303. Back to Bridge Blockading.
-Equus, Ponyville, Caps for Cash, Cashmere-
“Thanks for the business Pinkie Pie.” I said merrily wondering when I’d lay eyes on that lovely dark unicorn again, my cousin Velvet said she was still busy looking for their Lambkin friend Pom.
“I’ll come to you for all my mad hatter and tea party needs Cash, in any case I think Rarity appreciates you’re business… she doesn’t have to do nearly as many hats with you being able to make matching ensemble to anything she creates.” Pinkie stated jovially while wearing a top hat with a ten slash six card in the brim. “Come on Pacman, let me show you what snacks are like around here!”
The floating yellow sphere flapped its mouth making odd sounds as it hovered after Pinkie upon exiting my store.
“This place flows with weirdness, I’m glad I set up here and can visit my cousin in Airship Mauled.” The only problem was the heat around here for me. If Velvet can handle it with as much floof as she has, then I’m perfectly capable of doing so myself.
Sure my customers might not enjoy the lower temperatures in my shop, but the air conditioning is worth it. In a few days I would get to meet my cousin’s extended family of Paprika Paca, alpacas are becoming a slightly common sight in Ponyville and the Princess of Love has been very friendly with alpaca nomads in recent history visiting the Crystal Empire.
Maybe I could talk to them about doing a seminar on alpaca culture at the friendship school, Rarity did want to do a culture festival thing like what happens in Manehatten.
Pepper, Tamale and Kayamba Paca were the ones I believed that were said to be visiting.
-Pokemon World, Violight Kingdom, morning, Throne Room, Pom-
“That’s about the size of my scouting expedition and now you’re telling me Ignis attacked Greenleaf on purpose. Violight is pretty nice, haven’t gotten any new scars from this kingdom yet.” Hearing about Greenleaf means, I needed to talk Ginchiyo into sending help or at least sending someone down south to check on things if she wouldn’t release us in a timely manner. Ginchiyo kind of has me detained for a variety of logical reasons and I was being treated more as a guess here instead of a prisoner. Maiden Jig still got better accommodations, for obvious reasons. “What are the chances we can speed up the bureaucratic process of getting my new friends and team released?”
“I’m sorry, but I will have to keep you detained for at least another day, before we can officially release you barring a direct attack on the kingdom and I still need to hear Professor Pong’s testimony on the situation. I’m still a bit curious about the Salazzle’s history, but I’ll send an envoy to Greenleaf to hash out a few things if they need support.” Ginchiyo then turned to Maiden Jig. “Now in the meantime, we can discuss the terms of a possible alliance that Maiden Jig, Administrator of Aurora, has brought before us. I’m quite sure Chrysalia as much as I would be open to joining an alliance with the southern kingdoms, given great trouble is befalling the kingdoms once more it won’t be long before the eastern kingdoms come for us and the dragons start seeking a fight with Arceus again. However I won’t be able to enact the alliance quickly, it’ll likely be unable to occur until after the war problem with Ignis has been resolved and there’s some other reasons I cannot let Pom and her friends go yet.”
“The people?” Maiden Jig stated.
“The people.” Ginchiyo responded.
Girls, please don’t do anything dumb in the meantime until I can get back to Aurora...
-Aurora, South end of the Northern Aurora/Ignis Bridge, Shanty-
We be managing a completely successful raid, one where we be taking their entire camp out from under them. Now we be needing to survive an oncoming onslaught if they thought to come after us. I be sleeping comfortably in a stolen tent last night.
“It’s kind of sad that a stealth based heart song won’t form or couldn’t be used unless you were actively sneaking and not in broad daylight. We’re not even sure it even worked entirely, but stealing everything in camp without an ounce of combat is at least a good indicator in that it did.” Ocellus was of the opinion that with the walling off of the bridge between Greenleaf and Ignis being eventually discovered, Aurora was bound to be exposed to an attack from the north soon. “Jiri is still out, but Chan is working on her specifically and is getting her in fighting condition. Also the members of Team Harmony’s guild are wishing us luck with holding the front while helping out around Aurora. They are dealing with quite a few small problems around here that are capable of snowballing out of control.”
