Temp actually isn't dockside himself. Water was his home. He stands, almost idle, on the back of his Lapras. The very same one that Cillian Quinn had given him months ago. She hums as floats in the water, bobbing softly was the waves lap against the logs that hold Pacifidlog together.

The children were whistling as cheering, eager for the oncoming match. There is a clear favor of them for Temp. Yet, Gavin may be surprised he has a few fans of his own cheering for him.

His own pokemon are tossed out. A Lanturn and Tentacruel. The hit the water with splashes, Ruby the Tentacruel's significantly larger.

"Hey! Temp sounds almost scandalized when Gavin launches attacks already. He's just smiling, though, and smiles wider. Thankfully, his pokemon are quicker to react than he is- Ruby ducks under the water just in time- the Zap Cannon striking the water behind her.

The Eelektross would feel a psychic tug before a thin, clear, blue barrier shattered- both around it and Ruby.

The Lanturn is not so lucky. She tries to dip under the water but the sheer speed of the Anchor Shot leaves her wrapped in rusting steel. She struggles against it. Yet, the air would feel heavy, as if filled with static as her antennae glowed.

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- Ruby used Reflect Type
- Ruby is now pure Electric Type
- Lanturn used Ion Deluge
- All Normal type moves are now Electric Type

The Brick Break crushes and hurts. Lanturn wasn't about to let herself be hauled up like a fish in a net, though.

Electricity crackles around her, Discharging into both the water around her and hopefully up the Dhelmise's rusted chains. She would teach it about grabbing onto her like that.

Ruby gives a wary glance at the Eelektross before deciding that assisting her partner is more helpful in this situation. They can't work together if one of them is made into a fillet before this whole thing starts. She dips up the water quicker than her massive form would expect and darts that way.

The two red globes starts to glow as she clicks her beak under the water, causing a sickly ringing noise. Trying to Hex the Dhelmise and hopefully shoo it away.

"We'll get you back for that!" Temp calls out, still grinning.

The putrid acid soaks the Lanturn, making her seem to short circuit. This already isn't looking good for her. Being pulled further from the water she struggles harder to get from the Dhelmise's grasp. Wiggling splashes up water, which she concentrates to try and make a Aqua Ring. The purifying glow of the water helps renew her strength even if it's slow going.

Temp blows a raspberry at Cillian Quinn for his cheeky comment.

Ruby is less than pleased. She gurgles in the water before trying to close in. Long tentacles try to wrap around the Dhelmise, wrestle and weasel between cracks to try and assist her partner in freedom. The two red globes start to glow again; a patterned flashing of pink and blue and lavender sparkling in the water. A Dazzling Gleam, aimed at the ghost type.

She would, however, find that the move almost seemed to fizzle out at the end. As if the Cursed Body of the other had sucked away the power of the move after it was finished.

"Toxic... hmm... .well, honestly, I've just been using the stuff she already knew when I got her." Which is to say, random moves were just picked from the Level Up since she was a Gacha pokemon. Just to break the immersion some. "I've not had her for that long, but that is a good idea." Her Sludge Wave wasn't guaranteed to poison, after all. It also didn't do her much good since she swapped typing so much with Reflect Type.

"But how could she poison if... oh! Wait! Dhelmise isn't a steel type!" Since it was one of Cillian Quinn's, Temp had assumed it was Steel type at first. His own very much was not. Even if Gavin's was a Shadow pokemon, it should still be weak to poison... right?

Ah, but they were in a tough spot. No amount of healing waters could help the Lanturn. She was being turned into a fried fillet perfect for the picking between the Eelektross and Dhelmise. She'd be nothing but skin and bone soon. And before she even got to make herself useful...

Ruby gurgled in frustration again before trying to haul herself out of the water- and climb the Dhelmise. Like a sea monster trying to mount a ship, she would sit on this thing's head if it netted results. Inky, black poison poured from her and mixed with the water as she did, a Sludge Wave in her own right.

Lanturn, unable to do much else, cried out and let out an Eerie Impulse as her last shot to get away.

Temp listens and nods along, brows knit as he takes all this in. He's sad he didn't have a better showing- but he's not mad at his pokemon. They did the best with what they had. If anyone failed them, it was him.

He takes out a pokeball and calls his Lanturn back right as she slips off into unconsciousness. She deserved a nice rest. Temp raised his hand in signal that he gave up- no way that Ruby could take both of these pokemon on her own, even if he was sure she would be more than ready to try.

Ruby grumbles but still seems intent on climbing to the top of the Dhelmise. It's not for any reason other than to be tall and claim to be queen of the mountain.

"She doesn't!" Temp whistles and his Lapras swims closer, taking her sweet time. When he's in range of the dock, he hops off and pets her snout before going over to Cillian Quinn. A quick kiss is stolen, which makes the kids either groan in disgust or whistle at them, before he grins. "Soak is... oh! That moves make them a water type!"

He glances at the Dhelmise and the Eelektross.

"... oh! If she had Soak, she could have used that and then shocked the piss out of your Dhelmise. Even with her ability gone!"

Ruby had just reached the top of the Dhelmise when Cillian Quinn calls it back. She falls into the water with a loud splash, making some of the kids giggle as her large form pelts them with a spray from the fall. Temp, meanwhile, has taken out his phone. He has an app for this... here! He opens up his pokemon tracker app and makes a few notes of what Gavin is saying into it. He'll also need to think up some stuff on his own. Plus, his other pokemon also would need some work... right now he was really only confident in a few of them.

"Disable, you said?" Temp thumbs through his pokemon and quickly scans over the move sets he has written down. "Hey, I already got two that have that!" He flips the phone around to show Gavin. A picture of his Bruxish in his Gym's Pool and a picture of his Psyduck taking a nap by their house. Watering Can probably wouldn't need the move as much, the Psyduck was more for younger trainers who passed through his Gym, but he could certainly work on that with his Bruxish.

He added a note to her file, too, before he glanced back up at his fiance.

"Thanks for doing this with me, dude. If you're cool with it, maybe you could look through some of these other guys sometime?" Maybe not right now, didn't want to put Gavin on the spot, but he did need all the help he could get.