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VCT: Xenon Vs Howard

POSTED ON Jan 30, 2024 8:55:56 GMT

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IRON JUGULIS (Rhodium) | Quark Drive | Flamethrower, Dark Pulse, Electric Terrain, Flash Cannon, Earth Power, Hurricane, Hyper Beam

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"Oh! Um... c-cool?" Caesi squints at Howard with concern, unsure if she should ask the man if he was okay or not. Well obviously he was, otherwise he wouldn't be here... but was he though?
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Xenon was actually the one who spread that rumor, purely because she thought it was hilarious watching Howard try to dispel that kind of reputation. But she'd never tell anyone that, nor would Howard ever find out considering she did it through the team's Slaking app, a piece of technology far too sophisticated for that dusty old bag of bones to figure out.
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For the briefest of seconds it almost seems like the battle is over as the little Larvitar is literally blanketed in fire and smoke, the Iron Jugulis releasing its grip on the warrior and turning away to return back to its trainer and get ready for the next (real) battle. Alas, fortune would not be so kind to the iron war machine as Serizawa's battle cry rings true through the field, followed by the feeling of a rock smashing against its chassis. Again. And again. And again.
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To reiterate, Rhodium was a machine, a literal robot from the future without emotion or feeling. It had no heart, it operated purely on number driven logic and an AI programmed to hunger for battle above all else. So it really was a statement to Serizawa's power that Rhodium's Iron Jugulis program was evolving a whole new emotion as it tried to process this situation it was in right now, and that emotion was frustrated annoyance. Not even frustrated rage, that was an emotion it could comprehend very well in the heat of battle. This was annoyance, the kind of annoyance you feel when there's a fly in the room that you can't quite get no matter how hard you tried, a really loud fly that was buzzing right by your ear and-
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The Paradox Pokemon screams as it spins back around and blasts the Larvitar with a volley of Flash Cannons, completely forgoing calculation and aim in favor of just blanketing the general area the thing was standing in and glassing the field completely.
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VCT: OLLIE & CAESI

POSTED ON Jan 30, 2024 8:31:17 GMT

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Caesi returns Rhodium to its Pokeball once the cheering dies down a bit and everyone starts to filter out of the stands, a light sweat building on her forehead as she lets out a sigh of relief. But the surprises still aren't quite over as Ollie walks up from behind and calls out to her, giving her a light startle as she jumps and turns to face him. "H-huh? Oh yeah, thanks! You guys really worked it out there, I never thought a mid stage evolution could put in so much on the battlefield like that. Gives me a lot think about."
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"But yeah, see ya around!"
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VCT: Xenon Vs Howard

POSTED ON Jan 30, 2024 8:26:58 GMT

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Caesi pulls out her phone and hums lightly to herself as she checks to see if she has any texts or emails, browsing her socials quickly while Rhodium... thrashes the Larvitar? She couldn't really tell if she was winning or not as the weird green guy gets blasted away by a literal Hurricane, yet proceeds to get back up and continue leaping at the Iron Jugulis with vicious claws and teeth bared.
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"Your... your partner has a real fighter's spirit!" Caesi calls out to Howard as she tries to get back into the match, really trying her best to look encouraging and serious about this fight while simultaneously checking her phone to see what time it was. Again.
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Meanwhile Rhodium... Rhodium was barely even using moves anymore as it stares down at the Larvitar scratching its shiny metal chassis. If it weren't for the fact that it was an inorganic robot incapable of breathing, one could almost swear they heard it sigh as it picks up Serizawa by the fin on top of his head and just emitted a stream of Flamethrower from its other head, scorching the little guy's hide and hoping deep in its electronic heart that that would be enough to make the hardy thing pass out. It would not.
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VCT: OLLIE & CAESI

POSTED ON Jan 30, 2024 8:08:17 GMT

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To view something as impossible was an assumption, the incorrect analysis of past data points forming into defeat before you even tried. In a world where the Infinite resided in everyone, to believe something was impossible was the height of insanity. Man flies on wings of steel, tames legendary creatures once believed to be gods using technology that was once thought to be impossible, we blasted a meteor from the skies and saved the world from utter annihilation.
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Nothing in this world is impossible, so even when Rhodium stands up against a kaiju calling thunder down from the heavens to smite it for its sins, it does not falter. It came from a future where man could create life at a whim, bringing down a giant yellow rat was simply another Monday.
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"Final attack from above! Finish it!" Rhodium's Quark Drive audibly hums with power as it soars through the air and blasts past the Max Lightning Tofu summons, faster than even a bolt of thunder, the dark flash is barely visible as a black streak of lines in the air as it scores the Pikachu's body with row after row of Flash Cannons and Flamethrowers from all three maws. Even the gods one day fall, and so it would be today as the Gigantamaxed Pikachu loses its form and collapses back into its petite self.
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Rhodium floats back down to the ground with flickering lights in its eyes, steam burning from its chassis as its metal body glows red with heat. The crowd erupts into a raucous frenzy as it lets out a huff of satisfaction, Caesi smiles brightly as she hops the railing and rushes over to the Iron Jugulis, grabbing one arm and raising it up to the sky in celebration. The victor by TKO is Rhodium and Caesi.
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What The #!@& Is A KPI

