Pokemorph Liberation Force: Kanto

[billie_lightning]

"Right. Give me a few seconds before you follow," Jack answered her. He ran off but was quickly stopped by a Hitmonlee Morph, who was followed by at least three others. Jade wanted to help, but she knew Jack was fast and could handle himself. Besides, it would be going against the plan.

Only momentarily did her thoughts drift to Clove and the others. Had Agatha finished them? she thought. A shiver ran down her spiked spine. She shook away the thoughts and braced herself for what she was about to do.

Quickly, and as stealthily as a Tyranitar Morph can, Jade made her way into town. Many of the towns people panicked at the sight of another morph, obviously not recognizing her.
"Spare us! Please! We have done nothing wrong!" Cries for help rang in her ears. Her neighbors were terrified...of her.

She couldn't really blame them; she was glowing purple. Jade held up a hand, signaling silence and peace. Most of the dangerous morphs were distracted nearby were getting calls from their own teammates. Something about a rogue Blaziken. Jade smiled proudly and her aura faded slightly.

"I'm not here to kill you," she told the people of Lavender, who shuddered at her voice. Almost immediately they retorted.
"Don't lie! We know why you're all here!"
"No, I'm not one of them. I used to live here!" Jade cried, keeping a watchful eye for any morphs. The people of Lavender (there weren't many) gathered around her cautiously.
After a few seconds one man, the local librarian, spoke up, "Jade?"
Whispers of her name spread through the crowd.
"What happened to you?" another asked, one she recognized as a local fisher.
"I don't have time to explain," said Jade, once again checking her surroundings. "I have to get you out of here."
"And how will you do that without anyone noticing?" someone in the crowd asked.
"I'll worry about that. Please, trust me," she practically begged. She looked her had-been neighbors and they considered it but she didn't have time for considering. "Follow me," she commanded, knowing that being passive was getting her no where.

She cut through some forest, listening to the hundreds of footsteps following her. Oh this is subtle...Someone caught up with her and, to her joy, it was the man who owned the Poke Mart. Theo.
They used to spend hours discussing the technology of Pokeballs.
"My goodness....is this what happened to you? You ran away? And...morphed?" Theo asked, the last word barely managing to escape his lips.
"Yes," Jade answered, her smile fading when she heard the disappointment in the old man's voice.
"Why?"
"I wanted to protect the people of Kanto. Of this world," she emphasized, "I'm glad I get to personally lead you all out of the danger that was to fall upon your heads. It's too bad my warning didn't do Oliver any good. Where is he?" Jade asked.
Theo gave her a puzzled look which turned quickly to grief. "Jade, no one has seen Oliver this morning. He wasn't in the center of town when Bruno and his gang took the city over only hours ago...." he said.

Lavender awaits you, dear. And so does your precious Oliver...
"They have him"

 

[Shadowfaith]

Aisha returned the radio to her belt and proceeded to run on all fours towards the direction of the tower. She was close now, she could smell the old, dank stench of the withering town. Her nose twitched at the sudden smell of flowers that enveloped her senses however and was completely unrepentant of it. She considered stopping to analyze the smell a little more, but thought against it. She continued her full out sprint towards the tower and before long noted that the flower-like smell was getting stronger. 'What is that?' she wondered thoughtfully, enjoying the smell that lead her towards her destination. 'Well whatever it is, I'm gonna find out soon' she thought as the gate towards the city came into view and she switched from running on all fours to running on her two hind legs in order to jump atop the gate bridge and successfully hurling herself up a near by tree.

She assumed that the best way of attack was to keep a low profile at first and then attack with no mercy. At least that's what she remember Clove saying when they were training. Combining her extreme speed with a powerful leap from the tree branch, she hopped quickly from tree to tree and landed quietly atop a roof's building where she could gaze silently down at the commotion below.

She quickly hid herself when a Hitmontop morph and a Tyrouge morph walked by chatting about some sort of assault from Bruno. Aisha's eyes widened as she listened more intently at the conversation. It seemed Bruno intended on levelling the place with explosives?! Anger boiled up deep within Aisha's heart and she was about to pounce her opponents when a loud noise came from behind her. She quickly turned her tanned head to see Jack bounding along the rows of buildings with four morphs in hot pursuit. "Jack?!" She squeaked before having to dodge the on coming crowd so as not to be trampled.

She rolled off the side of the building and held onto the weakening pipes that held water in the rainy seasons. She waited for the commotion to pass before letting out a sigh of relief. Of course this was short lived when she heard someone clear they're throat below her. Looking down, she grinned sheepishly at the looks of amusement that graced they're features. "Heh heh, look what we have 'ere."
"Another of those PLF guy's eh?"
"Well no worry, we'll soon have you taken care of."
The two began to laugh at they're teasing and before the two morphs knew it, Aisha had dropped between the two and successfully kicked them both in the face on her decent. She raised an amused eyebrow and took on a fighting stance, lowering herself onto all fours. "You picked the wrong day to mess with me." She growled before leaping at the Hitmontop morph and disappearing in a burst of flame which successfully hit the morph head on.

She reappeared behind the other morph, who was now staring in shock at his comrades burnt face and was unluckily rammed from behind with a powerful push in the direction of his partner and met with another burst of flame.

"I'm not a pushover anymore and you're my first test bunny's!" She laughed aloud.

 

[Gumshoe Satyr]

(Sorry for the wait :nervous:)



Hearing a sound behind him, Jack glanced back just in time to see the Himonlee morph tumbling to the ground. As a wall of pink petals fell from the sky and formed a wall between him and his pursuers, Jack skidded to a stop just as someone appeared in front of him. He raised an arm to defend himself but quickly dropped it when he realized that it was Clove. 'I'll never get used to him doing that....'

"I need a full rundown of the situation in 30 seconds or less and get ready to fight." Clove said as he looked Jack straight in the eyes. Meanwhile, the Infernape morph was already burning his way through the wall of petals. Also a Bellossom appeared behind Clove and Jack, but there was no time to be concerned about her.

Taking up a fighting stance of his own, Jack quickly answered Clove, "I was distracting the guards while Captain Jade led the Lavender citizens to safety. We haven't seen Bruno yet." He watched in minor pleasure as the jaws of two of the enemy morphs dropped, but the Infernape seemed surprised but was more concerned with something else..... a fight. Jack either needed to go up against the Toxicroak morph or the Infernape morph since the both had a resistance to fire and dark type attacks, but in a way, he and the Infernape morph had made a silent yet almost subconscious agreement to fight each other.

Jack walked a little ways away from Clove and the Bellossom morph because of the intense heat that would very likely build up from the two fire/fighting morph's fight and to his relief his opponent followed. They stood several feet apart, their flames, Jack's on his wrists and the Infernape's on his head, intensifying with each passing second.

"This is you last chance to back down before you get seriously hurt," Jack announced dryly, taking up his fighting stance again.


Chuckling, the Infernape answered fiercely, "That's a laugh! You'll be no match for me, and when you're dead, bird boy, I'll finish off the rest of your team!"


"That's funny. I was about to say the same thing. Now come on! I don't have all day!" Jack retorted with a humorless laugh.


"Gladly!" The Infernape morph charged toward Jack as he prepared to defend himself.


