do you like reading about battles cos I don't
here's one, see if you hate me yet
461. rebut: to refute, especially by offering opposing arguments or evidence
Koga's Ariados dodged the brunt of the attack, but still ended up taking a hefty amount of damage simply from the edges of the flame grazing his body. Koga rebutted with a poison jab (Green crossed his fingers and hoped - chances of poisoning were 30%), but Charizard persevered and simply overwhelmed the spider by decreasing his flame intensity in order to drastically increase his flamethrower size. He only needed a small hit to knock the Ariados out. The tactic worked, and Koga's first pokemon went down.
However, the tremendous flame ended up lighting more than just Ariados' legs.
462. buffet: to knock about; to push or force roughly
Invisible spider webs caught fire and drifted about, falling in a spectacular spiral of ashes. The sight was breath-taking, literally; Green suddenly found himself half blind and choking for air. He shielded his eyes, and searched for Charizard, who had taken to the lofty rafters to escape the ashy whirlwind. Green could hardly keep his eyes open as he tried to dodge and avoid being buffeted by the rain of glowing ashes. He spotted the flash of light as Koga released his next pokemon, presumably Venomoth, which proceeded to use its wings to create a blinding gust of wind.
463. encore: again, once more; a second performance; and audience's call for a second performance
Green blindly shouted at Charizard for an encore, as most of what could be burned had already fallen to the floor in ashes. Venomoth tried to focus energy to make a psychic attack, but was forced to flee and flutter in circles to dodge flamethrowers. Charizard chased it and overtook it, eventually making it pass out from extreme heat.
464. mandate: a command; an order
The swirls of ashes began to settle down, and Koga released his next pokemon with a different mandate; he ordered Muk to shrink. The chunk of sludge rapidly became smaller and smaller, almost invisible in the mess of gray ashes carpeting the floor. Charizard proceeded to methodically incinerate the floor, but to no avail, as Koga's smile seemed to say that Green had no hope of finding and eliminating Muk.
465. frolic: to behave playfully and without inhibition
Green recalled an angry Charizard and sent out Espeon, who padded warily around heaps of ash. He commanded Espeon to sweep the area and use extrasensory detectors to locate Muk; the feline looked at him, sending a telepathic message of who do you think you are, human and tossing his nose and releasing a faintly visible ball about the size of an apple, whose transparent edges wavered like a bubble, before blasting and drastically increasing in size to encompass the whole room. Muk could have been frolicking in the mud all the way outside the building and Espeon would have known; the psychic located the opponent and focused a powerful wave of psychic energy towards the corner of the building, behind Green.
466. overt: open; not hidden
In all honesty, Green wouldn't have even known if Muk had fainted or not, but Koga's recalling of the pokemon was an overt sign showing the pokemon had collapsed. He next sent out Forretress, and Espeon tried to blast the pokemon with psychic waves. However, the strange pokemon simply tightened its shell and deflected the waves with its protective outer layer. Espeon growled in annoyance, and stared at Green. Switch me out for the mad one.
467. feign: to pretend; to fake
Green didn't even bother feigning misunderstanding and just snickered a little at Espeon's nicknaming; with another impatient glance, Green recalled him and released Charizard once again. The fire dragon was no less incensed, and upon spying the bug and steel pokemon at the other side of the field, he focused his fire into an extremely hot and narrow stream, close to dragon's breath. He destroyed the pokemon thoroughly, blackening its shell; Koga looked a little worried as he recalled Forretress. Green tutted at Charizard - it was bad sportsmanship to exercise more power than necessary to knock out opponents - and sized up Koga's final, strongest pokemon: Crobat.
468. verve: energy in movement; exuberance
The bat moved with extraordinary verve and agility, outpacing and zooming in circles around the much bigger Charizard. Compared with Venomoth, Crobat's wings were longer, stronger, and overall a whole lot better for speedy type moves.
Before Charizard's temper could get much worse again, Green traded him in for Blastoise. Of course, in the speed game, Blastoise was an even worse match, but Green was fed up with the game of tag; he squatted, hugged himself, and then called for Blastoise to make a blizzard.
469. coup: a clever, sudden act or maneuver; a triumph
Green had once studied biological processes of ice types - their moves weren't usually very powerful, and generally not very large in scale. Most ice types contained various natural refrigerants; However, due to his massive size, Blastoise was able to use his massive ammonia tank to rapidly suck large quantities of heat from stored water, and then fire frozen pellets along with frigid air. Blastoise's blizzards were something of a true natural phenomenon, and Red had taken quite a bit of effort to teach him the move.
The blizzard proved to be the major coup in the battle. In the cold, Crobat's mobility rapidly decreased, and once hit with a fairly large ice pellet, the bat fell to the ground, where Blastoise knocked him out with an icy jet of water.
470. expedite: to speed up
Koga recalled Crobat, and the two battlers walked to the center to shake hands.
"It was truly a great battle; I have a long way to go. Where should I sign?"
Green handed him the petition. "Here. Thanks."
"I do believe you need to hand this to Lance next, no? He will not be awake for another hour, and if you leave it on his desk it may become buried and never seen again. You should wait. And help clean." Koga gestured at the mass of ice pellets and ashes and sludge in the battle hall.
"Uh, really?" Green was ok with cleaning in the apartment, but a gigantic room like this? Koga walked over to the wall, and reached into the hidden closet to pull out two huge mops.
"Work will expedite the waiting process. It will also strengthen your mind and body; cleanliness and its pursuit are healthy. Sweep towards the center; Muk will engulf it and carry it to the incinerator in the back of the building." Koga handed him a mop, and began to take running leaps to sweep up the mess. Koga's cleaning expertise was pretty amazing - Green deadpanned before slowly joining in on the opposite side of the room. Even the Elite had to do mundane things. Well, judging by the way Koga was taking flying leaps across the floor and scooping up debris in graceful sweeps, it might not be that boring. But Karen, cleaning? Heck, Lance cleaning?