Basically if any fire type be crossing the bridge and we don’t be knowing them, then we not be letting them on this side of the bridge.
“So can someone explain to me why Zubat are a thing?” Smolder be receiving a motion from Quetal to pay attention to him.
“That’s easy, Zubat can be found literally anywhere… even under rocks, underwater caves and sometimes even alive inside of larger Pokémon. They’re the most well-known pest and that is considering the fact that Bug Types exist.” That sounded to be being very annoying Quetal, that you can’t go anywhere without finding one. “They are as annoying as you can possibly imagine given how they get everywhere. They are almost as common as bug Pokémon, but we’re in luck to have stolen all their medical supplies so there should be less Zubat in the air at least.”
“How soon do we be thinking they’ll attack us?” The fire related beasties, as I be knowing, didn’t have any food given we be stealing everything they had last night.
A good amount of what was stolen was stored away to be transported back to Greenleaf, we’d be using most of the perishables ourselves though. I be having plenty to eat this morning.
The Miltanks and Tauros’s had fun with the thieving last night, but we were expecting at least a large number of Fire Type Pokémon to be attacking us soon in retaliation. The Fire Types would hopefully not do so without eating at least something, which would currently require them to forage to the north in Ignis, because they weren’t going to be getting food from Greenleaf as the Bidoof said they be sealing off the bridge.
The problem be laying in the fact that we were still covering this bridge in particular with what amount to five or six unit’s worth of Pokémon being tens against hundreds.
I be going over every team we had here.
There was Jiri’s Battle Bears minus Jiri due to exhaustion and number of injuries she’s taken in the course of defending Aurora.
Ruckus Rauco’s Belligerent Birds were a big help in the fighting when they showed up and were the least injured and better at fighting than the Zubats at the very least.
Cleric Geoffs Pesky Perverts were working on how to integrate an animate sludge pile into their militia unit.
Brigand Teeth’s Rat Raiders had some extra zap to their strength and did alright at range.
Lastly there was being our otherworldly team with Quetal and Favela.
Those were the forces we had that weren’t the Bullet Buizels unit on loan from Motochika. The propeller tailed otters were quite a boon
We be having Chan as a medic deployed to the front on standby, Evan had wanted her here to make sure we were in top shape. What King Evan would be doing personally at this time, well I haven’t the slightest idea.
Having seen a number of fire types last night, that was just the southern rebel forces of Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu. Said forces were directly being led by Dong Zhuo while Lu Bu be committed to fighting Hideyoshi to the north. How do we be knowing this?
Well we be having an informative extra volunteer in a familiar friendly Torchic with aiming issues, so long as she is aiming from her beak that is, who informed us of the things going on in Ignis since she left Aurora.
The Bullet Buizels had been taking shifts in protecting the bridge and almost attacked Torchic when she showed up, that’s when she said she came in peace and that she would know someone from Aurora.
We quickly confirmed her identity when she couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn with her Ember attack that sprayed darts of flames from her beak even at a ridiculous volume of literal fire, she was still much better at aiming the attack out her backside which would be useful if she be running from danger chasing her. She was much better at melee, I personally just be thinking she might be needing glasses.
“Well the later the better.” Quetal finally stated with his arms crossed.
Yeah and the hungrier the forces that attacked Aurora and Greenleaf would be if they couldn’t get supplies.
“Yeah, don’t know if I could actually fight the thousands of Pokémon they have.” Torchic was decent close up fighting. She might not be the greatest help, but she was still sticking with us. “Some units and a quasi-unit doesn’t seem like much in face of all that they have.”
“I, Favela, believe we can hold them off… we did just move some siege engines from the Fontaine battle to here by commissioning Helper's Hamlet's guild this morning.” Yeah, but there is being one big issue with that Favela.
“Who is going to be operating them though?” There was a pause, we be having two siege engines for our use. At best we can be thinning the crowd of Fire Types with two shots if they were loaded before they attacked the bridge en-mass.
“Um…” Favela looked about, none of us could effectively use the siege engines without at least a full unit working on it.
