Individual RP: Jr

NBP

Ranger Chainy

OOC: If you have any questions as to how the Park works, feel free to ask. Otherwise, here's hoping for an enjoyable run and a few good captures!

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I leaned backwards on my chair, sighing contentedly. My left eye was closed, and since my right eye was hidden behind my Aura Reader it looked to anyone else like I was napping with my feet up on my desk. I had a fair load of paperwork to do, but it wasn't due in for another week so I had plenty of time to laze around. Besides, I was engaging in an activity that was infinitely more enjoyable - watching the female Rangers scurry around. One of them was out of the office at the moment, but that still left me with two to watch. The great thing was there was no way they could possibly know I was doing so.

Elisa was a relatively new ranger, still bubbly and enthusiastic, not jaded like some of the older ones. She bounced around the office with a spring in her step, filing papers and helping the secretaries with a warm smile on her face. Her long hair flicked around her as she moved, which made for a very attractive sight.

Ivy was just as fun to look at. Her black turtleneck and cargo pants were very form-fitting, and she was just that little bit more jiggly. At the moment she was bending over her desk to pick up a pen that had fallen over, so I had a prime view of a very interesting place. I watched as she managed to snare the pen with the tips of her fingers. At that very second, her Espeon Haji walked in. He took a look at me, and then looked over to Ivy. She froze in place for a second, and then whipped her head around to give me a piercing glare.

I toppled over on my chair, completely unexpecting this turn of events. She got up off her chair, and began to walk over to me. I scrabbled around, trying to get up, but I couldn't do so in time. She planted a foot on my arm and stared down at me menacingly.

<James, we have a run,> Dual's thought flashed through my mind.

Perfect! I squeaked, as Ivy's foot began to press down harder. Teleport us both there!

Dual was silent for a second. <Are you getting punished for something?>

Now's not the time to accuse me of stuff, we have a run to start, I said quickly. The pain in my arm was starting to shoot up to my shoulder.

Dual sent me an image of his face looking sceptical, but blue light started to gather around me nonetheless. It covered me quickly, inside of a couple seconds, and the world suddenly flashed out of existence. I wasn't worried, though - Dual and I would appear in a flash of blue outside the gates to wherever the Trainer was having his expedition. I just hoped we got there before them.

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Current Trainer Statistics:

Name: Junior
Location: Botanical Gardens
Area Effects: 15 Encounters Remaining
Pokemon Encountered: N/A
Pokemon Captured: N/A
CC since last Encounter: 0

Pokemon Statistics:

Quiet Male Spritomb[Nicknames Tomber] 100% (HM/TM/BM/MT/MT: Calm Mind, Will-o-Wisp, Shadow Ball, Toxic, Hidden Power[ROCK], Psychic, Rest, Snatch, Substitute, Rock Tomb, Water Pulse, Taunt, Psych Up, Pain Split, Trick <Pressure Ability>)

Brave Genderless Metagross[Nicknamed Softie] 100% (HM/TM/BM/SM/MT: Earthquake, Substitute, Grass Knot, Explosion, Brick Break, Aerial Ace, Light Screen, Toxic, Shadow Ball, Hidden Power[WATER], Rain Dance, Stealth Rock, Sleep Talk, Sludge Bomb, Psych Up, Rest, Protect, Rock Tomb, Facade, Gyro Ball, Hone Claws, Bulldoze, Thunderpunch, Ice Punch, Trick <Clear Body Ability>)

Timid Genderless Electrode[Nicknamed Lost-A-Ball] 100% (HM/TM/BM/SM/MT: Taunt, Thunderbolt, Hidden Power[WATER], Thunder, Thunder Wave, Reflect, Swagger, Toxic, Rest, Sleep Talk, Substitute, Rain Dance <Static Ability>)

Item Statistics:

Park Ball x3
Super Ball x2
Ferroseed Disk
PokePlayer

~~~~~

 

ooc: I'll try to improve with descriptions and that jazz as we get into it more - figured this was just an introduction anyway.

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I wove goodbye to Swampert, who promised to look after my one-story vine infested home. I didn't think he would want to since he's awfully afraid of anything that involves the environment, but he agreed easily. The blue amphibious monster did always like any extra company I brought home from my adventures. And I planned to do just that today.

"Good luck, bud," I said as I made my way down the dirt path that was ridden with small weeds that had been sprouting as the weather became nice in the spring weather.

As I slumped down the trail there were chirps from the surrounding trees. I never knew that Pokemon lived this way. Never had heard Pokemon from any other part of the forest, I thought, becoming interested in what kind of Pokemon I would find in my adventure into the park, this is gonna be awesome.

Slowly making my way out of the forest the sun shine its rays brightly on the quiet dirt road, forcing me to squint. Off into the distance I could just barely see the gate for the Botanic Gardens. There was a huge lack of any kind of trees from here on out. The healthy looking green grass just got taller and taller as I approached the gate, something my cell phone reception can never seem to do.

Continuing my trek to the steel gates the grass looked more and more perfect with each step I took, it really is greener on the other side. I had never gone this way out of the forested home, the big cities and towns were the opposite direction on the path. This scenery and fresh air was a pleasant change.

Finally approaching the gates I looked around to find the Ranger that would be taking me into the park but to no avail. “Guess I’ve arrived early.”

I dropped my small bag onto the ground and took a seat, leaning back against the gate. It was extremely hot and uncomfortable. Luckily, a blue aura appeared out of no where. It shocked me so much I jumped up - at full attention as if I were being commanded by a Lieutenant.

From the aura came a Pokemon and a Ranger.

“Hey, how’s it goin’? You’ll be taking me into the gardens?”

 

NBP

Ranger Chainy

OOC: Yeah, most people do the minimum until something they want to catch comes along. Then they start going nuts. It's a workable tactic.

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As the world started to reform itself and the blue shade began to leech away, a voice that I'd never heard before broke through the incessant static buzzing that always accompanied Dual's Teleportation.

“Hey, how’s it goin’? You’ll be taking me into the gardens?” it asked.

I closed my eyes and kneaded my forehead. For some reason the after effects of the teleportation was affecting me more than usual. I opened my eyes back up, and I saw a muscly young man with brown shaggy hair standing straight up in the air. He wasn't short, but I couldn't hold back a smile when I noticed he was noticably shorter than me. I held out my hand to shake his warmly.

"Yeah, it's going good. Nice to get out from the office and away from the abusive women," I said wryly, retracting my hand and rubbing the wrist. "I'm Ranger James Carter, but feel free to call me Chainy. Carter is for superiors and James is for people I've seen naked."

I turned around and approached the gate. The tech jockeys were always making me earn entry through strange means, and I wondered how they were going to humiliate me today. The feud between us was long-running, and I didn't like thinking about it. It hadn't even been my fault, not really.

I pulled out my PDA and flicked the touchscreen a few times. It was apparently receiving the three-step handshake protocol from a new device. I read the device description in the properties field and groaned before walking up to the speakerphone that you usually spoke into. Instead, I turned around and grunted softly. A quiet brrrt was barely audible, and after a second's delay the beautiful wrought iron gates opened up.

"Alright, no time to waste," I called out, realizing that I didn't know the Trainer's name. I shrugged - either he'd tell me or it'd come through on my PDA soon - and my main concern was to get him past here before he realized what I'd done. We both moved quickly through the gates, and they swung silently shut soon after. We were in what was nicknamed "the foyer", a lightly gardened area with a map of the Gardens and signposts to all the various locations. I was just about to ask my Trainer where he wanted to go when a Blissey stepped out from behind the sign. It called out to us and gave us a happy wave.

"That's a good way to start a run," I said, smiling happily.

~~~~~

Current Trainer Statistics:

Name: Junior
Location: Botanical Gardens
Area Effects: 14 Encounters Remaining
Pokemon Encountered: ??? Blissey (?)
Pokemon Captured: N/A
CC since last Encounter: 2053

Pokemon Statistics:

Quiet Male Spritomb[Nicknames Tomber] 100% (HM/TM/BM/MT/MT: Calm Mind, Will-o-Wisp, Shadow Ball, Toxic, Hidden Power[ROCK], Psychic, Rest, Snatch, Substitute, Rock Tomb, Water Pulse, Taunt, Psych Up, Pain Split, Trick <Pressure Ability>)

Brave Genderless Metagross[Nicknamed Softie] 100% (HM/TM/BM/SM/MT: Earthquake, Substitute, Grass Knot, Explosion, Brick Break, Aerial Ace, Light Screen, Toxic, Shadow Ball, Hidden Power[WATER], Rain Dance, Stealth Rock, Sleep Talk, Sludge Bomb, Psych Up, Rest, Protect, Rock Tomb, Facade, Gyro Ball, Hone Claws, Bulldoze, Thunderpunch, Ice Punch, Trick <Clear Body Ability>)

Timid Genderless Electrode[Nicknamed Lost-A-Ball] 100% (HM/TM/BM/SM/MT: Taunt, Thunderbolt, Hidden Power[WATER], Thunder, Thunder Wave, Reflect, Swagger, Toxic, Rest, Sleep Talk, Substitute, Rain Dance <Static Ability>)

