Normal arenas are one thing, but quite frankly
boring ones are another. Meowth may have spent every moment of his time in sleazy bars or on Antarctic rowboats wishing for somewhere a bit less outlandish to preside over a battle, but a plain white room? Was the fool who thought of this place even trying? What was her name now...? He hurriedly searches through the paperwork- ah yes, Arylett Dwansborough. As he folds the document up and slips it back into his pocket, Ms Dwansborough enters the room, followed by her opponent, Chief Zackrai. She quickly consults the ref over a possible typographical error, and Meowth makes a mental note to see to it that certain Asber office clerks are fired and orders the trainers to take their places and send out their Pokémon.
Arylett decides to start with Alterra, her Zigzagoon, hurling the Normal-type's Pokéball into the centre of the plain white floor and releasing it in a flash of red light. Alterra scans the room, none to impressed with its frankly underwhelming colour scheme, but being a Normal-type, she can hardly comment on plainness, now can she? Chief Zackrai also throws a Pokéball, from which bursts a rather stunning yellow and blue Baltoy. The sparkliness of its surface suggests it may be a very rare Shiny version, but since it's just a lump of clay, it could well just be paint and glitter. In any case it's a nice contrast to the endless plain whiteness of the room.
=ROUND ONE=
Arylett Dawnsborough (
ƟƟƟ)
Alterra (F)
Ability: Pickup
Health: 100% | Energy: 100%
Status: rather nervous about her first battle.
Double Team ~ Toxic/Blizzard (if Bes uses Safeguard) ~ Light Screen
Chief Zackrai (
ƟƟƟ)
Bes
Ability: Levitate
Health: 100% | Energy: 100%
Status: I'm shiny. Are
you shiny? No. You're not. ...so there.
Safeguard ~ Protect ~ Earthquake
Being just faster than her opponent, Alterra moves first, and decides to flaunt her speed with a Double Team. Quick as a flash, she begins darting all over the arena in haphazard patterns, appearing only as a fuzzy brown blur. When she eventually grinds to a halt, she has four mirror images alongside her; illusions created by her incredible speed. Gazing at the quintet of raccoons in amazement, Bes decides it's going to need some sort of protection in case they all decide to gang up on him. Summoning its psychic energies, it manifests them into a cylindrical translucent screen of light green energy around its body, shielding itself from any unwanted effects of moves.
Alterra watches this, rather disgruntled. Clearly a Toxic's not going to punch through that... luckily, Bes should still be vulnerable to regular ol' damage. Taking a deep breath, Alterra slowly releases it, pushing out a gale of frigid air so cold that all moisture in the air it touches instantly freezes into a storm of sleet. Bes sees this freezing windstorm rushing toward him and puts up another barrier, this time a vast blue dome that hermetically seals him from everything outside. The blizzard flows over the dome of energy without so much as fogging it up, and when the freezing winds die down Bes lets the shield flicker out.
As the snow melts into a thin puddle all across the floor, Alterra snarls at Bes viciously.
You bastard, she hisses, as the Baltoy snickers maliciously at making her waste all that effort. Deciding to rise above Bes' childish mockery, Alterra declines the opportunity to smash his face in and instead put up a good old Light Scr- wait, Light Screen? You mean that big glowy shieldy thing that Raichus and Kadabras and, hell, even stupid
Baltoys use? Alterra can't remember ever knowing such a move! While she's busy being confused, Bes decides to dish out some destruction. Rising a few inches into the air and lowering his appendages, he suddenly shoots downwards and plants his little foot thing into the ground, spinning furiously to drive himself further into the crack his impact created. Little by little, the ground splits open until suddenly it gives, sending cracks sprawling in all directions and shaking the entire room. Alterra is suddenly lifted off her paws and vaulted into the ceiling, then into each of the walls before finally slamming back onto the ground head-first. Concussed and injured, Alterra slowly gathers her bearings and eases herself back onto her feet, trying to work out what just happened. Judging by the state of the place, Bes has been a complete git again. She's down four clones, as well. The Baltoy spins in place joyously, mocking his opponent's failure to do anything particularly helpful. Despite failing to attack properly for two actions in a row, Alterra is heartened when an intruiging scent hits her nostrils; sniffing at the plain white ground, she discovers that what looked like a patch of floor was in fact a flat sheet of plain white paper. Picking it up in her jaws happily, she trots over to her trainer and hands it over; Arylett gives an unenthusiastic smile and slides the paper into her bag. Perhaps she can sell it at a second-hand art supplies shop or something.
Arylett Dawnsborough (
ƟƟƟ)
Alterra (F)
Ability: Pickup
Health: 88% | Energy: 87%
Status: sore, in both the emotional and literal sense.
Pickup: $1
Double Team ~ Blizzard ~ nothing
Chief Zackrai (
ƟƟƟ)
Bes
Ability: Levitate
Health: 100% | Energy: 83%
Status: greatly amused. Protected by Safeguard (3 more actions).
Safeguard ~ Protect ~ Earthquake
=REFEREE'S NOTES=
~ Alterra produced 4 clones, since the number wasn't specified.
~ neither Veekun nor Bulbapedia state that Zigzagoon can use Light Screen, so Alterra did nothing on the third action.
~ Earthquake eliminated Alterra's clones.
~ I probably should have thought to ask this beforehand, Zackrai, but are chills counted under "recovery moves"?
=TURN ORDER=
~ Chief Zackrai attacks
~ Arylett attacks