"Tyranitar, Dragon Dance!"
Mega Tyranitar forcefully endured the injuries that the move Bug Buzz had caused him and twisted his body, making him appear in the eyes of the others like a massive dragon hiding an extremely powerful force.
"Volcarona, don't stop! Silver Wind!" Alder knew that Mega Tyranitar was using the move Dragon Dance, but even so, he still had Volcarona continue attacking.
Silver Wind was also an attacking move that combined attack and strengthening into one. It had a ten percent chance of increasing all of the Pokémon's capabilities: physical attack, physical defense, special attack, special defense, and speed. A comprehensive enhancement of five attributes!
Although the probability was very low, once it was triggered, the increase it brought was quite terrifying.
"Precipice Blades!" Cain's low voice echoed in Mega Tyranitar's mind.
Almost in an instant, all the markings on Mega Tyranitar's body lit up, and an enormous stone pillar rose toward the sky.
"Now!" Alder, who had been watching Mega Tyranitar's movements closely, immediately spoke. Volcarona flapped its wings and shifted sideways at the greatest speed possible.
Boom!!
Although Volcarona dodged the frontal impact of the move Precipice Blades, it was hit by the explosion caused by the eruption of the Precipice Blades move.
Cain looked at Volcarona, who had been struck by the explosion of Precipice Blades, but showed no joy. On the contrary, his expression became even more solemn.
"He knew Tyranitar would use Precipice Blades, so from the very beginning he was already prepared to dodge it at any moment?"
"Just by having seen it twice, he already understood the prior signs and Tyranitar's characteristics when releasing Precipice Blades?"
"As expected of the Champion of the Unova region!"
But what Cain did not know was that, while in his heart he silently praised Alder and acknowledged that the title of Champion suited him perfectly, Alder was also surprised by Mega Tyranitar's strength.
Clearly, he had already prepared long beforehand how to respond to Tyranitar's Precipice Blades, and had even warned Volcarona in advance, but he had not expected that after Mega Evolving, Tyranitar would not only increase his own strength, but that even the speed at which he released the move and the power of the move would have greatly increased.
This was something Alder had not taken into account.
Without realizing it, that Alder who previously had always regarded Cain as someone of the younger generation was now already treating him completely as an existence on the same level as himself.
That was an invisible recognition.
The strategic game between the two had begun long ago, only in this instant, the level of their strategic confrontation had been raised to the limit.
The battle continued!
If Cain's Tyranitar were only what he appeared to be on the surface, Volcarona's probability of victory would truly be quite a bit greater. But unfortunately, Cain's Tyranitar was absolutely not an ordinary Tyranitar.
The power he was hiding was probably something no one could imagine!
Volcarona's tactic was to avoid Mega Tyranitar's attacks while launching long-range attacks. Mega Tyranitar, on his part, endured Volcarona's attacks while searching for an opportunity to deal it a fatal blow.
"Precipice Blades!"
"Dodge it! Silver Wind!"
"Stone Edge!"
"Hurricane!"
"Dragon Claw!"
"Heat Wave!"
"Aqua Tail!"
"Giga Drain!"
"..."
The moves of the two Pokémon came and went. Sometimes Volcarona managed to successfully dodge Mega Tyranitar's attacks, and sometimes it could not completely avoid them.
And although Mega Tyranitar did not have such agile and flexible speed to dodge Volcarona's attacks, he had the Red Sand Domain. The red sand could, to a certain extent, form a defensive shield and block part of the attacks.
Because of that, both Pokémon, more or less, gradually wounded each other.
The difference was that Mega Tyranitar's body seemed sturdier and could endure more attacks, while Volcarona did not seem as resistant as Mega Tyranitar. Therefore, although it received fewer blows, judging by its appearance, its condition did not seem much better than Mega Tyranitar's.
The two Pokémon truly brought the entire battle to its highest point all at once!
The hearts of the spectators were also pulled along by every movement of the two Pokémon, and the cheers followed one after another.
"Mr. Alder, let us use this final blow to end the entire battle!" Cain, for the first time, did not use his psychic powers, but instead let his voice carry out.
Upon hearing this, Alder was stunned for an instant, but immediately afterward, he smiled and nodded.
"Good!"
If it was a frontal clash of moves, Volcarona still held a certain advantage.
"Volcarona, Hurricane Fiery Dance (Hurricane + Fiery Dance)!" Alder said to Volcarona.
Who did not have a combined move? This great hidden move, which had originally been reserved for the end, was the supreme technique of Alder's Volcarona.
Had they ever seen a sea of fire covering the entire earth?
Yes?
Then they surely had not seen a super sea of fire that enveloped both the earth and the sky, without any blind spot in three hundred and sixty degrees.
"Mega Tyranitar, use Outrage!" Cain said to Tyranitar in a low voice.
Upon hearing these words, Alder was slightly surprised. At first, he had thought that Cain would have Tyranitar finish things with a full-power Precipice Blades.
But he had not expected it to be the move Outrage, a move that did not even belong to the same type as Tyranitar.
Mega Tyranitar's body became wrapped in an extremely dense purple Dragon-type energy. Dragging that energy along with him, he rose toward the sky, while his eyes filled with intense ferocity and violence.
Volcarona, on the other hand, flapped its wings and directed the flames as if they were its own arms, continuously hurling them against Mega Tyranitar.
But before the maddened Mega Tyranitar of this moment, all those flames were no more important than the Volcarona that was now in his eyes.
Although those flames burned his body, made him feel intense pain, and at the same time stimulated his nerves, it was precisely that pain that made him even more frantic.
Finally...
Boom!!!
Mega Tyranitar's Outrage struck Volcarona's body without hesitation. While causing it damage, it also knocked it down from the air.
But Outrage was a continuous move. Before the Pokémon that released it recovered its reason, it would not stop attacking.
The instant Mega Tyranitar came into contact with Volcarona, that represented Volcarona's defeat.
Only...
To defeat head-on in that manner a Champion whom the Hoenn League had invited would not only be disrespectful toward him, but would also make it impossible for Drake and the others to give a reasonable explanation.
Although, for Cain, that would only bring benefits.
(End of chapter)