Mawile vs sreservoir

Apparently, ASB has an unwritten rule stating that non-insane arenas are completely forbidden. There can be no other reason why, just weeks after being chucked into an active volcano, Mike is being sent to oversee a Metronome battle on a giant rowboat a metaphorical stone's throw from the South Pole. Where, for the purposes of this reffing, it is still immensely cold. The two trainers greet the referee, and rather than wonder how the heck they got here, they begin the battle. the trainers agonise over what to send out before eventually settling on the only Pokémon they each have that has access to Metronome. Mawile sends out a Togepi, and sreservoir selects a Cleffa. The two Pokémon stand on the deck of the immense rowboat, shivering and wondering whose bright idea this was exactly, while the referee walks over to one of the Dialga-length oars and calls a start to the first round.

=ROUND ONE=
Mawile (Ɵ)

Lyra (F) <Serene Grace>
Health: 100% | Energy: 100%
Status: tucking herself into her egg to keep warm.
Metronome ~ Metronome ~ Metronome

sreservoir (Ɵ)

Star (F) <Magic Guard>
Health: 100% | Energy: 100%
Status: immensely chilly.
Metronome ~ Metronome ~ Metronome


Shivering, the two baby Pokémon get to work summoning random, preferably impossible attacks. Lyra the Togepi is first to move, raising her tiny arms and waving them to and fro in time to a rhythm in her head. After a few seconds of arm-shaking, Lyra feels on odd glow near her rear end; looking around, she sees a long "tail" of grey, Steel-type energy has formed projecting from the base of her shell. Rushing towards her opponent with her new energy tail dragging along the floor behind her, she leaps and swings her rear towards Star; the "tail" slams into Star and knocks her flying, sending the fairy slamming headfirst into the side of the rowboat. Angrily, Star picks herself up and begins to wiggle her arms to her own tune; as she does, her body picks up a yellowy-green glow, and she hears a faint buzzing noise in her head, and the sweet scent of nectar in her nostrils. When she finishes and lowers her arms, she feels different, almost like she's a different creature than before.

Lyra sniggers at her opponent's apparent failure to come up with a useful move, and again begins to wag her arms from side to side; when the tune in her head ends, the rowboat glows bright with psychic energy, and the two Pokémon suddenly feel much, much heavier. Lyra finds she can barely lift her feet from the ground, and her shell has become monstrously weighty. Despite her arms feeling like lead, Star manages to wrestle them into an upright position and begin swinging them, taking care not to tilt them too far and go rolling head over heels. As the tune plays in her mind, she foresees her opponent's movements over the next few actions, and notices a moment two actions from now when Lyra's guard will be down. She fires off a blast of psychic power at that precise space and time, ready to strike her oppoment unawares when she least expects it.

To the observers, it seems as though Star still hasn't pulled out any useful attacks. sreservoir begins to grow slightly indignant, while Lyra is overjoyed; this battle will be over in no time, and then she and her trainer can leave and go somewhere that isn't absolutely freezing. A third arm-wiggle and she begins to sink into the ground, forming a puddle of blackness that quickly snakes its way across the floor of the boat and rises up behind Star. As soon as Lyra's body reforms she springs forward and deals a sucker punch to the Cleffa's skull. Star yelps as she is knocked to the ground, taking a few seconds to register what happened and struggle to her feet. Wait, wasn't that a Ghost move...? How'd that hit her? She's a Normal type! ...right? Shrugging it off, Star starts up her third and final arm-jiggle of the round, a rather aggressive tune playing in her mind as she does so, and quite involuntarily she opens her mouth and utters a deep, threatening snarl. Lyra is taken aback; she never thought such a harmless Pokémon could produce such a frightening noise. Somewhat intimidated, she decides it may not be wise to mess with star too much after all...


