(01-29-2018, 07:08 PM)Iron Wrote: By the time the darkness has faded away, Orthros has stopped tasting his tongue and making a face at the bitter medicine.
As the shadows fade away, Dagny's chair rolls forward on its own. Her face is shaded by her hood, but she appears to be staring at her lap. In her hand she has already selected a greyed Pokeball, which crackles with energy in the darkness.
Everyone in the audience (and there are a few random spectators) knows not to mention her condition or draw attention to it in any way. A few of them have been here before and know a little about what's coming. They are excited.
Her chair reaches the Gym Leader's position. That familiar buzzing sound is heard. It intensifies. Then, incredibly, she stands up and casts her cloak away! At each of her joints is a bulbous swelling - these seem to be the source of the buzzing. Many of them crackle like her Pokeball, emitting occasional sparks. And one...one has a little moving screw peeking out of it.
Dagny's limbs are supported by Magnemite.
Dozens of the small electrical Pokemon hold up the Steel Wonder. For something as important to her as a Gym Battle, she will not be faced like a cripple.
She flings her hand forward, and Excadrill appears in the arena! The thin steel coating of the floor cracks under his feet, steel that has already begun sweating where Orthros stands. About half the floor shunts aside, withdrawn into mysterious compartments beneath the gym.
"No sense in wasting time! Your test begins!"
Orthros: (2) + 7 = 9
Excadrill: (2) + 2 Dex + 2 Survival = 6
Gym Leader Dagny vs Nathan Round 1
Once Nathan had departed to greet Dagney and prepared for his
ferrocious battle against her, Ventus himself made his way to the Steel Arena stands, lingering around just long enough to her issue the conditions for their and giving the Gym Leader a friend and polite wave. Upon arrival, he released
Plusle, Minun, and Michael with a few flicks off his wrist, and found them all a spot to sit/cheer that provided a full view of the battlefield!
The electric mice duo, after the empath quickly explained their purpose in being with him for this occasion, were quite
estatic and chipper to be a part of the young trainer's cheerleading squad,
as they jumped up and down in the stands and gave them all the outcries of support their little lungs could handle! *Squeek Squeek Squeeeeeeeeek!!!*
The mushroom of champeons, meanwhile,
opted to take a seat and cross their arms as they eyed the boy with seriousness and introspectiveness as he tried to glean whatever Fighting Knowledge he could by watching their fight. His last fight against them had been decidedly lopsided , what with them playing every dirty trick in the book and stocking his team full of Psychics to try and mulch them in , but if nothing else it proved they were mean and wily in battle just like his own master! Now its time to see how much his rival's has grown in POWA! since he's last seen them in action, and see if he can't put some of their moves to his own robust use, ORAH!!!
Ventus himself was eager to see what Nathan Pokémon selection and battle strategy he was going to employ in his fight against the Steel Wonder herself, standing tall and wearing an encouraging and affable smile on his face as they sent out their first choice........!
......Until, coming forth from an inky black aura that chilled his very soul,
Othros appeared.
In an instant, the sociologist's good cheer was obliterated. His smile was gone, and instead replaced with small, concerned.....and
scared frown. His whole posture grew taught and rigid, like a cable stretched to its very to its limit. Most significantly of all, an uneasy air of wariness, hate, distrust, apprehension, negativity, and
disbelief now clung tight to the once positive man. All in all, it was a subtle but no less drastic transformation in Ven, and if anyone payed close attention he looked ready to bolt clean for the exit if it wasn't for his responsibility to looking after Shiva's and his own Pokemon.
Still, that didn't stop him from internally, almost painfully balking
at the
HORRIFYING and
IMPOSSIBLE YET STILL PRESENT BOND BETWEEN THE BOY AND HIS HELLHOUND THAT SHOULD NOT BE!!!
Thankfully, Dagney
shocking reveal of using Magnemite as a source of locomotion distracted him juuuuust enough for him to avoid having
another panic attack over being forced to confront the reality of Nathan's powerful bond with his pet abomination. 'So THAT was the source of the buzzing I heard from I'ved traded from her 'D' persona! Clever and ingenious, I must say, and a rather impressive display of controlling and/or training her Magnemite to operate in such a way! What else is Dagney capable of, furated away from prying senses such as mine own.....?' the researcher thought, who had by now had fully regained control over his frayed emotions,
visciously destroying the dreadful and fearful miasma that briefly smother his rationality when he could manage, and surpressing what little else he couldn't.
Now that he was more......
aware of the newfound phobia, Ventus would now begin taking measures to tightly leash it and bring it under his total command. Easier said that done, given how his 'discipline' over his fears/utter HATRED of unknown Fairy types and the Arcane in general, but hey, some restrait is better than none, right?
'.......I had thought that was a horrible,
horrible walking daydream I experienced last night, but I nor my mind can deny what I witness now: Nathan has
somehow fully opened that
MONSTER's heart and deeply bonded with
it. That by all rights he could achieve this blasphemous camaradence with that
elderitch nighmater demon should be
beyond impossible , a bond that
should not ever be, but he somehow manage to
do it anyway. *Shivers* ......I don't know HOW he achieved this, and I don't WANT to know. So long as he keeps that...that
twisted paradox AWAY from me, he can French kiss it for all I
don't know and
don't CARE. '
'Ugggh.....*Shivers again in fear, before shaking his head* Becalm yourself Ventus. You are here to provide support to the boy's efforts to reign triumphant against Dagney, no matter how what........
methods he uses to reach that goal. I must always remember that
I am the undisputed master of myself, and I
must not allow internal or extrenal influence to weaken me. .....No matter how
terrifying they are.'
With that mental struggle now won in his favor, the scientist resumed his vigilance over the ongoing battle, though by now he had taken a seat besides Michael and was watching silently and with a neutral expression now. Occasionally, he also made sure to check up on the electric mice to make sure they weren't getting up to any mischief, while also encouraging them to cheer even harder whenever Nathan made a spe
cutalar or grand play! As for his brother, he left them be for the most part, though he did make sure they weren't taking this battle TOO seriously and to enjoy the spectacle itself!
Order: Have a revelation and discovery with Ventus, then commence a Cheerleading Training Session with Plusle and Minun, while Michael focuses more on intently watching the battle to hone his own strategies and tactics to one day take Nathan down several pegs (Also a Training Session, but clearly he's doing something different than the mice)! Ven will just sit and watch/continue watching the battle himself, occasionally clapping his heads and keeping tabs on all the Pokémon.
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