Dodo warbled affectionately and pointed his beak at the siege engines. Yes Dodo, you could effectively be loading them easily enough with a little help, but that would still be being a problem. My medium sized mechanical ostrich, now with wings, was just trying to be helpful and I acknowledged that it would be helpful if he could manage to work both of the siege engines… at best he would be better off working just the one.
“It’s obvious we have issues in logistics, but they have even worse issues with that right now. A major lack of food and shelter for one.” That is being barely a good thing about all of this Quetal. “I’m okay for asking civilians for assistance as long as they willingly volunteer their time like they did last night, do you think Team Harmony members would join us here? At least the Rockruff Brothers would be a decent boost in our numbers even if it’s still like twenty to one against us. Jiri is the only one that made up for the lack of numbers on our side through sheer grit and that’s when they weren’t focusing the entirety of their forces on us and were raiding Greenleaf… we could definitely use more help right about now. Does anyone here know the move Rain Dance?”
“I do!” One of the Buizel waved their paws.
“You’re our MVP then, we cannot let this guy faint in battle, we’ll need him in the back to keep it raining. The Fire Pokemon will lose their long range ability if it’s constantly raining.” Quetal be a decent leader as he was organizing us and I be thinking about how to be a leader myself if I be becoming a pirate captain.
“So if I be getting it right. Teeth and Geoff will be in the back in front of the Buizel. Rauco will be mobile and deal with aerial opponents. Bears, the rest of the buizels and we will be on the front.” He looked to me for a bit and then nodded.
“Correct, Torchic can be wherever she wants to be, even safely outside of the battle.” Quetal looked to Torchic who seemed to be worried for us. “You brought us some important intel, you don’t need to take part in the battle.”
“If they are taking you seriously they are going to start with a Ponyta rush, but that’s about all I know.” Torchic’s last bit of information be interesting Quetal.
“A high speed attack, yeah, I can see it. Let’s get set up, once we’re done with having breakfast on the fire type rebels.” We’d be finished with breakfast and then would come the onslaught, we were rested and about ready as we could be getting.
-Fire Type Rebels, north of the bridge, sometime earlier, Dong Zhuo-
As an Emboar of incredible size, impressive might and an army at my beck and call, the loss of our camp and supplies was only a minor setback. I was furious that something so idiotic as singing while stealing our stuff actually managed to work.
It became an even worse setback when someone somehow cut us off from our southwestern forces in Greenleaf with a large wall, how they even built it overnight I couldn’t say. It probably coincided with Aurora’s theft of our supplies and we couldn’t burn through the wall to get into Greenleaf, it was both fireproof and too large to scale without tools.
We didn’t have any supplies, food or even morale given Aurora paid us back in full for attacking them by stealing everything we had.
I had not expected such viciousness, that they even stole the campfires was ludicrous while apparently singing at the top of their lungs was as ridiculous. They should have been caught and attacked, I’m surrounded by incompetents!
My men were hungry and not being paid now due to the loss of the war fund. Some were even threatening to mutiny or had a quiet look of wanting to join Hideyoshi’s force now, I quickly disavowed them on the notion that they even could quite quickly. Mostly by pummeling some into the ground and used the sheer force of will to organize them back under my command.
I would have no deserters and as Lu Bu have shown, deserters are treated quite poorly or killed if they are caught. The rise of Ignis would be glorious under my command and Lu Bu was one general that nobody would want to face, yet Hideyoshi was surprisingly stubborn and held up to Lu Bu fairly well on the battlefield despite his completely berserk offensives.
Hideyoshi, the masterful Monferno, was surprisingly hard to pin down in a battle and end completely.
“Ponyta in front, we march south!” Horses with flaming manes of fire neighed wildly. Aurora could hopefully only make one wall and were still left open to our advancing on them. “We do not have the supplies to move northeast will try to raid Aurora.”
“Are you sure that’s wise sir, we’d be better fit to attack to the east and into Hideyoshi’s holdings. It’d be easier to get supplies on that front.” The Cyndaquil has earned some ire, but he hasn’t outright betrayed me yet.