Mawile (Ɵ)

Lyra (F) <Serene Grace>
Health: 100% | Energy: 76%
Status: mildly worried by Star. Will be hit by Future Sight in 1 action. -1 Attack.
Iron Tail ~ Gravity ~ Shadow Sneak

sreservoir (Ɵ)

Star (F) <Magic Guard>
Health: 88% | Energy: 84%
Status: "not doing great, am I.". Type changed to Bug.
Conversion ~ Future Sight ~ Growl

=REFEREE'S NOTES=
~ the arena's gravity is trong, preventing levitation and flying and increasing Accuracy (4 more actions).
~ I put a few extra points of energy on each attack because they were called by Metronome; that's how I do Sleep Talk, anywat.
~ Lyra called Iron Tail, Gravity and Shadow Sneak.
~ Star called Conversion, Future Sight and Growl.
~ the type Star changed to was randomly selected as Bug.

=TURN ORDER=
~ Mawile orders three Metronomes.
~ sreservoir orders three more.​

=ROUND TWO=
Mawile (Ɵ)

Lyra (F) <Serene Grace>
Health: 100% | Energy: 76%
Status: mildly worried by Star. Will be hit by Future Sight in 1 action. -1 Attack.
Metronome ~ Metronome ~ Metronome

sreservoir (Ɵ)

Star (F) <Magic Guard>
Health: 88% | Energy: 84%
Status: "not doing great, am I.". Type changed to Bug.
Metronome ~ Metronome ~ Metronome


Lyra turns to her trainer in confusion. What gibberish are they spouting? The Togepi has never heard of any moves called "idsoshjfoiuefbh" or anything like that. Shrugging, she decides to go with the only move permitted, starting up another Metronome. As she does so, a feeling of sadness overwhelms her, and tears begin to roll down her cheeks. Star sees this, and feels an inexplicable sense of sympathy for her opponent; what's she crying about? Was this Star's fault...? She hasn't even touched Lyra! She watches the rather pathetic spiky egg thing sobbing her heart out, figuring perhaps she's not that dangerous after all. Star starts shaking her arms rhythmically, and as she does so her legs start moving involuntarily, propelling her across the boat and stopping her just in front of Lyra. The Togepi stops crying immediately and frowns at her opponent, who is standing completely still in front of her. Cautiously she leans to one side, only to have Star shuffle sideways in the same direction.

Shrugging off her opponent's odd behaviour, Lyra begins summoning another attack, a brown glow surrounding her as she swings her hands from side to side. Suddenly she leaps forward, her arm extended, and deals a rather weak slap to Star's forehead. Star gives a grunt of annoyance as the mildest of pain spreads through her scalp, and begins working on an attack of her own. As the ticking tune plays endlessly in her head, Star's attention drifts away, and her inattentive brain begins to hack into Lyra's mind with psychic energy, implanting the sympathetic, hesitant feelings in her own head into Lyra's. When the attack ends, Star's pity for the upset Togepi has vanished completely, while Lyra finds herself with a bizarre feeling of sympathy for Star, as if she believed the Cleffa to be fragile and upset and overall not much to worry about. As these strange thoughts flood through her mind, a bright blue flash of light blinks into existence just above her and swoops down, smashing into her head with a bright flash of light and knocking the Togepi to the ground. Shocked, she climbs awkwardly to her feet; what on earth was that? She looks at Star, almost certain she can see a smirk plastered across her face...

Leering suspiciously at her foe, Lyra starts up another Metronome. The ticking noise in her head starts to get really catchy as she waves her arms; she begins to hum it, then sing it out loud, her eyes still shut and her arms still waving in the air. When she opens them again, Star is lying on her side on the deck of the boat, lulled fast asleep by Lyra's singing. Lyra chuckles to herself; that feeling she got must have been intuition. She's not a threat at all.


Mawile (Ɵ)

Lyra (F) <Serene Grace>
Health: 91% | Energy: 64%
Status: confident she's got this battle in the bag. -1 Attack, -2 Sp. Defense.
Fake Tears ~ Reversal ~ Sing

sreservoir (Ɵ)

Star (F) <Magic Guard>
Health: 87% | Energy: 77%
Status: snoring quietly. Type changed to Bug. Asleep (severe).
Block ~ Guard Swap ~ [asleep]

=REFEREE'S NOTES=
~ Lyra called Fake Tears, Reversal, and Sing.
~ Star called Block, Guard Swap and Shock Wave.
~ Future Sight hit on action 2. Unless I'm much mistaken, last round I meant there'd be one more complete action and then it would hit on the one after. Blarg.

