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Erika scowled at the Houndour, her hands at her sides defiantly as she turned her head away from the canine in Reno's hands. "Lady Erika...please." The girl in pink plead, Erika responding with a hefty sigh, now staring at Ezekiel as she shakily raised her hand. "If it harms me or my gym I refuse to continue the battle..." She half mumbled as she reached out to pet the dog.

"Yes...I suppose so..." Erika said as she removed her hand from the hound, still leery of it but obviously more relaxed about its presence. "I suppose we should finish this battle...your Houndour may roam the garden if it wishes to relax..." She said rather forced, still slightly worried about it being in here.

"More fire types..." Erika mumbled, obviously still holding some grudges against fire types, but alas she looked it over, sighing and focusing on the battle at hand. "Victreebel, use Clear Smog." She commanded. The Victreebeel would hold its ground as the air began to get hot, beginning to harm it, as Nova flapped its wings. The plant would release a thick cloud of white smoke from its mouth, covering its self in it, the substance possessing strange acidic abilities that seemed to nullify the Heat Wave, protecting it for the most part.

As the winds blew and cleared the smog, Victreebel was gone. Before the realization could even be made the flycatcher was behind Nova, swinging its thick vine with the large leaf on the end at Nova as it gave off a dark aura, it was Sucker Punch. After 'punching' Nova, the Victreebel would lash its other vine out at a nearby try, grabbing onto it, and flee into the wooded section of the field, taking the battle to the 'forest'.

The buzzing sound would illicit a shriek from the Victreebel among the trees, the plant thrashing around which would reveal its location to Reno and Nova easily enough. Erika knew it would only be a matter of time before they took off after her Victreebel so she had to act now. "Victreebel, Poisonpowder!" She called out towards the woods. In response to her command, a cloud of purple powder would begin to creep through the woods, threatening to consume the entirety of the forested area. If Nova wanted at Victreebel, it had to risk getting poisoned.

This time the Bug Buzz seemed less effective, only a faint annoyed shrill could be heard, as the Victreebel had retreated further into the woods to take better defensive measures. The time bought by the retreat was just enough for the Poisonpowder to overtake the indoor forest completely, and the Victreebel prepared for its prey to come for it. I guess it was understandable why some trainers said 'screw it' and burned the place down.

"Now! Sludge Bomb!" Erika cried. The plan was clear, retreat into the forest, make it dangerous to enter after it, and attack with long range moves. A large glob of sludge would fire up from the far back area of the forest, archiving over and bursting in midair over Nova, sending down a rain of small globs of sludge over it.

The winds blew inside the gym, causing the trees to bend and sway, sending a flurry of leaves, twigs, and various debris flying. With the flying objects appeared Victreebel, hanging onto a tree with its main vine for dear life. The Pokemon was on its last legs...vine...whatever, and Erika was not doing well against these Fire types and needed to devise a new strategy. "Return!" She cried out, recalling her fly catcher, knowing good and well that continuing to battle with it was a health risk to the Pokemon.

"I thank you for not completely destroying my garden, I can certainly clean this up easier than complete incineration." She said with a smile. "Don't think though that I'll sway and snap as easy as my tree branches did. Vileplume, it's time to blossom!" The kimono clad woman chanted as she tossed out her last Pokeball, releasing her top heavy flower Pokemon onto the field. "Plume!" It cried out as it appeared, dancing around a bit joyously.

"Never left your guard down around toxic plants. Vileplume, Petal Dance!" Erika cheered. Her Vileplume would sway back and forth, bob up and down, and then begin to twirl around as a flurry of petals appeared from around its feet, sweeping up the Poisonpowder on the ground, and becoming coated in the sludge that also littered it, forming a storm of sludgy petals and a gust of Poisonpowder which blew towards the Volcarona.