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Monique's fight had been something of a slog. Aside from the initial Cyclizar, who met with its Comeuppance after delivering a near-direct Dragon Rush blow to Noio, her Pokédex was announcing a parade of new Fighting-type Pokémon, many truly unfamiliar to her. There was only so much Monique could do with Hurricane alone, and after a particularly nasty hit from a Flamigo, the Honchkrow fainted.

Her next recourse was a Pokémon that they couldn't even punch: Kalama, of course. The sheriff was able to start clearing some room around her with a bevy of Shadow Bones and Flamethrowers. Soon, though, all the Fighting-types were weary, their chi having been diverted to the large vehicle in the center. Another Starmobile.

The sheriff was soon out of breath, surprisingly soon for such a mission. She knew her body, even after hybridization, and it did not tire so quickly. Was something sapping her? It couldn't be, as she wasn't a Fighting-type ... No, it wanted to do something to her brain. The new feeling was unfamiliar, and Monique tried to fight through the fog.

As all the chaos ensued a few straggling students who had found it difficult to escape the courtyard, mostly because they were corralled by Star grunts, had stopped to hear Tsuki's cries and looked to him, finding his speech inspiring. They were cowering away, hiding from the chaos and hoping it would just pass over. But now they were now roused to action by his speech and before they knew it Pokeballs were bursting open with shows of light, the academy students taking the fight to the remaining Star grunts, mostly those sporting Cyclizars and those that made it inside as some students rushed in to fight, allowing the Snagems to completely focus on Eri.

Amber, Deo and Odd would do as instructed and helped save some of the vulnerable Star grunts from being ran over by their leader's vehicle in its erratic rampage. No doubt earning the thanks of these grunts and making them realize the insanity of this entire situation which now put their very lives in danger.

The rain would begin to fall and thunder crackle as a Thunder began to form, Tsuki's Blastoise firing off a Hydro Pump beforehand and Aisha ramming the side of the Starmobile with Dragon Rush, Rala's Psychic blasting causing its rotation to briefly slow down as it suffered Super Effective damage. Neither non-Super Effective moe really seeming to bother the spinning machine much but it did do something as both hits left dents in the machine's body, hopefully hitting something important. Aisha though would get slammed into by the spinning vehicle as it regained its maximum spin quickly and sent Aisha flying.

While it was regaining its speed Reno and Metagross analyzed its weak points before the four armed Pokemon came in and struck them with Meteor Mash, hitting points vital to its stability, causing not only significant damage but also making the Starmobile wobbly violently as its rotation quickly began to slow down as it found it almost impossible to stir correctly. With the thing ceasing its spin a certain Onix took this opportunity to dig out the ground beneath its back wheels and once the ground was thick enough the Starmobile's back tires simply fell into the ground, now bogged down and stuck in place.

"No! What did you do!? You villains!" Eri shouted, furious to find her Starmobile was now immobile, despite how much the Revavroom tried to rev the engine it just wasn't going anywhere. Grinding her teeth she fiddled with the machinery for a second before Crystal came crashing down, hitting the top of the Starmobile with a three point landing. Turning to face the hybrid she snatched a Pokeball off her belt and stepped up ready for battle. "I'm going to stop your evil here and now!" She shouted at Crystal, preparing to send out a Pokemon, only for the Thunder to come crashing down, aimed at the chi converter. "No!" Was all Eri could say as she turned around upon feeling the build up of electricity in the pair, just in time to watch the resulting explosion of electricity from the impact of the Thunder.

The explosion would send Eri flying and slamming into Crystal, the human girl nowhere near heavy enough to knock Crystal off her feet. However, catching the flying girl wasn't her biggest worry, instead Crystal would immediately note the chi converter was not destroyed. Badly damaged? Yes. But it survived in tact enough to still be running and boy was it running, having absorbed the Thunder which really juiced it but also jumbled up some circuits. All the damage to the Starmobile and the chi converter had cause some wires to be crossed and from what Crystal was sensing it was not focusing just on Fighting energy anymore, instead it was going wild and focusing on the biggest source it could find nearby; Crystal.

