2812/WMAT CQ1 Maya vs Lute

WMAT CQ1 Maya vs Lute
Date of Scene:	15 August 2015
Location:	WMAT Arena - Diablo Desert
Synopsis:	Lute vs. Maya at the WMAT, with Lute winning.
Cast of Characters:	Maya, 20, 188

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Maya has posed:
Maya entered tournaments like this for several reasons, one was to jut plain out test herself, another was? To keep reminding the polticla powers back home she was out there and just what she was able to do. It worked better than directly having to put heads with heads of state, nobles and other assorted powers. It was also just a chance to cut lose and not worry about much. So here she was clad in leather and metal as always, though Lute might find something's changed about her, maybe it's how she carried her self? Well also there were tribal like streak tattoos under her green eyes. She looked out over the sands and adjusted the desert cloak she had covering her body to provided some protection from the enviorment. She was going to fight Lute, this was going to be interesting, he's long since proven either he'd shaped up or he'd been playing everyone so hard they bought into his deception and he'd made everyone regret thinking he was a joke and then some. It would be good to get a measure of what he could do now.

Lute (188) has posed:
     Lute comes walking into the arena. And by 'walking', we mean, riding upon the back of a Kaiju. He stands on the back of Mr. Crabs, looking /waaaay/ down below at Maya. Lute is wearing a slightly different outfit than usual. Normally, he just wears jeans, shoes, and a labcoat. Today, he has decided to add a shirt to the ensemble. Specifically, a Team Lute T-shirt. Chibified pictures of him, Vegeta, and Toph appear on it.

     Lute crosses his arms, looking down at Maya. He shouts, from the head of his 80 meter tall crab Kaiju.

     "OH HEY IS THAT A LITTLE ANT DOWN THERE?!"

     Unfortunately, at this distance, it is likely impossible for Maya to hear his taunting.

Maya has posed:
Maya had known Lute had some pretty heavy firepower in the forms of a Kaiju aka the infamous Mr. Crabs, how Lute tamed that thing not even Maya really knows. She looks up at the huge living creatu4re and Lute. If Maya were to here his taunt he'd get a very amused reaction out of it. Maya however throws off the cloak letting the wind take it for dramatic effect, it then vanishes in a burst of light afterwards. Maya then pulls a small amulet out from under her jacket. She focuses on it for a moment as blue fire bleeds from her into it, a second later large angelic like energy wings take shape and Maya takes flight above the burning sands.

She knows it's time to start and she calls out.

"So Lute let's see what you can do, now that your not hiding just what your able to do!"

She's got her rifle ready and the core engine comes to life as Maya pulls the trigger she's firing off a burst of fire trying to keep Lute off balance and get a feel for what he's going to be able to do.

Lute (188) has posed:
     As the rifle is fired, Mr. Crabs lifts his massive claws in order to block the strikes from hitting Lute. Various injuries now line the claws, but Mr. Crabs can still keep fighting for a bit. More importantly, Lute is safe, for now.

     "I've never really held back? I just have a /lot/ more tricks now. For example... UNOWN! REGISTEEL! GIRATINA!"

     Yes, the fight has barely started, and Lute is already planning to flood the field with monsters. A horde of Unown fly out from under the back of Lute's labcoat. It's a huge number of them. They move to form a perimeter around the battlefield. Lute focuses, giving each of them orders. Namely, if they see Maya pull anything that Lute himself is unlikely to see? They'll relay vision of it to him.

     And, Lute pulls out two Pokeballs. From one, the massive Registeel forms. It lands on front of Mr. Crabs, making a wall between him and Lute. The second opens, and out appears the ghostly dragon, Giratina. He starts to fly out, and circle the arena at an ever increasing speed.

     But, the first real attack from Lute, that isn't just set up? It's a lot simpler.

     "SPIT BUBBLES AT HER!"

     Acidic bubbles shoot out from Mr. Crab's mouth, trying to shoot them towards Maya to engulf her.

Maya has posed:
Maya is aware Lute has a lot of monsters to fight, she has more experience fighting Pokemon than she does say Mr. Crabs so she takes note of the flying legendaries as they zip about likely planning to do some attack or even act as scouts. Then comes the acid bubbles, she attempts to evade them and she almost does but she's caught as one of them goes pop it's not an enjoyable experience. The chemical reaction is nasty but while it's injuring her her gear does hold out better than one might expect it to.

She flies up trying to use the wind to get some of the acid off her and it works somewhat before she dives bombs down towards Lute but she's not quite going for him, she's more focused a card in her hand, as she casts a spell. Blue fire leeches from her body into the card and it starts glowing green. A moment later a massive burst of lightning arcs out from her and might just get Mr. Crabs and anything standing on him, or even near him!

Lute (188) has posed:
     "PROTECT!"

