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Henrietta was tired. Yesterday had been bad, today? Today took the god damn cake. She'd gotten a crush yesterday, and that was the only good thing to come out of it. Today, she'd made a friend, and what had happened? If she finds her soul mate tomorrow she's more definitely going to die. Or so she figured.

Back to the story, before her stood the Grunt, Jeffery and his Sandile. On her side was Socant, who had almost been defeated in a single hit. Either way, now the duo was together. Aching and tired, they'd have to swallow up the pain and jump into combat.

Bandages on her forearms stained red, hair in messy tangles and clothes covered in dirt, Henrietta climbed to her feet. Her right arm, dislocated, throbbed painfully. Even if it was possible to move it, she wasn't going to try. She needed a strategy, a plan of action, fast.

Socant Screeched then. Henrietta had nothing, no ideas, but her Pokemon did. The loudness of it caused all three people around Socant to step back in surprise.

Jeffery then smirked as Sandile jumped forward and Socant met him, latching on to the inside of his mouth as his jaws parted and biting down. Sandile waved his head around, trying to shake the Pokemon use but it was no use. Finally, his fangs lit up, catching fire with Fire Fang and Socant Screeched again as he released his hold and was flung away.

Jeffery, meanwhile, charged at Henrietta who considered her position. Gritting her teeth, she lowered herself and charged into Jeffery, spearing his midsection and sending them both tumbling to the ground. He quickly pushed her up from him and onto her back, rolling over to straddle her and Henrietta brought her arm up to defend herself, trying to push him in return, to no avail.

He grabbed her arm, his grip causing a cry to escape her lips. Her wounds on her forearms, already reopened, ached even more when he grabbed her. The other hand went to grab her throat but she lowered her chin, blocking him off. So? He back handed over, busting her lip and bruising her cheek and she winced, tears welling up in her eyes.

Socant had his own problems at the moment but he noted Henrietta. His poor trainer wouldn't last like this. Socant himself? He'd been burned and was aching now, but he had to save her and win this battle. Sandile gave him no chance to recover. The enemy charged forward, aiming to crush down upon Socant with a Fire Fang but Socant was having none of that.

Socant jumped up and the jaws parted, aiming to crush down upon Socant with fiery death force and Socant released Gastro Acid into the enemy's mouth, causing him to cry out and close his mouth and reel back in agony.

Socant then landed on his back and turned, firing a String Shot at Jeffery. It wrapped around his neck and he pulled. Though he was small, he was strong enough to cause Jeffery, caught off guard, to lean back and Henrietta used this chance to twist her arm, painfully, free and push him back, pushing him off of her.

She then quickly jumped to her feet and reached for her belt, grabbing Frate's ball. As she turned to release the Roggenrola her hand was smacked, disarming her and a fist caught her in the face. Her nose exploded into blood and her vision exploded into a flash of white. As it returned she found herself stumbling and she quickly looked passed Jeffery to see the ball had flown and fallen at an awkward angle.

So, she dove. At this time Socant was dealing with Sandile again. They'd parted and were exchanging attempts to hit each other. Sand Attack finally landed, blinding Socant to the smashing power of Rage, sending Socant flying.

Henrietta's right shin was caught by a powerful kick, the steel clad boot causing a bruise and breaking the skin underneath her jeans. She cried as she hit the ground and crawled for Frate's ball when she felt her belt caught by the Grunt.

Then she remembered. MELTY! She turned to try to stop the grunt but Jeffery's fist hit her back, causing her to attempt to cry out but it was futile, the air left her lungs and she could only part her lips in a silent scream. The belt was forced from her jeans and the Grunt looked over Melty's ball before shrugging and tossing it behind him. "That one is mine now," he announced.

Henrietta scrambled for Frate's ball now that the hands had left her and she felt something caught her good leg and she cried out. She saw Socant, on the ground a few feet away, having taken another Fire Fang, he was unconscious and badly injured. His small body looking broken and burned.

She used her bruised leg to kick at Sandile, catching him in the face and she pulled and struggled against the ground until her jeans tore and the teeth, caught in her flesh, dragged across, turning bite marks into gashes and she cried again but with one throw of her body she reached Frate's ball and tapped the button, releasing the Roggenrola onto the battlefield and he acted immediately, head cutting Jeffery as the grunt jumped into action, sending the Grunt to the ground.