(OOC: Two fire/fighting morphs going head to head. This should be interesting. XD)

 

[Silhouette]

OOC: Mira, I hope you don't mind if I speed up the process and make them already at Lavendar.. If not, I can edit.

IC:
"Let's go. They're going to need your help. Clove told me to place the lives of the citizens before my own, and that's just what I'm going to do." Ember told Denx. Denx raised an eyebrow at her. Ember seemed very eager to prove to Clove that she was perfectly capable of being a part of the PLF. He felt sympathy, and got back his eagerness to fight. Denx nodded at Ember, and they both got ready to leave. Denx followed her as she headed in the direction he remembered them departing to. Following Ember, they made their way quickly and without hesitation to Lavendar. Denx wondered what they found so interesting in Lavendar. He figured that it was just Bruno and Agatha's way of using scare tactics; destroying a helpless town to show their power. Or their worthlessness, Denx thought. Finally, they managed to make it to the edge of Lavendar. Denx faced Ember.

"Well, it was nice meeting you. I guess we go our different ways for now. Just DON'T get killed. And good luck," he said, feeling the falseness in his voice. It didn't sound like him. Of course, he didn't speak much since he had left that man that helped him out. He glanced briefly over at Ember, and zoomed off with quick attack. It wasn't long before he was stopped by a Medicham.

"Hey, morph kid, go away. We don't want scum like you," he said to Denx.

"Scum?" Denx asked, not liking being called that. He faced the Medicham, "I'm going no where, thank you," he said. He preceded to dash away with quick attack, when he was jabbed in the back with a fist. It was a Mach Punch.

"I said, we don't want scum like you," he spat. Denx got up off of his kneeling position. He faced the Medicham, but couldn't conjure up a good Zap Cannon. He didn't have time for this. He powered up his hands, electricity charging up in his palms. He coursed his energy, and his hands started to crackle with sparks.

"Thunder Punch!" he shouted. Instead of the energy powering up his hands, it flashed brightly. Denx shielded his face, as something went wrong.

Flash? he thought. Then, his fists crackled with the energy he stored just a minute ago.

"Oh well, now Thunder Punch!" he shouted, slamming an electrified fist into his blinded foe. Before he could zoom off with Quick Attack, he stumbled, and was flung through the air by an invisible force.

"Damn confusion!" he said.

"Good guess," said the Medicham monotonously.

Denx prepared to fight his predecessor.

 

[Mira]

(OOC: No, it's fine ^.^)

Ember watched as Denx zoomed away, suddenly feeling lost. She looked around, not sure where to go or what to do when she got there.

What do we do now? Ember asked Pyra.

Fight some Morphs, save some people, don't get killed, Pyra suggested. Preferably all of the above.

Hopefully.

Ember looked ahead and saw a long alley and sped forward into it, ignoring her throbbing injuries. She swiftly glided along, taking care to not disrupt so much as a single stone that would make a noise.

After a few minutes she slid to a stop, her ears twitching. She could hear the sound of footsteps... and they were nearby. Ember slipped along, listening carefully to the approach. Suddenly, a scream rang through Ember's ears. Ember now heard two sets of rapidly approaching footsteps. One was rapid and lighter, most likely a normal human, while the other was dragging and deliberate. A Morph.

Ember slipped closer and peered around the corner. She saw a young girl with a look of terror slashed across her face, which was no surprise as she was in hot pursuit by a Typhlosion-morph. He laughed coldly as he approached his helpless prey and the fire surrounding his neck flared up. Ember growled and felt fire build up inside her. She stepped back into the valley and fell down on all fours, preparing to pounce as rage roared through her body.

Ember waited for the girl to pass before she leapt out between her and the morph. The girl looked at her with terror and the Typhlosion-morph's eyes widened in surprise. Ember glared at him and allowed her rage to take over her, fire burning through her.

"Fire Blast!" Ember shouted, releasing and explosion of fire directly into the Typlosion-morph's chest, flinging him backwards.

"Run!" Ember yelled, turning to the girl and grabbing her hand to pull her along.

 

[billie_lightning]

Jade knew she was missing all the action but she didn't care. They had Oliver. She had to get back to Lavender she had to save-
No. She couldn't let this cloud her mind. That would be stupid. Clove would never forgive me, she thought to herself, still leading Lavender's small population away from danger. Either way, she knew she had to get back and help her team eventually. If that involved Oliver or not was a bridge she'd cross when she got to it.

Surprisingly they had made it to the tunnel PLF had taken from safety to Lavender. Jade was on her toes, not liking how lucky they had been so far, but continued on her way.

"Theo, lead them through the tunnel. On the other side you'll find a safe house. A couple of my teammates are there and if anyone is hurt they can be taken care of. Is this everyone?" besides Oliver? she thought.

Theo looked around and shook his head mournfully, "No. It's not. There's still people who got lost. Just goes to show how chaotic it was if Lavender's own citizens get lost," Theo smiled slightly at the humor. Lavender was not very big at all.

"It's rather dark, if anyone has fire pokemon or if anyone has a lighter that would be good," said Jade. She handed him her number, "Call me if you need anything. Don't hesitate. I'm going back. If there are still people in Lavender I need to save them." With that Jade parted the crowd and made her back to her home town, looking back only once to see the last of them make it inside the tunnel.

She called Theo, running, and he answered after the first ring, "Worried already?" the old man teased.
"You all there and okay?"
"Yes. Thank you so much Jade. We owe you our lives. Try and secure Lavender, that's all we can ask...." the connection cut out.

When Jade arrived back, she couldn't find any of her teammates. She did hear them however. And the air felt much hotter than it had before. A large number of fire morphs, maybe?

Emerald, can you hear me? That Ember girl can hear her Ninetales...I know you're there. I can feel you there. You're anxious. So am I. I wish I could talk to you...why can't I talk to you?

Jade sighed, only feeling her Tyranitar's equal frustration. Still no words.
She was in the center of town. She feet felt a rumble, one so intense she knew it wasn't any of her teammates. The Tyranitar Morph tensed and turned on her heel slowly to find a smug Machamp Morph looking her way.

"Hello Jade Morrisan," Bruno sneered. She fumbled back slightly. No one had ever used her last name. She left it out of her PLF profile on purpose. She didn't want her past to come into play. But now it seemed inevitable. "It seems that you have a choice to make." said Bruno, flexing his muscles. With every flex, Jade's feet felt a slight tremble. Bruno gestured to either side of him. How hadn't she noticed it before?

Jade looked to both sides. On one side way a large pile of explosives and morphs who looked ready and eager to destroy anything they could get their hands on. On the other side was a Sandslash Morph, tied to a large steel rod, head hanging down, blood seeping through various places. The young man's curls were slowly taken over by spikes that went all the way down his back. His hands weren't completely taken over by claws but it was close enough. His skin was a sandy color and scaly. A tail potruded from his backside.

As the Sandslash Morph glanced up, the golden eyes pierced Jade like a million daggers.
Emerald took this moment to say her first words to her master. The words hummed mournfully Oh no.
"Oliver?"
Bruno's grin grew, "The city and the twenty or so citizens I still have? Or the love of your life?"

