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Plan set, your Pokémon move to put it in action, Eevee immediately launching Helping Hand and powering up Shroomish. None too soon either as Zigzagoon launches another Headbutt attack, one with enough force to make Eevee fall back and clutch her head. You’re convinced if Helping Hand wasn’t a move that forces Eevee to move faster than normal, she would’ve flinched just now.
On the other side of the battlefield, you hear Nina saying, “Alright, Chinny, try to surround yourself with the electricity you use for Thunder Wave and charge into Pidgey!” Is she trying to… she’s actually trying to get Chinchou to learn an attack in mid-battle! From the sounds of it, it sounds like Spark. Chinchou does the first part successfully, surrounding itself in electricity, but unfortunately, it fizzles out before reaching Pidgey, ultimately making the move a failure. Chinny decides to back off before it eats a hit up close and personal. Covering its escape is Caterpie, Tackling Pidgey again to give Chinchou room to get away. This proves to be a rather bad idea in the long run as Pidgey overcomes its paralysis for a brief moment, launching a Gust attack at Cat point blank. The worm Pokémon ends up sliding across the ground back to Nina after eating that attack, standing back up relatively quickly, but unable to hide the fact that it favors its right side after eating that attack to left. Nina seems to be distressed by this turnout, but she tries to keep her composure, learning from you how to react when her Pokémon is hit.
Shroomish continues with your plan, launching a supercharged Tackle attack at Poochyena, sending the dog flying back. It shakily gets back to its feet, obviously not taking that attack well. You don’t think it could take too much more damage. It tries to retaliate, but the Stun Spore kicks in, preventing it from going anywhere.
In the back, forgotten by most combatants, Metapod simply uses Harden, making itself harder to hurt again.
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(Due to the many battles Dusky has gone through, she’s learned some new moves! Her complete move set is: Ember, Tail Whip, Roar, Baby-Doll Eyes, and Quick Attack)
After giving you a small smile at your decision to fight, Alexis then turns and pulls Pokéballs off her belt. “Seal, Iron Claw, Miss Chill, let’s kick some ass!” She shouts as she follows after you, unleashing her Spheal, Scizor, and Snorunt into the fray! Then she lets loose a war cry to startle the enemies into nonaction while the two of you rush them. Vulpix selects the Roselia on the field and begins raining Ember in its direction, the grass Pokémon unable to dodge due to its surprise. The fact that one of its petals catch on fire shortly before it puts it out lets you know that you’ve definitely burned the thing!
“Iron Claw, Bullet Punch to Snorunt. Flan, Icy Wind the largest concentration you can. Seal, that Sandslash looks like trouble. Hit it with Aurora Beam.” Following Alexis’ command immediately, Iron Claw rushes the enemy Snorunt, nailing it with a Bullet Punch with its excellent speed. Obviously this is who Alexis turns to when she needs to hit something first and hit them hard.
One of the enemy’s Zubats surprises the two of you by taking a sudden nose dive, falling to the ground unconscious. It’s only looking back that reveals that Chrys was the cause of this, having entered the battle of her own accord and hitting the Zubat with a Psychic attack. “These Pokémon have been bent beyond all salvation by their pathetic excuses for Trainers.” She says, voice coated in loathing and hatred. “The kindest thing I can do for them is to stop them now and then deal with their Trainers later.” Well that doesn’t sound too promising.
Suddenly, a gust of the coldest wind gusts through, seemingly coming from Flan’s mouth, wrapping around the clustered Roselia and enemy Baltoy, chilling them to the bone and lowering their speed.
Miyu, seeing Chrys enter the battle, decides to follow Steve’s request and launches an attack against Poochyena. She doesn’t follow the request to the letter, however, deciding she doesn’t want to be anywhere near the dog Pokémon, so instead she uses Swift, attacking it from afar. She does follow Steve’s request to use Sand Attack though, throwing Sand at Misdreavous, Roselia, and Numel since they seem to be the strongest enemy combatants right now.
With a small cry, Seal opens its mouth and unleashes a rainbow blast that could only be Aurora Beam at the Sandslash, nailing it right in the gut, though it doesn’t seem to have frozen through enough to have affected its Attack like Alexis wanted it to.
Surprising everyone involved, Trapinch, who had been silent and content to hide behind Chrys during your travels, launches itself into the battle, seeming to disappear, reappearing behind Misdreavous and launching a Feint Attack before scrambling back to Chrys’ side. “Why didn’t you tell me you were getting involved!?” Chrys shouts at the Trapinch, though it seems to be a lot more out of worry than in discipline. The Trapinch shrinks under the admonishment though and seems to apologize.
With your surprise attack carried out, the two sides have drastically different reactions. The side you’re helping starts to rally, the non-uniformed woman, who looks to be a school girl with her one piece uniform and pink tights, shouting, “Everyone, pull back a little bit to let your Pokémon recover! Don’t take too long though. We don’t want to rely on the newcomers too much!” Quick to follow her commands, the Geodude, Houndour, Growlithe, and Machop pull back, the Trainers responsible for them hosing them down with Potions to get them back into fighting shape. “Remind me to thank the two of you when this is all over.” The school girls says, giving you and Alexis a grateful smile before turning back to tend to her Geodude.
