If the island's resolution were high enough, the battlers might have understood each other's intentions a little better. Dragon, having read Eifie's brash and gloating challenge, came prepared for a true knock-down drag-out of a fight. She sent out her Pokémon from balls enchanted by Koopa wizards from distant lands, and Ron and frickin' dragon appeared in their final dinosaurid forms. Eifie, however, had only written the challenge as a joke. If one took a black light to the message tacked to the Challenge Board (as Dragon was
clearly supposed to know to do - who did she think anonymously mailed her the My First Case detective kit last month?), they would see that it was a friendly invitation to a play date. She thought Tyranitar and Aurorus poor choices for playmates, especially given the sand that was now blotting out the clear skies on the island. Still, she had only brought two Pokémon for the day, so she would have to make this work. Diamond Dust Magical Café and Aimable's l'Instant Magic emerged in a bubbly display, full of rainbows and ribbons that scattered and tore in the sandy wind.
Eifie [OO]
Diamond Dust Manhattan Café (F) <Healer, Aroma Veil> @Sachet
![Spritzee](http://www.dragonflycave.com/oldforums/images/vbsprites/xy/Spritzee.png)
Health: 100%
Energy: 100%
Status: Glowing, but you can't tell.
Aimable's l'Instant Magic (F) <Sweet Veil, Gooey> @Whipped Dream
![swirlix](http://www.dragonflycave.com/oldforums/images/vbsprites/xy/swirlix.png)
Health: 100%
Energy: 100%
Status: Spitting sand off her tongue.
Dragon [OO]
Ron DeLite (M) <Sand Stream> @Lucky Egg
![tyranitar](http://www.dragonflycave.com/oldforums/images/vbsprites/xy/tyranitar.png)
Health: 100%
Energy: 100%
Status: Basking in the sand.
frickin' dragon (F) <Refrigerate> @Rocky Helmet
![aurorus](http://www.dragonflycave.com/oldforums/images/vbsprites/xy/aurorus.png)
Health: 100%
Energy: 100%
Status: Looming.
-1: PLUCK THE PIRANHA FLOWER-
With a tweet of the ref's whistle, Dragon's team charged forward. Their goal was obvious to anyone looking at their path from above: they were bum rushing right into the Diamond Dust Manhattan Café with every hope of stopping her before she could even start. Ron, reaching her first, lifted her up and tossed her into the air like a football. On the descent, he smashed his now-glowing forehead straight into her, sending her flying straight toward his teammate. Frick, having practiced this technique many times before the battle, gave the Spritzeeball a headbutt of her own, straight down off a cliff and into an upended green pipe.
Aimable's l'Instant Magic was by now running very, very far away from the two massive dinosaurs that had all but proven to her their ability to swallow her and her friend whole. Simultaneously, she'd wager. Still, this was just a... a tactical retreat! Yeah. No true
Instant Magic! would ever run from a fight. She was simply finding a good spot to perform her command. As she got further away, she began to segue from her all-out sprint to something with more pirouettes. She was no natural at the style, but it did the trick. A fog formed around her, and slowly it lifted up to become dark clouds. The winds died down, and the clouds burst, rain washing the sand and dust off the grass and over the cliffs. There was a splash, and DDMC launched out of the pipe unfazed. Her eyes were glowing, and the other battlers became uneasy with the island. There didn't seem to be so much distance between the sides before... and why did their legs seem to be moving so awkwardly?
[Ron- HP: 100%, PP: 95%; frick- HP: 100%, PP: 95%] [DDMC- HP: 76%, PP: 95%; AIM- HP: 100%, PP: 95%]
Frick shrugged it off, and drew her head back to fire her attack. She opened his mouth, and... yawned. She had definitely not meant to yawn there. She paused for a moment to consider the ramifications, but a moment too long. There was a flash of light, and a beam of bright silver light hot on its trail. It connected squarely with frick's throat, forcing her to take yet another moment to regain her breath. AIM felt reassured by her teammate's successful attack, and translated that confidence by bounding toward Ron. She skittered past his towering frame, drawing his attention to one side of his back before climbing up onto his back. She jumped up and down on the base of his tail, landing hard on her pixie-dusted feet each time. With every jump, she adjusted her trajectory forward, bouncing between the Tyranitar's two spiny ridges until she finally reached the head. There she struck down hard, and leapt one last time and landed in front of him. Ron rubbed his forehead in irritation. The urge to strike the puffball now was strong, but he restrained it.
