sometimes glitch was glad that his pokemon were stupid. this was one of those times. it was hard to confuse a pokemon that didn't really understand what was going on anyways. so the appearance of more opponents suddenly did nothing but fire jerky up. god he was such an idiot. "don't worry about which one is the real one, just get rid of them all." once more electricity crackled over the pokemon's scales. discharge was honestly an underrated move. it formed something of an electric fence around jerky, meaning if someone wanted to get close they'd have to go through the waves of electricity.

- jerky used discharge to create an electric field around itself.
jerky's moveset: dragon tail, charge, discharge, bolt beak, ancient power, dragon rush
John Sullivan

push pop had instructions, as all of glitch's pokemon did, to act on the behalf of rocket when they could get away with it. and while she wasn't very smart she was pretty sure that she could get away with it for now. stamping her feet she tried to do one of the few things she could to help cover tracks at the moment, summon the rain. with the rain dance complete clouds began to form above them, rain began to drop. slowly at first as the drizzle started but then more and more gathering from the static in the air from all the explosions. a storm was forming now. as torrents began to fall.

- glitch passes out fully
- push pop uses rain dance under the guise of being an idiot pokemon

there was so much noise going on that he couldn't really understand what was happening. but he did vaguely hear the sounds of battle and wondered if he was missing something as his eyes felt blurred. he knew that he was moving but he couldn't quite figure out how. he knew that there were arms around him but his brain couldn't really wrap around whose. "ciel?" he thought perhaps that somehow the other man was @ciel for some reason. "ciel you shouldn't be here it's dangerous." his words slurred a little bit as he groped for one of his pokeballs on the side. he needed to protect ciel after all. push pop was the pokemon he chose, the goodra roaring in a strange way as glitch released it. "...help them." the dragon was his best bet right now he supposed. most of his others were a little too metallic. it was the last thing glitch could do before well and truly passing out, the goodra left to decide on its own what to do and launching a powerful dragon pulse at the melmetal creation.

- glitch passes out fully
- push pop the goodra uses dragon pulse on melmetal

his ears were ringing as they were doing battle around him. the sound of metal and just... what were those sounds? his head was swimming with trying to concentrate on it, a nervous giggle came out of his mouth. why did he feel like he was floating? people were yelling and he was yelling? maybe? at least his mouth felt like it was open but maybe no other sound other than giggles were coming out. a perfectly normal reaction to not being able to stand up. not being able to move. "where is my... phone?" he reached for the phone that had fallen to the wayside but the screen seemed to not be working. or maybe he wasn't even pressing the screen. maybe he was just staring at it? it was all confusing right now. so fucking confusing. he wanted to make a phone call but everything was too blurred as it slipped from his grip again.

- gonna say that he's been creatively hiding it all thread since no ones known and hes pretending to be a league bby

he was confused and extremely concerned about how things had suddenly begun to go south again on one of these fucking excursions. one moment he was being gently hugged by a bunch of these little dudes and suddenly the hugging got a lot stronger. and a lot more painful. "ow... a little bit rough there guys." he tried to wiggle his leg free, only to find that there was something strange going on. he couldn't move his leg away from their iron grip. his nervous laughter turned into pained sounds turned into a loud shriek as he felt his leg being crushed underneath the combined weight and pressure from the meltans that had yet to join the large grouping of them.

blood began to leak from the few spaces that had been between the meltan as he dropped the one he had been holding. as soon as it joined the pile of them the pressure on his leg began to release. unfortunately that meant that the only thing that was holding his weakened leg was gone and he collapsed onto the ground, blood dripping from his crushed leg and pooling on the ground as it were. "b-blood..." he didn't feel the pain really. he didn't feel anything. he wondered if that was what happened when your body went into shock? but weren't you supposed to feel cold? and he didn't really feel anything at all. except for dizzy.

- check off that injury bbys

With things getting down to the wire and lots of people finding duplicates, he decided it was time to make an announcement. A ding dong sound rang out over the arena as Glitch pressed the button to make his voice louder. "Attention competitors, you may now seek out other fossils from other players and trade or gift extras as needed. Thank you." the only downside to that was if they had an extra and they traded it off, what if they happened to break that piece during assembly and could no longer replace it?

so he needed to find... two babies a home. no problem! he had two arms after all. and this place would be easy peasy for finding trubbish some homes. after all, he was sure there were other trubbish just hanging around this place. he would just need to find them. so scooping up the other trash bag infant he tried to survey the location a bit. "joycon, can you give me a data survey? they've gotta keep tabs on where these little guys grow up after all." with a beeping sound joycon connected to a local wifi hotspot, downloading the pokemon geographic data for the area. after all there were people who lived their entire lives counting out where pokemon hung out. and that data was part of the biome or whatever. and so was the wifi since it was here. technology was absolutely banging.

his phone beeped and he struggled to grab it as the trubbish were in his arms. this wasn't going to work at all. he needed his hands free for using the phone to track the data... idea. he walked back into the convenience store and grabbed a couple of the weird little freezer bags that they sold, large and comfortable enough to contain two baby trubbish as he turned them into a weird sling as he walked out, securing the two infants nicely. now they could see and be seen and now he would have the free hands to use the location gps that joycon had managed to send him. he wasn't concerned with what anyone else was doing with their babies. they were all mostly capable adults that could deal with their hands being full.

