Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers (H✩T)

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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers (H✩T)
POSTED ON Jul 23, 2021 18:02:43 GMT
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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers


May the best bros win!



"Angelo!" Doug said as he jumped the older man in the middle of a crowded street, wearing about 7 different pieces of merch randomly strapped to different parts of his body after having parkoured his way through several different stalls.

"How's the festival goin' for ya?" he asked with a broad grin as styled sunglasses dangled off his head.


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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers (H✩T)
POSTED ON Jul 24, 2021 12:30:59 GMT
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A yawn that escapes Angelo’s throat is cut off by the impact of a body colliding into his own, the festival welcoming committee really outdoing itself today. If anything, the force wakes the pilot-in-training up as he stumbles, having been at the airfield since dawn. His brain scrambled but happy with pilot jargon and memories of the control wheel under his grip. [break][break]

Shit – ? That little Dougie?” [break][break]

A pause, a blink, is required for it all to sink into a tired mind. John Douglas Sullivan had changed a lot since they’d last seen one another… (Angelo didn’t count the whole coconut beheading incident.) [break][break]

An arm is instantly slung around the teenager’s shoulders – Doug’s gotten taller, he notes, enough so for Angelo to automatically stand up straighter – and beams. Knuckles digging into the kids ribs. [break][break]

Just got here, actually! Y’look like you’re enjoying yourself. Nice shades.” He did have a pair of and Articuno ones… May it rest in pieces. “Being kept busy? I hear you're a bigshot these days.


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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers (H✩T)
POSTED ON Jul 24, 2021 15:42:00 GMT
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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers


May the best bros win!


Doug grabbed at the shades, winking.

"Thanks, Mr. Dross." He said with a smirk, throwing an arm around the man's shoulders to match the one around his own, grinning as he fished into his pocket and pulled... a keychain. "Saw one o'these and thought about you two lovebirds."

He casually reached over to hook it onto the man's beltband while sighing overdramatically.

"Is that what they are saying? I must've missed the memo, I feel gruntier than ever." He said wryly as he pulled away with one broad rotating step, both hands falling into his open Zapsi branded hoodie's pockets. "I've been pullin' so many all nighters while trapped inside m'office, my diet has become entirely made of Charja Cola. I swear I make up half of 's profits- and he still hasn't offered me a sponsorship!"

Wonder why.

"But 'nuff 'bout me, that's boring! What have you been up to, Big bro?"


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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers (H✩T)
POSTED ON Jul 24, 2021 16:34:14 GMT
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Angelo doesn’t correct the Mr Dross comment, he’s too wrapped up in the keychain that Doug pulls out of his pocket like he’d just revealed the Buneary at a magic show. Laughter rips from his lungs, hearty, smugly amused and just the slightest bit weirded out… because what the fuck? [break][break]

Who the hell is making these?” He chokes, turning the trophy in calloused fingertips as its clipped to his beltloop. Angelo doesn’t make an effort to detach it. “Whoever it is, they captured her braindead stare really well… I’m conflicted. Should I complement their craftmanship or threaten to kick their ass?” [break][break]

He'll show it to Skyler later. She might cover the latter and he can relish in the hilarity of the former. [break][break]

Ah, yes…” He drawls, sarcastically dry. “I hear being a prodigy Gym Leader and leading your own entourage can be a real drag. Maybe you should ask your Good Commissioner for a raise for your troubles.” A hand is raised to swat playfully at the back of Doug’s head. He can’t find himself to be too envious of the kid’s success. [break][break]

Actually, kiddo. A lot, I’ve been –“ [break][break]

That’s when two figures, one squat and one lanky, materialise in front of them like a Wild Unova West showdown. The festival crowds parting… [break][break]

And eyes meet.

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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers (H✩T)
POSTED ON Jul 24, 2021 17:33:35 GMT
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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers


May the best bros win!


Angelo's reaction was exactly right. Doug couldn't believe it either when he saw it.

"I asked the guy and he just bought them from someone else; but apparently, the maker just makes 'em if the people are 'infamous enough', whatever that means." He said as he reached into his pocket and produced keychain. "Guess there's a lotta people out there hoping to see Skyler sweep the tourney!"

Unfortunately for Doug, Skyler was one of the many trainers thrown into the gym leader's betting pool.

"They are really trying to undersell how understaffed the League is, huh?" The youth said dryly, a blush coloring his cheeks as Angelo threw his accomplishments at him. Nobody ever called him a prodigy to his face- it was always some opinion column or article.

They definitely hadn't seen his grades before he got expelled and dropped out, clearly.

He definitely deserved a raise, though!

Unfortunately, right as they got to the good part of the conversation, Angelo's stuff-

Things got... weird.

