This is the third of three chapters today.


Todd Snap walked through the outskirts of town, sniffing the air. "Ah, this is lovely."

Sneasel shrugged, ears alert for any sound which might indicate a Pokémon about to come out into the open.

"Sorry we missed the ferry," he went on. "We'll catch the next one, okay?"

She nodded, sniffed, then her eyes widened. Moving on quick feet, she ran in front of Todd and pointed.

"What is it?" Todd asked, frowning. He glanced in that direction, and didn't see anything through the line of trees. "A Pokémon?"

Sneasel indicated he was mostly right, and that there were several. She couldn't give him more specifics, but something about one of them confused her.

"Right, thanks," he said, offering his elbow to her. She took it, running up his arm to his shoulder, and then rummaged around in his bag.

Todd took the parts she handed him with easy familiarity. "Thanks... good... might want a sun filter – ah, good, you've already got it."

He clicked the lens onto the camera, the filter onto the lens, and the flash assembly to the top. Just in case – though he left it firmly off.

That done, he passed her the remote viewfinder as she zipped the bag back up again. "You know the drill, take any good shots I miss."

She nodded firmly, sitting herself on his shoulder.

That ready, Todd approached the treeline slowly and carefully.

He reached a point where he could see through into the meadow proper, and blinked. "Hey, Sneasel?" he whispered.

He felt a small nod.

"Are you seeing what I'm seeing?"

Sneasel made a show of looking down the second viewfinder, and shook her head in confusion.

"Because I'm seeing what we came this far south for, on the wrong island, eating a stack of okonomiyaki ..."


"That was lovely," Moltres pronounced, fluffing her feathers out. "You're good at this!"

"Yeah, but now we gotta buy groceries twice as often..." Meowth chuckled. "Ah well, it'll be nice to have some way o' flyin' around without havin' to take da plane everywhere."

"Oh, I saw the plane," Moltres agreed. "It was... odd?"

"Odd doesn't begin to cover it," Victreebell muttered. "Who rigs an old cargo plane with a dozen VTOL engines?"

"I'm sorry, these are our Trainers," Weezing said. "Have you met them?"

"Well, dat might be bizarre enough, but remember da submarines?" Meowth reminisced.

"I only ever heard of the Basculin submarine, but it sounds strange enough without seeing it..." Gyarados admitted.

Moltres looked from 'mon to 'mon. "Oh, dear firelords, what have I gotten myself into?"

"Is the talk of submarines giving you a sinking feeling?" Wobbuffet asked, to general groans.

"Eh, ya get used to it," Meowth shrugged. He turned. "Hey, who's dat?"

There was a pause, as everyone followed his gaze. Then, with a crashing of bushes and long grass, a lanky teenage boy stepped through into the meadow itself.

"Wait a minute..." Jessie said, looking closer. "Is that Todd Snap?"

Everyone gave her a blank look.

"You remember, right?" she asked. "The Pokémon photographer guy who took those pictures of an Articuno!"

"You know we don't read your Contest magazines, right?" James asked.

"This wasn't a contest mag!"

"Uh, hi?" Todd asked, nervously. "I... why do you have a Moltres?"

"I will be honest," Moltres said, "It sort of just happened."

Meowth chuckled.

James snapped his fingers. "Wait a minute..."

He stood, and nodded to Todd. "I have an idea of how we can help one another."

"What would that involve?" Todd asked.

James glanced over at Moltres. "What's your opinion on having your picture taken?"


Entei prowled out into the blizzard, ignoring the snow piling up on his back. "Right," he said, peering through the snow at the large form of Aurorus as it materialized opposite him. "Ice and Rock type, right?"

"That's correct," Aurorus agreed, spreading her sail. "While my typing has some disadvantages, the Fire type is not among them."

Entei shrugged. "Well, now to set the stage... Sunny Day!"

He roared, and a wave of energy pulsed out from him. The snowstorm eddied, the quality of the light improved, and then the clouds parted and a hot afternoon sun beat down.

"Now then," Entei rumbled. He coiled up like a spring, then pounced forwards with fire wreathing his mane. "Flare Blitz!"

Aurorus turned as he came in, tail winding up, then attacked with a whiplash-fast Aqua Tail. That hit Entei at the same time his Flare Blitz hit her side, and there was an unmusical crash-bang.

