In Her Image: a Pokémon RP

[JdaS]

Ugh, I'm guessing dodging's not an option...

"Sneasel, go for it, get a Fury Swipes in!"

Sn..Sneasel!

Sneasel knew that this was a one way trip, it was time to take one for the team. As the two Pokémon ran towards each other, Sneasel jumped at Spiegel, his flame engulfed fangs waiting. Sneasel managed to get a haphazard swipe in before feeling the Charmeleon's sharp searing fangs bearing down on its flesh. Spiegel held it there for a while before letting go.

Sn...Snnnee...

That was it, Sneasel's Ice type and its low Defense were no match for Spiegel's attack.

And that's Remy's first Pokémon down! What will he send out next?

I dunno Terry, but whatever it is, it better be able to contend with a Charmeleon. Those things pack a punch, or a bite anyway!

Recalling Sneasel, Remy proceeded to take out a Premier Ball.

"Time to call in the big guns... ZANGOOSE, you're up!"

Zangoooose!

A Zangoose appeared in a flash of light, crossing its arms and throwing them to its sides, exposing its deadly claws.

Spoiler: Zangoose

"Zangoose, time to get paid, Quick Attack!"

 

[CJ1145]

ZZINK! SKWIIIIIIiiip

Zangoose's strike struck air, as Spiegel retreated through a little red beam to the safety of his Pokeball. Daria tossed the ball up in the air a few times, idly catching it in her hands as she gave an eager grin to Remy. Though, only eager by her standards; it would register as homicidal on anyone else's face. She put up her right index finger and ticked it back and forth like a pendulum. "Uh-uh-uuuuuh." she said in a teasing voice. "Gotta let my boys stretch their legs, man! C'mon!"

She placed Spiegel's ball back on her belt and withdrew another one, giving it a little peck as she prepared to throw it. "You're gonna go far, Sleggar. Now show 'em why!"

Her Pokeball went flying out into the field, and nearly shattered open as a massive form smashed into the ground.

Spoiler

"GRAVELER!"

With Slagger pounding his fists together in anticipation, hopping from one leg to another, Daria pointed a finger over to Remy. "You get first move! See if you've got the might to break through!" She then shifted her finger-pointing into a thumbs-down and let loose an impish smile. "But, tell ya the truth, I doubt it!"

 

[Redryhno]

Darius had arrived and saw the brackets, looked like the first one he knew he was up against was Sav. A shame really, she seemed to care about her pokemon. He let Daffy and Knuckles out of their pokeballs, which had somehow ended up in his bag when he woke up this morning, instead of his bedpost, but they were still in his room, so he wasn't that upset about it. He smoked his pipe and talked to them as he watched Daria and Remy fight.

"Ok, guys, you see that? If we end up against either of them, you guys know we're using number 4, right? Followed by a 2 and 3, 1 leaves you guys too open, and 5-8 makes you too much on the defensive. Both of you can take the Graveller and the Charmeleon, you're both strong enough even without your types coming into play. the Sneasel's not that big of a problem,but Zangoose may be though, so use 5,6,7,1,4 for him, and watch out for those claws."

His pokemon listened attentively and watched the match with a barrel of popcorn between them, sprinkled with a powdered pokeblock, giggling to themselves every once in a while.

"Psy!"

"Slash!"

 

[Evrant-Knight]

Caleb watched with interest, as Daria Pace and Remy Olivier battled it out in the first match of group fourteen; hoping to gain some valuable information about the two trainers teams, and how best he could counter them with his own; or possibly how he could even trick the opponents into knocking themselves out. He watched from the trainer's ready room, along with his Pokemon.

"Hmm, what interesting attacks they possess. Remy's Sneasel could fall either to both of the attacks that its weak to from Raphael, or even a Shadow Ball from Sebastian could suffice. Sadly, I lack anything to effectively deal with Daria's Charmeleon, and that Smoke Screen is going to be a problem, unless I use Aerial Ace from Angelique to clear the field, then again with her being a Flying type she could easily move above it. Now, lets just see how they manage."

