Post by Tanis on Apr 29, 2018 21:47:19 GMT
The ironic twist that has come from the two and a half Solarbeams that Tanis has used so far, is that they've all been used while under the influence of Overgrow. In that regard, it could be considered that he could actually only use that attack while under duress and in that state. That unfortunately is not true, it's largely based on the situation that causes that to be the case. While makes his Solarbeam equally more an appealing attack than it is any other attack, is that it's so easy for him to use! His natural affinity to sunlight gives him an aptitude that permits him easy access to gathering up solar energy not only for the attack itself, but also in general in order to maintain himself. Admittedly it doesn't assist him for longevity for taking damage in battle, as the Absol promptly proved here today. But it did give him ample fuel to keep the pressure going, especially during the stand-off. Intended or otherwise, it is actually substantially difficult to maintain a Solarbeam charge for a constant amount of time that's long than is usually required to gather enough to fire the thing off. Doing something along the lines of maintaining it for longer requires a lot of practice and time to keep that up. What helps his cause in that regard, is that Tanis can charge himself up without thinking too much about it or exerting himself to an extreme length in order to perform it. It's a strong attack as even the Absol would admit to, but strong attacks typically come with consequences if you're not strong enough in yourself to use it appropriately. Like the Absol's Future Sight, another strong attack, it required time to pull off, which was exactly the case for Solarbeam. Yet, as the dust settled and the post-mortem is delivered, with the smoking line crater and the target thrown off-course, the penalty is somewhat eliminated if the time was already taken to charge the thing up prematurely. So despite the fact that Tanis has only actually used the attack, technically, three times, how is it he's able to control it to such a high standard as to maintain its charge for a longer time period than normal?
Sadly, Tanis doesn't know the answer to that one...
It wasn't entirely his intention to lift Meadow up off the ground as he placed his paw on her and pulled her a little closer to him. The original intent was to try and combine themselves as much as possible, so it was a guarantee to know where that Hex attack was going. Since his plan for his Solarbeam being in two parts involved nullifying the attack coming their way, he had to ensure it was going to hit it! At that moment of the third eye forming, he wasn't entirely sure who was being targeted. Because Meadow was in front of him at the time, he suspected it was her, which made it all the more important that he got closer. At the same time, he couldn't fire the shot from behind her, as that would no doubt put her into the firing line as well, and it didn't seem appropriate that she's be forced to get out of the way when he could simply move himself and ensure she didn't get in its path. Which was the other reason he did it. By 'grabbing' her and keeping her in place, so to speak, he could guarantee that she wasn't getting in the way, and thusly he could unleash the full force of his Solarbeam without needing to concern himself with her own safety. In benefitted for two purposes. Firstly, he knew where she was, so he knew where not to fire it. Secondly, he knew that the Absol would need to approach him as well if he wanted to get to her. That particular task would be a much more greater problem if there was a white-hot beam in-between them. What he didn't expect, however, was that Meadow would be so light-weight. The difference between the pair's heights, while there, wasn't really by all that much, so he suspected that she would weight roughly about the same as he did, perhaps a little lighter, but not by a great deal. She still had a portion of weight, of that there was no question. But Tanis' battle-esque demeanour alongside the numerous amounts of them he's been in has done a fair bit in terms of his body's body tone. While hardly comparing to a Pokémon like the Absol of course, he realized right then that he could carry Meadow. Not exactly by one arm, but he felt confident he could carry her a ways if worst comes to worst. He learned something new here today.
She was granted some time to revel at what Tanis was doing, which granted her a clear view of just how Tanis generated the beam in his mouth to fire his Solarbeam. Intense is indeed one word that could be used to describe it. Grass type attacks could indeed be classed as moves that harboured the very power of nature and utilized it in their attacks. Tanis' Absorb uses a seed, a variant that works with him, Razor Leaf is another good and classic example. The list is numerous and could go on for ages. Solarbeam, meanwhile, is another good example of nature running through its course, as it utilized the very sun itself and drawing its essence and light into a material, plasma, form. Meadow didn't dare watch the actual use itself in fear of the light blinding her, which was a fair testament considering how close she was to it. Still, perhaps still a relief that she was not in the front-end of the attack itself, then she might've had serious problems closing her eyes at it. An issue that the Absol unfortunately didn't have the luxury of having. That was the intended purpose as far as Tanis was concerned though. It was the strongest move in his repertoire, and it showed. For him, it's a very unique move, as he's never seen another Pokémon ever use it, so he doesn't actually have anyone else to compare the move to, to see if his form is right or if it's as effective as it could be. He based his findings purely on the results that he generates himself, which, as may be obvious by now, is quite devastating, inefficient or not.
