http://defiantstand.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] defiantstand.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] route_10652010-08-20 11:53 am

Throw Down

Who: The Dai Gurren Dan - Johto Division, Part-Timers, New Applicants & Just Anyone Nearby [Open]
Where: Ruins of Alph
When: Mid-Morning, After this
Summary: Ever seen a lynch mob? How about a lynch mob armed with cute and fuzzy monsters that seem like the spawn of Godzilla?
Rating: PG-13 Cause Kamina swears A LOT
Log:
For some of the more cynical recruits to the team, the victory at Violet City was perhaps a shocking affair at best. Countless Unown had surrounded the city and the crystalline growth was easily pushing its way into the more densely populated parts.

Whatever drove the mysterious Pokémon, it clearly had not predicted that so many would assemble to make a stand against them. In no time at all, a half-dozen trainers set upon the invaders with their partners; roaring fire, crackling lightning -a maelstrom of elements and dazzling powers lightning the periphery of the city. And in the end, when the last of the aggravated Symbol pokémon had been routed, their cheers resounded loudly before they continued with their task.

They set upon Route 32, making swift progress toward the ruins they'd all been told held the source of this calamity. Along the way, the stopped only once to camp for the night and otherwise turning back the tides of Unown they encountered. Finally as the morning slowly began to give into the afternoon, the gathering of heroes stood at the edge of the Ruins of Alph, their chosen leader offering a smirk as his cape blew in the wind.

"OI! LISTEN UP DAI GURREN DAN!"

It was dramatic speech time for Kamina as he took a few steps ahead of the group, turning to face them as he thrust his hand toward the sky. "You all know why we're here! It ain't fear of this growth or what it can do or anything like that! To some of us, this sorta stuff -makin' a stand and doin' what we believe in is natural! To the rest of us, it's a new deal." He gives a momentary pause.

"This ain't just a fight here -whether we're planning to stay or lookin' for a way back to wherever; THIS is our home for now! It's a home that-" Sadly, as much as he was one for giving speeches, it seemed that the aggravated denizens of the ruins weren't taking so well to a large ham a guy like him doing anything cool or dramatic. As he'd been speaking, a trio of them floated by and with a brilliant flash, unleashed a powerful explosive shock wave.

Having dodged aside, Kamina raised his eyebrow at the edge of his cape; a few new scorch marks visible on the tattered edges.

"Doin' that to my cape... WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM?!"

In a flash, Gurren immediately skittered down his trainer's imposing frame, letting loose with a flurry of Ember attacks before Aqua Man materialized nearby when Kamina let him out of his Pokéball.

He turned to his team again, "SPREAD OUT AND KICK THEIR ASSES!"

[OOC: Okay, notes time. Each person battling is free to either make their own thread in this post or pop into an existing one. Though the ruins are a fairly large area, it's expected that trainers and their pokémon will be shifting about frequently. There's A LOT of Unown to thrash here, so thread-hopping is okay. This way everyone can interact with each other, battle and most importantly, get some good CR going with people your pup might not normally get a chance to hang out with.

I wanna take the moment to thank Seve for the suggestion on how to structure this thread. And uhm, I think that's the big part of it. Have fun, guys!]



Op Status: Yup, jinxed himself. Op is back, but will probably be slow due to figuring out what's going on with his car.
foolishwren: as i was, you shall be (stfu)

[personal profile] foolishwren 2010-08-20 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
It had been a long night.

A long night of running, yelling, and kicking ass, that was. It had been a good long while since Heather had done anything like that-- with other people. It was... exhausting, exhilarating, and it... sort of reminded her of the old days, back when she'd been running around causing trouble with her old gang of bad influences.

Except the difference was, this time they were saving a city.

And that was pretty damn cool.


THIS, on the other hand... anticipation was filling her stomach like a million mentally-challenged butterflies and she wasn't too sure she liked that feeling. Fighting in a big group like this was something she wasn't used to (and sort of explained why she'd been failing so hard at training her Pokemon)-- she was used to going solo.

But-- NO TIME TO THINK!

PREPARE TO FIGHT THE HORDE.

As the flurries of Unown shared a collective 'wtf?' at Kamina's dramatic speech and came whirling down to fight the intruders, Heather bit her lip and pointed forward. The Furret at her feet got the message instantly and dove forward into the fray, needly teeth bared and hackles a-bristlin'. ... The Growlithe, on the other hand, snuffed excitedly and stared up at Heather with a big doofy dog grin.

