[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

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Deoxys Prime Round 1 - This is the battle against your final foe! Or is it?

I'll assume Wide Guards and Dark Pulses from Heart, since he said they'd give offensive and defensive support.

Banette shifts to Mega Form! New zippers open up to reveal extra claws and allow a freer range of movement. The mouth remains zipped. We don't want that to open.

A wind begins to pick up from the openings.
Ominous Wind 1
Auto critical
(2)(3)(6) Attack Deoxys takes 2 damage, but even a critical hit from a Mega Pokemon has little effect.
CD: (6) The next hit will be even harder!

Crunch 1
Auto critical
(1)(5)(6)(3) 3 more damage for a total of 5.
CD: (2)

Deoxys Prime flicks a tendril into a fist, which lights itself afire. It targets Grid, who is unprotected by the Shield but almost as dangerous as Princess. SLAM! Fire erupts around the impact site, leaving Grid smoking in a small crater. You see one of the Elite draw some of the fire into their red hood, but it's only enough difference to keep Grid alive. He still faints instantly, having taken 2 Plot Device Damage from this Fire Punch.

Seeing the Helm also in action, Speed Deoxys is ordered to stop the only artifact wielder it can. It's dangerously fast enough to leave the battlefield and attack Spira, but Banette manages to intercede. Especially because Spira is tactical enough to predict such a move.

Deoxys Prime is also smart enough to know Knock Off won't affect a mega stone. (and Cut is right out!)

Zen Headbutt 1
Auto crit
(3)(4)(5)(3)(6)(6) (3) Banette takes 4 dmg.
CD: (6) Banette flinches 2

Pangoro ROARS and YELLS at the top of his voice as he spots all the destruction of this pretty town, furious about what Deoxys Prime has done to the people and Pokemon! This as well as that reddish powder he shakes from his bamboo twig totally catches the Clones' (and Prime's?) attention.
Rage Powder 1
(2)(5)(1)(4)(4)(2) (1) This seems to work on all the clones currently present. Deoxys Prime will command them to attack targets of his choice, reducing Pangoro's evasion.

Tailwind 1
(6)(4)(2)(3)(1)(5) (5)(5)(2

Wide Guard goes here

The queen moves forward! She's ready for this. She and Nathan have been preparing. She's talked to Gallade about the Artifacts. She's got her swarm with her. She's got a steady breeze. Everything is about as perfect and orderly as can be... except for this rival ruler mucking up her orderly world.
Attack Order 1
(1)(2)(5)(1)(2)(2) (3)(6)(1)(3)(5)(1) (4)(3) Tailwind makes that a more solid hit.
The first plot damage brings the clones to half, staggering them. When they realize it's a swarm of creepy bees, they flinch back, allowing the Combee even more stings. Each tiny sting is given a little more significance by the Sword, and there are a LOT of stings. The clones drop to 1hp, moving slowly as so much of their mutamorphic body is swollen with poison. Already, though, they are beginning to heal it.

(fun fact: real life bees only have a couple dozen males in the entire hive, and they have no stings.)

As for Deoxys Prime, it takes damage. But its body is so huge, and made as much of psychic energy as it is of flesh. Deoxys Prime has such alien confidence in its own powers, its own rightness, that it will not yield. It carries on.

2 damage to Deoxys Prime.

Fury Cutter 1-5
(4)(4)(3)(3)(3)(5) (5)(4)(4)
(6)(6)(2)(4)(1)(5) (6)(1)
(5)(4)(3)(6)(6)(4) (3)
(1)(6)(5)(4)(1)(5)
(3)(4)(4)(6)(4)

Very nice. That takes care of all the clones, since min damage is one. Arete is a legendary whirlwind, moving through them at high speed, oftentimes assisted by the rocket on its back. It keeps its blades spread wide as it flies, flicking them out to catch at throats, gems, crucial limbs.

You've really learned how best to deal with these things!! Compare this fight to the first clone fight and you'll see an interesting difference, even without the swarm. But yet again the Rage Powder idea is halted in its tracks when all the clones died before they could attack : (

Two Charizard rush forward to take care of the bodies.

Marco revives Grid with 1 hp.

Gustav tries a Dark Pulse, but it doesn't affect Deoxys Prime in any way.

The Dark Gem is expended as Oinari attempts to dodge a flailing tentacle and redirect it right into Deoxys Prime, but it doesn't deal any Plot Device damage. Dark energy does splash around, creating a field of black tendrils of night. Some of the League members start to rush into there, but are stopped by a command from (presumably) Bo.


