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POSTED ON Oct 30, 2022 1:52:50 GMT

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Guerre

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Fleeing into the shadows in the aftermath of her battle with John Sullivan, Elisabeth saw Felix Gallagher dart in the opposite direction, leaving her well and truly alone. The masked woman's heartbeat pounded as she ran, not from fear, but from adrenaline.

Part of her relished in this, the intoxicating thrill that came with facing life-or-death circumstances. War suited her, she realized with mild alarm.

It was one of the few times she felt truly alive.

Her hand rested on the Pokeball at her waist as she approached the kneeling silhouette of a man she didn't recognize -- Guillermo Marceliño. League, from the looks of him, and seemingly alone and unguarded entirely. Save for the Noivern that hovered over him, at least.

L'occasion fait le larron.

A soft click of a Pokeball's release announced the silent return of her TOXAPEX to the field, and Elisabeth jerked her head towards their new target. Shards of ice glittered past her in a chilling gale, the ICY WIND striking the Dragon-type unawares.

_{Toxapex used ICY WIND on Noivern!}

TLDR:

Masked in green and white.
TOXAPEX used ICY WIND on Guillermo Marceliño's NOIVERN.

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POSTED ON Oct 30, 2022 23:23:10 GMT

ZUZA (F) PASTEL VEIL ; PROTECT, HEALING WISH, PSYCHIC, HEAL PULSE, MEGA HORN, DAZZLING GLEAM

SHIVANI (F) CURSED BODY ; THUNDER, GUNK SHOT, PHANTOM FORCE, SHADOW BALL, SUCKER PUNCH, TRICK

SIBELLA (F) INFILTRATOR ; BOOM BURST, FOCUS BLAST, MOONLIGHT, AIR CUTTER, SUPER FANG, FLAMETRHOWER

FREYA (F) INNER FOCUS ; EXTREME SPEED, METEOR MASH, AURA SPHERE, HEAL PULSE, DRAGON PULSE, SWORD'S DANCE

CASCARA (F) TORRENT ; SKULL BASH, HYDRO PUMP, IRON DEFENSE, PROTECT, FLASH CANNON, BITE

PRAXIDIKE (F) PRESSURE ; TOXIC, POWER GEM, AIR SLASH, AROMATHERAPY, STRUGGLE BUG, SLASH

Sibella wasn’t in the air long before the temperature dropped and she cried out in pain. Ice crystals began to form on her wings and she was forced to the ground, ectothermic body fighting against lateral recumbency.

She landed opposite the Toxapex, icicles dangling from her ruff, forming over her dark skin. Her ears flared, the delicate membranes within pulsating with energy as she fired off a boom burst that furrowed the ground and drowned out the sound of all other noise-- but the icy wind made her sluggish, and she had little recourse save a slow but frantic retreat or attempted self-destructing.

As she continued to crawl forward, and much to Guillermo’s horror, it seemed she chose destruction.

Tl;DR

sibella is hit by icy wind! it's super effective!
sibella throws herself at the toxapex and uses boom burst! memo is horrified!
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POSTED ON Oct 30, 2022 23:46:11 GMT

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Guerre

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When she was younger, her father had taught her the most important part of chess was your initial play. Sometimes, Elisabeth imagined Pokémon battles were the same as those checkered boards of black-and-white pieces; it took away the reality of war, and made it into something calculating and divorced from emotion and sentiment.

Striking first put her in the most advantageous position possible, and with that aggressive opening, she'd put this strange man on the defensive.

She wanted him to stay there.

Lessons that had been given with nothing but innocent motives in mind became something cruel and vicious as Elisabeth watched the Noivern's recoiling in the wake of the ICY WIND, managing a BOOM BLAST that struck her Toxapex with a decent, but far from equivalent, blow.

"Again," her voice called, cutting through distorted static with cold efficiency. "Finish it."

Sharp, jagged spikes of ICY WIND once more whistled towards the Noivern, seeking to finish what Elisabeth had already begun.

_{Toxapex used ICY WIND on Noivern!}

TLDR:

Masked in green and white.
NOIVERN's attack of BOOM BLAST hit Toxapex! It took medium damage.
TOXAPEX used ICY WIND (again) on Guillermo Marceliño's NOIVERN.

