Ezekial couldn't help from jumping slightly at the loud voice but quickly turned to face the other. Ah, it seemed that this was his partner. He graciously accepted the hand offered and gave his own firm shake in return. "It's nice to meet you as well. I'm Ezekial." A quick answer before the other started talking again. It gave him some relief that Zac seemed to know what he was doing. In that case, it wouldn't be likely for him to mess this up somehow. That made his shoulder straighten a little with a renewed confidence he wasn't even aware he had been lacking.

"Ah... it is rather high up. I wonder why a pokemon would choose a power line over a nice tree, I suppose." Turning back to the pole, he raised a hand over his eyes to squint at the nest. Zac seemed to have some idea of what it was already which was a good sign. Ezekial's own knowledge on pokemon was a bit lacking if they hadn't been the ones around his home back in Sinnoh. Well, regardless, it wouldn't do them much good to simply stare at it.

"I suppose our pokemon will be the ones to take it down? Unless you're good at climbing." He laughed softly at his own joke and plucked two pokeballs from his hip. "Yew and Lotus should be able to get up there." A moment later a Xatu and Dragapult had materialized next to them. The Xatu seemed content to stay still and simply stare into space, unblinking. The Dragapult gave a massive yawn and turned over in the air, floating on her back, before giving a snort and gliding closer to Zac. The dragon pokemon seemed very inclined to hover over the redhead's hair and try to snuffle against his scalp.

"A-ah, sorry." Ezekial started, flushing lightly at his pokemon's actions. "Lotus is very... affectionate." The dragon grunted at that and tried to push her sharp face against the other.

Before Ezekial could attempt to pull his pokemon away from the other, the Xatu suddenly raised it's wings high and let out a piercing shriek. It's whole body glowed with energy, eyes turning to flat planes of reflective blue. He held the pose for a few moments before the glowing stopped, followed a moment later by him tucking his wings back against his body and going back to staring into space.

Whatever had been in the nest didn't seem to like that, the whole thing starting to shake rapidly at being disturbed...

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Zac Ramsay

Yew used.... some type of attack?

"Is the tree...?" Ezekial repeated back slowly, turning from his pokemon's antics, since Zac didn't seem to mind, glanced back at the pole again. Ezekial had... never seen Exeggutor before. The name vaguely rang a bell but he couldn't really place it. However, taking in a more critical look at the 'pole' showed that it indeed had some type of feet. If he squinted, since the leaves were moving now, he thought he even caught a glimpse of some type of yellow fruit occasionally. He felt terrible he had just been ready to wallop the poor thing. Maybe this 'Trainer' thing wasn't really meant for him.

"Oh, that poor dear... How do we get him loose? I'm not sure any of my pokemon could safely touch the power lines. Maybe we could get him to sit down and he would slide back out?" That might only work if the 'tangle' wasn't too serious around the other pokemon, however; this would all be for naught if they broke the lines in the process of freeing the pokemon. "Maybe one of us could catch him and then release him?" Something about that seemed a little too convenient, though, and if the Exeggutor broke free from the ball, it could also risk getting tangled up worse, breaking the lines, or both!

Stepping a little closer, Ezekial chanced to reach out and pat the pokemon lightly where he could touch. Not the safest move where it was wild and stressed out but he felt do bad for it! "It's okay! We're going to get you free!" He called out to the pokemon, not even sure it could understand him.

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Zac Ramsay

"My instincts?" Ezekial wasn't really sure he had real 'instincts'. He must wanted to do what he could to help in most situations! "I know I don't want to hurt him or frighten him worse than he already is." So that ruled out the third option.

"Hmm... the second one would knock out the power connected to these lines. We don't know what homes and businesses rely on this line to run and we don't know when they'll be able to fix it." Especially given the general status of the region as a whole currently. They were still recovering from so much...

"I like the first idea, the main issue would be having pokemon that could resist getting shocked themselves.... none of my pokemon fully resist it; Lotus being the only one who isn't hurt as badly by it." In fact, two of his pokemon were weak to electricity. Lotus would still get hurt but she might be able to hold out...

"... could we... lift him out....?" The widest part was already stuck. If some strong pokemon could lift as well as grab his head and pull... but Ezekial didn't think he could do that on his own.

When Zac proposed pushing the pokemon out, Ezekial's eyes lit up. Yes, that would work even better! "Ah, damaging the sidewalk or even the edge of the road isn't nearly as bad as taking out the power. It will be a nuisance for a little while, at worst!" Which meant that Zac had the priest all in on this idea.

