[Mr. Game & Watch]

An unweary updraft scouted across the forsaken wastelands, beating against old rusted vessels and large unique rocks that were never native to this world, whatever it was before it became known as Li. Shrapnel of broken down Lylat cruisers was no stranger to this land, in fact differentiating pieces from one ship to another was a task only a seasoned engineer from said universe would be fit for the job. Even then, how would one get such an individual all the way out there? It matter little, because even if the place was riddled with broken down space crafts the one that the group was in search for would still be radiating smoke and look much more freshly placed than the rest.

The hints toward Andrew’s Arwing didn’t stop at the mere presence of smoke. It seemed to be that all the infected in the area, which was surprisingly little all things considered, were making their way toward the ship in question. The ones more familiar with the outlands of Li would probably take notice of the lack of infected, but above everything they might consider it a blessing for the sake of the monkey who was awaiting their rescue.

The crash site itself wasn’t too far into the territory, but again it wasn’t too hard to miss either. It even had a flaring red emergency light attracting attention toward it and even the upset remarks of Andrew to arouse even more attention. The monkey man himself though, was still trapped in the cockpit. “Gah, you infernal machine! Open the hatch!” Andross’s follower commanded as he continued to bash against the craft’s control panel. The thick glass was about the only thing separating the stranded pilot from the world outside and his abysmal strength couldn’t possibly break or heave his way out. He tried that when he first became conscious.

Perhaps a strong wind shield was going to be the key to his survival because as the monkey was busy trying to find his escape an Arachnus stomped out of the shell of a neighboring dead shuttle. The creature’s mighty tri-fangs clenched as it began to creep its way toward its prey.

Ready?GO!

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Jirachi had first taken the job because it wanted to be a little bit more useful. It wanted to be a hero for once, as opposed to just the one who tried to make wishes both good and evil come true, doing this for the ones who managed to pin it down from where it was hiding. However, it still had the chance to run (and almost did) until the rescue crew got closer to the crash site, at which point Jirachi nearly fell out if the sky it floated in. The desire to escape, the wish to live- it had forgotten how potent it was. It wasn't the first time it had felt it, true, as every time it awoke, many with incurable diseases had come to it. No one but Jirachi knew how much it hurt not to be able to cure the newest one.

That's why, the moment Jirachi felt it, the moment if entered the Sector X Meteor Field, it took off faster and faster, shooting to the front of the party, and soon ahead if the rescue party. This was a wish for life Jirachi could grant! This was a wish it could grant, and that was important. Even as it sped ahead, though, it couldn't help but grace the lands around it with a curious gaze. There'd never been even wreckage like this at its home! There was impressive technology last time it woke up, true- and had that been shocking, seeing things like teleporter pads and X-Transceivers and Ultra Balls- but it'd never seen technology like this before! Wonder alighted in its eyes, but it never stopped moving, especially once the smoke was visible and the red beacon was in range and the voice was heard.

The voice did throw Jirachi for a loop. It was cursing, and clearly trapped in the wreckage. Jirachi paled. Those things caught on fire, right? What if their victim was trapped in a burning ship! "JIRA! JIRARACHI, JIRACHI!" it cried out, trying to signal that it had found it, as well as signal to the victim that he'd been found. However, before Jirachi could try to shatter the glass with a Zen Headbutt, it reared back. A strange shelled beast was before her, and it looked anything but friendly. Worse yet, Jirachi had just cried out rather loudly. It was likely to attack it first! Immediately flying higher up as a defense, Jirachi activated a Future Sight before diving down for a Zen Headbutt.

CURRENT ATTRIBUTES:
HP: 0% (285/285)
Future Sight will land in two posts.
Jirachi used Zen Headbutt!

[Cielmira]

Gliding through the skies with another was a change for Cynder, the dragoness happily maneuvering a bit more than she would normally when on a mission. It was a bit sad that the vast open spaces of this world were so thick with plague, though today in this field she found herself able to easily push it to the back of her mind. The Life Sphere was a great haven but cramped for her tastes. This little yellowy Pokemon was just the uplifting spunk the dark dragon missed enjoying. The giant of a Dragon King was questionable so far but no doubt would be a powerhouse when it came to the fighting; which was all good with her.

The scenery was less interesting than just feeling the moving air around her. However only a fool would ignore it completely. Cynder glanced the surface from time to time, figuring between the other two they had it covered, and instead took more time to focus the skies. Cloudy plumes of thicker Starvia conglomerates fogged distant areas in a strange haze but were simple to avoid should any ever come up nearby.

