Alexei wasn’t expecting Zelle’s little wail to… actually
summon something from beyond the depths.
When was the last time he’d seen those other Phione? Definitely a
long time ago… so he was absolutely
not expecting his troublemaker to suddenly have… a little swarm of fellow troublemakers come in from who knew where (most likely from the surf? Underwater? Shoal Cave? He had no idea) and automatically stick… attach themselves all over his jacket in a bid to get as close to their fellow Phione as much as possible!
“Whoa, uh, Zelle…?” he remarked to the Phione in his hold, who let out the happiest of shit-eating chirping noises as the other Phione began clamoring around him, the noise level getting increasingly louder the more Phione began arriving. Doing a quick headcount, there were…
“…what the hell?!” was all he could exclaim as a grand total of
eight more Phione had arrived. Some were latched onto his jacket, there were a couple who had clung onto his shoulders (one on each side) and there was one that even dared to perch on Zelle’s favorite spot—
atop his head.
To this, the one in his hold let out a hissing noise, which was promptly ignored by the other.
“Wow, territorial much?” he chuckled as the one in his hold continued to make strange hissing noises at the one who had decided to claim the top of his head as its new temporary ‘home’.
Either way, the Lucario turned around for a few moments and had a look of sheer
“what the fuck” on his features, before shaking his head. The Gardevoir, curious to know, snuck a peek as well.
Their human companion had turned into a literal squish magnet, surrounded not be one, but now by
nine little blue blobs from who the fuck knew where. Well, Vincent had an idea as he had seen them when he was still a Riolu, but…
“Okay, so uh—“ he trailed off, before noticing that the weather around them had turned absolutely brutal. The conditions earlier were fine; however now visibility dropped to almost zero.
“What the fuck,” was all he could say, as even the Salamence let out a surprised roar at the sudden change of weather to absolutely abysmal conditions.
Meanwhile, all nine Phione were chittering and talking amongst each other, chirping and swatting one another with the protrusions sticking out (growing out?) of their heads, as if discussing something with one another. Now that the strange, angry red-and-blue beast was nowhere in sight… it was time to
play.
Tuning out the myriad chirping noises as all the Phione were communicating with each other, he then tightened his hold on the Salamence, nudging Gabriel to go as high as he could.
“Bring us up. This weather is terrible.”With that the Salamence flew up high, higher—as high as he could go in order to get a better scope of how bad (and how far) the anomalous weather had spread. Alexei was pretty sure, by laws of heat and location, that a blizzard white-out like this one
wasn’t going to last because Hoenn was tropical in nature, after all.
I wonder what they’re up to… he thought as the chittering noises came to a halt before the one in his hold turned to face him and catch his attention.
“What?” he asked; while the other three Pokémon awaited their marching orders.
“Wait—are you trying to say—“From the way Zelle was flailing her arms around, Alexei recognized what she was trying to get across—the way she moved her arms just so before pointing downward.
“Are you sure?” he asked, wondering what the hell the little community of Phione were planning. All of them were apparently sharing looks with each other, one that (if Alexei could see it) only
they knew what they were planning.
Without further ado, four of the Phione whirled and swung their heads downward, letting the strange appendage point towards the whiteout conditions—and the clouds above them grew darker. A rumbling noise gave Alexei about half a second’s worth of warning before one, two, three—four of the eight Phione began unleashing their
Rain Dance moves, all at the same time.
To say that it was raining similarly to a typhoon was an understatement.
“Really?!” he called out to the one in his hold, who was chuckling like a madman (or a mad lady). Unlike his own Phione who could not aim her Rain Dance properly, the four that had done so could do so had some control and finesse over it, now the question was moving them… forward.
“Gabe, get ready to blast shit out of the way with a Dragon Claw, okay? Tat, Psychic! Defend us!” and the two swung into action—the Gardevoir conjuring another bright, rainbow-colored blob of energy and preparing to chuck it at whatever else would come to meet them; while the Salamence’s claws began to burn bright with draconic energy.
Hopefully, this harebrained scheme would work. Wondering if he could coordinate this, he then rummaged into his jacket and pulled out—one more feather. He had to hang onto the last four, and gripped this one as tightly as he could.