"... No-- Cooj, GET! I-- .... forget it."

Dropping down on one knee briefly, Heather grabbed up a piece of rubble. Fine, she'd just fight HER way for the moment. Much better. Holding it aloft, she-- ... wait. Something was missing. You couldn't be part of a ragtag gang of fighters against a powerful opposing force and just be quiet. She'd been raised on too much classic literature to think that!

So...

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!"

[identity profile] overthedratini.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
((OOC: Gonna have to do regular action threads for now since I gotta go somewhere, but if anyone wants to switch to third later on that's cool with me. Now let's do this. o/))

[Johan will have been out for the... third? day running, smashing Unown with not only his own party, but some of Kay's as well-- So when he sees a whole parade of people charging at the area, needless to say, he's a little surprised. His Gyarados, Drifloon, and Venonat, as well Kay's Murkrow, Noctowl, and Gengar, on the other hand, are a little busy with the Unown.]


... Who are-- What are you--

[He stops to issue a command to a few of the Pokemon, and as he does, he figures... Yeah, it's probably obvious WHAT they're doing here, and why. Ignoring some Unown coming up behind him, Johan throws out an arm and raises his voice to get their attention.]

Listen-- Have any of you seen anything suspicious--!? Did you see anything on the way here--!?

[identity profile] skullbashing.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Shinji just rolled his eyes at Kamina's speech-- He couldn't help himself. It was so... worthy of an eye roll. He found, as headed off towards the damn letter things, he really wished he had an axe to hoist over his shoulders. If not to smack them around with, just for the feeling of it.

... In any case-- Time to call out his own guys.]


Get out here and kick some real ass!

[With that, he tosses a trio of Pokeballs, and out come a Houndour, Rattata, and a Drifloon, all charging at the Unown-- and Shinji'd heading at some of the Unown himself to boot. Like Aki would let him live it down if he'd seen this and not gotten some punches in.]
foolishwren: like what if you tried to sue obama and you just got a letter back saying "no" and he came to your house and did the worm (can you even sue the president)

[personal profile] foolishwren 2010-08-20 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[It was probably pretty safe to say that a big parade of various young people and their brightly-colored fighting machines pets was a fairly show-stopping sight to anyone who wasn't expecting it. And it was also probably safe to say that poor Johan's hollering wasn't enough to penetrate the loudness of the battle.]

[But there's a loud CLUNK and one of the Unowns went whizzing dizzily out of the main fray and past Johan-- with a Heather hot on its heels, a chunk of now-slightly-crystallized rubble in her hands.]


BOO-YA-- ... oh--!

[It was the blue-haired guy! John! ... Joe? ... JOHAN.]

[... CUE AWKWARD MID-BATTLE GESTURE OF GREETING.]

[identity profile] overthedratini.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
... [At that, Johan will actually have to blink. That catches him off guard, enough so for him to dimly raise a hand back at her and wave in response.]

-- Wait! You're... Heather, right--?!
foolishwren: as i was, you shall be (AAAAAAAAAAAAH)

[personal profile] foolishwren 2010-08-20 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Heather responded with an adrenaline-fueled grin. Fighting kind of got her blood pumping, even if it wasn't exactly a situation to be smiling about.]

Yeah, that's me! Johan, right?

[Yeah, she remembers talking to him-- and she also remembers the transmission about Kay. And she's about to open her mouth and ask if anyone's found her yet, but she's cut off by a very angry-looking letter W whistling through the air at the two of them.]

Have y-- LOOK OUT!

[identity profile] overthedratini.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[With all the adrenaline on his end, Johan isn't really in the mood for smiles at the moment-- He'll nod back at her though. He's about to say something, ask what she's doing with this whole party of people, when--]

-- Byrne!

[-- Kay's Murkrow is going to be zooming in from what he was doing to get that W.]
foolishwren: as i was, you shall be (challenge)

[personal profile] foolishwren 2010-08-20 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[Heather had ducked-- the last thing she wanted was to be nailed in the head by a flying Sesame Street prop, and her Growlithe leaped and barked-- but the W fled in the face of the diving Byrne. Dark, after all, was pretty damn good against Psychic.]

[Puffing out a relieved breath, Heather looked back to Johan. The grin was still there, but it was... well, it was a little more like she was baring her teeth. Fighting just kind of made her like this.]


If I NEVER see another one of these things after this is all over, it'll still be too many for me.

