[RAID ORP] Prepare for the Worst

[TawnyAngel]

"Bloody typical," Aulus growled, rolling his shoulders and retrieving his staff. "Damn stupid kids don't know when you quit, do they? Well, they can't say we didn't warn them." Releasing his team once more the scarred Rocket glanced at Harvard. "So, time to crush them like the pathetic little wretches they are?"

Rubbing up against her master's leg Tortie growled at the rank of opponents before her.

Char snorted smoke and flexed his wings.

Put in Red with a screech, flaring her wings.

would be more fun than just slithering around here!> chuckled Discord.

Phaethon snorted and stamped a hoof.

Paul crawled behind Aulus's right boot. the little spider lamented piteously.

As Faleen's team took off Aulus shrugged, no time like the present he guessed, and made a sharp gesture towards the group of trainers. "Get them."

Char and Phaethon moved first, striking at the Shiftry with a Flamethrower from the charizard and a powerful Flare Blitz from the Rapidash.

Taking to the skies Red attacked the Grovyle with Aerial Ace, whilst on the ground Paul peeked out from behind the cover of Aulus' boot and attempted to Disable it.

Tortie chose the Haunter as her target and unleashed a Night Slash upon it with a vicious snarl.

Last of all to act was Discord, he had been doing 'eenie meenie' to decide where he was going to strike and, mind made up, he surged towards the Golduck to lash out with Dragon Tail.  

[BlackFireKitsune]

When the dust settled - or most of it, anyway - Becca stood and dusted herself off a bit. Huh, that wasn't so bad. She couldn't help but pout as she looked in the direction of HQ though, and let out an irritated whine. "Aww, maaaannn.. We can't see any of it from here!" And that explosion was probably one of her best yet, too. Oh, well... Looks like she'd just have to top it somewhere with better visibility.

With such cheery thoughts boosting her optimism back up, the elite offered a quick "thanks Panel" before she returned her Solrock and instead let out her Scrafty - not to battle, but to help. "Come on, Bris, Zepp," she said, putting her weight on one foot with one hand on her hip, while her other hand raised to point a single thumb over her shoulder, "let's go help out with the cargo." With sounds of affirmation from her Scrafty and her Drifblim, the trio moved to aid those reloading the last of the cargo. The sooner it was finished, the sooner they could leave - if the various Rockets around could finish off those idiotic trainers first, of course.  

[Blood_Goddess]

"Pheeew! the hell?" Tremain peeked out from where Bro had pulled him in with the other Rockets, to keep the tiny legendary from being blown away.

Bro followed him out, crossing his arms with a toothy frown as he scanned the dusty aria,
well, that was certainly strange.
The sounds of battle continued, but what got Bro's attention was when the Elite came over and spoke to the Rockets about getting the cargo back up.
Bro chuckled smacking the back of the jirachi's head as he swooped past to help with the cargo.  

[insidiousEnigma]

Zacharie turned his attention to Jerome as the older man spoke, his body obviously relaxing at the gentle pat to his shoulder. He nodded once, his vision swimming as his head bobbed, and turned his attention back to the medic. "...Alright." He agreed with the man's logic, even though his face was itchy and stinging. Now wasn't the time to put up a fight, not that he had the strength to do so anyway. "Shuppet?" Jabari questioned, but he wasn't looking at his trainer. The trainers were apparently, stupidly, still wanting to fight. It looked like the Shuppet wanted to go back out and fight. "Jabari." He coughed, plucking two oran berries from his pouch and holding it up to his pokemon. Essex and Jabari each eagerly took one.

Jabari exclaimed, rushing the enemy energetically and aiming Will-o-Wisp at the Grovyle.

Essex, on the other hand, hovered nervously around his trainer. "Gastly...Gast Gast..." Zacharie blinked owlishly from behind his bangs. "Go on, Essex." He murmured, bracing himself for the medic to move his arm.
The Gastly whined, moving to do as Zacharie had told him. He used Confuse Ray on the Emboar.  

[TawnyAngel]

As the commotion began behind him KO grimaced. "No peace for the wicked, humm?" It seemed like his team-mates had it under control though and knew knew that Viceroy would be watching his back, though the Arcanine was probably pretty low on health.

