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POSTED ON Oct 24, 2018 6:37:05 GMT

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THE POWER PLANT

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BATTLEFRONT #4

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00:00: the lack of security at such an important facility for the city comes back to bite. rocket forces storm through the main entrance, looking to head down to the basement to shut off power to the main city. the few workers have done their best fending off rocket for as long as possible, but it looks like there's no hope for them. all they can do is prolong the inevitable. but with the league responding, there might be some hope left.[break][break]

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- rocket are still preoccupied fighting some resisting power plant workers.[break]
- league officers will arrive to find rocket battling.[break]
- rocket will have to find a way down to the basement amidst the chaos.[break]
- the powerplant has three floors: 1b, 2b, and the basement. there are no upper-level floors, only lower.[break]

OBJECTIVES

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LEAGUE:[break]
a) help workers evacuate via the main entrance.[break]
b) stop rocket from cutting off power to slateport, but hurry! time is of the essence.[break][break]
ROCKET:[break]
a) shut down the power station to help the invasion in the rest of the city. but don't blow it up![break]
b) fend off league officers long enough to achieve the first objective.[break]
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GUIDELINES:

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this is an invasion event, marking rocket's first deliberate attack on the region. be dramatic, make it tense, and battle!
for plot purposes, rocket will be successful in the overall invasion, but the league can potentially prevail in a thread.
you have a choice of which battlefront you want to participate in. do you join the thread where your character and their pokemon can play to their strengths, or do you join a thread to even out the numbers for your faction?
you can only put one character in each thread. however, since the threads all happen at the same time, you can move your character to a different thread if you so wish, but please consult staff before doing that.
you can only bring six pokemon; three pokemon out at one time.
your pokemon can only do two actions per pokemon per mod round.
there's a forty-eight hour posting rule before every mod round.
you can only post three times per character in each mod round.
this event is death-enabled, but will not feature rolls.
remember to include a tl;dr of your actions in your posts
a link to the main event thread with more information can be found here.

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POSTED ON Oct 24, 2018 14:52:54 GMT

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"Forgive me Father... for I shall sin."

Lucius was one of those who led their division towards the powerplant, while he might prefer to attack the headquarters instead, trashing the powerplant would most probably be the second best thing. With his pokemon's optimum skill set, specifically his hippowdon's, he was one of the few Rocket members who was handpicked for this particular task.

The group of renegades rushed towards the powerplant, a few brave souls tried to defend their workplace; powerplant workers gave it their all using their arsenal of mostly electric pokemons. Lucky enough, his hippowdon, Rook, was immune to electricity.

He sent the sand filled hippopotamus out. As the hippowdon entered the fray, sand began to pour out from the hippo's various orifices, mixing with the air. Eventually, the presence of sand grew more and more, slowly turning into a SANDSTORM that engulfed the area with the hippowdon at its epicenter due to its SAND STREAM.

Lucius was buffeted by the sandstorm, his skin being burned and scratched by the sand that traveled through the air at such high speeds. To him, the pain was nothing but a small price to pay for his inevitable victory. The hippowdon positioned itself right at the main, and only, entrance of the facility. The hippowdon sat there, hoping that the sandstorm his pokemon brought would at least prevent a handful of those attempting to exit the facility.

Mercy didn't have its place here.

Lucius shielded his eyes using both his arms as he had his head ducked down, a grin forming as even he could feel the danger of his own pokemon, what more if it actually made a move.

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hippowdon was sent out
due to its ability, SAND STREAM, a SANDSTORM brew up.
hippowdon positioned itself to block the entraince/exit, bringing the SANDSTORM closer, stronger around it.

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POSTED ON Oct 25, 2018 11:39:10 GMT

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it's not the cold that wakes him up tonight.

the loud mixture of alarms blare through the small room they're housed up in for the night. it wakes him instantly because it's a tone he recognizes; it's a tone he's more than familiar with. the alert on his phone only confirms his darkest suspicions: his ghosts have followed him to hoenn.

mere seconds feel as though they've been stretched into hours as he sits on the edge of the bed. his body's cold and it's not from the air conditioner in the room. his fingers are fidgeting; breath heavy yet quick and panicked. he almost loses himself in his own head but her voice pulls him back to reality. he breathes because he needs to.

