[X] My Assistant

[FirePower]

"No, no they didn't," Ares said in response to Ogre's question. Hope hissed loudly from her place above the battle as a warning to Ogre. "Besides," the trainer said, trying to taunt the Magma defect, "Surely someone as tough as you are isn't scared of fighting two on one." The taunt sounded quiet and unconfident, as though Ares was scared was scared of Ogre and didn't want to admit it. He was plenty scared of Ogre, that was for sure, and he was more than ready to admit it, too. There wasn't much more he could do, though. Ogre, he could already tell, had pokemon that were much stronger than his own, and putting the Lairon to sleep, was probably the most he could do, as far as the battle went. He knew, however, that people couldn't think straight when they were angry. If they could send Ogre into a rage, then there was a chance he would lose his common sense and do something dumb.

Ares put a hand on Orbis's pokeball as Ogre sent out a Nidorino. Defensively, both Coco Wheelie and Orbis had a slight advantage against the poison type, but there was no telling what Ogre might do. He whipped the pokeball out of his pocket as the Nidorino kicked at the Bronzor, but he was too late. The attack hit full-force, sending the steel type flying backwards and into its trainer, who, out of instinct, grabbed tightly to his pokemon when it hit his chest. The impact knocked Ares flat onto his back and he hit his head on the pavement. For a few moments he just lay there, the world swimming around him. Then he sat up, rubbing the back of his head with one hand. Hope had glided down beside him and was carefully watching him. She seemed relieved when he sat up, smiling and jumping into his lap. The impact sent a new wave of dizziness over the trainers and he squeezed his eyes shut until the feeling faded.

"Good job Orbis. Return." Ares said, retrieving the fainted Bronzor's pokeball from the ground next to him and calling its occupant back inside. Hope hissed and got up, ready to charge the Nidorino. Ares stopped her with a hand and said, "Don't. You'll just get hurt too." The Gligar obeyed, though she still glared murderously at Ogre and his Nidorino. With a grunt Ares got up, standing next to Kanoa once more. He just stood there, though, not sending out any other pokemon.

"Sorry," Ares said to Kanoa, quietly enough so that Ogre and the recently-arrived Turbo couldn't hear. "He's too strong for me. If I keep fighting, the rest of my team will all faint before they can do anything."

[Yzarc Drowsnam]

Abraham was grateful for his decision to remain on the sidelines for the first part of the battle. Kanoa and Ares had effectively drawn out Turbo simply by being a couple of kids, which surely boosted the confidence of the brothers. However, Abraham had grown increasingly confident in his pokemons' abilities as well as his own, and even if Ares wouldn't be of much help in battle, he knew he and Kanoa, together, had a chance of taking these two on.

Gaia made her appearance to the scene of the battle, though from enough of a distance to not be affected by Toxic Spikes. The opponents had a Blitzle and a Nidorino on the field, meaning Gaia's Earthquake would be particularly effective against both of them. Of course, the biggest problem with using an attack as powerful as Earthquake meant a fair amount of collateral damage.

"Gaia, use Earthquake once Kanoa's Roselia is safe, alright?"

"Nub!" She shouted as she charged into the fray from behind.

"Kanoa!" Abraham shouted. "Get Coco off the ground again! And hold onto something!"

Once Kanoa got Coco to safety (assuming he did) Gaia held onto the ground beneath her, using her power over the earth to make it begin shaking from beneath the surface. The quake beneath everyone grew more and more powerful, tossing chunks of ground all around the area. The attack would hit everyone in the battle, with the exception of those in the air and Gaia herself.

[Kamaitachi]

Ogre attempted a taunt by talking about parents, trying to belittle them by playing down their age. Ares seemed unphased, but that was probably because he was an orphan or something like that, and didn't have parents. Kanoa opted a playful shrug in response on his end.

Then, Kanoa visibly flinched as Nidorino's solid double kick instantly took out Ares' Bronzor. He'd expected a former Magma Elite to be powerful, but he honestly hadn't expected anything like that. Turbo's sudden appearance meant their plan had worked, but Coco Wheelie took a hard hit from the quick Flame Charge. Unbeknownst to Kanoa, the hit had actually boosted the Blitzle's speed as well.

Meanwhile, Ares rose, and Kanoa moved over to him, checking for any sign of injury. He didn't quite have a medic's eyes, but it was common for him to have seen his old friends limping, or holding their arms funny. He was a skateboarder, like his old friends, and he was used to seeing them hurt themselves.

"It's okay, kiddo" Kanoa placed a protective hand on the kid's shoulder "There's some proverb about not fighting when you can't win or something like that...so...you're being wise and junk, right?"

Then Abraham's voice floated in, completely foregoing the use of callsign and the other cool stuff. True, they hadn't worked out some secret code language, so it made sense that Abraham got to the point.