"Alright let's get this done then," KO went on to Zacharie before binding the young man's arm against his chest with a large square bandage. Under the circumstances he was as gentle as he could be but he had no doubt that it hurt like hell all the same.  

[Gwennythe]

As the trainers had decided not to let up even in the sandstorm, Tambrey stood forward and ready with her team mates as they mounted an offensive on the trainer-pokémon blockade.

"Lasi, Pygi, Wing Attack and Gust. Grovyle and Shiftry." She instructed the two fliers, then called out Treestar. "Tree', Razor Leaf that Golduck!"

She was shaken, but fine, and focused on the task ahead. She doubted any of her pokémon would actually be as much help moving cargo as they might battling, but, being uninjured, she supposed her team could probably handle itself for the moment, and moved to help finish up with reloading the cargo herself.  

[Catzandbirdz]

The Emboar grunted as it resumed battling the enemy, not backing down from Umbreon's challenge, and sending back its own attack of Flamethrower. The Confuse Ray from Jabari may have given it a headache a few seconds later, but otherwise failed to distract the angered boar.

The fire attack from Char did no favors for the Shiftry. The Shiftry readied another Razor Wind, while Pelipper intercepted and return attacked Phaethon, as well as Char, with Brine. The Gust from Pygi would meanwhile be intercepted by the now awake Poliwrath, and returned in the form of Water Gun.

The Grovyle was injured by Red, but that didn't stop it from burrowing down into the ground with another Dig. If Paul's move worked, it had yet to be seen, and Jabari's and Lasi's attacks would come a second too late.

The Haunter survived the attack on it, and sent a Confuse Ray back at Tortie

As for the Golduck being attacked by Treestar and Discord, it tried an attempt at fighting back, first ducking to dodge the Razor Leaf, but the attack from Discord hit before any return attack and sent it rolling back to the Trainers. One of the Trainers sent out Growlithe to replace it. The pup jumped right in with Flame Wheel.

Spiritomb would swiftly find its attack blocked by the Umbreon in the latest lineup. It shook its body as though shaking off water, and then dove in with a Faint Attack. The attack from Absol above was intercepted by Jolteon. The attack returned was an angry Thunder Shock. Thanks to their interference, the trainer Umbreon and Jolteon also meant they intercepted Zoroark's Night Daze. Since the Eons were busy with their own targets, the Rapidash named Biscuit charged Zoroark with Take Down in their place.

Harvard followed the direction of Faleen's voice to locate the other Rocket. "Agent, do not attack the trainers directly." The order was muffled behind the best collar being held over Harvard's nose and mouth, but that did not affect the stern tone.


The revving and sputtering of an engine could be heard, closely followed by a second, much more successful attempt to keep the engine to the cargo truck running. One down. The driver for the personnel van jogged over to his own assigned vehicle and climbed into his spot. It choked and gagged the first two tries, but at last there was the matching rattle and roar of both vehicles being functional. Two down. He rolled down his window to lean out. "Alright, we got it! Everything is balanced and secured!"

For the moment, Harvard ignored him, still focused on Faleen. Finally, she called the order to everyone, "Fall back to the vehicles! Leave out the Pokemon that can follow on their own until we are clear!"  

[BlackPidgeot]

Satisfied that Darkfeather was more or less all right, Nikki pulled out her Charizards ball again to rejoin the fight as it erupted.

That is until Harvard gave the order to fall back.

Unfortunately Darkfeather was not among those that could keep up, if fly at all with his feathers in the condition they were in. Thus Nikki returned him and bolted into the van once more.  

[insidiousEnigma]

Moving his arm was more painful than he had originally thought.