To the Absol's credit, he didn't waste any of his time trying to talk his way out of the impending doom that was coming his way. The Hex nullifying worked precisely as Tanis suspected that it would. He held confident that his Solarbeam could hold out and out-strengthen the ghost-type attack. There was still a flaw in his calculations, in that his own attack was weakened as a direct result of clashing with the Hex attack. He wasn't too overly concerned about it overall, feeling that he still had the upper-paw in the whole ordeal, especially when he saw the Absol abandon his attack and started bolting to the side in attempts to avoid it. The Solarbeam that continued on its course where the Absol once stood completely vaporized what remained of the Hex attack, including the third eye, which disintegrated almost instantly within the might of the sun itself! With that crisis averted, the attention then went to the dodging dark-type whom despite having the time he needed to initially avoid its influence, was actually doing a sizeable job of avoiding its influence, which didn't do Tanis' mood any better. Why couldn't the guy just stand still and accept his punishment? Perishing speedy Pokémon... Which was an ironic thought, since he did consider himself as among that exact category. The issue that the Absol had created upon himself, is that he tethered himself in going in one general direction. With the beam that followed him effectively blocking him from going in one direction and limited his angles to an effective 180 degrees, there was effectively only one way he was actually going to go to avoid the incoming blast. This was what Tanis pried on.
Before he became a real thorn in the Absol's side, Tanis had thrown a stick from a-top the rock wall he had climbed that he predicted would be at the location that the dark type would be at once it arrived to hit him. It was a hap-hazard attempt, but one that worked to a startling degree. Before the Absol was aware of it, the stick had jabbed him lightly square in the back, which proved two things. First, that throwing sticks wasn't quite as effective as Tanis first thought they'd be thrown from that distance. Secondly, that he had some decent prediction skills when it came to where Pokémon would be. That was what he used and unveiled once more with his Solarbeam. Realizing that the Absol would go in a specific direction, and was otherwise cut-off from going anywhere else, Tanis sharply changed the beam's course so it would head in the direction that the dark-type was headed. Things went exactly as he thought they would, until he noticed one almost fatal-flaw with that plan: The Absol was watching him. He likely saw the sudden change in the beam's course, and skidded to a halt the millisecond before the beam reached him. Thus, instead of getting hit by the main course of the blast headed his way, the Absol took a grazed hit instead. Caught where the Overgrow was shining brightest, the scythe-wielder got struck on his side, which had an immediately impact as soon as he took the hit. In a similar aspect to how the Growlithe took it, he was sent soaring, easily at least a few feet, into a nearby thicket that was spared the Solarbeam's wrath thanks to the tree that was nearby shielding it. Tanis saw the impact immediately, and really wanted to continue blasting his Solarbeam in that direction, hopefully with a changed angle so it could bypass that tree. But sadly, it was on the tail-end of his attack, and he couldn't maintain it any more. The Absol could really count himself lucky that he avoided it for so long until the last couple of seconds of its use. If he could've held out that last stretch, he'd have full-rein on both of them, with Tanis now out of juice and incapable of using a Solarbeam at the present moment, it would be impossible for him to have charged up another one in time to stop the dark-type from doing something before Tanis could stop him.
Even after having set-up back into his stance, Tanis knew that this Absol, if he actually tried, could be a really powerful and terrifying killer that was perfectly capable of beating him in a battle, perhaps even both him and Meadow. He seemed to be doing a good job of it when the two of them were going after him the first time around, maintaining his dominance, so to speak, by effectively bringing the pair of them down, albeit separately and not for as long as he might have hoped. Getting struck by that Solarbeam, however, may very well have turned the tides on the overall battle. It was only for a trace amount of time, but if the flight that he took as a result of it was anything to go by, that should have bought him to approximately Tanis' own state, if not slightly worse off. But to answer the lingering question that left the Absol immobilized in that thicket he fell in, no, Tanis didn't think that he was dead by any stretch of the imagination. He felt that the dark type was much too strong for something like that to do him in so suddenly. If he took the full force of the Solarbeam for its entire duration, that would be a different matter, but just a small taster? No... Tanis didn't believe it would, hence why he remained battle ready and prepared for what to do next. His original plan was to maybe charge up for another one, or perhaps face him in a physical confrontation again and force the fight against himself. It didn't quite work last time, but he learned from that mistake and wouldn't fall for it again. But as a single second turned into five, the Absol didn't budge from his position. In fact, it didn't even look like he did move from the moment he slid into that thicket. Was he alright?
