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Harleen would stare at the sea of flames approaching her before giving a small inquiry to her trainer mentally. 'Do I have to? I wanna try and kill it.' She mentally whined to Reno, time almost seeming to slow down for the short conversation. 'Well, you have two choices. Do it and we hopefully live or don't do it and see what happens if I lose a Pokemon for nothing.' Resigning to her fate, Harleen began to dance and cheer on the Charizard while she was visible above the flames. Being engulfed by the mass of fiery death, Harleen would emerge unconscious and giving a small smile to her opponent in an effort to drive home the Encore she had been requesting.

"Okay. Time fer an insane idea. Go Ezekiel!" Reno cheered, releasing his Houndoom to stand across from the Charizard. Hopefully this could end well for him and not in the usual disaster.

Ezekiel would quietly sit in the flames and let out an unamused yawn over the powerful flames washing over him. Staring at the Charizard for a moment before glancing up to Reno, the red haired Trainer gave his orders. "Ezekiel, nasty Plot! Lets prepare fer a real hit!" Watching and almost sensing as dark thoughts began to emanate from the Houndoom, Reno could almost picture the sharp increase in power in his more special attacks.

Ezekiel would repeat his boosting dark thoughts, empowering him even more as he sat amidst the flames of the Flamethrower. Time was running short, but it seemed like it might get more active soon.

Reno stared between the Charizard and Blaine, unsure exactly how he might take this one. While Ezekiel might be powerful enough to melt most of the rocks, he would be left defenseless to most of the barrage. The one thing he did have that might be able to negate a good portion of the attack was too weak to melt the rocks before they could hit. Reaching the foregone conclusion, Reno let out an exasperated sigh before finally fiddling with his SNAG. Inside his bag and mounted in the shadow of Ezekiel's skull crest, two small lights began to shine before bursting into rainbow color. The rainbow light would surround the Houndoom and empower him, leaving him more powerful and in an entirely new state than before. "I wanted ta save it, but it looks like I gotta use it a lil early. Ezekiel, Fire Spin! Try and melt that rock down!"

The newly Mega Evolved Houndoom would scoff at the plan of attack, but went with it anyway, breathing out a torrent of flame that quickly began to swirl around him in an tornado of fire. The Ancientpower would smash into the firestorm and the rocks would either be melted back into the lava they had been originally or at least reduced in size before impact. While this didn't stop the attack from battering Ezekiel around, it saved him from grievous injury by flying rock that might make the next battle more challenging.

The Fire Spin would cease its swirling and whirling around the Houndoom as the flames were cut off and the hot air from the lava below pushed the whole spinning construct to an inevitable destruction against the stone ceiling. Spying the now exhausted Charizard, Ezekiel would wait a moment to collect some energy before firing off a Dark pulse at the flying dragon-ish Pokemon. While it was weaker due to being so close behind the massive Fire Spin, it would hopefully be enough to knock it out.

Looking over to the Gym Leader, Reno gave a small smile. It was nice that he could show the man some form of Fire type he had never seen, and help him see a little more crazy stuff. Loony old man deserved something completely insane to deal with. Well, he felt nice about everything until whatever Blaine threw out next launched a Confuse Ray from within the lava. Great. Now he had to get whatever it was out of the water or do something to it. And....looking to Ezekiel, he could see the Houndoom was not going to able to do any precise aiming for whatever was swimming down there. Staring at the area, Reno found himself focusing on the massive pillars that stood throughout the battlefield. "Well, I don't think his aim is any good right now, but no need fer that. Ezekiel, fire a Dark Pulse at the base of a pillar!" Reno commanded, having finished his own vocalized thoughts. The Mega Houndoom would drunkenly respond to the order, firing off a massive Dark Pulse in the general direction of some of the pillars. The blast, while not aimed well, would impact one of the pillars higher up than commanded, blasting a large hole into the piece of rock and sending it toppling towards the ground, Toxic Spikes glistening on top to help add to the destruction possible. Ezekiel would not escape the blast entirely a a few chunks of rock hit the Mega Houndoom.

Reno watched the oncoming flood of poisonous smog, unsure on his exact response for this one. While firing off his own version of Smog might allow it to be negated, the smog in the air would probably ignite and kill them both. Any of the sound attacks would probably do nothing, and....oh wait there was always plan burn it all. "Flamethrower, Ezekiel! A little explosion in front of him should be good ta clear him out." Reno commanded, feeling smug with his brilliant plan to...explode the gas that was now almost in front of Ezekiel. Oh hell.

A torrent of flame would meet the cloud of Smog, exploding the poisonous gas and sending Ezekiel flying backwards onto one of the pillars that had been trapped previously. Gingerly stepping off the spikes he had landed on and facing where the Magmortar had been previously, Ezekiel awaited whatever would come next.

Watching the falling pillar approaching their new battlefield, Reno was left with one simple choice. Can't dodge, can't run, but there was time to get creative with this. "Sucker Punch! Lets use him fer a boost!" Reno crowed, hoping that his insane idea would transfer without having to tell Ezekiel.

The Mega Houndoom would stare down the Magmortar, heaving slightly in effort as he fought against the heaving motion of the Earthquake before charging forward. Crossing the pillar and preparing to kick off the Magmortar in some effort to get up higher, Ezekiel found the hunk of pillar coming down to smash their platform. Showing a flash of brilliance, the Houndoom leaped into the air before slamming into the piece of pillar with a Sucker Punch to propel himself up to the top of the broken pillar. The fun side effect of that would be the piece of pillar being thrown at the Magmortar. It was his turn to catch.