sreservoir vs. Lirris

ROUND 1

The aforementioned floating platform is waiting just outside town limits, near a rather high hill. If one were to look around the area near it, they would find two Trainers and a League Reuniclus waiting around for their battle's referee. A minute or so passes, and the referee pops into existence a few steps away from the Trainers, accompanied by yet another League Reuniclus. The two Pokemon shake hands and a mental message appears to pass through them, as one teleports away immediately. Quickly settling and agreeing on the battle terms, the Trainers and referee exchange words of encouragement before following the Reuniclus out onto the platform and crouching down as the Pokemon gives the platform a mental 'shove'. Soon, it drifts over the town and stops maybe a few hundred meters over a suburb-like area under the Reuniclus' power, and the Trainers pull out Pokeballs.

The first to act is sreservoir, who picks a Pokeball with no hesitation and throws it to the center of the platform. The light that appears takes the shape of a monkey and when the light fades Pom-pon the Aipom is revealed; balancing on her tail. Pom-pon takes a quick survey of her surroundings and hops off her tail as soon as she sees exactly how high up they are. Exactly how safe is this?

Lirris looks over his opponent's Aipom, before choosing a Pokeball of his own and throwing it near the center as well. The light quickly shapes itself into a vaguely quadruped form, and dims to show the form of a Poochyena wearing a Muscle Band around his neck like a bandana. Onikami locks eyes with Pom-pon and growls, before apparently noticing the height of the platform and stopping. The referee peers over the edge herself, judging the distance to the ground and looking over the gathering spectators, before waving a small flag to signal the battle beginning.

sreservoir (O)

[Pom-pon] F <Pickup>
Health: 100%
Energy: 100%
Status: Looking past her opponent, over the edge of the platform.

Lirris (O)
@ Muscle Band
[Onikami] M <Run Away>
Health: 100%
Energy: 100%
Status: Moving from paw to paw nervously.

Pom-pon grins at her Trainer and takes a deep breath. She begins coughing and trying to get something out of her throat, making Onikami back away. Quickly he puts up a shield of energy around him, making the air shimmer green. Pom-pon appears to take no notice of this and hacks up a large amount of phlegm, spitting it towards Onikami. It splatters on the shield around the Poochyena, who whines as it drips down to eye level. Disgusting. That came out of her throat? Stepping back, Onikami lets the shield drop and growls.

Still grinning, Pom-pon slaps her tail on the ground a few times, raising a small cloud of dust. Reaching out with her mind, she shapes the cloud vaguely into the shape of an Aipom and puts some of her energy into it. The dust cloud drifts forwards and stands in front of Pom-pon, taking a defensive stance. Pom-pon nods and balances on her tail again, confident that it will protect her.

Onikami watches his opponent carefully, glaring through the Aipom-cloud at Pom-pon before raising his voice in a loud howl. It's a loud, pitchy cry; a call that he learned soon after he was born. Just the sound of his own voice makes him start to feel better, and when Onikami stops he can feel his heart beating a bit faster. He starts to move from paw to paw again, but excited instead of nervous now.

Pom-pon locks gazes with Onikami, and bounces up and down on her tail somewhat lazily. Leaning back a bit, she waves her hand at the Poochyena, who's raring to go at this point. When it dawns on Onikami that Pom-pon is waiting for him to make a move, he races forwards with a bit of slaver flying from his mouth. Concentrating on his mouth, he flies forwards and sinks his teeth into Pom-pon. Or he would have, if the dust-Aipom hadn't stepped in the way and put itself between his jaws and Pom-pon's face. Onikami ends up with a mouthful of dust, and the dust-Aipom is left with a fairly sized hole in its chest.

Pom-pon giggles, and starts clapping. She starts going on about how cool Onikami looked when he jumped at her Substitute, and how ferocious he seemed. In her time, she's never seen anyone attack like that! As Pom-pon continues to rave about Onikami's skills and how well he managed to make that Crunch look, Onikami shuffles his paws, a bit flattered. Well, if he did that so well, let's see how she likes an actual faceful of his teeth. He drops into a fighting stance, rather excited to continue now.

sreservoir (O)

[Pom-pon] F <Pickup>
Health: 85%
Energy: 85%
Status: Grinning like an idiot.
Substitute- 3%

Lirris (O)
@ Muscle Band
[Onikami] M <Run Away>
Health: 100%
Energy: 90%
Status: Raring to go.
+1 Attack​

ROUND 2

sreservoir (O)

[Pom-pon] F <Pickup>
Health: 85%
Energy: 85%
Status: Grinning like an idiot.
Substitute- 3%

Lirris (O)
@ Muscle Band
[Onikami] M <Run Away>
Health: 100%
Energy: 90%
Status: Raring to go.
+1 Attack. Encored (3 more actions)

Pom-pon gets right to work, tracing her paw through the air and following that path with her tail. Oddly enough, the air she draws her paw through begins to glow, and a kind of clumsy pentacle starts to form. The air keeps glowing brighter, and Pom-pon breathes out heavily so the shape flies at Onikami and disappears right in front of his face, to seemingly no effect. Onikami looks carefully at the air around him before sort of shrugging, and turning his attention back to Pom-pon.

