Kindling Queen vs. Kai: Round Three
Arena: Haunted Cemetery
It is a dark and gloomy setting. The full moon lights the dark sky and shines its rays on the tombstones. Many of the stones are damaged and none are fresh. The markings on the stones are old and withered away and out of some rise ghosts. There are small pools of water scattered around from rain, but they are thick and green like marsh muck, making them hard to swim in. The air is cold but still, and the ground is grassy and full of small pebbles. The souls that linger in the cemetery yearn for the thrill of battle and can temporarily fuse themselves with an active Pokemon before they pass into the light.
Team Kindling Queen (Ooo)
Charmeleon (M) <Blaze>
Health: 90%
Energy: 79%
Status: Irritated.
Commands: Swift ~ Aerial Ace + Shadow Claw
Atk +4, Sp. Atk +1, Acc -1
Team Kai (Ooo)
[Chi] Abra (M) <Synchronize>
Health: 95%
Energy: 78%
Status: Thankful for his safety.
Commands: Double Team + Charge Beam + Psychic
Def +2, Sp. Atk +1, Sp. Def +1, Acc -1
Round Three: begin!
Chi, excited to have blocked the lizard’s underground attack, is eager to go on the offensive and finally take a chunk out of Charmeleon’s health. With that in mind, how better to attack than six times at once? The fox finally cracks open an eyelid with anticipation before beginning to move. Surprisingly, the little Abra is so fast that the Trainers can’t even tell whether he is running or teleporting. When Chi finally stops, Kai’s
team has not
doubled, but sextupled - there are six identical Chis sitting in a circle in the blue barrier, each facing toward Charmeleon’s hole.
Charmeleon, waiting at the bottom of his hole, has seen none of this, and only has his Trainer’s commands to go by. With a deep breath, he breathes out several star-shaped rays, which fly
swiftly up out of the hole and, like heat-seeking missiles, somehow manage to turn on a dime and fly straight toward every single Chi. Unable to withstand the rays’ energy, the clones dissipate into the smoke that still clouds the graveyard.
<Charmeleon: -0H, -5E / Atk +4, Sp. Atk +1, Acc -1 / unaware>
<Chi: -5H, -5E / Def +2, Sp. Atk +1, Sp. Def +1, Acc -1 / frustrated>
Angrier at the loss of his clones than at the small damage he took, Chi ambles out of the safety of his barrier and approaches Charmeleon’s hole. Gathering energy into his claws, he peeks down into the hole to see the lizard climbing up, already halfway to the top. With a toothy grin, the fox releases the energy he’d been
charging into an electric
beam that coruscates down the tunnel straight into Charmeleon, who barely manages to avoid being knocked down to the bottom. Although the beam doesn’t seem to have been particularly harming, Chi still feels a wonderful afterfeeling from the charge he had built up.
Before Chi has time to think (much less return to his barrier), Charmeleon launches himself out of his hole in an
aerial attack of amazing speed. His
claws glow a sickly purple with
shadowy energy as he knocks Chi to the ground, clinging to the Abra tightly. The force with which Charmeleon hits Chi is so great that the two actually roll all the way inside Chi’s barrier.
<Charmeleon: -4H, -9E / Atk +4, Def +2, Sp. Atk +1, Acc -1 / take that!>
<Chi: -22H, -6E / Def +2, Sp. Atk +2, Sp. Def +1, Acc -1 / incredibly hurt>
Chi does not like how things are going, not one bit. That last attack left cuts and gashes that he’s worried won’t heal properly - they might even leave scars! And on top of that, the stupid lizard is still clinging to him. Without any semblance of an attempt at grace, the irritated Chi uses his
psychic powers to break into Charmeleon’s mind and triggers his pain receptors before going to work on manipulating his muscles. The fox cracks a weak grin as Charmeleon springs, against his own will, away from Chi, landing on the ground and spasming in front of a tombstone several meters away. Chi’s grin grows even wider when he realizes that the lizard is lying in the opposite direction from Chi as his hole is - no more ducking away underground!
<Charmeleon: -12H, -0E / Atk +4, Sp. Atk +1, Acc -1 / mentally exhausted>
<Chi: -0H, -7E / Def +2, Sp. Atk +2, Sp. Def +1, Acc -1 / a little satisfied>
Round Three over!
Team Kindling Queen (Ooo)
Charmeleon (M) <Blaze>
Health: 74%
Energy: 65%
Status: Mentally exhausted.
Commands used: Swift ~ Aerial Ace + Shadow Claw
Atk +4, Sp. Atk +1, Acc -1
Team Kai (Ooo)
[Chi] Abra (M) <Synchronize>
Health: 68%
Energy: 60%
Status: A little satisfied.
Commands used: Double Team + Charge Beam + Psychic
Def +2, Sp. Atk +2, Sp. Def +1, Acc -1
Arena status:
The battlers are surrounded by a nasty, thick, black smoke that hangs low to the ground, making it difficult to see anything. There is not enough to fill the whole graveyard, but its area is enough to encloak both Pokemon, their Trainers, and the ref. The cloud of smoke lingers over the center of the graveyard. It seems to be thinning a little. (4 actions remaining.)
Not far off the path, near the center of the graveyard, there is a very obvious hole which has been dug deep into the soil. A few meters down, it sharply angles parallel to the ground, crossing beneath the path before returning to a near-vertical angle. The tunnel stops just before the surface, though. The ground there is starting to feel a little unstable, and any force applied to the ground at that point would probably cause a cave-in. An almost-transparent blue sphere rests on the surface above where the tunnel stops; it’s big enough to hold a few Abra, but not much more.
Ref’s notes:
1. Pokedex used: Veekun @
http://veekun.com/
2. Random number generator used: @
http://javascript.internet.com/games/dice-roller.html
3. Chi’s Charge Beam raised his Sp. Atk by 1.
4. Chi had to step outside his Barrier to fire Charge Beam into the hole, so he lost his Defense boost on Kindling Queen’s combo. (That raised the damage to 22 instead of 20.)
5. Briefly at the end of action 2, Charmeleon ended up inside Chi’s barrier, and therefore shared the +2 Def rewarded by it. When he was ejected, he lost the boost.
6. Um, again, sorry for the wait. I don’t know how I keep taking a week to ref, but somehow I do. Maybe that’s just my default writing speed.
I’m gonna be in trouble when NaNo starts...
7. Kindling Queen will attack first next round.
Wait, is it legal for KQ to be going back into dig after every move? It seems unfair.
Based on my instincts and
Negrek's advice, I would say: she can use the hole, but not abuse it. In this round it didn't raise much of a problem with the commands she gave because (1) Swift can be fired from the bottom and (2) Aerial Ace's description involves quickness, so that could be interpreted (as I tried to do) as quickly climbing. In future rounds, anyone who wants to come up out of the hole and fire off an attack (and possibly return) should think about either allowing an action's time to climb or else using something like Aerial Ace, Quick Attack, Extremespeed, Fly, etc (those are off the top of my head, BTW) that will let them get out of the hole faster than usual; otherwise, the Pokemon might have to sacrifice one of their commands in order to have time to get up.
EDIT: And because I don't feel like going to bed yet,
I've drawn a picture of what I kind of visualize this battle as looking like. Red indicates starting positions and yellow indicates present, as of the end of Round Three, positions.
Ignore the distortion, I forgot not to save it as a .bmp.
