As odile would soon find out, her words carried the heavy weight of foreshadowing.

Elegantly armoured, every step the Alchemist takes resounds through the arena, a cloak of pearlescent white feathers flowing beautifully behind her. She had come here to have a look at the shop, but as it turns out, as of late, browsing through the ongoing Colossal Challenges that are open for everyone to join had become somewhat of a habit for her. It's good exercise for her Pokémon and why not help a newer player along the way?

She makes her selection based on how high the boss' current HP is, and when she steps onto the familiar ice floe, the coldness of the gargantuan Glaceon's stare is matched by her own.

"Ah, so we meet again." Tuesday smirks, standing her ground on the ice despite how slippery it should be. Her golden eyes fix on Odile then, and a greeting is simply nodded. "Glaceon giving you trouble? No worries, we'll bring it down together."

With self-assured words that seem to only fuel the Glaceon's rage, her Pokémon are released: a graceful Sawsbuck in adorned armour, a Whirlipede with steel plating of her own, and the sharp blades of a Doublade.

Yes, they all have their own drip, but before there's time to even take the sight in, the Glaceon attacks all too swiftly, stars shooting out of its fur and towards the Pokémon that had just appear onto the ice floe.

GLACEON ATTACKS SAWSBUCK, DOUBLADE, AND WHIRLIPEDE with SWIFT

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"STAND YOUR GROUND! Chariot, give me a better weather forecast. Tyrfing, cut the ice near Glaceon. Bartók, kick."

Tuesday expects the plan to be obvious once her instructions are given, and within seconds, it is set into motion by her Pokémon: Whirlipede jumps up in excitement, yelling a single word up at the sky: <'Sun! Sun! SUN!'>. As if by willpower alone, she does away with clouds that brought promises of ice, bringing a SUNNY DAY to shine onto the floe — merciless sunlight meeting the ice with a scorching heat that is bound to melt its surface.

Tuesday can see it clearly: drops of water begin to overtake the ice at their feet, while the Glaceon growls and presses closer to the gelid ground as if attempting to recoil away from the sun. Sadly, there is no escape for this colossal.

WHIRLIPEDE ATTACKS GLACEON WITH SUNNY DAY

6d20+240

Rarity(5) + Super Effective(20) + Sweeper Weapons(5) + Status Move(5) + Prompt(5) = 40x6 = 240

Then, without even allowing their enemy to recover from the shock, Tyrfing attacks next: blades flying quick and deadly through the air. In their flight, they AUTOTOMIZE, making themselves lighter and sharper before slashing through the ice by the Glaceon's side. It's like cutting through butter for the Doublade, and with each cut she gets closer to the beast...

DOUBLADE ATTACKED GLACEON WITH AUTOTOMIZE

6d20+330

Rarity(15) + Super Effective(20) + Steel Pokémon(5) + Sweeper Weapons(5) + Status Move(5) + Prompt(5) = 55x6 = 330

The cuts force the colossal to move unless it wishes to fall off this ice platform that seems to grow smaller and smaller by the second, but sadly for it, the Sawsbuck awaits, and its by way of a powerful DOUBLE KICK that the Glaceon's fate is indeed sealed.

SAWSBUCK ATTACKED GLACEON WITH DOUBLE KICK

6d20+330

Rarity(10) + Super Effective(20) + Steel Pokémon(5) + Sweeper Weapons(5) + Prompt(5) = 45x6 = 270

By the time the inevitable splash happens, the ice floe is so small that Tuesday is standing right next to Odile and her Pokémon. The Alchemist gives the stranger a smile then: confident and radiant despite the battle they just witnesses (or because of it, maybe). She offers a hand to shake.

"All in a day's work, huh? I'm Tuesday, good to meet ya."

GLACEON'S HP: -363/800

Odile's chin lifted up just an inch or two when she heard a voice she did not recognize, ruby hair swaying as she turned to view who it was. She looked something out of a storybook, a knight dressed handsomely as they came, a stunning glow emitting from her. The cold air was caught in Odile's throat, unable to speak for a moment as she simply stared, all but starstruck. It was only by the Glaceon growling was she able to snap out of it, a hand coming to push some hair behind an ear as she nodded rapidly, as if making sure her head was still screwed on properly. "Oh thank you! I really appreciate it...!"

Even the knight's Pokemon were armored, steel shining silver amongst the snow. It made Odile acutely aware of how much she seemed to be lacking, her outfit looking far too casual, far too... unprepared. A hand rested on her chest, stunned into silence as dignifed knight commanded her Pokemon with an ease that made her own attempt look juvenile. The sun broke out from the gray skies above, warmth flooding the arena by the Whirlipede's will. The Doublade's swords flashed as it cut the melting ice, and just when the Glaceon was about to abandon the sloe it was on for another, it was met with the powerful hooves of the Sawsbuck. In that fell swoop, the gigantic Glaceon was defeated.

She made it look so, so easy.

Embarrassingly so.

Violet eyes blinked several times, like camera shutters as the knight—Tuesday, what an interesting name—introduced herself. It took a moment of processing for Odile to answer, her hand being the first part of it as she graciously took Tuesday's. "Nice to meet you too, oh my god... I'm Odile. Uh... you are a player right, and not some sort of NPC right?" Just had to ask, and she had meant that as a compliment. She moved and commanded in a way that almost didn't seem real. "That was amazing...! I've never seen anything like it before! You took out the Glaceon so fast, I didn't even think it was possible to do anything like that!"

In Odile's gushing, she failed to notice her Pokemon, the knight's glory absorbing all of her attention, a sunflower to a sun.

She failed to notice the sparks bouncing off of the little lamb, electric ticks flying. And was she ticked.

"YOU!" Giselle cried out, body shaking uncontrollably. "How DARE you! How DARE you show yourself to me!"

Not only beautiful but smart to boot too? Didn't she have the complete package! "You're the first person to make the connection, yes!" While, in truth, Claudia knew she more so fit the persona of Odette (been cast as such before), Odile just seemed to fit better here. A battle of aesthetics, but Claudia thought she pulled it off. Odette and Odile were often cast as the same person after all. Two halves of a whole.

"And yeah, I am new! This was actually my first real bat—"

Her words cut off as Giselle made herself known, head turning to see the sparking sheep. Mercurio hopped, moving himself in front of Giselle, little arms outstretched as if to stop her. "Hey, Giselle, relax..."

"Relax?! With her here? Are you kidding me?"

Through the (relatively) short time Odile's had her, she had never seen Giselle act in such a way. The little lamb could jump the gun, yes, but never like this. There was... a small theory in her head, but Odile was going to hold onto it for right now. No need to jump to conclusions immediately when they already had someone doing it.

"Uh... she has a strong personality." Yeah, that was a good way to phrase it. As her Froakie tried to corral the rowdy Mareep back, Odile turned her attention back to Tuesday. There was an odd taste in her mouth now, that worm of a theory wiggling in her head. "I-I didn't expect her to react like that, uh... it wasn't too long ago that I got her from the Everworld, actually..."