Entei rolled in the air, and landed on all four paws on the snow. His left forepaw slipped a bit, and he extended his claws to try and reduce the effect – then looked up, as a hailstone bounced off his muzzle.

The sky was clouding rapidly over again, turning a dirty grey, and it was already starting to snow and hail again.

"Oh, come on!" Entei muttered. "Sunny Day!"

The incipient clouds dissolved, rushing away again. This time, though, Entei paced in a broad circle while keeping an eye on them – and growled, irritated, as they halted and came right back in.

"Ice Hyper Beam!"

Entei blinked. "Ice wha-"

What hit him was one of the most powerful Ice-type attacks possible. The Pokémon firing it was no Kyurem or Articuno, but the effect of Refrigerate on the Hyper Beam nevertheless resulted in a blast of supercooled energy several inches across.

By the time it ended, Entei was about twenty feet from his starting position and inside a thick, splash-shaped coating of ice.

Aurorus panted, not foolish enough to believe that would finish a Legendary Pokémon, and began to charge her next attack.

As she did, the ice began to glow.

Entei exploded out in a burst of rose-red flames. "What was that!?"

"Icy you like my abilities," Aurorus smiled, her sail raising again as she gathered more power.

Entei blinked. "Was that a pun?"

Stone Edge snapped out towards him, and he ducked just in time.

"Right, take this!" he snapped, then had to dodge out of the way as Aurorus let out an ear-punishing, bitterly cold, Refrigerated Hyper Voice.

He then had enough time to charge and fire a Fire Blast, which shattered on an instant wall of ice some feet away from her – the blast hitting her even so, but not severely.

"Okay, seriously," Entei added, accelerating with Extremespeed and trying to get somewhere she couldn't just blast ice attacks at him, "What's going on? Those moves don't do that!"

"It's called Refrigerate," Aurorus informed him. "It's one of my abilities."

This time, she fired a Secret Power. This one was already icy from the terrain, picked up more ice from the Ability, and crescendoed in a huge encircling wave of ice that came crashing down on Entei from every direction except his left side.

"Eruption!"

The pulse of heat that resulted from Entei's attack blew the boosted Secret Power away, melted a considerable quantity of the ice and snow all around him, and made Aurorus blink and take a step back.

"Is your other ability why all this snow keeps coming back?" Entei asked, a simmering heat behind his words.

"Yes," she nodded. "Snow Warning."

"I'm starting to have mixed feelings about weather," Entei muttered. He pounced forwards again, paws splashing on the mud and slush, and flames built around him. He accelerated as he reached firmer ground, and aimed for a point at the base of Aurorus' neck.

Aurorus swung her head, sail glowing with power, and fired an Icy Hyper Beam in a jagged line in his path. The impact of the ridiculously powerful Ice attack produced an instant wall in Entei's way, absorbing the momentum of his Flare Blitz, and when he came out the other side he wasn't moving fast enough to do significant damage. He actually came off the worst of the exchange, as Aurorus hit him with another Aqua Tail which sent him right back into the slushy mud.

As he rolled to his feet, coat splattered with mud, another of her overloaded Ice attacks hit the puddle, freezing him and it in an instant.

A familiar rosy glow shone from inside the layers of ice, and then Entei burst out again.

He looked a mess. His coat was caked with mud, some of it charred from the heat of his latest Inferno to blast through the ice as quickly as possible, and his breath steamed in the chill air as another squall of snow rolled in.

"I dislike you," he said cordially.

"Entei!" Ash called. "Ice and Rock are both weak to Fighting!"

"...I knew that," Entei mumbled.

Aurorus inhaled, and shouted at him. "Echoed Voice!"

The pulse of sound picked up moisture from the air, freezing along with it, and what actually reached Entei was a dense wavefront of chill air and ice. He blew it to bits with a fairly casual Ember, and started to charge an Aura Sphere.

Undaunted, Aurorus shouted again. This one resonated deeper in her chest, picking up more power from her brightly flaring sail, and Entei pulsed out a Heat Wave to prevent it reaching him.

Charging done, he fired his Aura Sphere. It rocketed forwards, crossing the intervening space in a moment, and then hit Aurorus on the shoulder, staggering her but not knocking her out yet.

A third Echoed Voice cracked out, wider than the last one. It picked up ice from the ground, this time, and when Entei used Flamethrower on it he found himself instead confronting an oncoming wave of water.

Using Extremespeed with lightning speed, he barely avoided being hit full-force by what was quite a lot of very cold water.