 

[JdaS]

Well would you look at that Andy! Rather than let her Charmeleon battle Zangoose, Daria Pace has switched it out!

Indeed she has Terry, and opting for a Graveler, that, while not having a type advantage per say, is very hard to chip away at with a Normal-type. The battle is getting intense as these two Trainers are showing off their deep understanding of type matchups.

"Graveler, eh? Ah well, Zangoose! You know what to do."

Zan Zan! Goose!

Zangoose started leering at Slagger, lowering it's Defenses as the Rock-type started feeling somewhat unnerved by his foe.

 

[CJ1145]

"G-Gravel..."

Slagger started to step away from the Zangoose and its fearsome gaze, but a stamp on the ground behind him roused the Graveler back to full awareness. He turned around and saw Daria had removed her shades, and stared at him with a fire burning in her eyes. "C'mon, Slagger, get yer head in the game! Tell me you're ready to paste this weasel!"

"GRAV!" Slagger responded, looking back at his foe and raring to go.

"Hehe, now that's what I like to see! HEY, REMY!"

She pointed at her opponent across the field. "Ya wanna speed this match up, am I right?! Well, ya'd better! Slagger, kick it off for the long haul!"

The Graveler grinned, almost maliciously, before rolling off like a Pokemon possessed towards the Zangoose. Then, as he got close, he began to ooze something... purple.

"TOXIC!"

 

[JokerboyJordan]

Savannah woke up bright and early the next day, still slightly perturbed by Daria's speech last night. She still felt full from last night's dinner despite only having a small potion. She stretched, and took an early morning bike ride, burning off last night's feast, Sprigg trying his best to keep up with her.

When she arrived at the tournament grounds she immediately went to check out the brackets, she wanted to know what idiot's ass she was about to kick.

Darius? Oh man, I really hate to go up against a fellow breeder, but at least I have the type advantage

"Did you see that Sprigg? We're going up against those two from last night, the Sandslash and Psyduck, you should have no problem, but don't get too cocky"

Spriggan just looked at her, his eyes slanted, looking at her as if to say "Are you serious?"

"Grove...?"

She returned him a strong look, she wasn't going to take his arrogance, not here, not today.
Sav also brought out her two other pokemon, Trapinch and Feebas.
"Now, all of you we can win this thing, just stick to your strengths and play on their weaknesses okay?"

"Grovyle!"

"Pinch!"

"Bass..."

 

[JdaS]

As Slagger careened past Zangoose, it covered the Cat Ferret Pokémon in the toxic ooze. Remy, seemed unfazed by this. The explanation was soon heard all over the Stadium.

And it seems Graveler used Toxic. A very peculiar move to use on Zangoose, isn't that so Andy?

Indeed it is Terry. Generations of feuding with Seviper has made Zangoose immune to poison, thus Zangoose is just wallowing in purple ooze as far as it's concerned.

"Hahaha! Didn't know that didja? Zangoose use Slash!"

Zangoose was a blur as it went in for the kill, slashing Slagger and leaving its mark but ultimately not doing much damage.

If only Zangoose had a move against Rock-types...

 

[CJ1145]

"Uh... oops." Daria whimpered, removing her hat to scratch the back of her head. A beat of sweat rolled down her very red cheeks.

Meanwhile, many miles away, in humble Pewter City, a young boy holding his brand-new Bulbasaur fell out of his chair, laughing uncontrollably as his sides threatened to shake themselves apart at an atomic level. Dirk Pace had thought his day couldn't get any better, but he was wrong.

Back at the tournament, Slagger looked at Daria for some kind of order. The young woman looked flustered as she realized that she was up to give a command again. "Okay, uh, back in the game Slagger! No regrets, use Rollout!"

