Metallica Fanboy (OO)
[Kong] Mankey (M)
Ability: Vital Spirit -> Insomnia
Health: 68%
Energy: --%
Status: “RAWR!” Special Attack +2. Surrounded by Toxic Spikes.
Blastoise: (OO)
[Kergen] Mankey (F)
Vital Spirit
Health: 51%
Energy: --%
Status: “Note to self… stop questioning Metronome.” Confused (Moderate).
Round 5
Eager to bring Kong back within reasonable health, Kergen wastes no time triggering another Metronome. This time, her fingers glow a powerful red, and as if to answer her plea for utter destruction, the ground begins to tremble. Former onlookers flee as the pavement begins to crack violently. Up out of the crack rises a huge cloud of smoke and steam, as well as a towering column of searing hot orange-ish magma. The entire tower of magma makes its way to Kong, trapping the Mankey in the searing flames. His screams are barely audible over the noise of the sizzling column of destruction. After a few moments, the towering flames begin to flicker and fade, until it is reduced to a significantly smaller ring of fire. The crack in the pavement continues to grow, however, prompting the ref to use his magical teleportation abilities to move the combatants to another location in the city as the ground beneath the humans’ feet crumbles.
The battlers, ref, and their battle conditions including both the ring of fire and the poisonous spikes that surround Kong reappear on a standard battle arena, inside the Goldenrod City Gym. Upon inspection, one would find that Whitney isn’t anywhere in sight, presumably shopping. The junior trainers, however, scramble to the far corners of the gym, frightened by the sudden appearance of an entire battle.
Kong hardly notices this change, however, still blinded by rage. He darts forward, ring of fire keeping up as if it were a part of the Mankey himself, and rams Kergen hard one last time as the dragon flames finally fade from his body. Kong retreats back across the field, his rage finally calming. He pants heavily as he finally realizes that his location has changed, and looks around in confusion.
Kergen, meanwhile, has triggered another metronome. Her arm begins to glow a woody green, and small thorns have begin to grow. She runs up to the confused Kong and rams him hard with her thorny arm. Kong is knocked back a little bit, but he barely notices the pain in his side. He’s too wrapped up in his thoughts of how he got into a building. As he looks around, he takes a step forward, and stumbles over his own feet, falling face-first into the gym floor.
Kergen laughs as Kong forces himself upright and begins a metronome. Still, he can’t help but looking around the building, wondering how he got there. His thoughts consume him, and he makes Kergen’s mistake of stopping his metronome halfway through. The white light that began to form explodes into nothing, and Kong looks down at his hands just in time for the white light to blast into his eyes. Kergen laughs again, activating another metronome of her own. As the white light glows, her mouth opens on its own accord and emits a high pitched screech. Kong seems not to hear it, however, whether because he is too far away or because he just isn’t paying attention, Kergen doesn’t know.
Round 5 Results
Metallica Fanboy (OO)
[Kong] Mankey (M)
Ability: Vital Spirit -> Insomnia
Health: 41%
Energy: --%
Status: “Uh… rawr?” Special Attack +2. Surrounded by Toxic Spikes. Trapped by Magma Storm (1 more action). Confused (Severe).
Blastoise: (OO)
[Kergen] Mankey (F)
Vital Spirit
Health: 40%
Energy: --%
Status: “Note to self… stop questioning Metronome.” Confused (Moderate).
-Kergen’s moves: Magma Storm, Needle Arm, Supersonic.
-Kong’s moves: Outrage, Dragon Dance (failed due to confusion), Jump Kick (failed due to confusion).
-Kong hurt himself in confusion on actions 2 and 3.
-I always thought Confuse Ray and Supersonic should have their names switched. After all, how is a sound-based move so inaccurate? Anyway, Kergen’s supersonic missed, not that it mattered since Kong is already at my highest confusion rate (due to Outrage). And reffing that was hard, too, resulting in something boring.
-Magma Storm lasted for 4 actions, so Kong will be freed after the next.
-Oh, and I thought it would be a shame to let either of you die while causing your destruction, so in case it wasn't obvious, I moved the battle to the gym after the Magma Storm.
