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Post by Robot on Oct 5, 2020 3:00:15 GMT
"Limul, you're up! Hit it low and disrupt its contact with the dragon with a Bug Bite!" The ancient shrimp trundles into the side of the crystal headfirst, smashing, clawing, and munching away. (71 Bug Physical, Crystal takes a -6 Acc Penalty for the round. Limul gains 5 DR. Genesect advances.)
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Post by DataNinja on Oct 5, 2020 3:23:43 GMT
The electric retort from the crystal goes very, very wide as Limul causes large gashes in it, but it yet continues to stand, even as everyone manages to evade the giant tendril. ...though another one comes whistling down to smash the Armaldo, giving at least a crack in the shell. Limul takes 24 damage from Power Whip, after DR.
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Post by Robot on Oct 5, 2020 3:32:43 GMT
"Limul close combat!" Beatrice hunkered low, sheets of light rippling off her body as Genesect advanced. The Armaldo destroyed the crystal in a second resounding blow, and disappeared into his Pokeball. Only a little further now. (Limul hits the crystal for 55 Fighting Physical and is recalled, Beatrice uses Light Screen, Genesect sprints again.)
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Post by DataNinja on Oct 5, 2020 3:47:52 GMT
The serpent is not looking very pleased, and as it's able to curl around even more to focus on those on its back, the crystal on its chest begins to glow. A bolt of energy shoots out, enveloping Bea and Genesect. Thankfully, their steel skins seem to have deflected the worst of the blow, and the Rayquoxys looks to need to recover a little bit, but it's still not trivial. Bea takes 34 damage from Psycho Boost. Genesect takes 29 damage from Psycho Boost.
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Post by Robot on Oct 5, 2020 13:18:48 GMT
"Bylii you're up!" Beatrice hurled another ball forward, her tail arcing to the side as Genesect barreled along, sweeping the crystal with a beam of silvery light, explosions trailing along after it. The Ribombee rounded on the stone and unleashed a shockwave of sound against it as a followup.
(52 Bug Special, 58 Steel Special, Bylii gains 5 DR)
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Post by DataNinja on Oct 5, 2020 15:45:37 GMT
It seems like the crystal's going to hold on at first... but eventually it flies apart and shatters at the combined barrage. It seems like the energy blast from their living battlefield has drained it temporarily, so nothing new immediately flies at the group.
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Post by Robot on Oct 5, 2020 15:50:59 GMT
"Just two left, just a little further..." Beatrice sweats as the trio move ahead, letting out a surprised noise as a ball of powders and dandelion fluff explodes in her face. Spitting and batting the stuff aside, she does note she feels better, and looks over at Bylii's passive smile.
(Beatrice heals to 80 Hp, her injured total, from Pollen Puff).
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Post by DataNinja on Oct 5, 2020 16:30:40 GMT
Bea feels better, and they're closing in on their last two objectives... when suddenly one of the tentacles comes smashing down on the grouping of them. Bylli, Genesect and Bea are all battered around some, but at least they're all fairly resistant to the energy wreathing things. It's slowly chipping away at people, though... Bea takes 28 damage from Power Whip. Bylli takes 25 damage from Power Whip, after DR. Genesect takes 23 damage from Power Whip.
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Post by Robot on Oct 5, 2020 17:32:52 GMT
With the blow, Genesect's chassis begins smoking and struggling to maintain an even course, Beatrice's energy was on its last dregs. "Going to tuck you away to safety for a moment, but first techno blast, targeted at the edge of the crystal."
In tandem with the rippling, concussive blast of sound, Beatrice fired another flash cannon. Her tail ached, but it wasn't much longer now... Then she could quit battling forever.
(77 Ice Special, 54 Steel Special, Genesect moves forward 9, and Bylii forward 8. Beatrice then recalls Genesect from under her, alighting on the beast below.)
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Post by DataNinja on Oct 5, 2020 18:19:46 GMT
It's almost there. Just one more. The one on the tail. Then it can all be over.
The serpent seems to detect that the end is near, too, as it gathers energy in its maw. It's probably not a good idea to line up for this, much like with the tentacles...
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Post by Robot on Oct 5, 2020 18:37:18 GMT
"Bylii spread, we have to continue forward... I will do what I can for us.". The shimmering barrier of light that Beatrice had earlier set into motion manifested, a psychic shield to protect what little vitality they had left.
(Beatrice sprints 9, Bylii sprints 12, each moving a single diagonal towards the outer edges. Light screen will be activated in response to Rayquoxys' next attack.)
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Post by DataNinja on Oct 5, 2020 19:04:32 GMT
The Rayquoxys unleashes an energy beam that completely envelops Bylli… but thanks to being on the edge of it, and Beatrice's shield, she manages to get through it remarkably unscathed. And fortunately, it seems as if the serpent might need to take some time to recover. Bylli takes 15 damage from Hyper Beam after Smite and Light Screen.
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Post by Robot on Oct 5, 2020 19:43:11 GMT
"Alright Bylii come back...". Beatrice called the Ribombee as she jetted by, the bug obediently disappearing into her ball. Beatrice looked back at the monstrous thing they were trying to save, and the earth distant below, under the clouds.
