Stormchaser Medbay

Aislinn:-calling after the Wigglytuff- "Ah, wait, you need this one t- oh they're gone. Alright."

Aislinn: "..."

Aislinn: -crouching down to give Micro an awkward pat- "Er, I'm sure it'll be fine. The J-team is pretty good about not letting people die. I think."

Schoolhouse Rock (or Ice) (or Fire)

Notably, the actual impact occurs a split second behind when it looks like it should.

Ama makes a face as Future!Hellebore is engulfed in flame. Granted, she has her own things to worry about...

She reflexively jerks away from the flame coming from Bren's clothing, but the vines gripping her feet make this a little hard. The gloves she's wearing are, thankfully, heat resistant, but that only accounts for so much against someone whose specialty is fire.

Ama: -Shaking out her hand- Well, touching him seems to be a no-go. What about...

Obscura tails billow into being behind her and whip around, cutting through the vines keeping her anchored and possibly catching at Bren.

... And then a Blizzard suddenly rages through the hallway, blasting through the flames surrounding temporarily and filling the hall with snow.

Future!Hellebore emerges, singed and looking a little peeved.

Snowpoint Temple

It is in that moment that Daydre becomes the embodiment of the eyes emoji.

She also finds the Hisuian Zoroark vaguely familiar, but she can't place why.

Daydre:-panic expositing- "Oh yeah, Zoroark can be pretty territorial if you stumble on their dens huh? These aren't a locality I've ever seen before though so I guess they could be different depending on what the conditions here are like but judging by what that one just said it doesn't seem like this is the case. I wonder why they didn't use illusions to protect this place, though? There weren't any that I could detect but maybe they didn't feel the need because of the puzzle that was presumably keeping most people out? Come to think of it I read an article that mentioned an old extinct subspecies of Zoroark that came about from a group that migrated to Sinnoh a long, long time ago and it mentioned that some populations may have survived in places where humans aren't able to reach but I wouldn't have expected them to be right under our noses like this! This is cool Merlin don't you think this is cool?"

Daydre: "..."

Daydre: -putting on her borked scarf- "Hi?"

Stormchaser medbay

Micro: ~...So I've heard. Don't worry, I'll be fine. I can still see in this eye.~

Micro points to his non-stabbed eye.

Micro: ~I'm sure there's probably a way to use psychic powers to compensate too. Hmm... I wonder if they'd let us stay here a while. Chase won't believe it, but I don't think the place we just came from wants us back.~

Chaos team

Florence: Let's go!

Florence picks up some spray cans. Evo picks up a spray can with their shadow arm too. Hazel pulls out a music player and plays some music loudly.

Evo: <I still don't see why they have to make all these fancy new clones when there are plenty of people who would give everything to become some super powerful psychic. Why do you think I was doing all that research in about 15 years time?>

Florence: <Erm... I don't think that was what they were trying to do.>

Evo slaps some "come to the j-team we have cookies" posters on the wall.

Edited by QuantumMelody29 on Sep 29th 2022 at 11:16:55 AM

Raid Battle- vs. Brad

"Aaaaaaaand... now!"

And immediately everyone sprung into action.

Bindi immediately bounced down from the sky, carrying a water balloon with her that she had pulled out of hammerspace, before she landed on top of Brad's head and chucked the water balloon at him.

Serkis immediately jumped into the air and began shooting Water Shurikens out at the bullets in the hopes of deflecting or destroying them.

Romea jumped forwards, extending her claws in a desperate attempt to destroy the bullets that were being aimed at everyone.

Finally, Chernobog extended out his chains, wrapping them around Brad's torso.

<You've got nowhere to go now,> he taunted.

Walter and Caboose looked on from the sidelines, while Braker turned to face his Mega Camera and looked into it— directly at the Key Stone.

"And we are live on the air in 5... 4... 3..."

He glanced around for any Pokemon from the corner of his eye.

Vs. Brad

Roy sweeped his leg along the ground, kicking up sparks that turned into a sizable wave of fire, a backdraft built to overpower the energy his way, also doubling as a means to duck the shots and Hone his Claws. He held out a talon, absorbing the flames back into himself, his feathers on fire.

Magnavox was easily able to take a number of the bullets against his chassis, as they harmlessly dissipated to the floor after impacting with his metallic body before the Metagross roared, a Flash Cannon firing in the same direction as the bullets.

Kendall and Pyukumuku both raised Protects to keep the bullets from impacting them, before Kendall’s Black Hand started to swirl with a little more intensity.

