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Emolga was indeed too close to avoid the Rock Tomb, even with its speed advantage. As the rocks began to pile around it and inflict damage on the Emola it seemed certain that this tomb would be its proverbial grave for the battle until Elesa ordered another command. "Iron Tail! Show us a flourish!" The gym leader ordered.

With a look of determination Emolga would spin around as well as it could and with a Steel energy infused tail shattered the partial Rock Tomb before it could complete imprison it, sending chunks of rock flying around it including at Drilbur. The Emolga would stand there among the rubble, panting from exhaustion. While it avoided the full force of the Rock Tomb and prevented its self from being trapped the Rock type move still did enough damage to bring it down to running on fumes. It was not going to hang around in this battle for much longer.

And it would be, the Drilbur striking true and landing a direct hit on the exhausted Emolga, the Flying Squirel swept off the ground and rolling onto the floor unceremoniously, knocked out cold. The crowd would gasp as a spotlight was cast on Drilbur and Terashi as if they were expected to do something, a long pause before Elesa finally withdrew her Emolga and the spotlights clicked off. "Not one for show I take it." The gym leader said with a smile.

"This next one is special, a designer Pokemon gifted to me by that artist genius of Castelia City. You all know him, let's send some love up to gym leader Burgh and this beautiful Pokemon he bred for me!" Elesa announced before tossing out a Net Ball, the device popping open to unleash a Galvantula, the giant spider skittering around a bit and crackling with static electricity as it prepared to fight.

"Your Drilbur has quickly gone out of fashion but we'll give it a properly lit send off. Energy Ball!" The gym leader ordered. The Galvantula would respond by charging up a mass of Grass energy between its mandibles before launching the beautiful sphere of energy at Drilbur with deadly force. On impact it would explode in a shower of green sparkles like a firework causing the crowd to 'ooo'.

As soon as Odo appeared from its ball Keiko's worries would be confirmed in every way as the crowd gasped, 'ew'd', and made comments about how 'gross' the creature was and what not. The formerly rambunctious crowd was now repetitively mute save for the dismayed reactions over the Garbodor's appearance, Keiko herself didn't hear not even a single good comment, the revulsion was unanimous.

After Odo had scattered its Spikes around, causing Galvantula to startle just slightly until it realize none of them were actually targeted at it directly, the crowd would boo at Odo. At this point Elesa would appear annoyed with the crowd and stamp her right foot, her shoe's raised heel clicking with the crowd with a loud 'snap'. As if trained the crowd started to quickly hush and instead waited to see what Elesa would do next.

"My apologies for the audience's reaction to your latest model." She told Terashi before turning back to the battle at hand. "Galvantula, take back the stage, use Electroweb darling!" The gym leader ordered.

Raising up on its back legs Galvantula would quickly construct a very intricate web crackling with electricity. The spider would hold it up for a brief moment to let the audience see the very impressive pattern, one could tell Elesa had trained it not only in battle but in design. It resembled the gym's own badge! That was neat. Once its showy display was down the spider would snatch its self into the air going backwards as it launched a String Shot from its end onto the ceiling and as it whipped up into the air it flung the Electroweb down at Odo, hoping to ensnare it in its shocking web. This display got the audience pumped up again as they began to cheer.

Elesa would smile upon hearing Terashi's command, the Garbodor letting loose a sphere of darkness at her own Galvantula. Fortunately for her Galvantula was naturally faster than Garbodor and now thanks to the Electroweb Odo was even slower. Just one more step to getting the upperhand.

"Agility, Galvantula!" The gym leader ordered. With a glow of pink energy in its eyes the spider would suddenly gain a burst of speed as it jettisoned its self to the right, sliding across the ground. The impact of the Dark Pulse on the ground next to it did cause it to lose balance and flip over but the spider would regain its balance and land correctly. That Dark Pulse hurt it but not as badly as it could have. Apparently Elesa was banking on gaining a speed advantage over Odo making hitting it that much harder.

The crowd again booed at Odo, displeased with the icy cloud of gas as it robbed Galvantula of its new sheen. Really it wasn't because it was a bad move but because it came from a Pokemon like Odo. Elesa ignored them for now and focused on the battle at hand. "Very good, I can see how you were able to take care of my dear friend Burgh so easily. However you'll find our artistic tastes are very different. Galvantula, Thunder."

Deciding to no longer toy with Terashi the gym leader would command her Pokemon to finally go on the offensive. Galvantula would stare at Odo for awhile as its body began to crackle with electricity, its many eyes twitching around, its Compound Eyes making sure they got a good lock on the Garbodor. When the spider felt like it saw a good moment and position to strike from it would unleash a showy and booming bolt of electricity straight up into the air which would arch over and come crashing down upon Odo from above. Thanks to its ability the move was far more accurate than normal but there was still a chance Odo could avoid it.

(If greater than 91 it misses.)

"Beautiful Pokemon you have there, I hope it's style is just as interesting." Elesa commented before Rala lit her fist aflame and came at her spider swinging. It was too sudden to get Galvantula to move out of the way so she would do the next best thing. "Hang in there darling and use Leech Life!"

Bracing its self for impact the spider would take the super effective Fire Punch head on, the only saving grace was that Gardevoir weren't exactly the strong physical attackers however that did not diminish the pain it suffered all that much. The other thing that sparred it was its quick timing in retaliating upon contact and big its fangs into the arm of the Gardevoir, immediately proceeding to suck the life giving energy out of it and begin the process of healing its self.

That was it for Galvantula, the point blank Moon Blast slamming into it and sending it flying as it released Rala, rolling onto the ground and stopping knocked out. With a flourish Elesa would recall her spider and tuck it away into her outfit.

"A properly dramatic victory requires a dash of danger and a pinch of peril. You may walk away from here with my badge but I can at least provide our audience with the show they deserve." With that said the lights went off and a red spotlight shined down on the field in front of Elesa, another would click on, a blue one which shined next to it. The two spotlights would move around wildly for a bit before meeting together and shining on the same spot causing the colors to combine to purple. Both spotlights would flash off and back on, when they turned back on a Zebstrika now standing under the combined lights.

"Strikaaa!" The Thunderbolt Pokemon brayed, the lights in the gym turning back on and the spit lights going off.

"Zebstrika, Flame Charge!" Summoning forth burning energy Zebstrika would make a mad dash straight for Rala, its body burst into flames as it became a speeding flaming meteor headed for a collision course with the Gardevoir, its speed increasing in the process.