... Well, whatever. It was of no concern to Tanis. As far as he could tell, he had dispatched, if only temporarily, of Absol. And as much of a pain it was to actually inject a fight out of him, it did prove to be somewhat enjoyable if nothing else. But the fact that it was a fight to the death, and not a battle for the sake of battling was disconcerting, as it is for all fights done that way. Battles where lives are involved are not as much fun as they may be if it's a battle for dominance or a friendly skirmish with no risk involved. Staying in his stance, he eyed Meadow briefly before turning back to the mess of white fur in the thicket in the distance. The difference in this case wasn't so much that it was a battle to the death, but that it was her that was battling to the death, and not himself. The Absol made it perfectly clear that he wanted to kill her for the purpose of conforming to his natural order, and maybe there is some logic in his mind that has it make sense, somehow. But the fact was, she was the one being targeted. If it was Tanis he was after, then the situation would be much different, and he would stick this out to its bitter conclusion, one way or the other. He got involved with all of this primarily because he could see a fight coming, not to mention that Meadow was getting unwillingly involved. Yet since he's been here, she's proven herself to be much more stronger and courageous than he suspects even she's aware of. As timid as she may have seemed when they first met, not to mention talkative to boot, she has proven to him today that she is capable of handling herself in a battle, even so much as going to extreme lengths to defend herself. He did wonder why she wouldn't do that originally before he arrived, but that was of little consequence at this time. She has helped him both when they first met, and here on this situation they found themselves in, even if he did leap in head-first as well as instigated the fight first. She pushed the fight a second time and helped get them into the heap that the Absol was in right now. She can fight with words as well as with her moves, and she definitely defended him with both. The result didn't matter to him: She still did it, and selflessly.
Meadow is a true friend!
He was still somewhat on the fence about her after their first meeting, finding her a little chatty, but otherwise helpful and intrigued by the Treecko line. He didn't know when she considered him as a friend herself, likely earlier than he'd even considered, but he did feel as though she at the very least trusted him enough to go as far as lifting her up without a word of protest, and to then ensure he was okay after he fired the Solarbeam. He was fine, fortunately, just a little winded. He still had plenty more to give. If she was willing to go that far, then how could he not consider her as an ally to his cause? In that single decision, his priorities in the situation he bought himself in changed. His desire to continue the fight was indeed still very much there, and he did want to put the Absol in his place and perform the want that he wanted to do to him: Slay him dead right there and then. This, however, was Meadow's fight, and not his. Her intentions were clear from the outset: She wanted nothing to do with any of it, but she was forced to, and she still didn't want to be involved with the Absol any longer than she had to. That meant only one thing. It was a decision he never would've truly considered had it just been him on his own, or with a duty to perform. However, the scenario has changed. Friends, as far as he was concerned, overrode many aspects of himself, in a similar way to how he performed Favors for others. The key difference is that this is not specifically a Favor that he's performing here persay, but something that a friend in need desires, and it's something that he can deliver on. So, that leaves him with only one thing to do.
In roughly a similar manner to how Meadow had done so, Tanis also hunched down on all fours, although the reason was for a different on than what she had in mind. He took the couple of paces that he took away from Meadow to close the distance between them again, now hunched over directly next to her. With the Absol temporarily out of service and, for lack of a better phrase, awaiting his fate from the pair, Tanis couldn't think of a better time to leave than now. Although his back was still coated in the three scratch marks that had partially healed with thanks to his Absorb that he'd used previously, his Overgrow was doing a superb job of coating them up alongside the rest of his body. They're still very much there, but he didn't feel any irritation from them. Not at the moment at least. With Meadow's foot out of commission, as Tanis suspected was the case considering what she'd been doing, he'd have to do the heavy-lifting as well as the moving. Meadow proved to him that he could handle her weight, at least for a while, so it was simply a matter of being her green pony, in the literal sense. With his left paw, he prodded her lightly on whatever part of her was nearest to get her attention. He continued to remain facing the Absol's direction, his eyes on the scene that remained otherwise unchanged at that moment. He whispered to Meadow once he realized he had her attention. "Let's go, while we still can..." As uncharacteristic as that sounded coming from Tanis, of all Pokémon, she was the one who wanted to leave. He would hopefully be capable of doing that for her, if not by running normally, than by another method. "Hop on, and hold on tight!" It was whispered more as a request rather than a command. Which he dearly hoped she'd accept, not because he felt she couldn't run herself, but because he had a plan in mind to separate them both from the Absol quickly. Tanis begun tensing his body up and preparing himself with his Quick Attack, that would be what he'd use to separate them. He would have a solid headstart should the Absol attempt to pursue. All he needed was for Meadow to get on his back and hold onto him tightly. Because once he started going at his Quick Attack speed, the velocity she'd be pressured with was going to get just as intense as his Solarbeam. Though maybe she's been within its influence before? Tanis didn't know, but she will be in a couple of seconds!
