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Moana's gachapon

Claiming one gacha ticket from the costume contest, and then a premium gacha (Fairy) from Mauville war rewards.

Also from Mauville rewards:
- Prinplup learns Work Up (TM/TR)
- Prinplup: Mist becomes Rock Tomb (TM/TR)
- Druddigon learns Flamethrower (TM/TR)
- Druddigon: Outrage becomes Draco Meteor (Tutor)
- Decidueye: Ominous Wind becomes Grass Pledge (Tutor)
- Pignite learns Fire Pledge (Tutor)

When Moana had heard about the costume contest, he'd scoffed and shrugged off the invitation. The country was just recovering from a goddamn war, and they wanted him to go and play dress-up?

And then he'd sent out Wali to train, and unbidden, an old story that he had heard of randomly surfaced in his mind, and he immediately forgot his previous condescension. He would go to that party, and it would be hilarious.

As he stood and people passed him with questioning and confused glances at his Sigilyph, though, he realized that maybe the Galarian legend of the ancient king Calyrex wasn't as well known as he had assumed that it was.

Oh well. "You're doing great, Wali," he muttered to the Sigilyph, who was eerily still to levitate in place using his psychic powers, the green hoop he held preventing him from flapping.

Thud.

Moana landed painfully, his body at least shielding Keila from further harm. The poor Pineco's body was brutally battered by the attack, even past her Protect; singe marks and scuffs decorated her bark, and her eyes were closed.

Moana tried to speak, but his voice came out as nothing more than a dry croak, and he tasted blood in the back of his throat. He closed his mouth, swallowed a few times, not willing to push his luck. 

Luckily, someone finds him. Cillian Quinn lands next to him on his Corviknight, looking down at him and speaking something to him. Wali floats along right after him, followed by two Pokeballs glowing with pink Psychic energy, and Moana decides that Wali is the best Pokemon in the whole world.

It's only when he has no idea what the man said to him that Moana realizes that there's a dull ringing in his ears.

He takes a deep breath, before motioning at his ears and making a chopping "no" gesture. But then his Lucario spreads a Life Dew on him and Keila, along with @thomas sending a Heal Pulse their way, and he can hear again. His pounding head and aching body quiet their complaints. 

"The fringes..." He glances at Bailey Cooper for a moment, but shuts down the thought immediately. That is an encounter he is happy to save for later. The Champion cannot be that hard to track down. And if she evades him, he thinks this confrontation is one that he might well decide to forego.

Perhaps. He's not sure yet. He'll think more about it once the war is behind them.

"Yeah. That sounds good. Thanks." 

Rex Drago approaches the scene as well, and Cillian Quinn offers his hand for Moana. Moana ignores it, stumbling upright. He has some dignity left, after all.

When Rex Drago speaks, Moana breaks out into a laugh, but it's not a joyful one, and he feels a pricking behind his eyes. He's really tired.

"We did do it, huh? Wow." He favors the newcomer with a shaky grin. "I'm fine now, thanks to, um..." He does not recognize @thomas as the one who healed him, but he turns to Gavin. "What's your name?" As an afterthought, he adds, "sir." He doesn't know who this man is, aside from what might have been a name that the other guy seemed to swallow the instant it left his mouth, but he wouldn't pry. It wasn't his business, and this man had possible just saved his life.

A flash of light recalls the still-unconscious Keila, and Moana steadies himself with a deep breath.

"I know you said I should evacuate," he says cautiously, "but if there's something I can do to help as well, let me know, please."

Because who would he be without his misplaced bravado?

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SUMMARY
- owie
- Sigilyph picks up the other Pokeballs
- thanks for the heals y'all
- Moana agrees to go with Corviknight
- Moana immediately volunteers to help too, despite agreeing to go with Corviknight, because he thinks he's all that

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aiming to KILL

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The monster died.

It took the combined efforts of so many people, it was almost laughable. But Moana's attacks were backed up by the might of all of Hoenn's defenders. (Though, well, perhaps he was the one backing up the real fighters here, but that wasn't important.) Thick black wires were uprooted and severed by more than one legendary Pokemon, and the alien's head was crushed by... some weird equine hybrid thing. Whatever that was.

Moana caught his breath as sweat drenched him, thanks to the unnaturally hot sunlight from Desolate Land. It was over, or close to it. A few straggler alien troops still attacked, but their numbers were diminished.

A moving figure caught his eye, and he spotted the alien general, Jules Cotillard, falling from his high perch on the Xurkitree.