Once the origin of the trailing smoke could be spied up ahead Cynder resumed a more regular pattern of flight, just as their little friend hastily darted off. The dragoness made to call out to Jirachi but deemed it pointless since her voice wouldn't carry that direction well. Thus, she flapped vigorously to keep up though trailed a ways due to the head start her companion had. Cynder reached the area as the vibrant shelled creature emerged, her face contorting into disgust as her initial reaction, but remained in high altitude and circled to assess the situation for a moment longer before sharply descending.

After Jirachi's attack Cynder would be upon the creature, positioning herself to be in front of it. Her form darkening slightly she would flare her wings seconds before setting on the ground on two legs, tail menacingly flailing its blade, horns shining, making herself as large and menacing as possible while simultaneously releasing her signature Siren Scream. A piercing noise sending uncontrollable shivers of fear to all those unprepared for it. The air even assumed a red tint as a seeming faint wave of energy escaped her maw with the scare tactic.

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

There was something to be said about dragons; one would be trouble, but more would be disasterous to comprehend... that is if you were the enemy.

But that was not the case where Onaga was concerned, Following Cynder at a distance but slightly below her as he was easily distinguishable even at a distance when in the skies no matter the concequence. It would be without a doubt that his strength would be a boon here in this mission as he could lift heavy stuff with no problem.

While he was minding his own business, He sped up to maintain the same speed as the Dragoness and was easily recognisable at the distanceby anyone in the vicinity of Andrew's craft. When Onaga Spied the Arachnus advancing on Andross' Nephew, he dook to the ground faster than Cynder andshot two great sizzling balls of flame at the beast to attract its attention away from Andrew and onto himself. "OI, PILLBUG! Why don't you pick on someone with some Meat on their bones instead of the chimp!" Onaga roared in a tone that would rile anyone up. The Dragon King was ready to rumble, and he would show no mercy to anyone that would try to harm others.

[Mr. Game & Watch]

No matter how hard the snow monkey tried brute force against the console seemed to lack any sort of result, positive or otherwise. He threw his hands away from the tech folded his arms lividly in detest. Though his rage toward his space craft was sort lived as he finally took notice of the events going on outside his cockpit’s window. A strange pill bug like creature right outside his arwing had an onslaught of attackers massacring the poor creature. The term poor was used lightly since the thing appeared to be an avatar of nightmares and along with that he had no clue what it was. The attackers he could see though looked no less menacing, save for the being that defined adorable, but such creatures could easily fool him considering how brutally it was beating on the creature in front of him. Were they his rescue team at very long last?

“You there! Get me out of this contraption!” he commanded as he knocked his fists against the glass. His voice was muffled by the fact sound couldn’t travel all too well through the thick glass, but it was still on an audible level. He wasn’t speaking to anyone in specific, if any of them could aid him it would be welcome. He was being to feel claustrophobic in the tight space, especially when such an open space was being teased in front of him.

The Arachnus wouldn’t have been prepared for the pokemon’s attack if not for its initial cry to detract its attention. Its large purple eyes locked onto the pale coloured creature as it made a dive toward it. The predator readied its claws as Jirachi headed in to ram it. The hit succeeded, but the creature absorbed most of the blow since it was prepared for its attack. It wished to slice up the frail looking being with its claws, but it was ambushed by the creature’s partners. It was barraged by an onslaught to its ears and its body, two fireballs pelted one side of its body while it coiled back from the dragoness’s scare tactic. It chatter its teeth and glared over at Onaga blankly as it shouted a challenge despite the fact the creature didn’t understand any word spoken from him. It cried out an eerie screech from its mandibles and rolled into its shell out of fear of its attackers. It slowly rolled backwards as though it was going to retreat back to its home, but it halted before it could return to the inside of the mangled ship.

