IM SORRY SLOW POSTS ARE SLOW
I meant to get this out like three days ago but danggg life is life
i need more time in my day
like 30 hour days sound good
i should move to another planet
941. circuitous: being or taking a roundabout, lengthy course
Gold released Lapras, who plopped heavily onto the snow. She seemed right at home in the cold, and looked up challengingly at Charizard. Charizard roared again, and Lapras screamed in response, stirring up a blizzard as she did so.
Charizard began a rapid ascent to avoid the flying chunks of ice, and as he dodged the hail, he became a brilliant orange blur of flames and sparks. Lapras, unaffected by the weather, squinted to lock her aim on Charizard, and prepared to unleash a blast of icy water. She braved Charizard's air slashes, and focused in on bringing water from her storage and bottling it in high pressure for an attack. No matter how fast Charizard was, his leathery orange hide was easy to spot against the sky – the roaring flame on his tail also served a beacon.
Lapras was against being circuitous, whether while simply ferrying Gold around in the water or while in battle. As soon as she was prepared, she released a hydro pump with raging water just degrees away from freezing. The blast of water surged into the sky, narrowly missing Charizard's tail but hitting him full on in one of his wings.
942. kudos: glory; fame
With one wing injured, Charizard abruptly dropped from his high altitude, and struggled to glide to the side of the cliff, where he scrabbled for a hold on the rock. He shook his numbed wing, trying to force the muscles back into movement.
Lapras gave him no time to rest, and paddling herself forward across the snow, she aimed ice beam after ice beam at Charizard, who struggled to deflect the spears of ice with hot, ragged breaths of fire. Gold cheered her on, yelling for her to go for the glory and the kudos. However, with Lapras still being quite some distance away, only one of every five would even get close, but as she slowly slid and paddled towards the cliff, her aim improved and soon Charizard was hard pressed to stop the attacks.
Charizard would not go down without a fight – he jerked his injured wing up, and zoomed off the cliff as Lapras shot a particularly large ice beam. As he left, he made sure to kick off a couple loose rocks, hoping that they would slide down and stop Lapras at least for a moment.
943. litany: a long, repetitive recitation
Lapras was forced to paddle clumsily to the side as a particularly large rock fell in her direction, and Charizard took advantage of the lapse to swoop down, jaws wide open.
Any grass pokemon specialist could give you a litany of the processes undertaken by grass type pokemon to release solar beams, but usage of the attack by other types was still a kind of mystery. Green himself had once pursued the topic, but so few non-grass types could learn the attack that it became impossible to gather conclusive evidence.
Up to that point, Charizard had been gradually absorbing and gathering sunlight, using minimal energy in his fire attacks – and at last, as he barreled downwards his tail burned a hot, bright white and at ten feet above Lapras, a blinding white light appeared from his jaws, and he released a point blank solar beam.
944. grime: dirt; mud
The attack's searing heat instantly made Lapras skin dry and begin to crack, and she screamed in pain before falling over, unconscious. Having greatly depleted her water sources in launching a long distance hydro pump, she was unable to take the blast. However Charizard, unable to halt his descent, crashed headfirst into the snow, tumbling and rolling before finally flopping on his back, dazed by the fall.
Gold quickly recalled Lapras, and he gaped, shocked by the sudden turnover. However, he shook his head and grabbed the next pokeball – he had two pokemon to Red's four; he had to take advantage of Charizard's temporary confusion.
Ampharos burst out of his pokeball, and with a quick command from Gold, fired off electricity at Charizard, who was still prone in a heap of melted snow and dirt and grime. Charizard batted his good wing furiously to roll over and dodge the attacks, but he was unable to escape; he howled and passed out.
945. coalesce: to grow together; to merge into a single body
Ampharos stared, breathing heavily as he watched the red recall light flicker over Charizard. His eyes followed the beam of light back to the pokeball, and to Red. The yellow sheep-like pokemon blinked, and then gaped, and then jumped and squealed, waving and meeping in excitement. Red blinked, his eyebrows furrowing slightly before rising in recognition. Red waved slowly back.
Gold looked on, entirely lost, but quickly became serious as Red threw his next pokeball. The capsule split open in a flash of light, which faded away to reveal Venusaur.
Venusaur, the vegetal dinosaur, glanced at Red in concern, before turning his attention to Ampharos. Ampharos instinctively crouched down, and with a hand signal from Gold, the red orbs on his forehead and his tail blinked once, twice in unison, before he released an insect-like signal beam: confusing sparks of blue and red and green and white coalesced into a beam of multicolored energy.
946. effusive: overflowing; excessively emotional
Venusaur, not limber enough to dodge entirely to the side, squatted down into a depression in the snow, narrowly missing the beam. The beam shot over his head and just grazed the tip of the flower petals on his back, and where the attack made contact, a little flurry of sparks flew.
Ampharos promptly scowled and leapt forward, galloping through the snow. However, Gold flashed the recall light over his back, and feeling the familiar pull, Ampharos screeched to a halt and became effusive, whining and protesting. However, Gold would not heed his complaints, and switched out Ampharos for Typhlosion.
947. impetuous: characterized by sudden emotion, energy, etc; impulsive and passionate
Typhlosion burst out of his pokeball with an impetuous roar, and charged forward towards the green lump in the snow. Venusaur seemed to be a sitting duck, apparently just staring intently as Typhlosion approached rapidly.
When Typhlosion was just five or so feet away from Venusaur with jaws spread and flames blazing, the earth collapsed and Typhlosion fell into a pit. While Venusaur had been waiting, he had stuck his vines into the snow and had been setting up a pitfall. Typhlosion howled in surprise, and Venusaur stomped on the frozen earth surrounding the pit, breaking off chunks to smother Typhlosion's fire.
As Typhlosion's flames slowly died out, Venusaur slowed his wild pounding, and backed off, panting at the exertion. Seeing that Typhlosion had ceased to struggle wildly, Venusaur curiously peered back in.
948. expanse: a large amount of something spread out
Typhlosion responded with a sudden explosion of fire, sending searing flames right into Venusaur's face. Venusaur growled and rolled over in the snow, writhing furiously to put out the flames. Typhlosion took the opportunity to wriggle out of the mound of frozen earth and try to clamber out of the pit.
Red was signaling furiously to Venusaur to move further from the pit, but over the expanse of snow and with his eyes bleary and running from smoke, Venusaur could only growl in pain, unable to see Red's commands.
949. displace: to take the place of
Typhlosion overturned the last frozen chunk of soil, and displacing snow with a well-aimed flamethrower, he cleared out enough space to leap out. Red was coughing and fumbling with Venusaur's pokeball, shakily aiming the recall light. The red light would come so close, just flickering over Venusaur's body – but Red's shivering was too much, and Typhlosion bowled over Venusaur in a flaming charge before the recall was complete.
950. heady: intoxicating; exhilarating
Venusaur grunted at the impact, and released a cloud of heady spores and powders before keeling over and being recalled in flash of red light. Almost simultaneously, Red released Blastoise, who charged out of his pokeball running at top speed. The ungainly turtle was somehow pushing through the snow at top speed, and blasted a frigid torrent of water into Typhlosion's face.
Typhlosion slumped over and collapsed in the snow, bruised from fallen chunks of frozen snow and shivering from the extreme cold. Gold nervously recalled Typhlosion and as he grabbed Ampharos' pokeball again, he could feel the skin of his knuckles stretching as he clenched his fingers tightly around the ball. His last pokemon.