Arctus mused to himself, that was an Elekid, his Totodile was going to be at a typing disadvantage, however such a strength would only be a problem if his Totodile was struck. Marcus the Totodile stepped up into the space between the trainers just as the Elekid did. It seemed confident.

"Marcus use Water Gun in short bursts", he ordered. The Totodile began pelting short bursts of water at the Elekid, allowing it to better readjust aim depending on how the opponent decided to move. It was a sacrifice of power but it had other reasons to be used this way.

This was Lucy and Elekid's first battle, so of course she's a bit nervous. Not that she'll admit it that is. Their first opponent is a tototile, type wise, she should have the advantage here. But she can't let that get to her head, it takes more than a type weakness to beat someone, especially an experienced trainer with a badge. The enemy struck first with a water gun attack but that was fine.

"Zap, counter with your Quick Attack " she ordered. The thought was to use quick attack to dodge the short blasts of water, getting in close to strike before then following up with a type attack of her own at close range.

"Rage", the order was simple and concise, the Totodile seemed to understand the intention as it barreled directly into the incoming quick-attack with whatever it could, claw, feet, tail, whatever.

"And then Rage again!", the Totodile didn't miss a beat as it went in for yet another strike. It's expression was full of fury as it yelled a battle cry.

It seemed as if he expected to get to get hit. Knowing about rage, Lucy knew she couldn't be reckless and make it get stronger by constantly attacking. "Leer!" she called out. While it may not stop the attack, they could at least try to make it hesitate and lower it's defense, and stop rage.

"You really have no clue huh? Marcus, use Rage again", Leer wasn't going to stop a Rage. The Totodile went in once more with a powerful strike that threatened to end the battle. At this point, he seemed to believe he was either lucky, or this Elekid didn't have Static and had another ability. He was afraid he'd suffer paralysis, but it seems that fear was not founded.

Well, that didn't work, though, she had a feeling it wouldn't but thought she'd give it a shot anyway. Ignoring the trainers words, she quickly shot off a command, "Thundershock". She probably should have used it sooner but no use complaining about it now. Lucy and Zap needed to stop it and push it back. Whether that mistake earlier would seal their fate, they're about to find out.

"Oh, not bad... But a little too late, Rage", as the Totodile went for a fourth Rage, the pure presence of the little blue Pokemon on the battlefield despite it's size, was absolutely immense. The Thundershock served to stop it for the moment, but unless it used a different move, the Rage building was going to stay. And with this much power built up, there was no more reason to change. Though not quite to that effect, the finishing blow felt like a meteor crashing down to Zap as the Totodile laid into the Elekid, winning a convincing battle.

RESULT

• +1 BE for Zap (Elekid)
• Elekid not fit for battle
• Damage on Totodile

Wild Girafarig Vs Nado

“Nado! What have I told you about…” Leo looked around him, noticing the odd amount of pokemon surrounding his Gible. He raised an eyebrow, then looked up at the Girafarig with an unusually long neck. Nado seemed to be playing with its tail, though it had a face for seem inexplicable reason. Eager to try out his new pokedex, Leo pulled it out for more information.

“Girafarig, the Long Neck pokémon. Its tail also has a small brain. It bites to repel any foe trying to sneak up on it from behind. It can instinctively fight even while facing backward.” A digital voice described the creature aloud.

“Nado! Use Sand Attack on that thing!” Leo commanded hastily. The Gible immediately dug its claws into the ground and threw dirt right into the tail’s face. Leo hoped that doing so would dull its senses just a tad bit. The tail looked just about ready to have Nado for lunch.

The Pokemon around began backing away as the human showed, obviously fearful of the intruder to their home. Meanwhile the Girafarig was not happy with Nado. After he threw dirt into the back head's eyes the front head immediately swiveled towards Nado, its eyes glowing blue and a blue outline appearing around Nado.

Nado would feel a sudden force propelling him backwards as the Girafarig used Confusion on him to make some space.

“Gi-ble!” Nado cried out in pain as his tiny body was launched backwards with Girafarig’s psychic powers. Leo felt tempted to use Dragon Rage right then and there, but was reminded of how badly Nado’s slow speed had crippled them during their last match. The Girafarig was almost certainly faster than Nado, so attacking blindly would be no good. Especially for the Girafarig.

“Sandstorm!” Nado bounced right up to its feet, fueled with the desire to battle. Soon, a sandstorm engulfed the area. The already tiny and difficult to see Gible was hidden even more by the obfuscating sand.