 

[Mira]

The girl tugged away from her grasp, but thankfully she was to out of breath to scream.

"Stop. I'm with the PL... Pokemon Liberation Force," Ember explained as they ran.

Such a hard acronym to remember, Pyra said sarcastically.

Ember didn't bother answering and instead asked, Where do you think that Typhlosion-Morph went?

Well, you did hit it rather hard, Pyra said. Maybe you stunned it and by the time it recovered you had already run away.

Ember said nothing in reply for a moment. I didn't hit him that hard.

"We're trying to get all the citizens out of the city to make sure they're safe," Ember continued.

The girl didn't reply, but stopped trying to pull away from Ember. After a few more minutes of running, they reached the building from which the PLF had emerged. Ember smiled and looked at the girl, who was kneeling over and throwing up from the strenuous run. Ember flicked her tails uncomfortably as the girl straightened up.

"Go down there," Ember lead the girl into the building and pointed to the tunnel. "It leads to another building near a town where you should be safe."

The girl looked down into the darkness with a nervous glance. Ember glanced down too and thought for a moment.

Eh, what the heck?

Ember jumped down into the tunnel and lit a ball of fire in her hand. The girl climbed down after her.

"I guess I'll lead you..." Ember stopped when she caught sight of a faint glimmer of light up ahead. "Wait, there're people already going there!"

Ember looked down at the tunnel floor and, sure enough, there were human-sized footprints. More townspeople had made it there somehow.

"There are people further down the tunnel who have a light. Probably some of your neighbors. If you-" Ember cut herself off. Running was probably the last thing that girl wanted to do. "Um... Maybe you could call out to them to stop as you make your way down there. I have to get back to the town."

The girl nodded and quickly made her way down the tunnel, disappearing into the darkness as she called out the names of her friends and family. Ember smiled and climbed back out of the tunnel and carefully made her way back into the town.

She's definitely not the only one who got separated from the group.
Ember slipped further and further into the town, carefully dodging any noises that didn't sound entirely human. She found that there weren't many Morphs left patrolling the town. Where'd they go?

Suddenly Ember was hit with a wave of heat. She peered around the building and saw the answer to her question. A large Machamp-Morph stood with his back to Ember, facing the Tyranitar-Morph that was a part of the PLF.

"Bruno," Ember hissed.

To one side she saw a Sandslash-Morph tied to a metal rod and on the other was a pile of explosives surrounded by an equally distructive looking group of Morphs. Ember calculated the scenario for a moment. She couldn't attack without her or one of the Morphs setting off an explosion, but her teammate needed help...

Ember smiled and looked around the buildings and found what she was looking for. A hose. She turned it on as high as it could go and carefully directed the stream behind her. She glanced around the building to see the standoff had not yet changed. Ember kneeled down and pounded her fist on the ground three times. It didn't make much sound, but there would still be vibrations.

Ember directed the hose toward the pile of explosives and Morphs and, after making sure she was still relatively hidden, placed her thumb against the nozzle to direct the water further. In an instant, the explosives and Morphs were drenched. The Morphs looked around in rage, searching for the source of the water. Ember put down the hose and grabbed hold of the roof of a building. She swung herself up and flattened herself against it, feeling Pyra store up dark thoughts as Ember hardened the tails until they were as strong as steel.

Ember saw that the Morphs had found the hose and were attempting to turn it off, some of them drenching themselves in the process. Ember shook her head and prepared her attacks. The battle was just beginning.

 

[billie_lightning]

Jade's feet felt a soft pounding and was brought out of her deep thoughts. Subtly she glanced from the situation and saw Ember behind a building with a hose.

The explosives were drenched.

Jade smiled on the inside, not wanting to warn Bruno of anything, and thought to herself This Ember is a quick learner. Maybe I judged her too quickly...how did she know I could feel vibrations with my feet? Probably my PLF profile...

The Morphs that had been standing around the explosives panicked, trying to turn it off. Bruno groaned "You idiots, FORGET THE EXPLOSIVES!" his voice boomed like nothing Jade's feet had felt before. "We don't need them to leave this town in ruins," Bruno smirked, his smug look returning, "Let's turn this pathetic town to rubble."

Jade panicked, her eyes glancing at Oliver only slightly to see his head down again. She meant to look quickly but Bruno noticed the alarm in her eyes, "Oh no, Miss Morrisan. I will not let you win this easily. While my minions destroy your beloved home town, you will have to go through me if you want to save your precious Oliver" said Bruno.

Jade spoke directly for the first time she had arrived back in Lavender, "Your lips do not have the right to speak his name," she growled, her purple aura returning stronger than before. The aura pulsed and grew. It wasn't just the fact that Oliver was in danger. The fact that Bruno was singling her out was more than enough motivation to kick some ass.

Bruno laughed, "You cannot take me on by your lonesome! You are doomed! Just like your love!"
Jade shook her head, "Maybe not. But I have a whole team that'll back me up in a heartbeat. And I trust they will be here soon. And then...then you'll pay!" she wasn't speaking with just her own voice anymore. Emerald's voice echoed and mingled with her's, guiding her words.

Jade jumped in the air and when she landed an Earthquake greater than any she'd conjured before shook the earth, her dark energy spreading with it. His minions were knocked off their feet, but Bruno was only slightly fumbled.

Here goes nothing.

 

[Mira]

"You idiots, FORGET THE EXPLOSIVES!" Bruno's voice boomed across the town like thunder. "We don't need them to leave this town in ruins. Let's turn this pathetic town to rubble."

Hm... there goes my plan, Ember thought dryly.

Forget the explosives, Pyra said in a commanding tone not unlike Bruno's. His minions are still confused. Strike now!

Ember was about to stand up when a powerful shudder ran through the building. She heard items break inside, but the building itself took most of the shock. Ember looked over to the standoff to see the Tyranitar-Morph shaking with rage while the minions scrambled to regain their footing.

Now that's what I call a distraction, Ember laughed aloud. Let's get it on!

Ember stood up and felt Pyra release an explosion of dark thoughts that spread out over the minions below, knocking some of the more shaky ones back to the ground like a physical attack. Bruno's head twitched, but otherwise he seemed unfazed.

Stupid Fighting-type Pokemon.

Ember felt her tails slowly become even harder as she concentrated the attack. She leapt off the roof into a cluster of Morphs. Ember felt one's skull give out under the force of her tails while many of the others managed to dodge her. She lifted her tails out of the hole in the pavement and faced the remaining Morphs, baring her her teeth and growling as energy trickled into every part of her body.

Where the heck is everyone else?!

 

[Silhouette]

Denx got up off of the ground. He swiped his shirt before he narrowly dodged another quick Mach Punch. He leapt up, and kicked at the Medicham, only to be dodged. He whirled around, and punched the Medicham in the face. He silently cheered, when he was blown off of his feet by another Confusion attack. Suddenly, another morph made its way to the Medicham. It was a Lucario morph. Of course, they were all fighting types. Denx had nothing particularly effective against these morphs. The Lucario went back to his post, looking down at Denx. In dissapointment, he left. Denx got up, and powered up his electricity. He aimed at the Medicham, and unleashed.

