecting was to see the Megalopolan General without a leg and desperately being bandaged by the Head Ranger. Ruby immediately took a deep breath as she once again steeled her nerves, understanding right away what was going on. There would be no point in clutching her from the jaws of death if she died afterward. Ignoring her own obvious injuries for a bit, Ruby dropped her bag heavy with first aid supplies as she suddenly began ordering commands to her pokemon.

"Whisper, hold her still." Almost immediately, the Hatterene would use PSYCHIC to hold the general down. Not precisely to keep her from escaping, considering she was down a limb, but she had seen what those teeth alone could do... And she wasn't eager to figure it out for herself.

Her eyes scanned the makeshift tourniquet that Laurence Anderson seemed to fashion together, nodding in approval. Assuming their biology was anything remotely similar to humans, stopping the loss of blood was imperative. "Grace, HEAL PULSE. Patch them up." The Gardevoir would wave her hands as a gentle pulse of psychic energy would flow into their form, starting from their leg, attempting to patch them up from the inside out.

Shortly after that, however, her Gardevoir would turn its attention to the legendary Pokemon nearby, politely bowing towards its location before just TELEPATHICALLY asking if the freezing bird of legend required a few more heals of its own. However, Ruby was too focused on the job at hand to worry about the legendary's health. It seemed most of the bandaging work was done on the general already, but there was definitely more work that could be done.

"Are you injured?" Ruby would ask the head ranger directly, her eyes briefly glancing over at the other assorted group of League forces nearby. "Of course you are, nevermind. That's a dumb question. We all are." The girl would finally kneel down a bit, stumbling and hissing briefly in pain as her burns continued to sting away at her skin despite doing her best to ignore them.

"Just... sit still." Ruby would speak quietly on instinct, taking another roll of bandages from her own supplies and attempt to wrap it around the general's leg as well. She never imagined having to patch up the enemy... but she supposed it made sense. Information was important, even if it got her hands literally covered in alien blood... She'd do what it took to ensure her new home was kept safe.

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