Safari Contest [Caverns] (Time extended)

[Darksol88]

Seeing Isaac and Aron yet again, Sol opted to cut his losses, retiring from the contest. Perhaps the next time would yield better results, giving a passing glance at a Bronzor on the way out.  

[Requiem of Whyspers]

Odd was followed closely down the ledge he had tumbled over by a Pawniard which seemed determined, to make him pay for existing. Thankfully for the channeler, his partner's Flash was enough to blind the bladed beast and make for a successful escape once again.  

[Requiem of Whyspers]

Punting yet another Spinarak into the darkness, Odd continued his search, hoping against hope to find something to benefit his team.  

[Requiem of Whyspers]

Given the presence of something Odd had never seen before, He scanned the Carbink with his SNAG. After receiving it's information through the SNAG's speakers, he found it to be rather docile, for the most part. "You look like something Kaya or Trish would like but you're not my type, really. So I'll leave you to your life." He said with a small bow to the Fairy-type, laughing jovially to himself as he walked away, wondering what the Pokemon must think of him for his chosen words.  

[Reno Vantas]

Looking to another stone in the path, Aria was cautious this time. Rather than attempting to kick or throw something at the piece of stone, she instead chose to carefully pluck the thing and see what exactly it was. At least, until the top popped open and began to spin its arms around like a propeller. Throwing the rock into the air before watching it come to a rest in midair to stare her down. "A Carbink....interesting. I want it." Aria told herself, staring at the floating rock before throwing a Pokeball at it. Bouncing off the now angry rock, Hastur would appear before the rock and stare at it for a moment.

Staring at the Carbink, intrigued by the odd Pokemon, the Inkay would be met with a visceral growl and a wide shot with a Moonblast in an effort to deter the Inkay. Simply staring at the Carbink before giggling, Hastur would begin to float forward to begin this fight when a flurry of rocks shot up from the floor to slash away at Hastur. Yelping in pain as the rocks assaulted him, he was defenseless to the follow up Moonblast that sent him flying into the cave wall. Staring at the Carbink before firing a strange wave of pink energy to slam into the Carbink, Hastur would attempt to leave the cave wall before another Moonblast planted him further into the rocks. Aria, attempting to create some form of help for Hastur, began to fumble with her collected Pokeballs in the frantic state she was in when her hand brushed against the Inkay's Pokeball. Snapping to return the Pokemon, Aria would only be able to stare as her last line of defense was absorbed by the place she kept it. Glancing to observe where the beam that ahd taken its opponent lead, the Carbink let a sadistic grin cross its face as it realized the weaker prey was now alone. Beginning to float towards the girl as she continued to fumble around and fell to the ground, |the Carbink could only laugh as she came up with two rocks in her hands and attempted to hurl them at the floating fortress of defensive prowess it was and not even having the decency to hit it either.

Watching the two rocks until they passed overhead, the Carbink let out an evil cackle before continuing to approach with the Stealth Rocks leaving the ground to return and add to the Fairy type's shell. Laughing as the human continued to backpedal away from it, the Carbink began to fire Power Gems at the girl to keep her confined and prevent an easy escape. Watching as her breathing began to quicken and become more desperate with a few screams even escaping her lips, the Carbink began to direct the added rocks to aim for the girl as a Stone Edge attack.

A wave of Psychic energy cut through the air, slamming into the Carbink's back and disrupting the attack it had been preparing with the pain it caused. Wincing at the massive pain the unseen attack had caused, the Carbink found a small squid floating in midair and glaring him down with a cute angry face. Scoffing at the Inkay's attempt to look intimidating, the Carbink began to have rocks rise to add to its shell to intimidate the poor thing and scare it off. Poaching on prey like this was uncalled for. Meeting eyes with the squid as it began to cower from the now spike covered and menacing Carbink, the Fairy type barely noticed the strange effect the Psychic type's eyes had before it fell asleep momentarily in front of the Inkay.

"Thank you, Hastur, for finally getting into this. Did you think I could play distressed damsel forever?" Aria blustered, giving a smirk as a Dusk Ball popped into her hand. "Now then, to business. I want this intimidating little fairy. And this is a good opportunity. Dusk Ball, do your stuff!" Aria cried out, hurling the Pokeball for the Carbink. Hopefully those menacing spikes wouldn't end up ruining this attempt to catch it.  

[Reno Vantas]

Watching the Dusk Ball sail perfectly between the spikes to hit the Carbink perfectly and open itself on the poor Pokemon. Coming into consciousness on the impact, the Carbink would struggle against the beam of red light to claw towards Aria for one final attack. Quickly expelling the rocks on its body to hit something, the Carbink would only succeed in creating a few new stalagmites before being forced inside the Pokeball. Picking up the ball cautiously before looking to Hastur, Aria set to walk back to the entrance. Damn, did she have a story to tell this time.  

[Requiem of Whyspers]

Odd might have made the attempt to capture the Gastly he walked into if he hadn't passed out almost instantly when the Ghost's gases cut off his air supply momentarily. As for the Ghost in question? It never even saw Odd coming. Or falling.  

[Requiem of Whyspers]

With Odd out like a light for the time being, Cadenza watched over him quietly, hurling random Pokemon that got too close back into the cave via Telekinesis. That last one, a Geodude it looked like, wasn't too thrilled by the free flight.  

[Requiem of Whyspers]

When a Slugma drew close, Cadenza did the only thing he could, he summoned up a Silver Wind, which blew through the cave and, picking up the cave's cold air along the way, drastically cooled the fiery invertebrate's body, causing it to crack and crumble, leaving a literal shell of the creature's former existence behind as the now-much-smaller slug attempted to flee back to whatever lava pool it had spawned from.  

