"Pause!"
Olivia came to her senses, raised her right hand, and hurried toward the cliff's edge.
A Pokémon had flown out of sight. Even with a professional referee present, they had to check its condition before continuing.
"Bzzzz—"
Registeel gave a low hum and walked back to Baimu's side, ignoring the blowing sand.
Alolan Golem had not dared make a sound. Despite being a Rock- and Electric-type Pokémon, it was sweating with nerves. Even the beard formed from magnetic sand was about to fall off.
The reason was simple.
It had failed to react when Gigalith was attacked!
In a Double Battle, it was supposed to back up its partner. If it could not block the attack, it should at least have helped somehow. Instead, there had been a crash, and its teammate was gone!
How could Golem not panic?
How long had it been since it last failed to react like that?
It was not afraid to fight, but it no longer dared let its guard down around Registeel. Taking Registeel out in one blow would not be easy, either.
On Baimu's side,
he glanced at the returning Registeel, then at the Stone Edge that had stopped short of Porygon2 after its middle section broke and cut off the flow of energy. He was not worried about Gigalith falling off the cliff.
He had checked before the battle. The cliff was only seven or eight meters high, with a stretch of white sand below it. The sea was a long way off!
Sure enough,
Olivia aimed a Poké Ball over the cliff. After a beam of red light shot down, she hurried back.
She threw another Poké Ball.
Bang!
"Nose!"
Probopass, sporting a dark iron-sand mustache of its own, landed with a heavy thud.
The two heavily mustached Pokémon