The fourth Echoed Voice was slightly mis-aimed, hitting the ground in front of Entei – but erupted into a shimmering tower of ice actually a little larger than the one the Ice Hyper Beam had produced, the tips of which just barely missed Entei as it grew with startling speed.

No fool he, Entei used it for cover while he considered.

Of course – she was using Echoed Voice to build up to the most powerful Ice attack she could. By now it was even more powerful than her previous Hyper Beam, and when he concentrated Entei could hear the thrumming resonating through the air.

The sheer amount of power she was pulling through her sail was also very impressive. It lit the air for several metres around, and he could see it glittering on snowflakes even though she was out of his direct line of sight.

Then he remembered the downside of using Echoed Voice. The resonance was fragile – if you took your concentration off enough to use another move, it collapsed.

And that meant she'd be reluctant to do it.

Crouching, Entei kicked off in a blaze of flame. Eddies of snow curled off, driven by the wind of his passage, and he was clipped by the solid wall of ice produced by the latest pulse of frosty sound.

Accelerating, Entei dug in his paws on the turn. They skidded and slipped, his traction impaired by the thick snow that melted as he stepped across it, but it was enough to get him around the corner and driving in behind her.

She craned her neck around, firing an Icy Echoed Voice back over her own tail, and Entei jumped through it with Flare Blitz blazing.

The impact hurt – it was like jumping into a pane of glass several inches thick – but Entei was a Legendary, and an annoyed one at that. The pulse of ice fell apart in splinters around him, and he landed exactly where he wanted to.

On her back.

She immediately shook herself, trying to get him off – he was almost as heavy as she was – and inhaled to fire another Icy Echoed Voice.

But Entei was in close now, past the lashing tail which had been a problem for him before. He focused, and fired off an intense Lava Plume – knocking her neck back and throwing off her aim, which sent the icy blast skywards.

Then, still clinging on with three paws, he rammed the fourth one down in a Rock Smash.

Aurorus wobbled, then crashed to the ground – unable to support the extra weight – and Entei jumped free. Rolling, he came to his feet and charged a second Aura Sphere.

Still trying to fight on, the Ice-type turned to try and get a bead on him.

"Aurorus, that's enough!" Pryce called. "He's got you."

Returning her, Pryce chuckled. "Well, well... I don't think she actually managed to hurt him much, did she? But she certainly gave him the run-around!"

"You're telling me..." Entei muttered. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I absolutely need a bath as soon as possible..."


"You're down to just Mamoswine, right?" Ash checked, as Entei padded back over.

"That's right," Pryce confirmed. "I don't have to switch out after a victory any more, too."

"So I've got to beat your Mamoswine, and I've got... everyone except Snorlax to do it with," Ash said. "And I can't send Entei out first..."

He nodded to Entei. "You may as well go and have a quick shower at the Pokémon centre, get the worst of it off."

Entei was gone before Ash had finished the sentence.

"Okay..." that done, Ash considered. Mamoswine was powerful, entirely at home in the cold, and had some strong Ground-based attacks. But he wasn't agile, which could be crucial.

Oh, who was he kidding?

"Quilava!" he called, sending her out.

"You took your sweet time," she grumbled, rotating her neck as she readied for the battle. "It's not as if you've got Charizard or Houndour with you..."


"Clearly this trainer is insane," the alpha said, matter-of-factly. "But he's the good kind of insane, so it's less of a problem."

"You seriously fought Entei again? And your trainer caught him?" one of Houndour's brothers asked. "That's awesome!"

"Yeah, I did," Houndour confirmed. "By the way, dad, thanks again for teaching us Beat Up – it hits like you would not believe when I'm on a team with Pokémon like a Lucario, a Keldeo, Suicune and Entei."

The rest of the pack nodded along.

"So," his mother asked, after a moment. "How do you feel?"

"It's..." Houndour paused, looking for the words. "Awesome," he decided. "Obviously we can't all be with Ash all the time, but when he does do work one-on-one with one of us it's pretty neat. And I really feel like an important part of the team – I'm the only one with Flash Fire, at least that Ash has, and on top of that I'm the only Dark-type."

"And I can see you're fine with being away from us," his uncle added. "Good to see, that. I tried to lone-dog it once."

"You lasted three hours," the alpha chuckled. "Right, thanks for the update. I'm glad you like what you're doing, that alone makes me feel perfectly fine about our move."