Has anyone found Kay yet?

[Yeah, she hasn't forgotten...]

[identity profile] beware-of-bears.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Kirsten held Daisy's Poke Ball tightly, took a deep breath, and released the Meowth in front of her. She looked up, scratched her head, and promptly curled up at her trainer's feet.

"No."

Kirsten knelt down and picked her Pokemon up, giving the sternest look she could while trying to ignore the cat's flailing. "This isn't the time, Daisy. I know you want to sleep, but we need to help everybody. We all need to do our part, even if you don't want to. I've been training you so that we won't drag everybody else in the group down, so..." She gulped. "So please fight. All right? Mr. Kamina went to all this trouble to gather everyone."

Daisy rubbed her eyes and stopped flailing. "Meow."

Had that worked? "Good." Kirsten put her down. "Then... let's go!"

[identity profile] overthedratini.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's seen all kinds of duelists, so he's not at all bothered by it. Really, he's just more concerned with the Kay situation than anything, which has him a lot less cheerfull than usual.]

You and me both.

[At her question, he doesn't quite flinch, but he pauses and then shakes his head.] No. But I haven't stopped looking.
foolishwren: as i was, you shall be (AAAAAAAAAAAAH)

[personal profile] foolishwren 2010-08-20 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[That does cause the grin to fade. Well, fuck. It wasn't that she really EXPECTED her to have been found, but... she'd kind of been hoping.]

... Well, this isn't exactly a safe place to look-- not right now, anyway.

[She held up the chunk of stone she'd been carrying-- there were filaments of crystal trailing across it from where she'd sort of just been.... hitting Unown with it.]

We've been fighting 'em away from the city-- finally trailed them here. I think if we beat enough of 'em, they'll calm down or SOMETHING, anywa-- [She ducked again as a sparring P and someone-or-other's Zubat went flailing past.]

[identity profile] overthedratini.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
That doesn't matter. I've still been looking and fighting them at the same time, and I'll keep doing it until I can't do either anymore--

[He'll turn to yell out a few attacks for his "troops", a few more of Kay's popping up over there from where Byrne came from where some others are, and his Venonat is running over to Tackle a Z that's coming for Johan.]

-- Thanks Quartz! [He turns back to Heather after giving his Venonat a... tiny grin, who takes that and runs after a few Ks] I hope so. It'll make looking for her easier.
foolishwren: and every scar I have makes me who I am. (We were put here on earth to feel joy)

[personal profile] foolishwren 2010-08-20 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[That brings Heather's smile back a little.]

That's the spirit.

[She lifts her non-brick-hefting hand to clench it in a sort of... comraderly fist.]

Keep doing what you're doing.

We'll finish this fight as fast as we can.

[identity profile] overthedratini.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I plan to.

You think they'll really stop coming?
foolishwren: as i was, you shall be (challenge)

[personal profile] foolishwren 2010-08-20 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, she's gonna be honest.]

No idea. But if they keep coming... we'll just think of something else.

[She's been through worse than this before, all by herself... so she has faith that a group of determined people should be able to win this.]

[identity profile] overthedratini.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
... That's one way to do it. I'll just keep going.
foolishwren: and every scar I have makes me who I am. (We were put here on earth to feel joy)

[personal profile] foolishwren 2010-08-20 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Best way to get things done, man.

[identity profile] overthedratini.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope so.

[identity profile] walking-the-cat.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Roger II hopped next to Daisy, patting the Meowth on the back. He uttered a few words in pokemon language, leaving the trainers out of the conversation. From the way Roger II was expressing himself though it would be easy to assume that he was trying to encourage Daisy to participate.

[identity profile] walking-the-cat.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Um. . .you mean something suspicious other than the crystals?

[identity profile] overthedratini.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly like that! Have you seen anything?

[identity profile] walking-the-cat.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Not really. . . [If there was anything weird it would probably be overshadowed by what's happening.]

Did something else happen?

[identity profile] overthedratini.livejournal.com 2010-08-21 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
[He pauses. Clearly they're busy, but more eyes are more eyes.] Someone's been kidnapped.

[identity profile] walking-the-cat.livejournal.com 2010-08-21 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Who?! [Team Rocket again?]

[identity profile] beware-of-bears.livejournal.com 2010-08-21 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
The Meowth sighed and grudgingly stood up straighter. Kirsten giggled and looked forward at the sea of Unown.

"It's a little scary, isn't it?"

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