There was the fact that Hideyoshi was actively protecting the farmlands to the east that made them less than reasonable to attack.
“Oh? Aurora’s defenses were said to be small.” Yet they stole all our stuff, as much as it rankles me that they managed that somehow.
“Yeah, but the quality of those defenses are good. They held off Tepigs, Raboots, Houndours, Scorbunnies and constant waves of Zubat before we backed off.” In that vein of thought, Cyndaquil would be right that Hideyoshi’s forces to the east would be a better assault target. The Litleo militia forces were not to be trifled with though, they actively supported not interfering with Aurora or Greenleaf. We just actively brought them into our civil war. “They even have a Buneary that totaled more than three hundred Pokémon in one battle on her own with a spear and shield, she’s not likely to be standing at the moment, but her unit wasn’t as badly injured and they were strong. Aurora has some good medics with their Miltanks, if not them then any local Chansey. Sir, it would be a very bad idea to attack Aurora at this time as they are getting backing from Fontaine’s Bullet Buizels via Motochika.”
“A single unit of Buizels, how much trouble can they really be?” I still led us south… it would become quite apparent what a mistake this might be when we got to the bridge.
-Slightly north of the Aurora and Ignis bridge, Cyndaquil-
“Sir they have electric type attacks, we should turn back.” It was raining, not the natural kind of rain either, it was a Rain Dance and that meant we couldn’t do long range fire assaults. Rain Dance prevented fire artillery based attacks entirely and boosted lightning artillery into being damn near impossible to dodge. I know the Wooloo could use Electro Ball and the Rattata could Thunderbolt. The unit of Pidgey would shred through our Zubat aerial forces that weren’t already down from injuries the other day, also the lightning plus rain would make flying around here a bad idea. “Also they have outsiders helping them, it would be a really bad idea to attack them.”
“Do you want to eat? Then I suggest we get our supplies back from Aurora and take more than they got from us!” The fact that Dong Zhuo was so calm was frightening.
As far as final evolutions went Emboar were scary with their fighting type attacks. They gain fighting type when they evolve into Pignite and Dong Zhuo obviously had evolved into being an Emboar through battle somehow. He had the strength to rip us a new one and back up his silent threats as he was the leader. If Dong Zhuo has been as lazy as he seems, he was probably only as strong as a Pignite due to lack of exercise.
The only true reason I can see that we would be attacking Aurora again is because of Dong Zhuo’s heavily wounded pride, not the mention the pride of various Fire Types that were acting as guards who basically just let the camp raid happen without reprisal.
“Right, Ponyta forward!” One of the Charmeleon ordered while trying to make sure their tail’s flame was staying well-lit in the rain as steam rose up from behind them.
I still think this was a bad idea and that we should have stopped the civil war when it started burning through supplies faster than the local population can recoup them.
Ignis’s farming lands were great on output, but the area they can occupy was small because of Ignis’s craggy and rocky volcanic terrain. We didn’t exactly have the food production or the medical supplies to keep fighting a civil war for much longer and since we weren’t exporting much, given our major export was weapons and armor from forging, in times of peace we were always on the poorer end of things.
That was one of the main reasons that this civil war started, Hideyoshi wanted to stop equipment production since there was very little demand for a war footing and switch to trying to better food production which, if we hadn’t started a civil war, ‘might’ have been the better idea. He also clumsily trodded all over traditions that Fire Types of Ignis were renowned for among other things that ignited all this trouble like a powder keg.
Fire Type Pokémon being hot-blooded and aggressive didn’t help stop the increased tensions from boiling over badly, though I’m beginning to believe Hideyoshi might be in the right here if he wasn’t so bad with taxing certain things like bananas. I get that he’s a monkey, but were bananas really that important to him? If his long term goals required a lot of money, he should have come clean to the public sooner as to why he needed more resources as the ‘Monkey King’ of Ignis.
At least Hideyoshi had long term goals, goals that had caused huge amounts of dissent in the short term.
