Round Three
Blaziking (OOOO)
Choque (M)
Health: 72%
Energy: 88%
- Even wetter now, but perhaps not as addled. Paralyzed (severe). Confused (moderate). -1 Accuracy
ultraviolet (OOOO)
Lyre (F)
Health: 90%
Energy: 67%
- Underwater and still in good shape. Has a substitute with 3% health.
As Lyre darts back towards the surface with a couple flips of her fins, the sky overhead grows ominously dark, first as clouds boil into existence from thin air, hiding the sun behind towering gray thunderheads, and then darker still as the sun decides it's had enough and sets in fast-motion, leaving Screwed Up Weather Island in the middle of a moonless night. The clouds obligingly provide some illumination as periodic lightning flickers from their underbelly, accompanied by an impressive downpour.
Choque's glowing body, Lyre's substitute, and Lyre's lures lend a faint light to the arena, but it's barely enough to see by. The chinchou, fortunately, is used to the low-light conditions of the depths and is little worried about missing her target, even in the dead of night amidst pouring rain. One of the bulbs on her antennae glows blue and the other, red, as she infuses them with bug energy. Twin beams of hissing light blast from the ends of her antennae, coiling around one another as they fly straight towards Choque and rip a chunk out of his ghostly body.
The spiritomb, meanwhile, is totally mystified by the abrupt change in the weather. He remains disoriented and confused, though like Lyre, he is little bothered by the darkness. As the chinchou's signal beam sears into his body, he is shocked back to lucidity, at least for the moment. Tendrils of gas flow into the hole opened up by the beam attack, sealing it up again, and Choque closes his eyes, a nasty smile on his face as he contemplates all the awful things he's going to do to Lyre to get back at her for the humiliation she's put him through this battle. Unfortunately, his paralysis makes the normal circulation of gases through his body jumbled and uncomfortable, and Choque finds his scheming a bit distracted.
After making sure her signal beam hit home, Lyre disappears from sight, sinking back under the water and swimming straight down. Once she's reached a point some three meters below the waves, she turns her eyes upward and reverses her trajectory, fins beating furiously as she races towards the surface. The chinchou hurtles out of the water and goes sailing through the air, her substitute following. Choque, eyes still closed, misses the sight of the flying chinchou and experiences only the confusion of impact as Lyre comes crashing down atop him.
The spiritomb is left spluttering and shaking himself as Lyre hops to a spot a short distance away, but he recovers quickly enough. Having a fish drop on you out of the sky is certainly strange, but the powerful blast of water that accompanied the chinchou's landing is sufficient to shock Choque fully back to his senses. Not only that, but now Lyre is in range of his hypnosis, and the spiritomb can't suppress a wicked grin as he realizes it. Fantastic patterns flow through his gaseous body, creating a mesmerizing neon display that Lyre can't hope to resist. Unfortunately, she has her substitute with her, and what little mind the construct has is totally unaffected by Choque's hypnosis. The watery creature scoots between Lyre and Choque, blocking the chinchou's view of her opponent. Though at first Lyre, already a bit taken in by the hypnosis attack, tries to push it out of the way and see what Choque is doing, the substitute is persistent and she eventually loses interest.
Lyre settles down on the sand to take a rest, unperturbed by the violent thunderstorm raging all around her. Choque, meanwhile, grows increasingly incensed as he flashes beautiful displays of neon colors at Lyre's impassive substitute, having no luck at all in hypnotizing it.
Blaziking (OOOO)
Choque (M)
Health: 54%
Energy: 79%
- Horribly frustrated and in pain. Paralyzed (moderate). +1 Special Attack, -1 Accuracy
ultraviolet (OOOO)
Lyre (F)
Health: 90%
Energy: 66%
- Chilling on the beach. Has a substitute with 3% health.
Terrain Notes
A vicious thunderstorm has sprung up, drenching the arena with driving rain. It is night time.
Final Notes
- Choque was "fully paralyzed" on the first action, and the resulting discomfort prevented him from getting as much out of his nasty plot as he otherwise would.
- Blaziking attacks first next round.