Titania landed hard on her rump, keeping Valorie in her arms. "What on..." She stopped. The robot girl that she had met on top of the mountain was now staring her right in the face, daring her to finish what she started. For once, silence worked in the android's favor, as no words were needed. Titania had fled from a Trainer battle like a coward, and it was time for her to stand up and finish what had been started up on the peak. "Right. Valorie, everyone else, get back. Voltagia, you heard that I made it to the top of the mountain, right? Well, it looks like someone else was there, too, and it followed me here!" She dropped into a combat stance, a look of grim determination on her face. For good or ill, this would be the decisive moment!
...DIN-01 motioned for Titania to follow. She took several steps back out of the Pokemon Center. The doorway, you see, was entirely unideal. After putting some distance between themselves and the center she turned back around and produced a pokeball.
"Right. I know what you're here for." Indeed, the confines of a center were less than ideal. Plus, being outside would let her use the environment in ways previously unavailable. "Voltagia, make sure your grunts stay far back. This is gonna get ugly." Those eyes...those cold, mechanical eyes against her face twisted into a scowl. Just showing this much emotion meant that she was at a disadvantage. She wasn't thinking logically yet. If she didn't snap out of it and get her head in the game, Titania would be in for a swift defeat. The main question was, would Blue lead with Pikachu again? She selected Metagross this time, Charizard's speed having been a serious issue in their last encounter. DIN-01 narrowed her eyes slightly at the metagross as if squinting for a better view of it, analyzing it like the machine she was. She switched balls and in a burst of light a lapras came forth! It's cry pierced souls, instilling a feeling of awe. Without a word she pointed and the lapras seemed to understand.
"Deep Blue!" Titania cried to start the fight. "Use Agility!" Its four legs (arms?) seemed to move with more speed than usual as it relaxed its body, letting the quad-core processor get overclocked a little bit. Better do it now when it still had the HP to tank whatever Blue was planning. Probably a Hydro Pump? Already Titania felt her heart leap into her neck. She needed to play this opening perfectly to have a chance. Water began to froth in Lapras' mouth, but this was no hydro pump. As it sprayed it suddenly arced in an entirely unnatural manner, swirling around Metagross and trapping it in a powerful water twister that pulled and yanked at its body. Blue had a smirk on her face--This was exactly what she'd expected. What the--a Whirlpool? This was certainly a surprise, but now that she had had a turn to zone in, Titania was a bit more analytical now. No pun intended. Meteor Mash wasn't a sure thing, but it was the strongest she had because it totally had the bulk to take one grass knot. "Deep Blue! Use Meteor Mash!" One of its arms charged up with luminous energy before rocketing forward through the wall of water, aiming to smack Lapras right in the gabber, even sacrificing some of its own vitality to lend extra power to the blow thanks to the pulsing orb attached to its underside.
Lapras seemed to brace herself for the impact, not much bothering to try and dodge. Slugged, her slid through the air momentarily unable to control herself before regaining composure and... raised her head. A directed song emitted from her mouth, a grim tune--Perish Song. With the whirlpool obstructing Metagross' body, following it wherever it may go, it had nowhere to run. Valorie meanwhile sat in the snow nearby, watching. Judging by Lapras' appearance, she was not about to go down to a second meteor mash. Not only was Lapras ready to take another meteor mash to the face, but now Deep Blue was on a countdown. This madness had to stop fast. Plus, Titania could still feel those awful notes ringing in her ears. "That's enough out of you! Deep Blue, shut her up with Grass Knot!" The vegetation that hid wild Pokemon rose up to entangle the water-type beast and bring her down to the ground, using the massive size of the Transport Pokemon to its detriment.
Lapras emitted a shrill cry as she was slammed into the ground, body recoiling at the... disgusting greenery. For a moment it didn't appear she was going to get back up, laying there still as a rock...Whirlpool was not stopping. After a moment Titania would likely notice Lapras' wounds fading, her health rapidly regenerating. ...She was using rest. "Oh, fuck all kinds of Psyduck!" Titania cried. At most, she was only going to get off two more attacks before both Lapras and Metagross would succumb to the song, and Meteor Mash wasn't going to do it. It had to be two Grass Knots if she wanted the knockout, and it had to be right here and now as it rested and regained energy. The plant life continued its assaults with Grass Knot, battering Lapras upside the head and working underneath her shell as if to pry it off, while others still just used tree branches to beat whatever they could reach.