Henrietta twisted herself around to see the battle, to see Frate standing there atop the stunned Jeffery, facing down Sandile.

((Post 1/4, not interruptions, please.))

After the floor collapsed Takamaru plummeted downward towards the earth. the young boy had the wind knocked from him as he staggered to stand up straight. justs after standing up he noticed Iron Hide along with him, just inches away from himself. 'that could have been bad' he thought, thinking of what would have happened if his pokemon had landed on his head or another various body part.

but after standing up and regaining themselves (giving there opponents ample time to strike) the Duo both noticed that one of there own was missing, Spike. Panic started to boil up in Tk as the last thing he remembered was his Pokemon being struck with a Fire fang by a somewhat Random Sandile, and the floor grumbling beneath them.

Purrloin and Olesya attacked while TK and Iron Hide were distracted. That ample time for attack was turn into Aerial Ace by Purrloin, aiming to crash into Iron Hide before he knew she was there and Olesya attempting to spear TK from the behind, and if that worked she'd quickly pin him down, arms pinned with her knees and proceed to beat his head in, but that's only if the spear hit.

***

Issei performed a spin kick, twisting his body around and bringing the steel clad boot toward the side of Robby's head as the lard charged at him, aiming to do... something.

As for Trubbish, he avoided the Water Pulse by moving around in a curve motion, aiming to catch Roast at her Flank with a spray of Acid Spray.

The attack hit; but not what they thought it would. A Liepard appeared along with a woman dressed in knight-like armor. Avan kinda liked the outfit, though he wouldn't let anyone else know. He saw that the attack didn't have an effect on the opponent, or rather didn't seemed phased by it. It was kind of strange; maybe the opponent was just stronger, maybe something else, who knew. Anyways, it was Munna who who saw the opponent come at him with a Pursuit attack, but it came too quick for the anger-driven Munna to dodge. And just like that, Baku was sent reeling through the air.

"Baku!" Avan called out and rushed to the Pokemon. The Pokemon rose slightly off the ground. "Are you good?"

[Fine.] Baku floated upwards and joined Avan at shoulder level. Baku was still fuming from seeing a fellow Munna hurt, but knew enough about Liepard and it's pre-evo Purrloin, since they were native to the area, to know that they were dangerous to his type. [Well?]

Avan had a feeling he knew what that meant. He have to command the Pokemon in battle. "How troublesome...getting me caught up in your fights." Avan flicked the bangs from his eyes and cast his bloody jacket that he held to the side, "Defense Curl! Then Psybeam!"

The Munna tucked it's body in and it glowed, raising it's defense, then launched a Psybeam at it's opponent at Avan's command.

The twist and headlock was noticed by Robby, who managed to make himself twist as well. He would force the landing so that it would be where his shoulder was that would hit first, which would force the opponent's back to be the point to hit with all of his weight before anything else. Unless this guy had more epic skillzorz than expected.

Ducklett would flap her wings again, just to stabilize, and swing her wing in a Wing Attack to slap the incoming Trubbish, and with any luck, push her out of the way. Odds were, though that it would result in her slapping it, and it smashing into her.

Robby let himself hit back-first, but would use the momentum of the spin to spin them over once more, with his arms wrapped around the grunt pulling in to stop breathing, though the spear ought to have handled that somewhat, and he would begin pushing his shoulder into the ground, pushing his weight as into the opponent as possible.

The two hit the ground in a heap, and at the same moment that the toxic spikes would fire, another water pulse would be released at the opponent, the zero distance, hopefully, ensuring confusion. With luck, those spikes would, mostly, be pulled into the pulsing stream, though a few would undoubtedly hit at this distance.

Robby would continue his bear hug tactic, trying to crush the life out of this person who would dare commit the most heinous of crimes!

Roast felt the poison coursing through her veins, the pain it brought, the little bit that she felt herself slipping... The ducklett rushed after the Trubbish, aiming to Wing Attack it before it did anything too epic.

Robby would let the opponent lean forward, but continued his bear hug, as his head pulled out. In the next instant, his head shot forward, aiming to headbutt Issei and stop him from stopping Robby, who would then try to continue the previous exchange.

Roast would be left with but one option. She would turn and keep moving backwards as she would fire a water pulse at the Trubbish. Now, being that it was only slightly stronger, and that was probably mostly from the poisonous nature of what was shot, not momentum, odds were that this should at least slow the attack down enough that even the backwards running ought to work. At best, it would break through the attack.