Individual RP: Tyranitex

NBP

Ranger Chainy

OOC: I couldn't really tell what you were doing, so I just assumed you don't want to battle it and rolled the escape. It worked, btw.

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"Am I a cute Pokemon magnet?" Jake cried in annoyance. I knew how he felt, but I didn't have much sympathy for him - not only had he run across a Munchlax, one of the rarest Pokemon in all of the National Park, he'd turned down a Tauros which were quite rare too. He waded into the pond and picked up the Togepi, which looked up at him with a surprised look on its face. Jake sloshed back out of the pond, and the Togepi laughed, spraying all over the Trainer. I couldnt stop myself from chuckling a little bit.

"We should help this little guy. Let's find his parents," Jake said.

"Alright, but they won't be too far away," I said. "They wouldn't go too far from their child."

I cast a quick look around the pond - I couldn't see any Togetic or Togekiss around here, but there had to be at least one. It wasn't up to me to do anything, though - Jake would have to take the lead to find the Togepi's parent, not me. Ranger regulations said I were to affect the environment as little as possible.

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Trainer Statistics:

Name: Jake
Location: The Botanical Gardens
Area Effects: 3 Encounters Remaining
Pokemon Encountered: ??? Glameow(?); ??? Grotle(?); ??? Sentret(?); ??? Oddish(?); Naive Munchlax(M); ??? Treecko(?); ??? Skiploom(?); ??? Purugly(?); Mew; ??? Jumpluff(?); ??? Tauros(?); ??? Togepi(?)
Pokemon Captured: Naive Munchlax(M)
CC since last Encounter: 0

Pokemon Statistics:

Docile Male Houndoom[Nicknamed Bambi] 52% (<Early Bird Ability>)

Bold Female Empoleon[Nicknamed Saline] 72%, PRZ (TM Flash Cannon <Torrent Ability>)

Item Statistics:

1x Pokeplayer
1x Munchlax Voice Disk
1x Hyper Ball
1x Park Ball
2x Max Potion
1x Revival Herb

~~~~~

 

OOC: LOL. I was going for befriending it. This works too.

"Alright, but they won't be too far away. They wouldn't go too far from their child," Chainy responded and looked at me expectantly. I stood up with the Togepi in my hands and looked around. I never understood how Togepi were always found in the Gardens, yet their evolutions were found in the Outer Heaven.

Since I was prohibited from leaving the Gardens, I thought about the Pokemon that were located in this area. What Pokemon would be capable of caring for a baby until its mother showed up without eating, crushing, strangling, squishing, spraying acid on, or poisoning it. Hmmm...

Of course! I turned to Chainy and asked,

"Is there a place where Chansey or Blissey like to particularly hang out?"

 

NBP

Ranger Chainy

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Jake cast a look around, not forgetting to search the sky. It was quite strange that Togepi were found in the Gardens, considering that both Togekiss and Togetic were found in Outer Heaven. I was about to suggest we just move onwards and leave the Togepi behind when I heard some more splashing. This was a bit more violent than the playful splashing of the Togepi, though. I led Jake around the edge of the pond, turning a corner.

A large green Pokemon was shooting jets of water at a Blissey and a Chansey, both of which were cowering behind some rocks. The attacking Pokemon had a pink frill of sorts, which wriggled as the water erupted from the black maw. It was a Cradily, a fairly rare Fossil Pokemon. It appeared to be enjoying the distress it was causing the two Normal-types.

I wanted to jump in and rescue them, but I couldn't. As a Ranger, I wasn't allowed to help out any of the Pokemon in the Park, but I could certainly hope that Jake would fight the Cradily off for the Blissey and the Chansey.

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Trainer Statistics:

Name: Jake
Location: The Botanical Gardens
Area Effects: 3 Encounters Remaining
Pokemon Encountered: ??? Glameow(?); ??? Grotle(?); ??? Sentret(?); ??? Oddish(?); Naive Munchlax(M); ??? Treecko(?); ??? Skiploom(?); ??? Purugly(?); Mew; ??? Jumpluff(?); ??? Tauros(?); ??? Togepi(?); ??? Cradily(?)
Pokemon Captured: Naive Munchlax(M)
CC since last Encounter: 705

Pokemon Statistics:

Docile Male Houndoom[Nicknamed Bambi] 52% (<Early Bird Ability>)

Bold Female Empoleon[Nicknamed Saline] 72%, PRZ (TM Flash Cannon <Torrent Ability>)

Item Statistics:

1x Pokeplayer
1x Munchlax Voice Disk
1x Hyper Ball
1x Park Ball
2x Max Potion
1x Revival Herb

~~~~~

 

As I searched the skies briefly while Chainy considered the answer to my question, some loud splashes resounded from around the corner of the greenery. This splashing sounded violent, like a fireman's hose on rock. Intertwined with the sound of the water was soft, delicate cries.

I looked at Chainy and then led the way around the turn in the bank. A large Cradily was anchored to a log in the middle of the stream and was enjoying terrorizing some Pokemon hiding behind some rocks by the opposite bank. Since, the Cradily was transfixed on the opposite shore, it didn't notice us approach. I tried to spy the Pokemon behind the rocks. I caught a flash of pink frill poking out the side of the rock.

Blissey! I thought excitedly. I looked down at the Togepi. It looked a bit concerned at the Cradily, slightly scared even. However, a small seed of anger and defiance displayed subtly on its face. Hmm, maybe this Pokemon wasn't as young as I thought. I shifted it to one arm and grabbed both Pokeballs on my belt.

I threw them into the air and my two Pokemon appeared in a flash of bright red light. I pointed at the Cradily and said,

"Let's save those two Pokemon. Saline hit 'em with a Flash Cannon and Bambi, let's try for another Inferno!"

Saline was looking a little tired and her jittery movements indicated that she was still paralyzed. However, she closed her eyes nonetheless and began to pull in stray fragments of light from the atmosphere. Globules of pure silver glittered from the air into her glowing blue and yellow accents. They shone chrome and rainbow, everything that implied light was captured in her body.

Bambi was acting faster as he was not paralyzed. Still, Inferno was a difficult move to perform. His accents were glowing as well, but for him, they were the red ones on his belly and snout. They looked like embers in a fire being blown on methodically. Pulsing slightly, the waves of heat began to reach me from a good distance away, an it was as a furnace is. Inferno was an extremely powerful fire attack and was extremely hot as a result.

I looked back down at the Togepi whose expression had grown to an utter glare. I was a bit surprised. I muttered at it,

"You know, if youd like you can use something too." It didn't look at me, but I could tell that it had heard.

I glanced up at the Cradily to see how it would handle the attacks that I had thrown at it...

 

BP

Ranger Chainy

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I was happy to notice that Jake apparently intended to fight off the Cradily and rescue the Blissey and Chansey. I hated not being able to help Pokemon in distress - in fact, I often did sometimes when it was a really small case. I often rescued young Pokemon who wouldn't have survived on their own and raised them until they were old enough to go with a Trainer, despite this being against the rules.

Jake pulled out both of his Poke Balls, and alarms flashed in my head. He threw them into the air, and a red burst of light revealed both of his Pokemon.

"Let's save those two Pokemon. Saline hit 'em with a Flash Cannon and Bambi, let's try for another Inferno!" Jake called.

Acting quickly, I sent a message to Dual through our mind link. Stop that Flash Cannon with a Protect Screen! I ordered. Trainers were only able to use one Pokemon at a time in the Park, excepting Double Battles, as a matter of fairness. One of the more problematic issues was Trainers ganging up on Wild Pokemon, and I couldn't let that happen.

My Gallade slid forward, being careful to duck under the charging Inferno attack from the Houndoom. I decided to block the Flash Cannon instead of the Inferno for multiple reasons: Bambi probably had a better shot at taking down the Cradily, the Inferno would hurt it more, and the Flash Cannon wasn't as powerful so it would be easier for Dual to stop.

