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Bowser Jr: Level 15 EXP:
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Rika: Level 10 EXP:
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Lvl 14 Geralt (193/140) -> (198/140)
Lvl 10 Roxas (39/100) -> (44/100)
the prince said, before scampering off
”Huh” Rika wasn’t really sure what to do with that thought. She's not really gotten why they were handing over the spoils of their fight to someone they hadn’t really seen since he got lost post the Blue mission, had been kinda surprise was still alive/came back, and who’d soon be off on a different mission once again. She hadn’t really talked with him then either and…
It was at this moment that Rika was struck by an unpleasant relapse of the sadness of the funeral and she did not like it. But it also hit her that the people they just had spent a bunch of time with, and actually talking with instead of just kinda being around (even if she’d mostly been on the sideline of that), were also going to go off like that. Who knew if they were also gonna come back.
It was that that spurred her to go find Geralt in the crowd and say to him super bluntly
”Hey. You should pokebattle Jr before we spit up so you can learn. Also Roxas should come” Geralt looked at Rika a little confused, before shrugging and downing the rest of his drink. “Sure, kid. Sounds like a good idea. Lead the way.”
The ship girl nodded, and promptly about turned and went to go find Roxas, and initially failed entirely due to being too short to see past all the people. Then she started using double jumps to launch up above it, catching sight of Roxas and calling out
”Roxas. Come here.” and then belatedly, after another jump up, adding
”Please?”Roxas tilted his head in curiosity at the display at first. But after that shrugged and went to go see what Rika wanted with him.
”Yeah? What’s up?” He asked after squeezing his way through the crowded room over to where he saw Rika jumping up from. Jr wasn’t around for once, but he did see that Geralt was.
”We’re gonna show him how to fight using pokemon before you both go” Rika explained simply, before adding
”Just as soon as my brother gets back” and then hopping up to try and work out where said brother was, only a little bit antsy about having lost track of him in the crowd.
“Figured it would be a good idea to get the basics before the team split up.” Geralt explained to Roxas, “though it was their idea.” He finished.
”Sure, sounds good to me.” Roxas replied with a shrug.
Soon enough, the koopa prince was brought along and brought onboard, and the quartet headed down to the training room once again, wherein Jr tried to gauge how much work getting Geralt up to speed was going to be.
”I guess how much minion commanding stuff have you done before?”“None. Not really a thing Witchers wound up doing much at all.” Came the simple reply.
”Urgh””I mean did you either?” Rika asked Roxas, making an off the cuff guess as to the Nobody’s own experience levels.
Roxas himself didn’t directly have any experience at commanding monsters before becoming a Pokemon Trainer. However, his Other Half actually did for a time. Of course, trying to explain
that would take entirely too long. So instead Roxas just shrugged and said,
”Kind of, but not really. But I battled with Scamp when I first met him at Port Meridian. Twice actually. Plus I battled Jr that one time just before we all split up.””See” ”Alright alright, let me figure something out um” Jr replied, scratching his head and glancing around, not going to be the one to suggest an actual match because of how much anti-fairy type there was between the other two trainers. Instead his eyes landed on a pretty typical punching bag in the training room.
”Ok, let’s just start off with this!” he said, pointing it out, and suggesting
”Let’s see if you can get your mon to hit that before you try and do an actual fight” ”How about you?” Roxas asked Jr,
”Ever battled with two against two before? I did once, back in Port Meridian. It was against a bad guy trying to steal Pokemon, uh, Pit teamed up with me for it.”Geralt’s brow furrowed angrily at the story. “No shortage of bandits and thieves here, either, huh?” He grumbled.
”There were about a hundred of em in the armory” Rika replied, a bit too casually to tell if that was supposed to be a joke or not, while Jr focused on the challenge to his prowess.
”Huh? No? But I bet I’d be great at it!” Jr replied, before adding
”But there’s only 3 trainers so we can’t find out” and then after a half second pause adding
”and Rika’s whale is way too big to fit!””I mean I could borrow some? We’ve got. What. 3. 1. 4. That makes 8 pokemon. 2 each” Rika pointed out, counting them on her fingers as she spoke.
”Huh? Um. I guess?” Geralt shrugged. “Guess we could do it. I'll be at a disadvantage, but the whole point is to learn. Failure is an effective teacher.”