Looking back at his Trainer, Onikami whines and shakes his head. If he's going to fight, he's going to do it on his own terms and right now that involves looking as cool as he can and impressing his enemy. Leaping forwards, Onikami snaps his jaws open and closed in preparation, and sinks his teeth fully into Pom-pon's substitute, who jumps into the Poochyena's path before he can really act. Dark energy flares up in his mouth, and the Substitute makes a kind of quiet huffing noise before turning back into dust and disappearing in the wind. Onikami smirks at Pom-pon, and takes a few steps backwards to put a good distance between them.

Pom-pon has to stifle her own smirk, and continues to trace her paws and tail through the air. Again, the air starts glowing in the pattern she creates, but it's glowing brighter this time as Pom-pon's movements grow faster. She pauses and blows a kiss at Onikami, and the pentacle follows. Like last time, it disappears right in front of Onikami, and he looks around again. Honestly, what is that Aipom doing?

Growling, he throws himself forwards and fastens his jaws around Pom-pon's arm. The dark energy in his mouth doesn't form without a mental push this time, and Onikami gives the Aipom's arm a shake, taking pleasure in her pained yelps, before letting go and retreating. Working his jaw, he frowns. What's going on with that? The Poochyena's breathing heavily now, and whines at his Trainer before focusing his attention back on Pom-pon.

Pom-pon draws her paws and tail through the air again, creating the same symbol as before. The air glows where she brings her paws, and quickly, a white pentacle forms and floats in the air. Wasting no time, Pom-pon blows and sends it towards Onikami, who looks at it suspiciously as it disappears in front of him. Shaking his head, the Poochyena charges forwards again.

Onikami whines as he feels something heavy clamp around his legs, making it harder to move. As he bites down on Pom-pon, the dark energy that forms in his mouth is slow to come again, and his jaws feel weak. He bites down harder to make up for it, and falls back, completely exhausted. Pom-pon is laughing without hesitation now, though her arm seems to be in bad shape. Both are breathing rather heavily, and Pom-pon's arm is pretty badly torn up, though she's trying to make the best of it. Onikami snaps something rude at her for tricking him, and resolves to get the upper hand on her next time.

sreservoir (O)

[Pom-pon] F <Pickup>
Health: 62%
Energy: 73%
Status: Stinging, but still with a huge grin on her face.

Lirris (O)
@ Muscle Band
[Onikami] M <Run Away>
Health: 100%
Energy: 51%
Status: Furious, but tired.
+1 Attack. Crunch is Spited (12% extra energy to use)​

ROUND 3

sreservoir (O)

[Pom-pon] F <Pickup>
Health: 62%
Energy: 73%
Status: Stinging, but still with a huge grin on her face.

Lirris (O)
@ Muscle Band
[Onikami] M <Run Away>
Health: 100%
Energy: 51%
Status: Furious, but tired.
+1 Attack. Crunch is Spited (12% extra energy to use)

The platform shifts a bit in the wind, making Pokemon and Trainers alike scramble for a more stable footing for a few moments. As it rights itself, Pom-pon waves her hands through the air, leaving a faint green trail of light. It vanishes quickly, leaving an almost invisible faint glimmer in the air. Pom-pon keeps her arms raised, eyes closed and teeth clenched tightly as she concentrates on keeping the energy she's poured into the air in place.

Onikami seems to be oblivious to this and growls at Pom-pon, spouting obscenities and mocking how she never actually attacks him and just hides behind cheap strategies. Only the weak did that! What was the point of fighting if she wasn't really going to do anything but jump around behind cheap tactics and blah blah blah- Onikami trails off as he notices that Pom-pon is completely deaf to everything he's saying, and growls again. The stupid Aipom wouldn't even listen to his taunts? Fine. She could have it her way.

The faint shimmer in the air around Pom-pon disappears and she looks up and around in surprise. Onikami is giving her the fish-eye, which she has to grin at and walks forwards slightly. Onikami dashes forwards and whips a paw forwards in front of Pom-pon, seeming to expect her to be a few steps ahead. He whines as the momentum carries him away from Pom-pon, and crashes to the ground a bit clumsily. Pom-pon giggles as he stands up indignantly and growls again, snapping something rude at her.