'Blue' watched with mild interest, seemingly unfazed. Lapras was smased into the ground, but the whirlpool remained. It seemed DIN-01 intended to force Metagross to accept its fate. The third grass knot came and Blue finally returned the fallen Lapras, but it was too late for Deep Blue. Perish Song drained him of every last ounce of energy. Titania groaned with disappointment. DIN-01 produced a new ball and threw it. This time a Venasaur emerged, planting it's feet into the snow with determination. Titania's choice was a Lucario and it was ready to brawl. "Huntress! Use Retaliate!" Filled with righteous wrath at the defeat of her comrade Metagross, the Lucario darted forward and put all of that anger into a tremendous blow before returning to a ready position.
Crack! A fist slammed into Venasaur's skull, the sound of which could be heard for nearly a mile. Ouch! ...Venasaur didn't so much as budge, no matter how much that looked like it hurt. Instead, it abruptly began shaking the large flower on it's back, emitting a cloud of spores that covered the immediate are. Choking the unfortunate Lucario that had charged foolhardely into Venasaur's face and knocking it out cold. Things were quickly going from bad to worse for the human trainer. Down one Pokemon already, and another one was effectively knocked out due to being put to sleep. "Huntress, return! Go, Bomber!" She switched to Skarmory, expecting an earthquake from the massive Venusaur which the metal bird could dodge easily. The plan here was to force a switch and get a turn to put down some spikes. If she was going to get out of this hole, she needed all the help she could get! This plan, of course, backfired horribly. Venasaur emitted a battle cry and the sun intensified. It then combo'd into a powerful hidden power ... fire. The blob of firey energy soared straight through skarmory, scorching the unfortunate bird.
"That's nothing! Bomber doesn't just go down in one hit like that!" Titania asserted more to keep herself calm. There was no way Blue could even process attempts at intimidation. "Go for the win with Drill Peck!" Skarmory let out a loud screech and shot up into the sky before diving down at the weakened Venusaur, leading with its beak and rotating its body in a drilling motion. She couldn't afford Whirlwind right now. Not only did this let Venusaur return later, but she also ran the risk of dragging out Charizard in the process. Venasaur cried out in pain this time as it was repeatedly struck with the needle-like beak of Skarmory. After all was said and done... she collapsed with a sigh. It seemed that Skarmory's drill peck and Lucario's retaliate had been too much for her. This, of course meant one thing--A ball flew and this time Charizard took the field. Her wings immediately began to glow with a fiery intensity, almost as if they were translucent. The powerful sunlight seemed to be being absorbed...
Charizard lunged forward, quickly closing the distance between the two pokemon and crashing into Skarmory in a powerful flare blitz.
Titania flinched as Bomber literally went down in flames. Down 4-5 and time for the girl from the repair shop to make a crucial decision as to who to switch in next. Huntress was effectively out of the fight, so that limited her options to three. Claw and Painkiller would just get smacked the same way, so the choice was clear. "You're in charge, Tesla! Clip his wings with a Thunderbolt!" A simple red balloon attached to the top of its antenna swayed in the breeze as it started charging up electricity for the attack.
'Blue' frowned, watching her winged beauty crash into the magnezone and... fail to stop it from electrocuting her. Charizard crashed into the snow nearby with a thud and a weak groan before being returned. DIN-01 was quick to move on however, tossing out another ball. This time a snorlax emerged. The gigantic pokemon immediately fell on it's butt, yawning. She was... bored? No. Snorlax was emitting a sort of battle cry, summoning her inner rage and bringing it out. It was... a curse attack!
This was the chance Titania needed! "Tesla, use Volt Switch! Get back here!" The Magnezone didn't so much ram into Snorlax as bounce off of its rolls of fat, but the recoil gave Titania a free switch. "You're up, Claw! Use Rock Slide!" With the power boost from Curse, one attack wouldn't do it even from Excadrill. She needed Snorlax to back down from all the boulders slamming into its face, made easier this time because now they could actually come down from above due to their location. She wanted to use Sandstorm, but an earthquake from Snorlax would wipe out her chances of victory. COME ON FLINCH HAX! Several boulders crased down on Snorlax's head, rolling down her back and--What was that? It didn't seem to have any effect. If it had actually hurt Snorlax, it definitely wasn't showing. Snorlax did flinch however, distracted by the sudden surprise headbump.