I was of the opinion that, as a small fire backed echidna Pokémon with flaming quills, Ignis was quite doomed even if Lu Bu or Dong Zhuo were to win, I didn’t voice my opinion on this as I didn’t want to be beaten black and blue for stating that we were going to fall as a kingdom due to our hubris.
It didn’t matter who won now, we were all losers and coming out on top was still going to end in our defeat once Fontaine organizes an offensive against us. The grass types of Greenleaf were unlikely to come to our aid stop them for burning a large section of their kingdom for supplies.
That’s the problem with acting like bandits and raiders in a civil war. Once you’ve burned the ability to get more supplies through aggressive action, alongside all the goodwill from stealing said stuff, you’re eventually going to either starve to death or be taken care of by stronger forces organized against you.
All raiders and bandits do is take, when there is nothing more to take or steal and whatever resources have dwindled to absolutely nothing with no infrastructure to build upon to speak of… then there is no more hope for a future for the lands that no longer had a capacity for building civilization.
I was on the wrong side of this conflict and Hideyoshi might not have been the worse guy to follow, but maybe I can get a few guys and flip sides to the local militias. At least the militia are honorable in defending the people and I heard they tried to stop the Riolu and Lucario Raiders from bothering Aurora, they also don’t necessarily behold themselves to the military.
All I had to do was survive this battle or sneak away when I had a good moment and take some people with me when I defect from working under either side of the conflict. That would require Dong Zhuo to be distracted and possibly diving into the battle himself.
-Aurora and Ignis bridge, Favela-
“Here they come.” The Ponyta’s flaming manes were tamped down by the rain, but they were still speeding ahead of the amassed fire Pokémon. They would not be having any long range artillery effectiveness with fire attacks, but that wasn’t to say that we wouldn’t be effective ourselves.
“Yeah, but we be having a good position to stop them with. We can hold them.” Shanty was optimistic, but their numbers was still quite a lot. “Dodo, fire the first shot, we don’t be wanting those fire ponies to hit us with the speeds they are galloping at!”
The Rain Dance was putting a damper on their assault, but they were still going through with it.
Dodo warbled loudly and kicked a lever to send the first boulder flying free, a number of Ponyta were taken down by the first small boulder bowling through a few units in their tight formation.
-Dong Zhuo Forces, Dong Zhuo-
“So they don’t just have water Pokémon from Fontaine, they also have some siege engines and might get their artillery specialist involved.” I turned to the nearest Fletchinder the small fire type birds with red feathered body, black and white striped tail feathers and black wings with yellow tips that lead into the underside of their wings being yellow. “Take your unit and tell Lu Bu that we are experiencing some… setbacks.”
I wrote down a message for Lu Bu to read, if he could even do that much, Hideyoshi had been buckling under the pressure and now we suffered a major loss.
Six of the Fletchinders took flight to immediately inform the southern rebels of this civil war were having problems.
I turned back to see the Buizel fending off the remaining Ponyta, they were an elite unit from Motochika then.
-Ocellus-
Huh, Ponyta wouldn’t look that much different from a Nirik or an exceedingly angry unicorn. I winced as I watched a number of them be taken down by being bowled over by the first boulder.
Shanty’s attempt to stall them from attacking Greenleaf through use of Bidoof apparently worked and now they were coming at us with no better options, if they had any to begin with.
The feelings I was getting wasn’t rage… more to the point that it felt like something approaching sadness and suffering. At least when it came to the remaining Ponyta as they were quickly taken down and repelled by the Bullet Buizel unit, those guys were pretty darn fast, but not nearly as mesmerizing as feeling Pom zip around and have her leave a trail of anxiety emotions behind her.
The Ponyta were just the opening salvo. The following charge of Pokémon were the small round egg like Darumaka, a few small echidnas with fire instead of quills, Houndour, small camels with volcanic humps, Scorbunnies, Raboots and Tepigs. It seemed like most of them were on the smaller side and they all had some common colors.
Red, orange, black and yellow are the colors you’d expect from fire and soot, it’s becoming increasingly obvious like water Pokémon coming in the color blue a lot or grass types being green or other plant related colors depending on the plant. There is a color theme to Pokémon that I wanted to explore a bit.
