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Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 11:39 am
Picking up and waving around his new chunk of crystal, it didn't take long to realized that....this was a real boring tunnel that was just a normal tunnel. Except for maybe the continued presence of the strange crystals that continued to exist in the cavern walls to provide some extra lighting alongside his own personal torch. Looking over to Harleen on his shoulder, Reno would give a shrug to his partner at the continuing lack of anything here. "Stupid omniscience. Can't come back to be useful for finding a way out..." He muttered, completely missing the first small metallic clang. Absent-mindedly waving around the crystal, he was beginning to get even more curious about where Barbara had gone. There was one tunnel that they had been able to locate and it didn't appear to have any major signs of another person traversing it.
The second noise that made Aile respond, that one Reno did hear. And he was immediately giving a more concentrated effort to see if he could pick up any nearby minds. And, much like every other time he had half heartedly tried it to see if he could locate their opponent, he found the minds of the people and Pokemon he could see and that's it. And as each louder clang sounded off, another attempt to locate a mind would be tried.
Even as he could tell that this noise was coming towards them and wasn't just a noise from something falling or a tool on a wall, the utter lack of any mind to readily detect. "Not sure what it is, but I'm picking up nothing." Reno admitted, slowly drifting his hand towards his pockets as he looked between his two Pokemon he had out. He would stop before he could draw out another Pokeball. Continuing to crowd up the small tunnel wouldn't exactly be a help before they saw exactly what it was that was coming.
And then a beep from hell erupted and Reno only managed to dive to his right enough to leave his left arm as a cutting target. Yelping as he watched the limb get cut, it would take another second for Reno to remember that he didn't care to react that quickly when the slime arm immediately reconstructed itself. Pivoting to look towards their opponent, Reno would find himself once again staring at a thing from that 'goofy' magazine he had been reading for fun. Except this one was traceable to the Violet Book instead of the Scarlet one. Maybe he needed to make GRAY put anything out of those two books into their database as a 'possibly real' entry.
"Magazine calls it Iron Valiant! Supposed to be very cruel, cuts without hesitation!" Reno shouted, Harleen springing towards the Moonblast off of Reno's shoulder with a Mirror Coat at the ready. And while the attack was deflected, the rebound was aimed at the cavern walls beyond the strange robot due to how quick the response had to be. With the others already attacking, Reno would take a second to remember what else the article said. Looked like Gallade and Gardevoir, duh. Made by mad scientist, not helpful. Effort to create most powerful Psychic Pokemon. That meant the Gallade and Gardevoir thing was probably intentional for that. But before Reno jumped on that, the continued lack of a mind or other mental sensation from the thing dragged him back to a specific word of the article. Effort. Not success.
It was potentially Steel, but it probably had another type from Gardevoir or Gallade. And with his current Pokemon, he could only test for one of the two. "Aleister, hit it with Psychic!" Reno commanded, watching as a blast of pink psionic energy shot across the tunnels towards the strange automaton from his Reuniclus. He would already be digging into his pocket, prepared to get out another Pokemon if this particular test didn't pan out.
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Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 4:45 pm
Aile moved first, releasing her bear, the ursine immediately rushing towards it. In that same moment the strange robotic Pokemon would begin to act, its eyes glowing purple as it watched the bear come towards it and now a stream of fire and a blast of Psychic energy. With less than a second away from the Fire and Psychic moves making contact the 'Iron Valiant' would dissolve into shadows on the cave floor, these shadows pooling together and then gliding across the ground towards the Snagems, their moves missing and Dagobah passing over it. The paradoxical Pokemon in its shadowy form would pass under their feet and re-solidify behind Sol before any of them knew what happened, its speed impressive as it utilized Shadow Sneak. Now behind Sol the Iron Valiant would not waste time on conjuring up the energy now another move and instead grabbed a hold of Sol's arm with both hands, yanked it behind the hybrid, and with one swift motion snapped his lower arm.
