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Post by Cyn Ambrosius on Jun 20, 2015 12:03:05 GMT -5
Cyn let out a bit of an exasperated sigh as he wandered through the streets of Flash City, with no particular goal in mind as he merely took in all of the sights. While it was always nice to get the surroundings of the town he was - Even though Cyn had lived here his whole life - There was one immense problem going through Cyn's head. One that could potentially require the universe to bend over backwards and rip holes in itself to fix.
Cyn was, in fact, bored.
It had been quite some time since his last battle. In fact, it had been an entire... However long it takes to reincarnate, on top of how much he battled in his previous life. On top of that, you can also take into account the fact that he hadn't battled yet in this life, either. It was extremely problematic. Cyn felt a strong urge to solve this problem, but there were no decent looking Trainers floating around at all that could quench Cyn's thirst for battle.
In other words, Cyn had reached a bit of a standstill, and his audience probably wasn't any more entertained by the dilemma Cyn faced. It appeared that Cyn was in for a long day. Unless, you know, someone just happened to show up out of nowhere and make Cyn's day, which may be more likely than you think. Vinny Hade OoC: Eh, as far as topic starters go, I guess this is alright. Music: Nada.
Post by Vinny Hade on Jun 24, 2015 20:54:26 GMT -5
(ooc: Thanks for allowing me to make it rain)
Vinny walked through the rainy streets of Flash city in a hope to find a place to take shelter. The rain had come out of the blue but it didn't seem to surprise many people, in fact most of them just bought up umbrellas and continued on their way; Vinny was not one of those people. It seemed that these people were used to the weather that Flash City had, Vinny on the contrary did not. Sure the rain wasn't THAT bad, but Vinny was wearing his favorite jacket at the moment and boy did he hate getting his jackets dirty.
As Vinny walked through the city he tried to find a place to take shelter. Unfortunately, most of the places on the street were either filled to the brim with hipsters or were closed. Vinny grumbled to himself as he put his hands over his head in a vain attempt to protect him for the rain. Eventually at the end of the street Vinny found a dinner on the corner of the street he was on. It seemed relatively quiet inside the dinner, so that meant he would have enough room to dry out his jacket.
If everything were to go as planned, he would be able to get inside the dinner and dry his jacket off without any problems. Unless of course someone got in his way and decided to, you know, force him to make their day, but what were the odds of that happening? It was after all, just a random sidewalk in a big city.
Post by Cyn Ambrosius on Jun 24, 2015 21:07:30 GMT -5
Holy hell. Cyn could hardly believe it. Some guy in some rather interesting looking jacket just ran by, managing to catch Cyn's attention.
Alright, that was a blatant lie. He believed it rather easily. This kind of stuff always managed to happen around him, and it was pretty convenient how it managed to happen. That said, this guy was probably here to further along some vague plot that Cyn wouldn't really know anything about until later, but whatever. All would be revealed in due time.
How did this guy manage to catch Cyn's attention? Cyn didn't quite know himself. He just had this vibe, at least according to Cyn, that said 'Damn, I sure do hope Cyn would come by and battle me or something like that'. Cyn's favorite kind of vibe.
Of course, that left the present. Cyn ran into the diner, and politely introduced himself to Vinny. "Hey, I'm Cyn. Nice to meet you." Immediately afterwards, without even giving Vinny the chance to introduce himself, he put an arm around Vinny's shoulder and half guided and half pushed Vinny outside of the room, telling him. "Come along, now, we can't have battles in here! It'd be somewhat messy."
OoC: Yaaay. Music: None comes to mind. Tags: Vinny Hade
Post by Vinny Hade on Jun 24, 2015 22:32:08 GMT -5
Vinny was so close to the dinner he could smell all the different kind of foods the staff was making for the customers. He could smell the burgers cooking on the grill, he could hear the small chatter of a few regulars in the dinner, he could hear the manager bark orders at the cooks, most importantly of all, he could feel the warmness from the lights inside. It was perfect! Nothing could ruin this moment, that was until some approached him. In that moment, all of Vinny's hopes and dreams of a dry jacket were crushed in an instant.
