Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
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Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 29, 2023 18:11:46 GMT 9
Kazuki enters the tent looking freshly beat-to-shit, covered head to toe in dirt and sporting a mosaic of welts and scratches. He has evidently arrived straight from training and getting repeatedly bulldozed by a Godzilla mini.
“Scrapyard delivery!” He grins, sauntering up to the professor’s desk and unceremoniously dropping four pokeballs onto it, many of them bouncing and one clacking onto the professor’s keyboard. “There’s uh, the fucked up little magnet who wrecks my ears, two of those weird cogs, and the kiosk dino. Probably enough for an arm.”
He looks around with restless energy. The tent is still a strange set-up for a lab, but since he began the game in this state, he doesn’t know what else to expect. Although—“So, where’s the gundams?”
A pair of brown rabbit ears stick up behind his ankles, Tepig waddling out of his shadow to say: <Not what you were supposed to ask.> He’d been briefed on some of his trainer’s adventures on the way there, as a motivation to continue training after an admittedly underwhelming session.
“Ah, right.” There’s now a barren spot where The Giant Shrine used to stand. The disappearance of a monument should be first priority, but he’d been under the impression wack shit happening is just mundanity in this game. Plus, he wanted to lump the chores together so he could get straight to punching things.
“Prof, did you see what happened to the shrine?” He gestures vaguely in its direction, or where it’s supposed to be. “With the big bird, and the lights show. Well, the bird’s actually some prissy fucker called The Prince. We found him buckass naked out in the wilds.”
His face tightens a bit, eyes squinting. “We may have made him some ling- armor. And turned him into the bird. That doesn’t make us liable, does it?”
Kazuki gives Ash a Magnemite, x2 Klinks, and a Duraludon for 250 BYTES 250 BYTES PROCESSED
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 26, 2023 3:31:37 GMT 9
After a very eventful detour involving a Duraludon, several deaths, and the ultimate fox lady ever, they’re back on the path they were originally forging through. Despite the harsh beatings and generally being treated like a pair of sentient train tracks, Kazuki is energetic as he leads them forward.
“Alright, now we train.”
Tepig stares at him. Stares at him for a very, very long time. Long enough that Kazuki has to cede the staring contest and come to pluck him off the ground.
“Quit sassing me, it’s worth it. Once you’re a bit bigger, fine, you can beat the shit out of whatever dinosaurs we meet. Deal?” Kazuki says, looking down at the Tepig under his arm.
Tepig sighs, closing his eyes, which Kazuki takes as a yes. <Can you put me down? I’d like to walk.>
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 26, 2023 3:20:43 GMT 9
Tepig waddles over, taking a seat with an appreciative smile. It lasts for about 2 seconds before Gex disappears, following after his trainer’s annihilation. Slightly panicked, he looks over to Kazuki, and sees his trainer with his face in his hand.
“Guess seduction’s off the table,” Kazuki sighs. To be fair to her, it did distract the dinosaur enough to let a few hits in (with rocks), but the Duraludon still had some fight left. So far, only one method has truly worked.
The earth rumbles as he gets into place in front of a rock formation, the Duraludon screeching towards him.
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 26, 2023 3:06:50 GMT 9
“I’m just saying,” Kazuki huffs, crossing his arms. “Don’t step in for me. It’s not like the injury’s permanent anyways.”
Tepig by this point, has proceeded to lounge. He lies in a bed of flowers near the strange abyss. <It’s a team effort, trainer. And considering how long we’ve been at this—> he gestures to the dirt nearby, where he has carved a few prison lines indicating their many deaths, <—you need all the help you can get.>
“Bold words, from the pokemon who didn’t even follow me back down last time.”
Tepig stretches, chewing a flower placidly. <I like to think of it more as… skipping the journey and appreciating the destination.>
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 26, 2023 2:57:26 GMT 9
“They’re all manga first,” Kazuki rolls his eyes. At least, he’s pretty sure. He hasn’t really caught up with the culture these days. Astro Boy is probably still showing.
He snorts at the gun show. “Really turned up the slider, huh?” And makes an even bigger show of stepping in front of the moving automobile. He unfortunately did not have sleeves for dramatic effect.
Before he could carry on with his death freefall, he feels a harsh shove on his side. “What the fuck—” The crash happens and the fox girl puffs into dust, dying a heroic death.
Which is truly some bullshit. He did not ask for saving! The Duraludon comes for him, and he can’t even be mad, because now he’s intent on giving her a piece of his mind.
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 26, 2023 2:36:43 GMT 9
Kazuki stops, raising a brow as M’Foxy takes control and proceeds to- actually, he’s not sure. “God-Slaying Spear?” He asks, confused as fuck and half-expecting her to pull a weapon out of thin air. Maybe she had unlocked Armorer too.
Only to watch her punt it in the chest. The Duraludon retaliates pretty quickly after that.
He waits until she lands close to him to ask, “What was that? I thought you had a weapon!” He stops with his hands in the air before squinting at her and her many ears and tails. “… It’s anime, isn’t it.”
The Duraludon charges at them again. He wonders if it’s possible to stop an angry mini-minivan and prepares to test the theory.
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 26, 2023 2:13:36 GMT 9
So, roundhouse kicking an obelisk doesn’t work. Who knew?
He returns just quick enough to hear the tail-end of M’Foxy’s rambling—something about Godzilla and growth hormones—before her lizard shoves his leg in its eye, snapping the Duraludon from its brief distraction and launching another frenzy.