With Sol no doubt reeling from having his arm broken the Pokemon would conjure up its pink double sided blade again and after raising it up in the air would attempt to plunge the weapon into Sol, aiming to go in through his back, an attempted execution. A familiar situation with Sol endangered again, but this time certain death was on the line for the hybrid and while the Ho-oh hybrid possessed the ability to resurrect there were limitations to that and now was not the time to take such gambles. Plus morally they couldn't just stand here and watch their friend get executed.
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 1:12 pm
As the robot vanished into the shadows of the cavern floor, Reno would already be pressing the button on one of his Pokeballs. Pivoting to try and keep an eye on where the thing would end up, the odd and yet familiar sensation of the world staring to render itself in probabilities and calculations would settle in as the Metagross appeared. No chance to stop what was coming for Sol's arm, barely had time to see the thing grab onto Sol's limb. However, he would see Iron Valiant's next motion as it drew back for the attempted execution strike. "Bullet Punch. Sol's right shoulder." Reno commanded Phemes, already firing off his left arm towards the cavern floor to Sol's left side.
The slime would splat onto the ground temporarily before firing itself towards the Ho-Oh hybrid and latching onto his body. Giving a harsh yank to force him out of the way, Sol would just clear before a massive metal fist came flying through the space at incredible speeds to slam into the Pokemon and force the attempted stabbing to stop before anything worse could happen. Aleister and Harleen would be just recovering as this went down, turning towards where their opponent had managed to disappear to and preparing to respond to what might happen next.
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 7:39 pm
Aile’s eyes widened as she watched the Iron Valiant vanish into the shadows, leaving Dega to take the brunt of the two attacks aimed at the strange, vicious robot previously. As she rushed to check in on her bear, though, Aile would watch as the robot reappeared behind Sol and immediately broke his arm. “s**t!” A different Pokéball would show up in her hand, one of the Ultra Balls. “Sandy Shocks, you awake enough to hunt some more metal! There’s some right here for ya!” Throwing out the Ultra Ball, she’d hope that the strange Magneton would be awake now, and willing to help out somehow.
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 10:22 pm
"Are we really using Occulture as a Pokedex now!?" Sol asked at Reno's new set of remarks, finding the idea of calling something noted for cruelty "valiant" incredibly ironic at best. But 'no hesitastion' certainly tracked with how they attacked, and at the fact they seemingly vanished when the attacks should've hit. But instead, nothing was there, and the hybrid didn't pick up on the Shadow Sneak to reposition until he got the briefest glimpse from behind the corner of his eye as they reformed. "Qué-"
His quick mutter was all he'd get before the robotic assailant grabbed his right arm to forcibly disarm him, immediately upgrading that to literally disarming him when they yanked it behind him and twisted it to snap his elbow into pieces. A scream echoed once the snap came, forced to the ground again when another display of just how 'valiant' this foe was came and he was thrown down for the execution to come. Reeling like he was, there was no way he'd be able to move and an easy save with Ally Switch probably wasn't in the cards this time. He wouldn't have faulted Reno if the call for Bullet Punch was an attempt at taking the upper arm too in the name of using the force to send him away from the impact, but what he'd feel was less hard and more... slimy? Whatever the case, he'd feel a harsh tug trying to pull him away from the punch and Iron Valiant's attempts to run their blade through, followed by Aile bringing out Sandy Shocks in a bid that they'd be happy and able to magnetize another metal thing.
Calida would have a very cool, calm and collected response by giving out a shocked cry and freaking the hell out, the Quilava very clearly panicking as she fired off a Swift attack to pelt the thing trying to kill her trainer and draw attention away from him. "Quilquilquilquilquilquil!"
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2025 4:37 pm
Reno's little feat would prove successful as Sol was pulled down and out of the way of the incoming Bullet Punch, the disembodied Metagross arm slamming into the chest of the strange Pokemon causing it to stumble backwards due to the sheer force of the attack. The follow up of Swift would cause it to lose its grip and concentration on its weapon, thus fully preventing it from delivering its killing blow as its energy weapon disappeared into nothingness.
While the blow did do some damage to the Iron Valiant, by the looks of the dent left behind, it didn't give traditional signs of pain or anything of the sort, no doubt due to its artificial nature. Instead it went about correcting its footing and scanned over the foes before it, considering its options before making a move. However in that same moment Sandy Shocks appeared, the Iron Valiant making a surprised 'beep' sound as its head swiveled to an eerie extent to lock its eyes on the opposing Paradox Pokemon.
