Zebra
Chapter 4 – Hot or Cold
"I could turn hot man, or I can be cold" – Zebra, John Butler Trio
Popo was very, very sure that he was going to melt on the spot.
You probably would too if you, like him, were subjected to a flamethrower from a giant…animal…thing, when you were far more used to temperature's below freezing.
As the giant-animal-thing-better-known-as-Charizard's flamethrower died out Popo took the opportunity to get him and Nana away from…it.
No matter how hard they had been trying to attack…it…in some way, Charizard just kept pushing them back with its flamethrower, leaving them hot and bothered before cooling themselves off with a blizzard and then repeating the process. This had been going on now for almost 3 minutes, and there was absolutely no way that the pair of them could possibly get an attack on him without being burnt.
As Popo was just about to being jumping off the stage over and over again (a far better option than being subjected to more burning), the Pokémon Trainer had a look at the time passed, and proceeded to withdraw Charizard, and instead sent in Squirtle. Popo just stared, at least until Nana, who was also rather surprised, hit him over the head so he could focus again.
Popo shook his head to clear it (which was really quite silly when he thought about it, but he would not think about it, for he was already starting to confuse himself), and quickly figured that there would be no harm in being shot at with a bit of water, and so ran towards Squirtle and started attacking it.
But, while the water didn't do much to the Ice Climbers, nor did their ice do much to the Squirtle, which left them in a sort of stalemate. The water was often just warm enough to melt the ice, put was also stopped in its tracks by that very ice, meaning that neither brawler really did any damage to the other.
A bomb exploded somewhere. The crowd woke up.
And as it hit the 6 minute mark of what was one of the longest battles ever seen, the Pokémon Trainer again recalled his Pokémon, replacing it with Ivysaur. The glint in Popo's eye was almost visible from space as he and Nana made up for lost time earlier, putting the boot into the poor grass type and using their ice attacks to great effect. All Ivysaur could do was hope to survive being KOed, which was hard enough for anyone after 3 minutes, let alone the 9 that was coming up.
Popo also noted that the 9 minute mark was almost upon them, but did not seem to put 2 and 2 together, as, when it hit 9, he went charging straight for Ivysaur. Except it was no longer Ivysaur. In Ivysaur's place was Charizard again. Never before has a smile escaped from someone's face so quickly. One quick smash attack (WITH FLAMES; ROAR FLAMES, or perhaps even RAW FLAMES) later, and Popo was considering whether his climbing time would've been better spent learning how to multiply. Or add up.
He really needed to find a good school. Maybe it'd help him deal with heat as well…
One of the harder ones to write, this one. Hot or cold sounds easy…but it wasn't. For me at least.
Took a while to think of an idea, as well as put it into action.
As for the battle…let's just say that neither the Pokémon nor the Ice Climbers were dealing smash attacks on each other, hence why there was no KO until…right near the end. Yeah.
As a side note: Where on earth would the Ice Climbers have got an education from? Is there someone who knows, someone who is more knowledgeable than I am in Ice Climberology (which wouldn't take much knowledge, but anyhoo)?