”I mean, i’ve never done this before either really, soooo, me and Roxas vs you and jr would be fair, right?” Rika suggested, getting a
”Huh, what?” from her brother who’d just assumed they’d be on the same team.
Geralt agreed with a nod. “Sounds fair to me. What do you think, Roxas?” Completely bowling over Junior's dashed expectations.
”Let’s do it!” Roxas agreed. Then he looked over at Rika and asked,
”So which Pokemon do you wanna borrow?” He was willing to let her borrow one or two of his if she asked for them.
”hmmmm” Rika hummed, before requesting
”What were they called… Shocker and Titan” she requested.
”My Ghost types, huh?” Roxas asked with a grin, choosing their respective Poke Balls and offering them to Rika.
”Here ya go. Do you know what moves they can do? Titan can use Curse, Iron Defense, Shadow Punch, and Stomping Tantrum. And Shocker can use Electro Ball, Confuse Ray, Double Team, and Blizzard.””Oh. I guess so yeah. I just thought you’d like to use your new one and your evolved one was all” Rika said, as she weighed up her two options, and then tossed Shocker the haunted refrigerator onto the field. A haunted refrigerator that, because it was part machine, immediately gained a chaingun turret and missile launcher thanks to Col. Droneman’s spare parts buff.
”Huh” was Rika’s response to this, before she tentatively acknowledged that
”Using that’d probably be cheating” and resolving not to have the now packing heat refrigerator gun down the other pokemon.
Jr sighed, defeated, then shrugged and plucked his pokeballs from his bandolier and tossed them out to summon his mon for Geralt to see before asking
”How about you?” Looking over his option, Geralt let Tirn out of his own ball, letting the Shieldon get a feel for its potential partners. “The floating one. What did you call it again, Peeka?”
”Yup. Coz they are like a boo!” Jr replied, seemingly very proud of what was presumably a pun.
Either way, the fluttermane hovered over, and took her spot by Geralt’s side, ready to take the field whenever he wanted her too.
Nodding, Geralt looked over the assortment of trainers and Pokemon before him, nodding. “Okay, so how do I actually
do this?” He asked, completely lost. “How do I know what it can do?”
”Well, Jr and me typically just have most of our moves memorized.” Roxas said,
”But I’m pretty sure the Pokedex App on either of our phones can say what moves a Pokemon knows, too.””Ohhh. We should probably get you one of those. Here, you can use min though” Jr said, retrieving his phone and offering it to Geralt. As he did, Rika leaned over to Roxas and asked
”Can I?””Sure, I don’t mind.” The Nobody answered as he handed his silver-white cased Rotom Phone to Rika, who took it and started checking out his pokemon’s stats.
Taking the offered Pokedex, Geralt scanned Tirn with it (with help from Junior), prompting the device to chirp up. “Shieldon, the Shield Pokemon. It is outstandingly armored. As a result, it has no particular need to battle with others and can spend its time feeding on grass and berries.”
“Hmm. Not bad.” The Witcher commented with a nod, paying attention as the device also showed him what ‘moves’ the Pokemon had. “Only one actual attack, huh…?” And it wasn't a particularly great one, from what he could see. It seemed powerful, but caused self-inflicted damage as well. “No matter. You'll learn more.” Geralt reassured his Pokemon, earning a resolute nod from the Shieldon.
Peeka, on the other hand, was somewhat more offensively-focused without bottlenecking itself too deeply into any one battle philosophy. He gave the borrowed ‘Mon a nod, handing the Pokedex back to Junior. “We'll have to get me one before we leave tomorrow, but thanks.”
Jr nodded in agreement, before pondering for a moment and deciding
”Mimi, your up” prompting his Mimikyu to shimmy onto the field to face down the opposing Rotom. He definitely wasn’t putting Dazzle, his water type, out against an electric type, that was for sure.
Roxas then took one of his own Poke Balls and tossed it.
”You’re up first, Scamp! Come on out!” The ball released his recently-evolved Boltund who gave an excited bark before bending its legs in anticipation of whatever Roxas’s first command would be.
Geralt took up a spot beside Junior, watching as he directed Peeka forward. “You have more experience fighting, and I'd like to have a little more of my own before sending Tirn out for his first battle.” He commented.
”Hope you’re ready.” Roxas said,
”Scamp - use Nuzzle on Peeka!””Shocker, blizzard both of them!” Rika followed up, prompting the Rotom to pop open its fridge freezer door and unleash a torrent of cold air that swept over the far side of the arena, the mon artfully aiming this wave over the head of its ally.