"Bzzt!" Sandy Shocks cried out as it appeared, also immediately taking notice of the Iron Valiant, letting out several peculiar buzzes in response as it too became hyper focused on the other Paradox Pokemon. For a very long couple of seconds nothing happened, the two strange Pokemon just stood there locking eyes with one another, the tension building up in the air, the Snagems no doubt sensing something was about to happen but what exactly they couldn't even begin to fathom. After all, these were not Pokemon like they understood Pokemon to be, they were something different, maybe more like Ultra Beasts.
Sandy Shocks would make the first move as it began to crackle with electricity, charging up power for an attack but in the mean time summoning forth all metal objects around it with magnetism, which yes, again included Pokeballs. If the Snagems paid attention they might notice its tell before doing this, having done it prior above. It looked upon Iron Valiant with its three greedy eyes, no doubt desiring to add its metallic being to its collection like a greedy dragon.
Unfortunately while it looked like the Iron Valiant was made a metal, felt like it was made of metal, and its body kind of behaved like metal but one thing it was not was magnetic. The Iron Valiant saw its moment to attack, for whatever reason no longer caring about the Snagems and instead wanted to put down Sandy Shocks. Iron Valiant would lunge towards the opposing Paradox Pokemon, conjuring up its double bladed spear again in midair, this time in the color green. Once it landed in front of Sandy Shocks it would slash with its weapon, delivering a clean cut across the body of two of the orbs, leaving behind a wound of green as it executed a Leaf Blade. Immediately Sandy Shocks would let out a pained cry and erratically stumble backwards and away, losing control over its stored electricity like before but this time in the form of a Electric Terrain, harmless electricity exploding out from its body and washing over the ground beneath them where it would visually remain for the time being.
As Sandy Shocks fell at Aile's feet, taking its time to right itself after that Super Effective move, the Iron Valiant just stood there, looking at the electric bolts dancing on the ground with curiosity. Good, the Electric Terrain grabbed its attention, it had dropped its guard, if they were going to deliver a powerful blow now was their chance.
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Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 4:50 am
Though Sol had the good luck to be saved twice now, his broken arm wasn't doing him any favors especially as it dragged along with being pulled away like he was. He'd surely have to address it later, when there was enough time and safety to afford the far faster way to 'mend' a broken limb. For now, he'd have to deal with it, pain and all. Yet again he'd watch (and feel) the Pokeballs he'd managed to get back onto his belt find their way off again, alongside his sword going back to Sandy Shocks' magnets. But that'd be fine, he could work with that. That wasn't the problem right now.
What was a problem was that the seemingly robotic Pokemon, the thing that looked and sounded to be made of metal and motors and loads of mechanical things, didn't budge. Whoever at Occulture decided on the name 'Iron Valiant' for this thing, assuming they didn't just see some weird art someone did and decided to make a sensationalist piece over it, was surely out of a job or would be soon. There wasn't anything iron or valiant about this thing at all! Just speed, efficiency, and metal that refused to be magnetized. And apparently, distracted as electricity danced along the grounds and everything else lost what magnetism it had.
"Thanks again," Sol remarked, the pain in his tone all too apparent as he tried to get himself to something other than prone on the ground with his non-snapped arm. He certainly wasn't in a position to capitalize on the opening, but thankfully, he wasn't alone. "Clearly someone's a fan of irony. Calida, I need you to calm yourself and make another distraction, something to let Aile and Reno get in somehow. Can you do that?"
His Quilava wouldn't give much of a response, too much in a panic still as she stared at what was seconds away from driving a blade through her trainer. And though he was fine, the weird Magneton clearly wasn't and she couldn't help fearing if she was next. The electricity on the ground caught her off-guard with a startled squeak instead, smoke billowing outward to give herself some way to hide. There was a weird sort of fortune that it happened to be what Sol had in mind, but the calming herself part fell on deaf ears.
"...close enough," he remarked to himself, grunting as he tried to shift his weight and get to his feet again. Broken arm or not, he still intended to fight and try to treat the injury as a flesh wound for now. A very painful flesh wound.