That wasn’t the end of it though, from behind Onaga two shells similar to the established Arachnus’s emerged from the ground silently. Once they were on stable ground though, they spun in place for a brief second before ramming their rolled up selves at the backs of the mighty dragon’s calves. It was kind of like Sonic’s spin dash, just add a solid layer of shell into the equation. The other three weren’t safe either. From behind Andrew’s wreckage arose another of the revolting species. It climbed atop the space craft and unless a great ball of fire from its maw at Jirachi. Alongside that, two others leapt from the broken down space craft that the first came from. One went to strike at Cynder with its terrifying talons and released a series of swipes at her scaly body. The other of the two burrowed its way underneath the ground and the panicked original one followed without switching forms. Perhaps this wasn’t going to be as easy as it seemed.

x6

Held Items: None

Reward: None

HP: 15%

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Jirachi hadn't really been prepared for the weird-shell-thing (that reminded her on some level of a very evil, twisted Chesnaught) to absorb its attack so well. It had been awhile since it had properly headbutted something, or at least, had properly headbutted something while completely conscious of its actions. If some attacker had managed to break the crystals that formed to protect her while she slept, she could still fight back, after all. It suspected that the only thing that woke up during such a fight was the True Eye, exactly opposite of this fight, seeing that the True Eye was the only thing asleep. However, it was even more surprised when, not only did its opponent absorb a psychic-boosted attack quickly and efficiently (it was probably part-bug typed, now that Jirachi thought about it, which would explain some things- and put it at a severe disadvantage), but it immediately raked Jirachi with it's claws, causing Jirachi to recoil back.

"Jiiiiiir..." the small Wish Pokemon half growled, half cried as it hovered in the air. There was almost no blood. It was a Pokemon, after all, and a steel-type at that. The bug-typing that Jirachi was now going to operate on would only do normal amounts of damage. This felt like it did less, though, like someone trying to claw at steel bars, so it was unlikely to be imbued with bug-elemental power and was likely a normal-typed move. Or maybe it was approaching this wrong? Most people didn't focus on elemental attacks? As long as it neither fired off fireballs (unlikely, given its appearance and therefore apparent type) or started firing off Earth Powers, Jirachi figured it would be fine. It charged up for another attack.

Of course, as soon as Jirachi thought that, several things happened. Five more little buggers appeared, for one thing. However, the other, more notable thing? One of them was firing fireballs! That was hardly even fair! Nothing in these things' appearances suggested any fire-type inclination! In fact, Jirachi had been hoping that they were bug/grass, meaning that it'd been assuming they were double-weak to it! JIrachi dove down, fast, but could feel the damage of the fireball grazing one of its yellow tails.This caused Jirachi to involuntarily shout again- that had hurt! If it had landed dead-on... Jirachi shuddered. It probably wouldn't have been a one-hit K.O., but Jirachi wouldn't have been very healthy, to say the least. It immediately activated Wish. It couldn't hold out on it, not with fire damage as a possibility. It was just happy it hadn't been inflicted with a Burn!

So now it had to deal with a long-rage, fire-throwing bug-type, which, with the current way Jirachi's luck was going, would be a bug/ground type to boot. It considered activating Future Sight, but it couldn't hold up more than one at once. Instead, realizing that the Wish and Future Sight might just be too much, started taking evasive manauvers for the time being. Hopefully, it could wait out on the Future Sight hitting the first weird-bug-thing and distracting the one that was currently attacking it, or at least avoid a direct hit until the Wish helped it recover.

CURRENT ATTRIBUTES:
HP: 30% (194/285)
Future Sight will hit Arachnus #1 in one post.
Wish will heal Jirachi in one post.

[Cielmira]

Pleased with the initial retreat the dragon felt safe enough to turn her attention onto the individual yelling at them from the cockpit of the freshly wrecked craft.
"You know, you're probably safer in the box," Cynder pointed out as she moved to hop onto the Arwing's clipped nose. Her thick talons clicked against the metal amongst a couple screeches as the natural weapons scratched across the surface of the ship. Not exactly a noise she enjoyed. A shiver proceeded down her spine with a mild flinch so conveniently at the time their new friends arrived.

Worried of the attack the Arachnus seemed to be preparing at range she abandoned her approach to Andrew with a quick word for him to keep quiet and unnoticed. Again her claws curved into the softer earth churned up by the crash but as she continued her steps she came to realize just how many of the things had popped up when talons were tearing at her face.

Instinctively she reeled back, the first swipe of the creature grazing her snout and the second swiping across her neck partially scraping across her metal collar. Cynder's wings flared and flapped excessively as she summoned her wind elemental abilities. A third strike from the Arachnus slapped her across her right foot before she was able to hop back and produce a mini whirlwind between her and it. Unlikely to have any sort of power against its stout body but the loose dirt kicked up would setup a visual barrier allowing her a second to reposition. She was unsure if the beast had any sort of second eyelid to protect its eyes from the sting of the dirt but the effect would be a bonus.