"Thanks," Houndour said, wagging his tail. Then he frowned. "Oh, yeah, something cool I learned recently. Uh – we've all got Flash Fire, right?"

One of his sisters, and his uncle, prudently stepped back.

"Right. Anyway – Overheat!"


The two Charizard sat atop a mountain peak.

"Does this count as a date?" Ash's Charizard asked, curiously, as he finished the last of their packed lunch.

"Good question," Charla replied. She frowned. "Did... did we... do this last time?"

"No, this is definitely new," Charizard assured her. "I think it's the Beautifly effect, or something – use enough Fire attacks on enough Beautiflies..."

"That can't be how it works," Charla frowned. "Anyway." She spread her wings. "Remember the rules?"

"Yes!" Charizard told her. "Three flaps, furl wings, first one to spread them loses, whoever hits the ground loses and has to carry the rubbish home!"


Liza looked up at the sound of the double thud-crash that echoed through the valley.

"Morons," she muttered.


"Okay, Quilava," Ash said, glancing up. "You know what to do, right? He's strong, tough – and fast, but not agile. So you'll need to keep moving."

"Right," she nodded.

"And – I'll keep an eye on him for you, and try to warn you when he's about to use Earthquake or something like it."

"Thanks." Quilava gave him a quick look to see if there was any further advice, then walked forwards onto the snowed-in battlefield, balled up, and flashed into her Flame Wheel.

She immediately spun up and dashed forwards, heading for Mamoswine.

"Jump!" Ash called, and she pulsed her flame slightly. In most directions it just blasted off into the air, but the force that went down was reflected by the ground – producing a net takeoff effect, and putting her in the air when Mamoswine's Earthquake rocked the ground beneath.

Quilava bounced back to the floor, dug in for traction, and continued moving fast.

She could tell which direction Mamoswine was, via scent, but it was hard to know what he was doing when she was balled up like this. She was having to rely on Ash for cues-

"Jump, then attack!"

She pulsed fire again, launching herself into the air, then oriented herself mid-air as the rumble of what sounded like an Earth Power went below. She identified where Mamoswine was – closely enough for an attack, anyway – then used Aerial Ace, another heat-pulse launching her forwards and straight at her target.

Mamoswine's thick, shaggy coat bounced her off, but she'd definitely scored a hit.

This was working.

"Mamoswine!" Pryce called. "Slow her down! Scary Face!"

Quilava didn't notice the icy glare aimed at her, because she was already fighting with her eyes closed – looking where she was going would only make her feel a bit queasy.

Skidding around in a tight turn, she launched herself into the air again and hit Mamoswine on what she thought was probably the flank.

This time, when she hit the ground, she did it at a bad time. Mamoswine had just used another Earthquake, and the aftershock bounced her into the floor harder than she'd been expecting.

Stunned, she skidded out of control and ended up in a snowbank.

"Ow..." she muttered, shaking her head, then yelped and jumped clear just before an Ancient Power blew a hole in the snowbank.

Balling up again, she accelerated off.

"Keep going!" Ash called. "And... jump!"

Blasting herself into the air with another pulse of fire, she hung there for a moment. There was the grinding sound of an Earthquake-

"Attack now!"

Quilava fired herself at Mamoswine.


Ash watched as Quilava bounced off Mamoswine's forehead with a blast of flame from the impact, spun straight up into the air, and then attacked again before landing on the battlefield and skidding out of the way of an Ancient Power.

He kept a close eye on Mamoswine, watching for what move he'd try next.

There – Mamoswine was rearing back for an Earthquake.

"Jump and attack!" he called, and Quilava's moving orange form bounced into the air for a moment. She passed safely over the Earthquake, then rocketed into Mamoswine, staggering him.

This was working! Quilava was too fast for Mamoswine to catch, and her way of finding her targets made it nearly impossible for him to hide in the snowstorm!

Across the field, though, Pryce was thinking about that too... so, what would he-

"Mamoswine!" Pryce called. "The hail isn't working! Rain Dance!"

Uh oh.

"Quilava, look out!" Ash called, as the temperature rose noticeably and it began to sleet, then rain. "The slush is going to be harder to move on!"


"You're telling me..." Quilava muttered to herself, feeling the surface change under her as rainwater infiltrated the ice and snow.

The rain itself wasn't pleasant, either. She had to expend more energy to keep up the same level of heat – and the same combat effectiveness – and she could already feel the warning signs of tiredness.