"Thunder Wave!" he shouted. A small bolt flew over to the Medicham, who quickly dodged. The bolt curved around, and struck the Medicham in the back unsuspectingly. He lowered himself to the ground, and staggered to get up. He launched another quick Mach Punch, connecting with Denx's rib. Denx lost his air for a moment, and stumbled away. He sat for a minute, watching the Medicham morph struggle with his paralysis. Denx got up, but the Medicham pulled something out. In a split second, he was covered by a bright light, and was standing up straight. He faced Denx, and laughed.

"You thought I was that unprepared? We work for Bruno, one of the most powerful forces in the entire world. You cannot seriously expect me to be that unprepared," he said, a little more tone in his voice than before. His instant restoration allowed him to shake off his paralysis. He had used Recover.

Without words, Denx and this Medicham morph continued to fight. Denx started with Flash, which disabled Medicham. With a bright light, the enemy morph was shielding his face, lowering his defenses. Denx ran up, and struck quickly into the morph's stomach. But, instead of flinching, the Medicham smirked.

"Reversal!" he shouted. Denx cursed. The Medicham ran over to Denx. Denx flinched, and shielded himself. Instead of striking Denx at that moment, he circled Denx and swept his legs with a lower kind of kick. Denx fell on the ground hard, and the Medicham looked down as the Lucario morph had done.

"Just in time to see my fifth move--" he said before being cut off by Denx.

"What's that?" he said inquisitively, seeming to forget he was fighting this foe. The Medicham stared at Denx in disbelief for a moment, then rolled his eyes.

"Being a part of the PLF, I'm sure you don't know. Anyway, enough of that. Time for my move! Power Swap!" Suddenly, the Medicham began to glow, and as quickly as it started, the glowing stopped. The Medicham stooped over Denx, and picked him up. With a grunt, he tossed Denx off to the side, crashing into a small convenient store. He smashed through the glass, and landed on a shelf that contained a bunch of tins with tea in them. Denx sat up after the devestating attack, and rubbed his head. Another tin fell on his head.

"Ouch! Dang thing.. What the heck was that??" he exclaimed. Through the broken window, he could see the morph advancing to finish Denx off. Suddenly, the ground shook violently. Denx flew into the wall, then into the counter on the opposite side of the room. A tremor, but its strength much more powerful than that of any morph.. or was it? Denx got up, his head throbbing from where the tin landed. The store was in complete dismay, and the Medicham was nowhere to be seen. Denx cautiously walked outside, into the daylight. He looked all around, but couldn't find the Medicham. He started to walk down the street, when he heard a roar. He turned around to where the sound was coming from, and surely, down a small alleyway, approached the Medicham at high speed.

"Damn Mach Punch.." Denx cursed quietly, a split second before he was struck with intimidating force. He flew off the ground, and landed in the middle of the street. He got up quickly, and circled around the Medicham.

Power Swap.. If he got that much more power, what happened to his defense? I might be able to hit him, but I need to get through his super-offense.. What now.. what now.. he pondered his thoughts. He racked his brain for any ideas, but to no avail. This fight was going to be done in minutes if he couldn't think of anything quick. But, there was no time. The Medicham focused in on Denx, and muttered something. Denx flew toward the Medicham, due to the Medicham's Confusion. He cursed, and started to improvise.

 

[Mira]

"You don't look like a PLF," one of the Morphs commented with a sneer. "It looks like I could throw you further than you could fight."

That makes so little sense that I don't even know what it would look like if he were being literal, Ember thought.

They're just trying to take you out of attack mode, Pyra said.

I know, Ember fought back a smile as fire built up inside her.

"I'd like to see you try and throw me," Ember said with a taunting grin as she stepped off of the Morph she had landed on. "It looks like the last thing you managed to catch had been waiting for you so long it died of old age."

A flicker of annoyance passed the Morph's face.

That's right. Make your stupid move, you big oaf.

Ember caught movement in the corner of her eye and spun to the side, narrowly dodging the attack of another Morph. A devilish smile flashed over her face as Ember reached out and sliced the attacking Morph's neck with her claws. He gasped and stumbled back, clutching his neck as blood gushed through. It didn't kill him instantly... but he would die soon enough from blood-loss.

"Have fun with that," Ember said with a cold laugh.

Two down...

Suddenly, all the Morphs attacked. Ember dodged an assortment of attacks, most of which were fire-based, and did very little to fight back as she waited. The fire inside her grew stronger. She began to tremble as she struggled to hold in the attack and the Morphs took this as her beginning to weaken, so they fought all the harder. One attack struck her shoulder, cutting it open. Fire burst out of her mouth when she cried out, but Ember managed to close it.

One of the Morphs looked at her in surprise and Ember smiled, fire dripping out between her teeth. Before another attack could be thrown, Ember reopened her mouth and let out the full force of her attack. The Morphs staggered back, some screaming in pain as they were enveloped in Ember's inferno. The attack kept flowing through her, reinforcing the flames. Ember struggled to keep her footing and slid back herself. After one last burst of fire, Ember's attack was finished. She kneeled down and panted, sparks still floating out of her mouth. She looked up to see that there were no more Morphs standing in front of her. Most of them had run away, but two of them lay burnt in the path of her flames.

Four down.

 

[Kansas]

"I was distracting the guards while Captain Jade led the Lavender citizens to safety. We haven't seen Bruno yet." Jack replied quickly, stepping into a brawling stance.

"Got it...we'll have to hurry.... ugh" Clove replied, sighing. The rest of the morphs closed in slowly as their awe-struck expressions at the new arrivals were quickly erased by the realization of still out numbering their prey. The Infernape stepped forward slowly, seeming to have locked gazes with Jack. Clove looked to his side to see Jack's eyes filled with the same fire. The two wasted no more time in leaping into action. Clove's eyes darted back to the three other pursuers, though the Hitmonlee seemed less than able to fight.

"That beam I got hit with busted my leg... you guys take them down." the brown skinned morph said aloud, cradling a twisted and contorted leg while leaning against a nearby building which was obviously broken. "Hey... isn't that Erika though?"

"Hey... now that you say it, that IS Erika... what are you doing here?!" the Toxicroak morph belched in a low voice.

"That's no concern of a low rank like yourself." Erika responded coldly, stepping forward slowly.

"We're Bruno's elite guard... you don't even know low rank. A gym leader is more than a simple task to take care of for us." The Hitmonchan accompanying them replied, grinning as it punched its fists together, limbering up and preparing for a fight.

"Ya... and besides, its not like Agatha didn't know... you can't trick her. Celadon will be dealt with by the end of the day. I knew there was a reason for attacking this dump..." The Hitmonlee snickered from the wall.

Piercing the air, two needles screamed through the air, piercing through the strong knee of the Hitmonlee morph. He wailed in pain on the ground as he rolled around.

"What the hell?! Why can't I move it?!?!" He screamed in agony.

They looked to see Clove standing with a fist full of Pin Missile with his hat pulled low. He raised his head slightly, showing the moonlight yellow glow of his eyes, the immediate sign of him losing control.

"Why can't you move your leg you ask? Because right now, I'm all that separates you from life and the after life. And when I'm finished with the trash in front of me, you're telling me EVERYTHING you know about whats going on in Celadon." Clove said in a low angry tone.

