BNAQ ;; Johto ;; War - Battle of Olivine ;; Silver

[KANE]

Be Nimble and Quick - Battle of Olivine
Round 2 - Mission with Silver

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Silver gazed up the full length of the lighthouse’s imposing structure, taking in and processing every last inch of it’s towering height. It truly was a colossal piece of architecture. Definitely not something that could be destroyed without any sort of struggle. Despite the fact that tearing the structure to pieces was the Nox trainer’s objective in this battle, it’s sturdiness served as an asset to him in this particular situation. It would give him more time to scale it before the other Nox members managed to demolish it.

It was no secret that the lighthouse’s source of energy was an Ampharos that resided within the top floor of the sky-scraping tower. Seeing as how, at this very moment, the lighthouse was illuminated, it was clear that the Pokemon was currently in it’s usual spot, performing it’s duty as it would any other day. If the tower went down with the Electric-type still residing in the topmost floor, there was no way it would possibly be able to survive the fall. Another piece of common knowledge was that this particular Ampharos was owned by the resident Gym Leader, Jasmine, who cared very deeply for it. The death of her Pokemon would surely cause her a great amount of despair.

Silver felt no real obligation to help Jasmine. He hardly even knew the Steel-type specialist, outside of their battle so long ago and a short conversation held prior to this whole skirmish. But he couldn’t just allow the Ampharos to go down along with the lighthouse. One would hardly see the trainer as the justice-oriented, caring type, but there wasn’t any chance he would just sit back and allow an innocent Pokemon to perish in such a terrible way. Besides, he was well aware of the fact that Jasmine was far from a Lux supporter, as well as the fact that tearing down her precious lighthouse could very well drive her to reevaluating her opinion on the Indigo League’s policies. Perhaps if he could save the Ampharos, he would prevent another skilled, influential trainer from joining their ranks.

“There could be Lux members crawling around the place,” Silver muttered to himself, evaluating the situation in his head. “I should have a Pokemon to defend me in that case… But I need a fast one, so I can run in and out before Nox manages to knock it down, or I wouldn’t be able to walk out of it alive…” Reaching for the Pokeball containing the speediest Pokemon in his possession, he lightly tossed it a few inches ahead of him, releasing Nosferatu with a great flash of light. “Come on, Nosferatu,” he commanded. “We have to reach the top of this tower, and fast. Scout ahead for any Lux trainers while I try to find the elevator.” The Crobat obliged, rushing in without a moment’s hesitation. Silver followed suit, but not before sliding the elevator key card that Jasmine had given him earlier out of his pocket. This should make my job a little easier.

The two of them found the elevator without too much trouble. Silver hurriedly slipped the key card into the slot, breathing a sigh of relief as the doors parted with an accompanying ding. “Good thing it still works,” he thought aloud as he entered the small room, shadowed by Nosferatu, and pushed the button for the top floor. He had been thinking about the possibility that somebody could have cut the lighthouse’s power already. Since the beam was produced by a Pokemon rather than a traditional energy supply, it would be impossible to tell until they were standing in front of a stationary elevator. Thankfully, that was not the case.

The moment the elevator doors parted, Silver rushed out onto the small room on the top floor of the lighthouse. No Nox members seem to have managed to do any damage yet, which put the trainer’s mind at east. All it had to do now was find the Ampharos and take it back down the elevator. An easy enough task. Or at least, it seemed like one, until he heard footsteps coming from the other side of the door, separating the room from the stairs connecting the floors together.

Silver’s eyes narrowed as he gazed at the door, anticipating who or what could be on the other side of the divider. “There’s someone out there,” he called out to Nosferatu in a hushed voice, who quickly glided over and positioned itself between the door and it’s trainer. “It could be Nox, it could be Lux. If it’s the latter, strike them before they have the chance to process what’s going on. No hesitations.” Deep down, Silver knew it was probably Lux. They’d have every reason to be inside the tower at this moment, while most of the other Nox members present at the battle were probably not too interested in anything in the structure.

