[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

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Meowstic gets it ready. 

Emolga is pretty much the perfect Pokemon for this, yeah. So with a Nuzzle, the Capture Web flashes and activates! There's that familiar sound again, that familiar flash of light on a massive scale, and with a SKREE of pleasure the Skarmory of Marco Warren is released!!! 

This can't help but alert the Kadabra, but Skarmory is very excited to see you! It flies rapid circles around the chamber, and makes ready to swoop down and pick you up.

Just from the presence of this Pokemon you can tell it is very powerful and full of Surprises. Every wingbeat carries the latent power of the Legendary FLY Hidden Machine. Nathan has seen Skarmory do some amazing things, though you were too young at the time to understand exactly how they were done. You just know this thing is loaded down with unusual attacks and useful stat boosts and rulebreaking effects, the kinds of things you need to go toe to toe with the E4.

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*rolls*
*rolls*
*rolls*
*rolls*

On the other side of the cavern, though, the team of Arachnautilus and Cosh have navigated the Unown and traps with haunted looks on their faces. Cosh zaps the button with his sparking Gauntlet, and the Luxray of Marco Warren appears! It bounds toward Nathan, scattering Kadabra like they aren't even there, and licks Nathan's face like it hasn't done since he was a toddler. (Ouch!) Then it collects itself and regains its normal very serious mien. 

Marco's Luxray is trained for riding and Oversized enough to accommodate an adult human. Skarmory has Fly. Both seem fighting fit despite their long imprisonment. The Chandelure looks like it'll be forced to fight Kadabra before it can be hostile toward you at all. Marco's two Pokemon seem very ready for action, and very very very happy to be free. (4XP to Nathan). There'll be time for happy reunions later.

(So Cosh and Arachnautilus didn't get the 'Feraligatr' button?)

Okay, three down, three to go!  Meowstic could probably be in better shape, but Skarmory and Luxray by themselves are already a huge boon since they're the two pokemon Marco Warren is most well known for.  Nathan has a theory that it's part of the reason why the Shinx line and Skarmory are so popular in Creshire these days in the first place!

But aside from that, Nathan's definitely happy to see all three of them again after so long!  He doesn't even mind how rough Luxray's tongue is!  And he's definitely more than ready to fight alongside them so they can free the rest of his dad's pokemon as well as find the missing trainer himself!

It doesn't matter that backing out isn't much of an option right now since none of Marco's pokemon are not currently registered to pokeballs. Together, they can do this.  It doesn't matter what they may face. They're not going to let anyone or anything get in the way of their goals now!

So, are Light Screen and Reflect in effect on Nathan's side of the battlefield since Meowstic and Solosis were ready to use them once Skarmory was freed and attracting attention?