[attr="class","spiral"]There are enemy troops all over the town, but Evangeline has yet to find them much of a danger. That is to say their presence doesn't stop her from pushing further into town in the hopes of finding some place to lay low and wait out the last few stages of this (quickly escalating) battle. She wants nothing to do with the larger threat that's reared its ugly head.

Unfortunately, she isn't given much choice. The thing splits parts of its body from the whole and drops them like ominous obelisks all about the town. Including the NORTHERN section of town she was looking to for shelter. Looks like simply ignoring it isn't going to be a choice. Maybe this conflict with an alien monster will go better than the last.

"Guys! Focus on the bottom! Try to topple it!" she shouts to her pokemon, who take up position ahead of her, "Tentacruel, Surf! Toxicroak, Vacuum Wave! Weezing, Sludge Bomb!"

They all nod for a moment before jumping into action. They batter the base of the NORTHERN PILLAR with an onslaught of attacks while Evangeline does her best to make a safe distance between her and whatever counterattack the pile of rocks might have in mind.

+ Pushed deeper into the town, mostly just hoping to find a space to shelter in space
+ Stakataka makes itself her business, unfortunately
+ Focuses on the NORTHERN PILLAR along with others
+ Tentacruel used SURF on the bottom of the pillar
+ Toxicroak joined it, using VACUUM WAVE on the bottom of the pillar
+ Weezing used SLUDGE BOMB on the bottom of the pillar
+ All with the goal of toppling it by taking out its base

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[attr="class","spiral"]"The man's a creep," is all the chit-chat Evangeline entertains as she watches her plan play out. It's a nice boost of confidence watching it succeed, or at least it helps put to bed the quiet part of her anticipating dying out on these waters. Between the beast they'd chased(?) off and the troops that had been set to surround them Evangeline had pre-empted her death multiple times over the last few minutes.

Maybe this wasn't worth the adrenaline rush after all.

Well, too late to second guess herself now. They hit the beach and she jumps out of the ship -- not entirely sure what her next goal should be here. It was finding danger and excitement when she hit the water, then it was surviving the finding of those things, and now it's? Well, probably just more surviving if the events unfolding around her are any sign.

"To me!" she shouts to her pokemon, hoping to rally them to her again. Tentacruel swims up to the shore line as Toxicroak and Weezing take up positions to her right and above her respectfully. She sees the giant structure up on the mountain shift and rise and then quickly writes it out of her thoughts. She can now say with certainty one thing that isn't her goal: that.

Instead she turns her eyes to the troops occupying the town. She'd dealt with plenty of them already.

"Let's clear them out!" she shouts to her pokemon and they jump into action. Remembering their last shoreline assault Weezing floats forward, the steam building within her gently puffing out -- a silent warning before the HEATWAVE of compressed, scalding garbage air erupts from her body. Toxicroak, warier this time, hangs back and hurls SLUDGE BOMB from a distance while Tentacruel draws water from the ocean to perform a SURF well past the shore.

+ Evangeline made landfall (presumably with ian oak)
+ Took in all the chaos and wondered why she's here
+ Said Stakataka is none of her damn business
+ Weezing used HEATWAVE on the enemy troops at shore
+ Toxicroak used SLUDGE BOMB on the enemy troops at shore
+ Tentacruel used SURF on the enemy troops at shore

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[attr="class","spiral"]Evangeline's grateful Ian keeps his wits about him through the death of his pokemon. The last thing she wants is her getaway driver crashing on account of a poorly-timed sob. The monster they're escaping from seems to lose interest in them, but this water is still part of an active warzone -- a fact hard to ignore when even now she can spot enemy troops closing in on boats identical to their own.

"Focus on driving!" she shouts across the boat to Ian before looking to her pokemon, "Tentacruel, Sludge Wave. Weezing, Poison Gas. Toxicroak, pick a boat and Sludge Bomb!"

Tentacruel, keeping pace with the boat from the water, turns to the approaching attackers. The water around her turns a murky purple, then begins to thicken and bubble before surging forward in a SLUDGE WAVE that grows larger with distance. Weezing adjusts herself as well, matching Tentacruel's course before spitting plume after plume of POISON GAS to try and further stifle any move to close distance. Finally, Toxicroak picks the closest boat of enemies and lets loose a volley of SLUDGE BOMB -- aiming for their motor in the back.

