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“Do the future sight thing again!” she said, clocking the move immediately and hoping this Absol didn’t have wish like kyle lopez’s Poochyena did.

Rose nodded, dropping to a crouch and raising one hand in front of her face, also summoning a future sight to go off… in the future.


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Rose managed to fend the Absol off, buying herself some breathing room and leaving distance between the Pokemon. Pink energy slipped up the Absol’s head horn and it threw it with a twist of its neck; Rose answered with a psycho cut in kind.

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She reached out and snagged Oracelies’ hand, jumping back onto the Dondozo, augmented gravity giving her a little bit more leap than she would have normally. “Yip-yip.”

For such a big creature, this fish could move. She ducked her head and held on tight, turning to watch the single Nihilego still giving chase.

“I think they’re just alive, like the rest of us,” she said, “and we’re coming into their home and fucking shit up.”

It might have been a disappointing answer, but it was the truth. She sucked in air through her teeth at the psuedo-decapitation of the Nihilego, watching its glowing remains slowly sift downward and disappear into the yawning abyss. “Nice.”

They had just about made it to their location-- to that Gatsby light in the near distance-- when a storm of bubbles looped up around them. Sharp, slashing, silver reflections in the deep shot upward; a veritable horde of Veluza, all gnashing teeth and glinting scales, drawn by the scent of blood in the water. So many they looked like one creature, a writhing, spinning, horrible mass, set to strip the flesh from their bones.

“I’m gonna do something kinda stupid and really dangerous and I just need you to trust me, okay,” she said, fishing in her bag for a Heavy Ball, and holding it close to her heart. “Just keep going. No matter what happens, keep going.”

She barely had time to depress the button-- the sphere was already bucking and kicking-- and the beast that punched out of it roared, deafening and deep, the noise rounded at the edges like mechanical feedback through a too-close microphone. She had to hurry to jump on the Jugulis’ back. “Zen, stay with Ora. Both of you get out of here.”

She pulled her knees in and pushed down hard on the Jugulis’ main head, driving her down into the swarm of Veluza. Woe betide them, the bear was among the wolves. Their teeth bounced uselessly off her metal chassis, while her trio of gaping maws easily crushed them like beer cans at a bonfire party. Flashes of dragon-colored energy cut sharp lines through the swarm, bisecting it into triangle tesselations. And the noises, indiscriminate howls of rage and glee in the face of the massacre.

Still the ball of Veluza shifted and reformed. She felt sharp teeth in her skin. She was able to repel many with her left arm, but all she could really do was stay below the heads and trust in the sheer juggernaut power of the Jugulis to keep her safe.



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Rose had the advantage of a polarized ion visor to protect her eyes from various spectrums of light. What they would not protect her from was the Absol’s unpredictable attack pattern.
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Claws raked through her already wounded side. A series of beeping groans and pneumatic hisses went off as the construct cried out in pain, swinging at the Dark-type with a spirit break to try and fend it off.

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“Same,” she said, pointing a finger up and down, also referencing that her carpets, indeed, match her drapes. “This is Rose, and… you can call me Ana.”
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Rose bowed at the waist, and then zipped forward.
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“Time for some bush trimming! Rose, psycho cut!”
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The Mega Machamp managed to put a mirroring dent in Rose’s other side, which was bad for the Pokemon overall, but good for Ana’s symmetry OCD.
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Green hit black and shattered, the night slash catching Rose before she could dodge, opening up a nice slice in her right-sided thorax. She spun and ducked around to the side, firing off a moonblast in response.
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The solar beam encompasses Rose completely and she disappears for a moment. When the blinding light clears and people can see again, the Valiant has almost taken a reset, back at the location she started.
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She gives the Shaymin a little nod, recognizing that she’s been underestimating it, and fires off a moonblast at range.


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Despite the dark clouds overhead threatening rain, it had done little more than growl thunder, and crank the humidity up to oppressive levels.
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“Wow. Cold AND swampy. Hoenn never ceases to amaze,” she said, looking up at the sky, as Rose shook out her shoulders, servos whirring, and faced their opponent.
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“I dunno, maybe I just don’t have a heart.” She thumps her chest for emphasis. “Maybe it’s just a liddol motor in there.”
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Someday, she thinks.
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The sky attack hits home and Rose is thrown to the ground with a cacophony of clanging. A low, droning buzz filters through the air, and her lights go dim.
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“Aw, shit,” she says, recalling her Valiant and sighing. “Good fight. Hey, can I get your phone number? We should go to, like, a mac and cheese bar, or something stupid like that. I think we’d have fun.”

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“Yeah! Exactly! Get your shit together, you two! BAM!”
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Wispy tendrils of liquid-like fairy moonlight still clung to the Mega Machamp as she put her fists together and shot towards Rose with a speed seemingly impossible for her size.
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And thus, the benefits of range were eliminated.
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The Machamp’s strike hit Rose’s side, denting the metal. Spurts of neon, sparkly pink energon splattered the ground and the mega-Pokemon’s orange-tipped fingers. Rose groaned a sharp, grinding noise, fighting through the pain to slice at the Machamp with psycho cut.

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“That’s what the last girl I told this to said too! I used to drink like three of those a day, man.”
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Rose parries her opponent’s ethereal blades for a while, but one sneaks through, hitting crucial flexion servos beneath her left arm and parting them with a snck.
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“No, man, grape is horrendous. Artificial and-- like eating plastic. Bleh. Banana is the WORST flavor. But I think electric types are lemon-flavored, so, they get a pass.”
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Rose ducks her shoulder and charges, slashing out with her right arm with psycho cut.
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“Root beer is good, yeah. Grass would be lime but for the stupid flower crown, it’s probably, like, herbaceous and shit. Matcha?”



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Rose bends at the knees as her interior gyro-balancing sensors go haywire. The earth buckles and hunches, and she jumps from foot to foot to try and keep standing. Sharp spires of rock fire upward and glance off her chassis, denting and dirtying the white metal. One lands a lucky hit into the workings of her calf, the pressurized interior of her leg cavity bursting with a pop and a hiss.
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