The eight Trainers gathered around the ball pit as Superbird and The Omskivar ushered the gymnasium’s populace away from the battlefield. There was no lengthy travel needed; the Asber League boasted numerous places for its denizens to entertain themselves or guests, and it was a simple matter to secure one for a battle. Actually, once word had gotten out, a veritable crowd of people had gathered to watch, as each of the participants sent out their Bug Pokemon. No regard was given for safety—after all, how much damage could be caused by such tiny, adorable creatures? Three Combee, three Scatterbug, a Weedle and a Kricketot stood or hovered with absentminded expressions.
Eifie
Vermiculate Monsoon – Scatterbug (♂) @ Choice Band
Health: 30%
Energy: 30%
Ability: Shield Dust
Type: Bug
Condition: Looking around, wide-eyed.
Status: Normal.
Commands: Tackle ~ String Shot ~ Tackle
I liek Squirtles
Deedle Deedle Whoop – Kricketot (♂) @ Oran Berry
Health: 30%
Energy: 30%
Ability: Shed Skin
Type: Bug
Condition: Clicking his antennae together slowly.
Status: Normal.
Commands: Uproar / Snore @ closest ~ Bide / Uproar / Snore @ closest ~ Bide / Uproar / Snore @ closest
Totodile
Garchomp – Weedle (♀) @ Black Sludge
Health: 30%
Energy: 30%
Ability: Shield Dust
Type: Bug / Poison
Condition: Twitching her stinger.
Status: Normal.
Commands: Bug Bite @ Swallowtail ~ Bug Bite @ Olaf ~ Bug Bite @ Deedle Deedle Whoop
RespectTheBlade
Aldrin – Combee (♀) @ Oran Berry
Health: 30%
Energy: 30%
Ability: Honey Gather
Type: Bug / [Flying]
Condition: Floating absentmindedly.
Status: Normal.
Commands: None
Grass King
Lepidoptera – Scatterbug (♀) @ Metronome
Health: 30%
Energy: 30%
Ability: Compound Eyes
Type: Bug
Condition: Looking at the colorful balls.
Status: Normal.
Commands: Bug Bite @ Deedle Deedle Whoop ~ Bug Bite @ Olaf ~ Bug Bite @ Swallowtail
Keldeo
Micah – Scatterbug (♂) @ Life Orb
Health: 30%
Energy: 30%
Ability: Shield Dust
Type: Bug
Condition: Feeling uneasy after seeing Garchomp's stingers.
Status: Normal.
Commands: Burrow down / Bug Bite @ nearest bug / Chill x 3
Lilycolo
Bumblethree – Combee (♀) @ Oran Berry
Health: 30%
Energy: 30%
Ability: Honey Gather
Type: Bug / [Flying]
Condition: Wishing it was a
flower pit.
Status: Normal.
Commands: Go deep inside the pit ~ Sweet Scent up ~ Swift up with wide range
Sangfroidish
COVERED IN BEES – Combee (♀) @ Oran Berry
Health: 30%
Energy: 30%
Ability: Honey Gather
Type: Bug / [Flying]
Condition: Scanning the surface of Lake Plasticballs.
Status: Normal.
Commands: pick up blue ball ~ Bug Bite @ Deedle Deedle Whoop ~ Bug Bite @ Kukai
Round 1
At the referees’ whistle, the five landlocked bugs jumped into the pit; Bumblethree also dove headlong into the balls, squirming her way downward through the pastel-colored plastic. Aldrin hovered slowly out over the edge of the arena, but simply watched everyone else, as COVERED IN BEES dropped to the surface of the sea of balls. She quickly selected a blue one, nesting her Oran Berry in the groove between her two top heads.
Wrapped around a ball to steady herself, Garchomp the Weedle scanned her immediate location, searching for her Scatterbug. As Lepidoptera writhed to an upright position, Garchomp spotted her, and sprang, digging her tiny Weedle mandibles into the Scatterdust Pokemon’s midsection. Micah saw this brutal first attack, and wormed, frightened, into the depths of the ballpit. Garchomp released her mouthparts and inched quickly back to her ball. She eyed Lepidoptera, who glared at the Weedle before turning her attention to Deedle Deedle Whoop, who was trying desperately to stand on two legs and still stay atop the balls. As he finally found an uneasy balance, Deedle let out a sigh, and was immediately bitten in the stomach by Lepidoptera, who gorged herself on the Kricketot’s Oran Berry.
