Now, Cain had always been a multitude of things.[break]
‘Asshole’ was always at the top of the list.[break][break]

‘Asshole’ wasn’t necessarily synonymous with ‘heartless,’ though— and in light of that, as well as some minor prying and nudging from the younger Pokemon on his team, he’d thrown the metaphorical towel in and purchased a ticket for entry to the selfsame safari zone he’d passed by numerous times in the past. Honestly speaking, he personally had little to no interest in visiting a place like it, but again— it hadn’t exactly been his choice.[break][break]

And so, with a familiar look of tiredness upon his face, he breathed a sigh while beginning to walk along, all while the very same creatures that persuaded him into visiting had already begun to flutter and frolic about, constantly darting to and fro in curious observance.

3/3 capture attempts[break]
safari ticket purchase here

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It apparently hadn’t taken too long for his searches and reconnaissance to be sidetracked, in the grand scheme of things. Though his sight was the farthest from a strong suit of his, there was a flicker that caught his eye as he strode through the area, and after peering across the clearing to gain a better look, he gave a low, grumbling hum as he stopped in his tracks.[break][break]

The others in his wake followed suit, though one of them perked up upon hearing a swift, yet sharp whistle from him.[break][break]

”Oi, Crom,” he said, nodding towards the creature afar while reaching for a spare Pokeball. ”Gimmie a Water Pulse, would ya?”[break][break]

He received a short noise of affirmation before the water jetted along, and upon noting its collision with the Chandelure, lobbed the capsule within his hand towards it.[break][break]

tl;dr: hit me with that late af catch attempt papi

@tag[break]
ghost incense (last from pc)

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A chaotic blur, in all of its frigid glory. As the Glaciate rushed through the field, a hiss found its way through clenched teeth as he fought against the chill and ice—either part of Neit within his hands—as the dual type did her best to stave the frost away amidst her King's Shield. Even amidst the flames, the ice only seemed to surge greater and greater against their furor, and before long, he found his form breaking beneath its power.

For a moment, his knees buckled, and thus did he fall upon one to allow the frigid force to overwhelm them.

His eye closed as if bracing, though before long (an eternity it felt like to him, personally), he found himself shuddering beneath the cold temperatures as the air around him came to a gradual lull. Within the calm, he breathed a slow, heavier breath, watching as it immediately drew forth a visible puff within the space before him while condensing.

He lowered his hands, letting go of the Aegislash within his hold and watching with a subtle bit of relief as she immediately floated herself together once more.

Another, however, and he'd have strayed a gaze over his shoulder and towards the third party, only to be met with an almost crystalline form that rivalled that of his most recent treasure find. His eyes narrowed as swiftly as they'd widened a mere moment prior, and within a moment of sheer instinct, he'd reached out to hit the ice in an attempt to shatter it.

Again.
And again.

Heightening furor. Heightening haste. When he'd done it enough times to fully realize that it hadn't quite been a viable solution, he'd instead reached towards the Centiskorch's Pokeball upon his person, tapping the button within a similar desperado that, simply enough, bore little fruit. His brows furrowed further with each tap until he stopped, breathing curse after curse in such a short span of time.

Yet, even then, he knew there was nothing to be done.
This was a god in itself, after all— and who was a mortal to contest with the power of what was basically a deity?

After several moments in frustrated pondering, he gave another sigh of agitation, swiftly tapping another Pokeball to instead recall the Aegislash by his flank before raising his gaze towards those surrounding him. Losses had been incurred, of course, both on his front and everyone else's.

As much as he hated it, dwindling for longer only imposed greater risks. Grievances didn't matter if they were only temporary, and grievances didn't matter if the League still had a responsibility to arrest anyone and everyone involved in opposition of them.

And so he gave Gobbanus a final, sidelong glance before beginning to jog off to join the rest.

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TL;DR:

• basically just highkey frustration hours oop
• as usual thanks a bunch for the kickass raid yall

@tag

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With an unceremonious crash against the familiar lands beneath him—and with an all too familiar sense of gravity, compared to moments prior—he’d landed back against the Hoenn soil, delivered by none other than the mysterious hand that had transported him. A brief wave of pain shocked itself through the back of his shoulders as he made impact, his face contorting slightly as a hiss escaped his lips, all the while.

”Sonuva fuckin’ bitch, man…” he murmured, barely, as he shifted upward once more.

…And at a suddenly hastened pace, as well, as the chaos around them reached further and further towards its crescendo— specifically within the face of such a massive, newfound beast. He’d only hardly begun to gather his bearings and footing once more before he realized the impending frost threatening to claim those around him to an early, chilled grave, prompting him to raise his voice while releasing a second Pokemon upon the field upon instinct.

”Fuckin’— Fire Spin around us, now! Make it goddamn quick…! he shouted, reaching forth to wield his Aegislash as both sword and shield as it used King’s Shield in an attempt to further protect the lot of them.

