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Maybe it was the adrenaline pumping through Eddie's veins, but he hadn't initially registered the sickening pulse of energy flooding into him as his fists collided with the Regice's dynergy barrier. Searing hot just felt like searing cold as the skin of his knuckles burned and blistered with each strike. It was only when that surge of energy shot up his arms and that blast of cold followed that Eddie was finally forced back, panting through clenched teeth as his body finally registered the distress it was in. [break][break]

Eddie leered at the admin, his own hands shaking as he held them out in front of himself, knuckles cracked and bleeding and blackened by his foolhardy assault, [break][break]

“Maybe I fuckin' am!” Eddie snarled back in bellicose defiance. [break][break]

For as much as the admin might have pitied him in that moment, Eddie could almost say that he felt the same about his foe. They really were living in totally different worlds, [break][break]

“But my life ain't worth preservin' if I ain't usin' it ta stop people like you!” [break][break]

People who would burn this world to ash by the fires of their own ambition. People whose heads were so tilted toward the firmament that they no longer held any regard for their fellow man. Those people, so divorced from their humanity, were some of the very few folks on this earth that Eddie could not abide by. [break][break]

But, as preoccupied as he was by the pain now surging through every nerve ending from his fingertips to his elbows, Eddie found he had little time to react when two colossal fingers picked him up with surprising grace. There it was again, that burning ice, like fire, holding him as Eddie desperately thrashed against the Regice's grasp. [break][break]

“FETCH.” [break][break]

For a moment, Eddie was sky-bound, weightless as he hurtled toward the brutal ground below. There was a blur of blue sky above and the edges of lush green treetops all around, marred by thick plumes of smoke and cinders on the air. Rocket really knew how to fuck up something beautiful, didn't they? [break][break]

“AND FALL.” [break][break]

But in the next moment, Eddie was floating on a cloud. Maybe the impact had killed him quicker than he thought it would? Because this was probably what heaven felt like, all downy-soft and safe as he was gently enveloped by that world of cotton. It was only when he saw the dark eyes of the Altaria peering at him from this mountain of fluff that Eddie realized that he hadn't died after all. [break][break]

He grinned weakly at the bird in gratitude, while on the ground below, Terrakion readied a QUICK GUARD, watching the Regice warily as it charged its HYPER BEAM, and as the looming Nihilego similarly rallied its own strength. There was no time to lick their wounds while the frozen titan was still standing.

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ow fuck that actually hurt [break]
eddie has a shonen anime protag response for howard [break]
gets yeeted by regice lmao[break]
scooped up by roze's altaria [break]
terrakion uses QUICK GUARD in preparation for nihilego and regice clashing[break]
50 MP have your character be injured by another's pokemon directly or indirectly.[break]
howard slayte + Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki + Roze Falkner [break]

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From the Altaria's downy plumage, the colorful lights of the distant attack and the burst of energy that followed in its wake seemed so far away to Eddie. Even as he and his avian savior tumbled through the air, the gentle comfort of those cottony wings was almost enough for Eddie to write this whole thing off as a bad dream, like it would just disappear the moment he opened his eyes and emerged from this comforting cloud. He would have no such luck, it turned out, when the two finally landed and he took a few staggering steps back on terra firma. [break][break]

He blinked blearily as the grunts emerged, as Tsubaki called out, as Roze called out too. Eddie clenched and unclenched his fists experimentally and winced as burned and blackened skin split and bled. He really wasn't in any shape to go around cracking any more skulls, but as one grunt's Houndoom was speared by jagged STEALTH ROCKs, Eddie knew he had to try, [break][break]

“I read you loud and clear,” Eddie called to his sisters-in-arms, rolling his shoulders as he sized up a couple more grunts closing it. This was probably going to hurt him a lot more than it was going to hurt them. [break][break]

Or at least, that's what Eddie thought, until more rocks were ripped from the ground and were sent sailing toward the grunts and their Pokemon that had yet to succumb to the Altaria's song. Terrakion loosed another STONE EDGE with a sharp cry and dashed forward, putting itself between the Leaguers and the Rocket grunts that attempted to assail them. [break][break]

Eddie chuckled a little to himself in spite of the searing pain ripping through his hands and arms. The big guy was giving them an out, it seemed. He would have done the same in Terrakion's shoes, and as such, Eddie knew when it was time to bow out, [break][break]

“Let's move!” [break][break]

Because in the end, to be a Sword of Justice was to be both blade and shield. To defend the weak in their hour of need, to aid the righteous in their conquest over evil. Such was Terrakion's sacred duty, and one it would see through to the end as it lobbed more piercing stones at its villainous foes.

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eddie continues to be shielded by altaria until he's dropped off [break]
ready to square up [break]
terrakion comes in w/the save, moves to cover the league side's escape[break]
terrakion uses STONE EDGE[break]
50 MP include a motif or recurring symbol of some kind in your thread (valor, chivalry, sacrifice re: Terrakion) [break]
howard slayte + Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki + Roze Falkner [break]

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“Its stalled! Go now, before they can regroup!” [break][break]

Eddie didn't need to be told twice, especially when there were other civilians waiting for aid. He had always been better at following someone elses marching orders anyway, so after sparing one last glance to the Terrakion fending off the scattered grunts, he made his way alongside the others past the enemy line. [break][break]

In their exodus, Eddie finally noticed the scorched earth and wrecked shipping containers and layers of ice and sludge in all its horrific entirety. This was hell, he thought with some exhausted resignation, pure and simple. Arceus had lifted him straight out of Hoenn and plunged him into the fiery deeps for some crime Eddie couldn't recall. That was the only explanation his tired and pain-addled brain could come up with when the trio stopped for a brief moment, [break][break]

“I'm fine, you don't hafta-” [break][break]

Rejecting aid was a natural reflex for the man, as was the wincing expression of pain when Tsubaki snatched his wounded hand, but Eddie found himself thankful that he hadn't given in to his typical kneejerk response when that pain suddenly vanished, [break][break]

“Holy shit,” he murmured with some amazement, flexing his fingers experimentally, “Maybe it ain't a cure, but its damn close ta bein' a miracle.” [break][break]

He turned to Roze and grinned broadly, [break][break]

“Roze, you seein' this- ” [break][break]

Suddenly, the earth roiled beneath them, and Eddie's heart dropped to the pit of his stomach. Things had already gone to complete and total shit; how was it possible for things to get worse?

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terrakion continues to cover their escape[break]
eddie is a little psyched out[break]
gets patched up by 2baki[break]
oh shit earthquake!! [break]
final MP calcs - [break]
100 MP for ten total IC posts [break]
100 MP for completing your prelude [break]
300 MP for "losing" or having a "negative" outcome for your character and their prelude [break]
TOTAL MP: 850 MP (including previous posts and their narrative-based prompts) [break]
howard slayte + Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki + Roze Falkner [break]