Nighttime in lower Manhattan. Three young trainers roam the empty, dimly lit streets in search of some variety of drinking-hole. The bespectacled teenage boy bringing up the rear of the procession suddenly wonders why he agreed to tag along on such an outing, it being completely outside his interests. Probably just to give him something interesting to write in the preliminary section of this reffing, he muses, sitting at his laptop, before swiftly getting back into character. The girls, one of them a Riolu, peer into the window of each bar they pass, attempting to catch a glimpse of the list of banned customers; after a previous... let's just call it an
incident... few licensed premises in the area are willing to serve these two. Stopping at the door of an establishment, the Riolu points to the door with a devious grin, and she and her companion dash in eagerly. Their accomplice rolls his eyes, sighs, and skulks in reluctantly after them.
The three descend a small flight of steps into a dingy, unpleasant hovel of a bar, the scent of urine ever-present in the air. The assortment of liquor-soaked rummies seated around the bar groan and shield their eyes from the natural light flooding in, and our heroes scurry to the bar and order a round of the drinks of their choice. Pouring them, the barman emotionlessly slams the grubby glasses down on the soaked, sticky, grimy bar. Zora and Dwagie snatch up their booze eagerly and drain the contents, before ordering another round. The third member of the party politely declines all offers of alcohol with a wry smile, sitting uneasily on a napkin-covered bar stool. Half an hour later of intensive drinking and uncomfortable sitting later, and the former two trainers are pretty decisively hammered. A careless drunken remark from one sets of a liquor-fuelled spout of rage in the other; after a slurred argument Dwagie puts her paw under her jauntily-askew, vomit-spattered hat and pulls out a Pokéball, which she waves in the air, probably intending to hold it up still. Zora smirks inebriately and holds up... an orange. Sighing, the referee doesn't even need to wait for her to realise her error and fetch out a Pokéball. A drunken barfight's going down, and he's going to be dragged in to ref it. Lucky he carries his flags with him everywhere he goes.
=ROUND ONE=
Zora of Termina (
Ɵ)
Shiela (F)
Ability: Flash Fire
Health: 150% | Energy: 100%
Item: none
Status: plastered.
L'il Dwagie (
Ɵ)
Amaturasu (F)
Ability: Inner Focus
Health: 150% | Energy: 100%
Item: Soothe Bell
Status: potted.
The referee orders the trainers to send out, and they drunkenly fling their Pokéballs into the vast empty space in the middle of the room, created by pushing the urine-soaked pool table up against the urine-soaked wall. At least, that's probably where they were aiming- Dwagie's lands inside a plant pot housing a yucca which is decidedly dead, having been watered with urine all its life, whereas Zora's hits the pool table and rolls down into the pocket. Two bursts of light later, and a purple Riolu climbs off the plant, while a black-furred Vulpix attempts to crawl out the ball return slot of the pool table. When both take their places, alcohol is forced into their snouts, which they sup curiously, and then quite keenly, until they follow their trainers in becoming quite pissed. The drunks surround the imbibing Pokémon, garbling encouragements and filthy drinking songs. Inamongst the intoxicated shoutings, the trainers slur commands to their Pokémon, incomprehensible even to the drunken ear. However, the two nod eagerly and walk swayingly toward one another. Sheila is first to act, drunkenly swaggering towards Amaturasu and falling flat on her face comically. Ammy watches this unfazed; in fact, a little lie down sounds pretty good to her as well. However, in a brief and sudden burst of soberness, she leaps up at Ammy as her guard is lowered, swinging her paw viciously and slapping the Riolu in the chin. Ammy falls wordlessly onto her backside, burbling drunkenly before getting shakily to her feet. Leering at Sheila, her drunken state provokes feelings of great power inside her muscles; she suddenly feels invincible! If only she could stand up straight, she reckons she could probably pick up this entire building. And if she can throw a building, a puny Vulpix is no problem. Staggering towards Sheila, she grabs hold of her by the neck and tosses her into the air. Sheila lets out a frenzied yelp, the room suddenly spinning even more than usual as the pirouettes ceilingward. She hits the somehow-urine-soaked ceiling with a loud
crunch, knocking some tiles loose, and begins to plummet earthward, receiving a lurching punch from Ammy that sends her spiralling into the far wall of the bar.
