Turn 20: Knights of the Round

Location: Opelucid City

Time: 12:23 PM September 18th

Condition: Cloudy

Gidra was flung up against a building exploding through the walls. Cross ran in to check on him. "Are you okay?"

A couple was hiding under a table nearby. "What are you doing? Get to your basement." Cross shooed them.

As they got up to run down to their basement, as instructed, another pokémon crashed in. Standing on four powerful stern looking lets with gray skin and two forward pointing horns was Alder's Terrekion named Tristan.

The only reason Gidra survived the first hit was due to how sturdy he was, another hit would render him unconscious. Alder stepped forward from behind the dust cloud.

"No hard feelings." Alder unfolded his arms and pointed at Gidra. "Tristan, finish him off."

Before he could attack a third form crashed through setting itself between Gidra and Tristan. Before the smoke could clear it unleashed a horrid screeching sound which damaged Tristan's defense. It was the Shen Hu.

Xingke ran up beside him. "I'll handle him; you go see if you can't get healed up."

"Right thanks."

"Hmm." Alder grumbled as he looked down at Xingke. "So, Sword of Plasma, do you think you have what it takes to fight the Champion of Unova?"

"Ex-champion." Xingke corrected him. "And it matters little to me who is stronger, but who is right. Shen Hu use magnet bomb!"

"Tristan, Sacred Sword!"

A giant shining blade emerged from between Tristan's horns. Lunging forward Tristan whipped his head upward and slammed Shen Hu into the ground. Shen Hu, however, managed move to the side enough so that only the right half of him was forced into the ground by the blow. This gave him the chance the aim his cannon point blank and fire the metallic explosive dealing a harsh blow on the rock pokémon.

Even though the blow was threatening Tristan seemed largely unaffected morally by the attack. Tristan then whipped right back swinging downward again onto Shen Hu with his blade. Before the blow could connect Shen Hu extended his arm blade and held them overhead to intercept the blow with an x-scissor.

As the two's blades were in a deadlock it didn't seem that either side would win out. Then a small compartment on the end of Shen Hu's cannon slid opened and let out metal sound. This sudden barrage of vibration parried Tristan just enough to for him to get an advantage on the deadlock forcing him off.

Shen Hu then swooped across with an x-scissor attack but Tristan leapt back dodging the move easily. Tristan then turned around leaping back into Shen Hu unleashing a powerful barrage of kicks knocking it back further with every blow.

The barrage ended when Shen Hu used one of his blades to knock back one of the attacks. After this Shen Hu launched another bomb at Tristan. This time the ensuing explosion sent Tristan clear out of the building and thoroughly caked the room they were fighting in with soot.

"Excellent Shen Hu," Xingke congratulated him. "One more hit!"

Shen Hu launched another magnet bomb before Lancelot leapt as if from nowhere. With his sacred sword he sliced right through the bomb rendering it inert before sweeping across Shen Hu's legs causing it to fall.

"Way to go Lancelot," Kyouhei shouted before jumping from the roof down to stand next to Alder.

"Dang it." Xingke glared at him.

Lancelot then prepared for another attack when a fire ball launched from the sides hitting him right in the face and sending him flying into another building. Looking up they saw Guren swooping down letting Kallen onto the ground before setting off skyward again.

"Not this time Kyouhei." Kallen cried. "Now Guren hit him with another flamethrower!"

"Oh no you don't!" Iris stumbled up from another building. "Mordred, Hydro Pump!"

Leaping forward was Mordred the Keldeo who turned around and kicked with his back legs while shooting a massive barrage of water from his feet. It flew right up until it hit Guren right out of the sky.

"Oh crap, Guren are you alright?" Kallen called.

"Now Aqua Jet!" Iris commanded.

Gliding on the water shooting from his feet Mordred bolted right for Guren for a finishing blow. Before he reached Guren though, the attack was intercepted by Zack coming as if from nowhere who proceeded to return the favor with an electrically charged kick.

Blake ran up joining them. "Don't even think about it."

"Zack, volt switch!"

"Lancelot use Focus Blast!"