     This is a fairly simple command from Lute, but a generally rather effective one. As the bolt of lightning moves in, Registeel stomps forward to protect itself. Its large claws are lifted in front of it, and a barrier of energy forms in front of it. This helps minimize the damage, causing only a few sparks from the lightning bolt to hit the giant crab Kaiju.

     Lute points forward, giving an order as he swings his arm to his side dramatically. "REGISTEEL! STEALTH ROCKS!" He feels he has this battle in the bag. Maya is already covered in some of the acid. Set up a little bit more, and then he's got it in the bag. /Especially/ if he can knock Maya out of the sky.

     Registeel stomps upon Mr. Crab's head. From its body, a number of stones start shooting forward. They fly out in all directions, absolutely filling the sky. These Stealth Rocks are intended to make movement more difficult. One wrong move, and Maya will fly right into them.

     Lute isn't done yet, though. He kneels on Mr. Crabs, smiling as he pets the top of the dapper crab.

     "You got it, Mr. Crabs. You know what to do, now."

     And, Mr. Crabs /does/ know what he is doing. More bubbles are spit out. These are a different mixture of chemicals. As the chemicals move forward, they'll burn at Maya. And, when they interract with the acid already on her? Explosion.

     Lute is smirking like the jerk he is, standing tall with his hands on the side of his hips.

Maya has posed:
Maya okay she sees that Lute is on the ball and he's got a way to stop the lightning she's going to hae to mix it up even more. Wait stelath rocks? She wonders about that, but she's starting to move keeping flight and trying to not get knocked out of the air. She's doing pretty well to avoid this fate. She's caught by only a few drops of one bubbles as the others come she forms a barrier which takes the majority of it saving her from being exploded thankfully.

She flits about trying to not get hit agian she doubts her barrier will work again. She does see Lute standing ther nd this time he gets another spell a massive colum of water fired right at him!

Lute (188) has posed:
     Lute isn't fast enough to order a Protect, this time. Maya is accurate as well. The column of water flies straight at Lute, striking into him. Luckily, he's managing to hold his footing. He's gotten used to riding various creatures of combat, and so it's very unlikely he'll be knocked off. Which is good for him.

     Also useful for him? He still has the numbers advantage. Including Giratina. Giratina is also well trained. While Lute is dealing with attempting to dry off, and regain himself, Giratina can keep moving in to attack.

     Giratina flies in from behind Maya, right as she is casting the spell. The Stealth Rocks are no trouble for him. He has a fairly gaseous body, which makes them little more than small roadbumps for him. It holds out its wings, massive spikes on them stretching out. As he flies forward, the spikes try to slash across Maya.

     Lute, meanwhile, is standing up again finally. And his white T-shirt is somewhat soaked, clinging to his body. "HEY! This T-shirt cost me a /mint/ to get printed! Don't diss on my Team Lute T-shirt!"

Maya has posed:
Maya does not stop to see if she hit Lute she knows that would be foolish, as it would give him time to launch a counter attack against her. The blue haired woman keeps going. She's very thankful she can fly right now or this would be very bad for her. Being so thankful doesn't last long as the Dragon Claw from behind she's caught pretty hard by the thing slashing into her and sending her into a bit of a dive. She fights to recover from it and yells back at Lute.

"I never did, would you have liked it set on fire? I could do that."

Maya's now flying high again, why? To buy her rifle time to charge a weapon at the apex she levels it at Mr. Crabs and perhaps Lute if he's not fast enough and fires a big bright white energy beam. She doesn't wait around, the moment the last blast has been fired she's moving again least she get hit again.

Toph Beifong (20) has posed:
    Up in the stands there's a choking sound as a certain earthbender gets some of her popcorn stuck in her throat. The person next to her tries to help by hitting her on the back, and eventually the girl manages to spit out the large handful of popcorn before her eyebrow twitches. He's actually /wearing/ a Team Lute t-shirt?!

    "KICK HIS SORRY ASS, MAYA!" she calls out, sounding perhaps a bit too eager for her fellow Unionite to defeat the Pokemon researcher.

Lute (188) has posed:
     The beam strikes Mr. Crabs, torching the shell of the giant Kaiju. That beam attack is causing Lute a lot of pain. He really needs to figure otu a reliable way to counter it. For now, though, he'll focus entirely on his attack. No holding back anything. Neverending, relentless assault.

     But it is at this point that Lute hears something from the stands, via his link with his Unown. Toph shouting.

     A number of Braille-shaped Unown fly into the stands. Not from the Arena itself. Seems Lute kept a few on standby in case of mocking. But these Braille-Unown move themselves to sit on the floor infront of Toph, spelling something out in braille. Specifically, 'TRAITOR'.

