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The awkward silence never usually lasted too long. Luka's father, Gregory broke the silence with perhaps the most bizarre request he could have made. "Luka, let's have a battle. You and me. Crush against your new Pokémon. How about it then? Let's see how much you've learnt in a day."

Luka stood up and nodded, "Ok. Bring it on, Dad."

Scott shot a shocked look at his brother, "You're really going to battle Daddy?" As Luka nodded, a look of awe fell upon Scott's innocent little face. His eyes brightened immensely and he quickly followed his father and his older brother to the arena in the back garden.

Luka's mother, Zelda, came out with them and sat on one of the nearby benches with Scott, a look of pride set on her face.

Gregory pulled his signature Pokéball from his belt and laughed jovially, "Crush, come on out and let's give my son a run for his money."

The huge Carracosta landed on the ground with a thud and eyed Luka cautiously. Crush knew Luka well but it was a look to let Luka know that he was testing Luka's ability to look after and train Squirt well.

Luka breathed deeply, "Come on out, Tayla."

The Sewaddle scuttled out of her Pokéball and onto the field. A vainglorious look was plastered over her face and she shuffled in her leaf hood to make herself more comfortable for battling.

Gregory smiled, "Ah. Excellent choice, Luka. Looks like all that bookwork taught you well in Pokémon selection."

"Well, if I didn't have Squirt then my decision might have been different, but... Tayla is definitely going to be a very useful. After all, Burgh has a Leavanny and I've seen him use it masterfully in some of the Gym Battles I managed to catch."

"Well then, let's get to it. Crush, Aqua Tail."

Crush nodded and span around and slammed its tail into the ground with such force that it created a singular line of a huge wave that charged straight for Tayla.

"Tayla, String Shot to that tree and then, Razor Leaf."

Tayla nodded and zipped daintily to the tree where she sat for a moment before launching her Razor Leaf. The leaves hit Crush, but the massive level difference meant that they did very little damage at all.

"Crush, use Ancient Pow-" Gregory began to say before his wife rudely butted in.

"I will not have you destroying our garden with Ancient Power, Gregory. Use something a little more beneficial to our garden."

With a frustrated sigh, Gregory changed his order, "Crush, use Aqua Jet and then Crunch."

Launching himself in a jet of water, Crush charged towards the tree, aiming to smash his huge weight into the tiny bug to cause massive damage and then clamp his hard jaws down to finish off the fight.

Luka was seriously glad about all of the trees in the garden. It made this fight a lot simpler. "Tayla, repeat."

Tayla nodded and zipped away to another tree before launching another Razor Leaf.

"Crush, change trajectory and hit Tayla."

Crush was still in his Aqua Jet and had more than enough skill to be able to change direction mid flight. He span and fixed his targets on Tayla once again.

"Tayla, re-"

"Don't spam a tactic. That will always get you defeated, easily. While this particular tactic is working now, it only takes your opponent minimal effort to tell where you are going to go next..."

"Tayla, repeat but go back."

As Crush was about to crash into Tayla, she zipped out of the way and back to the original tree where she shot another Razor Leaf at the Carracosta.

"So, you saw that I was stalling. You're doing well, Luka. But can you stop this? Crush, Rock Slide."

Large boulders appeared out of nowhere and were flung at Tayla before Luka's mother could complain.

Luka thought for a moment before making his order, "Tayla, String Shot to each of the boulders to get up close to Crush and then Razor Leaf before leaping away."

It was a ballsy manoeuvre but Tayla pulled it off with style. She zipped elegantly and quickly through the air between each of the boulders before getting up incredibly close to Crush's face where she launched the Razor Leaf. The leaves hit, as had all the others but Crush was too much of a veteran to be bothered by a few measly Razor Leaves.

"Crush, Crunch."

As Tayla was leaping back, Crush clamped his jaws around her and that was the end of the battle. The two landed and Crush rested Tayla on the ground.

Gregory clapped with delight. "You did an excellent job, Luka. To last that long against Crush with a, say Level 15 Pokémon? That's remarkable progress and that move against the Rock Slide was phenomenal." He walked over to his son and gave him a massive bear hug before ruffling his hair. "Good job."

Putting his arms around his father, Luka smiled. "Thanks Dad."

"Don't you dare," Olesya began as she collapsed to her knees, her entire right side a coat of red, "start with that 'bigger man' s**t. I'm not going anywhere," she said. It wasn't stubbornness, she was already about to die. If you got an EMT team there NOW she was still going to die, probably.