"Helipop! You heard Agent Muffintop! Do it!" Kanoa wrapped his arms around Ares and dragged the boy down, essentially tackling the poor kid back down to the ground. Meanwhile, Helipop swooped in once more, scooping up his Roselia partner, impervious to her poisonous thorns.

Gaia's Earthquake ripped unchecked through the current battle area, notably drawing significant attention to the scene. Kanoa covered Ares with his body, taking the odd rock or chunk of earth in his back. The rest of his joints were notably protected by his elbow and knee pads, so he focused his attention on keeping the young boy under his charge unharmed.

Once the Earthquake subsided, rendering the match 3 on 2, Kanoa straighted up and yelled "Coco! Helipop! Strongest Combo Go!"

As he reached back down to help Ares up, Kanoa's Zubat lowered his Roselia to the ground before hovering over him. Upon the command, the two let rip their Air Cutter and Magical Leaf attacks simultaneously, hoping to finish off the enemy pokemon still standing from the Earthquake. The barrage of wind blades flew in between the flying leaf projectiles, forming a double-typed attack. However, their mastery of it lacked great precision, and some of their attacks collided, weakening the entire conflageration. Nevertheless, it still covered a wide area, making dodging difficult.

[Douken Sota]

Both of the brothers seemed to of stood back, getting ready to take on the powerful Earthquake attack before there was a sudden wave on the Blitzle before what seemed to of been a small Pokemon appeared on his head: an Abra. Glowing white, it vanished again, taking the Blitzle away with him as the Earthquake struck down the Nidorino.

"Why are you fighting these two," Jake asked, walking onto the battle scene, Blitzle and Trickster reappearing behind the enemy Pokemon. "You are taking away my study time for my next exam. If I don't pass this test, my professor will take away my scholarship."

"Sorry, kid, but they started it by trying to attack my ass while I wasn't looking," Orge comment. "Rude bastards..."

"Quite. Not only that, but they attacked in numbers. You think they are part of those criminal groups like Aqua?" A bit of banter, but how they reacted could show their true colors. Either way, they weren't backing away form combat.

Nidorino seemed very warn out from the heavy strike and wave of hits, but with Trickster's timing, Blitzle seemed uningured.

"Nidorino, use Peck."

"Blitzle, Shock Wave."

With the brother's commands out, even without designating targets, they knew what they were after. With the speed boost, the zebra lewt off a fast electridcal attack at the Zubat with defined accuracy, which gave the Nidorino a change to charge up and jump at the Roselia with a sharpened horn.

[FirePower]

Ares let out an audible "Omph!" as Kanoa tackled him. Hope hissed in warning, but then swooped into the air as the earthquake started. Ares could feel the ground shaking and hear the sound of rubble hitting the pavement. He didn't say anything, but he silently appreciated Kanoa acting as a meat shield.

Ares got up in time to see an Abra bring what he assumed to be Turbo's Blitzle to the scene of the fight. He motioned for Hope to come over to him, keeping his eye on the Abra. Turbo and Ogre were no doubt out of his league, but the small yellow pokemon didn't seem like much of a fighter. As much as he hated Magma, he figured he might as well do his job right, if he was doing it at all.

"The Abra," He whispered to Hope, trying not to catch the Abra's attention. That was all Hope needed. She glided back up into the air, slowly circling toward the Abra. When she got close enough she shot toward the Abra and grabbed at it with her large front claws. Then she jabbed at the Psi Pokemon with her tail, the tip glowing with a deeper purple than the rest of it.

Meanwhile, Ares watched the battles, a hand on Cadou's pokeball. The Sandshrew needed its exercise, and now would be a good chance as any to give it to him. He released the lazy ground type, which, unsurprisingly, tried to fall asleep at his trainer's feet.

"Oh, no you don't," Ares said, picking up the Mouse Pokemon and setting it on his shoulder. "You're fighting soon, so you need to stay awake." Cadou looked disappointed that he couldn't go back to sleep, but he perked up at the prospect of a battle. It had been a long time since his last fight, and he was rather looking forward to another one, just for kicks.

[Yzarc Drowsnam]

Abraham wasn't surprised that everyone around reacted to the Earthquake. It was such a powerful attack that even particularly strong pokemon were susceptible. Surprisingly, however, an Abra appeared from thin air and immediately teleported out, taking the Blitzle with it. An unexpected turn of events, to be sure, but Nidorino still took the full force of the attack, and its pain was visible.

Kanoa got Ares to safety, and it seemed as though all of his allied pokemon were unaffected by the Earthquake, which was good - It meant they were prepared for him to do it again. Before Abraham got a chance to issue the command, however, a third person entered the area which, in all fairness, made it 3v3, but it totally threw Abraham off course. Who was he? Was he another deserter he wasn't told about?

