Looking the officer straight in the eye with eyes burning with contempt, Pedro spat at the ground as the trainers got settled. Cain seemed to shimmer at the growing excitement and the moment Randy realized his and Pedro's connection, he could feel the trainer's growing anxiety. It was like a hearty, strong aroma emanating from the boy. Floating behind in Pedro's shadow, the Gastly rotated to face the trainer. Their eyes met and Cain could feel the fear in him, he could taste the flavor, he savored it. There was something menacing about the Pokemon despite its small size. As Pedro took his place next to Audree, he leaned in to hear her small analysis of the situation. Nodding without a word, he had made a similar conclusion. Difference was that Cain was not one for "smashing" things. He'd had his fair share of battles while traveling, mostly against wild Pokemon but also with trainers looking for easy pickings. Patting his chest while Cain floated lazily to the forefront, he felt something warm within him and cracked a wild smile as the Pokeballs flew and released their payload. With a flash of light, an Onyx and Aerodactyl appeared.<br/><br/>Randy stared down his opponents. He was angry and felt like he had been cheated, and it was all that stupid trainer girl's fault. She must have found that guy with the Gastly, must have planned it all out, had him dress up like a bum to throw them off. He was going to make her pay for that. "Take out the rat first." He said quietly, glancing at Dex. "Take it down hard."<br/><br/>Dex smirked and waited for the officer to begin the match. She raised her white gloved hand, then swung through the air. "Battle!"<br/><br/><span style="color: darkorange">"Put the pink rat down!"</span>He yelled at Onix. A pokemon as small as Audree's wouldn't be able to withstand a tackle from an Onix. It would be lucky if it lived through it. Dex looked forward to finding out.<br/><br/>The Onix charged, its massive stone body making the ground rumble as it make straight for the Pachirisu, ignoring the Gastly completely as per its trainer's orders. Aerodactly moved in tamdem, taking off and flapping its wings rapidly to gain altitude and keep it out of range of any attacks. It knew the strategy well, as it was the only one they had and had been practiced and put into practice many times. Let Onix do the fighting while it dove in and delivered quick attacks before darting back out of range.<br/><br/>As the Onix's target became clear, Audree yelled,<span style="color: Purple">"Raijin, run!"</span>The Pachirisu knew that didn't mean flight vs fight. It meant bring on the speed and stay clear of the Onix's attacks.  The small pokemon took off in a dead sprint, fluffy tail bouncing as it took off in random directions at a rapid pace.<br/><br/>The Onix's charge didn't falter despite the rapid movements of the Pachirisu. It knew that it didn't have to make a direct hit on small Pokemon to do damage. Just the shock of it hitting the ground near them was enough. It beared down on the Pachirisu, but Pedro called out,<span style="color: indigo">"Cain, slow it down some!"</span>while waving the Pokemon toward the charging beast. The Gastly zipped to the side, putting itself in front of the Onix. Cain's face suddenly started to distort, melting in on itself. The Onix's gaze was suddenly transfixed on the Gastly. It couldn't look away,  for all its power and hardened rock defence meant nothing to an attack that struck at its mind. The Onix hesitated, faltered, even frightened by the Gastly. It had never faced something like this before.<br/><br/><br/>Dex yelled<span style="color: darkorange">"What are you doing!? Get 'em!"</span>The Onix, shook off the dread that Gastly inspired and set its sights back on the Pachirisu, rearing up and slamming down on the ground where the small Pokemon had just been - but its speed allowed it to dodge and stay clear of the Onix. Then, suddenly there was a loud screeching from above as the Aerodactyl, wings tucked, dove toward the field. As it came into range, it spread its wings and gave a strong flap, blasting the trampled grass field with powerful gust. Pachirisu, not weighing much was battered and slowed, while the gust threatened to blow Gastly away, destabilizing his gaseous form. It was the same tactic that Randy and Dex had employed in Audree's last battle against them.<br/><br/>Pachirisu was sommersaulting and tumbling along, trying to regain it's running momentum after the gust had hit it, but was quickly regaining speed.<span style="color: Purple">"Nice work you two, let's see if we can even things out a little more as well! Raijin!  Sand Attack!"</span><br/><br/>The white squirrel had been kicking up a fair amount of dust to begin with, but with that command the cheerful pokemon began to circle around back towards the Onix.  It's big fluffy tail was sweeping back and forth throwing up a giant cloud of sand dust into the air in an effort to blind the extra-large rock pokemon.