"Huh? You two are back?"
At the Wooden Cabin at the Foot of the Mountain, Nier looked with some surprise at the two bedraggled figures before her.
"Yeah, we are..." Cheng Tian and Su Han exchanged helpless looks.
Trying to imprison a Pokémon on Zeraora's level with just one Thunder Stone was still something of a fool's dream. The Thunder Stone had not even lasted five minutes before exploding.
An utterly furious Zeraora appeared.
A battle was a battle, but you had to play dirty too?!
Zeraora never wanted to experience that feeling of being restrained again. Burning with fury, Zeraora cracked its knuckles, making a series of popping sounds.
"Gulp." Cheng Tian could not help swallowing.
"Xiaohan, that whatever-it-was [Sealing Object], do you have any more?"
"Hehe, unfortunately, I only made one." Su Han cutely tapped her head, hoping to get away with it by acting adorable.
Cheng Tian: ("▔□▔)
Zeraora: (̿▀̿ ̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿̿)̄
Well, the facts proved that Zeraora was still extremely strong. At least for now, the only Pokémon Cheng Tian had that could trade blows with it for a short time was his strongest ace, Greninja. As luck would have it, Zeraora had broken free before the aftereffects of Greninja's recent Hyper Beam had worn off.
What happened next was easy enough to imagine.
After Greninja was knocked out, things did not look good for the other Pokémon either. Having used Mega Evolution, a Z-Move, and the bond phenomenon, Cheng Tian had already reached his physical limit. He did not even have the stamina to support Aggron's Mega Evolution, so Aggron was instantly knocked out by a single Close Combat the moment it entered the battle.
Much the same happened to most of the remaining Pokémon, though working together, they still caused Zeraora quite a bit of