"stay close to me at all times. if i tell you to run, you run. if i tell you to hide, you hide. do you understand?" he stops mid-sentence to reach for her arm. "i need you to promise me you'll listen." his eyes are pleading and his words convey the same. "please, persephone."

it's fight-or-flight and for her, he chooses to fight.

they leave by the balcony atop his aerodactyl and head towards the power plant.

orders and orders and he should feel lucky that they were assigned to the power plant, but it's hard to feel any shred of luck when being forced to go up against rocket. they can turn and leave right now but she has a hero complex and he's far too protective to let her fight this alone. they're in this mess together and they'll get out together. he'll make sure of it.

a SANDSTORM has long brewed by the time they arrive a mere five minutes after the alert went out. the intensity of the storm forces them to land further away to avoid being pelted by shards of sand among other things. the moment they dismount aerodactyl, the dinosaur is swiftly recalled back into the safe confines of his pokeball.

"stay close to me."

two flashes of white summons his trusted nido-pair: a relic of a time thought to be forgotten. "focus up." his tone changes; it's different. his pokemon recognize it instantly. they start their approach.

the SANDSTORM is far too familiar and it's a tactic he and his team are more than familiar with. it's what they were raised on. so the feeling of sand scratching and burning his skin doesn't deter him from his path. he positions himself carefully, making sure to keep persephone safe from the brunt of the storm.

up ahead, the source of the SANDSTORM awaits. he can easily fight in this condition but the rest of the league might not be as experienced. he turns to his partner.

"can you clear the storm?"

@raid

arrives with persephone amavi.
recalls aerodactyl, calls out nidoking and nidoqueen.
starts approaching with persephone amavi.
nidoking and nidoqueen are out.
SANDSTORM is in effect.

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POSTED ON Oct 26, 2018 0:44:30 GMT

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goggles and a turtleneck a few inches too tall hider patricia's face and protect the sensitive skin of her face from the coarse touch of the SANDSTORM. the liilligant at her side is not allotted the same protections, and it would make her feel awful were it not for the fact that soon they'd be past the brunt of it. it's her understanding that her colleague's sandstorm is simply meant to block the entering of league officials and the exit of the panicked workers. so, she slips right in.

"if they keep fighting they'll get hurt . . ."

she regards the workers with some level of pity. not enough to interfere with her faction's plans, but enough that she might try and lessen the bloodshed for their side. to this end she taps her pokemon on the shoulder before twirling a single finger in the air. a rehearsed direction, and one the flowering pokemon takes to naturally. in the midst of the fighting she takes center stage and begins to pirouette lazily.

from her leafy skirts she begins to release wave after wave of SLEEP POWDER -- an attempt to weaken the resistance to their entry. soon floor 1b should be pacified.

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patricia wears a pair of goggles and an over-sized turtleneck to disguise herself.
lilligant uses SLEEP POWDER in an attempt to stop the workers fighting on floor 1b.

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POSTED ON Oct 26, 2018 4:29:46 GMT

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she calls him back to her – no – to the present, in a voice that sounds too calm and too distant even to her ears.

his statuesque stillness is still regal, but the hollow eyes, breathing unsteady, his hand on her arm clammy unnerve her. to hear him, so infallible, plead with her made her blood run cold with a fear she never knew she had.

"i promise i'll do as you say, just please be careful too." she cuts herself off from continuing because there are no words that could soothe either of them.

for his sake, she lies, a bittersweet assurance that she never intends to follow through, sealed with an embrace so fleeting it may have not even happened.