Instead, he directed his spiteful feelings toward Diamond Dust Manhattan Café, who had interrupted his ally's attack. His anger began to literally seep from him as a black tar. The thick droplets slowed, and suddenly shot forward in unison from Ron's hide. They struck DDMC all over, coating her for a brief moment before fading into the ether. While all this was happening, frick finally managed to find her breath. She raised her head back once again, opened her jaw, and gathered a tremendous amount of energy in a white-hot ball. The orb pulsed, changed to an icy blue colour, and released its energy in a wide beam toward Aimable's as she ran away from Ron. AIM felt a slight chill, but nothing more, as she got out of the beam's way. Diamond Dust, however, felt quite a bit more than that. The instant the spiteful tar evaporated, she received a blast of pure energy at sub-arctic temperatures on the nose.
[Ron- HP: 84%, PP: 90%; frick- HP: 84%, PP: 84%] [DDMC- HP: 65%, PP: 91%; AIM- HP: 100%, PP: 91%]
Diamond Dust Magical Café shook the thin layer of frost off her mask. She gathered steel type energy into it once again, but it seemed to require more concentration now, as if something malevolent were harassing it and attempting to siphon it away from her. There was a flash of light as she overcame it, and with a look of determination that couldn't melt even in the face of jet fuel, shot forth a steel-typed beam. The silvery beam smacked frick in the ribs, knocking the wind out of her again for a brief second. Aimable's l'Instant Magic took advantage of the opening to play with Ron again. She skittered down around his feet, gnawing here and there against his rough thighs. By the fourth or fifth blow, the Tyranitar decided he'd had enough. He pivoted around and coated his tail in a shimmering metal film while he shoved AIM away with one foot. She was undeterred, overconfident in the heat of her attack. She jumped up to resume, and was promptly knocked back down with one swiped of Ron's iron-coated tail. She began to pick herself up from the mud when she was knocked back into the air once again, now by a vengefully-cold laser from frick's general direction. She landed, and picked her shivering body up from the mud.
-STAGE CLEAR-
Eifie [OO]
Diamond Dust Manhattan Café (F) <Healer, Aroma Veil> @Sachet
![Spritzee](http://www.dragonflycave.com/oldforums/images/vbsprites/xy/Spritzee.png)
Health: 65% (CAPPED)
Energy: 83%
Status: Only slightly tired.
Aimable's l'Instant Magic (F) <Sweet Veil, Gooey> @Whipped Dream
![swirlix](http://www.dragonflycave.com/oldforums/images/vbsprites/xy/swirlix.png)
Health: 65%
Energy: 87%
Status: The rain is making it hard for her to warm up after frickin' dragon's attack.
Dragon [OO]
Ron DeLite (M) <Sand Stream> @Lucky Egg
![tyranitar](http://www.dragonflycave.com/oldforums/images/vbsprites/xy/tyranitar.png)
Health: 68%
Energy: 84%
Status: Not in a forgiving mood.
frickin' dragon (F) <Refrigerate> @Rocky Helmet
![aurorus](http://www.dragonflycave.com/oldforums/images/vbsprites/xy/aurorus.png)
Health: 68%
Energy: 73%
Status:
'Show her what happens when you run from attacks.'
Numbers:
Ron DeLite- Health: 100 - 16 (Play Rough) - 16 (Play Rough) = 68; Energy: 100 - 5 (Iron Head) - 5 (Spite) - 6 (Iron Tail) = 84.
frickin' dragon- Health: 100 - 16 (Flash Cannon) - 16 (Flash Cannon) = 68; Energy: 100 - 5 (Iron Head) - 11 (Hyper Beam) - 11 (Hyper Beam) = 73.
Diamond Dust Manhattan Café- Health: 100 - 12 (Iron Head) - 12 (Iron Head) - 20 (Hyper Beam) = 65 (CAPPED); Energy: 100 - 5 (Trick Room) - 4 (Flash Cannon) - 8 (Flash Cannon) = 83.
Aimable's l'Instant Magic- Health: 100 - 20 (Hyper Beam) - 15 (Iron Tail) = 65; Energy: 100 - 5 (Rain Dance) - 4 (Play Rough) - 4 (Play Rough) = 87.
Notes:
-Literally all I know about Mario 64 is from watching a very fast-paced walkthrough video of this island. Regret.
-Miraculously, Diamond Dust Manhattan Café did not flinch from either Iron Head. The unbending will of she who fires off steel beams.
-The island became huge when DDMC came back out of the pipe. This means essentially nothing, but it sure looked cool in my head when she burst out into the air with her eyes glowing and space warping around her.
-It is raining (6 more actions). 1.25 multiplier on water moves, etc.
-Trick Room is in effect (4 more actions). Move order is DDMC < AIM < frick < Ron.
-Dragon commands first.