RUNNING MP TALLY: 70

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POSTED ON Oct 31, 2022 0:08:28 GMT

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Chess was far too strategic for Memo’s playbook. He much preferred to kill with kindness, and, in the event that tactic failed, he usually followed up with a lot of firepower.

Most of his strategies were self-sacrificial, actually, which was a fact that was going to drive Alexei Ivanov into an early grave. Probably.

Sibella was almost over the Toxapex, now, the waves of sound rolling off of her forcing it into the ground, blowing out chunks of earth and sending pebbles flying. The temperature dropped again, the constant flux of it making him even number than he already felt, and before he realied it he was running, running towards his stupid, self-sacrificing dragon, wondering why in the god damn were all of his Pokemon so fucking selfless.

She froze in an arch above the Toxapex, caught somewhere between diving on it and drawing in glimmers of moonlight from the sky. After a seemingly long battle of wills, Sibella versus her body’s innate reaction to the cold, she slouched, falling to the side seconds before the beam of her Pokeball could reach her.

He’d screwed up. He’d imagined, in his head, this beautiful, shocking, ethereal aerial battle, where he dove around his enemy on the back of his mount, delivering sharp and destructive attacks from the safety of the air.

But now Sibella was down and he was far, far too close for comfort.

Before he could really think another Pokeball went off in a pulse of red light and Shivani was a dark shadow streaking through the air. He hadn’t even realized he’d reached for her Pokeball. He didn’t realize anything except how fucking angry he was. Angry that this kept happening. That he kept seeing his friends get knocked down for his sake and he didn’t fucking do anything about it.

Shivani’s mega stone began to rock and glimmer with a strange, dark light. Ephemeral, she looked at him, her zippered face turned into a frown.

You know not what you do.

But he was pretty much done with this losing shit. His vision goes black for a blink and a moment later she hovers between him and the Toxapex.

He didn’t think his body could go colder.

Tl;DR

sibella the noivern attempts to use moonlight but the move fails!
sibella the noivern faints!
shivani the banette is called out and mega evolves!
suffering awaits.
Elisabeth Fiorelli
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POSTED ON Oct 31, 2022 0:28:43 GMT

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The despairing wail of the Noivern was almost beautiful in its audible, abject devastation. Waning MOONLIGHT did nothing to protect it from the frigid projectiles that pelted its flesh from every angle, and the horror on Guillermo Marceliño's face reflected the misery his own Pokémon had endured.

Some part of Elisabeth expected to feel pathos for this poignant display of grief and helplessness.

Instead, she felt a sick sense of sadistic pleasure.

How many times had she been the one on the receiving end of brutality and cruelty? How many times had someone else held the power that now sat tantalizingly in her own two hands? This was the part of her that reveled in being part of the Rocket organisation.

This was the part of her that emphasized that she could not be someone 'good.'

"RECOVER," Elisabeth shouted to her Toxapex, taking advantage of the interlude to refresh her own forces. Cirsium's body pulsed with white light, the wounds from being pushed into the dirt with the BOOM BLAST healing at a slow, patient pace.

Only as she turned back to the man behind her did she realize he was not so defenseless as she had imagined. Something different burned in his eyes now.

Something furious in its defiance.

The enormous Banette took her aback, its looming shadow causing her to recall her Toxapex; recovered as it was, it seemed a poor decision to keep it on the field for something this powerful and freshly revealed.

Maybe it was familiarity that drove her to release the Pokémon she did next: a Tsareena, poised and ready to withstand the Banette's blows.

_{TSAREENA entered the field!}

TLDR:

Masked in green and white.
TOXAPEX used RECOVER and then was RECALLED.
TSAREENA was summoned to the field!

RUNNING MP TALLY: 90

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10 MP for post in a battle. (x3)
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POSTED ON Oct 31, 2022 3:30:27 GMT

They’d discussed this before, briefly, in that very Memo way where Memo talks and Shivani listens. It had been their shtick, their gimmick, their bond since day one.

You know, your Pokedex entry says that Mega Banette’s power is so great that it even curses its own trainer. Wonder what that means?

