Gym Battle Z vs Nicole

Nero,slightly disoriented, could only stare at the incoming hearts with wide eyes. "Niiiiiinetails...." *Oh heeeeck no...." Nicole couldn't agree more with Nero's sentiment.  "My thoughts exactly!  Nero, if you can, dodge!"  She called, hoping that the Ninetails would be able to do just that.  She didn't want to see her best friend hung up over a Pokemon just because of an attack.  Upon hearing the order, Nero tried to force every muscle in his body to get it together so that he could move.  When he realized he was not having the best of luck in that, he did the only other thing he could think of.  He threw is own weight off and began to sink to the floor.  This round, no physical blows would be exchanged, but he really didn't want to have a mental blow either.

Nicole watched, pained, as Nero was sent scooting back from the Flame Charge. Knowing this time would probably be a bust attack wise, she quickly began to put together some sort of idea. She would have to time the one attack she didn't want to waste just right....  "Nero...  What do I do..."  She muttered to the air.  Finally she decided to just call out an attack, knowing she was probably not going to get anything from her friend.  "Nero, Fire Spin."

Nero didn't make a move to perfrom the attack, his eyes glued to the Blaziken on the other side of the field.  Nicole let out a sigh and couldn't help but think: why can't one of his tails get pulled...  he would probably be willing to do something, even if he is infatuated....  And I can't believe this is even in my thought process....

Nicole bit her bottom lip to keep from freaking out as Nero fell back to earth and stumbled to get back up.  Nicole then took the time Nero was shaking his head to clear away the fuzz from the blow he had taken to call out: "Nero!  Use Confuse Ray!"  Nero, is his befuddled thought process, began to glow and the ray began to soak around the whole room due to his inability to control what was going on.   This was definitely a risky thing to do since Nero was out of it, but take the chance while it is given.  Again, the fifty-fifty chance had hit right on the mark, this one was powerful, but it was probably going to hit everything in a good radius of it.

"Good job Nero."  Nicole muttered to herself.  Nero was still disorientated himself, still trying to shake away the fuzzy feeling in his head, so he was swaying and staggering from side to side.  "Hey Nero, can you try another Flamethrower?"  This request was made, with no response being given.  Instead, Nero continued to try and clear his head, while seemingly try to look up towards where the Blaziken was.  Nicole could not find this amusing at all.  Instead, she found this very NOT amusing.  "Nero, Flamethrower?"  She tried again, hoping it would work if repeated due to it being a fifty-fifty chance.  Still nothing was done.  Well...  This match had suddenly become one of status ailments.

“Nero! Retaliate this time! Hyper Beam!” Nicole called watching as Nero righted himself, his head finally seeming to be clear. The problem with that fact right now? He was still infatuated. This left Nicole only with the hope that, since he didn’t respond to a called out attack twice, there would be a chance he would attack this round, and with the fact that the Blaziken had punched itself in the face, there was hope that an attack would hit. For a few moments, Nero just stood there… This made Nicole’s heart drop, and a small part of her hope that the Blaziken hurt itself again. Then, the next thing she knew, she was covering her eyes as the bright beam of Hyper Beam shot from Nero’s mouth at a high speed towards the Blaziken.

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(Just so you know that things are fair with whether the attack will happen or not, I’ve been flipping a coin, head is: attack, tails is: to infatuated to do anything)

Nicole crossed her fingers as she decided to try once more with an attack.  Nero seemed slightly out of it because of the Hyper Beam, but there was still a chance he could make an attack.  Of course, there was also the infatuation....  Shaking her head, Nicole left things it up to fate and called out: "Nero, please, use Flamethrower."

Again, there was nothing... until there was something.  Nero, though he seemed slightly pained by it, opened his mouth and out came a full powered Flamethrower.  Nicole's eyes widened in surprise as she had expected to have nothing happen like many times before.  She couldn't help but let out a small, quiet, happy gasp.  This moment almost seemed like a coin toss that had landed on her called side.  She wasn't about to go and complain about it.