Staying on the attack is all Evangeline can think to do. Outnumbered and surrounded, it feels like controlling space is the best way to buy them time.

+ Evangeline told ian oak to focus on driving the boat
+ Tentacruel used SLUDGE WAVE on approaching Mega boats
+ Weezing used POISON GAS to compromise the air on the side of approaching Mega boats
+ Toxicroak used SLUDGE BOMB to try and destroy the motor of the nearest approaching Mega boat

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[attr="class","spiral"]"Ah, it's such a shame . . ." Evangeline can't help but bemoan the task she's taken up. Being helpful is naturally a chore, but when it requires you to work against your own interests? Then again, what can you do?

"Maybe we'll be able to catch a few once they're downstream," she sighs before looking at her Tentacruel where she sits in the water, "Clear them out before I change my mind, Surf."

The jellyfish pokemon lifts her tentacles as a ruby-red sheen spreads to cover her body. When she slaps them down on the water's surface the sheen turns to energy and an action that should have caused little more than strong ripples turns the water violent. A massive wave sweeps over the invasive Toxtricity as Evangeline petulantly hides her face and glares at the ground.

Whatever, one more bit of good press to pad her image.

[attr="class","spiral"]There is a delicate balance that must be struck when running on adrenaline. When chasing that rush. And that is your fear must outweigh your excitement. All danger must hit your brain as a fair price to pay for that buzz in your hands and the heat in your chesst. Watching the source of her latest spike's actions over the next few seconds shatters that balance for Evangeline.

It was a stupid decision to engage this monster directly from the start, but it's not until she watches the hulking beast slam and drag her Scolipede like it were still a Venipede that she fully understands this. As it flies at her, end over end, through the air she barely gets her wits about her enough to attempt to return it before it fully bowls her over. The hand she uses to hold the pokeball almost loses grip on it from all the sweat in her palm.

The attacks from her other pokemon land, but for what? It barely shrugs at the impact and then it takes its turn. She watches it charge forward and expects it to come for her and her team when it instead sinks its proboscis into something else. Something familiar. She notices ian oak for the first time at the cost of his Starmie's life.

More importantly she notices the boat.

She makes a dash for the vehicle and her pokemon follow. Trainer and party all have lost the bravado they had but a few moments ago. She climbs on to the boat and her Toxicroak follows. Her Weezing and Tentacruel stay close from their places in the air and water respectively.

"Go!" she shouts at Ian as she climbs into the small ship. Offering him no time to mourn or think she shouts again, "I'll cover us, go!"

Without waiting for his reply she turns to her three still healthy pokemon, "Keep it off us! Hit it hard!"

Her pokemon take up positions where they may. Tentacruel floats behind the boat, and readies a SLUDGE WAVE. Weezing floats above and] begins preparing another HEAT WAVE. Finally, Toxicroak lets out an angry, reverberating croak before vomiting up a series of SLUDGE BOMBS in the direction of their potential pursuer.

+ Evangeline realized she is completely outclassed, retreat time
+ Returned Scolipede in an attempt to avoid getting bowled over by the pokemon projectile
+ Noticed ian oak when his Starmie got got -- RIP
+ Ran to the boat he's in, followed by her 'mons
+ Tentacruel used SLUDGE WAVE on Buzzwole to cover (what is hopefully) their escape
+ Weezing used HEAT WAVE on Buzzwole to cover (what is hopefully) their escape
+ Toxicroak used SLUDGE BOMB on Buzzwole to cover (what is hopefully) their escape

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[attr="class","spiral"]"What a waste of time," Evangeline groans, kicking off black heels from stocking-clad feet, "I barely had the thing for a couple weeks, but it just had to die out in public."

Grumbling under her breath she lowers herself onto the grass of Route 123, smoothing her dark dress over the back of her legs as she settles into place. She's on her way back from Mt. Pyre. From a funeral, to be exact. A small affair in honor of her Tentacool killed in the latest Ultra Beast incursion.

The whole thing was exhausting. She finds she barely feels a thing for even her seasoned party members, much less for a new addition like that squid had been. But it was no secret the thing had died, she was rescued from the scene by rangers after the fact, so there's no way she could have just moved on without addressing it. So they buried it on the mountain and she gave herself a pointless headache crying over it.

