Pokémon Umbral ~ Ruinous Origins Mission 2, Chapter 2

[Astral Harmony]

Armored Bishoujo: "Okay, here's the spill. Due to some security token thing or whatever, my post went up in flames and I can't get it back. So, instead of writing up about two and a half hours of post, I'm just going to do one big synopsis. Here we go."

About Impact's Team: "Cradily and Hitmonlee took great damage. The remaining Narchams are down. Phantomere has taken great damage as well thanks to Metagross's sacrifice. Pierce's Metagross, not Rachel's."

About Renny's Team: "Once more, good on hurting the enemy Pokémon. Renny and Shannon put down the rest of the zombies. By the way, Charlotte, Lola revived Latios as per Renny's orders and Latios, ahem, convinced Pike the Manetric to return to his Pokéball. So now you have Latios and Buck deployed. Don't forget."

About Tsubasa and Chizuru: "They unleashed their Signature Sequence, Storm of Stalagmites, wiping out all six enemy Pokémon, severely wounding all three trainers, and putting the hurt down on Phantomere."

So what does Phantomere do?: "Phantomere undergoes a Paradigm Shift of sorts, turning into a larger, more hideous version of itself. And like all desperate monsters, he turns on his own comrades, murdering the twin Pokébrids and all of their Pokémon in a savage double-cross. Using his necromantic powers, Phantomere returns the twins and all twelve of their Pokémon to unlife. Now Phantomere is nearly invisible and impervious to damage."

How does this change things?: "It's different from previous undead encounters in that the ability of one of the Pokémon, Hippowdon, actually works when a sandstorm kicks off. Rachel hasn't revived Tyranitar yet, so that can only mean one thing. These Pokémon and their former trainers seem to be able to use their known moves and abilities as though they weren't undead. Be careful because that'll make this much different from fighting normal zombies."

Wait, what about Harliette?: "Despite being more wounded than the twin, Harliette manages to escape joining her employers in undeath and eternal service to Phantomere. With no remaining comrades, she makes the smartest of the choices she could make and temporarily joins your side, under the orders of Renny. So now Renny's got five women around him. What a stud. Harliette still has three Pokémon, and will fight alongside one of them, her Kangeskhan."

Can we get that scouter data?: "Sure, it's the least I can do. Oh, before I give it to you, lemme say one thing. The Signature Sequence destroyed a massive staircase that was the primary obstruction which kept your teams separate. So now anyone can use any move on anyone. Keep that in mind. Now, the scouter data for all twelve Pokémon."

Cradily (Rock/Grass) [Female] (Wyatt's Pokémon 1)
Moves: Gastro Acid / Energy Ball / Ancient Power / Confuse Ray
Ability: Suction Cups

Hitmonlee (Fighting) [Male] (Wyatt's Pokémon 2)
Moves: Close Combat / Mega Kick / Blaze Kick / Focus Blast
Ability: Limber

Kabutops (Rock/Water) [Female] (Wyatt's Pokémon 3)
Moves: Night Slash / Ancient Power / Slash / Giga Drain
Ability: Battle Armor

Azumarill (Water) [Male] (Wyatt's Pokémon 4)
Moves: Hydro Pump / Double-Edge / Ice Beam / Brick Beam
Ability: Huge Power

Forretress (Bug/Steel) [Male] (Wyatt's Pokémon 5)
Moves: Zap Cannon / Double-Edge / Flash Cannon / Solar Beam
Ability: Sturdy

Zangoose (Normal) [Male] (Wyatt's Pokémon 6)
Moves: Close Combat / X-Scissor / Frustration / Iron Tail
Ability: Immunity

Breloom (Grass/Fighting) [Male] (Whitney's Pokémon 1)
Moves: Giga Drain / Dynamic Punch / Stun Spore / Drain Punch
Ability: Effect Spore

Persian (Normal) [Female] (Whitney's Pokémon 2)
Moves: Return / Night Slash / Power Gem / Feint
Ability: Limber

Heracross (Bug/Fighting) [Male] (Whitney's Pokémon 3)
Moves: Megahorn / Close Combat / Aerial Ace / Take Down
Ability: Guts

Seviper (Poison) [Female] (Whitney's Pokémon 4)
Moves: Poison Jab / Night Slash / Toxic / Iron Tail
Ability: Shed Skin

Tropius (Grass/Flying) [Male] (Whitney's Pokémon 5)
Moves: Leaf Storm / Air Slash / Body Slam / Silver Wind
Ability: Chlorophyll

Hippowdon (Ground) [Female] (Whitney's Pokémon 6)
Moves: Double-Edge / Earthquake / Crunch / Stone Edge
Ability: Sand Stream

"Factor in a fully awake Omnisroth, a Pulverot, Phantomere himself and the two Pokébrids and this is going to be a wild free-for-all."

