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[attr="class","illie i"]they can barely react to everything that happens. it all comes at once, an onslaught of dominoes falling around them.

first, they're thrown off kilter, tossed to the right. everything's blurry, double vision succeeding in making her mildly nauseous. she quells it with another round of healing mist. the pink wisps spread until they're coating a five foot radius, coiling against the floor in pearly pink waves.

her face twists into a scowl for a moment. know your place. who knew three little words could invoke such a reaction out of her? her mouth opens to retort, to bite back.

anything she wants to say, however, dies out in her throat with the uttering of a single name.

stone.

her head whips toward FERNANDO SILPH so quickly, she's almost surprised her neck doesn't break. tears well up in her eyes without hesitation and whatever anger she had is quickly etched over with hurt. the knife in her body left behind by loss twists a little further and really, she wants to yell, scream, raise hell.

and yet, she does none of the above. no... illeana reyes stays abnormally quiet.

alakazam is recalled with trembling fingers. electricity begins to hum to life around them as she's summoning another pokemon. alolan marowak joins her side with a soft grunt.

it takes a moment for the discharge to draw in and then, all of the electricity threatening to electrocute them is neutralized by lightning rod.

her attention is slowly drawn away from staring at FERNANDO SILPH in a daze of hurt and confusion as combat begins throughout the room. her reaction is slower, almost as if an afterthought.

"bone rush," she murmurs.

the alolan marowak snarls its way into action. it hurls its bone as hard as it can, the first onslaught of bone rush all but yeeted toward tapu koko.

faintly, subconsciously, illeana slowly bleeds more healing mist to keep those near her and their pokemon healthy.

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aqua assembly pt. 2

tl;dr |
- yeeted to the right
- visibly hurt by sea-doug calling FERNANDO SILPH "stone"
- recalls alakazam
- summons alolan marowak
- alolan marowak's lightning rod draws discharge onto it, neutralizing the threat of a lil zappy zap
- alolan marowak uses bone rush on tapu koko
- healing mist surrounds everyone within five feet of illeana's body

"quagsi—"

SKADOOOOOOOOOSH!

except, not really. but as the two groups merge together, matias blinks, taking a moment to regain his bearings just in time to meet s!kazimir's threat and smirk.

"tch."

a step back puts quagsire in front of him. the water-type tosses matias the BRACLET before leaping forward to block the STEAM ERUPTION with its PROTECT. and if that fails, well, then at least its body is in the way.

refocusing his priorities, matias slips on the BRACLET as he watches skyler dross handle s!kazimir.

"KEEP IT UP, CAP!"

a SHEER COLD from kyle lopez and Laurence Anderson garners a smirk that quickly fades at FERNANDO SILPH's MAGMA STORM.

he peers down at the BRACELET around his wrist, then raises it in the air. could he command them? perhaps. he'll try to, at the very least.

"STOP."

NOTES

- quagsire using PROTECT on volcanion's STEAM ERUPTION
- matias slipping on the BRACELET
- matias trying to use the BRACELET to stop the attacks
- THREE SALACS used

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“Your Katherine?!”
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It’s all she needs to hear. It cements everything she needs to know about their home. Everything that she must do. Her nightmare coming to life is not nearly as frightening as the thought of being unable to destroy it.
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It must die. She must die.
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Giratina emerges from her shadow, manifesting in full before it lets out a thunderous roar. Much like its Avatar, the deity shared the same contempt for its false-replica. Azure flames billow through the dragon’s maw, aimed against none other than its counterpart - sea katherine’s giratina. The Renegade God's attack doesn't distract her as Volcanion sends a blast of STEAM ERUPTION, but instead, only empowers the woman's ability to turn into antimatter in order to avoid the attack.
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In the meantime, Togekiss is recalled and replaced by Kat’s Nihilego. The Ultra Beast is quick to adjust itself to Katherine’s demands, beginning to spin before it batters its arms against Kyle’s wall in a BRUTAL SWING. He could ask for privacy later– but not now. Not with her.
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”To think that a false god would stand by some servant,” her words are directed to the fake Malevolent, clearly. ”You must be very convincing.” It disgusts her. Her stomach turns just at the sound of these words.
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“Pathetic.”
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Unphased by Articuno’s storm, Katherine slips into her antimatter-state, allowing the ice to simply pass through her as she closes the distance between the clone and herself. She’s faced this nightmare once before, after all. There was no hiding from it now.
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Whether if remnants of kyle lopez’s barrier remain matter not, for she will phase through them too.
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”Did you want some alone time with me that bad, Kyle?” Despite the mess that this was and the chaos surrounding them, it was good to see him. A finless champion. All she ever wanted out of Hoenn.
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“Do you know what they are?”
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notes:[break]
- katherine is surprised to hear that there's a version of herself with fins too. she's even more surprised to see said version when the two groups merge.[break]
- the first thing that draws her attention is the other giratina, which calls for her own to emerge.[break]
- kat turns into anti-matter to avoid the volcanion's attack. she's less focused on it, it seems.[break]
- giratina uses dragon breath against the other giratina. if it's already recalled by kyle's solgaleo, then the attack would instead be directed towards volcanion.[break]
- togekiss is recalled and replaced with nihilego. nihilego uses brutal swing to smash through kyle's barrier/icy wall.[break]
- following that, she begins to rush towards kyle/fake!katherine/razz.
- 1 salac used