=TURN ORDER=
~ sreservior issues commands
~ Mawile issues commands​

=ROUND THREE=
Mawile (Ɵ)

Lyra (F) <Serene Grace>
Health: 91% | Energy: 64%
Status: confident she's got this battle in the bag. -1 Attack, -2 Sp. Defense.
Metronome ~ Metronome ~ Metronome

sreservoir (Ɵ)

Star (F) <Magic Guard>
Health: 87% | Energy: 77%
Status: snoring quietly. Type changed to Bug. Asleep (severe).
Metronome ~ Metronome ~ Metronome


Deciding to take full advantage of her opponent's incapacitated state, Lyra begins rocking her arms back and forth once again, praying for a really damaging move as the ticking in her head speeds up. Suddenly, she leaps forward, her mouth wide open, and bites down on Star's shoulder ferociously with her tiny teeth. Despite having such a puny jaw, Lyra manages to inflict quite a nasty nip on her opponent, leaving a sizeable, sore wound. Howevever Star doesn't even wake up; she merely screws her eyes up in pain and rolls over, still sleeping soundly.

Lyra stares at her opponent in disbelief. That damn Cleffa sure can sleep... not that Lyra's complaining, of course. Attacking with absolutely no retaliation is great. Another routine arm-waving starts up, setting off yet another addicting tune in Lyra's head which she waves along in time to. As Lyra's arms fall back to her sides, she finds herself automatically walking across the deck of the boat and climbing over the side. She peers down in terror into the freezing-cold depths, horrified by what she's doing- surely she's not jumping in there, is sh-?... Splosh. Lyra spings forward unintentionally, and sinks like a stone into the sea. She wails and flaps her arms and feet frantically, desperately trying to climb towards the surface. She manages to propel herself up to the surface and grab onto a passing ice floe, pulling herself up with all the strength in her body and flinging herswelf back onto the boat. She lands directly on top of Star with some force, rolling over the slumbering Cleffa and crashing into the side of the boat. She struggles to her feet, coughing and shivering, soaked to the skin with frigid water.

In all honesty, Lyra thinks, she's done with this Metronome business. Flinging out random, occasionally pointless attacks is one thing but she is definitely not okay with any battle mechanic that's going to try to drown her. Sadly for her, trainer's orders come before any personal safety concerns. She starts up another arm-wagging, fearing the worst when she again begins to wander across the deck against her will. She reaches Star, and her lips begin to pucker as she mumbled in protest and confusion. Then, her hips automatically bend, and she plants a rather confused kiss on Star's cheek. Though she's too asleep to consciously register what just happened, Star gives a confused murmur and rolls over. I don't blame you for being confused, Lyra thinks as she potters back to her end of the boat. I've no idea what's going on any more either.


Mawile (Ɵ)

Lyra (F) <Serene Grace>
Health: 91% | Energy: 48%
Status: soaked to the skin. -1 Attack, -2 Sp. Defense.
Crunch ~ Dive ~ Sweet Kiss

sreservoir (Ɵ)

Star (F) <Magic Guard>
Health: 72% | Energy: 77%
Status: "zzzz". Type changed to Bug. Asleep (mild), confused (severe). -1 Defense.
[asleep] ~ [asleep] ~ [asleep]

=REFEREE'S NOTES=
~ Lyra rolled Crunch, Dive and Sweet Kiss.
~ Star rolled Selfdestruct, Iron Tail and Nature Power.
~ ...pretty damn good job Star's asleep :p
~ Crunch lowered Star's Defense.