So what's the strategy?: "Phantomere is out of touch, which leaves you with everything else. Treat these zombies like they weren't zombies. And since all of the Pokémon are deployed anyways, you can off Wyatt and Whitney first if you so choose. Defeating Hippowdon will get rid of the sandstorm if that means anything to you. Anyways, you have initiative. Stay on your toes and prepare to alter your tactics as the battle flows."

[Menarker]

Renny watched with undivided attention as the Kimono duos harnessed through a combination of charisma and skill the total and utter clusterfuck of power that laid wrath to the entire battlefield. The end result was a envious sight as all the opposing pokemons were knocked out and everyone else on their side horribly battered. The collateral damage was also incredibly significant as his group was no longer seperated from the others.

"Incredible! Utterly amazing!"

Nothing could have prepared the inexperienced leader for what came next. Wounded and likely highly embarressed, Phantomere selfishly killed off poor Whitney and Wyatt. The resulting metamorphsis phased the Ruin General out like the phantasm that its name sake was. Renny shouted out with frustration and concern to the other trainer left behind."

"Get out of there! He'll kill you too!"

Renny was spellbounded as necromancy and dark arts was cast, reviving the pokebrids and their charges as zombies. As the sandstorm kicked up as a result of one of the pokemon, Renny shouted to the rest of the group as suprising Harliette joined Renny in his group.

"These zombies still have their abilities! Treat them as if they were normal pokemons, maybe stronger! You be careful too. Lola, Bounce that Breloom!"

Renny observed the field, attempting to find suitable targets to cut them down before it was too late. Choosing a few select targets to focus on, he gave out orders with all the urgency and less of the ressurance and praise he tended to do.

"Shaymin! Seed Flare that Kabutops! Latias, Psychic on Hitmonlee! Charlotte, that Forretress should go down fast with your Arcanine's fire attacks! Shannon, use Starmie's Ice Beam on Tropicus!"

The pokemons all attempted to unleashed their barrages of attacks as they crisscrossed to impact their designated target. Despite all this, Renny could not help but overlook the looming figure of Phantomere who might very well be plotting to make them his next victims.

"Tsubasa, is there any way you can seal off Phantomere as he is? If not, I'll let you do as you see fit!"

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AB: You said that Pierce could attempt to date Whitney... Did you intend for Pierce to date her before or after the zombification?

Requested Lola to use Bounce so she attacks Breloom on next turn for quad effective damage and 30% paralysis chance while protecting her from being targetted until the field gets a bit more clear.
Shaymin uses Seed Flare on Kabutops for Quad effective STAB damage.
Latias to use Psychic on Hitmonlee for super effective STAB damage.
Request Shannon to use Starmie's Ice Beam on Tropicus for Quad effective damage.
Requests/Asks Tsubasa if if is possible for her to use Wire Prison on Phantomere effectively. Otherwise, just plain out attack.

Advised Charlotte to use fire attacks on Forretress.

[Bard The 5th LW]

"Spits, its your turn again," Charlotte said as she swapped out Buck for Spitz the Mightyena, "go for the Omnisroth with a Super-Fang." She would have kept Buck out and kept back Latios, but he had forced himself into the fight and made that impossible for the moment. Spitz let out a disdaninful growl, feeling that he was being used solely for his ability to use that attack, but went through with the order regardless, remembering Charlotte kicking him last time he attempted to run from an Omnisroth.

"You," she said to Latios, slightly less enthusiastically, "use psychic on the snake." The legendary seemed to be slightly resentful about not getting a shot in at Phantomere, but followed orders and released a psychic assault on the enemy Seviper.

Charlotte obviously wasn't impressed with Latios's first impression. Maybe he would redeem himself, but Charlotte probably would let him go when this ended. Who knows, perhaps she could even find some other use for him. Lots of people would be interested in the possibility of seeing or owning a Latios. Maybe willing to pay. Charlotte didn't care too much for tpokemon besides her hounds. Hammond was just an abstract choice that happened to make a good first impression.

[Dracorion]

Pierce was disgusted as he handed Rachel Metagross' pokeball so she could heal it. "What the hell is wrong with you? I thought you fucking Ruin Generals were supposed to be tough! All I've seen you do so far is steal strength from everyone around you, you bastard!" He yelled at the invisible Phantomere.

