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Confuse Ray was useless against Petilil. Her Own Tempo ability made her immune to confusion effects, though Henrietta didn't know that. Wayne held the advantage in having a pokédex which, as the computers did at the gym, flagged up the names of the moves being used in battle. He could be safe in the knowledge that 'Dizzy Ray' wouldn't effect his pokémon.

As Melty reeled back from the Mega Drain attack and prepared to use Flamethrower, Wayne spotted the flame on Melty's head flare up. He immediately cried "Dodge!" to let Petilil know he didn't want her to sit around waiting for more attack orders and she sped off to the side. The attack coming quickly, she was licked by the edges of the Flamethrower's blast, bursting through with her Chlorophyll-enhanced speed. Damaged slightly, but nowhere near as much as a direct hit would've scored.

With Melty currently attacking, he was as open as a martial artist who had fully extended his fist. Aiming to strike quickly "Keep moving! Mega Drain!" Petilil intended to blast Melty from reasonably close range; the fact that he hadn't been knocked back last time meant he wasn't distancing himself. It was an easy aim. By maintaining sideways movement, Petilil protected herself from any changes in direction that Melty might make with his Flamethrower.

Wayne knew to keep up this pace; taking Flamethrower head on would be disastrous. Luckily Melty wouldn't be making any new ones any time soon. Mega Drain was still backed by Growth's power, turning type disadvantage on its head; assuming Melty survived the hit, a good portion of the damage done by the edges of Flamethrower would be reversed.

It didn't take long for Petilil to react. Wayne had kept her moving to make sure that Melty couldn't hit her with attacks she'd dodged by altering the angle they were firing at. Now that was all she had to do to stop Melty's counter attack. He'd dodged downwards by shrinking; in other words, Mega Drain just got a whole lot bigger to him. Harder to leap out of the way of.

Acting quickly, Petilil would bring her Mega Drain downwards as Melty shrunk and aim to crush it into his flame to prevent the Fire Spin from being fired. At the very least the attack would be sent veering off away from her while the twisting grass attack ground into the ghost type, doing less damage than it would've done with a direct hit but still enough to hurt.

Assuming Melty was still not defeated, she'd follow up with Wayne's order of "Back away! Growth!" and put distance between herself and Melty by skidding backwards on the ground, her Chlorophyll speed while boosting her powers with Growth until they reached their upper limits.

If Melty somehow gained a huge space of time in which to move that didn't apply to anyone else and got to fire off his Fire Spin, Petilil would just dodge sideways when his flame flared up and use Growth while circling him.

"Huh?" Wayne looked up from the match, frowning as he did before grinning, "Yeah alright. You heard her, Petilil!"

The bulb pokémon managed a look of disappointment. Being able to speed around and cut loose like this was a great stress relief. Even a shrinking violet could be scary if they went all out. No, maybe it was because she was usually so timid that she got such a high out of battling. She stopped with the excessive speed and cut out fighting, doddering to a stop by bouncing dully against the grass and grinding to a halt.

Melty had no way to heal himself but successful attacks were getting to be few and far between. As the grass pokémon scurried over to her trainer, the trainer decided it was best to stop now; as much as he liked battling, he didn't want a Cherry Tap battle. Petilil leapt up and Wayne caught her on the back of his palm and she raced up to his shoulder, peeking out from behind his head.

"Thanks for the battle," Wayne said ritualistically. At least he got a good gauge of Petilil's ability to fight fire types. What he really needed was more techniques for variety. And more power. Some kind of finishing move would be ideal to end matches like this.

He made a double take when he spotted the battle girl in the corner of his eye, almost jumping out of his skin when he spotted her fully: "Wah! Salieri! What're you doing here?" For some reason he felt like he'd been caught with his hand in the cookie jar. With his pants down. At least the lake's wetness constantly confirmed his pants' present location. Squishy. And uncomfortable.

The battle was now over. It seemed that while Henrietta had a good set of tactics, Wayne had been training to take on Fire types. “So instead of using a move to take out Fire types, he’s compensating by healing,” Salieri mumbled to herself. She looked down at Chen Zhen, who had learned Dig in order to get over his weakness of Fire types. It was possible for a Pansage to learn Leech Seed, but Salieri wasn’t planning on using the move. Chen Zhen’s battle strategy didn’t revolve around stalling an opponent. It wouldn’t match. “That’s a pretty good defense, I’d say. Wonder what it would be like against a better match up.”

After Wayne had gotten surprised by Salieri’s presence, the Battle Girl grinned. She was right, he did have good concentration. She also noticed his pants were soaked, and it almost looked like he peed. I'll take note of that, Sal told herself, trying to think of a future joke. “I’ve got no reason to stay in Striaton City anymore. The trainers there are too weak for me now that I’ve beaten the gym. Even the trainers in the Dreamyard don’t put up too much of a match.”

“We weren’t going to get stronger there, so we decided to keep moving. And then we heard your battle, so we decided to watch.” Putting one hand on her hip, Salieri gave the trainers a thumbs up of approval. “I didn’t see it all, but it was a good match.” Sal stepped back to see all of her pokemon. “So? What did you guys think?”

“Ya-Pan!” Chen Zhen cheered with a salute to Henrietta and Wayne for a job well done. Characteristic to the silent Pawniard, Liuye Dao merely nodded.

Salem, however, wasn’t even watching the battle. The little brown pokemon was happily chasing her own tail in a circle, having stopped watching shortly after starting. Sal frowned. “C’mon Salem, you have to watch these things. You need to see tactics and strategies in action if you want to learn.”

Salem rolled onto her back in the lush grass on the lakeside, mewing indifferently at Salieri. Moving on while rolling her eyes, Salieri cocked her head over to Henrietta. She remembered where she had seen the trainer before. “Hey, you’re the girl who got in the middle of her gym battle against the blue haired leader, right?”

Another outgoing person. Henrietta took a slight step back. People were always either angry or happy, mostly happy, it seemed.
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No, it was probably just Kijin that was angry. So far Avan, Wayne, Eunmi, Robby and Salieri were the happy types. Even the green haired guy was pretty happy, or so it seemed.
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Henrietta nodded slowly. "Y-yeah," she said. This girl had a badge? Then she was outside of Henrietta's league. Henrietta searched the ground with her eyes to find some place to stare at.
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"I-i was... Just about to train for my match.."

Another battle. Henrietta looked at Melty. He wasn't ready for a full on battle, he had, after all, taken some damage. She looked up at Salieri, looking at her forehead.

That's right, she could still battle, though. She returned Melty and took out Darumi's ball.

She needed to get stronger, so she said, "O-okay."

And she released the Darumaka.

There was one little problem with the whole ordeal, no one had created distance. So, the hidden power was fired at point blank range, this let Henrietta do the same, a guaranteed eye for an eye.

"Angry dance!"

So, as Salem fired Hidden Power Darumi lunged forward, giving Salem no time to recover from firing the attack. Basically, he'd take the hidden power and his Rage would increase, and he would come down with the powered up Rage attack in the form of a fist aimed for the top of Salem's head.

And Henrietta took this time to take a few steps back to give the Pokemon actual room to dodge, now if Wayne and Salieri did the same the two Pokemon would have room to move.