It’s a disconcerting feeling, he thinks, to slowly feel your life seeping out of you. It feels like laying on a limb for too long that the blood supply has been dimmed and its gone numb-- but in every single one of his extremities, from his fingertips to his nose; tunnel vision steadily starts to set in, like the noises of the battle are so very far away.

Elisabeth Fiorelli will notice the sclera of his eyes slowly starting to turn black.

Almost stranger than the gentle feeling of gradual death was the rage that exploded within him, watching the Toxapex heal while Sibella had to suffer so. His revenge is stolen from him when its called back into its Pokeball.

“Shivani, gunk shot,” he orders, but it comes out warped, warbled, like a shout wrapped in a whisper in a voice not his own. Shivani hesitates, for the briefest of seconds, casting him a concerned look over one shoulder. “Do it. Now.”

It doesn’t hurt. For that, at least, he's thankful. The veins on his neck begin to darken. Shivani conjures up a foul-smelling beam of ichor that fires through the air at the Tsareena.

Memo doesn’t realize when he drops to one knee.

Tl;DR

shivani the banette is mega evolved (turn 2/3)
shivani the banette uses gunk shot!
suffer or feel nothing.

Elisabeth Fiorelli Alexei Ivanov
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POSTED ON Nov 1, 2022 1:23:45 GMT

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Elisabeth was no stranger to this seeping dread that took hold of her as Guillermo Marceliño went slack, like a puppet abruptly abandoned by a bored puppeteer's strings. The hair prickled on the back of her neck as her opponent's eyes went as black as coal, the Banette before her looming as it spewed forth putrid waste in a GUNK SHOT at her TSAREENA.

She clenched her teeth, furious as her lead in this battle quickly eroded with the poison's effective aim.

Was this ironic, that a poisoner was being bested in poisons?

Elisabeth's eyes narrowed. If so, she didn't care for that.

"PAYBACK," she commanded harshly, and the Tsareena dealt back pain as good as she'd received.

_{TSAREENA used PAYBACK!}

TLDR:

Masked in green and white.
TSAREENA sustained major damage from GUNK SHOT, used PAYBACK on BANETTE!

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POSTED ON Nov 1, 2022 23:58:01 GMT

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Memo opens his mouth to give another order and coughs, instead. His mouth tastes like the memory of a split lip, a bit tongue-- old blood. He licks his lips and smears black ichor over them, another cough bringing more up to stain his teeth.

Shivani was torn between worrying about her trainer and continuing to fight her opponent. It is hard, to wield a weapon untrained, fresh. You’re constantly thinking about the weight of it in your arms, how to counterbalance with your legs; you make the most mistakes, new to the field.

Such is the case now. Shivani panics. She releases the chokehold she has on her vicious energy, and it dissipates with the sound of riotous, cruel laughter, shifting up into the air in deflated-balloon shaped spirits. So concerned with the ebb and flow of Memo’s life-force, she didn’t catch the Tsareena’s movement until it was too late; the mangosteen limb crashed against her, dealing the force of her attack back two-fold. She is knocked back out of her effluvium and hits the ground, bouncing once, twice, like a tiny, limp doll.

Harmless. Defenseless.

In his last conscious act before the darkness overtakes him, Memo lurches forward, throwing one arm out to drag her back into the cradle of his body, forming a protective shell around her. His forehead comes to the earth as he tries to remember how to breathe.

Tl;DR

shivani the banette's mega evolution ends!
shivani the banette is hit by payback! she faints!
suffer or feel nothing.

Elisabeth Fiorelli Alexei Ivanov
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POSTED ON Nov 2, 2022 0:15:52 GMT

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He… he was lucky to have gotten away… with his life.

Certainly not with Ilya, though, but—

After clobbering enough brain cells to get moving, he was up in the air again, right on time to see—

The hairs on the back of his neck stood up. He’d… he’d need to compartmentalize his grief for later.

Much tempted as he was to scream, he knew not to—as that would make him a clearly open target to be attacked from the air, and so he directed Gabriel the Salamence to bring him over to where his boyfriend was in the middle of battle with a Tsareena that had landed a rather vicious attack on the ~~ghost~~ specter that so often accompanied his better half.

