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"'Kay." Robby replied, by now standing after listening to the plan. Beams returned his pokemon, leaving Roast dancing in the sky, the clouds at last pouring the rain she'd called.

The Silver haired youth was not at all ready for the collapse of the stage, and some how got caught under a random peice of the stage. Groaning, Tk pushed a piece of the stage off himself as Iron Hide worked out from under the rubble, about the same time Wayne was pairing up there group. He counted himself lucky. Only a Few scrapes and bruises. Dusting himself off he dutifully walked over towards Robby, acknowledging Wayne's request. His last memory of the large boy had been when he fell through the floor at the hotel in Nacrene, and eating all the food Mai, Tk's mother, had prepared.

Simultaneously, a Clone split off from the real Tk mid walk to Robby and proceeded towards Kenta, a single Pokeball clutched in his hand.

"h-hey," the clone swallowed, approaching Kenta, he then went ahed and explained the plan that Wayne issued just moments ago. "So uh, attack or defense?" he asked recalling Wayne's order for one partners Pokemon to be used for attack and the other defense. "Oh, and we should only have one Pokemon out, ya know, makes things less confusing in battle, and one less player to cover. If its cool with you, uh how about your Gallade?"

"My Skarmory Has great defense and she's pretty agile in the sky. If it comes to it she can carry us both with no problem" the clone held up the single Pokeball clutched in his hand. "And your Gallade would be the perfect pick for our attacker."

The Tk clone was being oddly straight forward, Even given the current circumstance's.

Over on the the real Tk's Side. "My Lairon, Iron Hide, can handle the Defense if you got the attack." He said, nodding his head in Iron Hide's Direction. He had enough time to max out his speed, but only enough to raise his actual defense by four stage's.

"I cant get a good view from Down here, Lend me your Shoulder?" The real Tk continued, being a lot less formally straight forward with Robby as opposed to his clone with Kenta. Having had a prior encounter with him.

"Huh? Whaddya mean?" the real Tk asked, clambering up onto Robby's shoulder, inspecting the surrounding area. Next to Robby and Tk, Iron Hide pawed at the ground and growled, either sensing something was about to happen or just showing that he was ready for the fight.

"Right," the clone Tk said with a nod, releasing Saria once again from her pokeball before looking over to Sal. "You think its counting down to...ya know...." he made an out ward explosion gesture with his hands "Kapoosh!"

Big Stadium: Ruined Stage

N could see the logic behind Wayne’s plan. Having a system to watch each other’s backs would save them from hitting each other. “Zero and I can provide you cover and openings,” the green haired trainer told Wayne.

Salieri narrowed her eyes in irritation. Partners? What was the point? They were all fighting the same person. Besides, having Henrietta as a partner would be more of a burden than a help. The Battle Girl had yet to forget about her inability to control Melty.

So she turned up her nose at Henrietta’s suggestion. “Just don’t get in my way,” she muttered under her breath while walking past the girl into the center of the group.

“Made it myself. Maybe you should grab a pipe or something” Sal told Wayne absentmindedly as she walked past him as well,, slowly circling around while trying to concentrate on the mystery noise. The buzzing sound was still going. It sounded close, and it sounded below them. “I don’t know what a bomb sounds like, but this sounds like a-“

Pachi stepped out of a portal behind the group, having warped herself out from underneath the instruments. She dusted off her shoulders and scratched her nose. “Hmm,” she yawned.

Salieri’s muscles tensed as she gripped onto the meteor hammer. There wasn’t even a scratch on Pachi. Even her hairstyle was still perfectly intact. Getting buried under those instruments after a sucker punch to the face meant nothing to her.

The FLF commander bent over, lifting aside small bits of the stage until she found a cellphone underneath. She dusted that off as well, and when she answered it the vibrating buzzing noise ceased.

“Harmony…still here…nothing. I’m just entertaining some guests.” The tribal woman paced slowly back and forth. She rose an eyebrow and stopped. “You have him?....still alive?”

There was a pause as she nodded in approval. “ETA?...give me a thirty second notice…Over and out.”

“What is she talking about?” Sal hissed to her friends while Pachi hung up the phone. She pocketed it and tapped on her earpiece for a separate line that would reach out to all her FLF subordinates.

“Harmony has the mark. ETA is two minutes. Be here sooner.”

N’s eyes widened. Another hostage?

Big Stadium: South Entrance

“Odin, we can talk this out,” Circa called over to the grey haired boy as he darted forward, ducking by the swords in the process. They curved through the air to decapitate Circa on the way back to Odin, but Circa dodged these as well with a simple strafe. “But after we save the people inside.”

Odin caught his swords again. Zack had been an issue to deal with thanks to his explosions. But Circa held back even more than Zack did. “The people worth saving are already safe.”

“Harmony has the mark. ETA is two minutes. Be here sooner.”

