what's the point in the violence? [break][break]

they all live in the same land, and all live in the same place; why was rocket so hellbent? though she understands the value of materials on this meteor, she can't understand why they would risk sabotage to get it - or was it some degree of trust that rocket had? it'd only make sense; they wouldn't be doing this if they didn't think the league would be able to stop the impact altogether. otherwise, it just doesn't make sense to her, does it? [break][break]

whatever they scrounge up will be buried beneath their remains. [break][break]

the view is beautiful, and it's going to make the region perish. we can't have that. [break][break]

she's lucky enough to be safe on the surface, but there's not too much time to waste. she can see from where she stands that rockets are rushing towards the crater, mining what remnants could be found. the issue is that they're getting in the way of their mission, so they have to stop them, right? [break][break]

but she can't exactly go in, and she doesn't think a battle will be.. good, considering their time constraints. and so, she glances down to the vulpix, still huddled in her arms. "safeguard, love." she commands the little pokemon, who lets out a soft mewl as a soft blue glow emits from her body, catching luka chêne, skyler dross and angelo vestri and their pokemon in the safety of its effects. it doesn't seem to stretch out much further, though.


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- a few scrapes, no injuries. thanks hoopa. [break]
- vulpix uses safeguard and catches luka chêne, skyler dross & angelo vestri in it[break]
- insert disappointed mom face here

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99943 meteno

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Fuck’s sake, man…

A waste of time, apparently— though he supposed it hadn’t been entirely as such. They’d never get the time nor effort spent on landing by the cave back, after all (and fuck him if time wasn’t of the absolute essence, but he digressed), but he guessed that doing otherwise might’ve ended up in a rockier situation for both kepler brueshaber and Ruby Garcia as he and his golem swept by to their aid.

A win was a win, so he’d settle for that much.

And so he took that win in stride, eyes igniting within a blazing fervor from beneath the tint of his helmet as two men seemed intent with running their way. In light of both Kepler’s and mint frost ’s remarks, he’d already been keeping as much of a focus upon the ever-brewing chaos before the lot of them, noting Josh Devlin begin to stride forth atop his dual hued companion, alongside Laurence Anderson and…

…Whatever the fuck he was doing.

He hadn’t a clue, but honestly speaking, he hadn’t been entirely hard pressed to find out— and so as the lands fell to frost around his general vicinity, Cain clicked his tongue, quickly jumping from his Golurk’s back before pointing directly at the man amidst all the ice.

”Fuck up whatever that guy’s doin’, Ras…!” he shouted, promptly sending the Golurk soaring into the sky with eyes on the two League members before careening back down, smashing into the grounds ahead with the force of an Earthquake in hopes to quickly dispel and disperse whatever effects were forming.

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TL;DR:

• still following alongside mint, kepler, and ruby
• andrasta (golurk) soars toward lars and josh, using earthquake mainly in an attempt to whip up enough force to shatter the ice and make the terrain less difficult to traverse
• my sleep deprived ass broke the code so many times but i finally fuckin made it work :peperelax:

@tag

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Luckily for the group of fleeing Rockets, an Aegislash guarded the rear, tanking Chomper’s Draco Meteor even at the cost of its own body. The sentient blade’s interference angered the three-headed dragon, who got all Worked Up, eager to eviscerate whatever enemy dared to show in front of him next.

While their Pokémon were ready to trade blows, Andrea made a mad dash towards that Aegislash’s trainer. Although it looked as if she was lunging at them with the intent of tackling them to the ground, in reality she’d just tripped over a tiny piece of space debris while running, allowing gravity to take care of the rest.

As she lay on top of the space suit-clad Rocket in a rather precarious position, the young PokéManiac was able to get a clear glimpse of their face through the helmet’s visor. They, in turn, would be able to see Andrea’s dumbfounded visage through her own visor.

“V-Violet?!” To her absolute shock, the person lying underneath her was none other than Violet Fairbanks, whom she had met and befriended during the Tiered Tea Room challenges - even naming her treasured Toxapex after her.

