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Suppressing a small bit of laughter as Dnate wandered into the room, Reno gave a thumbs up in response to Kairi's words before attempting to locate Ezekiel in the room. Peering around from his position under the couch, he soon found the Houndour hidden in the area behind Dante. Grinning mischievously, he signaled to the pup before yelling, "Puppy power!!" Rolling out from under the couch, Reno sprinted into another area of the base with no where he might end up.

Looking at the collapsed man and back down the hall to where Dante was likely to show up, Reno decided now would be a good to go to work and grabbed Kain's arm. Swinging him up onto his back, Reno took off back down the hall in an effort to keep the game going. "We are currently playing keep away from Dante, so just go with this and keep moving." Reno told his new companion, turning another corner to keep on running.

Sub would notice that Blizz wasn't waking up just yet, so what did he do? He noticed a nearby rock from the last training session that took place here and chucked it at his head. Fortunately Blizz wouldn't see what threw the rock at him as Sub was disguised as simply ice thanks to the Zorua's illusion. Now he just had to wake for Blizz to wake up so he could battle Odd.

Sub stood there and watched his plan begin to unfold. The presence of both Telia and Psy by his side alerted him to Blizz's suspicions as their temperment made it obvious. He reassured the Psychic types by putting a hand on both of their shoulders, which should go unnoticed by Blizz since he appeared to him as ice. Regardless, he was aware Blizz could feel the massive amounts of Celestial Chi, really the Cold One would have to be one pathetic excuse for a hybrid not to feel it. Unfortunately there was little he could do to hide this, as the chi was that of the Dark variant, if it were a Psychic based he could easily mask it, but the Dark type of Celestial Chi was a little bit pronounced, oh well, they just had to distract Blizz more so he would pay it less mind. For now though, things seemed fine, so he watched.

I stared in confusion. A hard full-on assault just like that? On some other trainers, that may be the way to go. Get someone to go on a panic, which, well...probably isn't a bad idea at all depending on the skill set on the one doing it and the one taking it. For someone apprenticing at the Mahogany gym for over a decade, however, that is expected to take it? Surely one jests.

As the Marowak came down with the giant club. "Weavile! Stand your ground!" The Weavile braced itself and held up its claws to stop the attack. Sure enough when the attack landed, it hurt regardless. But that was all intentional. "Counter!" Weavile went on to shove the Marowak back to throw him off balance then went on the attempt to deliver one hard upward slash in retaliation.

I tilted my head in near confusion. That wasn't something that one typically sees in a gym fight. That's even crazier than what I've seen Aden pull off during his gym tour. Regardless, as tempting as it was to have Weavile go for another Counter attack, it wasn't like he was a damage sponge like say a Wobbuffet would be. I didn't want to risk it. I was going to overtax that attack that he was trying to pull, nonetheless.

As the Marowak came on down the icy ramp, Weavile took a few steps back. "Weavile! Ice Punch!" One would have been stupid to think I didn't teach an Ice attack to this Pokemon of all things. Weavile then kicked forward, rushing down the ice to meet the Marowak head on, his claws glowed an icy blue. As the Marowak got close, Weavile met head on with his claws.

"Weavile! Are you alright!?" I shouted over to him.

"Weavile! Vile..." The Weavile started to shake his arm a bit, as if his arm went completely numb after the two attacks collided.

"Shake it off if you can, Weavile, this isn't over yet! Besides! Be glad that you weren't hitting a thicker skull than that! It could have been considerably worse!"

My eyes narrowed a bit. Too many coincidences. I'm pretty convinced this battle isn't all that it seems. It was just about tempting to unleash all hell right now for someone trying to play me for a fool; an emotion that stirred that Telia and Psy once again picked up on and looked towards Sub about. This was falling through kind of fast. Regardless, I was still going to play nice, for now. At least until I can figure the reasoning behind this.

In the meantime, I crossed my arms and plotted as fast as I could as to what to do with the new Pokemon on the field. Steel types, a major fallback when it came to people coming to fight me and my teacher at the Mahogany gym. I'm not going to lie, it is a headache in and of itself dealing with them. Ice attacks doesn't do squat to the likes of them. I end up having my Ice types resort to other tactics to throw them off-kilter and then if its going real good for me, just land an Ice attack for a coup de grace just to make someone realize that using a Pokemon for the sake of defense like that isn't going to fly in the Mahogany gym, or anything afterwards like in Blackthorn or by that extension, the Elites. But then, this isn't a Pokemon league fight...

"Weavile! Screech!" I shouted.

The Weavile breathed in deep then unleash an ungodly shrill, one that even made me wince. I was going to try to rock this steel type to its very core.