Tynnu was already on it. The little Geodude aimed his arms at him and fired Rock Blast after Rock Blast. Jules was pretty far away, so it was a gamble. But if it worked, that was one less alien they would have to worry about. Especially the general, who was likely too dangerous to leave alive. Moana vaguely recalled that he'd been imprisoned until today as a "human," so who knew what other tricks he'd have up his sleeve?

As Moana pondered this, the already stifling heat became oppressing. The ground glowed red, molten rock rising rapidly to the surface.

Moana looked up, and saw Bailey Cooper being lifted up by Groudon, and terrible realization struck him, along with something else.

Fear.

The same chilling sensation as when he'd been at the business end of the Guzzlord's tail, Keila's bark digging into his skin.

He'd seen what Groudon had done to the huge alien, and the other enemy troops as well. The thought of that power turned against him...

The words tore from his throat as he stumbled backwards, his quickly mounting panic twisting the orders into a desperate shriek. "Fuck! Keila! Protect! Wali! Push it away! Shit!"

The Pineco raised up a Protect for the millionth time that day, the previously reliable barrier now seeming pathetic in the face of the legendary's tectonic fury. Wali glowed with pink Psychic energy as the lava burst from the earth, pushing the attack with all his might back towards its source. Moana was aware that it might hurt Groudon or the champion, but at that moment, he could not have cared less.

Pertapa had her claws raised, ready to take on this new threat, but Moana had gathered what was left of his wits and pushed the button on her ball, recalling her, and Tynnu followed suit. There was no way they would be able to help, bless their brave hearts. As the balls clicked shut, one after another, Moana turned around and hurled them with all of the strength in his arm, hoping they would escape the range of Groudon's attack.

If the worst came to pass, at least the two of them would survive.

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SUMMARY
- Geodude-Alola uses Rock Blast on Jules! get him
- Bailey "Collateral Damage" Cooper used Lava Plume! fuck
- Pineco uses Protect
- Sigilyph uses Psychic to push the Lava Plume back towards Groudon
- Moana recalls Dwebble and Geodude-Alola.
- Moana flings their Pokeballs as far away from him and Groudon as he can, hoping that they will at least avoid being destroyed

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---

The monster collapsed.

Well, really, it was more like it unwound. Huge, thick wires flew left and right as the zipties broke.

"Keila, Protect!" yelled Moana. He thought he would be fast enough to get out of the way of any falling wires, but it was better to be safe. The barrier went up quickly and smoothly.

The fight wasn't over, though. Moana saw electricity coursing through the wires, still. Following them with his eyes, he found a foot, still plugged in to the ground.

There was his target. He pointed, and his Pokemon turned to assault the foot. Wali wailed as he shot another blade of air at the foot, hoping to destroy the wire that was close to the source of energy. Pertapa and Tynnu, as well, turned their Rock Blasts on the new target.

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SUMMARY
- Pineco Protects
- Sigilyph Air Slashes the foot
- Dwebble Rock Blasts the foot
- Geodude-Alola Rock Blasts the foot

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Moana breathed a sigh of relief as the bolts seemed to avoid damaging him and his team. However, that relief was rather short lived, when he saw that some of the struck Pokemon were glowing with electricity in what seemed to be a time bomb of lightning.

Moana wanted to help, he really did, but his Pokemon weren't good for helping out with that. And plus, he thought as he watched Bailey Cooper glow with some primal power, the people would probably be better off without his interference, anyways.

He turned his attention back to the Xurkitree. The massive alien seemed to be regenerating after its injuries with the weird white things. That gave him a better idea to target them, then.

"Aim for the white parts!" Moana directed, and Pertapa and Tynnu responded. They fired off volley after volley of stone projectiles, hoping to damage whatever the white thing was with Rock Blasts.

Wali, nearby, added his own firepower to the mix. His Air Slashes were now directed at the zip ties as well, hoping to sever them. 

Keila, in an effort to aid the attack as well, launched her own Spikes at the huge monster. Moana seriously doubted that the spikes would do anything to such a massive monster, but it was worth a try.

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SUMMARY
- Dwebble uses Rock Blast on the left zip tie
- Alolan Geodude uses Rock Blast on the left zip tie
- Sigilyph uses Air Slash on the left zip tie
- Pineco uses Spikes to idk tickle Xurkitree? Or at least hinder Megalopolan troops.

Moana blinked, dismayed. 

Poor Baffo flopped around helplessly, the little Barboach having no real method to unearth the mysteries of the underground.

...they had said to bring ground-types, okay?