The dragoness lunged to the side of where she supposed the Arachnus would be as the whirlwind died and left a haze of hanging dirt and light clumps of falling earth. Her mouth beginning to slick with poison she lashed forward with the blades on the tips of her wings. Striking twice once she had a visual and a third time with a rounding lash from her bladed tail. Cynder kept her wings partially extended, ready for any swift dodging that may be needed.

19%

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

Onaga merely grunted as the two Arachnus hit him, thanks in large part to his draconic skin and Outworld musculature; the monsters we barely able to make him budge. "Honestly, you pillbugs need to get lost! And I know just how to do it." The dragon king said, jumping into the air and slamming his feet down hard, causing the arachnus fighting him to be tossed skyward.

Onaga then grabbed them and soared skyward, then rocketed downward, smashing them into the ground... hard. Almost hard enough to shatter their skeletons in one shot, but hard enough to keep them incapacitated with broken shells.

Damage: 11%

TAGS: Mr. Game & Watch, cielmira, jirachi

[Mr. Game & Watch]

The distressed primate scoffed at the dragon creature’s statement as she boarded his space craft. Her attempts at dislodging his cockpit’s window was abysmal. To be fair though his attempts were more lackluster, but the difference was she was a dragon and he was a meekly monkey. “Yeah, right. I’d be safer if I was in orbit of Venom! Without an Arwing!” Andrew shouted back at Cynder. The extra rattling at the back of his ship from the new coming Arachnus didn’t help in him calming down either. His movements followed the ship as it rocked him roughly and the dragoness hopped off to fight another creature. “Wait! Where are you going! Gaaah! Where is that blasted eject button!?” the snow monkey screeched as returned to his frantic search of the command console despite Cynder’s suggestion of keeping quiet.

Since the pill bug atop the spacecraft received the least amount of resistance from the group it was free to take initiative. The last attack it made was nearly a miss, so it wanted to correct itself on that and assure that the floating Pokemon wouldn’t be merely nicked this time around. The pale creature was invading on infected territory and no one should be leaving infected territory without becoming one or perishing. The insect erected its claws and leapt at the legendary creature from a higher plain. Its plan of attack was to slice at the creature before landing below it, but if the hit landed it could be lucky enough to take Jirachi down to ground level as well.

The two Arachni that burrowed underground still remained to be underground. Their location still remained unknown and unless someone was knowledgeable in the Metroid universe none would know the creature’s digging capability and how fast it was able to tunnel. It was doubtful any of the four had that kind of knowledge.

As for the Arachnus that was foolish enough to challenge Cynder one on one, it was pleased that its attack had succeeded, but irked that it didn’t do any vital damage to her. It of course backed up as soon as the creature began to flap her wings being smart enough to back off from the being with the flight advantage, however, not far enough to avoid punishment from the tiny twister. Its eyes were relatively unaffected by the dirt being kicked up since it was a tunneling creature as shown by the others of its kind earlier in the battle. The stray bit of sand did minimal damage to the reptilian-buggish monster as it whipped against its skin. The onslaught did not stop there though, once the wind was at ease the dragoness tore through it and began another assault in the form of her bladed body. The talons of her wings poked through the creature’s flesh, but her tail deflected off the creature’s back shield as it maneuvered itself. With the monster’s back now facing the winged reptilian, it sprung off its feet and pushed itself in a sort of backwards tackle.

The Arachni that assaulted the dragon lord’s ankles were dissatisfied by the fact they didn’t trip him up, but ultimately it was the least of their worries after Onaga took the two of them on a voyage into the sky. Keeping the creatures so close to his body though was a mistake that the arrogant king did not realize. As the three of them went airborne, one of the pill bug-esque creatures uncoiled from its defensive mode and latched itself onto the scaly torso of the muscular saurian and dug its mighty talons and mandibles into him. Every pointy bit on the creature body burrowed its way into his flesh which allowed it to land with Onaga on the ground safely. Its fellow Arachnus though was not so lucky and the force that the dragon king slammed it into the ground with was enough to break open its shell form. This creature’s resiliency was slightly higher than Onaga had calculated, but it did still do enough damage for the bug to fall into a state of dazed confusion and some shock as well. It was not in the mood to fight in layman’s terms.

x6

Held Items: None

Reward: None

HP: 48%