Vinny slowly turned around and found himself face to face with Cyn. Before he even knew it, Vinny found himself getting dragged away by Cyn. He wasn't even given the opportunity to say his name! There was nothing Vinny could do to stop him, for the first time in his life he was speechless.
That was until Cyn touched Vinny's jacket. Nearly instantly Vinny grabbed Cyn's arm, "Don't. Touch. My. Jacket!" Vinny said as he quickly fixed up his jacket that had been roughed up by Cyn's shoulder grabbing hijinks.
"What are you doing?!" Vinny asked, demanding to know exactly what the heck Cyn was planning.
Post by Cyn Ambrosius on Jun 24, 2015 22:39:35 GMT -5
Cyn shook his head. Clearly, this guy had something interesting character traits if he was going off on Cyn over something as trivial as a jacket. It couldn't have been that important, right? You know, unless there was some tragic backstory nonsense behind, which Cyn supposed would make a lot of sense. For now, Cyn decided to humor the guy. He didn't want to come off as a complete ass, after all.
Even though he was, but Cyn didn't think that bore any real relevance right now.
As one would come to expect when asking Cyn silly questions - or at least questions Cyn deemed silly - Cyn let out a little chuckle. "What does it look like? We need to go find some secluded place to have some battle or something. I've got a perfect winning streak, and I need to further it a bit." Cyn responded completely nonchalantly, evidently bored of this little bit of explaining himself already.
Seriously, this guy was being paid to sit around up here. Unless he was portraying a character, in which case, he was doing fine, did this guy really even need to ask? Honestly, people just don't make any sense to Cyn.
"Come on, I'll treat you to dinner or something." He offered, even though Cyn really shouldn't have to.
Post by Vinny Hade on Jun 24, 2015 23:05:57 GMT -5
VInny could only stare at Cyn in amazement as he non-clantly continued the conversation with him like nothing ever happened. Vinny was somewhat stunned, not only was he possibly getting manipulated by this guy,he still had the guts to just touch his jacket! This made Vinny pretty ticked off, nobody goes around just touching his jacket and gets away with it! Why he would punch the guy right now if he cou-
"Uh, pardon me but did you just offer me dinner if I battled with you?" Vinny asked hopefully. Right on cue Vinny's stomach gave off a low growl, he hadn't had lunch yet so he was starving at the moment. It was an interesting deal, a fight for a free meal, win or lose. But what if this guy..."Cyn", as he called himself had some other goal in mind? What if he was just planning on using Vinny for something?
Well Vinny wasn't going to get an answer by just standing and thinking about a possible answer. Recently, Vinny signed and held out his right hand.
"So If I battle with you, I get dinner? Free of charge?" Vinny asked once more to confirm the deal.
Post by Cyn Ambrosius on Jun 24, 2015 23:13:19 GMT -5
Cyn thought he'd have to throw around a couple more offers to get this guy to comply, but, almost just completely out of nowhere, it appeared Cyn had gotten through. Food, huh? Cyn would keep that in mind in the event he needed to drag other people around for various shenanigans. Food = Whatever the hell you want.
Anywho, Cyn let out a smirk as Vinny asked for confirmation. "Yes, that is exactly what I'm saying. Have we a deal?" He asked, although he was already quite sure of the answer. As such, he grabbed Vinny by the forearm and kept on walking, scanning the area for a secluded area, perhaps out of the rain, to have a battle at.
Cyn set his sights on a seemingly abandoned warehouse, tucked away into a corner. It had a roof, and it even looked like electricity was still on, so it would serve their purposes perfectly. Cyn used the hand not 'guiding' Vinny along to point at the warehouse. "How about in there? Looks roomy enough." He asked, although it was more of a formality. They were going there. Cyn walked Vinny to the entrance, and pushed it open. "Tada!"
