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"A double battle?" Eunmi looked confused. How did that work? Eunmi looked at her three Pokemon.

What was even a good combination...?

Wayne clocked Eunmi's expression and said, "Well if you're not sure, I'll team up with you, Emi. I'm sure Solosis wouldn't mind."

Meanwhile, Solosis accidentally sent a jet of ice cream splurting onto himself and splattering the ground.

"I-i could team up with you, s-since he has a plan," Henrietta would have totally said if she'd had any confidence. Instead she said, "I-i think Melty is the only one who likes fighting."

Socant and Frate trained, but Melty was the only destructive one, really. Darumi, too, but he was gone. "S-so, I don't think I'll be able to do the match tomorrow..."

"I-i don't think I'll be getting the badge," she said. She pointed to Melty. "H-he's the only one that likes fighting. When I went to train earlier Frate was training, b-but he wasn't up to fighting wild Pokemon, and Socant lounged around in a tree. M-melty's the only one that likes fighting. Melty and... D-darumi." She sighed. "S-so, I'll just skip this badge."

She looked over at Wayne. "D-do you have anything to drink?"

"What's wrong with you?" Eunmi said, twisting to face Henrietta. "You gotta have more confidence than that.

"I don't even know what I'm doing, and I'm still gonna try."

Eunmi glanced over at Wayne.

"I'm not the best strategist either," Eunmi said, "And my Pokemon aren't very experienced. I would probably be using Dali since we spent so much time training him to use his Shell Blade better.

"But I don't think Dali and Melty is a good combination," she said to Henrietta.

"..er.. what is there to drink?" Eunmi walked over, and smiled. "Dude, you're the coolest guy ever!"
((Dali: biggrin
D-Vee: =__=; You got used in the last Gym Battle!
Mochi: *bounce bounce*))

As the trainers chatted away, Moze sat crosslegged on the water bed, smiling nostalgically. They were reminding him of his short but eventful tenure as a trainer. It looks like See-Sal has found herself a good group of people. I’m glad.

"Keep eating Chen Zhen!"

In the kitchen, Chen Zhen looked up from one of the pizza boxes, which was now empty. As soon as he did, another slice of pizza was stuffed into his face by Salieri. "Mmph!"

"Chen Zhen, I've decided that if Robby is able to eat almost anything, you must be able to also! Before I met him, you were the biggest eater I know!” she said enthusiastically. “You’ve got Bite to chew stuff down and Gluttony to keep going. We just have to break the limits of your digestive system!”

He chewed through the pizza he was eating cautiously. There was something…off about the taste. The Pansage started to slow down, wondering what this taste was. “Which is why I added some of this stuff as a topping,” Sal told him while holding up a clay pot. Inside was the remains of a lot of soil and shredded plant life.

Chen Zhen tried to spit it out, when he realized that it was too late. He had already swallowed it. The Pansage dramatically clutched at his own throat, his tongue lolling out the side of his mouth. “Anyway, let’s go play this DVD.”

Salieri went back into the room with the TV and grabbed the remote, plopping down onto the water bed next to her brother. She caught the tail end of the conversation. Henrietta needed more confidence? What else was new. Deciding she hadn't really missed anything while being in the kitchen, she stood up in front of the television and cleared her throat. “Ladies and gentlemen,” she announced in a flowery and grand manner while grabbing the remote, “I present to you a day of training with the all famous Robby Tobb!”

She turned on the TV.

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The screen started out pitch black, and then began to turn into a bright sepia tone. Music began to play, slow and building up the scene.] It became almost blindingly bright and then dimmed rapidly, showing an imposing mountain against the sun. Ah, but it was no mountain. It was a man of epic proportions. Robby Tobb stood with his arms folded and a legendary wind blowing through the picture. His bag of chips fluttered in his hand.

And then the scene cut to Salieri, standing atop of Fried with her high kick pointed at the sun and a look of determination on her face. She looked over to something else, and the screen panned to Robby. Cutting back to Sal, she jumped off of the giant Combusken and landed right in front of the camera.

In the next second, the music picked and there were rapid clips of each of the pokemon. All of Salieri’s and all of Robby’s, all featured for a short second with their names showing up at the end of their little sections.

And then the song came into full force, showing the beginnings of everyone meeting each other and starting to train. Their mishaps with the starts of their journey were shown as well.

Bacon punching out Roast accidentally as the Ducklett flew into his training field.

Fried getting a noogie and having Sunny Day blow up in his face repeatedly, with Salem looking nervous for him.

A rapid fire series of all of Roast’s falls trying to get Aerial Ace right, with Liuye repeatedly shaking his head.

And Salieri repeatedly getting smacked in various places by Robby’s spoon.

Suddenly, the tune became more triumphant as the trainees began to get things right. Bacon swiftly punched under the egg successfully, Fried began to form light, and Roast started to glide out of Aerial Ace. Scenes of Salieri stopped appearing. Instead, Wukong was on the screen, chopping and attacking all the food ingredients he encountered. And everything he put together looked delicious.

All in all, things were coming together. The music was getting to it’s final swell. All of the pokemon had gotten control of their newfound skills. Robby appeared on screen, taing a taste of the soup Wukong created. With a nod of his head, he reached out his fist to Wukong. Wukong created a fist of his own, and the two fists collided in an epic iteration of knucks. The music ended.

The last scene was of Salieri by herself, covered with bruises and frustratingly scrubbing dishes.
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The screen went black again.

Clink. Clink. Clink.

The soft tapping of metal could be heard from Liuye Dao clapping his hands lightly. “Wow, that was AWESOME!” Moze exclaimed. Salieri just stared at the screen with a look of incredulous confusion.

“Where…where was I-“

[I thought I looked pretty cool,] Wukong boasted smugly. Chen Zhen nodded reluctantly. Even he had to agree.

"S-sorry!" Henrietta called and she reached passed Eunmi to grab a bottle and glass on her way out. When she got back to him she'd managed to awkwardly pour him a glass of the foul smelling liquid. "I-i'm not sure if it's any good," she noted, unaware that alcohol usually smelled and tasted like s**t. She offered him the glass and looked at the bottle.

"Vodka?" she read the label with a slight tilt of her head.

Edit: (cause no one was posting and I decided it does not matter)

Henrietta looked to Salieri. She'd seen the montage from the kitchen. The training had been, well, she hadn't thought of anything like that. For the most part, her training regimes were either adapted from Chili's, thought up herself or left to her Pokemon. Needless to say, she was impressed.

So, she turned from the bottle and said, "h-how did you come up with training like that?"