Dual's movement ceased when he was in front of the Empoleon. He raised his arms in front of him, and three different lights began expanding just off of his hands. Protect Screen was a defensive ability we had both worked on, utilising many of Dual's protective moves. First he puts up a Reflect, to stop physical projectiles. He then raises a Light Screen to stop special attacks, and fuses the two screens together with the incredible defensive power of his Protect. The multicoloured lights swirled and grew and fused together, becoming a square of blazing bright whiteness hovering solidly between Saline and Dual.

The Flash Cannon shot out before the Inferno, smashing into the Protect Screen. The silvery light-based attack raged against the technique for a couple seconds, but soon winked out. I took the opportunity to step forward and talk to Jake.

"Don't forget that battles in the Park are one on one," I said. "You might as well recall one of your Pokemon."

The second I finished talking, the huge Inferno attack blasted out from Bambi's mouth. It expanded as it flew towards the Cradily, becoming almost as big as a Fire Blast. I could feel the heat waves coming off it, and I knew Dual could too because he flinched as it roared past him.

I don't know what tipped the Cradily off - it was either the sound or heat. Whatever it was, the Fossil Pokemon turned on its log and saw the massive fire attack coming its way. It began to glow pink. I thought it was attempting to Protect itself, but I heard a burbling cry of pain as the attack connected. The log beneath the Cradily began to disintegrate, but not before the Wild Pokemon retaliated. A beam of pink light blasted out from the fireball, pushing the air aside and causing small flurries of flame. It smashed into Bambi, knocking him over. He whined a little bit, but got back onto his feet, still able to battle.

When the fireball had cleared, the log had completely gone. I thought the Cradily might have run away already, but then it slowly crawled up from the water onto the edge of land, ready to do battle. I was pretty sure that it had taken a lot of damage, though.

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Current Battle Statistics:

??? ??? Cradily: 74%, BRN (used Mirror Coat)

Docile Male Houndoom: 21% (used Inferno)

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Trainer Statistics:

Name: Jake
Location: The Botanical Gardens
Area Effects: 3 Encounters Remaining
Pokemon Encountered: ??? Glameow(?); ??? Grotle(?); ??? Sentret(?); ??? Oddish(?); Naive Munchlax(M); ??? Treecko(?); ??? Skiploom(?); ??? Purugly(?); Mew; ??? Jumpluff(?); ??? Tauros(?); ??? Togepi(?); ??? Cradily(?)
Pokemon Captured: Naive Munchlax(M)
CC since last Encounter: 3109

Pokemon Statistics:

Docile Male Houndoom[Nicknamed Bambi] 21% (<Early Bird Ability>)

Bold Female Empoleon[Nicknamed Saline] 72%, PRZ (TM Flash Cannon <Torrent Ability>)

Item Statistics:

1x Pokeplayer
1x Munchlax Voice Disk
1x Hyper Ball
1x Park Ball
2x Max Potion
1x Revival Herb

~~~~~

 

OOC: BUT IT'S EVIL. IT MUST DIE AT ANY COST. YOU MONSTER.

The attack had gone off without a kink. The flames erupted gloriously from his maw and enveloped the Cradily in plumes of molten firepower. As the attack hit, though, the Cradily began to glow pink and emit a bright, metallic hum, almost like the crossing of swords. Just as the Inferno hit and cries rang out within, a beam of dazzlingly powerful light emerged from the chaos, splitting through the air like a ray of sun on a cloudy day. It sailed through the air and smashed directly into Bambi, throwing him back hard.

A whine escaped his mouth, but only reactively. As soon as he was able, he returned to his feet with a snarl. I shouted out, "Are you okay?" but he responded only with a growl and a sneer at the Cradily. But I could see past the bravado that I had dealt with all these years. He was swaying slightly and was definitely close to fainting. He was not revealing the pain that the attack was causing. I decided to let him power through. If he was motivated, I had a revival herb just in case, and this was justice.

“C’mon, Bambi! Let’s give it our all with another Inferno!” Bambi took less time to charge this time. He allowed a mere ten seconds for the red spots on his belly and snout to glow in preparation. As a result, the enourmous plume of heat that exited his body was barely any flame at all. A black swath of air flooded the surroundings and made me chocke. It was like a sweatlodge, only with small fragments of rock in the air. My insides itched and burned like crazy. I heard Chainy hacking and coughing behind me. I didn’t know if the smoke had reached the Cradily, but if it had, it would definitely hurt it as well.

“Mist!” I choked out hoarsely, hoping desperately that Saline would both hear me and be capable of performing the given move before Chainy and I choked to death...

 

BP

Ranger Chainy

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"Are you okay?" Jake asked Bambi, sounding worried. Bambi responded with a snarl. I knew that Bambi was telling his Trainer that he was fine, but I also knew he was lying - the Houndoom wouldn't be able to take much more punishment. I also knew that it probably wouldn't stand down from this fight. I could tell from the look in Jake's eyes that he knew this too.

“C’mon, Bambi! Let’s give it our all with another Inferno!” he said, apparently deciding to get in some hard hits.

Bambi started charging the attack, but something went wrong. He released it too soon, and black smoke blew out all around out as a much thinner stream of fire boiled towards the Cradily. I started coughing from the smoke, and I quickly covered my mouth with the collar of my coat. Just before I lost sight of the Fossil Pokemon, I saw the fire strike the Cradily, rocking it backwards, but not over. It must have the Suction Cups Ability, like most Cradily.

I was about to order my Gallade to do something about the smoke when I heard Jake croak something. Suddenly, a waft of cool air blew through the smog cloud, slicing it into chunks and carrying the pieces away. I smiled - I'd recognise the feel of Mist anywhere - I'd been covered in the stuff not half an hour ago.

The smokescreen dropped just in time for me to see three rocks covered in a glowing blue aura flying towards Houndoom. They were all about the size of a child. Luckily, one of them flew straight over the Fire type, but the other two hit him. The first one stubbed his toes, and the other knocked him over. Bambi started coughing on the ground, but wasn't down yet. He sure wasn't knocked out, though.

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Current Battle Statistics:

??? ??? Cradily: 49%, BRN (used Ancientpower)

Docile Male Houndoom: 7% (used Inferno)

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Trainer Statistics:

Name: Jake
Location: The Botanical Gardens
Area Effects: 3 Encounters Remaining
Pokemon Encountered: ??? Glameow(?); ??? Grotle(?); ??? Sentret(?); ??? Oddish(?); Naive Munchlax(M); ??? Treecko(?); ??? Skiploom(?); ??? Purugly(?); Mew; ??? Jumpluff(?); ??? Tauros(?); ??? Togepi(?); ??? Cradily(?)
Pokemon Captured: Naive Munchlax(M)
CC since last Encounter: 4927

Pokemon Statistics:

Docile Male Houndoom[Nicknamed Bambi] 7% (<Early Bird Ability>)

Bold Female Empoleon[Nicknamed Saline] 72%, PRZ (TM Flash Cannon <Torrent Ability>)

Item Statistics:

1x Pokeplayer
1x Munchlax Voice Disk
1x Hyper Ball
1x Park Ball
2x Max Potion
1x Revival Herb

~~~~~

 

As I felt the Mist cleaved through the toxic air and they canceled out, I saw the Cradily looking a bit weatherworn. I guess Bambi had done his work well, even if the mistake had caused somewhat of a misfire. However, ater the immediate impression of slacking effort, the Cradily lashed out, sending three large, glowing rocks towards Bambi. The tree objects, each no smaller than a microwave, soared through the air in a vertical pattern. The first barely missed Bambi's head, the secondsmashed straight into his forefeet, and the third knocked into his midsection.