"Whatever, at least I got this," she says with the slightest of lifts to her voice. After fumbling around in her bag for a few moments she pulls out a small brazier. On their way out of the cemetery she swiped it from atop a small mound. Emptied the ashes of whatever fragrance had been burning in it a few feet back once prying eyes had all moved elsewhere.

"If darling Eli isn't fucking me about, then . . ." she sets it up on the grass as she mumbles to herself before rifling around in her bag a little longer. From inside she pulls out a small leather pouch. Incense, according to elijah gardner a special selection that appeals to her favorite kind of pokemon. She releases her Scolipede from its pokeball before lighting it.

Sure enough, he instantly shows interest in the smoke slowly wafting from the inside. He snuffles close to the small flame and bumps at the brazier itself. A soft slap to his face gets him to back up.

"Not for you."


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[attr="class","spiral"]Evangeline makes footfall on the beach in the aftermath of her assault. The blood and bodies and bubbling sludge around her feet are forgotten as soon as they're registered. She can feel her hands buzzing and her heart racing as everything around her begins to blur together. All she can see is her immediate surroundings, all she can think about is the next step.

Around her downed troops struggle to their feet and she's sure the pokemon that had contested her approach are inbound. She grasps at this first, most obvious of objectives and taps her Weezing to act after shouting for her pokemon to hit the dirt.

She's halfway through readying a HEAT WAVE when the monstrous, muscled menace bursts onto the scene. The pulse of flame and super-heated steam that leaves the Weezing now has one more potential target.

"That!" she screams this one word and points towards their new threat as she rises to her feet. Its presence, the way it weighs her chest down with dread, is familiar. It reminds her of the abomination she saw on the ocean only a few days ago -- the reason she's here now. She wants to see it in action up close, whatever the cost.

Scolipede shoots off towards the new target. SPEED BOOST allows his dozen legs to carry him even faster than usual and enables him to attempt something brazen. He draws in close to the monster and spits a corrosive TOXIC at one of its fluid-filled "abs" before attempting to flee as quickly as he'd come.

"Venoshock! Hex!" Evangeline screams again, her voice tinny in her own ears. Her last two pokemon jump into action. Toxicroak, even more confidently and stubbornly than Scolipede, aims to meet this opponent that outclasses her toe-to-toe. She begins to run up, firing a VENOSHOCK at the same spot her comrade targeted in his hit and run -- where the poison has hopefully taken hold.

In the back Tentacruel's gem once again shines a brilliant red before she fills the air around the monster with ghostly energy -- a HEX that aims to boil any potential poison in its blood.

+ Evangeline hit the beach with her pokemon around her
+ Told her pokemon to get down as . . .
+ Weezing used HEAT WAVE on surrounding troops/'mons/the approaching Buzzwole
+ Scolipede's SPEED BOOST activated (+1 SPEED)
+ Scolipede attempted to hit-n-run TOXIC the Buzzwole
+ Toxicroak used (a potentially poison boosted) VENOSHOCK
+ Tentacruel used (a potentially poison boosted) HEX

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[attr="class","spiral"]Sootopolis is an unnerving place at the best of times as far as Evangeline is concerned. A lone city, in the middle of the ocean, based in a crater shrouded in mystery and history. But that's why Evangeline makes the visits she has. That unfamiliar feeling of something scuttling up and down her spine is enthralling.

All the more so when she finds out there's something other people find unnerving to discover, too.

Feigning an interest in helping she manages to make her way towards the entrance of the cave, her recently acquired Venonat riding on her shoulder. It's just as everyone said. The Crobat flit about anxiously, those who can flit about, and nervously screech into the darkness. That scuttling sensation hits her like a truck at the sight.

"Hmm, you've got pretty good eyes, right?" Evangeline asks her Venonat nonchalantly, she gives a short squeal in answer, "Can you see anything?"

Her Venonat takes a moment to gaze long and harder into the dark, yawning cave mouth. The many lenses of her COMPOUND EYES try to see what not even sound can touch.



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[attr="class","spiral"]They're supposed to be friends, Evangeline knows that, but there's just something so satisfying about watching Elijah's frown deepen, and deepen, and deepen again as she takes her shots. It's the one interesting thing about him as far as she's concerned. His dedication to dour sourness.

