Chapter no.381 Austin Vs Sabrina part 5

OH NO!
The trap was visible in less than a second. Harsh sunlight inundated the arena, as Gallade's arms began to glow, with bright orange flames appearing on them- a powerful fire-based attack heading straight towards the incoming trajectory that was Haunter.
Sabrina smiled.
The emerging fireball, propelled by pure psychic force shot towards the approaching spear, colliding with it face-first, with fire spreading through the very essence of Haunter's core, burning her up as the spear exploded violently outward, with the force of a small bomb. In a normal situation, it would mean Haunter getting excessively injured and possibly being rendered incapacitated, with Gallade becoming the winner by default.
There was only one, tiny little bit of complication, something that Sabrina had seen coming.
While Haunter had mastered the basic concepts of the Art of Miasma with considerable proficiency, she was nowhere ready to apply alteration into it mid-construction, which explained the leakage of chaotic energies into the environment all around them. Chaotic energies which were, like the spear itself, extremely vulnerable to flames- chaotic energies that were, as of that very moment, converging toward Gallade, since it was the spear's primary target.
And that made all the difference.
The entire arena exploded, charring Gallade along with it. Especially with the Sunny Day active, fire-type moves, and thus, these explosions were much more powerful than they had any right to be, and the entire mass of matter and gas exploded with a violent discharge of heat, charring the only pokémon that had been caught amidst it.
Silence reigned in the arena for the next ten seconds, as the smoking heap that was Gallade fell down on his knees, however, still very much awake and in the fight. However, Austin only had eyes for the still floating husk of chaotic matter—the burnt and charred remains of Haunter's Miasma, and he knew it in his heart that it would be hours, if not days before Haunter gained her corporeal form back again just like when they were practicing.
" Thanks for the amazing performance, looks like we need more pratice." He raised his pokeball, and returned Gengar, before shoving his next pokeball into the arena. " Go, Wartortle."
Gallade, charred and smoking, somehow managed to get up from his position, forming an attack stance, as he warily glanced at the turtle, who had appeared in front of him.
"End him. Use ice aqua jet."
Gallade quickly raised a barrier in time, as Wartortle, enveloped inside a considerable quantity of water, shot at his person and mid way in the air, the aqua jet froze.
Gallafe was in no position to keep teleporting, especially with his wounds, and hence, this was going to be a match of plain brute force.
The barrier glowed, before changing form from Protect to Reflect, the change instantaneous, as the Ice Aqua jet slammed against it with tremendous force. The barrier shattered, but the Reflect action caused the ice aqua jet to shatter as Wartortle flew towards Gallade while dark type energy wrapped around his mouth.
And Gallade shot out a lethal thunderbolt, pushing out all of his energy into the single strike.
Wartortle bit into Gallade's neck, drawing blood, as pure, unadulterated electricity surged through the water-type, and by extension, into Gallade himself. The next moment, it was all over.
Sabrina was not amused.
Austin stood at his side, observing the Psychic Master in front of him. Her first choice had been Solrock, a psychic and fire type. The next had been Jynx, a psychic and ice type. Complete reverses of each other, while keeping the psychic element in common. The third had similarly, been Gallade, a psychic and fighting type. He could almost guess what kind of pokémon her fourth and final one was going to be.
"Interesting. To have gotten Gallade down by a mismanaged move of all things." Despite the expression on her face, it was clear that Sabrina was far from amused. " Let use continue." A pokeball appeared in her palm, before her fingers clenched around it, clicking the release button.
"Zong!"
The pokémon in front of him looked like a giant steel bell, with eyes at the apex, with two identical projections on either side forming a rudimentary version of limbs, though Ash felt skeptical if those… limbs were functional or merely vestigial.
"This is Bronzong." Sabrina clarified for him. "A part steel, part psychic. He is going to be my fourth battler for this match."
Ah. Steel this time. How amazingly poetic to have a high defensive type just right after an offensive one. Austin marvelled internally at Sabrina's choice of battlers from the very first.
All right. What do I do? He pondered. He had come in prepared for a six on six, which had shortened to a five on five, allowing him three options that he was allowed to choose from. Of course, he would have wanted Haunter to be the one battling this one, but unfortunately, she was indisposed at the moment. Another part of him wanted to bring out Musharna, if only to see just how much his psychic type fared against Sabrina's. Of course, there was another part of him, the wildly overemotional part that wanted him to include Pikachu, and prove it to his starter that he had not ignored him.
Austin grinned. This… this he could work with.
"Fine then." He lifted his fourth and final pokeball, and was about to throw it out into the arena when Lucario placed his palm on his shoulder, and instantly, Austin felt a temporary petrification get hold of him, enough to stop him in his actions and yet feel distinctly uncomfortable. For all he knew, it was almost like something had just gripped his body and let him free when he had ceased moving.
Before he could voice his confusion, Lucario smirked.
Austin knowing that look in Lucario's eyes asked," Want to show off, old man."
" I'm not too old to kick some ass." Lucario answered back.
" Pika." Pikachu's ears fell as he realized that he won't get to battle since Lucario is going into battle.
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In the ocean which serves as the habitat for most Qwilfish, they are an enormously fragile pokemon. Their dense hide requires them to contain an enormous amount of air inside their body just to float, and a single puncture wound beneath the surface can send them tumbling to the bottom of the sea as water replaces air, where they are crushed to death by the water pressure. In addition to poisoning their prey, Qwilfish also use their spikes to pop one another to reduce competition for food: it is a common sight in deep waters to see two of them bobbing up and down while ramming another in the hopes of deflating the other before being popped themselves.
There is only one method for a Qwilfish to defend itself from obstacles, and paradoxically, that is to knock itself unconscious with an Explosion. Although the attack will not be used on other Qwilfish, for even if successful it will only knock them out, wild Qwilfish have been known to use it against everything from boats to Gyarados as a last resort. Trained Qwilfish have even been pressed into service as naval mines for this reason, but this is not commonly done, for Qwilfish require a great deal of training not to attack one another on sight.
On land, where most trained Qwilfish battle, their lower spikes instead act as something similar to legs, allowing them to walk with surprising mobility. Indeed, between this and their ability to survive being popped, many wonder why they remain in the water at all; perhaps it is simply that they enjoy the ocean too much to leave except in a pokeball.