Boom—
The earth heaved ceaselessly, countless mounds crowding the surface of the already devastated ground.
"Ah-re!"
"Ah-re!! Ah-re!!"
"Ah-ya-ya!!!!"
As blade-sharp screeches rang out between earth and sky, antlike Pokémon the size of small dogs, clad in steel armor, burst from the mounds. Their enormous pincerlike jaws clacked, their scarlet eyes savage and cold.
"..."
Dian and Courtney sucked in cold breaths at the sight before them.
One or two Durant would have been nothing to them.
A dozen, or even a hundred or so, would not have been impossible to handle.
But!
Thousands upon thousands of Durant... this could only be called a Durant calamity!
Looking at the Durant, which had surely been tainted by the malice of the earth, Dian knew that a Pokémon with powerful hypnotic abilities might have been able to resolve all this easily, but...
"Courtney... for now, let's reduce their numbers as much as we can."
Dian helplessly signaled to her.
"..."
Courtney nodded with difficulty.
"Beedrill, Electroweb!"
"Misdreavus, Will-O-Wisp!"
Dian immediately gave his orders. There was no need to worry about accuracy now. Everywhere he looked, Durant were raising their heads and screeching as they destroyed everything.
Courtney likewise took a deep breath, then threw three Poké Balls. "Zorua, Night Daze!"
"Weezing, go notify the residents of Eindoak Town right away!"
"Camerupt, Eruption!!"
Bzzzz!!
Beedrill shot into the sky, spreading strands of extremely fine golden thread as widely as possible over places with standing water, using the water's conductivity to strike as many targets as possible.
Misdreavus likewise gathered clusters of ghostly fire to attack another patch of Durant.
At the same time, Zorua and Camerupt launched fierce attacks of their own.
Meanwhile, Weezing hurried toward Eindoak Town through the sky, seeking more Trainers to help deal with this sudden Durant disaster.
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