[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

You arrive high above Trillium Town to find disaster already waiting. The roof of every single building in town has been peeled back like a dollhouse, revealing the house's contents to the world. Humans still cower in many of the buildings. Others have rushed to hide behind a big cloud of dust, which dissipates in the arrival of your FLY.

Mt Molten sparkles as if the sky snowed crystal. Each shimmer in the air, creating its own tiny mirage, is a little Deyo flower twinkling bravely amid the fire-resistant Tall Grass.

You see Corporal Wake bravely directing refugees and fighters, flitting everywhere at once on the back of a flying Dragonair. His face is grim, but his charisma and leadership shines through, and no one questions his orders.

The source of the dust cloud is a single man standing all alone, a bandanna wrapped around his head to keep back the dust. He stands very still, and you can see bestial forms racing around him, six of them at once, none nearly so large or so fast as the Eon Duo. He shepherds a gigantic Deoxys, split into so many arms it can hardly move. It has a massive crown of rainbow spikes on its head, indicating its Attack Forme. They seem to be in a stalemate.

The rest of the League is here, as promised. Shieldmaidens are taking turns tanking a hit from the four Attack Forme Deoxys who fly about, laying waste to anyone who leaves their dollhouse. As one Shieldmaiden receives a psychic strike, she falls back and lets another take her place. Healing supplies already seem dangerously low. They're assisted by a young woman with dark blue hair mounted on a very strong Drapion, who carries crates everywhere and looks like it already took a hit to half HP. Nathan's seen that Drapion on televised E4 battles.

Two Druddigon assist the Drapion. There's another Flygon besides Genie, attempting to trap individual Deoxys tentacles in Fissures before they can regenerate. A Tyrantrum stomps wildly about Trillium Town, on quite the rampage. Occasionally it will take a hit, fall to dust, and rise from a Fossil as a Tyrunt that ages before your eyes, only to start the whole process over again.

The Mist Lord hasn't arrived yet.

There are two Charizard FLYing in the air near you, and charred remains everywhere indicate that some Deoxys clones have already been defeated and disposed of. The fires of Mt Molten suddenly rise into reaching hands as if on some command, soaring up and crashing down in the wake of something speeding down the mountain. It's a Speed Deoxys, emerged from a chasm in the upper side of Mt. Molten. It brings...something...to its master and disappears in a blur of speed. Almost instantly the slashing arms pick up the power and speed of their assault, each swipe cutting clean through earth and stone even when trapped by a Fissure. Still the man in the full-face bandanna keeps all six of his Pokemon in action.

Shiva senses a little tiredness in him, but no magic akin to the Artifacts. No Legendaries trip your senses in this scene, either. He's just standing, alone, against the meteor-borne Deoxys. There's a little relief to him when he senses you arrive. (He doesn't look up when you arrive, but seems to know all the same).