[Coolshaymin]

Upon any short scan of the Cove, the most suspicious thing is pretty obvious. There is some stairway made of light in the cove and Infected seemed to be naturally repelled by the light surrounding the staircase for some reason. The Staircase was long and it seemed endless. In fact, the only way to see any sort of final destination is by stepping on the light stairs. High above the cove seemed to be some sort of hall. However since the stairs require you to walk them to get to the end, even flyers will have to take a walk up the stairs. Are you still reading me explaining these weird stairs to you? Do you think I'm going to say something else weird and continue being overly specific? Well, I refuse to go to your explanations.

Now
GO!

[Mr. Game & Watch]

Speeding through the skies and shimmering like the fiery of the sun itself, the mega moth only known to those familiar with the species of Pokemon as Volcarona continued on her long winded journey to the area labelled as Pokemon Cove. Shade himself has always had an interest in this location, but given that it was so far from the Life Sphere he never really had an excuse to seek it out. While he could probably go there and back without being spotted by an infected enemy, it was still preferable that he had a group ready to retrieve him if he failed. In times like these risks were not taken well.

The sun deity ceased as a brightly lit stairway blocked its path. Given that it seemed to be the most out of place out of everything else in the area, it could be easily assumed that it was where they were supposed to go. The beady blue eyes of the creature continued to investigate the construct, unsure what to make of it. It didn’t allow the creature entry given the fact that it was walled off so it descended toward the ground to try and investigate further.

The entrance to the grand stairwell did not fare well for the beast of a bug. Her bloated body couldn’t fit through the arch and on top of that, it had stumpy little legs so it was not well designed to handle stairs. The Pokemon groaned and eventually a red beam of light came to absorb the creature and reduce it to a simple strand of light.

From some other location a new Pokeball was thrown and out came the lone Dark-Steel type, Bisharp. This creature was much more able bodied to climb stairs by the matter of fact that it had knees, unlike the rest of the Pokemon in Shade’s party. A very unfortunate flaw that he hadn’t been aware of until now. The Pokeball bounced off the stair case and flew back into the direction it came.

Bisharp glared at the steps and then glanced around for the other allies in his party. They didn’t seem to be present at the moment, so the beast began to climb since it looked as though it would be doing that for a long while anyway.

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Minato wasn't paying any attention to his surroundings at all. He walked as he usually did when he was bored, head leaned forward as it looked at the ground and his hands in his pockets as he listened to the music playing from his headphones. Looking up every now and then to make sure he was going in the right direction, Minato spent the time mostly just lost in his thoughts. His mind always went back to when he was with his friends in Iwatodia City, wondering if they were fairing alright without his assistance. So far the planet named Li was not providing any answers to if he was going to be able to return home or not.

Minato stopped as something up ahead caught his eyes. It was bright light shining in front of him and when he lifted his head, saw a shining staircase. Must have arrived to the right spot. Where else would we possibly have to go? Indeed it was extremely out of the ordinary for something like that to be present in a place like this but looks like all he needed to do was continue walking. Minato caught sight of an odd humanoid creature beginning to walk up the steps and thought that maybe that could be one of the party members.

Minato picked up his pace and kept his head held up this time, along with one hand on the hilt of his sword and one hand on his Evoker. Minato reached the stairs and he too began to make his ascent, curious about what could be at the top.

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

Much like when the infected were fighting those who were not infected, there was a breif repreive before a sudden sound of thunder and a rift gate opened up, causing the presence of an unholy being to ilicite shreiks and screams of terror and panic that usually reverberated whenever someone as formidible as skeith arrived on the scene.

The terror of death usually floated when he was in any given area, but this time he had appeared to be standing on steps made of light, and most importantly, a few steps ahead of two of his partners for the mission, one of which was a bodyguard to a high-ranking member of Team Plasma{preferably Ghetsis; who was on his list of people to Data Drain and leave in a permanent Comatose State.}, the other one being his opponent in the Sunshine Tournament.

He decided to walk up the stairs, mainly because he wanted Gravity to do its thing until he got up to the top of the stairs, where he could float to his heart's content.