Item Statistics:

Park Ball x3
Super Ball x2
Ferroseed Disk
PokePlayer

~~~~~

 

ooc: ;_; why so soon?

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I stumble back startled at the pink blob coming out of its hiding spot. “Wow! What a rare Pokémon,” enthusiastic about my first Pokémon encounter.

Clicking the small button one of my Pokeballs I throw it into the air, appearing from it a large blue hunk of steel: Metagross. Its two feet grasped the ground with their sharp clones.

My enthusiasm faded quickly unfortunately. “You can only capture Blissey with Hyper Balls if I read up correctly…”

To be sure I had none of these special Poke balls I furiously check through my bag, rummaging through my rations of food, Pokémon discs, and other park Poke Balls.

“Nope, none. Damn. Maybe next time we’ll have better luck. No other choice but to try and get out of here. Sorry, Blissey.”

"I'm Junior by the way, forgot to introduce myself," whispering to Ranger Chainy so the pink Pokemon can't hear my SECRET plan, “and if Blissey won’t let us escape I’d like to use one of your Poke Dolls.”


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ooc: if I need to use PokeDoll then $23000 - $500 = $22500

 

NBP

Ranger Chainy

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"Wow, what a rare Pokemon!" he exclaimed, quickly throwing a PokeBall up into the air. A flash of white light temporarily blinded me, and when the brightness faded I saw a Metagross standing in a strange, somewhat anthropomorphised two-legged pose. Perhaps it was a special battle position, or maybe it was one of those Metagross that learned to negate half of their body weight with electromagnetism, I didn't know. The Trainer Profile hadn't come through on my PDA yet.

I looked over at the guy, happy to see him smiling. Blissey were very rare, and I was glad to see him come across it so early. Unfortunately, his face fell, and I could guess why. It was a rookie mistake - Pokemon that have evolved cannot be caught by any kind of ball except a Hyper Ball, and when people forgot to buy them they did themselves a huge disservice. He muttered something and began to search around in his small bag fervently.

“Nope, none. Damn. Maybe next time we’ll have better luck. No other choice but to try and get out of here," he said to himself. "Sorry, Blissey.”

He then turned to me and whispered, "I'm Junior by the way, forgot to introduce myself, and if Blissey won’t let us escape I’d like to use one of your Poke Dolls.”

I gave the Blissey a quick look. It seemed quite enamoured with the muscly young man, and if we let it hang around it might cause problems later on. Only rarely did Pokemon approach people if they saw a Wild one hanging around.

"Better throw one just in case, I have a feeling it might try to follow us," I said.

He nodded, and gave me a small wad of cash. I tucked it away inside the pack that was nestled against my lower back and passed him a stuffed animal that was in the shape of a Clefairy. He threw the doll underarm to the Blissey, and it caught it, cooing happily. It rubbed the doll against its cheek and began to walk away.

I walked over to the map and waved for Junior to follow me. There were so many interesting places in the gardens for people to visit, like the greenhouses, or the ponds, or the forest plot, or even the picnic area. I stood back a bit and tilted my hand at the sign, indicating for Junior to take a look and choose where he wanted to go.

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Current Trainer Statistics:

Name: Junior
Location: Botanical Gardens
Area Effects: 14 Encounters Remaining
Pokemon Encountered: ??? Blissey (?)
Pokemon Captured: N/A
CC since last Encounter: 0

Pokemon Statistics:

Quiet Male Spritomb[Nicknames Tomber] 100% (HM/TM/BM/MT/MT: Calm Mind, Will-o-Wisp, Shadow Ball, Toxic, Hidden Power[ROCK], Psychic, Rest, Snatch, Substitute, Rock Tomb, Water Pulse, Taunt, Psych Up, Pain Split, Trick <Pressure Ability>)

Brave Genderless Metagross[Nicknamed Softie] 100% (HM/TM/BM/SM/MT: Earthquake, Substitute, Grass Knot, Explosion, Brick Break, Aerial Ace, Light Screen, Toxic, Shadow Ball, Hidden Power[WATER], Rain Dance, Stealth Rock, Sleep Talk, Sludge Bomb, Psych Up, Rest, Protect, Rock Tomb, Facade, Gyro Ball, Hone Claws, Bulldoze, Thunderpunch, Ice Punch, Trick <Clear Body Ability>)

Timid Genderless Electrode[Nicknamed Lost-A-Ball] 100% (HM/TM/BM/SM/MT: Taunt, Thunderbolt, Hidden Power[WATER], Thunder, Thunder Wave, Reflect, Swagger, Toxic, Rest, Sleep Talk, Substitute, Rain Dance <Static Ability>)

Item Statistics:

Park Ball x3
Super Ball x2
Ferroseed Disk
PokePlayer

~~~~~

 

After sneaking away from the now occupied Blissey Ranger Chainy came to a halt at a fork in the road. He tilted his head to me, signaling me to think about which way I should choose to go.

I paused and thought about where I should go.

Down the left were picnic tables set up next to a shimmering pond, it looked like the most relaxing place to go, but I didn’t feel comfortable going over that way for some reason. Straight down the middle there was a huge forest. It reminisced of the forest that my house occupied; the trees covered any sun shine, but they were extremely green and healthy looking, unlike the drooping trees back home. To the right of the forest was more tall grass, it seemed to stretch out for miles and miles. If you looked closely through the blades of grass you could see small glass houses.

Still stumped I ask Metagross were he wanted to go, using telepathy he responded, <I feel you have a higher degree of accomplishing your goal through the forest. Additionally, the forest will likely be a more comfortable place for you to battle considering you live in one.>

“Well then. I guess it’s decided,” I said decisively, “We are going into the forest.”

I walked down the path before Ranger Chainy could respond, exhilarated to find a Pokémon I could finally capture.

 

NBP

Ranger Chainy

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Junior followed me over to the sign and gazed at it for a while. He looked like he was having trouble deciding where to go, but he finally spoke up after a few minutes.

“Well then. I guess it’s decided. We are going into the forest," he said before walking quickly off in that direction.

I sighed quietly. My favourite parts of the Gardens were the flowerbeds or the greenhouses, and yet every single time I managed to find myself escorting someone through the forest section. I shook my head ruefully and jogged after Junior, who was keeping up a cracking pace.

Three minutes later we found ourselves at the beautiful stonework arch that denoted the entrance to the forest plot. It contained all kinds of rare tropical trees and flowers, and there were many rare Pokemon in here like Ferroseed and Petilil. I shrugged, and led Junior through the arch. I was then taken aback - a Breloom was standing right in the middle of the path, scratching itself leisurely on the belly. Its mushroom-like tail tip swished through the air happily, spreading tiny spores throughout the air.

"Wow, you're a magnet for rare Pokemon, Junior," I remarked. "Feel like trying to capture a Breloom at all?"

~~~~~

Current Trainer Statistics:

Name: Junior
Location: Botanical Gardens
Area Effects: 13 Encounters Remaining
Pokemon Encountered: ??? Blissey(?); ??? Breloom(?)
Pokemon Captured: N/A
CC since last Encounter: 1295

Pokemon Statistics:

Quiet Male Spritomb[Nicknames Tomber] 100% (HM/TM/BM/MT/MT: Calm Mind, Will-o-Wisp, Shadow Ball, Toxic, Hidden Power[ROCK], Psychic, Rest, Snatch, Substitute, Rock Tomb, Water Pulse, Taunt, Psych Up, Pain Split, Trick <Pressure Ability>)

Brave Genderless Metagross[Nicknamed Softie] 100% (HM/TM/BM/SM/MT: Earthquake, Substitute, Grass Knot, Explosion, Brick Break, Aerial Ace, Light Screen, Toxic, Shadow Ball, Hidden Power[WATER], Rain Dance, Stealth Rock, Sleep Talk, Sludge Bomb, Psych Up, Rest, Protect, Rock Tomb, Facade, Gyro Ball, Hone Claws, Bulldoze, Thunderpunch, Ice Punch, Trick <Clear Body Ability>)

Timid Genderless Electrode[Nicknamed Lost-A-Ball] 100% (HM/TM/BM/SM/MT: Taunt, Thunderbolt, Hidden Power[WATER], Thunder, Thunder Wave, Reflect, Swagger, Toxic, Rest, Sleep Talk, Substitute, Rain Dance <Static Ability>)

Item Statistics:

Park Ball x3
Super Ball x2
Ferroseed Disk
PokePlayer

~~~~~

 

OOC: Sorry if I took 'control' of Breloom a little bit.

I slowed my pace and Ranger Chainy made his way up to me. He led me into the forest; the entrance was a large stone arch. It was like nothing I had seen before, I had no idea the gardens would have something so majestic.

As I appreciated the art around, a Pokémon with a mushroom like hat found itself standing in our way, just relaxing out in the open. It seemed odd, as if the Breloom was waiting for someone to find and battle it. The green fighting Pokémon had not seemed to notice us come by.

