[Astral Harmony]

Team One Synopsis (Impact/Pierce/Matthias/Rachel/Chizuru)
Metagross (Pierce's): Severe damage is dealt to Wild Pulverot.
Impact: Wild Narcham B is defeated.
Enemy Force Update: Two Wild Pulverots have deployed. Two Wild Gastrodons have deployed.
Rachel's Pokémon: Severe damage is dealt to Mismagius.
Rachel: Wild Honchkrow is defeated.
Wild Pulverot x2: Severe damage is dealt to Metagross (Pierce's).
Wild Mismagius: Good damage is dealt to Quiksilver (Rachel's Metaleon).
Gastrodon x2: Bronzong (Rachel's) is defeated.

Chizuru tried to smile through the pain, but Pierce could tell that she wasn't invincible to injury just because of her supernatural body. "Lady Shizuka is our leader. I really admire her. She's so strong and calm and cool when she fights."
Then Pierce asked her what she meant about the enemy changing its tactics.. "Well, I've been in a real war before, and one thing many demon lords do is to send out small or weak groups of their own soldiers to face the enemy force, to get a look at just how that enemy force will defend itself. Basically, they get a feel for all the wonderful ways in which the enemy can kill his men without sacrificing many of his better troops to learn that valuable lesson. Once they know how the enemy fights, they'll stall for a bit in order to change their attack plans into something more effective. Ruin Pokémon were made for war, or at least that's what Kiyomi and Mika claim, and they may have basic battle tactics. Their Syncstrike is proof of this, at least."

But the time for talk was over. Metagross struck Pulverot solidly with Meteor Mash. Pulverot stumbled back a few steps, but reassumed its battle stance. "I've fought Pulverots before," Chizuru mentioned. "But I'm always still amazed at how sturdy they are."
Impact cut up his Narcham into kibble with not a whole lot of effort. But it still seemed like he used more effort than usual. Oh, right. That Pulverot's Body Wrecker reduced his attack and defense.
Chizuru gave the remaining Pulverot some of her wrath, knocking it down for good. "We're clear on this side!" she called.

Then ten more Narchams rushed out from around the corner. "Or not."

They finally saw how Narchams became Pulverots. It was almost too fast to be believed. The Narchams approached on the floor, on the walls, and on the ceiling. They leapt across and merged hideously when they collided. In a matter of just three seconds, ten Narchams became two Pulverots. "Here they come!"
Rachel decided to finish off the Mismagius now. "Quiksilver, Crunch! Bronzong, Extrasensory!"
Mismagius was badly hurt by the dual assault, then Rachel filled in for Matthias by finishing off Honchkrow with a Thunderbolt. "Phew! Awesome."
Then Rachel realized she hadn't counted correctly. It wasn't just one but two Gastrodons that emerged from the bathroom, one of the west sea variety and one of the east sea variety. "Weird," Rachel said. "Almost impossible to see one of each sea varieties in the same place."

Gastrodon x2 (Water/Ground) [One male and one female]
Moves: Muddy Water / Body Slam / Recover / Mud Bomb
Ability: Storm Drain

Both Pulverots hurt Pierce's Metagross badly with Body Wreckers, then assumed a bizarre stance as their large eyes started to glow. "They're preparing a Syncstrike!" Chizuru warned Impact. "Want me to use Solidarity Guard? Amazingly, it does work against Syncstrikes."
On the other side, Mismagius and the two Gastrodons worked together to put Bronzong down and injure Quiksilver. Rachel withdrew Bronzong. "These battles are always so interesting. We don't know what we'll fight next, so it really keeps me on my toes."

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Team Two Synopsis (Renny/Charlotte/Shannon/Lola)
Renny's Pokémon: Helping Hand x2 used on Lola
Lola: Four Mononoke are defeated. Florescence (Shannon's Leafeon) has recovered.
Enemy Force Update: One Trainer Exeggutor is deployed. Four Zombies are deployed.
Mew Pokébrid Moera: Sol-leks (Charlotte's Mightyena) is defeated.
Moera's Pokémon: Umbreon (Renny's) is severely wounded.
Zombies: Umbreon (Renny's) is defeated. Great damage is dealt to Buck (Charlotte's Arcanine). Good damage is dealt to Florescence (Shannon's Leafeon).