"..."

Skeith seemed to act silent as he trudged up the stairs, not wanting his partners to know that he was in no mood to talk at the moment.

TAGS: PolarStarQuote{Dante}, @farmerdale{Minato Arisato}, Mr. Game & Watch{Shade}, Coolshaymin

[PolarStarQuote]

Dante was not especially one for walking, but this one time of his life he had to take the long haul. He had began to wonder, Where the hell was karnival at a time like this?? Yeah, that would be one hell of a nice ride to get here in. A red baron style plane, embedded in dante's logo. Throw on the sexy woman silhouette and we ought to be set. Ah, but that was just him dreaming since this took so long. Everyone else must of had teleporters of some description, except dante. Wonder if there's anyone in li who can make planes. Maybe a motorcycle...Or one of those big roaring classic cars that chev- Sorry, copyright. Sorry. The cars that Schmevy made

But, the whining would do no good as dante's feet seemed immune to tiring. Demon blood and all that jazz. Dante stepped over to his group, giving a smile. "Sorry im late. What do we have here....A bunch of mutant animals, A school dropout and a moving rock. Neat." Dante laughed, then air-hiking into the air, grabbing onto skeith and riding on top of the terror of death. "Hope you don't mind big guy, after walking all the way here im beat." Obvious lies from the demon hunter, but he wasn't gonna let him know that. Besides, he was pretty sure that just riding on the rock's shoulder wouldn't be against the stairs rules.

[Coolshaymin]

Meanwhile at the top of the Staircase, "How much longer until you are done, Arceus. That Staircase is in plain sight while you are charging," Galacta Knight impatiently asked.

"It will be fine. I have created some guards to ensure their climb is not too easy and swift."

"... Good. Just focus on finishing up the charge. I'll go check on our guests," The knight said as he began walking down the overly large staircase.

Meanwhile, back down with our stair climbers. It was a long uneventful climb, with the end still not in sight. However, they soon approach a big platform inbetween parts of the stairs, where holy light prevents them from going back or forward. Then blue, yellow and pink beams of lights hit the ground, which forms the 3 Lake Spirits. "Yay!~ Its finally show time!~ Let's play!~" Mesprit said playfully.

"We may not look like much, but our power may surprise you!" Azelf said.

"Just keep it down you two and do not underestimate those that wish to see the master," Uxie said.

MidBoss Time!:
The Three Lake Spirits!

[Mr. Game & Watch]

The Dark/Steel type continued his journey up the mighty flight of stairs regardless of the arrival of his new teammates. He didn’t think much of them, he was just a Pokemon after all. The master did all the thinking. Though he did make note of the golem looking thing giving him a dirty look as though he knew who he was, or rather who his master was. He wasn’t certain how the statue could deduce that to begin with since his master was nowhere to be seen. Perhaps it just didn’t have a fondness for Bisharps?

Either way, there wasn’t much else to say about the others in their party, besides the rather ordinary looking high schooler. Shade wouldn’t be one to overlook it considering one of two things, preteens and teenagers were the most powerful warriors in his world and on Li the most dangerous enemies were the unexpected ones.

The time to analyze his own team soon passed as three tiny fairy-like creatures arrived on the scene. Shade could recognise them as Pokemon, but they weren’t from his region. His Pokemon up on the stairs would have a tough time fighting them off considering he lacked any sort of ranged attacks and given that they were flying enemies that would make them the hardest to hit. Volcarona couldn’t be placed on the stairs due to her stumpy and useless legs, so Lilligant was the only option.

From the ground below the light stairs, another Pokeball shot out from the brush nearby and released the plant monster directly in front of Bisharp. The ball bounced around and absorbed the metal plated creature once more and zipped back down to the ground below. The first thing that the creature does is plant her feet firmly on the ground and allows the sunlight to enter her flower.

