This world is inhabited by creatures that we call pokemon. People and pokemon live together by supporting each other, but now the scourge threatens the safety of the entire region. Kohaku has become a dangerous place, where children stay at home and only brave souls go adventuring.
Welcome to KOHAKU. Come for the nightmares. Stay for the tea and crumpets.
The season is SUMMER. It is easy for survivors to forage for food from the land, as there are entire abandoned farms ready for harvest. On the downside, you can smell the corpses.
swarms
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(i want to use pkmn that are roughly around 65-80 for this battle, avg being ~70 if that's okay? so i'm going to request that the pokemon not be supremely overpowered/overleveled if there's more than one.)
sophia had gone to see zahir for every day in the past week or so. his condition had stabilized, but the doctors did not see much improvement.
that's why she is here, sophia tells herself. she's tired of being in the dark. she's tired of staying safe at home while the people that she loves martyr themselves for her sake.
her life is not worth theirs. with that resolution, sophia sets out to find the truth. what she would do with the knowledge, she doesn't know.
not yet.
she steps onto the battlefield with her scourge froslass in tow.
before sophia can say anything, fantine already casts a safeguard and light screen. they both remember their losses to delilah very clearly, but they stand in their solidarity nevertheless.
sophia doesn't notice the wild scourge that hides and looks on from behind the trees, cloaked by shadow. it's a fair amount of distance, after all. this trainer isn't quite as terrifying when sophia still remembers the silence in zahir's hospital room. that silence, she thinks, is truly frightening.
she pulls out a c-gear and brings up the text-to-audio application. she would have had her reservations a week ago - what if she gives away compromising information - but now, she has nothing but her determination. sophia types swiftly, and the speakers transcribe.
"have you fought a scourge lucario with shiny coloration within the last week or so?"
sophia pauses. maybe it would be best to put in a bit of intrigue in case it fosters communication before focus fire.
"do you know of anyone who has...delilah?"
if it's a name that delilah could so easily give to a stranger in a nerio diner, then it certainly isn't a secret name that only a few would know.
she sees the helmeted woman approaching, the customary froslass by her side.
if delilah didn't know better, she would have said the woman was seeking her out.
the trainer hesitates in attacking for a brief moment. a question? her eyes remain wary, her expression hard, but the woman responds nonetheless. "no."
"and no again." delilah wonders why she knows her name -- she wants to know who told her, who that woman had asked, but it's not important.
not with that froslass by her side.
delilah releases blaziken (77) blacken uses blaze kick on froslass blacken uses featherdance on froslass
delilah releases dragonite (80) delilah uses x defend on dragonite dragonite uses mist dragonite uses safeguard (+ def) dragonite uses dragon rush on froslass
delilah releases vespiquen (68) vespiquen uses tailwind vespiquen uses power gem on froslass
delilah releases magneton (75) magneton uses screech on froslass magneton uses flash cannon on froslass
sophia doesn’t have any way of knowing whether delilah is lying or not, but either way, she has her answer. she takes fantine by the hand and prepares to teleport back to nerio.
that is, until the gliscour flies swiftly out of the trees. sophia instantly recognizes the scar across his left ear. of course she would. she had patched the wound herself when he had narrowly escaped eos rangers during the scourge evacuation of bellona. even with the hades virus, fire wounds run deep.
well, shit.
she continues typing on her device. “gliscor, you may leave with us”
sophia isn’t sure if the gliscor does not want to leave his home, or if he does not understand the commands that are issued by an electronic device. either way, that doesn’t matter. she isn’t about to compromise her secrets for anything. she had sworn that on her brother’s grave upon returning from pax last year.
the gliscor flies in to throw his attacks at delilah’s pokemon. she almost tells him to run - run because there is only death awaiting the scourge that delilah meets.
(or a coma)
sophia does the only thing that she can do for him. she fights.
(she ignores the small voice in her head that tells her that this is what she wanted all along)
sophia draws flying sign - defog on dragonite (mist and safeguard are removed)
froslass dodges blaze kick, dragon rush, flash cannon froslass hit by power gem, (damage cut by light screen), screech froslass uses blizzard on dragonite and vespiquen
gliscor uses agility gliscor uses swords dance gliscor uses fire fang on vespiquen gliscor uses sand tomb on magneton
it doesn't seem as if the woman is going to attack her -- at least, until the gliscor arrives.
so be it, then.
"if that's what you want."
blaziken uses blaze kick on gliscor blaziken uses slash on gliscor blaziken uses featherdance on gliscor blaziken uses bulk up
dragonite is hit by defog dragonite is hit by blizzard dragonite uses dragon rush on gliscor dragonite uses aqua tail on gliscor dragonite uses safeguard dragonite uses mist
vespiquen dodges fire fang vespiquen uses power gem on gliscor vespiquen uses air slash on gliscor vespiquen uses toxic on gliscor
magneton is dodges sand tomb magneton uses screech on gliscor magneton uses flash cannon on gliscor magneton uses tri attack on gliscor
her anger is probably misplaced, sophia knows. she knows, but she does not walk away. she should, but she doesn't.