The Aipom raises her paws and draws them through the air, light flaring up where she drags her paws in a familiar pattern. A pentacle forms quickly, and with an almost lazy bat of her tail, Pom-pon sends it flying towards Onikami. He backs away and snaps at the shape that disappears in front of him, looking at his Trainer uneasily. What's going on? He remembers Pom-pon doing something similar not too long ago, and it made his paws feel heavy and hard to move.

Shaking himself, Onikami rushes headlong at Pom-pon, turning at the last second to whip his paw out at Pom-pon's face. To his surprise, she's not where he expects her to be standing, and he finds himself falling heavily on his side, the wind knocked out of him. Shaking a bit, he gets to his feet and faces Pom-pon, who's standing rather far away from his original path.

She jumps up and down screeching, bouncing on her tail and generally making a big racket. What's wrong? Can't think enough to look where you're running to? Pom-pon grins and makes a rather rude gesture at Onikami, dancing in a circle around him and jabbing at the air in front of him. Onikami snaps at her tail as she dances by, completely out of control now. He barks louder than Pom-pon can raise her voice, and the round seems to have degenerated into a shouting match before a bottle flies up from the ground and hits the edge of the platform, making it wobble again. Onikami and Pom-pon yell, dropping low to the platform in order to regain their balance. Maybe yelling at the top of their lungs in a residential area isn't the best idea ever?

sreservoir (O)

[Pom-pon] F <Pickup>
Health: 62%
Energy: 62%
Status: Looking around for the guy who threw that bottle.

Lirris (O)
@ Muscle Band
[Onikami] M <Run Away>
Health: 100%
Energy: 34%
Status: Enraged, but doesn't want to put the energy into acting on it.
+1 Attack. Crunch is Spited (12% extra energy to use), Sucker Punch is Spited (4% extra energy to use). Taunted (3 more actions).​

ROUND 3.1

sreservoir (O)

[Pom-pon] F <Pickup>
Health: 62%
Energy: 73%
Status: Stinging, but still with a huge grin on her face.

Lirris (O)
@ Muscle Band
[Onikami] M <Run Away>
Health: 100%
Energy: 51%
Status: Furious, but tired.
+1 Attack. Crunch is Spited (12% extra energy to use)

The platform shifts slightly in the wind, and the Trainers and Pokemon all make noises of surprise as they take a few steps to regain their footing. The referee and League Reuniclus both take a step away from the edge of the platform, to prevent possibly falling off the edge, before she raises her arm for the round to begin.

Pom-pon screeches with laughter suddenly, making Onikami twitch. She bounces up and down on her tail, mocking him for falling for such an obvious trick and letting himself waste all this energy trying to attack her, what an idiot. She's seen smarter Magikarps on barbeques. Why was he so gullible? Did it run in his family? Onikami growls and crouches low to the ground, even angrier than before. If she wanted a real fight, she'd get one, dammit!

Onikami glances back at his Trainer, almost hesitantly. He hated to do it, but if he was going to win this battle, he'd have to think for himself, for once. Charging recklessly towards Pom-pon, he kicks and bites at her, flailing around in an effort to do as much harm to her as possible. She raises her arms over her face as he claws for her eyes, and shoves the Poochyena off of her with her tail. Onikami takes a hard fall, the air going of out him in a huff. He scrambles to his paws and backs away, fur raised.

Pom-pon wipes her face with a paw, looking warily at Onikami. Raising her paws, she begins to focus on Onikami's Muscle Band tied around his neck, and is taken by surprise as he leaps forwards and flashes a paw out in front of her face. Onikami stumbles to her right and whines, having clearly expected Pom-pon to jump forwards to attack him.

Blinking, she smiles as she raises her paws again and focuses on her opponent's bandanna, and mentally grabbing it. She blinks, and there's suddenly pressure around her neck as the Muscle Band disappears from around Onikami's neck. He looks down in surprise as he feels the odd sensation of the band disappearing, and growls as he spots it on Pom-pon.

Onikami lunges forwards and blindly slashes out with a paw, missing Pom-pon's head by a few centimetres. She pulls back slightly and laughs, clapping her paws as he falls to the ground. Did he not know how to aim attacks? Pom-pon spits more abuse at him, mocking his weak attempts to actually hit her, and falling on his face when he actually did. It was pretty sad, actually. He got all worked up and.. Fell on his face and failed repeatedly? Heheheh. Pom-pon hops up on her tail and relaxes, grinning at the expression on Onikami's face.

sreservoir (O)
@ Muscle Band
[Pom-pon] F <Pickup>
Health: 58%
Energy: 63%
Status: Completely relaxed.

Lirris (O)

[Onikami] M <Run Away>
Health: 99%
Energy: 35%
Status: Bristling with anger.
+1 Attack. Crunch is Spited (12% extra energy to use). Taunted (3 more actions).​