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Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 9:43 pm
Aile let out a small sigh of relief as Sol wasn’t brought low in front of her, noting that Sandy Shocks was apparently quite the distraction. Enough that the two began to face off, actually. There was a small twinge of annoyance as she lost her Pokéballs again in the Magnetic Flux, but at least Dega was out well before that happened. She’d look around at everyone once Sandy Shocks fell, her gaze falling onto Dega once she saw the Iron Valiant stall out, looking at the ground that was now electrified. “Dega, Stomping Tantrum,” she’d quietly tell her giant bog bear. Hopefully it couldn’t hear her. Once the bear began to charge, she’d turn her attention to the fallen metalhead Magneton. “Sandy Shocks, one attack couldn’t have gotten you down for the count already! Come on, can you get up?” Hopefully her words would get through, but she was trying to think through some sort of back up plan in case Sandy was indeed out for the count already. They needed to pull from the fight, and fairly fast. If this thing would even let them. It was fast enough that now that it caught up with them, it was going to be hard to get away and go the other way. Unless... "Sandy, if you can do anything, somehow mess with its legs! We need to deal with that mobility!"
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 2:59 pm
It had only taken a second after Iron Valiant's vision adjusted for Reno to see Aile's newest acquisition had been unleashed. And if what happened before they ended up in the cave was any hint, it was time to be prepared. Recalling the slime from his grab for Sol, he would quickly coat his prosthetic and pockets with the substance to hold all of the metal bits in place. And all the while, his eyes were on Iron Valiant as he saw the Pokemon immediately size up and change focus from Sol to the Sandy Shocks. Apparently, it knew enough to dictate itself on fight focus by pure threat assessment and this was evidently a sign that Sol ranked below strange Magneton in the hierarchy of weird robot threats. Either way, it was time to take advantage of this as he slowly slid into position behind the Iron Valiant alongside Phemes. All they had to do was wait for it to draw in the robot using magnetism, ride the waves themselves, and take it out before it tried anything else.
However, while Reno and the Metagross would allow themselves to be snatched up by the magnetic pull and send themselves flying towards Iron Valiant, the robot was....stock still. Because, apparently, it wasn't ferrous. Either way, while it was getting its slash off on Snady Shocks, a massive metallic claw would come streaking towards the strange Pokemon with a Meteor Mash while Reno similarly had a fist pumped full of Psychic energy ready to slam straight into the thing as well. And as they drew close, Sandy Shocks' Electric Terrain would go off and draw the thing's attention to the ground as the two physical fighters came flying in to slam their attacks home.
But why would it care so much? As much as he was committing to the attack, there was enough forethought to have his Reuniclus hanging back still. But hopefully it was just a random bit of happenstance. Hopefully. But after earlier today, the small odds were not being ignored.
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 3:42 pm
Quilava would conjure up a Smokescreen which would quickly engulf the surrounding area, both Sandy Shocks and Iron Valiant seemingly unbothered by the smoke, at least as far as breathing went, provided either of them actually breathed like they do. What it did though was make it difficult for either of them to see and with Iron Valiant already distracted it provided even more of an opening for the other two to do something.
With the creature distracted it didn't see the Pokemon and trainer pair flying at it from behind, the Paradox Pokemon taking a double punch to the back. Due to the Super Effective force one of the attacks and how it was already kind of kneeling over the Iron Valiant was sent rolling forward, tumbling across the ground. However it was quick to save itself as it recovered in the middle of the roll, now kneeling and its eyes locked onto Reno as its head turned completely around at a hundred and eighty degrees, deciding it had a new target. Creating a blade of purple energy the Iron Valiant prepared to lunge at Reno only to suddenly find it couldn't move, looking down to notice iron sand around its feet, holding it to the ground. Sandy Shocks came in clutch, only pretending to be laying prone on the ground and helpless.
