[Mari]

"Aaah! Thisisnotdancing!!" Valorie shouted as she was manhandled and thrown across the stadium. Or at least, it wasn't a dance she wanted to do in a mini skirt. That was for sure. And then? She caught Rex's snout and used the leftover momentum from being throw to flip over backward--before clumsily landing on his face.

((Valorie has bubble shielded Kappin's teeter throw!))

4NlFh9HIp_1d20+1 (Rex's Trainer Dodge)

Rex snorted at the impact, going cross-eyed as he found his trainer sitting on his massive snout. Purple and Kappin would then catch the dragon and his trainer giving them both a condemning look. They were ... not impressed? " . . . You know, you're really messing with rhythm of this battle." Valorie scolded rather flatly. All this singing was getting on her nerves. One of these days she was just going to interrupt a song with an attack and the audience was going to hate it. What was this? A showcase? "Anyway, get ready for the final crescendo~!" Valorie went on to remark, leveling a finger down at Purple as she hopped off Rex! A rainbow arced out across the battlefield, aiming to floor Kappin while Rex once ahead went in to take advantage of the forced distraction.

((You've bruised their egos! Valorie exchanges her megalomania passive ability for egotism! Damage increased.))

p_1d20+4 (Valorie's Love Magic @ Kappin; Does p_1d3+22 Damage)

Rushing in, Rex just kinda did a double take on Kappin before awkwardly pulling back and moving to drop his head down on the ludicolo like a giant hammer! ...That was impressively dorky looking.

p_1d20+3 (And also impressively damaging. Rex's Head Smash @ Kappin; Does p_1d3+30 Damage)

With a step forward, Rex then attempted to step on Kappin! Only because of convenience, though. The shockwave that emitted from Rex's stomp would threaten to knock Purple flat--or even Kappin, if he only managed a partial dodge.

p_1d20+3 (Rex's Earthquake @ Kappin and Purple; Does p_1d3+17 Damage)

Meanwhile, Valorie struck a proud pose from behind the scenes, leveling a leisurely finger up at ... no one in particular, really. She has no idea where exactly Ulala was, only being able to hear her voice. "That's because Rex is a dinosaur~! Isn't he cool??" she gushed rather proudly. "He's part of the species Tyrantrum. They used to be the kings of the ancient world, and if you can teach them a few new 'tricks', they still can be~!" she went on to cajole, putting an end to the sore look Rex was giving her in response to the first part of that statement.

p_1d20+4 (Valorie's appeal; The audience likes her energy! 1.5x appeal points)

Valorie Ryder Damage: 0% Shield: 23/50 Appeal: 346 Status: Egotism (1)

Rex Damage: 20% Shield: 50 / 70 Status: Egotism (1) Tyrant's Roar CD: 1 Turns Remaining

1d20+1·1d20+4·1d3+22·1d20+3·1d3+30·1d20+3·1d3+17·1d20+4

[TartoonHand94]

This whole match came down to appeal. Surely, with all his rapping, all of Clucky’s fancy fiery footwork and all of Kappineapple’s singing and dancing had to amount to Something, right?
As it turns out it did. Enough for someone to throw something at Purple that wasn’t a tomato. Not seeing it coming till it was already in the air, Purple leaped for it and caught it his hat that he used as a net. Was it a Beedrill hive that he could throw at Rex? Actually, no, instead, it was…
“Perfume? What? Why?” Purple asked the bottle confused. Was something trying to tell him something. He was too curious not to sniff himself. “…Oh.” Well he Was dancing in a hoodie…

Purple flinched and had to stifle a chuckle at how Valorie face-planted on Rex’s snout. She was kinda cute when she wasn’t being all mean and scary. Speaking of mean, she was standing on scary and they were both staring down the boy and his Ludicolo.

“Oh yeah! Well it’s not over ‘till the fat la…Fat Ludico… No he already…” Purple began to boldly retort before realizing the redundancy of his comeback “…Darn there goes my last quip.” Purple snapped in self disappointment. “Time to go out on a high note!” And for his big finish?

♪“Dale a tu cuerpo alegria Runpappa,
Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegria y cosa buena
Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Runpappa,
Ayyyy, Runpappa!
Aha!”♪

Purple began to pose with his hands. Unfolding them, and then folding them, putting them on his head, then on his hips and then jumped to the side, encouraging all of his fans to join in and cheer on Kappineapple in the last round.

(Please Don't Stop the Music! mSryGY|1p_1d20-1 Purple's Last Song. Thanks to Kappineapple's Own Tempo ability, he gains a 9:4=2 buff to his Dexterity stat for the rest of the turn. )

Feeling the rhythm in his vine-like veins, Kappineapple began to rumba his way around Rex’s feet.