Complying, the giant rock Pokemon curled itself up into a little ball and went barreling across the stadium towards its foe, roaring in anticipation as it went.

 

[JdaS]

As the battle went on, Caleb watched intently, taking mental notes of how to take on either of the two combatants if they crossed his path later on in the tournament.

"Oh my, could it be? Could this really be Caleb Grey, of the Lilycove Greys?"

Caleb's train of thought was interrupted by a young man of boyish good looks. Dressed in a bright purple suit with a white shirt and dress shoes and throwing his long brown ponytail over his shoulder as he looked down on the gentleman from Hoenn

"I am Nicolas Tagnoni, the youngest son of the Viridian City Tagnoni family. I have heard a lot about you. Glad to finally make your aquaintance."

Caleb had heard about the Tagnoni. The Grey family had always been well respected among the high-class of the country, the Tagnoni, not so much. This made them bitter and jealous people. The malice inherent in Nicolas' introduction made this fact all the more apparent.

"What a delightful coincidence that I should be the one to defeat you in the very first leg of the tournament, don't you think?"

 

[Anayna]

Rupert was not watching the battle between Remy and Daria, though he could hear the commotion of the struggle and the cheering of the crowd from his seat. He had managed to find an available computer terminal in the stadium and was clicking his way through menus rather frantically, a desperate look plastered on his pale face.

How could I have been so stupid?

The previous night had been eyeopening. Of course Haunter had feared Ryan's Mightyena; it was a Dark type. He knew this now. Rupert's almost complete ignorance of pokemon outside Kanto was coming back to bite him in the behind. How could he hope to advance in the tournament when he didn't know anything about the pokemon others might use against his own? He hadn't taken this whole tournament business seriously, but it had only now occurred to him that Cubone and Haunter could be seriously hurt because of his ignorance. Rupert had not slept at all last night, staying awake to read up on pokemon from Johto, Sinnoh, Hoenn and even Unova.

Stupid, Rupert. Stupid. Why did you pretend that this tournament was just something to 'get over with'? Haunter and Cubone will never forgive you if you don't give it your all here! Don't just do this to appease the people back home; do it for your team!

It was only a few minutes ago that Rupert had found out who he was fighting. It was Tom Relict, the lively boy who he had met just the previous evening. Rupert didn't like the thought of fighting him. Tom had seemed like an enthusiastic and caring trainer, but it was far too late to back out now. Fortunately, Tom had revealed his team yesterday. This made it so much easier to prepare for the fight.

Hmm. Let's see. Tom had a three man team, right? Yeah, he said so yesterday. Three vs two. The odds could be worse. What were his pokemon again? The one that looked like a scorpion was called a Skorupi I think, and that scary dog-like pokemon was... a Houndoom. Right. What was the small tan one he named Trapic? He never mentioned what kind of pokemon that was. Was it revived from a fossil? Yeah, Tom definitely mentioned that. That narrows the search.

Rupert spent the rest of his time in front of the computer monitor, waiting to be called out for his match, trying to devise some sort of battle strategy.

 

[Evrant-Knight]

Caleb stood up to face his opponent. The man must of been at least his age, possibly younger. From what he could remember, the Tagnoni family wasn't as well respected in the noble realm as the Grey family was; this had lead to a rivalry of sorts between them. It certainly showed itself in the way that Nicholas spoke, definitely jealous, but he hid it well for the most part.

"Well, it certainly is a pleasure to make your acquaintance as well Nicholas. Despite the rivalry that our two families share; I still hope for an honourable duel, after all, we are both gentlemen. And I see not a rival standing before me, but a man of distinction and class." Caleb remarked, complimenting the man at the end. From the corner of his eye, he could see that Raphael was charging a Brick Break.

"Patience Combusken, you shall have an opportunity. And as for beating me in the first round, don't count your Pidgeys before they've hatched, you never know what will happen."