As Crystal's power was drained the Starmobile got even bigger and was now taking on an aura of energy that resembled galaxies, gaining the power of the cosmos itself. With its tremendous new found strength it was no longer Fighting type but instead Psychic and no longer relied on wheels as it grew lion-like 'paws' made up of galactic energy, rising up out of the hole it found itself in and now on four 'legs'. Any damage was patched up by this newfound energy as it used it solidify energy and patch itself up. The Revavroom engine grew quickly in size and flung its galaxy colored tongue around wildly as its starry eyes sparkled, enjoying this new power. This was bad, really really bad. This is what happens when Ein's tech gets in the wrong hands.

"Enough of this! I got just the thing for you! Thank you, Sol, but I'll gladly take it from here." Sub said as he looked up at the swirling Dynamax storm forming above them. "Poe, you did good, you can revert." He told his Mega Sableye, whose wall was almost shattered, the Pokemon releasing the Protect and then its Mega Evolution, letting out a sigh of relief as he fell to his bottom.

Clutching the Dusk Ball in hand he smiled. "Time to show you why I'm the best trainer around! Mega Evolution is one thing but now it's time to show these kids the power of Gigantamax!" Sub said as he held out his Dusk Ball, the power contained in the Wishing Star in his Snag Machine surging into the ball, causing it to grow into a massive basketball sized energy vision of a Pokeball. Sub would then lop the ball under handed high into the air where it would burst open in a dazzling display of light and release from within an every growing Grimmsnarl, the hairy ogre now standing massive on its long legs, equal in height to the Galactic Titan Starmobile. Once the process was done Sub would wince a bit and grab his chest for a second, though quickly shook it off, then looking to his Snag Machine that seemed to be making a strange sound. He'd deal with that later, he had other problems to deal with.

"Slug it with Assurance and bind it down with your hair!" Sub cried out to his Gigantamax Grimmsnarl, the beast letting out a roar before reeling its dark energy infused fist back and slugging the Revavroom across the face, its galactic tongue flying backwards from the force of the Assurance. Right after contact with its fist the hair from Grimmsnarl's arm and other parts of its body would begin to wrap around and restrain the mutated Psychic Starmobile, trying to keep it in place. The Starmobile however wasn't going to go down that easy as the Revavroom lashed out and wrapped its impossibly long tongue around Grimmsnarl, squeezing it tight as it gained Poison type properties, revealing it was still a Revavroom after all. Sub would then notice some of the Dynamax energy leaving his Grimmsnarl. Not quickly, but it was noticeable, the chi converter trying to change energy sources again, always seeking out the most power.

"Tch, this thing is just getting stronger and stronger! We need to get Crystal off of there and smash that chi converter once and for all! Otherwise it will just find new sources to tap into." Sub cried out to his teammates. Grimmsnarl could keep it in place and stop it from rampaging but it was just a large and easy source of power for the thing, they needed someone small, fast and strong to go up in there and quickly polish that thing off.

Tristen quickly made his way through the halls and started to find the court yard where he left Sub and much to his disdain, things has gotten too far out of hand in the short time that he was trying to track down Clavell and the other chi converter in the Clavell’s office. As he looked through the window, he was trying to see what was going on and hopefully get some sort of bead as to where that chi converter was. Troubling him, he wasn’t seeing it right off hand. Unlike the Zoroark hybrids earlier, they didn’t exactly have it out in the open. But then, he spotted it and Tristen’s jaw practically dropped. The machine was on the massive car. “Whyyyyyy!?” Tristen said to himself, knowing that there was no one going to answer that. No one was anywhere in position to even try to get at it, let alone him. Tristen had all this power and he was not sure how to use it. He wasn’t wanting to try to drop more electricity onto it; it didn’t exactly work out like he’d care to, despite what immediate benefits it came with. He needed to get up there. There was only one good way he could think of to do so…and even then, it wasn’t that good.

Tristen started to rush back down the halls and through the building as best as he could, trying to put his newfound strength and power to use. He slammed through a door to a stairwell and practically flew up the steps, skipping up a couple of steps at a time to make it to the top. Several floors he climbed, finding the way to the end of them. He’d ram himself through the door and looked around, trying to find his bearings where exactly outside he was on the roof. Tristen ended up rushing to the rooftop’s edge, looking out. Tristen couldn’t help but to suck his teeth a little, finding the whole ordeal rather iffy. He wasn’t sure if he could clear the gap even with his new found speed and strength, and for that matter if this thing was going to stay still long enough for him to make his move. The Starmobile was trying to be wrangled by a ginormous Grimmsnarl, which was a struggle it looked. “Oh man…” Tristen said. Tristen ran back away from the edge, trying to get some room, then made a full-on sprint. Tristen made a hard leap off towards Eri, Crystal, and more importantly the Chi Machine.