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TL;DR:

• last(?) last second post lessgooooo
• ungraceful but successful crash landing, thanks hoopa
• a fuckin ice dragon? excuse the fuck outta him?
• gobbanus (centiskorch) is sent out as a second pokemon
• gobbanus (centiskorch) uses fire spin around cain, neit, and himself in an attempt to melt the incoming ice
• neit (aegislash) uses king's shield in a further attempt to protect the three of them from within fire spin
• lmao bye centiskorch

@tag

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The whiplash of the circumstances rapidly unfolding had been something he’d struggled to keep up with, truthfully speaking. Between finding himself in exuberance at the sight of the Tera Blast he’d commanded landing, as well as feeling what he’d considered to be the only semblance of an exit plan he’d had begin to crumble beneath him, there had been a plethora of thoughts and emotions that rushed through his head in such a short span of time.

Add the sudden beast making its appearance, alongside the meteorite quite literally vanishing beneath him and everyone else, and it would’ve been safe to say that he was nothing short of panicked, which—in itself—had been a somewhat hard thing to push him to be.

The cherry on top had been his own Golurk taking the brunt of the Hidden Power sent their way, leaving him cursing instinctively and holding onto her shoulders all the more tighter upon impact. They careened back through the air swiftly, and after a hastened attempt to gather his bearings, he opted to recall the golem in favor of a familiar Aegislash. Though a rough catch, he collided against the creature’s shield, quickly becoming enveloped within its ribbon-like limbs as it fully caught him, and he, within its hold, had instinctively snapped his hand up towards a flying shard in an attempt to seize it.

Before he could so much as react or spot it, however, there had been what seemed to be a hand ripping through a portal above them.

Honestly speaking, he only had enough time to get a quick, ”The fuck—?!” out before both he and his Pokemon were seized by the mystery hand. Thanks, kim cole-essam .

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TL;DR:

• v quick and rushed last minute post again oop
• andrasta (golurk, fainted) was recalled
• neit (aegislash) is barely sent out, catching cain post-hit and as the meteor disappears
• attempts to grab a mineral shard
• oop yoinked by hoopa and spared impending death, thanks kim
• x1 salac used (last one)

@tag

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Unscathed, surprisingly enough. As he and his own found swift refuge beneath the natural cracks and curves of the meteorite, the Rocket had made quick work of attempting to take his new surroundings—however temporary they may have proven to be—in for processing. His chest heaved as swiftly as it lowered as the breaths of his most recent venture caught up to him, though the momentary fatigue hadn’t ailed him enough to begin turning back towards the selfsame direction he’d come from. From behind the barrier his Golurk had affixed before them, he lifted himself enough to peer through the bottom borders of it.

Naturally, he only found himself blinded as the Tera Blast unleashed itself from the crystalline beast afar.

And so he’d whipped back beneath the crevice for a brief reprise, grimacing with a click of the tongue as the afterimage of the attack left traces within his line of sight— and all while the sheer remnants of energy whirled against him from around the barrier in a gale. A low, hissing, ”For fuck’s sake, mate…” escaped his lips in an almost annoyed hiss as the selfsame traces began to dwindle—gradually—from his eyes, revealing to him the background of home, far in the distance, playing as a mere backdrop to the chaos occurring.

Not quite the biggest of worries, though he did have to admit— he hadn’t been interested in dying on this damned rock.

Especially given how the scent of sheer death reeked strong and mighty amidst the rock, itself, and that white-haired woman that just so happened to appear out of nowhere, and those new, shimmering forms that not only the beast in the sky seemed to take, but others’ Pokemon, as well. Too many things happening at once; too many unknown and uncalled things. Far be it for him to be a thinker, but in a literal matter of life and death, even he knew not to preach to the choir for long.

His gaze shifted towards his companion once more, and then towards the mineral veins nearby. He’d, of course, seen both Rocket and League chip away to no avail no large amount of time beforehand, but he couldn’t help but to think of a last ditch effort, even within what was supposed to be a strict escape. With a quick jab at the back of the golem’s frame to garner her attention, he called out a quick, ”Earthquake! Try to chip a piece of the edge of then get us the fuck away…!”

A command that was followed through without so much as a missed beat, of course— but one he’d found himself at the mercy of as even his own Pokemon began to illuminate and crystalize even beneath him as she jetted the two of them across the meteor’s surface. He’d only managed to begin registering what had started to happen before a similar energy to many of the creatures upon the surface coalesced, and he’d only barely seen the crown to form above her head (what even was that, too? it looked like a piece of ground, if he had to guess?) before firing off another Tera Blast towards the mineral vein, and—by extension—the very same woman that made her sudden appearances..

A slew of curses left his lips as he hung on, momentarily blinded once more, while Andrasta scavenged the bits of impacted rock and debris as swiftly as she could before engaging her ghastly thrusters once more, beginning to bring both trainer and careening towards the nearest, functional Rocket carrier.

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TL;DR:

• look at all these chickens this fuckin carnage, bro
• after hearing the comms, cain just decides to Fuck Off(tm)
• he and andrasta (golurk) make a last ditch effort to chip off some of the mineral before bailing to the nearest rocket aircraft
• to do the above, andrasta (golurk) begins to terrastallize (ground), firing off a tera blast at the mineral and dr. holo
• x2 salacs used to no avail sadge
• FULFILLED PROMPTS: used tera blast, referenced view of hoenn

@tag

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”Holy fuck, man—”

It was all he could say, really, as everything unfolded so quickly amidst the chaos. Although he’d expected to accomplish what he did (or rather, expected his Golurk to accomplish what she did. what a bastard, riding on the coattails of others…), the aftermath of it all had been nothing short of—... Well, it hadn’t exactly been much of a shock per say, because that would’ve implied that he was at the mercy of the chaos. Surprise in all of its simple, basic descriptions would fit the bill a bit better.

