bravenewworld | The Elite Four Strikes

[Rei, on the other hand, looks to Ami. She doesn't have any jokes or comments. She just has one thing on her mind. They have to win. So...she raises her hands to the sky and cries out:]

Flame, grant me the strength to protect my home!

[Fire whirls around her, a cyclone a dozen yards high erupting out of her. Her outfit changes, her sense changes, and there's an indelible pressure in the air as she mega-evolves into her Fairy form.]

Ami Athos! Join me!

[And she fires a Dazzling Gleam, joined by the Lucario's Aura Sphere!]

[Ami locked gazes with Rei and understood. Without much further ado she also raised her hand to the sky.]

Water, grant me the ability to protect my home!

[Just as fire wrapped around Rei, water and ice encircled Ami and she took a deep breath as things suddenly felt different, more than before. Her skin, for the first time since evolving, lost its blue tint. She took a deep breath as the water and ice scattered, having mega-evolved int her own Fairy form.]

Hypatia!

[Ami sends her own Dazzling Gleam while the Florges used a Moon Blast to strike out.]

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[ All of a sudden, it's very bright. And painful. Kyurem winces, actually winces, against this much brilliance all at once. Those wings beat. Those feet lift off the ground. They've successfully gotten the God out of their streets, but Kyurem seems to have its own ideas about what to do now.

The dragon's tail swings right towards that tower on which Saber's perching, hoping to knock her off (and/or destroy the tower. Both seem like good ideas). It also attempts to counter Sunny Day with a Blizzard.

Perhaps it'd been considering the destruction of this city as too simple a task. The time has come for Kyurem to let it go. ]

[Saber can't avoid the falling ice or the smashing tail, bracing herself with another Iron Defense and trying to deflect the damage away from the tower. Sometimes being a Doublade sucks, but at least she's light enough right now to roll with the attack and let it knock her to another part of the towers.]

Is that...all you've got...?

[Saber's partners look up worriedly from street level. Edward tries to drive the dragon off with a nice painful Overheat before it can eat Saber or negate the damage boost from Sunny Day.]

Saber!

[Hayato can't do much with directly damaging this thing but he can at least support the team he's with. He leaps after Saber after she's been knocked back, hoping to catch her before she hits too many buildings.]

[Meanwhile he sends a telepathic command to Pentax who is probably getting tired with all of this.]

Keep up the fire as long as you can! But get out of the way if you have to!

[To which Pentax redoubles her efforts and keeps up a steady flame of fire with anothe incinerate to clear out what she can of that Blizzard.]

[Joined by Ami, Rei's emboldened, leaping up the side of a building and setting herself up in a more ideal position. She's joined not long after by the Lucario. She belts out a command to her Pokemon, out loud this time.]

Don't let up! It's just Ice! Keep those shields up! And Olympus? Keep up the pressure!

[Extending her hand she let's loose with a Searing Shot, aimed squarely at Kyurem's underbelly. And the Mega-Evolved Charizard joins in with the strongest attack it knows. Sucking in a breath, belly swelling...it lets out a Blast Burn. Because having eyebrows that haven't been burned off is overrated]

Edited 2016-01-26 02:53 (UTC)

[With Sunny Day in affect, Ami would be foolish to use any of her water moves, limiting her to the one fairy move granted to her by her mega-evolution. She used Dazzling Gleam.]

HYPATIA AGAIN! [With Sunny Day in affect, the Florges seemed to relish in the sun as she sent up another Moon Blast. She leapt off of her Noctowl.]

Socrates, Minnerva, go look for civilians and get them to the shrine! [She mentally ordered the flying pokemon. She wanted to keep her Dragonite as far away from the battle as possible, with all these ice moves, even with Socrates' defense and speed, he would be incredibly weak to an ice dragon, but his speed would be incredibly necessary for falling debris and getting citizens to safety.]

[ Screw that Sunny Day. Kyurem is not having a particularly Sunny Day. In fact, Kyurem's day is getting darker by the minute.

Fortunately, Kyurem knows Light Screen.

Holding itself in place above the group, it wraps itself in shimmering energy, deflecting most of the fire - only a single pained growl indicates something, probably that powered-up Overheat, got through. The tower on which Saber had initially been perched took some damage from that tail, stones crumbling, and that inspires the dragon to circle overhead before changing its course and raking a claw down to try and remove some roofs from the Industrial District next.

All around them, the Blizzard rages. ]

[The good news for Hayato is that Saber is still super-light, weighing about a tenth of a kilogram thanks to autotomize, so while she flies through the air pretty quickly, she's an easy catch, especially since she had the wherewithal to transform back into a human for an easier time landing.]

Er...thank you, Hayato.

[She looks at what Kyurem's doing now, and thinks at the group as her Pokémon clamber their way up from street level to get a clear shot.]

We've got it away from street level and residential towers, but we still need to move it somewhere these attacks will do less damage. Does anybody have any thoughts?

