>"Ya know, attacking isn't a very smart idea. She could accidently discharge the thing. She wouldn't do it if she knew it'd blew up." Would she?
> Well...
> To put it bluntly, Utsuho is not afraid of explosions, nor does the raven show enough care when it comes to matters of magnetude. Though from what you can gather Utsuho and Satori are profiting from having a sun in the sky, and magic of this magnitude usually requires a somewhat lengthy charge time to create and control. So you think the raven won't blow it up just to take out one grunt. Probably.
>"How about this? Instead of a fight, how about you guys keep tabs on her, make sure it doesn't blow up? No fights, no accidents." For a one-time attempt to increase our persuasion skills
> You gain +12 xp to your charisma stat. You are now only 36 points away from reaching charsma level 2!
> Well, no, not really, but it was worth a shot.
> "Palkia, get out of there," the red-head commands.
> Utsuho yells "Hey!" as you see the dragon re-appear by the red-head's side, ducking under a fireball as it closes a portal behind itself. Judging by the burn marks, Utsuho was not giving it an easy time.
> The woman continues over the roar of the air rushing past her as you all descend, "Well, that would be easier. You guys are tough. I suppose we could work something out."
> You see a talisman wizz past you straight towards the woman as her Palkia portals it, sending the slip a good hundred feet behind the red-head. "First, you turn off the gravity, then we might have some time to talk." Nue says plainly.
> "I suppose you realize that I don't have the authority to overturn my orders here," the woman sighs, as she gives you a slight shrug. "So it looks like diplomacy will have to wait. Palkia, reset." With one big roar, all the portals disappear, as you look down, you see a hot-spot about fifty miles south in Sinnoh coordinates, twinkling, spinning lights you believe to be Utsuho's fireballs.
>If that doesn't work though, default to the glorious violence
>Blast the gap dragon with St Germain.
> "We need Utsuho," Nue says, her Palkia-dragon-ditto thing by her side. Nue has her pokemon rip open it's own gap. "Be back soon."
> "Never have I hated a ditto as much as right now," the red-head yells over the wind, as you charge her, tossing ahead of yourself a barrage of flamethrower spells, surrounding the woman.
"Palkia, spacial rend everything. Altaria, whilwind everything, and stay close to Palkia." The pair of attacks sends flames everywhere but into Palkia and Altaria for the most part. Though the sheer number of flamethrower talismans makes the attack undodgeable, the woman's pokemon are both resistant enough to it and effective enough at deflecting it that they shrug off the damage, using their attacks to ineffectually spit half the fire right back at you. Between your attacks the woman shouts, "You know, we know the risks. We know better than to bother taking it down with anything less than Palkia. And I know it's only 50-50 that if something goes wrong, Palkia bails me out in time. So you want to know why I'm doing it anyway?"
> "Well, one, there's the money, I'm getting a nice bonus for this." She shouts from atop her Altaria as it weaves between and blows away long streams of fire. "And two, that 'sun' of yours? It can take out half our operation. Sure, we didn't know it's purpose, but even now I don't care how non-violently you say it's being used. After all, you could be with Moriya."
>Wait no, call Yukari and tell her that a pokemon's stealing her gap ability. Then blast the dragon.
> You left your phone with Nue, and you think she left your phone and her bag with Kogasa since she wasn't carrying them when you saw her. While inconvenient, at the present moment you realize that if you fail while holding onto the contents of your bag, they would be completely destroyed by the sun above. On that note, you realize that you should speak with Utsuho after the battle; you think with her help you'll be able to create talismans with a higher maximum heat tolerance, and hopefully ones more suitable for electronics. For most practical purposes your talismans are perfect, but the truth is, they haven't been very extensively tested under the temperatures Utsuho is accustomed to. Prior to meeting Utsuho, there simply wasn't anything on earth hot enough to allow for a suitable test under the conditions Utsuho creates.
> You note that much like Fujiyama volcano is an especially convenient hand grenade, St. Germain is an especially convenient flamethrower, as you can stockpile hundreds of them fairly easily. The battlefield on your side is riddled with portals, most of them lead to Palkia, which is shielding itself with them using a bowl-like formation. You are also now close enough that you can consider switching from ranged attacks to direct attacks; though due to the high winds created by Altaria you don't have as much control as you would like, you can use the wind for speed, which at this altitude is convenient since there isn't much up here to hit if you lose control. Your Charizard is also up here.
> "Hydro pump," the redhead commands. "But keeping your guard up comes first."
> You think you have 3 minutes before you hit the ground, 4 minutes before the fireball hits the ground.
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