The Girafarig could no longer see Gible through all the sand, so it narrowed it's eyes and began sniffing to try and find the evasive little bugger. As soon as it identified the Gible's scent it turned towards him and prepared another Confusion.

Meanwhile the other Pokemon were starting to get very aggravated by the sand and looked as if they were on the verge of stampeding.

Leo was admittedly nervous as all the pokemon grew more aggravated. He had to end this battle fast and book it. The tiny head was a problem, but maybe...

"Nado, roll around in the dirt to hide your smell!" Nado looked at the spot it dug up when using Sand Attack. He leapt face first into it and completely dirtied himself. His regular smell would be hidden by the smell of the dirt.

The Girafarig was confused by the sudden turn of events as Nado's smell completely disappeared. It had no idea what to do at this point, so it just Growled in an attempt to scare the Gible off. Meanwhile it was steadily taking damage from the Sandstorm and looked like it was getting quite tired already.

“Alright! Nado, Take Down!” The Gible charged at the Girafarig with all of its weight being put into its attack.

Leo already had a pokéball in his hands to seal the deal with a capture. It was already worn down from the sandstorm, one hit would surely be enough to tire it out. And so it was. The Girafarig fainted and was about to fall on its side until Leo quickly contained it in the ball.

"Good work, Nado." Leo held the pokeball up in awe. His first new pokemon...amazing. In his excitement, he had even forgotten to chew out the Gible for not only running off without him, but getting lost while he did it.

"C'mon. We've already gotten split up from everyone thanks to you. We'll take about this later!" Well...he had ALMOST forgotten to chew him out. The Gible let out a dejected cry at the lecture it would have to endure, letting the storm subside as it followed after its trainer.

The three delinquents knew they had this one in the bag. It was 3 on 2 and they were only up against a shiny little froakie and a ghastly. Didn't matter how good they were, they had the advantage in numbers. Or at least that was there thought process. They also ganged up on their targets, using whatever trick they could to win. In short, they never played fair. And Why would they if it always meant victory?

"Y-You idiots don't know when quit, huh?" the delinquent leader spat out, unnerved briefly at York's reaction before recovering. He didn't get it, they were at a disadvantage yet he acted like he didn't care. It was as if it didn't matter, that he'd beat them regardless. One could almost see his veins bursting in anger. "The brat got some nerve!" the girl added as the tall one followed with a simple shrug.

"Tch, we'll show you. Pekipek, Echoed Voice on that Froakie!" the delinquent leader ordered. The punk grates on his nerves, he'll just take him out first!

Following him was the Delinquent girl, "Aipom, Astonish on Gastly!" While the leader focuses on the brat, the other two will focus on the other chump and then they'll focus all their strength on Froakie.

"Aipom, also use astonish." the taller one also ordered an attack on gastly. Being that it was a ghost type, it pretty much was the only attack Aipom had that could hit it. Regardless of how strong or not it was, the aipom only had one goal, make sure the ghost pokemon isn't able to help Froakie.

"Necro, close your eyes then dodge in front of Froakie." Talonite calmly ordered as Necro closed its eyes to avoid looking at the Astonishing faces of the Aipom. It then rapidly moved in front of Froakie so it could tank the Echoed Voice, which had no effect on the Ghost Typed Gastly.

"Have your Froakie duck under Necro to attack the Pekipek." Talonite suggested to York quickly.

"Jump and use Water Pulse! And then Quick-Attack!", he ordered, the Froakie after stepping back from the onslaught and Gastly getting in the way, he saw his moment and leapt over the ghost Pokemon, and fired off an orb of water. Before it would even land, the frog Pokemon would dart with great speed towards whoever was closest, and in this case with Aipom coming up for the Astonish earlier, it would be the victim to the Froakie's Quick Attack. The Water Pulse on the other hand was only aimed in their general direction, who it would hit or not hit mattered little as the aim was the Quick-Attack.

"Tch, so you know what you're doing, big deal. Pekipek, Rock Smash! Crush that irritating frog! roared the delinquent leader. So it can jump, we'll just drop some rocks on it!

"So he plans to take the frog's attacks, huh? Aipom, Sand Attack! Blind them!" They can't let that ghost pokemon keep interfering. Close your eyes if you want to, we'll just make a dust cloud everywhere! It was still reeling from the water pulse, but it still wasn't enough to take it down.

"Aipom, Use Astonish again. Same target." His Aipom was the victim of the froakie's quick attack, but it didn't matter, it's serving it's purpose. As long as they can take them out, they'll accept it.