[In the interim, Edward recovers from the draining effect of that Overheat with a Work Up, and Fisher finds a spot on a rooftop to snipe from and sends a Fire Blast at Kyurem, hoping to overcome the Light Screen and at least distract it.]

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Do you suppose using all of our fire attacks at once might help?

[It's offered faintly as Maka watches Kyurem's progress. Wilbur had dropped her to the ground when the Blizzard started so she wouldn't take the worst of the attacks, her smaller companions grouped around her.]

If anything, we can push it back away from the buildings, maybe give us some breathing room.

[Her Darumaka uses Work Up as well to keep awake in the chilly temperature. This is no time to be going into bean mode.]

Not through that Light Screen.

[ Tendou's powers of observation are truly amazing. At pointing out the totally obvious. They are fundamentally so outgunned by a legendary Pokemon that any barriers are a complete pain to work through. ]

I'm going in. The rest of you blast right at me.

[ The God of War leaps right up at Kyurem, right behind Edward's Fire Blast. His speed is, as always, incredible, empowered by his Speed Boost that had been building up while he stayed on the ground.

A Brick Break in the form of a flying kick, launched right at the Light Screen, targeted at the dragon behind it, although with that same speed Tendou has every intention of dodging out of the way at the last moment.

Because he really doesn't like being hit by fire. Even if it's fire from his own Volcarona's continuous Fiery Dance. ]

[Blizzards don't phase Rei, all they do is make her look somewhat demonic as the ice melts all around her and steam kicks up. Setting herself, she follows up Tendou's Brick Break with a second Searing Shot, this one aimed at the base of Kyurem's neck.]

Sarek! Don't you think he's got a little bit too much power?

[The hyperintelligent alien Pokemon nods solemnly in response to the psychic voice and uses Power Split. The move takes his Attack stats and Kyurems...averages them, and gives them back. So, a massive boost for one, and a sizable reduction in the other...]

[ They're launching themselves at it. What a pitiful, half-ditch effort. What a miserable excuse for a defense...

...is what Kyurem would have thought before that Power Split took effect. Finding itself forced to average with a mere Pokémon - an enemy Pokémon, fighting on the side of those that would stop it - it has no choice but to lift off from the district it'd been ravaging, leaving several people cowering with their Pokémon still in their now-roofless homes. It swipes a wing at Tendou, hoping to knock at least him out of the sky, then glowers down from midair at the group.

As a parting gift, its jaws drip with Toxic. Even if they're forcing it away, it won't let this district ever be the same again.

The snow finds itself intermingled with acidic sludge. ]

It's fleeing! Excellent job, er...Rei!

[Saber's celebrations are cut short, though, she spots the god vomiting poison.]

You spiteful bastard...if that mixes in with the snow...

[Edward nudges Saber in the hand, giving her a suggestion.]

Right...you do that, Lancelot and I will block it. Wait until I'm in position in case the snow melts.

[Which that, Saber takes a running, flying leap toward where the Toxic is hitting, attempting to block it with her poison-immune body. As she gets there, Edward fires off an Incinerate directly toward the poison stream, a move hot enough to obliterate anything in its path thoroughly enough that there shouldn't be any poison vapors. As for what makes it to the ground...Saber will think of something before it has time to soak in. Hopefully.]

Shit, are you kidding me? Stella! [The Meowstic concentrates her telekinesis on the poison that slips away from Saber's efforts, lifting it up in a weird cloud of purple so it doesn't sink into the ground.]

[Maka, for her part, helps Stella with a boost of her own psychic power so the burden is shared.]

[...Though, it's a little more difficult for her with the double weakness to poison.]

Of all the times to not know Safeguard, huh Stella? ["Nyo..."]

[He's happy to set Saber down once he's made sure she didn't go splat, offering her a nod and a grin.]

[There isn't a whole lot he can do from this end, most of his attacks require him to get in real close with the beast. He is happy to see that the thing is being driven back by the incredibly powerful enlightened on this team.]

[When it dumps that toxic, though. His eyes widen- but then he gets an idea. That putrid garbage didn't effect him- on the contrary it gave him a small boost. (Which he learned from trying to binge drink at Day of Fire last year.) Maybe it wouldn't be much but damned if he didn't think that dragon deserved something in recommence of that petty, dirty move.]

Nikon, I need a boost.

[Was this stupid? Probably. Would it work? Maybe. Did he care? Nah, he was pissed. He wanted this thing out of this city. He wanted to make sure it new not to come knocking again.]

[Nikon comes running, through the ruined remains of the streets below. He leaps off the ledge he was perched on. She catches him and with a strong push, she launches him back in the air. Hopefully the blessing of the gods will carry him the rest of the way through the venomous blizzard.]

[If he gets through, enjoy that Megapunch to whatever he gets close to. He's not picky he just wants to punch the fucking dragon.]

Poison! Eugh...

[Pulling a face, Rei throws up a dome of psychic shielding around herself to keep her clear at least. It's not a massive shield though, and that makes it hard for her to really move. Her new typing is...not...ideal for that and she knows it.

