bravenewworld | The Elite Four Strikes

[Mami is furious, but like any consummate professional, she doesn't let it show.]

[Yet.]

[Once she saw the attack, she rushed for the habitat. She needed her team with her -- and without the Warp Band, she needed to find them. They met her halfway. Now, the young woman is whipping up a tower on her ribbons, her Pokemon following by flight and leaps as need be. Mami looks up, all business as she looks up at Kyurem -- and for Sveta.]

[Her shiny Cradily sucks up a nearby plant as it leaps onto a rooftop, snacking on the garden there. She uses Stockpile. Her Zangoose crashes down, too; four swords spin around him, as he activates Swords Dance.]

[ This looks like as good a place as any to make a stand. Haruka circles around that tower on Uranus the Salamence, having left World Shaking the Rhyperior on the ground to receive orders via telepathy. Passion the Ninetales stands at Haruka's side, regal and poised. No one must ever know this is her first major battle.

Haruka closes her eyes, using Calm Mind. Maybe she's speaking to herself, maybe she's speaking to anybody who might have hitched a ride on this dragon with her. ] What happened in Glacier won't happen again.

Edited 2016-01-21 14:59 (UTC)

[In an odd sense of calm, Honoka wasn't especially worried about her other Pokemon friends. Ovumia and Ariera were rarely far from her side anyway, and while she was surprised by Negi falling into her shadow, she was glad for the bookish Gardevoir. Everyone else she hoped would band together to keep themselves and those around them safe, and beyond that, she didn't feel the need to be concerned. Maybe it was the telepathic thing happening with the Gods, maybe she was linked to them even without the Warp Band. The point was, she trusted them to take care of themselves, and they had bigger fish to fry.]

[Or dragons, as the situation were.]

[She caught Haruka's ascent toward the tower on Uranus and left Ariera with World Shaking, taking Ovumia and carefully climbing to stand behind Haruka with a squareness to her shoulders. She'd been afraid to fight for so long, but this time she was ready.]

Sveta won't know what hit her.

[Michiru sounds grim as she shifts a little on Uranus the Salamence, trying to see.]

Not if we can help it.

[Rapidash and Reuniclus are down on the ground with Rhyperior. Noivern seems ill at ease, trying to fly as close to Salamence (and Trainer) as possible, despite Vaporeon's barking. Gardevoir is with Michiru, casting a Light Screen. A mental prod from Michiru gets Reuniclus start off with a Reflect.]

[Normally, Pamela involves herself in negotiations. Or coordinating things. But today, Sveta has made the mistake of attacking their home. Much as she does care about the well being of others, she can't deny that there's a stronger feeling to defend one's own - human and Pokemon alike.

She's currently in the air on Morning Glory the Dragonite while the rest are on the ground below. At some point when it won't risk Morning Glory, the gloves will come off (both literally and figuratively) - especially if she can get a clear shot at Sveta with her poison.]

I'm going to make sure that the forest itself rejects her.

[She might not have the power of a god in that respect, but she does have a very strong affinity for plants - not only in accelerated growth, but also in being able to get them to come to her aid in ways plants normally couldn't. Even if Grass types are at a disadvantage against an Ice type, Pamela still has every intention of making sure Sveta gets backhanded by a tree at least once. Rough as this is going to be, at least Sveta revealed her typing. That helped Pamela decide which of her team to bring to fight with her, versus which she asked to help the community at large amid all the chaos.

Daffodil the Lucario starts off with Calm Mind and Marigold the Blaziken immediately follows up with Focus Energy.]

[The great dragon god spares barely a glance at the team. Understanding their intent, it instead unleashes a Blizzard, the howling gale of ice and snow slashing through the city with the force far greater than an storm and the ice promising a cold, icy tomb as it speeds toward the team.]

[Mami sees the blizzard coming at her. She grits her teeth; it hits, but thanks to Articuno and Suicune's blessing, the ice doesn't hurt as much as it should. That's good for Mami and Close the Zangoose; it's critical for her Cradily, which isn't as weak as it should be. She still backs up, yelping.]

Then we better strike quickly!

[Mami throws a hand out as she flies in close. Ribbons fire off from it, shooting up towards the massive dragon, and try to grip its legs to slow it for a moment. Then, her Zangoose leaps up, and lets out a roar.]

[He slashes both claws down as he enters Close Combat with the enormous Pokemon.]

[Noivern's eyes go wide at the oncoming ice storm and only a mental prodding from Michiru gets the Pokemon to dive down for the lee side of a building. Gardevoir, meanwhile, glows, evolving into Mega Gardevoir and starting off with a Moonblast.

Reuniclus, after a moment of thought, fires a Focus Blast without even changing expression.

