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((Hitmonlee landed while you were having your conversation with Spike, dude))

Blind spot? No such thing when you've got your trainer watching your back. Wayne spotted the small break in the ground and immediately yelled, "Get down!"

Hitmonlee dived to the floor as Spike erupted from the earth, sliding to the ground, his back to the floor, looking up at his opponent who soared above him. Smashing his foot into the ground with such force as to make it quake had another effect; it forced Hitmonlee's leg to spring back up and compress sharply. With his back to the ground and Spike overhead, all Hitmonlee had to do was aim and release.

He didn't need to shoot for a weak spot this time, though assuming Spike was spinning horizontally, the Drilbur's underside would be wide and open. If he were spinning vertically then his shield of claws would be Hitmonlee's target. Even with a double Iron Defense, it didn't mean much to Hitmonlee's kick.

As the Pokédex describes, Hitmonlee's foot turns as hard as diamond on impact. Diamond is harder than Iron. Combining the short time frame, Spike's momentum making airborne maneuverability impossible and the fact that Hitmonlee can block the spin's damage with his foot, he was pretty safe in striking. His leg shot out with as much force as his pseudo-earthquake, packed with a diamond tip.

Assuming Spike couldn't teleport, it'd smash into the mole pokémon and send him flying high into the air. Very much not in his element. If Spike blocked with his claws then the diamond-hard foot would likely smash right through them; even if the claws remained intact, the force of the kick would still send Spike flying.

Unless he could levitate, Spike would likely succumb to gravity and crash with incredible force while Hitmonlee got back to his feet with a roll and prepared for any more attempts.

((I believe Artemis is gonna RP as Professor Juniper Jr.))

N put his hands into his pockets and shook his head. “Actually, I’m here to challenge one of the Striaton City Gym Leaders to a badge match,” he told the waiter. He peeked past the blue haired boy at the inside of the restaurant, which did in fact have people seated and eating. What a strange building.

“Do you know if any of these gym leaders are around?”

So there was an arena in the back of the restaurant? To N, it seemed to be there solely for the purpose of having an entertaining battle while eating in the café. What kind of psychological effect did this have on the pokemon inside? There was so many factors to consider.

“My name is N,” he told Cress. From behind his leg came that purple flicker of light again, this time completely forming a small fox like shape. The Illusion cancelled, revealing a small black canine looking pokemon standing timidly behind N.

“And this pokemon is a Zorua.”

N walked to the back of the arena, with his Zorua following him. Of course Cress was one of the three gym leaders, given the circumstances. The probability had been very high from the start.

He spun on his heel when he got to the end, facing Cress on the opposite side. The green haired trainer looked down at his Zorua, who was staring down the dancing Panpour without expression. "Zero, are you ready? We don't have to do this if you don't want to."

Zero shifted her eyes so she could look up at N, and then nodded. [Whenever you want to begin, N,] she reassured him. N nodded back, then looked up to Cress once more.

"Okay then. Zero, Dark Pulse attack."

On N's command, the Zorua opened her mouth and fired a beam of purple and black circles of energy at Panpour. The attack carved through the ground underneath it as it headed onto a collision course with Panpour.

The first attack hadn't worked, but N hadn't relied on it to. He needed to get a calculation on Panpour's speed before he could truly make a good call on when Zero should attack. Pokemon battles could all be brought back down to numbers.

This was his job as a trainer: being the eyes that his pokemon could not be. And, simultaneously, making the correct calculations to move. He was like a general.

But he was nothing without a soldier.

N pointed towards Panpour and Zero sprinted at her opponent, which also made the Water Gun even more likely to hit. But Zero trusted N. If this was his plan, he wouldn't knowingly put her in danger for a simple attack.

"Detect."

Zero's iris's glowed blue while she ducked her head and crouched, sliding underneath the Water Gun attack. As she looked up, she saw that she was right in front of Panpour. If Panpour looked down, it would only see the stream of water firing from it's mouth. To the water monkey, Zorua's dodge looked like she was engulfed in the Water Gun. "Pursuit!"

Zero would then charge upwards to slam her head into Panpour's stomach, which would knock Panpour up into the air if it struck. N also considered the probability that Panpour's blindspot was directly downwards during the attack would provide a high percent chance of cover for the move.

At least, that's what he hoped.

As Kijin makes his way into town he makes his way towards the Pokemon Center but before he enters he stops and looks up to see his pokemon still in the air. He rubs his head a little and whistles signaling Tropious to come down from the sky as she lands a few feet from him,"Ok thats enough for now time to get inside for the day." He says with a soft grin pulling the pokeball out and recalls Tropious into its ball, then he turns around and heads into the Pokemon Center. Once inside he would head to the counter and look at the Nurse Joy of this pokemon center,"Hey there Nurse Joy would you mind telling me where the Gym is at in this town?"

Nurse Joy would give a soft smile and nods a little,"Yes the gym next door to use on the right you can't miss it." She says in a tone that seemed like she has told many people this same statement.

"Oh ok thanks also is there any other interesting places here?" He asks seeming to make notes on his map a little so to let him have some reminders for later.

She would tap her chin as she gives a thinking posture as she recalls anything of interest that she would tell him,"Hmm well there is the pokemon school down the road on the left then if you go past the pokemon center there is the old Dream yard there have been some sighting of pokemon there so if you want thats also a place you can go if you want." She says still in her thinking posture but it seems like she was already finished.

"Ok thanks nurse Joy." He says with a nod and then leaves the pokemon center then takes a right and heads towards the gym.

{I meant to ask something, when it comes down catching and running into Pokemon do we get to pick which we run into in the area? As well what do we do to catch them? Is it a dice roll?]

Caught it Panpour’s grip while in midair, Zero had only a few options. As Panpour released one of his hands, Zero struggled out and broke free of the grip. Still, the attack was descending quickly. She rose up her foreleg to block the Rock Smash, but she was still slammed by the Rock Smash into the ground.

N winced as his pokemon was damaged, but luckily the attack wasn’t a more powerful Fighting type technique. “Zero!”

The fox slowly got up to her feet, wobbly at first and then getting steady again. Zero grit her teeth. [N, I’m fine,] she reassured him in a pained voice. [We have to win this battle, so we cannot give up now.]

The trainer clenched his fists at his side, looking down in uncertainty. He knew this would only lead to Zero getting hurt. Zero shouldn’t have been fighting his battles for him. But without her help I can’t save the world.

Zero stomped her foot. [N!!]

N snapped to life, whipping his head back up. He had to do this, and so did Zero. The green haired trainer pointed at the other side of the arena, sweeping his hand across what he could see.

“Dark Pulse!”

Zero opened her mouth and fired another stream of dark energy circles at Panpour. This time, she continued to train her eyes on the monkey. If Panpour would move, then she would move her head to follow the monkey’s most probable trajectories, whipping the Dark Pulse into the Panpour so it could chase her prey down.