The horns on Lancelot's head began to glow with fighting energy before he shot it all in a blast of power. Zack took the hit rather well and continued on to perform his attack. Following his attack was another barrage of flames from Guren that dealt a deadly blow.

Switching into the fight after the attack was Tristan and Shen Hu. Tristan kicked up a rock from the ground and sent it flying, the attack had obviously been intended for Guren but it was just a little too late. Shen Hu took the hit easily and attacked back with an electrically charged Techno Blast.

Shen Hu switched to his Douse Drive obviously catering to the idea of using a super effective move to finish off. Switching in, Mordred drew his blade before thrusting right through Shen Hu. The water infused techno blast was hardly worth mentioning outside of the sheer display of power it had. This fight wasn't going anywhere fast.

"Kallen." Lelouch's voice came from Kallen's transceiver.

"I'm a little busy now." Kallen told him.

"Whatever you're in the middle of I need you over here now." Lelouch said.

"Are you sure?" Kallen asked suspiciously.

"Perfectly." Lelouch told her.

"Okay, just once second." Kallen agreed and Guren swooped over and landed next to her. She climbed onto his back before setting off towards the southwestern plaza.

The battlefield that Lelouch was at was easily spotted with a large circle of destroyed buildings with chunks of wall, road, posts, and other miscellaneous debris everywhere, in the center of the circle of destruction stood Suzaku behind Albion and Lelouch behind CC.

Kallen noticed that nearby was Chiba and Ohgi, in his mega tyranitar form, attempting to fight Guinevere which considering they were both weak against her they were not doing a very good job of it.

"Ohgi needs a clear shot at Albion if we want this battle to end anytime this year." She heard Lelouch's voice. "You only need to distract Guinevere for a minute."

"No problem." Kallen leapt off Guren's back onto one of the last standing buildings in the area. "Guren, fire fang!"

Whizzing down like an arrow Guren plunged its flame engulfed fangs into Guinevere and forcing the both of them down into the ground. Ohgi then stepped forward to launch a stone edge throwing it fast like a bullet.

"Guinevere, Sacred Sword now!" Hilda ordered.

Before the attack reached the meter mark Guinevere shook Guren off of her and drew her energy blade. She then quickly crushed the rock with intense power sending rubble everywhere.

"Come on, Guren, use sky drop!" Kallen ordered.

"Guinevere, stop him with a Zen headbutt!" Hilda ordered in vain.

Guinevere was able to hit Guren with a Zen headbutt, however, it didn't have the desired flinching effect which made Hilda sink in place. Guren then grabbed Guinevere and flew sky high. At the same time Ohgi slammed his tail into the ground which flung a large wall piece over in front of him. While it was spinning in front of him he dug his feet into the ground before delivering a powerful punch sending it spiraling towards the unsuspecting Albion.

As it flew across the crater parts of the wall began to chip off slowly until it was a large sharp rock aimed right at Albion. Before he could react, the rock hit dealing devastating damage and forcing Albion back several feet before being straight up forced into the ground. The rock then fell apart all over him as nothing more than rubble.

"No way." Suzaku cried.

Albion tore up from the ground as if trying to look still ready for a fight. He shook off the dust coating him but was noticeably injured and was panting heavily.

"I'm fine, let's finish this." Albion declared.

"No you aren't." Suzaku snapped at him. He stopped to think for a moment. At this rate CC would beat Albion and would easily be able to move on and wipe out the rest of the Knights. Even if by some miracle they did manage to defeat CC it would be at great costs, most of the pokémon involved in that fight wouldn't ever be able to fight again.

Suzaku forced his eyes closed and swallowed his pride before announcing, "Knights retreat. They've won this match but next time we'll beat them for good.

"I'll get you next time Lelouch." Suzaku pointed at him. "That's a promise."

"I'll be counting the hours." Lelouch smirked confidently back at him.

"But Suzaku are you sure?" Hilda questioned.

"I'm sure." Suzaku nodded before he returned Albion to his poké-ball and fleeing the scene.

"Team Plasma, we've cause enough damage for one day." Lelouch called everyone. "We're leaving Opelucid City."

"Alright, all forcing moving into retreat formation" A voice called back.