Michiru grits her teeth and holds on.]

[ Taking them out all at once, huh? The cold bites into Haruka, who squints into the storm even as Passion steps forward to unleash an Inferno at their mighty foe. World Shaking, down on the ground, tries to help Mami's efforts at destabilizing the dragon by charging for a Drill Run.

Haruka reaches for Michiru's hand. ]

[This cold is absolutely horrible for someone with the Grass typing, but Pamela makes herself endure it along with her Pokemon, signalling for them to counter-attack. Her arm is shaking from how badly she's shivering. The message manages to be received anyway.

Athyrium the Metagross answers with Hammer Arm, while Primrose the Rhyperior uses Stone Edge.]

[All things considered, Honoka didn't have the most adept trio at handling the battle at hand. Regardless, she takes the icy blast from the enemy with a great deal of flinching, her Gardevoir following suit of Michiru's to offer a second Moonblast. Her Tropius, Ariera, takes a moment longer to recover from the blast, following up with an Air Slash.]

Edited 2016-01-23 18:32 (UTC)

[Kyurem had been mostly focused on the actual gods facing it, not expecting much from the humans of Union. This, however. This was intolerable. Roaring in rage as the powerful attacks struck it, it struck back with a mighty Outrage attack, thrashing about in rage and slamming a claw into a tower, sending a massive chunk of the top flying toward the team as the humans still within it screamed in terror]

[It's fortunate that Union is surrounded by forest. Even where there aren't trees growing, there is always that potential. It's more difficult with the frost from the Blizzard attack, but Pamela draws on her own power to bring a tree sprouting up from the ground in an instant to intercept the chunk of tower, and hopefully slow their descent so that it won't be fatal.]

[Michiru's heart stops for a moment, as she stares at the piece of the building, at the people, her ears ringing with their screams.

It's different when it's your own home that's under attack, isn't it?

And hardly believing herself:] Waltz! Nocturne! Embrace!

[Gardevoir and Reuniclus immediately turn away from the dragon to try and slow down the building with their Psychic abilities, while Noivern darts forward silently, hoping to pick up at least a few people.

Heart pounding, Michiru holds tight onto Haruka's hand and turns to the enraged dragon. This can't happen. She won't let it.

The glow of her Mega Evolution starts with a flicker of a symbol across her forehead, but eventually comes to suffuse her entire body.]

[ Haruka's forehead burns too, Michiru's hand warm against hers. Carrying her partner with her on a mighty gust of wind, she leaps off Uranus's back; the Salamence wheels to help try and catch the bystanders.

Haruka and Michiru, on the other hand, burst through the branches of the tree, around the falling rubble, on a dead-end course towards Kyurem. The air around them glitters. Rose petals swirl in eddies along the breeze. Haruka grips her Fairy-type sword tight in her hand.

And although the wind whips at their brand-new outfits, Haruka doesn't feel it. She has eyes only for Kyurem, and sense only for Michiru at her side.

This ends before any more innocents get involved. ]

Edited 2016-01-24 19:24 (UTC)

[Mami grits her teeth, as the blast from the dragon slams into her bodily -- and does precious little, being a Fairy-type for the moment. (Unless Tex is reading the type chart wrong. Then she's hurt. Eheheheh.)]

[But both her Zangoose and her Drifblim are sent flying back. Both are injured. Gretchen the Drifblim glowers -- and uses Stockpile again. She stays put.]

[Mami, for her part, glances at Haruka and Michiru -- and winks.] Quite dashing!

[With a wave of her hand, she makes a dozen percussion lock rifles appear behind her. With a wink, they fire at once, sending a battery of shots down for Kyurem.]

[While Mami's immunity might work against normal Pokemon, a god was quite a different story. She resisted it, to be sure, but for the first time in her life Mami felt the pain of getting struck by a powerful Dragon attack.

It hurt. A lot.

The barrage of shots from Mami's rifles slam into Kyurem and it snarls with rage.

The combination of plants and Psychic energy stop the tower, although three people are ejected from it with the force of the catch and go flying toward the team, screaming in abject terror. The tower itself is heavy, maintaining a hold on it will be difficult indeed but there are still many more inside.

And, unfortunately, Kyurem has set its sights on something else - the Forge, its embers glowing hot in the night sky. Instead of turning to attack the team, it whirls around and swinging it's massive tail, the dragon-god strikes at it - the blow in which could both gut the forge and bring down the whole tower if permitted to strike full force.]

Edited 2016-01-25 07:14 (UTC)

[ Shoot. There's no time to stop that tail from descending, and Haruka doesn't have any Defensive moves - but she does have a sword enhanced with the Fairy-type that can strike from long distances. So she swings the blade in front of her, hoping the resulting arcs of pure Fairy energy will both get Kyurem's attention and, with Michiru's support, knock that tail off-course.

