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Re: Sword and Shield Choice Pokéresistance
(Sorry for the delay! I've been unexpectedly busy these past few days. All the votes are in, though, so here we go...)
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A few more minutes of friendly arguing sees the order sorted out at last, and the first two trainers change into their uniforms and make their way into the stadium at Stow-on-Side. Brimming with excitement, the pair sends out their most trusted pokémon—Wooloo and Meowth—and take their seats in their respective spinning cups. There's a sharp blast from the ref's whistle and they're off, whirling down the slopes of the first giant table and turning their steering wheels frantically to slide through the maze of walls in their path. Spinning down to the bottom of the table and their first opponent proves no trouble at all for the two challengers, and the gym trainer at the bottom is no match for the energy and enthusiasm of (the slightly dizzy) Meowth and Wooloo.
The first leg of the mission solidly completed, the two trainers return to their cups and hurtle down the second table, even allowing themselves an exhilirated laugh as the air rushes past their faces. The laughter only stops for a moment as one of the cups snags slightly on a spot of floor the polishers seem to have missed, and Meowth's trainer is quick to correct course for one of the gym's oversized boxing glove springs. Nothing a little push—or cartoonish haymaker, whichever—can't take care of.
The cup slides down the corridor toward the spring, and Meowth and trainer brace for impact as they near their target. The spring releases with an odd twanging sound as the cup hits the glove and shoots out at an unexpected angle, slamming the cup into the corridor wall with tooth-rattling force. It triggers again almost immediately, launching the cup up and out of the narrow passage far faster than the trainer can counteract and sending the two passengers on a carreening, ricocheting course back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and smack into the cup of Wooloo and his trainer as another spring's sucker punch rockets them down instead of sideways.
The teams that clatter to the bottom of the final table are bruised, battered and barely able to stand up straight, let alone keep their thoughts and strategies straight in a gym battle. Predictably, their battles with Bea go terribly; the gym leader's G-Max machamp dispatches poor Wooloo with just a flick of her massive finger, sending him rolling right out of the arena (and doing all of nothing to help the dizziness he still suffers). The defeated challengers leave the gym with heavy heads, their vision still spinning and their ears still full of the muttering of the disappointed crowd.
There's a lengthy delay while the Stow-on-Side Stadium officials investigate what went wrong with the springs and effect repairs. The group of friends is antsy as they worry about what might've happened and about the growing distance between them and other Pokémon League competitors who've traveled well past Stow-on-Side by now. They work their way through the gym mission and battle eventually, but head for the next town quite shaken by these puzzling events.
Well. Four of them are puzzled, anyway. The last two share covert smiles when the others aren't watching, even in spite of the bumps one of them took for the team. They've got these punks rattled now. Hopefully at the next gym, they'll shake these guys off Marnie's trail for good...
(Sorry for the delay! I've been unexpectedly busy these past few days. All the votes are in, though, so here we go...)
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Mission 1, Stow-on-Side - Proposal 1 (Keldeo, Panini):
Accept: Keldeo, Butterfree, Stryke, qva, Panini, Chemist1422
Reject: N/A
Keldeo and Panini proceed to the Stow-on-Side Gym Mission!
Accept: Keldeo, Butterfree, Stryke, qva, Panini, Chemist1422
Reject: N/A
Keldeo and Panini proceed to the Stow-on-Side Gym Mission!
A few more minutes of friendly arguing sees the order sorted out at last, and the first two trainers change into their uniforms and make their way into the stadium at Stow-on-Side. Brimming with excitement, the pair sends out their most trusted pokémon—Wooloo and Meowth—and take their seats in their respective spinning cups. There's a sharp blast from the ref's whistle and they're off, whirling down the slopes of the first giant table and turning their steering wheels frantically to slide through the maze of walls in their path. Spinning down to the bottom of the table and their first opponent proves no trouble at all for the two challengers, and the gym trainer at the bottom is no match for the energy and enthusiasm of (the slightly dizzy) Meowth and Wooloo.
The first leg of the mission solidly completed, the two trainers return to their cups and hurtle down the second table, even allowing themselves an exhilirated laugh as the air rushes past their faces. The laughter only stops for a moment as one of the cups snags slightly on a spot of floor the polishers seem to have missed, and Meowth's trainer is quick to correct course for one of the gym's oversized boxing glove springs. Nothing a little push—or cartoonish haymaker, whichever—can't take care of.
The cup slides down the corridor toward the spring, and Meowth and trainer brace for impact as they near their target. The spring releases with an odd twanging sound as the cup hits the glove and shoots out at an unexpected angle, slamming the cup into the corridor wall with tooth-rattling force. It triggers again almost immediately, launching the cup up and out of the narrow passage far faster than the trainer can counteract and sending the two passengers on a carreening, ricocheting course back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and smack into the cup of Wooloo and his trainer as another spring's sucker punch rockets them down instead of sideways.
The teams that clatter to the bottom of the final table are bruised, battered and barely able to stand up straight, let alone keep their thoughts and strategies straight in a gym battle. Predictably, their battles with Bea go terribly; the gym leader's G-Max machamp dispatches poor Wooloo with just a flick of her massive finger, sending him rolling right out of the arena (and doing all of nothing to help the dizziness he still suffers). The defeated challengers leave the gym with heavy heads, their vision still spinning and their ears still full of the muttering of the disappointed crowd.
There's a lengthy delay while the Stow-on-Side Stadium officials investigate what went wrong with the springs and effect repairs. The group of friends is antsy as they worry about what might've happened and about the growing distance between them and other Pokémon League competitors who've traveled well past Stow-on-Side by now. They work their way through the gym mission and battle eventually, but head for the next town quite shaken by these puzzling events.
Well. Four of them are puzzled, anyway. The last two share covert smiles when the others aren't watching, even in spite of the bumps one of them took for the team. They've got these punks rattled now. Hopefully at the next gym, they'll shake these guys off Marnie's trail for good...
Mission 1 Results: SUCCEED, FAIL
Mission 1 has failed. Current score: Challengers 0 | Team Yell 1
Mission 1 has failed. Current score: Challengers 0 | Team Yell 1
