Cormac ducked instinctively, his involuntary action almost certainly saving his life. A quick wind ruffled the short hair across the tall mans scalp, an indicator of how close to death he'd been. Moving before his enemy could regain it's posture from its missed hit, Cormac tackled his attacker, using his superior weight to slam the creature into the ground. He could feel the air *whoosh* out of the Sceptiles chest as his full 200 pounds crushed the much lighter Pokémon into the stone behind it. The victory was only for a moment however. Cormacs skin suddenly burned white hot and he was thrown backwards, flying through the air to smash into a nearby boulder, coughing up red spittle as he slumped to the ground. The man had time only to lift his head, to catch a glimpse of what was before him. The reptile stood now, yellow eyes full of uncontrolled rage, the two blades protruding from either end of its elbows glowed an eerie white.
Their eyes met for a brief moment, muddled silver stared into furious amber. Then the grass type leapt with incredible speed, seeming to disappear then reappear instantly before Cormac, both arms bringing their glowing leaf blades forward to bisect their opponent in one fell strike. A flash, a clang, and a pained hiss all occurred simultaneously, to fast for Cormac to see what had happened, only able to witness the aftermath. The Sceptile staggered back a few steps, it's leafy blades no longer glowing, a slash across its for head weeping crimson tears into its eyes, a paw shaped burn mark still smoking on its chest.
Directly in front of the bewildered man, stood the last beings Cormac would ever want in a situation like this. Kabutops crouched to his right, the smaller than average Pokémon clearly surprised that it's attack had worked, eyes wide and wild at what it had done. Two his left, Jolteon jittered in excited battle lust, the only recently evolved, still very inexperienced electric type ecstatic that it had hit something. Cormac stared in horror at the two, mouth agape, his own pain long forgotten as reality presented itself. The Sceptile had already regained it's senses and stood a few feet away, eyeing the two new comers, clearly sizing up it's new adversaries. A smirk at the corner of its lips confirmed the man's worst fears, the Pokémon seeming to have enough experience to tell the two before it where terrifyingly outclassed and the double hit they'd miraculously landed was just that, a miracle.
" Jolteon, thunder fang and quick attack, now!" Cormac hastily shouted the order, a plan to buy time quickly forming in his mind. Jolteon paused for a near fatal moment, visibly having to stop himself from looking back at his master to confirm the order. The fox like Pokémon yipped in confirmation, disappearing from sight a moment from being to late. In the space it had just occupied, a needle shot through the void, embedding itself in the Boulder behind Cormac. The electric type reappeared to the Sceptiles right, his bared upper fangs wreathed in snapping yellow energy, the speed of his combining the two moves adding to its overall power. It's foe was ready however, it's hand, glowing with the same eerie light it's leafy blades had a moment ago, shooting forward to intercept the attack.
"Kabutops, ice beam" Cormac spoke quietly this time, both so that the grass type couldn't hear his command and in hope that the quiet murmur would distract it. Both intentions appeared to come to fruition, the noise seeming to slow the attack of the Sceptile long enough for the jittery rock and water type to follow her order. Even with the few added moments, Kabutops was almost to late in her actions, flustering at the order and almost botched the move, the ball of ice forming at her mouth threatening to disappear almost as soon as it had come into existence. After an agonizingly elongated second, the timid attack was released, not having near as much power as it should have had, due to the attackers near failure to launch it. It was enough however, the ray of freezing light smashing into the Pokémon, causing it to stumble back and its left side to become coated in a thin sheet of ice. Before it could recover, jolteon completed its task, sinking his power coated fangs into the shoulder of his foe. Arcs of yellow light began to race across the lizards body, sending spasms and twitches radiating from anywhere it made contact.