"Classy. Now try it on an Obscuric," he demanded, his Nasty Plot coming to fruition as the shadows of his enemies began to ignite with Firescura, spreading and licking at their heels.

Edited by AbsentCoder on Sep 29th 2022 at 3:58:24 AM

???

-Tanya whistles.-

Tanya: Now ain't that a show...

-She watches the Delta Stream fight with interest as several annoyed voices come in over the radio.-

Myo: [If I have to listen to this song loop one more goddamn time I am going to kill someone.]

Rudolf: [For once, I agree with the rabbit.]

Maxim: [It's gettin' kinda hard to concentrate with it going...]

Nikolai: [Well, suck it up if you don't want Tanya to send you to Orre.]

-The comms go dead quiet after that, much to Tanya's immediate relief. She looks back up at the airship caught in the supernatural weather and leans back, propping her head up with her arm.-

Tanya: How'd that quote go again? "Fear the old in an occupation where the good die young"? Eh, something like that.

-She chuckles to herself, foot crossed over her knee and bouncing to some inaudible tune.-

Tanya: Good saying.

School Safehouse — Team "Yeah, It's Absolutely A Date Now"

-Kai's eyes widen, and they quickly switch from holding onto Brie on Atlantis's back, to holding onto Atlantis directly.-

Nitrogen: My name is Nitrogen!

-She scowls as the direction of the wind changes without her authorization, and directs Grieve to circle around Halcyon to strike.-

-Kai's just watching awestruck as Brie does her Brie thing.-

Kai: ...Hey, Atlantis? If you're already in love with someone, can you fall in love with them a second time? Does it stack? I think I'm falling in love again.

Onabarrak: <I suggest you focus so you don't fall.>

Kai: R-right, uh. Delta Stream? That's...

-Their eyes widen as it clicks.-

Kai: ...oh shit. Now it makes sense.

-As Nitrogen and Grieve close the distance on Brie and Halcyon, Grieve launches a Shadow Ball at the latter. Nitrogen, however, jumps off of Grieve and, carried by the wind, lands on Atlantis's back and grabs Kai by the sleeve.-

Kai: Ack!

Nitrogen: I have unfinished business with you.

Kai: You mean using me as bait? Mason's down there in the base.

Nitrogen: No, I just want to kill you now.

Kai: Did you miss the part where I said we're gonna kick your ass together?

Nitrogen: Not so together anymore!

-Assisted by a sudden gust, Nitrogen lifts Kai off of Atlantis's back and tosses them off. Onabarrak reacts quickly — he redirects the flame jet keeping him in the air, rocketing off of Beck in a sort of reverse-engineered Heat Crash. Beck snarls, digging Shadow Claws into Onabarrak to attempt to hinder him, but he makes it to Kai safely nonetheless.-

Onabarrak: <Got you.>

Kai: Phew, thanks.

Edited by rmctagg09 on Sep 29th 2022 at 10:36:19 AM

Slliuq: <Eiggam!>

She tries to shoot a Pin Missile at Damien but the Houndoom gets in the way, blasting the needles with a Flamethrower.

Houndoom: <Can't let you do that, weird Qwilfish.>

Damien: "Really thought you could beat me with improvised weapons, eh?"

Maggie: -still backing away, clutching er shoulder- "I mean, still got my bow but we're trying to keep this nonlethal."

Damien: "Ha! I could burn you to ashes yet you don't attempt to offer up the same?"

Maggie: "We're trying Not to hurt you too bad."

Damien: "When we could stamp you out so easily? That sounds like an excuse for your own weakness."

Maggie: "For all your talk of strength you haven't even been able to completely stop people from leaving your group and making their own lives."

Damien: "Oh, if they were truly strong, they'd stand with us. We're part of centuries of work and I very much intend on continuing that line."

Chum tries to Aqua Jet through but gets stopped by the Houndoom.

Chum: <Surely you're not in this too. The School just makes Humans so where does that put you?>

Houndoom: <I'm from the School's Pokemon Breeding Program, thank you very much.>

Slliuq: <Huh, esle enoyreve naht retteb er'uoy uoy secnivnoc taht sseug?...>

Houndoom: <Oh, I know I am. I've been able to hold my own against two Water-types so what does that prove?>

Chum: <That your number's up soon and we're gonna get to our trainer!>

Chum rushes into the Houndoom with a Liquidation but they still seem to be barely kicking thanks to the sun weakening it.

Damien: "Well, it's clear who the weak link is here. You might have tried to put up a good fight."

His fist lights on fire.

"But..."

Maggie rushes forth with a punch in the stomach with her good hand, knocking the wind out of Damien and extinguishing the flame in his hands.