James stumbled back a little at the sight of yet another Pokémon, "Wow, you're a magnet for rare Pokémon, Junior," he remarked. "Feel like trying to capture a Breloom at all?"

"All right," I said, ready for a battle. "I'm actually prepared for this one."

Metagross, still out of his Poke ball, itched for battle. The hunk of metal slammed its feet against the ground with each step, eventually making it between me and the Breloom. Metagross grunted and got Breloom’s attention. The Pokémon didn’t look relaxed anymore at all. His short arms, those of a tyrannosaurus-rex, flexed. Its expression showed anger and determination.

Though Metagross was steel type, its other type of psychic reduced the damage that Breloom could do with its huge attack stat and fighting type attacks. Not only had that but the steel that encrusted Metagross made for a hefty shield. My confidence rose with each second.

However, this Breloom was not any sort of weakling; you could see that just by its physical stature.

“Metagross, use Hone Claws; you’ll be able to damage Breloom more,” I said, hoping strategies that worked in trainer battles would come through and make miracles against this Breloom. Metagross’s claws began to shine, not only that but they grew twice in size. No longer did it have claws, but daggers. “Now attack Breloom with Zen Headbutt.”

Metagross seemed to calm its body, going into a peaceful mindset. His enormous silver claws lifted off the ground, meditating and levitating. As the blue metal monster calmed its body grew stronger and stronger. Seconds later, Metagross swiftly shifted the top of its head towards the Pokémon down the trail. With a roar its body flung at ridiculous speed, turning into a flash of blue, and slashed down the trail.

With the sonic speed dirt flushed up from all angles around, blinding me and hopefully Breloom. I crossed my fingers hoping the attack would make contact.

 

BP

Ranger Chainy

OOC: That was fine. It's only when you try to make it do moves or bunny it so your attacks are more effective that we run into problems. Also, it's easier to rp Trainer Pokemon if they have a gender, so I'mma refer to your Metagross as male. Unless you'd prefer I refer to it as female?

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"All right, I'm actually prepared for this one." Junior replied.

Metagross instinctively knew that he would be the one to battle the Breloom. He walked carefully out in front of his Trainer, preparing to do battle. He knew he'd have to be careful - Breloom came armed with plenty of nasty tricks. Spore, Leech Seed, Mach Punch, and any one of three nasty Abilities - Metagross would have to watch the tricky Pokemon very carefully if he didn't want to be taken down by a surprise attack.

Despite wishing to help his master capture the Fighting-typed Pokemon, Metagross refused to take the Breloom by surprise. He grunted loudly, and the Breloom's head shot up. It looked over at the challenger, and returned a braying call, accepting the challenge. It flexed the muscles on its small arms, ready to take on this strange creature that refused to recognise its superiority.

“Metagross, use Hone Claws; you’ll be able to damage Breloom more," Junior said.

Metagross rose higher off the ground and closed its eyes, concentrating. The claws on his blue arms flexed in and out, scraping against its metal body and producing a slight rasping sound. I knew the extra articulation would increase both Metagross' attack power and accuracy, which would help out a lot in this fight. The Breloom saw the giant blue beast preparing for battle, and it decided to do the same. It continued to flex its muscles, but now it was also stretching its legs and tensing its tail. I'd seen this technique before, Dual used it often - it was Bulk Up. This added physical bulk to the Pokemon who used it, allowing them to go toe-to-toe for longer and deal out more damage than usual.

“Now attack Breloom with Zen Headbutt," Junior ordered.

Metagross roared and shifted his head forward, beginning to move towards the Breloom. As he got closer he picked up speed, becoming little more than a blue blur. Purple energy gathered around the big grey X on his face, and he slammed into the Breloom hard, knocking it over and continuing to fly over it. The Breloom was ready, though - it lashed out at Metagross' underbelly with one of its fists. The blow knocked Metagross off-balance, and he toppled over onto his side, with the Breloom between him and his Trainer. It didn't look like the attack did too much damage, but then again it was a response, not an offensive. Who knows what plans the Breloom had?

~~~~~

Current Battle Statistics:

??? ??? Breloom: 79%, ATK+1, DEF+1 (used Bulk Up, Sky Uppercut)

Brave Genderless Metagross: 84%, ATK+1, ACC+1 (used Hone Claws, Zen Headbutt)

~~~~~

Current Trainer Statistics:

Name: Junior
Location: Botanical Gardens
Area Effects: 13 Encounters Remaining
Pokemon Encountered: ??? Blissey(?); ??? Breloom(?)
Pokemon Captured: N/A
CC since last Encounter: 3715 / 35000

Pokemon Statistics:

Quiet Male Spritomb[Nicknames Tomber] 100% (HM/TM/BM/MT/MT: Calm Mind, Will-o-Wisp, Shadow Ball, Toxic, Hidden Power[ROCK], Psychic, Rest, Snatch, Substitute, Rock Tomb, Water Pulse, Taunt, Psych Up, Pain Split, Trick <Pressure Ability>)

Brave Genderless Metagross[Nicknamed Softie] 100% (HM/TM/BM/SM/MT: Earthquake, Substitute, Grass Knot, Explosion, Brick Break, Aerial Ace, Light Screen, Toxic, Shadow Ball, Hidden Power[WATER], Rain Dance, Stealth Rock, Sleep Talk, Sludge Bomb, Psych Up, Rest, Protect, Rock Tomb, Facade, Gyro Ball, Hone Claws, Bulldoze, Thunderpunch, Ice Punch, Trick <Clear Body Ability>)

Timid Genderless Electrode[Nicknamed Lost-A-Ball] 100% (HM/TM/BM/SM/MT: Taunt, Thunderbolt, Hidden Power[WATER], Thunder, Thunder Wave, Reflect, Swagger, Toxic, Rest, Sleep Talk, Substitute, Rain Dance <Static Ability>)

Item Statistics:

Park Ball x3
Super Ball x2
Ferroseed Disk
PokePlayer

~~~~~

 

Metagross tumbled over down the path at the retaliation from Breloom, a hole formed each time his body slammed into the ground. Dust filled the air. The visibility dropped tremendously. Luckily Metagross’ Hone Claws attacked and lifted his accuracy and ability to make contact a good amount.

“Get up!” I yelled, surprised that Breloom was able to do that much damage from what looked like a flick of the wrist. The Pokémon really was a fighter, though its appearance as we had first saw it made it look rather weak – but don’t judge a book by its cover, they say.

Metagross planted its claws back on the ground; he seemed to have left his guard down when rushing, but he was strong; there was no backing down in his mind. “We’ll have to change our strategy up a little here. Use Iron Defense.”

As Breloom stood facing me, Metagross began to power-up. Eyes closed, his body began to shake – his blue metal coat turned into dull silver. The X across his face turned yellow. A groan came out from the mouth located on the bottom of his main body piece; more dust flew up, lowering the visibility even more. The dirt calmed quickly though, and with it the dull coat shattered from Metagross’ body. The blue color returned, but it was different – no longer was it dull, but shiny and rigid. Breloom would have a tough time penetrating this new exoskeleton.

“Now, let’s try and use the environment to our advantage.” I began to look around for something that Metagross could use to bind Breloom with. A large tree root stuck out from under the ground a few meters from where Metagross now stood, “Use your psychic ability to curl Breloom with those roots.”

<Make sure the roots come out from under you though, spit out Toxic onto them so Breloom has a chance of getting poisoned,> I thought to him, hoping Metagross could hear me and pull out the combination attack, <Hopefully he won’t have the Poison Heal ability.>

Metagross pointed one of his claws toward the thick root and pulled his arm up, the dark dirt covered root followed the motion of his hand. At the root flew up into the air Metagross slammed his claws back onto the ground, the root did as well, creating a small crater in the grassy surface.

The possessed root traveled underground, making its way behind Metagross. It slowly revealed itself the closer it got to Metagross’s underbelly, as it did toxic spores were spit out onto the thick thread. As soon as a few meters were covered with the venom Metagross shot both his arms forward, a signal for the thick rope to envelope Breloom and possibly poison it.

 

BP

Ranger Chainy

OOC: Breloom gender?

~~~~~

"Get up!" Junior called out, sounding a bit worried. There was no reason to be that way, however. Metagross easily got up and shook himself, little pieces of dirt flying off him. It looked a little bit like how dogs shook the water out of their fur after a swim. He turned around and gave a hard stare to the Breloom, apparently not happy with the way things were going.

“We’ll have to change our strategy up a little here. Use Iron Defense," Junior ordered.

Metagross nodded, and his body started glowing bright silver. The leftover dust shot off of his body, making it look like he was exuding brown waves of power. His normally blue body turned to gray as it hardened, and for some reason the X on his face started glowing gold. If a Pokemon could go Super Saiyan, Metagross just had.

Breloom didn't really notice any of this, it was too busy sizing up Junior. It decided to taunt him a little bit, jumping up and down and flexing his muscles, just generally showing off. It bleated something that was probably an insult, and then turned back to look at Metagross. It took a step back when it saw the Psychic-type's new form, but it wasn't going to run away.