<br/><br/>Cain, meanwhile had quickly started to float away from the Aerodactyl's wingbeats. The wind already threatened to dissipate his form. The Gastly speedily went around and flanked the startled Onix. Onix rose back up, but the cloud of dust and dirt impeded its vision and irritated its eyes, blinding it temporarily. When the Onix shook its head and opened its eyes again, it saw Gastly floating right in front of it, staring it down. It's eyes started to glow a dull blue while a sense of heaviness started to work its way into Onix, the hypnosis began making the rock snake Pokemon sway, eyes half closed.<br/><br/>From the sidelines Randy yelled to the Aerodactyl,<span style="color: darkred">"Blow that stupid ghost away!"</span>Aerodactyl swooped back into range and delivered another powerful flap of its wings, blasting away the sand cloud the Pachirisu had put up, and disturbing the Gastly's attempt to hypnotize the Onix just before it took full effect.<br/><br/>The purple gas started to be blown off Gastly's body, Pedro's voice broke over the commotion.<span style="color: Indigo">"Cain! Use Disable!"</span>The Gastly let out a twisted grin as it turned its face toward the ancient Pokemon. A sudden burst of light flashed from the Gastly's eyes accompanied by the snap of a set of fingers that hung on the air. At first, there seemed to be no effect as the Aerodactyl let out one more gust that forced the Gastly to finally retreat.<br/><br/>Then, the Aerodactyl's wing beats slowed then stopped. The Pokemon screeched in surprise and confusion as it began to plummet out of the air, its wings having been disabled by the Gastly's attack, rendering it suddenly unable to fly. The Onix blinked as it tried to shake off the hypnosis, regaining cogence and angrily setting its sights back on Pachirisu, intent on crushing the small Pokemon now.<br/><br/><span style="color: darkred">"What are you doing!? Fly idiot!"</span>Randy yelled as the Aerdoactyl fell from the sky. As Onix prepared for another attack against the Pachirisu, the screeching from the Aerodactyl rapidly grew around it until suddenly it struck in the back by the falling flying rock Pokemon. The weight of the Aerodactyl's momentum threw both it and the Onix to the ground injuring both. The Aerodactyl, still unable to move its wings for the moment scratched at the ground with its small taloned feet and snapped at the air while screeching angrily, nearly defenseless.<br/><br/>Audree grinned with glee.  This was exactly what she had hoped for!  Her small Pachirisu needed no commands, it knew that opportunity was knocking and it wouldn't last long.  The fast squirrel's cheeks were already arcing blue branches of electricity as it closed the gap to where the two large pokemon were laying in a heap.  Finally the troublesome Aerodactyl was in range.  The Pachirisu halted just shy of it and unleashed a blinding white and blue display of electrical fireworks at the susceptible flyer.  Now it was Audree's pokemon who had the type advantage!<br/><br/><span style="color: Purple">"Great work Pedro!"</span>The surfer girl did a little hop with excitement.<br/><br/>Aerodactyl, vulnerable to the electric attack, and with no way to escape, felt the full force of the electric attack. It screeched in pain, never having been hit before. It had no tolerance, no experience on how to deal with the attack. It screeched then suddenly feel silent and limp. The attack was too much for it to handle, and it fainted. Dex and Randy yelled angrily at their Pokemon, telling them to get up, to stop laying around and do something.<br/><br/>"Aerodactyl has fainted!" The officer yelled, raising her hand to indicate the defeat. "Trainer, return the Pokemon!"<br/><br/><span style="color: darkred">"No! He's fine! Get up you idiot! Move!"</span>The Aerodactyl couldn't respond.<br/><br/><span style="color: darkblue">"Trainer! Your Pokemon has fainted! Return him or forfeit!"</span><br/><br/>Randy stared for a moment, overwhelmed, confused, shocked. It wasn't possible. It wasn't possible! His Aerodactyl couldn't faint! It was rare, better than that stupid Pachirisu! He couldn't lose!<br/><br/><span style="color: darkblue">"Trainer!" The Officer was ready to call the match off.</span><br/><br/>Randy lifted his Pokeball and triggered the return, lowering his head as the flash of white light sealed inside the Pokeball.  As the Aerodactyl vanished with a white light, Pedro visibly sneered at Randy before sitting down on the ground and exaggerating a yawn. There was something he always enjoyed about knocking the cocky down from their perch, especially in the method that Cain employed, forcing the opponent's Pokemon into helpless states. Dex shook off the shock and looked across the field, angry.<span style="color: darkorange">"Onix! Get up! Smash something! Move!"</span><br/><br/>Onix slowly rose, still reeling from the impact of the Aerodactyl. It steeled itself for another attack, but was visibly shaken by the loss of Aerodactyl. It had become unaccustomed to the possibility of defeat.<br/><br/>The pink and white Pachirisu was hopping back and forth in place from foot to foot when the Onix reared back up, casting a looming shadow over the small squirrel that it didn't seem to notice until Audree shouted.<span style="color: Purple">"Parchirisu get out of there and leave some dirt in your wake!"[/COLOR  Pachirisu turned around and then looked up at the rock snake and quickly sobered up from it's victory dance.  It took off as the Onix's eyes seemed to be drawn elsewhere and peeled out, kicking up sand and grit into the general area of the onix's face before taking off at high speed. <br/>
