What Do You Mean, Scizor? This Is What!

Seeing that Rhyperior was about to be knocked out of the arena.

Heiduo slipped the remaining sunflower seeds into his pocket and said softly, "Alright, finish it off!"

He couldn't eat them all. He would need them later.

Beedrill immediately stopped its barrage of Pin Missiles, which was practically half a Metal Storm. It waved its two smoking guns, cooling them down.

Loa's face lit up. Thinking Beedrill lacked the stamina and needed to catch its breath, he was just about to pull out a Poké Ball and recall Rhyperior when Beedrill finished cooling down. It raised its twin guns, turned into a streak of cyan light, and charged straight at Rhyperior at tremendous speed!

And he had only just touched his Poké Ball.

"Fuck—"

Loa cursed unwillingly.

It was clearly too late to command Rhyperior himself, but his companion in the friends-and-family section reacted quickly and pressed a button on his laptop, ordering Rhyperior to use Fire Punch!

But from his angle, he could not see that the thick armor around Rhyperior's shoulder and elbow joints had already been destroyed by Beedrill's Pin Missiles. Like damaged human joints, it simply could not lift its arm!

If it wanted to attack, it should have used head-based moves like Horn Drill or Megahorn, not Fire Punch.

"Why can't it use it?!" Sweat beaded on the companion's forehead as he switched to other moves.

But it was already too late.

Beedrill revealed the stinger it had been holding in reserve and viciously drove it into Rhyperior!

Fell Stinger!

It had been mentioned before that once Beedrill used its tail stinger, it would suffer "irreversible damage," much like bees, due to its origins as a wasp or hornet.

The reason "irreversible damage" was in quotation marks was because that irreversibility only applied to