"<span style="color: #006600">Out of the way! Go on, you've had your battle, it's my turn now!</span>" He gave the trainer who had just returned his Pokemon a shove out of the way.<br/><br/>"Watch it!"<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #006633">Alright!</span>" He said, planting his large hands on his hips and pointing to the crowd. The man was a mountain of muscle, broad in every sense. Wrapped around his head was a bandanna with a Gyrados emblazoned upon it in a traditional water paint style. "<span style="color: #006633">This is going to be a two's battle! No third evolution Pokemon! Got it?!</span>"<br/><br/>The trainers who stood by the grass arena all looked at one another, then to the now empty second trainer position for the arena.<br/><br/>"Who's your opponent?" One of them called out.<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #006633">Whatdaya mean who?!</span>" He shouted, waving his fist. "<span style="color: #006633">One of you are!</span>"<br/><br/>The trainers all exchanged dumb founded looks. "Uh, what?"<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #006633">Useless! All of you!</span>" He shouted, then lifted his hand to his brow and looked across the nearby trainers, spotting one. "<span style="color: #006633">Hey, you!</span>"<br/><br/>The trainers all looked at Jake.<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #006633">Yeah, you! I challenge you! Two's battle, no third evolutions! Come on, are you going to just stand there?!</span>"<br/><br/>But before Jake could answer Eleyna planted her feet in a wide stand, and set her hand on her hip, pointing grandly at this challenger. "<span style="color: #0000ff">Hell no! He'll take that challenge!</span>" She turned and smiled at Jake, then bounced and held out her arms like a cheerleader. "<span style="color: #0000ff">You can do it!</span>" Her face turned suddenly serious. "<span style="color: #0000ff">Now go get 'em!</span>" She then pushed to the edge of the arena to watch.<br/><br/>The big trainer grinned and cracked his ample knuckles. "<span style="color: #006633">That's more like it! Alright - Arbok, Nidorino I choose you!</span>"<br/><br/>With a the throw of his Pokeballs and a flash of light, the two poison types hit the grass field. It seemed an underhanded move, forcing his opponent to not use the field advantage by countering grass types immediately. He didn't know that Jake only had two Pokemon. When Ivysaur and Eevee entered the field he mistook the grass type for a blatant and bold defiance. His eye twinged.<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #006633">Eh - a grass type against my poison types?</span>" He furrowed his brow, but couldn't hide the sweat on his forehead. "<span style="color: #006633">Damn, what's this guy playing at...? H-hah! A novice pick!</span>" He stammered out. "<span style="color: #006600">Alright, Nidorino, Arbok! Attack!</span>"<br/><br/>At once they charged, Nidorino attacking toward Ivysaur with a Poison Jab of it's horn! Ivysaur almost smirked as he deftly avoided the attack, counter attacking with a quick Vine Whip. "<span style="color: #00b300">Saur~!</span>"<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #006633">Damn! Arbok, Wrap up that Ivysaur!</span>"<br/><br/>In a sudden surge, the cobra Pokemon dashed forward and caught the Ivysaur in a Wrap!<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #006633">Hah! That'll teach it!</span>" He declared with a pump of his fist.<br/><br/>But wrap wasn't a poison type move, and the benefit of a Poison pokemon against Ivysaur was meaningless while he was held - and Eevee was still on the field, ready to fight!<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #0000ff">Kick his ass, Jake!</span>" Eleyna shouted from the sidelines.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>"<span style="color: #5900b3">I - uh - you - um.</span>" The technician stammered as he was cut off mid conversation by the angry trainer.<br/><br/>And then she was back as if the conversation hadn't been interrupted at all, straightening her clothes. "<span style="color: #5900b3">Uh... right. Well. Yes. It's charging well enough. And we solved the drain from the energy matrices... see here, we've got two cells to alternate between. But it's still no substitute for a hospital machine. It's not always fully healing the Pokemon and is prone to acting up. We're pretty sure we can fix it, but we need more testing.</span>"<br/><br/>He rubbed the back of his neck looking at all the trainers. "<span style="color: #5900b3">Since it's in alpha testing phase, what we really need is just more exposure. Senjo is doing fine for stress testing, but I'm pretty much stuck here and can't run it through environmental strains. What use is a portable healing station if we don't know how well it works in various conditions?</span>" He chuckled nervously.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><b>Farfetch'd wins the battle!  + 10XP</b><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>