What really sealed the deal was the fact that Shivani had been knocked back with so much force she’d devolved from what he guessed was her Mega-evolved state and was sent flying, flying towards—

Taking a leaping drop from the draconid (as the other was flying low enough to the ground for him to risk it) he then recalled the Salamence, before summoning a certain companion of his.

While not as talkative as the one he knew, this… this djinni that accompanied him unfurled himself from the beam of red as he clicked the Cherish Ball to full size, before the humanoid-like Pokémon raised its arms to the sky—and the area right above them went dark for a few moments, before he threw up his jacket’s hood as a torrential Rain Dance poured, announcing his entry.

“What. Are. You. Doing?!” he began, teeth grit together not from fear, not from fright, but from something else altogether—fury.

While his anger towards a certain someone bordered on petty, this, this bordered on another level entirely.

There… there was a reason why Alexei was secretly terrified of his father.

And it was going to show itself in a few moments.

“Not my boyfriend, you BITCH!” he bellowed, arm thrown forward—and his mysterious Pokémon companion brought down, with the force of a thousand lost souls out at sea—

A gale-force Hurricane, aimed as close to the Tsareena as possible.

Due to the weather, this wasn’t going to miss.

(The djinni was wise enough to not make his immediate presence known yet, not until the right time. For that… that was part of this ‘plan’.)

• ‘You can mourn later, you’ve got shit to do!’
• witnessed what happened to Frog, immediately LOSES IT
• comes in screaming on Salamence, but recalls the draconid before he ‘fully’ announces his presence
• summons Tornadus, oh shit the cavalry’s HERE
• Tornadus used Rain Dance to set the weather!
• Alex.exe is furious at the sight he’d just witnessed, Alex.exe has LEFT THE BUILDING
• Nikolai.exe is now online
• ‘Die, bitch.’
• Tornadus used Hurricane, aiming at Tsareena! (weather change to rain ensures a 100% hit for Hurricane)
• the djinni is currently out of sight, but close enough to start throwing attacks that seemingly come from out of nowhere!
• Rain Dance (1 / 5) is now active on the field!

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POSTED ON Nov 2, 2022 1:17:56 GMT

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The way the stranger fell to the ground was limp and lifeless, defeated as the Banette that had diminished in his arms into something small, insignificant, and exhausted in the wake of her Tsareena's attack.

Had Elisabeth killed him? In the haze of war, that possibility suddenly seemed real. Elisabeth was a murderess, and had been one for some time now -- there was no undoing the receiving of that title -- but she had never killed someone in this manner. She was no Zev Harcourt. Not even a Cillian Quinn, for that matter.

Her kills had been the poisoner's method: slow, calculated, unseen. Here, her brutality came out with all the visible cruelty of an exposed knife, slashing gracelessly through the battlefield.

She heard her breathing become ragged at this realisation, her hands clenching into fists as they considered the weight of this new sin among so many others she'd already committed.

You already knew you were a monster. Why should this death be any different?

As if the sky itself was mourning the fallen man before her, rain poured out from the heavens. It drenched her aching body in misty droplets, which suddenly increased in intensity and frequency, pelting her one by one like countless small needles.

It was then, as the water washed over them, that she saw the form of Guillermo Marceliño stir ever so slightly.

He hadn't died. He still lived.

Relief, more relief than she had imagined she could feel, flooded her body with sudden gratitude. She beckoned for her Tsareena to depart with her, only for the very air around her to emanate a strange pressure, like that of a gathering cloud.

A masculine voice, far-away but audible through the susurrus of wind and water, screamed out: “Not my boyfriend, you BITCH!”

The wind whipped around her with an insistence that threw her body to the floor, squalls howling as her Tsareena was struck by an unexpected HURRICANE. The Grass-type stumbled back, her already weakened state no match for the ambush as she cried out and collapsed, nearing a state of expiration.

The sight of her own Pokémon subdued in such a manner incensed her, and she narrowed her eyes at the trainer that had proven the culprit behind such insubordination. No Pokémon stood near him to be the targets of her fury.

So she found another target, instead.

