[BATTLE] CAITLIN VS LOOKER

[lou]

ROUND 1
CAITLIN VS. LOOKER
BATTLE COMMENCE

[Iris]

Veilstone...why they had decided to call her out to this godforsaken region was beyond her. Then again, nearly all regions she had been to aside from Unova couldn't compare to that lovely region. Sinnoh wasn't so bad though, it had the Battle Frontier. She had always felt more closeness to the Sinnoh Frontier than the Hoenn one, but then again, was that any surprise? She had, after all, been a part of that Frontier, once, before she had become a part of the Elite Four in Unova. Ah, but both of those things were pretty much a lifetime ago. The Battle Frontier in Sinnoh didn't see a ton of business now, not with the war going on like it was, and not when it was rather prohibited for civilians to be carrying pokemon around with them. The same held true for the Elite Four in Unova, of course.

Even if some of them were all for their own region, that didn't mean they stayed there a lot of the time. Many of the gym leaders weren't present in Unova, now. Just gone, doing things for either Lux or Nox. Much like how she was doing things for Lux right then. "You two," Caitlin spoke to a pair of soldiers that were just about to enter the city through the busted wall. "With me," the officer ordered of them, giving each a smile to let them know this wasn't something they could argue before walking through the broken walls herself, the two soldiers right behind her. Caitlin, of course, didn't feel she needed the guns they had with them. No, her psychic abilities would suffice just fine. The three of them wandered around for a little before coming across what seemed to be a Nox guerilla.

Or at least, Caitlin guessed he was one, considering the way he had popped out of cover to aim his gun on her; he had just about pulled the trigger when he noticed the soldiers with Caitln already her their guns on him. There was no way he'd get back into cover without being shot himself. Caitlin wasn't paying much attention to the words he was shouting, something about how he'd shoot her if they didn't let him go. Rubbish words, of course. She took a step forward, and then another, ignoring the fact that he was telling her to stop. Then he fired at her. Of course she had been prepared for that. Had been expecting it.

Psychic energy gathered quickly around her, and concentrated on the bullet coming towards her. It slowed gradually and then it just...stopped, right in mid-air. The guerilla gaped at this sight, but he was not gaping within a second. Mostly because the piece of cover he had been hiding behind was promptly picked up using her psychic powers and chucked at him. He was either knocked out or dead. She didn't care which. "Well then, let's continue, shall we?" she spoke to the soldiers with her, turning back to face them. These soldiers, of course, were not her only protection. Floating up in the sky, somewhere, was her Metagross, whom she had given orders to keep an eye out for anyone approaching her and the soldiers.

[looker]

Doom has waved his chaotic hand over Veilstone City. Its wall was broken, its gleaming buildings and darkly covered streets trembled as the malicious Lux marched through the streets. The valiant Nox was doing its best to fight the intruders, but the villains had the upper hand. With Lux’s grand numbers and unrelenting force, it would take a miracle to push them from the city.

Was one of these miracles lurking in the shadows? Would this miracle be enough to save the city from a wretched fate? Who could tell, but for now let us look to the Lux officer marching through the streets that would first meet this supposed miracle. A few blocks from where she had previously smashed a poor Nox soldier to a pile of blood and bones, the officer would surely notice a man in a trench coat walking across the street. His collar was raised to his eyes, and a fedora hid his rather magnificent hair. This strange man even looked to the officer, glaring at her as he crossed the road. He wasn’t panicked like the other citizens; in fact he was rather nonchalant about this whole situation. Something was up with this guy, there was a certain aura hanging around him of curiousness and…dare I say…whimsy. Luckily, he was no immediate danger to the woman. No, what she needed to worry about was the guy IN THE MAILBOX ACROSS THE STREET!

