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Big Stadium: Concert Stage

Pachi took a deep breath and let out one long sigh as she watched the phenomenon unfold. This was the first major step towards turning things around. The first major step towards getting her world back. But the end was still a ways to go. When this event had been planned, she thought she’d achieve a higher level of satisfaction.

“I imagined this would be more…”

A lone WG soldier had gotten around Goldberg, headed right at Pachi. All of the chaos served as the perfect shroud for the Leader’s escape: the dead man was nowhere to be seen. But this Pachi woman seemed to be the next in command. Taking her out was a priority.

The soldier took one mis-step, tripping like the ground ended in front of him. He looked down. The ground did end in front of him. Another dark, murky portal had opened, this time on the floor. The soldier fell through, screaming as he flailed into the darkness. The portal closed.

And another re-opened right above Pachi, and the soldier dropped through towards the stage. The mysterious woman caught him by the scalp with one hand, and before he could say a word she snapped his neck. She kicked his corpse off the stage, where it got trampled under more escapees and fighting.

Pachi sighed again. “Exhilarating.”

The wall of the southern exit exploded.

“It’s a start.”

The explosion another wave of screaming and terror, but as soon as people realized there was another escape route they began to flock to the impromptu hole in the wall where it was safe. The collapsed debris was treacherous, but people would slowly start to trickle to the southern lawn.

Now with two ways out, the audience was leaving at a much quicker rate, and it was getting easier for the soldiers to weed out who was FLF and who wasn’t. The fight became more intense as the soldiers entered combat with ferocious pokemon and a movement of passionately scorned rebels.

Big Stadium: South Exit

"Takamaru!" Salieri rushed to TK and put her hands on her knees, looking down with concern after the car crashed into the stadium wall. She felt a little guilty about his pain, but he did cause major structural damage to the exit. Getting through now would be way easier.

The Battle Girl would help TK back onto his feet right before the rain of Swift came down. Htimonlee's Vacuum Wave protected them somewhat, but two stars sliced into Sal's bicep and stomach. It was a stinging type of pain, but right now it was just another bit of damage. She had to ignore it.

Zero had destroyed the stars that came into her territory, attacking each one within her range with Fury Swipes. It gave N enough time to finish tying his shoes behind her, and he stood up when he was finished. Zero didn't look back at him, but the corner of her mouth fell into a frown. [...N, I'm sorry I left you before-]

"I hate to interrupt you, Zero. But that's something we can discuss later." He answered without turning around, and they stood with their backs turned. Zero nodded. She needed to be focused on the now, not past mistakes. "We need to get up there, or he can keep throwing down attacks at us."

"So then let's get up there already," Salieri practically growled, annoyed by this period of inaction. She began to run towards the rock wall. N and Zero ran after her.

A pirate? Celt's hands shook. Did this dimwit just call him a pirate? "Do NOT compare me to HIM!" he screamed back to Wayne, jumping up as he did so. The jump had the effect of pushing down Starmie while dodging Socant's Sucker Punch. The spider went through the gap between Celt and Andra as Celt rose higher into the air.

The Psyshock bolt ended up blasting into Celt's calf due to his position change, sending a strange but painful sensation through his entire leg and flipping him through the air.

Next to the exit door, Liuye Dao opted to evade rather than attack Quillan's Earthquake. He activated Neuroshock and Rock Polish, doubling his speed and reaction time. The Pawniard became a shiny black and red blur covered in little sparks that darted underneath Darumi and tackled him out of the way. This was right before Fried came in, and in the mixup Quillan was hit by the Combusken's Brick Break.

The Sandslash bounced back into the door, but stood up quickly, having used Defense Curl to soften the blow. He curled into a ball and spun rapidly in place, charging up a Gyro Ball that would rocket him into his opponents like a spiky bowling ball for a surefire knockout.

Then the Inferno came.

