Update #12: Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2
Well, Taka and ZEL were brutal as always, but Hemlock somehow managed to muscle past them. On TEH URN, she led with our newest team member and mystery egg hatchling, Hatsune Miku the Tentacool, and Kiss, while ZEL led with their Glaceon and Taka led with his Lileep. Hatsune Miku set up a layer of toxic spikes and tanked an ancientpower while Kiss badly poisoned Glaceon and Glaceon fired off an icy wind. After that Hatsune Miku set up a second layer of toxic spikes and Kiss used amnesia while Glaceon used another icy wind and Lileep continued to hit Hatsune Miku with ancientpowers. Hatsune Miku then healed herself with a morning sun (in case you're wondering, Hatsune Miku was originally a Growlithe egg that Despair Syndrome edited to be a Tentacool egg, so she got its egg moves; I decided to keep morning sun because why not) while Kiss badly poisoned Lileep, Glaceon hit Kiss with an ice fang, and Lileep boosted all of its stats with an ancientpower. Lileep then planted roots with an ingrain, and Glaceon landed one last quick attack on Kiss before fainting to two acid sprays and toxic damage!
Up next on ZEL's side came their Jolteon, and Hemlock swapped Hatsune Miku out for Guns N' Roses- a smart move, since Jolteon used thunder fang, which didn't do much to Guns N' Roses. Lileep confused Kiss, causing him to hurt himself, but Guns N' Roses was able to heal him with a super potion. Jolteon hit Kiss with a double kick, and Lileep confused Guns N' Roses with a confuse ray, but Kiss was able to land an acid spray on Jolteon. Kiss tanked a thunder fang while Guns N' Roses tanked an ancientpower, but Kiss hurt himself in confusion; luckily, Guns N' Roses was able to pick up the slack with a razor leaf, which landed a crit on both Jolteon and Lileep! ZEL made a quick judgement call and swapped their Jolteon out for their Espeon while Taka healed his Lileep, but it took some damage on the switch from an acid spray (although Guns N' Roses injured himself). The next turn, Guns N' Roses finally fainted to an ancientpower and confusion damage, but Kiss was able to tank a psybeam and do serious damage with a sludge! Hemlock sent out Evanescence, and while Kiss stomached a swift (get it 'cause he's a stomach) Evanescence mortally wounded Espeon with a slash, letting Kiss end it with an acid spray!
Jolteon came back out, but before Hemlock could take it out it got healed by a super potion; however, while Evanescence healed Kiss with a berry ice cream, Kiss was able to do some damage to it with a sludge and tank a mega drain, while Lileep finally fainted to toxic damage! Taka's Gligar came out next, and although Evanescence took massive damage from a charge beam, she was able to get off one last toxic before fainting to an acrobatics. Kiss, meanwhile, did some damage to Jolteon with a sludge. Rihanna came out to avenge Evanescence, and after tanking a thunder fang and an acrobatics she lowered Gligar's accuracy with a smokescreen, and Kiss ended Jolteon with a sludge!
Up next came ZEL's last Pokemon: their Umbreon. Rihanna fainted to an acrobatics, but Kiss was able to badly poison Umbreon with a toxic and tank a feint attack. Hatsune Miku was able to come back out, but fainted to an acrobatics immediately; Kiss, meanwhile got confused and injured himself. Motley Crue came out, and she set up a minimize while Umbreon and Gligar both hit her with a quick attack; Kiss, meanwhile, injured himself in confusion once again. Taka quickly swapped out to his Klefki while Motley Crue set up another minimize, and Umbreon hit Motley Crue with a feint attack while Kiss hit Umbreon with an acid spray. Klefki set up a light screen and Motley Crue took damage from a feint attack, but Kiss was able to KO Umbreon with an acid spray and poison damage!
Unfortunately, Motley Crue was only able to damage Klefki with one mud bomb before she fainted to a foul play, leaving Hemlock with no way of damaging Klefki. With no other option bar restarting the fight, Hemlock used her only revive on Hatsune Miku, and she set up a morning sun while Klefki set up a reflect and Kiss set up an amnesia. Hatsune Miku them began spamming water pulse; after 5 turns, it finally went down (although Hatsune Miku was paralyzed in the process)!
Taka sent his Gligar out next, and while it took Hatsune Miku out with a knock off, Kiss was able to end it with a sludge! Taka, running out of options, sent out his ace, Chatot. It set up a nasty plot and confused Kiss with a chatter, but Kiss was able to badly poison it before he got confused. Chatot set up a second nasty plot, but Kiss was able to land an acid spray and tanked a hyper voice to... injure himself in confusion. Luckily, he was able to get healed by a potion, and tanked a chatter to stall out the Chatot's poison damage, causing it to faint!
All that remained was the mission's keystone: the PULSE Tangrowth! Kiss tanked a knock off and ended up hurting himself in confusion, but snapped out the next turn and lowered the Tangrowth's special defense with an acid spray. After tanking a second knock off and firing off another acid spray, Kiss was finally able to end the Tangrowth with a sludge, ending the fight! With Team Meteor's plans foiled, the overseer of the PULSE Tangrowth project gets revealed, and shock-horror, it's Corey, the next gym leader! Time to finish him off! The team so far: