Claire
Amidst her fleeing, Claire's eyes flickered with decisiveness, it was time. Spinning on her heels, she thrust her arm forward directing the perched Poke like a wrist held blaster. "Alright Tessy, light em up!"
As it's flame flared to life, the Cyndaquil charged and fired a single shot of Flame Burst. The flames scattered, plunging onto the smoke stacks behind her. This was not an attempt to use the smoke as cover for her attack, instead, this was pulling the pin of a grenade. As the flames plunged into the smokes they smoldered, reacting until the residual traces of combustible material speckled within the cloud suddenly reignited. It took but a small spark for the who cloud to erupt with boundless fury, small, but consecutive, smoke explosions rattling the lab. They were by no means powerful, but the would give pause to any would be pursuers or even attempts to exit the laboratory. But even more importantly, they were a signal.
Her Pokemon all mobilized almost simultaneously! The first to take action was Chysa, the electrifying ewe charging up another Electro-ball which, with a whip of her tail, went spiraling into the iron grates the protected one of the Lab's ventilation systems. With a resounding explosion, the grate was blown from its hinges. It would've been immediately noticeable, had there not been tens of other explosions peppering the outsides of the lab. Following suite, sweeping down from the skies like a drifting leaf, tracing the billowing smoke stacks which slowly poured from the vent in the lab, Eclair forced her way through the square entrance that Chysa had just freed up. While the Cottonee made its way through the vents, Chysa returned to lining the windows with Cotton Spores. After she did, she would give the windows a hefty tackle, creating distinct thuds that again had been masked by the surrounding explosions.
Shaken loose by the tackle, the windows fell one by one, slamming shut. That one, would definitely be noticed. But alas, it would not matter. The sticky Cotton Spores sealed the windows to their planes. they would not be opening in short order. Claire's plan was half-done, but every great plan was met with fierce resistance. Slipping out of the Lab just before the explosions had gone off, was a sole Riolu who moved to pin Chysa with a Force palm. While Claire was much too far to notice this, someone did. Even as the Riolu had exited the Lab, it'd been noticed by Millhiore who'd remained in her leafy abode. Eyes glittering with the will to fight, Millhiore moved to intercept, meeting Force Palm with Force Palm. By all accounts, the two fighting types should've been near equals, however, prior to this, Millhiore had been using Meditate and thus was in peak fighting form, the might of her attacks having been pushed beyond the norm.
As the Martial Pokemon foiled the would-be obstruction, Chysa scampered off to complete her tasks, sealing windows shut one by one. Soon enough, the preparations had been completed and Claire's plan kicked into Phase two. Unbeknownst to the Industria admin, her plans would go even better than initially expected. Due to the Riolu's exit of the building and subsequent engagement with Millhiore, the resistance now lacked a Pokemon capable of sensing to location of Eclair, who by this point in time, had nestled herself into the ventilation ducts above the lab. From there, the Cotton puffed released wave after wave of Stun Spore. The debilitating grass type move was known to induce symptoms of high fever in both people and Pokemon, stopping them dead in their tracks.
With its scent masked by the thick smell of sulfur in the air -the result of the smoke and soot-stained walls from Claire's initial smokescreen as well as new coats of soot cast by the outside explosions- the paralyzing spores were almost undetectable. Nevertheless, it wouldn't have mattered much even if it had been detected, as by that time it would've been far too late. Following on the tail of the now airborne Stun Spore, was a gust of Fairy Wind. The follow-up Fairy move immediately carried the Stun Spore along, pushing it throughout the Lab in a matter of seconds. With the windows closed, the spores had no where to escape to.
Even if there had been avenues of exit for the spores, Claire figured that the people inside the lab would've have been hit with the spores regardless, after all the spores need to be in the room before they could be expelled through the windows. With the swift and aggressive diffusion of the spores by the Fairy Wind, the Industria admin was fairly confident she would hit most, if not all, of the Lab's occupants. Of course, while she hadn't accounted for a Honchkrow being among the enemies numbers, the consistent flapping of its wings also helped -ever so slightly- to diffuse the descending spores.
By Claire's speculation, her ploy should've subdued a fair number of her enemies, and following that, stealing the starters would be as easy as taking candy from a baby -If said baby lay paralyzed from a Stun Spore. Raising her hand to her mouth she stifled a fit of giggles. Rowan should've taken her offer and left the Starters on the roof. Now, he would learn. They would all learn. Claire Argentia Senica De Lune, the Cumulus Marchioness, was not to be trifled with!