Before it could do anything further about its situation a certain bear came charging out of the smoke from in front of it (with head in the completely opposite direction) and rammed directly into the strange Gallade and Gardevoir fusion, trampling over it. Now sprawled out on the ground, dirty and banged up, the Iron Valiant would stay there motionless for a good few seconds, the electricity dancing across the ground and overs its body. Only Reno was close enough to see it in the smoke and of course knew better than to assume this was it, something that would be quickly confirmed for the Psychic Channeler.
With a chilling robot cry the Iron Valiant would leap off the ground by using all four limbs, its head still twisted around and its 'skirt' pointing upwards towards head. Its speed suddenly and profoundly greater than anything it showed before as it moved like a blur. The robotic creation would pounce on Reno, using the skirt as a way to corral him in as it spread out and engulfed the man while its arms bent at a seemingly impossible angle to grab Reno by the shoulders and slam him to the ground, the sharp ends of the 'skirt' then stabbing into the ground. Now face-to-face with the alien contraption, of which the Iron Valiant's face was upside down, the pixels that were its eyes would begin to flash in a rhythmic pattern as it cast a powerful Hypnosis upon Reno, attempting to lull him into a suggestive state and instill its own programming instructions into Reno and that was one thing and one thing only; kill.
Once it was pleased that it broke into Reno's 'code' it would quickly lurch back up straight with Reno still in its grip and in one swift motion toss the Channeler overs its head and towards Aile and Dega, the man now on a collision course with the bear. With Reno thrown the defiant murder bot would let out a booming foghorn-like sound as it unleashed a Vacuum Wave from its body by the force of its energy alone, the wave sweeping across the tunnel and not only delivering an invisible 'punch' to its foes but also dispelling the Smokescreen.
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 10:41 pm
Retaliation had been expected from the Iron Valiant, especially after the dual heavy impacts from both Reno and Phemes. However, Reno didn't anticipate that he would rank above the giant psionic destroyer for threats to the robot's life. But that was easy enough to recalibrate his currently predictive brain to work with. The real problem was the thing suddenly moving like lightning in a way that Reno could only justify as some sort of Surge Surfer situation. A conclusion for adapting his strategy that came a little too late for reacting in any beneficial way to the robot pouncing on him and driving him to the floor like a Liepard on its prey. The skirt coming down like an iron wall and leaving it just as him and the now exceptionally close Iron Valiant. And the strange patterns flashing across his eyes, Computational Aide translating the strange pattern way more effectively than even his passive vision for the Hypnosis would've done. So it was very quickly Reno beginning to interpret the kill command and already beginning to think through exactly what he would need to do to kill everything within this small, confined tunnel when he was hurled across the room straight into the body of the Ursaluna.
Bouncing in the air slightly, the Vaccum Wave would hit next and send him crashing fully into the wall behind Aile and Dega. Not that it would put much of a stop into Reno's motions, the scrapes and bruises visibly healing back to regular skin as he rose up to stare towards Aile. While it was only a second, Reno was quickly running through the calculations of what the most efficient approach here would be. And it was an easy conclusion: utilize the energy that his unceremonious removal from Iron Valiant's area provided him to fire a concentrated beam through Aile's chest. Take care to aim for her right side, make the sand have farther to travel if its going to intercept the attack. And then focus on providing Phemes this programming alongside an extra boost, allow the Steel type to establish herself very clearly by eliminating the person nearest to her: Sol. Glancing to the Key Stone that sat hanging alongside his Channeling Artifact, he would line up his hand for his chosen target and begin to allow the well of energy build as his mind focused towards the Metagross.
For optimum execution, he had to wait for the Mega Evolution to finish. It would both serve as distraction for his attack and give enough vulnerability with the sudden change to make sure Phemes was operating on the same wavelength. A corona of rainbow energy would engulf the Metagross as the Mega Stone that sat tucked away on her body burst into life, the energy growing so dense it almost appeared like there were two Metagrosses there instead of one for a moment before they began to combine, arms bursting place that aimed in both directions for the assault it was about to commit. Keeping his left arm trained on Aile, Reno knew the moment had come as the glow began to die down and a distinctly golden X came into view. And that was his moment, mind pouncing to attempt to make sure Phemes came to his point of view as he felt the gathered energy reach its peak.
