It was tough but in the end....

The tall grass tickled your legs as you stand a good 5 feet from Blue, A strong look of determination on both your faces. As if in sync you both reach for a ball on your belts and let them fly. With a twin flash of red lights your pokemon are out and you both easily catch the returning balls without looking away from the others eyes like old pros.

"Ok Squirtle its the same wimp as before, use bubble and whip it at him from the left."

The blue turtle followed the order spewing out a wave of bubbles starting on the left, forcing your guy to dodge to the right. As he continued this you were trying to figure out what Blue was planning. He had obviously taken his Grandpa's words to heart, and was trying to use bubble to herd your Charmander somewhere. As you were thinking you were broken from your thoughts with a loud snap and a stinging feeling on your arm. You looked down at your arm to see a big wet welt forming there like you were hit with a wet towel snap, apparently one of the bubbles had touched your arm and popped.

"Hey Amber! watch yourself! Stray attacks like that are a common thing we trainers need to look out for, as well as keeping an eye on our Pokémon."

You raised an eyebrow and you gave a look at Blue, you were actually surprised he was showing concern for you in anyway outside of anything sexual.

'Maybe professor Oaks chewing out made him want to be mature and....'

"besides I'd prefer my future sex slaves to be in mint condition before I get to play with them."

'......Or he is just a horn dog like always and should just expect any tip he makes to be an opening for some crude line.'

You look back on the fight to see Charmander with his back against a tree now, and Squirtle hunched forward waiting.

"Ok you got him right were we need him, now tackle him hard into the tree, then give them a good bite like before."

As the turtle started running on all fours at Charmander, you could see your little guy was scared, especially since if you were in his place you wouldn't want to be bit in the face again either, you smile to yourself as you get an idea.

"Charmander listen closely, use smokescreen, but stay were you are."

He snapped out of his fear and nods to you, before opening his mouth and releasing a cloud of thick black smoke in front of him, quite a distance too it even looked like it blanketed over Blue.

"Cough! Cough! Keep charging straight ahead, cough nail the brat."

You squint your eyes as you look hard into the smoke. Waiting, then as you see Squirtle pop out about to tackle your Pokémon you call out.

"Jump to the right a hit him it the face with your tail!"

For a half second you worried that you gave the order to late, but Charmander dodges out of the way perfectly at the last moment and spins in place his tail whacking Squirtle in the face with the flame tip of his tail. Squirtle cried out from the fire smack to the face, water-types may be strong against fire but a flame to the face is still going to sting no matter what. He was so busy with the sudden stinging pain he hadn't stopped running and charged headfirst straight into the tree. You winced in sympathy pain for the turtle Who despite its size and the size of the tree itself made the tree shake quite significantly. You watch as Charmander holds out his hands preparing for the next attack only for you both to watch Squirtle fall backwards onto his shell swirls in his eyes. You look over at Blue who could see clearly now his mouth open in shock.

"I....think your pokemon is knocked out, but I'm not shore."