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Minato slowly began to meet up with everyone else of the party as he continued climbing the steps. One of the party members was Skeith, the rock statue thing that was to be his opponent in a tournament match. The other members was a strange looking humanoid creature while the other was a taller man in a red trench coat. Soon three rays of light flew down onto the stairs to reveal three small creatures. All three of them floated in the air and had two tails that twirled in the air.

Minato wondered if the three were enemies but before he could even make a decision, the odd looking humanoid creature was soon replaced by a plant like creature. Catching a glimpse of a small ball, Minato looked around to see where it came from but could not see a living soul down below. Shaking the thought away, Minato pulled out his sword from it's scabbard and pulled out his Evoker pistol. Twirling the gun with his index finger Minato just watched and waited for someone to make a move first, not wanting to go into a battle without at least knowing something about the enemy. Could sure use the help Fuuka. Minato thought of the girl who could use her Persona to find the weakness of their enemies in an instant, wishing he could have that power.

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

Skeith did not care in the slightest about those three humans much, though he was pounced upon and was used as a mode of transport by none other than dante, a demon hunter who he had only encountered during the events of PXZ{Project X Zone} as a neusance when he was paired with Demitri Maximoff. Now three pokemon were in the vicinity, hoping to challenge the four{seven if you counted the three pokemon held by Shade currently in this mission} beings.

"Showtime..." was the only spoken telepathic word uttered by skeith, his trademark Red Wand out in a flash of light that could not be discerned, that red wand and its holder then changed, Skeith's rock-like body becoming sleeker, more suitable for high speed combat; the red wand becoming a scythe that was as fearsome as its weilder.

Skeith waited for his adversaries to make the first move, hoping to discern their abilities and knock them for a loop with his own.

[PolarStarQuote]

Dante sighed, jumping off of skeith's shoulder as he observed the group. "Oh, great. What happened to the awesome monsters i used to fight?? The giant magma spiders or the sexy lightning witches. Yeesh....Now im up against the evolution of sea monkeys." Dante shrugged, getting into a laid back stance with his right hand over his broadsword strapped onto his back. "Alright guys, i think i can come up with a plan for these guys. But for now, lets see what they can do first. " Dante said, smirking as he made a 'Come on' motion to the lake spirits. "Alright, show us what you got you little pests."

[Coolshaymin]

"... Hey! Why aren't they attacking?!" Azelf exclaimed.


"We are legendaries, we did not evolve from anything let alone sea monkeys," Uxie simply said in replied to Dante.

"We get first turn? Yay! Let's show them our strength, girls!" Mesprit declared.

"We technically do not have genders," Uxie said.

"... We were summoned to fight, now be smart-alecs, Uxie," Azelf said.

"Oh, right. I apologize, let's begin," Uxie said. "Double Team!" Uxie said as 2 illusionary copies of the each Lake Guardian appeared. It would seem Uxie is the defensive member.

"Come on Mesprit, Let's go!"

"Okay, Azzy! Let's party!" Mesprit cast a powerful shine of light known as Dazzling Gleam to blind and damage the enemy while Azelf fired a quick series of Signal Beams at each opponent in succession, starting with Lilligant and ending with Dante, cameoflauged in the light.

Mesprit's Dazzling Gleam Roll: VTY0sU50p_1d20+2

Signal Beam on the plant: p_1d20+4

Signal Beam on Minato: p_1d20+4

Signal Beam on the Stone Reaper: p_1d20+4

Signal Beam on Dante: p_1d20+4

(Roll a Wisdom Roll of at least 15 to hit the real Lake Guardian, if not, the move will miss.)

(Signal Beam has a small chance of Confusion)1d20+2·1d20+4·1d20+4·1d20+4·1d20+4

[Mr. Game & Watch]

The nutrients from the sun began to feed into Lilligant’s flower, powering up the little plant monster. Although before the plant’s solar power could fully power up the creature it was blindsided by the elf’s signal beam. Unfortunately it was unable to get the attack boost it so dearly needed in this conflict, but on the plus side it was not able to get confused so it couldn’t fall victim to the creature’s secondary effect.