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Honestly, watching Kazimir shakily get to his feet and put his weight and his trust in the open arms of this clearly-not-the-real-Doug really made her nervous. One could easily parse that from her pinched expression. But she is in no way able to step in and intercept, and with everyone and their neighbour and their mismatched legends being on edge.. it didn't feel like a good idea.

"The great Hoennian sea?"

She whispers, parroting Sea-Katherine's declaration. Her brows furrow, the entire room feels like it's spinning, and all of a sudden everyone is here -- including the watery decoys. What was going on?

There was no time to react, really, or to think about it. Before she knows it, she's swapping pokeballs and acting on instinct. She's following the cold shoulder of FERNANDO SILPH and doing what he's asked of her. He doesn't need to speak for her to understand. Illeana has held against the oncoming DISCHARGE by redirecting at least part of it, hopefully. In place of her Aegislash, Stormy has braced herself against the slimy behind of one of her Seismitoad.

Hopefully, it should act as a grounding method, and with her touching it, neither of them should be affected. Probably. Regardless, a little spicy electricity never hurt anybody, and she challenges the Tapu Koko with a point of her finger and a confident battle cry:

"You're goin' down!"

And, with a great inhale, Seismitoad spits up a MUD SHOT to fling at and drag the Koko down.

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notes:
- reacting instinctively, quick on her feet as she's been trained
- replaces aegislash with seismitoad to use its GROUND-TYPING to protect itself and her
- orders seismitoad to use MUD SHOT against the tapu koko

illeana reyes FERNANDO SILPH kim cole-essam

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never in gabriel's life has he ever felt 'small' or powerless. he was a titan in both size, and in industry; a force to be reckoned with in all areas of life.
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but here? now?
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he felt tiny.
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the anger that rose in his chest, and boiled his blood, manifested through the now glowing mark (火) on his chest. his connection with his charizard grew, an ever growing chasm of bloodlust clouding the dragon-esque creature's mind. gabriel felt that thin thread holding the charizard back from rampaging on these duplicates, and he pulled heavily on his own willpower to keep them both in line.
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should he count himself lucky that s!eva makes the first move? hm.
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the rest of the chamber, and the messes involved, take a backseat to the WATER SHURIKANS headed his way. well-trained to react to threats, charizard jumps in-between the two trainers, swiping at the attack with his tail. it wasn't a maneuver that was without consequence, however, as they pierce the scaly hide of his appendage, forcing him to honk in anger.
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then the room shifts. and more hell breaks loose.
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the amount of deities that fill the room becomes staggering, with heralds summoning their respective partners in droves, assaulting and defending one another with fervor. even gabriel is stunned by this, but the stupor fades quickly, as s!eva is again attacking. having no legendary of his own, he's forced to rely on old faithful.
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"malthious!" he calls the dragon's name, a snarl lingering on his lips, as their collective bloodlust take over. he catches a glimpse of kyle lopez's assault on the duplicate, but he knew better than to rely on someone else. still, he sends the champion a silent thanks. even against the SHEER COLDS that fill the room, turning his breath into a frigid fog, he and his charizard push through. a FLAMETHROWER crosses the distance between the fire-type and s!eva, content to purge all in its path.
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but even occupied as he was, he needed to understand the situation. even now, with only minor details to go off of (scales; water pokeballs), a threat could come from anyone, anywhere. so far he hadn't seen a clone of himself, leaving him at least relatively free of suspicion to someone caught up in a battle hunger, but... it begged a question.
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did he have a duplicate too?

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‣ his suit lights up (pog) and his connection to charizard grows, threatening to consume them both in the heat of battle.[break]
‣ s!eva's WATER SHURIKANS break on the charizard's tail, no doubt doing damage.[break]
‣ room shifts and gabriel compounds his attack onto s!eva with a FLAMETHROWER, meeting her RAZOR SHELLS head-on.[break]
‣ takes a look around the room, doing his best to ascertain who's friend and whose foe.[break]
‣ wonders where s!Gabe is, eyes looking for the thicc CC's[break]

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