She could feel her body growing colder, organs shutting down. She grit her teeth and looked at Takamaru. "You're a... deluded.... b*****d..."

Purrloin roared with ferocity and charged again, desperate attack. Claws and fangs at the ready, she aimed for Takamaru's face, and if she hit she'd dig in and that twist as she kicked away, a move that would disfigure Takamaru by tearing into his cheeks and taking a chunk of his nose.

There this boy was, standing there, like he was justified. Olesya managed a small smile. "Denial is.... killing a person... and telling yourself you had to.." Then she collapsed in a pool of her own blood.

Robby stood over his opponent, breathing hard. A moment later, the adrenaline started wearing off. His head hurt, he was woozy, his body ached, and something was bur-... He gripped his right side and collapsed onto his already very sore back. Roast was next to him in a second.

"Roast! Heart... Attack... Help... Me... Call... Ambulance..." The ducklett looked at his hand, over his right side where the lung was. Her wing went to her forehead in a "facepalm" gesture. "nooo...." The obese lad was unconscious, his first real big exercise and adrenaline experience finally catching up with him. Roast sighed.

[Stupid guy... Just get some sleep for now.] Roast planted herself on her trainer's chest, waiting for someone to try something. Or for this chaos stuff to be over.

((It's what I do, <.<))

The headbutt was too much for Purrloin. Purrloins were, notoriously, frail Pokemon when it came to their defenses. To take a newly evolved headbutt? It was too much, she collapsed into the land of unconsciousness.

Takamaru's fight then came to an end.

***

More Jewish people! Becca was suddenly paralyzed with fear by the sight and the blast knocked her backward.

Meanwhile, coming at Avan's flank before he could reach Kali was Liepard, awake and ready to Night Slash Avan's flank.

If trainers didn't get prosecuted for torturing wild Pokemon and leaving them to die under the guise of training then neither would Chuck, right?

Chuck grit his teeth as the psywave hit him, resisting the urge to curse loudly and in a manly manner. "You punk," he said through grit teeth as he attempted to struggle against Solosis' hold, "you can't just torture a guy cause another guy stole your s**t, lemme down!"

(Would anyone Like some help? Kinda like surface rescue.)

Takamaru's breathing was slow and paced as he fell into the black void of an un-conscious state. Iron Hide looked around, there was no way for him to scale the walls of this underground maze with his trainer. a sense of hopelessness settled over the now larger iron pokemon.

a few moments later, while Iron Hide was still searching for away out, the ground in front of him erupted, spraying dirt every where. thinking this was a new enemy Iron Hide jumped to his un-conscious trainers side. after the dust settled Iron Hide seen that its was none other than spike, but he wasn't alone. in one of his claws he held Lancer's pokeball.

a few moments of poke-chat occurred. Spike told Iron Hide of how he barley managed to escape the attack from the sandile, and how he searched all over the under ground of the dream yard searching for him and Tk. he even recounted of how he stumbled upon the mass murrduring of the munna and Musharna from where he and Tk met the other trainer's. once there Spike wasted no time finding Lancers ball and quickening his search for Iron Hide and Tk.

Once Spike had finished telling his side, Iron Hide told Spike of his and Tk's encounter with the armored knight named olesya and how the fight ended. afterwards the two pokemon decided that they should take Tk from here and back to the surface. and so, Spike helped place Takamaru and his back pack onto iron Hides back, from there Spike dug a whole towards the surface at a step slant to which Iron Hide would ferry the un-conscious child towards the surface.

Half way to the surface Takamaru begins to stir, "we...we have to help the others..." where the words that tumbled from his mouth, the weakened boy tried to sit up on iron Hide's back but couldn't find the strength, his adrenaline rush long since ended. both Spike and Iron Hide Grunted there disprovel but obeyed. Spike leveled out the tunnel he he was digging so they could start there search. both pokemon knew that they had to finish this fast of Tk's life would be in danger from his wounds...

Astonish, being a move where you yelled and attacked to try and startle the target, would require Kali to physically attack Liepard. Unless Kali was just yelling in a startling manner and pretending it was Astonish. Either way, Liepard jumped from Avan's collapsed self to Kali.

If she was attacking with Astonish, Liepard would Night Slash into it, effectively parrying whatever part of Kali was doing the attacking as well as damaging that part.

If she was just shouting like a weirdo, Liepard would Night Slash that pretty little face of hers. The one that was reminiscent to when she was alive. One might call it a blocking point, others would realize the super effective move and call it potentially scarring the last sentimental item Kali had left of her former life. Assuming she hit, of course.

***

By the time Wayne looked up Chuck was gone.