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[attr="class","illeana i"]for a moment, it's just her and palkia - the rest of the battlefield dwindles away in the background. she feels a little more at ease the longer she stays with the spatial deity, as if pieced back together and mended with pink energy.

and then, the world comes crashing back into reality and their group grows bigger.

Isaac Merlo lands beside her and she flashes a warm smile. after a few moments, Genevieve Cromwell and Elise Calcifet join them too. the group grows and she almost misses Gunner Graves's smile in the chaos. his kindness is returned with the widening of her own smile before an unown owned by Naomi Sato blinks into existence. it looks at her as though it knows her, understands her, and promptly leaves. her eyes follow the retreating unown for a moment before darting back to Isaac Merlo.

"this is normal, isn't it?"

as normal as she knows, at least. her hope has grown a little more now - no longer an egg but now a newly hatched little bird. as time ticks away on the battlefield and palkia stays by her side, she feels the hope grow along with it.

"here, let me help ease your wounds..."

spoken to the entire group, she begins to set up another bout of healing mist. it's confined to the five foot radius, sure, but the tendrils of mist still aim to soothe and mend wounds all the same.

in the process of setting up healing, the scientist's smeargle turns its attention to Elise Calcifet's audino and sketches the helping hand it uses. after a moment, the smeargle's own helping hand adds further assistance to palkia.

she wishes she could help the spatial deity more, truthfully, but all she can do is focus on the pink energy it has sent toward the fused kyurem and hope for the ancient draconic energy to stop kyurem.

kyurem raid.

TLDR |
- relieved to see Isaac Merlo, Genevieve Cromwell, and Elise Calcifet approach
- returns Gunner Graves's smile
- recognizes Naomi Sato's unown for a moment as it leaves to join her again
- puts healing mist up to tend to everyone's wounds
- smeargle sketches helping hand and uses helping hand to assist palkia with Elise Calcifet's audino
- 11th post, selecting iron leaves

"Of course I saved you, silly." He laughed at that, wincing at the resurgent sting that rippled down his arm. It had cooked the fabric of his jacket, exposing bubbling and blistering flesh. It was gross, to say a little. The cold immediately seeped into the blister, freezing particles prickling the damaged skin. "Yeah, I'm fine. It's okay."

It was worth the pain, that could have easily been Lam all over. Rook shivered at the brief imagery. He didn't want to think about that, especially when nausea was quick to follow, churning at his stomach.

That dopey smile on Lam's face was more than a little distracted. With his good hand, he snapped his fingers in front of Lam's face. "I know I'm real debonair, but we need to move before anything else comes, right?" They still had plenty of pokemon left to save.

lam logan

- is barbecued from a hyperbeam, ouch :'3

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The initial defense had gone well enough. But a good defense didn’t exactly lead to anything by itself. Vio knew that well enough. And it was only reinforced now by the Iron Crown that had left its pack fighting other trainers on the ground and had instead taken to bounding off the chasm walls, obviously trying to get closer to them. It was a baffling display for sure, causing her to waste precious moments trying to figure out if what she was seeing there was real or not.
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Which was enough for the teal one to catch up to them. Fortunately, her Togekiss was abit quicker on the uptake than her trainer, diving to the side and harshly against the wall itself, just to dodge some sort of assault by the Iron Crown. Vio was not quite sure what it had done, but that blue-ish glow it’s horns emitted just seemed like bad news all around.
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Getting hit by that would be bad news. And it would be a real possibility, given that it had already reached the other side of the chasm, from where it would certainly rebound to them. Togekiss groaned a bit as it stabilized in the air, not liking having had its flank graze the harsh stone to their side. But at least it was still capable of moving.[break][break]
As was Vio, who was holding onto the flying type as best she could. “No other choice, but we will have to go with teamwork here. Wait until the last moment, both of you,” she ordered courtly. They did not have a lot more time, anyway. The big one was already coming towards them again. But at least Aegislash understood, moving into sword configuration. And Togekiss? It did not necessarily have to understand, really. Vio was guiding it by applying pressure to the body, by steering it – and urging it to move straight down just as the opponent came rushing after them once more.
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In doing so, they all made room for Aegislash which, ironically enough, would charge at the opposing steel type with a Sacred Sword of its own.
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+ 7/7, choosing Iron Crown, fighting that one in Midair in the chasm.

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[attr="class","illeana i"]she lets out a small, tinkering sort of laugh at Isaac Merlo 's remark.

"definitely far from normal..."

but will it become the new normal? she's uncertain, though it seems for now she is chosen enough to warrant close proximity to the spatial deity.

things quickly shift from chaotic to downright abysmal as the familiar zaps of electricity begin to gather. her eyes dart to find Shred Zeppelin 's xurkitree charging up its wires. her expression falters, a mixture of surprise and fear rising quickly.

"shit!"

her smeargle is quickly swapped out for a familiar discolored clown. the shiny blacephalon lets out an odd, funky sort of noise as its arms begin to wiggle. and as zap cannon fires at palkia and the head scientist, her ultra beast throws up a sturdy protect to keep both illeana and palkia safe from harm.

behind the safety of protect and willing to do whatever it takes to protect the scientist and the spatial deity, the shiny blacephalon begins to reach for its head as howard slayte starts yelling at Shred Zeppelin on the other side of the battlefield...

kyurem raid.

TLDR |
- definitely not normal!
- recalls smeargle quickly as Shred Zeppelin begins to attack, swapping shiny blacephalon into battle
- shiny blacephalon uses protect to keep the group shielded against zap cannon
- shiny blacephalon begins to reach for its head...
- 12th post, selecting iron leaves