Slliuq launches a Fell Stinger at the Houndoom, knocking him out and then allowing Maggie to rush over next two the two Pokemon.

Damien: "Guh, cheap shot. You're playing pretty dangerously you know. If I had reacted properly who knows how bad your hand would be burned now."

Maggie: "Was a risk, but had to do it and I know that my team would have my back."

Damien: "Pah. Excuses to cover up for your own weakness. You'll never compare to the abilities of the School, even if you had auric capabilities."

Maggie: "Being close to multiple Aurics I'm pretty sure I can compare fine to them, thanks. And even if we're talking strength, how do you compare-"

Maggie looks behind Damien.

"Zee!"

Damien: "...The Xenon? Fairly strong, I admit, but in naming a Truant you still show-"

Edited by CorvusAtrox on Sep 29th 2022 at 9:58:06 AM

Advance Team

Zee: -To Damien while smacking them with the broad side of her axe- It's Zee now, Templar.

-And whether that works or not, Damien may find himself first unable to move before getting held to the ground by the force of increased gravity-

Personally, if it was just me in the woods, you'd be mulch like all the other patrols.

Sneasler: -To the currently unconsious Houndoom- <He's not gonna start talking about superior and inferior genes when he wakes up, is he?>

Assault Team - VS Brad

Brad: -As the attacks loom- You think that's enough to defeat Brad the Freeshooter? As if!

-Smirks as he teleports away from the attacks just as Chernobog's Anchor Shot would've connected, reappearing on a ledge-

Scene change!

-And space warps so that Chiyo and I are separated from Kendall and Braker by the courtyard stretching and twisting enough that we're on whole different levels-

-Braker, Kendall, and their mons are immediately descended upon by a Gardevoir, Tyranitar, and Clawitzer-

-Chiyo and I on the other hand are attacked by a host of both enemy mons and several Templars-

Chiyo: -Barriers turning into flaming death discs- I'd suggest running, I'm not holding back any longer.

Templar: -Using a staff construct as a Mightyena growls- On your life, truant! You and your friends have been a stain on the School for far too long, your head is mine!

Chiyo: So many Templars over the years have said stuff like that. Most of them are dead now, and you'll be joining them if you attack me.

Templar: -Immediately tries striking Chiyo, only to be sliced in two by one of her death discs. There's not a lot of blood, if just because it's so hot the wounds are cauterized-

-Upon seeing Chiyo casually slice a person in half-

Holy shit... Glad most of the others aren't here...

Templar #2: S-She killed him, just like that!

-Angrily-

How dare a truant like you think you can kill one of us like Mareep to the slaughter?!

Chiyo: Despite your pretensions of superiority, you're flesh and blood, just like he was. I don't like killing, but I'm not letting you hurt those I care about, even if it means ending you.

-Glowing with a rainbow Aura-

If you want to join him, be my guest!

-And the Templars and their mons descend upon us-

Brad the Freeshooter: -Combines his energy pistols into a rifle and starts taking shots at both sides from another, higher vantage point- Got you now!

Edited by rmctagg09 on Sep 29th 2022 at 11:14:59 AM

Damien is unable to react due to the lack of movement so gets smacked with the axe and the gravity effect pulls him down, he's nearly knocked out.

Damien: "Hehe... respect the threat there... If I were more reckless I'd take you up on that chance in exchange for the chance of you seeing the garden you worked on that whole time burn to ashes."

Chum: <Wouldn't put it past him from what I heard, unfortunately.>

Damien: "Even pinned, I'm not down just yet..."

The air around him starts getting a lot hotter.

Slliuq does a Rain Dance this time to dampen it, with rain drops sizzling into steam as they hit him.

Edited by CorvusAtrox on Sep 29th 2022 at 10:22:17 AM

Advance Team

Sneasler: -Noticing it getting hot- <Zee?>

Zee: -Putting her axe right to Damien's neck, a clear orb forming around the axe head as gravity increases even more, to the point that Damien might be starting to have some trouble breathing and the steam might be coming down harder- I know you Templars aren't very big on the whole "giving up" thing, I've dealt with you enough over the years to figure that out. But if you continue I'll lop your head off and end this Templar problem right here, Tagg or no Tagg. Then the only thing you'll be is Damien Charcoal.

