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mauville warfront

tldr: mega steelix uses dig to burrow a tunnel beneath the ground to shield them from oncoming attacks. kommo-o and aggron hunker down in the tunnel. kommo-o uses dragon dance and aggron uses protect to seal off the tunnel. mega steelix reverts back to normal. bailey uses avatar powers to shield herself and togekiss with a earth dome and shields her fairy-type with her body. togekiss uses life dew.[break][break]
magnet rise: 5/5

[attr="class","bgtk-lyric2"]BUT THERE'S A WHISPER IN HER HEARTBEAT

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“What type of comeback is that?”[break][break]

The eyes of the Stakataka glanced in her direction. She failed to connect the dots.[break][break]

Togekiss would continue its hellish pace, trying to stay neck and neck with Jules as they crossed the water; with the rolling blue beneath her, Bailey was unable to summon the earth as she had done before. It forced her to coast, holding to her fairy, as the distant shoreline of the powerplant revealed itself.[break][break]

Her feet hid the ground first, skidding like the wheels of an airplane hitting a runway. The rising clouds of dirt signifying how deep she had to dig her soles just to bring herself to stop.[break][break]

Jules Cotillard underwent his alteration; his true nature unveiled through the same machine that he had debuted.[break][break]

“...Yo, what the fuck.” She squinted at the new visor that the megalopolan dawned. Her confused turning into cringe at the public displays of affection.[break][break]

What followed was a confluence; the lights of the scattered Stakataka, the orders of Philomera, and the resurgence of troops as combat intensified. Her eyes drifted from the tackled kyle lopez to the sudden resurgence of strange, empowered dog-like pokemon that she had never seen. More galar pokemon?[break][break]

There was no time for her to comprehend it; she acted on instinct as the tides of battle turned. Her hand slamed to the ground to meld earth and to make it pliable. A rock-like wall would emerge and warp itself, encasing the champion and Togekiss beneath its dome-like exterior.[break][break]

"Tink!" and before the fairy-type could try and rise to her defense, Bailey had already thrown her body over the squirming marshmallow bird; she pinned her first pokemon to the ground, cradling her body over Tink like she had reverted back to being a small togepi again.[break][break]

Because she still thought of the fairy as that small, fragile egg-pokemon.[break][break]

Her body was dampened from the life dew that the fairy-type desperately deployed.[break][break]

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Somewhere far away from their trainer, Mega Steelix, Aggron, and Kommo-o had no chance to celebrate their successful derailing of the Guzzlord; the ultra beast still thrashed in the waters, and now there were new enemies to contend with.[break][break]

Sprinting, the pokemon had followed the grassy path that their trainer had flown across. Their efforts ending as the gray, terrorizing cubes took to the sky and dismembered distant league members.[break][break]

Without their trainer, they chose to get creative. Mega Steelix, without a moment of hesitation, executed dig to burrow underground where cover from oncoming attacks could be secured; the steel-type pokemon corkscrewed into the ground at an angel, curving to make a passage that could be treaded down by foot.[break][break]

Aggron and Kommo-o charged down this incline, beneath the earth where they could be out of sight. Kommo-o would sandwich itself between the two steel-types, executing dragon dance to prepare itself for what may come; Aggron held to the back, executing protect and holding the shield at such and angle that it would prevent others from attempting to gain entry.[break][break]

And with that achieved, Steelix would have no choice but to surrender its mega evolution; it panted and breathed heavy in the dampened air, trying to gather its bearings for what else would await them.[break][break]