[KANE]

Alyssa looked up from the outcome of her battle against the young green-haired trainer. She had been triumphant, and luckily enough no pokemon had been hurt too badly. That much was something she was happy for. She’d tried to maintain the idea that this was as normal a pokemon battle as possible, and instructed her pokemon as such. Cannon was near fainted, and Aurora was recovering from the Hyper Beam she’d dealt to the lighthouse. They were both safe inside their pokeballs to rest, or in Aurora’s case get her energy back after dealing such a direct attack. Flygon, the other pokemon that had participated in the battle, had managed to deal a direct blow of his own to the lighthouse as well. His Solarbeam hit the brick siding of the lighthouse only seconds before her Gardevoir’s Hyper Beam had. It was as though the sun-based attack marked the target spot for the energy-based one.

Now the lighthouse was damaged. Chunks of brick had come off, and the top-heavy lighthouse was leaning to the side. Smoke came from the damage Alyssa’s pokemon had inflicted on it, from the frayed wires. Alyssa had no idea if Amphy was still there, or if the agent they’d sent to rescue the dear Ampharos was still there as well. Alyssa had made a mental note to herself that she was going to check as soon as she defeated her opponent. Flygon, though injured, had the fire of battle blazing in his eyes, and clearly wasn’t about to let his injuries hinder him in any way.

The Mystic pokemon landed next to its trainer, and she hopped lightly on its back before urging him to take off. He obliged easily, smacking his tail lightly against the ground like a whip as he did so, soaring into the sky as quickly as possible. Getting to the top of the lighthouse, she could see that the loyal guiding light of Olivine was still trying to do its job, though it was clearly shaken. The lightpool extending out to the ocean was wavering, as well as flickering. It was still there, and she was going to get it out.

Unless…

Flying by a window that had broken open at the very top, Alyssa pointed Flygon in its direction. It must have been broken from another series of attacks, or from the shockwaves from damage dealt towards the base of the lighthouse. Carefully but quickly, the green pokemon maneuvered into the topmost part of the lighthouse, hovering above the slightly slanted ground as Alyssa hopped off its back. Looking up, she was met with the sight of a red-haired young man. She tensed instinctively, glancing at Flygon, who shared his trainer’s caution.


Alyssa scarcely paid attention to who else was in Nox unless she met them personally. Was he with Nox? Or had she heard correctly when the rumor spread that Lux had sent someone into the tower as well to save Amphy before it fell to the ground?

”I don’t have time for chit-chat…” she said, glancing a bit worriedly in the direction of Amphy, who was doing its best to maintain its position. ”…but I’m with Nox. If you’re with Lux then try to stop me if you so desire, but my priorities go to Amphy at the moment so I’m a little busy at the moment.” Her voice was hard and her gaze was challenging as she looked at him, a bit impatiently awaiting his response.

[KANE]

Silver stared at the door in front of him, dead-silent. Whoever was out there, the footsteps had gradually been decreasing in volume until they finally stopped. Perhaps whoever was out there was gone now? It was unsafe to make such an assumption, but either way, the trainer relaxed. “…It seems like we’re safe now. Stay by the door, Nosferatu. I’ll look around for the Ampharos,” he ordered with a wave of his hand.

With that, Silver turned his back to the door in order to begin his search. As commanded, Nosferatu glided over by the entrance, hovering next to it silently. It’s acute hearing was picking up a noise on the other side of the door. It shot a look to it’s trainer. The sound was very faint to the Crobat, and given the fact that their hearing is much stronger than that of a human, there was no chance Silver could hear it. If only that thick door wasn’t in the way, then it could make out the noise better. All it could tell was, it sounded ever so slightly like breathing…

Before Nosferatu could make a sound to alert Silver, the door abruptly swung open, slamming into the bat Pokemon and knocking it to the floor, dazed. A massive, muscular man with a shaved head and tattoos all over his body walked in, pointing a rifle directly at Silver’s back. He had kicked the incredibly durable door open, which would seem like an incredible feat until one got a look at his imposing, monolithic stature. Silver stayed completely calm, not even bothering to turn around to get a look at the assailant as he stood near the large lighthouse windows. Nosferatu slowly and groggily got a hold of it’s senses once more as it gradually began to lift itself off the ground and into the air once more.

“Well well, look what we got ‘ere,” the man exclaimed with a hearty chuckle. “It’s one of those brats from Johto’s little rat-pack… What’s the name again… Silver, i’nnit?” The man parted his lips in a malicious grin as he waltzed up and stuck the barrel of his rifle directly in Silver’s back. “Yer kinda well-known around these parts, aren’t ya? Got yerself quite a reputation. Capturing a sorta well-known rebel would help instill some fear in the little Nox bastards… Oh yeah, the higher-ups of Lux’re gonna like this…” He jabbed the barrel into the red-haired trainer’s back, eliciting a grimace from the young man. “Better cooperate, lad,” he continued in a gruff voice. “You’re worth more alive than dead, but I ain’t got no problems sending you to the boss in a bodybag! Don’t try to run away neither, I got men guarding the entrance!”