[player]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/850907874325823529/868543452424601600/Gorillaz_-_Clint_Eastwood_Official_Video.mp3[/player]


Doug was trying not to look, but it was like a bad car crash; you couldn't look away. And before he knew it, the number one rule of all Pokemon Training was in effect, his gaze meeting the taller, lankier of the two's own.

Very slowly, as if the two men before him could only perceive movement, he leaned over to Angelo and muttered between grit teeth.

"Uh... friends o'yours?" He said, feeling the two men's fierce eyes and unreasonably intense mustaches upon them.

The two men turned the full heat of their gazes to Angelo.

"Give it a-back." Spoke the taller of the two, breathing hard. "GIVE IT A-!"

He stepped forth, but the squatter of the two extended his arm, slapping it across his chest.

"Calm, bro, calm." He said, nodding at his brother once before turning his glare to Angelo. "I can a-see that you don't recognize a-us."

The two brothers glared heatedly Angelo once again... before grasping firmly at the workman's shirt, and-

RIP!




As their ripped shirts fell to the floor, the two brothers stood in their properly colored wife-beaters, giant, intricate tattoos of decorating the arm of the red one, and Articuno the green one.

"HOW ABOUT A-NOW?!" Shouted the short man as he pulled out his pokeball, his brother mirroring him as the crowd drew nearer and the Silph Brand instant-Battlefield began to form around them, erecting a circular barrier.

"THAT SIGNED GIFT WAS A-OURS!" Screamed the Green man furiously. "HOW DARE YOU TRIP US?!"

Even father would not be able to absolve Angelo of this sin.


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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers (H✩T)
POSTED ON Jul 24, 2021 18:32:57 GMT
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They lean towards each other, his shoulder near bumping against his honorary younger brother as the sight before them becomes increasingly bizarre; even by Hoenn standards. [break][break]

Oh yeah, we go way back. Friends of the family… What do you think?” He hisses behind bared teeth, forcing to keep a smile as he maintains eye contact on the pair that parts the crowd. If he looks away, Angelo fears that they’ll materialise behind his back and try to get him in a chokehold, or something. [break][break]

After all, they’re staring at him pretty intensely… Odds are, they want to kill him or take him out on a date. And he’s not really in the market for either today. [break][break]

Woah. Calm dow– Give back what?” [break][break]

This?” He points at the on his hip. “You don’t want this; the eyes are wonky and the arms are too scrawny.” They look like ’s noodle biceps. Also, it’s his now. Angelo wants to keep it for himself. [break][break]

That’s when things go, somehow, beyond Hoenn weird. If that were even possible.[break][break]

Angelo blinks, wide-eyed and confused at the pair of Laurence Anderson and Articuno Stans. Damn. They even had ’s Aunt Jules beat… Maybe they should meet up. [break][break]

Tripped? Signed gift…? An eyebrow is raised, a thumb and index finger smoothing over the slight roughness of his chin in thought as he takes a long time to deliberate. [break][break]

” The silence stretches. [break][break]

Doesn’t ring a bell.” Angelo finally says, shooting Doug a shrug as the battlefield begins to emerge around them. “You sure that was me? Does that sound like something I'd do, Doug?” It definitely does sound like something he’d do.


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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers (H✩T)
POSTED ON Jul 24, 2021 18:52:04 GMT
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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers


May the best bros win!


"They talk a lil' like you!" Doug pointed out defensively. They did sound like they were from Alto Mare... and had learned english from racist caricatures.

Doug could barely follow what was going on- he had no idea why these folks were so taken with his brother- guy wasn't even that hot if you asked him, but as soon as they spoke-

It all began to make even less sense.

"A-trip-a-wha'?" Uttered the youth, dumbfounded by the intricately, well painted tattoos on the men's arms; he would have been willing to bet the red one had just grafted a topless picture of if such things were actually on the market.

And then Angelo began making dumb questions.

"Yes." Replied Doug bluntly to his brother's question, blinking at him as if he didn't understand why he had asked such an obvious question, before blinking again, realization downing on him. "... But not this time, obviously!"

Their blatant lies would not help them one way or another- the battlefield was made, a massive projection of the League's logo appearing momentarily at the center before it swiftly morphed into the trademarked pokeball found at the center of all battle stadiums.

"Uh... guess this is happening." Doug said wryly, his hand slowly slipping towards the gun under his jacket for a moment.

"No, that would be a bad idea... Guess we are doing this." He said shortly after, simply grasping a pokeball and sighing.

With twin cries, the two men threw out their pokeballs, releasing a Turtonator and a Carracosta upon the field.

"We shall A-TAKE the gift from your crying, defeated a-form!" Promised the green brother, fire burning in his eyes as the shorter, red, but equally muscular brother nodded silently, his mustache and the way the sun shone down upon his cap granting him some serious dramatic lighting.

"Face the wrath of-! The Ravio Brothers!"



