[WAR] Role Play: Terminus

[Lord Celebi]

Raidon Makoto
AMS Deathwing Tarmac, Goldenrod Bay
Johto
Affected RPers: @XaiakuX, everyone else tangentially

Giovanni's helicopter deployed several flares to distract the missiles Peter Jennings had fired at it. The heat redirected the missiles to a helicopter next to the Rocket leader. The crime lord released a Swampert into the water below. The water-type Pokemon swam in circles with successively quicker and larger radii until it formed a healthy whirlpool. Just as the dread lord of the Deathwing was getting ready to step off the tarmac, the ship was pulled away from the sandbar. While certainly not big enough to sink Raidon Makoto's ship, it was going to annoy him.

This guy's a real powderkeg, Makoto thought. Giovanni didn't react well to Makoto's taunts, as the dread lord had expected. Now he was shouting at his pilot: "It's time to retaliate! Radio all Team Rocket personnel, and send these boats down to the depths! If these huffed up ingrates want to reach our shores, they'll fucking swim there!" Huffed up? Please, huffing paint is for poor people, Makoto thought, rolling his eyes.

The Rocket troops did as ordered and opened fire on the hull of the Deathwing itself. Makoto didn't understand why they would fire at a ship with a hull constructed with several hundred steel layers with only automatic rifles... until the RPG rounds came in. The Deathwing rocked back and forth from each RPG round. Jennings whipped out his VSS Vintorez sniper rifle and started tagging enemy Rockets in the head before they could deliver their deadly paylod to the Aqua mothership. The few Shadowfall tanks that were able to be deployed before the whirlpool started were seriously tearing up the beach. Few of the troops actually deployed. Instead, they were just choosing to run the Rocket footsoldiers over. Each tank combed the beach for Rocket scum at about fifty miles an hour. Screams and limbs flew from the shore.

While that took care of the naked troops, the Bursted soldiers were a whole separate problem. A platoon of Chimeras deployed from the Deathwing to tango with the Bursted Rockets on the beachhead. Makoto had full faith in his abominations to get the job done.

The whirpool was becoming a problem though. The Deathwing's stern as getting sucked into the whirpool in addition to several of the mines that the crimelord had deployed earlier. Captain Davenport's squad was attempting to disarm said mines, but were caught in the whirlpool. "Captain Davenport, how attached to you to your Pokemon?"

"Not very. They're rentals from Aqua," she replied.

"Send out what you can and order them to activate the mines before they hit the Deathwing. It costs less to buy a new Gyarados than it does a new Deathwing," Makoto replied over the radio.

There was a noticeable silence over the radio for a moment before Davenport replied: "Y-yes sir." A few moments later, the whirlpool gleamed with explosions. The field was cleared of mines and the Deathwing only took one more hit to the portside. The old jalopy would make it through the battle again.

"Navigations Room, full forward. I bet you the Deathwing has more horsepower than this weaksauce whirpool," Makoto ordered. The ship picked up speed and once again lodged itself into the sandbar. The hatches opened again, deploying more Shadowfall tanks full of troops. "Captain Oreskovich, have the All Clowns engage Giovanni's helicopter. I want that shit shot out of the sky."

"Yessir!" Janice Oreskovich replied. The All Clown Squadron of Fun fighters exclusively targeted Giovanni's fighter, sending a fury of bullets and rockets towards it. Makoto himself boarded the Hellcat VTOL fighter and flew over the battle on the beach towards Harper Tower. Once the VTOL was locked in a straightforward flightpath, Makoto jumped out of the ship's hatch and parachuted into the fray that was the Battle of Goldenrod. The Hellcat crashed into Harper Tower. Smoke billowed out of the building's wound.

It's coming down...