     As Maya tries to get away, Giratina follows after, quickly. The Stealth Rocks in the air start to follow it. It is using Ancient Power, a move that manipulates rocks, and throws them at the opponent. While chasing Maya, Giratina begins to start throwing Stealth Rocks at the girl. And Lute just grins a bit. Eyeing. Waiting. Plan is coming.

     "You're just jealous of my STYLE!"

Toph Beifong (20) has posed:
    As the Unown land on the floor in front of her Toph blinks, looking confused at first. But familiar as she is with Braille, she 'reads' the word easily enough, frowning before she raises her foot... and kicks down into the ground with a disapproving grunt, sending the Unown flying up in the air. "Midbrain..."

    With that she leans back in her seat, arms wrapped around her tub of popcorn, all while the people around her caaaarefully inch a little further away from the visibly annoyed earthbender.

Maya has posed:
Maya has long learned do not sit still, for the love of Kyra and Marduk, do not hold still in a fight. She does not this is all that saves from the attack that's coming at her. She knows pokemon are very powerful creatures when they are wild. They get even more so when they have someone to train them, there's no denying Lute's stkill there. She would find she's being hounded hard. The rocks come at her she's forced to dodge and evade the strikes. She's dancing about in the air putting on quite the show as she evades all but a few that were going so fast she just couldn't out pace them. She knows it could have been a lot worse and now she turns her attention to Lute again.

Maya is holding another card at this point and she's casting something, soon her rifle is on her back and another card is in hand. One glows red the other blue and Maya seems to fade away as a ghostly looking knight appears glowing a pale blue much like the fire that comes from her body when she casts and then there's a shockwave...of physical force all around Maya, how far will it go? Not even she knows.

Lute (188) has posed:
     The physical force hits in all directions, and Giratina gets caught in it. He starts falling a bit, before righting himself. Mr. Crabs shakes and rumbles a bit. Registeel is struck, blocking Lute from being hit by the attack.

     Lute grumbles a bit. This needs to be turned around. Time to up his assault. He starts shouting orders, once again. "Mr. Crabs, after her! Giratina, cut her off! And, Registeel... HYPER BEAM!"

     Giratina flies forward to move in front Maya, cutting her off. Mr. Crabs runs in, from behind Maya. The Unown, meanwhile, are shrinking their perimeter. Moving in closer. Trying to give Maya less room to evade.

     And then Registeel glows with power. A massive burst of energy gathers in him, and it flies out in a straight beam towards Maya.

Maya has posed:
The fight's been a very close one, Lute's certainly gained a lot of power even on his own. She doesn't doubt his stand alone power, but he's also seeming quite good with the teamwork of his own creatures. Then comes the teamwork she's soon cut off by Giratina, and then comes Mr. Crabs. All that's left is for Registeel to catch her full force of the hyper beam and it catches her int he torso. She drops from the skies now with the force of that hit and she's heading rapidly to the ground. Maya's struggling to control the spell.

She's heading towards the ground and it's rapidly getting closer even as she does so. She barely pulls out at the end but well he torso armour's smoking and Mayas more than a bit cooked from that last hit of Lute's. She keeps low for a moment and the rifle's weapons are charging again as she rises up rapidly and there's a bright blue glow coming from under the barrel of the rifle.

A second later Maya fire sending a spread of energy discs that seek out Lute, Mr. Crabs and regi some of the unknown might end up getting caught by some of the spheres launched. They also will explode on impact if they managed to connect for additional are of effect damage.

Lute (188) has posed:
     The flying energy discs move in. Lute tris to duck out of the way of the first, only for it to graze along his arm as he moves down. The disc explodes, knocking him into the path of the others. Explosion after explosion rock him, leaving him a bit of a bloody mess. He does at least manuever his body so he still lands on Mr. Crabs, carefully shifting his weight and wind resistance as he falls. Unfortunately, he lands flat on his face, giving his Pokemon sometime where they'll need to act for themselves.

     And, the Unown act. A few of them are caught in the explosions. The rest start to move in on Maya. With Lute somewhat down for the moment, recovering? The Unown don't need to give him constant sight. They fly towards Maya, all of them orbitting around her at different distances and directions. They start to work in unison, sending bursts of Hidden Power towards Maya, trying to blast into her with countless blasts of special energy.

     Lute, for his part, presses at a Pokeball on his side. Yet another creature is released. His Gardevoir. This Psychic Pokmeon uses his powers to help lift Lute, helping maintain him in a bit more of a standing position. They can't have Lut ebe knocked out. Not yet!

     Let's just hope it doesn't get a bit 'Weekend at Bernie's' in here.

Maya has posed:
Maya was not expecting to get Lute to be honest, he's got a lot of cover from his monsters. Who can take some serious hits after all, she expected it to keep his head down. To her shock he seems out of the fight for the moment. Not out of the battle but he's recovering from that last attack. She'll have to make the most of it but now the Unown are coming at her and they are smacking her about with the rocks quite well this time.

