BLOOD CLONE

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They are successful in slicing off the giant serpent's tail, and Zekrom emerges out from the ichor and chunks of snake meat with a ferocious roar of victory. Their flight trajectory leads them back in time to watch its body limp and unfurl after its head shatters.

Worry is cast towards Underboss Chu-e Choi after seeing them surrounded by bloodied hands. Though Remiel's attention shifts when he sees a vaguely familiar face down below: his own blood copy, of course. Persistent as ever. Quite the annoying prick.

Strangely enough, Zekrom descends to meet this False Prince. Bolts of lightning keep the sea of crimson hands away as Remiel slides off the dragon's back. Then his clone shifts into a sprint the moment his armored feet touch the thickly wooded ground. In a bid to meet this challenge with just as much fervor, the royal sprints forward, too.

Just as he forms a lightning bolt in one hand, his clone assembles a spear of calcified blood as well. The two cast their respective attacks at one another, but the lightning bolt splits the blood spear apart in mid-air. Even then, its aim remains true. And, when it strikes, it forms a roaring pillar of lightning at the point of detonation.

Rendered a bubbling pool of static-inflicted red, what remained of his clone's torso and head persisted, seemingly out of sheer spite alone. Remiel stepped closer to gaze upon it with pity, flanked by his Smeargle as it hastily painted the scene on canvas. "What are you..." The prince muses out loud, surprised to receive a unintelligible gurgle in response:

"GRUGK GKRUG... GRIR GRG GUIRGR RH GRARR."

A sense of dread washes over him. Then a revolting sickness follows it, prompting him to summon another bolt and reduce this insult to his bloodline to mere remnants of what it had been. "Perish."

ESCAPE

Though many events transpire around them, Remiel can count on his Smeargle to document the most impressive as the blood clones are purified and his pair of UNOWN return to his side.

Their frantic chimes are met with a serious, cobalt-hued stare. Though it follows their line of sight to the glaring portal afar. Then he understands.

Smoothly and with well practiced motions, he returns both of his Unown and his Smeargle. After reaching for Zekrom's customized ball, however, the prince pauses to place a hand over his heart and bow. The black dragon nods in understanding, his face stoic even as the ball's light devours him in a flash of gold.

Immediately afterwards, Remiel's other hand draws out the reinforced ball strapped to his hip before summoning his SHADOW DRAGAPULT again. A swift command is made afterwards, and the beast summons a fleet of miniature Dreepy to eat away at the flesh keeping a black scale tethered to the snake's corpse.

When said scale is set free, it sinks into a shadowy portal (PHANTOM FORCE) far before it has a chance to sink through the massive tree's branches. There it hangs, suspended in a dark limbo, before FAUST swoops off to carry Remiel towards the portal with haste.

But wait... where was Chu-e Choi ?

As he nears the entrance to the portal and, consequently, Martín del Mar , Remiel shouts. "Del Mar! Can your Gardevoir sense Underboss Choi?! A swift TELEPORT may need to be in order!" But was there time?

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TL;DR:

🅞 With the portal opened, both of Remiel's UNOWN swiftly return to their master

♔ Remiel returns Zekrom, Smeargle and his Unown, then summons his SHADOW DRAGAPULT

◓ SHADOW DRAGAPULT ferries a BLOODY SEVIPER SCALE within the limbo of its PHANTOM FORCE before escaping towards the portal as it carries Remiel

GEOMANCY + Martín del Mar

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bone chipped off the crumbling serpent beneath darkrai’s wrath. rocket had nearly overtaken it. and then, the head shattered under the foot of Alexandra Briarwood . the bringer of nightmares hovered high above the blood copies below, watching them ravage those that couldn't be saved. these beings were familiar.

even as her blood copy had nearly cut the distance, she hovered there with the minior, hoping it might do something.

no portals, but there was the glitching. she watched, thrilled and horrified as its surface began to blacken with dark moss, its strange instability reminiscent of the assassins from the soiree.

Martín del Mar ’ curious stare was met for the briefest moment before screams pulled her out of a trance. she turned as the portal opened up, as though it had been waiting for the battle to end—but this realm wasn’t done with them yet.

she watched the hands reach. she was closest to the portal. she could step right through, but her brothers…

was that bird Rowan Wrynn on a suicune? her eyes squinted, brow furrowing—but THEO BECKETT ’s scream spurred her to action. seeing him close with others, she watched and hoped for the best for another moment before taking the escape, her pokémon following.

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TLDR:
• darkrai finds blood copies familiar
• lulu is very interested in glitchy black moss
• looks back at her brothers briefly before going into portal

@geomancy

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A blur, just like before.[break]
The difference was that he hadn’t been privy to whatever happened after the fact.[break][break]

Like everything else, the going had been tough, and whatever occurred had happened both swiftly and relentlessly. As a means of further insurance and safeguarding, the choice of having the drake beneath him use its Protect had been some means of precaution- but as the woman accompanying him readied a Teleport of her own to deliver them to their destination quicker, he’d managed only a short lived glance over his shoulder in order to gauge the distance between them and their clones.[break][break]

A flash of red had been all he’d seen before the rest had darkened.[break][break]

