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As Poe dashed towards Chuck's Primeape, the raging monkey turned, and for the first time since the match began, calmly faced its opponent. The ape, actually closed its eyes for an instant as it drew in a breath. When those eyes reopened, they burned with a bottled outrage to put its previous outbursts to shame. A fist, seemingly glowing with sinister energy, lashed out in a blink of an eye. The devastating impact intercepted Poe, catching him in the face. The imp Pokemon careened back in a spray of sweat, spittle, and...was that a tooth? The outraged onslaught didn't cease, however. Primeape launched forward, blazing fists falling as a downpour upon the Sableye, pounding the Pokemon into the floor. Chuck's response to Sub's remark went unheard, drowned out by the relentless cries, "APE! APE! APE! APE! APE!"

The fading light revealed the Primeape, battered and bruised, but still trying to stammer to its feet. A new light interrupted the struggle, enveloping the monkey in a pale red light. Chuck, replaced the Primeape's Pokeball with another, bouncing the new one in his hand as he eyed up Sub once more. "Not bad, whelp. Not bad. But, let's see if you can handle something a little different." Tossing the ball forward, he proceeded to bellow, "Hydro Pump!"

A new flash of light revealed Chuck's signature Poliwrath, who wasted no time in following Chuck's command. Gurgled cries of, "WRATH!," accompanied several pressurized geysers of water, bombarding Sub's imp with a barrage of pressurized torrents.

"HA! You've got spunk kid, I'll give you that." Chuck remarked with a braking laugh. "Alright then, let's really get this battle started! Poliwrath, hit it with Bulldoze!"

The blue frog lifted and planted it's right leg, as it crouched into a traditional sumo squat with its hands outstretched towards the rocky gym floor. Strong and sturdy legs began to propel the tadpole Pokemon into an aggressive charge. A spray of rocks, gravel, dust, and debris fanned outwards from outstretched hands, as they shoveled into the ground. As the Drapion and Poliwrath barreled towards one another, the frog brought its hands up in a mighty double uppercut. The earthy blow squarely connected with the scorpion's chin with enough force to snap its jaw shut and lift the creature from the ground, as the electric chi fizzled out ineffectually across the spray of shoveled earth and debris.

The scorpion's efforts to disengage from the melee would prove ineffectual. As Sub's shouted his command, Chuck barked out his response immediately, "Seismic Toss!" As the tail reached over to grab an upraised arm, Poliwrath responded by grabbing the protruding appendage. Pulling the tail down, the frog executed a rolling throw, heaving the scorpion over its head.

As the Drapion careened into the gym floor, Chuck barked out his next command, wasting no time to let the dust settle or the scorpion to recover, "Bulldoze!" Once again, the tadpole extended its arms to the floor and charged, the spray of onrushing debris resembling an unstoppable snowplow crashing through everything in its path.

Unfortunatly, the venomous loogy was caught up in the shower of rock and earth, splattering it aside and away from the onrushing Poliwrath. With a thunderous crash, the Bulldoze connected with the weakened Drapion in a explosion of rock, earth, and other bits of gym floor. As the dust cleared, Poliwrath would be revealed standing over Legrand, attempting to shake off the pain from the poison that was working its way through its system. It didn't seem to be working too well, though. Perhaps a droplet or two of Venoshock didn't get sprayed away after all.

"Good try there, kid," Chuck called out from across the gym, absentmindedly bouncing his third Pokeball up and down in the palm of his hand. "But you will need to do better than that to take me down, much less the rest of the gym leaders or the Elite Four."

Chuck raised an eyebrow as the upside-down squid emerged onto the gym battlefield, but that was all the surprise or hesitation that he showed. "Alright Poliwrath! Spin to Win! Counter!"

The tadpole Pokemon rushed in, disregarding what injuries it had already suffered. As the first attack landed, the frog quickly began to spin with the force of the attack. As successive strikes landed, Poliwrath spun faster and faster, each blow adding power and momentum to the swirling rotation. With a ferocious roar, "Po! LI! WRAAAAAAAAAATH!" the muscular Pokemon launched itself at the target in a terrifying display of just how much determination, strength, and fighting spirit still remained in the battered Pokemon. The furiously whirling Counter counter crashed into the hovering Malamar, slamming the Overturning Pokemon into the ground with a thunderous impact.

The landing, however, was less impressive. Weakened from the psychic blows it had absorbed, Poliwrath missed the landing and sprawled itself across the floor. For a moment, the tadpole Pokemon attempted to lift itself up off the ground, but to no avail. As it collapsed, it was enveloped with a flash of red light as Chuck recalled his fallen Poliwrath.

"HAH!," Chuck barked a laugh, as he replaced Poliwrath's ball on his belt, still bouncing a third in his other hand. "That was something. Poliwrath hasn't been that fired up over a challenge match in quite some time." Snatching the other ball out of the air, he grinned as he flung the ball out onto the gym floor. "Let's see how you handle something a bit different!" The emerging figure seemed to loom over the battlefield as it glared down at its opponents while it growled menacingly, "Pan...go...ro."

Raising an eyebrow, Chuck looked at Sub askance. "Really? Reflect?" he remarked. "Is that supposed to slow us down? Pangoro, shatter that with a Brick Break." The overbearing bear swept forward with a speed surprising for something of its size. Clasping both paws together, overhead, the Pangoro slammed down upon the Upside-down squid, shattering the Reflect into tiny shards of chi and wisps of energy.

"Keep the pressure up!" Chuck called out from across the gym, "X-Scissor!" The daunting Pokemon stepped forward, keeping itself in the Malamar's face, before flinging its arms wide out to the side. Extending wickedly sharp claws from its paws, those same arms swung around in a dual horizontal chop, aimed directly at Ulalume's head.