[Karl Christopher]

Karl was leaning on a nearby tree, waiting for Lithra to appear. She had requested a battle in the area and Karl was more then willing to have a battle near her dorm so that she didn't have to walk as far when she found his response attached to her door.

The battle style was going to be single, the number of pokemon unknown but with a maximum of three.

Karl was ready to do some after class tutoring for a willing student

[Lithra Trease]

Was this excitement that she felt? Giddiness? Was one little Lithra Trease actually eager to participate in another battle against a trainer? Or was it nervousness? Doubt? Worst of all, could it be regret that she dragged in a teacher of all people to see her flaws and waste his time? No, no. She didn't want to think of it that way. Mr. Christopher was offering his services and she was simply accepting such a kind offer. And he had said yes. He didn't have to say yes, did he? "No, he didn't," she spoke out loud, finishing her own question.

Mr. Christopher was waiting for her in the forest right where he said he would be. The Nature student found herself smiling and red faced, eager and embarrassed, hopeful and worried. She was a coin flipped in the air, the side that would show itself when it lands unknown. Bell was in her arms and two more pokeballs were in her bag: Vigil and Tara.

"Hi," she squeaked out, laughing at her own nerves then realizing how uncouth that might have been. "I hope you haven't been waiting long! I have three pokemon with me if that's okay? I mean you know Bell already," Lithra continued as she placed her Cottonee on the ground. She fumbled with her bag before releasing the other two. "And this is Vigil," she said to the Ninjask that hovered in the air like a somber sigh. "And this is Tara." Lithra's Sandile snapped her jaws, pumped and ready to go.

The girl didn't know if it was protocol or not to bring out all of your pokemon at once, but she was nervous around the instructor's presence and her team helped steady her. "I learned a lot in your class the other day," she finished, realizing the odd timing of her compliment but saying it anyway.

[Karl Christopher]

Karl hummed as he gave a look over the three pokemon they seemed well taken care of which was good "I haven't been waiting long and I'm glad you did learn a lot in my class." A smile grew on his face this was in first actual battle in a while and it brought a familiar feeling of pleasure to him to be able to battle another. "now let's have a little test to see if you can apply what you have learned. Let's begin"

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(Initiating Battle Sequence)




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"Zor come forth."

His Bronzor came out "Bronzor!"

Karl smiled "You have 3 pokemon ready to fight, I'll have three pokemon to battle them but I will only show one at a time. Select a pokemon that you think will be able to match my pokemon based on it's type."

[Lithra Trease]

"Mmm, okay," the teenager hummed nervously, not thrilled of having a 'pop quiz' even if learning was part of this battle. Lithra liked having time to process a question and come up with an answer that wasn't completely foolish. You couldn't really do that in a situation like this when everything was so immediate. But what was the worst Mr. Christopher would do? Judge her? He was a teacher and Lithra figured if you taught then you respected those who tried despite their lacking talents. She had to have faith in him, his training, and, of course, herself. 

Lithra nodded at Mr. Christopher's instructions, eyeing the pokemon he had brought forth first. "Bronzor," she repeated, face frowning as she tried to recall this pokemon. She hadn't encountered it before yet she was determined to do her best without relying on her PokeDex. "Ah, well, it looks like metal," she thought out loud, occasionally glancing over at her teacher to see his reaction. She was using the techniques he taught in class. "Like the body looks like steel so maybe it's a steel type? And, well, it's flying, right? Hovering? But I don't think it's a flying type so there's got to be a reason why it's hovering..."

Her lips pursed together as she grew quiet. She wanted to say psychic, but felt like that was a stupid answer. Opting not to say anything in case she was wrong, Lithra looked at her own team. The only one that would work with a steel type and a possible psychic type would be Tara. Maybe Vigil? Definitely not Bell. "I hope this is right," Lithra muttered softly. "Tara?"

The Sandile glanced up at Lithra, quizzical as to why Lithra called her name and with so much uncertainty. Was her trainer trying to battle with her or was she just saying her name?

"I pick Tara..."

[Karl Christopher]

Karl smiled "good pick, that is the pokemon best suited by type to battle against Zor. You observed the metallic body which suggests steel type and yes it is hovering as well which is a type of mystic power so it is also safe to say that Bronzor is part Psychic but let's see if your pokemon is able to defeat mine because type advantage isn't everything in battle, it is merely one of the many factors."

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Karl sent out Zor the Bronzor
Lithra sent out Tara the Sandile

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Ability Activate (Tara): Intimidate

Zor's attack power fell

Stat Changes Zor

Atk: -1

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Karl hummed as he saw the intimidate take effect on his Bronzor. "and the second one has taken effect with Tara's intimidate ability." He muttered "this might be a challenge..."