"Now, let's try and use the environment to our advantage," Junior called out. “Use your psychic ability to curl around Breloom with those roots.”

Metagross pointed one of his feet at a tree root, and it suddenly dug deeper into the ground. The tip emerged from beneath the earth right in front of Metagross' face, and as it slowly extended outwards, he opened his mouth wide. Purple sludge dripped out of his mouth onto the root, coating it in poison. When a good three metres or so were stained in purple, the vine suddenly shot forwards, towards the Breloom. It wound around its legs and halfway up his body, getting the purple stains everywhere and pulling it close to the ground. It took all of the Breloom's strength to just stay standing.

It looked at the Metagross with eyes full of hate, and opened its small mouth. A blindingly bright energy blast exploded out of its mouth, travelling across to Metagross and knocking into him. Luckily, Breloom wasn't very good at special attacks so it wouldn't have hurt too much, but this trick with the vine was only a delaying tactic, and the poison didn't seem to be affecting the Wild Pokemon, at least it hadn't yet.

~~~~~

Current Battle Statistics:

??? Male Breloom: 68%, ATK+2, SATK+1, DEF+1 (used Work Up, Solarbeam)

Brave Genderless Metagross: 75%, ATK+1, DEF+2, ACC+1 (used Iron Defense, Psychic, Toxic)

~~~~~

Current Trainer Statistics:

Name: Junior
Location: Botanical Gardens
Area Effects: 13 Encounters Remaining
Pokemon Encountered: ??? Blissey(?); ??? Breloom(M)
Pokemon Captured: N/A
CC since last Encounter: 6292 / 35000

Pokemon Statistics:

Quiet Male Spritomb[Nicknames Tomber] 100% (HM/TM/BM/MT/MT: Calm Mind, Will-o-Wisp, Shadow Ball, Toxic, Hidden Power[ROCK], Psychic, Rest, Snatch, Substitute, Rock Tomb, Water Pulse, Taunt, Psych Up, Pain Split, Trick <Pressure Ability>)

Brave Genderless Metagross[Nicknamed Softie] 100% (HM/TM/BM/SM/MT: Earthquake, Substitute, Grass Knot, Explosion, Brick Break, Aerial Ace, Light Screen, Toxic, Shadow Ball, Hidden Power[WATER], Rain Dance, Stealth Rock, Sleep Talk, Sludge Bomb, Psych Up, Rest, Protect, Rock Tomb, Facade, Gyro Ball, Hone Claws, Bulldoze, Thunderpunch, Ice Punch, Trick <Clear Body Ability>)

Timid Genderless Electrode[Nicknamed Lost-A-Ball] 100% (HM/TM/BM/SM/MT: Taunt, Thunderbolt, Hidden Power[WATER], Thunder, Thunder Wave, Reflect, Swagger, Toxic, Rest, Sleep Talk, Substitute, Rain Dance <Static Ability>)

Item Statistics:

Park Ball x3
Super Ball x2
Ferroseed Disk
PokePlayer

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ooc: male!

Metagross easily shook off the blast of energy that Breloom had just shot at him. The hit had hardly done any damage to Metagross, but special attacks weren’t going to be doing much of anything from Breloom. It was all about the physical attacks, but now we had that covered with my defensive tactic in Iron Defense – Metagross no longer had to worry about taking any tremendous damage in battle.

Breloom was tired from being strangled, but the poison had not seemed to kick in, “I hope that thing doesn’t have the Poison Heal ability,” I sighed, “Or maybe the intoxicating failed completely.”

Without a call of attack Metagross began to attack, but I felt confident with this; Metagross were some of the smartest Pokémon in existence. Not only that but Metagross had a courageous heart, when in battle he battled to the end – never showing sign of weakness. To attack, Metagross slammed claws against the ground simultaneously. The dirt path began to ripple and crack apart, the trees in the surrounding leaned to the side.

The attack was taking a toll on the entire environment, I hope this doesn’t need to get repaired, ‘cos I ain’t paying, I thought. Green leaves floated down from above, as if being tossed in a salad. The path then split apart, bits and pieces of it disappeared, dirt began to pour down the crevices. Only few platforms of earth were left to stand on – I jumped off to the grass fearing the ground beneath me would also cease to exist

“Now, Metagross, speed yourself up with Agility then hit him with a Metal Claw!”

Metagross nodded, he jumped place to place, his pace exploding with speed each second. Eventually he was a blob of blue shooting left and right down the destroyed path, Metagross’s speed had grown exponentially. “Hit ‘em hard, Metagross!”

Through the shifting shapes you could see a shimmer of something shiny; Metagross’s claws had grown longer and even shinier, yet again. As the dust cleared Metagross came shooting out, his body barely recognizable through the supersonic speed, but the claws and edges of his hove like feet looked ready to do some serious damage, and they were aimed directly toward Breloom.

 

BP

Ranger Chainy

~~~~~

“I hope that thing doesn’t have the Poison Heal ability. Or maybe the intoxicating failed completely," Junior mused.

"I wouldn't count your balls before they capped," I said, pointing at the Breloom. It was struggling with the root, pulling and yanking at it with its two stubby arms. Its tail lashed angrily - it was clearly not pleased with the way this battle was progressing. And it was about to get worse. The Breloom burped, and a small purple bubble rose into the air. It gazed at the bubble in shock, and it knew the same thing I did - the Toxic had finally started taking effect.

This was both a good thing and a bad thing for Junior. It would constantly wear down the Breloom, and poisoned Pokemon often didn't have the stamina to resist a capture. However, it also put a timer on this battle, and one that was often unforgiving - Junior now had maybe five minutes before this Breloom was rendered too sick to fight, and therefore uncapturable.

I took a look around the area - huge chunks of dirt had been carved out, and fairly soon that Toxic would start leeching into the ground, which needed to be stopped. I'd leave that up to Junior for now, though.

“Now, Metagross, speed yourself up with Agility then hit him with a Metal Claw!” Junior ordered.

Metagross nodded and began jumping from side to side, freeing up his muscles and becoming faster on each jump. Within the space of half a minute, he was very little more than a bright grey-and-yellow blur, which shot forwards at the very second Junior shouted, "Hit 'em hard, Metagross!"

The Breloom saw the incoming Steel-type, and tugged more frantically at the root that was holding him captive. It began to give, but the Mushroom Pokemon knew it wasn't going to break in time. Instead, it looked up at the Metagross and assumed an artfully innocent expression. Its eyes grew wide and its lips wobbled, conveying fear and helplessness. I saw the blur slow down and shake a bit, like Metagross was starting to reconsider, but the crab-like Pokemon plowed into the stationary Grass-type, knocking it out of the root and sending it flying across the ground.

The Breloom groaned as it slowly got to its feet. It swung its tail as it did so, and the small club-like formation of spheres at the tip started to glow bright yellow. Small spores began flying into the air, floating on an almost non-existant breeze towards Metagross. Junior would have to think fast if he didn't want to deal with a status problem.

~~~~~

Current Battle Statistics:

??? Male Breloom: 54%, ATK+2, SATK+1, DEF+1, TOX-1 (used Charm, using Stun Spore)

Brave Genderless Metagross: 75%, ATK-1, DEF+2, SPD+2, ACC+1 (used Agility, Metal Claw)

~~~~~

Current Trainer Statistics:

Name: Junior
Location: Botanical Gardens
Area Effects: 13 Encounters Remaining
Pokemon Encountered: ??? Blissey(?); ??? Breloom(M)
Pokemon Captured: N/A
CC since last Encounter: 8451 / 35000

Pokemon Statistics:

Quiet Male Spritomb[Nicknames Tomber] 100% (HM/TM/BM/MT/MT: Calm Mind, Will-o-Wisp, Shadow Ball, Toxic, Hidden Power[ROCK], Psychic, Rest, Snatch, Substitute, Rock Tomb, Water Pulse, Taunt, Psych Up, Pain Split, Trick <Pressure Ability>)

Brave Genderless Metagross[Nicknamed Softie] 100% (HM/TM/BM/SM/MT: Earthquake, Substitute, Grass Knot, Explosion, Brick Break, Aerial Ace, Light Screen, Toxic, Shadow Ball, Hidden Power[WATER], Rain Dance, Stealth Rock, Sleep Talk, Sludge Bomb, Psych Up, Rest, Protect, Rock Tomb, Facade, Gyro Ball, Hone Claws, Bulldoze, Thunderpunch, Ice Punch, Trick <Clear Body Ability>)

Timid Genderless Electrode[Nicknamed Lost-A-Ball] 100% (HM/TM/BM/SM/MT: Taunt, Thunderbolt, Hidden Power[WATER], Thunder, Thunder Wave, Reflect, Swagger, Toxic, Rest, Sleep Talk, Substitute, Rain Dance <Static Ability>)

Item Statistics:

Park Ball x3
Super Ball x2
Ferroseed Disk
PokePlayer

~~~~~

 

Breloom had not learned the Poison Heal ability, so I was lucky in that aspect. However, Breloom was not going to make it too much longer in battle, as the toxic was now finally taking full effect. I had to hurry up and do a large amount of damage then try and capture it. However, Breloom had used its leisure attitude to draw Metagross into thinking the battle was easily going to be won, but this wasn't the case. Metagross failed to realize this and it had let its previous power ups drip away.