On second thought, it wasn't complicated at all - There was no ambiguity about this kid, at least not now - He was an enemy, and had to be defeated. He could keep using his Abra to get one of the brothers' pokemon out of the Earthquake, but that was okay. Gaia was putting all of them on the defensive, and forcing them to play the battle entirely reactively.

"Gaia, again. Use Earthquake."

And she did.

[Kamaitachi]

Hey Douken, I know it's minor, but Kanoa aimed an Air-Cutter and Magical Leaf combo at Nidorino and Blitzle, which you ignored in favour of the Earthquake. I don't blame you, the Earthquake is a bit scarier.

The advantage had quickly waned as another kid entered the scene. On the intel, Kanoa vaguely remembered Lennox saying something about Aquas. Since the kid was neither of the two brothers, it meant that he was probably the third, unnamed brother. While the impossibility of that failed to register with Kanoa, he nevertheless understood that the playing field had been evened, and that he'd have to try a little harder now.

Oddly enough, despite the fact that Abraham's Gaia was easily the heaviest hitter on the field, Ogre and Turbo decided to go after Kanoa's pokemon. He watched as the Blitzle's Shock Wave slammed his Zubat, while Nidorino's Peck landed a solid hit on his Roselia. Kanoa grimaced as another Earthquake shook the ground. He grabbed for Ares again, but tripped as the unsteady earth trembled at his feet. With a groan, the lanky teen fell to the ground, watching helplessly as his Roselia took the Earthquake blow too, dropping the little flower to the ground. Shaky to rise, Coco Wheelie didn't have much fight left in him, which meant he needed to change the odds back in their favour once more.

"C-Dubs! Helipop! Stun Spore and Confuse Ray on the Blitzle!" With that, he turned to Ares who had been attempting to keep the bothersome Abra at bay. "You doing okay, kiddo?"

Meanwhile, Kanoa's Roselia rose from the ground, blasting a cloud of green spores at the Zappy-Zebra pokemon in hopes of stunning it, which would effectively ruin its speed boost and potentially keep it from attacking as often. Simultaneously, a sinister beam shot out of the Zubat's...face...(for lack of eyes), in an attempt to confuse the enemy as well. Lennox had explained the effectiveness of a Para-Fusion combo, but Kanoa had never really bothered to try anything Lennox taught him.

Now was as good as any time to try.

[Douken Sota]

Sorry about that. its hard to translate 3 posts into a list of everything i got to worry about. I hardly remember who is out.But man that Zubat is pissing me off!

With the pair of earthquakes and pin needles, Nidorino was out for the count. Blitzle, however, only felt a bit weary form the second shaking. Trickster, getting caught by the Gligar, teleported out of the battle! Well, it was more like a block away on a bench, but plenty away from combat.

"I know I called her Trickster for a reason," Jake muttered as he looked at the two brothers. "Although that furball is being a real pain."

"That's true, but that's why I'm here. Clarmeleon, show them why!" With a chuck of a Pokeball, he let out his next Pokemon, a famous fiery lizard with the flame on his tail seemingly bigger than normal Clarmeleon, and he felt good as new. "Flame Burst!"

"Blitzle may be ill, but he isn't out. Flame Charge once more."

With a massive fireball forming in the mouth of the Charmeleon, he shot out the burst at the Swiub. Even if it hit or not, impact with whatever would cause the flame to burst (jsut like its name), sending flaming shards at the foes around him. With Blitzle stomping up another furious storm of flames around him. However, the confusion made him mistake the Zubat as the Swinub.

"Knowing her, I am sure Trickster will keep that bat busy. So, for now, I shall use Webbz." His shirt rattled a little before the small tick popped out of his shirt collar before jumping onto the battlefield. Surely, it is one of the smallest Pokemon anyone has ever seen.

This post has been edited by Douken Sota: Apr 7 2012, 11:44 PM

[FirePower]

Ares immideatley dropped to one knee to brace himself as the earthquake started. He kept one hand on the ground for balance, and with the other, he held tightly to a rolled-up Cadou. Miraculously, no rubble fell on him, aside from one chunk of concrete that cut and numbed his shoulder. As the ground stopped moving he got up, unsteady but unhurt.

"I'm fine. Just a bit shook up," Ares said, massaging the feeling back into his shoulder. The cut didn't seem that bad, long but shallow, hardly bleeding at all. "By the way, how are we going to keep Ogre and Turbo from fleeing. Even if we defeat all their pokemon, Ogre's strong and Turbo's pretty fast- at least that's what I'm led to believe- they could probably escape to a boat or something. Not to mention the Abra. It isn't like they're coming quietly." The question had been bugging him since the fight had started, and he figured now was a good a time as any to ask it. It was better than waiting until the defect were already making a run for it, anyway.