[Lithra Trease]

"Wonderful!" Lithra cheered, pleased that she had answered the 'quiz' correctly. And while she didn't have the confidence to voice Zor's Psychic type, she did feel better knowing she had been right. But Mr. Christopher had a point, types weren't everything, and it was certaintly a possibility that Zor would defeat Tara just as there stood a chance of Tara defeating Zor.

Understanding her purpose now, Tara marched forward to the center of the makeshift area the pair had created. Eager to battle, the Sandile snapped her jaws aggressively at the Bronzor. Even though Tara was still a small pokemon, her personality and ability often threw off opponents at the beginning of a fight. From the look of Zor, it looked like the same thing was happening here. 'Dile!' Tara growled eagerly.

"Alright! Let's start of with your favorite move, shall we Tara?" Lithra asked motioning towards the Bronzor. Without even saying the name of the move, Tara's mouth grew warm as fire flickered from her jaws, surrounding her teeth. Leaping after Zor, the Sandile bit down with all her might, flamed fangs digging into the Steel/Psychic type. "If I remember from your cheat sheet, Fire Fang should do well against Zor?" Again, it came out like a question.

Sandile uses Fire Fang. Super effective!

[Karl Christopher]

Accuracy Check of Fire Fang (95% accuracy 96 and above fail to hit)

j2PxFiJb1-100

Burn Check (10% chance anything above 10, fails to burn)

1-100

Flinch Check (10% chance anything above 10, fails to flinch)

1-100

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Ability (Zor): Heatproof

Halves the damage done by Fire-type attacks and the burn status ailment.

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Karl smirked as the Sandile bit his Bronzor with Fire Fang and the Sandile would find that Zor was actually quite solid and although Zor made a noise of annoyance of the bite down. It would slip out of the Sandile's jaw with a heat pressed mark that quickly cooled off.

Karl hummed "Normally that would be true but Zor has a slight boost against that. It has an ability known as Heatproof which reduces the damage dealt by fire attacks but attacking isn't the only way to deal with your enemies. Zor Confuse Ray."

Zor shined with a bright purple flash

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Zor used Confuse Ray, (100% accuracy)

Tara is now confused

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Karl smirked at Lithra. "I do hope you attend my next class. We're going to be going over abilities of pokemon and showing several of their effects and how they boost or weaken pokemon"1-100·1-100·1-100

[Lithra Trease]

Lithra's confusion was clear to read on her face as she watched what should have been a super effective move. "How?" she started, whispering out the word as her mouth dropped slightly. Looking at her teacher for guidance, Lithra noticed he was smirking and suddenly she felt completely embarrassed. The Nature student's eyes fell to the floor as Mr. Christopher explained the situation. "Okay," she responded, only looking up when Zor attacked her Sandile.

As Mr. Christopher inquired about his next class, Lithra's gaze returned back to the floor. "I will be there," she told the teacher. "I need all the lessons I can get." Lithra gave a weak smile as she watched Tara recover from the attack, groaning 'Saannnddd' in a woozy voice. The pokemon wasn't acting her normal self, occasionally snapping at the air instead of focusing on her opponent.

"Er, so no Fire moves then. Okay, how about Assurance, Tara! Try to concentrate," she encouraged the little Sandile as Tara stood up, clearly dizzy.

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Sandile becomes confused by Confuse Ray. Confused for this many turns: fO4iEM6B1-4

Sandile uses Assurance (100% accuracy).

Rolling for confusion, if 1 the pokemon hurts itself in confusion. 1-2

1-100·1-2

[Karl Christopher]

Despite the ray having an effect the Sandile managed to fight through the confusion and slam into Zor with a super effective Assurance hit.

Zor was knocked spinning and collapsed to the ground. It was a knockout.

Karl grimaced "that's a fold on my part." He recalled Zor "good job Lithra. Dark Types moves are super effective against Psychic Type pokemon and Psychic Type moves have no effect on dark types. So your Sandile had double advantage over my Bronzor but now let's see if you can handle my next pokemon. "Get em Wrath."

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Karl sent out Wrath the Poliwag

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Wrath made a hop and wagged it's small tail back and forth as if it was ready to fight

"you can choose to continue fighting with your Sandile or switch to a different pokemon." Karl stated "I'll tell you right now, your sandile is at a type disadvantage and it is also confused. I recommend a switch but it is up to you Lithra

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Switch Pokemon?

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[Lithra Trease]

"Way to go Tara!" Lithra congratulated to her still dizzy Sandile. There was a brief moment that Tara seemed to understand what her trainer was saying as the pokemon snapped its jaws happily in response. Then, with a little more reservation than her previous cheer, Lithra addressed her teacher. "Thank you, Mr. Christopher," she smiled sweetly at him. She was proud that he was pleased with her decisions so far. Lithra hoped this would show him that he was a good teacher despite the lack of turn out to his first class.