"I'm not tel--" the Hitmonlee began to grunt through clenched teeth before another needle cut his sentence off, piercing through the center of his palm.

"That was only your hand that you've lost use of. If you don't behave, I'll take the whole arm." He said sternly, lowering his hand. The other morphs at this point had enough as their comrade wailed in pain on the ground.

"Clove... I'm helping, you know I have to. I need to check on Celadon... I know you want to as well. I knew this could be a consequence of my actions, but I needed to help you guys..." she said quietly, clenching her fists.

"Theres nothing to do now... but fight until we can't anymore..." Clove responded quietly, before quickly extending his spikes and spinning forward, parrying a Poison Jab from the Toxicroak who had apparently grown impatient.

"If you two love birds are done, I believe you said some pretty disheartening things about us just now. You're gonna pay for every last word." the Toxicroak spat in his low baritone voice. Clove remained silent as he looked into the Toxicroak's eyes, letting him stare down into the black and yellow abyss of his manifesting hatred. Clove's eyes soon narrowed as the two pressed against each other for control. Clove retracted his spikes quickly, causing the Toxicroak to fall off balance, and thrust a hard shoulder into his chest, sending him skipping across the ground. The Hitmonchan wasted no time in attacking as well, heading for Erika.

"Lets tangle, I'll show you how puny gym leaders are compared to us!" the Hitmonchan yelled, with fist glowing with an eerie yellow aura. "FOCUS PUNCH!"

Erika quickly reacted, thrusting a hand up between them. Instantly 8 rainbow shaped leaves appeared, swirling between them and forming a shield as the powerful fist smashed into them, sending a shockwave surging outwards and blowing them both apart. They regained balance quickly, sliding to a stop.

"Not bad, I'm kind of glad you lived. I've wanted to smash that pretty face of yours since I became Bruno's guard... Everything about you pisses me off. Your mind is weak... and you yourself are weak. Probably the weakest of the Gym Leaders, I'd say... next to of course Brock and Surge, those losers..." He trailed on but was cut short by a swarm of rainbow leaves spiraling towards him. The 8 leaves circled before beginning their assault, darting and diving at him. The morph quickly moved to the side, dodging one and began punching into the air rapidly, blocking all the leaves' attacks.

"Hmpf... must be a bullet punch... I guess I'll have to step it up after all..." Erika commented in a bored tone as the leaves returned to her, circling around elegantly.

By this time, the Toxicroak had stood up and shook off the damage from Clove's hit. He limbered up as if nothing happened before looking back to Clove who was standing and studying him from a distance.

"We're the fighting Brothers Hachi and Sai, sworn to defend Bruno until the end. He doesn't need protection but we like to make sure he's not bothered while he works." Hachi said aloud to Clove.

"You're just an obstacle. Get out of my way." Clove said sternly.

"Such big words...but we'll see how well you fair. Come at me." Hachi replied, provoking Clove to attack. Without wasting a second, Clove vanished, moving for his target with killing intent. Without warning, Clove was thrown from his super speed movement, being brought to an immediate halt. He spat a small amount of blood, before curling over the fist that caused the damage. Hachi stood over him with a fist buried in Clove's stomach. Clove fell to the ground but caught himself before landing, quickly jumping backwards to safety. He stood clutching his stomach, eying Hachi down hard.

"He intercepted my attack... is he faster than me? No... there's no way. But Agatha was the same way... but I don't think she knows Teleport like Sabrina..." Clove thought to himself as he flashed back to memories of fighting both Sabrina and Agatha. "It has to be a trick move... what could move that fast for such a short amount of time... Sucker Punch? That has to be it... because he can't use that same speed to attack me head on... I need to be making a move... but how can I---" Clove was interrupted by a sudden chill through his spine. A purple sphere streaked through the sky, connecting with Hachi and sending him crashing through the building. Clove spun around to look up and see a face he was none to ready to see again. With eyes now black as night, she hovered emotionless. She didn't hesitate, hurling another Shadow Ball at Clove. With no time to dodge, he took the brunt of the hit, being sent back to the Hitmonlee morph, who was staring in shock at his betrayed comrade.

"You see? They don't really care about you guys." Clove said bitterly as he eyed Agatha.

"She... Hachi... I'm gonna kill her..." the Hitmonlee mumbled

"As if you could. Tell me whats happening in Celadon." Clove replied quickly. The Hitmonlee morph thought for a moment before speaking.

"... Lavender was a diversion to flush out the traitor, Erika. They plan to level Celadon in addition to Lavender and of course kill Erika, all in order to maintain total control. We sent Koga there with reinforcements from the Johto region." He explained.

"JOHTO?!" Clove quickly replied in surprise. "So they're involved in this too? Damnit.. Who is the reinforcement." Clove demanded.

"Clair... the dragon queen." He replied solemnly.

"Clair... its all uphill if we survive this. What is she morphed with." Clove responded.

"She morphed with--" He was cut off by a purple sphere shooting through the air and connecting with the Hitmonlee, blasting him through the wall, ejecting him from the battle field. Clove looked up to see the still angry Agatha staring him down. Erika's fight continued as they exchanged blows between leaves and punches, sending swarms of petals showering everywhere. He looked to where the Hitmonlee had once sat, then back to Agatha. He didn't say a word, just extended his spikes slowly, preparing himself to fight again. He stared her down with hollow eyes that glowed maliciously.

" Until Jade's town is safe, I can't save my own home town. You're in my way."

 

[Silhouette]

Denx's heels were digging into the concrete ground, his shoes leaving his bare Raichu paws. He was still being dragged by the Confusion technique. He was urgently trying to escape the force, but there was no way. He flopped back and forth, but to no avail. In his last moments, he started to think random thoughts. He wondered what a fifth move was, who were the rest of the morphs on his team, and if Denkaa could hear his thoughts. Then, he remembered his special training he had been doing while he was absent from the PLF. He clenched his fists, and tried to think of a way out of this mess. Finally, he appeared in front of the buffed-out Medicham. The Medicham smirked, and wound up his fist, glaring at the apparently-helpless Denx that stood in front of him. Denx fell to his knees, expecting the worst. Then, the Medicham roared.

"Dynamic Punch!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. Denx was surprised, and scared. If a Mach Punch was that bad in this state, what would happen to him if he was hit by a direct DynamicPunch? The Medicham's fist started to glow, then crackle with pure power.

"Quick Attack!" Denx huffed. He struck the Medicham lightly in the stomach as he zoomed in front of him. Oddly, he roared in pain though the attack was fairly weak. He slammed his fist into the ground, sending a powerful tremor through the street, and slamming against one of the very few skyscrapers. It rocked back and forth before crumbling to the ground in rubble. The Medicham started to glow, and stood up as if nothing had happened. He looked at Denx with awe; he had found the flaw in his fifth move.

"How did you know?" the Medicham morph said, feeling completely rejuvenated after the Recover he had performed a second ago.

"Know what?" Denx said like a little kid. He looked at the Medicham puzzled for a moment.

"That Power Swap makes my defenses extremely weak, leaving me vulnerable to even the weakest attack?" he explained. A switch seemed to flick in Denx's mind.

