I smile confidently when I realize that I’d managed to both damage the two enemy pokemon [i]and[/i] give them status effects, using their own abilities against them. If anyone asks me afterwards, I totally meant to do that. I consider turning around and doing another cool pose, but I didn’t really win the fight yet, so they’d probably just hit me with some horrible attack while I had my back turned. [i]It’d be[/i] really [i]stylish if I managed to pull it off, though... Like, SSS-levels of stylish...[/i] Nina manages to snap me out of my tangent by saying something, though it predictably gets cut off by the Interrupting Rival Squad.

	“Nina,” I say to her urgently. “We can’t convince them of anything until we beat them up! It’s like, a rule or something. [sub]Between you and Levita it’s like-[/sub] OH ARCEUS IT’S IN MY HAIR!” I’d heard that Leech Seed wasn’t exactly a pleasant attack to be on the receiving end of, and man, whoever said that was totally right. The feeling of having your vitality slowly and constantly drained out of you is less insanely, agonizingly painful than insanely, agonizingly creepy. 

	“[color=f49ac2]WHAT BREED OF EVIL ARE YOU?![/color]” I ask the Shroomish in a very [u]Disarming[/u] tone of [u]Voice[/u]. “[color=f49ac2]YOU… [b]DEMENTED PUFFBALL![/b][/color]” I try to use Confusion on the Shroomish again, but it’s not nearly as powerful as it was before. It was probably due to some mix of me having neglected to train all that much and currently having a conniption like never before, and I think Nina's badly hurt, but it’s kind of hard to care all that much about these things when you’re being attacked by eldritch demon seeds.