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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers (H✩T)
POSTED ON Jul 24, 2021 19:30:22 GMT
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Fuck off, like you're one to talk, bumpkin.” [break][break]

An elbow is promptly jabbed into the younger man’s ribs as he fumbles over the save, Angelo resisting the urge to slap a hand to his own forehead in disbelief. His and Doug’s blatant lies are clearly not working, not when the pair on the other end of the battlefield are filled with white hot rage and a starving obsession for ’s ice cold charm. [break][break]

At least they didn’t want the Skyler Dross keychain. Angelo’s already making plans to hide it somewhere on the Sotally Tober for its inspiration to find. [break][break]

Guess so,” he utters to Doug in response, his thirst for competitiveness dampened somewhat by the strangeness of the situation.[break][break]

Alright, be prepared to get your ass kicked by the Unofficial Bug Catcher Association Duo, or something?” A pokeball is thrown into the air and, true to Angelo’s word, a Butterfree emerges from its capsule cocoon in a dazzling glow of unfurled wings.[break][break]

Angelo doesn’t wait. You snooze, you lose; the brothers would know well, considering their loss of the Laurence Anderson merch.[break][break]

Oberon, let’s give these two a hand. Don’t want ‘em to trip again.” Lips curling, a hint of recognition peeking through, Angelo directs his Butterfree to blow a cloud of STUN SPORE towards the duo’s pokemon.



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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers (H✩T)
POSTED ON Jul 24, 2021 20:00:15 GMT
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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers


May the best bros win!



"Screw you, this ain't an accent, it's an inflection." Snapped Doug back as he nursed his ribs, blowing raspberries at the man as they turned their full attention to the fanboy brothers.

Angelo didn't seem too hot on the idea of fighting the duo either, but it wasn't like they had much of a choice; the arena had already triggered. If they stepped out preventively, it would be counted as their loss.

Doug would not let his official record be sullied by losing to these guys.

"Darn right!" Doug said as he tried to get himself pumped up, both hands reaching up to slap his cheeks before he reeled back, Net ball in hand. "Our great Association's name is known all around Hoenn as the greatest Unofficial Entity within the region! We're-!"

The net ball released his Beedrill unto the field, the wasp dipping low to the floor before surging upwards to thrust its drill dramatically into the sky, posing.

"The Unnofficial BugCatcher Association Bros(name pending)™!" Doug said with a broad grin as he pointed his finger at the enemy duo, before dramatically sweeping his arm across the air. "Now show'em what your drill's made of, Sphectra!"

The Beedrill's skyward drill suddenly began spinning then, its wings flapping harshly as it summersaulted across the air before making a beeline for Turtonator, intent on catching it once it had been paralyzed.

Only...

"You are!" "No match!" "For us!" The brothers exclaimed as their turtle duo leapt out of both the spores and Sphectra's drill's way, both pokemon rapidly spinning like beyblades as they bounced off the Silph-brand barriers around the arena, their trajectory changing like air-hockey pucks!

One flew towards Oberon, the other towards Sphectra!


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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers (H✩T)
POSTED ON Jul 25, 2021 9:22:15 GMT
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Promise me we’ll never be that in sync.”[break][break]

As their opponents bounce around the battlefield like a pinball machine, blue eyes narrow to follow their movements. It stops Angelo from focusing his attention on the duo across the battlefield, they’re staring this way like he’d been personally responsible for the death of their missing triplet brother…[break][break]

It wasn’t completely impossible. The incident with had gotten kind of wild. Death by Laurence Anderson and Articuno merchandise was a hell of a way to go, though. [break][break]

Oberon,” eager to battle the brothers Angelo is not, however as a finger is dramatically swung skyward, there’s a self-satisfied grin on his face that’s plain to see. “You got ‘em!” [break][break]

With a beat of glittering wings, the Butterfree swiftly takes to the skies just as the two turtle-beyblades spin towards where he and the Beedrill floated. There’s a mighty CRASH as the two bulky creatures miss their target, comically colliding into one another instead when their target was nowhere to be found. [break][break]

Up above them, now they were grouped together, Oberon releases a high-pitched BUG BUZZ on them both.




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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers (H✩T)
POSTED ON Jul 25, 2021 15:06:20 GMT
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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers


May the best bros win!


"Whaaa, ya don't wanna be real, weirdly close, weirdly similar yet definitely not twin bros?" The youth said dryly. "I can't fathom why."

Fortunately for them, for all their in-sync schtick, it turned out the brothers were not... uber-bright. Either that, or not particularly good battlers.

Which made sense, because if they were, Doug was pretty sure they would have heard of them by now, given how... eccentric they were.


"OH NO!"


The turtles crashed together with a mighty crack, their spinning bodies grinding against one another like the mighty beyblades of yore, threatening to rend the Earth beneath them asunder as himself had once split the great Red Sea.

