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Warped Neo-Flare Base

(While the others are distracting Constantin, Alex takes the opportunity to quickly lob out a Pokeball. The instant he's released, Svavel starts and spits a huge torrent of flame at the creature that Was Once a Man.)

Svavel used Flamethrower!

(With the destruction of the architecture reducing the number of shadows in the base, the Gengar lurking in the corner is now vaguely visible as she lobs yet another Shadow Ball at the monstrosity.)

Far From the Action

(Simon can vaguely hear... something that sounds like combat. Particularly nasty combat, at that.)

Simon: Suddenly I'm quite glad I'm not involved in this...

edited 8th Feb '17 11:33:32 AM by Uilleam

Tastes better on the way back down.

Neo-Illusion HQ

Ludmilla: Po'shyol 'na hui!

-Ludmilla throws her hands up, and the air in her part of the room blasts against the ceiling as her telekinesis goes from "down" to "UP", just daring the ceiling to collapse on her watch. Dune and Deziree just continue to watch in dumbfound amazement.-

edited 8th Feb '17 6:31:00 PM by BittersweetNSour

-Ashen slams her sword into the ground, which breaks the wave of energy around her.-

-Archimedes is thrown back by the energy.-

Archimedes: <Ow.> -He decides to just pelt Constantin with a barrage of metal being ripped out of the ground by an angry Golurk.-

-Ashen pulls out her heavy crossbow, and fires a massive bolt into Constantin.-

Ashen: -Using her sword as cover^* Yes, she can. The blade is rather more wide than a normal greatsword. Think roughly the width of Cloud's Buster Sword. Ish. And Gardevoir are skinny..- <Can't get close... So I'll just shoot you.>

-Siobhan and co arrive. Zhi Shen Lung fires a Thunderbolt, and Dalamadur fires a Dragon Pulse.-

-Argent looks confused, and fires a Shadow Orb, hoping that'll do more.-

All are significantly abnormal in a normal world... All are significantly normal in an abnormal world.

Mezzo: Okay, wise guy, what do you think we should be doing then?

Leafeon: <Well I would say attacking but I just saw that Gallade get killed and uh, it was not a pretty sight.>

Sunny: <Yeah... what a way to go.>

-the three then see Constantin(?)'s transformation-

Mezzo: -holds her umbrella forward- Nope. Nope nope nope nope nope nope noooooooope. I am so not dealing with you.

Do not fear power... fear those who wield it.

Canalave City, Mid-Pause

-Phosphora looks around in abject confusion.-

Phosphora: Okay, what. What.

-He looks around. Everyone, everything else, is frozen in time. Except her.-

Phosphora: ... Oh god did I do this? No, I didn't really do anything... did Mom do something?!

-There's a flash of bronze on the grey.-

Chromie: Not quite, little sunlight.

-Phosphora jumps out of her skin.-

Phosphora: Chromie?! What-who-how-

Chromie: Don't worry, Ms. Galvani-Morton. You didn't cause this. In fact, your parents from this timeline are fixing it right now.

Phosphora: What-

Chromie: Glitches. Of a sort.

Phosphora: How-

Chromie: That's not for me to answer.

Phosphora: When-

Chromie: C'mon. You know I just can't answer that.

Phosphora: *Deep, nasal inhale* Okay then. Why can you and I move around, but no one else can?

Chromie: Ah, now THAT is a good question. Okay, so imagine time as a river...

-Phosphora throws up her arms and lets out a deeply put-upon sigh.-

Chromie: Oh don't you give me that. Anyway, imagine time as a river, and you and I as fish.

Phosphora: But why are we fish and not them-

Chromie: Don't question the metaphor. Anyway, you and I are fish. Everyone else is the water in the river. Even though, right now, the water has stopped, you and I can still move around within that space.

Phosphora: But... how?

Chromie: You aren't anchored in this time. Come now, don't tell me you haven't noticed? You haven't aged a day since you got here.

Phosphora: ... I mean, I'd noticed some things-

Chromie: You haven't even had a period while you've been-

Phosphora: EXCUSE me!

Chromie: Oh, right, you've got your father's sensibilities, sorry. Anywho... Want some ice cream?

Phosphora: ...

Chromie: Oh, c'mon. It's cookies 'n creeeeeeam~

Phosphora: ALRIGHT FINE!