So…damn.
Damn, was he surprised.

Surprised as the meteor had quite literally begun to split its crust; surprised as the flakes and chunks of ice and rock, alike, shattered into the air the way they did; surprised as a whole ass thing literally birthed itself from the rock that he and everyone were so desperate to occupy. He’d only barely began to light back down onto the meteor, itself, after jumping from his Pokemon’s back, before he immediately began to turn to catch a better look of the crystalline beast.

…And then it began to charge up something.
What was that something? Honestly, he didn’t know, and he didn’t care to find out.

And so, after a quick glance to the two people he’d been originally tasked with accompanying—and how they seemed to be fucking scattering in the midst of it all—he took it all as the nail on the coffin to act on his original hunches. What with the bigass Pokemon charging what seemed to be a bigass death beam, and all.

With a roar of a call, he garnered the attention of his Golurk once more, grabbing onto her as she careened by and ordering a Protect for the two of them as he quickly ushered the two of them into a crevice, just as almost everyone around him sought to do.

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TL;DR:

• look, ma, we're about to fuckin' d i e !
• andrasta (golurk) grabs cain and flies them to the nearest crevice, using protect to shield them
• basically just hunkering down in case deoxys ends up being cute enough to vaporize everyone tbh

@tag

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Fuck’s sake, man…

A waste of time, apparently— though he supposed it hadn’t been entirely as such. They’d never get the time nor effort spent on landing by the cave back, after all (and fuck him if time wasn’t of the absolute essence, but he digressed), but he guessed that doing otherwise might’ve ended up in a rockier situation for both kepler brueshaber and Ruby Garcia as he and his golem swept by to their aid.

A win was a win, so he’d settle for that much.

And so he took that win in stride, eyes igniting within a blazing fervor from beneath the tint of his helmet as two men seemed intent with running their way. In light of both Kepler’s and mint frost ’s remarks, he’d already been keeping as much of a focus upon the ever-brewing chaos before the lot of them, noting Josh Devlin begin to stride forth atop his dual hued companion, alongside Laurence Anderson and…

…Whatever the fuck he was doing.

He hadn’t a clue, but honestly speaking, he hadn’t been entirely hard pressed to find out— and so as the lands fell to frost around his general vicinity, Cain clicked his tongue, quickly jumping from his Golurk’s back before pointing directly at the man amidst all the ice.

”Fuck up whatever that guy’s doin’, Ras…!” he shouted, promptly sending the Golurk soaring into the sky with eyes on the two League members before careening back down, smashing into the grounds ahead with the force of an Earthquake in hopes to quickly dispel and disperse whatever effects were forming.

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TL;DR:

• still following alongside mint, kepler, and ruby
• andrasta (golurk) soars toward lars and josh, using earthquake mainly in an attempt to whip up enough force to shatter the ice and make the terrain less difficult to traverse
• my sleep deprived ass broke the code so many times but i finally fuckin made it work :peperelax:

@tag

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And just like that, all of his wishes (short-term, at least… if he was gonna die there, he at least wanted to deck some fucker in the throat or something) were granted. As if on cue, he rustled violently in his seat as the Protects on either of the ship still hadn’t been enough to cover it entirely, courtesy of Andrea Vaneau ’s hits against the vessel. He leaned back from the window he’d peered through as it shattered from the impact (thank Arceus he had his helmet on already, honestly), giving an odd, rowdy sound of equal parts groan and cackle as he shot a hand up to grab the nearest bar by him.

He wasted just a moment to look through the window again, doing his best to locate the source of the Outrage.
Not that he could do much, but just for possible reference, y’know?
Revenge was always a possibility, after all.

Past that, though, he glanced over his shoulders towards the others in the ship again, matching eyes with mint frost for just a moment before nodding back with a grin beneath the tint of his visor and immediately yelling back towards the opened air, prompting the Golurk outside to return briefly as he readied himself.

Then came game time.

They were to play backup, and so once the doors were opened, he tossed Andrasta’s Pokeball back out, only pausing long enough to jump atop her back before the golem jetted them across the meteor surface, Weaving to and fro amidst the falling Hail, he narrowed his eyes before catching sight upon those they’d apparently set out to help.[break][break]

He noted Ruby Garcia and kepler brueshaber before he landed alongside his Pokemon, putting an extra Protect up to give them both some extra breathing room.

After all, with the amount of shit flying around, he figured it wouldn’t hurt to beef up defenses.

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TL;DR:

• rushed posts go brrr
• sticking near mint, ruby, and kepler with eyes on the cave, ready to fuckin throw hands
• andrasta (golurk) uses protect to double up on kepler's defenses
• used x1 salac // roll total is 100-20=80

@tag

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