Jumpluff was giving it everything she had.
She sprayed out nearly all the white fluff on her head and hands.
Most of the battlefield vanished beneath an off-white tide. Dense Cotton Spores surged back and forth, making it hard to breathe just looking at them.
The game's Pokédex said that when Jumpluff lost all her cotton spores, her travels—and her life—would come to an end.
The anime world wasn't quite so extreme, but building up this much fluff would still take years.
There was no doubt about it.
Kenta and Jumpluff both knew that if they lost this battle, there would be no future to speak of.
They had to give it everything they had, right here and now!
"Jum!"
Stripped bare, Jumpluff floated high into the air.
Bai Niao immediately called out, "Cotton Spore right out of the gate! Hydreigon—"
Before he could finish, raging flames burst from within the impenetrable wave of cotton spores!
"Flamethrower."
Whoosh!
The seemingly tough white fluff turned to ash and smoke in an instant.
Hydreigon emerged within it, all three heads spewing fire in every direction and incinerating every visible cotton spore.
And yet a blue light still flashed across its body, signaling a drop in Speed.
Even a little contact was enough to trigger the effect, no matter how completely it burned away the clinging spores.
"Hydrei!"
Hydreigon didn't seem bothered. Once it had burned through most of the fluff, it beat its six wings and blasted flames backward from its side heads.
Using that extra thrust, it shot toward Jumpluff in midair!
But Kenta seemed to have expected this. "Tailwind!"
Whoosh!
A breeze swept across the field.
Pale-blue currents wrapped around Jumpluff, and a vivid green light flashed over her body. She soared higher as though she had teleported!
"Jum!"
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