"Quilava!" she heard Ash call. "Don't attack for now – just dodge when I say! Jump!"

This time, Quilava's fire-jump produced a minor steam explosion, and threw her much higher. Caught off guard, she nearly fluffed her landing, and an Earth Power came within inches of catching her as she accelerated again.

She turned, throwing out a great arc of cold water lit by the flickering of her quills, and wondered what Ash was planning.

That he was planning something was obvious, of course...


Ash saw Mamoswine rear back for another Earthquake, and winced. That could produce some powerful waves, now that the battlefield was mostly watery.

"Jump – and attack away from Mamoswine!" he told Quilava.

Surprised, she followed instructions. The Earthquake itself passed beneath her as she rose into the air propelled by the steam blast, and then she rammed home a Flame Wheel into the wall of less-melted ice around the battlefield.

It creaked, cracked – and crumbled. Several thousand gallons of water spilled out as the icy dam broke, and the water level quickly dropped to something more normal.

Misty craned her neck to look. "Where's that going – oh, good, it's going to end up in the river."

Ash's eyes were flicking between the sky and the battlefield.

The rain was starting to slow and peter out – good.

"Head straight for Mamoswine!" Ash called. "If I say jump – just a small jump!"


Quilava took a moment to check those instructions.

Nope, she couldn't see how they made sense.

That thought actually heartened her. If she didn't know, nor would Mamoswine.

Spinning up, throwing up mud behind her, she shot forwards – aiming directly for Mamoswine, not deviating in either direction.

Ash called for her to jump, and she did – a tiny little hop, which carried her over the shockwave of the Earthquake aimed at her.

"Now – come out of Flame Wheel and stop!"

Quilava relaxed, uncurling, Her hind legs hit the ground, and she used them to skid and brake as she would if hit out of her Rollout or Flame Wheel mid-air.

Driving her forelegs into the ground as well, she skidded sideways towards Mamoswine – unable to stop in time, she ended up directly underneath Mamoswine.

He promptly began trying to Stomp her – but he didn't have time. Quilava had worked out Ash's plan.

She grinned. "Eruption!"


The blast of heat radiated out in all directions.

The battlefield, which had been alternately hailed on, frozen, shaken and soaked, now got dried out for several feet around Quilava.

But that was just the side-blast. Most of the fury of the Eruption went straight up, and it was far too much for the already-tired Mamoswine to cope with.

Quilava had just enough time to realize the very particular downside to her of this plan before three hundred kilos of mammoth landed on her.


Ash ran forwards onto the field as soon as he'd seen what went wrong, and gathered up Quilava as Pryce returned his scorched Mamoswine.

"Sorry, Quilava," he said, wincing. "Guess I didn't think it all the way through..."

"Ow," she said indistinctly. Then she shook her head, and shrugged. "I guess I'm the one who actually did it, and I didn't notice either."

There was a series of soft splats as Pryce walked across the battlefield to him. "Pretty good work, overall," he said, frowning. "If you wanted feedback, though, I'd say... it seemed like you need to work with Entei a bit more. I got the sense he's just used to using Fire attacks on everything."

"That's not far off," Ash agreed. "We've been working on coverage moves, but it's the difference between being able to do something and thinking about how to use it."

"Right," Pryce nodded. "You should be quicker to give advice like that, though. And as for that Mega-Evolution..."

He shook his head. "It was impressive, but I got the sense you didn't know everything about it. And neither did he."

"Again, that's about right," Ash nodded. "It's only been an option for a few days. We've run into Mega-Evolutions before, and all the other ones we've seen just make a Pokémon stronger – they don't change things that drastically, so..."

He shrugged.

"Right." Pryce considered that. "Well, you clearly know these things are issues... if it had been a close battle overall I'd have said you should have used your Lucario against Aurorus like you intended, but it wasn't so that doesn't matter. Good luck, Ash – and let me know if you run into a Mega Stone for an Ice-type!"

"I'll keep an eye out," Ash smiled. He turned back towards the rest of the group, and blinked. "What the-"

"Not one word. Not. One Word," Entei insisted, tail lashing and a growl rumbling in his throat.

The intimidating effect was spoiled, however, by why he was insisting on silence. Clearly his shower had turned into something more elaborate.

There were a few clues to that, of course. First, his fur had been combed once clean, and the comb-lines were still just about visible.

