221 – A Coalossal Advantage

221 – A Coalossal Advantage

Ceridwen's colorful flames spluttered off the ceramic spikes Calcine had made, turning them into fiery rainbow pillars. Holding hands, Sparky led Brandy through them at speed, floating playing cards, scything down all around them. Wren was behind the ghostly pirate lady Calico, spitting orders at a furious pace with a breathless enthusiasm that made Brandy proud of her. Stoking Wren's confidence made this battle much harder, but it was worth it. As much as Wren had tried to be Brandy, Brandy had already seen plenty of herself in Wren. She was quick thinking, adored her partners, and was incredibly creative using her Partner's Moves.

Wren cradled her binding ball to her chest as she bounced on her feet, trying to spot Brandy and Sparky through the magical flames. Her eyes weren't as good, and the storms of playing cards certainly didn't help.

"You see Dinah?" Brandy yelled as Sparky used her Electroweb to grab a pillar and use it as a fulcrum to whip them around the edge of the drained pool. Burning Ace of Hearts thundering into the wood behind them. They were trying to get close enough to Calcine to back her up when they fired off her Coalossal evolution, but Ceridwen's constant barrage of attacks wasn't making it easy.

"Oh, don't worry, I've already taken care of the Mimikyu." Sparky cackled as she bounced off a half-melted deckchair and fired off a flurry of webs at the arc of her jump. They stuck onto the Mismagius and began to pull her down to the ground, Ceridwen having to pull her playing cards back to cut herself free. "Trust me! Think about a plan. I got this!"

Sparky tried to turn her webs on Calico, but the sturdy-looking pirate lady just snorted as the electricity crackled along it. Sparky didn't have the strength to pull her over, and Dhelmise was Ghost and Grass Types. Electricity just wasn't very strong against Grass. Calico could weather the shocks as she kept her grip tight on her anchor chain.

Calico's anchor was almost as tall as her, and it looked like it weighed a ton. Calcine was slowly raising it off herself, and if she'd been able to dig her feet in, Brandy knew she'd have freed herself. That was impossible right now; Calico was tugging on the anchor's chain and undoing every bit of progress Calcine made. She had no footing to use Rapid Spin and couldn't reach any of her ceramic pool tile pillars to Rock Tomb herself out. She needed a little help, and they were almost there to give it to her. They just had to avoid getting picked off by Ceridwen or Calico at the last hurdle.

"Bugs! Bugs!" someone yelped and stumbling across the deck came Dinah in her original Wooloo costume. Sparky had used Infestation on it before throwing it into the pool. Now those little yellow bugs were finally getting to use their little chompers. "They're wriggling about in here! Get them out, get them out!"

"Dinah, use Mimic on Calico." Wren called out, "Phantom Force away from those bugs."

Dinah began to shimmer around the edges with a ghostly green light, taking steps that dropped Sparky's bugs out of her costume and onto the deck to explode in little balls of sparks. So Calico could go intangible; good to know; she likely hadn't yet because that'd free Calcine from her anchor.

It still left the problem that the last sprint to Calcine didn't have any fiery pillar cover. Calcine's Smokescreen could fix that, but Brandy wanted to keep their sight advantage. Luckily, there was always a Plan B.

The B was for Bug.

"Can you get their attention more?" Brandy said, giving Sparky a slap on the ass and a big smile. "Just for a few seconds so I can get to Calcine."

"You're asking me to be annoying?" Sparky grinned, wiggling her butt back against Brandy's hand, her fangs sharp against her bottom lip. "You picked the right bug."

Brandy gave Sparky's butt a squeeze for good luck and then crouched, ready to sprint.

"Hey, Ceridwen!" Sparky yelled. "You're a second-rate act. We've got our own witch lady, and she'd make mincemeat of all of you."

"You're judging my act before the grand finale," Ceridwen smirked, her golden eyes glowing under the rim of her wide-brimmed witch hat. "Dinah's almost got her breath back, and you are five orgasms short. That'll mean my Lucky Chant finishes in our favor. Insult me all you want. We're going to have you all on your knees very soon."

"Don't worry, lass," Calico winked. "We'll arrange a threesome with your Trainer and Wren; we can make losing very pleasant."

"That sounds good to me," Wren said, one hand shading her eyes as she tried to scan through the burning mystical fire for them. "Sparky's got a wicked tongue I wouldn't mind a bit more of."

"Honoured! But if you're sure you've won now, you shouldn't be afraid of our third! Let me have her," Sparky said, shooting a web to try to whip the ball out of Wren's hand. She was cut off again by Ceridwen, who was cutting the web with a fan of cards. Wagging a finger at Sparky and tutting before yelping as Sparky snatched her hat off with a second shot, whipping it back and catching it before putting it on with a jaunty rim spin.

