'Speed feast?'
The moment they heard these words from Axel, Ricky and his fans were all dumbfounded.
Wasn't this Ricky's line? How come it was said by someone else?
And... they just happened to have no way to refute it.
Axel's Pheromosa had kicked the Blaziken straight to the ground with one kick.
"Blaziken, stand up!"
Under Ricky's command, Blaziken flipped up like a carp, trying to break free from Pheromosa's knockdown effect.
But Axel didn't intend to give them this chance at all.
With the bond of mutual understanding between the two, Pheromosa raised its long leg high and stomped fiercely on Blaziken's head.
The flinch effect was triggered, and a trace of fear flashed through Blaziken's eyes, its movement suddenly stopped.
"Blaziken, hold on, use Flamethrower again!"
Hearing Ricky's words, the corners of Axel's mouth slightly curled up.
'Starting to lean on bonds already?'
'Do you really think you're a full-health Overgrow-powered Elite Four?'
Taking advantage of Blaziken's restricted movement, Axel decisively let Pheromosa use the Flying Knee skill at the same time.
In everyone's sight, before Blaziken's Flamethrower could even gather, Pheromosa's body had already leapt into the air.
In midair, Pheromosa's right knee bent slightly, revealing the hardest part of its whole body, the kneecap, and smashed fiercely towards Blaziken's head.
"This?", The moment he saw the skill, Ricky instinctively reacted.
"Blaziken, stop Flamethrower, quickly use Protect!"
As a trainer specializing in Fire and Fighting types, Ricky was very clear about the horror of Flying Knee.
If this skill didn't hit the opponent, or was blocked by Protect, it could even cause the Pokémon to lose half its stamina due to the strong recoil.
The powerful negative effect also brought unimaginable power to this skill.
A mighty 130 power, coupled with Pheromosa's Fighting-type same-type bonus.
Blaziken definitely couldn't take this attack.
Luckily, his and Blaziken's reaction speed was fast enough.
Before Pheromosa hit, Blaziken had already successfully used Protect.
"Phew~", The whole field was filled with sounds of people sighing in relief.
As battle students, everyone knew very well what would happen if Blaziken got hit by Flying Knee.
And they also knew what terrifying thing would happen if this skill was blocked by Protect.
That dark horse who charged out from the start seemed like it was going to fall in front of veteran strongman Ricky.
Seeing Ricky's relieved expression, Axel wasn't worried at all.
He had seen the opponent's level, Blaziken was level 37, which was a very good level.
The gap was less than 10 levels away from Pheromosa.
Normally speaking, this Flying Knee from Pheromosa would definitely be a very wrong decision.
It might even become the key point for the opponent's comeback.
But... Pheromosa still had a golden tag.
The Assassin King tag.
With this tag bonus, Pheromosa's dual attack stats both broke through 200.
Except for not being a divine job, this bonus even surpassed all divine beasts.
Under everyone's gaze, Pheromosa's knee hit Blaziken's Protect hard.
Crack~
A crisp cracking sound rang out, and a crack appeared on the Protect.
In Blaziken's eyes full of fighting spirit, a trace of disbelief and a trace of panic flashed.
'How can this be?'
He had clearly used Protect, and the opponent's aura obviously wasn't much stronger than his.
But... he actually had a feeling that he couldn't hold on.
"Hiss!"
On the silent field, there was a sound of people sucking in cold air.
Even Norton in the sky couldn't help but feel his heart speed up.
What did he just see?
Someone actually broke through Ricky's Blaziken's Protect.
Shocked, Norton couldn't care about keeping up the unbothered act anymore, and drove his Steelix rumbling towards the registration hut on the field.
After seeing Pheromosa's registered level, Norton couldn't help but feel a chill down his back.
It seemed like an incredible student had come to their Ninox.
———
Following the first cracking sound, dense cracking sounds followed.
Like broken glass, once the first crack appeared, it couldn't be fixed anymore.
Pheromosa forcefully broke through Protect, its knee smashed hard on Blaziken's chest.
"Blaz..."
The fear in Blaziken's eyes faded away, its eyes spun in circles.
A streak of upward white light flashed across Pheromosa's body.
The Beast Boost ability activated, and its speed increased again.
Seeing Ricky's stunned look, Axel softly reminded, "Return Blaziken to the ball for treatment, it's time to send out your second Pokémon."
"Okay...", Ricky subconsciously put Blaziken back in the ball, then looked at Axel in disbelief, "But aren't you Poison and Rock type? How can you be so good at Fighting?"
Thinking back to Axel's series of commands just now, Ricky felt his scalp tingle.
Even after three years in the Fighting type, he'd never executed such smooth combos as Axel just did.
Axel secretly gave Ricky a thumbs up.
'Good guy, brother.'
'Obviously lost so badly, yet still cooperating with me to show off a bit...'
'Since that's the case, I won't hold back.'
Axel put his hands in his pockets, turned slightly without a sound, and faced the audience with his side profile, "It's nothing really. The fans were saying in the group yesterday that they wanted to see an exhilarating battle, so I learned some aggressive play at the last minute."
"At the last minute?", Ricky's eyes instantly lost all their brilliance.
'So all my three years of effort couldn't compare to a night of a talent freak?'
In the stands, countless heartbroken voices rang out, mixed with some confusion.
"Huh, sisters, how many groups does Junior Axel have?"
"There should be only one, right? I saw yesterday in the group they were all saying they wanted Axel to teach new tactics, no one said they wanted to see aggressive play."
"Yeah yeah yeah, I didn't see anyone saying they wanted to see aggressive play. But there was a junior sister who wanted to lend her Togekiss of Heavenly Grace to junior brother for a bit."
Axel: "..."
'Don't talk about me, I can hear everything okay?'
'How come these fan senior sisters are all so dirty?'
'Not at all like the sunny, cheerful college girls.'
"Ricky, send out your second Pokémon, or else the referee will urge you soon."
"Ah... okay," Although Ricky responded, he still hadn't recovered, standing still without moving.
"I'm gonna have Nihilego lay Spikes."
"No!", Ricky snapped out of it at once, pulling out a Poké Ball from his waist.
"Hitmonlee, I'm counting on you this time."
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