Second, there was the faint scent of shampoo as one got closer.

Both of those were less surprising, however, than that his tail had been styled. There were even pink bows.

"That Nurse Joy is an evil-minded individual," he muttered.

A Fast Ball emerged from Dexter's transfer system, bounced once, and flashed open.

"What is it-" Suicune began, blinked, and put a paw to her mouth to avoid laughing.

I thought you'd want to see.

"Traitorous contraption," Entei simmered.


"And done," Todd said, smiling. "You can come down now."

Moltres made a final circuit low over the meadow, flared her wings, and touched down gently. Once down, she walked carefully over, accompanied by the rest of the group of humans and Pokémon.

Already anticipating what she wanted, Todd flicked through the pictures on his camera.

There were several he thought were particularly good – that is, special. The kind of thing he felt privileged to be there to photograph.

One had her just passing in front of the sun, with her flaming tail partially obscuring the disc itself. It produced a lot of camera artefacts in the lenses, but that helped – it conveyed the impression of incredible heat and brightness, in a way another picture might not have been able to.

Then there was the one with her using Fire Spin, the leading edges of her wings just breaking out of the wall of flame and making it look like she was emerging, fully formed, from an explosion.

But the one which was most impressive was more mundane. It was the photo he'd taken just as she set off – firey wings clapping together, producing a shower of sparks, but none of the flame was reaching the grassy meadow below. And yet, the windrush of her takeoff was clearly disturbing the grass, making it bend away in concentric circles from her launch point.

It gave the impression she was at once part of the world and not.

After a few minutes, there was a whispered discussion.

"I don't know either," Todd shrugged to Sneasel, on seeing her questioning look. "They seemed to like that one you did, though."

Sneasel nodded, pleased. That had been a slightly nerve-wracking one – Sneasel had taken the smaller camera, and ridden on Moltres' back for a few minutes.

Being four hundred feet in the air on the back of a firebird had been an interesting experience for a groundbound Ice-type, to say the least...

"Right!" Meowth said, clapping his paws. "We got a conclusion – dat was all pretty awesome."

"Oh, that's fine, really!" Todd assured them. "I'm trying to put together a portfolio of all three Legendary Birds, that's why I came to the Sevii Islands in the first place."

"Really?" Meowth smiled. "Huh. Glad we could help..."

"Apart from Shamouti, there's also one I remember hearing of up in northern Johto," Jessie supplied. "There's a lake there regularly visited by Zapdos, I think."

"Thanks for the advice."

"Oh," James added. "Before you go – I did have the idea of a picture that's not for the magazine..."


Giovanni looked through his morning paperwork.

"Interesting. It seems that Tyson successfully implemented the Mega-Evolution system – and that the Ketchum boy has already got a Mega-capable Pokémon," he said as he read one report.

Persian yawned, and he stroked the Classy Cat with his other hand.

"And... oh, dear. Botch nearly butched the whole operation. His report says that he had his Charizard use Flamethrower on the boy in order to startle him and make him retreat."

A pair of feline ears perked up, and Persian growled softly.

"Of course that's not what he was trying to do. But at least something came of it – we now have confirmation he's capable of using a shield with his Aura..."

Putting aside the matter of discipline for later, he picked up the next sheaf – and found a small memory card with it.

"Hm?"

Slotting it into his air-gapped, disposable computer, he opened it and verified that the only thing on it was a file with Rocket admin-only encryption.

Not a very big file, either...

He entered the correct code, and the file decrypted itself into an image file tagged with the title "new team photo".

Now very curious, he opened it.

For several seconds, neither Giovanni nor Persian reacted visibly.

"Persian?" Giovanni asked, calmly. "Have my top agents somehow finagled themselves a Legendary Pokémon?"

Persian nodded.

"Right." Giovanni nodded, then deleted the file. "I'll ask them about it in person."


AN:

And the final two battles of that gym match, along with some stuff with the Moltres.

Aurorus is capable of some of the most powerful Ice type attacks in the game, with at least five ways of outpowering Freeze Shock and Ice Burn (Kyurem's signature moves). That's not the most powerful, though.

The most powerful is a Mega Glalie doing a Refrigerated Explosion, which has a base power of 325!

As for the other Fire-types, they're having time with their family. In different ways.

Then there's the Quilava battle. Basically modelled off a Sonic battle, mostly...

Finally, Todd continues his take-amazing-photos streak.