Season 2, Episode 4.3: Dawn of the Third Day

[fallers_npcs]

With the wind and rain howling, and the Blackwatch enemies thinning and the dawn rapidly approaching, it seemed like everything was finally getting to the point that the tired defenders were starting to go their way.

As dawn rapidly broke over the horizon, the thudding of a large machine could be heard coming up the road, as a massive Rhyperior was driven up the walk. “Ahahahahaha!” Laughed the portly duck riding on its shoulder. “Ye all gonna be flattened now! This is the Rhyperior Superior! It’s the latest in Poketech Autonomous Armor, and it’s gonna give you all a beatin! And then we’ll take what we wha-whoa whoa!”

With a slip off his feet, Glomgold fell off the Rhyperior Superior’s wet exterior and onto the ground with a loud splorch. Spitting out mud, he exclaimed, “That’s coming out of your paycheck!”

The Rhyperior Superior crashed through the school gate and took up position across from the tired battlers. It flexed in challenge.

With little stamina, it seemed like the defending team was on the back foot.

But then, as the rain stopped and the sun broke out, a rainbow glowed in the dawn’s light as a songbird’s cry could be heard. The warm glow of healing rejuvenating energy could be felt across the fallers and defending trainers as a cry went up. “Ho-Oh!”

Yes, the mythical bird had indeed come out of hiding, and was flying across the land, towards Aether Foundation where the storm was still lingering.

“After that bird!” Exclaimed Glomgold, taking chase as a small contingent of soldiers still standing took off towards the Aether Foundation.

Chase Team this is your time. Chase after Glomgold, prevent him from taking Ho-Oh for his own! THREAD IS BELOW!

Defense Team defeat the Rhyperior Superior!


Rhyperior Superior Wants to Battle!
Max Raid Battle has begun!
A Shield (Stack 6) has formed around Rhyperior Superior!
Rhyperior Superior has 4 moves! Rhyperior Superior can act up to 4 times in a battle!
Max Quake
Rock Throw
Earthquake
Steel Beam

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[shadowslipping]

Yuume has her own idea of a plan.

"Everyone, return for just one moment," she warns, cloaking herself in shadowy armor. Striking the ground with her glove she draws out what power she can from her shadow, before sinking deep....deep...and ever deeper inside.

And then, like a catapult, launches outward. "NOW-! EVERYONE!"

It's a whirlwind of rushes- and as if one among the number were connecting their minds and hearts at that moment, each of them move to do something to help the distraction.

"INDEEDEE~!" "TEA~!" Helping hands and strength saps are in play, the pokemon launching forward to provide their support in opposing ways. "DIIINO!" A third move is added however, as a wave of sparkling mist follows behind them- the Misty Terrain.

Which means-

"NOW! WHILE NO ONE ELSE ARE AHEAD BUT THEM!" It's a directional move- for the most part. But while others have failed, Yuume planned to cover for her 'aoe' weaknesses. Shadows spread out to shield those behind from a Dazzling Gleam thrown by Alcremie. Disarming Voice meanwhile, needs no such protection- in such a room as this, it goes forward and outward, but only forward. There's nothing around to echo the sound to the back.

[withoutcontrolofmyself]

Ho-Oh.

Wes didn’t remember many things from his time before Cipher. His memories were stripped, just so he couldn’t revolt or feel anything positive before his life changing journey. But there was a memory that took root in his mind- one with Cipher members rooted in. Wes remembered How-Oh coming to their aid. Preventing the escape of...

Someone.

Wes was glad that he came to the Aether Foundation because he can see the bright and familiar colours of the legendary. However, he can hardly focus on good memories. Black watch is approaching and he needs to get back in on the action.

Wes has no flying Pokémon and one of his two partners could only do close range... which meant he had to chase after the flying bird.

Wes hopped on his bike and his friends got into the passenger car. The hover bike roars to life and Wes rides out after the Blackwatch members...