=TURN ORDER=
~ Mawile issues commands
~ sreservoir issues commands​

=ROUND FOUR=
Mawile (Ɵ)

Lyra (F) <Serene Grace>
Health: 91% | Energy: 48%
Status: soaked to the skin. -1 Attack, -2 Sp. Defense.
Metronome ~ Metronome ~ Metronome

sreservoir (Ɵ)

Star (F) <Magic Guard>
Health: 72% | Energy: 77%
Status: "zzzz". Type changed to Bug. Asleep (mild), confused (severe). -1 Defense.
Metronome ~ Metronome ~ Metronome


Still perplexed about randomly kissing her opponent, Lyra starts up another Metronome, her body fading and becoming more transparent with every shake of her arms as a strange dark energy cloaks her body. When she becomes completely invisible, she rushes round behind her sleeping foe and blinks back into visibility, dealing a vicious blow to the Cleffa's head. The sudden smack finally rouses Star from her slumber, and she totters groggily to her feet, wiping gunk from her eyes and recalling a very bizarre dream in which Lyra randomly planted a kiss on her cheek... as the dream buries an odd affection of Lyra into her subconscious, Star gives a yawn and lifts her arms to start up Metronoming again. As her arms wave, a shower of steel caltrops comes streaming from the sky, and the nasty sharp spikes tumble around on the deck on Lyra's side until the Togepi is surrounded on all sides by a carpet of hazardous spikes.

Lyra gulps, looking at the swarm of foot-impaling traps around her, and nervously begins to waggle her arms, hoping desperately for an attack that doesn't require running across them to get direct contact with her opponent. A sharp blade of glowing Grass-type energy forms along her forearm, and she gives a pre-emptive cry of agony as her feet send her running towards Star. Caltrops slice into her feet as she dashes across them screeching in pain, and clearing them she staggers on her bloody, torn-asunder feet up to her opponent and deals a slash across her chest with her sabre of energy before collapsing to the ground to tend to her cuts. However, due to Star's new Bug typing, the attack barely leaves a scratch, and unperturbed by the attack, she begins to ready an attack herself. As she shakes her arms, her body's consistency becomes thinner; she becomes like a pool of pinkish, Cleffa-shaped jelly, which begins to alter its shape and form into that of a Togepi. When she gets the shape of her opponent just right, her body sets, and she appears just like a perfect replica of Lyra.

Having dealt with her foot lacerations as well as practicable, Lyra climbs gingerly upright and almost collapses all over again when she sees herself looking back at her. Looking around for Star, she comes to the ridiculous yet strangely logical conclusion that the Cleffa must have somehow become a Togepi. Hell, this is a Pokémon, right? Us guys can do all kinds of crazy stuff, she reasons, and sets to work on punishing this awful impostor. Her arms start waving again, and as they do she begins get an odd feeling in her stomach, almost as though she's about to puke. However, instead of stomach contents, a surge of water comes bursting from her mouth, hosing Star down before she can even register what's happening. The sheer force of the water pressure bowls the Cleffa-cum-Togepi right back to the stern of the rowboat, and hammered ruthlessly against the side by the torrent until Lyra stops conjuring gallons and gallons for water from insider her stomach and lets the stream trickle to a halt. Star splutters, spitting up inhaled water and trying to get up without slipping on the sopping wet deck. She begins to rock her arms from side to side, but she becomes distracted by memories of her dream about Lyra kissing her. That seemed oddly real for a dream... was it just that or did it really happen? If it did, why would she randomly start dishing out expressions of affection in the middle of a battle? She apparently wonders about this a little too hard, and becomes so distracted she accidentally smacks herself across the face and knocks herself over. Lyra snickers at her opponent's ineptitude as Star struggles furiously to stand up, not used to having such a round body and rolling around everywhere. At least the smack brought her to her senses a little.


Mawile (Ɵ)

Lyra (F) <Serene Grace>
Health: 89% | Energy: 25%
Status: starting to feel a tad worn out. -1 Attack, -2 Sp. Defense.
Faint Attack ~ Leaf Blade ~ Hydro Pump

sreservoir (Ɵ)

Star (F) <Magic Guard>
Health: 46% | Energy: 74%
Status: undergoing an identity crisis. Confused (mild). -1 Attack, -2 Sp. Defense.
Spikes ~ Transform ~ [confused]

=REFEREE'S NOTES=
~ Lyra rolled Faint Attack, Leaf Blade and Hydro Pump.
~ Star rolled Spikes, Transform and Fire Punch.
~ Transform copies the target's typing, so Star's Bug-type was overwritten.
~ Star was fully confused on the third action.