Odin looked back at Goldberg, positive that he got the message through his earpiece as well. Zack had previously blocked the south entrance with rubble. Odin could deal with it given some time, but the most efficient way to get back inside would be for Goldberg to make the path.

“Let’s go.”

Village Bridge

“Harmony has the mark. ETA is two minutes. Be here sooner.”

Cassandra nodded as she stretched her legs, standing in the center of the town bridge’s western end. On the other end, Jump was also stretching.

“That your boss?” he asked her.
“You’ve got some good ears,” she told him with a faint smile as she cracked her back. “Sorry, but I’m done distracting you now. My mission is almost over.”

The wind blew between them. Jump grinned. “So this is the last leg of the race?”

“No.” She got down in a runner’s stance. Jump braced himself, preparing to run whatever direction he needed to. “It won’t be much of a race.”

They took off, one a blue blur of lightning and the other a black blur of humming noise. Their start up left splintering cracks in Village Bridge as they blasted away to run down Unova’s east coast.

Big Stadium: Ruined Stage

"I think the FLF has another hostage," N told the group, voicing his deduction. "And this one is important. If she escapes then she wins."

Pachi rubbed her chin and tilted her head. “Didn’t I kick you out already?” she pondered, pointing to Salieri. The Battle Girl growled and swung the meteor hammer into ready position.

“Don’t look down on me, b***h.”

Pachi shook a little with laughter. The tribal woman couldn’t stop herself from chuckling a bit more. “I envy you all…ignorance must be…mmm...adventurous…”

She turned away from them and walked to what used to be the back of the stage. Ten barrels at the back were still intact. The timer continued to tick down, getting closer and closer to the end.

“But one measly tap does not mean victory.”

The timer reached it’s end.

BOOM!

Small cannons popped out of the tops of the barrels and fired off streams of fireworks into the air above the stadium. They burst into extravagant shapes and colors, filling up the battleground with flashing lights. Pipes that stuck up into the air at the borders of the stage ruins produced streams of fire and sparkles.

Salieri took a step back and looked at the sight. It dawned on her that the finale of Helena’s concert had become the finale of their battle with Pachi.

The tribal woman looked over her shoulder at the Legends Crew. The colored lights cast a shadow on her eyes. “You still have everything to lose.”

A chill ran down Salieri’s spine. Pachi was making portals. “Take cover!”

Ten portals covered the tops of the fireworks cannons, absorbing the multiple rockets as they were shot out. Above and between the Legends Crew and Pachi, ten more portals opened. They angled towards the Legends Crew, shooting down the fireworks that had just been launched in a wave of colorful explosives.

They’d explode just a few feet before they hit the ground in a wide area that the Legends Crew currently occupied, arcing and bursting in random trajectories. With the angle to their shots, it made going past them quite difficult.

Daphne had left Roast, and the swanna was already moving to defend her trainer, having heard not a one thing that had been said about them sticking together.

She moved with gravity and her own speed underneath the firework closest to hitting the obese lad, who was already moving away, with the intention to roll with the explosion if necessary to mitigate the damage. Water pulse underneath it, aiming to force its angle up was used, hopefully redirecting it, at least some. With luck, it wouldn't be to close to hitting anyone after that.

The upside-down flying swanna would then resort to a hard-to-see attack that was air slash, one with each wing, aiming to open two of the fireworks that were further away, hopefully before they burst. With luck, the fact that air slash was air, and invisible to the human eye, would make it hard for the ghost lady to stop her attack.

Well, that and the fact that Daphne was the bigger threat, and right up in her face with an attack.

Recovery would be easy enough, as long as she wasn't hit by one of the fireworks, and the swanna would try to take back to the sky before they hit, if possible.

Kenta looked at the beautiful little explosives and smiled.
"Kai! Psychic!" He called, and his pokemon obayed, lifting the debris around them, and using it to block off the ones missed, then moving them forward to seal 3 of the portals.

Nicole

"Soldier, your ability is to infuse your bullets with elemental affinities, correct? If I am not mistaken - such an ability is impossible." She spoke softly as she approached Jonah. "By the fact that you have not fired any more off I am under the impression that you need a Pokemon to help you. In other words, because your normal bullets will not work against me, you are helpless without this boy."

Viper pulled the trigger. "Shut up."

Nicole cut the bullet - and all of Viper's were split apart. The second shot proved this when the two pieces were cut once more, severing all bullets into four parts.

"My ability," Nicole continued, "is the transference of injuries. Now that she is helpless," Nicole said as Girafarig arrived - Sandslash no where to be seen. "You are her only guardian," Nicole spoke to Jonah now. Her focus completely on him.

"The rules of this duel are simple. All injuries you sustain will transfer to her, if she tries to flee Girafarig will kill her. If you use any Pokemon I will stop holding back."

She entered her stance, both swords raised, horizontal. "So. Why do you fight me now?"