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[When the feed starts up, it's upside-down, but there's a clear shot of a very angry Riku standing next to a large pile of exhausted Pokémon including a very large Charizard, Feraligatr, Nidoking, Scizor, Lucario, and a Rotom, which manages to float over to the Gear and slowly lift it up.

Riku, however, looks less than impressed.]

Get back up! You can't just sit there.

[The Pokémon groan and shift a little, but alas, they're just too exhausted to keep going.]

C'mon. You're going to keep fighting, you got that? I don't care how tired you are.

[There's a sad sounding vrrrrrm from Surge, who hovers over to Riku.]

See? If Surge can do it, so can--

[Aaaand then the Gear falls. Looks like even Surge didn't have the energy to keep going.]

Can't believe this...

[After a moment, he scoops up the Gear and shuts it off. Those in Olivine are free to see this unpleasant display. A little while after his defeat, Riku's going to be working his team incredibly hard, putting them up against each other.

Someone's a sore loser, to say the least.]

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... Right.

[He does plan on covering his losses somehow, but Riku's an impulsive teen. He doesn't always stop and think these things through.]

Back when Master Eraqus took me in, I lost a lot of sparring matches. And it was really discouraging, but Terra and Aqua supported me and helped me learn from it. So I know it works.

Yeah. Guess you would, huh?

[Siiigh. But Riku's stubborn and likes to push himself... Even if it's not always effective.]

Your team's really strong already, one loss doesn't change that. But you know, I bet you could come up with a strategy to counter the one they lost to.

If I could figure out how to deal with entry hazards, maybe.

[He groans.]

Stealth rocks, toxic spikes... Flare doesn't have to worry about the spikes, and neither does Surge, but stealth rocks hit just about anything that switches out.

That sounds tough, but there's gotta be something you can do.

Yeah. Otherwise the moves are too cheap. There has to be something that can knock them away.

Maybe if you got something that had a shell, it could handle those things.

Maybe, but I've got some pretty sturdy Pokémon already. They weren't exactly immune to the traps.

There must be a move that could knock those things away then, right?

You'd think there would be, but I haven't seen anything yet.

[Which means he needs to look harder, clearly.]

Betcha if we did some research, we could figure it out.

That's what I was thinking of doing. Just have to figure out where to start.

You could ask Nurse Joy, she knows all sorts of things. Or visit the Professor in New Bark.

I really don't want to head back to New Bark.

[That being said, maybe the Nurse does know.]

It's not so bad when you can fly, is it?

Still, it's a pretty long flight, and it's not like I'd be sticking around.

Guess that's true. I don't think the sticking around part's a problem though.

Yeah. I just don't want to go that far back. There's probably a book on battle strategies that covers it.

[It's possible, anyway.]

There could be. I mean, it's a really big part of this world...

So big that practically everything revolves around it.

Yep, even the things people wear.

Man, don't get me started on PokéManiacs.

[Crazy trainers with their crazy cosplay.]

...One of those guys tried to run off with Bolt once.

[Naturally Bolt unleashed shocking fury and Ven chased the guy down. Two pronged attack!]

You think that's bad? One of them saw Terror and tried to catch her... until she started gnawing on him.

[More like trying to swallow, really.]

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