POSTED ON Jan 30, 2024 8:02:43 GMT

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Let it be known that even she wasn't immune to a little bit of good old fashioned flattery every now and then, her chest puffing out just the slightest as Howard compliments her incredible capability to do the bare minimum in holding a business together for a month. Truly she was a financial powerhouse if there ever was one, except she wasn't which was why she was here in the first place to ask for help with this crap.
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"Well you know, I think I've done pretty well for someone with no formal schooling. Not to brag or anything, but I AM kind of a genius." A beat passes as the girl processes what she just said, her face grows stone cold as she steeples her fingers in front of her face. "You didn't hear that. Moving on."
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Just how did she obtain such a lucrative piece of property? "I engaged in very serious negotiations with a man who was very deep in debt with Rocket. It was an intense transaction, we were all very invested in making sure that everyone got out with everything owed to them, especially me." Her lips quirk up a bit as she withholds a laugh at the memory, leaning back in her chair and looking at the ceiling. "But at the end of the day he decided to give up his wonderful little club in exchange for both... one, of his kneecaps. Yeah, it was just the one I left him with." Xenon nods to herself firmly, pushing her leg against the floor and spinning the chair around in a circle.
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"But none of that shit matters, what's past is past I always say. What's much more important right now is how this place can turn a profit." A beat passes as Xenon continues spinning in her little chair, her genius intellect working hard on the numbers she had given Howard and just how to make all those red numbers into nice black ones and zeroes. Her leg kicks out against the ground again and her momentum halts, the look on her face can only be described as utter exhaustion as she looks anywhere but those damn papers. "I'm only going to say this once, if you ever tell anyone I said this I will deny it and I will break half of the bones in your body regardless of your status as my boss. I have no idea how the fuck businesses make money." Okay she understood like, the vague implications of how a business made money. You sell stuff to people who want to buy stuff right? What she didn't understand was all the steps that came before that selling stuff or how to most efficiently get people to buy the stuff or how to get people to come to your business so they can buy the stuff or what the Stuff even was that a club sold.

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POSTED ON Jan 30, 2024 5:16:47 GMT

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IRON JUGULIS (Rhodium)

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An explosive finale befits this epic battle as the smoke settles, the crushing pressure of darkness against the biting chill of frost. But ultimately there could only be one victor, thus it was Rhodium standing proud over the knocked out body of Hati, a thick miasma of shadow leaking from its damaged heads. "Wooh! Great job Rhodi, you for sure earned yourself a powernap after that one!" Caesi calls out as she hastily returns Rhodium to its Pokeball, both to get it some rest and to make sure it didn't outright try to rip the Eevee's throat out after the match was already over.
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"And you did good too Temp! You really had us going, never seen an Eevee with moves like that before!" The girl smiles as she waves goodbye to Tempest, turning away and making for the exit so she could head to the medical tent and get Rhodium fixed up.

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VCT: Xenon Vs Kouji

POSTED ON Jan 30, 2024 3:54:39 GMT

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Caesi grins as she catches wind of her opponent for this round, though to Kouji it must just seem like a friendly girl ready for an exciting battle. "That's what we're here for ain't it?" The girls responds as Rhodium floats up to the stage, mechanical eyes fixated on the martial artist standing opposite of it. The fighter radiated a familiar aura... a dark aura, tempered by the blazing spirit of a fighter.
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A shrill horn starts the match off and Rhodium immediately takes off to the right, one of its maws aimed at the ground and firing a series of bolts into the ground to detonate an Earth Power under the Urshifu before he could make an approach. But the second head is the one to really look out for as a swirl of wind starts to gather within its mouth, a building Hurricane aimed right for the strange bear, a shield meant to discourage him from getting any closer.
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POSTED ON Jan 30, 2024 3:45:15 GMT

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Perhaps it is because of the Illumina Pokemon's nature that the Darkness is not as strong as it should be, maybe it's because Rhodium's future is already soaked with that it knows just how to navigate that storm of shadow to avoid the worst of it. Regardless of reason or cause, the pokemon of steel future bursts forth from the tempest with a roar, shadow filling its maw as it tears through the black cloud and throwing it back at Hati with a hatred unbefitting of such a mechanical being. It was the fury of a monster, an apex predator displace from its time.
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It was the machine of war known as Iron Jugulis.
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POSTED ON Jan 30, 2024 2:05:32 GMT