"Tch, fine." He muttered, as he tossed Blaziken's pokeball. "BLAZE!" cried the pokemon as he materialized. "Kingdra, Dragon Pulse on that Omnisroth! Blaziken, get that Gallade with Shadow Claw!" Kingdra fired the turquoise ball fo energy at the Omnisroth while Blaziken slashed Wyatt with a claw made up of ethereal energy.

[Geminex]

So this was it. The battle had been going on for quite a while, of course, but that had seemed... dilute. Too many distractions, too many factors, and, in a way, too easy. This was better. You were far more likely to die, far more likely to kill. This was raw, primal. this was battle. And he loved it. The rest of his team was already buzzing into action around him, and he joined it. He heard Renny give his orders (he had hoped that Charlotte could contribute with a Super Fang, but oh well), and prepared to give his own.

"Right... Matt, I´d order another sleep powder on Omnisroth, but I have a feeling it wouldn´t work. So next best thing... You can use screech, can´t you? On Omnisroth, please. Chizuru, we can´t kill Omnisroth this turn. Can you use your taunt technique on all Ruin types? That´ll prevent interference, for one turn at least. Have Girgatina hit Gallade, please. I´d join you, but I have an Pulverot to weaken. Rachel, pick your own targets. Hit whatever´s most likely to die. Let us commence."

His plan was to reduce the numbers of pokemon standing against them this turn, then hit the Ruin types next turn. He really didn't want to get hit by any of them. He himself was most effective against Ruin pokemon, so that was what he'd be targeting. He just hoped he could get everyone to cooperate.

[DanteFalcon]

(Completely having writers block tonight. Matt uses screech on the Omnisroth. I'll try and update this before AB's post goes up)

[Astral Harmony]

Ruin General Boss Fight Synopsis (Allied Force)
Lola: Begins Bounce. Damage and fanservice to commence on next turn.
Shaymin: Zombie Kabutops has been defeated.
Latias: Zombie Hitmonlee has taken great damage.
Starmie: Zombie Tropius has taken severe damage. Zombie Tropius is frozen.
Tsubasa: Signature Technique "Wire Prison" is used. Let's hope Phantomere's abilities are greatly limited by this.
Spitz: Omnisroth's health is cut by half.
Latios: Zombie Seviper has taken great damage. Special defense has fallen by 1.
Kingdra: Omnisroth has taken severe damage.
Blaziken: Zombie Wyatt has taken great damage. Critical hit.
Chizuru: Signature Technique "Solidarity Guard" is used. Ruin Pokémon are taunted, avoided, and countered. Omnisroth is still at severe damage. Pulverot has taken small damage.
Giratina: Zombie Wyatt has taken critical damage.
Metagross (Rachel's): Zombie Seviper has been defeated.
Registeel: Zombie Hitmonlee has taken severe damage.
Rachel: Metagross (Pierce's) is revived with half health. Force deployed to replace Blaziken.
Impact: Pulverot has taken great damage.
Matthias: Omnisroth's physical defense level is lowered by 2.
Kangaskhan: Zombie Hitmonlee has been defeated.
Harliette: Zombie Wyatt has been defeated.

"I'm on it!" Lola confirmed, and then took to the air.
Shaymin easily absorbed sufficient dust from the air as a result of the Kimono's Signature Sequence and sand from the sandstorm, then charged Zombie Kabutops and blasted it with Seed Flare. Kabutops swung its scythe arms awkwardly as it fell to the floor, dead.
Latias ripped into Hitmonlee with a psychic whopper. Hitmonlee clutched at its head, then with a great lurch, pulled itself together.
"Hey, you're pretty smart, shorty." Shannon said with a smile as she directed Starmie to do as Renny suggested. Tropius survived the blast of bitter cold, but fell to the ground with a strange tinking thud, indicating that Starmie had frozen in solid. "As a Rogue Pokémon, I can catch it, but since it's a zombie and I already have Jumpluff-" Shannon left it hanging. Some things were just out of reach.
"I think I can shut down any surprises he'll have for us with Wire Prison," Tsubasa guessed, then went to work. It was pretty amazing. Tsubasa started out as a visible ninja running towards Phantomere. Then as the zombie Pokémon took notice, Tsubasa shot forward like a freshly-thrown dart, leaving an afterimage. At Phantomere's side, Tsubasa bounded around like a Stantler on cocaine, setting up a tight and inescapable cage of cutting wires. Then she leapt back and landed with grace. "Here's hoping that works out for us."

