Kusarigamaitachi vs. Negrek, Round Four
Pre-Round Stats
Kusarigamaitachi (1/1 Pokémon Remaining)
Ozzy (M) [Swift Swim]
Health: 76%
Energy: ∞
Status: Attack +1; oh god ;-;
Ozzy's Commands:
Metronome ~ Metronome ~ Metronome
Negrek (1/1 Pokémon Remaining)
Silver (M) [Serene Grace] @Soothe Bell
Health: 63%
Energy: ∞
Status: Attack +1, Defense +1, Special Attack +1, Special Defense +1; Paralyzed (moderate); :D :D :D! How's
that for a charlatan, huh?
Silver's Commands:
Metronome ~ Metronome ~ Metronome
Arena: The Jolliest Place in Kutho!
More footpaths than roads, the streets of Fleet Town are peaceful and well-maintained. The plant life is simple but beautiful. Local shops and restaurants line the road on either side, spilling warm yellow light onto the street. Between two of these is a nearby alleyway with a tipped-over trash can, where mangy rattata hide or gather food. The store signs are noticeable but not gaudy or flashy, except for the particularly bright, colourful ice cream parlour sign.
The sky is thick and dark with clouds, and it is raining. The pavement is soaked, and the water collects in the gutters on the side of the road. A few puddles remain to splash in, revealing the usually-unnoticeable imperfections in the pavement, although none are more than an inch deep.
A ways behind Negrek is the pokemon centre, which still receives the amount of traffic the streets of Fleet Town are usually subject to. However, due to the downpour, the battlefield is mostly devoid of other human life. More distantly, those who wander the streets can find themselves at the pokemart or the market, both of which have several patrons despite the rain.
As no one was able to procure a radio for this battle, the techno music will come from a loudred provided by some nearby dancing teens.
Round Four: Begin
"Really, now, letting Silver have the first legendary signature move of the battle? How can you live with the shame? Fix it!" Indeed, Ozzy finds that he is having a very difficult time living with his shame. He can feel blood rising in his face and tears welling up in his eyes--no. No, he isn't going to
cry, he tells himself. He's going to blast that impudent little eggamathing to hell and back with an
epic rain of legendary fiery death. And at last, at long, long last, his patience is rewarded when he can feel his temperature rising with every wave of his hands. Surely the uncomfortable sensation of his internal water supply starting to boil means that a magma storm is on its way!
It is not the ground that erupts after a few seconds have elapsed, however, but the Ludicolo himself. Flames burst out from beneath his leaves and his sombrero, shooting up and out and twisting around into a towering inferno stretching several hundred feet above the street and its ruined storefronts. A thick plume of steam rises from the column of flame as the rain hits it, creating a whitish mushroom cloud that stretches out overhead; more flames shoot out to the sides, setting the grass and the broken planks on it alight.
Silver cries out as another column of flame rushes out of the Ludicolo's mouth and completely engulfs him. Wave after wave of unfathomably intense heat bowls the little Togepi over and sets several of the shattered two-by-fours behind him on fire. The falling rain that rushes in after Ozzy closes his beak soothes the injuries before the burns can do any lasting damage to his nerves, but Silver is still in a great deal of pain as he starts to stand up.
Well, damn, Ozzy thinks as the attack burns out and he watches the fires hiss and shrink in the downpour.
Not bad, but... should've been more specific in my request for epic legendary fiery death.
Silver's own fingers, now blackened and slightly cracked, rock back and forth, but all the Togepi can summon is a sheet of water energy. He tries rushing across the scorched street and throwing himself into his opponent, but even with the heavy rainfall the waterfall barely damages Ozzy. The Ludicolo simply brushes the baby away with another sneer--
what, no more spacial rend, big shot?--and begins his next attack.
