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Post by The Rose Kirlia on Jul 1, 2008 11:51:35 GMT -5
"Ahh..." Kimiko was taking her fill of the scenery, not really paying much mind on what Dirk was saying. She has never seen trees that tower this high. She wonders what it would be like to climb up one of them, what would she see? Will she be able to look out and see her house from up there? The thought of this made her giggle.
Then buzzing made it's way to Kimiko's ears. She stopped, and looked around. The sound was growing- was it a bug swarm or something? "What is that?!"
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Post by banov on Jul 1, 2008 12:04:01 GMT -5
"What's wha-"
Dirk stopped very suddenly, grabbing rhyhorn's tiny tail aggressivley. "Stop!" he muttered.
He could hear the buzzing, too. But... where...? Dirk began circling madly, looking for what it was, careful to stay silent. He had a bad feeling about this.
It's then, while still staring at the towering trees, that you catch sight of a largish moving mass of yellow and black high on one of the trees.
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Post by The Rose Kirlia on Jul 1, 2008 12:19:53 GMT -5
"Beedrill?" Kimiko asked to herself in a whisper, while looking up at the trees. She has seen a few of them during her travels before, but only as trainer pokemon, never wild. They were large, stinging insects that pack a whollop of some poision in their stingers. And they were fast, too. It was a little unnerving to see them in such a huge, dense swarm. She quieted, hoping that they won't spot them.
Mint stood still, too, mimicking what her trainer was doing. They both knew that it's not safe to make a lot of noise.
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Post by banov on Jul 1, 2008 12:26:02 GMT -5
Dirk, meanwhile, hasn't quite caught on yet, still looking for the source of the buzzing. "...Kimiko," he says, "You see anything?"
The buzzing stops.
A dozen heads turn to face the exploring duo, with large red eyes and crooked black antenae. Good call, Kimiko; those are indeed beedrill. But as they launch off the tree with a loud buzzing and begin circling around you in the air in a singular mass, it looks like this isn't going to be a pleasant meeting.
((By the way, Rei, you might find it helpful to get Kimiko in the Pewter City topic, too. All the other characters are gathering there, so you might find a good oppurtunity to have Kimiko meet everyone.))
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Post by The Rose Kirlia on Jul 1, 2008 12:39:12 GMT -5
((I already did while you were posting that. -^~^-))
"Eek!" She let out in a tiny yelp. 'They've spotted us!' A dozen Beedrill isn't a very good number to contend with with only three pokemon. And they didn't look as if they were friendly. Not at all.
"What should we do now, Dirk?" She asked, not taking her eyes off of the large buzzing flying things. She was careful not to make any sudden movements- that could set them off, and that's bad because she had done so before with a Combee and Vespiquen swarm in Sinnoh. It wasn't a very good feeling the few weeks after that. Some attacks came to her mind as she tried to figure out what would be a good course of action.
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Post by banov on Jul 1, 2008 12:44:30 GMT -5
A snide grin grew on Dirk's face. Ahh, the thrill of a wild encounter! "What else is there to do?" Dirk answered, pointing a finger at the beedrill. "Rhyhorn, rock blast! Squirtle, water gun!"
((This is an unconventional sort of battle, not following the rules of PvP. Your attack options will still be restricted by your level.))
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Post by The Rose Kirlia on Jul 1, 2008 12:51:55 GMT -5
Kimiko couldn't help but give a grin, too. Her first pokemon battle- against a swarm of Beedrill! Exciting! Awesome! ADVENTURE!!!
She shifted to battle stance, pointing at a Beedrill as well. "Mint, use Confusion!" Psychic type attacks have a huge advantage against against poison type Pokemon- at least, that's what she has heard.
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Post by banov on Jul 1, 2008 13:13:27 GMT -5
Mint raises an arm, and out from here launches a thin blast of some kind of... distortion, pulsing through the air and washing over some of the beedrill alongside a shot of water from squirtle. Immedietly they seem to spin out of control, dropping to the ground but not quite out.
The remainder launch an all-out strike on the trainers, but Dirk is quick to respond. "Rhyhorn, use rock blast as a defensive!"