The other side, however, is mostly in panic, having eased into complacency since the battle had just about closed in their favor. Only the 3 Underground League Trainers seem to keep their cool, one of them, a rather slick looking boy in sunglasses and a dark blue leisure suit, lazily says, “Hey, hey, keep your cool, guys. This just means we’ve got a few more people to take out before the city is ours.” At his words, Team Magma starts to regain their poise, though not enough to actually make an attack. No, that comes from the Underground League. “Snorunt, do me a solid and powder up that Sandshrew. White would look so much better on it.”
Beside him, a boy in a purple school uniform with spiky purple hair calls out, “Misdreavous, I want that Baltoy outta the picture, ya dig?The faster you get this done, the faster I can get a piece of Roxanne.” He licks his lips as he says this, making Alexis sick to her stomach.
Somewhere in the back of the crowd, you hear a female voice shout, “Roselia? That Sandshrew dared to mar your face with Sand. Pay it back in full!” The three Pokémon, having their orders, dash towards their targets. Misdreavous, faster than you could imagine, pulls up in front of Chrys and uses Astonish, causing her to fall back in surprise. The speed on that Misdreavous is incredible! Something might need to be done about that.
Not moving from its spot, Roselia holds out its roses and unleashes a storm of purple petals, surrounding Miyu and cutting into her with its Magical Leaf attack. Just as she’s recovering from that blow, Snorunt blows out a gust of snow, nailing Miyu with Powder Snow. Though now cold and badly hurt from two Super Effective moves in a row, Miyu seems alright and doesn’t look to have been frozen through.
In the end, tired as they are having fought hard before you arrived, the other side has taken your attacks badly, Roselia burnt and puffing as if it’s barely holding on after taking two Super Effective hits. You can’t see its Trainer to know if she’s concerned about that or not. The enemy Snorunt looks like it didn’t take much damage before you came in the picture, so it’s relatively alright after eating Scizor’s attack. Its Trainer still looks as cool as ever, though you don’t know if he even knows how to show stress or surprise or anything like that. The enemy Baltoy looks a bit beat up, but it still has a ways to go before it keels over. Poochyena is wavering on its legs, just barely on its feet. Based on how close it was to Snorunt, you wonder if it was being used as Snorunt’s shield before now. Sandslash looks relatively fine, hurt by Seal’s attack, but like that was the only attack it has taken up til now. Misdreavous looks somewhat tired, but otherwise fine. The way the Officers eye it makes you think that it’s one of the main reasons their Pokémon is down. Numel and the 2 remaining Zubats look fine, like they haven’t taken too many attacks up to this point.
On your side, the Pokémon that were on the field before have retreated a bit to recover and you’ll likely see them fresh and ready for combat next round. Chrys looks like the attack she took didn’t faze her all that much, but some fatigue from holding down Meditite shows across her frame, reminding you that she’s been traveling alongside the two of you constantly to this point without time to rest. Keeping heat off of her seems like a good idea at this point. Miyu looks like she wouldn’t be able to take another attack like the one she just ate, both of the Pokémon attacking her being much stronger than her and both attacks being Super Effective on her. She refuses to show weakness to humans, so she puts on a strong front, but you can see she’s swaying and her legs are kind of shaky.
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Making your decision, you look into the other room to see what you can about what was going on. The louder one didn’t bother to close the door behind her, so you can easily see into the room from your door. The first thing that you find is that the room was apparently once sealed off with yellow police tape. The warning tape has been cut through now, lying uselessly in two separate pieces on the ground. Taking a closer look into the room, you see a disaster zone, the bed broken into pieces, the desk a pulpy mess, the floor covered in split planks, the whole nine yards. It causes you to wonder just what went on in this room. Your thoughts on this quickly derail as you find out just who was being yelled at. Or maybe what was being yelled at as you see what looks like a humanoid Houndour, having two legs, but covered in jet black fur except for the torso and belly, which are brownish. It even has a tail and the small white headplate you see on normal Houndour and on her wrists and ankles you see grayish bands. On her back are two pronounced stripes the same color as is headplate. It’s rather obvious she’s a female as whoever is in charge of her has decided she doesn’t need clothes, her D-cup breasts on full display and you’re positive you could see her vagina if it wasn’t for the healthy coating of fur and her hands blocking it. She seems to have given up on covering her tits though. She has tears in her eyes and is cupping her cheek, obviously still reeling from the hit she took earlier.
Suddenly, you see her eyes light up and she begins sniffing at the air, reminding you of a… dog who’s caught a scent. Uh oh! “Who’s there!?” She demands, getting up and coming closer to the door. Since she has your scent, it’s doubtful you can get away from her now.