Uranus, meanwhile, zooms up to the fallen chunk of tower and breaks a window with her (rather hard) head. She bellows into it, beating her wings. Everybody out! She'll ferry down as many humans as she can!! ]

[Michiru leans forward, instinctively priming a new attack and releasing a Dazzling Gleam along with Haruka's attack. Rapidash down on the ground manages to only gape at her Trainer in the air for a little bit, and then uses Inferno on Kyurem.

Gardevoir and Reuniclus are locked in place, still trying to hold up the building, though Gardevoir has started looking wildly around for somewhere safe for them to set it onto. Meanwhile, Noivern swoops in, making for the three falling humans and grabbing two of them with her claws. The third gets snagged (bitten) by the intrepid Vaporeon on Noivern's back.]

Edited 2016-01-26 03:24 (UTC)

[Honoka followed Haruka and Michiru's lead, hopping off of Salamence and sending Ariera and Ovumia, her Tropius and Blissey, to help with the civilians. Ari could help get people out of the tower, and Blissey could help to heal anyone injured in the process (or by wayward Vaporeons).]

[As for Honoka herself, she's going to watch with horror and a lot of anger as that tail aims for the Forge. The biggest point of Calderan livelihood in the city of Union. Effectively, her reminder of home away from it. She aims herself a Twister to hopefully aid Haruka and Michiru's attempts to throw Kyurem's tail off-course.]

Edited 2016-01-26 03:26 (UTC)

[Gretchen the Drifblim drops down -- she falls in with the other Pokemon, hovering near the tower. Her gas bag body expands -- and she waits. She'll provide a hot air balloon ride for those waiting.]

[Mami isn't used to being hurt by a Dragon-type. It slams her backward; she hits the ground, rolls, and then comes to a stop. Her heel hits the surface -- and she looks up and scowls. Then, she throws a hand up.]

[Fairy-type ribbons form, criss-crossing to make a wider section, and then try to wrap around the tail and squeeze -- and slow it down while trying to crush it.]

[Uranus is able to ferry several humans, but there are easily twenty more trapped in the tower suspended in midair. Noivern and Vaporeon manage to catch the falling humans and get them down gently, although they're definitely looking haggard to say the least.

The combination of the ribbons, Twister, Inferno, and Dazzling gleam do manage to help. The ribbons wrapping around the tail forestall the attack for mere seconds before they snap and it descends on the forge. However, the combined might of the attacks do lessen the force. One of the walls is instantly caved in and several bodies go flying like ragdolls from the might of the strike, but the tower stands. Seeing that it cannot ignore this team, Kyurem turns and unleashes a massive Blizzard at the assembled group, which is followed up with a huge Dragon Pulse, the two attacks combining into a powerful, area engulfing strike.

[Pamela uses her plant manipulation powers to lower the chunk of tower to the ground at a pace that's comparable to a quick elevator. Something that won't harm the people inside, because she wants them to have the chance to escape.

Then it's time for the counter-attack. She grits her teeth through the potent combination that hits them and it's all she can do to hold on to her Dragonite. Marigold the Blaziken is the first of Pamela's pokemon to recover and follow up with a Blaze Kick.]

[ Uranus lands as best she can, huddling against the cold wind and being careful not to displace her precious cargo. World Shaking the Rhyperior is even unhappier about the Blizzard raging, but struggles through it towards that descending tower. Should it make it to the ground safely, he'll start drilling through another window to give the people trapped inside a second exit. Trainer wanted to get the people out of this rock. He will help.

Trainer herself, however, is struck by that attack and goes sprawling through the sky. She flips head over miniskirt over stylish heeled boots, but on instinct she's grabbing for Michiru and holding her partner close to keep the other woman from falling completely out of the air. When Haruka finally rights herself, she's shivering, breathing heavily, and narrowly missing careening into a building, with Michiru held practically in an embrace in front of herself. She can't use her sword like this.

Her eyes search her partner's expression, and then she shifts the other woman in her hold so that Michiru is pointing back towards the dragon. Ice is Haruka's weakness. This one's on you. ]

Battle Group 3 - Haruka, Michiru, Pamela, Honoka, Mami

Mami has Florges, Audino, Cradily, Drifblim, Emboar, and Zangoose.

Rhyperior, Salamence, Ninetales

Blissey, Tropius, Gardevoir.

Gardevoir, Rapidash, Vaporeon, Noivern, Reuniclus

Dragonite, Lucario, Blaziken, Metagross, Rhyperior

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