Just about the moment that she felt the chill of the cold, Violet knew what was happening. Whoever had programmed this probably had been there, too, when the Meteno group had made involuntary landfall. Vio could tell. Because she had thought about this particular incident a lot. It was one of the primary reasons she had gotten interested in Spectre to begin with. Sure, she heavily disdained Kyogre and its avatar, but that was just animosity. This one though? It was much more akin to a primal response.
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Violet did not want to say fear. Instead, she briefly allowed herself to shudder in order to acclimate to the climate and mentally freshen up. This was show-time after all. Fake as it might have been, the pain would be real. And the humiliation of failing would weigh even more. This was a chance to prove herself. She ought to take it properly, this time. That she owed to herself.
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Thoughts like that helped her face the glowing eyes in the darkened storm of snow. And from then on, her childhood training took over. “Seems like your Dragons will be at quite a disadvantage if they are hit. If this is anything like what I saw back then, we can’t beat that thing properly, but if we can down it somehow it will probably have trouble coming after us at least. I will take the first blast if it does the freeze again,” she decided to announce, pronouncing her intent at team work mostly because she knew precisely that she was being watched. Then, she called out her Aegislash, which she had brought for one primary purpose to those trials – to take the hits no one else probably could. “King’s Shield, something will probably come at us soon enough.” Aggressive defense like that seemed to make the most sense in the moment.


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+ recognizes the threat, goes with what she had prepared and sets out a king's shield expecting that freeze attack once more

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“The likes of hypnosis never really work on these things,” she called out to the youngest member of their team. It was a literal waste of time in her opinion, for the frozen beast did skip a beat even though Iron Valiant tried to put it to sleep. She had seen a whole field of trainers try and apply status effects to this one with very limited success. This one was no different, simply continuing to charge whatever it had been preparing undeterred.
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Then again, just telling people what did not work? That wasn’t exactly much help, either. Still, she could not help it either. “And we won’t be able to fall back without doing something about this either,” she added, right before the mighty legendary released a powerful blast from its maw. Aegislash stood strong with the King’s Shield, but could do little more but protect the three of them in a cone around them. To their sides, glacial energy seemed to freeze the very air itself for but a few moments. Then, the structural integrity of said ice gave in and it shattered to the ground.
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Aegislash, for its part, faltered after the attack, slowly swaying downwards to the ground. Whatever that attack had been, it had been far too powerful to simply be blocked. She recalled it and instead replaced it with her huge Jellicent. “Don’t think I can outright block another one of those. But it does seem as if it needs to recharge at least. Doubt that’s the only trick up its sleeve, though.” Problem was, as much as she wanted to lead there, she honestly did not know what exactly they could do in this situation. Maybe if she knew these people better, but nothing came to mind immediately.
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“There’s only merit in that if we can run out the clock that way. Otherwise it will just go after each of us alone.” Violet’s thinking was rushing from one point to the next, but she was very much assuming that the world they have been given to work with here was not endless. Procedually generated, maybe, but this was still technology. “In a real situation, maybe. But the room’s still as big as it was before. It’s not like we can run all that far.” The others might not know the tech well, but she had spent enough time with the science people to have an idea. After all, they had clearly been given conditions for this: neutralize the threat or be defeated. There was no means to simply wait it out. Splitting up would not work this way, she was convinced.
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In the meantime though, she did take Amor’s offer to at least make some distance. It would help to at least not be close to their own Pokemon. Especially her Jellicent presented a bigger target than them and likely would be perceived as the greater threat. Alongside the fire staving off the cold for now, they had an opportunity at least to stay healthy while the fight progressed. “Jellicent, Strength Sap,” she ordered while taking shelter with Saki for the time being. Fortunately, men quite frequently volunteered to protect women like this, which was always beneficial in her opinion. “I have not seen an Hypnosis or something land, but we might well be able to at least diminish its strength slightly. If this goes from ‘instant death’ to ‘two or more hits’ we might be able to do at least something.”
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Amor’s idea of just going all out came had merit. Bringing out everything at once would improve their state of the board, so to speak. But on the other hand, well, there was merit in not bringin out everything at once. They could buy more time by giving their opponent individual foes to fight instead of forcing it to use some huge blanket of an attack when facing an army.[break][break]
Which was exactly what happened, of course. Just her luck. Strength Sap seemed to have failed, too. At least judging by how a renewed icy blizzard hit her Jellicent at full force, causing it to freeze right away. Sure, it shielded them in a similar fashion to Aegislash simply due to having a large body, but it was just her luck that the one time she could actually go and prove herself, she ended up having two taken out so ‘easily’. Still, she recalled it and replaced it right away with her last option.
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Not that it mattered for her in that moment. She brought out her Spiritomb and tried to decide on a course of action while the others still fought on. But, well, if luck and all were not on her side, she would go with the deterministic. And besides, Spiritomb would not be able to take another one of those either way. Vio shook off the snow and ice on her and instead ordered a Curse on the icy dragon. Spiritomb did not question. It immediately sacrificed part of its health to place its power upon the dragon. “Don’t be reckless now, if that curse holds we might be able to at least weaken it enough that it might want to leave. If that’s a proper recreation, it should have the instincts of a wild one and not want to fight to the death or to the faint. We just have to be more of a bother to fight than to leave, really.”
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At the very least, she could not imagine that thing seeing them as healthy meals, for what it was worth.
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“Under normal circumstances, yes. Depends on how meta all this is, because reporting on an experiment this thoroughly observed is useless,” she replied through the storm, somewhat annoyed. Not necessarily at her partners, but at the nature of all this. Were they supposed to play this completely straight as if they did not know it was a simulation? Or were they to make the best decisions knowing what it was?
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It was rather irritating. Again, just her luck. But she just figured that she was supposed to use her own judgment in that regard. Vio sighed. At least the curse had landed. She could see the dark energies swirling around Kyurem now, botches of black against the white of the blizzard. She had to strain her eyes to see, but it was there. “And no, there is no sadism here. Life, legendaries, they are for the most part too primal to actually embody such emotions” she mused in response, though she did not actively want anyone else to hear.
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That only happened when she noticed the dimensional rift opening. Their opponent might not be suffering as much from the curse and assault as others, but it seemed at the very least annoyed by it.
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Still, she hid behind Spiritomb just in case. “It might be leaving, but it also might want to take another swing at us before it does, brace yourselves and don’t let up for until it is truly gone.”
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+ Observes the curse take hold, tries to keep everyone focused on trying to make Kyurem leave, hides behind Spiritomb in case it tries something still

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