A loud curse tore its way out of the teen's throat as KO move his arm into position and bound it to his chest. "...******** hell." He hissed between his teeth before releasing a shaky breath. His head hurt, hell...everything hurt. He didn't have time to dwell on that though. Not with Harvard shouting orders to get back to the van. "Thank God." With KO's help he managed to get back on his feet, though his felt winded and dizzy with just the simple action. He needed to get Jabari and Essex back into their pokeballs, they wouldn't be able to keep up with a moving van for long. "Gaaaaaaastly!" Zacharie winced at his Gastly's loud whining as it came back to his side. He wasted no time in pulling Essex's pokeball from his belt and calling him back. "...Jabari?" He wheezed, eyes scanning the chaos for his Shuppet. He didn't have time to go look for him, as it was he was already moving slower than normal. "Shup-pet." The teen let out a sigh of relief at the sight of his pokemon waiting for him near the van. With a bit of effort, and a nudge from Jabari, he managed to collapse into a seat in the van. "Thanks, Jabari." He muttered with a tired smile.  

[Gwennythe]

Ordinarily, Tambrey'd have been happy enough to leave her fliers out to keep up, but with the conditions as they were, she didn't think they'd be able to fly as well as usual, so she wasn't sure about them keeping up.

All three of her pokémon vanished in a flash of red as Harvard gave the order; she could always let any of them out again if needed.
Pygi, after getting soaked; Treestar as he was shrinking back, and wincing, from the Flame Wheel; Lasi was furious that his attack missed but had no chance to make up for it.
Tambrey moved to clamber into the van; she'd offer help to any who'd need it, but it seemed like most everyone was doing well enough.  

[TawnyAngel]

"Alright Tam?" Aulus clapped his friend on the shoulder as she returned her team before moving to recall Tortie and Discord; Paul had already made it up to his shoulder and the others could keep up. Telescoping his staff back down he scrambled into the van behind Tam, quickly taking a seat near the back so that everyone who wasn't in yet could get in safely.

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Retreat? Didn't need to tell him twice. Once his patient was upright and moving KO called back all his pokemon save for Viceroy. "Cover our retreat!" he commanded before leaping into the van and buckling up.

The large golden fire type howled acknowledgement and bounded forward to place himself between the rockets and the line of enemy trainers.

Beside the Arcanine Aulus' Phaethon snorted and pawed at the ground, bobbing his head to his ally; they would hold the line for as long as necessary. It would take more than one brine attack to deter him!  

[Catzandbirdz]

The van had earned its keep well. The side facing the blast was buffeted and scraped, and the treated windows had chips here and there with cracks threatening to spider outward, but it had stayed solid.

Harvard recalled Cornell and was the last to climb into her seat. "Everyone in? Good. Get us out of here, Agent." The last part was to the driver of their van, and the man was more than happy to do so.

"Hey!" One of the girl trainers shouted, indignant that the criminals were making their getaway. "Hey, we're not finished here!" It wasn't like she had much say on the matter, though. The mini convoy began to pull away. The Trainers made one more effort to deal damage. The Emboar loosed another Flamethrower, accompanied by the returning Golduck's Water Pulse, Pelipper's Wing Attack, Haunter's Shadow Ball, Jolteon's Pin Missile, Poliwrath's Water Gun, Growlithe's Flame Wheel, and Shiftry's now prepared Razor Wind. They were all attacks that could strike at a distance, aimed at either the Rockets' defending Pokemon or the vehicles themselves.  

[BlackFireKitsune]

"Oh, we are so finished here," Becca called back to the trainer, returning her two pokemon before putting her hands on her hips. "Sorry we don't have time to beat you losers into the ground, we gotta schedule to keep. Maybe next time though," the elite said with a laugh that didn't sound at all pleasant, then moved to jump into the seat directly behind Harvard. Her next move was to fully extend her arm, her hand jutting into the front seats between the other elite and the driver, her index finger pointing out in front of them, "Onward!"  

[Catzandbirdz]

The driver start to humor Becca's enthusiasm with a cheer. But then he caught sight of Harvard's stern frown at having the other Elite's hand so close to her face, and he dropped the cheer to an awkward smile. He didn't look so certain about what his safest bet was or wasn't.

The van jostled as an attack hit the ground nearby, but failed in actually stopping them. "Elite Agent Becca, would you... please... watch where you... point." The not-so-subtle non-request was broken up as the seat bounced and rattled.  

[BlackFireKitsune]

Becca dropped her hand with a pout, her arm draping over whatever happened to lay between the seats or between her and the front. "Awww, you're no fun at all. What about 'tally-ho'?"