"Pleasure to meet ya too!" Zac said, grabbing Rowan's hand and pumping it up and down in a warm, arm-shuddering greeting. "I'm not here for the challenge, really, just getting in some exercise!" Zac stretched his arms and neck, the muscles creaking like swaying trees. "I've been lazing around for too long. But THIS is gonna be the season of action!"

Zac grabbed an almost unused Pokeball. He'd won it from chryssa glasgow in a bet, and now it was time to take the beefy boy for a whirl.
"Byron! Get in there mate, it's time to show us what you've got!"
The Nidoking burst into the bright sunlight, blinking and making low noises of caution. "Ready for a battle?" Zac asked, pointing at Ora, Byron's opponent. The Nidoking looked his new trainer up and down, before turning to look at Poliwrath. Byron's eye-plates lowered, and he bristed, snorting in challenge. He pulled himself up, flexing his plated body and never breaking eye contact. "Kiiiiiing," he rumbled, with a voice like an idling bulldozer.
Suddenly, he banged his chest plates with both armored fists, shocking Zac with the harsh clang. Byron was ready, he was confident, and he was offering Ora the first shot.

Nidoking stomped, his armored toe digging into the soft sand. The ground underfoot bubbled and steamed, and flowed towards Ora. The Scorching Sands met Ora's oncoming Earth Power, and the mighty attack's clashed. Ground churned and hissed, bubbling upwards with trapped steam and fire. The patch between the two looked like boiling quicksand!

Zac took off his oversized hat and waved it at his face. He wished there were more ocean breeze and less burning heat. 
Nidoking roared, and their battling attacks detonated in a fountain of scorched earth. Zac shielded his face as chunks of mud and sand fell around them, and when he finally looked he saw a crater had been blasted in the beach. 

-Nidoking used Scorching Sands
-Scorching Sands and Earth Power collided, detonating in a crater of burning sand

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"No need for a Dr. Pika!" Zac said, pulling two cans of Charja-Cola out of his Rotom fridge. "I've got your refreshments right here!" He tossed one to Rowan and winked, charmingly. "Did you know that Charja-Cola is scientifically formulated to keep you cool and level headed, even in the heat of battle?" Zac took a hearty sip. "One can is enough to keep you battling for a whole day of H star T!"

Nidoking wasn't paying attention to Zac's truthful claims about Charja-Cola. Nor was he keeping an eye on Ora. Instead, he was launching his follow up move. He had both fists planted in the sand, twisting the beach around them with a titanic Sand Tomb. The crater of sand between him and Ora swirled and twisted, becoming a raging, burning, gritty whirlpool that threatened to swallow up the Poliwrath!

Byron laughed in triumph, just as Ora's Hydro Pump hit him straight in the face. The blast of frog water went right into his eye, up his nose, and filled his mouth. He gurgled and spat, falling backwards onto the wet sand.

-Nidoking used Sand Tomb on Poliwrath
-Nidoking was hit by Hydro Pump!

Nidoking sat back up, blinking water from its eyes as it searched for its opponent. There. 

With a roar, Nidoking stomped towards Poliwrath, just in time to see the surging sand pit burst and erupt, rendered inert as Poliwrath's attack cancelled out the movement of the vortex. And then it started moving back the other way. Nidoking and Nidoqueen may be classical opposites, but it seemed like the true yin and yang were Nidoking and Poliwrath, as one of them apparently only moved sand clockwise, and the other anti-clockwise.

Nidoking pulled his most furious, intimidating LEER, goading Poliwrath into a close-quarters brawl. "Hahaha," Zac laughed, seeing the look on Byron's face. "It looks like he's daring you to try that again!"


-Nidoking used LEER!
-Nidoking wants to have a punch-up!

Byron's whole body tensed as the wet enemy advanced. He clenched his fist, feeling immense power build, as he leaned down to extend the upswing of this final, deadly gambit.

Ora came in with a DYNAMIC PUNCH, and Nidoking swung forward with a premeditated MEGA PUNCH, meeting the attack head on! Tendons creaks, knuckles cracked, and bones crunched as the attacks smashed together in a brutal clash. The shockwave from the hit cut through the sandy air, busting out in a concussive ring that made Zac stumble.

Zac watched in amazement at the pair locked in hand-to-hand combat. This match was close.

-Nidoking used MEGA PUNCH to counter DYNAMIC PUNCH
-The punches collided! 

Byron was pleased with his countering punch. Too pleased, as the follow up BODY SLAM took him completely by surprise. Nidoking was sent tumbling to the ground, pinned and paralyzed by the force of the full-body impact. "No worries mate! You've got him right where you want him!" Zac called, giving his Pokemon a big thumbs-up.

The Nidoking growled, and struggled to get one of his pinned arms free. He wriggled the spined fist out from under Ora and, with a triumphant roar, slammed it into the opponent's side with a POISONOUS JAB!

-Nidoking was hit by BODY SLAM
-Nidoking was Paralyzed!
-Nidoking used POISON JAB (also Poison Point, if you feel like getting poisoned)

"Yeah! Don't back down mate!" Zac yelled, full of dubiously placed optimism. Nidoking was wet, bruised, paralyzed, and unsteady on his feet. But hell if he had any intention of giving up now! 

Byron advanced on Ora, not giving his enemy any quarter to prepare another Hydro Pump. Much to Nidoking's surprise, his opponent grabbed for him a moment later. Gloves hands closed around his thickly plated arms, and Poliwrath flung him up, over and then down onto the ground in a terrible, crunching slam that sent sand spraying everywhere. 

Nidoking didn't submit. 

Instead, he fainted.

-Nidoking was hit by SUBMISSION!
-Nidoking FAINTED!