Post by Vinny Hade on Jun 25, 2015 19:23:29 GMT -5
Son of a bitch did this guy just manipulate get Vinny to agree into battling with him? Yes, yes he just did. "DAMMIT!" Vinny cursed loudly inside his head. Cyn had managed to manipulate get Vinny to agree to a battle with him! How could this happen? Vinny didn't get played like that, instead he played other people!
Vinny quickly realized how he was acting and took a small breath. Hopefully Cyn didn't notice that Vinny's ears were now as red as cherries. As for now, Cyn grabbed Vinny's arm and took him on a quest to find a suitable place to battle. Cyn dragged Vinny throughout the streets of Flash City with their shoes stepping in a puddle every once in awhile. A few people shoot looks at the pair as they kicked up water making the people even more wet.
"Are we there yet?" Vinny asked Cyn. Practically right after Vinny had said that the duo found a warehouse tucked away in a corner. It appeared that nobody had set foot in the warehouse for quite awhile, seeing as how there was a "CLOSED" sign hastily written above the way into the warehouse. Why it was still open was anybodies guess. Vinny then got pushed into the building without a warning, this caused Vinny to fall flat on his face.
"Opphm!" Vinny said as fell onto the ground, "Don't push like that!" Vinny said as he picked himself up. Interesting enough, the power was still somehow active in the warehouse, maybe the warehouse only closed down recently? Who ever was in charge of the warehouse didn't do a good job of picking up after themselves. The shelves were still there with a few items still on them. Vinny swore he could have seen a box of muffins on top one of them, right next to a bottle of...wine?
"..You sure this is a good enough place to battle? I don't think so, there may be a few homeless people in here, hell maybe even some Pokemon." Vinny said as he took his jacket off and hung it to dry on a large lamp shade.
Post by Cyn Ambrosius on Jun 25, 2015 19:35:06 GMT -5
Cyn let out a laugh at Vinny's complete concern over any homeless guys and Pokemon that may be lurking about. Cyn paused and then yelled out "HEY! ANYBODY HERE, WE'RE ABOUT TO BATTLE, SO IT MIGHT GET A LITTLE DANGEROUS!" Cyn informed anyone who may have been there, and then turned his attention to back to Vinny. "There. If they stick around, it sounds more like a personal problem to me." He stated, evidently pleased with himself.
"Now, then, less talky, more fighty." Cyn suddenly turned more serious than Vinny had seen him yet far. That said, it still wasn't very seriously - Cyn was still doing this for shits and giggles.
"Now, then, let's get this started, shall we?" Cyn pulled a Pokeball off of his belt, and tossed it into the air. It would open up, as Pokeballs tend to do, and a Zangoose popped out of it, letting out a cry as it landed on the ground. "Claw, meet this guy. This guy, meet Claw." Cyn stated, before popping his fingers. "Now, then, I believe the general way you'd things would be for you to send out a Pokemon as well? We'd have a very... Uninteresting battle if you don't." Cyn asked, half mockingly, waiting to see what kind of Pokemon Vinny would release.OoC: Yaaay. Music: Battle time. Tags: Vinny Hade
Well Vinny wasn't liking Cyn so far at all. Really?, laughing at the concern over other Pokemon and homeless people possibly getting injured in the warehouse? Vinny knew his type, always thinking that they were better then everyone else. Was it because of economic standing or was it because of something else entirely? That didn't matter to Vinny right now, he was about to engage in a battle.
"For your information, my name is Vinny, thanks for asking!" Vinny said sarcastically. Vinny knew that Cyn was trying to pull off intimidation tactics, but it hardly made any difference. By this point in his lifetime, Vinny already had gotten plenty of used to tactics like that. Now Vinny was in a bit of a pickle, would he send out Meryl or Wes? "Claw" was a Zangoose, so it had to be agile right? If that was so, which it most likely was that would be bad news for Wes. Maybe Meryl could handle him? She didn't have much physical attack but she was part psychic type, she could use her psychic powers!
