Doctor Kaminko's Experimental Stadium, Arena #44
Any claims that Doctor Kaminko does not test his Pokémon-related inventions before revealing them to the public (a public that is obviously too simple to appreciate their sheer genius) are, of course, entirely false. In fact, the Doctor has a dedicated space beneath his secret laboratory for just this purpose--his experimental stadium. At first glance it appears to be a fairly plain arena, with the standard clay floor, small pool for water-types and a weather generator that will respond to any weather-inducing commands. A few button presses and switch flips, however, and the Doctor can produce anything from a plethora of his newest battle-based creations to make things more... interesting. Kaminko regularly invites trainers down to his facility to help him test his new experiments, assuring them that of course their Pokémon will be perfectly safe and that of course there will be ample compensation for their time. Most of the Orrean trainers know better than to take his claims at face value, but there's no reason for a few gullible eager outsiders not to trust him, right? Besides! Shiny new toys! Who could possibly resist!
The arena that Kaminko has chosen for today's battle, number forty-four out of sixty-three, is fairly simple as his bizarre challenges go. The battlefield itself does not change much when he activates it, forgoing #3's Poké-Poles™ falling from the ceiling and #61's small herd of Tauros sporting his Pokémon Mood-Altering Keclenses™ (currently stuck on angry red) for wide, open space. The battlers are going to need plenty of room and minimal distractions, after all--with all the energy they'll have to burn, they'd probably tear something down if they were in a smaller space. For today, all Pokémon involved will be wearing Kaminko's new Ever-Energy Adrenapacks™.
The Adrenapacks provide each Pokémon with literally unlimited energy, allowing them to attack with abandon and without fear of exhausting themselves. The experiment is intended to see what Pokémon are capable of doing when allowed to battle on and on without interruption, but perhaps the Adrenapacks give the Pokémon a little too much juice. They are prone to releasing extra surges of energy that can actually harm the Pokémon wearing them, causing 3% typeless damage to each Pokémon at the end of each round and escalating to 5%/round if their health is below 33%. Additionally, the constant influx of energy makes the battlers incredibly nervous and restless, preventing them from focusing on moves that rely on calming down or relaxing (i.e. calm mind, amnesia), being lulled into complacency (i.e. attract, flatter, charm) or falling asleep.
Kratos Aurion (xOOo)
The Baroness von Münchhausen (F) <Scrappy>
Health: 100%
- 'It's raining. Indoors. ...'
Earthquake/Substitute 10% ~ Drain Punch @ Rock Lobsta/Drain Punch @ The Grouch/Sunny Day ~ Earthquake/Safeguard
Yakuza (M) <Super Luck>
Health: 100%
- '... heh.' Thunder mimic'd. -1 atk
Thunder @ Rock Lobsta/Nasty Plot ~ Sunny Day/Nasty Plot ~ Heat Wave/Thunder @ Rock Lobsta/Nasty Plot
L'il Dwagie (xOOo)
The Grouch (F) <Anticipate> @Occa berry
Health: 100%
- 'I'm meeeeltinggg...'
Psych Up @ Yakuza ~ Flash Cannon @ Yakuza ~ Protect
Rock Lobsta (F) <Rock Head>
Health: 95%
- 'Whar Murderbeast go :['
Protect ~ Head Smash @ Yakuza ~ Head Smash @ Yakuza
Upon being suited with her own Adrenapack, The Baroness von Münchhausen (whho will from now on be called Munchy for short) spares an annoyed glance towards her opponents. Not only is she immediately soaked, but they both appear to be at maximum - or nearly maximum - health. Great. She has to do all the work, then. She eyes Yakuza before she raises a heavy paw and slams it into the stadium's floor. Yakuza took her glance for the warning it was and flaps into the air, weighed down by his water-soaked feathers but managing nonetheless to avoid the impact his teammate has caused.
Beneath him, the stadium floor erupts into life. It implodes inwards from the source of impact - Munchy's fist - with huge cracks forming and stretching towards the other corners of the room, as if hungry for pokemon to feast on. As the room shakes beneath Rock Lobsta, the relicanth grins; she feels shaky, sure, but no pain. Not through her protective barrier. Even the rain falls off, sliding to the collecting water on the floor.
The Grouch isn't so lucky. She manages to anticipate the blow somewhat and moves to dodge a shiver in the arena's floor, but it catches up with her quickly and she falls on her face, squinting in pain. Not only is the attack monstrously strong but her camouflaging abilities have made her a steel-type, making the earthquake even worse.
Munch grins and raises her paw back up from the floor, observing the devastation with pride.
Yakuza flaps heavily to stay airborne, eventually settling back down to the floor and panting for a second. The rain makes it much too difficult to fly for long periods of time, not unless he really wants to. Still, he has better things on his mind. Things like tearing that little bug a new one. Bugs are his food item of choice, being a bird, and it happens to look a lot like a trash can too, so it's perfect. He can't help it then if it sets his stomach growling...
The Grouch pushes herself clumsily off the floor and turns to find Yakuza. The smirk is clear on the honchkrow's face, but the Grouch really doesn't feel like she can mimic those feelings - she just doesn't have the clarity of mind. She just wants to smash things! She grits her teeth, utterly annoyed with the dumb bird and his dumb face and all his... dumbness. Arhg!
