Alex nods and waves, saying, "You did a quite good job yourself. Better luck next time." She recalls Haku and pats her pokeballs, saying to them, "Good job, everyone. We did all did well. I'll get you to the Center as soon as I can, Glau."
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Alex nods and waves, saying, "You did a quite good job yourself. Better luck next time." She recalls Haku and pats her pokeballs, saying to them, "Good job, everyone. We did all did well. I'll get you to the Center as soon as I can, Glau."
A victreebel swings back and forth above you both, before dropping down, extending its vine to wrap around Darius's wrist as the extra unown slide back through the cracks in reality.
"REEEEEEEEEE."
It looks to Alex, waving to her. Then it coughs up a note at her feet.
-It seems the other trainer was headed towards your room. Up to you, but if you take them on you get another five grand!
Darius looks up at the Victreebell, and says, "Um... are you able to point me to the exit?"
Li smiles as he clears the maze. He was glad to see that Darius made it out of the maze safely. The monk looks around the clearing for a place to sit and watch the battle if there wasn't anything else for him to do.
Alex waves to the newcomer and says, "Hey there! You're the new challenger? Give me just a sec to catch my breath." She takes a deep breath then continues, "3v3 League Rules battle sound good?"
Li smiled at the new challenger. "Sounds good to me." He was also glad they appeared to be able to speak the same language. "Just give me a moment restore my pokemon's stamina." He then sends out the exhausted Sheeva and gives her a lemonade while applying a potion, letting her fully recover before letting her sit by and watch the new match. "Just in case, old friend. I may need you." He pats her on the head before bowing towards the girl. "Shall we begin?"
The monk then readies a one of his pokeball and sends out rather young looking Lapras, with more elegant and angular features than a normal Lapras.
SpoilerWe using the same map as the Darius vs Alex one?
Alex sees the Lapras and frowns, muttering to herself, "Wonderful...Sorry Ysera..." Before tossing our a pokeball, saying, "Go, Ysera!" The Grovyle pops out of the pokeball and glares at the Lapras and seems to sigh as it readies itself, followed by a command from Alex, "Use Mega-Drain!" At this, it smirks and and opens it's mouth, releasing a green beam of life-draining energy at Kame.
Spoiler: OOCMega Drain: [roll0] vs. 2+SE
[roll1]
Kame takes the hit from Grovyle, feeling her energy being drained from her. "Kame, retailate with freeze dry!" The lapras weathered the attack before opening her mouth and shooting out a ray of cold at the grass reptile.
Spoiler: Freeze dry[roll0] vs 2
[roll1] special ice damage
[roll2] if crit
Alex's face falls as Ysera fails to do more than scratch the Lapras, and balls up a fist as Ysera very nearly just falls over from the sheer pain of being frozen. She sighs and says, "I think you win. I can't fight him."
Kame gives a victory cheer in a singing like tone while giving the ground a good slap with her flippers in celebration of her victory. "Well done Kame," The monk walked over and gently petted the lapras, allowing it to nuzzle its into her presumed father's hand. She was happy to know that her father was pleased with her.
"I apologize for the swift battle." Li looked up to his challenger. "Kame is still very young and doesn't yet know her strength."
Alex shrugs and says, "Eh, I'm more of a contest person. No hard feelings. Carry on, then."
The Victreebel leads Darius out the front door, as a bellossom dances out of the bushes to grab Alex's hand. Alex is led through shrubs that rapidly close behind them, as Li is left with a long pathway forward that again splits left and right.
Alex
As you travel through the maze expedited by the bellossom, you feel like you had let your team down back there. If only there had been any of your team big enough, durable enough to stand against that lapras, if only there had been moves to actually make against it, but it was em-
You get about that far before you take a tumble as the ground opens up just in front of your swinging foot and a large metal head sticks up out of it, giving a resounding CLANG as your foot hits something much harder than it! Taking a tumble, you come face to face with a slightly strange looking aron, a bit longer than the norm, maybe a bit bigger too, that is shaking it's head, still resonating with the impact of your sudden meeting. It seems unharmed but somewhat disoriented from the blow.
