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Makihita erupted from the Pokeball, slamming it's foot on the ground, letting out a cry.
"Hiiiita!"

"Allright Portabello, now it's finally your turn, go!" Mike had no sooner said the Pokemon's name as the overeager Breloom darted out onto the arena.

Brawly gave a half smile half smirk. "Two fighting types, this will be good."

"Not if I take you out." Mike almost giggled, victory was at hand. "Portabello! Leech Seed!"

Portaballo shook it's tail, then lurched it forward, spraying small green seeds towards Makihita, many of them latching onto his body. It struggled and managed to shake a few off, but not untill the remainers had dug themselves into his skin and sapped a bit of health.

"Makuhita! Use Bulk up!" Makuhita flexed it's arm muscles and shimmered with a grey tint, it's abilities rising.

"Portabello, let's win ourselves a badge, use Mega Drain!" Mike pointed to the opponent, and his Pokemon nodded, hopping forward. Makuhita had rasied his Defense, but not Special Defense. Soon in combination from the Leech Seed and the Mega Drain, the fighting Pokemon was at critical vitality, ready to do one more attack.

"Reversal!" Brawly shouted, fearing a loss.

Makuhita lunged forward and connected a powerful tackle attack, doing massive damage due to his low health.

Portabello merely smirk as some of his spores rubbed off on the naive Pokemon, inducing a powerful Poision condition.

Makuhita had just enough time to look at his master before Leech Seed, Mega Drain, and the newly aqquired poison status ailment took him down, it collapsed on the floor, defeated.

Mike and his Pokemon all jumped up and down (Save Proton, who merely fluttered) "Yeah! We did it! Awesome job guys! That was amazing!"

Brawly recalled his Pokemon, a smile never leaving his face, as he reached into his pocket.

Sabrina arrived shortly after Sasha did, and also went to the sidelines.

"Go, Gastly!" Morty said, flinging his Pokeball outward. A Gastly erupted from it, and hovered. "Gaaaaastly..." it said. Nina raised an eyebrow.

"A Gastly? Please. Could you bore me any more?" She smirked, and threw her Pokeball, calling, "Go, Cupcake!" Nina hadn't planned on using Cupcake, but had thought more, and changed her mind. Cupcake was released from her Pokeball, and bounced from foot to foot. Morty chuckled. "Gastly, use a Curse attack!"

A strange nail seemed to stab Gastly's "body", and Nina could tell it had been rather badly harmed from the attack. A few moments later, a strange ghostlike creature appeared near Cupcake's head. "I was hoping you weren't going to use that," Nina muttered. "Cupcake, blast that Gastly with a strong Surf attack!" Cupcake nodded quickly, and summoned a large wave of water, sending it straight toward Gastly. Due to the power of the wave, and Curse's previous effects on it, the Gastly fainted. Morty recalled it, and grabbed a new Pokeball.

"I hope you realize I wasn't even trying in that round," he admitted. "I suppose you could almost call him my martyr. But now, I'm playing for real... Go, Pokeball!"

Morty flung out his next Pokeball, as Cupcake took some damage from Curse.

Wasting no time, Mike quickly taught Portabello his new TM, the Breloom happily recieving the new move. Two moves and a Gym victory in a day? Wow, I feel great! This is awesome!

Eyeing Kasiya's discomfert, Mike happily exited the gym, but not after sticking his tounge out to the 3 trainers he had bested before. "Told ya we'd beat him." He smiled, soaking in his second victory badge, and exited the gym, his Pokemon happily following.

"So, what's next?"

"I don't know," Kasiya smiled, happy to be out in the sun again. "I'd assume you'd want to make your way to the next gym, am I right?" She looked up at the sky, wondering what was happening back home. They're probably laughing at me, she thought bitterly, and kicked the ground for no real reason.

"Great idea! Let's head off to that right no-" Mike stopped dead in his tracks. "Wait...Titanium doesn't even know a Ground type move yet..."

He sat down on the sand and pondered. "Where can I get a ground move..."

Mike tilted his head, a slightly defeated expression on his face. "Ugh, but two of his Pokemon are Steel type, I remember that from when I traversed all the towns of Hoenn, and I'd just really like Titanium to sweep the floor with his whole team, it would make up for the lack of my using him now." Mike lowered his head at the mention of his negligence. "I just feel really bad for him, he hasn't been in a battle lately and I just would like to just.." Mike trailed off, feeling rather down.

Kasiya sat up, and after shooting Shocker a dirty look, nudged Mike with her elbow. "What, you don't think Titanium would love to play whack-a-mole with them?" she winked. "I'm sure he'd love it."