And Rome, left arm collapsing into nothing but viscous liquid and the energy built up in it dissipating harmlessly, would shout, "Phemes! Meteor Mash! Aleister! Flash Cannon to daze its vision!" The words would barely pass Rome's lips before a dazzling beam of silver energy lanced across the cavern to attempt to dazzle and possibly wound Iron Valiant from the Reuniclus.The now-freshly Mega Evolved Metagross would immediately oblige as well, a quartet of silver glowing limbs coming in from all directions as the Mega Pokemon aimed to smash the strange Pokemon to pieces.
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 7:29 pm
Aile coughed as the Smokescreen came through, covering her nose and mouth with her arm. “Arceus…” The sound of paws and claws trampling over something other than rock and dirt at least told her that Dagobah had managed to find her mark. However, after the moment, she could feel Iron Valiant get up launching at… someone. She hadn’t memorized where everyone was in the Smokescreen, which was to her detriment. “Dammit… Sol, Reno! Are you-” More movement. And someone came off the floor. She’d duck, but that wouldn’t block the Vacuum Wave, knocking her off her feet as well as the Ursaluna, who looked like she wasn’t getting up any time soon. Aile had her sight back though, and she turned to see one Reno hitting the wall.
“Reno are… Reno?” Her volume was notably lower as she watched him regenerate from his wounds and bruises, but something just felt wrong as he stood. Something in his stare. And then his left arm came up while she was getting back up. “Reno? What’s going on,” she’d ask, confused and beginning to get scared, making note out of the corner of her eye that a Mega Evolution was happening, though her eyes were locked on her friend. As the energy kept building in his arm, she became more and more scared, wondering what had gotten into Reno? Was this how Aden had felt when she had turned on him? If not, it had to have been close to this. “Reno,” Aile would call out, practically shouting this time, trying one last time to try to get her friend to hear her. Her eyes would be wide with fear, wondering what the hell was going through Reno’s head, but to no apparent avail. Once she saw the light dim, she’d shift her stance and bring her left arm up to block, for whatever that might do, only to hear… Reno? Again, something seemed off, but it was his voice, and he was commanding his Pokémon… but nothing came her way. She opened one of her eyes, and very cautiously lowered her arm enough to look over it, trying to gauge what was going on with Reno. She was utterly confused and terrified right now, but if this was just some sort of ruse to get the Iron Valiant to lower its guard, she might very well be tempted to kill him. If that thought had crossed her mind, at least.
Sandy Shocks was at least still on the ground when the Vacuum Wave hit, so it wasn’t really knocked around like the bipedal red haired woman and her large brown creature. Though, it still wasn’t feeling great after that attack. The walking Magneton would begin to stand up finally, though, ignoring Aile for the inorganic creature in front of it. “Bzzzzt! Bzz bzzzzt!” Ignoring Aile’s previous suggestion of dealing with Iron Valiant’s legs, it would begin to charge up electricity around its eyes, this time getting it amped up and focused into the space between the eyes, launching a Zap Cannon at the murderous robot.
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Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 3:33 am
The Smokescreen proved to be double-edged, Sol seeing very little and only hearing the cry from Iron Valiant and the booming sound that prefaced the Vacuum Wave sending him and Quilava back, both of them coughing from the smoke as it blew past and dissipated. With it, though, the Ho-oh hybrid would also notice something off about Reno. He wanted to ask if he was alright too, hearing Aile's question. "I'll be fine, but-" He wasn't sure what happened in the Smokescreen, but something felt very wrong all of a sudden. He didn't know Reno to be quite so rigid in his stance, and the way he raised his arm towards Aile made alarm bells ring in his mind. But as soon as he readied a Flamethrower into his left hand in case he needed to quickly separate the two, the light from the sudden Mega Evolution forced him to shield his eyes instead.
"Reno, the hell are you-" A fear loomed in his mind again, all too similar to earlier when Aden nearly (but actually) got stabbed (a lot). But it'd thankfully fade when instead he'd hear him have Phemes and Aleister go on the offensive towards Iron Valiant. But even then, something was still off about him. But he was still on their side... something to ask about when they aren't at risk of being killed. He was quiet for a second, briefly looking at Reno again before taking advantage of the electricity dancing along the ground to ready a Thunderbolt instead, sending the bolt of plasma at the robotic assassin. "...right, give it more to deal with at once! Calida, throw another Swift!"