Necro was hurting a little after the dual Astonishes, but nothing time couldn't handle. The leader called put for a Rock Smash and Talonite shook his head. "Not today, move in front again. Make sure not to look at the Aipoms." Once again Necro moved in the path of the Rock Smash, but it was losing eyesight because of the persistent dust cloud. Hopefully that would work to their advantage.

"Follow up by Spiting the Aipom blowing dust everywhere! Talonite yelled this time as Necro was starting to get a little far away. However Necro did something else as a ghostly nail appeared over the Gastly, hammering into it and visibly hurting it. An identical nail appeared over the Aipom using Sand Attack and hammered into it as well.

"Dodge then use Water Pulse on Aipom!", as the Rock Smash fell upon a Gastly and as a result, phased through, the Froakie jumped back away in surprise. Had it not been for Gastly getting in front he would not have moved away in time. This gave him an opening to hit the Aipom with an aimed Water Pulse. It was currently using Astonish, so this shouldn't be a difficult shot.

Again, that dang ghost got in the way again! Two straight attacks got blocked and failed because of that thing. He can't afford to keep missing. He wasn't sure how much use the Aipoms will be. In his irritation, he kept going after the froakie when he should've been going after the Gastly! "Pikipek, use peck on Gastly!"

With the Gastly still being used as a support, it managed to get in the way of Rock Smash and was now using spite on it. Well, beats an attack. "Hmph, no matter. Aipom, Astonish on Gastly!"

Having used Astonish last round, it made things easier for Froakie to hit it with Water Pulse, leaving Aipom to take a lot of damage and left it reeling. There's no telling how much more damage Aipom can take, but if it took another clean shot like that..."Aipom, follow suit, Astonish." It was an all-out gang beating, all 3 targeting Gastly, determined to knock it out for good so they could target Froakie without worries.

And it most certainly would knock out Gastly, but not before it managed to get off one last move. "Necro, use Hypnosis on the Pikipek!" Necro's eyes glowed blue as it looked into the eyes of the Pikipek, then closing as it fainted. Talonite recalled the Gastly then looked at York. "Finish these idiots. Nobody takes my wallet and gets off scot free."

With the Aipom low, York took the initiative. "Now finish it off with Quick-Attack!", he ordered, the Froakie moved in quickly and preemptively as if it knew what to do next as the Aipom took a hard and quick assault immediately following the Water Pulse. Whatever it managed in that small time frame would not save it from the Quick Attack.

The pesky Gastly didn't go down quietly, hitting a last second Hypnosis on Pikipek as it was in the process of fainting. With Pikipek asleep, the tall delinquent's knocked out with quick attack, things were taking a turn for the three delinquents. While they had advantage in numbers when the battle began, that advantage quickly went away.

With Pikipek unable to move after being put to sleep, it was up to the Delinquent Girl's Aipom to try to salvage it. "Aipom, Sand-Attack! Don't let him get a clean hit!" she frantically yelled. With Pikipek asleep, he was a sitting duck, so something needed to be done and get the froakie to miss.

Seeing the Sand-Attack, he yelled at Ren, "Water Pulse on the ground!", the Froakie blasted Water Pulse at the ground in front of it, the splashing water catching some of the sand as it made a space in-between the attack.

"Okay, set up with Bubble", the Froakie began to use Bubble, albeit not aimed at them, but to create a kind of area to sit behind. They had to be careful, but they also had to be quick. If that Pikipek wakes up too soon, they may be in for some real trouble.

With Pikipek still asleep, it was up to Aipom once again for a 2nd straight turn. Froakie, using its water pulse on the ground, causing the splashing water to catch some of the sand. On top of that, it used bubble to create a kind of area to sit behind, meaning that Aipom can't attack without getting hit. All Aipom needs to do is buy Pikipek some more time. Choosing not to attack again, she issued another command. "Aipom, Tail Whip!" If she can't attack it without incurring damage, she might as well try to lower its defenses!

When York said to set up with Bubble, he meant set up, and that's exactly what the Froakie did. "Now then, Water Pulse, charge it inside the Bubble", as the water required for Water Pulse formed, some of the Bubble spun around the orb of water, and formed an even larger Water Pulse, which was sent directly at the Aipom. Though the Bubble wall was now gone, the Aipom now had a larger and more powerful Water Pulse to contend with.