The would-be assassin did not take long to recover, much to Cormacs disappointment and concern. Before he could bark a command for retreat, the Sceptile slashed at the fox hanging by his fangs from its shoulder, the simple attack more than enough to dislodge the inexperienced combatant. " Rock tomb, Trap it now Kabutops" Cormac hurriedly issued the order, knowing he had to stop the reptile before it could finish Jolteon. * Damn it, where are the others! Surely their opponents cant have taken them this long! They aren't ready for this, all of us will be dead if one of them doesn't show up soon* thoughts ran frantically from the beleaguered trainer, knowing he was at a serious disadvantage. The enemy before them was clearly an experienced foe and a powerful fighter and had a double type advantage against one of its opponents. Neither kabutops or Jolteon had enough experience to even fight without Cormacs commands, and neither where battle hardened as their enemy clearly was. All Cormac could hope for was for one of his heavy hitters to end their fight quickly and find them before it was two late.
Kabutops raised a shaking limb, the end of the scythed appendage glowing as huge stone goliaths appeared a few meters above the Sceptile, gently swaying in the calm breeze as they awaited their orders. They did not wait long, the moment they materialized, the dual rock and water type slashed her scythe downwards, bringing the rock behemoths crashing down upon the enemy below. " Jolteon, get back and spray those rocks with thunder, hit each one" Cormacs words tumbled forth as his frantic brain put together a haphazard plan, looking for any underhanded trick or ploy to elongate the fight and keep his weakest Pokémon from harm. The sceptile was caught of guard, the huge rocks slamming it into the ground, pinning it beneath many tons of weight. Jolteon only just avoided sharing the grass types fate, the supposedly nimble fox tumbling backwards from the falling stones. The small Pokémon almost forgot to follow its orders, the sight of the tumbling earth before him almost proving to much of a distraction. He soon regained his sense and followed his instructions, releasing thick columns of crackling yellow power into the several stone monoliths before him, a pained screech emanating from the bottom of the rocks as electricity ringed the area.
The battle ended in a flurry of movement and within the span of a few seconds, to little time to bark orders or even think properly. One moment, the reptile was trapped beneath several tons of electrically pulsing stone, the next, 6 of its razor sharp leaves had embedded themselves into jolteons exposed flank, knocking the fox of his feet and out of the fight. The electricity arcing from the electric type dissipated, and with it, any chance of victory. Kabutops moved swiftly, impressing her master with her swiftness of thoughts and actions. As Jolteon was cut down and their opponent leapt from its stone prison, acting with surprising speed, the dual stone and water type spat a globule of thick mud forward, the brown projectile whizzing forward and smacking into the approaching enemy, covering its front with the sticky muck.
While the lizard didn't even flinch from the blow, the ground type attack doing little damage to the grass type, the sticky brown goo slowed the movements of the approaching Pokémon considerably. The sceptile was no longer so fast Cormac couldn't follow its movements, the trainers eyes easily following their attacker, though their was still no chance of out running the still speedy Pokémon. Before Kobutops could do anything more than squeal, the larger Pokémon was upon her. A green beam lanced out from the fully evolved creature, slamming into its target hard enough that she was thrown back into Cormac, sending them both sprawling across the stone ground, Kabutops landing atop her master.
Cromacs final protector let forth a pained scream as her body began to glow a bloody red, the double super effective attack taking its toll. The burns marks scattered across the Sceptiles body disappeared rapidly, its right arm, which hung limply from its side and bent at the elbow at an awkward angle, straightened itself with a series of loud pops and cracks as the life energy from its opponent healed all of its injuries. " No!" Cormac cried, trying to get out from under his least able fighter so he could tackle the attacking Pokémon, so he could stop the attack before more damage was done. He was out from under the still twitching and screeching creature and begin his suicidal charge forward when his source of anguish was wiped from existence.
Lightning struck and ended the problem once and for all. Molten blue light arced forward, from behind Cormac, the hot air the broiling energy created passing burning the hairs from the left side of his face. The lightning bolt struck the Sceptile in the center of its chest, lifting it from the ground and flinging it backwards. The poor creature bounced a few times before skidding to a stop, smoking whole in the center of its body a clear sign that the fight was over. In the space directly above the limp reptile, Cormacs oldest and most powerful companion materialized, both of its small fist balled into one, raised above it head, ready to hurtle down and deliver the death blow. "Stop!" Cormac shouted, his order coming just in time to stop the unnecessary death. The mankeys falling fist stopped mere inches above the prone lizards skull, the white glow that had enveloped them dissipating as the attack was aborted.