Now, although my Houndoom was persisntent in not letting others know how hurt he was, if he couldn't help it, it was inevitable. Still, as he took his sweet time struggling to his feet, I knew he was concealing pain, even at such a dire and quite obviously dangerous moment. I knew it would befruitless to ask him to step down, so I let out one last order, hoping somewhere in the back of my mind that I could allow him to sleep peacefully for the first time in this whole run.

"Let's let out a Thunder Fang ,buddy! Focus less on damage and more on paralyzing it!" His teeth began to spark and flash immediatelly. With enormous effort, he willed ambient electric forces in the surrounding envoronment as well as in his internal stasis to congregate and multiply at his mout. Fizzles of energy bounded and overflowed from his mouth as he meticulously prepared for the precipice. Finally, he released razorsharp rays of piercing, neon yellow at the Cradily. I noticed a vicious snarl of triumphance and a matching gaze escape from hisstature as the attack made its way towards the target...

 

BP

Ranger Chainy

OOC: Just wondering, are you still just trying to beat this ting off, or are you intending to capture it?

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Bambi slowly got onto his feet - he could barely keep himself up, but like most Houndoom, he'd go down fighting or not at all.

"Let's let out a Thunder Fang, buddy! Focus less on damage and more on paralyzing it!"

Bambi growled, and began charging the attack. Small sparks of electricity fell out of his mouth as a yellow glow expanded, and when it was covering his entire muscle, he ran clumsily towards the Cradily. When he'd got half way he opened his mouth and the Thunder Fang shot forwards like a javelin. I nodded approval - it took lots of skill and training to make a projectile attack out of one of the Elemental Fangs.

The Thunder Fang struck the Cradily, and the electrical lines began to crawl over its plant-like body. It seemed to slow down a bit, perhaps even becoming paralyzed. That didn't stop its next attack, though. It opened its mouth wide, and a rolling ball of purple grew inside its large black maw. When the Sludge Bomb attack was fully formed, the Cradily launched it into the air with a toss of its head. It arced gracefully through the air like a mortar, and it exploded right on top of Bambi. The Houndoom howled once, and then collapsed on the ground, fainted.

"You'd best send Saline in," I said to Jake. "Either that, or use that Revival Herb - it'll get Bambi back up to full strength inside ten seconds. Strongest damn stuff I've ever seen."

~~~~~

Current Battle Statistics:

??? ??? Cradily: 40%, BRN (used Sludge Bomb)

Docile Male Houndoom: 0% (used Thunder Fang)

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Trainer Statistics:

Name: Jake
Location: The Botanical Gardens
Area Effects: 3 Encounters Remaining
Pokemon Encountered: ??? Glameow(?); ??? Grotle(?); ??? Sentret(?); ??? Oddish(?); Naive Munchlax(M); ??? Treecko(?); ??? Skiploom(?); ??? Purugly(?); Mew; ??? Jumpluff(?); ??? Tauros(?); ??? Togepi(?); ??? Cradily(?)
Pokemon Captured: Naive Munchlax(M)
CC since last Encounter: 6584

Pokemon Statistics:

Docile Male Houndoom[Nicknamed Bambi] 0% (<Early Bird Ability>)

Bold Female Empoleon[Nicknamed Saline] 72%, PRZ (TM Flash Cannon <Torrent Ability>)

Item Statistics:

1x Pokeplayer
1x Munchlax Voice Disk
1x Hyper Ball
1x Park Ball
2x Max Potion
1x Revival Herb

~~~~~

 

OOC: I'm trying to kill it.

The arc of electricity managed to connect, absorbing into the Cradily's body. It transformed into smaller, more focused jolts and they danced cruelly all over the Cradily's rough skin. For a moment, the Cradily was incapacitated; it seemed stock still and unable to attack. However, it soon opened its maw to reveal a bubbling, purple goo that indicated a harsh poison attack. It frothed and gurgled ominously in preparation. I grimaced.

The goo reached climax and spewed forcefully in my direction. It smashed straight into Bambi and and sizzled with dark smoke frothing off of it. Bambi was clearly down for the count. I somberly took out his Poke Ball andrecalled him.

"You'd best send Saline in. Either that, or use that Revival Herb - it'll get Bambi back up to full strength inside ten seconds. Strongest damn stuff I've ever seen," Chainy commented to me. I smiled offhandedly and looked up at him.

"I think I'll do both, actually." I turned to face Saline. She looked confident, but a little shaken from the smoke in the last turn. She looked back at me and nodded.

"Let's go for a Flash Cannon!" I shouted, and she began to prepare. Just like before, her body glowed along the endowed strips. Amorphous globules of light appeared from nowhere and integrated with her skin, creating a dazzling pulsating effect. The light dazzled faster and faster until it was completely charged. She opened her mouth and let forth a giant stream of silvery substance that issued persisnently at the Cradily.

 

BP

Ranger Chainy

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"I think I'll do both, actually," he replied as he looked at his Empoleon. "Let's go for a Flash Cannon!"

Saline nodded, and white light began to gather along the edges of her flippers and body, flowing up to her beak. When the light was almost blinding, her mouth opened and a smooth beam of silver light shot towards the Cradily. The Flash Cannon hit it easily in the chest, and the Cradily screeched in pain. Luckily, it was weak against Steel attacks, and Saline was Steel-typed as well.

The Cradily decided it wasn't going to put up with any more pain. It burbled angrily in the direction of the hiding Normal-types, swinging its head around to do before, before slowly crawling off into the water. I kept an eye on it with the heat-sensor mode of my visor - it crawled down into the deepest part of the pond and stayed there. It wasn't coming back up any time soon.

"Good job," I said to Jake, and we both ran over to Bambi. Jake pulled out the Revival Herb and crushed it between his fingers, releasing the sharp scent. I shyed away from it automatically - it brought tears to my eyes and felt like I was smelling knives. It had a good effect on Bambi, though - the Houndoom literally jumped back onto his feet. He took a look around, a bit confused, but licked Jake's face and sat down on his haunches, waiting patiently for whatever was coming next.

This random thought reminded me of the Togepi. It was squeaking happily as both the Chansey and the Blissey approached us cautiously. When they were a couple steps away the Togepi jumped out of Jake's arms and toddled over to the Blissey, chattering in its high-pitched voice. The Blissey smiled and picked up the baby Pokemon. It shared a long look with the Chansey, and then they both bowed to Jake.

"I think they're thanking you for finding the Togepi," I said.

The Blissey nodded, and then turned, walking away into a thicket of trees. The Chansey stayed behind, however, and rocked on its feet almost shyly. Despite doing this, it never looked away from Jake. I knew infatuation when I saw it.

"It looks like this Chansey was very impressed by your fight with the Cradily," I remarked with a grin on my face. "Want to try and capture it?"

