gruesome

by the vivisected corpses of two or three dozen Pokemon, and is currently opening up a Tepig with glazed over eyes. It's still alive, but making no move to resist.

(09-05-2019, 08:25 PM)Iron Wrote:

Spoiler

You arrive near the impact site!

In contrast to the greater area, it's crawling with activity. There are horrors in every direction you look from your mounts.

Long chains of Pokemon are marching, two by two, into patches of Tall Grass as it erupts out of the ground like steam from a geyser. A red-gemmed Deoxys strides at incredible speed around the lower rim of the valley, the Grass sprouting in his wake. Another red-gemmed Deoxys in Defense Forme, broad as can be, is partnered with him and corrals the Pokemon of that region into the grass with help from two orange-gemmed Deoxys in Attack Forme using their arms as whips. Their crystals flash, communicating with each other and with other groups of Deoxys as they force Pokemon into unsuitable habitats for their experiments. You're mostly seeing plains Pokemon here, such as Nidoran and Girafarig and Lopunny.

A group of yellow and green Deoxys are raiding nearby Elanor, violently, without care for its preservation. They rip up entire houses in Attack Forme and bear them away in their bulkier, quadrupedal forme, then sink them as fences. Whenever they find anything electronic, they add it to a gargantuan pile they've amassed near the impact site. A pair of blue-crystal Deoxys have grown hands with which to disassemble and re-assemble the electronics into a structure like an enormous antenna. Rotom and other formless Pokemon are brought up and bound to this structure, seemingly unable to leave it. They spin uncontrollably. About a quarter of Elanor has been destroyed in this way.

Though Deoxys has only been here a couple days, its army of clones has already managed to build an enormous earthworks, like an igloo made of soil blocks. Every Deoxys working here is white gemmed. They are physically imprisoning small, non-burrowing Pokemon into cells of the castle of mud, which is already large enough to rival Sarimanok's, and growing by the minute. You spot a Togepi, a troop of Swadloon, even a giant Probopass.

Not all the Pokemon captured by Deoxys are herded into new, inhospitable surroundings for its experiments. Those are the lucky ones. A black-gemmed Deoxys surrounded by floating MSC crystals is capturing some of the less animalistic Pokemon, perhaps for later experiments. Though the Pokemon are trapped inside, they are still able to cry out, and their tortured whines ring out across the valley. Still, it gets worse.

Where the mines once stood, now there's a mesa of stone. A Deoxys with a brilliant, holographic rainbow gem is up there, surrounded by random Pokemon with glazed, empty eyes. Every few moments, the line moves forward by just one or two Pokemon. As your flying mounts rotate a bit, the gruesome scene is fully revealed. Deoxys is surrounded

gruesome

by the vivisected corpses of two or three dozen Pokemon, and is currently opening up a Tepig with glazed over eyes. It's still alive, but making no move to resist.

The Clefairy nest discovered by Shiva has been uprooted, and likewise raided for its resources. Some of the rarest Pokemon are being forced into weird bubbles of air being generated by another set of Deoxys clones. These are colored various shades of purple, but none are the same color as the Deoxys entry in the Pokedex. As you arrive, you see a Clefable touched by Deoxys turn comatose and get placed in a bubble, which is suddenly hurled into space by a Speed Forme.  It almost comes close to you, and suddenly the eyes of two of those purple Deoxys are turned on you. Not only their eyes, but their attacks!

These are just their normal basic Psychic attacks, not Deoxys' signature all-powerful Psycho Boost. You saw them coming and have a chance to dodge.

Psychic 1 on Kelda
(4)(2)(5)(6)(2)(3) (5)(2)(3)(2)(1)(4) (5)(2)(1)(1)(1)
Evasion: This gal is a blur, thanks to the Helm. (5)(2)(6)(3)(6)(1)(4)(1)(5)(2)(3)(2)(6)(6) She escapes unscathed, but it takes all her focus to do so.

Psychic 1 on Charizard (This is just as you are landing and swapping out)
(5)(3)(5)(2)(5)(5) (5)(4)(6)(6)(6)(1) (1)(3)(2)(2)(1) = 8
Evade: (6)(1)(1)(2)(6)(2) (4)(5)(5)(1)(4)(5) (5)(6)(1) = 8
8 Str + 3 power +1 stab +2 crit = 10d6 to you
(1)(4)(2)(3)(4)(5) (3)(4)(1)(5) = 4 dmg. 5/9hp -1 pain.

Deoxys looks a little surprised at the way you took those attacks. The party lands in a split second (you can decide where), and the Deoxys decide it's time to get serious. They remain in Speed Forme.