"Oh, is that your boyfriend?" Elisabeth sneered out in a distorted voice, rising to her feet. All previous doubts and uncertainties fled her, that shred of empathy now as distant a memory as the cloudless weather that had existed mere minutes ago. "Why didn't you say so?"

She directed a finger to the man that had collapsed, and instructed in a voice that brooked no argument: "Tsareena. DRAINING KISS."

It was a maneuver that Rowan Wrynn had taught her, the very first time she'd trained in Rocket. That to win, you must be willing to do anything.

Including the dishonorable things your opponent would never dare attempt to try.

The feminine Grass-type pulled the unconscious man close and pressed her lips to his forehead, draining what little health remained from Guillermo Marceliño in a DRAINING KISS that sapped his lifeforce to embolden her own. It was an act that spoke against the way that she had been raised to battle, to honor the dignity of her opponents and their Pokémon.

_{TSAREENA used DRAINING KISS on Guillermo Marceliño!}

Whatever shock the action might have given Alexei Ivanov, Elisabeth took the opportunity to summon a second Pokémon to the field. A BUTTERFREE emerged from her Pokeball, wings whipping up a GUST that took advantage of the furious gales around them...

And aimed it directly for Alexei Ivanov.

_{BUTTERFREE used GUST against Alexei Ivanov!}

TLDR:

Masked in green and white.
Elisabeth has a mild crisis when she thinks Guillermo Marceliño is dead, but he's alive!
Elisabeth taunts Alexei Ivanov because he admitted that Memo is his boyfriend, so she got revenge for his sneak attack in the most Elisa way possible by attacking the bf.
TSAREENA was hit by HURRICANE! Almost fainted, but used DRAINING KISS on Guillermo Marceliño to heal. (There were no Pokémon to target, okay.)
Summoned BUTTERFREE which used GUST on Alexei Ivanov!

RUNNING MP TALLY: 130

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10 MP for post in a battle. (x5)
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10 MP for knocking a Trainer out.

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POSTED ON Nov 2, 2022 2:14:05 GMT

He could feel the rage burning in his blood, cursed as it was—

And the audacity of this—whoever this was, running around in a skintight bodysuit, mocking him and then sicc’ing the Tsareena straight on—

“You did not just. Do that.”

The normally soft, he who couldn’t break a single plate, the fluffy cinnamon roll that helped keep Fortree together, the secret macaron glue behind the Fortree Ranger Outpost…

Well, for lack of a better word that softness was gone now, replaced with a hard, biting, stinging fury that overtook him.

Another click revealed a Sableye, the Dusk Ball shrinking down to an inconsequential size as Loki then looked around, first at the carnage, then at whoever this bitch was in a suit, before focusing his ruby-like eyes on… wait a second…

“Do what you have to.”

Those words, whenever Alexei would say that statement to any of his Pokémon, meant that they were free to do whatever they could, within reason—but reason had long since left the building so there was that.

Seeing the Butterfree, the Sableye then cackled, its smirk turning upside-down momentarily for a few moments as it tried to clap out at the Butterfree with a Fake Out attack, an attempt to stop what it was trying to do!

Another angry outstretched gesture of his arm—and this time a whistling, almost-invisible burst of Extrasensory energy came barreling towards the Tsareena this time, an attempt to peel her away from what she was doing to him—

That was outrageous.

“You dare attack another human? Especially when they’re down?!” he snarled, the light leaving his eyes the moment his fury eclipsed everything.

“And I thought your bunch were nice enough to help me out with what I got in Fortree with the medical supplies. I take that fucking back. I take my opinion of you, all, back.”

Another clicking, this time a scuffed Moon Ball—he swore he was not going to use his Salamence unless shit hit the wire, but again—reason had all but gone out the window.

“Fighting fair was never an option. At least for you.”

The second (third actually) red beam of light materialized in front him, revealing an extremely upset Salamence, who roared so loudly his Intimidate ability triggered the moment the draconid appeared.

“After her.”

That was it.

He reached for something hanging around his neck, he didn’t know, or care what was going to happen—as the Gust of wind came screaming their way, the Salamence was there to tank it, before a sudden explosion of bright light enveloped his form.