-If Damien is able to look into Zee's eyes in his current condition, he'll find that the look in her eyes is dead serious-

Edited by rmctagg09 on Sep 29th 2022 at 11:34:25 AM

School Base— Hae-Won Zone

~Girl.~

~You there, girl.~

~Cease all this scurrying about.~

School Base— Skies

Atlantis: <Oh, for sure you can. For any given value of the term falling in love, it would logically be possible to experience the same sentiment a second time. But we should probably focus on the—>

-Kai yoink-

Atlantis: <Fight. Oops. Got a little long-winded there.>

-Brie guides Halcyon through evasive maneuvers, though the Shadow Ball still clips his wing-

Halcyon: <Not ideal.>

Brie: Don't worry, I have a plan!

Halcyon: <I do not like it.>

Brie: Nitrogen, I'm going to have to insist you keep your hands to yourself!

-and she dives from Halcyon's back-

Halcyon: <...>

-sigh-

-he spreads his wings, and the clouds being blown around by the winds take on a strange glow-

Halcyon: <No more of those Shadow Balls, thank you.>

-while Brie lands on Atlantis-

Brie: Extremespeed!

-who vanishes-

-reappearing aimed for Grieve, Brie holding on for dear life-

Damien feels the axe near his neck as he is unable to move despite this, he is not in a good predicament with the gravity making it hard to breath

Damien: "V- Y- Yield!"

He clearly wanted to say more but with the air situation and in the interest of self-preservation he yokes out that bit and returns to normal temperature, the raindrops pelting him a bit harder now due to the increased gravity zone.

Hae-Won has finished writing the Cool S when she hears the telepathic message.

Hae-Won: "...Did you hear something, Akravator."

Akravator: <Don't think so, no...>

Hae-Won turns to look at Sienna encased in the ice.

Hae-Won: "...Oh, wait! Was that you?"

Edited by CorvusAtrox on Sep 29th 2022 at 10:47:38 AM

School Safehouse, Hae-Won Zone

~Let me out.~

~I'll give you— what do humans like? I'll give you candy.~

Hae-Won: "I mean... I love candy as much as the next girl, but I figured you were kind of in there for a reason. You look like you're with the School and at least part of what I'm doing was under the assumption that you'd largely been taken care of. Like..."

She vaguely gestures at the block of ice.

Edited by CorvusAtrox on Sep 29th 2022 at 10:53:53 AM

School Safehouse, Hae-Won Zone

~...Please?~

Hae-Won: "...Why should I? You interested in defecting after you got your ass kicked or something?"

Edited by CorvusAtrox on Sep 29th 2022 at 11:01:33 AM

Lavender Town

Ann: -To Jackie- I've squeezed into tighter places over in Unova.

Advance Team

Zee: -Releases the gravity, but her axe still lies over Damien's neck- Okay, but I gotta make sure you don't just try to attack us once you think you have the advantage again.

-Pulls a seed out of her pocket, and flicks it onto Damien's back before focusing on it with her free hand. Damien then finds himself wrapped in Leech Seed vines that prevent him from moving-

I've got another mon besides Sickle here, but she's holding down the fort at home, you see.

Damien gets wrapped up and feels reasonably better now that he can breathe though he gets wrapped up and unable to move from the Leech Seed vine.

Maggie, meanwhile, has dressed up er burned shoulder.

Maggie: "Thanks for coming to help there, Zee. Makes sense you'd have an affinity for plants."

Damien: "Frankly, it's a shame you left the School. You certainly seem like you have the makings of an excellent Alumnus. Might mistake you for a Templar if I didn't know better."

Edited by CorvusAtrox on Sep 30th 2022 at 9:17:50 AM

School Safehouse, Hae-Won Zone

~If I said yes, would you let me out?~

Hae-Won does not answer this directly, instead looking happy.

Hae-Won: "Oh, that's great! Potential person wanting to defect and I haven't even started putting up the posters yet!"

"Well, since you're planning on getting out, I'll show you."

Hae-Won pulls out a poster that reads as follows.

Hae-Won: "You got ideas for what you're going to do? I couldn't tell you why but you seem like you could run a nice clothing boutique."

Edited by CorvusAtrox on Sep 29th 2022 at 11:38:20 AM

School Raid- vs. Brad

"...2...1— wait."

Braker stopped dead, both at the Pokemon in front of him and at a sudden realization. He turned to face his attacking mons.

"Alright, we're facing some competition here," he said.

Serkis, Romea, and Chernobog all nodded, then released off their attacks.

The first one jumped into the air, releasing a Dark Pulse out at the Gardevoir.

Romea, meanwhile, just scoffed.

<A Tyranitar,> she said. <Please. TAKE THIS, FREESHOOTER!>

And with that said, she launched herself forward, glowing a bright orange with her claws extended.