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Shaking with excitement at the intense anxiety growing within the Onix, Cain took the opportunity to let loose another Scary Face attack, putting greater pressure on the Onix's mental state. As the unnatural terror of a Ghost Pokemon stalked ever closer feelings of loneliness, vulnerability, and horror shot through its victim. <br/>
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<span style="color: darkorange">"Come on, do anything!"</span> Dex yelled. <span style="color: darkorange">"Crush the rat, stupid!"</span><br/>
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Onix tried to obey, but the Pachirisu's sand attack had obscured it's sight of the Pokemon. Even if it hadn't, Onix couldn't shake off the compounding dread that had overtaken him. Gastly floated closer and closer to the Onix, a blue, calming light peeked through the terrible, shifting form of the Pokemon's face, a second attempt at Hypnosis that carried no risk of being interrupted by that Aerodactyl. Pedro in the meantime found himself a spectator more than a commander. He may not have faced an Aerodactyl before but Onix were more common than Ratata in the mountains. Though their first battles together were rough, eventually they reached a point where they could just observe the opponent's Pokemon and then come to similar strategies for battle where Pedro would only have to chime in in response to some detail that Cain could not see due to his point of view.<br/>
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Onix fell asleep and hit the ground, making it rumble under the Pokemon's immense weight. Even completely disabled, though, the moderator didn't call off the match. Unless they could knockout the opponent or force a surrender, the fight wasn't over. Onix were sturdy Pokemon and Pedro and Audree didn't seem to have a lot of firepower that could damage it. All the Onix really needed to do was weather the disables then come down hard on its opponents when they had exhausted themselves. But, Onix would never get the chance.<br/>
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<span style="color: Indigo">"Alright, end it Cain."</span> Pedro called out. <br/>
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The Gastly hovered lazily over to the slumbering Onix, glancing knowingly at the Pokemon's trainer as if the Gastly wanted the trainer to know that there was no hope of winning. The Gastly turned back to its prey and smiled before a pair of black beams shot out of its eyes and connected with the Onix. The Night Shade attack caused the large Pokemon to shudder and spasm in its sleep, grunting in pain. The slumber continued with the Onix not managing to break free. Cain chained a second attack to the end of the first and following up with a third soon after when Onix again failed to wake, leaving the Rock Snake Pokemon battered. <br/>
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Pedro looked up at Audree and smirked, "Would you like to do the honors?"<br/>
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Audree gave a mock little curtsie in response to Pedro.  <span style="color: Purple">"If you insist.  Pachirisu, hit it with, I dunno.  Something!"</span> <br/>
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The fuzzy squirrel emerged from the dust cloud still running at full speed.  With a modest jump it impacted the largest of the protrusions on the Onix's head, cracking it and summarily bouncing off.  The attack would barely have registered to a concious, ready Onix, but in the state that Dex's Onix was in, it was able to at least make the Rock Snake jostle.  The Pachirisu was a little dazed after trying to headbutt a giant rock but a call from Audree quickly awoke it and it scampered back towards it's trainer with a happy grin.<br/>
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The officer watching had seen enough. Onix still hadn't shaken off the sleep, and she could tell from the state of it that it was in pain and it was only a matter of time before it fainted. She raised her gloved hand and yelled, <span style="color: darkblue">"The match is over! Trainers, return your Pokemon! Winners, Pachirisu and Gastly!"</span><br/>
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<span style="color: darkorange">"No! He's still on the field! You can't call the match yet!"</span> Dex yelled in protest alongside Randy. <br/>
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<span style="color: darkorange">"The match is decided, return your Pokemon and settle the wager! 1,200 to the winners!"</span> She ordered, having grown weary and frustrated with the lack of compliance Dex and Randy had been showing. <br/>
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Dex cursed and threw his Pokeball at Onix, yelling angrily at the sleeping Pokemon. Randy didn't look at Audree or Pedro when he threw the money at them, then walked off. <span style="color: darkred">"Come on Dex, this island was getting boring anyway."</span></span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>