One more burst of speed ahead, releasing Genesect and Bylii in proximity to the final crystal. "Let's do it!"
(Beatrice to P217, Genesect deployed to R222 and Bylii to O223.)
A bundle of spores and pollens, and a series of magnetic explosives, the culmination of life and a technological age long forgotten struck the final crystal in tandem. (61 Bug Special, 63 Steel Physical.)
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Post by DataNinja on Oct 5, 2020 19:53:35 GMT
It seems at first like the crystal will hang on... but it shatters, at last. The flailing of the tentacles, and angry glare doesn't cease, though. It slows, at least, and the serpent seems to look around a little bit, between the ground and Bea.
Looking at her, and Rainbow - who's finally caught up - it lets out a roar, and begins gathering power in its maw again... before it turns to the ground, and fires off one beam - and then many more - towards the combatants. Sweeping over the depression in the mountains, in less than a minute... all the crystals have been shattered to dust. Both the living ones fighting the humans, and the sessile ones on the ground.
Quickly, it descends - though its riders feel almost nothing, the air completely calm around it. Giving them another glance, it gently reaches up wraps them in a tendril, before depositing them on the ground in front of the other humans, and remains peering at the lot of them.
There's a lot of silence from both sides. The serpent seems content to simply observe, while the humans are in a mixture of shock, awe, and just plain injury and exhaustion.
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Post by Robot on Oct 5, 2020 20:16:14 GMT
Beatrice spent a long several moments wobbily keeping her feet before finally giving up the ghost and dropping hard onto her rear. She hurt everywhere. She had been crushed, raked, frozen, and blasted. Lost friends, some of her ambition, and plenty of innocence and naivete along the way.
It was over.
The nightmares she had subjected herself to were finally over. Fatigue and awe were the sweeping emotions of the moment, and while it felt strange addressing something so powerful and daunting from a sitting position, her full height would not command more respect in light of scale.
"I am sorry, on behalf of my kind, for the things you have been subjected to.". Was all the girl could really manage. Words did none of it justice. Words did not do he creature justice. That it had treated her and Rainbow with a surprising gentleness was all she needed to see it meant no harm.
"We can make the world clean again now."
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Post by DataNinja on Oct 5, 2020 20:22:46 GMT
The serpent is hard to read, being fully non-human and already looking a bit like it's perpetually grinning anyways, but it reaches out with one of its claws, and runs the flat of one gently along the side of Bea's face, as though consoling her.
At least until Rainbow interrupts, smothering Bea in a deep, tight hug, just burying her face into Bea's shoulder and crying. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I dragged you into all of this. You never deserved to have to do this. The weight of the world upon you."
Around the pair, people slowly take stock of themselves and others, as they begin to gather. The ones that are left, anyways.
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Post by Robot on Oct 5, 2020 20:42:58 GMT
"Maybe not... But we managed it together Rainbow. We achieved three impossible things together. A far cry from learning life lessons from gym leaders. We can go home... The people who fought with us and pulled through can too."
Beatrice held her with all of the hope, need, and love a safe reunion merited. "That last shard just needs to be in Yellow's capable hands... And we can retire whenever and wherever we want."
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Post by DataNinja on Oct 5, 2020 20:52:49 GMT
Rainbow just cries for a little longer, before looking up and nodding. She looks up at the dragon. "I... I know that we really shouldn't be asking you for more... but would you help and take us home? Both... the people here, to Rustboro, and the rest of us to Mossdeep? Just... we need to get home safely. And quickly. To-" her voice catches. "To fix it all. We have to try."
There's a pause, and the giant head nods.
"Is that... is that okay with you, Bea?" Rainbow asks. "This way, instead of Genesect?"
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Post by Robot on Oct 5, 2020 21:03:22 GMT
"It will be a nice change from him trying to throw me off.". She laughed. "He could probably gently lean to one side and have everyone home for his size. A wonderful idea, love.". Kissing Rainbow gently, she rose to her feet, steeling herself for one more journey to heights she would not venture after this was over.
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Post by DataNinja on Oct 5, 2020 21:17:48 GMT
It takes a bit to coordinate everyone, but eventually all of the humans are loaded onto the dragon, and they begin their transit home. While all of those that Bea travelled with made it, many did not, willing to sacrifice themselves to make the world better.
Lucille just seems to spend the entire ride home crying, trying to be comforted by Amethyst. Tobias, always in the line of fire, took some rather enormously severe injuries, Moonshimmer and Thomas making sure that he makes it back, as well as just... trying to keep everyone patched up. Frederic spends the journey just staring off into the horizon, at nothing.
Nothing bothers them on the return - besides some very terrified inhabitants of Rustboro (and later Mossdeep) - and even with the layover at the western city, the group makes their way back to Mossdeep before the sun really begins to properly set.
There's certainly a lot of apprehension about the dragon just casually swirling about in the skies above, but... well, what could anyone even do about it?
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