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"Blast it..." I said. It was no use, there was no way to avoid this one. As the attack crashes down upon the Aurorus, the attack found its way back at virtually double the force back towards Porygon-Z.

"PORRRRYYY!!! Porygon-Z shrilled out in pain. I couldn't help but to wince hard from such a brutal onslaught.

"Ugh, Porygon-Z, I'm sorry..." I said, as I saw the virtual Pokemon down on the ground, a twitching mess from the powerful electrical attack. Porygon-Z was done. Yea, fell for that one, hook, line, and sinker. And no way to see that one coming.

I took a deep breath as I recalled the Porygon-Z, then took out the next Pokemon in my line up. On the plus side, unlike that guard from before, at the moment, the Aurorus hasn't done anything to up its defensive prowess or was given anything that I can tell off hand. My best shot is to try to drill into it as hard as I can and I might have that answer. "Go! Psy!" I shouted.

The Pokeball was tossed out and out came the Gallade ready for battle. "Gal. Lade!" Psy spoke up upon exiting the ball, getting into a fighting stance.

"Careful Psy, it took out Porygon-Z in a hurry and I don't know what else it may have on hand."

"Lade..." he said. I thought back for a second, remembering the pre-evolved form and a couple of the traps I fell into, like the Encore ploy on my Scizor. To hell with it.

"Psy! Brick Break!" I shouted.

"Gallade!" The Pokemon rushed off towards the tall Aurorus, gaining distance fast on the icy behemoth. It then teleported a couple of times, off to the left then off to the right of it, making sure that the Aurorus is off kilter, then rushed forth to strike the Pokemon.

I gave a slight sigh of relief when the Aurorus fell. Psy leaped back and left the Icy Pokemon to lay there as Diantha recalled it to its ball. This was good. I still had a bit of an advantage, I'd think. A slight one, if only by having the lead as do. That said, my mood then kind of fell off again once the next Pokemon came out.

That thing...what...wait. That thing...doesn't Darts have something like that? Wait, yes! He does! It's a pre-evolved form of that thing! It's got to be! Which means its...wait. That meant that this was a dragon type at least. Diantha would probably notice for a second or two a confused look on my face. Suddenly, I couldn't really read her like I thought I was. As the rains started to come down, I could only wonder what on earth was she thinking? She said herself that she saw the battle I had earlier today on TV, so she had to have known that I had Porygon-Z and Rotom...and she reffed the battle between me and the kid, so she good and well knew I still got Telia and Weavile waiting as well for her. If I was her, I'd gotten that Goodra out earlier to perhaps bait out one my remaining two out. Even crazier, considering how I was with Rotom earlier and my use of status and her calling upon Rain Dance now...this thing got Hydration, doesn't it? So at the very least Rotom wouldn't have been able to do jack to it at all, and Psy's Hypnosis is pretty much a dead deal now.

I can only assume at this point that she's severely confident in her last Pokemon, which should be her Mega Evolution Pokemon. But what the hell could it be that would be able to take on at the very least Telia and Weavile, at least in her opinion? A fairy type? A Steel type? God I hope not. It'd be Wikstrom all over again! Considering the rain now, I doubted a Fire type at this point. Regardless I'm not liking this at all. The question now was how in the world to go about it? Well, I had one answer...

"Psy! Ice Punch!" I shouted. I decided to go for it. With Rain Dance on the field, I didn't want to risk taking a torrent of water attacks while I tried to get Psy to use Swords Dance, which truthfully I wanted to do fairly badly. I had to keep on the pressure any way I could. To say the least, despite having my lead for the moment, Diantha actually has me nervous in this battle.

"LADE!" The Gallade spoke, his blade like arms frosting up as he rushed across the rain-soaked battlefield.

"Gal? LADE!?"

"Psy!" Crap, she was expecting something like that!? I had the feeling I was screwed no matter what I did. The Gallade was slammed hard, water that welled from the rains splashed hard from the ferocious impact. That one was by no means kosher. Psy, after being let go, rolled over and pushed himself back up. The Gallade, in one fell swoop was battered and covered in mud, accompanied by a face of hurt pride as well as enormous physical pain.

"Psy, can you do a Psycho Cut!?" I called out to him.

The Gallade steeled himself, his arm exuding a violet hue. Then suddenly, one hard vertical wave after, the psychic attack was unleashed, the wave cutting through the soft ground towards the Goodra.

"Psy!" I tried called out, only for the massive lightning strike to crash down to drown out the cry. As the steam started to quickly fade out as it came in from the sheer force of the Thunder attack, Psy could be seen standing there, only for him to drop to his knees, then flop forward back down on the mud in front of him. There was no avoiding that. Even Teleport, what is essentially supposed to have been next to instantaneous, probably wouldn't have been able to dodge that, even with Psy fresh from the ball and focus as sharp as a blade.

I recalled the fallen knightly Pokemon back towards the ball and gave a nod of gratitude. I then took out another Pokeball. There was a battle to finish. "Telia! Go!" I then called out, tossing the ball.

The ball soared through the rains and onto the battlefield, revealing the Gardevoir, ready for battle. "Gardevoir!" The Pokemon spoke up as soon as she was revealed. Across the way, she sees the Goodra. It...was kind of cute...in a weird way. The slime is a bit of a turnoff though. It was to her about as bad of a conflict as Cubchoo and the snot that runs as long as his own body. Well, at least the snot doesn't cover his whole body? "Garde...voir?"