Whatever. Moana had brought some of his other Pokemon, and they could help, ground type or not. Moana smiled as Sheru did the work where Baffo could not, the Kabutops using precise strokes of her arm-scythes to unearth valuable veins of stone as the Barboach watched, no longer flopping and merely interested.

Moana thought of the people who'd asked for dragon types in their films. First that, and now this. Would people ever learn?

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Moana stared at the strange golden alien.

It was a unique one, from what he understood. They were supposed to be blue, or something. But who cared? They needed to eliminate it, and they did something. Now, it's slinking back into the sea, chased off.

Moana watches it go suspiciously, his Vigoroth, Anda, beside him. The battle had been tough, but would it come back to bother them later that they left it alive? Who knew. He'd just have to hope the Nihilego wasn't a confrontational type.

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Using ANDA THE VIGOROTH

Finally, Moana would encounter a fire-type here that wasn't going to attack immediately. The Pignite walked up to the group of them, sniffing the air curiously.

Unfortunately, Tynnu was conditioned into caution, throwing himself at the Pignite with a Thunder Punch. The Pignite squealed, throwing herself backwards and out of the attack's way. Undeterred, Tynnu followed up the attack with another Thunder Punch.

This time, though, the Pignite was prepared. She met the Geodude's force with an Arm Thrust of her own, knocking Tynnu back to the ground. Pertapa also joined the fray, aiming a Rock Blast directly at her head. The Pignite, holding nothing back, cloaked her entire body in flames. Moana felt the heat from where he was standing, a safe distance away from the fight. She body-slammed Pertapa, the Heat Crash knocking out the Dwebble instantly.

Moana hurriedly recalled her. This pig was strong. She seemed weakened from the Thunder Punch and the Rock Blast, so Moana took his chances, tossing a Pokeball to try and capture her.

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Moana caught up.

His sprint slowed to a jog as he turned a corner and found himself facing the ruins of what was once the Power Plant, and the monster that had risen from its remains. He hadn't grasped its full size before, but now it was clear that this was some gargantuan creature the likes of which he and probably nobody on the planet had ever seen before.

"Damn," he whispered. It'd be hard to take that thing out. But there were a lot of Hoennians, and only one wire dude. He was heartened by the sight of the Champion, some weird black dragon thing, the legendary beasts of Johto, a host of Tropius-mounted reinforcements, and a host of other powerful fighters. They could take this. Especially with the additions of the most powerful people and Pokemon in the region helping out.

He wasn't counting himself among them, of course. Not yet. Moana was arrogant sometimes, but he wasn't stupid.

So when he saw one of those powerful trainers being attacked by a Druddigon, his first thought was that he should help. His next thought was guilt, thinking of Cova, but he shoved that away. This wasn't Cova.

Of course, it wasn't the only danger that he was faced with. The wire dude raised its wires and launched a host of electric bolts that caused destruction and death as they traveled through the fighters. He couldn't have that getting at him. The release of a massive red dinosaur--- Groudon, that was Groudon--- from the Champion's Pokeball right in the path of one of those bolts was comforting, but he wouldn't bank on it. He'd watched another one of those zigzagging through people's bodies, and there were a lot of them too.

"Keila," he said again, and the Pineco did what it did best once again. A Protective barrier was erected around Moana, his Pokemon, and any others who were close enough, once again compounding the Light Screen from earlier that Wali had set up.

Speaking of Wali, the Sigilyph had turned its attention to the massive wire dude itself. With a cry, it launched a blade of sharp air at the monster, the Air Slash aimed at the areas that others attacked as well, hoping to split the frayed wiring.

Pertapa and Tynnu focused on the dragon that was assailing Bailey Cooper and her team. It seemed to already be in the clutches of the champion's powerful Pokemon team, but extra help wouldn't hurt. The rock-types fired Rock Blasts at the exposed parts of the Druddigon, hoping to knock it out of commission.

"Sorry," Moana would mutter to the crowd that he had joined, not quite sure what he was apologizing for but feeling a little self-conscious anyways. He shut his mouth. He should be focusing on the battle.

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SUMMARY
- Sigilyph's Light Screen, turn 4.
- Moana joins everyone else, taking cover behind Groudon.
- Pineco uses Protect on Moana, team, and others nearby.
- Sigilyph uses Air Slash on the damaged part of Xurkitree.
- Dwebble uses Rock Blast on Remiel Calcifet 's Druddigon.
- Geodude-Alola uses Rock Blast on Remiel Calcifet 's Druddigon.