Spitz was a little intimidated as it ran towards the Omnisroth, but when its big, looming six-eyed face was right before you, there was never enough courage. Still, Spitz proved his loyalty once again by cutting Omnisroth's total health in two. Then it hightailed it the hell out of there before Omnisroth decided to beat the doggie.
Latios stared down the zombie Seviper and ripped into with psychic force. Seviper jumped and bounced and went dogshit crazy from the pain. Seviper didn't look very good after that. Ha ha, it's special defense fell. Won't last much longer. And why the hell wasn't fighting the Zangoose? Those two Pokémon hated the hell out of each other. Oh fuckin' well.

Phantomere didn't respond to Pierce. Given that his greatly oversized tongue was now freely hanging out and dragging across the splintered floor, that was probably for the best. He'd probably soak everyone in disgusting saliva with just a small statement.
Rachel accepted Pierce's Metagross. "I'll have it in fighting-fit form in a moment. Don't expect it at full power, though. The moment I breathe some life into this, it'll pop right back on the battlefield."
Kingdra blasted a sizeable crater in the Omnisroth's massive face with a Dragon Pulse. But despite the obvious pain Omnisroth must have suffered from the effort, it still remained a sturdy, intimidating terror.
Blaziken put forth some extra effort and knocked Wyatt down with a brutal swipe across the face. Definitely a critical hit. Blaziken was not dicking around this fight.

"You can count on me, Impact-san," Chizuru said, then spanked her own ass. Somehow, this actually turned the attention of the Omnisroth and the Pulverot on her...as well as the attention of some other eyes. Chizuru raised her tonfas before her and set herself up to do some fancy fighting and footwork. "Go 'head, start some shit. See if I don't come o'er there and kill yo' whole force."
Tsubasa sighed. "Chizuru, don't talk like that."
"Sorry," Chizuru apologized, but she clearly wasn't serious.
The Pulverot and Omnisroth magically took the bait. Pulverot started by swiping at Chizuru with its huge claws...or rather, swiping at the space where Chizuru stood a split second ago. Chizuru was already airborne, then came down and thrust her tonfa squarely in its sensory orb. Chizuru bounced back and jumped before the Omnisroth. The Omnisroth tried to hit her in pretty much the same way, and Chizuru vanished. After the overextended swing, the Omnisroth looked quizically at its massive claw and saw Chizuru standing on it. How the hell did she get there. But the ninja didn't give an answer, she just ran right down the arm and leapt towards it face, pounding it with a blistering flurry of tonfa strikes. She kicked off of that same face and landed next to Pierce. "Giratina, Shadow Claw!"
"Watch me work!" Rachel yelled, then gave a quick glance at all of the enemy Pokémon. "Metagross, Zen Headbutt on Seviper! Registeel, Flash Cannon on Hitmonlee! Go, go, go!"
After giving commands to her Pokémon, Rachel administered a Revive to Pierce's Metagross. The moment it was revived, Metagross was out just like Latios. Metagross didn't feel like telling Blaziken to go back into the Pokéball, but Metagross was very intelligent and knew that Kingdra was going to be crucial to victory in this battle. So, it still convinced Blaziken to return. Not like it really mattered since Pierce could recall and deploy Pokémon as he wished as a free action.
Impact himself took the Pulverot by surprise, taking advantage of Chizuru stunning it previously. Impact slipped around behind and administered a flurry of thrusts with the Dragon Slave. This went well until the Pulverot swung around with a wild claw strike and knocked the sword out of Impact's hand. The sword clattered to the floor. Impact lowered his body and did a scrunched up cartwheel both to avoid losing much of his face from the Pulverot's other claw swinging around and to retrieve his sword. Impact rose from the ground and kicked the Pulverot solidly, causing it to stumble and giving Impact the window to escape back to relative safety with his comrades.