"Telia, ready yourself! Psychic attack!" I called out.

"Garde-VOIR!" Gardevoir shouted, her sights locked on to the Goodra, then unleashed the powerful mental blast upon the dragon.

I watched as the Goodra took the attack with all its might, managing to hang on, if only by a thread. But it left me wondering...why Endure? What does Goodra have that could wreck Telia? Can't possibly be a Reversal attack, it'd be like if Typhlosion tried that on her Hawlucha earlier, with perhaps even worse results. A Flail attack maybe then? Not like I was going to allow Telia to get close to it for her to get grabbed. What about any other stuff? Well, she showed she was no stranger to the likes of say Pain Spilit, for example, but could Goodra learn such a thing somehow? What about Endeavor? Bah, I don't know!

Bah, screw it. "Telia! Shadow Ball!" I called out.

"GardeVOIR!" Telia spoke up. She formed the dark mass in front of her, then leaped back and fired the shot to try to finish the Goodra off.

My instincts tripped. Something wasn't right here. As the Goodra was starting to go down, the battle still felt like it was happening for some reason. I then perked up, seeing the Draco Meteor attack come down, practically making me go wide-eyed. "Telia!" I shouted.

The impact was made and a deafening boom silenced virtually everything for a least a second. The area steamed up for at least a while, the waters on the ground heated up by the dragon's ferocious might, but as the steam cleared, although Telia looked rather dirty from the attack. She seemed...relatively unharmed. Admittedly, the concussive force of the attack making impact on the ground did more damage than the attack would have itself, it looked. Suddenly I started to remember that Dragon attacks did squat to a Fairy type, which I learned is what Telia is. But why would she have sent that attack off? That couldn't have been for Psy, could it? I mean, seesh, she already caught him in a Counter attack for instance, after Psy slugged him with Ice Punch. No kill like overkill much? Wait...no. It wasn't. That...was for Weavile. She gambled on Weavile being the one to bring a quick end to him because she knew that I would be ultimately using him against whatever Mega she had. If Weavile got caught by that, he would have been in no shape at all to fight whatever Mega she had.

Despite losing out at that possible gamble, the show of force was rather worrisome. If a Goodra was able to crank out that kind of assault power, then I fear what would happen when the Mega is finally revealed. A notion that Telia managed to feel from me as she stared at the Goodra, possibly with a tinge of fear laced up along side our confusion. "Garde...voir..."

Telia looked back at me then back towards Diantha. This was it. The moment of reckoning.

We watched Diantha toss out her final ball and much to our surprise, it was another Gardevoir. But wait, the Mega...I quickly recalled something. Something that Wulfric told me. It was practically a flashback that came to me...



"Oh no..." Was all I could softly mutter.

Before Telia and I knew it, the two of us had to turn away as the transformation went underway, shielding our eyes from the blinding bright light that came forth. As the light faded and the shell exploded furiously, the two of us looked on at what was standing before us.

"Garde...voir?" Telia spoke. This...this wasn't like that Venusaur earlier. No. This...was considerably worse on many more levels to my Pokemon. What was one of her own kind was showing what exactly separated her from...that. That there...was not only a champion's Pokemon. The regal look, the power overwhelming...she wasn't looking at just another Gardevoir. She was looking at a majestic queen. Not only Telia started to not only fear the outcome of the battle, she started to become rather self-concious of herself. That over there was a Gardevoir at the pinnacle of what Gardevoirs should be...she was still a little girl playing with Mr. Mime dolls. Telia looked crushed.

"Telia? Telia!" I spoke up, getting her attention.

"VOIR! Gardevoir..." She shook her head. A battle was still underway, rather she liked it or not.

Rather Telia was ready for it or not, the Mega Gardevoir would soon be on the attack. The shadow ball attack was called and the Mega Gardevoir was sure to oblige. "Oh hell, Telia! Incoming!" With the attack on its way, practically at the speed of a bullet, there was no time to get out of the way, let alone Teleport from it. Telia would be blasted harshly across the field, skidding hard from the force of the attack. "Telia!" I shouted.

Telia was down, but wasn't out. At least not yet. That being said, it was hard to conjure the will to fight...that one. She almost didn't want to get up, feeling like it wouldn't be worth it. "Telia! Come on, I know you can get up! I know this looks bad, but this battle isn't over. You're not one that lets something like this get the better of you!"

Telia with slight reluctance managed to push herself up off the ground and back standing. I could very well see the damage on her though. That Shadow Ball really messed her up. She wasn't going to make it through another hit of any sort from that powerhouse over there. We needed another strategy...somehow. We needed to give Weavile some wiggle room to work. "Telia! Hypnosis!" I called out.

Telia focused then conjured up her hypnotic waves, sending it off towards the Mega Gardevoir.

Ok, progress. She's out. Great. Do I want to risk a Calm Mind? No...in Telia's shape, granted I'd get a decent boost to her specialized prowess, there's no guarantee that the Mega Gardevoir would stay out long enough just to get an attack off to use it. Not to mention, the more defensive side of Calm Mind would be going to waste anyways because of Telia's condition. Fortified or no, she wouldn't be able to take whatever else that Mega Gardevoir had up its sleeve. I had to get the damage in where I can get it. "Telia! Shadow Ball!"

Telia focused the dark mass right in front of her, focusing what power she had into the attack. "GardeVOIR!" She shouted, firing the shot towards her opponent.