Rhyhorn was the slowest one to act of the three, but this proved advantageous. With a heavy stomp it sent a special kind of pulse through the earth, a series of rocks and packed dirt exploding out from the ground; normally used as an attack, this time they were sent vertically, creating a brief wall of earth. The beedrill quickly swerve out of the way, preparing to return.
"I'll draw them together," Dirk shouts as he leaps on Rhyhorn's back, using its ridges as footholds and careful to keep himself raised over it spiked back. "Try to get as many as you can in one hit!"
Squirtle leaps onto rhyhorn's back as the rock rhino stomps forward with surprising foot speed. As the trio make a wide circle around, squirtle draws the beedrill with a constant spray of water gun...
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Post by The Rose Kirlia on Jul 1, 2008 13:35:53 GMT -5
Kimiko was glad for the Rhyhorn using Rock Blast for a wall, it protected them from what would be a horrible way to go. She glanced at the not quite knocked out Beedrill on the ground- so they weren't exactly KOed. 'I don't understand, that should have taken them out-' Her eyes opened wide in realization. '-they're part Bug type, too! I forgot! Normal set damage, then, right?'
"Wait for it..." She whispered to Mint, as Mint focused for another Confusion. The Squirtle was rounding up the Beedrill while they regrouped. When the time was right, she commanded, "Now, Mint! Another Confusion!"
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Post by banov on Jul 1, 2008 13:49:37 GMT -5
Dirk raised a triumphant first in the air from rhyhorn's back as the beedrill all tkae the confusion and go spiraling down, hitting the ground with rapid "thud"s.
These beedrill aren't just going to lameley sit back and take it, though! They quickly regroup and take back to the air; they've all reived moderate damage at this point, but none have fainted yet. This time they split off from each other, keeping spread out so that nasty trick doesn't work again.
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Post by The Rose Kirlia on Jul 1, 2008 14:27:04 GMT -5
'Well, at least they aren't completely dumb.' Kimiko searched her mind for a move that was more creative. She couldn't think of anything except for mass lowering of the opponent's stats. So, without further ado,
"Mint, use Growl attack!" Kimiko hoped that the cute little growl would make any of the swarms attacks weaker. After all, they only have physical attacks to deal with.
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Post by banov on Jul 1, 2008 14:33:36 GMT -5
Kirlia lets out an enourmously cute growl, that seems to still the beedrills slightly; suddenly, they seem a little less inclined to mount an offensive. "Nice idea, Kimiko." Dirk says with a nod.
"My rhyhorn'll wreck them all if we can just get them grounded... and I bet squirtle can ground them if we can just him him above the group. Any ideas how we can get him up into the trees? ...Or any other ideas, for that matter?"
The beedrill, meanwhile, still hang over your head. You've bought some time with growl, and they won't come with as much power, but you're still on a ticking clock before they decide to swarm down.
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Post by The Rose Kirlia on Jul 1, 2008 14:50:04 GMT -5
"Umm..." She thought for a second. "Gee, you got me. I could have Mint use her psychic attack, Confusion to give Squirtle a boost, but I'm not sure if she could get them very high up in the trees that way. There's always Teleport, except..." Kimiko trailed a little. "...Teleport has never been too successful with Mint. It could either send Squirtle in the trees, or a quarter of a mile away from this spot. It's just too risky for practice right now." She sighed. "It's your choice, or do you have any better solutions?"
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Post by banov on Jul 1, 2008 14:54:47 GMT -5
((Remember, as a lowly level one you've only got two attacks available per battle... in this case, yoiu've gone with confusion and growl ;p ))
"Confusion it is." Dirk answers, his voice rushed. "Quick!"
Squirtle moves as far back on rhyhorn as it can, and with a heavy pitch rhyhornthrows it into the air, a few feet short of a nearby tree branch.
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Post by The Rose Kirlia on Jul 1, 2008 15:00:50 GMT -5
((Oops. forgot I used Growl.))
Kimiko directed a finger to the blue turtle. "Mint, quickly, use Confusion on Squirtle to give him a boost!"
"Kir~" Mint twirled, and then focused on the Tiny Turlte Pokemon, creating a soft aura of blue around it and proceeded to lift it higher into the air.
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