Matthias opened his mouth and blasted the Omnisroth with an ear-piercing shriek. The Omnisroth backed itself into a corner, trying to escape the sound. It tried to somehow muffle the sounds, which opened it up for a good beatdown in the future.
Shannon looked at the enemy. "Cacturne, return. Roserade, I need you now!"
When Roserade was out in the open, Shannon dramatically pointed towards the standing corpse that used to be Wyatt. "That guy looks so exhausted. Send him to bed, would you?"
Roserade seemed to smile and generating a misty sphere of netherworld energies, then hurled it with a flourish. The Shadow Ball impacted on Wyatt and finally the Pokébrid dropped. "Groovy," Shannon said.
That was everyone...well, almost everyone.
Harliette directed Kangaskhan's attention with the rusty machete. "Kangaskhan, Focus Blast on Hitmonlee."
The Hitmonlee was finally downed by that powerful attack. Harliette shot out and right into Wyatt. She softened him and prevented him from defending himself by blasting him squarely with the shotgun, then kicked him with the rollerskate and drew her rusty machete across his midsection. She didn't wait to see him fall and quickly returned to survey the battle's development. "Okay, here they come. Let's see what that clown freak does."

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Ruin General Boss Fight Synopsis (Enemy Force)
Phantomere: Resurrects Wyatt, Seviper, and Hitmonlee. Then hits Impact, Registeel, Starmie, Latios, Latias, and Tsubasa with Deathclock.
Cradily: Roserade is now confused.
Azumarill: Shaymin has taken good damage.
Zangoose: Shaymin has taken severe damage.
Breloom: Spitz is paralyzed.
Persian: Spitz has taken good damage.
Heracross: Spitz has taken critical damage.
Hippowdon: Matthias has taken great damage. Critical hit.
Whitney: Shaymin has been defeated.
Shaymin (Testament Drive): Whitney has taken severe damage.

Phantomere laughed. It was a deep, throaty laugh. His invisibility vanished and he reached out with his left hand. "Necromancy Force," Phantomere said, and three streams of dark light extended from the unseen palm of that hand. Those leylines of dark energy wrapped around the bodies of Wyatt, Seviper, and Hitmonlee. Then they pierced those corpses. Instantly, the bodies were lifted off the ground and they began to move again. Phantomere had effectively reanimated them again. But it was odd. Why wasn't the Kabutops reanimated? Maybe three was Phantomere's limit?
Then Phantomere raised its scythe. "Deathclock." Impact saw something appear over his head, and discovered a large, floating and spinning number two. This same floating two was above the heads of Rachel's Registeel, Shannon's Starmie, Charlotte's Latios, Renny's Latias, and Tsubasa. A deathclock of some sort? It didn't hurt him physically to have his life on a countdown, but that just made it worse somehow.
But Phantomere didn't turn invisible again.
"I think I get it," Tsubasa said, hoping she was on the mark. "Phantomere will always attack us every turn somehow, and if there're at least three slain zombies amongst the enemy force, he'll reanimate those instead of turning invisible and hiding from us. If we can deal out death so there's always three zombie corpses at the end of our phase, we'll have a constant open avenue to hurt Phantomere with."
"If that's the case, then our tactics should be simple. I don't think Phantomere will reanimate those Ruin Pokémon once they're killed, but nobody hold their breath."

Those freshly reanimated corpses didn't look capable to pulling off any moves, which was another good benefit. Killing them didn't mean they'd stay dead, but it did mean they wouldn't be able to do shit on the turn they're raised by Phantomere. And the corpses that remains corpses like Kabutops were just a sweet bonus.
"Heads up, here come the other Pokémon!"

Cradily hit Roserade with Confuse Ray. Roserade looked around and seemed to have trouble distinguishing friend from foe.
Azumarill blasted Shaymin with Ice Beam. Shaymin struggled against being locked in ice like Tropius and came through, but that still hurt it.
Forretress began to charge Solar Beam.
Zangoose sliced Shaymin up pretty good with X-Scissor.
Breloom locked Spitz down with Stun Spore. Spitz tried to shrug it off, but his muscles were starting to rebel against him.
Persian, who apparently didn't like dogs even in undeath, rushed Spitz and Night Slash, trying to help lock the doggie down.
Heracross layered the damage on Spitz with a brutal Megahorn. Spitz struggled to remain conscious, but it was probably already seeing spots of blackness. Blood dripped from an open wound.
Hippowdon turned to Matthias for a decent target, and hurt him like hell. A critical Stone Edge saw Matthias with a red stain spreading on his clothes. He could hold it together, but that was just beyond mean.
Whitney turned to Shaymin to vent her frustrations. Hitting Shaymin with Signal Beam was the final straw. Shaymin suddenly radiated the same golden light that Latios had from before and turned its pain and agony against Whitney. Great gusts of wind encircled Shaymin as it built up speed and rushed Whitney, knocking her into the air upon impact which left a beautiful breeze filled with leaves. Whitney impacted solidly with the floor and rose again, but it was easy to see she wasn't just walking away from that. Shambling, sure, but not walking. Shaymin returned to Renny's Pokéball.