"Yee-haw! Take that, you overweight son of a Swalot!" Excadrill taunted its foe. "That's great, Claw! Now's our chance to turn this thing around! Use Earthquake!" Excadrill yelled again. "Mighty Groudon, I call on your strength! Help me win this fight for my master!" His claws slammed deep into the soft earth, causing the ground underneath Snorlax to shake violently. Snorlax was rocked and knocked into the air, ...for about half a second. She crashed down onto her back, nearly generating an earthquake of her own... and then got right back up. Not much worse for wear, it seemed Titania may have made a grave mistake. Snorlax began using curse again. It was only a matter of time until punishment came.
Time to think? Not likely. The more time Titania took, the stronger Snorlax became until it became capable of shrugging off everything she had left and KOing back. There was one thing she could try to whittle it down that much faster, though. "Claw! Now's the time! Use Sandstorm!" The sun was quickly blotted out and replaced with a raging wind, bringing with it loads and loads of particulate. If Snorlax was just going to boost up again like she thought, Claw was going to need the chip damage to have a chance.
Snorlax, of course, did exactly as expected. Completely disregarding the sand scraping against her body she continued to power up. And why did she have any reason to do otherwise, anyway? Blue knew she had this fight wrapped up, but Titania had one more trick she wanted to try. "All right, Claw! Now drill her with Iron Head!" The Excadrill leaped into the air, raising its metal claws to form a single drill with the crest on its head, and like Skarmory before him slammed into the massive foe, again trying to deny it the opportunity to set up further with the ferocity of the blow.
Snorlax stopped what it was doing as Excadrill tried to drill into her. This of course failed horribly and Excadrill practically bounced right off of Snorlax--Wait, what's that? Snorlax emitted a lazy cry and fell over bodily!...A moment passed, and she began to snore. It was rest! All progress had been lost.
Titania couldn't believe it. Blue was going to try to ride out the onslaught with a few boosts? Nice try, but Claw's Swords Dance would go a big way towards leveling the playing field and giving her a chance to get back in the fight. "Claw, get hype with Swords Dance," she coughed with a hand over her mouth to avoid breathing too much sand. "Then let her have it with more earthquakes."
As Excadrill began performing a swords dance... Snorlax got right back up. Wait, was she up? It was hard to tell--Snorlax was drooling and sniffing, looking around hungrily. She appeared to be... sleep walking--Or sleep talking as some might put it! Her gaze fixated on Excadrill and she lunged, grabbing the unfortunate excadrill right as he came off his swords dance and shoving him in her mouth, where she bit down -hard-. Crunch! Blue watched with a perpetual wide grin on her face. Valorie meanwhile appeared ever so slightly horrified by the spectacle of Snorlax attempting to eat Titania's pokemon.
"Get your paws offa me!" Claw screamed in Humanspeak as Snorlax bit down hard on its body, its sturdy steel armor being the only thing saving it from an ignominous defeat right then and there. "Since you liked the last one so much, here's another earthquake for ya!" it added, switching back to Pokespeak as it struck the ground for another seismic event. And possibly causing another avalanche given all the shaking going on in such an already volatile area.
The distant roar of an avelanche was heard, but it was not heading their way. Most of the loose snow had already been cleared from this area by the previous one. Snorlax took the earthquake with about as much grace as a spoiled child. She recoiled slightly in pain as if shocked that her supposed meal had resisted her. She clearly wasn't entirely in reality, given her being asleep. A grimace distorted her expression and she reached back, fist glowing with icy energy. She then pile drived Excadrill into the earth, utterly shattering any dream of winning the battle alongside several other more painful losses.
"Ow..." Claw grunted as it hit the deck, his valiant efforts all in vain. It was now a weakened Magnezone, a sleeping Lucario, and...wait! ONE MORE THING. "Painkiller, front and center!" A massive steel-plated dinosaur roared in defiance at those that would sully this beautiful mountain. Snorlax was about to wake up from its little nap...everything rode on this turn. If she guessed wrong, game over. "Painkiller, use Taunt!" This was to prevent Snorlax from just nodding off the damage from the last attack, after which the second part of her little stratagem would be made evident.