Before the man could order anything, however, a sudden crash rocked the lighthouse. “What-!” the Lux member hollered in shock, knocked off-balance. Silver, too, lost his vertical base, stabilizing himself against the wall right beside the huge window. “Nosferatu, Confuse Ray, followed by Acrobatics!” he ordered swiftly. The Crobat was airborne, and was thus unaffected by the sudden shift in gravity, allowing it to fire off the Confuse Ray the second the order left it’s trainer’s mouth. Immediately afterwards, it propel itself and strike the man in the back like a round purple missile, with no delay. “Urgh!” the man grunted in pain as the gun clattered down to the ground.

The second the rifle made contact with the cold, steel floor, it fired 3 shots into the air, one catching Silver right in the shoulder while the other 2 passed harmlessly overhead and out of the glass roof. “Ugh…!” he hissed in pain through clenched teeth. “Dammit…!” There was a brief moment of numb confusion before the agony spread throughout his entire body like a deadly toxin. The pain was unimaginable. A creek of red trickled down his arm, dying his sleeve and the grown below him a vibrant crimson.

The man staggered towards the window, gently pressing himself against it in order to regain stability. The attack had managed to knock the wind out of him. Capitalizing on this moment of weakness, Silver reached out and grabbed the man by the color of his combat shirt with his uninjured arm. “Looks like somebody here is going to be heading back to Lux in a bodybag after all,” he hissed menacingly in the man’s face. “Unfortunately for you, it doesn’t seem like it’s going to be me…”

The window was still intact after the lighthouse was struck, but it was cracked beyond belief and probably very fragile. Silver could probably smash him through it with little more than a simple kick to the torso. Before he could do so, however, yet another person flew in through an opening where a window was decimated by the shift of the tower, atop the back of a Flygon. The trainer cursed under his breath as he simply tossed the man down to the floor. He was still under the effects of the Confuse Ray, so he wouldn’t be able to do anything other than lay there and moan in agony for a good amount of time. Humans were much more susceptible to the move than Pokemon were.

Facing the newcomer, Silver motioned for Nosferatu to fly over beside him. If this trainer was Lux as well, he’d have to battle in his current injured state… When she stated she was with Nox, the somber trainer narrowed his eyes at her. He had no reason to believe her, but if she was truly intent on rescuing Amphy as well, he supposed she would come in handy. He’d just have to make sure to keep an eye on her. Although… Silver shot a glance at the large Dragon hovering nearby. Given the short timespan between the attack on the lighthouse and this trainer’s entrance, it was very possible that she’s the one that ordered it…

“Hm… So you’re looking for the Pokemon as well,” Silver muttered in a low voice, averting his eyes from the other trainer. “…That’s my purpose here as well. And if you couldn’t tell by my assailant over here,” – he prodded the L-tattoo-covered man with his foot – “I’m no ally of Lux.” Some voices became audible through the now-wide-open door from down the stairs. “Geez, what was with that crash?” the unidentifiable voice asked. “Maybe we should go up and see how he’s doin’ up there…” The talking ceased as the tak of combat boots making contact with concrete stairs took it’s place.

Silver glanced out of the doorway for a split-second before returning his gaze to Alyssa. “Gr… We’ll have to talk later. Find the Ampharos, quickly. We could have a horde of Lux members on us at any second. We need to get the hell out of here before that can happen.” ...Or before I bleed to death, he thought grimly, taking a quick look at his increasingly-drenched arm.

[KANE]

There was a rather tense silence for a moment after she spoke. She couldn’t blame him. Any random trainer waltzing in and claiming to be Nox could just as easily be Lux and attempting to establish at least some level ground through deception before turning on whomever they’d tricked. The world had turned into something Alyssa no longer recognized from what it used to be, not in the slightest. The relics from before the wars were trainers like herself that no longer wanted to have to pick a side, and had pokemon as their friends. Alyssa only wanted to end this pointless, and in her eyes, ceaseless war. She had finished her opponent quickly enough, but her primary concern now…like it had been from the very beginning, was helping Amphy, who she hoped was remaining calm in the situation of having his beloved lighthouse rattled.

