the leek is successfully knocked out of the sirfetch’d’s wings, prompting it to squawk and scramble across the ring for it in a less-than-dignified manner. perhaps that distraction is what causes the pokemon to falter, allowing the STONE EDGE to rise up and pierce at its body.

nearer to the hitmonchan, the breloom is struck by the STONE EDGE as well, though it is ostensibly less hurt than the sirfetch’d, if only because it manages to bounce on the rocks awkwardly with its thick, kangaroo-like legs. it bounds to the side of the arena as though to catch its breath and await orders.

"wait, read its movements." the intention is two-fold - she wants to stall to let the poison seep further into the hitmonchan’s veins as much as she wants the breloom’s next attack to really count. the breloom stills and focuses on the opponent with MIND READER, already plotting out where to dart to next.

the sirfetch’d snatches its leek up angrily and rounds on the hariyama again, bird feet slapping against the floor with loud displeasure. "switch targets, LEAF BLADE." take out the weakened one first, and hopefully it won’t be able to protect itself from damage from two sources.

persephone turns her head slowly to regard noah with an expression that verges on amused disbelief. "maybe," she ventures carefully. "i don’t know. i don’t know any people like that."

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the submarine’s movement becomes halting and then comes to an actual standstill.

persephone once used to think that she worked better under pressure, but as her eyes drift to the dwindling fuel supply and then through the porthole window at the dragalge, she finds herself questioning that prior conviction.

very calmly, more than is fitting considering the circumstances, she reaches for the submarine’s throttle and pushes it down further and further. the intention is to force the machine forward and dislodge the dragalge with its momentum, though really it feels more like she’s trying to do the underwater equivalent of running them over.

her relicanth is still floating along beside them, somewhere. persephone can see occasional flashes of its mottled brown rock scales, but the thought to issue orders to it through the shoddy underwater microphone equipped to the submarine didn’t even occur to her. it was hard to see, but she’s fairly certain the way the dragalge are being thrown around is due to the relicanth battering them with desperate HEAD SMASHES.

persephone sifts through a bag of pokeballs and moves toward the little tray that releases pokemon into the depths and places the capsule inside. she can make out the vague burst of light in the water signifying the pokemon’s release, and only now does she reach for the microphone to issue an order to use FLASH.

tl;dr: slams the accelerator / throttle / sub equivalent of a gas pedal in an attempt to free the sub? relicanth is uses HEAD SMASH on the dragalge and lanturn uses FLASH to spook them + light the lantern.

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TM / TR
redeeming from halloween event
teaching flash to lanturn

EGG TUTOR MOVE
parting shot for gacha morpeko
claiming from ny raid!