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Luka's eye twitched. He thought for a minute how to answer. "Is that on the sheet? If so yes. Totally." He tried not to give it away, but he really felt like rolling his eyes as he drew out the 'Totally' in a sarcastic manner. He just wanted to leave. Desperately.

Henrietta may or may not have gotten the general impression that Hiba was being a gentleman, being as how he gave her the first move. that was hardly the case, she reveled her Pokemon first, giving Hiba the opportunity to choose and effective type match up, which he passed up, so it was only right that she got the first move.

However, if there was one thing that Hiba was more serious about that his physical fitness, it was battling. In this case Hiba had called Scocant's Secondary typing to be electric, he was correct. As to why he'd choose a weaker match up, no one may ever know.

as the electro ball came hurtling towards Jaw's. Hiba called his counter move.

"Substitute." his command came loud and clear.

The electric attack would appear to hit Jaws dead on, However, after the resulting smoke cleared, there would be a small, badly made Pokemon doll in Jaw's's place that took the full force of the attack, it laid scuffed and static-y, it was now useless.

Off to the right of the assumed battle field was Jaw's. "Mud sport." again, Hiba's command was followed flawlessly, signs of Jaw's's training. the big jawed Pokemon would open its maw towards the sky and let loose a spray of mud. This mud would cover bits and parts of the field, Himself included. This would cut any future electric type attacks attack power in half.

((sorry, i had work in the morning =[ ))

Normally Hiba would have felt bad for covering the already embarrassed Henrietta in mud, but this was a battle. If he had time to feel bad, he had time to loose, he didn't like loosing.

The screech hit, leaving a slight ringing in Jaws's ear's. the alligator like Pokemon felt his defense falling, however that worked.

with out a command given Jaws would begin to dart towards the tiny socant, his mouth slightly open to where one could see his Fangs glowing a bright shimmery blue.

"Ice fang!" Hiba called as Jaws neared socant. HIba himself stood with his hands in his pockets, his body language gave off the impression that he was bored. though his trained eyes never left her for a moment. He watched her body movement, her rythem, gauged her reaction time. like previously stated, he was interested in just what kind of kids where taking on Team plasma.

Right now, this was a completely different Hiba than the one Takamaru's come to know. He wasn't the loud, obnoxious, fun loving oaf that he genuinely is, but rather he was stock, analytic, and calm.

((if your still on, im gonna go shower then ill be back. if its ok with you id like to finish this battle some time tomorrow at the latest.))

((I wanna finish it too. I got work in two hours, though. If you had MSN or steam I could let you know when I post though and we could know when the other is online. Coordination~))

((I dunno. I'll try and catch up, but I have hw to do today.))

After jaws missed his mark, he'd keep going into the same direction, carried by his momentum. this is when socant attempted to attach onto Jaws's legs. One of the things that Hiba had learned on his journey was to never let your opponent get any sort of hold on you, even if you are bigger.

"Jaws, go up!" Hiba called, not moving.

Jaws would unleash a torrent of water his feet, propelling him a few feet in the air, successively avoiding the attack. however, whilst in the air, Jaws would swing his body around in an aerial flip, so that he was facing Socant mid air before landing.

"Scary Face!" came Hiba's next command. Jaws would alter his face so that his eyes were wide with a demonic glare and his maw was pulled into a frightening snarl so that his fangs where fully showing. if all went well then Socants speed would be reduced greatly.

Now.

Takamaru was just about to round the corner of the alley where Lancer the Karrablast stood waiting for N to return. On top of one of the surrounding buildings stood Jackie the Hitmonchan, cocking his fist back.

He punched forward, forcing the air in front of his fist forward at high speeds. The Vacuum Wave would strike the dumpster next to Lancer, creating a loud ringing sound that would echo throughout the alleyway.

Reid assumed that the attack would startle Lancer, getting the Karrablast to run out into the streets in a panic. Getting him into the street was the first part of the plan.

The second was that Crofton was going down the street in his Rangermobile Jeep, watching out for the Karrablast. And as soon as he saw the bug, he'd give manic chase to it.

From a bench on the sidewalk across the street from the alley, Reid lowered his binoculars and slid them into his jacket pocket. Let's see how determined you are, Mr. Takashi.

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Sachiko's tongue stuck out the corner of her mouth as she checked off a Yes on the box next to her question. "Ok, just two more! You're doing great!" she told Luka with reassuring pep.

"Question number two! Do you think the World Government's military and Interpol should still be training pokemon to be used as weapons? Yes or No?"

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Now seemed like a good time for Jump to tell Wayne that the younger trainer reminded him of himself when he was younger. And he might have, if it wasn't for the shiver that ran down his spine at that moment. He felt all of the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. Unfortunately for Jump, it wasn't an unfamiliar feeling: someone wanted to kill him.

The Interpol Agent turned his head over his shoulder slowly to see Scizor staring at him. He grinned at the mantis, despite inferring that the intent to kill had come from the bug. Why?