Mimi was buffeted by the snowstorm, but rather than taking damage herself it was her disguise that took the hit, the oversized head snapping back to an unnatural angle. This, unsurprisingly, made her a bit miffed.
”Mimi, Mimic that move!” Jr commanded after seeing the effectiveness of it, causing the Mimikyu to swirl her tail around lke a wand, sucking up some of the lingering frost particles.
Geralt silently cursed as Peeka attempted to dodge Scamp’s attack but failed, sparks silhouetting the Flutter Mane's form. He'd been caught off guard by how quickly this all started. “Alright, then. Peeka, psybeam on Scamp!” For a split second, as the psychic energy charged, Geralt felt that same hunger he had with Dr. Yu, but it passed as soon as it came once the attack was launched. That boded poorly for his continued presence around Pokemon…
Scamp took the Psybeam and did manage to shrug it off, at least this time. But Roxas knew he couldn’t keep taking those Psybeams forever. Peeka may not have looked like a normal Misdreavous, was it still a Ghost type? If so…
”Scamp, target Peeka again! Use Bite!” And with Scamp’s Strong Jaw ability this could hit especially hard assuming the attack went through.
”Electroball her as well!” Rika added to this, prompting the floating fridge to discharge a ball of lightning that was more effective against slower targets (which was, unfortunately, due to her fusion, what Peeka was)
”Mimi, blizzard em both, stop em from focusing down the newbie” Jr commanded, prompting his mon to thrust her tail stick forwards and call forth her own blizzard to sweep across the enemy mon. It wasn't very effective against its origin, but the raw power of the move meant that it was almost as effective as anything Mimi could (currently) throw out herself.
Peeka took both hits hard, barely hanging on owing only to her relatively high level. The paralysis also meant that she was unable to act, despite Geralt's attempts to get her to. Luckily for her, Scamp also took a pretty hard hit from the Blizzard. So neither one of them were in the best of shape right now.
”Switch it up, Scamp! Use Nuzzle on Mimi!”He scampared towards the little spook, who tried to back up, but was caught and then viciously nuzzled by the much larger canine-pokemon. Very little damage was dealt, but Mimi was now also paralyzed, adding insult to the (minimal) injury.
Adding a second insult, Rika commanded Shocker to
”Use Confuse Ray on Mimi!”, prompting her borrowed mon to blast her brother’s mon with a confuddling ray, prompting Mimi to bop herself on the noggin when Jr tried to get her to use Blizzard again.
”Gah, stupid status effects!”Geralt sighed, shaking his head at how the battle was going. They were being trounced. “Peeka, try Dazzling Gleam!” He called to Junior's Pokemon. The Flutter Mane twirled with a flourish before unleashing a blast of sparkling energy on both Scamp and Shocker, dealing a surprisingly large amount of damage, though it was spread between the two Pokemon.
It did more than the Blizzard had to Shocker, the sheer raw power of the strike taking it fairly low, but Rika was undeterred, commanding her mon to
”Finish Peeka with an Electroball!” The ball of electricity landed viciously, Peeka floating to and fro dazed before sinking to the ground, knocked out.
“Come back, Peeka. You did good.“ Geralt sighed, returning the Flutter Mane to its Poke ball. “Alright, Tirn, now's your chance.” He continued, releasing the Shieldon from his ball.
After the Dazzling Gleam, Scamp was looking pretty rough. And Roxas knew they still had Dazzle to contend with. And so…
”Return for now, Scamp!” He called, recalling the Boltund to his Poke Ball to get a minute of rest and to catch his breath. Then Roxas brandished his remaining Poke Ball and threw it.
”Your turn, Turbo!” He said, calling out his Revavroom.
”Uh oh” was Jr’s response to the fairy anathema mon being thrown onto the field. He glanced at the still confused Mimi, and made a snap decision to also swap her out, calling out
”Come back Mimi” and then
”Go Dazzle!” as he sent out his pure water type onto a field that still had one electric type on it.
”Guess I wasn’t the only one with the idea to swap.” Roxas mused to himself before he more loudly called his next move,
”Turbo, target Dazzle - use Screech!” This elicited an engine rev from Turbo that soon amped up into an earsplitting noise focused in Dazzle’s direction. The poor pokemon dropped to the ground, flipper suppressed over his ears, but it wasn’t enough to prevent his defences being sharply lowered by the nasty status move.