He will use a sludge bomb when he gets close enough,

[nothing_can_stop_me]

"GET BACK HERE, GLOMGOLD!"

She doesn't mind the magnificent bird in the sky, she's more worried about the loud mouthed duck chasing after it! Having tossed out Turbo, one of the two Galarian Farfetch'd, out, she pointed out at the duck.

"Alright, Turbo, let 'em have it! ROCK SMASH!"

"FEEEEEEEETCH'D!" the Pokemon cried out, bringing its large leek down on a Blackwatch soldier.

[notpiercings]

With Toxel holding his head and Budew in his arms, Dio is bringing the Baby Brigade as fast as his legs can carry him. It's no secret to him that his Pokémon aren't the strongest, but worrying about what one lacks doesn't help anyone, so he's tried his best to focus on their respective strengths. In this case, he's recognised that both of his Pokémon are particularly good at slowing folks down.

So that's precisely what they plan to do. He holds his Budew out with his arms. His hands are starting to feel numb from her Poison Point, but it's fine. It's fiiiiine

"Avant, stop that overgrown featherbag in his tracks! Use Stun Spore!"

With a rallying cry joined by Bloodshy atop Dio's head, Avant shudders and spits a glob of paralysing powder from her bulb toward Glomgold.

[revolutionhawk]

Secrecy was out the window a long time ago as Shay stays atop his solid vision mount, going with the waterfowl of his team since they're the one with strong long-range attacks, the teen also points toward the soldiers assisting Glomgold since there must be plenty of them with armor weak to-

"Ice Beam...!"

And upon that command, Scuttle lets loose with it.

[fallers_npcs]

"WOAH! Watch it, ye crazy old loon!" Glomgold shouted, barely dodging the Rock Smash, only for him to get caught up in Stun Spore. "What in the--?! I'm... gaaaah! Can't... move... too fast!"

The soldiers wouldn't fall so easily to the plethora of attacks. A handful would, but the rest would be resilient and fight back.

"Y'idiots! Someone grab me and keep runnin'!" Glomgold said, one of the Blackwatch soldiers grabbing the duck like a football and running like he was going for a field goal.

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

"Keep it up, you guys! Wear 'em down!"

As his three Pokemon continue with their attacks, Nin, Yan and Shell gradually come back to his side. They'd been battling various mooks and their Pokemon on the island, but the bright lights of Ho-Oh had revitalized them and gotten their attention.

"Shell, do an In Motion until I give you the signal...Nin, Yan! Intercept 'em!"

Shell immediately sinks into the ground using Phantom Force, while the Ninjask and Yanmega split into several Double Team copies. They then streak off across the water, occasionally diveboming the Blackwatch operatives or sweep past their legs, trying to trip them up into colliding with other attacks.

[shadowslipping]

"We need to get Glomgold from the others," Yuume announces, pausing only a hair of a moment before making her move. "Right- Dee, Tea," she begins, the two combining their efforts again; a helping hand from one, and from the other...

The polteageist vanishes, darting as close to the front of one as possible- "Astonish!" ...ing. Wow!

The other three though. "Let's move!" Pulling her Audino and Alcremie down, the Hattrem teleports fine enough on her own power. Once again it's a catapult of shadow- and as Yuume launches forward, she flips with impressive skill to throw the pair down. "BRUTAL SWING! SECRET POWER! DRAINING KISS!" she orders, all three charging in with their strikes. As for herself-

She draws her blade, moving to intercept and herd for the others to get to the duck.

[withoutcontrolofmyself]

Six soldiers. Six targets. And Wes doesn’t want to get in the way so he avoids the goons that are being assaulted. Wes revs his bike up even faster and surges after Glomgold. His snag machine arm is strong enough he can clothesline anyone who comes near him while he drives with his normal arm. He comes over to the current guard with Glomgold and rams them with the side car where both his Pokémon are.