Sheila picks herself up from the ground, then falls back onto the ground many more times, then finally gets up and staggers back to the battle scene. She awakens from her befuddled stupor, and remembers there's a battle going on that she should probably be fighting. Sheila begins to be fuelled by a similar alcoholic feelings to those exhibited by Ammy a few moments prior. She feels so powerful in this state, and ignoring her no longer existent bodily coordination, decides to exhibit her invincibility with a little run. She begins to trip and stumble around the arena, inexplicably gathering speed as she goes while unable to stay upright for longer than two seconds. She begins to zip in wobbly figure-eights around her side of the bar, so fast that the trainers are made even dizzier and are forced to hold onto their bar stools and close their eyes. When Sheila finally stops (by tumbling over sideways), she is joined by four other Vulpixes exactly like her. Ammy, meanwhile, sways and rubs her eyes in shock. Okay, where did all these Sheilas come from?! There were only, like, three a moment ago! That's just fighting dirty, getting a dozen of your mates to join in. If Shiela's going to play like that, Ammy thinks, so will she! Suddenly, the room spins quite violently, and Ammy's stomach churns. Collapsing to her knees, she unloads a sizeable pool of stomach fluid onto the floor. Kneeling by the puddle of liquor-scented vomit, Ammy hiccups, a small clump of blue light leaping from her throat and drifting down to the pile of spew splattered amongst the urine on the floor. As the two merge, the vomit becomes more viscous, and begins to froth and bubble as the form of a one-armed, hat-donning Riolu begins to rise from its depths. When the pool finishes shaping itself into a mirror image of its creator, it leaps before the Riolu, like a foul-smelling bodyguard pitted with half-digested Berries.
The Sheila clones sway and shimmer as their creator rocks to and fro, succumbing again to the equilibrioception-numbing effects of drink. Their mouths open as one, beginning to exude a light green, fluid substance. Looking at first like vomit, the secretion oozes up into the air itself, wobbling and swelling into a glistening, ethereal dome surrounding Shiela and her compatriots. Ammy swaggers in front of her Substitute, which due to the high alcohol content of the vomit it was borne from, is a little tipsy itself. Ammy opens her mouth, unleashing a mighty belch before charging an orb of brilliant white light in the pit of her throat. When the light fills her mouth, Ammy slurs a garbled, drunken "SHOOP DA WHOOP" before the light blasts from her mouth as a blindingly bright beam which the drunks back away from with a collective murmur of discomfort. When the light dies down, Sheila is splayed on the floor, stunned half from drunkenness and half from pain. She stirs and gets shakily to her feet, oblivious to the absence of her clones, and gives a quiet hiccup. The trainers are distracted from the match by the latest round of drinks they've got in, and the referee looks at his friends with concern, dialing the first two numbers for the emergency services just to be safe.
Zora of Termina (
Ɵ)
Shiela (F)
Ability: Flash Fire
Health: 135% | Energy: 88%
Item: none
Status: rat-arsed. Safeguard active (4 more actions).
L'il Dwagie (
Ɵ)
Amaturasu (F)
Ability: Inner Focus
Health: 134% | Energy: 82%
Item: Soothe Bell
Status: wellied. Has a Substitute with 10% health.
=Referee's Notes=
~ I DRAGGED MYSELF AWAY FROM MY BRAND-NEW HEARTGOLD TO TYPE THIS REFFING. I HOPE YOU GUYS ARE HAPPY. D:<
~ kidding i love ya
~ Sheila's moves: Facade, Double Team, Safeguard
~ Ammy's moves: Strength, Substitute (10%), Natural Gift
~ ugh I rolled for Ammy to use Bullet Punch on the second action only to find out Fight Stance means she can't. That round was very complicated to redo. ;^;
~ Natural Gift eliminated Shiela's clones.
=Next Round=
~ Zora yells drunkenly
~ Dwagie falls off her bar stool
~ I sigh and facepalm