The blunt force of the impact of the beam was enough to uproot the plant being and knock her down a couple steps in the process. She sprung back up with her eyes honing in on the nearest of the three, that being the blue one. She glared at the being and quickly spun toward Minato since he seemed to lack a long range weapon. She pulled out one of her seed bombs and tossed it toward her ally in order for him to use it. He’d probably find more use for it than her.

Lilligant once again turned back to the blue elf and hopped up a couple of steps in order to get closer to the little Psychic type menace. Since it seemed to be the one putting out the most amount of damage it would be the best of the three imps to be put to sleep. With that, the creature released a collection of spores from its flower top and directly into the creature’s face. (Sleep Powder Wis = 10 + 2, Wis = 5 + 2). Lilligant quickly bounced back afterwards to get herself out of the line of fire and directed her attention to the next opponent.

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

Skeith spun his scythe around like a sheild, blocking the Signal beam like a piddly AIDA bullet, and retaliated by using Terror's Grasp on Uxie, attempting to squeeze the life out of it, and goad Mesprit and Azelf to try and save their compatriot from the Terror of Death, King of Nuzlokeing those unfortunate enough to run into him and become victims via his worst weapon; Data Drain.

Terror's Grasp Dex Roll: 7

[PolarStarQuote]

D75vWifkp_1d20+2=21

Dante quickly side stepped from the signal beam, smirking at azelf "Easy there blue, Watch where your firing those things." Dante said, smirking as he looked up at the air at mespirit.


p_1d20+2=9

Dante merely covered his eyes to the dazzling gleam, cracking his neck and then jumping into the air. Once dante was somewhere in between the three lake spirits, he gave a two fingered wave before pulling his shot gun out, and performing Mid-Air fireworks. "Hey, blue!" Dante said, calling out to azelf. "Cant say im too fond of your holy light show. Gonna have to do something about that, huh?" With that, dante charged at the little blue spirit.

p_1d20+2=20 [Fireworks Roll]

p_1d20+1=9 [Uxie roll]

Dante then tried to perform a hard Stinger stab at the pokemon, aiming to take it out first as dante didn't take lightly to holy.

p_1d20+1=61d20·1d20·1d20·1d20·1d20

[Coolshaymin]

The attacks all simply hit the dopplegangers which faded away except for Mesprit's who was not attacked. "Hahaha! You'll need to get your eyes checked first! All of you!" Azelf laughed.

"Technically that was a Bug Type Move. That is not exactly holy as..."

"Don't be technical and go along with the joke, Uxie, just go along with the joke."

"Right, I'm sorry."

"I feel like you don't mean that, but its not time to argue, its time to fight!"

"I imagine our foes fight by indirect means, this should help." Uxie held her hands up as a protective barrier surrounded herself and her partners known as Light Screen.

"Ooooo! I want to play support too... but how? ... I know!" Mesprit said pulling out a cap out of nowhere and placing it on her head backwards and crossed her arms, "Swagger!"

"..." Azelf facepalmed. "Thunder Bolt!" Azelf said as 3 beams of light showed above Dante and Skeith before he put his hands in front of him and held them at Liligant, "Flame Thrower!"

ATTACK NOTES!: LIGHT SCREEN WILL REPEL ALL RANGED ATTACKS BACK AT THEIR THROWERS. LASTS FOR 3 TURNS

SWAGGER: MUST PASS A INTELLIGENCE CHECK TO AVOID THE ATTACK, IF HIT, WILL CAUSE CONFUSION BUT BOOST THEIR STR STAT BY 2. CONFUSION WILL MAKE YOU HAVE TO PASS INT CHECKS TO AVOID HITTING YOUR ALLIES OR YOURSELF. LASTS FOR 5 TURNS.

FLAMETHROWER AND THUNDERBOLT ARE AS IN THE GAMES, BURNING AND PARALYSIS RESPECTIVELY.

DOUBLE TEAM IS STILL AFFECTING MESPRIT.

5 turn cooldown on Double Team.

18(Got the mooooooves like Jagger)

24(Thunderbolt FROM THE GODS!)

13(Relatively unimpressive Flame Thrower.)