The shifting of metal could be heard just adjacent from the officer as the front of a seemingly standard city mailbox fell down and a man in a far more dashing trench coat than what was seen on the man crossing the street battle rolled out into the open along with a rather flustered police hat wearing croagunk. He quickly stood up and pointed to the woman, his trusty croagunk companion at his side. In a booming voice he declared, “Foul Lux scoundrel, your villainous sins shall end here! I have seen your treacherous ways she-beast, and I do not intend to think another thought that doesn’t involve bringing you to glorious justice! Knights of Righteous Integrity, ASSEMBLE!” With those final words, the rest of the man’s crew revealed itself. An Infernape named Face burst out of a trashcan close to the strange man and swiftly landed at his side. A Braviary named Hannibal flew out of an open window of a building on the officer’s side of the street and landed next to his master. A small child zoomed out from an alley only to transform into a small snickering Zoura named Murdock and hop next to the Infernape. Finally, a rather weary Alakazam named Mr. Monk carefully pranced out of building and slid next to the Braviary, being rather careful about not touching his companion. With a flick of his hand he once again pointed toward the woman and yelled, “We are the harbingers of truth and law, prepare yourself for the trouncing of your life! No one escapes the wrath of Looker!” The mysterious Looker finished his grand entrance by striking a manly pose, his pokemon companions doing the same. It was the most wonderful thing anyone could possibly witness…depending on who that someone is.

So what the heck is Looker doing attacking this girl, and how does he knows she’s a villain? Well let’s go back to when the battle started, it had only been three days since Looker had returned to his home region. He was in fact just about to start his life as a baker by day/evil smashing hero to build a reputation by night when the walls of the city were smashed. Being the kind soul he is, Looker escorted people to safety, and as he went to close up his bakery and take on his true crime fighting identity, he spotted a horrible sight. Across the street, one of his fellow Nox was put down by some freaky longhaired woman. She didn’t even touch him; this woman was certainly…A WITCH! This would not do. Looker vowed vengeance, so he threw on his crime-fighting garb and went far ahead to prepare an ambush. Of course, he kind of got lucky because unlike his soon to be foe Looker lacked any sort of psychic ability, so setting up his disguise where the officer passed was complete guess work. Ah but the ambush was a success (in his mind). Surely she could not have expected a man to transform from a mailbox, this witch was SO going to get it.

With his posing done, Looker placed his hands on his hips and boomed, “Out of custom and courtesy, I must first notify you that if you give yourself up willingly, no harm shall come upon you.” This wasn’t an offer of mercy. Evil such as this did not deserve mercy. No, this was a distraction so that Looker’s sixth and final member of his elite team, Castle the Gambite, could sneak up on the villain and her two henchmen. Castle was using a rather clever technique to descend from the outside of a tall building near the three Lux. He used his claws as hooks to slowly climb down the building, though since the claws of a Gambite are only so sharp the intelligent lad was consistently, and discreetly, using quick bursts of Dragon Claw to penetrate the stone. Eventually he came close enough to the ground to jump off and land safely. Without hesitation, Castle lurched his head backward and fired a spray of rocks in the area in front of the Lux. The rocks didn’t bounce or crack though, they actually floated silently in a large scattered form, creating a field of Stealth Rock all over the road. He was not done though, Castle knew he had to get rid of the guards, so in a move of self endangerment he rushed forward and attempted to slice the nearest of the guards with Dragon Claw...hope no pesky giant floating metal fortresses get in his way. That would suck.

[Iris]

Had she ever been to Veilstone before? Oh my yes, she had been actually. Unlike the majority of cities in Sinnoh, Veilstone seemed to be one of the more advanced ones of the lot. It had to be, what with the giant walls that surrounded it; something was worth protecting in the city. At least, that was what she had rationalized all those years ago. Walking through the city then, with those two Lux soldiers behind her, it was easy to forget how peaceful those days had been. Before all this Lux business, she could remember seeing happy people everywhere. The system hadn't been all that bad, had it? The psychic girl frowned as she thought this over. Honestly...all of this was overwhelming to her. For most of her life she had stayed cooped up indoors, rarely venturing outside and playing. No, Darach kept her company, most days. How could she ever go outside and play, anyway? There were several things preventing that, though in reality two of those things stemmed from the same cause. One, the fact that her family was rich. Very much so. It was improper to go outside and play with the other children, the filth, as her parents might have called them. Two, she was very prone to getting sick. And three, she often got very very tried, very very quickly. The last two were because of the same thing. A hyperactive thyroid, if she remembered right. Even then a yawn escaped her as they walked though she did keep an eye out as they moved.