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Trainer Statistics:

Name: Jake
Location: The Botanical Gardens
Area Effects: 1 Encounters Remaining
Pokemon Encountered: ??? Glameow(?); ??? Grotle(?); ??? Sentret(?); ??? Oddish(?); Naive Munchlax(M); ??? Treecko(?); ??? Skiploom(?); ??? Purugly(?); Mew; ??? Jumpluff(?); ??? Tauros(?); ??? Togepi(?); ??? Cradily(?); ??? Chansey(?)
Pokemon Captured: Naive Munchlax(M)
CC since last Encounter: 0

Pokemon Statistics:

Docile Male Houndoom[Nicknamed Bambi] 100% (<Early Bird Ability>)

Bold Female Empoleon[Nicknamed Saline] 72%, PRZ (TM Flash Cannon <Torrent Ability>)

Item Statistics:

1x Pokeplayer
1x Munchlax Voice Disk
1x Hyper Ball
1x Park Ball
2x Max Potion

~~~~~

 

OOC: Make that Chansey Male. I can't believe that I accurately predicted my last encounter...

The blinding beam of light cascaded through the air and made direct contact. My insides vibrated in hasty triumph as the attack penetrated the Pokemon's tough shell. It clearly did a lot of damage and I knew exactly why. Flash Cannon was steel type which was advantageous for multiple reasons. First, steel type was super effective against the normally formidable rock-grass combo that Cradily held. Also, Saline got STAB or same type attack bonus from sharing the steel typing of the move. Finally, Saline also was equipped with a respectable Special Attack statistic. Because Flash Cannon as a move was a special attack, it benefitted from this. Normally, Cradily held its own defensively. However, with these special circumstances, Cradily fell without much fuss.

The glow faded and the Cradily showed clear signs of weakness. The tentacles lining its neck that usually flailed happilywere drooping excessively, barely jiggling. It shot an angry glare at me and Saline and looked back a the Chansey-Blissey pair to hiss at them before sulkily retreating back into the water from whence it came. After it was completely submersed and indistinguishable, Chainy and I relaxed.

"Good job," he said and I released Bambi once again. His limp form appeared on the ground in fromt of us and I pulled from my pocket the Revival Herb that I had purchased earlier. I opened the bag and was immediatelly assailed by a smell akin to a smellingsalt. The acidicparticles in the air flooded my nose, eyes, and mouth, causing me to fall into a coughing fit for a small time. I was stupid to open the bag right under my face, even Chainy retreated from me a bit before I removed the wrapping, but it wasn't going to be detrimental to my health apart from a small irritation of my senses. Besides, I needed a little wake-up anyway.

I pulled off the string wrapped around the herbs and began to rip the leaves, holding them as far away rom me as possible and scrunching up my face to avoid unnecessary desensitization. Now that the juices themselves were being released, though, my hands were numbing and I was forced to painfully watch my work so I didn't drop any of the herb with my now clumsy hands. It was slow progress to rip and crush the herb into a nice, fine, ingestible paste. When it was finally ready, I bent down and awkwardly fed the concoction to Bambi.

At first, there was a small reaction; a sort of moan and small stirring of the extremities. Then, all at once, Bambi jerked awake, spasming for a bit before hastily bounding to his feet. He looked flustered, but otherwise fine and completely concious. He was disorented from the rude awakenging and seemed confused for a moment before seeing that he was still with me and Chainy. He relaxed minutely, licked my face as I remained crouched, and sat to my side, waiting obediently for my instructions.

I smiled and petted his head. I noticed the scratches from the earlier battle hat already scabbed over fairly well; the covered wounds weren't fleshy as fresh wounds susally are, but rather dry and solid feeling. Bambi also felt quite warm to the touch, another sign that his health had returned. This encouraged me further.

The Togepi had been placed to the side of the battle with Saline and I went to go retrieve it. It was distracted and burbled happily in my arms as I carried it away. The Blissey, along with a Chansey that I hadn't been able to spy from behind the rock, was wading towards us through the stream. I had yet only ever heard of Blissey they were so rare. From what I had learned, they were said to be Pokemon that have a hypersense of sad emotion. They were beings of pure happiness and when they saw sadness around them, they were willed immediatelly to correct it. Their eggs were things of legends. One bite is supposed to eradicate all disease, both mental and physical, from the body. I gazed in warm awe as the Pokemon approached me.

Togepi stared at the two Pokemon as if they were long lost siblings; something had always told me that the Togepi evolutionary line and the Chansey evolutionary line were somehow bonded as a species. It squeaked and lolled at them. The Chansey and Blissey looked at me happily and adimrably. The Togepi couldn't hold back any longer: it leapt from my arms and bounded towards the Pokemon, crying in excitement. The Blissey made a small noise of pure joy that wafted into the air like the smell of fresh baked pie in a prarie home at noon. Smiling, she reached down and plucked the small Pokemon from the soft ground on the bank of the stream. Now in possesion of the Togepi, the Chansey and Blissey looked at eachother exchanged a nonverbal moment of communication. Then, they both turned to me and bowed graciously. I felt my cheeks bloom with blood. Such respect from such honorable Pokemon was a feeling to behold.

After thanking me, the Blissey walked past me and into the thick forest with the Togepi, presumably to bring it to her colony for safety. I was surprised, though, when the Chansey remained. It was eyeing me with cloying interest, almost daring me to notice it. It was rocking back and forth on its feet. I smiled at it amusedly. Its expression reminded me of something. I remembered when I had worked in a summer camp for fourth, fifth, and sixth graders. There was budding middle school awkwardness around topics like love. As a counselor, I was pretty much restricted from making aware my noticing of any relationship developing between kids, but I couldn't help but see the way that some of them looked at eachothher when they thought no one was looking. I saw something reminiscent of that plastered across Chansey's face right then.

"It looks like this Chansey was very impressed by your fight with the Cradily. Want to try and capture it?" Chainy said with a chuckle hiding somwhere in his voice.

"Wow, why not!?" I said excitedly. I quickly shifted gears from happy and awed, to the rough and analytical battle mode. My mind pulled together all my knowledge of Chansey and its battling style. Chansey were much more common that Blissey; almost every Nurse Joy had them. I was really close to a Joy that lived in Celadon, where I grew up. After school, I would often just go to the Pokecenter to do homework and hang out instead of going home. The Chansey there was nicknamed Queen because she was always so good at keeping things clean and tidy. I had only ever seen her battle once, and that was when there was an outburst of a nearby colony of Beedrill. The Beedrill swarmed the streets, attacking random people and Pokemon ruthlessly. When they reached the Pokecenter where every one was hiding and seeking help for the injuries caused, Queen was forced to let Nurse Joy handle the injuries while she went out and faced the Beedrill. The one thing that I noticed the most about that battle was Queen's amazing stamina. No matter how many attacks the Beedrill sent and no matter how much damage they seemed to do, Queen just recovered form it, bouncing back with vigor and finesse. Though she did use many attacking moves, she tried her hardest to either sing to sleep or incapacitate with Charm most of them.

So, from this I knew that Chansey 1, had incredible stamina meaning that I would have to attack fast and hard, and 2 that Chansey were capable of using incapacitating moves like Sing and Charm. I pondered my strategy for a bit and then decided.

"Let's go, Saline!” Saline was up. She lumbered to my side and waited for a command. “Let’s start off with Swords Dance and then use the stream to power a Metal jet!” Metal Jet was our combination Metal Claw and Aqua Jet attack. It combined attack force and with the am type attack bonus to get that brute force power when I was attacking a Pokemon that had too high of a special defense. Empoleon, as Pokemon, didn’t have too bad an attack, but I wanted to do more damge with the Swords Dance. Also, the Aqua Jet powered a faster attack, making it easier to score the first move. Here, however, I was just concerned with doing the most damage possible with the moves I had selected.

First, Saline’s eyes and crown began to glow bright white. Then she raised her fins to her side and be gan to spin in a sharp way. She pulled together all her might and let loose an attacking power. When she halted, her crown was taller and her fins were clearly thicker than before. Also, though the bright glow of the attack faded, a duller more constant glow replaced it and stayed. From there, she jumped into the water of the stream. She immediatelly began to swim in circles, attaining speed and a aqua-silvery glow as she did. Finally, she jumped from the water dramatically. Water swirled around her like flames on a rocket as she flew towards Chansey. Her fins were bright silvery and metallic rather than their normal blue and splayed out wide. When she tackled into the Chansey, she would end up clawing with her fins as well.

I waited for the attack to connect...

 

BP

Ranger Chainy

OOC: You have one more Encounter after this one, buddy. Also, Chansey gender?

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"Wow, why not!?" Jake exclaimed. I nodded in agreement - Chansey evolved into Blissey, who were powerful Pokemon. They were commonly employed as special walls in the higher battling leagures. A Pokemon was called a "wall" if it could completely lock out an opposing Pokemon in a battle, and Blissey's high special defense stat meant that it could easily check lots of common powerful Pokemon like Starmie, Dragonite and Jolteon.

"Let's go, Saline!” Saline was up. She lumbered to my side and waited for a command. “Let’s start off with Swords Dance and then use the stream to power a Metal Jet!”

Saline nodded, and her crown and eyes began to glow a pure bright white. She span around in place, gesturing sharply with her fins. I could clearly see the white energy covering her crest, beak, and fins elongate, and when she stopped spinning her crest and fins were much thicker and longer than before. It was a variant of Swords Dance that I'd never seen before, but then again most of the Pokemon that I saw using it were humanoid warrior Pokemon, like Gallade, Infernape and Sceptile. This technique seemed to use some sort of energy to increase Empoleon's attack power, as opposed to releasing inner potential.

The Chansey wasn't sure what to do, so it took a few steps backwards and growled at Saline. Its pink hair-like protusions waggled from side to side as it made a reberverating sound that was as questioning as it was warning. It was about to start walking forward when Saline suddenly turned to her left and dived into the river, swimming in quick circles. The Chansey peered over the edge of the river before putting both of its hands out in front of it. A pink square of energy spun outwards from the space between its hands, growing larger, until it was about 3 square metres in size. It hovered in front of the pink Pokemon, bobbing gently. It was one of the defensice screen techniques, but I wasn't sure which one.

Suddenly, Saline burst out of the water, her fins pointed towards the Chansey like a diver about to enter the water. Pockets and streams of water floated up with her as she flew towards the Normal type. She flew straight through the screen, and I thought the Chansey had put up a Light Screen. However, even though the Empoleon had passed through without harm, about half of the water and silver energy that had been gathered about Saline's fins had been stripped away and was turning into smoke.

Saline didn't notice, though. She just barreled into the Chansey, smacking it across the head with both of her fins. The Chansey uttered a small cry, but some fire leaped into her eyes. Instead of letting Saline move past, the Chansey grabbed the Empoleon and spun, using the Steel-type Pokemon's weight against it. They spun around twice before Chansey let go, and Saline rocketed out of its grasp, straight into a tree. Saline fell ot the ground, and the Chansey grabbed onto its knees, overcome with the effort of the attack.