[Dracorion]

Blaziken was reluctant to leave Pierce and return to his pokeball, but Metagross made a good point. All of the enemies' heavy hitters had the advantage over him: Phantomere, Omnisroth and Pulverot, and the two psychic Pokebrids.

Pierce was caught up in his train of thought, but he couldn't help but miss the show as Chizuru taunted and damaged both Ruin-types. She landed next to him, so he tried to give her some sort of praise but all he could get out was "You- that... wow." Realizing he had just made a fool of himself, he returned to his thoughts and barely noticed that Metagross had redeployed and Blaziken had reentered his pokeball.

Then he finally got his thoughts together and spoke to the rest of the team. "I've been thinking, maybe Phantomere is like the Mononokes. When he dies, the lifeforce he stole returns to where it originally came from. Which wouldn't be all that useful if their bodies are all in pieces. So, if at all possible, could everyone try not to destroy the corpses?" He pleaded everyone. Being stripped of free will and forced into subservience was a gruesome fate, and whatever kind of people Wyatt and Whitney were, no one deserved that.

Then Metagross turned around and gave Pierce a meaningful look, trying to communicate it's idea. Maybe it was Metagross's telepathy, but Pierce understood. "Hell no." He told it. "I'm not making you explode again." Metagross' counterarguments popped into Pierce's head. Smart bastard. "Goddamnit. Metagross, Explosion on Phantomere! Kingdra, finish Omnisroth with a Dragon Pulse!"

[Menarker]

"That general can't seem to do anything unless he phases into our reality. And somehow, those zombies are related to how his power works, or else he would just be focusing on attacking us and then turning invisible..."

Renny heeded Tsubasa's insight as well as Rachel and Pierce's comment with judicious consideration

"Alright, in that case, I suggest we knock out the Ruin pokemon first! Then we keep on knocking out the pokemons with dual types with the types they are weakest against. That means we're focusing on knocking out Kabutops, Breloom, Heracross and Foretress. Stack up restricting status affliction on the rest of the other pokemons to hinder their attacks while focusing our heaviest hitters on the general! Tsubasa, your strongest attack on the general while he's still present! "

Renny then pulled out another pokeball to replace Shaymin on the battleground. Swampert hit the field with a powerful roar, ready for action. Latias hovered clumsily worried about the doomclock looming, death's number 2 never leaving its side.

"Both of you, dragon attacks on the ruin types! Dragon Pulse! Outrage!"

Swampert exerted tremedous effort as it pulled out a reservoir of draconic force and went on a rampage, attacking Omnisroth harshly while Latias attempted to lay support fire on Pulverot with Dragon Pulse. Renny watched the "sky" as Lola soared marvelously, ready to lay a bouncing smackdown on Breloom.

... "Wait, Shannon, you think you can catch it? Give it a try! If that's true, then we can do the same for the others and prevent them from being ressurected or from attacking us!"

Renny felt dumbfounded that the notion didn't occur to him at at first... but then again he didn't really think of zombies as catchable pokemons.
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Summoned Swampert

Swampert to use Quad effective dragon type Outrage on Omnisroth. Matthias use of Screech boosts its effective power by quite a bit since Outrage is phsyical.

Latias to attempt to use Quad effective dragon type Dragon Pulse on Pulverot.

Tsubasa to use Wicked Dance on Phantomere. Severe damage and... well 50% chance of KO, but I doubt he's weak to that.

Lola on trajectory with Breloom, ready to hit with Quad effective flying damage.

Shannon to attempt to capture Tropicus.

[Bard The 5th LW]

"This is progressively getting more annyoing,' Charlotte stated at the revelation of Phantomere's strategy. They were going to have to kill 3 zombies just to get a decent amount of shots in at him.

"Latios, you heard them, use another psychic on the Seviper," she ordered. With the drop in its special defense from the last turn, it wouldn't be likely to survive this hit at all. The legendary still wished to attack Phantomere, but seemed to understand the reasoning.

"Spitz," Charlotte said to the wounded Mightyena, "you probably won't be staying around for very long for the battle, so I want you to be part of a test." This caught the dog's attention, and he decided to ignore the pain to listen. " I want you to attack the Ruin General with a dark pulse, to see how good it can defend against a super effective hit."

Spitz decided to follow the order, glad to be of use for a reason besides super-fang, and sent the dark pulse flying at Phantomere. If he was lucky, it would be super-effective and they can get a proper scope of Phantomere's defense.