Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-24304510-20140418180855/@comment-24304510-20140420015904

As Kyosuke instructed, the remaining Trainers begin to head back into the Center. This leaves the Pokémon to fight on their own, but they know what needs to be done. Two large Magneton float up to the Pokémon contingent and unleash Metal Sound, which stuns them for the briefest second and resonates throughout the Center.

However, they continue to fight on. More and more of the magnet Pokémon are falling, but the allies are still severely outnumbered. A Magneton attempts to flank them, but is met with a barrage of Ember and is driven off. Behind the swarm, however, the generator gives an audible whine as it revs up...

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In the access room, Emily and Sven work quickly to isolate the faulty circuits and redirect the power to the grounded line. They only get about halfway done, however, when the power, for the third time, rapidly dims.

Porygon makes its way to Sven's laptop screen and hastily throws up a word processor. "Something is redirecting the power from the generator in graduated intervals. It could be likened to a Zubat sucking blood from a Clefairy. However, I cannot fathom what sort of creature could need that much energy."

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In the dim twilight, a large, shadowy shape emerges from behind the generator, unseen by those from the Pokémon Center until now. A Magnezone hovers over the power supply, visibly draining the electricity from it in giant, sparking bolts. It seems to have finally reached full power, and begins to charge a large bolt of energy before it.

Looking out the window, Kyosuke pales. "Fuck! That monster is out there all alone with our Pokémon! And you!" He rounds on Bergen. "You just cut us off from them! We need to get them to fall back before they die!" And with that, he rushes to the door and begins to try shifting the rock pile. "Anyone with Fighting or Psychic types that can move these, get them out here on the double before we have casualties on our hands!"

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As Nikolai steps into the electrical closet, he was a bit suprised to see the girl who had been in tears only about fifteen minutes earlier calmly working on the fuse box. Spare parts hover around her, which she plucks out of the air with alarming accuracy. Cradled in her left arm is a Ralts, which is using Confusion to keep the parts afloat. It strikes Nikolai that while she works slowly, she has all the skill of a professional. The girl turns to him, her silver eyes burning with intent that belies her fragile and weak frame, which is visibly shuddering from suppressed fear.

"Ruby. My name is...Ruby."

At that moment, the power rushes back into the closet. Sven and Emily's work shows, none of the new fuses blow with the surge, but a flash of arc lightning blasts out from one of the still-broken panels. It connects with Mikail's Spark, and flashes towards Ivan. Like an overloaded resistor, the Magnemite is blasted back into the hallway and collapses into a heap.

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As Kara and Luna enter the ICU ward, they notice that the system has changed to its backup power supply, and safety lights blanket the room in a red hue. Nurse Joy grabs a key from a necklace danging around her neck, and opens a large supply cabinet. She draws out two boxes, one labeled "Disinfectant" and the other "Bandages". She gives the Bandage box to Kara and the other to Luna.

"I need you two to dress the exposed wounds on the Pokémon in this room. Normally, the machines in here automatically clot and steralize any lesions, but if they lose power, the patients will all start to bleed out. We need to get these on them before the backup batteries run out of power!" She then reaches in and grabs a box of tourniquets, and motions for the two to follow her from patient to patient, making a sort of healing assembly line.

Just outside, Crescent peers down the hall and sees Ivan fly out of the electrical closet and crumple onto the floor. Remembering its Trainer's orders, the Eevee turns and runs back to the ICU.

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The coughing and backfiring of a distressed engine echo through the streets. A beat up tow truck lurches into the alleyway on the opposite side of the generator. Every one of its windows have been broken out, and its scratched and dinged hood is decorated with a large Talonflame emblem, surrounded by text reading "Winchester Towing Services".

The truck crashes through a small contingent of Magnemite, and the Vulpix sitting on the roof of the cab lets out an Ember that disables a nearby Magneton. The driver then leans out his window, holding a lever-action repeating rifle in his right hand, and fires at a Magnemite. The bullet pierces its body, making it collapse into a broken heap.

"Get wrecked." The driver jeers, running his free hand through his combed-back orange hair. "Looks like we got a mess here, boys. Let's all give our friendly neighborhood Pokémon Center a helping hand." He directs this comment to the two males sitting in the bed of the truck.

''From this point on, Arro and Talen have joined the battle as reinforcements.