He barely had enough time to blink before—holy shit, what the fuck?!

“Goin’ all out now, are we?!” he said from his side of the court, whistling sharply to summon the Kingdra and the Feraligatr to his side as fast as they could manage.

Seeing that Zac was riding the tidal wave, he cracked a smirk for a bit as the two Pokémon on his side of the court summoned up the biggest tidal wave they could manage—

Now the question was, how fast could salt water freeze?

He’d been practicing on all those sojourns in Shoal Cave, surprising most of the wild Pokémon that lived there when he started conjuring up frost magic like it was nothing. This time, though—

The Feraligatr and Kingdra offered their own Hydro Pump coordinated attack, before Lars took a deep breath and smacked his hands straight into the water’s surface, willing the wave to freeze in a wall—


What he was not expecting was to get swept up in the rapidly-freezing water due to the force the Kingdra and Feraligatr had exerted just to conjure the wave, before he met the pink Jiggly-ball with his own powerful smacking maneuver.