Hope looked back at her trainer as the Abra warped away, silently asking if she should follow. Ares nodded and waved her on. Even with Orbis knocked out and Hope chasing down the Abra, he still had Volgen and Cadou. Besides, as long as Hope was on the offensive against it, it would be on the defensive and unable to effectively help, leaving the two brother's pokemon without a way to escape the earthquakes.

Ares cringed as the Charmeleon blasted Abraham's Swinub ,he believed it was called Gaia, with a burst of flame. The Charmeleon seemed pretty strong, and Gaia was at an elemental disadvantage. He could have blocked the hit with Volgen, he realized a little too late, due to the Houndour's Flash Fire ability, but that would have scared the poor thing to death, and even then he probably wouldn't have been able to completely protect his co-worker's pokemon. On top of that, Volgen had just come from the pokemon center badly hurt from his last battle. He wasn't about to send the Dark Pokemon up against something as powerful as Ogre's Charmeleon.

"Cadou, use Swift on that... spider thingy," Ares said, realizing mid-sentence that he didn't know what to call the small pokemon the Abra's trainer had just sent out. The Sandshrew jumped to the ground, curled up into a ball, and began spinning rapidly in place. As he spun yellow stars formed around him and shot at their target with deadly accuracy.

[Yzarc Drowsnam]

It seemed Turbo and Ogre had wisened up to the fact that Gaia was the biggest damage dealer at the moment in time. Charmeleon changed its focus to target her, and so did Blitzle, apparently at least. But something caused it to disobeye its trainer's command, and it attacked Helipop instead. It was hard to celebrate this mistake, as Zubat was far from a durable pokemon, so the hit would still hurt significantly.

The Flame Burst hit, as Gaia was not agile enough to dodge such an attack. Abraham had a decision to make, whether or not to leave Gaia in the battle. She could still do very significant damage, but now that the enemy were all using fire attacks against her, it would bode unwell for her. It was difficult, because he didn't know how weak Charmeleon or Blitzle were. Charmeleon was new on the field, so he'd easily be able to take one Earthquake, but Gaia probably wouldn't last another round.

Chaos, his Shellder, would do well against Charmeleon, but he'd get dominated by Blitzle's lightning attacks. So, he decided, he'd allow Gaia to stay for one more round to get off one more Earthquake, which should have been able to finish off Blitzle, and weaken Charmeleon. Basically, to make way for Chaos to come in and do some damage. "Okay," he nodded. All of this went through his mind in the second after Flame Burst hit, and so all this planning changed when he saw what happened next.

The fire did hit, as previously mentioned, but Gaia began to shine. She grew to be much taller, massive tusks swooped out from her face. Everything about her was bigger - Except her little piggy nose. She had evolved into Piloswine, a notably more powerful form. Where Swinub was a relatively fragile pokemon with some strong attacks, Piloswine had the capacity to take a significant amount of punishment while dealing about 50% more damage. Abraham's heart began pounding faster. This changed his whole plan - More importantly, though, it changed his best friend. She was really big now. Still the same Gaia, though...He hoped.

"Okay." He composed himself. "Gaia! Earthquake!"

So, it didn't change his whole plan, after all. Before, he was going to make Gaia use Earthquake, take some hits and probably get knocked out. Now, she was still going to use Earthquake and take some subsequent hits, but she'd have a significant chance of remaining standing afterwards. This meant he'd be able to switch to Chaos without her even fainting...Assuming Blitzle continued messing up its Flame Charge.

[Kamaitachi]

Kanoa audibly gasped as his Zubat took the hit of the Flame Charge. With only a 25% chance of success, the Blitzle had managed to land an attack, with the confusion only causing a momentary judgment lapse. Not able to withstand that attack, Helipop dropped to the ground where he lay hopelessly unconscious. Kanoa recalled the bat to the pokeball, keeping in mind that he still had Coco Wheelie on the field. That meant Darkslide, his Skorupi, Carousel, his Petilil, and Benihana, his Shroomish, were still ready to go at the moment's notice.

Unfortunately, the Flame Blast radius proved enough to take out his battered Roselia as well. He fell to the ground with a high pitched groan, unwilling to get back up and continue on in the fight. With a sigh, Kanoa recalled him too.

In the mean time, with the disappearance of his Abra, the new kid declared his intention to use a pokemon called "Webbz."

The battle had turned into all out chaos now, with Ares rejoining the fray with a Sandshrew, and Gaia, Abraham's Swinub, growing huge and notably more ugly. Kanoa's mental facilities struggled to keep up and take in the new phase of the battle, as an entire new set of pokemon were essentially on the field.

"Darkslide, go!" Resigning himself to choosing based on instinct rather than logic, Kanoa summoned out his first pokemon, who hadn't really seen any real battle lately. "Bite the Blitzle!"

He had to take the lightning Zebra out, as it seemed that Turbo, his owner, had not lost any pokemon yet due to any means. For whatever reason, Kanoa felt that it would even the score somewhat.