Chernobog immediately glowed a bright green color as he turned his compass eye towards the Clawitzer.

<Your demise is sure to come eventually, fiend,> he said, sending forth a burst of energy to drain the Clawitzer's HP.

Bindi, meanwhile, just smirked.

<Three opponents?> she said. <Easy-peasy! I can handle that!>

Then, winding up both of her hand-tails like a baseball pitcher:

<How's about this, ya bozos?!>

And she promptly jumped forwards— one hand-tail covered in ice, the other covered in a mix of electricity and fire— and launched herself on the opponents, with the Ice Punch aimed for the Tyranitar and the Thunder/Fire mix aimed for both the Gardevoir and the Clawitzer.

Braker, meanwhile, paused for a few moments, realizing something.

Namely, that if Kendall wasn't using the call-and-response invocations anymore... he could. He could carry on the legacy of the man he had watched on TV all those years ago. Of course, after the League, he wasn't as sure about the possibility of Kendall accepting it, especially since DC came out full-throttle after Kim unknowingly quoted "The Pretender".

Even so, though... he wasn't so sure about Heracles knowing the lyrics to whatever song he picked, so for the first one, he turned to face Kendall.

"Kendall!" he cried. "Would you mind giving me a lyric? I figure that since you're not using them anymore, I might as well carry on your legacy in at least some regard/... if that's okay with you, of course."

Vs. Brad

"I am not being delegated to your lackeys!" Kendall spat, Roy sharing the sentiment as he rushed in with Close Combat to the Tyranitar, Speed Boost making the assault go faster and faster with every thrown punch.

Kendall himself turned his attention to the Clawitzer, dashing forward on a jet of Obscura to slam his black-coated arm into the water-type, a Darkest Lariat.

"Why do you need any? Just do it!" He demanded of Leo.

On the other side, recovering, Magnavox turned to the Gardevoir, charging forth with similar speed, Iron Head ready to collide, Pyukumuku offering a Helping Hand.

Edited by AbsentCoder on Sep 30th 2022 at 3:48:37 AM

Vs. Brad

Braker glanced down at the floor for a few moments, then nodded.

"Right," he said. "We've got no time for lyrical invocations at the moment."

A glare over at Brad.

"We've got someone to give hell to."

Seconds later:

"WE'RE LIVE!"

And he focused the Key Stone onto Heracles's Heracrossite, immediately causing the former to glow with a yellow energy, and the latter to glow with an orange energy. The two streaks of light promptly met in the middle, and Heracles immediately began to glow with an orange colored light.

Braker grinned, glancing up at Brad's mons and wondering what they would do next.

???

-Tanya watches Nitrogen try their absolute best with an immense amount of condescending applause.-

-Suddenly, her mission control link lights up.-

Tanya: This had better be good...

-She flips her headset to the commander's channel.-

Tanya: Yeah, boss?

Dr. Jae-Heon: You are to pull your team back, order effective immediately.

Tanya: Oh. Uh, okay! Something happen, Doc J?

Dr. Jae-Heon: We just lost contact with Group 2. Report for debriefing.

-The line cuts, and Tanya gets a real bad feeling. And listening to that bad feeling has kept her alive this long.-

Tanya: Yellow Eyes, we are leaving. Rendezvous at extraction right the hell now or you're getting left behind.

Myo: [Woah, what?]

Nikolai: [You heard her! Move!]

-Tanya gets up and starts her quiet gunny run away from the safe house. What the hell spooked command so much? All Group 2 needed to do was scout out the mindscapes of some fucking underpaid school teachers. What the hell went wrong?-

Battle Academy, Floor of Languages

-It had been a while since she'd had practice.-

-These goons had some interesting gimmicks.-

-But they wouldn't survive a day under a real Syndicate.-

-Ah, well. Fun time's over.-

-Gebura let's out a sigh as the Red Mist dissipates.-

Binah: Bravo.

Gebura: What, these small fry weren't worth your time?

Binah: You are the one who volunteered to take Tiphereth's shift on guard duty.

Gebura: Yeah, I did, didn't I. What're you doing here?

Binah: Merely stretching my legs.

Gebura: Bullshit. You don't just go on walks.

Binah: Now now, no need for such hostility. I merely wished to put a face to our uninvited guests.

Gebura: Clones. Like R Corp. but cheap.

Binah: You appear to be half correct.

Gebura: Not in the mood to argue semantics.

Binah: Understandable. I shall leave you to your duty, then. I shall also inform Roland to acquire some cleaning supplies. Perhaps with extra bleach.