Soon another Pokemon is in the action and Maya's not seen that one before, given the distanced? Also given the amount of hits she's taking she can't tell what's going on other than Lute's got up. She attempts to get some distance from the Unown and launches several chucks of rock back at them with a quickly casted Geo-strike.

Lute (188) has posed:
     The Unown are hit by the rocks. They drop like flies. While they're doing well enough not to die, they're still falling to the ground unconcious. Lute at least has enough time to regain himself, his Gardevoir giving him enough time to be stable. All of Lute's Pokemon have been taking significant injury. It's getting close to time to tip the scales.

     "Psychic! Flash Cannon! Aura Sphere!"

     And, Lute's 'mon go into action. Gardevoir tries to hold Maya in place with a Psychic burst of power. Registeel gathers power, firing first a beam of steel-type energy. And Gardevoir circles Maya, opening its mouth to shoot out a sphere of blue Fighting energy at Maya.

     He really has to even the odds here. He /can't/ let himself lose! So many yeras has he competed. It's time for him to /really/ shine.

Maya has posed:
Maya has always had issues against Psychic powers, they are not something that are from her world, which makes it rather hard for her to deal with. Maya's caught in it's power which leaves her open as she tries to break free the beam slams into her and she lets out a scream as she's hit by another blast of energy theres an explosion and Maya's starting to fall again, this time she does slam into the sands below. It's a hard hit and Maya's about at the edge of what she's able to do. She rises up as the dust starts to settle the wings are the only part of her that's not battered and worn looking. Maya now looks up to the Pokemon and rises up briefly and she's got cards in hand again. She takes a moment to focus and she rapidly casts four spells causing a storm of elemental attacks to seek out Lute and his companions. Fire blast,s bursts of water, lightning and wind. Oh yes even chucks of the earth are all coming Team Lute's way.

Lute (188) has posed:
     The elemental assault hits Lute, and his Pokemon. The variety of element spreads wide. Each one of them, doing a fair amount of damage. Registeel in particular takes a fair amount of damage from the flames. Lute just stations himself behind the Shadow Pokemon's body, before lifting its Pokeball to recall it.

     And Lute, and all of his Pokemon are left injured. Barely standing. Even Mr. Crabs is struggling.

     But. They are not giving up. Not yet. Lute stands tall, just glaring at Maya. A cocky grin on his face. He crosses his arms in front of him, before flipping his hair back and returning them to said crossed position.

     "...You're tough. But. You don't /understand/ who I am, do you? I am Logan FUCKING Trieste! Yeah, you've been around since before even /me/, fighting in this war. But, you know what? I've turned myself around from being a laughing /joke/ of the Multiverse! And this year? I'm going to win the WMAT!"

     The cocky look remains on his face as he gives orders, "Gardevoir! Helping Hand! Giratina! Scary Face! Mr. Crabs... SHOW HIM THE STRENGTH OF THE CRAB WHO BEAT THE WORLD'S STRONGEST MAN!"

     A burst of psychic energy fills Mr. Crabs, boosting his power. Giratina starts to circle Maya again. It glares towards her, menacing look on its face. An intense pressure comes from this look, filling the sky, making it harder to move.

     And then, Mr. Crabs. He starts rushing in. With each step, his monocle bounces. His claws move, mimicking a runner somewhat. His silky tophat shines in the desert sun.

     He lifts a claw. Swingining it in, straight at Maya. Hammering it down at the flying woman.

Maya has posed:
Maya Says "I do, you are Logan Trieste the man who fooled most of the multiverse about how strong you really are. You pulled it over on some of the most powerful beings in existance."

Lute has pulled one over on everyone and then he hit the world so damn hard for it too later. He's one of the more major threats in the Confederate ranks as far as Maya sees it. She doesn't get to see more as she's trying to evade the incoming striles she's able to avoid most of them but then comes THE CLAW.

Sadly it seems she has ben chosen as Maya's hammered hard she lets out a cry and goes crashing face first into the sands below, her armour now in tatters and she's not moving to get up. Logan has won this round.

Lute (188) has posed:
     With that, Lute recalls his Pokemon. his body is injured, his clothes somewhat in tatters. His labcoat has completely fallen off, and his pants would be better off as cutoffs now.

     But. He still stands. Proudly, over the battlefield.

     Wearing his Team Lute T-Shirt.

     He holds his hands, motioning up to the audience to cheer for him. Once the cheer eventually dies down? Mr. Crabs turns, and walks out of the arena. Lute is glad of one thing, though. Maya, unlike many others he has fought? She actually respects him. He'll have to keep that in mind in the future. It makes her more dangerous.