[Isaac Hawking]

Darksol88

Sol would wind up hearing more sounds, rushing off to check it out... only to discover that Isaac had encountered an Aron. "...we need to quit meeting like this," he commented, turning around and immediately walking off. Isaac was on his own here.

"Hey wait, where is the .... exit," Isaac called after Sol. Unfortunately, it seemed the legendary hybrid didn't hear him, and disappeared down yet another of the cavern tunnels. "Damn," he muttered. Turning back to the tunnel ahead of him, he laid his eyes upon an Aron, the small Pokemon was facing away from him, and a little ways down the tunnel.

For a moment, he considered just leaving it behind, and just making a run for the exit. Or rather, where he hoped it was. However, it dawned on him that the whole purpose for why he was here was to catch a Pokemon, and this Aron was a suitable choice. Instinctively, his free hand strayed towards the pouch where his Pokeballs for this hunt were kept, however, he checked the impulse. Catching a wild Pokemon by leading with a thrown Pokeball was a great way for a trainer to waste money. Even if the Pokemon didn't see it coming, a healthy Pokemon would easily be able to break out of the capsule. He would need to weaken or distract it first. Crouching down behind a large boulder, Isaac briefly considered tossing a small rock at the Aron, before the idiocy of that idea caused him to reject it. Aron was partially a rock type Pokemon; even if the rock didn't scare it off, it wouldn't really do much to hinder it. Shifting his position, his sandwich slipped out of his hoodie pocket. Looking down at the crispy morsel, inspiration struck him. Picking up his the sandwich and tearing off a large chunck, Isaac threw some BAIT.

The sandwich chunk landed with a splat, just a little bit in front of the Aron. The Iron Pokemon looked up in surprise; food doesn't normally just throw itself at you. However, after a few moments, the little Pokemon walked over to the bait and started eating. It was then that Isaac decided to spring the trap. Beckoning his Magnemite over to him, he whispered a command to the Pokemon. The Aron never saw the the Thunderwave coming; one moment it was eating, and the next, pulses of electrical energy were coursing across it. A cry of alarm was all the Pokemon was able to do in response, its body refused to move otherwise.

"Nice work," Isaac congratulated his Magnemite, "Now, fire off a Thunderbolt." Electrical energy began to surge around the units at the Magnet Pokemon's sides, before coalescing and launching towards the Aron. The resulting blast of energy knocked the small Pokemon off its feet and back a fair distance, raising up quite the dust cloud in addition. For a few moments, the Aron was obscured behind the covering cloud, and Isaac found himself wishing he had his Noibat with him to easily blow away the interference. However, his sneak attack strategy seemed to have worked. As the dust began to settle, the Aron was revealed, struggling to get to its feet. Now was his opportunity; Taking out his Duck Ball, Isaac hurled the capsule at the Iron Armor Pokemon.  

[Isaac Hawking]

Picking up the Dusk Ball containing the freshly caught Aron, Isaac opened it up to let the Pokemon finish eating the morsel he had thrown at it. "Now then," he said as the last bite vanished into the Steel Pokemon's mouth, "Let's find our way out of here." With that, he began walking down one of the passageways, carrying the Aron, who was now eating the rest of the sandwich.  

[Requiem of Whyspers]

When a Duskull cross paths with Cadenza, the two stopped and stared on another down.

"Shed."

"Skull"

"Dinja?"

"Duskull."

"Shed shedinja dinja shed."

Dus dus duskull skull dusk skull."

The exchange made, the Ghosts ran at one another. By which I mean they frantically levitated in the general direction of one another. Duskull attempted to hit his foe with a Night Shade which was easily dodged by use of Phantom Force, Cadenza revealing the true extent of his power with the enhanced form of Shadow Sneak. The Duskull, apparently much less experienced than his counterpart, didn't expect this sort of retaliation.

When Cadenza reappeared, a surge of spiritual energy unleashed upon Duskull, the opposing Ghost-type drew on that energy and used it's Shadow Sneak, attempting to get back at it's opponent. Cadenza's Sucker Punch allowed for easy evasion, however, the frail insect feigning ignorance until the last second, at which point he lashed out with a condensed blast of dark energy, dealing point blank damage and sending Duskull spiraling off into the darkness once again. The beast's red eye remained visible in the shadows, however, telling Cadenza that his quarry remained vigilant. When Duskull tried to fight from a distance by firing an alternating barrage if Will-o-Wisps and Shadow Balls, Cadenza was prepared, catching the attacks one-by-one with Telekinesis and hurling them back from whence they came. None hit home, however, Duskull already having moved on from the point of attack, keeping it's glowing eye turned away from it's foe as much as possible.

"Dinja." Cadenza had a plan, seeing that fighting ghostly fire with more ghostly fire wasn't working. And so he summoned up his Silver Wind once again, the glowing wind beginning to circle him faster and faster until a mighty whirlwind of powdery air surrounded him. Once the wall of wind was formed, the Shedinja pushed it outward in a great ring. The glow of the luminescent silver power lit the area around it just enough that, when Duskull was hit, Cadenza saw the opportunity. Wrenching a Safari Ball from Odd's belt, he hurled it via Telekinesis, hearing the final buzzer for the contest go off just as the ball made contact. He hoped Odd would at least be considered if this worked.  

[Requiem of Whyspers]

Cadenza, hoping he had time to make a second attempt when Duskull escaped the first ball, hurled a second Safari Ball before Duskull could hone in on him enough to attack.