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Solution! :3 I apologize if I hyped up or over-powered the Solarbeam just a bit there. I am a bit prone to overdoing attacks that are really powerful on their own! I think you both played it perfectly, my hat is off to you both!
Now, for the exiting stage of the plan! :v
Sadly, Tanis doesn't know the answer to that one...
It wasn't entirely his intention to lift Meadow up off the ground as he placed his paw on her and pulled her a little closer to him. The original intent was to try and combine themselves as much as possible, so it was a guarantee to know where that Hex attack was going. Since his plan for his Solarbeam being in two parts involved nullifying the attack coming their way, he had to ensure it was going to hit it! At that moment of the third eye forming, he wasn't entirely sure who was being targeted. Because Meadow was in front of him at the time, he suspected it was her, which made it all the more important that he got closer. At the same time, he couldn't fire the shot from behind her, as that would no doubt put her into the firing line as well, and it didn't seem appropriate that she's be forced to get out of the way when he could simply move himself and ensure she didn't get in its path. Which was the other reason he did it. By 'grabbing' her and keeping her in place, so to speak, he could guarantee that she wasn't getting in the way, and thusly he could unleash the full force of his Solarbeam without needing to concern himself with her own safety. In benefitted for two purposes. Firstly, he knew where she was, so he knew where not to fire it. Secondly, he knew that the Absol would need to approach him as well if he wanted to get to her. That particular task would be a much more greater problem if there was a white-hot beam in-between them. What he didn't expect, however, was that Meadow would be so light-weight. The difference between the pair's heights, while there, wasn't really by all that much, so he suspected that she would weight roughly about the same as he did, perhaps a little lighter, but not by a great deal. She still had a portion of weight, of that there was no question. But Tanis' battle-esque demeanour alongside the numerous amounts of them he's been in has done a fair bit in terms of his body's body tone. While hardly comparing to a Pokémon like the Absol of course, he realized right then that he could carry Meadow. Not exactly by one arm, but he felt confident he could carry her a ways if worst comes to worst. He learned something new here today.
She was granted some time to revel at what Tanis was doing, which granted her a clear view of just how Tanis generated the beam in his mouth to fire his Solarbeam. Intense is indeed one word that could be used to describe it. Grass type attacks could indeed be classed as moves that harboured the very power of nature and utilized it in their attacks. Tanis' Absorb uses a seed, a variant that works with him, Razor Leaf is another good and classic example. The list is numerous and could go on for ages. Solarbeam, meanwhile, is another good example of nature running through its course, as it utilized the very sun itself and drawing its essence and light into a material, plasma, form. Meadow didn't dare watch the actual use itself in fear of the light blinding her, which was a fair testament considering how close she was to it. Still, perhaps still a relief that she was not in the front-end of the attack itself, then she might've had serious problems closing her eyes at it. An issue that the Absol unfortunately didn't have the luxury of having. That was the intended purpose as far as Tanis was concerned though. It was the strongest move in his repertoire, and it showed. For him, it's a very unique move, as he's never seen another Pokémon ever use it, so he doesn't actually have anyone else to compare the move to, to see if his form is right or if it's as effective as it could be. He based his findings purely on the results that he generates himself, which, as may be obvious by now, is quite devastating, inefficient or not.
To the Absol's credit, he didn't waste any of his time trying to talk his way out of the impending doom that was coming his way. The Hex nullifying worked precisely as Tanis suspected that it would. He held confident that his Solarbeam could hold out and out-strengthen the ghost-type attack. There was still a flaw in his calculations, in that his own attack was weakened as a direct result of clashing with the Hex attack. He wasn't too overly concerned about it overall, feeling that he still had the upper-paw in the whole ordeal, especially when he saw the Absol abandon his attack and started bolting to the side in attempts to avoid it. The Solarbeam that continued on its course where the Absol once stood completely vaporized what remained of the Hex attack, including the third eye, which disintegrated almost instantly within the might of the sun itself! With that crisis averted, the attention then went to the dodging dark-type whom despite having the time he needed to initially avoid its influence, was actually doing a sizeable job of avoiding its influence, which didn't do Tanis' mood any better. Why couldn't the guy just stand still and accept his punishment? Perishing speedy Pokémon... Which was an ironic thought, since he did consider himself as among that exact category. The issue that the Absol had created upon himself, is that he tethered himself in going in one general direction. With the beam that followed him effectively blocking him from going in one direction and limited his angles to an effective 180 degrees, there was effectively only one way he was actually going to go to avoid the incoming blast. This was what Tanis pried on.