"And yet I'm the only one here," she responds quickly, and then keeps going, "and like I said, you can't sell me one of these plants the way you're acting." A likely unneeded reminder as she obediently releases the leaf she was holding.

His emerging Tangrowth catches her attention as the next thing to idly play with. She wiggles her fingers at it with a smile before gesturing for it to come closer. Hopefully it isn't as moody as its master.

"That said, there are other plants I'm interested in," she looks at him out of the corner of her eyes while still smiling, "The usual. The last bag I bought from you needed to be used for . . . an emergency."


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[attr="class","spiral"]Evangeline can feel her heart claw its way out of her chest and up her throat as the SURF carries her into the space near the island of stone. She uses the last vestiges of the massive wave to coast around the rock formations and come out on the other side of it, only to be faced by the enemy troops -- now in much more intimate space than when she was just another body on the beach.

"Incoming! Protect! Evangeline screams the order over the sounds of the water and combat around them. Most of her pokemon are too tired to erect another barrier with any level of certainty, but Tentacruel is fresh. The gem on her forehead flashes for a second and then suddenly there's a ruby-tinted screen covering the air around herself and her trainer.

Evangeline doesn't wait to see if the THUNDERBOLTS will hit. As she watches the troops on the nearby shore mobilize she has only one plan in mind.

"Charge the beach!" she shouts and Tentacruel instantly sets off towards the island as quickly as she can manage, "Covering fire!" she shouts again and her Toxicroak and Weezing (hunkered down around her so that they might share at least some of their comrade's PROTECT) attempt to rain hell on the shoreline. Toxicroak lets out a bellowing croak and Weezing rapidly mixes her poisonous insides before they both send off a volley of SLUDGE BOMBS that will hopefully force the enemy troops back.

As they draw closer to the beach, under increasingly heavy fire, Evangeline reaches for her fourth pokeball once again. The moment they're in range she'll send out Scolipede again to clear their immediate surroundings with an EARTHQUAKE.

+ Evangeline hunkered down on top of Tentacruel as it used PROTECT to attempt and stop the incoming THUNDERBOLTS
+ Tentacruel charged forwards towards the shore at full speed
+ Toxicroak used SLUDGE BOMB to attempt to lay down mortar fire on the beach while taking partial cover behind Tentacruel's PROTECT
+ Weezing used SLUDGE BOMB to attempt to lay down mortar fire on the beach while taking partial cover behind Tentacruel's PROTECT
+ Evangeline prepared Scolipede's Pokeball with the intent of releasing it and using EARTHQUAKE should they manage to reach the island's beach and the troops there

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[attr="class","spiral"]Evangeline initially thought it was cute, the wave of Mareanie. Or rather the first few trickles of what would become the wave. There's just something so charming about their little faces and their barbed "hair". But as the crowd grows and, out of seeming distress, grows more violent and keen on entering the city she has no choice but to join the rangers beating them back.

"Scolipede, that crowd over there!" she waves in the direction of a nearby group of the absolutely bristling Pokemon and Scolipede jumps into action. He charges forward and, the moment the Mareanie notice him, rears up on his four large legs before slamming his top half against the soft sands of the beach. EARTHQUAKE at first rocks the wild Pokemon about before forcing them backwards as the tremors increase in strength.

Some slip into the sand and are knocked out by the pressure of the shifting ground, others are simply scared back into the water. Either way Evangeline counts it as a successful response.

[attr="class","eve"]Evangeline holds a bit of cloth to her face as she enters the garden. There's a lot of bad smells she can tolerate, but this one is exceptional. Like rotting. It bothers her more from the implication than the raw stench. Her curiosity is all that sustains her.

She knows Victreebell well, has at least a passing familiarity with most poison types, but this situation is odd to her. That's why she actually came. To see what a poisoned poison type actually looked like, and how the condition could spread so easily.

"I'm not sure if it'll help, but I have some herbs gathered by a friend of mine," she offers demurely to some of the attending medics with an anxious smile. In truth she's loathe to part with the stuff, but it would be odd to just sight see and go. At least they seem to appreciate her gesture. After a quick once over of the contents in the bag she offered they agree to give it a shot.