"Before those spores hit you, Metagross, try to use Substitute. I know it'll knock down your health, but it is better than being paralyzed!"

Metagross put up a shield around itself, it slowly encased the Pokemon. A shell began to surround Metagross; it looked as if it were stuffed with fluff from a teddy bear. The spores came flying by, hopefully this new encasing would protect Metagross from the incoming spores.

“All right Metagross, time to make a slam this Breloom before it dies out from that toxic. You’ve gotta use Ice Punch. I know you can remember it.”

Metagross stood still for a moment, trying to remember of how he could use this move; he had not used it in ages, Metagross had almost forgotten he even had the ability to muster up such an attack. Metagross closed his eyes for a moment, trying to reveal the move to himself…

~~~

“C’mon, Metagross, try again to use Ice Punch,” my trainer yelled to me, obviously frustrated, “You can do it!”

The heavy blankets of snow pelted down onto us; we’d been training in this terrible condition for hours and hours at end. I wasn’t sure how Junior could even manage to bare such fearsome cold. Abomasnow stood behind him, watching me fail over and over. I hated it, even worse than losing a battle. I stood still, trying to get my claws to freeze over. Maybe that was the key to getting this tricky new attack to work.

I dug my claw deep into the snow, which was now up to my trainer’s knees, and when it began to hurt I pulled out then charged forward aiming for a tree a good twenty meters away. I could see the frost beginning to form around my grip; it felt like my entire body had turned into ice. That painfully numb feeling had overcome every part of my body, especially the hand that I had plowed into the snow.

Reaching the tree I slammed my claw into its trunk, it shook and the snow dropped from it. I paused, thinking I had failed yet again but was I wrong. When I looked up the tree was no longer the brown color of bark but it was the translucent color of ice. My Ice Punch attack had finally worked; this was only the beginning though, I had used the attack in pure cold.

Junior would ask more from me – for me to be able to use the attack in any condition, even the absolute worse. And I would learn … I would have to.

After practicing and master the attack a many times Junior finally thought I had the basic usage of the move down. “We’re done for the day. Tomorrow you’re going to have to do it without any kind of weather.”
___

The next day we did just that. It took a while for me to get it, but I was able to calm myself enough to get my body to freeze my claw enough to he able to freeze another tree. I could feel myself getting stronger, my body remembering how to do the move.

The next day would not be an easy one though, I had a feeling this would be one of the hardest challenges I would ever face.
___

“Infernape, use Sunny Day!”

With that command my challenge would begin. One of Junior’s strongest Pokémon puffed her body up, then let go all his energy. Fire blew from her mouth into the sky; the flames furiously took over the sky, the sheer heat from them made the surrounding trees set a flame. Small flares shot down from the burning leaves and branches, as if an arsenal of fireworks had gone off and their ashes were now floating down upon us.

But that wasn’t the only thing Junior was going to challenge me with, he used another fire-Pokémon, his very first Pokémon, to raise the intensity even more. “Typhlosion, Eruption!”

Typhlosion roared, like a volcano does before it spills lava, then the flames from his back side grew in size tenfold. As he continued to roar fire splattered out from his mouth, the fire coming from his back grew in size as well. More trees set a fire, the forest would likely burn to the ground soon if I didn’t successfully use Ice Punch. But these conditions were utterly ridiculous.

“All right, ‘Gross, you got this,” he said, winking to me. Typhlosion and Infernape glared at me, as if they weren’t confident in me. I knew I could do this though, maybe their intimidation was all part of Junior’s plans to get me more and more motivated to finally master this move.

I sat still for a moment, letting my body calm, trying to get it to cool down. But the intense heat created from all the fire made this trial next to impossible, how in the Mewtwo’s name could I possibly freeze my claws into ice in these conditions? Still, I tried calming my body more and more; I could feel the icy cold coming to me, but it was deep down. Maybe this was the point of it all: I had to believe in myself, I had to be courageous; I couldn’t be a wimp about this.

Growling angrily I looked for a tree to charge at, I found one to the west of me. I charge it. Flames were now engrossing the ground, I could feel the cold sensation of the attack trying to escape from my grip, but I held onto it best I could. I got closer and closer to the tree. As my body grew closer I wiped out my arm, a pleasant surprise: it was frozen cold, steam was coming off of it, from the fires. My claws slammed into the tree, almost going through it, and frozen the tree solid.

As quickly as the tree had turned into ice it turned into water, then steam.

I turned to face Junior, his eyes wide and jaw dropped. Infernape and Typhlosion gave me applause. Before I could even make my way back to my trainer he had sent out an arsenal or water Pokémon to rid of the flames than had overcome the greenery of the forest. It would take a while for the forest to get back to normal. The Pokémon each shot streams of water at anywhere there was fire. Kingdra, a dragon Pokémon, even used a special ritual to make the intense Sunny Day to turn into a dark rainy day.

“I’m proud of you, Softie,” Junior told me. He had given me the silly nickname trying to be clever by naming me something I was the exact opposite of. Other of my friends and his Pokémon he had done the same with. “Hopefully that attack will come in handy some day.”

~~~

<Today is that victorious day,> Metagross thought, replying to what I had said the day he'd finally mastered this tutor move.

Metagross’ eyes shot open; in those few moments he had recalled how to use this icy attack, though he was not an ice Pokémon at all. The freezing sensation had been building up inside of him in the time he took to re-teach himself how to blast Breloom with the bitterly cold punch.

Before even moving an inch in Breloom’s direction a mound of ice had built up around Metagross’s right claw and arm; his entire arm was steamy from the extreme cold. Ice leaked onto the ground that was still shattered, it filled up the spaces that had previously been craters. The battlefield was now partially covered in ice.

Then Metagross used its increased speed to charge at Breloom. With each movement the ground was splattered with ice – the same that would happen to Breloom if the Ice Punch were to make contact. Metagross’s eyes shine crystal as it slashed to Breloom with his frozen dagger like claws.

This epic punch had the ability to do enormous damage.

 

BP

Ranger Chainy

OOC: Sorry about this being late, it turns out AIs don't like it when you screw around with their parameters.

~~~~~

"Before those spores hit you, Metagross, try to use Substitute. I know it'll knock down your health, but it is better than being paralyzed!" Junior called.

I nodded. It was a smart move, especially considering Junior didn't have any healing items on him. I had a couple of Revival Herbs I could sell him, but they didn't work until the Pokemon fainted, so if Metagross became paralyzed he wouldn't be able to be cured of it until after he fainted. That meant he'd be a burden to the team, which was an extremely undesirable outcome.

Small wisps of white-gray air began to puff outwards from Metagross' silver body, swirling around the metal beast, constructing a tortoise-shell-shaped cocoon that was barely visible to the naked eye. I could see it quite well through my visor, though, and I saw that the seemingly useless shield covered Metagross entirely. I also noticed that Metagross seemed to be a little more tired than it was before - Substitute was an incredibly useful move, but it came at a high energy price.

The yellow spores wafted past Metagross, who stayed stock-still as the Breloom got to its feet. The cloud of dust passed the Steel type, and it didn't look like he had been affected by them. Metagross was now at a huge advantage - he had an intact Substitute shield, and considering the Iron Defense that he had used there was very little the Breloom could do to get past his defenses.

“All right Metagross, time to make a slam this Breloom before it dies out from that toxic. You’ve gotta use Ice Punch. I know you can remember it," Junior encouraged his Pokemon.

Metagross' eyes snapped upwards to the Breloom, watching it carefully. The Breloom was doing the same, making small shuffling movements and lowering its centre of gravity. A chunk of ice began to swell around Metagross' right arm, slowing progressing towards his torso. For every centimetre it progressed upwards, a litre or so of water sloshed onto the ground, churning the dust into mud and flowing into some of the nearby craters. The ground directly under Metagross even underwent flash-freezing, becoming little more than a slab of ice.

When the chunk of ice covered most of his arm, Metagross shot forward, holding his arm out in front of him like a spear. The Breloom shuffled again, keeping a close eye on the Ice Punch that was incoming. At the last second before being struck by the attack, Breloom jumped. This caused only the upper part of the attack to clip him and knock him over Metagross. As he flew over the Steel-type, somersaulting through the air, his tail began glowing bright white. When he was directly over Metagross, he slammed the tip of his tail onto Metagross' body.

The attack was so strong that Metagross was thrust into the ground, sending small fissures zigzagging outwards. But the Breloom wasn't done. It landed on its feet and turned quickly, facing its temporarily stunned opponent. It extended its right arm towards Metagross and three bright green lights lanced out from its palm. Two struck Metagross' body and one made contact with his rear right leg. The green lights dimmed to reveal some strangely clam-like seeds that were spreading vines across Metagross' body. As they did so, the clam-seeds began to open and small sprouts began to emerge. When they got a little bigger, the Breloom would be able to sap Metagross's energy directly through these Leech Seeds.