In light of that eye-opening revelation, the girl found it in her to ask a poignant question that had been hanging at the tip of her tongue for a hot minute. “Why are we fighting? We should be working together…”

Her asking the real questions was interrupted by a violent earthquake (meteor-quake?), heralding the arrival of a crystalline creature that bore a striking resemblance to the one that had attacked the League’s fleet earlier. Awakened as a result of Team Rocket’s hubris, it attacked everyone and everything indiscriminately.

“This is bad! We need to hide!” Andrea cried out, quickly getting up and offering her hand to Violet, whom she no longer saw as a foe, despite her Rocket affiliation. Her primary concern was survival. Lulu Flint’s crashed ship nearby seemed like a perfect spot to take cover behind, so she gestured at Violet to run towards it.

//hydreigon uses WORK UP, raising his offensive stats
//andrea tackles Violet Fairbanks to the ground, recognizing her after seeing her face (I talked about this with Lime beforehand)
//andrea offers her hand to Violet Fairbanks and attempts to hide behind Lulu Flint's crashed ship in order to avoid the Meteor Beam

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Kepler is on fire. Kepler is made of light and sound and he has forgotten how to think. Is this what Rocket wants of him? Is this what they request? Where he becomes so singularly focused on their goals that his brain shuts off (something he long postulated as impossible?) Because it’s happening.

He can hear Ruby Garcia cursing him out but he pays her no mind. She’s a bodyguard, right? So her job is to guard his body and she can do that however she sees fit and in whatever mood or state so long as she does it. Like a gaseous constant: the identity does not matter, only the presence.

The temperature drops on his reticules (he can’t feel it, he’s in a pressurized space suit) and sends the meters spiraling as stalagmites thrust up from the meteor’s surface. Andraste either weaves around them or raises up to simply pass through them, the ephemeral wisp of her tail refracting the light of stars off the crystalline ice structures.

There’s a thunder of something falling in his audio caches and that must mean they’re close enough to the planet for wisps of atmosphere to catch and reverberate sound. Which is not a good thing.

Flashes of blue light up his thermo reticule again. A layer of frost crystallizes on his space-suit facemask before he wipes it away. A second later and the whole meteor shakes-- then the field of ice erupts and shatters into a million pieces, clearing the path ahead. “Good fucking job, whoever that was!” he calls, still clinging to Andraste’s head fins like she’s a hog motorcycle and he’s a retired 65 year old white man with a fumanchu.

Like a dirty window being wiped clean, some of the rock beneath the mineral vein dissipates, revealing much more of the substance beneath the surface of the meteor. Once they’re there, Andraste slows, and Kepler lets his feet fall to the stony surface (a slightly slowed descent due to the lack of gravity). He keeps one hand on her head fins, flattening the palm of his free hand towards the mineral to make sure he’s catching it all on camera.

His knees knock together and for a second he thinks it’s because he’s shaking-- but it’s just the ground, as something causes more of the meteor’s crust to fracture and split away (it’s Lulu Flint ’s Metagross bouncing off of Eva Morales ’s protect) revealing more of the mineral deposit. “Is-- is the whole rock made of this stuff?” Kepler muses over the comms.

Scattered stray beams of origin pulse hit the ground around him as he draws ever closer to the original mineral deposit, though it seems the Hoopa’s interference has lessened the threat, however slightly. There’s so much going on, though, that he doesn’t really notice them.

A huge boom rocks his audiofeed, barking static and making him wince, as Killian Decker ’s Minior fucking detonates in the middle of the battle.

Kepler watches the crack, the fissure, split through the mineral, almost thinking it's his imagination, at first; but no, it’s definitely there, it’s growing.

The meteor shakes again and there’s a flurry of shocked communications over the lines, causing Kepler to turn to see what the fuck everyone is on about--

“Holy fucking shit.”

In regular illuminati type fashion the triangular shaped rock formation he had originally landed near splits open, birthing--

“Oh, my god, you have got to be fucking kidding me!” Kepler whines into his helmet. “I was just there!”