(p_1d20+2 Kappineapple's Dodge of Valorie's Love Magic.)

He tasted the rainbow and the vicious mix of colorful flavors tasted terrible. Stumbling like he was getting ready to limbo, he unwittingly wandered under Rex’s chin.


(p_1d20+2 Kappineapple's Dodge of Rex's Head Smash.)

Taking a cue from Clucky, the Ludicolo did a high speed limbo under Rex’s torso, crab-walking all the way under his belly and out from under his tail. 
Not having abandoned his dance partner Rex just yet, Kappineapple was right where he needed to be to get stepped on.

(p_1d20+2 Kappineapple's Dodge of Rex's Earth Quake.)
(p_1d20-2 Purple's Dodge of Rex's Earth Quake.)

The tremors of the Earthquake, however, shook Purple’s singing to an abrupt stop. This didn’t sit well with his Ludicolo. One of his pet peeves was turning off music before the current song was over. You had to slowly turn the volume down for him not to bite.

Big foot or no foot, Kappineapple was stamping.
“Kappin! Use Nature Power!” Purple shouted in an effort to save his singing breath. “People of the Sunshine Stadium who feel our synergy! Raise thumbs to the skies and Lend Him Your Energy!” He invited the crowd to participate.

Collecting the Ki energy that flowed through the battle soaked stadium. It was the aura of Fighters. Knights and gladiators wielding swords, pistols, gauntlets and even their hips. It burned with the fire in the eyes of a warrior. It was the essence of a Dragon! It photosynthesised into pure energy that the Ludicolo cupped in his hands and folded them back toward his side, taking a deep meditative breath.
“Luuuu-Diii-Coooo-Loooo-“ He began to chant as he amassed the power in his hands. “LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!” And in one swift serving motion, Kappineapple fired a brilliant energy beam from his hands right up at Rex’s tummy, neck and face. Whichever was in the blast range.

(p_1d20 Kappineapple's Nature Power = Focus Blast @ Rex. Does 20% Damage.)

...Well that was a lot of flash with no substance.
But at least the bright light made Rex move. Finally getting Rex off of him, the Ludicolo rolled across the field back to his trainer.
(Why thank you!~) Kappineapple quacked proudly, flattered by Pudding’s compliment over the intercom.
“I wonder what uh…’Animal’ looks like You, Kappin.” Purple chuckled curiously at his Grass Water type.
(The best kind of course.~) The Ludicolo haughtily dismissed.
Purple figured that after just being under that dirty Tyrantrum, Kappin must smell worse than he did.
“Here, boy, try some of this.” He offered a spray of the perfume on him. Now the Ludicolo smelled as pretty as he looked.
(Ludicolo’s Char stat has been boosted by 1)

“One more time! Everybody!” Purple invited all of his fans to join him and Kappineapple in one last dnce. They stood beside eachother and performed the steps for everyone to follow along.

♪“Dale a tu cuerpo alegria Runpappa,
Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegria y cosa buena
Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Runpappa,
Ayyyy, Runpappa!
Aha!”♪
♪“Ludicolo!”♪

(p_1d20+1 Kappineapple’s appeal)

Catching his trainer off guard, Kappineapple intercepted the finale Aha and tossed Purple into the air, catching him on his head dish. Knowing how to navigate the head dish without getting pricked by the edges or the prickly stalk, Purple landed gracefully on his Ludicolo’s head and proudly posed with his Pokémon, waving in the final applause.
“You did splendid, big guy.” Purple praised, petting the stalk. “After this it’s gonna be you, me, a nice warm bath full of all the bubbles you could trouble!”
The Ludicolo seemed to like the idea.

Purple	Clucky	Kappineapple	Nintenda
Damage: 58%	Damage: 115%	Damage: 59%	Damage: 0%
50/50 Shield	50/50 Shield	60/60 Shield	40/40 Shield
Appeal: 0	Appeal: 0/18	Appeal: 0	Appeal: 0
Status: Normal	Status: Mortal Wound, Fear, Double Kick CD (1) Blaze Kick (2) Inside pokéball	Status: Appealing	Status: Inside pokéball

1d20-1·1d20+2·1d20+2·1d20+2·1d20-2·1d20·1d20+1

[Mari]

((Hey Starii! Just to remind you for familiarity's sake, I'm making one last post out of order to update my character's damage taken / appeal points ... even though Tartoon rolled a 1 ||D))

fhn9PSH1p_1d20+1 (Rex's Nature Power Dodge)

Valorie just sort of watched on in bewilderment as Purple began celebrating that final turn. That... hadn't gone well for all! Rex had just kinda awkwardly stepped out of the way of a blast that was barely even aimed at him and she was just... Was he putting perfume on his pokemon?? A smirk couldn't be hidden on her face. Man, why did he have to be such a good sport about all of it? Now he was making her look bad. She idly leaned against Rex, watching Purple knowingly as the gigantic pokemon by her side grumbled about these dang kids and their singing and magic and... They all knew their time was up and, honestly, she was tired of talking the talk.

