dominic hears cheering from somewhere inside the warehouse and then something like... slashing? maybe a dull crack like that of a breaking bone? that's crazy.

he inclines his head to look at his fellow guard.

"i can't believe you've been pals with the head scientist, kiddo."

priam conrad

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dominic is running, tearing down the street at a speed he forgot he could reach. he feels he needs the exercise. after all, he's reluctant to admit he's growing old, but something about the way his muscles strained and the way priam inferred he needed older men to be his friends must have struck a nerve.

he must have been lost in thought because, of course, dominic runs directly into someone, resulting in both of them collapsing to the hard cement.

"what the fuck?" dominic says, affronted and sounding as if this isn't entirely his own fault.

Lucas Lane

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dominic tries to not think about the car and how it got here. the less he dwells on incriminating the thoughts when he barely remembers what happened, the less he would have to admit to a jury.

or something like that.

he looks down at the pokemon - the kubfu he got from the tower trainer.

"can you... uh..." he gestures at the car weakly.

the kubfu smacks it with a fist, the sounding resonating dully.

Eva Dumont

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is the pokemon staggering? it looks like it's staggering. dominic wants it to be staggering. he can't keep his mouth shut.

"c'mon!" he yells at his togekiss, gesturing at the urshifu with something like exasperation. "just give it a real good smack."

the togekiss screams in exertion and swoops in to AIR SLASH at the urshifu's vitals.

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he's fairly sure they can fell this opponent it just looks like it's taking an increasing strain on all of them. physically, mentally.

dominic crosses his arms, cocks his head to the side, and tries to look patient while his togekiss keeps slapping the urshifu with the sharp edges of her feathers. AIR SLASH.

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dominic turns to look at priam, lips parted as he tries to formulate an answer that is calm, light-hearted, and will not see them thrown off the premises.

"i wish," he says after a long moment, dropping his voice to make sure the dojo trainer doesn't hear.

while her trainer speaks, togekiss positions herself for another AIR SLASH.

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dominic wrangles his expression into something neutral and pretends to not notice that the opponent is only barely staggering under the brunt of all their attacks.

"yeah, AIR SLASH," he says, as if the togekiss even needed him to order it to do the one thing that brought her such joy.

marcel maeda, priam conrad, Lucas Lane

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dominic's confidence, his blind bravado, is starting to diminish. he looks to his teammates that had breezed through the previous challenges with something akin to confusion.

"lads," he says slowly. "what is going on?"

overhead, the togekiss continues AIR SLASHING its little heart out.

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dominic winces as he watches marcel's sylveon get flung off the side of the tower. it stirs memories of the navel rock raid so he tries to not dwell on it any longer.

"keep doing that," dominic orders his pokemon.

the togekiss does a sweeping arc in the air and hurtles back down to strike with another AIR SLASH.

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dominic regards the opposing pokemon with a quirk of his brow. if there is anything unusual about it, dominic scarcely notices, if only because he still struggles to keep track of pokemon hailing from beyond the shores of kanto and johto.

his fingers hover momentarily over his selection of capsules until dominic settles on the one that he knows will relish a fight like this. in a flurry of wings and movement, a togekiss takes its place soaring above the field - chirping a cheery warcry.

"AIR SLASH," dominic calls out.

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