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“I take things you probably say to your girlfriend for 100, then,” Lash replied, rolling her eyes. Ugh.

Dark and broody? Check.
Full of himself? Check.
Treating her like a kid? Probably check.

Granted, she probably should not fault him for that, given her looks. Almost 10 times out of 10 the kid you saw was the kid you got. But it was still annoying, so she just sent in her shiny dusk form Lycanroc, ready to fight his Absol – of course an Absol, what else could it be? – right away. Though given the rules of all this, she sadly could not go in with too much reassurance. Even if she felt better, these vital points sometimes even scored the weirdest stuff as hits.

Still though, best to start with a Stealth Rock once more.

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HP: 3/3
Z-Move Standby
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Well, they got to set up the rocks, but for the time being, the Absol did manage to dodge them well enough to actually get its Iron Tail through. It was a glancing blow, as far as Lash could see, since Lycanroc was already trying to get away from it, but ultimately that still counted. Weird system that still was.

Still, she could only shrug and accept that. “You can get as mad as you want, but even if you win all that means is that you managed to pick on little girls. That’s a no-win scenario there, mister,” she continued the verbal assault while Lycanroc attempted some more solid stones flung directly at the Absol with a Rock Slide.


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HP: 2/3
Z-Move unused
Rock Slide used
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“Heh. If you believed that you would, I don’t know, have taken me seriously from the get-go, wouldn’t you have?” Naturally, she had a reply at the ready for that. The fight certainly was not going her way, sure. But one could easily lose the battle but still win the war of public opinion still. Those moral victories were almost as sweet, after all.

Speaking off, she could only sigh and shrug. Lyca had been hit again, but this time she had braced herself sufficiently. It did more damage, but being ready, the rock dog got up again swiftly. After all, they had a two-pronged attack planned here. One part came with Lash tapping her bracelet. “I guess I will have to do something drastic. Least you might become innovative and try something other than Iron Tail here,” she taunted, while striking the rock pose.

Infusing her Lycanroc with power, the latter would howl out its loudest, shattering the rocks distributed earlier and turning them into more volatile projectiles, flung at the Absol from all direction in a Splintering Stoneshards attack. That would either get a good hit in or at least force him to actually get serious. Either was an improvement.

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HP: 1/3
Z-Move in use, +50

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Ah, no more words. She guessed she had won on that arena at least, while making at least a little headway on the other. That Z-Move had probably impressed him a bit more than he let on.

Good. Served him right.
The Absol was certainly trying a bit harder, immediately retaliating but not quite making it yet. Which was good, since they were still at the last vital. That had not changed. But then again, that was half luck anyway. And when one was with the back to a wall, it made going further easier. After all, ahead was the only direction left, now.

“Shift gears, then,” she ordered Lyca, who got what that meant. Namely to change into a more physical form of combat now that the Z-Move had been exhausted, rushing headlong at the other in an attempt to land an Accelerock.

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HP: 1/3
Z-Move used up
Accelerock used
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Yeah, of course mega evolution on top of everything else was enough for that guy to knock Lyca out for the time being. Luckily for him though, he did not end up doing something that might have spilled loads of blood or anything, things just kind of staying on the level of the so-called PG-13.

But while that hurt Lyca, Lash knew that the dog could take it. They had been at this for a long time, after all. This wasn’t really something new in that regard. It would ultimately be fine. Hence she simply recalled Lyca with the implicit promise to get her some healing-up soon enough.

Once that was done she clapped. In the golfy kind of way. “Congratulations, you won against a little girl,” she exclaimed with a chipper grin, evidently not exactly torn up over it, though she would never not make snide remarks here. “I do guess that is a step beyond taking a lollipop from a toddler. Still though, a fight is a fight.” And she shrugged, could not exactly put that on weird rules or anything. Still, she wasn’t here for that, anyway. Hence, she would leave, though as she turned her back to him she would raise her hand and at one more thing: “And give your girlfriend my greetings. And condolences. You know, because of you finishing too quickly.” She had already started mouthing off, might as well end that way.


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HP: 0/3
Z-Move Status
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