Alongside the bolt would come several rays from a very anxious Quilava, confused at everything going on herself.
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Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 4:46 pm
The Flash Cannon would strike the Iron Valiant, the bright light overloading its visual sensors and the force of the attack causing it to slid backwards. In that same moment, however slightly slower since light moved much faster, the Mega Metagross would close in on the Iron Valiant, preparing to smash it into pieces. However the Iron Valiant would display its impressive speed yet again as it moved with near instantaneous speed via a well timed Agility, appearing above the Mega Metagross just as it passed through the area the Paradox Pokemon once was, and delivered across its back with its weapon a Night Slash, racking the blade down Metagross' length as it moved by.
While it avoided the big hit its feat did make it a sitting Ducklett for the follow up attacks as the Thunderbolt zapped it and the Swift pelted it. While it was suspended in midair via its telekinesis the Iron Valiant began to turn its head to focus on them only to see the incoming Zap Cannon, a single frantic beep uttered before the ball of raw electricity slammed into the Iron Valiant and sent it flying down the tunnel with an explosive impact, the resulting shock wave washing over the Snagems.
Silence would fall over the group for a few seconds, the Iron Valiant no doubt reeling from that attack and yet none of them could get a visual confirmation on it due to how far into the darkness it was sent flying. Were Aile to try and sense it out with her Tremor Sense she would find it...gone. No, wait, it was-
With a beep the Iron Valiant would appear from the shadows behind Aile this time, having utilized Shadow Sneak at some point to slip on passed them. With murderous intent it would reached out to grab Aile and unleash a Psyshock into her body, as if it took cruel pleasure in making the Ground Channeler experience what electrocution was like, however still Psychic fueled. Was this thing capable of spite? Unlike with Reno it wouldn't let go of Aile, instead held her close to itself, as if intending to use the girl as a shield. With Aile in its grip, hugging her with both arms, it would fire off volleys of Moonblasts from its eyes at the other two Snagems.
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Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 8:38 pm
Aile brought her arm back up, bracing herself as the shock wave washed over them. For a split second, she was relieved, as she wasn’t sensing anything. For a split second. When she sensed something behind her, she knew, but by then it was too late. She felt the metal on her shoulder, then what felt like electricity coursing all throughout her body, her body locking up and letting out a high pitched scream in pain. The closest she’d gotten recently to feeling electricity like this was when they first arrived in Paldea, when Deo had gotten irritated at her, or something, and even that was barely a thing. This? This was way more than that.
While it felt like forever to her, it was probably maybe half a minute at lost before the attack subsided, with Aile falling backwards into its grasp soon after, when her body finally started to relax. She was petrified about still being in Iron Valiant’s grasp, though she also couldn’t get herself to move much. Maybe it was the exhaustion kicking in, finally, considering everything she had gone through, but she couldn’t muster much of any resistance against the robot. “Dammit…” All she could really get herself to do was stare at the ground, thinking about what she could possibly do, when her gaze landed on her prosthetic arm. Maybe…
Sandy Shocks would watch its new trainer get caught up by the Iron Valiant, angry beeps and zaps getting spewed out angrily. It thought it had dealt with the robot and was happy that it had appeared to be the victor, until it went for yet another sneak attack. While it was almost anticipating Aile to want to back down, it still wanted to take out its futuristic rival. It did owe her for freeing her as well… Well, one of her friends would have to get her out, probably by getting her close. It could see about trying to overload its audial implants, though… The metal shavings that functioned as hair began to shift faster and faster, creating a sound that would be quite close to a Screech.
Aile wouldn’t be able to do anything to protect her eardrums, but this wouldn’t be a bad shout to try this, between Sandy Shocks and anything else her friends might try. She closed her eyes, remembering the ill fated punching dagger and how she had made it the first time. This time, though, she would imagine the dagger digging into the Iron valiant’s torso, aiming to slice upwards into the torso. One way or the other, she wanted this nightmare to end.
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