Gallade and Drizzile were both more than ready to take on Toxtricity and Sutorinda. After what the lizards had done to Morgrem and Rolycoly, the Aquatic Katana would not hold back. Thus Nori nodded and stated, "Well, folks, it would seem the combatants are set. Let us begin."

As soon as she rang the bell, Drizzile held his ground with his eyes narrowed. Since Gallade knew the chameleon often had good ideas, he whispered, "Alright, what's the plan?"

"I'm actually not sure," Drizzile replied, "See, these two allowed Morgrem and Rolycoly to hit them because they thought they were weak. And while they seem to look down on you, they think awfully highly of me," the green man lowering his eyelids, "I think at the very least, they'll probably want to 'share the glory' with you and, as they put it, 'show you mercy'. My recommendation would be to take full advantage of that and show them just how strong you can truly be."

Gallade nodded with a big smile and said, "Hell yeah," before he raced toward both lizards with his arms out. Just as expected, both of them allowed him to strike them in their necks and knock them on their backs. Drizzile of course took full advantage of that as he leapt high into the air and lathered his feet in water. He then formed two blades on his soles and barked, "AQUATIC ICE SKATES!"

Sutorinda cried out in pain when he landed on her gut and put two big cuts in it. He then leapt off, formed water around his hands and morphed it into his katana. He then pointed them downward, plunged them into her shoulders and shouted, "AQUATIC ASSASSINATION!"

While this went on, Gallade mounted himself onto Toxtricity's gut and sent a barrage of punches into his face. He then leapt up before the yellow lizard could even attempt to fight back and latched his legs around his neck. The crowd was truly amazed when the green man lifted Toxtricity up and leaned backward, planting his skull into the canvas.

'Now to show you why it was a mistake to let me attack first, you arrogant douchebag!' Gallade thought before he sent a rolling sobat into the back of Toxtricity's head after he rose back to his feet. This left the yellow lizard distracted just long enough for Gallade to cross his arms, stand on the tips of his toes and spin toward him like a twister.

"SWORDS DANCE!" the green man yelled before he struck Toxtricity and circled around him, putting multiple cuts all over him with his arm blades. Cheers erupted all throughout the stadium while blood flew from the yellow lizard.

"That's my man!" Hitmonchan squealed as she clapped her hands over her head, "That'll teach him not to look down on you!"

Things only got better when Drizzile lifted Sutorinda up and leaned backward. He then aimed her skull toward the mat and exclaimed, "AQUATIC KATANA SUPLEX!"

But just as the move was about to land, Toxtricity smirked as if all the pain dealt to him meant nothing and said, "Alright, sis, I think we've shown Gallade here enough mercy, don't you?" Sutorinda nodding before she formed her electrical strings.

Sure enough, since they went up to her shoulders, they touched the watery blades, Drizzile's eyes wide with horror when a current travelled up them. And it was not long until the chameleon was covered in the element, his eyes wide with terror as he cried out in agonizing pain.

It was not long until Drizzile removed his blades thus allowing Sutorinda to latch onto his arms. She then threw him downward and slammed his skull into the canvas while Toxtricity held up his hands and used them to block Gallade's next slash. The green man's eyes widened as the yellow lizard completely ignored the fact that blood was now trickling from his hands.

"You didn't seriously think you had me, did you?" Toxtricity scoffed while he tightened his grip on Gallade's arms, "It's like I said before, when my sister and I face total weaklings, we like to share the glory and make them feel good about themselves."

'Dammit, Drizzile was right,' Gallade thought before the yellow lizard continued, "The minute you entered the ring, we knew you were a special case. Sure, we were more than happy to show a little mercy on those last two, but I felt like in order to truly make this fair, I had to let myself fall victim to even more of your moves."

Scorbunny gritted her teeth and growled, "God, what a prick!" Toxtricity planting his knee hard into Gallade's gut and causing him to kneel down. The yellow lizard then took hold of the spike atop his head and allowed electricity to course through his frills while he grunted, "Everyone believes you've improved all because you won a couple of matches, but admit it, if you didn't have someone as awesome as Drizzile on your side, you wouldn't have even made it past the elimination round!"

He then rammed the frill on his forehead into Gallade's face. This caused a bit of blood to squirt out while the green man was too distracted by Toxtricity's words to even notice. And it only got worse when the yellow lizard flipped him upside down and drove the back of his head into the canvas, sighing, "Look, kid, for what it's worth, you're not terrible. In fact, compared to some of the others I've seen in this tournament, you're actually pretty good, but you're not us."

