Basalt had a healthy respect for tagross. But he wasn't as familiar with its interdiate evolution, tang. It wasn't until Zane's tang had shot out jets of fla like a rocket that he rembered it even had that ability.
"This is a problem," Basalt thought, his face grim.
"Your Gravity has an impressive multiplier," Zane said with a smirk, "but it's nowhere near enough to defeat tang! tang, Cot Punch!"
"tang!" the Pokémon roared. A tallic sheen flashed over its right claw as it unleashed a powerful, heavy punch that tore through the air.
Its super-heavy body was both a weakness and a strength. It endowed tang with imnse power, and combined with its sturdy fra, it was a veritable battle fortress.
BOOM!
The Cot Punch slamd into Bronzor, sending it flying backwards.
"Brooonz~" Bronzor wobbled in the air, barely managing to stay afloat. It was in bad shape.
"Bronzor!" Basalt yelled, his voice filled with alarm. The previous clashes had already taken a toll on its stamina and psychic energy. Now, after taking a full-power hit from tang, it was only its incredible defenses that were keeping it from fainting.
"I'm okay! I can still fight!" Bronzor's weak voice echoed in Basalt's mind, laced with deep frustration and... unwillingness. To be defeated by another Steel/Psychic-type, in front of its entire clan—it was an outco Bronzor could not accept. This was a battle for the honor of its family!
"It seems our Bronzor is being pushed too hard," the Great Elder sighed from within its cave. It had miscalculated. Zane's tang was far more formidable than it had anticipated. Its control over its power was precise down to the milliter, with almost no wasted energy. Even without having evolved to gain its supercomputer brain, its energy manipulation was already at the professional level. That was the secret to its powerful, penetrating attacks.
Even a simple move, in its hands, could unleash devastating power. Although tang was the weakest mber of Zane's team, the effort he had poured into raising it was clearly extraordinary. After all, it was a pseudo-legendary.
"Take Down!" Zane's lips curled into a smirk, confident that victory was his.
BOOM!
Under tang's terrifying force, Bronzor was sent flying once again. At that mont, the hearts of Basalt and every mber of the Bronzong clan clenched.
But hearing the desperate cheers of its kin, Bronzor wobbled, then slowly floated back into position.
"Quite resilient. But it's all in vain," Zane sneered. "tang, finish it with one last Take Down!"
"tang!" it roared, gathering all its strength. The jets of fla shooting from its claws burned even hotter as it shot forward for the final blow.
"It's over," Sumr whispered, closing her eyes, unable to watch.
But unbeknownst to them, deep within the cave, the Great Elder's psychic power was already surging, prepared to intervene and end the match.
"Hmm? Wait a mont," the Great Elder's aura suddenly shifted to one of pleasant surprise. Its psychic senses had detected a powerful, turbulent wave of ntal energy erupting from Bronzor's mind, far stronger than before.
"A mid-battle breakthrough? Excellent!" The Great Elder was overjoyed.
Psychic power was an ethereal thing. Unlike physical energy, which had to be built up over ti, it could undergo a sudden transformation under intense stimulation—a life-or-death crisis, a devastating blow. And Bronzor, at this very mont, was experiencing just that.
Its eye was glowing with a strange light, fixed on the approaching tang.
Bronzor refused to accept it. It refused to lose, and it especially refused to lose in front of its entire clan.
I can still fight! I have to win! it roared silently in its mind.
A storm of psychic energy, more than twice as strong as before, erupted from its body. But as a Steel/Psychic-type, tang was doubly resistant to Psychic attacks. Even against this empowered ntal storm, it pressed its attack.
Seeing the tang closing in, Bronzor's rage boiled over. "GET AWAY FROM !" it scread telepathically.
WHOOSH!
Just as tang's steel body was less than a ter from Bronzor, it was suddenly and violently thrown upwards, as if its body was no longer under its own control.
"What's going on?" Basalt gasped, completely bewildered.
In the air, tang reacted quickly, adjusting the direction of its arm-jets to stabilize itself.
"This is... Gravity," Basalt's mind flashed, his eyes widening. "Reverse... Gravity!"
It was a technique he had been working on with Bronzor ever since Mr. Leo had explained the theory. But until now, its psychic power hadn't been strong enough to even begin to master it. But now, with its mid-battle breakthrough, it had not only boosted its psychic power, but had also unlocked the new technique.
However, Basalt noticed that the effect of the Reverse Gravity was much weaker than its normal counterpart. tang was resisting it with relative ease, though its expression was one of complete confusion.
"Brooonz~" With a low hum, the direction of the gravity field suddenly shifted again. The reverse field weakened, then vanished, only to be replaced by a normal gravity field that rapidly intensified.
And the tang, still firing its jets to fight the upward pull, was suddenly in a world of hurt. Before it could reorient its arms, the combined force of the intensified gravity and its own jets sent it plumting towards the ground at a terrifying speed.
BOOM!
It slamd into the stone platform, shattering the rock and creating a massive crater. Thanks to its sturdy body, it wasn't seriously injured. The only problem was... it was now on the ground.
"Bulldoze!" Basalt roared. The ti to counterattack was now.
"tang, fly!" Zane yelled, but it was too late.
RUMBLE!
Bronzor let itself fall, and the mont it touched the ground, a massive wave of Ground-type energy erupted from its body, sending a violent tremor through the platform.
"tang!" The pseudo-legendary cried out in pain. The super-effective Ground-type move had hit it hard.
"How did this happen?" Zane stared in disbelief. A mid-battle breakthrough? A dramatic turnaround? "In this story, aren't I supposed to be the main character?"
"tang, get airborne, now!" he commanded.
But just as the tang's jets flared to life, a mass of green vines erupted from the ground beneath it, wrapping around its body and dragging it back down.
Grass Knot.
"tang!" Though the move wasn't very effective, its power was based on the target's weight. And at over 200 kilograms, tang was a very heavy target. The blow left it dazed and winded.
"The tables have turned!" Sumr and Barry stared, their mouths agape. The Bronzong clan, anwhile, erupted in a chorus of triumphant, bell-like chis that sounded like a war song.
Basalt looked up at the midday sun and clenched his fist. "Bronzor, finish this with Solar Beam!"
VWOOM!
The sunlight intensified, and Bronzor turned its reflective surface towards the sky, greedily absorbing the solar energy.
"tang, break free! Use Bullet Punch to stop it!" Zane yelled desperately.
"tang!" Shaking off its daze, it used Ice Punch to shatter the vines and free itself.
But by then, Bronzor had finished charging.
FWOOSH!
A massive beam of pure solar energy erupted from Bronzor, engulfing the tang completely.
BOOM!
A huge explosion rocked the summit, shrouding the area in black smoke. From within the cloud, tang fell to the ground, its eyes spinning.
Bronzor itself was not much better off. Its mind was throbbing with a splitting headache, and it could barely stay afloat.
"I... won!" Bronzor's triumphant voice echoed in their minds, and then, its energy spent, it too fainted.
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