"i'm so sorry."

apologies both for the fact that it all has to happen and for the lie, even if he doesn't know it. but surely he is aware that she'd rather go down in the vanguard or by his side than run?

the flight is shorter than it feels, and she holds him until her knuckles turn white, hopes he can't feel her heartbeat pounding.

forced to the ground by the sandstorm, persephone hisses at the sting against her shoulders, but she follows nikolai regardless, close enough that she could reach out and touch him if she wanted to.

he was different here. from the posture to the tone, a familiarity that only comes with experience. the realisation struck her with its gravity; he's from kanto, he's seen this before.

they move through the dust until it became unbearable, and at his words persephone is quick to release her own pokemon in a burst of light. the swanna materialises overhead, shaky against the swirling airborne debris, a flitting white shadow in the sky.

"clear it for us," persephone calls out to her, and the pokemon abides, beating her wings in a powerful flurry, a defog that buffets back the dust and dirt until their visibility is restored, the power plant looming in the near distance.

after a moment, persephone inches forward to stand alongside nikolai, an implicit refusal to let him shield her again.

≫ enters the area with NIKOLAI PETROV
≫ uses swanna's defog to dispel the sandstorm

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POSTED ON Oct 26, 2018 7:31:39 GMT

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she refuses to let him shield her but he expects as much because she's far too stubborn for her own good; all he can do is embrace it. her swanna's DEFOG powers across, clearing the vicinity of dirt and dust until there's nothing left but clarity: a hippowdon that blocks the entrance, but that's something he saw even through the thick of the sandstorm. it's familiarity that sets him apart.

gratitude isn't expressed through words but through a nod and a semblance of a smile. a part of him doesn't want her here with him but the other part is glad she is. she's his rock. she's what drives him forward.

"target."

the coldness in his voice is only matched by the chill in the air despite the battle that rages inside the power plant. the tails of the nidos drag along the ground, swaying ever so gently as they make their approach. they never break formation: nidoking lead the charge because he is their weapon, he is their lance; nidoqueen never strays too far behind, ready to become their shield should she need to.

all the fighting seems to be contained within the power plant; the outside is relatively empty, peaceful, the only thing that can disrupt that is them. hippowdon blocks the entrance but not for long; not when nidoking's EARTH POWER threatens to break the very ground hippowdon stands on. the ground around the ground-type cracks, lifting the hippowdon up into the air only to be flung away from the power plant and towards the nidos.

nidoqueen's TOXIC looks to further immobilize the hippowdon, isolating it from its trainer. with it out in the open, it becomes ripe for the picking.

as they near the entrance of the power plant, nikolai slows his pace just for a moment to make sure.

"be careful."

@raid

nidoking uses EARTH POWER to lift the ground around hippowdon and flings it away from the entrace, towards the nidos.
nidoqueen uses TOXIC on hippowdon.
approachs the entrance with persephone amavi .

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POSTED ON Oct 26, 2018 7:48:16 GMT

"that's not how you do it."

brandon trails behind, watching, grimacing at the lack of action. he's a little worse for wear, after having brave the SANDSTORM that once protected their flank, but he's here for a job, one that he'll have to teach the less experienced rocket. they're not here to be civil. they're here to show their might.

"boom."

an exploud and noivern follow up where the lilligant can't. they flank the pokemon from behind, taking a step forward to avoid pitting it in their cross fire.

"bitch."

a resounding BOOMBURST rocks the foundation of the hallway. anyone caught in it is sent flying, throw by the concussive blow that comes the brandon's sound based pokemon. those who aren't busy being thrown against the wall have their hearing shattered, unable to pick themselves up after being disorientated. watching them scatter like flies allows brandon to truly march unopposed.

"let's go!"

there's a haughty bounce to his every step. 1b is his.