The Kricketot’s legs waved comically in the air until he twisted himself upright and got ready to Deedle Deedle
Whoop some ass. He growled at Lepidoptera, and was immediately hit in the head with something light but hard. He turned to see another Scatterbug—Vermiculate Monsoon—running around in a circle, paying no attention to the battling around him, headbutting plasting balls into a small pile. COVERED IN BEES let out a small yelp as a yellow ball bounced off of her undermost underbelly. Agitated, Deedle leaned forward and chirruped his musical antennae as boisterously as he could muster.
The sound waves were almost visible. Monsoon’s antennae blew backwards, before he cried out as his whole body was sent flying. He poked his head out of the corner of the pit in which he had landed, blinked a couple of times and scampered back to the task at hand, ignoring Deedle entirely. Instead, he crawled through his pile, spitting sticky silk on the balls.
Deedle was
FURIOUS. His concerto now, ignored as well? With effort, the Cricket Pokemon brought his thrumming antennae to a grinding halt, focusing all of his energy into standing…very…still. COVERED IN BEES looked curiously at him, having expected something a little more—
what was that smell? Her three heads sniffed the air, smiling, and then each other, as the odor seemed to cling to her. Finally, she spotted a small hole in the sea of balls, where the scent seemed to originate. Taking a mental note, she turned her attention back to Deedle, flying in a corkscrew and barreling into his stomach. Deedle made no movement at all, and let out only a shallow grunt as COVERED IN BEES bit down with all three of her mouths.
Garchomp lunged again at Lepidoptera, biting her further down her body, then retreating hastily, eyeing the suspiciously uninvolved Aldrin. Lepidoptera started to edge warily away from the nasty Weedle, crawling instead into a convenient hole. At the bottom of it, Micah had curled up and taken a short rest, and let out a high-pitched Scatterbuggy whine as Lepidoptera sank her single tooth into his back.
His pile of balls now condensed into more of an egg, tightly packed with adhesive bugmatter, Vermiculate Monsoon climbed atop it and surveyed the battlefield awhile. He watched as COVERED IN BEES swooped into the hole that seemed to be giving off some kind of Combee signal—then heard a yelp, and watched COVERED IN BEES emerge from the hole clutching an Oran Berry. From the hole came a cry, and six glowing stars flew in a slightly curved line to strike the thieving Combee. Looking around, Monsoon saw Aldrin, but was unsure if Aldrin saw her; past him, Garchomp turned on a new target, forcibly stabbing her mandibles into the stone-faced Deedle’s thigh.
Inside the other hole, Lepidoptera attempted her escape, but was bitten on the backside by an irate Micah. Lepidoptera pulled herself free, focusing on her escape. She exited the hole to see COVERED IN BEES, and more importantly, his blue berry. With a mighty leap (for a tiny Bug Pokemon) she hurtled to the Combee, scraping COVERED IN BEES’ carapace with her tooth as she grabbed the berry in her mouth and bit down upon landing in the ball pit. Chewing her mouthful, she instantly began to choke, spitting out pieces of mangled plastic. She threw her false prize away and poked her head from the pit to see COVERED IN BEES tip forward with a wink, rolling her Oran Berry forward to catch it with her top right mouth.
Vermiculate Monsoon surveyed all of this, then nodded knowingly. Now was his moment. He jumped down from atop his ball of balls, then licked his tiny hand and held it up, testing the wind. He backed up, gave a yell, and charged his ball-ball, headbutting it straight towards Garchomp. The Weedle’s eyes widened as she turned to see the approaching projectile; they then closed as she braced herself for impact. It hit her true, and she skidded in the balls, scrambling back to a relatively isolated area once she looked up to see the glaring eyes of the unnervingly still Deedle. The referees blew their whistles to end the round.
End of Round 1
Eifie
Vermiculate Monsoon – Scatterbug (♂) @ Choice Band
Health: 21%
Energy: 23%
Ability: Shield Dust
Type: Bug
Condition: Feeling accomplished.