The glimmering alien takes flight. Kepler feels this is all very unfair. Hasn’t he done everything asked of him? Didn’t he make it through the spaceflight unscathed? Now he’s by this shitty fucking clump of useless gemstone while the amazing feat of-- of whatever the fuck this Deoxys is made of is over where he started.

oscar clayton ’s scream spat warped static into his helmet and Kepler winced, eyes jerking to look for his hero the engineer, assuming he was injured. No, he was there, and he was fine--

--”Shit!”

The meteor beam is eye-achingly bright in the darkness of space. Kepler squeals rather embarrassingly as he scrambles to jump over the mineral deposit, hoping to hide in the carved space where the meteor rock had once been-- ideally banking on it being able to withstand the attack from the creature it birthed. Andraste slips around the gems to hide as well, flattening her fins to the meteor’s surface.

Nestled there, Kepler turtles, like the good parasite he is.

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Ruby Garcia Cain Toman
subtags:
Killian Decker oscar clayton Eva Morales Lulu Flint skyler dross kyle lopez

tl;dr
kepler arrives at the deposit. he somehow manages to not get hit by all the crossfire.
wonders if the whole rock is made of this stuff?
sees the crack forming
is REALLY PISSED OFF THAT ALL THE COOL SHIT SEEMS TO HAPPEN AFTER HE'S ALREADY MOVED THE FUCK ON
wonders if oscar is okay
when the deoxys uses meteor beam he jumps to the other side of the mineral to hide in its shadow (i think where kyle's hoopa tried to drop it into a pocket and removed the stone?)
using x1 salac to not get vaporized

dragapult hides with him

Tekka's Moonlight had worked! At least, it worked as well as it could for the moment, as he could see Matt Vice needed less effort to move and stand after that bad crash onto the meteor. Nico's heart was hammering- astounding to think they both had really made it... Now that he was less panicked about Matt's condition, the amazement of being in space took hold.

For about two seconds. Then, the pyramid-shaped rock turned out to be a Deoxys. A crystalline, unusual looking legendary Pokemon, not too dissimilar to the one that wrecked Nico's rocket and firmly established an indescribable might.

Witnessing this encounter brought on an indescribable feeling. Nico gazed open-mouthed in pure amazed, frightened awe. Frozen in place as each movement the creature made felt as if history was being written before them.

Then, it did what should have been expected. A Legendary Pokemon did what came naturally to it, for reasons they may or may not be able to comprehend.

It attacked.

Trembles overcame his body as he grew to understand the sheer amount of power being thrown around. In the not-so-far distance, so many powerful moves were being thrown that he couldn't even keep up with all of it. Directly in front of them, they witnessed the summon of more power. More destructive forces coming to descend upon them- all of them. Rocket or League, Nico shook his head, his expression desperate and imploring as he could only stare at the indifferent creature in front of them.

"It's going to stop everyone... We need to stop this!" Nico shouted through his radio to Matthew, hearing his fiance frantically suggesting the use of status moves. "I can confuse it- Shiiit." Meteors charged with a special power were coming down upon them. Nico looked to his Umbreon, realizing in alarm that the absolutely crazy fox was readying to attack! Her rings were glowing brightly, her fur between her shoulder blades stood on end as she crouched, and he could even see a small fang pointing out of her displeased snout. "Tekka, NO! Help Dagger block the meteors!" He ordered sternly.

Nico could not believe his Umbreon was gearing up to attack a legendary... Instead, she begrudgingly turned and lifted her chin high, eyes glowing brightly as she watched the Lucario's Aura Sphere grow wider and stronger with the boost of Helping Hand.

Though while Nico lamented his Umbreon's foolish bravado... He was shocked to see a Nidqueen attacking the Deoxys! He would never have met oscar clayton before (nor did he see the man that opted to hide), yet the sight of his Nidoqueen's attack had brought out a realization.

"We... We might have to defeat it..." Nico whispered, a statement that would seem logical and an obvious course of action for any trainer encountering an aggressive Pokemon- yet, he was full of dread. "They might kill it."

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