In the world of Pokemon, everyone at some point gets asked the question...
Are you going to become a Pokemon trainer?
Pokemon battling dominates the world. It's how champions are decided, how disagreements are settled, how regions are conquered.
But...
I stand across the stage from Dawn. She's smiling but I can tell she's also focused.
A hopping bunny Pokémon is in front of her. It has brown fur with beige tufts on its ears and lower body. It's incredibly cute.
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I let out Joltik. Probably a little confusing going against the trainer that was commanding it an hour ago.
I can hear the crowd asking questions about the situation as well.
"This is interesting," Hannah looks between the two of us.
"I needed a bug type," Dawn chuckles. "And Serena helped me out."
"Looks like you two have the spirit of coordinating," Hannah smiles. "Good luck to the both of you. Battle begin!"
I take a quick glance at the timer that's at 4:59, 4:58, 4:57, 4:5--
"Baby-Doll eyes!" Dawn snaps me out of my trance.
I get my focus back to see Buneary making cute faces at Joltik. Even I can feel my attack lower. Except in reality it's just my points lowering.
"String shot!" Joltik fires a straight shot of silk at the bunny Pokémon.
"Dodge and go!" Dawn orders with a really confident smile.
4:00
Buneary jumps over the string, causing it to stick to the wall of the tree. Buneary hops on the tight string and starts to flip along the tightrope, heading straight for Joltik. Her gymnastics display is probably a good contest move.
There go my points again.
"Drop the string and use electroweb!" Hopefully he can do it in time.
Just before Buneary goes for one last bounce off the string...
3:00
Joltik lets go and the string loses its slack, causing Buneary to tumble into the ground. The electric type wastes no time creating a yellow web of electricity and trapping the normal type.
I smile and glance at the board. Both of us have gone through about half of our points.
Buneary struggles as it's shocked and zapped by the web, repeatedly taking away their points.
"Absorb while Buneary is down!"
Joltik scurries along the stage before jumping up and starting to suck the life energy out of Buneary. The energy dissolves into Joltik with a green glow but I was too focused on that to hear Dawn tell the bunny to fight through the pain and kick the web in the air.
2:00
"Joltik stop!" I yell but it's too late.
The light web only needs a slight suction to move, and absorb does exactly that. Joltik becomes trapped by its own web, just when I was doing well.