As soon as Drizzile heard this, he pried his head out of the mat and grunted, "You know, you keep saying that, and it gets more obnoxious every time!" He then leapt toward a spellbound Sutorinda and barked, "CHAMELEON LANCE!" sending his tail hard into her forehead.

This caused her to fall on her back before Drizzile delivered a flying kick to Toxtricity's face. He then sent two karate chops into his shoulders and a headbutt to his forehead.

Rillaboom grinned and exclaimed, "That's more like it!" Scorbunny sighing, "As if there was ever any doubt. There's a reason Drizzile's the champion back home," making sure to word that in a way that sounded less suspicious.

But while Toxtricity had definitely taken in a lot of pain, a smirk formed on his face before he broke out into hysterics. Even Sutorinda seemed less alarmed than she should have been as Gallade blinked and uttered, "What are you laughing at!?"

"You just proved our point!" Toxtricity laughed, "Seriously, we were owning your ass until Drizzile came in and helped you! Admit it, replacing Hitmonchan was probably the best choice you could have made, because at least you can use this awesome guy to boost your reputation!"

Hitmonchan gritted her teeth and stood up, barking, "LET ME AT THEM! I'LL KILL THEM!" only for Gardevoir and Machoke to grab hold of her shoulders, the green girl whimpering, "If you go in there, they'll be disqualified!"

Drizzile glared at Toxtricity and was about to retort when he noticed Gallade twitching all over. All that confidence and sense of self worth the chameleon had helped him build up seemed to leave him when he fell to his knees and clutched onto the sides of his head. He breathed heavily and whimpered, "He's right. Who am I kidding? I always try so hard to be worthy of protecting Tokyo when in reality, I suck! I only have two signature moves while everyone else has at least four, and they're both blade-based, which makes me predictable! Hell, one of them was invented by Bisharp!"

The knight in question sat among the crowd with his eyes wide open and uttered, "He has a point," shrugging his shoulders with a grin.

But while Hitmonchan gave Gallade a look of concern, she blinked when Drizzile marched over to the green hand, placed one hand against his shoulder and used the other to smack him across the face. Everyone stared in shock, Toxtricity and Sutorinda strangely impressed by this.

"Stop it!" Drizzile retorted, "None of that really matters to me! I told you already that I respect you for much more than your skills! You're part of the reason I'm as good as I am now! You may not be the most impressive fighter among your friends, but your best trait is that you never quit no matter what! So I don't wanna hear you beat yourself up!"

Hitmonchan's eyes sparkled as she uttered, "Wow, that was beautiful," Rillaboom nodding and replying, "Well, it makes sense. Drizzile may seem like Mr. Confident now, but he actually used to be in the same boat. If anyone understands what Gallade's going through right now, it's him."

But while this seemed to cheer Gallade up at first, his eyes widened when Toxtricity smirked and retorted, "Why bother? You're clearly better off without him," the green man sulking toward a corner post. He then took a seat in front of it, hugged his knees and whimpered, "I'll join you in a second. I just need a little time to collect my thoughts right now."

Drizzile looked at Gallade with concern before he sighed, turned toward he lizards and growled, "You know, as ruthless and arrogant as you two can be, I never thought you'd stoop to this level. But fine. You asked me to take both of you on by myself and I shall!" closing his eyes and ear holes.

All the while, Zeraora stared at this and thought, 'Vaporeon's right. I do have quite a bit in common with him. He's even in a similar situation to the one I was in. Though I wonder if he'll be able to knock out his opponents too.'

At that moment, his mind added, 'Now that I think about it-' though the thought left him almost immediately afterwards. Right now, all that mattered was that for the next couple of minutes, Toxtricity and Sutorinda were in trouble.

All the while, Vaporeon took a deep breath and finally left the bathroom. She shook her head and said, "Right, it's best I don't stress out over this. Right now, I just need to support Drizzile. And when we inevitably face him in the semi-finals, I definitely won't pull the same shit I pulled on Scorbunny."

She then pulled down on her ear fins and groaned, "I'm so glad she didn't notice what I did. If she ever finds out, I don't think she'll want to talk to me again," before sighing, "Maybe I should tell her. It would be so wrong to hide this from her. After all, Scorbunny's more to me than just a friend."