≫ showing @patricia how it's done
≫ BOOMBURST his way through 1b
≫ not too late to turn back if u scared

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POSTED ON Oct 26, 2018 11:03:33 GMT

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THE POWERPLANT

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SUMMARY

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lucius hallows throws out his hippowdon to block the entrance to the power plant. the presence of hippowdon stirs up a SANDSTORM.
NIKOLAI PETROV arrives with persephone amavi, landing not too far away from the entrance.
@patricia's lilligant uses SLEEP POWDER to try and stop workers from fighting on floor 1b.
persephone amavi's swanna uses DEFOG to clear the SANDSTORM.
NIKOLAI PETROV uses nidoking's EARTH POWER to lift the ground around lucius hallows' hippowdon up to fling it away from the entrance. nidoqueen poisons the hippowdon with TOXIC.
NIKOLAI PETROV and persephone amavi near the entrance.
@trash uses his noivern and exploud to BOOMBURST the whole 1b.

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lucius hallows: it seems as though persephone amavi's attempts at clearing the SANDSTORM succeeds as a strong flow of wind overpowers the dirt and sand. the dust settle and the battlefield comes into clear view.
@patricia: your SLEEP POWDER seems to be effective as it flows through the first floor. workers who are caught off guard by it soon fall asleepy; their pokemon, too, but not all of them as they might retaliate with their own defenses. but @trash's BOOMBURST looks to seal the deal. various shields of PROTECT and LIGHT SCREEN lessen the damage taken as some workers are still left standing, ready to fight. but with their numbers dwindling down, it won't take much to storm past them.
NIKOLAI PETROV and persephone amavi: you are the first responders to the scene. with intuitive thinking, the hippowdon is tossed aside for now but your main concern lies with the one rocket member that rush out the front looking to stop your advance.
league officers are close behind!

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the SANDSTORM, despite being short-lived, manages to cause structural damage to the windows on the first floor, breaking the glass that make up the windows. but that's all it does. the DEWFOG causes the sand to dwindle down into nothing remains but clarity.[break][break]

as the battle continues to rage on within the power plant, league officers soon start to appear, responding as quickly as they could. with the entrance now clear, the league are able to storm the power plant as they look to subdue rocket forces inside while maintaining the structural integrity of the power plant.

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- switching pokemon will take one action from both pokemon switching out and switching in.[break]
- players should decide amongst themselves what hits and what doesn't. be reasonable and communicate![break]
- moderators will determine environmental damage.[break][break]

OBJECTIVES

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GUIDELINES:

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this is an invasion event, marking rocket's first deliberate attack on the region. be dramatic, make it tense, and battle!
for plot purposes, rocket will be successful in the overall invasion, but the league can potentially prevail in a thread.
you have a choice of which battlefront you want to participate in. do you join the thread where your character and their pokemon can play to their strengths, or do you join a thread to even out the numbers for your faction?
you can only put one character in each thread. however, since the threads all happen at the same time, you can move your character to a different thread if you so wish, but please consult staff before doing that.
you can only bring six pokemon.
your pokemon can only do two actions per pokemon per mod round.
there's a forty-eight hour posting rule before every mod round.
you can only post three times per character in each mod round.
this event is death-enabled, but will not feature rolls.
a link to the main event thread with more information can be found here.

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POSTED ON Oct 26, 2018 13:45:38 GMT

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The SANDSTORM was cleared and Lucius couldn't be more disappointed, however, with the weather clearing up, it only meant more trouble for league forces as he'd now be able to send out his other mons without the sandstorm posing a problem.

The eruption of the ground beneath the hippowdon caused the huge pokemon to be shot away from the power plant, towards the two nidos NIKOLAI PETROV brought with him. The hippowdon, due to its weight alone, wasn't flung that far by the EARTH POWER unleashed by Nikolai's doing. However, it was still sent to a range where the nidoqueen's TOXIC would hit it, poisoning the poor hippo.

The hippowdon made glances, left and right, in search for its trainer from afar. Seeing the hippowdon eye to eye, Lucius merely gave it a thumbs up with his left hand which then slowly rotated into that of a thumbs down. With that gesture done and made, the hippowdon knew exactly what it must do. Wreck the absolute hell out of everything.

The hippowdon had let out a mighty cry as it began to furiously stomp its feet, despite being evidently weakened by the poison it was afflicted with, the hippowdon kept a show of its impressive strength and resilience. The ground shook with each stomp, and with each stomp, the ground shook harder. In little to no time, an EARTHQUAKE took place, violently shaking the ground encompassing the entire area.