"Oh my." Was squeaked out at seeing the Onix, being unused to such large pokemon. He took care to move away quickly as the tunnel was started, making sure to give the Exeggutor one last pat before he moved out of the way. "That shouldn't be too bad! I'm not sure how much my pokemon can help get him out."

He winced at the noise, his hairs also standing on end. "... ah, but I suppose time is almost up. The poor things are just hungry... but I'm not sure we have much to offer them. Unless you have a better idea, I don't mind taking the offensive till you get him free."

With something like a plan now set in motion, Ezekial tosses out one more pokemon to join the fray. Ginger stretches, the mienshao only glancing around briefly before his ears perk up and he narrows in on the incoming crowd of noibat. Without moving, Yew Teleports to be standing between his trainer and the oncoming hoard. Ginger also takes up point and Hones his Claws before taking up a battle stance. Being a close range pokemon, he would need to wait before he could strike.

Lotus is the one who takes the most initiative, it seems. She lets out a high pitched cry and shoots a volley of Dragon Darts. The missiles end up missing one of their targets, too far away, but hits another and takes it down easy. As it turns out, while the Noibats are numerous they are also fragile.

Ezekial is about to call out a proper attack for his pokemon, but then suddenly a low ringing starts up. He feels goosebumps raise on his skin at the sound, but it is followed by a small ball of white and blue forming in the middle of the cluster of Noibat. As quickly as it appears, the balls expands in a mass of energy, engulfing much of the swarm. The noise rings out louder before suddenly imploding on itself, an explosion following. Then it's gone, leaving most of the Noibat falling to the ground in singed lumps, unconscious.

"What was.... Yew! What did you do?!" Remembering his Xatu acting strange earlier, he turns to the psychic type. For what it was worth, for a pokemon that did not move, Yew seemed to have a very smug aura about him in that moment.

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Zac Ramsay

xatu used teleport!
mienshao used hone claws!
dragapult used dragon darts!
the future sight hit!

While the flock was considerably thinned out after the Future Sight, there were still a half dozen or so of the Noibat flying around. Since they were closer now, Ginger squatted down and tensed before he kicking himself high into the air. He aimed himself downwards to slam his full weight on top of one of the bats in a Bounce. Yew was also busy, finally moving to lift his wings and flap in place, picking up speed as he did. His eyes glowed like they had before, a knot of air forming before shooting out in a concentrated blade of wind. The Air Slash hit one of the Noibat and knocked the wind out from two more, making them lose their balance and drop to the ground as well.

Lotus snorted, grinning wide and staring down the last three of the Noibat. She shot out another Dragon Dart, the missiles surging forward and slamming into two of the bat pokemon, knocking them out of the air to join the rest. The Dart narrowly missed the last bat, who was surging forward as fast as it's little wings could carry it, a sharp Screech leaving it's lips. The three pokemon braced for a hit but were surprised when it zoomed past them - right at Ezekial.

"Ah!" The bat was smaller than the others and slammed him right in the face. It kept making angry sounds and clawed at his head, only really succeeding in pulling some of his hair in it's little paws. He quickly reached up and grabbed the pokemon, taking a moment to pull it off of him (and taking a few strands of hair with it). It struggled and cried in his grip but couldn't really get free. These things really were very fragile...

Despite knowing that maybe handling a wild pokemon was dangerous, Ezekial felt pretty bad for the creature and tried to gently shush it, pulling it close to his chest and moving to cradle it like one would a baby. "H-hey! It's okay, it's okay..." It did calm down it's struggling, at least, but kept up the chattering and squeaking in frustration. He didn't really know what it was saying but he could guess. "You're hungry, right? That's all this was?" Shifting the pokemon in his arms, he reached into his pocket and dug around. He didn't have any food on him, but he did find one of the butterscotch candies he gave to the kids who came to his story times at the park. "Here, this might make you feel better." He fumbled to unwrap it and passed it off to the pokemon's little claws, who eagerly started to gnaw at the hard candy and calmed down.

"Lotus! Go make sure the other Noibat are okay!" With that Ezekial also called back Ginger and Yew while the dragon type flew off to sniff at the bats and menace them to fly away. With that, Ezekial went to see how Zac was doing. He only made it a few steps towards the other when the bass note made him flinch and the Noibat still in his arms squeak and try to hide it's sticky face in his armpit.

"Noivern?" He glanced out to where Zac had been staring to see if he could catch a glimpse of whatever creature was making the noise. "That's... what these guys evolve into, isn't it?"

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Zac Ramsay

mienshao used bounce!
xatu used air slash!
dragapult used dragon darts!
ezekial used candy!