Li gives a deep bow before toward his opponent before continuing along the maze. "Good luck to the both of you!" He added before recalling his pokemon and reentering the maze and meditating on his options presented for him before choosing his path.
Spoiler: intuition roll[roll0]
Alex grumbles to herself, lost in thought as she walks until she trips over the Aron. She swears as she falls, but when she sees what she tripped over, she smiles and says, "Hey lil' guy. What are you doing here, huh? You're a long way from home. Just like me, really...Want to come with me?"
The little aron, still wobbling about from the kick, seems to be unable to walk straight, instead stumbling into your hand while walking cross legged into the ball, possibly unaware of your presence still. The ball clicks, and you now have an aron!
(Aron, male, Level 7, just steel typed (no rock type here). Lyndworm's Diet!: he can grow to be a giant or a poisonous beast, able to fell even the greatest of foes with his very breath. For dragon typing, feed him the most valuable metals, gold, silver, platinum, in abundance, as well as gems. For poison typing, a diet of things known to be toxic will do it.
Li follows the right path and meets with a man juggling in the garden, who eyes him. However, the language barrier persists...
Li internalizes a sigh before bringing his hands together and bowing to the man, signifying interest in battle. He then uses a similar sign language he used earlier to sign a 3 vs 3 fight before sending out Sheeva.
Spoiler: OOC
Imma say I used a few more potions on Kame (cause even if she's tanky it still smart to keep her at full.) and used 2 super potions on Quilin to bring him back up. So i'm down 3 addtional super potions. So definately need to stock up after the gym....which wasnt that the whole reason why we came here in the first place.
Sheeva stats
74/74 HP
12 Def
7 Sdef
11 Spd
Alex smiles and says, "Great. You won't regret coming with me!" She stands up and and follows the Bellossom through the rest of the maze.
Darius ends up outside the gym, the victreebell waving to him before disappearing into the bushes.
Alexandria ends up led back to Gardenia, or where she should be. Looking around reveals nothing, until the Bellossom brings herself up into a tree. There's some noise up there, and Gardenia sticks her head out of the tree she was hiding in.
"Oh, hey! I was just getting set up since the one guy was getting close. Saw you take out the one, though!"
She pulls out her pokedex and transfers another 5 grand into your accounts, still hanging upside down.
"So, you were wondering about contests, right? Because I can show you the best place to get your supplies if you want. Don't really participate in them myself though, rarely have time. Everyone thinks grass is the easy gym, after all."
With a nod, Li gets a joltik sent out to face him. Wait...oh, damn it, was this a different challenger?
Alex smiles and waves to Gardenia saying, "Really? Awesome! Where? And where can I actually do contests?"
Gardenia looks around, before pointing to a spot that leads out of the maze. Heading towards it, you look in to see a grand auditorium, another contest partway through as a lilligant and maractus go against each other on the stage, weaving beautiful dances and tapestries of colored leaves in the air.
The joltik moves first, thwipping towards Shiva before shooting a giant blast of web.
[roll0]-electroweb, really just have to roll 1+sp. def to hit due to compound eyes, lowers you 1 speed stage
[roll1]
Sheeva cries as the webs gives her a shock. "Give it a chop!" The Machop raised her hand and swung it down at the bug.
Spoiler
Sheeva stats
47/74 HP
12 Def
7 Sdef
11 Spd
Karate chop
[roll0] 17-20 crits
[roll1]
[roll2] if it crits
Alex heads through the maze, and smiles with a mix of wonder and excitement when she sees the stage. For the first time she's arrived in Sinnoh, she feels at home. She sits for a while, watching a round or two of the contest that's already going on, then heads back to Gardenia.
Once she's back in the Leader's room, she smiles and asks, "So where are the places I can go shopping?"
Li
The joltik, being such a tiny target, hops out of the way of the Karate Chop easily. Then it hits Sheeva with a burst of electricity, paralyzing the machop!
Alexandria
"Where did I put that map..."
Gardenia rummages around a bit in pockets before she pulls out a map from under her poncho.
"HaHA! Found it!"
With that in her hands, she begins showing you a number of streets, how O'Flannigan's has the best for dresses, the line of shops near it giving a wide variety of specially blended Poffins, the nice restaurant at the end of the street, a prop store even...