Valorie Ryder Damage: 0% Shield: 28/50 Appeal: 381 Status: Egotism (1)

Rex Damage: 20% Shield: 58 / 70 Status: Egotism (1)

1d20+1

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With the last bits of punching and using pokemon finishing up the match between Valorie and Purple has come to a complete end and the crowd stopped cheering for the two trainers so they can find out the results of the match. Ulala and Pudding reactivated there jet packs and began to fly towards the centre of the battlefield, during the short flight Pudding punched Ulala on the shoulder to send her off course for a little bit.

It didn't work.



"Really Pudding. That's a bit much don't you think?"



"Oh please, your acting and dancing is probably the worst thing I ever seen!"


The two woman soon landed and Ulala took out her microphone to give off the results.




"My, that was a crazy match, but you two managed to do equally well. Although while Purple took a complete pacifist route and didn't raise his fist for a second. Valorie sure did and I admired her for what she did during the first minute of the round and her pokemon launched good chomping attacks, while Clucky managed to land amazing fire attacks on Rex and Valorie."



"However, Purple and his two pokemon managed to land great marks on Valorie and Rex. In fact, i'm so impressed by Purple and Ludicolo's singing that even if they do lose this match today. There not going home empty handed, i'm awarding the three bonus thunder badages to Purple and his Pokemon."

Pudding then glared at Ulala.



"And there's nothing you can do about it Ulala!"




"Sure, I don't mind."


Purple's side of the crowd cheered as Pudding took out the three bonus thunder badges and threw them towards Purple.


(Purple has received the bonus thunder badges, great job!)




"And now the moment you are all waiting for...The judge of this match, Presenter Hoorg!"




"SHBDWS?" (Yes) Hoorg said as he joined the group in the middle of the battle stage.


"Care to announce the winner of this match?"


"DHBWHEJW" (Gladly! The winner is...)

...

...

...


"FJWEBEHQW!"

The crowd were confused.

"I think he means that the winner is...

VALORIE!

Everyone on Valorie's side of the stadium cheered for Valorie over winning and getting the most points of the battle. Ulala and Hoorg broke out dancing while Pudding and Purple's side of the crowd look on in anger.



"Come on Pudding, do your last dance as a reporter!"


Pudding simply shakes her head and began to laugh.






"Hahahahahahahaha....HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I HAD YOU FOOLED FOR A MINUTE ULALA!"



"Huh, wait a minute...No, your not!?"




"That's right, i'm not Pudding...I'm Padding and i'm not going to lose my job over you, i'm leaving!" Padding shouted before taking out her guitar and playing it so loud that a bunch of smoke quickly filled the area. When the smoke cleared, Padding was nowhere to be found, Ulala then looked at the crowd.




"Well, that was an exciting first match in the refurbished Life Sphere. This is Ulala reporting from Space Channel five headquarters. When we get back, were going to do an expose about Brightwing Lane mayor candidate Rosalyn Hollotus and rumours that she's planning a secret space program hidden from the Life Sphere. Stay tuned, but before that, watch as I steal Valorie and Purple's fanbase and convert it into my own through the clever use of brainwashing!" Ulala proceeded to pose.




"Up, down, left, right, chu, chu, chu!"


And with that the entire crowd in the stadium began to cheer for Ulala and followed her as she and Hoorg marched out of the stadium.

Valorie Receives: 11 Thunder Badges

Purple Receives: 5 Thunder Badges!

[Mari]

((Thanks for reffing, Star. Even if I apparently wrote terribly. vwv For future reference though, can you make sure to tell the players why each bonus badge was given? All three are supposed to be given for separate reasons and I'm sure Tartoon would've loved the feedback.))

[TartoonHand94]

With so many more people cheering their names now than every before, it was hard for Purple not to be swept up in the moment.
“Thank you! Thank you!” he and his Pokémon waved to the crowd, taking off his hat. “Ludicolo!” Kappineapple waved, taking his trainer off his head and waving him like a hat.
It caught both their attention when the cheering hushed as the Ulala and Pudding descended back onto the field.
“Colo!~” Kappineapple quacked in approval of their apparel. “You’re not gonna believe this dude, but the evil one’s on our side.” Purple whispered to him, not approving of Pudding punching Ulala mid-flight.