Now with a very clear and definite
magma storm in his mind, Ozzy waggles his fingers and waits for things to start heating up again. But fangs spring from his beak instead of flames this time, long mandibles made of pale, greenish energy that buzzes and hums faintly. Pouting at his anticlimactic follow-up, Ozzy reluctantly leans down and drives the faux mandibles into Silver's tender chest. His voracious nipping and nibbling does little more than sting Silver, but it does prove to be the final straw for the soothe bell hung around the Togepi's neck--the brittle and burnt bell shatters after the repeated gnawing, breaking into pieces with a final, pitiful tinkle.
Ozzy lets Silver up at length, allowing the disheartened Togepi to roll a short distance away over the asphalt. First he follows his awesome spacial rend with a wimpy waterfall, and now his pretty soothe bell is ruined? That simply doesn't fly with Silver, and he quickly picks himself up and gets his fingers going again. He starts to move backward as they twitch back and forth, his burnt skin and stiff limbs making the going difficult; Ozzy thinks he looks quite ridiculous, tripping and stumbling as he goes, but he takes a few steps back himself anyway. He doesn't like the look of that harsh white light emanating from Silver's burnt shell...
And he is quite right to be wary. For when Silver charges forward and barrels into Ozzy's stomach this time it is with a level of force that the Ludicolo never could have expected, even after the earlier surprise hammer arm. Both Pokémon fly backward down the street for several yards, passing the last sputters of a few fires Ozzy had started, before Ozzy lands hard on his back and has the last of his breath driven completely out of his body. He stares blankly up at his attacker, hyperventilating as he tries to draw breath. Where the heck did that come from?
Silver pushes himself off of the larger Pokémon and drops to the ground, panting slightly and starting to feel the stiffness in his limbs again now that the rush of adrenaline from the giga impact is wearing off. At least Ozzy took the hit pretty hard and seems to be stunned for now, but... the attack took a lot out of the little Togepi, that was for sure. He stops for just a moment to catch his own breath, confident that Ozzy will be down for quite a while.
Unfortunately for him, the next move Ozzy's metronome calls requires almost no movement on the water-type's part. A loud sizzling and crackling fills the air as electricity builds up in Ozzy's body and around his weakly-wagging fingers, and then another surge of energy flows out of him; this one is not quite as forceful as his previous discharge, but it sweeps out in a wide radius around him and gives Silver a painful jolt.
A sideways glance from his supine position on the asphalt tells Ozzy that Silver is running at him again, and he flinches and tries to roll to the side so that his bruised stomach might be spared a second blow. This time, however, Silver's attack lands with a lot less momentum and nowhere near as much pain. It doesn't even feel any worse than the waterfall, in fact. Ozzy lets his tense muscles relax as he continues to wheeze, allowing himself a raspy chuckle at the disappointed expression he's sure Silver is wearing.
Round Four: Close
Post-Round Stats
Kusarigamaitachi (1/1 Pokémon Remaining)
Ozzy (M) [Swift Swim]
Health: 42%
Energy: ∞
Status: Attack +1; winded and starting to give up hope of ever seeing his beloved magma storm again
Negrek (1/1 Pokémon Remaining)
Silver (M) [Serene Grace]
@Soothe Bell
Health: 47%
Energy: ∞
Status: Attack +1, Defense +1, Special Attack +1, Special Defense +1; Paralyzed (moderate); singed, crispy, and really missing spacial rend after that tackle
Arena Status: Rain falls steadily over the dusty streets, creating rather a lot of mud. The Loudred's music has been replaced with wailing sirens and screaming people. The pokémart and shoe store lie in ruins, surrounded by broken wood and glass and bits and pieces of human and Pokémon remains; the street and sidewalk between the two buildings is badly cracked. The street in a wide radius around Ozzy is scorched and blackened, and the grass and sidewalks on the street's sides are smoldering.
Rain: Indefinite
Ref's Notes
-Ozzy's metronomed attacks: Sacred Fire ~ Bug Bite ~ Shock Wave
-Silver's metronomed attacks: Waterfall ~ Giga Impact ~ Tackle
-Giga Impact scored a critical hit.
-So I'm assuming that Silver can no longer use the soothe bell to speed his evolution along... correct?
-Kusarigamaitachi attacks first next round.