But after she said this, she was uncertain of what exactly she meant by that. But whatever the case, right now she had to focus on Drizzile's match and nothing else. As such, she sprinted back toward the entrance to the fight area and hoped that she had not missed the entire match.

Now that Drizzile's sight and hearing had been closed off, he was prepared for whatever the Electric Metal Heads had to throw at him. Or at least it seemed so, but as soon as Sutorinda saw him in this state, she smirked and said, "Well, look at that, bro. It's that tactic that gave him and Gallade the upper hand against Smeargle and Florges. Whatever shall we do?"

"Well, I certainly have no intention of just standing around," Toxtricity remarked, "But if we attack him, he'll just dodge us and strike back. Or will he?"

The others stared in confusion, Hitmonchan uttering, "Wait, what? I'm confused. What's going on here?" Machoke explaining, "Right, Gallade told us about this. Basically, if Drizzile closes his eyes and stops listening to his surroundings, he can feel his opponents coming. Basically, any close range move anyone attempts to use against him he can easily counter."

Rillaboom nodded and replied, "There is one downside to the move that we found out about when he fought Melmetal. If an opponent attacks from a distance, even if he sees the move coming, he'll still get hurt if he attempts to counter it."

It was at this exact moment that she and Aipom realized what Toxtricity's words meant. And to make matters worse, they knew Drizzile could not hear them warn him, thus they braced themselves and closed their eyes.

Sure enough, the lizards formed their guitar strings once again and spat, "OVERDRIVE!" before strumming their fingers along the strings. This allowed them to release large sound waves toward Drizzile, the chameleon thinking, 'Why aren't they doing anything yet?'

While the sound did not effect him, he cried out in pain when lightning swirled around the waves and struck him hard. Thus he opened his eyes and ear holes as Gallade looked up and turned. A look of terror formed on his face before he rose to his feet with a look of anger.

"What is wrong with me!?" he spat, "This is so unlike me! I need to help my ally right now!" thus he raced toward the Electric Metal Heads. When Toxtricity saw this, he smirked and redirected his lightning toward the green man.

The yellow lizard's eyes went wide when Gallade folded his arms in front of his face and ignored the pain dealt to him. And once he was close enough, he spat, "PSYCHO CUT!" and threw his arms downward to form an X. The crowd cheered wildly when blood flew out of Toxtricity's chest and he fell on his back.

Sutorinda gasped and ended her assault on Drizzile just in time to receive a clothesline to her neck. Gallade took it a step further and kept his arm on that exact spot before he swung around her. He then leapt backward and planted the back of her head into the canvas.

The crowd cheered wildly while Beedrill exclaimed, "And in a shocking turn, Gallade has just found a way to combine a clothesline with a suplex! I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before!"

Machoke and the others all cheered when Vaporeon arrived just in time to see this. She smiled and thought, 'Wow, that was one of Gyarados' signature moves. And to think Gallade officially invented it. I wonder if she ever found out about that.'

Drizzile breathed heavily and smiled at Gallade before he heard Vaporeon squeal, "Way to go, guys! Keep it up!" Zeraora turning toward the blue fox and breathing a sigh of relief. He had started to worry after she had been gone for so long.

Needless to say, Drizzile was glad to see her as well, though his attention was directed elsewhere when Gallade rested a hand on his shoulder and sighed, "Sorry for all the melodrama earlier. You're right. No matter how many times life beats me down, I always get back up, and I just about broke that today."

The chameleon nodded and replied, "Hey, it's fine. Believe me, I used to be way worse. Now, come on, let's show them why we're the Aquatic Katana. I haven't been using my water since I got electrocuted, but I'm pretty sure this'll work."

Gallade nodded before Drizzile formed his water and morphed it into a pair of large gloves just in time for Toxtricity and Sutorinda to rise to their feet. He leapt toward the yellow lizard and sent two karate chops into his shoulders, barking, "AQUATIC POWER MITTS!"

All the while, Gallade raced toward Sutorinda and delivered a roundhouse to her neck. He then latched onto her shoulders while Drizzile did the same to Toxtricity's sides, both leaping backward and barking, "SUPLEX SKULL CRASH!"

Hitmonchan waved her arms in the air and cheered when the lizards' skulls collided and the two coughed up blood. Gallade and Drizzile released their hold before most of the crowd joined the boxer. Vaporeon, all the while, smiled sweetly and returned to the bleachers, taking a seat next to Zeraora.

