"Sh-She returned her Pokemon as well..." Desmond said to himself, watching as Ivysaur's attacks smacked against Lily's stand; And as some of them flew up in her direction. "LILY!" He yelled at the top of his lungs in a panic, before taking the only action he could: "Ivysaur! T-Try blocking some of the leafs with your Vine Whip!" He quickly commanded his Pokemon; Just not quickly enough, sadly.

Ivysaur shot her whips into the air and smacked away a few of the leafs heading towards Lily, but couldn't stop the majority of them. It was somewhat concerned as it retracted it's vines, staring up at the girl, feeling terrible for hitting her. It hadn't been on purpose; hopefully she knew that for the poor Pokemon's sake.

Noticing her cuts, both to her person and her clothing, Desmond instantly wanted to stop and make sure she was fine. He didn't want her to think this was a retort to the fire blast; He didn't want to hurt her at all, he was just trying to get the initiative in the battle. Her joke made his eyes soften from their hard, squinted position; Desmond smiled lightly at the fact she was, in her own way, making it clear she was fine. "That's not funny!" Desmond scolded, but it was a little funny in all honesty; He was just too upset at himself to laugh at it.

How she must've been feeling made Desmond shake; Never had an accident like this happened before; And here he was harming one of the few friends he had; She made a joke, sure... But he figured she was upset with him; After that, who wouldn't be? He had acted too quickly and ended up getting her hurt; At least the Fire Blast hadn't actually hurt him; he just had a bit of an aching back now from hitting the railing. Ivysaur's move could have killed her under the wrong circumstances; He was glad she wasn't injured to the point of needing instant medical attention. 

Regardless, she should've stopped and got her cuts taken care of first; Just seeing her like that was distracting him from the battle.

As she sent out Squirtle, Desmond blinked. After what happened, she was wanting to continue. He felt bad; But wasn't going to give up, either. He didn't think she'd want him to. He noted, however, that he had a lot of patching up to do once this was over; Lily was a mess, and he'd help all he could once one of them came out on top.

He was almost thrown off his guard by the way her Squirtle acted; It certainly was a stubborn little thing. It reminded him of his Jigglypuff on occasion, and that made him laugh to himself. Though, the time for jokes was over; The battle was back on, for better or worse; And Desmond planned to see it through. 

"Alright, Ivysaur!" Desmond called out to get her attention, and then relayed his commands: "Endure the Water Gun and use Vine Whip!" 

Ivysaur narrowed it's eyes as it launched it's vines towards the Squirtle; wincing as it took the water gun to the face, but standing it's ground. The big issue was that Ivysaur couldn't see; So while the vines were aiming straight for Squirtle's center shell to knock him back into Lily's stand, if it moved fast enough this wouldn't work. Thankfully it'd have a harder time dodging with that huge stream of water spewing from it's mouth; So it'd have to stop it's attack to manage to dodge. So they'd be on a fairly even playing field still, due to the low damage of the water against Ivysaur.