The Buizel started into the incoming Pokémon to devastating effect and then, Quetal, Shanty and Favela readied up behind them with Jiri’s bear squad as the other Pokémon that got by the Buizel continued forward for the bridge. I can see where the strategy was going here, they were going to try and use their numbers to get them by us.
I was behind the back line and helping Dodo with loading the catapult, levitating heavy rocks and preparing to launch a rock across the bridge at the large number of Pokémon seeking to invade Aurora after we held them off yesterday. Now they are more focused in larger numbers, which works against them when we had a catapult to deal with large numbers.
Really didn’t like the idea of seriously hurting the Pokémon, but I was assured it was going to take more than large rocks hitting them to put them down for good. Some of the Ponyta that were hit by the boulder were already getting back on their hooves, only to be blasted down by Thunderbolt attacks from the Rattata team.
Geoff and his team were using Electro Ball attacks to fire long range assaults on the encroaching Pokémon that weren’t at the Buizel’s line of scrimmage.
The rain that was being summoned by the nearby Buizel with Rain Dance was boosting the other Buizels in his unit’s speed to absurd levels, thus the name of the unit being Bullet Buizels made a lot of sense as they all had the ability to move faster when it’s raining. Add their Aqua Jet attacks into happening at double their normal speed and you have Bullet Buizels who can practically fly while it’s raining.
At least the Rain Dance didn’t darken the entire sky like it had during the battle of Fontaine, we could still see sunlight.
“Quick question, how long can you keep up this Rain Dance?” The Buizel was calmly relaxing and watching the sky.
“As long as I rest between each dance, then I can keep it going indefinitely. Though Houndour or Pokémon who don’t focus on fire type attacks are still going to be a problem.” The Buizel got up and prepared to dance again. “At best they can only use fire attacks at short ranges to keep them somewhat effective. Any artillery based fire attacks are decimated trying to travel through a rain storm. Even drizzles ruin those kind of attacks.”
By that comparison water type artillery was highly effective, if you could get a visual with bad weather… makes me wonder how Grit commanded his artillery so well.
“We might need you to do that all day.” At least we had chance for food, rest and medical help.
-Shanty-
All this water raining from the sky be giving me an advantage of not having to be using my sweat to batter Pokémon back with blasts of water into the fire Pokémon. Favela seems to be enjoying the rain too, being part plant probably helps.
“Incoming Darumaka, the rain isn’t doing them any favors in keeping their inner flames going.” There were also the Houndour coming Quetal and a lot of Pokémon beyond that. At least I be having plenty of water to work with. “Speaking of which, aim for their mouth with your water attacks. That’ll knock them out immediately.”
Three Darumaka came charging at us having managed to get by the five Buizels that were dealing with thirty or more fire Pokémon at once. Some Pokémon were inevitably going to get through with their numbers.
I held out my hoof and a ball of water started growing on it and then I slung it forward to catch a Darumaka in the mouth. The small Pokémon around the size of Maiden Jig or smaller, immediately stopped. Its arms and legs tucked inward as it turned into an egg and fell asleep on the spot.
Favela followed up by dropping a wave of water on the other two with Surf, Favela was in front of us to utilize that attack. Water be flowing into the other Darumaka’s mouths and they were immediately knocked out and rendered sleeping eggs incapable of fighting back.
“You be knowing a lot about other Pokémon Quetal.” Taking notice of Favela’s comment, I decided this might be being something to bring up with Pom later.
“Well you can learn a thing or two while traveling Favela… hopefully you’ll learn more than I did to prevent some tragedies.” Quetal is not being a very happy blade armed weasel, but it is nice that he be worrying about us.
I moved forward and leapt as a charging Scorbunny tried to launch a flying kick at one of us and instead took a flying buck from me to the face from me. I immediately knocked them out and sent them rolling back across the bridge to their side.
“This is going to be a battle that lasts longer than three hours isn’t it?” Cartwheeling back into position, I watched as Quetal hopped about and slashed up the incoming Raboot with acrobatic swipes of his claws as he passed by the rabbit.
