"Locked on..." Alex lowered the brim of his cap again. His piercing gaze bore straight ahead, through the smoke and dust of the explosion, and settled on the brown figure. "This time, I won't let you escape! Lucario, Aura Sphere!!"
"..." Lucario silently extended his hands. Two Aura Spheres pulled at one another, spinning rapidly in a spiral before shooting forward with the power to destroy everything!
Eevee...
A trace of regret flashed through Lucario's eyes as he thrust out his hands.
This strike was a strike of Aura!
There was no escaping it, no evading it!!
"What a powerful attack!!" The announcer held his breath, for the scene before him might well decide the match. "Is it all over for Eevee?!"
"So he lost the clash of Aura." A flicker of regret crossed Dian's eyes, followed by acceptance. As expected, Eevee's Aura could not stand against Lucario's.
Yet Aura had never been Eevee's "true power." His true power should have been...
"Eevee, show them who you really are—!!" He closed his eyes in anticipation, waiting for what would come next.
Would it be defeat, the end of their run?
Or...
Dian could not deny that he was taking a risk, but he trusted his Pokémon, just as they trusted him.
Eevee!!
The two Aura Spheres flew straight into the smoke, striking their target and triggering a violent explosion. The scattered Aura gathered into a gale that surged in every direction.
Yet the flying dust, the gale of Aura, and even the spectators' anxious, worried, yearning gazes all froze into ice!!
In an instant, an ice flower bloomed across half the field, its leaves like dust, its petals like wind...
And a Pokémon seemingly formed of ice stood atop its petals, mysterious and majestic!
"Oh—!! What an astonishing turn of