• Rain Dance (2 / 5) is now active on the field!
• Alex.exe has left the building he’s fucking PISSED
• and then he sees the KISS OF DEATH sequence happening right before his very eyes
• ~~okay that’s it!~~
• Sableye is summoned to the field! Loki is surprised at the mess going on
• Sableye used Fake Out aimed toward Butterfree!
• (hidden somewhere) Tornadus used Extrasensory in an attempt to knock the Tsareena away!
• ~~Alex~~ Nikolai.exe has words with whoever this is
• Salamence is then summoned to the field!
• Salamence’s Intimidate hits all opposing Pokémon on Elisabeth’s side of the field!
• Salamence is mega-evolving!

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POSTED ON Nov 3, 2022 2:48:19 GMT

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Fair?

Elisabeth laughed at the audacity of his words. It was a sharp, cruel sound, mocking in its resonance. "You think fighting is ever fair?" she taunted him. "You, who fight me with a Pokémon hidden in the shadows -- you dare stand on the moral high ground and announce yourself the arbiter of fairness and virtue?"

Beneath her mask, a smirk twisted into a sneer.

"Spare me the hypocrisy. Your League is rife enough with it as is."

Her Tsareena had managed to weather the EXTRASENSORY, throwing out a POWER WHIP towards the direction it had hit from -- blindly seeking out the Tornadus hidden in the shadows. It snaked through the air with a lashing crack, sinuous and hateful.

_{TSAREENA used POWER WHIP, aiming for where the EXTRASENSORY had come from (Tornadus)!}

Her Butterfree FLINCHED in the wake of the Sableye's FAKE OUT, the bug's immobile silhouette barely visible in the rain. Panic leapt into Elisabeth's throat at the realisation her advantage was swiftly leaving her, only intensified as the Mega-Evolved Salamence loomed large before her.

Time to even the odds, then.

The Butterfrite she wore hidden on her person activated with a soft hand pressed to her chest, and her Butterfree suddenly towered high above them, becoming an enormous butterfly of GIGANTAMAX-SIZE.

_{BUTTERFREE has been GIGANTAMAX-ACTIVATED!}

Unwilling to relax even now, Elisabeth jumped back, tossing another Pokeball forward to release her AROMATISSE. The Fairy-type twirled in place on the field, releasing the white-blanched beams of a MOONBLAST at the Mega-Evolved Salamence before her.

_{AROMATISSE was summoned and used MOONBLAST on MEGA-SALAMENCE!}

TLDR:

Masked in green and white.
Elisabeth taunts Alexei Ivanov about fairness, given he has a hidden Pokemon and is thus a HYPOCRITE. >:C
TSAREENA was hit by EXTRASENSORY! Used POWER WHIP and aimed it from the direction the EXTRASENSORY came from, hoping to hit the hidden TORNADUS!
BUTTERFREE flinched! Elisabeth MEGA-EVOLVED it to GIGANTAMAX BUTTERFREE!
AROMATISSE has entered the field! Used MOONBLAST on Mega-Evolved SALAMENCE!

RUNNING MP TALLY: 140

50 MP for participating in a battle.
10 MP for post in a battle. (x6)
10 MP for knocking a Pokémon out. (x2)
10 MP for knocking a Trainer out.

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gabriel / male / intimidate & aerilate / dragon claw, scary face, flamethrower, protect, thunder fang, rock slide

So it wasn’t just Frog’s first time to Mega Evolve—well, technically Bird here had already done it, but the fact of the matter is, the time he’d done it he was in an alien universe so there were no adverse after-effects, but here—here, in this world, where he was birthed into existence?

“The moment you beat him to the ground, shit stopped being fair.”

From the corner of his eye, he saw the Tsareena reaching out with a Power Whip, however that would only anger ~~him~~ them further as the ‘hidden’ one was finally revealed, amidst the pouring rain and screaming wind—

The djinni from home, one of the three, the Wandering Stormbringer—

Tornadus himself.

(Because yes, the Djinnis were one of the few that actually perceived the concept of gender.)

As the wind howled behind them both, the purple humanoid Pokémon raised his arms again, and brought down a second Hurricane on the Grass-type, having been dragged out of hiding.