Snorlax opened her eyes, grinning in a goofy manner. She was as unfazed as her trainer, who seemed to have her arms folded no almost expectantly. Snorlax seemed to lick her lips, giving a hint at what was to come. She lunged forward and grabbed hold of Painkiller, not quite lifting the aggron above her head but simply leaning forward and chomping down on the steel pokemon with delight. It seemed that even when she was awake she was disgustingly voracious. Was there anything she wouldn't eat?! ...Valorie certainly seemed uncomfortable watching this anyway.
Painkiller's superior physical defense allowed it to cry in pain, but it was a gamble letting the beast stay in. Like two Hariyama in a sumo match, the super-heavy opponents pushed against each other for a while until Aggron had its horns lined up. "Now, Painkiller! The second part of our plan!" The Aggron's body glowed all over with energy, waiting for Snorlax to try to finish its snack. If the armor managed to hold, it was going to get a nasty surprise in the form of Metal Burst.
Snorlax nommed happily on Aggron, only to abruptly have a hyper-kinetic grenade go off against her stomach in the form of metal burst. The giant pokemon stepped back and wobbled before crashing to the ground. This time she did not snore, or lax. Blue seemed a tad disappointed, but it didn't last long. She tossed out one of her remaining pokemon and... Pikachu entered the battleground! The electric rodent immediately beelined for Painkiller and lunged into his belly, curling and lashing out with her tail to strike Painkiller with a devistating brick break that threatened to bust balls and anything else in it's way.
Painkiller grunted as Pikachu darted underneath and hit the dino in a way no man ever deserved to get hit. He fell to his knees as the rodent darted back to Blue's side, safely out of the radius of the crater left by his collapse. Magnezone couldn't do anything..."Huntress! You gotta wake up right now! Use Close Combat!" Naptime was over, and now Lucario was able to focus all of her energy not into getting revenge, but in a cold and calculated series of vicious blows designed to grasp victory. Unfortunately, the sandstorm had died down...
Pikachu however was having none of that. Speeding towards Lucario as if to meet her she suddenly changed courses, faking the newcomer out and lunging in for a cheap shot right on the snout the moment she got an opening. Huntress, for her part, didn't back down at all from the unexpected blow due to her focus and steadfast determination, and in came the flurry of furry ferrous fists. Pikachu was sent flying, battered and bruised, into DIN-01's arms. ...The rodent pokemon refused to go down, hanging on by the skin of her teeth. Stumbling out of DIN-01's arms she came right back at the lucario, a suicidal charge by all accounts but not without purpose. She suddenly dove and bounced off the ground to meet lucario at head height, intending to clash, brick break versus close combat. There could be no winners to this sort of vicious fight.
"Don't gimme that shit!" Titania screamed. "Huntress, use Extremespeed!" Instead of finishing with another punch to the face, the Lucario instead seemed to disappear from sight for a single crucial moment before sucker-punching the frail mouse in the back of the head as it went to do its cute little brick break trick. Pikachu was struck down in it's moment of glory, collapsing to the ground. Disappointment. The next pokemon to appear was Blastoise. The turtle pokemon flexed her arms, staring down Titania's lucario.
Gut check time. Its shell was tough enough to shrug off a close combat, but did she have the time to whip out a potion for Tesla? No, she didn't. For all its looks, it was actually faster than appearances let on. Faster than a Magneton. "Huntress, return!" she cried out. "Go, Tesla!" She felt horrible about throwing her friend under the bus like this, but Huntress needed to rest and Titania needed to learn more about what tricks this thing had in its cannons. For her trouble she got a scald attack, burning hot water spraying down the magnezone where it floated. Blastoise's cannons smoked with steam. Titania's ears would be shooting steam as well, if this were some sort of corny cartoon. For a job well done, Huntress was sent in to try to finish the fight where everyone else had faltered. "Huntress! Use Retaliate!" Yeah, Close Combat would have been stronger due to Lucario's affinity for the move, but she needed to be ready for the counter-attack.
Blue got this devilish grin on her face, probably the biggest of them all! For it was she who would have the last laugh. Retaliate struck home and Blastoise turned her cheek, sliding back several feet but refusing to be knocked over. Both cannons turned, and a vicious water spout attack tore into Huntress, pulverizing her with crushing force.
