Showdown

"This? That wasn't right. If its bloodline was so diluted, why couldn't it withstand it?" Yu Hai's mind was full of question marks. Had Blaine gotten the issue backward?

"You should be grateful its bloodline is diluted. Your Zapdos would already be dead otherwise. If you'd come any later, its genes would have collapsed. After all, it carries a legendary bloodline. Nowadays, the Pokémon capable of bearing this kind of bloodline are ordinary Pokémon like Pidgeot instead," Blaine sighed and continued explaining.

"There are three possible outcomes when an ordinary Pokémon breeds with a legendary Pokémon. The first is that there are no dominant traits from the legendary Pokémon, so the offspring is simply an ordinary Pidgeot..."

"The second is your bird. The Pidgeot mother was the stronger side, so it inherited more dominant Pidgeot traits. The only thing Zapdos left behind was the electricity inside that bird..."

"The third outcome is the simplest: it is born as a Zapdos. There are many cases like that. They have no physical defects, but their mortality rate is extremely high. Sometimes they get struck dead by lightning while flying in the sky, leaving nothing behind. These mongrel birds actually live longer..."

"Your bird's situation isn't too terrible yet. The current problem has two solutions. Remove its electricity-storing organ, and the problem will be solved. The bird will become an ordinary avian Pokémon. Or make it capable of withstanding electricity..."

"You need to decide quickly. The electricity is eroding that bird's body. Once it pierces through every cell, that bird will cease to exist..."

"You mean the more Electric-type moves Zapdos used, the greater the damage to its body. No wonder it fell into hibernation after training began," Yu Hai said, feeling awful. He had even fed Zapdos Energy Cubes charged with electricity.