3vs3 Triple Battle
Style: Set
DQ: 5 Days
Damage Cap: 30%
Banned Moves: OHKO's, Recovery moves, weather moves, 5 chills per pokemon
Arena: Grassy Plain
The Grassy Plain has a slight breeze coming from the north. The grasses look as if it was freshly mowed. The sky is clear and the sun so bright. The perfect place to have a friendly battle.
Other: Only Basic pokémon may be used. No pokemon that can't evolve allowed either.
Round 2
Ridous (OOO)
Ein (M) <Synchronize>
Health: 92%
Energy: 100%
Chills: 0/5
Status: Asleep.
Serene (F) <Synchronize>
Health: 85%
Energy: 85%
Chills: 0/5
Status: Not entirely pleased with how the battle has begun, and ticked at Ein for falling asleep.
StarLight (F) <Adaptability>
Health: 92%
Energy: 98%
Chills: 0/5
Status: Confused (not the status condition).
Wasn’t this supposed to be three-on-three?...
Lucas755 (OOO)
Bulbasaur (F) <Overgrow>
Health: 86%
Energy: 89%
Chills: 0/5
Status: Injured, but pleased with her performance so far.
Ralts (M) <Synchronize>
Health: 90%
Energy: 97%
Chills: 0/5
Status: Asleep.
Diglett (M) <Sand Veil>
Health: 100%
Energy: 93%
Chills: 0/5
Status: Waiting patiently underground.
Though he would prefer to stay in the dark tunnel where he feels so much more at home, Diglett dutifully obeys the call from his trainer and digs his way through the little remaining earth separating him from the surface. He pokes his head out of the ground a few feet off from where the other pokemon are, blinking rapidly as his sensitive eyes adjust to the sunlight. Once he can see clearly, he looks over at the main battlefield, and sees two ralts lying unconscious on the ground, another holding a hand to a bleeding head wound and wearing a disgusted expression, a confused-looking eevee, and his grinning bulbasaur partner.
Geez, what’d I
miss?
Shaking his head, Diglett gets his attention back to current issues. No one really seems to be readying any attacks, so he takes aim at the sleeping ralts on Ridous’s side of the field, assuming that it’s probably his opponent. Closing his eyes, he focuses on the earth encompassing his lower body, feeling its deep, enduring strength suffusing his body. Summoning up this power, he directs it forward through the ground. An ominous tremor under everyone’s feet accompanies the release of power, attracting the attention of the three other conscious pokemon, but nothing seems to happen… until the ground on which Ein rests suddenly and violently explodes. The ralts is blasted into the air, pummeled viciously by stone, dirt, and the raw power of the earth; he slams back to earth like a limp rag doll, looking badly battered and bruised, and, inexplicably, still sound asleep.
Satisfied, Diglett pops his head back into his hole, protecting himself from retribution. StarLight, however, took note of his position beforehand, and quickly begins digging into the ground, aiming herself toward where she saw Diglett’s head disappear. Fairly soon she has managed to dig a nice tunnel of her own, and she disappears headfirst into the ground, continuing to dig as she goes. At about two feet under she stops to rest for a moment, trying to keep Diglett’s location fixed in her mind. At around the same time, Bulbasaur sends a batch of razor leaves at Serene once again, and the female ralts takes the hit with an angry cry, waiting for the leaves to stop slicing at her to make her move. Before she can do anything, however, both she and Bulbasaur are distracted by Ralts suddenly standing up.
The suddenly vertical Ralts does not acknowledge them, and seems to still be asleep. Head nodding forward limply, he begins muttering something incoherent, and stumbles forward as though sleepwalking. Bulbasaur backs cautiously out of the way as his mumbling grows steadily louder, and his right hand is suddenly covered with an icy sheen, sucking heat from the air around it. Ralts stumbles along in a stupor, swinging his frost-covered fist around randomly; finally, it connects with the only other pokemon currently staying in one place – Ralts almost trips over Ein, but manages to get in a point-blank punch on the other ralts that leaves a thin coating of ice where it hits. His mumbling suddenly ceases, and he drops immediately to the ground, right beside Ein, the both of them still slumbering away.