“I believe it is going to go that way, yes.” Favela stated as she launched a Seed Bomb into some Zubat that had managed to get through a storm of electrical attacks passing overhead and into the crowd of Pokémon starting to build up at the end of the bridge.
The Buizels were being slowly pushed back by sheer numbers alone, we be knowing they had hundreds of fire type Pokémon to throw at us. The rain be weakening the lot of them, but they were still coming at us.
I will be making sure they will not be lucky in getting across the bridge today either if I can be helping it!
A Houndour leapt at me with its mouth wide open and was promptly slapped in the throat by Panda the Pancham and sent flopping backwards.
A small camel be trying to tackle me and I took a few steps to the side and then slashed them up their left side, then spun to plant my rear hooves against their chest and sent them flying into a Heatmor.
The Heatmor, the bipedal fire anteaters, looked fairly dangerous considering they be taking several impacts from the Buizel and still managed to get this far by toughing it out.
They were much tougher than the other Pokémon we be dealing with and were going to overrun us with bodies this rate as more Heatmor started pushing forward while not caring about the blows they were taking. Also a few Ponyta were getting through as well as the fire types started building up their numbers at the northern end of the bridge.
Another boulder slammed down and rolled through their numbers, yet they still seemed determined to come at us.
“Isn’t all we need to be doing is take out Dong Zhuo?” I asked.
“If we see an Emboar then he’s a priority target, just think bigger bipedal tepig.” Quetal stated as he fired stars upwards and they arced downwards into a variety of targets. “He’ll likely sit behind all these guys and probably won’t involve himself in the fighting at all.”
-Aurora’s Camp, south of the bridge, Chan-
“Please, it’s obvious the fighting is going to get bad, they need me out there.” Groaned out Jiri who was still quite battered and bandaged, there was only so much healing I could do at one time.
“What you need is to rest.” I wasn’t about to tell her the bridge was getting swamped in Fire Pokémon, we were going to get overrun if those fighting on the bridge faltered. At least the rain was ruining any chance of fire attacks being used against us. “I’ll keep you update on how things are going, they are doing well so far.”
At least the Zubat were having problems flying in the rain, any that could manage to make it more than halfway across the length of the river were quickly taken down by the Rauco’s Pidgey unit. This was well before the Zubat could so much as stop or scratch our back line from pummeling the ground aggressors with electric type artillery attacks,
I walked back out in the rain and looked to the north across the bridge at the hundreds of fire Pokémon trying to invade Aurora, compared to our meager numbers. They were building up to push the bridge hard, I might even need to put in some of my fighting capabilities.
They certainly weren't ready to siege us and didn't look to have eaten this morning, not even a few Oran Berries to fill their stomachs with at least something. The Heatmor probably resorted to eating regular ants, the other fire types out there weren't looking as lucky.
All we truly needed to do was stall them out, they looked desperate, hungry and most of all after a night of bad sleeping conditions… unhealthy.
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Once you've pulled the nails out of the ground it's not nailed down anymore.
Pretty sure the intent of the phrase is that you leave things that were nailed down when you got there.
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Thats what claw hammers are for.
That Emboar is going to be a pain to take down as teh classic combos of Sleep and Poison or Paralysis and Confusion are likely to be very ineffective due to his level, training and only needs a couple berries in personal stash?
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What about waiting until he's close enough and then destroying the bridge?
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Can Emboar learn Surf or equivalent? I thought there was something weird like that because of the distribution Pikachus etc?
I better go have a look.
Water attack Scald
Grass Attack Solar Beam
Electric Attack Wild Charge
Thunder Punch
Uhoh. Apparently I didnt check before I pulled my guy over. USUM gets Z Moves.
And I have no idea what one of those moves in the extended list even means. Ive never seen it.
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More importantly it cannot learn surf so we are good.
Cyndaquil are echidnas it’s obvious by the way their back flames are spiky semicircles rather than pointing straight back and their snouts are long much like echidnas brisbanekids.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/echidna.jpg
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Quite right, changing to echidnas!
And Knuckles.