“As if you’re not a hypocrite yourself,” he snarled again, before the Sableye this time reacted, cackling like an evil fucker for a few seconds before summoning up a harsh, rough energy and throwing a Powerful burst of multi-faceted Gems towards the gigantic Butterfree.

What comes up must come down, right?

“And I thought some of you were reasonable. Guess I was proven wrong.”

The mega-evolved Salamence roared once more, this time soaring through the pouring rain, avoiding the burst of lunar energy as he brought down an avalanche of boulders on the Aromatisse with a Rock Slide!

While he hadn’t actually spoken with Gabriel, his Salamence, he knew that this—this connection between them—he had to grab ahold of it because the more his fury drove him, the more the Salamence would charge on ahead.

(Of course, there was also something else that would manifest itself apparent should the Salamence get hit by any sort of attack. That would be a surprise, though.)

• Rain Dance (3 / 5) is now active on the field!
• Salamence is mega-evolved! (1 / 3)
• Tornadus has been revealed and he’s none too happy about it
• The djinni used Hurricane on Tsareena upon being revealed!
• Sableye has a much larger target now, ooh shiny. Sableye used Power Gem on the giant Butterfree!
• Salamence isn’t taking any of this shit, dodges the first Moonblast and attempts to drop down a Rock Slide on the Aromatisse!
• ~~Alex~~ Nikolai.exe just scoffs at the hypocrisy being thrown his way

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POSTED ON Nov 3, 2022 5:31:36 GMT

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Another biting laugh answered him. "Hypocrite? You mistake me entirely. I have no delusions about what sort of villain I am."

Embracing cruelty felt truer to herself than faking an innocence she'd known had fled her a long time ago. Once your hands were bloodied, they couldn't be wiped clean of their sins again.

So why not descend further into the gaping hellmouth? Why not allow her own hatred to consume her, wielding that rage like a weapon forged from the burning embers of her own suffering?

Why not take that simmering fury out on such a self-righteous, insufferable, impudent...?

"Fool."

As if in answer to her taunts, the shrouded source of her agitation revealed itself, thrown into focus by her Tsareena's tangle of vines.

Merde. What an unpleasant surprise.

Nothing in the intel reports at the Rocket headquarters had prepared her for this.

This was Elisabeth's first time witnessing a Tornadus, but the sheer power of such a creature was immediately evident as another HURRICANE barreled forward into her Tsareena.

This time, the onslaught was too much for the Grass-type. Fearing the Tsareena's untimely demise, Elisabeth hurriedly recalled her before she could faint amidst the storm's rage. Still, Narcissa wouldn't be usable for the rest of the fight, not until Elisabeth could escape and get the Pokémon's wounds properly healed.

This was quickly becoming dangerous. An unknown Pokémon like this could mean any kind of unknown threats.

She had to start thinking of ways out.

The victory condition changed on a dime, and Elisabeth's eyes began to scan for exits.

The Salamence's dodge of the MOONBLAST resulted in a click of Elisabeth's tongue, displeased but not deterred. Her Aromatisse pirouetted away, the large rocks striking her but not impeding her as she turned her attention elsewhere -- diving forward towards the Sableye with a DRAINING KISS to recover herself.

_{AROMATISSE used DRAINING KISS on SABLEYE!}

Distracting as the gesture was, the Aromatisse was frustratingly unable to stop the Sableye's attack from hitting Elisabeth's Butterfree.

A POWER GEM that would have crushed a smaller insect struck large, waxy wings that stretched like a second canopy high above them in the trees: a dent in shimmering armor, but not a crushing blow.

In retaliation, the huge Butterfree sizzled with thunderbolts that seemed stolen from the very storm itself, the sparks dancing across its massive wingspan before lashing out towards its target in electrifying arcs. An ELECTROWEB spat forth in some bastardization of a String Shot, coiling around its subject of choice as if seeking to bind it with a rope woven from lightning itself.

But the ELECTROWEB did not focus upon the Sableye, nor even the Salamence whose height rivaled the Butterfree's own. Instead, it targeted a far more dangerous figure:

The Tornadus.