"Really? I just figured that Power Swap didn't affect your speed. Boy, was that a lucky guess. But, it makes you vulnerable? Thanks for the info!" Denx squeaked. He hopped up from his leaning position. The Medicham smacked his head, and sighed. Denx actually hadn't figured out the flaw; the Medicham morph explained it to him. There was only one way to fix the threat, which was to exterminate Denx. But, it was still a threat..

"Thunder Wave!" He yelled. He shot the small, familiar jolt with precise aim. Before the Medicham could shake it off, he hit him with a flying fist while using Quick attack. The Medicham fell to the ground, glowed, and stood up wearily. Denx flew at him again twice, striking with extreme quickness. He zipped out, leaving the morph on the ground again. But, he glowed, and stood up even more fatigued than when he had risen the last time. Denx's plan was simple. It was to cause more damage than the Medicham morph could recover. He leaned low, lashed out a final quick attack, and tripped the morph. Landing on his own weight from his standing position would be devestating with the Power Swap effect. The morph fell a final time, unconscious. Denx's arm began to light up in fury. It crackled with electricity, and his fist drew from the well of power. His fist crackled, and he slammed the fist on the unconscious Medicham's head, crushing it into the ground. Upon contact, lightning zapped from Denx's arm into the Medicham's head. The Medicham wouldn't be getting up again.. ever.

Denx turned around to zip out with a quick attack, rage leaving his body. The Medicham morph was just too annoying to handle, even for Denx, who was annoying enough. Before he could turn around, though, he heard someone.

"Stop, in the name of Bruno!" Yelled the Lucario morph he had seen before. Before the Lucario morph could say any more, Denx glared at him.

"Damn it, no! I have to go, you have to stay. Good - bye." he said sternly. He turned around again, but a small kunai whizzed by his head, and lodged into the wall of the building he was next to. He looked at the morph, who had three kunais in one hand, and a fairly large katana in the other. He sheathed the katana just as Denx looked at him.

"I think I've more than proven my point. Come with me," he said. Denx shook his head, and began to run with Quick Attack. Before he could get very far, a voice boomed in his head.

"Your friend Denkaa doesn't believe in you. He doubts you," said a voice. It was the Lucario's voice, he could hear it from telepathy, "Don't run. That's the last thing Denkaa wants you to do. He sees you as a failure," he tormented, using his aura power to talk to Denx. Denx stopped running in the middle of an alleyway. He answered in his thoughts.

"You know nothing about Denkaa. Nothing! I miss him, but he doesn't see me as a failure.. if he can even see me.." he said. He prepared himself to fight the Lucario, even though he was in bad condition.

 

[Shadowfaith]

Aisha took a hard punch to the stomach and was thrown off balance. She landed on her back and gripped at the abused flesh in pain. It seemed Tyrouge's weren't as useless as she originally thought. She had no time to retaliate as a gloved hand reached out and grabbed her by the collar of her jacket and hurled her up against the wall roughly. The young Arcanine morph grit her teeth in pain but did not take her enraged gaze off of the Hitmontop morph. She did however grimace when his face came so close to hers that she could smell his rotting breath. She tried with all her might not to turn her face away.

"Well 'aint you a pretty thing. Too bad I'm gonna have to kill ya." He laughed raising a fist to deliver the final blow. Unfortunately for the Hitmontop his grip on her throat loosened as he did so and Aisha's wind pipe opened enough for her to deliver a jet of flame straight into the morphs face. She took in a well deserved breath when she was released and cared not that her entire being slumped to the floor in a heap. All she could concentrate on was the agonising shrieks of the morph that was not proceeding to run off, the Tyrogue in hot pursuit.

The Arcanine morph took long breaths, trying to focus her gaze once again. She was angry with herself. After all Clove had taught her she had let her guard down at the wrong time and the Tyrouge had landed a blow…a blow she could have done without. She needed more practice, she wasn't at the top of her game yet.
Growling, she pushed herself off the floor and onto her feet, wobbling a little as she did so. She had to steady herself by leaning against the wall for a few minutes. She took her radio from her belt and spoke into it. "C-Clove, anybody…wha-whats going on, were are you guy's?" She let the button go and waited a while for a response but nothing came. She tried again. "C'mon guy's, I'm a little lost…"
She returned the radio to her belt and dashed at a wall, running up it at full speed and performing a flip at the end to land successfully on the roof.

She gazed over the city but it appeared as dead as when she had arrived. She could not see Jack or Clove or Jade or anybody for that fact. "I'm just looking in the wrong place." She muttered, hoping over onto another roof for a different glance. All of a sudden she spied a purple orb flying through the air in the distance and as quickly as she had spotted the orb, she chased off after it like a dog would a light. She jumped from roof top to roof top in her pursuit and before long her gaze fell upon her struggling comrades. Clove had a Hitmonlee morph in his grasp and appeared to be questioning him …that was until another purple sphere soared through the air and connected with the Hitmonlee sending him hurtling through the wall

Aisha's eyes widened at the sheer act of cruelty and her gaze fell upon a very angry looking Agatha. The Arcanine morph shook her head in disgust and she fought the urge to take the wretch down there and then...fortunantly she remembered her training. 'Just keep low for now Aisha...surprise is the key...' She breathed and set herself down low against the roof in order not to be seen.

 

[billie_lightning]

No one is coming, Jade thought. I'm done for.
That's not the right attitude, a soothing, magical voice retorted.
Emerald?
She felt her Tyranitar smile, Yes

"Is that all you have?" Bruno taunted, motioning to his minions to not get involved.
Jade smirked, not allowing the Morph to see how anxious she was on the inside, how terrified she was to die. To let anyone else die. "There's plenty more. Order up!"
She was about to conjure another Earthquake when suddenly she realized that is she did, it would effect Oliver too, noticing that he was slightly injured from the last one. She threw a massive dark pulse his way to distract the morph while she thought things out.
Dark and Rock type moves are both hardly effective against fighting type. Anything I do will be useless. All I can do is distract him until someone else comes...

Bruno waved off the negative energy and began charging toward her.
Dynamic Punch
Jade quickly texted all of her teammates: Center of Town. Disadvantage. Bruno. Help. PLEASE.
When she looked up, Bruno's massive fist was feet from her face and she knew it was too late to dodge. She closed her eyes and braced herself.

The earth shook and she felt a shadow fall over her. The punch never hit. Jade opened her green eyes to find three large boulders hovering around her and Bruno nursing a sore fist angrily. She breathed in and the stones fell to the ground.
"What is this power?!"
Great, I've angered him...
Emerald smiled again.

 

[Kansas]

Clove stood, staring through glowing yellow iris's with spikes at full mast, ready to do their jobs. A faint shadowy aura flowed close to his skin as he breathed heavily, clearly trying to keep control with fists clenched tight. Behind him, Erika fought, exchanging blows with Sai. Another Dynamic Punch connected with the shield of Magic Leaf, sending a shockwave blasting through the area again as the leaves were blown apart at impact, negating the damage. Erika held her hands up, blocking as she slid backwards. In a grand sweep of her arms, she flung them around, bringing a massive column of sakura blossoms that she directed at the Sai, engulfing the Hitmonchan morph in a cyclone of petals. Erika's palms began to glow a dim white glow as she stood and spoke to him, stuck in the vortex.