Finally, with one last stomp, a FISSURE formed on the ground, intensified by the ongoing EARTHQUAKE, causing the earth below to violently split. The crack hastily approached towards the direction of the two nidos near it, NIKOLAI PETROV , and persephone amavi , together with everything and everyone it passed on its way. Everything caught in the way of this FISSURE would be engulfed by it, causing them to fall a deep fall beneath the earth should they be unfortunate enough. Once this FISSURE settles, it would form one large, deep ravine.

Whilst all this happened, doublade was sent out for Lucius to wield, a tight grip on both blades' hilts with one blade on each hand. The doublade's IRON DEFENSE made it a lot sturdier, allowing for more violent stabs and slashes, hopefully allowing it to withstand strong clashes. Lucius swung the blade as one poor plant worker ran past him, leading to the worker being sliced cleanly across the stomach. Despite the tremor that shook the earth below them, Lucius stood tall and adamant.

He laughed.

Mercy didn't have its place here.

tl;dr:
hippowdon made an EARTHQUAKE
hippowdon followed up with a FISSURE, the crack traveling towards the two nidos near him, NIKOLAI PETROV , persephone amavi , and everything/everyone else in between.
doublade was sent out. Lucas wields the doublade with one sword in each hand.
doublade has its IRON DEFENSE on, making it sturdier to widthstand harsher clashes.
Lucas straight up slices an insignificant worker's guts out using the doublade he wielded.

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POSTED ON Oct 28, 2018 1:43:51 GMT

he stepped out for a minute and the whole place turned to shit. all he wanted was a quick lunch, something on his stomach to stop the hunger pangs but that seemed to be too much to ask.

a sigh would escape his throat as the lavender haired man walked forward with a drink in hand, a skitty walking in stride with him. as he sipped at the drink he’d walk on through the open front door spotting those that were causing all this mess.

kim would simply sideeye them as he walked passed the rabble rousers and send out a torterra to act as a wall between any that tried to attack him as he went to assist scientist in need of a hand out of this dump.

"steel yourself duane, civilian lives come first."

the torterra would huff as it withdrew itself slightly, ready to act as a shield

• came back from a lunch break
• walked in and passed the fighters like lol, bye
• sent out torterra to block any attacks that came his way as he helped escort scientist

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POSTED ON Oct 28, 2018 2:29:00 GMT

when she began spreading SLEEP POWDER it was with the hope that the fight inside would mirror the hectic brawl outside as little as possible. she knows that her employment requires nasty deeds, sometimes blood, but ideally it's as little as possible on her watch. she's reminded by the entrance of another rocket that this isn't her call to make.

as workers and pokemon fall peacefully to ground and the air grows thick with green spores she thinks to smile at her handiwork, only to have a BOOMBURST rock her plans and her world -- figuratively and literally respectively. the attack is mercifully aimed past her but the great noise it makes still rattles her skull and leaves her seeing double for a moment. her lilligant similarly falls out of her pirouettes and teeters.

"that wasn't necessary!"

she yells, more as a result of her temporary hearing loss than actual anger. and yet still she moves to follow, though not before noticing a man entering the building behind them. he walks in nonchalantly with a large pokemon at his side. she doesn't want to hurt him either, so she sends out her roselia to try and deter further violence.

"don't come any deeper in, okay?"

it's a warning punctuated by action. the small flower pokemon at her side drops TOXIC SPIKES from its fragrant hands. they hide themselves under the dark green mist the SLEEP POWDER has created at their feet. their coverage is wide and uneven.

"i'd really prefer it if you just left."

at this she turns to look at her lilligant, who having recovered from her dizziness resumes passively secreting SLEEP POWDER. she wants to chase after her "partner", help dissuade him from hurting more people, but she knows she can't just let the man move the people here. while she'd hoped it wouldn't come to this -- she prepares for a potential battle.

under her feet the ground rumbles and shakes, sending tremors through her body and causing the TOXIC SPIKES to rattle on the ground.