“Spark and Sludge bomb.”

The two Pokémon cheer and send the lightning and poison over to the poor guy.

[notpiercings]

Hmm, it seems that only deterring their target isn't as helpful as Dio had hoped. "Avant, keep it up! Hit as many of those goons as you can!"

More bursts of debilitating powder are shot from the Budew's bulb in an attempt to slow some of the soldiers in the back; there's not enough mass to launch it further up front, not to mention how many allies are up there too.

Meanwhile, Bloodshy begins to spit Acid globs haphazardly, hoping to give some of the special attackers in the group a bit of an edge in the fight.

[nothing_can_stop_me]

"Oh, come on! It can't be that hard!" Della shouted again. "Again, Turbo, Rock Smash!"

"FAR!" the duck screeched, bringing down his leek again.

[fallers_npcs]

This time, the heroes attacks don't do too well as only one soldier falls to the attacks. The soldiers get a bit more fierce, dragon-fueled attacks being launched from their guns mimicing Dragon Rage as they try to hold off the chasers.

"The bird's flying lower!" Glomgold shouted. "Lift me higher!" As the soldier did so, Glomgold tried to raise his arms... and the Stun Spore tripped him again. "AAAAGH! So CLOSE!"

[revolutionhawk]

Shay whistles for his bird to bank itself back to his side and then he pulls out another card from his extra deck- once that those familiar with his Raidraptors haven't seen before, but maybe just because it was never in the cards in any of his duels thus far.

"I think it's time I stopped playing Pokemon trainer and pull out something else from my real arsenal...! Ready for launch! Raidraptor - Arsenal Falcon!"

And it's not as big a metal bird as perhaps Final Fortress, but it's an impressive thing soaring above everyone's heads nonetheless. If his Cramorant's eyes could bug out any wider than they are, they would be.

"Artillery Assault!" Shay commands (sort of) from his hologram, which fires a whole bunch of Lanius monsters, including the little cannonball-shaped Singing Lanius at the villainous pack.

[devilish_chrysanthemum]

"Bullet! Now!"

Alice can move pretty fast when she wants to, but it's hard to sustain her top speed for long. Between that and healing her team from the fight, it took her a while to catch up, but she comes in shields blazing, ordering her newly-evolved Metang to establish Light Screens for the other Fallers.

[shadowslipping]

"TCH-!" Annoying! For now Yuume stays out of the shadows, moving to clash her blade against the goons as able. But her aim doesn't seem to be actual damage...no...

If anything it feels more like...

A distraction.

With one swing, her Polteageist is abruptly launched forward, trying their hand at sapping the strength of the others again. But while she does that, her other pokemon seem to be busy.

Indeedee clutches Audino's hands, giving them a smooch as the rabbit-like thing nods. Alcremie dances around Hattrem, gently coating the other in glitter.

And just when Yuume seems to falter...

She smirks.

"Now."

Audino moves first- her attack more focused unfortunately, and likely having less effect over all as a result. A boosted secret power is nothing to sneeze at, though.

Of course, compared to what comes next...

Decorate boosted Hattrem's special attack by a good amount- which means that Hattrem's next attack...

"HHHAAAAAAAATTIIIIIII!!"

Well. The Disarming voice will probably hit hard.

[withoutcontrolofmyself]

Wes meanwhile will grit his teeth. He has to get up there and stop the minions from passing Glomgold. Maybe he should get to Ho-Oh first? Whatever he needed, he needed to get higher. The man sees the light screens from Alice and he gets an idea. Immediately, he slams the accelerator and surges towards it.

“Koffing! Give us a boost!”

Koffing gives a cry of approval and turns around. Instantly, the Pokémon released a sludge bomb and jerked the vehicle up. The hover bike recognised the surface and began surging up, as if this was a ramp.

The man hissed as they rode up. But the bike held firm. The man instantly launched himself off and hovered above.