"Okay," she nodded, responding to the new pokemon that was now pulled onto the field. "I think I'll follow your advice and replace Tara with a new pokemon." As if Lithra would do anything but follow the decisions of an authority figure. Withdrawing Tara from the field, Lithra looked at her Cottonee and Ninjask standing beside her. "Go ahead Bell, your turn," she told the Cottonee.

Bouncing onto the grassy make-shift arena, Bell stopped in front of the blue pokemon. "It's your turn now, right?"

[Karl Christopher]

Karl hummed as he nodded "indeed it is." He stated "now you sent out a Grass Type against my Water Type which in a normal type match up puts your Cottonee at an advantage to my Poliwag however unlike with my Bronzor who had no advantage moves against your Sandile. Wrath has a move that has an advantage to your Cottonee in the move of a different typing then Water and that typing is Ice. "Wrath Ice Ball go!"

"Poliwag!" Wrath growled then blew a icy wind from it's mouth then and rolled into an ice ball and came at the Cottonee

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Wrath used Ice Ball (90% Accuracy)

[Lithra Trease]

As Mr. Christopher spoke you could see Lithra's inner thoughts reflected on her face. At first she was proud of her pokemon choice, knowing full well that Grass was stronger than Water, but then when the teacher explained a secret move that his Poliwag knew, Lithra's face fell. She shifted uneasily, worried almost, as Mr. Christopher gave the command to attack. The Nature student gave a short squeak of noise as the ice crashed into her Bell.

The Cottonee cried out as he rolled backwards, his body slowly stopping to rest a few feet from where Lithra was standing. It took all of her will not to run over and cradle him in her arms. "Bell, Bell, please, you can get up," she encouraged, hands clasping together. "I know what will make you feel better. Use Giga Drain and feel better."

It took a long while before the Cottonee got up, that move had nearly finished him off in one hit. Still, but he managed to summon the ability to use Giga Drain on the Poliwag.

Poliwag uses Ice Ball. 90-100 misses and means I'll be rewriting :') Anc_2hyg1-100
Cottonee damaged by Ice Ball (assumedly). Super effective!
Cottonee uses Giga Drain!1-100

[Karl Christopher]

Poliwag squealed as the Giga Drain drained his energy. He recovered then a sitrus berry was pulled out and he ate it to restore HP

Karl hummed "A powerful Giga Drain... but Wrath is still in it. Roll it again. Ice Ball"

Wrath turned into a larger ice ball as when the move was used consecutively it doubled in power.

[Lithra Trease]

"Oh...we're using items?" Lithra questioned, biting back a comment that she hadn't given any of her pokemon items to hold yet. That was her fault, however, and not Mr. Christopher's. If she remembered correctly he had even stated items were allowed in his battle notice and it was Lithra's error for not giving one or two of her pokemon a berry. Not that Bell needed items to heal himself. The Giga Drain was enough to restore the health he lost in the last attack, but it was not enough to keep him from fainting from the larger Ice Ball Wrath summoned.

The ice collided into Bell and he fell unconscious, laying still on the ground as Lithra gasped. Her eyes stung, like someone had given her nose a nasty pinch, as she pulled out Bell's pokeball and withdrew his body back into the container. "You're still a good boy, Bell," she said to the pokeball as Tara nudged her heels sympathetically.

"Alright Vigil, it's your turn," she said, scratching underneath her Ninjask's chin as he flew forward. There was no urgency to Vigil's movements, yet he came to battle unflinching and unafraid. "Use Aerial Ace!"

Cottonee regains health with Giga Drain
Cottonee is damaged by Ice ball. Super effective!
Cottonee faints and Ninjask is sent out.
Ninjask uses Ariel Ace! (100% Accuracy) 

[Karl Christopher]

Just as Wrath was coming out of his most recent Ice Ball hit, A fast moving Ninjask used Aerial Ace and sent the little tadpole flying. Wrath had taken too much from the Giga Drain even with a berry recovery

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Wrath Fainted

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Karl hummed "nice follow up. You're lucky that my poliwag was weakened from the Giga Drain, had he been able to continue, It might have been over with one more Ice Ball as a Flying Type is also weak against Ice. Now let me pull out my last pokemon go Sheldon

Karl sent out his Squirtle

"alright Sheldon charge up a Skull Bash."

"Squirtle!" Sheldon replied then got into a position on all fours and took a charging stance.

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Squirtle lowered his head (charge turn for Skull Bash) 

Squirtle's Defense Rose 

Stat Change

Def: +1

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Karl chuckled "that Ninjask better watch out, a Skull Bash is coming for it."