Julia (and Raul)
Steel Scavengers
Dread Metal derby - Lytala Slums
Affected RP'ers: @Neo Emolga @Velocity

Raul was in the zone. Had this still beeen his days as a stunt driver he could easily have pulled off even the most difficult of tricks. He swerved, fishtailed, wheelied, bounced, and zoomed around the two teams as both of their vehicles became compromised. Still, it surprised him to see both teams abandon their vehicles completely and attack each other on foot.

At first things went pretty well. He moved around the pokemon firing whenever one came in his line of fire. He managed to hit the conkledur, though the damage didn't seem to great. Raul kept having to swerve and stay on the move thanks to his heavy machine gun. Sitting still really wasn't an option with that thing still around. Of course this ideal situation didn't last very long. The Lightning Strider came rushing through on a hit and run, launching a rocket into the space between the fightng teams. From the nitro roadster's perspective it was probably very effective. It blew up one of the pokemon and sent Raul's Hornet Skidding away on its side, immobilizing him. He watched as the pichu drove away, another car close on its wheels. He recognized it as the Prankster platoon's Screaming talon. Though he couldn't worry about them now. With Raul's bike laying on its side he could no longer avoid attacks, but that wasn't going to stop him. He hadn't trained with other steel scavenger members for nothing. Grabbing a special knob he pulled, releasing a lever arm out below the Motorbike. The thing was manual, so Raul lifted the bike back onto its wheels with excruciating slowness, every second fearing attack and death.

Julia, however, was speeding through the streets with vengeance. The Armored buggy screamed the the road, its wheels screeching as Julia took dangerously sharp turns. Inspired by the belief that she was being watched by Theo, Julia felt an explainable desire to prove herself, to come back from these impossible odds and win the derby. Or at least, if she didn't win, to take out all the lotus members. Driving with her one good hand her breathing was heavy. Every bump, jolt, and turn set another wave of horrific pain up her smashed arm and burned back. Once or twice her vision grew hazy, but she forced herself not to give in. She still had things to do.

With a shocking jolt two Cars when racing by in a street she'd been about to turn onto. Craning her neck as much as she could, Julia noted a nitro roadster she hadn't seen before and the little zippy car she'd attacked back at the start of the derby. That seemed like so long ago now. The two vehicles seemed to being going at each other relentlessly. Julia shielded her eyes as several flashes of electricity flashed between the vehicles, now a good distance away from her.

Shaking herself back to attention, Julia turned onto the road, heading in the opposite direction of the pair of dueling cars. And before her was an even more incredible scene. No only was she seeing the armored truck that'd destroyed her Iron Giant broken and disabled, but its occupant were out in the street fighting a beartic whose own ride -what appeared to be a bulldozer- was also destroyed. The Ice bear's back was to her, so she couldn't tell if he was holding a weapon, but of the two black lotus members only the conkledur seemed to be holding a gun, the Raticate was scrambling for something on the ground which was probably a weapon.

That was enough for Julia. Aiming the Buggy right, She pressed the gas right down to the floor. Taking her hand off the wheel she grabbed one of the dragalge's automatic rifles and, setting it against the dashboard to make up for not having a second hand to steady it, took fire as she zoomed toward the crowd. With a bloodthirsty yell the bullets flew. One, two, three, more into the beartic's back and head, little chunks of fur, flesh, and blood going flying as Julia continued to fill him with lead. In a moment the get bear had collapsed face down into the pavement.

Baladax the Beartic (The Nightmarch) has been eliminated

But it didn't end there. Dropping the rifle Julia grabbed one of the grenades and, pulling the pin with her teeth, dropped it to the floor of the buggy. Then, seizing one of the handguns, Julia lept from the speeding vehicle. Making full use of the soft and squishy dead beartic's body to stop her fall, Julia managed to land without too muchinjury. Though she was now covered in blood, both hers and the beartic's. The Buggy however, now gadd too much momentum and much too much speed to be stopped. Its aim was true and it crashed right into the heavy-machine gun weielding Conkledur. Considering that the buggy wasn't exactly the heaviest car, the conkledur probably would have survived despite the speeding collision. That was, if it hadn't been for the grenade. As the buggy smashed into Jaze the grenade ignited and blew up, taking the engine with it. The Buggy exploded on top of the fighting pokemon, blowing him to pieces. Shrapnel and burning gasoline went everywhere, creating several walls of fire within the street.

Jaze the conkledur (Black Lotus) has been eliminated

Julia stood, perched on the beartic's dead body, and stared madly at Jucden. Blood dripped down her face and all she had was a small pistol, probably only with one or two shots. A rush of adrenaline was the only thing keeping her on her feet at this point, but it gave her courage to stay standing, to face her enemy even in this most dire of situations.

Theo Myrsky
Steel Scavengers
Boat on the liaocrack River
Affected Rp'ers: Velocity

Despite his words Theo really wasn't feeling that brave. Something about this greninja worried him. His reaction to Anthony's name hadn't gone unnoticed and Mazer's response to Theo's words, despite the generous tone, had sounded slightly like a threat. These people might be just as dangerous as the black lotus, they were definitely strong enough, but something told Theo that unless he was careful, he'll have shaken off the black lotus to lead another enemy right to his boss. Theo was definitely regretting mentioning the safe house, but it was too late to take his words back now. He'd just have to be more careful from now on.

"I'm hesitant to promise anything, but I do owe you for saving me. I expect I'll owe you even more as I'll accept your invitation to return on your boat. Better than sitting here among all these dreadful bodies that's for sure. I don't know where we are now, I expect you do as you weren't transported here tied up in a bag, but the safehouse is in Westfel."

As he talked something snagged in the back of his mind. Dreadful? Dread? the dread metal derby was still going on! At least, it likely was. Judging by the sun a fair amount of time had passed, though he doubted it was enough for it to be entirely over. Theo bit his lip, a worried expression on his face. Was Julia ok? Was she even alive still? No, she had to be alive. H e wouldn't let himself think otherwise or he'd go crazy. Hopefully Mazer's boat had a TV or a radio and he could find out what was going on in the festival.