Eventually Vinny reached a conclusion and dug around his backpack for Meryl's Pokeball. Soon enough Vinny found it and threw it onto the battlefield. The Pokeball bounced off the ground and opened, revealing Meryl. Meryl looked at Claw and Cyn and quickly looked down to the ground. After having a quick bow she got into somewhat of a battle position. Sure she didn't look so threatening but she didn't to have physical power on her side. Vinny just showed a smug grin on his face to Cyn.
"So you don't care much about the danger of battling in here, right? Very well. Then in that case let's get dangerous!" Vinny said.
Post by Cyn Ambrosius on Jun 25, 2015 23:03:12 GMT -5
Cyn shook his head. He was familiar with this particular Pokemon, or so he thought. What was it... A Rats? Rals? Eh, wasn't really a priority right now. He did vaguely remember something along the lines of Psychic powers. Probably something Cyn would need to keep an eye out for. Of course, it seemed that Claw was going to get the first move, which was never quite a bad thing. "Claw, let's start this up, shall we? Quick Attack!" Claw complied instantly, and began moving at incredibly quick speeds in at attempt to ram into the smaller Pokemon that had been sent out.
To follow up, Cyn decided to buff up Claw a bit. After all, that little extra bit of damage could be a godsend later on into the match. "Claw, Swords Dance, let's roll!" Claw gave a curt nod, and performed the attack. It didn't take long, and Claw's claws would have a small glean to them it didn't before. Now, then, it was time to do some real damage.
"Claw, let's end this early, Night Slash!" Claw instantly charged Meryl, aiming a single swipe with his darkness-infused claws, powered up from his earlier Swords Dance. While Cyn wasn't a decent judge of battles, yet, things seemed to be going well.
Post by Vinny Hade on Jun 25, 2015 23:55:47 GMT -5
"Crap I was right, it was fast!" Vinny thought to himself as Claw pounced at Meryl with lightening speed. Meryl was caught off guard by the speedy attack by Claw and wasn't able to dodge it in time. Meryl got knocked back by the attack, although as fast as it was it wasn't too powerful for Meryl to take. After getting back up after the attack she saw Claw powering himself up with swords dance. She knew she couldn't allow that too happen, she wasn't going to go down that easy! Meryl held her head to herself and thought about something, she thought about a large amount of psychic energy hitting claw in the near future. Meryl had used future sight.
"Quick Meryl use Disarming Voice! You have an opening!" Vinny said. On command Meryl opened her mouth wide...and she let out a shrinking voice! Out of Meryl's mouth came small disoriented pink hearts in a straight line. They were all aimed directly at Claw. After that, Claw suddenly pounced towards Meryl again with a Night Slash! Vinny only stood with a confident smirk, he had already trained Meryl what to do in a case like this.
As Claw continued to get closer and closer to Meryl she held out her left arm towards Claw. She then said some words underneath her breath while a wave of psychic energy approached Claw. Meryl was using Hypnosis. If Claw was smart enough, he would jump over the wave which could only lead to more traps for the Zangoose.
Post by Cyn Ambrosius on Jun 26, 2015 0:17:40 GMT -5
Cyn frowned as Meryl seemingly did nothing. It certainly seemed problematic. It was probably a safe assumption that the Ralts was preparing something. Charging up for an attack, perhaps? Of course, it didn't particularly matter right now. Cyn had other things to deal with.
The first thing that caught his attention was the usage of Disarming Voice. That attack would be a bit of a challenge to dodge, so Cyn didn't concern himself too much with it. That said, it didn't appear to be a particularly powerful move, so it probably didn't leave Cyn with too much to worry about.
After that, of course, came the second hurdle. Claw had flung himself towards Meryl, who elected to respond with a Hypnosis. That was something Cyn couldn't allow to come to pass. "Claw, stop yourself! Quick Attack to the side and come back in!" He ordered, which he could have sworn earned a sigh of relief from Claw.