"After seeing your own brother die, you can't even see that you're on the wrong side..." She said calmy.

"He would have kept fighting as well. He would have wanted me to kill you." Sai said through gritted teeth as he struggled to get out while the petals sliced and tore at his skin.

"Their brainwashing must have gotten harsh. This has to be Sabrinas work..." Erika said with a sigh as she raised a palm that was now bright with a white sphere of light. Thrusting her hand forward, she blasted a thin white beam as the petals of Petal Dance dispersed, leaving the open target. The Solar Beam connected clean, defeating Sai with no chance of coming back. She quickly turned to Clove to see if he was alright.

"Erika. Celadon is in big trouble. Gym Leader class trouble. I'll be there as soon as I can..." Clove said to her in a low tone. "Go."

"I...I understand, I'm going. I'll have my guard do what they can. And... I left you a gift, use it wisely..." She said in a calm tone as she vanished in a blur. Clove looked back to Agatha who's glare still echoed his hatred.

"What have you been waiting for... not going to get your payback?" Clove said in the same low tone. "Or maybe you're waiting for me to attack so you can use Sucker Punch..."

Her eyes narrowed some more as she heard Clove announce his deduction of her high speed attack.

"You're smarter than your profile, Lieutenant Wheldst. But our difference in strength is far too gre--"

"SHUT UP!" Clove growled as he vanished into a whiff of shadows, appearing to slice down with glowing Needles for another Needle Arm/Faint Attack deadly combo. He quickly targeted and lunged for vital spots as Agatha dodged and avoided them all. Clove quickly lost his air time as he fell to the ground, reaching for Pin Missiles once more.

"You're a one trick pony. I only NEED one arm for you." Agatha said in a bitter tone through gritted teeth as she quickly formed a Shadow Ball.

"Another Shadow Ball... With that kind of range I wont be able to disable anymore limbs and I can't even get in close... What kind of gift did Erika leave for me..." Clove thought as he remembered the scene of her departing. His eyes suddenly widened with realization as the Shadow Ball in Agatha's palm grew greater in size. As Clove fell towards the ground, he pressed his palms together in front of him.

"When Erika left, she left at super speed... something only possible for her when she's under SUNNY DAY! See you in hell, Agatha!" Clove yelled as his palms quickly stored energy under the brightened sun and he prepared to fire from falling high in the air. "And I'll have you know... mine hurts a lot more than Erika's does." he added as the beam reached its maximum charge. Agatha's eyes widened in horror as she focused her energy into the Shadow Ball, making it as big as she could before launching the massive purple sphere downward at Clove. Simultaneously, Clove launched his massive Solar Beam which quickly repelled him to the ground as his feet connected with the pavement and dug into it as he held control of the massive beam. Agatha's Shadow Ball connected with a thunderous boom that sent a force blasting in all directions. The Solar Beam and Shadow Ball fought for superiority as they lit up the sky with the clashing forces. The two finally collapsed into each other, exploding and sending a shock wave down that forced Clove to grunt under the pressure as he stood. After the force cleared, he looked up to the still whole, Agatha who was breathing heavily.

"I used a lot of energy blocking that punk kids, Solar Beam... That little wench Erika left a Sunny Day for him... I wont be able to win under these conditions. Haze wont negate anything... that's the Solar Beam from his profile... the Sunny Day makes it almost instant fire... Although i have the energy... it wouldn't be a fight without major loss" Agatha thought as she stared Clove down in front of her.

"Only a fool would attempt this fight." Agatha said calmly as she lowered her arm to her side and raised it again whipping out the curtain of shadows that was Night Shade and swooped it wide in front of her as it concealed her. It wrapped her body and covered her, vanishing into the sky. Clove's eyes widened in disbelief.

"She... fled..." Clove said in a low, disbelieving voice as he slumped to his knees, resting. "Thanks to this Sunny Day... I wont be perfect after that Solar Beam but at least I can still fight... I have to find the team... and Bruno..."

Clove looked around quickly to find a sign of Jack or anyone. He needed to find Bruno at least or know the rest of the team was okay. Clove returned to his feet, looking at his still slightly smoldering palms from the Solar Beam. He had a brief flashback of Solar Beam training with Erika and her Bellossum with Cacturne.

"Cacturne... you need to learn to control the solar power and make it project like an arrow like Bellossum. You'll wear yourself out if you keep using it like that! Watch again... Bellossum, Solar Beam!" Erika said happily as Bellossum happily obliged, storing energy and firing a thin beam that blew a small deep hole in the mountain side.

"Nah... Cacturne and I like to make sure they don't get back up, right buddy? Show her a real Solar Beam!" Clove said, antagonizing Erika as Cacturne formed its cactus arms together and charged up, releasing a blast twice his size at the mountain side, trumping Bellossum's hole.

"See?! how could that not work?!" Clove called as he high fived his loyal companion, Cacturne.

Clove quickly snapped back to reality as he looked around the smoldering wreckage of buildings. He looked around slowly at the rooftops and surrounding, hoping for some sign of the other team members.

"Jack shouldn't be far... he started fighting near me. But wheres everyone else... damn it if my communicator hadn't broke I wouldn't be in this situation... I need to get them backup asap...and to save Erika and Celadon... if Johto is involved now, theres no telling what kind of danger she's charging into... " Clove thought as he vanished, leaping up to a near by building scanning the horizon.

 

[Shadowfaith]

'She fled?!' Aisha yelled mentally. 'What a coward…'

Pushing herself up off of the roof she glanced over to where Clove once stood and found that he was no longer there. With a questioning glance to looked around her and spotted him on top of another building not far off. She gave him a wave to alert her being there and hastily made her way over to him. "Clove I…!" She was cut off when a text came through from someone. She dug into her pocket and extracted her mobile phone. "Jade?" she whispered. Come to think of it, she had not seen Jade in a while now and fear quickly consumed her thoughts. She opened the message hastily, almost dropping her phone in the process. Fear pinched at her heart as she realized what the text had been about. She quickly returned her mobile to her pocket and yelled. "Jade's in trouble!" and without another though she prang off in search of her, but not before yelling. "Centre of town. BRUNO!"

Hastily she flipped and sprang across rooftops in order to reach her destination. "Jade, be okay." She murmured, hoping her prayers would be answered and she wouldn't have to deal with a sight to horrid to think of.
It wasn't long before she reached the centre, after all Lavender wasn't that big of a town. Hastily looking around she spied floating boulders off in the distance 'What's that?' the thought, standing for a few moments to try and place it before remembering what her mission was. She sprang from the roof top landing gracefully on the solid ground below and dashed off in the direction she had spied the boulders.

Skidding to a halt she was just in time to see an angry Bruno cradling a fist and Jade just narrowly being missed by three heavy boulders hitting the ground. Aisha knew better this time than to just charge in without thinking. Instead she gathered up a neat ball of flame in the palm of her hand using flamethrower and proceeded to lower herself onto her three remaining paws. Dashing off she coupled her extreme speed with double team and scattered before coming at Bruno from all directions, fire ball in hand and ready to strike.