No. This would not be the end. Lucario was launched right into Titania's bosom and the two of them crashed into the ground, the trainer with the wind knocked out of her and the Pokemon hanging by a thread...partly because of the soft landing. "Huntress, please tell me you're all right," Titania coughed, and Lucario barked affirmatively. "This is it, robot! I won't lose to you! Huntress! Crack that Blastoise with your Close Combat!" Now what needed to happen was easy. Blastoise needed to fall, Lapras would come out, and Lucario needed one more knockout with Close Combat to win the match. Lucario howled in fury as she launched herself forward, striking hard and fast at the shelled Pokemon, needing it to go down before it could compose itself for one final attack.
Blastoise closed her eyes, shielding herself from the blows theat struck her shell. It was no use however, a foolhardy hope. Blastoise wasn't quite down, nor was she even hanging by a thread. Her cannons twisted and a scald attack spelled boiling doom for Huntress. Titania fell to her hands and knees, panting from the futile effort. Was all her training not enough? Despite having been an Elite? What was she missing...? "Huntress...r-return..." Tears fell to the ground, knowing that today her best just wasn't good enough. What would Jessica think..? The crunch of snow approached, and a cold hand reached down to grasp for Titania's attention. It was DIN-01, standing directly before her now and perhaps even invading her personal space a little. If Titania looked up, and goodness hope we aren't talking about 'Blue's skirt, she would find that a raging fire blazed in DIN-01's eyes alongside a thrilled grin. She nodded and gestured over at Valorie. She then gestured at Titania, and then at herself. It seemed she was suggesting something. Perhaps it was battle lust in her eyes, and she was suggesting Titania and Valorie team up against her? Valorie got to her feet, seeming to notice this. She was excited at the prospect. Cynthia, for her part, had been watching the entire spectacle from a safe distance, and she was quite frankly horrified. "Leave her alone, you've done enough," she yelled at the android before helping the defeated Trainer to her feet. "I...I had no idea you had such a savage beast in you. Almost like that Zoroark that was here earlier...come on, we need to get you back inside. You've had a long day." Titania nodded weakly, too exhausted and depressed to muster so much as a "yeah, okay."
"I'll battle her." Valorie exclaimed, a certain decisiveness to her tone. She seemed to be speaking to Cynthia, offering. DIN-01 nodded slowly, though her eyes held disappointment. Who was this short girl in the skirt? Probably a weakling... She disregarded the others for the moment and moved to go heal her pokemon in the pokemon center, like any normal trainer would--Only without words. "W-what? Really?!" Cynthia was incredulous, but nevertheless let the girl have her shot. After all, there were other things that needed attention right now. Like healing a broken spirit.
Valorie took Titania's place on the battlefield, pokeball in hand. She did not throw down however. She'd seen how DIN-01 had taken advantage of knowing what she was up against last battle. She waited until DIN-01 lost patience and threw out her own ball instead, which didn't take long. The battle lust was strong, waiting was hard. It was Venasaur. Valorie narrowed her eyes for a moment before she herself switched pokeballs and sent out her gliscor.
The scorpion pokemon hung in the air, tongue stuck out almost tauntingly. Blue narrowed her eyes, analyzing the pokemon present. "Alright Gliscor, get ready to fight! Use agility!" Valorie called out. DIN-01 seemed torn, but Venasaur shook off a storm of spores regardless, attempting to put the dangerous pokemon to sleep. It... had no effect. The spores hit, but Gliscor appeared to be immune to their effect. Taking initiative and with knowledge of what Venasaur was capable of Valorie only continued. "Swords Dance!" she exclaimed, eyeing Blue confrontationally.
With tenacity Valorie had stolen the advantage and was keeping Blue forced into very difficult choices. This was a very bad matchup, and switching her venasaur out wasn't much better. if she didn't predict right. Yet, she had very little choice. Venasaur was called back before she even got started and in her place Lapras joined the battle. A second agility followed, but Valorie was no fool. She saw the ice type attack coming. It was time to take action. "Now, baton pass!"