-Muddy and Fortuna summon Protect barriers, but the sheer force manages to blow them away-

-Is currently holding Ann with an Aura chain as I hold on to the Aura sword I've planted in the ground-

Do not get close to him, if you do, you're dead!

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

Neo-Flare Base(?)

The chains around his feet are replaced by new ones, but it seems like this time the chains are being burned through faster that before. So he won't be held there for much longer

As for the other attacks, most of them seem to disintegrate when they enter his radius or are otherwise nullified. But that doesn't seem to be the only thing disintegrating...

Still flailing and burning with anger and frustration at the inability to move. Constantin launches out the bits of metal and debris from his flesh like small, scattered meteorites.

I'm having to learn to pay the price

Neo-Flare Base(?)

-Dune grabs Ludmilla by the waste and swings her around, hiding both her and himself behind a massive bar of metal with a ship's wheel attached to it. Deziree, meanwhile, is flat against the ground behind them.-

Neo Flare Base (?)

-Alduin and Sam are pelted by the shrapnel, noticeably injured-

Robin: -sees Constantin melting- Flamethrower, both of you! Turn up the heat!

Sam: <One cooked Constantin, coming right up!>

Alduin: <I gotta say, doesn't sound very appetizing.>

-They both attempt to accelerate Constantin's melting with their attacks. Ammy comes to and promptly joins in-

edited 8th Feb '17 7:23:49 PM by Umbramatic

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Constantin Battle

Alex: Skit, brute force isn't working! Try and keep him trapped!

Svavel: <'scuse me? Do I look like a mon who has anything except brute strength at his disposal?>

(Instead, the Blaziken continues to blast Flamethrowers at Constantin, hoping in much the same way as Twam Umbra that intense heat will melt him faster.)

Tastes better on the way back down.

-Ashen sighs, completely unable to do anything at this point.-

-So she just takes to using her sword as cover.-

-Siobhan is trying very hard not to get hit. More or less successfully.-

-Zhi Shen Lung starts using Psychic to attempt to hold Constantin in place, and damn the shrapnel pelting him.-

All are significantly abnormal in a normal world... All are significantly normal in an abnormal world.

-Rather that futilely trying to tie down cons further, Keys uses his Fairy Lock chains to bat away the incoming shrapnel to moderate effect.-

Ren: -pressing his body down on Kitsune's back- Kitsune, Dancing Embers!

Kitsune: <Mmmmm~ Hot in more ways than one~>

-A fair distance from Cons, Kitsune skids into a turn as she spreads her tails into a fan shape as the tips of her tails ignite.-

Keys: <Fox Tail Inferno~!> :D

-And from the tips of her tails Kitsune launches five volleys of nine fireballs.-

edited 8th Feb '17 8:04:59 PM by keys2tkingdom

-Rather that futilely trying to tie down cons further, Keys uses his Fairy Lock chains to bat away the incoming shrapnel to moderate effect.-

Ren: -pressing his body down on Kitsune's back- Kitsune, Dancing Embers!

Kitsune: <Mmmmm~ Hot in more ways than one~>

-A fair distance from Cons, Kitsune skids into a turn as she spreads her tails into a fan shape as the tips of her tails ignite.-

Keys: <Fox Tail Inferno~!> :D

-And from the tips of her tails Kitsune launches five volleys of nine fireballs.-

edited 8th Feb '17 8:04:59 PM by keys2tkingdom

Neo-Flare HQ(?)

-Jason tries to put up his bubble, but takes shrapnel to his side-

-Lucky for him, it's not a whole lot-

-Still hurts like HELL though-

Jason:Is there...nothing we can do...?

Escher Neo Flare HQ(?)

Mr. Bitey gets into a low position as his skin becomes tougher. Some shrapnel strikes him, eliciting a small cry of pain.

---

Meanwhile, Alana notices the Punk Guy.

"... Do you know where the heck we are?"

off the shits

Neo-Flare Base(?)

The fire from the Flamethrowers just sorta... slows down in mid air and begins to scatter and float in midair.

In fact, everyone should be feeling that they are weirdly floaty at the moment. As if gravity has suddenly been removed from the equation.

Constantin(?) however, doesn't seem to be affected by it, and remains grounded as attacks and people begin to float in Zero-G

However, by the sheer amount of pure energy radiating off Constantin(?) at the moment - you get the feeling that this requires a ton of energy to maintain.

It's a desperation move.