What Bruno assumed to be the real Aisha was in fact only a clone and so when Bruno's large fist collided with air he did not expect the immense burning sensation he felt settle into the small of his back. Aisha drove the fireball as deep as it would go into the tanned panel of skin below her palm and was satisfied to hear a shriek of pain from the rock wielder. Happy with her attack she pushed off of Bruno and landed gracefully behind his crouched figure. She noted with satisfaction that Bruno's overly muscular arms prevented him from reaching the burnt mark on his back to nurse it.

The young Arcanine morph looked over a hunched shoulder at a smirking Jade. "Do I have perfect timing or what?" She grinned.

 

[Mira]

Seven down.

Ember grinned and looked around. There were several morphs left, but they would be gone soon enough.

Ember.

Ember jumped up and spun around, beating a morph across the face with her tails.

Ember!

She sliced his cheek and landed on his chest, crushing a rib.

EMBER!! Pyra shouted in her head. You're needed!

Ember looked up at where Bruno stood and saw that she was right. Another morph, a female Arcanine-morph by the look of it, had joined in the battle as well, but Ember knew they were still at a major disadvantage. Ember growled and, after giving the morph one last kick, began swiftly running over to the fight.

Pyra, send out a Dark Pulse at the morphs behind us. Hold it and make sure they can't come over, Ember instructed.

Pyra did as told and the morphs behind began wailing as dark thoughts tore through their minds. They retreated far enough to escape the move and didn't dare venture closer. She started preparing both Fire Blast and Iron Tail. Ember reached inside for the energy she stored up and fed it into the moves, feeling the raw power course through her body. Ember quickly closed the space and leapt into the air. She curled into a ball, directing her tails out. She collided with Bruno's neck, attempting to crack his spine. His thick bones took the hit, but he yelled out in pain. A split second after impact while she was still in close contact, Ember released all the fire she had stored up inside of her in one fiery explosion directly into the back of his head. Ember flew back and skidded to a halt, grinning wickedly at the blaze mark that covered his skull and ran down his spine.

"Die!" Ember yelled, preparing to strike again.

 

[Gumshoe Satyr]

The Infernape threw punch after punch, but Jack dodged or blocked them easily.... This was way too easy. When he countered with a kick, the Infernape grinned and dived to the side, and Jack felt a lightning fast punch collide with his side.

"That...that was a Mach Punch," he gasped as he jumped to the side to avoid anymore attacks.

"That's right," his opponent answered, his smile broadening. He waved his glowing fist menacingly before letting the light fade. "How about we kick this up a notch? I'm getting bored." Smoke poured from his mouth and the flame on his head burned even brighter.

He's just been playing with me so far... He's much faster than me, but, hopefully, Agility will even things out a bit. I'll have to be careful though because if I use it too much, I could tire myself out. Jack concentrated on building up heat in his chest.

Simultaneously, the two morphs released Flamethrowers at each other, and as the attacks collided in the air, they each poured more and more power in order to come out on top. The air shimmered with intense heat as a fiery ball formed, small at first but grew quickly with each passing second. A few windows of nearby buildings, unable to take the heat, shattered. This..is too...much. We could...kill..each..other. Using Agility, he cut off his Flamethower and dodged the large ball of flames, which slammed into a brick building behind him, scorching and damaging it but not destroying it. While his enemy was still distracted, Jack charged up his fist and landed a Sky Uppercut on his chin, knocking him off his feet.

"Not bad," the Infernape morph growled, rubbing his chin. "But can you handle this?" His fist glowed like before, but this time it was different..... There was much more power. It's a Focus Punch! Just then Jack's communicator buzzed loudly in his pocket. "Looks like some of your teammates could use your help. Too bad you'll be dead!" He charged at Jack with charged fist raised.

"I just need to hurry up and wrap this thing up!" Activating Agility again, he barely dodged the Focus Punch only to be tripped by the Infernape's tail.

"I've got you now!" He swung his fist at Jack but was stopped cold when hit him in the stomach with a Blaze Kick. "Ugh..." The glow of his fist immediately disappeared. Jack rolled to his feet and tried to jump out of the way of a barrage of Mach Punches. "Too slow!" his opponent shouted as his first punch made contact. Breathing hard, the two morphs backed away from each to get ready for the next attack. I can't let this drag on for much longer.... What if the others really do need my help?...

With a laugh, the Infernape said, "I didn't think you'd last this long, but try this on for size!" His whole body glowed an eerie white and four illusory copies of him appeared, surrounding Jack. "There's no way you can dodge it this time!" All five of the Infernapes charged their fists with Focus Punch.

"Crud. Which one is the real one? Wait! I've got it!" Jack leaped straight up in the air, and the Infernapes collided with each other until there was only one left. Turning a back flip, he landed behind the real Infenape morph and grabbed his tail. Spinning his body, he threw him into the brick building, and before he could recover, he slammed a Sky Uppercut into the back of his head, snapping his neck with a sickening crack. Jack sagged against the building to rest for a few moments and catch his breath. I hope everyone's alright... Ok, even Ember. I admit it.

 

[Silhouette]

No fight! No fight! Denx chanted in his head. He really didn't know why he was thinking that. Some sort of chant to get him into the mood, he guessed. As he looped the thought in his head, he walked down the street, ready to approach the Lucario morph. He looked all around, but could see nothing. Suddenly, from out of a shop, he emerged, clutching his katana with his hands. He reared, then released some odd power, that seemed to hypnotize Denx. Four swords appeared from nowhere, and started to dance around the Lucario with a mystic power. When he was done, the swords became one, and merged with his katana. It was a Sword's dance technique. He faced Denx on the street, and spat on the ground.

"Let's get this over with, puny weakling!" he said, not hesitating to charge at Denx with his sword drawn. Denx started with quick attack, circling him and taking caution not to get too close to this enemy. The Lucario morph switched directions, and so did Denx. He stopped, Denx copying his every move, except opposite. The Lucario morph started to charge an orb of energy, as did Denx, except with electricity. The Lucario morph released his Aura Sphere at the same time Denx released his Zap Cannon. The attacks collided, and fizzed out with a few sparks and a deep thud. The Lucario dashed at Denx with Extreme Speed, just missing Denx as he leapt out of the way with Quick Attack. The Lucario smashed his hand through a window, and pulled it out, unharmed. He looked at Denx, whom he noticed was keeping a relatively safe distance.

"You and I, we are more alike than I thought. With your parrying power, I don't know why Denkaa doesn't believe in your skill.." he said with a smirk. Denx clenched his fist, and it sparked with power. He charged at the Lucario morph without words, and flung a Thunder Punch at the Lucario.

"Force Palm!" the Lucario morph announced. The two fists collided, small pulses of combined energy going here and there. Denx flew backward, across the street, skidding his feet against the pavement. He looked up at the Lucario morph, and summoned his voice, weak through rage.

"I'm nothing like you, you dirty scum. I'd never betray my homeland.." he said, his head tilted downward, looking madly at the Lucario morph. The Lucario morphed chuckled as he pulled out a kunai, and flung it at Denx. It stuck into the road at Denx's feet. Denx picked it up, and surrounded it with a jolt of electricity. He charged at the Lucario, with the kunai behind him in a running position.

OOC: Yeah, I wanted to do a lot more with my post, but I don't have enough time.. =/