~~~~~

Current Battle Statistics:

??? Male Breloom: 21%, ATK+2, SATK+1, DEF+1, TOX (used Counter, Leech Seed)

Brave Genderless Metagross: 50%, ATK-1, DEF+2, SPD+2, ACC+1 (used Substitute, Ice Punch)

~~~~~

Current Trainer Statistics:

Name: Junior
Location: Botanical Gardens
Area Effects: 13 Encounters Remaining
Pokemon Encountered: ??? Blissey(?); ??? Breloom(M)
Pokemon Captured: N/A
CC since last Encounter: 16070 / 35000

Pokemon Statistics:

Quiet Male Spritomb[Nicknames Tomber] 100% (HM/TM/BM/MT/MT: Calm Mind, Will-o-Wisp, Shadow Ball, Toxic, Hidden Power[ROCK], Psychic, Rest, Snatch, Substitute, Rock Tomb, Water Pulse, Taunt, Psych Up, Pain Split, Trick <Pressure Ability>)

Brave Genderless Metagross[Nicknamed Softie] 100% (HM/TM/BM/SM/MT: Earthquake, Substitute, Grass Knot, Explosion, Brick Break, Aerial Ace, Light Screen, Toxic, Shadow Ball, Hidden Power[WATER], Rain Dance, Stealth Rock, Sleep Talk, Sludge Bomb, Psych Up, Rest, Protect, Rock Tomb, Facade, Gyro Ball, Hone Claws, Bulldoze, Thunderpunch, Ice Punch, Trick <Clear Body Ability>)

Timid Genderless Electrode[Nicknamed Lost-A-Ball] 100% (HM/TM/BM/SM/MT: Taunt, Thunderbolt, Hidden Power[WATER], Thunder, Thunder Wave, Reflect, Swagger, Toxic, Rest, Sleep Talk, Substitute, Rain Dance <Static Ability>)

Item Statistics:

Park Ball x3
Super Ball x2
Ferroseed Disk
PokePlayer

~~~~~

 

Breloom reacted to the outrageous boxing attack; it used its quick feet to mostly avoid the attack, only being damaged slightly. As it jumped out of the way of Metagross’ powerful punch it seemed to absorb the damage being done to it, and then it smashed that energy right back onto Metagross with its bulb covered tail.

That wasn’t the only attack that Breloom was unleashing; as his tail slammed into Metagross spores were emitted from Metagross, these easily made their way through the light stuffing that was still encasing Metagross’s tough shell. These spores were stealing life energy away from Metagross back to Breloom, slowly but surely.

After being countered and rejected Metagross moved back in between the wild Pokemon and his trainer, me. We had one more shot before Breloom would be too weak to fight and run away. I only had one choice really, all the other attacks Metagross had would do too little damage, while another Ice Punch would take up too much of Metagross's, energy, but it was also relatively predictable.

“All right Metagross. This final attack needs to drop Breloom’s health down to almost nothing, and then maybe we’ll have a chance capturing it.”

Metagross knew exactly what movie I was hinting towards, “Use Meteor Mash!”


Metagross flew into the air at my command. Continuing the levitation into the atmosphere it got so cold the stuffed coat around his body shattered into pieces, as it broke away the steel itself also transformed from the hefty steel material into a very delicate coat of ice. The spores Breloom had grown under Metagross’s plates also seemed to be hindered by the frosting temperature. Luckily there was nothing to shatter the icy and devastate Metagross’s health, but before Metagross could make it through the atmospheric layer of the sky his body began to give out. His eyes shut themselves and his four brains went into overload.

Memories flashed before his eyes: gym battles, Elite battles, even the memories from the beginning of his training. One of the most important memories played itself out in Metagross’s brains – being told why he had been captured in the first place. This is one of the things that drove Metagross to be as courageous and daring as he is. Metagross was not always a Pokémon of sheer power.
_

“Metagross, do you know why I captured you?” Junior asked me. I nodded in denial; this seemed like it was going to be an emotional story or conversation … not something I was exactly good at. I wasn’t the kind of Pokémon to help a trainer through a hard time, but rather help them through a battle. I still stood tentative to Junior, listening to what he was going to say next.

“Because my mother used to tell me how Beldum come from outer space,” he said, obviously reminiscing at his past mother, “She read me a book, I’d like to read it to you.”

Again, I nodded, agreeing to listen to this story. I was interested in hearing it myself; I had no idea that I had begun my journey through life outside of this planet. I thought all Pokémon were hatched on earth.

Junior took out the book and began to read it aloud:

“If you look into the air you see the clouds, and past the clouds there are stars that litter the sky and light it up at night like Christmas. Even farther away from those stars there are loads of planets, many just like earth. On one of those planets a special Pokémon is born: Beldum. Very few are ever hatched on earth, but rather the Beldum are too weak to stay on their planet, as the gravitational force lacks power. As the Beldum float off their planet and move towards other planets they gain speed when gravity pulls them in, eventually they slash through the atmosphere, through the clouds, and pound into the ground. Craters are formed, and the Beldum scatter, scared of what will approach them. They are just youngling after all.

When Beldum evolve into their final form, Metagross, they transform into beasts that have the ability to hold their own with even legendary Pokémon.

Many trainers wish they could get their hands on these vicious but loyal Pokémon. Metagross are some of the smartest Pokémon, having four separate brains that can all work in unison. Some say Metagross can outsmart Alakazam, and even some of the quickest and most powerful supercomputers.”

Junior took a pause and looked at me; I had been trying to imagine how it would be to drop from the sky a fire.

“At that instant I wanted a Metagross,” he told me, closing the book, “having a Pokémon to rival even legends was astounding to me.”

He got up from the wooden rocking chair he’d been sitting on and walked into the house.
_

Metagross pushed more and more, trying to defy gravity and break through the skin of the air. Pushing more and more, like a woman in labor, he finally made his way into outer space. There was no weather, necessarily, but rather it was a place of complete zen. Metagross had no time to sit and admire the sights around him. He had an attack to complete, and had to do it quickly before Breloom chose to run away, or even worse, faint from the painful poisoning.

Using his psychic ability Metagross pulled rocks and meteorites from this black space that had encased him. Material of all kinds shot towards his body, some were shiny and silver while most were gray with dents, looking like swiss cheese. They all were being held back by the shield of psychic energy that had protected the steel beast from being hit and knocked out by the incredibly heavy boulders. Some of these objects had even outsized Metagross, which was quite a feat.

Less and less things had been starting to collect; Metagross knew it was time to unleash his most powerful move. He had also finally realized he had possibly come from outside of earth, or at least his species of Pokémon originated far away, in a different galaxy even. His signature attack involved the use of this odd environment; there was no way he’d be able to use this move without having the ability to survive in a location that lacked oxygen, something his species must have adapted to doing during their lifetime in space.

All the rocks and meteors had been faced toward earth, particularly down in the general direction of the battlefield that Breloom stood on. Metagross’s four brains and pin pointed the exact latitude and longitude that the battle was taking place, as well as taking in account of anything deflections that trees or the atmosphere could make. This attack was going to hurt Breloom a good amount, hopefully not enough to completely destroy it and make it flee from battle though.

Metagross shot the barrage down upon earth, the smaller shattering at they hit the atmosphere layer, but they made way for the bigger and more powerful. When these hit ground they would create craters, even without a direct hit on Breloom it would be hurt from the seismic waves that were going to be formed from the ridiculous force that will be applied.

The boulders and rocks light aflame as they got closer and closer to the ground. Before they could make impact Metagross charged down after them all. His body began to spin tree-hundred sixty degrees forward over and over and over. Eventually all there was a ball of blue, much like what had happened when Agility was used. This was going to be a follow up to the meteor attack. It wasn’t going to do much damage, but any little extra is going to help.

Metagross again penetrated the atmosphere, this time with ease. The layer of earth had taken a beating; hopefully no ecological damage would be caused from it.

The now comets had reached the ground, Metagross was still too far away to see if his attack had made contact. Though he could see flaming holes in the ground, some were kilometers deep. Trees had been destroyed, many no longer had a healthy head of leaves, but rather a rigid trunk was left. Any tree that still stood was likely afire. All this damage looked like it was outside of where the battlefield had been. Metagross was still too far to be positive.

As he approached the battlefield he stopped his Gyro Ball attack in astonishment. The field had been hit only a single time, but Breloom still looked pretty exhausted from the attack; one simple hit was really all that he needed to be hit by, or even in the general area of, to get a slice of damage done to him. Metagross was still stumped by how inaccurate his attack had been; maybe the battle was taking a toll on both his physical and mental capabilities.

Every other piece of the environment that could be seen by the naked eye, which admittedly wasn’t much, looked untouched. However, most of the ice that had been implanted into the ground had shattered from the impaling of the hundreds of alien objects. The trees still stood tall and healthy, other than the one that had the roots ripped rigorously from right under it.

Metagross and I also seemed to notice that the spores that Breloom had implanted onto Metagross were beginning to grow back, tenfold in size, even after their moment of ice age while in hanging in the sky.