The pillar of fire blew up the car, creating a massive explosion that decimated the southern section of the stadium wall. Liuye Dao was knocked aside by the shockwave. Salieri, N and Zero all stopped to look at the damage as the initial burst of flame stated to die down. Even Celt took a moment mid injury to look down.

Quillan was in the center, having burrowed underground in an attempt to escape. But he was still caught in the blast and laid knocked out in the earth.

The Battle Girl's eyes darted to Henrietta for a short moment, and if she made eye contact she would give the kendo girl a piercing glare and a scowl to match. It could only mean one thing. When this is over, we're going to have a talk, Henrietta.

And then the battle started up again.

"Get over here!" Sal yelled at Liuye Dao, and the Pawniard rushed to run alongside his trainer. Once she got close enough to the rock wall, she jumped up and planted a foot on the wall. And kept going.

Salieri got a couple of steps vertically up the wall before gravity started to defy her will. As she fell, she jumped off the wall for a little more height and stuck out a leg that Liuye Dao jumped upon. The Battle Girl swung out her leg, kicking the Pawniard up into the air like a javelin.

Liuye flew up at Celt, body straight as an arrow to pierce him like one. But Celt saw it coming, and spun Liuye around so his momentum was now directed back downwards.

The falling Pawniard saw Socant swinging back around and held out a knife hand for help. With Socant's current swing speed, Liuye would be able to get in another, faster shot if the Galvantula gave him the assist.

While Liuye fell, the still aloft Andra aimed a Thunderbolt at the vulnerable pokemon. But Zero leapt into the air and batted at the Starmie with a Night Slash. Andra was forced to dodge, making her miss the target while the Thunderbolt flew off harmlessly to the sky.

Andra started to spin around while using Hydro Pump, aiming it at the ground. The result would be a rapidly whirling death whip of torrential downpour that would strike in a wide area all below her.

As Celt fell, he started spinning around until he was a shout out to the Tasmanian Devil. The living tornado had enough rotational speed that if he stopped abruptly it would result in a split second microburst of incredibly forceful wind. And he planned on releasing it when he was close enough to his opponents in order to slam them into the dirt.

"Thanks" the silver haired youth mumbled, now on his Feet. Not to long after Sal was off again, with a flash of red light spike was returned to his pokeball. The only Pokemon he had out currently was Saria the Skarmory.

tk took note of the Destruction of the southern exit. There first goal was complete. all that was left to do was help the people inside escape, the other's could deal with celt.

"Saria!" he yelled, calling down the Skarmory who landed silently aside her trainer.

After clmabering onto the flying pokemon, Saria jumped into the air, holding her place in the sky, roughly 25 feet from the exit. "Where gonna head for the entrance, but wait for my command.." Tk didnt plan on diving head first into the chaos that was the battle with Celt. No, He'd wait for a break in there attacks and rush towards and through the entrance.

"NOW!" he hugged his legs tightly against Saria's sides as she darted forth in between the opening of attacks that where being fired from Pokemon to Pokemon. Halfway to the entrance a mis-aimed thunderbolt streaked past the airborn trainer's head, but he didnt slow down, they were almost there.

'15 feet..'

'10 feet...'

'5 feet'

And if nothing stopped them they'd be at the entrance and a moment later glide right through, appearing above a crowd of frightened civilians.

Roast would grumble at the extra effort of holding when Liuye was given the assist, and the apparent skyscraper hold would look down long enough for Socant's tug to be seen next. A tug, a pull. A great acceleration, and Roast would use it. Aerial Ace, a maneuver aimed at the Starmie, with the full speed of the bird and the bug's strength added to it. And if she hit, it would be like a pinball, pushing off, bouncing off, and leaving the string that had held her attached to the pokemon, at the center, of its rotation, to keep it intact. And if that worked? Well, electricity apparently.