Claw quickly landed on the ground, and then, in a burst of speed, darted to side of the attack, resulting in it missing by a rather small margin. Of course, now it was time for Claw to follow up with an attack of his own. Maintaining his Quick Attack, he instantly darted at Meryl once more, this time using Night Slash in conjunction with Quick Attack for a brutally fast attack. To finish up, Claw would put a bit of distance between the two, and use Swords Dance to further increase his offensive capabilities, even if Meryl had been put down. After all, Cyn didn't know what could be coming next.
Post by Vinny Hade on Jun 26, 2015 13:28:38 GMT -5
"Aw crud, I should have seen that one coming." Vinny thought to himself as Claw avoided Meryl's wave of sleepy energy. Lucky for Meryl after Claw used Quick Attack she had a feeling he was going to follow up with another close range move, so in preparation for that she quickly moved to the left just barely missing the Night Slash by an inch. It was so close to a direct hit it had left a small scratch on Meryl's right arm. Meryl cringed at the feeling of having her skin cut by razor sharp claws. Vinny however still remained calm. When Claw went back to use Swords Dance it was pretty clear what Cyn and Claw's attack pattern was, hit once get power up and attack again. Given this, it seemed unlikely to Vinny that Claw had any non-close combat moves. This gave Vinny an idea.
"Quick Meryl, while he's using sword dance use Hypnosis!" Vinny commanded Meryl. Meryl shook her head as a "Yes" and repeated the same chant and sleepy psychic wave energy. It was still the same wave as the first time so that meant that Claw could just easily use the same move as from before. This was what exactly what Vinny was hoping for.
"Meryl!" Vinny called out to Meryl, "You see that box of muffins up there? Use psychic to get it down onto the battle field!" Vinny said as he pointed out to a box of muffins on top of a self. It was just a plain brown box that looked like it had never been opened before and had a label on it that said "EDCO'S PUMPKIN MUFFINS". Meryl looked back at Vinny with a hint of uncertainty but Vinny just nodded in response. Meryl did as so and using her psychic powers bought the box down onto the battleground. It landed right in front of the space between Meryl and Claw, which wasn't much.
"Now use charge beam!" Vinny yelled out to Meryl. Meryl aimed her head towards the ground and her pink horn started to glow yellow. In about two seconds a whole sphere of electricity appeared on the horn which Meryl then property fired the beam of electricity at Claw. The line of electricity was bright and instantly lit up the entire factory with it's light. Interesting enough, If Claw didn't get in the way the beam would hit the box of muffins...
Post by Cyn Ambrosius on Jun 26, 2015 13:44:51 GMT -5
Another Hypnosis? This guy sure does love his sleep moves. Of course, it's not like they were too terribly difficult to get out of the way of, so sure. This guy could waste all of the time with sleep tactics that he wanted. Cyn would just cut them down to size, in the mean time, which was something Cyn wouldn't complain about.
With much more room for evasion, Claw didn't even need increased speed to evade the attack, this time. Claw easily moved out of the way of the attack, when, suddenly, something else came up. In the form of a box of muffins. That... "Hey, Uh, Vinny, wasn't it? We're getting dinner right after this. You can concern yourself with matters of food, later."
Of course, Cyn wasn't completely convinced that the box happened to have nothing to do with anything. So, in the event that something wasn't quite right... He'd just have to eliminate it, wouldn't he? Of course, he then noticed that Meryl was going to follow up with a Charge Beam. Perfect opportunity to prepare for a bit of trouble. "Claw, use Quick Attack. Get behind Meryl." Cyn commanded, to which Claw quickly obliged. As Claw dashed over, Cyn informed Vinny that "Erm... In my experience, frying them actually makes them worse."
Anywho, to follow up, Claw would aim a Night Slash at Meryl's back. Cyn kind of hoped this would be the end of this bout of shenanigans. It really was taxing to sit around to figure out why exactly Vinny needed a Psychic Type Pokemon for a muffin. Seriously, those things could be ludicrously old. It's... unsanitary.