“Tirn, take down on Shocker!” Geralt called to his Mon, looking for a revenge KO on the Rotom. Tirn launched forward in a reckless full-body tackle in response.
The heavy little pokemon slammed into the haunted refrigerator, sending it skidding back and then toppling over with a crash, leaving Shocker down for the count.
”Ah. Um. No wait they’re ok right ok come back” Rika rambled as she found herself a bit more taken aback by her mon fainting that she’d expected, before recovering and commanding
”Out you go Titan” to send Roxas’ Golett onto the field.
In the meantime, Turbo had finally stopped screeching before Roxas called for the next attack.
”Go for an Iron Head!” The Revavroom responded by revving her engine before peeling out into a head-on collision aimed at Dazzle.
With his defences savagely weakened, and the level difference massive, Dazzle was sent tumbling backwards by the impact, and left barely clinging on to consciousness.
”Ah! Uh. Quick, Dazzle, sing to Titan before they finish you off” Jr commanded, prompting his mon to push himself up on one flipper, presse the other to his chest, and to sing a soft lullaby that put Titan to sleep, which left Rika’s subsequent command to fall on deaf ears.
”Return!” Roxas said, recalling Turbo while Dazzle was busy using Sing. Then he tossed his other Poke Ball back out.
”You’ve got this, Scamp.”“Tirn, follow up! Take down again, on Titan!” Geralt ordered, blissfully unaware that as a ghost type, Titan was utterly immune to the move. Tirn seemed hesitant, but nonetheless obeyed its trainer, charging forward and phasing right through the ghostly Pokemon, its attack having no effect. “What?” Geralt, baffled, muttered.
”Oops.” Roxas said apologetically,
”We forgot to tell you about how the types work. Sorry about that, Geralt.””Urgh” Jr groned, before saying
”Ghost types are immune to normal attack” ”and fighting!” Rika called over to add helpfully.
”Your turn, Scamp!” Roxas called, pointing directly at Dazzle,
”Hit ‘em with Spark!” The loyal Boltund growled into a bark before he bounded forward in an attempt to slam his electrified body into Jr’s Brionne, easily taking the water mon down with damage to spare.
”Back out Mimi, come one we can still pull this together” Jr called out, as his Mimikye, no longer confused, returned to the field.
Geralt sighed as he processed the information. It was like being unable to punch a Specter, he supposed. “Damn. Well, like I said, failure is a hell of a teacher.” He seemed to be taking the seemingly inevitable loss in stride. “Tirn, use swagger on Scamp.” He ordered, hoping it would cause similar havoc as to when they first found the Shieldon.
”Mimi, hone your claws!” jr called out, trying to take advantage of their foe’s deliberated states to power up. This gamble paid off vs titan at least, who continued napping.
”Don’t let it shake you, Scamp! Use Fire Fang - on Tirn!” Roxas called, hoping that the Boltund’s Strong Jaw ability and Shieldon’s Steel typing would let this be a solid super effective hit. But no luck. Scamp bounded forward but stumbled in his confusion and only succeeded in attacking himself, and with his attack sharply raised and his health already lowered from earlier rounds in the battle, that meant a hard hit. Hard enough that the Dog Pokemon KO’d himself.
”Guess we’re all down to one, now. Come back out, Turbo!” Roxas said, recalling Scamp and then tossing out Turbo’s Poke Ball. The Revavroom revved her engines in anticipation before Roxas quickly issued his next command,
”Swagger! On Mimi!”While Roxas targeted Mimi, Geralt commanded Tirn to go after the Revavroom. “Tirn, hit Turbo with a take down!” It was a predictable move, but the only offensive tool his Shieldon had in its arsenal. The shield Pokemon bounded forward, launching itself into the living vehicle to deal a weak, resisted hit.
”Mimi! Shadow Sneak! Win that coinflip for me!” Jr commanded the confused pokemon. Her shadow extended, wobbling as she struggled to keep control of it, only for it to successfully hit Titan in the back, and with 3 attack raises and a crit, it did absurd amounts of damage, taking the sleeping pokemon down in a single hit, prompting a cheer form jr and an
”aww” from Rika
Unfortunately for Jr, Roxas didn’t look too worried about this. After all, he still had Turbo at nearly full with no status conditions.
”Use Iron Head on Mimi!” Roxas calmly called with a smirk on his face. His Revavroom fired up her engines and peeled out for another head on collision, this time aimed at Jr’s Mimikyu.
