Before she can reach for her, Eris Halla is gone, and not a moment too soon. The intensity of a SOLAR BEAM shoots right past Eva’s head, making her buckle and fold against Mehira. Adele is too late, and the beam sends her careening off of the Salamence’s back. A flash of light catches her to return her before she falls. Adele is replaced with Blade. She isn’t the only one struck, Eva watches the SOLAR BEAMS tear through her companions, including MATIAS SILPH . Worry catches but dissipates as Ash swoops in to grab him.

She takes a moment to analyze their situation.

The threats:
1) Groundon chasing its orb
2) A volcano on the verge of eruption, threatening to destroy the Hoenn they know
3) PRECIPICE BLADES awaiting detonation

As MATIAS SILPH rushes to stave off Groudon, Eva accepts the burden of the other two problems. In preparation, she triggers her Salamence to Mega-Evolve. A flash of light consumes them and Mehira emerges with a roar.

In order to protect the present, they need to open up the past. Perhaps that’s how Mt. Chimney came to be from the lush, ancient jungle it once was. Pressure urges Mehira forward, towards Greyson Connors who seemed to not need her intervention, “We need to destroy it, open up the past!” Could he hear her? Who knows. She makes a throwing motion with her arm as Mehira settles above the blades, “Draco Meteor, target the blades.”

The sky above roars into a purple storm, wrought with draconic energy. It battles for dominance with the slivers of the past. A series of meteors fall from the skies, aimed at the PRECIPICE BLADES in hopes of destroying them before they can destroy her companions. Should Greyson Connors chose to throw the stone at one of them, hopefully it would allow for the imminent eruption to take place in the past.

tl;dr: RIP Gradevoir. Gallade comes out next. Mehira the Salamence Mega-Evolves. Eva’s like “Oh shit, we gotta let this volcano erupt in the past so we don’t destroy modern day Hoenn” and encourages Greyson Connors to let Mehira strike it with the DRACO METEOR that’s attempting to destroy the PRECIPICE BLADES. Two birds one stone . . . yeah?
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[attr="class","illie i"]fuck. fuckfuckfuck.

too many things happen at once. cofagrigus holds steady at first, sure, but the protect doesn't last long. it shakes, breaks, and fades. Stormy Silph is struck, knocked away, and illeana is left scrambling. Greyson Connors falls next, soon followed by her cofagrigus. she recalls the coffin in a quick sweeping movement of her arm, the pokeball tucked back onto her belt.

and then, she shifts for stormy first, an arm extending out with pink mist bleeding from every open pore. catch, heal, repeat. luckily, greyson fares slightly better and steadies himself before she can swoop over to him next. her eyes dart to follow his movements for a moment.

fucking hell.

"you okay?" she murmurs to stormy, flashing a small smile. dragonite flies as close as it can to her moltres, careful of the legendary's fiery wings. once she's certain stormy is steady and back on her respective ride, the scientist shifts gears. another pokemon is released, this time a discolored automaton. her shiny golurk rumbles and creaks, its clay body holding steady against the intense heat.

"hyper beam, dragonite. aim for the blades." the last thing they need is one of those fuckers exploding.

with her dragonite sweeping a hyper beam across the nearest blades, her attention switches over to the automaton waiting for a command. thank god golurks are capable of flight...

"z-move," she murmurs, lips pressing into a firm line. a single hand rises, with an index finger pointing toward the red orb. "never ending nightmare."

the golurk rumbles, shifts, and takes off. careful to avoid ongoing attacks from other pokemon in the vicinity, the automaton shifts into shadows. it emerges as close as possible to the red orb in a rush of shadows, never ending nightmare trapping the red orb. maybe it'll work and maybe it won't... she's unsure but pink mist bleeds a little harder as anxiety rises.

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raid.

tl;dr |

- recalls fainted cofagrigus
- swoops in to catch Stormy Silph
- releases golurk
- dragonite uses hyper beam on the nearest pricipice blades
- golurk uses z-move: never ending nightmare on the red orb
- come get ur healing mist? idk

Filled with shock and dread as he comes to realize what came of his pokemon from withstanding the blast of just one SOLAR BEAM, Derek is quick to retrieve the Garchomp before it could demoralize him and his pokemon any further. "Sorry, Jonesy, but you're going in as well." The pokemon means too much to him to risk being hurt, and with Groudon on the move with every intention of doing harm...