As the strange ‘procession’ moved forward, the other four Phione were clamoring among themselves—and then the strange bright lights began to chase them even up here, in what he thought was relative safety. Another shrill cry came from the Phione in his hold, while the other four stared like deer in headlights at the incoming blocks that were firing ominous laser beams—
Before the four remaining Phione suddenly let out a shrill, unified wailing noise and released the largest airborne
Whirlpool that Alexei had ever seen—the other four crying as they hung onto each other (and him) while maintaining the vortex of water, hopefully to smash and knock away the blocks that were headed their way.
Getting the cue, he whistled exactly once to his Lucario, who knew that the one whistling note he dropped was a
sign—
And gathered auric energy in his palm. Seated up ahead, he knew he
couldn’t miss, but how much would they have to fly back if the—
A powerful, charged up
Aura Sphere then flew from the Lucario’s paws, aimed right at the blocks that were hopefully being thrown around like a spin cycle on high in the Phione-summoned
Whirlpool, an attempt to smash as many of them as possible with the powerful, charged-up auric sphere of energy.
Whether or not the resultant shock wave would knock them away, Alexei only yelled,
“HANG ON!” to the Phione, he hoped Zelle would yell at them to hang on as well—before he threw his arm downward and released the feather beneath him, hoping the wind would blow him clear of the resulting shock wave from whatever insane-ass explosion would rock them in the skies above.
As the Phione moved, so did the
Rain Dance—a strange quirk about his Phione’s Rain Dance was that she couldn’t aim it properly, but with them—would the clouds move, clearing out the terrible whiteout conditions far below them?
Who knew?k_WPugFI
• Alexei is “wtf!” at the sudden swarm of blue squishy mini-‘drones’ that came to answer the call of the one in his hold
• So like yeah he now has
nine Phione, one of them firmly in his grip; the other eight hanging onto him by either his arms, or his shoulders, and even atop his head
• Lucario just goes
‘oy vey’ at the sight, shrugs and shakes his head
• The weather around him becomes white-out terrible
• Salamence flies higher with the strange procession clinging onto Alexei, hopefully to clear the strange weather
• Because it’s weather-shenanigans time
• (please take note that Zelle the Phione is the one leading the other eight and so there we go.)
• Four of the eight Phione make it rain. Pretty damned hard.
• Four of the eight Phione used
Rain Dance (four simultaneous applications in one go) in an attempt to change the weather conditions from the white out below to something a little less troublesome!
• Salamence prepares a
Dragon Claw to swat anything incoming out of the way
• Gardevoir prepares a defensive
Psychic as some of the stray
mini cuboidal Death Stars cubes fly up and chase him
• The other four Phione concentrate their effort and conjure up an aerial combined
Whirlpool (four simultaneous applications
also in one go), hoping to deflect the cubes chasing after them
• Lucario (FINALLY) releases a powered up
Aura Sphere (sp.atk+4, thanks Nasty Plot) at the incoming vortex of water that hopefully has trapped the incoming cubes, an attempt to smash them apart
• In preparation for whatever shit-ass shock wave, Alexei uses another feather to propel them away from the ‘blast site’
•
All Phione, please fasten your seatbelts—we’re going on a
RIDE• Feather usage this round:
one
seeing 
"Thanks for the backup Noelle, we make a good team." June was so relieved that they managed to take care of the Megalopolans and save the hostages without any casualties. 
she watches from afar as her garchomp screeches in pain, yet he had done his job, now falling headfirst into the sea. thankfully, they were close enough that she could recall the fainted dragon, returning it to its pokeball before it could face further harm. 
AS POKEMON STRIKE THE MASSIVE STAKATAKA PILLARS, the cubes vibrate ferociously, as if channeling power from within— or from below. The earth surrounding them quakes too. Sand sprays upward from where the pillars connect with the earth. As the cubes themselves begin to glow, the earth glows too as if it had molten lava surging underneath the cracking sands.[break][break][break]
While 
Creighton shakes his head. He refuses retreat and surprisingly, as 
As they reach the rocky mountain, they realize several drones have surged across to face 
Despite their attempts to distract, one drone, however, has noticed 
