lucetilogs | Pokémon battle! And we'll see who is the better trainer! And we'll see who has the bigger Pokéballs!

Who: Gold (

tsuntrader), plus any spectators!
What: Silver issued a battle challenge to Gold, who accepted.
When: Saturday afternoon
Where: The Battle Dome
Summary: Gold and Silver have been in Luceti together for a year and yet have never had a single Pokémon battle. Deciding it's time to rectify, they head off to the Battle Dome to throw down!
Rating: PG? I mean, it's Pokémon...
[Gold had been anxiously waiting for this day. Sure, the standard format for Pokémon battles involved just battling whenever your eyes meet, but if they did that, there'd be constant battles all day, every day. Therefore, these things had to be planned.

...Besides that, Silver was his rival. Always has been, always will be. That makes this battle special. A battle to settle old scores... No, a battle to determine who's the best trainer out of the two of them, and furthermore... To show everyone just how it's done.

It was time. Their battle lies ahead.]

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...I don't know if you're met that bird, but it's insane. That's all the bird, not Silver.

I haven't met any of his pokemon. Only spoken with him once.

Oh, right.

[...Fair enough]

[He'll be fixing that after the match, at least. Fast-forward to after all the post threads?]

[Flash forward, even]

[Flashed right out of the building even, hell yeah.]

You looked like you were getting into that almost as much as Linda was.

It's hard to ignore her mood that much. [With a little sheepish smile. Linda on his shoulder nods. Damn skippy]

Suuure. Blame it all on her.

[He's not just teasing. It was a good insight into what - he thinks? - the both of them are wanting to achieve for themselves, with some tweaks for Masaomi's different style. Shikamaru grins.]

Still. It was very cool.

Yep, certainly cool. Sort of crazy though, particularly towards the end.

[Siiigh~]

Don't think I caught the difference.

[It was ALL crazy. All of it. But mostly he says this because he wants Masaomi to extrapolate what he thought of it.]

I could follow what they were doing until about then they launched their super moves to make the explosions. It made sense until about then.

That's because there were some tactics until then. Think of the endgame like an arm-wrestling match, but with elements. [He laces his fingers behind his neck now, as they walk.] It boiled down to sheer strength.

It's true. I doubt I'll ever fight quite like Gold does though.

[With a slight nod]

Figured you'd take it in a different direction.

Gold functions entirely on instinct. It's not something I'm intuitive or lucky enough to do.

He's also had anywhere between five years and his entire life to forge a bond strong enough with his Pokemon to pull that off.

It's true. [...] But you can see it in how he moves too.

[That's true, certainly, but he's not sure that's the thing to focus on here.]

He has his own style. So does Silver, who was able to go toe-to-toe with him. Having a different approach to this than them is a good thing.