Status: Normal.
Actions: Tackle @ Balls ~ String Shot @ Balls ~ Tackle @ Ball ball @ Garchomp
I liek Squirtles
Deedle Deedle Whoop – Kricketot (♂)
Health: 15% (CAPPED)
Energy: 23%
Ability: Shed Skin
Type: Bug
Condition: . . . . .
Status: Storing energy (will unleash R2A1) [14%].
Actions: Uproar @ Vermiculate Monsoon ~ Bide ~ Bide
Totodile
Garchomp – Weedle (♀) @ Black Sludge
Health: 24%
Energy: 21%
Ability: Shield Dust
Type: Bug / Poison
Condition: Brandishing her stinger, anxious.
Status: Normal.
Actions: Bug Bite @ Lepidoptera ~ Bug Bite @ Lepidoptera ~ Bug Bite @ Deedle Deedle Whoop
RespectTheBlade
Aldrin – Combee (♀) @ Oran Berry
Health: 30%
Energy: 30%
Ability: Honey Gather
Type: Bug / [Flying]
Condition: Floating absentmindedly.
Status: Normal.
Actions: None
Grass King
Lepidoptera – Scatterbug (♀) @ Metronome
Health: 15% (CAPPED)
Energy: 21%
Ability: Compound Eyes
Type: Bug
Condition: Wiggling her tooth to check for looseness.
Status: Normal.
Actions: Bug Bite @ Deedle Deedle Whoop ~ Bug Bite @ Micah ~ Bug Bite @ COVERED IN BEES
Keldeo
Micah – Scatterbug (♂) @ Life Orb
Health: 22%
Energy: 27%
Ability: Shield Dust
Type: Bug
Condition: Unsure if he's safer inside or outside the hole.
Status: Burrowed inside the pit.
Actions: Burrow down ~ Chill ~ Bug Bite @ Lepidoptera
Lilycolo
Bumblethree – Combee (♀)
Health: 15% (CAPPED)
Energy: 24%
Ability: Honey Gather
Type: Bug / [Flying]
Condition: Yelling insults to COVERED IN BEES.
Status: Burrowed inside the pit.
Actions: Go deep inside the pit ~ Sweet Scent ~ Swift
Sangfroidish
COVERED IN BEES – Combee (♀) @ Oran Berry
Health: 15% (CAPPED)
Energy: 27%
Ability: Honey Gather
Type: Bug / [Flying]
Condition: Happy to still have her berry.
Status: Evasion -1.
Actions: pick up blue ball ~ Bug Bite @ Deedle Deedle Whoop ~ Bug Bite @ Kukai
Arena Notes
~There is a large (about the diameter of a Combee) ball of plastic ball pit balls strung together with a String Shot lying on the surface of the ball pit near Garchomp.
Referee Notes
~Deedle Deedle Whoop hit the damage cap on action 1, from Lepidoptera’s Bug Bite.
~Bumblethree hit the damage cap on action 3 from COVERED IN BEES’s Bug Bite.
~COVERED IN BEES hit the damage cap on action 3 from Lepidoptera’s Bug Bite.
~Lepidoptera ate Deedle’s Oran Berry on action 1. COVERED IN BEES attempted to do that on action 2, but found no berry. Same with Garchomp on Action 3.
~COVERED IN BEES ate Bumblethree’s Oran Berry on action 3.
~Lepidoptera ate blue plastic on Action 3, and took 2% in recoil damage, which made it hit the damage cap.
~Bumblethree’s Swift only hit COVERED IN BEES on action 3, as Micah was burrowing and everyone else was a little too far away. And also COVERED IN BEES was right in the middle of the attack and took the full brunt of it.
~PM Commands to Superbird.
Vermiculate Monsoon the male Scatterbug <Shield Dust> @ Choice Band
BEES the female Combee <Honey Gather> @ Oran Berry
Deedle Deedle Whoop the male Kricketot <Shed Skin> @ Oran Berry
Garchomp the female Weedle <Shield Dust> @ Black Sludge
antialiasis the female Caterpie <Shield Dust> @ Lucky Egg
Kukai the male Wurmple <Shield Dust> @ Oran Berry
