Right now Dragonair's Outrage had turned sky blue, and mysterious divine markings covered her entire body.
Her Dragon-type power had almost completely vanished, replaced by Water-type energy surging to its peak.
She looked proudly at the Gyarados right in front of her, not planning to defend at all.
Even though she looked petite, with the Dragon Body trait supporting her, she had way more bulk than Gyarados.
More importantly, Gyarados was using an Ice-type move, which only dealt half damage to Water-type Dragonair.
And with Dragon Body further reducing damage, it left only one quarter of the original damage.
In this situation, Dragonair chose to ignore Gyarados' attack and clash with him head-on.
A dense purple power gathered in Dragonair's mouth, and she blasted it ferociously toward Gyarados.
Even though she had switched to a Water type, her understanding of Dragon-type moves was still fully intact.
Her execution was flawless. Aside from losing part of the same-type bonus, there was no reduction in power.
BOOM!
Like two meteors colliding, Dragonair's and Gyarados' heads slammed into each other.
Violent ripples erupted at the point of contact between the two dragons, forming a massive blue-and-purple sphere, like a stunning "two dragons playing with a pearl."
Unlike the usual "two dragons playing with a pearl," this one wasn't just for show. Inside it remained terrifying destructive force.
After just one clash, Gyarados was completely dumbfounded.
From the moment Dragonair made it rain earlier, he had felt something was off.
But he never expected that Dragonair could actually change her type.
If Gyarados were Dragonite, he'd probably already be thinking about how to slaughter all the Greninja in Kanto.
Of course, he was just joking.
Even using his tail to think, he knew the master had given Dragonair special training these past few days.
Realizing that, Gyarados knew a head-on fight wouldn't win against Dragonair.
His vitality and stamina were high, but Dragonair had damage-reduction traits.
He could only rely on space and Dragon Dance to defeat her for sure.
Thinking this, Gyarados quickly moved toward the black hole beside him, planning to slip out of Dragonair's attack range and stack Dragon Dance from afar.
This was one of the tactics he practiced with Palkia.
If you couldn't beat the opponent temporarily, then teleport through space while stacking Dragon Dance.
Since they fully mastered space power, without the red chain, no one could possibly catch them if they wanted to run.
Once he stacked six layers of Dragon Dance, who would dare block his path?
But the next moment, Gyarados hadn't even finished one round of Dragon Dance before his mind went blank.
Because beside him, Dragonair had already started dancing, even faster than he did, completely ignoring his presence.
'Sister, how are you dancing faster than me?'
'Didn't Lord Rayquaza say, if you're not confident about dodging attacks, don't dance in front of people?'
'Are you treating me like air?'
Gyarados immediately changed tactics. Violent electric arcs flickered across his body.
Electric beats Water, this round was his advantage.
Seeing Gyarados grinning wildly, Dragonair's eyes flashed with cunning as she danced.
'Little trash, did you think I only had one form?'
Even as terrifying lightning crackled beside her, her dance didn't pause at all.
An ancient, boundless power slowly manifested across her body, and she let out a faint cry.
Then something happened that stunned everyone except Gardevoir and Axel.
At Dragonair's whisper, the dark clouds in the sky scattered, and the pouring rain stopped instantly.
At the same time, her Outrage turned purple again, the divine markings faded, and she returned to her original Dragon-type form.
The arrogant grin on Gyarados' face froze. He stared at Palkia, questioning life itself.
'What happened to "space is unbeatable"?'
'How is this unbeatable?'
The opponent's type-switching was so ridiculously smooth, smoother than Greninja, Cinderace, and Meowscarada.
Palkia: "..."
Don't look at him. He'd lived for so many years and had never seen this kind of type-switching smoothness either.
What Dragonair?
She was Arceus-Dragon in disguise.
"HOU! HOU! HOU!", From Rotom's body came Dragonite's hearty laughter.
'Too satisfying, absolutely too satisfying!'
His daughter was actually grinding a god-taught Pokémon into the dirt.
Dragonite officially declared, from now on their species wouldn't be called pseudo-legendary, they'd be called god-chasers.
Pokémon who chased gods down to beat them.
The rest of the battle was basically Gyarados suffering in despair.
His raw strength couldn't compare to Dragonair's at all.
Sure, Water-Dragon was a noble typing with only two weaknesses.
But Dragonair's type-changing was absurd. With just a single thought, she could change the weather and her own type.
She didn't even need a form that fully countered Gyarados (Dragon counters Dragon too). She only needed to keep switching to resist his attacks.
By the time Gyarados realized all of this, Dragonair had already completed three rounds of Dragon Dance while tanking his attacks.
And the worst part? This was a ring match, Gyarados wasn't allowed to run.
Dragonair seized an opening, wrapped around Gyarados' neck, activated Dragon Tail at full power, and slammed his huge body straight into the courtyard floor.
"ROAR!", Dragonair shook her body proudly, smiling as she looked down at Gyarados.
'Big guy, do you surrender?'
Gyarados closed his eyes in despair.
'Damn it, why are the Pokémon in the master's team more outrageous one after another?'
He had mastered god-given power, yet he still couldn't beat this Dragonair who messed around all day.
["Incredible, too incredible!"]
Inside Rotom, Professor Oak held a notebook and scribbled nonstop.
Whether it was Gyarados' ability to change positions with other Pokémon, or Dragonair's power to freely change the weather and switch her own type using that weather, both were utterly astonishing to him.
Before this, people raised Pokémon focusing on level, move power, or independent battle ability.
Before Axel, no one had ever thought Pokémon could be trained like this.
The development of species-based power could actually reach this level.
If this method could be replicated, Axel would establish a new precedent and become one of the greatest scholars in the world.
["Axel, can I publish today's battle?"]
["It's obvious that once Dragonair's battle video spreads, you'll become a central figure in the academic world!"]
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