He hated garbage, which sucked given the fact that most of his colleagues fell into the category.

Elisabeth was toxic, Cillian was an abuse survivor, Theo was a war criminal. Yadda yadda, same shit different day. Howard was the only normal Rocket, and that was something he had come to terms with as soon as he had donned his helmet and accepted the promotion as Admin Fox.

"FUCKING TRASH!" Howard let out a scream as the living trash pile oozed around Route 120 near the Ancient Tomb. Long ago, there had been a dream fought on this battlefield. Now, all that was left were expired foodstuffs and the remains of Hyper Bouncy Woopers.

Howard's Golurk smashed the ground with a mighty Earthquake, causing the ground to tremble.

He was familiar with fighting Dynamaxed Pokemon, now. Between the giant Pikachus of Vital and the two Toxtricity in New Mauville, Howard knew that the best way to bring these monsters down was to hit hard and hit constantly. It didn't matter how strong these Pokemon were. Once their Dynergy Barrier fell, Eternatus would do the rest.

What sort of monster claimed its own soldiers? The Dynergy Barrier began to creak and groan.

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ATTACK THE GARBADOR/BREAK BARRIER

Chaos ensues, as a massive Garbodor seems to appear out of nowhere. Makoto blinks in alarm at the sight of the poisonous beast - having originally been here on one of their occasional wanders through Hoenn - but at the very least, they are able to provide a hand in the matter.

Namely, with the power of their Wyrdeer, Yurei.

Though she is not necessarily resistant to poison - and though Makoto may not know the best methods to bring down a Dynamaxed pokemon - they are able to let loose powerful psychic attacks such as Extrasensory against the beast's shield!

Grigori looked up at the towering Garbodor. How the people ran, and how they cowered from the sight. A few others ran forward instead of away; commendable souls in this time of need. He was one of them, and he wasn’t here for malicious purposes this time.

No, As soon as he heard about the outbreak in Littleroot, he knew that something else would happen. An event like that seldom occurred in isolation. While this wasn’t… exactly, what he envisioned would follow, it was still important to help out.

That’s why he brought Cables to this fight. Even if it wasn’t particularly thrilled, or excited, or angry, or upset, or much of anything– it didn’t hold back. Not for anything. “Cables, please subdue the Garbodor to the best of your ability!”

It looked at him with its lack of eyes, and then pivoted back to the lumbering pile of trash. Its tendrils snaked out, right toward a small phone booth. Black cables sunk into the very box, and the lights flickered on top.

Energy amassed inside its head, which grew brighter and brighter until Grigori had to cover his eyes. And then– as if lighting struck. A viscous, monstrous, devastating strike of electricity surged forth. A Zap Cannon of terrifying proportions barreled forth, faster than light itself.

And straight into one of the barriers that protected it. “Good work, Cables!”

It did not respond, instead focused on sucking the remaining power out of the now defunct phone booth.

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assist by break the eight dynergy barrier segments

"Straciatella, let's try it!" He shouted, his little Rotom flying around excitedly as she ssent forward his Abomasnow. Muhc like in VCT, the dual type rushed into thiss confrontation without hesitaiton, handsss glowing to punch forward a WOOD HAMMER.

"I'll ssee if you can dynamax here of it's jsut something weird going on withh the pokemon itsself." he said checking his own dynamax band. "Maybe it ate osmething weird?"

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😈 assist by break the eight dynergy barrier segments (first 8 will receive 2 mochi instead of 1).

DYNAMAX BARRIERS

THE DYNERGY BARRIER SEGMENTS BREAK thanks to the efforts of howard slayte, annalise henderson, kyle lopez, Makoto Kurumi, Grigori Sokolov, jayden cross, mint frost and Cillian Quinn.

The aforementioned characters receive 2 MOCHI.