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[/b] to block passage to the stairs to the next floor (move 1/2)
• lilligant resumes filling the room with SLEEP POWDER (move 1/2)
• the EARTHQUAKE outside shakes the ground[/ul]

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POSTED ON Oct 28, 2018 4:32:12 GMT

“no.”

were the only words he uttered with a smile, her form blurring as his eyes began to droop. the cup would drop from his hand as he wobbled about, dozing as the contents emptied onto the floor. looks like he walked right into the middle of a field of sleep powder. whoopsie. however will he get himself out of this pickle…? oh wait!

“sette... hit me.”

he said drowsily, the skitty quickly hopping up and delivering a smack to the man’s face with its tail, a wake up slap bringing him to his senses. the torterra stands strong unaffected by the powder spread throughout the field.

with his mind repaired he would go for a ball, sending out a volcarona, the bug whipping up a whirlwind to quickly dissipate the spores spread about around him as well as a few of the spikes laid around.

a deep breath would be taken as he rubbed his face, a flushed imprint of the skitty’s tail marking the caramel pigment of his skin.

“as i was saying. no.”

his movements would not cease as he escorted weary scientist out, setting them onto the torterra’s back now that he had a bit of extra muscle.

all this while an earthquake was goin on too? this guy must be hellbent on helping people golly gee. (i'll uh... edit this probably)

• walked into the sleep powder field lol, shoulda read more
• skitty used wake up slap on him(1/2)
• sent out volcarona(1/2) and it used whirlwind to get rid of the sleep powder and a few of the toxic spikes in the way(2/2)
• torterra is unaffected by sleep powder because of its grass typing
• told @patricia "no." as he loaded scientest onto the torterra

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POSTED ON Oct 28, 2018 18:49:40 GMT

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how aggravating.

to say that ezra prefers to act alone is an understatement, but these situations have their silver linings. more grunts at his disposal mean more actions taken, more ground covered, precious seconds and minutes saved and taken advantage of. rocket's success is guaranteed, but he remembers kanto; there will be opposition, and they need to be prepared for it.

experience and necessity have made him an expert at balancing his inner world with his surroundings, not sacrificing awareness for his thoughts or vice versa. he spends the last few available moments available to him turning images over in his mind, burned into memory through study — building maps, photos, academic papers — before the scales are rather abruptly tipped in favor of the real: the windows shatter; a sensory attack clears the room ahead; the ground begins to tremble.

patricia's gentle approach has already cost them time. the boomburst promotes progress and nothing outside of a direct threat is allowed to distract from that. sprinting forward with the rest, his gaze sharpens.

since before they'd even arrived, ezra had held a pokeball in his hand — he clutches it even now, fidgeting on its button — but ultimately, circumstance calls for a different tool. a dim splash of light and metang joins the field. the force causing it to levitate pushes the settled dust and powder around in gentle circles on the floor.

"magnet rise."

the demand is simple in the way that it coincides with the scene they find themselves participating in. even in motion the unnamed mass lowers itself, enabling its master to step onto the disc of its back, before lifting them both safely above the quaking earth. it takes him little more than a second to find himself sure in his balance and center of gravity before his mind is forced back to patricia. why the fuck has she stopped? angling to face her, he—

ah.

the distraction that catches his attention is much different from the one that catches hers. some moments ago, the sandstorm had lifted. the moon filters through the nearby windows. something else, too.

the familiar face in the distance is one that has plagued him: one that he looks for in every crowd, in every passing car; one that he imagines so frequently in his peripheral vision that he's almost stopped reacting. there are impulses that one can learn to control, impulses that one can overpower, but some things are automatic. his breath doesn't hitch, his balance doesn't falter, but his heart races, his pupils are black holes. a single finger twitches, seeking a trigger.

nikolai petrov. for more than a year, the recollection of that name alone has summoned unadulterated loathing. malicious energy rolls off of him so densely that it's a wonder it doesn't consume him.

not now. not yet. there is one singular thing — one person, one cause — that ezra answers to more highly than himself. this traitor won't be allowed to shake that man's trust in him more than he already has. direct orders stoke his will. this mission will not be another blemish to his credibility.

through that window frame, the pierce of green eyes and a flash of red hair linger for a moment and then disappear.