Using the set up from bubble, Froakie sent a bigger and stronger Water Pulse right at Aipom. Knowing she can't stop it, she instead tried to mitigate the damage. "Aipom, Sand-Attack, pile on as much sand as you can and lessen the blow!" With Pikipek asleep for a 3rd round, it was unable to follow up on Aipom's efforts.

The two attacks meeting created a large dust cloud, with a good chunk of the Water Pulse breaking through. If the trainers on the field were to look around, they would notice Ren was nowhere to be seen, but York with all confidence made an order, "Now use Water Pulse again!", in the time that the previous attack went through, the Froakie was already scampering around to leap into a perfect position to witness it's own attack, as it rained down a Water Pulse from above.

The collision of Sand-Attack and Water Pulse created a large dust cloud that blanked the field and while it mitigated some of the damage, a good chunk still managed to get through and hit Aipom. With Froakie taking advantage of the dust cloud to get in the perfect position to deliver the knock out blow, Pikipek finally managed to wake up. Taking advantage of it targeting Aipom, "About Time! Pikipek! Pelt it with Echoed Voice!" Using Aipom as bait.

With Aipom seemingly done for if it hits, Delinquent girl didn't bother to try to to defend. Following up on the previous Tail Whip, "Aipom! Astonish!" It was all up to Pikipek now.

"Alright, now Quick Attack the Pikipek!", as soon as Ren landed, it moved and dashed towards the Pikipek, trying to zig-zag it enough to not suffer a direct blow from the Echoed Voice. The Aipom's Astonish did nothing as Froakie changed to a normal type, going in for a quick blow on the Pikipek.

As Aipom's sacrifice did nothing in the end as it went down, as the froakie changed type, thus resisting the attack, as it used quick attack. While it wasn't a direct blow, Pikipek still managed to graze Ren and that was enough. "Again!" A simple command but enough for Pikipek to understand it's intent. Charging forward the Pikipek fired off another Echoed Voice, chaining off the first and doubling its output.

"Stay away from the front Quick-Attack again!", with Pikipeki building up Echoed Voice, staying away from it's line of sight and therefore the brunt of it's voice was priority, and Quick Attack provided the speed it needed to stay away from taking any clean hits as it returned blow for blow with flanking Quick Attacks. At this rate it was a question of whether Echoed Voice can do enough damage while continually grazing the Froakie which was laying into it with cleaner hits.

Knowing that while he kept the build up going, they were getting nowhere if all he's doing is grazing the little toad with its relentless quick attacks which would have this battle continue as a battle of endurance, one that could put it in the brats favor. He decided to stay his attack and wait for the opponent to charge in for another quick attack. It was a risk but something needed to be done.

Once the opponent neared, There'll be no escape. Pikipek, waited, with words not being needed to understand it's trainers intent. After all, there was no other choice. Either they finished Froakie off with Echoed Voice, or its over. Once he neared, he prepared to attack.

"Hmmm? Hmmm. Use Bubble, surround it, stay away from the front", keeping a distance, the Froakie began spraying Bubble while staying on the move. Not nearly as quickly as when it used Quick Attack, but with the distance, and the Bubble setup, it should limit some of the Pikipeki's options as he sought an opening. He had openings before when it blindly used Echoed Voice, but it seems it was being more careful.

By being cautious, fully expecting another Quick Attack, they instead went back to the bubble attack, more than likely preparing for another supped up Water Pulse. The Delinquent leader and Pikipek were left with either continue holding and wait for them to attack or take the risk and charge in and blast Froakie. "Fly around it and attack with Echoed Voice from above!!" Taking the risk, he ordered Pikipek to fly above the bubble barrier, dive in and fire it off from the air.

"Get behind the Bubble and use Water Pulse", he ordered. As soon as the Pikipek took flight, the Froakie took off himself, sprinting towards the Pikipeki's former position, the Echoed Voice was going to hit hard, and the Bubbly barrier wasn't going to last much longer, so now or never. The amped up Water Pulse was launched once more to clash with the Echoed Voice.

As if waiting for it, the Froakie also took off the moment Pikipek flew off but this didn't deter him in the slighest. It's what one gets when they gamble but this isn't one they were going to lose. When Pikipek got in position, he fired off Echoed voice at the same moment Froakie fired off his Strengthened Water Pulse. Despite this, they didn't collide but instead struck each other at the same time, dealing a large chunk of damage to each.

However, the outcome was clear. While Echoed voice was powerful, it just wasn't enough, shown as much as Pikipek fell from the sky and crashed onto the ground. York had won and the Delinquents lost, despite coming close