Part 23:
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"Flare Blitz.""TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!"
Talonflame crashes into Dedenne before he can get a chance to dodge. His ambitions are burning, his beak is sharp, and his power is relentless.
"D-Den, d-den!"
Dedenne tumbles about on the ground, even more so due to the outrageous sandstorm going on. It's much worse than it was last night, and Dedenne's small cute hamster frame makes him subject to being tossed around like a suffering spud in the middle of a game of hot potato.
A few Thunderbolts and luck aren't enough to take Talonflame down, apparently. Honestly, you WOULD switch out to one of your more heavy hitters...had it not been for the fact that they were all taken down. Dedenne is all you have left.
Frogadier, Hexcalibur, Skrelp, and Luchy all met some pretty untimely ends at the hands of the smogonbird. As much as you don't want to lose this battle, you really have no other choice but to stick through with your ham-ham buddy. You're getting swept here, you haven't even taken out one of his Pokemon yet. This is nothing short of embarrassing, but a justifiable kind of embarrassment, his actual thought process and use of competitive strategy is too much for a boy with animeverse battling knowledge (On a good day, anyway.)
Figures you'd meet him here in the Badlands.
Dio. 