Hearing Gyarados's wail, Rayquaza sighed helplessly.
'Gyarados's IQ really has no equal...'
'Who sprays water on Electric-type Pokémon, honestly?'
'Even more absurd, that Pokémon just happened to trigger an Electric-type move...'
'Why not just hold it in?'
Hearing Rayquaza's hint, Gyarados's panicked eyes instantly cleared.
'Yeah, if it doesn't hit, it's fine, right?'
Thinking that, Gyarados twisted his body hard and forcibly spun himself a quarter-turn.
The Water Gun he'd been using twisted with him and hit the arena light on the ceiling.
After a sharp, painful squeal, Gyarados's body shuddered, but fortunately he held on.
The current conducted through the wires was much nicer to endure than the electricity on Electivire.
"Uhm...", Volkner looked at the black-clothed man, speechless.
'Who uses moves like that?'
'This is freaking ridiculous!'
'If Electivire hadn't just used a move that outputs electricity externally, we'd probably have been sprayed in the face.'
Volkner really wanted to say that it was kind of indecent for the opponent's Gyarados to use Water Gun like that.
But seeing Gyarados twisting in pain, his mouth opened and closed several times, and after a few tries he just sighed and didn't say what he wanted to.
The opponent was already this miserable, what else could he do?
"Continue the match."
Taking advantage of the time, Electivire had already freed himself from the big pit, his steps quick as he moved under Gyarados.
His Wild Charge failed to fully execute, but he planned to use this Electric-type move to finish off Gyarados's last sliver of stamina.
Seeing Electivire's predatory look, Gyarados felt he wasn't far from getting beaten.
He ignored the pain coming from his vulnerable parts and shouted into his mind, ["Lord Rayquaza, save me!"]
The instant that thought formed, Gyarados felt his body come alive.
Rayquaza substituted in for the fight this time.
At the same time, Electivire's body, with unstoppable momentum, leaped into the air.
His body flashed with arcs of electricity, with some stones and dirt that had stuck to him from the ground, and the surrounding air whistled.
Even a full-powered Gyarados at his prime would likely lose half his stamina to this attack.
Volkner's mouth curved slightly, though this match had a lot of small interruptions, at least he was finally going to take this Gyarados.
While the move had a gap, Volkner still thought about later tactics and which Pokémon Axel would bring next.
But at that moment, Gyarados's body suddenly became agile.
His body seemed untouched by the electric current, twisting with a mysterious rhythm.
At the critical second, he dodged Electivire's attack again.
Electivire in midair was stunned.
'What kind of composition is this Gyarados?'
'How can he be infuriatingly trash one moment, only using brute force, and the next turn be a technical fighter?'
As they brushed past, Electivire's gaze landed on Gyarados.
There's no pattern here like Gigalith that can switch between power and speed modes...
Before he could make another move, he suddenly felt the arena's Dragon energy go wild again.
A tornado appeared from nowhere and pinned Electivire in midair.
At the same time, the raging electricity inside Electivire from attempting Wild Charge erupted and exploded within him.
A halo of upward light flashed over Gyarados, his Overconfidence ability activated.
Although that halo had no effect because his Attack was already maxed, it still sealed Electivire's defeat.
Gyarados bowed his head and let out a great roar toward the still-unreactive Volkner.
["Next one!"]
'Already the next one?'
Volkner blinked at the Gyarados floating in midair, dumbfounded.
'Bro, I was already starting to predict what your next Pokémon would be, how did you flip it again?'
He'd watched the whole fight; Gyarados had indeed made a huge mistake and nearly had no chance to turn it around.
But he did flip it.
'What the hell, how the heck is this done?'
Under this string of mental blows, Volkner's initial fighting spirit had largely faded.
He even felt like a fake gym leader...
Which so-called strongest gym leader would let themselves get beaten into this state?
"No way, even if I lose, I won't let him three-peat me."
"At least win one match!"
Volkner clasped his hands and muttered nonstop.
He'd seen clearly that Gyarados's state was unstable.
One moment he was as strong as a prodigy forged in battle, crushing everything.
The next he was like a resource-fed, powerful but unformed pet lacking a true fighting style.
Volkner decisively judged that this guy had at least two mentors and wasn't particularly quick-witted.
That meant...
If he could drag the opponent's state down again, he'd have a real chance to defeat this Gyarados.
"Axel, I admit you're strong, but I won't be defeated easily!"
Volkner looked at the figure on Abomasnow's back and gathered some presence again.
"My next Pokémon is... Rotom!"
His voice rose, and a red fan-like Pokémon appeared at one side of the arena.
In fact, this Pokémon was a combination of Rotom and a fan, its base stats weren't high, but they were well distributed.
More importantly, this Pokémon could fly.
Since Gyarados could dodge ground Pokémon's electrical discharges, Volkner would have Rotom fly next to Gyarados and discharge.
As for how to counter Axel's next Pokémon, Volkner didn't want to think about it anymore.
Winning just one match would be a victory.
"Rotom, fly beside him, use all your energy, Discharge and take him down!"
"Roto!", Rotom's fan blades spun wildly, forming huge gusts across the field as it rapidly approached the "Gyarados" in the sky.
But what Volkner didn't notice was that Gyarados's eyes were full of surprise and a little contempt.
Bro, Gyarados is up because his talent compensates some level gap and because he's got a dragon substitute.
'What are you doing bringing a level-40-something Rotom?'
'You joking or what?'
Rayquaza shook his head lightly, controlling Gyarados's body to roar and condense a rock in front of him.
The rock appeared at an extremely tricky angle, directly on Rotom's flight path.
It was as if Rotom had deliberately crashed into it.
Seeing this result, Volkner's mouth clicked and he bit down, knocking out half a tooth.
'Damn it, really got three-peated!'
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