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Lumiose tower is crumpling around them, 28 shiny silver balls floating above the ledge in place heavy breathing fills the air along with many growls and angry hisses are spat towards the balls and one of the humans, Alain dark black hair blowing in the wind white top grey from rubble fluffy blue scarf trying to blow away.
Pain throbbing from his shoulders from fighting to curl up in a ball when the ray of extreme pain and rage hit him is overshadowed tempearly by by the echoing blast squirming throughout his body.
Then without warning the orbs release their captives six pokemon. Talonflame glares at all who come near her, flapping furiously. Noverien stands nervously of to the side weary glances around them. Griningea nimbly lands on the edge exhusted but ready with shirken. Halutcha glides over to the ledge fists ready to attack if needed looking all around. Goodra awakedly pushes as far on to the ledge as possible trying her best not to fall. Pikachu stands facing away from ash towards alain checks sparking dangerously.
Dropping heavily to the ground shoulders and hips popped painfully out of place as ash lies there crumpled on the ground out of it. Unaware he is now free as his pokemon look worriedly on alain steps towards him guilt and worry fighting for space on his face as pikachu sparks and grininga starts to glare towards him.
Alain gently grasps ash's body, muttering "I'm sorry, I'm sorry" over and over again as he ignores the threats at his back that promise pain for him if he does anything the pokemon believe to be wrong, pushing in his right shoulder with an audible click.
Without warning alain is attacked not from behind him but beside him from the person he just started to help a sudden unstable but strong punch to his nose happens as ash looks around unseeing. Alan's nose starts dripping red, red even more red as ash flinches back with a strong fullbodyed gasp pain that had been dieing down now reerrupting as all ash can see is red. Red of the beam, red of what must be his or his pokemon's blood. Left shoulder hanging uselessly next to him, legs pulling listlessly downwards trying to distract from the much more painful flowing of mega energy currpting his aura slowly consuming as his right arm is up ready to attack though the rest of him quivers violently in fear and everlasting seeming pain. Quiet barely there "ows" escape his lips and then louder his normal volume but as aggressive as he was towards lysandere " No I will not help you, please stop, you're dispicable"
Carefully and slowly alain crouches towards ash trying to be as unthreating as possible as he traps ash in a more careful imitation of how a parent might trap a child trying to not have their hair brushed, legs crossed over ash's wrapped round his hips arms holding him like a hug preventing him to get away he gently pushes back ash's left arm keeping his right trapped.
Pop click.
Both arms back in ash has slightly less pain on his face now still there because there is so much that has happened. Menovering so ash's left leg is out of the grip but the rest of ash is still contained alain glances up to check why he hasn't been attacked yet and spots charizard blocking the way to the two of them though talonflame is standing on this side of charizard a disgruntled glare wings spread as a clear indecation the others might be blocked but I will still take joy in ripping your eyes out if you hurt him in more ways then to just get him back into his body. Relenting to that threat alain looks away from those sharp calculating eyes and back towards ash figuring out how to sort his legs.
Ash is slightly more to himself now eyes still mostly unseeing but able to recognise the feel of alain's scarf at his back. But he doesn't react more then a mumbled greeting. Alain agnolges this greeting with a nod and then gets back to trying to pop back in ash's left leg grabbing above and just under ash's knee and just tugging up towards him and he's torsos.
Alain's nose continues to drip drip drip blood on the two of them mixing with the grime from their earlier battle and also from the rooftop they are on, ash's clothes charred by the beam that was made to control a legend and from the over excited attacks from his eagar pokemon before this mess, thankfully as alain is behind him now he can't be sent spiralling because of it as much believing now he is more present it is just water. Though alain is Trying not to get his nose bleed on ash he is greatly struggling as he is being addement in keeping the position so that ash doesn't wrench any of his limbs back out of place or his right leg even more out. Shifting his position slightly so that ash's legs switch which is free from the lock alain takes a glance back towards talonflame to see if she is gearing up to attack yet and a bright flash of dirty yellow ends up in his perifremal vision at some point pikachu had escaped charizard's surctany and snuck towards ash. Anger clear in his body but eyes showing understanding and thankfullness even as he joins talonflame in standing to attention and ready to tear a new one into the humans(though which one alain is not sure).
Taking a deep breath and forcing ash to have one as well alain looks back towards ash's remaining out of place limb and grabbing under and over the knee tugs it back into place then carefully menovers ash so his body is stretching out in almost half arms near to toes as ash shifts defient but does the stretch anyway but not without a sharp elbow to alain's ribs. Ash is now mostly co-hearent and pushes the still encompassesing pain down a steal box placed around it mentally ignoring it strongly.
Bright smile on his face ash properly greets alain and his pokemon almost as if nothing happened if they weren't there they would never have been able to guess he was just tortured by something meant to control a legendary. Or that he had been held in the air against his will wrenching out his limbs.