Dom froze for a moment. His eyes widened as he realized his fault. In that moment he realized Hanzos strategy, and at the same time, a perfect counter.
“Ugh I’m such an idiot, I can’t believe I didn’t even realize it. I guess you have a point, I’ve never really done than many double battles.” Dom said, giving a strained smirk.
Dom looked back at Lycanroc, who also looked like this was news.
“Well, shall we try again?” Dom said, confidently.
Lycanroc nodded, and this time, the battle started differently. Dom closed his eyes and began focusing on the aura around him, until he could focus on Lycanrocs. The two seemed to be even more in sync than before.
“Let’s go, Lycanroc!” Dom shouted.
The two charged at Charizard and began a quick onslaught of attempts to grab back the headband. As they continued their attacks on Charizard, Electabuzz jumped into the fight, attempting to hit Lycanroc with a Thunder Punch. As the attack landed on Lycanroc, it didn’t even attempt to dodge, but once the attack landed Lycanroc swiftly used the attacks motion against it.
“Lycanroc, you remembered Counter!” Dom said.
Lycanroc grinned as Electabuzz was sent flying, the rock it was holding onto flew up into the air and Dom caught it. Even though only a moment had passed, Dom and Lycanroc continued their attempts to get the headband, but Charizard was just too fast. After dodging every attempt, Charizard flew up into the sky.
“There’s gotta be some way to counteract this!” Dom thought.
He was immediately pulled from his own mind as Lycanroc put its paw on Doms shoulder.
“Right… we can do this.” Dom said.
Dom and Lycanroc both chased after Charizard by foot as it circled around the area, and Lycanroc looked straight into Doms eyes, as if it was trying to say “We can do this, together!” Lycanroc jumped against a tree and into the air, while the same blue energy became concentrated at Doms feet and hands. Dom jumped into the air meeting Lycanroc halfway to Charizard, using the energy focused on his hands to launch Lycanroc up to Charizard in order to use Play Rough. The attack landed successfully, and Dom caught the headband as Charizard came back to the ground. Once Lycanroc landed, if only for a moment, the two were perfectly in sync, it even seemed that Dom’s eyes flickered the same shade as Lycanrocs deep crimson red. But soon they were back to normal, and Dom and Lycanroc hugged.
“We’re gonna do it, we’re gonna beat Hanzo!” Dom said.
After the two calmed down, Dom fed Electabuzz and Charizard both a sitrus berry and turned back to June.
“Thank you so much June, you may have just made us that much stronger. I really mean it.” Dom said.
He then quickly dug into his pocket, looking for something. He then pulled out a small white crystal.
“Ah, here it is. I know I didn’t accept your Z-ring gift, but I’ve always had a thing about enjoying giving people things more than I do getting things from people. It’s a weird personality thing, everyone back home says I’m weird for it. But… here, I want you to have this Normalium Z. Consider it an investment into your experiments with moves, as well as just a gift, from a friend.” Dom said, “Durant can Learn Vice grip right? As well as Retaliate and Giga Impact , both pretty good normal type moves.”
Dom placed the Crystal on June’s Z-Ring.
“Since your Z-Ring wants to use a Z-move, how about you test it out on the substitute?” Dom suggested.