"ignore him. get on." his voice is slightly muffled through the face mask covering his nose and mouth, but the intensity and intention within his tone ring loud and clear as day: it isn't a request. the matter she concerns herself with is trivial. an unfamiliar man on an apparent rescue mission isn't worth the effort. looking down at the young woman, he extends his hand. "we've taken on an extra objective."

those of the opposite faction can save whoever they want. taking out plant employees isn't their job so much as an unintended treat along the way, and he's more than happy to fuel the league's collective savior complex. a few words beneath his breath and metang's psychic has flung several unconscious bodies onto the toxic spikes concentrated around the room.

general disclaimer: ezra is a woman but disguises herself as a man when working on behalf of rocket. currently using he/him pronouns for the purpose of said threads so i don't confuse myself / others about her appearance. she passes fine so please don't metagame and try to expose her or whatever for no reason lol

- wearing mask (nose / mouth) to avoid spores etc
- ball in hand
- from a separate ball, metang
- metang: magnet rise to avoid earthquake + spikes
- kim cole-essam: noticed and noted but not acknowledged
- NIKOLAI PETROV: die bitch
- @patricia: get on we're going conquering
- metang: psychic, unconscious workers onto toxic spikes
- maybe consider dealing with that or something
- before they die?
- this post is so long and disorganized but i'm so tired
- edit: sun -> moon. forgot it's midnight lel

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"bitch," brendan pulls no punches. "we don't got time for your shit." the fact that she's not directly behind him as he enters deeper in the the power plant is an alarming sign. almost as alarming as the tremors that rock the very foundation of the building itself. what they do to shake up his footing is doubled for his opposition. at least he's used to dealing with the shockwaves of such a tremendous attack. comes with the constant exposure to BOOMBURSTS.

unopposed, brendan continues into its depths, ready to BOOMBURST anything that gets in his way. exploud's SOUNDPROOF leaves it invulnerable to any friendly fire and the noivern expertly takes a back seat, avoiding the brunt of the attack's innate area of effect. dusclops is given rear guard duty as brendan hears the lingering commotion that comes from a confrontation with kim cole-essam . its ghost typing allows it to outright ignore the concussive blast coming from brendan's other pokemon.

something, something objective. brendan's objective is clear, all he has to do is find it.

≫ keeps going deeper
≫ double BOOMBURST through any npc opposition
≫ dusclops outand ready

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the ground begins to crack and fall away underfoot, snaking towards them due to the fissure. persephone doubted it would reach them with enough strength to cast them down into the earth, but she flinched back to nikolai's side regardless.

the choice seemed quite natural - with a quick glance at nikolai, she reaches an arm up, clasps her swanna's foot and closes the gap before them with a leap that was supported by the bird's broad wings. the swanna caws and circles back to help the gym leader across as well, and persephone finds herself having to grapple for a smile because the earthquake still shook her bones.

"underwhelming," she comments with a forced mirth.

the moves assaulting the foundation would stall them, but not by much.

the figure ahead was armed with what appeared to be blades. if he fashioned himself a pokemon, he would receive a proper battle of the same nature.

persephone hesitated momentarily before releasing the lucario, who only needed a moment to ascertain the situation with prefect clarity.

"go get him, be careful and come back if anything looks off." she had to raise her voice - the lucario loped off with an extreme speed, ready to pummel the rocket into the ground in close combat.

≫ NIKOLAI PETROV and perse essentially jump... over? the fissure
≫ swanna helps close the gaps like a little bird hang-glider heheh
≫ lucario is released and uses extreme speed to get to lucius hallows and start smacking him around tbh