It was almost, almost easy to miss the guy in the trench coat. In fact, she would have were it not for the appearance of a second guy in a trench coat, coming out of a...mailbox? How in the world did he fit in there? Caitlin was almost tempted to walk over to the mailbox and see just how big it actually was, but...no. Even she could realize that right then, this guy was probably going to end up battling her. How could the girl not realize that, when she was in the middle of a warzone? So she put the previous trench coat guy out of her mind and focused on the one that had a more dashing trench coat. Hopefully he wouldn't be too focused on beating her. For this battle, she had chosen to forego her hat and such. She dressed as she had when she was a child, and Caitlin felt she could still pull that look off well. Puberty hadn't really hit her that much, after all. A shame, that, but it was useful right then. Sure, she had gotten taller, but she still looked a little childish.

And she lacked breasts.

A sore spot, but...again, it would be useful. So she kept her gaze on the second trench coat person as he moved, ignoring the two soldiers that were with her as she wondered what he might do. "Villainous sins? I'm fighting, just the same as you. What makes your fighting any less villainous than mine?" she called out to him. Her voice was soft, but she had chosen to speak up at just the right moment so that he would be able to hear her words. What a curious little man though. Knights of Righteous Integrity? If you asked her, he was definitely trying too hard to pull off the whole righteous thing. True righteous people didn't just shout their heads off to the heavens that they were righteous, after all, but that was what he was doing. A shame, it was. Caitlin had thought she might meet a Nox that had more sensibility than to just shout their name out. Caitlin knew who this guy was. Oh, not many did, but he had been involved in capturing the seven sages of Team Plasma. That was all she knew about him really, so she was surprised to see him opposing Lux. One would think a police officer would be able to see how just Lux truly was, but alas...it seemed Nox was able to tempt even the most stalwart of police with their vicious lies.

"I know you, Looker. If you're such a righteous police officer, then why do you follow Nox, the ones who oppose the authority's rule?" the girl tilted her head, a frown on her face as she wondered on that. At the same time she adjusted one of the ribbons in her hair. Curse the thing, it had managed to come undone somehow. It only took a few minutes to fix it, but by the time she had, she noticed something. He had already sent his pokemon out...when in the world had that happened? There were only five out, however...was it possible another ambush had been set up, then? While he distracted her, was it possible another of his pokemon had decided to sneak around? Possible, and very likely too, considering he had just told his entire team to assemble, and yet one was missing. At least, she assumed one was missing. Who would come into a battle like this with any less than their full team?

As it turned out, she was right. Stealth Rocks came out of nowhere, right in front of her and the others. Caitlin reacted quickly, though. She focused, and listened for sounds. A pokemon moving, rushing towards one of her companions, it seemed. Psychic energy gathered around her once more, and she actually moved a few of the Stealth Rocks so that they were between the attack and the soldier. That was not enough though. She was not quick enough. The Dragon Claw tore the soldier in two first, right in front of her, and blood sprayed on her face. She let go of the stealth rocks as she stared with wide eyes at the man.

It was the first time she had seen a grown man cry.

It was the first time she had seen a man die.

He fell to the ground, and she stared at the body. She forgot to breathe. And then, all of a sudden, the world came back to her.

"Destroy them," she ordered of all the pokemon she sent out. All six of them. Sigils, Brek, Tela, Jell, Ache, and Forks. She would let them get to work.

"I will handle this one." she glared at the Gabite, before launching a wave of psychic energy towards it. And at the same time the soldier with her took aim and fired at the pokemon as well.

Meanwhile, the rest of her pokemon assaulted Looker's team, and it was lucky they were all bunched up by each other. A Psychic from Alakazam, another Psychic from Reuniclus, yet another dose of Psychic from Metagross, a final Psychic from Sigilyph, a Gyro Ball from Bronzong, and finally, a Dark Pulse from Gothitelle.

[lou]

VICTOR: CAITLIN

+ 200 to Lux