To calm the effects of the nuclear attack, Metagross did a spiritual ritual. It included clearing the mind of anything, going into a completely calm and peaceful state of mind, then you called out to the clouds and the sky to let go. Only then would precipitation begin to fall from the sky. Metagross had successfully learned the move from one of Junior’s other Pokémon, Kingdra. Using this move rarely, it was a surprise to Metagross that rain actually began to pour down from above.

Not only did this stop the astronomical damage from worsening it also let Breloom not be able to use its most powerful special attack, Solarbeam, although it had not use for it really.

As Metagross float to the ground I called out another attack, “Scary Face. Let’s weaken it to the point its joins us out of fear.”

In whatever way possible, Metagross scrunched up his face, maybe it wasn’t exactly a frightening pose, but it was quite quirky. Figuring that this wasn’t going to work, as it’s rather hard to manipulate your face when you’re made out of a metal substance, Metagross flipped onto his back.

Now there was a scary sight, and one that was rarely seen: a Metagross’s mouth. It was like none other seen before. The teeth, if you could call them that, looked like they rivaled the size of a Garchomp’s claws. There was no light at the end of this tunnel; it was a pitch-black cave into death. Breloom’s expression turned from exhaustion from complete terror in a blank second.

Metagross turned back over and waited for its opponent's next move, if it could make one.

 

BP

Ranger Chainy

OOC: Just fyi, the Capture Rate as of the end of this post is 13%. If you can manage to just hit the MCR, the Rate will be 91%, and thats not including the next turn's Toxic damage.

~~~~~

“All right Metagross. This final attack needs to drop Breloom’s health down to almost nothing, and then maybe we’ll have a chance capturing it," Junior called out. "Use Meteor Mash!”

Metagross roared, and began to float into the sky. It rose higher and higher, eventually disappearing into the blueness. I scratched my head in confusion. I had a Metagross, and while I hadn't seen Meta perform his most powerful technique very often, his Meteor Mash had always just taken the form of a punch, covered in silver energy. Yet again, I was impressed by the training Junior's Pokemon must have undergone to be able to use such extreme variations of moves, but nothing had yet begun to happen, and this left the Breloom an opening.

It sure wasn't going to ignore it either. It clenched its fists, and a yellow aura gathered around its chest. The yellow grew larger, and I saw that some of its smaller wounds were healing over. It was using Synthesis to restore some of its health, probably in a last-ditch attempt to stall off the poison running through its system. The glow grew and grew until the Grass-type looked like a small run, at which point it shrunk again.

I heard a sonicboom, and I looked up at the sky. There were a few more sonicbooms, and I put my hand up to my visor, zooming in on a couple of small specks.

"No way," I breathed, shocked.

A fair number of large silver masses were falling towards earth at astounding speed, with long blue trails behind them. I was astonished by this technique - sure, it wouldn't be practical in msot battles, but it sure was impressive. The Breloom seemed to agree. It opened its mouth in hopelessness. Or so I thought - lines of yellow tracer fire burst out of its mouth, lancing up into the sky. The Bullet Seed attack crashed into one of the incoming meteors, and I could just hear a tinny repetitive collision noise. Finally, the meteor broke up, and the Breloom switched over to another meteor. That one exploded too, but by then time had run out. Five or so other rocks were right above the Breloom. They crashed into the earth all around him, kicking up dirt and grass. My mouth dropped as I witnessed the sheer destructive power of Meteor Mash.

When the dust cleared, I saw Metagross standing between us and the Breloom. I realised that the last meteor must have been Metagross returning to earth. The Breloom was on its knees, panting, heavily damaged. Its chest was fluttering in and out very fast as it began to succumb to fear and doubt.

“Scary Face." Junior commanded. "Let’s weaken it to the point it joins us out of fear.”

Metagross flipped onto his back and revealed the horrifying gaping maw that was its mouth. The Breloom stumbled backwards and its face devolved into an expression of pure abject fear. It lashed out with another strafe of Bullet Seeds, but they pinged off of Metagross' thick armour, doing negligible damage.

"You'll want to capture the Breloom soon," I said to Junior. "It's not going to be able to take much more of this."

~~~~~

Current Battle Statistics:

??? Male Breloom: 17%, ATK+2, SATK+1, DEF+1, SPD-2, TOX (used Synthesis, Bullet Seed)

Brave Genderless Metagross: 42%, ATK-1, DEF+2, SPD+2, ACC+1 (used Meteor Mash, Gyro Ball, Scary Face)

~~~~~

Current Trainer Statistics:

Name: Junior
Location: Botanical Gardens
Area Effects: 13 Encounters Remaining
Pokemon Encountered: ??? Blissey(?); ??? Breloom(M)
Pokemon Captured: N/A
CC since last Encounter: 26690 / 35000

Pokemon Statistics:

Quiet Male Spritomb[Nicknames Tomber] 100% (HM/TM/BM/MT/MT: Calm Mind, Will-o-Wisp, Shadow Ball, Toxic, Hidden Power[ROCK], Psychic, Rest, Snatch, Substitute, Rock Tomb, Water Pulse, Taunt, Psych Up, Pain Split, Trick <Pressure Ability>)

Brave Genderless Metagross[Nicknamed Softie] 100% (HM/TM/BM/SM/MT: Earthquake, Substitute, Grass Knot, Explosion, Brick Break, Aerial Ace, Light Screen, Toxic, Shadow Ball, Hidden Power[WATER], Rain Dance, Stealth Rock, Sleep Talk, Sludge Bomb, Psych Up, Rest, Protect, Rock Tomb, Facade, Gyro Ball, Hone Claws, Bulldoze, Thunderpunch, Ice Punch, Trick <Clear Body Ability>)

Timid Genderless Electrode[Nicknamed Lost-A-Ball] 100% (HM/TM/BM/SM/MT: Taunt, Thunderbolt, Hidden Power[WATER], Thunder, Thunder Wave, Reflect, Swagger, Toxic, Rest, Sleep Talk, Substitute, Rain Dance <Static Ability>)

Item Statistics:

Park Ball x3
Super Ball x2
Ferroseed Disk
PokePlayer

~~~~~

 

ooc: Last of my flashbacks for a while hopefully!

Metagross’s attack hadn’t necessarily missed, but Breloom had deflected the steel spheres of death with quite a deadly grass-type attack of its own. The glowing balls of energy had slashed through most, if not all of Metagross’s most dangerous attack. But what Metagross had failed to realize is that Breloom had used Synthesis to heal back some of its health, though that might’ve been a good thing in the long run – the toxic damage was taking a toll on the fighter.

"You'll want to capture the Breloom soon," I said to Junior. "It's not going to be able to take much more of this."

I nodded in agreement. The toxic damage was beginning to add up, it got worse and worse with each moment that passed. Breloom didn’t look too hot anymore.

“Good, Metagross! Wonderful work,” I praised, grabbing his Poke ball from my waist band. “That’s all you need to do for now.”

The red and white sphere was now in my hand, pointing at Metagross. I tossed it up into the air; a flash of red light enveloped the blue monster. The ball absorbed the red energy back inside of its shell, then retracted back to my hand. I slapped it back onto my belt, next to my other two Poke balls that I would hopefully be able to use in my next capture attempts.

Breloom stood too tired to try and attack me, though I was defenseless.

I swiftly took my bag from behind me. Everything had been thrown around throughout the battle; the earth shaking, meteors being thrust into the ground, ice engravings. All my organization had gone to shit. I continued to dig and dig, until I found a ball. This Poke ball was far too weak to capture Breloom though.

Both Breloom and Ranger Chainy looked annoyed at my disorganization and complete waste of time.

Finally out of the mess I produced a Super Ball. It had a blue tint to it, not anything like a normal red and white Poke ball. The Super Ball had a red loop that surrounded the blue top half; the other half of the ball was just barely gray, not quite light enough to be considered white.

Breloom almost looked like it now, was just waiting for me to capture it; both too tired to fight back or get away from its oncoming fate.

As I gripped the clean and shiny capture device in my sweat palm, I reminisced to a time when I had only one Pokémon, Cyndaquil, and I was looked to capture something to add to my team. It was much like this intense battle, I didn’t have any sort of advantage. Rather, I had quite a big deficit in that battle: fire versus water.

---

Cyndaquil raced through the rings of fierce fire that he had blown into the air to confused the opposing tadpole Pokémon. He was rushing in the general direction of Poliwag, hoping this attack would finish off Poliwag and make it able to capture.

I had already made the mistake of trying to capture Poliwag as soon as we found it, the red energy from the Poke ball didn’t even get a chance to slip out, and Poliwag slapped it back into the pond that it was laying near. The blue Pokémon, with the swirled stomach, wasn’t the strongest. I was a new trainer and that made me and Cyndaquil not very strong either.

Poliwag had an advantage though; its water type could easily defeat Cyndaquil if I didn’t battle in a quirky way. By using Flamethrower, then having Cyndaquil run through the flames as they raced as Poliwag I thought that I could do some damage to it.