"Hey, you were gone an awful long time," he said before Vaporeon chuckled nervously. But before she could say anything, he patted her on the shoulder and added, "Don't worry, I understand. That's happened to me at random times before."

The blue fox's eyes went wide as she just decided to accept that. The last thing she wanted was for her friends to know why she had spent so long in the bathroom.

In the ring, Toxtricity and Sutorinda rose to their feet and breathed heavily. The yellow lizard nodded and said, "Well, I'll admit, Gallade, you're a little better than we first thought. But you're still not us," the green man groaning, "I'm with you, Drizzile. That's really starting to get on my nerves."

With that in mind, both prepared themselves to fight back only for Sutorinda to enquire, "Hey, bro, you think they're worthy of that?" Toxtricity nodding and replying, "Yeah, I think they've earned our ultimate showstopper."

The crowd watched in amazement when the lizards pounded their fists together and covered them in electricity. They then spread their arms out as a stream of the element formed for each of them. Soon enough, both streams took on the form of guitars literally shaped like axes.

Machoke blinked and uttered, "Why did it never occur to me that they could do something like that?" Blaziken shrugging and replying, "Big deal. This is nothing for those two, right?"

Both Aquatic Katana seemed to think so as they prepared themselves. At the very least, Drizzile figured if he did not use any of his water abilities, he would be okay. And after a few seconds, the Electric Metal Heads raced toward them with their guitars held upside down over their heads, both barking, "THUNDER AXE!"

Once close enough, the lizards swung their guitars toward their opponents. Drizzile managed to dodge Toxtricity's with ease while Gallade used his arm blades to block Sutorinda's. But while this seemed to work at first, everyone could quickly see that this move would not be that easy to avoid when Toxtricity's released a shock wave that spread wide enough to strike Drizzile. All the while, Gallade cried out in pain when electricity seeped from Sutorinda's guitar along his arms.

With Drizzile and Gallade distracted, Toxtricity proceeded to swing his guitar sideways into the chameleon's belly. This caused him to cough up blood and fly backward into the turnbuckle. All the while, Sutorinda lifted hers up and rammed it hard into Gallade's skull, thus he gritted his teeth while a light tear rolled down his cheek.

This may have led to both guitars breaking, but the results seemed worth it. Hitmonchan fumed and spat, "Come on, honey, snap out of it! You can beat these two easily!"

Unfortunately, both Gallade and Drizzile appeared too weak to continue. Thus Toxtricity gave Sutorinda a thumb up before he advanced toward the chameleon. He then lifted him up by his tail and flung him toward Gallade.

But just as both team mates were about to collide, the green man suddenly regained focus and grunted, "I don't think so!" Thus when Drizzile was close enough, Gallade took hold of his wrist just in time for him to get his head in the game as well. The chameleon held out his arm, formed his large glove again and yelled, "AQUATIC POWER MITT!"

Sutorinda gasped after she received a karate chop to her cheek. Before Toxtricity could retaliate, it seemed Drizzile had more in mind when he lathered his entire body in water and said, "Alright, Gallade, throw me toward him."

The green man nodded and did just that before Drizzile's water morphed into a bullet. He then rammed his skull into Toxtricity's gut and exclaimed, "SNIPE SHOT!" the crowd going wild while the yellow lizard coughed up blood.

Hitmonchan cupped her hands together and squealed, "Wow, I have to admit, that Drizzile really is an amazing partner!" before sighing, "In fact, he might actually be better than me."

Gardevoir smiled reassuringly and squeaked, "Aw, come on, don't say that," Machoke nodding and adding, "Yeah, at the very least, your track record is still technically better than Gallade's."

But just as it seemed like Toxtricity would be knocked down again, he spread his legs and stopped himself from falling. Gallade gulped and uttered, "He can use that too?" before the yellow lizard latched onto Drizzile's waist and covered his hands in electricity, shouting, "HIGH VOLTAGE GLOVES!"

While this alone already seemed powerful enough, Drizzile was still covered in water. Thus the volts coursed through him while he cried out in agony. Then after a few seconds, an explosion formed around him and Toxtricity, the entire crowd going silent.

Gallade and Sutorinda turned away from one-another to look a this, the blue lizard gasping, "Bro, what were you thinking!?" but when the smoke cleared, Toxtricity only had a few small burns on him while Drizzile had gone limp and his eyes had rolled to the back of his head.