Before he became a real thorn in the Absol's side, Tanis had thrown a stick from a-top the rock wall he had climbed that he predicted would be at the location that the dark type would be at once it arrived to hit him. It was a hap-hazard attempt, but one that worked to a startling degree. Before the Absol was aware of it, the stick had jabbed him lightly square in the back, which proved two things. First, that throwing sticks wasn't quite as effective as Tanis first thought they'd be thrown from that distance. Secondly, that he had some decent prediction skills when it came to where Pokémon would be. That was what he used and unveiled once more with his Solarbeam. Realizing that the Absol would go in a specific direction, and was otherwise cut-off from going anywhere else, Tanis sharply changed the beam's course so it would head in the direction that the dark-type was headed. Things went exactly as he thought they would, until he noticed one almost fatal-flaw with that plan: The Absol was watching him. He likely saw the sudden change in the beam's course, and skidded to a halt the millisecond before the beam reached him. Thus, instead of getting hit by the main course of the blast headed his way, the Absol took a grazed hit instead. Caught where the Overgrow was shining brightest, the scythe-wielder got struck on his side, which had an immediately impact as soon as he took the hit. In a similar aspect to how the Growlithe took it, he was sent soaring, easily at least a few feet, into a nearby thicket that was spared the Solarbeam's wrath thanks to the tree that was nearby shielding it. Tanis saw the impact immediately, and really wanted to continue blasting his Solarbeam in that direction, hopefully with a changed angle so it could bypass that tree. But sadly, it was on the tail-end of his attack, and he couldn't maintain it any more. The Absol could really count himself lucky that he avoided it for so long until the last couple of seconds of its use. If he could've held out that last stretch, he'd have full-rein on both of them, with Tanis now out of juice and incapable of using a Solarbeam at the present moment, it would be impossible for him to have charged up another one in time to stop the dark-type from doing something before Tanis could stop him.
Even after having set-up back into his stance, Tanis knew that this Absol, if he actually tried, could be a really powerful and terrifying killer that was perfectly capable of beating him in a battle, perhaps even both him and Meadow. He seemed to be doing a good job of it when the two of them were going after him the first time around, maintaining his dominance, so to speak, by effectively bringing the pair of them down, albeit separately and not for as long as he might have hoped. Getting struck by that Solarbeam, however, may very well have turned the tides on the overall battle. It was only for a trace amount of time, but if the flight that he took as a result of it was anything to go by, that should have bought him to approximately Tanis' own state, if not slightly worse off. But to answer the lingering question that left the Absol immobilized in that thicket he fell in, no, Tanis didn't think that he was dead by any stretch of the imagination. He felt that the dark type was much too strong for something like that to do him in so suddenly. If he took the full force of the Solarbeam for its entire duration, that would be a different matter, but just a small taster? No... Tanis didn't believe it would, hence why he remained battle ready and prepared for what to do next. His original plan was to maybe charge up for another one, or perhaps face him in a physical confrontation again and force the fight against himself. It didn't quite work last time, but he learned from that mistake and wouldn't fall for it again. But as a single second turned into five, the Absol didn't budge from his position. In fact, it didn't even look like he did move from the moment he slid into that thicket. Was he alright?
