Gym Battle [Dangan-Camisado Execution]

The doors open. What was once just a black room slowly began to gleam with light as a pair of double doors creaked apart to reveal Candy’s shadowed face. Her eyes gazed around what felt like an empty gym, unable to see anything past the door’s light.

It was quiet. Too quiet. Blinking, finally she took a step inside, moving forward a couple more feet to the light’s edge before suddenly, the doors slam shut behind her. The loud bang threw the gamer’s attention back to the door with a start, eyes narrowing a bit as Candy forced her body to relax again. It’s alright, it’s alright. She was good at this, right? Yeah. If it was what she thought it was. Turning back around, a tight frown pulled over her lips as she continued forward, gaze darting around in the darkness, listening. Just waitin–

-!

Suddenly, a small spotlight shined down upon two figures in the middle of the room. They hadn’t been facing Candy at first, but that didn’t seem to matter. A tiny red ’!’ suddenly popped up over the figures’ heads before it turned around, revealing Augustus and Bastien wearing white shirts with a letter ‘H’ on them, white pants, and black gloves, marching over to Candy without a word. They looked up, obviously looking excited.

“Prepare for trouble-” “And make it double.”

And then- it was dark. A world engulfed by pure blackness, until finally, a light bright enough to show what was within it’s circle flashed op, revealed the shaded form of a giant, angelic-looking Henrik on the other side of the room - accustomed with three sets of wings that didn’t touch his back and winged ears that that doubled on each side.

Augustus and Bastien would like to battle!

Shit– here we go! Ready to go, a sudden grin flashed across Candy’s face as she reached over for her first Pokemon. With a good throw, Luxray was already on the field, followed by the image of Candy pointing and shouting a command before the Pokemon moved forward to attack. The giant Henrik then leapt into the air, smashing into the ground with a thunder quake as numerous boulders fell from what seemed like nowhere from above. And with that, Luxray was crushed.

She grimaced, teeth clenching in a worried annoyance as the gamer threw out her second Pokemon - Malamar. Another attack was commanded and the Pokemon complied easily. When the attack finally backed off, Henrik took no time to loose. Without warning, a large flower bloomed from the owl’s chest - shooting out a blinding light straight at Malamar relentlessly until the Pokemon was finally down. Shit- that’s two down.

Now she was building up a sweat. Without missing a beat, Candy quickly threw her next pokeball into the air - watching as a quick light cracked it open and tossed out the glowing image that became Mewtwo. A command is given to Mewtwo and it lands, dealing a good deal of damage. Suddenly Henrik disappeared, forcing Mewtwo to stop in confusion as he looked around. Without warning, Henrik belly flopped from the sky and right onto the Pokemon - bouncing hard enough once to completely cracked the floor below them and bouncing once more back onto his feet. Three- that was three Pokemon down. This wasn’t good - this wasn’t good at all.

Candy was soaked at this point. Her body moved noiselessly with to it’s master’s breathing as her eyes darted around. But there was nothing there- nothing that would allow her to make an escape or help her defeat the thing before them. Finally, out of pure desperation, Candy just reached behind her and threw out her remaining pokeballs into the ring, setting free Gallade, Zekrom, and Aegislash all at once. She shouted, reaching out a hand at her commands as the Pokemon suddenly bolted forward. Landing attack after attack, causing as much damage as their level difference will allow them, but when it came to Henrik’s turn, each Pokemon was attacked and knocked out.

And then….. there were two. With her fallen teammates before her, Candy stared in shock across the battle field to watch and every one of her fallen comrades before returning to Henrik again. He was beaten, but still- just staring at Candy for a while before he slowly, but eventually, started to move forward.

Stomp…. stomp… stomp….

No…. Her eyes widened, slowly beginning to take some rather cautious steps of her own as the gamer moved back and away from the giant owl. Henrik just continued to drag himself forward, tilting from side to side as he did so. Eventually a cold metal stopped the girl from going any further when Candy finally had her back pressed against the entrance doors. This is it. This is how she’s gonna die. “Ya said ya’d protect me, thIS ISN’ PROTECTION JAMIE.“ Her team’s gone, she’s injured, and there’s no where to go…….. Why?

But, just when all hope seemed to be lost, suddenly, the giant Henrik began to tilt forward. He tried to move closer, but just as the gap between the two was turning right, Henrik suddenly fell face first onto the ground in defeat - his wings falling off of their unseen anchors and flopping onto the floor beside them.

And…. she stared. That’s it, just stared- Candy just stood frozen, back and hands pressing against the doors in confusion before another light suddenly shone down upon it. She tried to look up, but not even with the help of her hand could she see what laid beyond the bright rays. What….. did she….? Did she– win??? Was it….. Was it really over?

With the sudden realization, the gamer suddenly just threw her fists into the air and closed her eyes, a big grin spreading across her face as the camera pulled out to show her full figure. But just when she thought she was finally free from the clutches of an inevitable death, a giant, owl-shaped badge fell down form the sky’s light and on top of Candy with a CLANG.

“Looks like you win!!”