Lola slapped her cheeks to build up her rage, then raised her hands above her head, gathering ice power. "I hope you guys like hard nipples!" she shouted, and despite that being a bit inappropriate, Lola didn't seem to notice as she blasted all seven foes with Blizzard. With two doses of Helping Hand on her, the blizzard was extremely powerful, even knocking a couple of bookshelves over. The Mononoke vanished in the chilling gale. Florescence suddenly felt better and stared down the enemy. That seemed to make Shannon much happier. "Yeah! I love you, Renny! I love you, Lola!"
Lola bowed lightly before assuming her battle stance. "Ugh. Something smells like garbage."
The scouters were picking up something from beneath the floorboards. Not Pokémon...

Sol-leks gave Moera another vicious gnashing of its sharp teeth against her soft flesh. There was now a place where one could see the shine of bone in Moera's arm. "I...I can feel it!" she said, smiling like a maniac.
Metagross shuddered against the Fire Blast given by Buck, then crumpled under its own weight. The large body of Metagross turned red and disappeared into Moera's Pokéball. "This is fun!" Moera said joyfully before tossing another Pokéball. An Exeggutor. "Hey, that one's perfect for Florescence," Shannon said. "Fire's good on it, but bug type damage is much better. Still, an order's an order. Chimecho will fall this round, I guarantee. Florescence, X-Scissor! Cacturne, Sucker Punch! Get that Chimecho!"
They got that Chimecho, all right. "Beautiful performance," Moera marveled as she tossed her next Pokéball. Hey, a Girafarig.

Then all hell broke loose when the something tore through the wooden floor and through the carpet. They looked vaguely human, very small bug Pokémon crawled around on their bodies and inside their wounds, and they stank of the decay from several days of decomposition. They seemed to ignore Moera who has close to them and turned their attention to the quartet. "Not even the mansion welcomes you here," Moera giggled. "Prepare to die."
Great. All this mansion needed now was an umbrella logo and an underground laboratory and they'd be set. You vaguely recall newspaper articles of missing trainers and non-trainer civilians, but if the agency wasn't called, there wasn't anything you could do about it. So, this is where they happened to wind up.
"Night of the living Pokémon battle," Shannon said, trying to control her fear at seeing flesh-eating zombies. "I wonder how best to remove these guys?"

Exeggutor (Grass/Psychic) [Male]
Moves: Leaf Storm / Egg Bomb / Giga Drain / Psychic
Ability: Chlorophyll

Girafarig (Normal/Psychic) [Female]
Moves: Crunch / Psychic / Iron Tail / Thunder
Ability: Inner Focus

Zombie (Non-Pokémon Monster)
Appearance: They are most certainly dead people, but that doesn't seem to stop them from moving around. A few of them have open Pokéballs on their belts, suggesting their Pokémon were killed as well when they went rogue and tried to avenge their masters. They don't seem to be the brain-eating type of standard zombies. More like the punching and kicking type. Despite their muscles no longer working, they can fight with the strength of the undead.
Suggested Tactics: An attack that cuts and scores a critical hit (like Florescence's Leaf Blade is very capable of doing) can decapitate the Zombie, killing it instantly. Zombies catch fire easily, and fire seems to be very effective at killing them, but a still-moving Zombie that attacks someone can spread the flames to their victim.

"Die," Moera said before decking Sol-leks with a Focus Blast. Sol-leks disinigrated into energy and returned to Charlotte's Pokéball.
Renny's Umbreon took major damage from the likes of Exeggutor's Leaf Storm and Girafarig's Thunder. Fortunately, Umbreon not only managed to survive, but it wasn't paralyzed.
The zombies were surprisingly strong. One of them slugged Umbreon, taking it out of the fight. Two smashed Buck with vicious punches. The fourth knocked Florescence for a whallop. "Damn, for walking corpses, they pack a lot of physical strength!"