Mega Banette and supersonic Neura do no damage to Deoxys Prime, but the secondary effects can affect him because of the Helm.
Deoxys doesn't have a Def stat, so Shadow Ball is harmless to the big alien. Also flinch.

Poison Fang 2
Auto hit
CD: (1)(5)(5)(6)(5) Deoxys Prime was badly poisoned. This poison qualifies as PD damage, but Deoxys gets a chance to resist it.

You see Cosh making stirring motions above, cycling the poison through its protoblood.

Deoxys prime maneuvers, trying to get past Princess and her extra-tough Combee. They form up into a wall between him and Nathan, and a trickle of the Shield's power affects them too. Frustrated, it begins laying waste to whoever it can while holding up shields and bulky portions of its body against Princess. It begins tearing up massive stones and hurling them about. It hurls a big one into Mt Molten, still connected to an Attack Forme tendril, and a massive rock slide begins rumbling down the mountain. It covers half of Mallorn's field research areas, half the Warren Ranch, the Pokemon Center, the Pokemart, and the little wealthy uptown portion of Trillium. People come screaming out of the wreckage. The League immediately dives in to help rescue people. You see Bo(?)'s Pokemon holding up various Barriers to protect the houses themselves.

The Rock Slide also tears into the defenders, affecting dozens of targets at once. Grid goes down in a massive heap of stones, his limbs still twitching but squished from all sides. You aren't even sure if he's alive. Nathan has difficulty even aiming the Pokeball beam to recall his spidery friend, but eventually succeeds using his unearthly gracefulness.

Neura is knocked unconscious. Banette is reduced to 1hp. Vespiquen stands tall, letting the boulders bounce right off of her as she shields a few tiny Combee with her flared lower body.

Whimsicott and Arete all fall to 1hp. Only Arete's semi-legendary status keeps them upright. Marco's Pokemon drop to 1hp as well, with Gustav, Oinari, and Lancelot. The baby Pokemon's eyes flutter. She can barely stand up with that much of a pain penalty. The more experienced Pokemon are grimly determined despite the intense pain. Arete even blasts rubble out of the way with her water moves.

Pangoro has evasion orders, needs a crit. The Tailwind helps.
(5)(4)(1)(2)(3)(6) (5)(1)(5)(4) Pangoro is unharmed.

Attack Order 2
(1)(4)(6)(2)(5)(2) (3)(1)(2)(1)(4)
Deoxys takes 2 more PD for a total of 4.

Ice Fang 3
CD: (5), (5) Deoxys doesn't freeze or flinch, but it could have.

"Finished? Believe me now? You're bugs. Only Ancient Experiments are worth using. Will reduce variables until only those that matter are left."

Psychically, the boulders rise into the air again, and fling themselves haphazardly about. Pangoro tries to dodge again. (4)(4)(5)(3)(5)(6) (5)(5)(2).

Pangoro dodges, but with that, all the non Shielded Pokemon (besides Pangoro) are fainted and have taken a lethal damage. None are as bad as Grid looked.

"Much better. Now, come closer, little bug, and let me see what makes you so strong."

Vespiquen strikes out with Attack Order instead.

Attack Order 3
(6)(2)(4)(6)(1)(1) (5)(4)(2)(6)
Deoxys sustains his 6th point of PDD. "Cannot vivisect me that easily." It tries a Cut, but finds even the HMs don't get through the Shield's protection.

"See now. All about bond between Pokemon and human." What is this? Is Deoxys having a change of heart? An epiphany?

"Humans hold Ancient Experiments, wield their influence over Pokemon. Position: to discover how Pokemon work, must direct experiments on HUMANS!"

A psychic vice suddenly squeezes Terra's head. "Learned enough from you. Only big bug was worth battling."
Terra takes 1 point of PDD and drops to 1hp.

Attack Order 4
(1)(4)(1)(1)(2)(4) (5)(2)(3)
8 total PDD.

Shiva begins sweating as she realizes Deoxys will eventually reach her and physically wrest the Shield away. Or take the Sword from Nathan. Pangoro moves to defend her, and Cosh moves all the buffs into him.

Another casual blow from Deoxys brings Terra to unconsciousness. "Who holds ancient Artifacts? Fast man must have one. Loud man. All but the Terra hold them." The massive alien looms over Terra's body, barely flinching as Vespiquen lands one final blow before regrouping. Deoxys has now taken 10 PDD and seems to be just beginning to feel it. Big shieldlike hunks of flesh swing up to cover the wounds as they slowly heal. You think if those wounds weren't super effective, they'd have healed entirely away by now.

"Who is first? Time to vivisect the Terra?....... perhaps....... perhaps later."