1v1 single
Style: Set
DQ: 5 days
Damage Cap: 85%
Banned Moves: OHKOs, Chills, direct healing moves
Arena: Time Freeze Pocket
The battle takes place in a peculiar little area where time has more or less stopped. Sand is suspended in the air, birds are still in the sky, wings still extended, a leaf is upside-down in mid-air. Everything is at a standstill.
Well, not everything. Stuff that randomly runs into the Time Freeze Pocket can still move, albeit very, verrry slowly. For some reason, though, while actual movement takes a great deal of time and effort, projectiles still travel at the same speed. What this means is, all Pokemons' speeds are cut in half, and if they use a physical move, they are considered to move last in their priority bracket and use 4% more energy. Special moves still behave the same. Transportation moves such as Teleport cost 3% more energy, though they still keep their priority order.
What looks like an ordinary clearing is, in fact, the Time Freeze Pocket; a staggeringly impossible place where all the time in one particular section has decided not to work any more. Poor, doomed birds hang in midair, unable to ever move again, and leaves float a few feet from the trees they fell from. Even more impossibly, beings that enter the area are not eternally stuck in time like everything else; they are able to enjoy the effects of time very slightly, so that it goes much slower and more tediously than usual
, akin to the sensation experienced while watching Deal Or No Deal (and yes I do plan on mocking that program in every single battle I ref, deal with it). This odd place has somehow been decided a perfect place for a battle- clearly blazheirio889 and Jack_The_PumpkinKing have superhuman patience or something. The referee arrives at the pocket, which is thoughtfully marked off to stop people wandering in- if the referee and battlers are barely moving either, then this battle might never end- to find the two trainers waiting. blazheirio889 holds up her Pokéball, and a beam of red light shoots out- until it hits the edge of the arena. It then begins to flow out with the viscosity of set concrete. It slowly dribbles towards the floor for what feels like forever, then over the next five minutes, forms the outline of a Snorunt. Yukianesa looks curiously (and, above all, slowly) around the environment as the opposing trainer goes through the same excruciating process to send out Volvagia the Vulpix. Commands are given, and after waiting about thirty seconds for the Pokémon to react to them, the battle gets off to a
roaring start.
Round One
blazheirio889 (O)
Yukianesa (F) <Inner Focus> @Dawn Stone
Health: 100%
Energy: 100%
Status: confused and fascinated. And slow.
Commands: Substitute (10%) ~ Spite/Icy Wind ~ Icy Wind/Pebble Jet
Jack_The_PumpkinKing (O)
Volvagia (F) <Flash Fire> @Fire Stone
Health: 100%
Energy: 100%
Status: feeling much less frisky.
Commands: Will-O-Wisp/Flamethrower/Quick Attack ~ Confuse Ray/Extrasensory/Quick Attack ~ Fire Spin/Quick Attack
Volvagia, being faster (not that that's saying very much), moves first, opening her mouth to release a ball of fire that glows with a purplish shimmer. The orb swirls through the air eerily, unhindered by the time-slowing effects of the arena. It hovers towards Yukianesa, and swirls around her several times before evaporating into a puff of blue smoke. Gradually the Snorunt becomes aware of a nasty burning pain where the orb licked her side. Shrugging it off, she opens her mouth very, very slowly and pulls out a glowing orb of life energy. The three outside the Time Freeze Pocket watch as she manipulates the blob, taking more time than anyone cares to guess to sculpt it into a sort of cone shape. It begins to solidify, taking about a minute, ending up as a makeshift but nevertheless adequate imitation of a Snorunt.
Volvagia eyes the subsitute pensively- Confuse Ray probably won't get past that, which she supposes lumps it in with "something like Safeguard or Taunt". She closes her eyes and activates her psychic abilities, using them to find and attack Yukianesa's weak points. She uses her signals to hack into them and begins to manipulate them painfully- however, that substitute's tricky, and Extrasensory can't get past it either. Due to being such a realistic replica of Yukianesa, Volvagia's signals targeted it instead, and it now stands between them jerking wildly as the psychic powers twist it brutally. When the substitue finally stops twitching, Yukianesa slowly opens her mouth and exhales a huge gust of freezing-cold air. The wind gushes through the arena and blows into Volvagia; the heat of the fire fox's body makes the damage dealt virtually negligible, but somehow, she still feels oddly chilly and lethargic from the frigid temperature.
Now that she's finally got ahead in regards to Speed (not that that's saying much), Yukianesa decides this is the perfect time to unleash her secret, disgusting weapon. She retches slightly and brings up the entire contents of her stomach into her mouth. Quickly (or as quickly as she can, anyway), as the digestive juices are burning her mouth somewhat, she aims at Volvagia and fires a jet of acid and the rocks she had for breakfast earlier right towards her opponent. As the arena prevents the Vulpix managing even to partially dodge anything, the stream blasts her all over, the acid quickly eating away her fur and top layer of her skin before the pebbles smash into the soft, tender exposed flesh beneath. The Vulpix howls in pain and slowly falls to the floor, wincing at the burning sores left by Yukianesa's digestive fluid. Volvagia struggles to her feet and hisses at the Snorunt, breathing out a small stream of flame, which swirls around in the air like a vortex. This then spirals across the arena towards Yukianesa, and her substitute steps in to intercept it. The flame wraps around the substitute and the swirling embers char it all over, melting it slightly; it's starting to look pretty unstable now. The Snorunt growls like her now-empty stomach at the near destruction of her hard work, and then flinches from pain as the burn takes hold. Slowly.
blazheirio889 (O)
Yukianesa (F) <Inner Focus> @Dawn Stone
Health: 85%
Energy: 86%
Status: suddenly come over all peckish. -1 Attack, Burned (3% damage per round), unable to use Pebble Jet. Has a substitute with 1% health remaining.
Attack used: Substitute (10%) ~ Icy Wind ~ Pebble Jet
Jack_The_PumpkinKing (O)
Volvagia (F) <Flash Fire> @Fire Stone
Health: 87%
Energy: 88%
Status: feeling very sore all over. -1 Speed, recieves 2% extra damage from Ice moves (reducing to 1% in four rounds).
Attacks used: Will-O-Wisp ~ Extrasensory ~ Fire Spin
Terrain Notes
The arena's still pretty much normal, in a manner of speaking.
Final Notes
- I know I told you by VM, Blazhy, but just to clarify for everyone: I dock 10 points from the Pokémon's base speed for every reduction, so Yukianesa is now faster than Volvagia.
- I took it that by "something like Safeguard or Taunt", you meant any attack that would negate the effect of Confuse Ray, which Substitute would, so yeah. If that was wrong, though, I'll fix it.
- Yukianesa has used Pebble Jet and can't use it again for this match. And my mental image of a Vulpix with most of its fur burnt off its just so horrid D':
- I'm getting SO fed up of describing things as slow :/
- Blazhy attacks first next turn.