 

[Shakomaru]

"Um... We're up against Rupert? That's not good..." "skor?" "Nah, Its not that I don't want to fight him, it's just I hoped it wouldn't be this early... "
Tom had taken the liberty to look up Rupert's Pokemon. He knew that the Haunter would be no problem, but that Cubone of his would be trouble. Of course Aeolus could sweep his team, but that was the exact reason he didn't want to use him.

"Well, it's gonna be a huge challenge guys, but I think we can just barely squeeze a win out of it. It's a good thing we did that training earlier huh?"
"SKOR!"
"DON!"
"HOUNDOOM!"

Tom looked over to Rupert. He looked worried. then again, he always looked worried.

Hopefully he doesn't know about the huge type advantage he has over me. I'd rather him not find out, overconfidence can lead to mistakes. Speaking about overconfidence, looks like the first match is that pewter fist girl and the older guy with the sneasel.

"well, it'll be a good idea to know how the others battle, in case I'm pitted against them. Alright, let's go watch."

 

[JdaS]

"Well, it certainly is a pleasure to make your acquaintance as well Nicholas. Despite the rivalry that our two families share; I still hope for an honourable duel, after all, we are both gentlemen. And I see not a rival standing before me, but a man of distinction and class."

"I... ugh... Well, just make sure you show up to the fight!"

Nicolas said while leaving. At the end of the row of seats, his equally young and handsome butler awaited him.

"Let's go Antoine, I've had enough of that presumptious buffoon."

"Very well, sir. Should I prepare you some tea as we wait for your battle?"

"Don't bother, let's go to a restaurant instead. These peasant's battles aren't worth watching."

With that the duo left Caleb to his thoughts.
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On the battlefield, Zangoose had just taken the first hit from Graveler's Rollout.

....oooooooose!

Perfect. This is what I was looking for. It can't stop now.

"Zangoose! Come back!" Remy called, putting the Premier Ball back in his pocket and taking out a Great Ball.

"Primeape! Your turn, use Low Kick!"

Prihihihihimmmaaape! The ball gave way to a furious fuzzball of energy, slamming its fists on the ground.

Spoiler: Primeape

As Slagger came around for it's second round of Rollout, Primeape stuck it's leg out, hitting the Rock Pokémon out of it's attack and bringing him down with tremendous force.

OOH! Amazing reversal by Remy Olivier, recalling Zangoose and bringing out Primeape for the type advantage!

Indeed! And the Low Kick takes advantage of Graveler's immense weight and with that, it's down and out!

"Not bad, managed to still hit Primeape. Well then. How about you bring out that Hitmonlee, see which one has the better fighter, hm?"

Prime! Prime! Meaaaapppe!

 

[CJ1145]

Daria grinned. She grinned wider, and then wider, and then wider still, before picking her third Pokeball off of her belt.

"Nope!"

She tossed it out onto the field, the ball snapping open to reveal the form of a Staryu, rapidly spinning and already moving across the field at breakneck speeds. Daria spun in place, throwing kicks up into the air as she shouted.

"Gemini, WATER GUN!"

"HYA, HYA!" shouted the brown star, and on cue a torrent of water rocketed across the field at the bewildered ape.

 

[JdaS]

Much to Remy's disappointment, the Fighting-type derby was not happening. Instead, Daria sent out Gemini, her Staryu

Spoiler: Staryu

"Aw. That's not nice. Primeape! Avoid that Water Gun and counter with Karate Chop!"

Primeape howled in approval and rushed towards Gemini, all the while dodging its Water Gun. The Pig Monkey Pokémon failed, however and was soon doused with a strong jet of water.

Prihibhlbhlbhlbllblb...!

As it made it's way through though, it brought its hand down to strike at its foe. Both seemed to feel the hurt from their respective attacks.

 

[CJ1145]

"Ha!" Daria shouted across the field, grinning like a mad-woman more than ever. "That's one hit! Ya won't get any more on Gemini!"