Darkslide clacked his claws appreciatively at the command before tearing hungrily towards the Blitzle. As he neared though, instead of clamping down with his cute pincer mouth, he spun his entire body. Pivoting on his front legs, he whipped his entire abdomen and tail in a ferocious arc, leaving a trail of dark energy in its wake. Kanoa hadn't seen the move ever before, especially in Darkslide's repertoire, but it looked incredibly cool. A more informed trainer would've known the move as Night Slash, but a more informed trainer Kanoa was not.

[Douken Sota]

Seemed like Ares pulled out ne of the best questions out there, and got no response from his partners. Even if they won the battle, it was not like they would just quietly agree to just head on back to Magma that easily. A good thought considering that there is a good chance Ogre and Turbo were only named that for their Pokemon.

With the Charmeleon getting quickly worn out by the Earthquake and Blitzle getting knocked out, it seemed the ground type was having a major advantage, even if now the opposing Pokemon were now getting struck by their reckless teammate as well. However, the Joltik took his small body into account to jump around the shaking earth, trying to dodge the earth and stars, not being so sucessful and wearing down fast as well.

"This is pissing me off!" Ogre yelled, stomping at the floor.

"I know. This battle has no true meaning and is completely useless." Returning the Blitzle, he sent out an Accelgor on its place. "Besides, at this rate, we will never be able to help you out for your exam."

"My thoughts exactly," Jake finished, the three getting set up once more.

"Flame Burst!"

"Me First."

"Spider Web. Big enough for all three of them."

With Charmeleon's explosive fireball fired straight at the Mamoswine, the Accelgor got himself ready for whatever the mammoth had ready. Being big meant being slow, which meant being able to read what the oppoenet has planned. However, its not like itwas announced who he was Me Firsting. As for Joltik, the bug was getting ready a massive ball of webbing to blast out into the air, expanding out as a giant net. It seemed too easy for the Pokemon to dodge, but its not like its aimed at the Pokemon, now is it?

[FirePower]

Cadou yawned and looked back at his trainer tiredly. The pavement was warm beneath his paws. It was the perfect place to sleep, aside from the noise of all the fighting, but he could get over it. He yawned again and started to curl up on the ground.

No, Cadou," Ares said firmly. "This is not the time for a nap. Now, use swift again." The Sandshrew obliged, if somewhat grudgingly, and launched another volley of yellow stars at its target. He didn't notice the web as it spread out over the battlefield. He was still spinning as it descended,and he got himself hopelessly tangled up.

Ares took a step back as the spider web net expanded, but he was still recovering from Gaia's most recent earthquake and he didn't step back far enough. He found himself caught in the sticky silk as the pokemon's trainer had probably wanted. Struggling against the tangling confines of the web, his hand reached for the pokeball that held the last available member of his team.

"Volgen, burn this stuff up," He said, releasing the Houndour with a flash of light. The pokemon nodded and let out a steady stream of flame, first freeing himself before moving on to the others that were trapped. It was slow going, since he had to be careful not to burn anyone. Unlike him, they weren't fireproof.

Ares tried to stand still while Volgen worked to free him, but mentally he was kicking himself. Why had he said anything? he thought. Now they knew that, as far as Ares was informed, that they had no real plan as to making sure Ogre and Turbo went into custody. If he'd just kept quiet, maybe they would have at least been mildly concerned about being apprehended, but now he'd gone and ruined it.

"See?" He muttered rhetorically. "This is why I don't ask the questions."

[Yzarc Drowsnam]

Hey Douken, Gaia is still Piloswine, not yet a Mamoswine. Doesn't really change anything strategically, just a heads up. Also, something a little bit more strategic, remember that Abraham began the battle on the opposite side of Ogre so he's not standing next to Kanoa and Ares. Webbz could have easily covered Ares and Kanoa, but not Abraham as well.

Abraham, still on the other side of the battle, actually nearer Ogre and Turbo than Ares and Kanoa, watched as the Joltik's web engulfed his partners. Though it was unfortunate, there was nothing he could do for them at the moment without sacrificing the rest of the fight. Gaia had done substantial damage, but was on her last leg, and he wasn't going to force her to make another attack at the risk of getting knocked out.

He called her back in the wake of the commands of Ogre, Turbo and the unnamed helper, and sent out Chaos, his Shellder, whom he knew could stand a chance against the evidently powerful Charmeleon, though the addition of Accelgor did make him nervous. As one of the fastest pokemon in existence, it was entirely possible that Turbo had some tricks up his sleeves.

As their pokemon used their attacks, it was clear that, indeed, Turbo did have a strategy. "Me First" was a particularly strategic move which used the target's attack against them, before they could even use it. Of course, it did nothing against Piloswine or Shellder, as neither of them had been given commands yet. Charmeleon's attack, Flame Burst, was no surprise. Though Chaos' Special Defense was extremely lackluster, he had a strong resistance to Fire (which he would not retain in evolution, but for now it was there) so the attack didn't do too much damage.