Now that
that’s over with, Serene makes ready to attack, hoping to do some serious damage now… but…
WHAT?! Her trainer wants her to… what… how’s that going to…
EEEWWWW!
Still, orders are orders, and so Serene shudders (very overdramatically, as though to emphasize to everyone watching that this is
totally not her decision and goes against everything she stands for) and walks over to where the two males are laying. Bulbasaur, following her own orders to stay close to Ralts, watches her approach with a grin, sniggering at her overblown reaction to such a simple thing. Serene pointedly ignores the bulbasaur as she reaches Ein; bending down, she puts on an expression of utmost revulsion before leaning over him and giving him a very, very quick kiss on the cheek.
“Aawwwwww…” Bulbasaur coos innocently, provoking another glare from Serene as she backs away and lifts a hand to wipe off her mouth. She looks down at Ein angrily, hoping that the… action… had at least had the desired effect… But Ein doesn’t show any reaction at all, further provoking the ire of his teammate.
Diglett chooses that moment to pop up and unleash the earth’s power at Ein again. Hoping that Bulbasaur is next to the correct ralts – they’ve moved closer together since he’d last been aboveground, and he has to aim very carefully to only catch one of them in the blast – he causes a second explosion in the earth that sends the probably-enemy ralts flying through the air again; Serene, Bulbasaur and Ralts get pelted by small bits of earth but are unharmed. This attack seems to accomplish what Serene could not; Ein begins stirring where he fell, mumbling a little to himself as he groggily opens his eyes. Ralts wakes up at almost the same moment, his eyes opening widely and staring at the furrow left in the ground from the explosion. Disoriented, he backs up into Bulbasaur, who helps him stand with her vines. He can’t do anything with his trainer’s command for the moment, so he just stands where he is, feeling a little helpless and trying to figure out what’s going on.
Bulbasaur, seeing that Ralts is okay for now, turns her attention to the hole which StarLight had disappeared into. She walks over and peers into it, but cannot make out the eevee. Annoyed, she shakes her bulb and releases a cloud of light purple spores that float down to the tunnel entrance. They don’t make it far, but in any event StarLight is too far in for the poison to reach her. At the moment, indeed, she has started digging again, pushing forward through the earth and trying to find Diglett’s tunnel. The dirt pressing into her fur and the close confines of the tunnel, not to mention the lack of light, are making her feel a little claustrophobic – eevee, unlike diglett, were certainly
not made for underground life. But she puts up with it as she digs, and digs, and digs… Just as she is about to take a break for a moment, her paw suddenly breaks through into an open space, and the eevee eagerly pushes away some more dirt and can feel an upward-slanting tunnel that hers has now met up with – small, and the perfect size for a diglett.
Bingo.
Ein now seems to be fully awake, and stands up, wincing as his bruises and scrapes make themselves known –
Must’ve really taken a beating while I was out, he thinks distractedly. He spots Serene walking up to him and telepathically asks,
So, what’d I miss? His female counterpart simply glares at him, long enough for him to feel distinctly uneasy – she then walks up to him and grabs him around the midriff, responds angrily,
You just couldn’t have woken up thirty seconds sooner
, could you?, and throws him towards Bulbasaur as hard as she can. Which, unfortunately, with a ralts’ physique, is not very hard, and Ein is airborne only for a few seconds before falling face-first into the ground about a foot away from Bulbasaur. Pushing himself up and spitting some grass out of his mouth, he gives a perplexed look back at Serene, then back to Bulbasaur, who, judging from her amused expression, knows exactly what is going on with his teammate. In the end, Ein just shrugs and turns his concentration to draining heat away from one hand, mimicking what Ralts had done earlier in his sleep, but here of his own volition. Bulbasaur hastily tries to back up, but Ein’s freezing-cold fist catches her in the side, the sub-zero temperature from the attack affecting her just as badly as Serene’s flames from earlier.