It doesn’t even pause before pivoting and bulldozing straight towards Kazuki, who waits until the last second before jumping out of the way to send the dinosaur crashing into a rock.
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 26, 2023 1:58:33 GMT 9
<I think you should use pokemon,> Tepig insists, <in a pokemon battle.> He hasn’t been a trainer pokemon for long, but he is very, very sure, that this is how it’s done.
“I think you should shut up,” Kazuki says, stretching his arms over his head and abusing the miracle of the game where he instantly regenerates.
<You are going to die again and we’re going to come back here a hundred times.>
“Death is temporary,” Kazuki retorts, “cardio is forever.”
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 26, 2023 1:51:43 GMT 9
After M’Foxy’s dazzling performance and being immediately sent to meet the gods by an immeasurably angry Duraludon, Kazuki returns, having learned nothing.
“Put ‘em up!” He cackles. “Let’s have some fun!”
The Duraludon screams and attempts to murder him with its bare claws.
He does try to pay attention this time, realizing that fighting a pokemon is an entirely different ballpark than another fighter (which is astounding considering who he is and how long he’s been playing the damn game). He waits for it to finish charging at him first, and in the split second where it tilts forward from inertia, moves to roundhouse kick its head.
Tepig closes his eyes, not particularly eager to see his trainer break a hundred bones at once.
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 26, 2023 1:38:23 GMT 9
<Um. What happened?> Tepig gets up, feeling a bit dizzy. A punch to the face tends to do that. He wonders if they ended up wiping because of it.
“Dinosaur killed me.” He sees his trainer pick himself up and immediately begin marching down the shrine steps. Tepig scrambles to follow after him.
<You- what?>
“Tried to punch it. Killed me.” The sound of his voice makes him seem angry, but Tepig is unnerved to find his trainer grinning. “Gotta kill it back,” he says, cracking his knuckles.
Wasn’t this supposed to be his training session?
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 26, 2023 1:22:32 GMT 9
The fox trainer goes ahead and turns the target into a bonfire. The Duraludon roars, the fire spreading over its chassis, and in a bout of fury begins to slam wildly around with its metal fists.
Tepig is given no time to recover—sent flying off into the bushes. The treecko goes down, and with him, the other trainer disappears too.
But Kazuki is still there, and the encounter remains active. The Duraludon turns to him, its yellow eyes glowing with fury, before launching his way.
“Shit—” heavy, heavy, heavy! The Duraludon crashes into him, and rather than resist, Kazuki lets go of his grip on the ground and grabs it. With how its legs are built, the Duraludon doesn’t tip over easily, ruining the last-minute plan of grappling it, and after it rights himself, Kazuki finds the battle turning into less of a showdown and more of a rodeo.
“Will- you- just- hold- still!” He aims his fist at its face, his other arm holding it in a vice grip as the two brawl. It is, quite frankly, the dumbest fucking move to fisticuffs with a steel dinosaur, but until Tepig or the other trainer returns, it's on him to stall.
(Plus, he’d been waiting to fight a pokemon like this for ages.)
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 26, 2023 1:01:04 GMT 9
The sound of tell-tale screeching fills the air, and Kazuki immediately drops whatever rock he’s hauling to grab Tepig and run towards it.
When he comes bursting out of the bushes, the first thing he sees is a hulking mass of steel hurtling towards a lizard, and a player with enough cosmetics to make him doubletake. At least it isn’t the ponyta masks.
“Alright, you little bastard,” he says, loading Tepig in one hand like a baseball. “You wanted to chow some metal, yeah?” Tepig wiggles his little legs for a bit, but upon seeing what might be his greatest opponent yet, he snorts in confirmation. And covers himself in fire.
“Hot, hot, hot!” Kazuki hisses, before chucking his flaming ball of bacon at the Duraludon. “ORDER UP!”
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 25, 2023 12:11:16 GMT 9
They return to the Steppes invigorated. Tepig by this point seems a little better—and by better, it’s more that he’s replaced the self-deprecation with single-minded fervor. Kazuki follows behind him with his hands in his pockets, at a more leisurely pace. He would not be surprised if Tepig attempts to eat the next steel type they encounter.
“Don’t waste too much energy, we still have to find one,” Kazuki snickers. And really, there isn’t much of a rush. Once they’ve trained enough and obtained a good number of steel types to hand in to the professor, all that’s left to do is find Verai and visit the new area.
Tepig continues to march, embers puffing out of his nostrils, the fire burning bright in his eyes and his belly.
ENTERING THE TALL GRASS!
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 25, 2023 10:21:43 GMT 9
They head back to the shrine. Tepig seems particularly sulky, waddling with his head down as they walk past the gates and approach the pit smack dab in the center.
“Will you lift your head already?” Kazuki says. “I said you did fine, didn’t I? You killed it, but training isn’t done, so we’re getting you healed up first.”
Tepig nods, and it is a very sad nod. He's not teary-eyed like Sprigatito, he just kind of reminds Kazuki of a moody teenager. Kazuki finds himself wishing he’d just eat one of the magic flowers already. And how is a kid like this not amazed at the sight of the giant magic pit?
“Come on. Let’s make this quick, and then we can throw you back into the next fight.”
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Kazuki
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You Can't Take Me
The Creed
Posts: 883
Trainer Class:
Player Name: Himura Atsushi
OOC Username: Sleepy
Arena Points: 113
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 25, 2023 8:12:55 GMT 9
Link to Successful Egg HuntTHE ROOKERY GIVES YOU...[FightingEgg]Op3etO7T1d220 EggHatch your egg IC to add this Pokemon to your Storage Box! 1d220
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