... Well, whatever. It was of no concern to Tanis. As far as he could tell, he had dispatched, if only temporarily, of Absol. And as much of a pain it was to actually inject a fight out of him, it did prove to be somewhat enjoyable if nothing else. But the fact that it was a fight to the death, and not a battle for the sake of battling was disconcerting, as it is for all fights done that way. Battles where lives are involved are not as much fun as they may be if it's a battle for dominance or a friendly skirmish with no risk involved. Staying in his stance, he eyed Meadow briefly before turning back to the mess of white fur in the thicket in the distance. The difference in this case wasn't so much that it was a battle to the death, but that it was her that was battling to the death, and not himself. The Absol made it perfectly clear that he wanted to kill her for the purpose of conforming to his natural order, and maybe there is some logic in his mind that has it make sense, somehow. But the fact was, she was the one being targeted. If it was Tanis he was after, then the situation would be much different, and he would stick this out to its bitter conclusion, one way or the other. He got involved with all of this primarily because he could see a fight coming, not to mention that Meadow was getting unwillingly involved. Yet since he's been here, she's proven herself to be much more stronger and courageous than he suspects even she's aware of. As timid as she may have seemed when they first met, not to mention talkative to boot, she has proven to him today that she is capable of handling herself in a battle, even so much as going to extreme lengths to defend herself. He did wonder why she wouldn't do that originally before he arrived, but that was of little consequence at this time. She has helped him both when they first met, and here on this situation they found themselves in, even if he did leap in head-first as well as instigated the fight first. She pushed the fight a second time and helped get them into the heap that the Absol was in right now. She can fight with words as well as with her moves, and she definitely defended him with both. The result didn't matter to him: She still did it, and selflessly.
Meadow is a true friend!
He was still somewhat on the fence about her after their first meeting, finding her a little chatty, but otherwise helpful and intrigued by the Treecko line. He didn't know when she considered him as a friend herself, likely earlier than he'd even considered, but he did feel as though she at the very least trusted him enough to go as far as lifting her up without a word of protest, and to then ensure he was okay after he fired the Solarbeam. He was fine, fortunately, just a little winded. He still had plenty more to give. If she was willing to go that far, then how could he not consider her as an ally to his cause? In that single decision, his priorities in the situation he bought himself in changed. His desire to continue the fight was indeed still very much there, and he did want to put the Absol in his place and perform the want that he wanted to do to him: Slay him dead right there and then. This, however, was Meadow's fight, and not his. Her intentions were clear from the outset: She wanted nothing to do with any of it, but she was forced to, and she still didn't want to be involved with the Absol any longer than she had to. That meant only one thing. It was a decision he never would've truly considered had it just been him on his own, or with a duty to perform. However, the scenario has changed. Friends, as far as he was concerned, overrode many aspects of himself, in a similar way to how he performed Favors for others. The key difference is that this is not specifically a Favor that he's performing here persay, but something that a friend in need desires, and it's something that he can deliver on. So, that leaves him with only one thing to do.
In roughly a similar manner to how Meadow had done so, Tanis also hunched down on all fours, although the reason was for a different on than what she had in mind. He took the couple of paces that he took away from Meadow to close the distance between them again, now hunched over directly next to her. With the Absol temporarily out of service and, for lack of a better phrase, awaiting his fate from the pair, Tanis couldn't think of a better time to leave than now. Although his back was still coated in the three scratch marks that had partially healed with thanks to his Absorb that he'd used previously, his Overgrow was doing a superb job of coating them up alongside the rest of his body. They're still very much there, but he didn't feel any irritation from them. Not at the moment at least. With Meadow's foot out of commission, as Tanis suspected was the case considering what she'd been doing, he'd have to do the heavy-lifting as well as the moving. Meadow proved to him that he could handle her weight, at least for a while, so it was simply a matter of being her green pony, in the literal sense. With his left paw, he prodded her lightly on whatever part of her was nearest to get her attention. He continued to remain facing the Absol's direction, his eyes on the scene that remained otherwise unchanged at that moment. He whispered to Meadow once he realized he had her attention. "Let's go, while we still can..." As uncharacteristic as that sounded coming from Tanis, of all Pokémon, she was the one who wanted to leave. He would hopefully be capable of doing that for her, if not by running normally, than by another method. "Hop on, and hold on tight!" It was whispered more as a request rather than a command. Which he dearly hoped she'd accept, not because he felt she couldn't run herself, but because he had a plan in mind to separate them both from the Absol quickly. Tanis begun tensing his body up and preparing himself with his Quick Attack, that would be what he'd use to separate them. He would have a solid headstart should the Absol attempt to pursue. All he needed was for Meadow to get on his back and hold onto him tightly. Because once he started going at his Quick Attack speed, the velocity she'd be pressured with was going to get just as intense as his Solarbeam. Though maybe she's been within its influence before? Tanis didn't know, but she will be in a couple of seconds!
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Solution! :3 I apologize if I hyped up or over-powered the Solarbeam just a bit there. I am a bit prone to overdoing attacks that are really powerful on their own! I think you both played it perfectly, my hat is off to you both!
Now, for the exiting stage of the plan! :v