_{GIGANTAX-BUTTERFREE used ELECTROWEB on TORNADUS!}

As the titans clashed, Elisabeth furtively tossed another Pokeball onto the field, hoping to slyly ambush the Salamence while the theatric spectacle of striking the Tornadus captured its trainer's attention.

Her Goodra emerged, replacing the absent Tsareena with the immediate action of a DRAGON PULSE, striking the Mega-Salamence with all the strength of a newly-released Pokemon fresh and ready to battle.

_{GOODRA has entered the field and used DRAGON PULSE on MEGA-SALAMENCE!}

TLDR:

Masked in green and white.
Elisabeth is like, me? Hypocrite? Nah bb, I'm the VILLAINESS of this story.
TSAREENA took major damage from Tornadus's HURRICANE and was WITHDRAWN before she could faint!
Elisabeth decides the Tornadus is bad news bears and starts planning to escape.
AROMATISSE was hit by ROCK SLIDE! Used DRAINING KISS on SABLEYE to heal!
GIGA-BUTTERFREE took damage from POWER GEM, but wasn't as strongly affected due to GIGA-STATUS! Used ELECTROWEB against TORNADUS!
On TURN 1 of GIGANTANTAX-BUTTERFREE!
GOODRA has entered the field! Used DRAGON PULSE on MEGA-SALAMENCE!

RUNNING MP TALLY: 150

50 MP for participating in a battle.
10 MP for post in a battle. (x7)
10 MP for knocking a Pokémon out. (x2)
10 MP for knocking a Trainer out.

ROLLING FOR MEGA:
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POSTED ON Nov 3, 2022 6:17:00 GMT

The downpour was starting to slacken, and with that the ‘advantage’ of having perfect-aim Hurricane was waning—he had to move fast.

Surprisingly, it was the Sableye that would get hit first, a yowl of surprise coming from the specter as the Aromatisse came barreling his way—quick as he was to Detect the incoming motion before the same shit-faced grin turned upside-down behind the last-minute action of him sinking into the shadows to save himself.

“So you admit you’re on their side then.”

That much, was obvious. But him, taken for a fool? Absolutely not.

“Maybe it’s you who’s the fool.”

The fury was still pulsing through him while the djinni had to contend now with the incoming attack that was aimed to slow him down—and quick as a flash, with no gesture from Alexei himself, another column of wind was conjured, the static Hurricane blocking the incoming Electric-type attack.

(Because that was clearly, bad news!)

However, nothing would prepare him (and his Pokémon companions) for the next attack—as the Salamence swung around, ready to bring down screaming bloody murder on all the opposing Pokémon present, the Goodra that he’d very nearly missed came rocketing at him, striking him full-on.

What this would mean, however—

A violent shudder rippled through his body, the scream of pain from the Salamence much too louder than normal as he felt something race through him from the inside out. Why did it feel like he was the one who got struck and not the Salamence?!

The draconid’s roar of pain made him taste something metallic on his tongue, something that normally he would be afraid of—but he brushed it aside. For now. He clapped his hand over his mouth for a few moments, though, to disguise the sudden show of weakness.

The adrenaline was still racing through him as the Salamence fell backward, but not yet outright defeated.

“Don’t stop!” he snarled, and the Salamence roared again, charging forward at the Goodra, an attempt to swipe at it with his claws thrumming with Draconic energy.

The pouring rain, the howling wind, the sudden aching feeling coursing through his body—he had to stand his ground and defend the ground where he stood, at all costs.

This was no longer just a fight between Pokémon—it was a battle for honor.

• Rain Dance (4 / 5) is now active on the field!
• Salamence is mega-evolved! (2 / 3)
• Sableye’s a crafty little shit, using Detect to escape the incoming Draining Kiss from the Aromatisse!
• the djinni is not amused at the gigantic Butterfree, conjures up a static column of galeforce Hurricane in an attempt to dissipate the attack!
• Salamence is struck! But what’s this?
• due to the Dragon Pulse striking Salamence, this caused a ‘rebound’, affecting Alex!
• ‘What the fuck? Why does it hurt?!’
• undeterred, the Salamence charged forward with a Dragon Claw toward Goodra!

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