"Chaos," Abraham nodded as a new round of combat began. Ares' Houndour was beginning to set him and Kanoa free, which would hopefully be fast enough for them to be ready to chase these guys down should they run (assuming, of course, they won the battle. At this point, it really did feel like Abraham was soloing Turbo and Ogre). "Use Rock Blast on the Accelgor!"

Rock Blast would attack five times due to Chaos' ability, Skill Link. It would do heavy damage to the bug type, Accelgor, whose defenses were notably weak in and of themselves. Shellder was a slow pokemon, though, and both Charmeleon and Accelgor would be able to strike before the Rock Blast was successful. He needed help.

"Kanoa, get Darkslide to focus Charmeleon!" Though Shellder resisted Charmeleon's strongest attack, it still hurt more than anything Abraham suspected Accelgor could muster. Charmeleon was the biggest threat, but it had taken so much damage from Gaia, that he figured Darkslide had a chance of finishing him off.

[Kamaitachi]

Kanoa emitted something crossed between a gurgle and a yelp as the Spider Web wrapped him and Ares up tightly. The duo felt to the ground from the impact, and Ares' struggling only served to tighten the constricted, sticky strings.

Confused as to how to escape this new predicament, Kanoa attempted a few vain struggles on his own before giving up. Luckily, the more level-headed Ares summoned Voot Dawg, ordering him to burn up the web. With the slow going, Kanoa contented himself to laying on the ground for a moment, actually taking the time to enjoy the brief reprieve.

At Ares' remark, Kanoa grinned and responded:

"Shoot first, ask questions later. Then we drink." he paused for a moment. "Then I drink" he amended with a semi-repentant shrug.

The screech of his terrified Pokemon receiving a bit of fire snapped him back to the reality of the situation, allowing Kanoa to detached from his constant inner monologue.

An order sounded across the field from Abraham, which sounded quite feasible to the grounded Kanoa. Craning his neck a bit for a better view, he yelled: "Roger that Agent Muffinman! Darkslide! Use that super cool slashy move on the Charmeleon!"

Darkslide, still reeling from the flame, found a moment in which to roll his eyes at his trainer's cluelessness. Clacking his claws and hissing, he charged the much larger fire pokemon despite the clear disadvantage and viciously slashed with his tail.

Meanwhile, Kanoa had no idea what 'Me First' was, so he had no idea as to its effects.

While Darkslide launched his attack, Kanoa wriggled a hand to his belt, drawing out another pokeball. After a moment of finagling, he managed to deposit the pokeball outside of the Spider Web, nudging the center dot to release the pokemon within. In a bright shower of what appeared to be sparkles, a Petilil appeared, smiling at her trainer happily with a soft trill.

The appearance of Carousel, the Petilil, had been a bit more flashy than he'd expected, still not used to her 'shiny' status, but nevertheless, he'd added another combatant to the field. Sure, the rules probably stated one each, but Kanoa had a constant distaste for rules, and chose to ignore them entirely, just as his opponents had.

"Carousel, Leech Seed on...Al Gore over there." He jerked his head to indicate Ogre, hoping that the little Bulb pokemon would catch on. With a happy chirp, Carousel hopped towards the battlefield. Once she was content with her position, she turned and fired off a little leech seed bullet, aimed at...Turbo? Evidently she hadn't quite caught on to Kanoa's head-jerky indications, and had chosen an entirely incorrect target. On the plus side, she hadn't singled out an ally.

[FirePower]

((Bunnying of Trickster done with permission (I think)))

Ares allowed himself to relax slightly as Volgen burned the last of the spider web off of him. The Houndour walked toward Kanoa, leading with a stream of fire. Ares started to second-guess the wisdom of having Volgen Burn away all of the webbing. The Houndour had just recently recovered from his last battle, and using Ember so much would have taken a lot of energy out of even the healthiest pokemon at The pokemon's level of power. The Houndour wasn't looking so hot, panting tiredly as he made his way over to Kanoa. At the moment, though, Ares couldn't think of any better way to get rid of the web, so he let Volgen cotinue with his tiring task.

Meanwhile, Hope was continuing to chase after the Abra. She wondered how Ares and the others were doing. Not knowing what was happening worried her. Chasing the Abra was also boring and repetitive, not to mention frustrating. All in all, she was becoming grumpy and impatient.

"Time for plan B," she muttered to herself. "Charge and scream like a maniac." Catching an updraft, she flew high above her target before diving nearly straight down, uttering her best battle-cry and she allowed toxisn to seep into the tip of her tail. How she caught the Abra she didn't know, but she jabbed at it furiously once she did. She refused to let her grip weaken once she had it, for fear her foe would teleport away if she did.

