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ZONE A > ESCAPING TO ZONE B

Well. They had certainly been thoroughly scolded. If Taylor was honest, she hadn’t been listening to too many of the impassioned speeches from the other players – she was rather overwhelmed by the sheer number of people present and their grand declarations and announcements had, for the most part, sailed right over her head. Even still, the caution from Ash and the diatribe from Zapdos had an uneasy feeling settling over the battlefield – one that she was not immune to, despite her relative obliviousness.

A cutscene dragged them from the battlefield now, and the interlude was a startling one. Okay, so the legendary birds opposed the corruption too, but had not been prepared to share this world with the humans? Was that accurate? Taylor’s head spun – she felt a little like she was still missing the majority of the story, but that did tend to be the case with these sort of games, in her experience.

Was this the only way of proceeding? Was it really the wisest way. Taylor gulped as it very quickly became clear that they weren’t the heroes in this story. She didn’t think they were quite the villains either, but it was evident that to this foe, they very much were.

The catastrophic attack swept across the platform, rocking the entire surface and throwing into question just how secure they were up here. Vixey and Onix went down, and Taylor dashed towards the Vulpix, sheltering the fire-type with her body. She would have done the same for Onix but, well, he was far too large for that.

“If you release the power of the shrine, it will—”

Taylor’s stomach dropped. It would what? Ash’s voice crackled through to their ears now, and it made the woman uneasy to note that there was no response there to the legendary’s ominously aborted warning.

“Wait, he says we don’t understand the consequences of this. What will happen if we release the power of the shrine? This… doesn’t feel right…” She directed the question at both Ash and the furious lightning bird, though she didn’t truthfully expect a response from either. There was too much going on right now for her to expect her question to be picked up on. Uncomfortable with the idea of continuing as an aggressor in this fight, she found herself frowning. It eased her panic a little that she very clearly wasn’t the only questioning their role here. Recalling Vixey and her newly revived Onix, she released Bullseye and Marie. She wouldn’t attack, but she could still be useful here…

Escaping to zone B, the trio found themselves back up on a wing once more. Bracing himself, the mudbray prepared to disrupt the incoming threat, while the Espurr shot off a soothing trill in Orion's Emboar's direction.

Espurr - Support - 140/200 HP

Link to Roll
Core Ability: Escape to Zone B
Action: Heal orioncayge's Emboar
Battle Log:
- Took 30 DMG from Strain/Energy Drain
- Took 30 DMG from Environment
- Healed Orion's Emboar for 55HP

Mudbray - Tank - 360/400 HP

Link to Roll
Core Ability: Counter (disrupt)
Action: Disrupt
Battle Log:
- Took 10 DMG from Strain/Energy Drain
- Took 30 Dmg from Environment
C0D13 95 Disrupt

ZONE C > escaping to ZONE A

There was a beat where Taylor realised just how alone she was up here, and she felt an odd, sinking feeling in her stomach. She stubbornly ignored the sensation of oh shit, I fucked up, but thankfully, it didn’t last long. A few minutes later she found herself joined by a woman with vibrantly green hair who did NOT look pleased to be here and a familiar brown-haired one who pulled a grin of recognition from the armorer.

The string shot was oddly soothing, and she watched as it bound her wounds, serving as bandages along her exposed arms and legs. “Oh, neat!” She grinned, nodding to Jade Jager and sliding to stand in front of her, for all the good it’d likely do up here. “Thanks! I’m Taylor, nice to meetcha! You’re right, we should!”

It was only as @kath’s Treeko patched up even more of her and Onix’s injuries that she realised quite how close to whiting out she’d probably been. “Thanks, buddy!” She murmured to the little grass type, brow raising in admiration of the barrier that the Bulbasaur was erecting.

Naturally, having just agreed that they should stick together, Taylor promptly forgot this promise as she caught sight of another familiar face in zone D. She retained enough wherewithal to at least speak to her wing-mates before leaving.

“Come on, Verai needs backup!”

With that, she was on Onix’s back again, the pair winding their – probably ticklish – way over Zapdos’ back towards its head. Once there, they launched themselves back down to the platform, to land near the other player. The increase Zapdos' sudden in altitude almost had the pair toppling off, and she yelled indignantly in response. "Oi! Watch it, featherbrain!"

Insulting the huge fuck-off legendary? Probably not her smartest move, but in for a penny, in for a pound, right?

Once (relatively) safely situated in zone D, Taylor hopped off the giant stone snake and called out a greeting. “Hey!” She grinned. “You’re looking a little worse for wear!” That said, she positioned herself behind the Tank and her own Onix, before releasing Vixey to the field.

The Vulpix blinked around for a moment, blanching when she caught sight of just how beat up her human appeared. She stalked over as though ready to scold the human, but was quickly shooed away. “No, no, no,” Taylor rushed out. “Not me, him!” She received a glare for the tone and situation, but the fire-type acquiesced after a moment, trotting over to the other played and winding around his anckles soothingly, careful not to trip him.

There was no way that Onix wasn’t going down this turn, so the huge rock-type decided that if he was going to faint, he’d do it with a bang! Throwing everything he had into it, he lifted his tail into the air and slammed it down against the electric-type’s wing.

Onix - Sweeper - 154/250 HP

Link to Roll
Core Ability: Escape to Zone A
Action: Smack Down (Fast Atk) x4
Battle Log:
- Took 40 DMG from Strain/Energy Drain
- Took 50 DMG from Environment

Taylor - Sweeper - 43/250 HP

Core Ability: Escape swapping out for Vulpix

Vulpix - Support - 120/200 HP

Link to Roll
Core Ability: None
Action: Heal x 3
Battle Log:
- Took 30 DMG from Strain/Energy Drain
- Took 50 DMG from Environment
- Healed 87 points to Verai

Of all the pokemon Taylor had been expecting to receive from the tower of worms, an Onix hadn’t been among them. She stood now, head canted to the side as she watched the giant rock-type frolic among the flowers with Mumble. “You really don’t know your own size, huh?” She mused almost to herself, a small grin lifting the corners of her lips.

Despite the fact that she hadn’t really been trying to call the Onix’s attention to herself, her words had that effect regardless. His huge rocky head swung in her direction and he slithered his way towards her with an almighty series of crunching, grinding sounds.

As he approached, Taylor’s eyes rounded in instinctual ‘there is something big and intimidating heading right for me’ alarm. Gritting her teeth to hold back the urge to retreat, she reached out a hand and grinned when she was rewarded by the Onix pushing his nose into it like a giant puppy requesting pets.

Taylor had missed out on a couple of floors, and was a little startled to see how much progress had been made in her absence. "Whoops," she murmured under her breath as she hurried to catch up with the frontrunners. A moue of disgust pursed her lips as she stepped gingerly through the sandy flooring, and the back of one hand rose to press against her nose in an attempt to block out the scent.

"Well," she breathed. "That's disgusting." Of all the times to jump back in, it had to be during litterbox o'clock?

She was almost relieved when a Patrat appeared in front of her, hissing angrily. She couldn't say she really blamed it for the attutide this time, given the less than hospitable locale. "Yeah yeah, hiss to you too, buddy." Came her grumbled response. Her voice was a little thready as she tried to minimize how much air she pulled into her lungs, but at least Mumble didn't seem bothered by things as she sent him out to face the opponent.

Mumble the Piplup used Growl!

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