Gliscor's energy manifested itself as she was returned to her pokeball, staying behind for the next pokemon to come out. It was... Dragonite?! The massive, 12 foot tall dragonite appeared with a thud as she landed on the ground, only to be blasted with an ice beam immediate. Crying out, the now irritated giant pokemon turned on DIN-01's lapras, having failed to take her down. Dragonite glowed with a powerful blue aura, lunging out grasping Lapras. With one powerful heave she simply threw Lapras over her shoulder, slamming the pokemon into the ground and creaeting a small crater in the process. Ice beam didn't seem to have done a great deal, other than piss her off.
'Blue' was taken aback. She had no answer to this problem, nothing that could step in and take such powerful attacks, and she knew it. Pikachu came in and was merely shrugged off and stomped on. Blastoise came in and had her shell shattered. To call 'Blue' brutal would've made this looked like a war crime, with the understanding that Dragonite didn't seem to have to try very hard. Such was simply raw strength taking casualties left and right. Charizard was swatted out of mid-air with a swing of Dragonite's gigantic tail. All the while Dragnite seemed to be roosting when possible, resting off the damage against foes that could not hope to bring her down.
Finally Venasaur came and the clouds darkened. Thunder crackled in the distance and a powerful wind rocked the mountainside, both battlers' skirts swaying chaotically in this new storm. Suddenly a burst of directed wind slammed into Venasaur, ripping her off the ground and sending her flying into her own trainer. Trapped, DIN-01 was forced to return Venasaur to free herself, where it was revealed she'd suffered mild damage from being crushed. One of her arms appeared to be hurt, and Valorie frowned in disappointment. She would've apologized, but the wind was simply too strong. Finally, Snorlax. Valorie smirked, feeling the urge to show off hit her. "...Alright Dragonite--Combo! Hurricane and Twister!" she called out over the roaring winds.
A twister began to form, but then the winds of the hurricane fed into it and it's growth increased exponentially. Within moments a full blown tornado had erupted, it's winds directed at Snorlax.Though the battlers could hear the deafening roar of the wind, they only felt a tiny fraction of it. Snorlax however got the full brunt, and after a moment she was yanked into the air, twirled around several times and simply thrown right off Mt. Silver. A flying snorlax was seen that day. DIn-01 made a move to chase the flying pokemon but something akin to pain in her right side stopped her.
The battle was over, and Valorie had won a brutal victory, and yet... seeing DIN-01 struggle with the wound she'd recieved in the crossfire brought a frown to her face. The storm died away as quickly as it came as Dragonite seemed to relax. Valorie walked over to DIN-01, whom was now somewhat doubled over, and helped her to stand up straight. She then reached down and began to feel up DIN-01's side, searching for the wound where it seemed like se was hurting. However, non-human insides merely left her with confusing sensations and a rude push from 'Blue'. Rather than simply not wanting to be handled, Blue appeared to be applying medicine to her remaining pokeballs! A big grin was on her face, entirely out of place given the context. She then held out a pokeball, doing her best to stand up straight. She was challenging Valorie again, an almost insane battle-lust in her eyes. Valorie grapped DIN-01's wrist, only to notice that a bluish, fiery halo had begun to burn just above her head. She stared in wonder for a moment as DIN-01 stared back in shock at her aggressive grab before Valorie pulled DIN-01's arm around her shoulder and began to help her back to the pokemon center.
"You've gotta watch who you're hitting, Dragonite..! Can you imagine if their trainer wasn't metal?" she lectured half-heartedly as she helped a reluctant and now flustered DIN-01 inside. The halo had vanished. Cynthia only had one thing to say about the epic ass-kicking that had just taken place, but Titania beat her to the punch. "What the FUCK did I just watch?!" In response, Valorie offered the two of them her best smile and a slightly embarrassed blush.
DIN-01 lolled her head to one side in confusion in response to Winter's challenge. Without any words to compliment her body language it wasn't clear what exactly it was about what he'd said to elicit that reaction but, sure enough, she plucked a pokeball from her waist and primed it in preparation to engage Winter. She seemed to consider the pokemon he had sent out for a moment, quietly rolling the enlarged ball out of her palm and onto the ground. From it, a pikachu emerged. The heart shaped curvature at the end of her tail identified her as being female, but otherwise, there wasn't much to observe about the pokemon! That is to say, there was nothing strange about it, at least. The mouse pokemon shuddered in the cold, but quickly shook off her discomfort by shifting onto all fours into a battle-ready position and beginning to bounce rather energetically.