Finally, she allowed herself to let go of the Abra, Satisfied that she'd done her work well enough. Catchign and defeating the Abra had exausted her, and for the moment, she didn't really care what happened to it. She had to get back to Ares. She could hear the sounds of a battle nearby, and she thought she saw the back of Abraham's head not far ahead. She glided up above the fight, recognizing Ares among the trainers. Looking over at the brothers, she noticed that, while they had sucessfully subued one of the brothers, the other one was still able to flee. She smiled cruely as she got an idea to finnish off Ogre.

Ares, unaware of his pokemon's nearby presence, simply stood in the midst of the battle, feeling rather helpless. Hope was off chasing the Abra, Volgen was already busy and quickly tiring, and Cadou was trapped under the webbing.

Ares started as the realization struck him. Why hadn't he thought of it before? He'd had Cadou's pokeball with him the whole time, and he could have easily returned the Sandshrew and then re-released it away from the webbing. He proceeded to do just that, annoyed that the obvious hadn't come to him sooner. Upon being freed from the sticky webbing, Cadou went out of his way - and he rarley went out of his way to do anything - to glare at his trainer, as if to say about time.

"Cadou-" Ares said, not yet sure what he was going to do. Before he could go farther, he was interupted by a loud yell, and Hope came diving from the cloud, aimed for Ogre's face. Her claws were out and open to grab at the Magma defect, and her tail glowed purple and dripped with toxins. Ares, for once, felt sorry for the brother; Hope's poison, while he didn't think was lethal, would most likley be uncomfortable to say the least as most poison was, and on top of that was the matter of being stabbed in the face. Ares was glad he wasn't in Ogre's place.

This post has been edited by FirePower: Jun 28 2012, 09:25 PM

[Kamaitachi]

The Rock Blast from "Chaos" slammed into the Accelgor. The ninja like pokemon evidently had a great aversion to rocks, and dropped to the ground. It wasn't out yet, though, as it slowly rose back up, staring defiantly at the bivalve pokemon that had struck it.

As Darkslide rushed the Charmeleon, despite the obvious differences in strength, size and type, his route was suddenly cut off by his fellow bug pokemon. The Accelgor lashed out with one of its arms, sending the same streak of dark energy out. The Skorupii shrieked and fell back several feet, reeling from the effects of his own attack being used against him.

"Huh, looks like Ninja bug can use 'Super cool dark slashy slash' too." Kanoa mused out loud, taking an opportune moment to stroke his chin stubble, despite his being trapped under a spider web.

Within moments, however, the net had opened up, allowing Kanoa passage, and he stood back up, helping his comrade, Ares, back to his feet in turn.

Adopting a cool pose, for the sake of morale, Kanoa swept his eyes across the battlefield in a vain attempt to analyze the situation. Unfortunately, Kanoa didn't possess the quick thinking to completely grasp the situation. Everything around him just seemed like a hot mess, and he wasn't able to grasp anything of it.

That is, until Turbo fell over from Carousel's Leech Seed, and Ogre toppled to the ground, a victorious looking Hope crowing nearby. The two targets had been subdued, which just meant that the random Aqua kid was their only real remaining opponent.

With the leech seed sapping his strength, Turbo couldn't muster the strenght to issue commands to his Accelgor, who appeared uncertain as to how to tackle the situation at hand.

On the other hand, Ogre's Charmeleon blasted into an upset rage, starting to shoot out explosive spheres of flame at any target that wasn't his master. The first hit Darkslide, instantly rendering the Skorpion pokemon unconscious. Nearby, Carousel trilled in pain as flakes of the fire landed on her, causing her great discomfort. The next Flame Burst struck Accelgor, who after receiving five rock blast hits, could stand it no longer and toppled, unconscious.

Kanoa recalled his friend to the pokeball, which left him with Benihana and Carousel, both of whom were horrendously weak to Charmeleon's flames, and the latter of which was already on the field.

"Carousel" Kanoa nodded "Sleep Powder."

As the Charmeleon began to charge towards the little bulb pokemon, fire brimming from the seams in his mouth, the Petilil hopped boldly forward, firmly planting herself. As the Charmeleon opened his mouth to roar and strike simultaneously, he was met with a faceful of Pink powder.

The powerful lizard stopped dead in his tracks, the fire disappating in a puff of smoke from his mouth. He stared, confused, at Carousel for a moment before toppling over, asleep.

"Lennox. Exfil confirmed, three blocks west of 9th and Bridge."

Kanoa turned, a triumphant grin on his face.

"Hey Four-Eyes" He crowed, pointing to the kid who had joined up with Ogre and Turbo "Better get out of here before reinforcements show up."