Perhaps it was because Jump found the idea of dying to be a source of entertainment. He had so many near death experiences in his lifetime that they had begun to feel like a rush. It was hard to get excited over something when you were so fats that sometimes it was like time stood still.

Not that he wanted to die. At least, not right now, in the park. That would be embarrassing. No, Jump wanted to go out in a blaze of glory when he felt there was nothing left to do in his life.

Scizor had gotten his blood pumping just from one primal message, but Jump settled down right after. Maybe we can fight some other day. I'm sure Kiedis would looooove to get a stab at ya.

"How do I move so fast? It's an Aura thing. Aura's like...hmmm..."

Jump scratched his chin. "Okay, Aura's like a muscle that works different for everybody. Everyone's got it, but if you don't use it it's useless. You train Aura to develop it and make it stronger. On like, a real simple level, Aura's like a power boost."

He pointed at the fountain in the center of the park. "So I can't just lift that over my head, but if I used Aura to increase my power, I might be able to...I dunno, actually. That looks kind of heavy. And attached to stuff with pipes...well whatever, you get the idea."

The Interpol Agent held up two fingers. "But that's only basic Aura. The second part of Aura is developing it into an ability that's unique to you. That's the cool part. Just like everyone's got that latent Aura power, everyone's got the potential to create their own Aura Ability. Like a pokemon ability, but for humans. Most of the time, the ability you develop depends on what kind of person you are."

"Zack's ability is to make explosions and stuff like that. I think it's cause he's grumpy, and when you walk in on him and Eliza-whoa, hey, I mean when you, uh, rub him the wrong way he gets super pissed. Sounds explosive, right? Duh."

Jump chuckled and pointed at himself with his thumb. "I control my own speed entirely, so I can run super fast or do all sorts of cool vibrating s**t. And the reason I'm a speed demon is cause-"

He paused, and for a second Jump's eyes became glazed over as they became lost in the past. But that ended quickly as he gave Wayne a nostalgic smile.

"When I was a kid, I lost something real important to me. Because I wasn't fast enough to save it. After that, I told myself I would never be too slow to save the things I care about. And now? You're looking at the fastest man alive."

Jump put his hands behind his head. "But Aura's not gonna help you one bit in fight if you don't know how to fight. Did your old man ever teach you how to throw a punch?"

Jaws would find landing to be cake, i mean his just washed a small portion of the ground in water, so it was mud free. Landing on wet ground for a water type like jaws is as instinctive as infants crying to be fed.

Hiba would be surprised if that move provided any meaningful damage to his Pokemon, whom was still covered Mud that reduced electricity damage. the move it self didn't seem to hold much power, seeing as Jaws stood still, glaring at his attacker. nope, all it did was irritate the gator Pokemon, and of course lower his speed.

"Water Gun" Hiba ordered as the Gator tore his way free from the web with his natural claw's.

Jaw's would launch a powerful blast of water from his maw directly after freeing himself from the net. normally, using a water type move against an electric Pokemon was pretty idiotic. however, Jaw's still had a pretty good portion of mud to coat his body in which to absorb some more electricity that may be used as a counter, providing socant was quick enough TO counter afer receiving a scary face.

plus, socant was indeed the size of a tick, so a imagine a fire hydrant exploding, and at there close rang, the Tick would be more or less directly above the hydrant

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"Kara~ Karaaa~ bla bla blasuuuu~" a small insect Pokemon sat on a dumpster, swaying back forth singing a song that one might assume to be something he'd heard once before.

That was until a trash next to him made a sound like it was possessed, or at least that's what it sounded like to Lancer. anyway's, the now startled lancer would become air born as he jumped from his sitting place atop the dumpster, landing, then taking off at a speed not thought possible for his species of Pokemon.

Lancer would dart across the intersecting alleyways, the one perpendicular to Takamaru.

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Tk continued searching along the ally way he was currently on, looking here and there. But then, something happened that made him stop his search for a moment, a small blue blur darted past the intersection in the ally ways.

It all happened in slow motion, Tk would see a startled Karrablast Darted from an intersecting Ally way, but no, that wasnt just any Karrablast, it was Lancer! His eyes wide with shock as Lancer disappeared further down the same allyway, towards the road.

Still in slow motion, Tk would Turn his ankle, adjust his back angling, his eyes narrowing, all was still. Tk knew his Karrablast well, when he was startled, calming him would be a challenge.

Then he was off, his sneakers squeaking as he darted after Lancer, using a street lamp post to swing around the corner, and he was gone down the perpendicular alleyway.

As lancer Ran he'd accidentally knock over this and that. As Tk ran after Lancer, he'd be come across a knocked over trash can, instead of slowing down and going around he jump against the well to his left, kicking off it and over the fallen trash receptacle, continuing on after lancer who would soon come to the road. Along the way down the ally way Tk would use similar Parkour maneuvers to avoid other such objects.