Now it was Jr’s turn to
”Awww” in disappointment as the already low Mimi was launched into next week by the massive engine of destruction. Or rather through a wall and into the next room.
”Well I’m out. Gonna go get her” Jr said, all his mon, borrowed or otherwise, down, before hoisting his paintbrush and scampering out the room to go revive his fainted pokemon. Rika, who was also out, added
”Going with!” as she too popped out of the room for a brief moment, leaving the Witcher and Nobody to finish the match.
It was something of a foregone conclusion anyway.
“Tirn, iron defense!” Geralt called, hoping the defensive tactic would buy him more time to think as the Shieldon rallied itself.
”Screech!” Roxas called, eliciting the rev of Turbo’s engine into the ear splitting sound that harshly lowered Tirn’s defense, effectively undoing the Iron Defense - but also simply stalling the battle out.
It was enough that Jr and Rika managed to come back before they were done, which the koopa prince was more than happy to complain about while he got to healing all the fainted mon back to consciousness:
”You’ve got all the type advantages just finish it already!”Geralt nodded, a bit resigned. “Tirn, take down! Make him fight for it.”
”Turbo, brace yourself and hit back with Iron Head!” The Revavroom dug in her heels, or whatever equivalent one would do when they had wheels instead of feet. The Shieldon’s attack and - like before - did ineffective damage. And then Turbo struck, lurching herself forward while Tirn was still up close and slamming it with her Iron Head attack.
Tirn stumbled from the blow, wobbled for a moment, then finally plopped to the ground, knocked out. “Good job.” Geralt encouraged, drawing his sword and casting First Aid to return some vitality to the downed Shieldon.
“Good match, Roxas. Rika. You did good, Junior. Worry I held you back, though.” He followed up with the others, returning Peeka's ball to its owner.
”You, too.””I, uh, yup, definitely. For sure” Jr insisted for the sake of his ego, as he finished his rounds of casting
”Cure!” on all of the pokemon.
”That Turbo’ll be really hard to get past next time. Jr’s fairies really don’t like both its types” Rika said, before handing Roxas back his phone and pokeballs. He accepted them with a nod.
Geralt nodded, looking over the Revavroom. “Fairies are known to dislike iron, that much is true.” He replied sagely. “Wonder if Tirn would be a problem for them as well, if it learned a different attack.”
”Yuuuup” Jr agreed in a half groan, already seeing his future fate of uphill battles vs terrible type matchups continuing, before asking
”Can you catch some dragons or something please? That’d help out a lot” Geralt blinked for a moment, then sighed. “Of course there are dragons. Witchers aren't supposed to hunt those, on account of them being sapient. Never heard a rule against capturing them to fight alongside you.” He joked.
”He’s just saying that because Fairy types are immune to Dragon type attacks, and because Dragon types are weak against Fairy moves.” Roxas teased.
”I know Turbo is strong against most of his fairies. But his Dazzle is strong against Titan. And so is Mimi.””and Peeka, but he’s strong vs them too. Plus Scamp and Shocker are both good against Dazzle” Jr pointed out.
”Also he’s got more pokemon than you now” Rika added, before wondering
”Maybe you’ll find one in the Forbidden Kingdom that’ll work well against his?” ”Eh maybe” “Well, good luck to you over there tomorrow.” Geralt offered with a nod. “Not that you should need much. Might be young, but you kids are fighters.”
”I’m going with you guys to the Frozen Highlands, remember?” Roxas pointed out to Geralt with a grin,
”But I appreciate the thought, anyway.””Yeah we are” Jr agreed with a pump of a fist, while Rika shrugged and agreed
”It’s what I was made for, and I’ve only gotten better since I got freed” before adding
”I’m sure you two’ll be just fine over there as well, but um, good luck too” ”Mmm hmm. Go kick that guardian's butt with whatever plant it was he didn’t like, and then after that I’ll kick your butts in a pokemon battle!”“Looking forward to it.” Geralt joked with a roll of the eyes. “Alright, I think it's time to settle down for the night.” He added, rolling his shoulders.
”Yeah…” Roxas said with a yawn,
”...you’re probably right.””I guesss” Jr relied reluctanctly, right before catching the infectious yawn and doing one himself and saying
”Yeah. Alright. Nighty night” with Rika echoing right after
”Night night”
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