In that instant he made his way through the air, Tristen couldn’t believe he actually did that. Not so much of being able to make the leap. Just attempting it to begin with. With him not too sure that he was going to see tomorrow, it seemed to throw a lot of judgments out the window, as the Manetric hybrid ended up discovering. It was a matter of just trying to make the most of what he had at the time. If he didn’t think he was on the clock, he would of tried to figure out some other way on the Starmobile. Like maybe get Dragonite to carry him over in spite of him not fully recovered from last night. But no, he just leaped. Too much of a hurry. Needing to make every second count. It would be fortunate for Tristen he would slam into the guardrails on the platform; Tristen scrambled, trying to maintain a grip on them lest he’d fall down to the lower parts of the Starmobile, or worse, all the way down to the ground. Powerful he was, he was still susceptible to gravity.

He pulled himself over the guardrails, hobbling a little bit as he made his way over the chi converter, nursing himself around his ribs. It wasn’t a perfect landing. It didn’t matter, he needed to take the machine out. Once he made it to the machine, he’d attempt to rip it out and proceed to destroy it with the unbridled brute strength he was bestowed with.

Monique caught herself gawking for a second at the Starmobile's new form, a majestic yet truly jumbled combination of parts. Monique realized quickly that it was Psychic-type now.

Good. At least she was no longer facing a direct type weakness to the enemy of the hour. One Fighting-type blow could probably knock her clean into next week. Her fur might be soaked, and there still might be a rampaging semi-Legendary Starmobile out there, but she had managed to avoid that fate.

Shaking off whatever illness she seemed to have at the moment, Monique made her way closer to the Solgaleo-ized Starmobile. Sub's massive Grimmsnarl was proving a foe that could get him into a stalemate. But how was she going to get up there? The combatants were massive, giving the whole affair a kaiju-esque setting.

Then it occurred to her. This was going to require some flight. And it was still raining. She climbed on Noio and barked. "Climb! Climb now!" The Honchkrow began flapping its wings, trying to gain lift in the inclement local weather conditions, the Zoroark hybrid clinging to the body and nearly digging her claws into her own Pokémon. Takeoff was, predictably, bumpy, but after a few moments, Noio was in the air. Grimmsnarl might notice the Dark-type flight nearby, but the Starmobile, bathed in Psychic chi and preoccupied by a much larger foe, had lost its ability to sense it.

The corkscrew path up gave Monique a chance to see the combatants duke it out in what had to be the largest wrestling match in Paldea history. She even saw some of her Snagem teammates attempting attacks on the Starmobile. Finally, the sheriff landed on the "windshield". She looked at her trusty avian steed, the one that had saved her from The Under, and issued a single command.

"Foul Play!"

Reno would give a small fist pump as he saw the targeted assault land and cripple the Starmobile's ability to reliably aim itself. And with Leslie coming up behind to eliminate it being able to drive itself forward and Crystal landing on the top deck of the thing to take out its controller, this seemed to be about wrapped up in time for Reno to question about the weird guy who is whispering in Eri's mind. Y'know, before the Chi Converter got sent into maximum overdrive and began to devour the energy of the nearest source of major energy nearby. That certainly killed the vibe of inevitable victor and instead replaced it with the dawning realization that the Indigo League really needed to have done a better job keeping this tech under lock and key. Before he got too far in thinking about a plan to detain the great monstrosity for the others to bring down, a now abominably large Grimmsnarl would erupt from behind the hotwired together barricade to bind the entire entity down for the moment.

Taking a note as the machine began to lose focus on drawing in Psychic energy, Reno would feel a little torn on whether he could be more effective attempting to take out the Chi Converter or clearing out the one main source of energy that was still nearby (and also the leader that he was pretty sure he had seen her catch). Thankfully, seeing a very Mega Evolved Tristen send himself flying onto the top deck of the Starmobile made it very easy to determine his way forward. Disappearing in a burst of pink, Reno would teleport himself beside Crystal and Eri. "Now, I enjoy a giant robot monstrosity as much as the next person but lets not be here when it blows up. Sound good?" Reno told the pair, taking the opportunity to place his hands onto the two women. And before they could get any chance to respond, they would all have a slight pink glow for a second before another burst of pink sent Reno, Crystal, and Eri onto the rooftop alongside his mostly recovered Alakazam and where his Metagross had returned after deducing that staying near the giant cat robot was not going to benefit anyone.