The RED ORB appeared to be removed from it's body, with many events taking place after. But the most prominent of these were the PRECIPICE BLADES, and the FUMAROLIC GAS that was quickly escaping from the mountain's maw. Being so close that he'd already been breathing it in, Derek could tell very quickly that it was no joke. And that still wasn't the worst part, as it was quite clear the volcano was sure to blow any moment now.

"Weezing, dispel the gas as quick you can!" Bringing his other pokemon to the table, there is only so much they can do to help. Even so, they were going to try their damnedest to keep things from going to hell and back. "Apollo, use Inferno on those monoliths! Randal...keep the boulders coming at them too!"

tl;dr Derek returns Garchomp & Sobble
- Machamp throws a boulder at a PRECIPICE BLADE using STRENGTH
- Charizard tries using INFERNO on a PRECIPICE BLADE!
- Weezing's NEUTRALIZING GAS & CLEAR SMOG does it's best to combat the FUMAROLIC GAS!

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He heard someone, someone he didn't recognize, but they gave him valuable information regardless that red orb for some reason was able to open up a portal to the past. In fact when Vilu had hit it with Leaf Storm, Amor did witness it, but the question was did anyone else here? It didn't matter this entire thing was one massive cluster, and aside from those who were friends with each other, there was no such thing as real teamwork here. It was a problem, but it would do him no good to worry about it now. There were few people here he trusted, he didn't see Josh Dragomir, or Zac Ramsay anywhere nearby which meant that for as far as he was concerned he was alone. He didn't have the luxury of asking for assistance, but he saw the Red Orb get lobbed into the air into the path of the meteors, Amor wasn't one to put all his eggs into one basket however. Mentally he thanked @jess for that information.

"Vilu you're the quickest, if that Meteor doesn't hit it, seize the opportunity, and use Leaf Storm on it. I can at least in some part ascertain the plan here, the volcano can't erupt in the present. So go." He spoke to the Mega Sceptile who darted off as quickly as he could, and he began to take aim. Vilu wouldn't know if the meteor would hit or not, but he had absolute faith in himself that he could smash into that orb, that is what he hoped at least.

"Zahak, Draco, destroy the spires. Dragon Darts, and Hurricane go!" He commanded as the two of them launched off into the air to find their targets, and now that Amor was on the ground watching Groudon seek out the orb that had been dislodged from it, he wondered if it would lose power. Was that orb powering him up some how? Would it cause him to calm down eventually, or would he mindlessly keep chasing the one who had possession of it. Only time would tell on that, and he just hoped that his plan worked.

Battle Breakdown: Amor heard Jess's words, and is now acting on them!
Mega Sceptile is going to Leaf Storm on the Orb should Eva Morales Draco Meteor miss
Dragapult is using Dragon Darts on the nearest Precipice Blade
Dragonite is using Hurricane on the nearest Precipice Blade as well.

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"Shit, Dunamus!"

Whoever shot that Solar Beam, their mother's a hoe. It was a one shot takedown, and Josh knew it on contact. With a low growl he returned the Swampert to its Pokeball. The Ranger was far from happy about this, and he loosed a low seethe. "Alright pal, I think it's time we wrapped this up."

First, he had sent out his Blastoise Bastilo, and had it use Protect to shield his team.

Then the Ranger held out both of his gauntlets. Both the Z-Gauntlet and the Mega-Gauntlet. His Charizard returned from its Pokeball and began to glow, soon Mega Evolving into Mega Charizard X. "FLARE BLITZ!" he called out to Fawkes, who launched itself at Groudon, breaking through the pillars on the way to it. But he wasn't done. The glowing of the other gauntlet caused the Raichu to glow meanwhile. It was time for an all-out attack.

"GIGAVOLT HAVOC!"

Lightning launched a massive blast of electricity up above. Of course, this wasn't meant to hit Groudon, Josh knew that it wouldn't hurt it. But it could cover Fawkes...

The volcano would erupt soon. He hoped his family was safe...

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- Blastoise uses Protect
- Charizard Mega Evolves into Mega Charizard X
- Mega Charizard uses Flare Blitz on Groudon -- shattering pillars along the way
- Raichu uses Gigavolt Havoc -- while it won't hurt Groudon, its purpose is to cover Charizard from other attacks
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