~~~~~

Current Battle Statistics:

??? ??? Chansey: 79%, RF-1 (used Growl, Reflect, Counter)

Bold Female Empoleon: 46%, PRZ, ATK+1 (used Swords Dance, Metal Claw, Aqua Jet)

~~~~~

Trainer Statistics:

Name: Jake
Location: The Botanical Gardens
Area Effects: 1 Encounters Remaining
Pokemon Encountered: ??? Glameow(?); ??? Grotle(?); ??? Sentret(?); ??? Oddish(?); Naive Munchlax(M); ??? Treecko(?); ??? Skiploom(?); ??? Purugly(?); Mew; ??? Jumpluff(?); ??? Tauros(?); ??? Togepi(?); ??? Cradily(?); ??? Chansey(?)
Pokemon Captured: Naive Munchlax(M)
CC since last Encounter: 8969 / 35000

Pokemon Statistics:

Docile Male Houndoom[Nicknamed Bambi] 100% (<Early Bird Ability>)

Bold Female Empoleon[Nicknamed Saline] 72%, PRZ (TM Flash Cannon <Torrent Ability>)

Item Statistics:

1x Pokeplayer
1x Munchlax Voice Disk
1x Hyper Ball
1x Park Ball
2x Max Potion

~~~~~

 

OOC: Clusterfuck of misuderstanding. As I said Chansey is male and I meant last as in latest. ^^ ( my last encounter better be orgasmic or I’ll kill you c: )

Chansey took a sort of battle pose. I don’t know how much of a battle pose one could take when they had a body the size of an oven and hands proportionally as useless as a Tyrannosaurus Rex. However, it was made clear that the stance was aggressive by the look in her eyes. Although she wasn’t a fully evolved Blissey, she had some experience battling and some definite endurance when it came to it.

It let loose a weak sound that reverberated in my ear so I wasn’t sure if it was continuing or I was just imagining it. I shook my head in surprised reaction. I felt warm and sorry. The Chansey looked kind of adorable. I almost regreted ordering Empoleon into an attack, but it was too late. But wait. I was battling! It had used a Growl attack. I rolled a soft ‘r’ in the back of my throat like a growl in annoyance. I stared back at Saline in the water, hoping that the Growl hadn’t affected her attack that much.

Just as Saline emerged from the water, Chansey held up her hands andthey released a nebulous beam of bright pink energy. It shot out like an old Star Wars laser gun shot and flattened out to a wall of brilliant pink light. Although translucent, the shield was clearly one of the defensive screen moves, Reflect or Light Screen. Chansey was known for its fantastic healing and defending Pokemon. So much so, in fact, that they were stationed at every Pokemon Center of which I knew and to which I had been to assist Nurse Joy with their fantastic healing abilities. They came in extreme handy, as I knew.

Saline flew furiously towards the Chansey, erratic streamers of water radiating from her body and a bright, silver glow coating her fins. She dove straight through the barrier that blocked her path, apparently going too fast to be halted. However, her power was reduced; the wall of light filtered a good chunk of the gleam on her wings as well as some of the slipstreams of water trailing at her side. She smashed with a rather reduced power into the Chansey and followed through, flying to the Chansey’s side as the pink Pokemon recoiled in pain.

Suddenly, Chansey shoved out her hand with a devious glow in her eyes. She placed an unexpected iron grip on my Empoleon and spun with the strength of a Pokemon several times her caliber in terms of attacking power. I gasped as the pink Pokemon released Saline with the gained momentum and struck an interesting pose, burgundy fire burnging in her pupilless eyes. Saline flew haaphazard into a tree not far from the stream and sunk to the muddy earth.

Counter... dammit I thought as the Chansey’s eyes returned to normal and it fell to an overexerted position. At least it wore it out somewhat... I jogged over to Saline, who was attempting to pull herself back up from the ground; the attack was rough since it did basically double what she had done to the Chansey, and that wasn’t a laughable amount. I placed a hand on her fin as she finally reached a standing position.

“That was awesome, Saline. We didn’t catch her off guard, but you did a fantastic job anyway. She’s weaker now, more unprepared. Let’s hit her with a Whirlpool and back it up with a Bubblebeam to make sure that the Whirlpool does its job. Ready?”

Saline nodded shortly and then looked back at the Chansey. I stood to her side and she ran and jumped back into the water. Illuminated by a neon glow down her anterior, she spun in a single circle. A depression appeared suddenly in the water and with the mysterious coaxing of Saline’s wings, it grew larger and more powerful. She crafted the curved sides of the whirlpool like a potter at his wheel. She made a small movement and the Whirlpool heaved up out of the stream. Saline made an ‘X’ like slashing motion with her fins and the Whirlpool teared out of the stream after the fat, pink Pokemon.

Not waiting for the move to make contact, Saline swelled at the chest and released a barrage of blue and mother-of-pearl orbs raging after the Whirlpool. She exerted so much effort into the attack that she literally pushed herself back in her floating position above the stream. The orbs swirled and cascaded after the Whirlpool and towards the target, who had already launched an attack of her own. I leaned to spy which attack it was...