They both stood in baited suspense of who the judges were going to announce as the winner.
The truth behind the smile was that Purple actually had no idea who had won. He wasn’t keeping up to date with the damage or appeal math since normally it was just the last Pokémon standing was the winner. Rex had tanked so many of their attacks that there was no way to remember if they collided with him or his shield. His Pokémon sure took a relative beating, but this all came down to appeal, didn’t it?
Everyone still loved how Valorie sat on his face and he had no idea how he was ever going to live that down. But more importantly to him, they loved Clucky’s fire and Kappineapple’s singing! Enough to award them the three bonus thunder badges! All Three? Purple couldn’t believe it. His Ludicolo excitedly threw him up so he could catch the badges before being caught himself. The two adored the shine of the badges in his hands before returning their attention to the final victory announcement.

…Who? Please tell him FJWEBEHQW was Hoorg trying to say PURPLE. It wasn’t it was VALORIE.
Purple grew silent and unresponsive in the instance of realizing that he had lost. He just looked down, clenching his badges in his fist and covering his eyes from the world with the brim of his cap. Was he crying? Well if you couldn’t tell, his cap’s brim was doing its job.
However, he was the only one of the two to be like this. His Ludicolo on the other hand, was even more excited than before, bursting with applause for the winner of the match, and even joining in with Ulala’s victory dance. Up, down, left right, chu chu chu!
Purple lifted his cap slightly to see his Pokémon dance with his conqueror. He had a point. She worked just as hard, if not harder than he did, training her Pokémon and strategizing. Her hair make up alone must’ve been a painstaking process that deserved an award. The least Purple could do was make the effort to wipe his face and clap too.

But wait. Oh no! Pudding was going to lose her reporting job and it was all his fault! What was he going to say to her now? What was…Whar was that? Both him and his Pokémon were taken by surprise at Puddings sudden transformation. A guitar riff and a smoke screen later they were no were to be seen.
(…Call me!) Kappineapple yelled out, in solicitation to Padding, wherever she went.
Well, that was that. It was over. After one more hug, Purple recalled Kappineapple into his Pokéball and secured it and his 5 Thunder Badges in his bag. He had to get to the Pokémon Center stat! But first…

Amidst all her congratulations and celebrations, Valorie and Rex might make out a lone figure slowly making his way across the field toward them. It was Purple, cap down with his hands behind his back.
“M-miss Ryder?” Purple addressed her with slight difficulty approaching her. Whether it was intimidation, shiness or his grappling with his own loss, it was up to her to decide. “T-that was… that was some battle.” He managed to push out through trembling lips. Perhaps his brim was down so he wouldn’t have to look up at her Tyrantrum. “You and Rex really gave your all and…” Purple wasn’t even rhyming? He must’ve really been at a loss for words. “And I just wanted to-I mean I guess I should say…” Come on man. You’re not going to cry in front of a girl, are you? His hands were still behind his back though. Why?
“…K-Kappin insisted that I give you these…” Purple excused, pulling his arms out from behind his back to reveal a bouquet of Colourful Plants. “…Th-these are for you. Congratulations on your victory.” He sighed, humbled by her strength if not by her beauty as well. After bowing to hand her the bouquet, he hesitantly stuck out a sporty if not shivering hand for a shake.

“...Best wishes to you both. G-goodbye.” Purple waved goodbye before turning and heading the long way for the exit. He had a Pokémon Center to get to urgently. He refrained from saying ‘See You Around’, because he didn’t want to. If he ever saw that Tyrantrum again, it would be too soon. This also regrettably meant he wouldn’t get the chance to draw her like he wanted to deep down either.
Purple let his Ninjask out of her pokéball to help navigate the way there. She had missed the whole thing and she was in for a story. He wasn’t sure how he felt right now, but he was sure about one thing: Competitive battling was not for him. Clucky might’ve had fun, but seeing the damage he endured was not something Purple wanted to put him through ever again. The same went for Kappineapple. They were his friends, not his weapons. Not to mention how he had him assault another trainer like that. Not again. Never again. Valorie could have the Sunshine Stadium.
After maybe taking them out for Pokébeans and ice cream once they’re out of the Pokémon Center, and that bubble bath he promised, they were gonna go right back to Purple’s real dream: Drawing ‘Em All.

((End of Presence))

Purple	Clucky	Kappineapple	Nintenda
Damage: 58%	Damage: 115%	Damage: 59%	Damage: 0%
50/50 Shield	50/50 Shield	60/60 Shield	40/40 Shield
Appeal: Doesn't	Appeal: Matter	Appeal: Anymore	Appeal: 0
Status: Defeated	Status: Mortal Wound, Fear, Blaze Kick (1) Inside pokéball	Status: Inside pokéball	Status: Leading the way home