Poliwag had obviously been trained by one of its elders though; the Pokémon had just kept spitting small sprays of water at the gate of fire that Cyndaquil was engulfed in. The attacks weren’t aimed to hurt Cyndaquil but to reduce the probability of Cyndaquil making it to Poliwag and hitting it with its Quick Attack.

But Cyndaquil did get hit eventually; maybe Poliwag had been using the water to find where Cyndaquil would be, by having it cornered by depleting the rest of the flame.

The strategy had failed, “Use Smokescreen!”

As Cyndaquil rolled back from the direct hit it cried out a bit, but the attack hadn’t done a dangerous amount of damage, Poliwag seemed to just want to scare us away. We weren’t about to give up and let Poliwag get away, he’d made an offensive and now we were going to get back at him.

Cyndaquil gained his ground back and roared out in its baby like voice, the flames on its back sparked up and smoke began to leak out from its snout. Smoke gathered more and more, Poliwag was no longer visible.

“I guess that didn’t work out as I hoped…”

Not knowing many of Cydaquil’s attacks I opened up my Pokedex, I had just obtained it from one of the professor’s helpers. It was a red book like object that could look up all the information anyone would ever need about any Pokémon. Eruption, I read, a powerful attack based on how much health a Pokémon has.

“That seems like an awesome attack,” I said happily and excited to test this crazy move, “Cyndaquil, try Eruption!”

Cyndaquil looked back at me confused. It wasn’t sure how to use the attack exactly, but it puffed its body up, as if gathering flames throughout its veins and muscles. Then it again cried out, the flames on its back again sparked up, but this time they grew blue at the tip.

As Cyndaquil opened its mouth from the cry an eruption of fierce flames flew out from the small mouth. My jaw dropped at the intense power that was hurdling toward the small tadpole Pokémon.

Poliwag’s eyes grew wide; it began to retreat back into the pond that it had come from. But before it could dive back into the water the red flame swallowed Poliwag. As the fire kept barreling it created steam from the pond water, the pond was no longer the same level; Cyndaquil had evaporated much of the pond.

The flames dispersed eventually and Poliwag lay on the ground, not moving much. Its tail was flipping back and forth like a flag of surrender. But before I could grasp the Poke ball on my belt to capture the tadpole it hopped back up, looking like it had taken little damage. The ground around it looked wet; maybe it had covered itself in a ball of water to reduce the damage inflicted.

Still, Cyndaquil had nothing else to do against Poliwag. Both Pokémon were fiercely staring each other down. Cyndaquil had been using an attack as it stared Poliwag down; Poliwag seemed to start bowing down in fear.

“Okay now Cyndaquil; use Quick Attack and Flame Wheel together!”

Cyndaquil began to run zigzag toward the worn out wild blue Pokémon, as he got closer Cyndaquil covered his entire body with a ball of red flame. Poliwag had got its guard down and been slapped around a bit too much to be able to keep track of where the quick moving ant-eater was going to appear and hit.

The flames made direct contact with Poliwag. It was again knocked over, this time though it didn’t get back up.

“Yes, finally!” I yelled, jumping up and down excitedly.

Cyndaquil walked back over to me happily.

With my sweaty grip I grasped the Poke ball from my belt. I threw the ball like I was playing catch with my father on the weekend, hitting the wild Pokémon right in the stomach then the red flash appeared and took over the worn out enemy.

The ball slapped the ground and stuck down on the wet dirt. It didn’t shake like I had seen before when others had captured Pokémon, but it rather seemed to have little seizures. The dirt was holding it from doing its customary motion.

It then stopped moving and a light click could be heard. I walked over to the ball smiling, My first Pokémon capture…

---

This situation was much like that one. This is my first capture in this new place. I was young then; I’ve matured a lot since back then. “It was only a Poliwag,” I laughed, “Trouble battling a Poliwag. That’s just silly.”

I still held the ball in my grasp; surprisingly it didn’t slip out of my hand as it had been greased up heavily from the sweat that erupted out of my hand throughout this entire adventure.

I rose my arm up and then flung it forward in a probably over-exaggerated motion. The ball slowly spun towards Breloom, as if this were an action movie, then it finally made contact on Breloom’s body. It retracted a few feet away then popped open. A red flash shot toward Breloom in a lightning like shape. The red light took over the mostly green Pokémon and took it into it’s, hopefully, new home.

The ball hit the ground and rolled to a flat surface where it began to slowly shake back and forth. The anxiety in the air grew to uncomfortable levels. I looked back at Ranger Chain who stared intently at the Poke ball with me.

“Come on…”

 

NBP

Ranger Chainy

OOC: Remember, you can't add this Breloom to your stats or do anything with it until you leave the Park. Also, future reference, you're not allowed to say the Pokemon was sucked into the ball.

~~~~~

“Good, Metagross! Wonderful work,That’s all you need to do for now," Junior thanked his Pokemon as he pulled out a PokeBall. A red laser lanced out from the small sphere and enveloped Metagross before returning it to the device. Metagross could probably use the rest - although there was no doubt that it had beaten the Breloom, the Breloom had certainly challenged it for a bit, there.

Junior stored Metagross' PokeBall where it belonged and began fishing around in his small bag. The Breloom stared tiredly at him, collapsing onto its hands and beginning to hack up some purple sludge. Finally, Junior found what he was looking for - a Super Ball. He threw it in a flamboyant overarm style towards the weakened Grass-type. It collided with the Breloom's fluttering chest, and the Pokemon was converted into plasma before being drawn into the ball. The ball fell to the ground and rolled to the side, where it began to shake. It shook once, then twice. It looked like the ball was about to break open, but suddenly a loud tone was emitted from the small sphere, and the pressure pad on the front lit up.

"Congratulations, you caught the Breloom," I said, walking over to the ball. "It was a hard fight, too, but well done. Let's move on."

I stooped down to pick up the ball and stored it in the side of my pack before walking through the arch. We followed the path for a couple minutes before coming to a fork. I was about to ask Junior which way he wanted to go when I heard a large crashing coming from the left route. I scratched my neck anxiously - whatever was making that noise was probably big - but it was Junior's choice as to which way he wanted to go.

"Well, which route do you want to take?" I asked Junior, taking a couple of steps back. I noticed a small red device on his belt, and I realised that he'd probably forgotten something.

"Also, it looks like you have a Pokeplayer, don't forget to activate it," I added.

~~~~~

Current Trainer Statistics:

Name: Junior
Location: Botanical Gardens
Area Effects: 13 Encounters Remaining
Pokemon Encountered: ??? Blissey(?); Rash Breloom(M)
Pokemon Captured: Rash Breloom(M)
CC since last Encounter: 0

Pokemon Statistics:

Quiet Male Spritomb[Nicknames Tomber] 100% (HM/TM/BM/MT/MT: Calm Mind, Will-o-Wisp, Shadow Ball, Toxic, Hidden Power[ROCK], Psychic, Rest, Snatch, Substitute, Rock Tomb, Water Pulse, Taunt, Psych Up, Pain Split, Trick <Pressure Ability>)

Brave Genderless Metagross[Nicknamed Softie] 42% (HM/TM/BM/SM/MT: Earthquake, Substitute, Grass Knot, Explosion, Brick Break, Aerial Ace, Light Screen, Toxic, Shadow Ball, Hidden Power[WATER], Rain Dance, Stealth Rock, Sleep Talk, Sludge Bomb, Psych Up, Rest, Protect, Rock Tomb, Facade, Gyro Ball, Hone Claws, Bulldoze, Thunderpunch, Ice Punch, Trick <Clear Body Ability>)

Timid Genderless Electrode[Nicknamed Lost-A-Ball] 100% (HM/TM/BM/SM/MT: Taunt, Thunderbolt, Hidden Power[WATER], Thunder, Thunder Wave, Reflect, Swagger, Toxic, Rest, Sleep Talk, Substitute, Rain Dance <Static Ability>)

Item Statistics:

Park Ball x3
Super Ball x2
Ferroseed Disk
PokePlayer

~~~~~

 

The Pokeball had finally stopped shaking. I’d done it, “Huehuehue,” I laughed mechanically, “Finally did it.”

Ranger Chain walked over to the now filled device and picked it up. Guess I don’t get the Pokémon until I leave, I thought, That sucks.

Chain continued down the path without warning, being filled in pure joy I hadn’t noticed. I chased after him and caught up with him at a fork in the road. Another choice I had to make; luckily whatever was down the left side more or less made the choice for me. Whatever was over that way is huge, huge enough to make the ground rumble. I wasn’t really prepared or willing to take on another intense battle.

"Well, which route do you want to take?"

“Let’s take a right," I said confidently.

"Also, it looks like you have a Pokeplayer, don't forget to activate it," he added.

“Hmm. All right, let’s go down this path a bit then we can use it.”

I began to walk down the path again, the noise from the left side was still very audible. When I was pleased with our location in the forest I decided it was time to use the music and raise the roof, “Let’s try this Ferroseed disk now.”

Placing the disk into the small music device I hit play and an interesting noise, mimicking a Pokemon’s cry, began to play and fill the air.