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The way that this Eevee fights, it's unlike anything Caesi has dealt with in the past. The usual moves one would expect something of this maturity to know are thrown out the window in favor of these weird unorthodox maneuvers, totally catching Rhodium off guard as he charges through the fire and hits with some strange clone technique, another scorching strike that leaves the Paradox on the verge of collapse as it glares at the shiny Eevee disdainfully.
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All it can do now is take to the skies and rain down hell on Hati with a barrage of Flash Cannons and Dark Pulses, trying to drown out that damnable light with overwhelming darkness and steel, regardless of strategy or calculation.
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Round Twenty-Two: Shalin vs. Caesi [VCT]

POSTED ON Jan 30, 2024 1:25:09 GMT

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Caesi sighs dejectedly as she recalls Rhodium back to its Pokeball, but there's no point in dwelling on failures! The girl brushes herself off and smiles as she walks past Shalin, poor girl looked dead tired after all the battles she had been running through. Caesi couldn't blame her, it's been a rough road for her too!
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"Good match Shalin! I'll see you around, I feel like we'll see each other again soon!" Already she's moved on from the loss as she walks into the crowd, but not before she stops and turns to say one last thing. "By the way, I hope your Vaporeon is feeling better! Those were some nasty burns!" Before Shalin has any chance to respond or process that cryptic message, the mysterious girl dashes off into the crowd in search of a medical tent, eager to hit the next round.

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POSTED ON Jan 30, 2024 1:09:55 GMT

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Flames break through the Paradox's offensive and rake across its metal chassis, a piercing hiss howling through the air as Rhodium immediately doubles back and fires off a few Flash Cannons to make some space. The Iron Jugulis would have to take things a bit more seriously as the lines of purple-pink across its body glow with a harsh light, a wave of electricity emanating from its body and covering the battlefield in an Electric Terrain reminiscent of its home.
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Rhodium's Quark Drive hums to life as it opens its maws wide and lets loose a firestorm of Flamethrowers upon Hati, a scorching inferno of wrath with full intent to maim even in front of this large gathering of trainers and civilians alike. It was time to take off the kid gloves now.
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Side Events: Josh vs. Caesi [VCT]

POSTED ON Jan 29, 2024 23:37:20 GMT

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"Thanks, it's clear that you've really earned your place as a Gym Leader!" Caesi calls out as she rubs the back of her head, mind clearly somewhere else as she replays the match in her head. She needed to do a bit of research on that weird cat thing that Josh had brought out, she'd never seen a Pokemon like that before. Well no, she'd seen plenty of speedy yellow rodents specializing in electricity, but she'd definitely never seen that specific species before.
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"I'm sure we'll run into each other again! No telling what the future may hold!"
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Round Twenty-Two: Shalin vs. Caesi [VCT]

POSTED ON Jan 29, 2024 23:32:58 GMT

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She had fallen into a pattern, and that was what would cost her the match in the end as Queen Zing fires off a spray of Twineedles in Rhodium's direction. She had made the fatal mistake of assuming the Beedrill only knew close-range moves, so she would find no time to warn the Paradox as it found itself peppered with a dozen tiny needles from the Beedrill's hands, the combination of venom and sheer physical force finally knocking the Iron Jugulis down as it tumbles to the arena floor. The winner by TKO is Queen Zing and Shalin Nariya.
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Round Twenty-Two: Shalin vs. Caesi [VCT]

POSTED ON Jan 29, 2024 23:11:52 GMT

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Caesi curses internally as the light of Mega Evolution envelops Queen Zing and brings her to the apex of her power, but she's quick to adapt as she taps out a series of commands to Rhodium on the metal railing. The robot's eyes flash in binary affirmation, an Electric Terrain is deployed just as the Beedrill's Tailwind pushes it forwards, Quark Drive activates and grants the Paradox a boost of speed to keep it ahead of the speedster as they dance through the air. The victory conditions have become exceedingly simple despite the amount of power being thrown around by both Pokemon, either Queen Zing would get in and end the game in one blow, or Rhodium would manage to keep out of her reach and wear her down with elemental blasts aplenty.
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And by god did Rhodium have elemental blast aplenty. Dark Pulses, Flamethrowers, Flash Cannons, Earth Power, Hurricane, the triple headed iron beast weaves together a storm of raw power like a wizard manipulating the strands of the universe itself, creating an in-navigable maze of destruction just to keep this damn bee away at all costs, leaving no route open for attack as it continues its retreat.
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