It was way too big for her, flopping around on her head as she ran amongst the flaming pillars, cackling manically at her theft. Ceridwen gave an angry hiss, her long, flowing, lilac-tipped hair wavering around.

"I turned a Mismagius back into a Misdreavus! How's that for a trick?" Sparky yelled, running off with one hand held to the hat to keep it on her head.

"I'm head level with your dick," Sparky gulped. "You're massive."

"I am," Calcine grinned, a red heat glowing in her throat. "Isn't that an exciting thought?"

Sparky let out a weak, whimpering sound. "Oh fuck, I can't breathe. I can't breathe."

"Don't you dare faint," Brandy said, leaning over to stroke Sparky's cheek. "Stay strong for me. I can't handle her on my own. It's going to take the two of us."

Sparky just wheezed, fanning herself with a hand.

Playing cards flicked out from the magical flames shrouding the ceramic towers, their sharp edges going right for Calcine's new hair.

"Haul Calico in," Brandy snapped, "And if you got anything new from that, bust it out!"

Calcine yanked on the chain and Calico was hauled off her feet as Calcine snapped a hand to begin wrapping the chain around one arm. She turned to the advancing playing cards, and her hair flowed like shifting lava. The red and black strands intertwined and melted into each other; heat poured down over Calcine like a waterfall as the air itself bubbled, and then, with a loud hiss, jets of thick black tar lanced out from the black parts of Calcine's hair. It sprayed the cards out of the air and splashed all over the floating Ceridwen, splattering all over her purple robe and oozing down into her fishnet stockings. A whimpering moan came from the Mismagius as the muscle-soothing heat seeped into her body, with no easy way to scrape it off, a few beads of sweat rolling down her forehead.

Calcine just hauled Calico off her feet, the ghostly pirate's boots kicking in the air as she lifted her up by the chain to eye level. "I'm going to wrap you up in this chain," Calcine growled. "And fuck you until your voice breaks."

"Uh, uh, uh, Captain?" Calico yelped. "We got a bit of a problem here!"

"Dinah, Baby-Doll Eyes the Coalossal, and go get some of her hair," Wren called. She wasn't giving up. Brandy had really set a seed of determination in her. "Calico just let her have the anchor! Switcheroo, the tar with something."

"They drained all the water, Captain," Calico said as she let go of the chain and skittered back, hands sliding over the floor as she backed up from the towering Calcine. "Only thing that'd work is Dinah!"

"Dinah, make a Substitute for Calico to use and-" Wren's eyes widen, "Calico, Anchor shot right now. The chain! The chain!"

With Calico letting go of the anchor chain, Calcine had used her Rapid spin until it was a whirling steel blur by her side. A meteor hammer that she threw out the moment Wren panicked, following Brandy's outstretched hand for aiming. It wasn't aimed at anyone in the fight but far above Wren's head. Calico grabbing the chain just ended in her being wrenched off her feet and flown back by the sheer force of it. It was her anchor, and she was able to land a boot on the deck and wrench it into a curve that smashed into the deck, one arm of the anchor punching through the wood and planting itself there. Calcine's handprints in the steel were still glowing bright, and Calico shied back from the heat.

Wren let out a sigh of relief. Brandy was sure her heart wouldn't be any calmer after that. She would need a proper breather to calm down and win the Lucky Chant bet, and Brandy wasn't going to give it to her.

"Okay, good," Wren gulped, shaking her head to clear it. "We still got this, stick to the plan and-"

The anchor had been thrown, but while it had flown through the air, Sparky had been right underneath it, running as fast as her Agility-powered little legs could carry her. She leaped and snatched out at Morgan's ball. Wren tumbled back as fast as she could, but Sparky flicked out a web with a triumphant cry and snatched the ball right out of her hand, swinging her web to hammer throw the ball back to Brandy, the web trailing after her as Brandy fielded it with a jump that years of Volleyball had really helped her perfect.

"Stick to the plan!" Wren cried out. "This is going to really suck, but we will fight through this."

With Calico wrestling with her anchor, Dinah made a copy of herself, and as it melted into goo, she Mimic'd Calico's Switcheroo and swapped the tar off Ceridwen, who let out a heated breath and wiped her forehead with the back of her sleeve. "We're not out yet. They've still got to make you cum five times. I don't think they can do it."

"You're doing great, Wren," Brandy said, "But that sounded like a challenge, and well, I know a bird who just can't resist those sorts of things."

Brandy threw the binding ball directly at Calcine's chest, and the binding ball sunk into her cleavage as it popped open. She would need to apologize to Morgan later for leaving her so late in the order, but she could at least give her one hell of an entrance.

It'd be hard to steal the show from Calcine right now, but if anyone could do it, it'd be Morgan.