=TURN ORDER=
~ sreservoir gives commands
~ Mawile gives commands​

=ROUND FIVE=
Mawile (Ɵ)

Lyra (F) <Serene Grace>
Health: 89% | Energy: 25%
Status: starting to feel a tad worn out. -1 Attack, -2 Sp. Defense.
Metronome ~ Metronome ~ Metronome

sreservoir (Ɵ)

Star (F) <Magic Guard>
Health: 46% | Energy: 74%
Status: undergoing an identity crisis. Confused (mild). -1 Attack, -2 Sp. Defense.
Metronome ~ Metronome ~ Metronome


Still bewildered by her opponent's sudden Togepi-ness, Lyra starts- oh, you know the drill. During the course of her armwaggling a strange scent lingers in her nostrils, a scent she somehow identifies as that of Star; something that might be handy to know, if Star were invisible or hidden. Which she's not. Meanwhile, Star has cooked up a rather more useful move; she rushes forward and grabs Lyra in her paws, her body glowing bright yellow as she squeezes hard on her opponent. Lyra struggles, and Star's aura grows stronger and brighter; she pushes back against Lyra's flailing with all the force she can muster until Lyra stops moving and then slams her to the ground.

Lyra clambers to her feet, struggling to breathe and her entire body aching horribly. She's not sure what just happened but she sure as hell isn't letting Star get away with it. A wave of her arms produces a cloud of purple dust, which is picked up by the frigid wind and blown across the arena towards Star. She takes a deep breath of it and immediately starts coughing uncontrollably, but nevertheless some of the poisonous dust passes through her lungs into her bloodstream. Star begins feeling dizzy and like she might throw up any second, but forces herself to start up another Metronome. A brilliant light bursts forth from the tips of her arms, surrounding her in a protective golden shield of energy.

Guarded by her forcefield, Star smiles cockily at her opponent, daring her to try to attack. Lyra starts up her Metronome, not liking the look of that shield but still determined to give that impostor Togepi what for. Her shaking arms become covered in a dark purple energy, and she rushes at Star with her tiny fists ready. However as she hits the edge of the golden dome enveloping her target, the air suddenly acquires the consistency of molasses, and Lyra finds it hard to keep up enough momentum to even reach her opponent. Eventually she gets close enough to deal a light tap, but Star barely flinches, and gets right on with her Metronome. As her arms swing to and fro, she begins to glow with a bright green light; the clouds part in the sky, and a shard of warm sunlight breaks through the muggy sky and covers Star like a stage spotlight. The light around her grows furiously brighter, and with a battle cry Star condenses it all into a ball and blasts it at Lyra in a massive orange-white beam. The ray of light swallows Lyra completely, and vaporises a huge chunk of the side of the boat behind her with its intense heat before dying down to a flicker. Lyra lies still on the ground, her body horribly singed, for several moments before forcing herself to struggle to her feet. Exhausted as she is, the battle's not over yet.


Mawile (Ɵ)

Lyra (F) <Serene Grace>
Health: 64% | Energy: 15%
Status: really wants a nice nap. -1 Attack, -2 Sp. Defense.
Odor Sleuth ~ Poisonpowder ~ Pursuit

sreservoir (Ɵ)

Star (F) <Magic Guard>
Health: 45% | Energy: 45%
Status: "I'm catching up!". Poisoned. Guarded by Reflect (4 more actions; 1% upkeep per action). -1 Attack, -2 Sp. Defense.
Crush Grip ~ Reflect ~ Solarbeam

=REFEREE'S NOTES=
~ Lyra rolled Odor Sleuth, Poisonpowder and Pursuit.
~ Star rolled Crush Grip, Reflect and Solarbeam.
~ and theres our legendary signature move for this battle \o/

=TURN ORDER=
~ Mawile gives commands
~ sreservoir gives commands
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