though he was getting sort of sick of hearing the other babies cry every few moments. he was glad that while he had two of them the trubbish seemed well enough behaved. "i'll see you guys in a bit!" with a wave he headed off, following his phones instructions as joycon hovered overhead, surveying the area to see if it could find anything. sourball rolled next to it's trainer, keeping an eye out for wayward pokemon that might cause a bit of trouble. after all they'd started heading down back alleys and a few harder to reach areas. whenever the trubbish began to get fussy glitch would pat them gently, wanting to save the snacks he'd gotten for when they got to their actual destination.

he was actually kind of surprised to see that it wasn't a garbage dump sort of location. but instead seemed to be a weird... not exactly a park but not exactly not a park area? it was like the kind of place you would look over the side of a footbridge and go 'oh, that looks nice.' but also realize that its about a fifteen foot drop into what could be a small questionable water stream. but it still looked nice. but that was where the gps stopped and that was where joycon hovered down, beeping that they had reached their destination. it was the strange kind of urban mixture of nature and concrete that glitch himself appreciated a lot.

but now he needed to get down there himself. there wasn't metal that he could use to zoom himself down like he did earlier in the match on top of sourball. so carefully he made sure the babies were secure before climbing down himself. small footholds on the concrete wall where a large drainage pipe was located made it a little bit easier. but the concrete hurt his hands and his shoes were not made for digging into things like that. nonetheless he managed not to slip too much until the very end, clinging to the trubbish babies as he landed hard on the ground. if anything they seemed to enjoy the fall, clapping their little hands.

little shits. at least he seemed to be in the right place. carefully he dug the little trubbish out of the sling and set them on the ground. "hello?" he watched as the little infants began to run around the place, smacking each other and other things with their long arms. at leat they were having fun. it was a big day of, 'at leasts', it seemed. he didn't see any other trubbish around and so he thought they were probably in hiding. after all he would be in hiding if a strange dude came and dropped off two babies. but he hopefully had something for that. digging out the bag of snacks from his bag he handed a couple of them to the trubbish and then scattered the rest on the ground. sort of like some sort of bait as he looked around.

now he started to look around the place in earnest. it seemed like it was a good place. that tunnel was like, shelter or whatever. poking around some of the plants he saw some fat berries fall onto the ground, alerting the attention of the trubbish to the sound as they hurried over and started to eat them. they were messy eaters but he figured that was because they were babies and because they were trubbish. it was then from the tunnel that he heard a groan and grumble from the tunnel, fat footsteps coming out as the smell of garbage followed.

"ew ew ew ew..." he whispered to himself as a large garbador came out from the tunnel, followed my lots of small little trubbish. immediately they went to the snacks that glitch had dropped. hopping happily as they shoved them in their mouth. the infant trubbish paused their eating, running behind glitch to hide from the strangers. "go on then... that's your family." gently he leaned down and nudged the infants closer to the trash family that stared at them. "they're waiting for you." it was kind of... sad... that he was going to have to let them go. but at the same time he knew it was what they needed. a few squeaks from the wild trubbish made the infants behind him perk up.

he watched as they waddled quickly towards the large family group, that apparently they were now apart of. "see? easy peasy. food, shelter, and a loving family. now how the hell do i get out of there?" with a sigh he tried to climb back up to the waiting sourball who had managed to watch from up there. after all there was a few hand holds. but, once again he fell flat before he could actually get up there. but luckily as he started to try again he felt something lift him, the gardobor giving him a helping hand out of their home. "uh, thanks." carefully he brushed himself off and turned to stare down at the new family. at least he had done something good. with a small wave he smiled and headed back to the group, making sure to snap a picture and video of the new trash family and sending it to Zac Ramsay for his viewing pleasure.

finally the hard part of it all seemed to be a little bit over. the appeal rounds like that were always going to be the hardest and while he felt like he royally fucked it up he still got a reward from it all. well, a reward that would help him out with getting the next round completed. it was some snacks for another baby pokemon round. fuuuuuuuuuuck he was so tired of baby pokemon. especially since his baby daddy already didn't support poor little missy. wherever she might be. but if no one else was going to step up and grab an infant he would be the first to go out and do so.

"i'll take a trubbish! after all they might be native to this sort of place but finding them a safe home probably isn't as easy since a lot of people seem to think they're gross. but i think they're kind of cute." even if they were kind of smelly. carefully he picked up the garbage pokemon and squished it gently in his hands. "i'll find you a good home, don't you worry about it little buddy." after all if he chose the harder to place pokemon maybe that would end up giving him some bonus points. for all he knew this was a whole setup for something else. man this thing felt kind of soggy.

LdjSh0is

now the stage was set. it was cold and wet and gross. "you're the one who made it rain! i'll make us something warm to drink after the fight." after all they would be fine if they just warmed up after. plus blizzards didn't last forever. "let's hit him hard, freeze them slushie!" ice skating across the field the large toilet shaped pokemon slid carefully, even colder ice gathering on it's face and gills to strike down the kingdra the best he could. freezing the pokemon out would be the best way to do this. and then they could hopefully move onto the next part.

- slushie finally used freeze-dry
slushies moveset: freeze-dry, aurora veil, ancient power, blizzard, fischious rend, super fang
Rowan Wrynn