She stuck a thumb up to her chest, and yelled at Remy. "If ANYBODY knows a Fighting-type's moves, it's gonna be me! And I know Primeape's by heart! Ya don't have a single ranged attack to yer name!"

She pointed at Gemini. "Keep yer distance, and pour on the Water Gun! He can't touch ya unless ya let him, so there's yer challenge! Not ONE! MORE! HIT!"

"HHHHHHYYYYAA!" shouted the Staryu, spinning across the field once more, and laying into the Primeape with as much water as it could possibly put out.

 

[JdaS]

"We'll just have to see about that don't we? Primeape, Seismic Toss! Get in there and bury that thing!"

PRIMMMMMMMAH!

With Remy's orders Primeape started a mad dash towards Staryu, once again taking the Water Gun head on, slowly trying to make its way through, chopping at the barrage of water. As its stamina went down its anger rose accordingly.

"Come on... You can do it... just a bit more..."

And at last Primeape was through. It jumped at Staryu, taking it into the skies, and brought it down with tremendous force. But it wasn't enough. Staryu didn't go down. It still had the energy to go on. Primeape was on its last legs.

"Let's do it, go for broke! Another Karate Chop!"

 

[CJ1145]

"Let's do it, go for broke! Another Karate Chop!"

"Heh."

The glove came down, Primeape growling like a lunatic, when Daria barked out her next command. "HARDEN!"

"Hya!"

The Staryu froze in place like a statue, its increased resistance stopping the chop as it made contact with it, and leaving the two combatants frozen in a step of their deadly dance, facing each other down as the glove tried to dig into the right "arm" of Gemini. Daria felt a surge of confidence rising up from below. Everything was coming together. This would be perfect.

"RECOVER!"

A strange chiming noise emanated from within the Staryu's gem as it began to blink, refreshing its pained limbs with fresh energy. It made more strange, indecipherable noises as it began to push back against the Primeape's chop. Daria rose her left hand into the air and clenched her fist, going into a horse-riding stance as she threw the fist out to her left and opened it. Baffling to anyone watching, but she didn't care; she was pumped.

"CAN'T DODGE IT NOW! WATER GUN, FINISH THIS CHUMP!"

Obeying its trainer without a word, Gemini lowered its top limb and opened fire.

 

[JdaS]

"CAN'T DODGE IT NOW! WATER GUN, FINISH THIS CHUMP!"

"Damn it! Take the hit and counter with Rage!"

Primeape braced itself mere nanoseconds before getting hit with another Water Gun. For a moment he couldn't be seen by either his Trainer, the audience or the commentators. When the attack finally ended, Primeape emerged, soaking wet with its arms across its face. After lowering them he began to run towards Staryu, making it halfway there before tripping and collapsing ito the ground.

THAT'S IT! Primeape is down! This is turning out to be one hell of a fight Andy!

You betcha Terry! One wonders what Remy Olivier is going to do now. Will he send out Zangoose or does he have something else plann..- Wha!?

On the field, Remy recalled Primeape with his free hand up in the air.

"Sorry kid! You got me! Ain't no good gonna come from prolonging this any further. Just promise me you'll mop the floor with the next guy too, deal?"

INCREDIBLE! Remy Olivier forfeits the match, making DARIA PACE the WINNER!

He must've realized that his half healthy Zangoose was going to have no chance against Daria's remaining Pokémon, Terry. In any case, Daria Pace is now the first winner from Group 14!

With that Remy made his way into the Red corner's tunnel, defeated but satisfied with the great match he'd just had.

"That was good. No regrets."

"How could you do that Remy? How could you let some random hussie beat you?"

"TATYA!?!? What the hell are yo--BHAGHB!"

A girl with a long black braid of hair and a brown bomber jacket with "DISASTER" embroidered in the back walks up and clocks Remy in the face.

"Don't you Tatya me you no-good son of a *****."

"Ah jeez..."