(if that's what you want)
it is probably one of the more insulting things that delilah could have said. she wants vengeance more than anything in the world, yet she fears it more than anything in the world. she wants to believe that she's better than this. better than her own demons, as good as zahir believes her to be.
she hates disappointing him, but her stronger hate is for the idea that he might never have a chance to be disappointed again.
sophia watches her anger blossom and decides that it is one of the ugliest things about being human.
gliscor is hit by everything except toxic gliscor's hyper cutter ability prevents attack reduction gliscor uses sand tomb on magneton gliscor uses sky uppercut on magneton gliscor uses counter (atk buff) on dragonite (with eva reduction) gliscor uses acrobatics (spd buff) on blaziken
sophia draws the dragon sign - protect on gliscor. fantine braces herself.
froslass uses taunt on dragonite froslass uses omnious wind on dragonite froslass uses blizzard on dragonite and vespiquen
blaziken uses double team blaziken uses blaze kick on froslass blaziken uses flare blitz on froslass
dragonite dodges counter (eva debuff lasts for one turn?) dragonite is hit by taunt dragonite is hit by ominous wind dragonite is hit by blizzard dragonite uses dragon rush on froslass dragonite uses wing attack on froslass dragonite uses aqua tail on froslass lol about to faint taunt (1/3)
vespiquen is hit by blizzard vespiquen uses sweet scent on froslass vespiquen uses power gem on froslass vespiquen uses air slash on froslass vespiquen uses heal order
magneton is hit by sand tomb magneton is hit by sky uppercut magneton uses flash cannon on froslass magneton uses thundershock on froslass magneton uses discharge on froslass
<50, ends
delilah releases garchomp (74) garchomp uses crunch on froslass garchomp uses fire fang on froslass garchomp uses sand-attack on froslass
delilah releases roserade (78) roserade uses toxic on froslass roserade uses sweet scent on froslass roserade uses magical leaf on froslass roserade uses energy ball on froslass
the valkyrie watches the battlefield burn. her feelings stew like an undercurrent of magma.
it has been said that pokemon trainers seek to understand one another through battle. sophia wonders if delilah feels the same anger that she does.
sophia draws the uxie sign - endure on froslass
froslass hit by everything froslass used blizzard on dragonite + vespiquen froslass used wake-up-slap on magneton froslass used taunt on roserade froslass used confuse ray on roserade light screen absorbs the impact of special moves toxic is negated by safeguard
gliscor uses sand attack on garchomp gliscor uses fire fang on vespiquen gliscor used acrobatics (attack buff) on vespiquen gliscor used sand tomb (speed buff) on magneton
blaziken uses blaze kick on froslass blaziken uses sky uppercut on gliscor
lol oops dragonite faints delilah uses revive on dragonite
blizzard misses vespiquen vespiquen dodges acrobatics vespiquen is hit by fire fang vespiquen uses power gem on froslass vespiquen uses attack order on froslass vespiquen uses sweet scent on froslass and gliscor
delilah uses moomoo milk on magneton
garchomp uses crunch on froslass garchomp uses fire fang on froslass garchomp uses sand-attack on froslass
roserade dodges taunt roserad is hit by confuse ray, no effect roserade uses magical leaf on froslass roserade uses energy ball on froslass
sophia decides that it doesn't matter what delilah understands. not when the consequences of her organization's actions still stand.
froslass dodges as much as she can but still faints oops
sophia retrieves her with a pokeball
gliscor hit by sweet scent and sky uppercut gliscor uses agility gliscor uses swords dance gliscor uses acrobatics on vespiquen gliscor uses fire fang on vespiquen
sophia draws dragon sign - protect on gliscor
forgive me, she thinks. forgive me for using you to satisfy my own selfish feelings. sophia begs silently, fervently in her mind.
sophia is not afraid of her vaccinated pokemon. no, she knows better than that. what she's truly afraid of it delilah. not because sophia believes that delilah is stronger than her, but because humans are the true monsters in this equation.
she wants eos gone. how ironic it is that she would understand (thinks that she understands) zahir's dream long after he is gone.
gliscor uses feint on blaziken protect is removed gliscor uses acrobatics on blaziken gliscor uses sand tomb (atk buff) on blaziken gliscor uses sand attack on garchomp gliscor uses fire fang (spd buff) on magneton
sophia recognizes when a pokemon is about to fall. maybe it's the result of the years of medical training. maybe it's a result of working with scourge prototypes at pax. she doesn't know. either way, sophia does not know if that is a curse or a blessing.
she closes her eyes and blocks out any thought of her hospitalized friend, any thought of rationalizing her loss. she can't think straight when those things occupy her mind. quickly, she draws a sign in order to create her chance.
sophia draws the heatran sign - magma storm at magneton
under 75 hits
the crackling of the flames ought to mask the true shape of her voice, sophia thinks. either way, this is her last chance.
"come with me" her throat is so dry - when's the last time she spoke? "i will provide sanctuary"
it's the only thing that she can do at this point.
the scourge slowly looks at her with his black eyes. then, he coughs up the half-digested corpse of a nidoran. full up. then why is he fighting?
the gliscor gives her a low hiss. sophia bites her lip as she translates it in her mind. "no, you're not-"
the flames die away, and the gliscor flies past the scorch marks that scar the field.
gliscor used counter on garchomp gliscor used fire fang on magneton gliscor used sky uppercut (atk buff) on magneton gliscor used acrobatics (spd buff) on roselia