Constantin(?) takes advantage of the new scenario and clamours onto the wall. Using it as a jumping point to thrust through the air and maim whoever is in his path.

I'm having to learn to pay the price

-As Constantin leaps-

That thing requires a lot of energy to maintain, so that means...

-Using Aura Sense-

...It's like a giant pile of kindling, that just needs a spark!

-And forms a bow construct, firing an Aura arrow at the center of Constantin's energy gather-

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

-Mezzo is now floating in midair, flailing her umbrella around at anything in sight-

Mezzo: No no no no no no no!

-Sunny has floated off her head-

Do not fear power... fear those who wield it.

Neo-Flare HQ

Robin: Draw him out! He can't maintain this much longer!

-Using the zero-G to their advantage, Ammy, Alduin, and Sam swoop just our of range of Constantin's strikes in hopes of leading him astray and wearing him out.-

Contact Me!

Ren: Ah this vaguely familiar.

Kitsune: <2010 Kanto Grand Festival?>

Ren: 2010 Kanto Grand Festival. Remember what we came up with?

Kitsune: <Yep.>

Ren: Keys!, anchor us to the wall!

-Keys fires chains into the Nearest wall, pulling the trio out of harms way.-

Kitsune: <Here's Dark in your eye!>

-The chains hold Kitsune steady and prevent blow back from her firing a Dark Pulse at Cons.-

-Gamma/Hertz are relatively unperturbed by the sudden lack of gravity while Mendel grips a pole.-

Mendel: Dark Pulse!

Gamma/Hertz: <Set and serve!>

-Twin streaks of black obscura are fired Cons.-

edited 8th Feb '17 9:09:21 PM by keys2tkingdom

Neo-Flare, Being-Destroyed MC Escher Labyrinth [Now]

Zero-G happens

Phaz: Oh, great. Space. But not for Terracota Tycoon it seems.

Ashley: <I can't make flames anymore.>

Phaz: That's normal. In space, gravity transforms the drop-like flame into a ball-like state. So it gets out by itself.

Cynthia: ~You got any ideas for moving in this?~

Phaz: Yeah. Everyone get a part of the rope here.

Volta: <Escape Rope? We're gonna head out?>

Phaz: No. Tie it wherever you want on you. Cynthia, fire thoses Moonblasts on that President Vermillion when everyone is secured.

Cynthia: ~Alright!~

She proceeds to fire Moonblasts at Leader Scarlet!Constantin, effectively pushing back all of them out of Duke Rust!Constantin due to the recoil.

What's the use of money if you ain't gonna break the mold? Even at the center of fire, there is cold All that glitters ain't gold

-Ashen grabs her sword, still stuck in the ground, to anchor herself.-

Ashen: <Time to see if that did anything to the aura.> -She fires another crossbow bolt, sending her spinning awkwardly into her sword.-

-Or would have, had Argent not used Psychic to counter the recoil. Ashen gives a quick nod of thanks.-

-Zhi Shen Lung continues to Psychic, but this time using it to allow people some semblance of moving properly.-

-Dalamadur is pretty much perfectly chill with this. Until he's nearly speared by Constantin(?), at which point he becomes markedly less chill, and markedly more Dragon Breath-y.-

-Gogmazios may end up near Alana and Punk Guy, still vehemently shouting that it's all a conspiracy by the Pyroarminati. Or something like that.-

All are significantly abnormal in a normal world... All are significantly normal in an abnormal world.

Neo-Flare Base

The two bolts strike Constantin(?) in the back, causing a shriek of pain to reverberate through the arena. And the other attacks only add to nasty concoction, turning the quasi-human Constantin(?) into a living dynamite keg.

The overload of auric energy making the gravitational field go all haywire and odd, is begins twist and pulling in strange directions.

But primarily, drawing everyone close to himself, as if attempting to sear everyone along with him

I'm having to learn to pay the price

Neo-Flare Base [Now]

Phaz found a place to grip before the space distorts again

Phaz: hanging from a wall Alright, he seem to be panicking! Let's finish it off! Cynthia, try some Psychic! Ashley, use some Shadow Balls! As for you Volta, try Thunder!

Allrigth!

A flurry of Psychics, Shadow Balls and Thunders come from Phaz's side, aiming for Imperator Scarlet!Constantin(?) !

edited 9th Feb '17 3:19:57 AM by Phazya

What's the use of money if you ain't gonna break the mold? Even at the center of fire, there is cold All that glitters ain't gold