Kanoa stopped for a moment, blinking. He hadn't meant to sound so thuggish. He'd gotten used to playing the bad-guy for a bit now, so it came easily. Yet, this hadn't been a conscious choice to gloat over eliminating two enemies who had, just the day before, still been registered comrades.

"So...yeah. Run before I change my mind."

He looked to Ares and Abraham questioningly, as if he wasn't sure how to continue with the mission, despite the fact that it was over. A part of him begged to simply take out the boy in front of them and complete the mission, while the rest of him resisted wholeheartedly: Jake wasn't a target in the mission, therefore it was complete. He looked down at Carousel, who blinked questioningly back up at him, waiting for a decision.

Kanoa simply dropped to his haunches, resting his elbows on his knees and head in his hands, feeling the surge of a powerful headache.

"Hangman, Muffinman, keep an eye on Ogre and Turbo until exfil arrives." he muttered to Ares, next to him. "I need a moment."

[Douken Sota]

Jake took a step forward, not ready to accept the loss as it was. being his first mission, he couldn't really let that go. However, his earwig rang at him from the watcher. "Its no use. Three on one isn't god sign and it sounds like they got reinforcements coming now. Best retreat." Jake let off a low growl before returning his small tick. As a sign of good timing, Trickster seemed to of appeared on his shoulder.

"Trickster, let's get out with this guys." It was a last ditch escape plan, but it could be possible to Teleport away with everyone. And Teleport they did, but only with Jake. With the Gligar bugging her, she couldn't muster the strength to transfer more than on being (other than herself). The poison would of made it worse if that had any effect on her as well. At least the tower where Jake was receiving his calls was a safe spot.

"Seems like an unsuccessful mission. I knew using this as a test boat was a stupid idea," his guide muttered next to him. "Come on Jake, it just shows you need a lot more training." With a sigh, Jake followed up, leaving the top of the tower back to HQ.

[Yzarc Drowsnam]

With his allies free from the web and the battle seemingly over, Abraham called back Chaos into its ball. All three of his pokemon made it through the encounter without sustaining any serious injuries, and so he was pleased. Tartarus, Abraham's Elekid, didn't get any play in the fight, which was somewhat unfortunate considering his love of battle, but Abraham was happy.

He summoned Tartarus, who was still fresh, just in case Turbo or Ogre tried to make some sort of move. Elekid's potent electricity had a chance to paralyze targeted pokemon, but against a human? Pokemon had evolved, almost specifically, to take hits from one another. Even the smallest thundershock on a human would leave them out for a lengthy amount of time.

"You two should sit down," Abraham said, approaching the two trainers calmly. "Tartarus here's pretty upset he didn't get to use his electricity yet." Tartarus, standing at Abraham's side, was winding his arms very quickly in a circular motion, pumping up the electricity within his own body, and preparing for a powerful strike. "He'd love a reason, and I'll be honest, I'd love to give the command."

He then approached Kanoa, whose last ditch efforts proved very effective, leaving Tartarus to guard Ogre and Turbo. "You did good, Kanoa. Those were good calls. You should have Coco surround these guys with Toxic spikes, though, just in case they try something. Then, we can relax."

[Kamaitachi]

Kanoa shakily stood up as Abraham approached. While it felt nice to hear that he'd done a good job, Kanoa couldn't quite figure out whether or not if he'd done the 'right' job.

On the one hand, he'd fulfilled his mission. But, he didn't know exactly why the brothers had been fleeing Magma. He didn't even really know what Magma stood for, except that a majority of the population in Noverus seemed to dislike them. The guy from Shady Acres, and the girl from the Beach Resort had both openly and bravely opposed them. He'd occasionally joked about being the bad guy...but now he was pretty sure that he actually WAS the bad guy.

"Thanks Honest Abe." Kanoa offered a weak smile at his fellow agent. "Coco's pretty unconscious though...I don't think he could even muster those up right now."

It proved unnecessary, as a loud rumbling heralded the arrival of a Magma vehicle. A feared Armoured Personnel Carrier rolled into view down the street, with what appeared to be a motorcycle in front of it. Both vehicles had been painted in the traditional Magma Red, indicating that the ex-fil had arrived.

Before long, the APC had trundled up beside the area of operations. The two grunts seated in the front stepped out, saluting to Kanoa.

"Oh...guess I outrank them." Kanoa blinked, looking to Abraham and Ares. "Go for it, guys." He indicated the two incapacitated brothers, who were quickly scooped up by the Magma Peons.

Kanoa watched silently as both brothers were dragged by; their eyes glared weakly at him, covered with a mixture of defeat and hatred. Not remembering a time when he'd seen such emotions embroiled together, Kanoa couldn't help but look away awkwardly each time.

"Well..." he sighed as the convoy rolled back out of sight, leaving Ares, Abraham and Kanoa alone out in the middle of the street. The latter stared out after the receding vehicles, his normally cheerful attitude rendered sullen by the victory. "That's that."