With that, the yellow lizard released his hold on Drizzile and allowed him to collapse while Scorbunny and Rillaboom stared in horror. They could not believe this. Even after all of his efforts, he had been knocked unconscious.

"Come on, get up!" Vaporeon spat, everyone turning toward her, "You've dealt with way worse than this! Remember Unown!? He was far more powerful yet you still managed to defeat him!"

Those from this time line stared at her in confusion since, of course, Unown had not been born yet. Palkia, meanwhile, looked at this and uttered, "Wow, you think those Electric Metal Heads might actually be a threat to us?"

"No," Dialga remarked with his arms folded, "This is exactly what I figured would happen if those heroes from Edmonton were separated. Drizzile may have stood somewhat of a chance against us, but not with a loser like Gallade on his team. Though that lizard may deny it, Toxtricity and Sutorinda were right about him. The fact that those two had to work so hard to knock him out basically tells me they never stood a chance against us to begin with."

Gallade breathed heavily while Toxtricity stated, "You know, it really is a shame. I can honestly say that Drizzile really was on par with us. It just sucks that his teammate couldn't have been on his level, otherwise he probably would have finished me off with that."

The green man gritted his teeth and growled, "SHUT UP!" racing toward the yellow lizard only for Sutorinda to dash in front of him, cover her hand in electricity and jab it into his gut, barking, "HIGH VOLTAGE PUNCH!"

Gallade coughed up blood while electricity surrounded him. With that, the lizards could tell he was no longer a threat to them. Thus they nodded at one-another before Sutorinda leapt over to Toxtricity.

"The Aquatic Katana put up an amazing effort, but with Drizzile out cold, it seems as if this match is over," Beedrill stated, "Gallade is unable to fight back as his opponents set up for their best move."

Hitmonchan got up and spat, "Come on, honey, keep going! You've got them right where you want them!" the others nodding and cheering for him as well, Blaziken exclaiming, "You've gotten so much better lately! Are you really gonna prove that arrogant prick right!?"

But as much as Gallade wanted to defeat the Electric Metal Heads without Drizzile's help, that punch left him far too weak. Thus he could just barely stand as the lizards bounced off the ropes and latched onto one-another. Electricity coursed through their frills as they spun vertically toward the green man and shouted, "LIGHTNING SAW!"

Gallade cried out in agonizing pain when they slashed open his upper body. Thus blood spewed out of him as he closed his eyes and fell hard on his back with his arms spread out. All went silent until Nori started the ten count, Beedrill and Butterfree describing what had just happened.

Of course, Gallade's friends all started to chant his name, but in the end, this proved pointless. Ten seconds passed before Nori rang the bell and exclaimed, "And after quite possibly the bloodiest match so far, The Electric Metal Heads have won and will advance to the semi-finals!"

Many members of the crowd cheered while plenty of others looked mortified. Vaporeon tensed up and uttered, "No, that did not just happen," clutching onto the sides of her head, "We were supposed to face Drizzile in the next round."

Zeraora had a look of fear himself but soon dropped it before he rested a hand against Vaporeon's shoulders. He then smiled and gave her a thumb up as she tried her hardest to calm down. But while her friends had a knack for getting back at those who defeated the others, she had never pulled that off before. Could she really do this?

Hitmonchan could not just sit in the bleachers anymore, thus she got up from her seat and raced toward the ring right when medics entered it and loaded Gallade and Drizzile onto a stretcher. The others soon joined her before Blaziken bit the lower half of her beak. She turned to the others only for Gardevoir to nod her head and let her know that she had no problem with the chicken joining Hitmonchan in the hospital. After all, the boxer could use some company.

Vaporeon took many deep breaths while Blaziken approached Hitmonchan and rested a hand reassuringly on her shoulder. The boxer smiled at her, but just as the two were about to leave with Gallade, Hitmonchan asked the medics to wait for her and made her way over to Vaporeon.

The blue fox blinked when Hitmonchan rested her hands on her shoulders and said, "I know this is a lot to ask, but I don't want to see those two make it to the finals. Promise me you'll defeat them," Vaporeon sighing, "Of course I will."

Zeraora smiled and thought, 'Yeah, we can do it, I'm sure of it,' while Toxtricity and Sutorinda exited the ring. But of course, this was not the last concern for today. There was still Rillaboom and Aipom's match with Dialga and Palkia, and Vaporeon could not help but wonder if her friends really could defeat the dragons.