ITT: We are all Pokémon Trainers

Hm? This hat? I bought it yesterday. I normally don't wear a hat, but thought this one looked nice.

Oh, I thought you already had a hat for some reason.
Now, if you'll excuse me...

-Turns around, finds a soggy, half-eaten pie and lobs it at Giovanni-

WANKEEEEERRRRR!

edited 19th Jun '11 8:52:04 PM by Slouch

-stunned by Slouch's actions, I find myself unable to anything except slowly and epicly applaud-

-Nods to Slouch-

Here here!

edited 19th Jun '11 8:52:01 PM by PippingFool

-Gives the thumbs up to Wolf and Fool-

-Slips out of the office building and heads towards a local tabletop RPG figure painting and gaming den-

(Seeing Nidoqueen hurling the rocks at Volcarona)

— Now that's just sick! Maekrite, let's go! Algira, you're in charge...!

(I leave the camera running and run down to the stadium while Maekrite follows hurriedly; Algira just floats down to the camera and sits on it.

Algira — <Wait... *flaps* What do I do with this artifact...?>

(Meanwhile at the van)

Technician #1 — "That guy is stronger than we expected. At this rate, we won't have a chance to activate the Device..."

Technician #2 (To Agent D) — "Should we just activate it now?"

Agent D — "Of course not" (brings out a whip from Hammerspace and swirls it around, somewhat lost in thought) "If we do before the special energy wave is present, we can't tap into the Pokéball mechanism the way we want..."

(She looks at the two technicians unconcerned)

Agent D — "And if that happens, we can't assist our Boss."

Technician — "What do we do... we can't really afford much more time. Boss is losing this battle."

Agent D — "This battle matters not... But I'll concede." (she looks at the monitor with the device and a schema of all six of Tagg's Pokeballs) "If Nidoqueen can't get through, activate the device regardless. I'll answer to the Boss personally."

(Agent D gets out of the van to relax)

(Meanwhile back at the arena)

A pie flies off just an inch past Giovanni's face, causing him to yell. Nidoqueen gets distracted and turns around to see where did the pie come from, and she is hit by the full force of the Heat Wave, yelling in pain.

Giovanni — Focus on your opponent, Nidoqueen. Heh... He can't defeat you so easily... *not with the special genetic «TRiple Helix» treatment*... stand up and feel your body.

("I have to commend someone with such a good aim though...")

Nidoqueen stands up and as she recovers some energy thanks to the Sludge, she shakes of some of the melted poison encasing in her skin; she immediately knows what to do and begins acting right out as Giovanni speaks.

Giovanni — Now, a Venoshock.

Nidoqueen charges up and materializes the dripping venom into a ball which is converted into energy. Nidoqueen then starts running towards Volcarona and jumps to hurl the ball onto him, Basketball-style.

edited 19th Jun '11 9:03:17 PM by SilentReverence

-Punches the air triumphantly-

-Riptide and Numbskull cheer, both for Tagg and for Slouch-

edited 19th Jun '11 9:08:09 PM by Slouch

-Helios gets reduced to the yellow by Venoshock-

That Nidoqueen should be hurting a lot more. What did Giovanni do to her?

Helios, can you still battle?

Helios: <I'm not letting her past me!>

Okay then, use Hurricane!

-Helios whips up a massive windstorm with his wings, the heat created by his body and the fire causes it to burn as he sends it over to Nidoqueen-

-wakes up, having fallen asleep in the stands-

Oh wow, I was more tired than I thought.

Um, what did I miss?

Felis: <This guy is using tactics that repulse me.>

What, seriously?

Felis: <Just look at this mockery of a battle. I swear he ordered that Nidoqueen to attack the opposing trainer.>

-Watching Giovanni's Nidoqueen largely shrug off Helios' attack-

<Shaun: "That's not... Possible...">

<Kat: "... What did he do to her?">

-Having had my call finally go through-

"Hello? Operator?"

edited 19th Jun '11 9:13:50 PM by TracerBullet

I think there might be something assisting that Nidoqueen! No Pokemon, no matter how strong, could take a battering like that and still stand!

-Elsewher, Hatbox is going for a Sunday flight-

Hatbox: Hatbox loves the view from up here!

-Hatbox sees something that catches his intrest-

Hatbox: What's that! Hatbox must investigate!

-Hatbox descends-

edited 19th Jun '11 9:27:04 PM by PippingFool

-Keeping one hand over my beard, picks up a half-drank soda and hurls it in Giovanni's direction-

That was a little audacious of me...

-Spies another crushed can, but decides that he's had his share of hurling abuse and rubbish at Giovanni for today-

<Thinking> Something is definitely up with that Nidoqueen... This guy might be even more of a 'WANKEEEEERRRRR' than I thought.

edited 19th Jun '11 9:26:07 PM by Slouch

Giovani raises an eyebrow as he sees the Volcarona whip out a firestorm attack.