But her Pokemon, on the other hand? They know how to handle themselves. The poisonous rain is met with a torrent of fire and psychic shielding, effectively incinerating as much of it as possible. Rei joins in as well, adding her own Incinerate to the combined efforts.]

[As Toxic rained down, Ami would let the group take care of the god and she would take care of the group.]

Hypatia, Aromatherapy!

[The Florges let it spread across all the others, as much as she could to remove any poison damage one of them might have gotten.

She then turned to Rei.]

Rei, we should could use a move in tandem against him! If you know a pledge move, we can all join it together!

[Ami had her own Ice Pledge, and new her fiancé also had fire-pledge but if others had the ability, it would only be more effective against an attack on the god.]

[ Kyurem watches their puny attempts to protect their miserable city with grumpy detachment, irked at all the places they've been able to save; elsewhere, the poison does indeed mix with the ice already on the ground to coat this area with a venomous sludge. Still, they've lessened the damage, and that's....something?

The Steel-types amuse it, however. The power of the Gods trumps immunities, so while Saber and Hayato won't feel the sting as badly as anyone else had they tried those same stunts, the poison will sting and sizzle against them, trying to work its way into their bodies. And as for that punch...

Yes, that punch. Kyurem watches the insect approaching it, then, just as Hayato's mighty Mega Punch is ready to connect with its jaw, opens its mouth so Hayato will hurdle inside instead. It closes its teeth behind him. ~~Thanks for the taco delivery.~~

The Mega Punch hits its back molars, and it growls, skull shaken by the hit. Then, turning its head, it spits Hayato back out at the group. Calderan food isn't to its liking. ]

[That's not right...Saber's completely unused to this feeling, the acidic burn of it, the disorienting nausea, the Calderan flying at her head. Wait.]

[Saber returns Hayato's favor, blearily using Magnet Rise to lift herself up and try to act as a cushion between him and the ground. As long as she can slow him down a little before they slam into the snow, they should be alright. Meanwhile, Edward fires off another Overheat to try and finish driving the dragon off.]

[ How rude. Calderan food is pretty great. But Tendou's hardly in any position to prove Kyurem wrong as he pulls himself out of a building, having been slammed there by a giant dragon wing. He's a little too light for that kind of brawling.

But hey. At least he's off the ground and far away from the poisonous snow? And here he thought yellow snow was bad. ]

Kagami, let's show it what really spicy food is like.

[ The Aegislash follows its trainer as he takes a running start, the floating sword and shield launching itself after the soaring fighter, a High Jump Kick and Sacred Sword headed right for its jaw. ]

[That went about half as well as expected. He noticed pretty quickly on that the poison was actually ...eating through? Holy shit what? And then the thing straight up tried to eat him]

[WELL IF HE WAS GOING TO PUNCH IT NOW WOULD BE BEST. For whatever good it did anyway. He's losing touch with everything by the time he's spat back out again and only kind of realizes he didn't go completely splat against the ground thanks to Saber. You're a fucking bro. Luckily he's sturdy if disoriented and he'll worry about any broken bones later. He rolls off of her as fast as he's able to try and help her up.]

[Try. More like he falls flat on his face because the poison is getting to him. Nikon is there to pick up her stupid trainer (and Saber if she needs the help) and throw him over her shoulder while trying to shield the other pokemon it's towering over with an Iron Defense. It's not blocking all of it but it's doing better than most at least.]

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'Kicking a god in the face is the equivalent of a drop of rain on your face. [Ami wanted to smack them herself for their idiocy to keep trying to attack the god head on.

She turned to her Chansey.]

Nightengale, Healing Pulse! [The giant pink puff sent out the pulse to the others. Meanwhile, Ami's attention was on the poison starting to eat into the city. She knew Sunny Day would be over by now and so with the blessings of the gods, she leapt up high into the air but kept enough distance between her and the god, she used Water Pledge to attack, knowing Rei would join her and hopefully if others knew it, they would as well.]

Edited 2016-01-29 03:29 (UTC)

Right! If you or your Pokemon know a Pledge now would be the time to use it!

[Rei holds up her hands, gathering power behind that shield, and aims a Fire Pledge at the poisonous snow. Hopefully combining it with Ami will be able to get rid of it and stop too much damage...

HERE GOES NOTHING!]

[ Kyurem itself is pretty much considering its work done here, and it's not in the mood for seconds. It bats at Tendou and his Aegislash as they head towards its jaw, hoping to knock them out of the sky - with the end result of one very sore hand from that Sacred Sword, and a very sore foot from Overheat down below.

Yeah, it's out. Smell you folks later. Kyurem launches itself even further up into the sky, so that the Pledges will only be destroying the poison snow it's left in its wake. As a cleanup method goes, those, combined with the way the group has protected and healed itself, are effective: most of the snow is both cleansed and melted in midair.

But there's a few lumps of the sickly stuff still making it to the ground, seeping in and turning even the paving stones an off-putting color. This district might have avoided being totally levelled, but it will still be quite some time before people will be able to live here without getting sick. ]

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