thief [c/event]

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Crrack. The ground bursts open underneath the stunky, briefly swallowing the skunk pokemon as it cries out for help. Lena flinches, making a move to rescue the thing-- she's interrupted by the sound of bones snapping as the excadrill emerges with the stunky skewered on its claws. While the skin is never penetratred, the sound of a breaking body is deafening to her; Lena can only pray that it's the sound of fireworks in the distance. Pumpkin hits the ground with a heavy thud, breathing heavy and erratic and then.. quiet. "P-Pump--" She can feel tears welling up and a lump in her throat as she stares at the still stunky; she can't move anything, it's like the ground is sucking her in the same way it did for her pokemon. First the pain of the solosis, and now the pain of loss. Lancer sees it all from above, sees the swablu gear to keep attacking. Lena only hears white noise, the sound of static and high pitched tones deafening the world around her. The Staravia uses fly prematurely, diving at the swablu to keep it from hitting its mark. The flying type is just as erratic as his trainer feels, wildly trying to turn himself around to stop the second take down with a wing attack.

She's kneeling besides the broken pokemon, but she doesn't remember how she got there. Her face is numb-- she can't feel the tears start to well up as shaky hands unhook the stunky's pokeball from her belt. The sound of her heartbeat echoes in her skull, and she weakly presses the small button to recall the poison-type.

Nothing happens.

Lena freezes, closing and reopening the pokeball again and again, only to watch it fail every time. There's no data to be read. The stunky doesn't move, doesn't breath, doesn't open its eyes-- its face is stuck in a scream of pain, and even though she tries to sooth it out with trembling fingers it's still not as perfect and innocent as it used to be. Tears hit the ground, hit its fur. Whatever is being said to her in one ear and right out the other. She attempts to lift the pokemon from its spot, only to gasp and flinch away when its body feels... wrong. Bones are misplaced, the neck is too limp.. she can only stare and try to work out a solution, yet she comes to none. "I.. have to.." go. The pokemon center, the hospital. They can fix this. They can heal him, and then his pokeball will recall him. She removes her jacket and wraps the stunky as best as she can, despite the sick feeling in her stomach as she feels the crunch and crackle of the skunk's lifeless body. Wobbling knees support her to a stand and she looks around frantically. Lancer knows to come without being called, but her mind forgets he exists. Cuddly stunky, friendly stunky, sweet, sweet stunky-- this was not the end for it. It couldn't be. Pumpkin should have made its way to the end of life naturally, not in a brutal battle.

Lena almost forgets. A quick motion looses the miltotic's pokeball on to the ground where she was standing- she doesn't look at Liam, she doesn't acknowledge he's there. She has to get to the hospital, so Pumpkin can be okay.