 

BP

Ranger Chainy

OOC: I'm an idiot, Chansey are female only. Also... you're probably not going to like the last encounter >_>

~~~~~~

Jake ran over to his Pokemon, who was slowly getting to her feet. He obviously took a greater interest in the wellbeing of his Pokemon than most Trainers - it was good to see him care, but he'd have to let go a little bit if he wanted to battle in the pro leagues, and just like anyone else, Pokemon could be spoiled and babied. Hopefully he wasn't doing either.

“That was awesome, Saline. We didn’t catch her off guard, but you did a fantastic job anyway. She’s weaker now, more unprepared. Let’s hit her with a Whirlpool and back it up with a Bubblebeam to make sure that the Whirlpool does its job. Ready?” Jake asked his Pokemon.

Saline nodded, and Jake stepped back as she ran to the side and dived back into the river. She swum around in a circle, jerking her wings sharply. A large section of the water-top suddenly stilled. Saline began to spin her fins gently, and the still water began to rotate. Her flicks became vicious shoves, and she cultivated the section of water into a roaring Whirlpool.

The Chansey saw what was coming, and decided to prepare accordingly. It put its hands in front of itself, and the pink Reflect suddenly began to bubble. In the depths of the bubbles was a bright blue glow, and it slowly rose to the surface, staining the pink pane of energy with blue streaks. I knew exactly what it was doing - it was fusing the protective techniques of Reflect and Light Screen. It was a trick Dual often used - not quite as good as a full-on Protect, but it was damn near, and it left the user's manoueverability unmolested.

Saline hefted her flippers up, and the huge chunk of Whirlpool rose up into the air. She then slashed them in an X shape, and the Whirlpool flew in an arc towards the Chansey. She then began spitting a stream of light blue bubbles towards her opponent, the bubbles managing to escape before the water rushed back in to fill the void. The Whirlpool crashed on top of the Chansey and miraculously retained its shape, threatening to whisk the Normal-type away. The Bubblebeam didn't help either - they flew straight through the rushing water and burst in front of the Chansey, knocking it over. It managed to cling onto a rock on the ground, though, and the Reflect/Light Screen descended to cover the Chansey almost like a blanket, taking the worst of the damage.

The Chansey's spare hand began glowing bright white. It made a weak overarm throw, and the bright white glow spun around in the Whirlpool, looking like a crazy party special effect. The glow eventually shot out of the whirlpool, and I saw the object emanating the white light was ovaloid in shape. It fell into the water with a plop, right in front of Saline. Before I could shout a warning, the Egg Bomb detonated, and a geyser of water shot up into the air.

~~~~~

Current Battle Statistics:

??? Female Chansey: 63%, RF/LS-2, WHIRLPOOL-1 (used Light Screen, Egg Bomb)

Bold Female Empoleon: 31%, PRZ, ATK+1 (used Whirlpool, Bubblebeam)

~~~~~

Trainer Statistics:

Name: Jake
Location: The Botanical Gardens
Area Effects: 1 Encounters Remaining
Pokemon Encountered: ??? Glameow(?); ??? Grotle(?); ??? Sentret(?); ??? Oddish(?); Naive Munchlax(M); ??? Treecko(?); ??? Skiploom(?); ??? Purugly(?); Mew; ??? Jumpluff(?); ??? Tauros(?); ??? Togepi(?); ??? Cradily(?); ??? Chansey(F)
Pokemon Captured: Naive Munchlax(M)
CC since last Encounter: 13205 / 35000

Pokemon Statistics:

Docile Male Houndoom[Nicknamed Bambi] 100% (<Early Bird Ability>)

Bold Female Empoleon[Nicknamed Saline] 72%, PRZ (TM Flash Cannon <Torrent Ability>)

Item Statistics:

1x Pokeplayer
1x Munchlax Voice Disk
1x Hyper Ball
1x Park Ball
2x Max Potion

~~~~~

 

OOC: We fail. Notice in my posts I’ve been saying ‘she’ for Chansey? I knew they were female only. Yet I still said male.
>implicating moar fayul
>->
Note about this post: I had an idea before I posted and did some heavy research about these moves. To clarify, I’m trying to restrict movement by creating a sort of minefield. Jus’ so you know.

As the Whirlpool tore across the clearing, Chansey made sure she was prepared. Holding up her hads as before, a shot of bright blue energy beamed forward towards the already in place Reflect. I had to admit, I was curious about this combo; I had never seen a Pokemon attempt to fuse the two defensive shields together. The blue ray struck the wall of pink and was absorbed seamlessy for a moment. Then, the shield seemed to bubble and flash. From the point at which the Light Screen ray hit, a pulse of blue shuddered outward, fusing with the reflect and fortifying it withmore diverse defensive power. Streaks of blue and a lightish purple undertone settled into stillness just before the Whirlpool struck it. I noticed wistfully that the purple of the shield was very reminiscent of the Protect attack that I had seen before, both from other trainers and from my own Gallade, Blades. It seemed that the combined power of these shielding moves was enough to create a barrier evocative of the ultimate shielding Protect.

With this new barrier in place, I was sure that the Whirlpool would be reduced to a spindling water spout before it even got close to the Chansey, the Bubblebeam to hoplessly bounce off of it and burst into uselessness. To my surprise, however, the Whirlpool crashed straight through the shield and whirled the Chansey up within it. Barely being able to stand in the ruckus, Chansey was struck and felled by the onslaught of bubbles from the Bubblebeam attack. She hooked one of her small hands onto a handy rock on the ground. I pumped my fist into the air triumphantly and smiled. No way would she be able to recover from that.

I was wrong, however. The shield that she had conjured earlier rushed to her aid, enclosing her and preventing most of the damage. She seemed to gain a bit of strength then, mustering to hold a shining hand up into the whirl. An orb of bright, white energy flew through the water surrounding her and gained momentum as it streaked in a spiral pattern to the crest of the Whirlpool. I cringed as it reached the top and rocketed perfectly and disastrously towards Saline who was just returning to the surface after calmng the water. It struck the water just in front of her and sat for a moment. Caught unawares, Saline did not know of the threat that this brilliant orb posed. Normally, she would recognize it as an attack from the opposing Pokemon and swim away, and with great speed too; this was her natural element and allowed her more finesse. She looked at it curiously and before Chainy or I could call out a warning, the Egg Bomb attack burst and sent a shock wave outwards and a huge pillar of water in its wake.

I called out to Saline as soon as I stabilized from the shock wave that had struck me. Scouring the now disturbed and murmuring surface of the water, I noticed her head pop up. I grinned in happiness. She wasn’t done yet. Upon closer inspection, though, she wasn’t in the best of shape either. One eye was was closed to a cringe and there was a sort of mottled, burned patch on her forehead where the explosion must have hit. She was definitely not going to last very long. I decided on a supporting move then to help Bambi when he was going to be in battle.

“Let’s set up some support! Dive under water and use the water as a buffer for attacks. Make sure to use Metal Claw on the bottom so Chansey can’t use the water to amplify her Electrical moves. Then go for Bubble Mist!”

She nodded behind her closed eye and dove under. A silver flash and dull thunking sound from underwater indicated the preparation of Metal Claw; I was confident that she would be able to pull that off without a hitch as it was a strategy she had already used not hours ago. However, the next portion of my command was far more advanced in both strategy and difficulty. Again a technique that I had learned from a professional battler, this combination move was both beautiful in contests and lethal in battle.

While venturing around the Kanto region, I stopped by Cerulean city for several reasons. The main reason was to explore it’s illustrious, treacherous, and above all dangerous namesake cave, Cerulean Cave. Exploring in there was one of the most exhilarating times of my life. I met tons of extremely rare and powerful Pokemon and gained loads of experience. However, that’s not where I discovered the Bubble Mist technique. After a run-in with Misty at her gym (which resulted in a close win by yours truly thanks to Blades’ Leaf Cutter attack), misty invited me to a contest in the new contest hall that had been just recently installed. It was water themed, of course, and I got to see many fantastic displays of Pokemon at top shape. However, one combination stuck out in my mind very clearly.

Misty, being the host of the contst, was required to make a display of her own before the contest began. She sent her well-suited Lapras onto the field first. After some well rounded water tricks it was time for the finale.

“Bubble Mist, Lapras!” Misty cried. The Lapras focused for a split second before sending out a volley of blue orbs. These orbs, however, were not the normal bright blue orbs that came with Bubblebeam. They shone perfectly clear and held a pocket of beautiful mist within them. They looked like floating, crystal ball miniatures. they hovered in the air over the solid ground portion of the fielddirectly acros from where Lapras floated in the pond portion.

”Now finish it off with Sheer Cold!” Even I gasped as the Lapras began to close its eyes and glow a sheen of light blue, like chilled ice. This move was known for its unreliability in battles. It focused with and intense effort pulling in coldness from around it. The water in the pond began to steam as Lapras pulled the cold even from it. When it seemed that the charging could go on no longer, Misty cried ”Release!” and the Lapras opened its mouth. An anticlimax filled the air when nothing was released. Lapras was concentrating with all the energy it could muster still, but nothing seemed to be happening. And then I realized a long with the rest of the crowd. All at once, everyone let out a surprised and shuddering breath of fogged air. The blast of cold may have not been visible, but it sure as hell was tangible. One by one the bubbles suspended in the air flash froze and released an aura of deposited diamond dust that flash froze from air. As each one froze the crowd gasped in shock and utter amazement. It seemed as if an invisible had were crashing down on the bubbles and freezing them instantaneously. After the last one froze the all fell to the ground tumultuously and shattered in succession, each blast releasing the beautiful mist that was contained inside and emanating shards of Nevermeltice that were later given as commencement gifts to all participants.

This strategy blew me away, and Saline, a Prinplup then, was eager to try out the same strategy. Like the Inferno-Smog combination, it took weeks and months of practice to even come close to perfection. Since, Empoleon was incapable of learning Sheer Cold, we found use in merely using the first half of the attack. Still, though, it was a harsh road to perfection. We had finally gotten it down now and I hoped that it would succeed now, in this battle.

By not freezing and ‘detonating’ the bubbles from the attack, they hung in the air like underwater mines in the ocean; the second one was disturbed by a misstep in the opposing Pokemon’s movements, it burst with attacking force as well as temporarily obscuring the vision with the mist contained inside. I hoped to restrict Chansey’s movement and maybe score some damage in there as well by doing this.

Coming back to present day, I stared nervously at the surface of the water. Suddenly, orbs of glassy white mist appeared and surged from the deep blue depths of the stream. I didn’t celebrate outwardly quite yet, though; this was the hardest part. Creating the bubbles themseles was difficult, but crafting them in such a way so that they hovered in the air and didn’t fly at the opponent like an attack, or with thick enough layers to prevent bursting without contact, was the hard part.

The bubbles bbbed slowly towards the clearing where Chansey lay struggling with the Whirlpool. I waited to see her reaction to this move...

 

BP

Ranger Chainy

OOC: Sorry for the late replies, lots of stuff going down. I'mma try to commit to a post every two days, but I can't promise that.

~~~~~

“Let’s set up some support! Dive under water and use the water as a buffer for attacks. Make sure to use Metal Claw on the bottom so Chansey can’t use the water to amplify her Electrical moves. Then go for Bubble Mist!” Jake commanded.

He sure was fond of combinations moves, I thought, but then I didn't blame him. They'd been effective so far. I didn't often use combination attacks like this, preferring to manipulate the theory behind attacks and use them in new ways, like using Psychic to walk on water by virtue of the move's telekinetic abilities.

Saline dived into the pond and anchored herself to the bottom of the pond with a dull thunk. I waited for a minute, waiting to see what this Bubble Mist move would do. The large tornado-like whirlpool that was pinning the Chansey to the ground was still there, but it was getting steadily smaller because there was no water to reinforce it, and furthermore the Light Screen was shielding the Chansey very effectively.

Suddenly a horde of small blue orbs launched out of the water, surrounding the whirlpool. They floated in the air, distributing themselves evenly. Tiny snowstorms raged inside them, but somehow they didn't break the outer shell of the bubbles. I realised with a shock what Jake was doing - he was setting up a field of lanmines to prevent the Chansey from running! It was probably a smart move - the Whirlpool didn't look like it was going to last much longer.

The Chansey continued to hide underneath the Light Screen, but it raised its right arm against the current above the ground. It then smashed the arm down into the ground, and a small shockwave shot towards the lake. It created a splash as it met the water's edge, and the shockwave continued along the bottom of the pool. It rumbled all around Saline, knocking her over, but it didn't look like much damage was done, despite the supereffectiveness of the attack.

~~~~~

Current Battle Statistics:

??? Female Chansey: 57%, RF/LS-4, WHIRLPOOL-3 (used Earthquake)

Bold Female Empoleon: 18%, PRZ, ATK+1 (used Bubblebeam, Mist)

~~~~~

Trainer Statistics:

Name: Jake
Location: The Botanical Gardens
Area Effects: 1 Encounters Remaining
Pokemon Encountered: ??? Glameow(?); ??? Grotle(?); ??? Sentret(?); ??? Oddish(?); Naive Munchlax(M); ??? Treecko(?); ??? Skiploom(?); ??? Purugly(?); Mew; ??? Jumpluff(?); ??? Tauros(?); ??? Togepi(?); ??? Cradily(?); ??? Chansey(F)
Pokemon Captured: Naive Munchlax(M)
CC since last Encounter: 21527 / 35000

Pokemon Statistics:

Docile Male Houndoom[Nicknamed Bambi] 100% (<Early Bird Ability>)

Bold Female Empoleon[Nicknamed Saline] 72%, PRZ (TM Flash Cannon <Torrent Ability>)

Item Statistics:

1x Pokeplayer
1x Munchlax Voice Disk
1x Hyper Ball
1x Park Ball
2x Max Potion

~~~~~

 

OOC: You are insane. You aren’t late and even if you were 1) I would have no right to complain and you no right to feel guilty because the only reason this still exists is because you waited like a month or two while school had a boss battle with me, and 2) you are at college. College>URPG. Stop trying to apologize for mistakes that don’t exist, you poo.

The Bubbles remained to my great happiness and relief. They were large and bulbous and situated themselves around Chansey like antibodies around a foreign substance. It was hard to imagine how Chansey would be able to perform a move that involve any movement at all without detonating one of the bubbles.

I noticed Chainy standing safely off to the side and observing the battle attentively. He looked a bit shocked at the use of an offensive move for a support purpose, but it wasn’t anything too new to him. However, I could tell that with the way that his Pokemon moved, they were less about fancy combination moves and more about well practiced, conditioned, and hard-hitting tactics. I wanted to know what he thought about my battling style. Was it too evasive and not enough straightforwawrd attacking? Or did he see it as innovative and surprising; a fairly unpredictable onslaught of diverse moves. I tried to use tactics to my advantage most of the time, not relying on my Pokemon’s raw power alone to get the job done. However, I knew that setting up too many traps had the potential to tactically collapse in many ways. The trap could nd up damaging you instead of the opposing Pokemon, or it could cause the Pokemon to faint before you had a chance to capture it. I knew that battling was a subtle art, but why did it have to be so difficult.

I shook my head and sternly returned my gaze to Chansey. It seemed she was doing something with her free hand. I noticed that she was having an easier time moving and staying grounded than before; the Whirlpool was becoming weaker all the time and would soon fade if it didn’t get another blast of water from a water type move. I decided the cicumstances leaned towards my using a water move and began to review Saline’s moves in my head. Just then, Chansey pounded her hand down on the ground and released a tremor that pulsed outwards from the epicenter. I felt my heart drop to my midsection as I remembered that Saline was attached to the ground by way of Metal Claw. It was too late to warn her, though; the blast was moving faster than I could react. It reached the stream and went under, hitting Saline with a resonant buzzing sound of metal striking hard earth. The Earthquake was super effective, I knew, but maybe the water acted as some sort of a buffer against it as I had hoped.

I noticed that, as with most near water earthquakes a wave was created from the jerk in movement under it. The displacement caused an opposing motion in water towards the shore on shich Chansey lay. I perked up immediately and quickly spouted an order at Saline.