“Morpeko! Spark! Koffing! Sludge Bomb again!” Wes yells from the sky. The Pokémon release their attacks, probably to not much success. However, Koffing shudders.

And glows.

“Koffing?” Wes asks.

“Weezing!” The Galarian Weezing cries out, energised by Ho-Oh. To the dragon military men, the Pokémon shoots Strange Stream, the pink fairy attack merging with Yuume’s Pokémon as he fillies overhead.

[notpiercings]

With every second that ticks by, Dio and his Pokémon fall further and further behind. There's only so much a twelve-year-old can do when trying to match others riding their Pokémon or something even faster, especially while dodging powerful blasts. It's getting harder to hit things from here. Their usefulness is running dry.

Avant, frankly, is having none of that.

The Budew wriggles in Dio's arms and beeps to get his attention. She needs a better vantage point than this. Attempting to comply, he holds her higher, but still she kicks her little feet and beeps some more. An adventurous glint reflects in her eyes.

Dio nods in understanding and tosses Avant as high as he can. Her bud opens once again and, having gotten some nice practice in by now, starts firing off shots to pick off the soldiers left unscathed by the attacks of the others with her Stun Spore. She falls back into Dio's arms, and the two repeat the process over and over again.

Meanwhile, Bloodshy is thinking. His one debilitating attack - Nuzzle - only works up-close, which very obviously isn't an option right now. Nothing else is really doing much, but he still wants to help somehow. He looks around the area, trying to find something, anything he can use!

Ho-oh continues to soar overhead. That's it. Bloodshy grips Dio's hair and...

"BEEEHHHHHH--!"

...he gives the loudest Tearful Look he can, just like dear Lala told him he used to when he was in for a thrashing. If he can garner any sympathy from that big bird in the sky, instil any sense of urgency to escape from or otherwise deal with that stupid duck up front, he'll have played his part.

[fallers_npcs]

One by one, the soldiers start to fall in their assault, leaving only the one carrying Glomgold. That one is expertly dodging their attacks before throwing Glomgold upward, the Duck barely grabbing Ho-Oh’s leg.

However, the bird was warned by Bloodshy. It knew of Glomgold’s ploy.

But, it also knew that it couldn’t handle things here. As the last soldier fled, Ho-Oh started to head for what appeared to be an Ultra Hole.

[nothing_can_stop_me]

“Oh, no you don’t!” Della shouted. Turbo jumped in surprise as Della ran onward. “I know, I know, we try to hit Glomgold now, we’ll hurt the big bird! That’s why I’m still chasing him. If he’s heading through that hole, I’m gonna make sure he leaves the other way without it!”

She turned back to the others. “You guys can follow me or stay back! Either way, nothing stops Della Duck!”

And Della charges onwards towards the hole.

[shadowslipping]

"Shoot..! We need to get him before he reaches the ultra hole!" she roars, darting forward in the shadows. "We can't all go in without the right equipment..!"

Ahh, but she has some of that right? She has...

Yuume shakes herself, launching forward in the shadows after recalling her pokemon again. The focus is not the grunts after all. The focus, her eyes set dead ahead as she bats the balls toward Glomgold like an ace pokebase player is-

Well. The duck after all.

The balls of course scatter; Yuume isn't an ace pokebase player, and that's a little embarassing. But the pokemon themselves have their own strikes to make in the end. Indeedee vaults Audino and Polteageist both, the first of them receiving a solid helping hand; while the former unleashes a shine of brilliant pink in attempt to lash out at the duck, the latter simply attempts to shock the fellow into letting go with an Astonish.

Both may not fare so well...but the other two, ultimately, were launched a little closer to target. Once again, both attempt their more distracting moves, the area of effect far from anyone else for just the moment- with Alcremie's Dazzling Gleam, and Hattrem's Disarming Voice!

But down below-

"Tch...They're flying right for it..." Yuume drops her armor but briefly, fingering a device within hip pouch.