... Wait.

"What even is today?" Doug muttered under his breath as 's Butterfree bug buzzed the two turtles, the thrumming sound as well as the growing hotness of the spinning top's grinding sending the two turtles hurtling back and out of their rapid spins, smashing against the barrier walls.

Sphectra was there to punish their bad call a moment later, the distance between it and the Carracosta becoming nothing as its stingers glowed purple.

Three jabs stabbed into the turtle before it managed to gather enough bearings to try and respond, its maw opening wide to unleash a powerful Hydro Pump that sent the bee hurtling back.

However, as it went to stand, the pokemon suddenly lurched forward, sweat rolling down its face as it panted. The poison was doing its job.

The Turtonator was a little better off than its partner, its typing allowing it to resist bug type moves... Still, the manuever and crash with its companion had left it on shaky feet... but mostly, it had left it furious.

Raising its gaze towards the Butterfree in the air, the dragon stomped its foot on the floor twice in anger before rearing back its head and breathing out a stream of flames at the bug type!



-Carracosta and Turtonator crashed. They took damage!
-Beedrill used Poison Jab!
-Carracosta was poisoned! Carracosta used Hydro Pump!
-Turtonator used Flamethrower!


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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers (H✩T)
POSTED ON Jul 25, 2021 18:52:50 GMT
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Hands are shoved into his pockets, nonchalant as his Butterfree moves to avoid the FLAMETHROWER, blue eyes watching but his mind – tired as it was from earlier lessons – flickers its attention towards Doug and his mumbled question.[break][break]

Friday? I think.” [break][break]

Oberon lets out a startled cry as the fire HITS one wing, singing the pretty white scales. If a Butterfree could display pure rage, it would look like this; his ruby eyes akin to fire as opposed to the sparkling, elegant edges of a gem. Even though he flutters with a wonkiness that rivals the keychain, Oberon blasts a cloud of SLEEP POWDER on the Turtonator. [break][break]

Heavy snores rumble through the battlefield as the fire turtle slumps, taking a little afternoon SLEEP while the Butterfree, anger incarnate, kicks its weak legs in its face. It does zero damage, but it’s a critical hit to the opponent’s pride.





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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers (H✩T)
POSTED ON Jul 25, 2021 19:36:58 GMT
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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers


May the best bros win!


"Smart ass." Snorted Doug out at Angelo while his Beedrill shook its head and flapped the water off its wings, jumping back to its feet as the panting Carracosta lowered its stance and glared it down.

"Things are not going well, brother."

"Indeed, brother."

"I believe it is time we reveal-!"

"Our true-!"

"POWER!"



The two men posed dramatically as Z-energy surged through them, their tattoos almost seemingly coming to life as both of their pokemon were simultaneously empowered.

The Carracosta reared back its head and stomped on the floor, tearing through the Earth and creating a large hole... from which water suddenly began flooding in!

The sleeping Turtonator rolled onto its back while being kicked, the damage to its pride not yet registering it. It would only its dishonor once it woke up.

Meanwhile, water began to flood the enclosed space of the battle space, reaching up tot he trainers' calves before it began to swirl around the Carracosta!

"Finish this! Z-move! Hydro Vortex!"


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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers (H✩T)
POSTED ON Jul 26, 2021 21:05:33 GMT
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Aw, Doug. You think I’m smart?” A chuckle huffs from between Angelo’s lips, grinning at the quip. Pushing back with taunts of his own, as natural as breathing. “Here I was, thinking you’d forgotten about me for months. Call once in a while, won’t ya?” [break][break]

Wholly uninterested in the surge of power being displayed across the field, he doesn’t notice that a surging current was beginning to swell until it reached his ankles, sloshing against him and soaking clothes. Angelo grimaces then, only mildly irritated as his focus is forced to shift. [break][break]

Ugh…” Waterlogged shoes were a pain in the ass when you had to walk around the festival all afternoon. “No wonder I tripped you guys…” [break][break]

Heeding the rising water, Oberon drifts away from pummelling face, his body aglow with QUIVER DANCE as he flutters with new speed and strength into the skies – higher and higher out of reach of the z-move.





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Dr. Doug
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It just works
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5' 11" (181 cm) / 180 lbs (82 kg) height
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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers (H✩T)
POSTED ON Jul 26, 2021 23:21:12 GMT
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Doug & Angelo vs The Rabio Brothers


May the best bros win!




If only it were that simple. The Vortex gained power as it began to rise, the water around their calves slowly draining as it all became a massive, growing tornado.

It soon became much like a vacuum, threatening to swallow up the bugs inside its depths...

Well, the bugs AND the trainers.

Both pairs.

"MAMMA MIA!"

"HOLY SHIT!"

"BUUUUUZZ!"


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