<span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Davey wasn't sure what had landed near he and Toorop with enough force to raise a cloud of dust, it made him cough a little, but when the dust settled the pair of trainers found themselves surrounded by four members of Team Blight Obsidian.  They had no class.  At least, according to the newspapers and novellas, Team Rocket had a catch-phrase slash poem.  Still, Davey knew that he didn't have enough experience to take this enemy lightly.<br/>
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When the dust first went up, Xena launched herself upwards into the clear air.  Then the enemy directed one of its' pokémon, a Raticate, to use the Bite Move on Xena.  Davey was coughing and Xena was distracted, so the Raticate succeeded in it's attack and caused Xena some pain but she did not flinch (30% chance, roll=60%).<br/>
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Davey, recovering from the dust, called out to Xena, saying, "Xena!  Use Poison Sting on that Raticate!"  <br/>
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His Beedrill moved in like lightning and stabbed her abdominal stinger squarely into the rodent pokémon, pumping her venom into it's body, only doing about one-fourth the damage of the enemy's bite but causing a purplish pallor to appear beneath it's skin (30% chance, roll=5%) and indicating that the enemy had the poison coursing through it's body.  It cried out in pain as the venom hurt it.<br/>
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Davey knew that the average Beedrill was about twice as fast as a Raticate, and called again for Xena to attack, this time with the Fury Attack Move.  Xena struck the rodent three times with the stingers on her arms, twice with the left and once with the right.  The enemy shrieked as it was struck and again after Xena hovered back from it's possible embrace.<br/>
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Davey watched the enemy trainers.  They must have thought that they didn't need to gang up against Toorop and himself, like the first time he and Davey encountered their team mates.  Davey stole a glance at Toorop....</span></span>