Fried found himself suddenly hotter as that opponent began anew. And then he felt the inferno, burning. A moment later, he was moving back, sudden memory kicking in. This thing? Seemed to have explosions follow it wherever it went. Even just one time fighting with it was enough to see that. But it didn't help him escape when the explosion went off, and the large pokemon was on the ground...

Robby was standing, finally having found his way out of the wretched hole. If Celt was hit with that Hex, he'd see 'im comin', Robby, master of balance and footin' would brace himself, and utilize his massive belly, and would attempt to ping pong Celt away, perhaps a li'l aura in there, rejectin' the Australian "rebel." If it worked, it'd prolly be towards Fried. Who smelled about done.

Fried was up, adrenaline, and maybe something else, kicking in. Anger, instinct, all he had. And if Celt was comin' his way? Well, a full powered ten-kicked double kick would fly out at him, aimin' for his ugly self.

Big Stadium: South Exit

Or were they? The remaining police spread out, protecting civilians all around the stadium as they poured through the doors. With the battle raging on both sides of the gate, just being in the vicinity was hazardous. The cops carried riot shields, protecting people from debris or stray attacks. Their numbers were small, they were hopelessly outmanned, but they did what they could to protect as many people as possible, their pokémon working just as hard to shoot projectiles out of the air as they soared over.

Eukarya zoomed to Wayne's side and projected a horizontal Reflect at the trainer's feet. Wayne grinned and jumped on, and with the Duosion gluing himself to the underside and using Self-Telekinesis, the Reflect acted as a makeshift hoverboard.

The trainer soared up, hands in his pockets. Whether Celt was being beaten around or not, it was time to end this battle. "Yo, 'mate'!" he said, looking down on the teenager. "You wanna know who we are?" He threw his arms wide, "Who the hell do you think we are?! We're the Legends Crew, b***h!"

Big Stadium: South Exit

The Hydro Pump had basically washed her team out. Darumi and Melty had been too close to the doors to properly avoid it, and now they were laid out. Melty, courtesy of calm minds, wasn't quite unconscious, but he wasn't up for any more fighting.

Henrietta had also been hit by the Hydro Pump, and by the time Salieri got to her she was trying to get her sense of things. Moving her bangs from her eyes, looking around the area.

And the next thing she knew she was pushed against the stadium wall, wincing and raising her hands to rest on Salieri's wrists. She met the other girl's eyes.

"I didn't know he would do that," her voice was somewhere between 'i just got hit by a hydro pump, ow' and some attempt at being composed.

Big Stadium: South Exit

Henrietta gave a sort of muffled cry when she hit the wall again. Like she didn't have any air to scream, but her pained face relayed the message well. The broken rib hurt. Like hell. And Salieri wasn't helping.

Henrietta tried to focus through it as she stared at Salieri, her fingers curling around the girl's wrists. Not tightly, not really with any force behind it.

"Now..." She took a deep breath. "You stop wasting time." She couldn't pretend to have a cruel tone or expression, she looked just as meek and frail as Salieri probably thought she was - crystals glittering in the sunlight tinted red as they blocked off her blood. She was littered in smaller ones, but there was a nice long one across her face.

"I've seen you try to kill a man, because you didn't know. I watched you run off to get the fossil anyways - because of your pride." Henrietta then made an attempt to get Salieri's hands off of her.

"And I won't have that today. I didn't know Sal, and I'm sorry for that but right now people are in danger! Set it aside and adapt to what is going on right now!"

Saria Landed just after Celts brutal a** kicking. Dismounting just as Salieri hoisted Henritta up by her collar. Through out there entire Exchange of words he looked towards the ground. 'Friends arnt supposed to act this,' The kid kept his thoughts on matter to himself and just looked solemnly off into the distance.

The next time he move'd his legs was when he was when N ushered for them to gather. Though Henrietta's and Sal's Exchange was done he still held an uneasy look. Celts Comment about how it took Six of them to take him down was getting to him. That and after what Sal said to Henrietta began making him unsure about more than a couple of things.