A blow, delivered promptly and strongly against his head upon impact. To mielle and those within closer proximity at the time, the sight of the man being flung from the impact would’ve been seen, and upon proper teleportation, those closer to the rift would have seen him properly hit the seemingly invisible ground above the treetops. Unmoving. Breathing, thankfully enough, but seemingly bleeding from the head, nonetheless. The nearby Life Dew from Martín del Mar surely would’ve helped to alleviate the wound as quickly as it opened, as well as to soothe any other internal injury that may have happened before it escalated too much, but to have been struck hard enough to warrant the sight, altogether, was already concerning in itself, and the aftermath would only remain to be seen when he awoke.[break][break]

Until then, his Dracovish seemingly sought to give a number of panicked screeches at the sight before hurriedly scrambling over and picking its trainer up between its flippers. As it nudged him, the Unown he’d released caught up, and in a similar bout of both curiosity and concern, seemed keen to flutter around them before ultimately following in tow towards the portal (though not without the drake frantically glancing over his shoulder towards the woman remaining upon its back, almost as if it was seeking some sort of council or guidance regarding what to do.)[break][break]

@geomancy

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--dante gets hit hard enough by his clone to fall off his dracovish during the teleport. he is rendered unconscious but alive at the moment, with the caveat that the resulting trauma would be enough to blind one eye and leave a notable scar around it.[break]
--martin's life dew, icly, is essentially what helps him retain some semblance of sight and help open wounds heal. shoutout to him. real homie hours :sworddoggofast:[break]
--dracovish picks dante up and hurriedly rushes him to the portal, looking to mielle for some sort of comfort, or...whatever she wants to do in her post LMFAO[break]
--unown joins the three in going through the portal[break][break][break]

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it happens quickly, and she's the first to jump off the drake to the man attacked by his clone. [break][break]

dirt still clinging to her skin as they teleport to safety, mielle is slightly frantic and panicked seeing the damage he sustains. luckily, a life dew from martin helps to alleviate some of the injuries, and she catches the faint pink glow of a HEAL PULSE not too far from the distance. and so, she makes quick work to COPYCAT to act as a healer, once again. anxiety is only put at ease when she sees that the major injuries have started to heal, though the pinkish glow persists as she carefully lifts the unconscious man back onto the worried drake. [break][break]

the bounsweet whistles at her feet, worried, but unsure of what she could do as her trainer tries to keep him against the bipedal dragon. everything is happening at once, and she can only pray that the portal will take them to safety, to offer them a moment's respite. "thank you, for the life dew." she tries to wear a smile in this situation, towards Martín del Mar, misplaced as it is, as she hops onto the drake's back. she' careful to keep the man secured, between both herself and the dragon. the bounsweet returning to its ball.[break][break]

"we need to get out of here, now." she lowers her voice to the dragon, anxiety raising as she hears the chaos from behind. "and we need to get dante to a doctor.." she urges the dragon to the portal. she doesn't know where it's going to take her, but she knows (hopes) that it's safer than here.

@geomancy

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mielle COPYCATS (man she's been doing that a lot) HEAL PULSE to speed up DANTE's recovery[break]
mielle tries to carry dante to put back onto DRACOVISH's back[break]
she hops onto dracovish's back and has it run through the portal and (hopefully) to safety.[break]
BOUNSWEET is recalled

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When the dust settles and the blood that stings her eyes is rapidly blinked out of them with an exhausted, exasperated expression, Remi can see that the battle has been won. Somehow, in some way, they've all managed to survive. Perhaps it has something to do with the Unown working so hard for them that they make it out of this alive.

Whatever the case, Remi doesn't feel like sticking around for long to second-guess or fart around. Well, maybe a little farting. She is a looter, a smuggler, a thief. If there is anything of particular interest, like a piece of tooth or a leftover scale or something physical for her to grab and stash, she grabs and goes.

The woman's Unown returns to her and she blows a brief kiss. "Thanks, babe," is quipped to the happy Pokemon, and she returns both it and her Krookodile while making a break for the portal. Admittedly, the woman does pause to look back. What a wild ride this had been. Who knew chasing her brother to Hoenn and finding him murdered would have landed her here? With Garchomp blades for arms and blood in her teeth.

This was the hardest she'd fought, by far, to stay above the water. And damnit, she was proud. These were fine trainers and people out here, even if they all worked underground and snuck their dirty laundry beneath their fucked up closet doors.

"Fuck yeah, we lived."

And after all of this excitement? She was definitely gonna get laid tonight.

notes:
- survives, somehow
- smuggle ability activated: looking for anything to take with her through the portal
- inner monologuing about how far she's come to survive an actual hellscape
- jumping through the portal after returning her unown and krookodile

KING WAYLAND THEO BECKETT Lulu Flint bryan delarosa

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[break]+ Raphael calls it bullshit when the blood seems to take on human forms of even those that sacrificed their pokemon's blood.
[break]+ Calls on his Lucario to read and record the aura as him and his new Melmetal fight.
[break]+ At Seveper's finally attempts the blood clone gets stronger while blood comes to grab at his leg, Pryde's metal arm gets destroyed. The rotom detaching itself with the camera piece it keeps attached to being the only surviving thing.

+ Pryde's arm is destroyed and he will be armless for a bit

[break]+ Pryde returns the Melmetal and has his Lucario aide him in escaping through portal.

[break][break]+ sorry don't have the energy for a real post, ty shiv for letting me do this. Hope its clear enough.

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