Alex smiles as she nods along with the instructions Gardenia gives her, then smiles and says, "Thanks for everything, Gardenia! I'll be back once I'm ready for a contest!"
She waves goodbye as she heads out, striding towards O'Flannigan's. After all, having a proper dress is the first step to making a good first impression, which is the first step towards winning a contest.
Alex comes to O'Flannigans without issue. Entering, the first thing she sees is a leavanny taking the measurements of a snivy, already outfitted in monocle and a cane. Around her are a number of dresses and pokemon costumes, standing on mannequins and looking rather extravagant.
After Sheeva freezes up with paralyzes, Li fei recalls her into her ball before sending out Quilin to take her place. "Your turn now!" The pony reared excitedly when released.
Spoiler: Qulin's stats58/58 HP
10 Def
11 Sdef
20 Spd
also assuming summoning sickness is a thing with switching out.
Darius sighs as he exits the gym, Idea following closely behind him. "You did well in there, Idea. I wish I could say the same, though... as much as I thought I was prepared to take that gym on, one unexpected element comes up and all of my plans fall apart." He looks down for a moment, before saying, "Maybe I'm just overestimating my own abilities, but if I can't handle another trainer like that, how can I expect to handle something like a warlord from the Shattered Fields? And if my preparations fail there..." He trails off, not needing to state what the consequences of a defeat there would be. "Your potential may be practically limitless, Idea... but I don't know if I really have the ability to grow strong enough, or skilled enough, to handle things like this... maybe you'd be better off with someone more capable of helping you find what you're meant to become..." The last is muttered, barely a whisper, and more to himself than to the Pokemon next to him - though the runebound Abra still hears him.
Li
As Quilin shoots out of the pokeball, the joltik begins to glow with energy before launching a tiny electric spider at the ponyta, beam already trying to recall the little bug.
[roll0]-Volt Switch, basically if I beat your special defense or speed evasion I hit, recalls pokemon and sends new one out
[roll1]
If it hits, the joltik returns, sending out a flapping staravia.
(you go first I believe)
Darius
Idea stares at you, unblinking as he floats, clawed hands eventually reaching out to grasp the sides of your head.
I am not their Idea, though. They cannot define me. I am what came from you. You failed here.
His fingers slowly dip into your skull, a very odd and somewhat terrifying feeling as you can almost imagine Idea brushing your mind literally.
If all you take is the loss from that defeat, does that then define you? Or do you build off it, find ways to learn from it that define you as something else?
His claws withdraw, and you feel your flesh whole and unmarred.
Alex can't help but whistle when she sees the Snivy getting all dressed up as she peruses the dress selection. After a bit she sighs, realizing that her expertise at picking out dresses, especially in a foreign style, is a bit lacking, and eventually goes looking for unoccupied saleswomen, asking, "Um, hello? Could you help me pick out a dress? I'm looking for something to go into Cool, Cute, and Tough contests with."
The feeling of Idea's clawed fingers brushing against his own mind seems to focus Darius more, allowing him to consider not only Idea's words, but the previous battle that led to this. To learn from it... that is all that I can do, isn't it... he muses mentally, not needing to address the psychic-type directly due to the link between their minds. I was overconfident, and I lost sight of my purpose in there. A dangerous combination, I suppose. I'm not looking for power, or prestige... when I started my journey in the first place, it was a quest for knowledge and understanding. The scope of that goal has changed, but the goal itself has not. To understand the secrets of the realms born of Arceus's plates - the Distortion World, the Elysian Gardens, the Shattered Fields, your own home realm, and the others... losing here won't stop me from reaching that goal, so long as I can take something from this loss. He gives a mental sigh, before saying, But don't think that me having called you here means that you're tied exclusively to me. You have the power to define yourself, to a point. Just as I do. Our experiences will shape us both, and those around us will help define who we are as well if only from what we learn from them. But at your core, it is your thoughts, your mind, that defines you above all else. While you may have come from me, you aren't a part of me. You're something more... and in the end, it's up to you to decide exactly what. I can only help you to figure that out. But just as you're willing to help me, I'll be here to help you find your own way.