Giving a second to make sure everyone had their feet underneath them, Reno would direct his gaze over to Eri. "Okay, miss. May I ask why exactly we're evil to you guys? I know we didn't ingratitate ourselves after that incident in the port but I thought we had established ourselves in better standing than this."

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Seeing the bevy of Snagems already hard at work on the taking out the chi converter plan, Leslie would look towards Brian before a smile crept across her face. "Y'know, we could send another person at the chi converter. But what if you instead launched me at full force towards that giant Revaroom that seems to be running this thing? I'm really sure that I can make that thing regret life and being so easily hit." Leslie grinned, eyes locked straight onto the singular eye of the Steel/Poison type.

Crystal was preparing herself to get into a Pokémon battle with Eri, judging by her stance, but then the chi converter was targeted by a Thunder attack. The Pokéball she was holding was quickly placed back on her belt, catching the girl when she went flying from the chi converter exploding, only taking a couple steps back to arrest the momentum some. “Hey, are you ok- Oh. That’s not good,” she muttered, ears lying down flat as the hybrid realized that it wasn’t quite taken out. Almost as soon as she finished saying that, pain began roaring through her body as her own energy was being drained. “Gaaaaah!” The hybrid would lock herself up on instinct, just trying to keep herself standing, which would initially keep Eri trapped in Crystal’s grip.

‘Kairos! I need you over here! Get this girl out of here,’ Crystal would mentally shout to her Sigilyph, the odd avian flying over to them. Before he could do anything, though, Reno would show up and get them both out, with Sigilyph following them over to where Reno decided to drop them off. She’d manage to let go of Eri enough before she let herself fall to her knees, putting a hand to her head. “Light, that did not feel great… Thanks Reno. …Again, actually.” The realization that Reno almost certainly saved her life again did not fly past her. “That turned into a bad idea.”
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Aile looked around after sitting up from the abrupt landing looking at where they were. There was nothing but sky around them, making her wonder. It seemed… too open. Closing her eyes again and focusing on the earth beneath them would give her a start. “How the hell? We’re either in the air, or the Fairy Realm shrunk since the last time we’ve been here,” Aile exclaimed with a start, opening her eyes wide. The woman would quickly stand up, grabbing an old, beat up Pokéball in her hand and looking around. “Are there normally floating hunks of earth in the Fairy Realm? Also, looks like there’s some tracks. Unless there’s a better idea, let’s follow them.” this time, she’d wait for Aden to move as well before following the path. Being in a place where physics apparently didn’t want to work as usual, she felt it more important to stick with Aden now.

Leslie would watch the Magmotar as it began to approach, already figuring out how best to aid in this throw to send her flying at the Starmobile's eyeball. Which she quickly concluded was doing a quick bit of weight reduction. Raising her hammer above her head in an axe handle grip, she hurled the bludgeon into the air along what she hoped her trajectory would be. And even as she was plucked off of the ground and began to spun by the Magmortar building momentum, her eyes remained locked onto her precious hammer even as it began to slow and begin its descent back to the ground.

And as her nerves began to grow restless, the thought that she might not actually reach the hammer before it began to gain too much downward momentum, she was released with an almighty throw towards the Revaroom eyeball. And as she began to draw closer to her hammer, a thought crossed her mind: the Magmortar wasn't the only one who could use the benefit of spinning for extra momentum. So instead of reaching with both hands, she reached with only one towards the handle. And as she felt it land in her palm, her grip would tighten like a vice on the implement as she swung her other arm around her body to try and use as much weight and speed as she could to transfer the hammer's downward momentum into a spin. And as all of the forces began to take over, Leslie would shift from being a pink missile that was directly aimed at the eye to a pink-glowing tornado that was still aimed squarely for the Starmobile's eye. "HEY, UGLY! LETS PLAY!" She bellowed, her Play Rough-empowered hammer ready to come in like a train wreck.