“Ride the wave and Use Aqua Jet to get close and then smash her with a Brine attack! Use your speed!”

I watched as Saline barely managed to fly out of the water, eyes glowing blue, and swam with the wave towards the shore. Just as the wave was about to crash, she rocketed out of the water and revealed to have a ball of aquatic energy at her beak. Flying at mach speeds from the wave’s boost she streaked through the air with water slipstreaming at her sides. As she got closer the ball of energy swelled in size and grew in power. I knew the impact would be fantastic and just before the two Pokemon met, Saline just launched the oceanicorb at Chansey, leaving it to work on its own.

I held up my arm to block the blow that I predicted would happen and closed my eyes against the salty blast...

 

BP

Ranger Chainy

~~~~~

As the wave sloshed outwards, Jake's eyes narrowed, probably coming up with a plan of some sort. When the wave reached the other end of the pond and started to return to its point of origin, his eyes lit up.

“Ride the wave and Use Aqua Jet to get close and then smash her with a Brine attack! Use your speed!" he called out.

Saline let go of the floor of the pond and kicked up to the surface. She emerged in the middle of the wave and surfed up the front of it, using its momentum to gain speed. When she reached the tip of the crest, she kicked off of the wave, allowing it to crash against the lip of the pond. A small orb of water around her beak stayed with her though, and she hurtled through the air towards the Chansey.

I looked over at the Chansey, or rather at the large Whirlpool pinning it to the ground. Suddenly, the whirlpool began to glow bright white, and a flash blinded me. I rubbed my eyes and looked back up to see the Chansey getting to its feet. Both the Whirlpool and the Reflect/Light Screen shield had disappeared, allowing the Chansey to finally go on the offensive. It wasn't expecting Saline to come hurtling towards it, though - its eyes opened wide as the Empoleon fired the ball of water towards the Normal-type Pokemon. The Brine attack collided with the Chansey's chest just above its egg pouch, and the water exploded, showering salty water everywhere, even though the pond was freshwater. Saline then rammed her steely fin into the Chansey's shoulder, knocking it back.

The Chansey was tired of playing defensively, though. With all of its remaining strength, it managed to stay on its feet, and then it ran towards Saline, raising its right arm into the air. The stubby pink protusion was glowing bright orange, and the Chansey jumped into the air before bringing the glowing hand down on Saline's shoulder. Saline made a pitiful squawking sound, and she fell to her knees, before collapsing onto the ground. The Chansey began to dance around happily in circles, ecstatic that she'd managed to bring down her opponent. A couple of the bubbles had burst and a small mist began to pervade the area, but it wasn't yet slowing the Chansey down.

"Ah, bad luck there," I said to Jake, "but at least you have Bambi to finish the fight. And you have to admit, Saline did very well coping with the paralysis and fighting all these battles."

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Current Battle Statistics:

??? Female Chansey: 37%, (used Brick Break, Double-Edge)

Bold Female Empoleon: 0%, FNT (used Aqua Jet, Brine)

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Trainer Statistics:

Name: Jake
Location: The Botanical Gardens
Area Effects: 1 Encounters Remaining
Pokemon Encountered: ??? Glameow(?); ??? Grotle(?); ??? Sentret(?); ??? Oddish(?); Naive Munchlax(M); ??? Treecko(?); ??? Skiploom(?); ??? Purugly(?); Mew; ??? Jumpluff(?); ??? Tauros(?); ??? Togepi(?); ??? Cradily(?); ??? Chansey(F)
Pokemon Captured: Naive Munchlax(M)
CC since last Encounter: 24939 / 35000

Pokemon Statistics:

Docile Male Houndoom[Nicknamed Bambi] 100% (<Early Bird Ability>)

Bold Female Empoleon[Nicknamed Saline] 0% (TM Flash Cannon <Torrent Ability>)

Item Statistics:

1x Pokeplayer
1x Munchlax Voice Disk
1x Hyper Ball
1x Park Ball
2x Max Potion

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Just before Saline hit her target, a blinding flash emanated from the Whirlpool to reveal Chansey standing upright, both without the Whirlpool restricting her and without the barriers protecting her. It was time for her to get down to business.

Before she could do anything, however, she was struck with the Brine and Aqua Jet attack that I had ordered Saline to carry out. First, the ball of ocean burst with the force of a crashing wave in a sea storm and spewed its water all around. Its explosion was similar to that of the Egg Bomb that Saline had recently experienced, but it let loose a torrent of water that soaked its surroundings, managing even to spray Chainy and me fairly decently. After that had done its damage, Saline’s fin collided with Chansey’s upper body and temporarily knocking her to the ground. But this didn’t last long.

Chansey was definitely not in her best shape; she had bruises on her body and her ‘hairs’ were drooping with salty water. However, her expression demonstrated a different demeanor completely. She looked determined almost to the point of deviousness. She was ready to go on the all out offensive no matter the cost. She held out her stumpy arm like she was a Gallade holding out his Katana-like limb. Valiance and heroism glittered in her eyes and she began to run towards Saline and her arm began to glow brightly. When she got close enough, she jumped up and slammed her limb into Saline creating a bright arc of fighting energy where her arm flew went through the air.

Saline was weak. She had fought a fantastic battle and made some serious progress for Bambi, but she had been hit with a decent barrage of attacks herself and couldn’t take anything more. As Chansey’s final attack connected with her shoulder, she fell right to her tail and crumpled to the ground with a hoarse cry of defeat. She had fainted. Chansey immediately got to going for a joyful victory dance to celebrate this triumphant defeat. She hopped and twirled making squeaky chirruping sounds. I sighed and walked over to Saline. I pulled out her Pokeball and returned her. No use in using that Revival Herb until I have to, I thought. But now it was Bambi’s chance to fight. I knew I had to get a status in before the end of the battle and Bambi only had one move that was capable of doing that without fail: Inferno. However, the downsides to that attack were large: it was really inaccurate and I was not sure that Chansey would be able to stand an onslaught of Inferno plus one other attack before the end of the battle. I mean, calculating in Burn damage at the end of each turn, plus the damage that Inferno and another would cause was probably too much for Chansey to handle. I had other options, however. Flamethrower, Fire Fang and Thunder Fang were known to occasionally cause a burn and paralysis, but again, if it didn’t strike on the first hit, it probably would hit too hard on the second before it got a chance to actually inflict anything. I was left with only one more option. I really didn’t like using Smog because one, it was uncomfortable to breathe and open your eyes in and two, it didn’t do much damage at all. However, it had the highest probability if inflicting Poison and it did measly enough damage to not have to worry about knocking Chansey out before I got a chance to capture her.

I released my Houndoom onto the clearing and felt a bubble of worry kind of burp inside of my stomach as I decided once and for all to use Smog. Bambi appeared with a flash of red and an aura of evaporating sparkles. He roared in excitement at first and then looked a bit embarrassed at himself, silently cursing his oversight and forgetting that he was in my presence. I almost rolled my eyes but reminded myself that I needed to attack fast.

“Bambi. We need to focus on Poisoning. I want you to really charge up this Smog attack and when you release it, make it more of a focused shot than a general spray. Remember to make it thicker and more dense than normal.” I calmly commanded Bambi. He immediately turned his head slightly downwards and began to prepare for the attack. A sort of bubbling noise rumbled from Bambi’s stomach. I made an ill face. I know it sounds odd, but I really didn’t want it coming out the wrong end, especially if it was super explosive if you know what I mean. I took a deep breath to prevent laughter and returned a focused gaze on Bambi and caught him just as he looked up at Chansey. He opened his mouth and released a deep purple stream of fog in Chansey’s direction. It flew out like a beam, but droplets of poison that were too dense to float cascaded downward from the pillar, creating a sort of veil effect. I smiled in success.

I watched the Chansey, carefully observing how it reacted…