"That is true strength... can someone truly stand to this?"

Nidoqueen is pushed back by the attack, her skin and eyes aching as she tries to instinctively Defense Curl. A moment later, the Pokémon uncurls and looks back at her assailant, then at Giovanni waiting for a command.

Giovanni — <...>

Nidoqueen hesitates for a moment, then growls.

Nidoqueen — "Niiii?" <Trainer?>

Giovanni (crosses his arms) — Nidoqueen, Dragon Pulse...

Nidoqueen nods, curls again and swirls, releasing a scream and a stream of purple-coloured energy as she does so. Nidoqueen however is too tired and as the Sludge beats once more, Nidoqueen grumbles and rests down.

Technician #1 — "This has got too far"

(The technician leaps from his post and pushes a red button)

Technician #2 — "I'll stand by you pal... although I know it is Agent D who wants to face the consequences, it is largely our fault that Boss's battle is degraded to this point."

Technician #1 — "If we are really unfit to serve him, we can at least leave a parting gift..."

(Some messages are output to a screen as an analysis starts to run down on Tagg's balls.)

CONSOLE — <ANALYSIS COMPLETE — Shared Environment Syndicator successfully [ HACKED ] >

CONSOLE — <init.d:pain-order-66 — Starting Psychic Pain Transfer Balancer...>

Meanwhile, I run down the stairs.

— This is getting wayyy off-chart. There's something really weird going on behind this.

(A small device cloaked in the right side of Tagg's waist starts emitting a high-frequency short range wave that connects all the Pokéballs in Tagg's belt together and sends pain impulses and damage from the Pokémon already defeated to the ones standing by, effectively working as a spread-effect version of Psych Up)

edited 19th Jun '11 9:36:18 PM by SilentReverence

-Fool starts twirling around her frying pan, her face indicating that she's close to killing Trenchcoat guy-

...

-Not to far from the arena, Hatbox discovers a van-

Hatbox: Oh! Nice!

-Hatbox lands on the top of the van, admiring the antennae-

Hatbox: My oh my!

edited 19th Jun '11 9:35:40 PM by PippingFool

Wha!?

<Kat: "HOW IS SHE STILL STANDING?!">

<Shaun: "Something's really fishy about all of this, I just hope that we don't wind up having to bail Tagg out...">

"... What do you mean he's playing within the rules?! Have you been watching the way he's been interacting with his Pokemon?! AGH!"

-Hangs phone up in disgust-

"Suddenly, I'm not so surprised that we get so many minors as league champions in this world..."

edited 19th Jun '11 9:38:20 PM by TracerBullet

-struggling to keep her eyes open-

Sunny: <You look like you're falling asleep. You should go back to the room and get some rest.>

But the battle...I have to see how this ends.

Sunny: <We can watch from the TV in your room.>

Oh, fine...

-walks to her room, lays in bed, and watches the battle on TV until she falls asleep-

Good night.

-Outside the arena-

Hatbox: These funny pronged branches look awesome! Maybe the bird that owns this tree won't mind if Hatbox takes a few branches...

-Hatbox starts to attack one of the smaller antennea, trying to pry it off-

Hatbox: Murph! Tricky tree!

edited 19th Jun '11 9:40:25 PM by PippingFool

-Decides to follow Mezzo's example and watches the rest of the battle in my room-

Also good night.

-Helios is dropped to the red-

Cobalt: <Tagg!>

Cobalt?

Cobalt: <So much pain...but it isn't enough to take Hydreigon and I down.>

Where's it coming from?

Cobalt: <There's some sort of device that's doing this. From what I can read the people there hacked into the PEFE database in order to do this to us.>

Let's send in the calvalry then to take care of that, since we most likely have two Nidos to defeat.

-As Cobalt sends out a psychic SOS to every friend and ally of ours nearby, I order Helios to do a critical hit strength Hurricane augmented by the flames-

edited 11th Mar '12 12:18:35 PM by rmctagg09

x4 G'night, you old softie.

-Has no idea what to make of the psychic message he just received-

edited 19th Jun '11 9:46:35 PM by Slouch

(Turns around some stairs when suddenly Maekrite yells behind me)

Maekrite — Nido ni! (points to another direction) <Trainer! Tracer this direction, I smell him!>

— What...? You want us to go that way?

(Runs in that direction and sees Tracer near a phone cabin)

— Tracer! Ufff... Something is wrong with Giovanni! We have to go for Tagg, as in right now!

Maekrite — <I feel it! That Nidoqueen wasn't normal... even through she's older than she looks... she has way too much power for a protector of the Colony...>

-Has recieved some psychic signals from Cobalt-

Wha...

-After a while of snapping, clawing and pecking. One of the antenna prongs snaps off-

Hatbox: That's one down! I'll take two more!

-Hatbox starts "attacking" a different prong-

edited 19th Jun '11 9:45:09 PM by PippingFool