Munchy pushes forwards through the stadium; the water that was collecting is now falling through the cracks, making it easier to walk, but the cracks do hinder movement and the rain is pouring so steadily that it actually hurts. Still, she finds her target soon enough and draws her fist back, holding it there for long enough to collect the desired energy and then slams it into Rock Lobsta's face.
The relicanth gasps in shock and pain; not only does it hurt but it feels like the pain that she's feeling, the life itself is being sapped. Unfortunately for Munchy, though she can feel the energy pulling through her fist, it goes nowhere, simply dissipating for lack of use. Not that she minds. She's still feeling pretty awesome.
Yakuza, meanwhile, is pretty eager to stop the damned rain. He closes his eyes, raises his beak to the ceiling and screeches. The weather sensors take a moment to react to this, and even longer for it to be noticeable - but eventually the downpour slows to a steady trickle, and then stops completely. Yakuza shakes the water off his feathers, leaving them sticking up and him looking like a puffball, and begins to preen. The ceiling flickers as dozens of lights come on; the entire ceiling becomes a solid beam of light, so harsh it's painful to look at. It is effective, at least, in drying up the rain.
Rock Lobsta definitely doesn't appreciate the lack of rain, though. She hadn't waited for it to stop, knowing just how difficult things would become once it did; instead she'd begun shuffling her way over to Yakuza. By the time the downpour had been replaced with light, Rock Lobsta had reached her target and pushed herself off the floor, tumbling into the honchkrow head-first. Yakuza shrieked in shock and pain - Rock Lobsta had smacked him straight in the chest. He shoved the damned fish away and held a wing over his newly-formed bruise, painting from the pain.
But that wasn't the last of it. The Grouch shakes herself off too; she hadn't been in the water as long but she certainly didn't enjoy it. Though being in sun straight after couldn't be good for her metal. Well, it wasn't important now. For the moment she let the light reflect off her, catching it in her shiny body, and unleashed it in a burst of energy towards Yakuza. The honchkrow squawked as the light exploded onto him, nearly knocking him onto his back; he steadied himself and glared at the Grouch, pure murder visible in his eyes. The light had struck exactly where Yakuza's previously formed bruise was - the chest. He swore under his breath, shivering slightly from the pain.
Munchy kept an arm over the area Rock Lobsta had struck her as she raised the other into the air, glanced at Yakuza, and slammed the floor again. The room rippled in response, opening new cracks and shaking like no one's business. As Yakuza flapped into the air to avoid the shockwaves, the Grouch quickly pulled up a protective shield much like the one Rock Lobsta had previously. This time while she was protected, the relicanth felt the brunt of the attack: she grunted in pain as she was tossed around, her now-drying skin bruising despite its rocky defenses.
Since he could now easily stay airborne, he did, flapping away tirelessly and watching the battle below. He smirked at Rock Lobsta's attempts to catch Munchy; stupid fish. Fish made great meals, like bugs. How ironic that he was sent out against food. He thought up the perfect ways to cook them - he'd already started, with the sunny day, he just needed a bit more heat. But he'd have that soon. And then dinner time. Yes... food.
Rock Lobsta rolled herself over onto her stomach and eyed her target - Yakuza - above her. Not only was she feeling decidedly worse after the earthquake and that damned punch, but her skin was now drying and she wasn't exactly sure how she could reach the honchkrow. Even if the bird wasn't flying, it was extremely difficult for Rock Lobsta to move; the cracks in the stadium had collected most of the water, plus they seemed to stop her in her tracks whenever she did pull herself a few inches. She sighed and lay down where she was, figuring it was pointless.
Collectively, the Adrenapacks on all the battlers sapped a tiny bit of strength; so little that no one seemed to even notice. They were all more occupied with other things, which was probably a good thing.
Kratos Aurion (xOOo)
The Baroness von Münchhausen (F) <Scrappy>
Health: 97%
- 'This is going a bit too well...'
Earthquake ~ Drain Punch @ Rock Lobsta ~ Earthquake
Yakuza (M) <Super Luck>
Health: 47%
- 'I hear fish are good steam-fried.' Thunder mimic'd. -1 atk, +4 sp. atk
Nasty Plot ~ Sunny Day ~ Nasty Plot
L'il Dwagie (xOOo)
The Grouch (F) <Anticipate> @Occa berry
Health: 77%
- 'Rain rain go away?'
Psych Up @ Yakuza ~ Flash Cannon @ Yakuza ~ Protect
Rock Lobsta (F) <Rock Head>
Health: 64%
- 'Come back here I want to hurt you!'
Protect ~ Head Smash @ Yakuza ~ Head Smash @ Yakuza
Arena Notes:
- The stadium's floor is broken into dozens of deep and many less-deep cracks, which are filled with water. The ceiling is covered in overly-powerful lights, having the effect of sunny day and quickly drying up the water covering the floor (5 more rounds).
Final Notes:
- Flash Cannon was a critical hit.
- Head Smash was a critical hit.
- Sometimes pokemon move out of order when it doesn't effect anything, yeah.
- Fishies moving around on the ground is hard. Thus Head Smash miss.
- Psych Up requires uh, thinking, so it failed due to arena description.
- Why didn't anyone faint this round? D:
- L'il attacks first.