A little brown head pops up from the earth yet again, and Diglett surveys the field, trying to see if anyone is readying an attack. Serene seems to be holding her hands in front of her as though to gather energy – that’s good enough for him. A rumble is felt beneath everyone’s feet for the third time just before the ground spontaneously explodes beneath Serene – a noticeably larger and more spectacular explosion than either of the ones that had targeted Ein. The ralts cries out in pain as she is thrown into the air, and slams into the ground so hard the breath is knocked out of her. Ralts winces sympathetically as Serene, now extensively bruised and battered in addition to the razor leaf cuts all over her body, painfully gets to her feet, coughing and gasping as she does so. He’d very much like to avoid anything like
that – Diglett is on his side, fortunately, but harm could still come from other sources… Speaking of, he realizes for the first time since waking up, he can’t see StarLight anywhere. Getting a little anxious – he’s supposed to be attacking her right now! – he reaches out with his mind, trying to use his psychic power to locate her and attack. His efforts yield nothing, however, and he eventually gives up, worrying that he might have messed up his trainer’s plans…
Bulbasaur takes a moment to concentrate inward, triggering a rapid explosion of cell division throughout her body. Before Ein and Serene’s eyes, her bulb expands in width, and the animal portion of her body seems to gain about an inch of height. Bulbasaur looks at the two enemy ralts from her slightly-higher-than-before vantage point, feeling an increased level of power flowing through her body, and eager to release it. Both ralts move in quick succession before she can do anything, however; Serene, having gotten her wind back but still wincing with every movement, holds her hands out like she had before and generates a ball of wispy purplish-black energy, which she immediately throws straight at Ralts. The force of the attack pushes ralts to the ground, while the ghostly energy causes a painful burning sensation as it burrows into his skin and assaults his mind. Ein, only a second behind, attacks Bulbasaur again, striking directly with a second freezing-cold ice punch.
Back underground once more, Diglett waits patiently for the command to go topside again. He’s rather enjoying the current strategy that his trainer’s got for him – stay out of the way, avoid taking any damage himself, and chip away at everyone with the supreme power of his natural element – couldn’t be more comfy. No sooner has this thought entered his head when he feels the vibrations of something moving beneath him – something in his tunnel! Before he can turn around to face this intruder, sharp fangs suddenly embed themselves in one of his back legs, sending painful jolts of dark energy into his body. StarLight keeps biting down for a bit longer before releasing Diglett, who squeaks in dismay at his hiding place being invaded. While she’s quite pleased with herself at having managed to squeeze herself through to the mole pokemon, the eevee is rather uncomfortable – this tunnel is almost too narrow for her to fit in, the sides squeezing in all around her, and she is in pitch blackness, the exit and all the sunlight blocked by Diglett.
Ridous (OOO)
Ein (M) <Synchronize>
Health: 65%
Energy: 88%
Chills: 0/5
Status: Confused, but just running with it.
Serene (F) <Synchronize>
Health: 62%
Energy: 75%
Chills: 0/5
Status: Disgusted and in pain.
StarLight (F) <Adaptability>
Health: 92%
Energy: 86%
Chills: 0/5
Status: Feeling dirty, blind, and claustrophobic.
Lucas755 (OOO)
Bulbasaur (F) <Overgrow>
Health: 72%
Energy: 83%
Chills: 0/5
Status: Amused. +1 Sp. Attack
Ralts (M) <Synchronize>
Health: 81%
Energy: 87%
Chills: 0/5
Status: Worrying that he’s badly screwing up.
Diglett (M) <Sand Veil>
Health: 95%
Energy: 75%
Chills: 0/5
Status: Annoyed at his sanctuary being violated.
Battle notes:
Ein and Ralts both woke up on the second action.
Sleep Talk became Ice Punch.
The third Earth Power was a critical hit.
Earth Power isn’t really an attack that can be redirected with Psychic, and Diglett moved faster than Serene anyway, so she went with the Shadow Ball option.
Field notes:
There’s now a second tunnel about two feet underground, connecting to Diglett’s tunnel.
A lot of the ground has been ripped up by multiple applications of Earth Power – basically, a large part of the area where most of them have been battling is scared by three deep furrows that are devoid of grass.
Next round:
Ridous attacks first.
This round is too freakin' loooong...