”Hm…so you’re looking for the pokemon as well. That’s my purpose here as well. And if you couldn’t tell by my assailant over here…I’m no ally of Lux.” Alyssa hadn’t taken the time since she first arrived to take a look at her surroundings, however, now something key was pointed out quite simply for her. She almost felt like an idiot for not seeing it before. However, she’d had other things on her mind rather than jumping straight to the point. Admittedly, that would probably come and let her karma bite her in the ass for it, but until then she’d continue having a one-track mind in situations like this.

I guess that makes our job a bit easier… she thought, almost a bit relieved to know that she wouldn’t have to do any more fighting than she just had. Voices ripped her attention from the red-haired young man and down the stairwell which she had opted to forego. ”Geez, what was with that crash? Maybe we should go up and see how he’s doin’ up there…” At those words, Alyssa felt her body tense. She didn’t want to battle, not here…but there might be no choice. She glanced at Flygon, who was hovering not far off, glancing between his trainer and the red-haired one. His body was still trembling, wired with the excitement he’d felt from the battle with the Altaria.

”Gr…We’ll have to talk later. Find the Ampharos, quickly. We could have a horde of Lux members on us at any second. We need to get the hell out of here before that can happen.” Alyssa focused her cerulean gaze more closely on him, before blinking in alarm when her eyes reached his shoulder in the head-to-toe scan she did of him. He was already injured! She clenched her fist and grit her teeth together.

”Flygon!” she called turning on her heel to look at the green dragon pokemon. ”Find Ampharos and convince it to trust you. It will try to shock you, probably, but you’ll be fine.” For that she was grateful, seeing as Flygon’s ground-typing would offset any electricity. ”When you have it…” implying to the Mystic pokemon to pick the lighthouse beacon up and fly with it. ”…come back and get us. Work as quickly as possible! Go!” she slashed her hand, open, across empty air.

Flygon nodded and flicked his tail against the ground, zooming out of the window he had just come through and going up even more, to the floor just above their heads that was the true house of the electric-type pokemon, rather than the more “observation” area she and the red-haired trainer were in now. ”I’m staying here, trust Flygon to get the job done. He has a way with other pokemon.” she told him tensely, moving slightly towards him before spinning to face the door, readying herself for the appearance of the owners of the footsteps tromping up the stairs. It was true. Despite the devilish personality Flygon had maintained since he was a Trapinch, and the vicious attacking mode he entered when he was being pummeled, he had a curious way with other pokemon that Alyssa couldn’t fully understand.

”I’m not leaving someone to face two Lux members alone. We need to finish this fast. I landed two powerful attacks in practically the same spot on the lighthouse, I don’t know how structurally sound it is anymore. Also, when we finish, see to your arm. It would really suck if it got infected.”

Her bright blue eyes narrowed as the first Lux member appeared out of the shadows.

”Well, well, well…” he said, apparently to his partner. ”Two Nox brats for us. Go, Ariados!” Alyssa’s attention focused immediately on the large, red, spider-like pokemon that appeared, her attention staying there, and not on the shape the other red beam of energy – from the second Lux member’s pokeball – took.

Smirking slightly, Alyssa reached to her belt and ripped from it a pokeball, flinging it into the air. The red beam of energy that shot from it revealed her faithful Gallade Knight, who automatically tensed, crossing his blade-like arms defensively, protecting his trainer with his body. Looking at the red-haired young man, she spoke. ”I hope your double-battle skills are up to snuff…” she said, just as the Ariados leapt to the wall and climbed to the ceiling above their heads. Alyssa’s eyes narrowed when the eyes of the spider-like pokemon glowed blue.

Psychic? she thought, following its gaze to her partner’s Crobat, before looking down at the second pokemon that had appeared as a challenge for Gallade.

[KANE]

There was no battle to lose for Silver, but there was no response for more than a week.

Outcome: Silver and Alyssa succeeded in their mission to rescue Amphy, the Ampharos from the topmost room of the lighthouse. The structural damage inflicted by Alyssa's pokemon proved to be a key in sending Olivine's precious lighthouse tumbling onto the shore below. Nobody was harmed by the structure, just the landscape.

Overall, Nox's first victory in the Civil War (ICly).