Liam tossed out one of the balls, "It's time to shine!" The Dragapult emerged from its ball.

Sceptile bowed to her sister but also with confidence said "Greeting little sister, has the young man tried to use you in many battles since you joined him or is he too terrified of your power?". Dragopult wouldn't need to answer if she didn't want to, though in Sceptile mind, it would only prove her doubt that Liam truly understood what the pokemorphs needed from their chosen trainer.

"Start with Dragon Dance!" Liam called. The Dragapult began a mystical dance to up her atk and spd. "Now, Lock on!" A reticle appeared on a small mound of ice nearby. "Next, Phantom Force!" A portal opened up and she leapt into it. "Dragon Darts into Flamethrower!" The wormhole opened up far in the distance as the two small Dreepy were fired off and engulfed in flames. The hit the ice mound causing a fine powder to rain down. Dragaplult jumped into another portal from Phantom Force rose out the other end, reappearing next to Liam.

"Impressive," Shiranui commented. He hoped the display would be enough to convince Sceptile that Liam could train Dragapult.

To Jen and Aura is impressed but this is the begging of the battle and Kiam is a dragon master.

Sceptile watched the display with quiet interest, only moving to wipe some of the ice that had spashed on her face. "Well, you certainly have some skill in preformance then, but that's not what this is about," Sceptile said. "This is about how you fight and battle, so prove your worth in battle, not in showmanship" Sceptile said as she cracks her knuckles and get into a battle pose.

"Dragapult, use Dragon Dance!" Dragapult once again did the mystical dance.

With a second Dragon Dance performed, Dragapult's Attack and Speed were now at double their base level. "Be careful, Liam," Shiranui warned, "Sceptile and Dragapult have very similar stat spreads. She'd be fighting a Grass type version of herself." His gaze turned towards Sceptile as he waited for her response.

Sceptile smirked as she slammed her feet into the ground and unleashed a ear splitting screech to lower Dragopult defences before using substitute dropping a plusy version of herself as letting it take whatever attack comes it way.

"Phantom Force!" Liam called. Dragapaukt dove into the shadows.

A pregnant pause descended over the battlefield as Dragapult hid elsewhere and Sceptile was also out of sight with only a Substitute to show that anything was taking place. Shiranui had noticed the tactics that Haru and Sceptile were deploying were very similar to his own, but he also saw the same similarities with Liam. A smile graced his face as he knew Liam had the wisdom gained from their many battles to eventually come out on top.

Sceptile reappeared breifly as she used sunny day, the battlefield warming up before slipping away undetected again as she began to charge her Solar beam.

Dragapult reappeared and punted Sceptile's Substitute like she was a gridiron quarterback, sending the broken doll flying. With Sunny Day active, Sceptile's Solar Beam attack took less time to charge up and she fired the beam of sunlight at Dragapult. "Even if Dragapult can resist the hit, that attack is going to hurt," Shiranui thought to himself.

Just as predicted with Dragopult exposed, And the substitute broken Sceptile fired off a sun boosted solar beam at Dragopult, aiming for a critically spot on her if possible.

Dragapult took the hit. The battle was starting to wear on it, but the battle resumed. “Dragon Darts!”

Dragapult launched the Dreepy she had gathered at Sceptile.

Sceptile took both shots and chuckled softly. "Good, you were always my strongest rival, i'm glad to see your time with Aki and Liam hasn't dulled that strength" She said, before dropping a second substitute to vanish once more to charge up another Solar beam, though Haru noticed Sceptile jesture and smirked.

Shiranui figured after seeing Sceptile using two Substitutes, taking a Dragon Darts attack and giving a signal to her trainer; that they were about to take it to the next level, especially after noticing Overgrow activate. A brighter and more powerful Solar Beam came at Dragapult with the slim potential of knocking out the draconic stealth bomber Poké Morph in spite of type resistance.

Dragapult was close to passing out. She launched a final set a
dragon Darts before passing out from exhaustion

Dragopult attack hit destroying the substitute and the second one hit Sceptile scoring a critical hit, her solar beam was charged but since Dragopult fell already Sceptile fired her solar beam into the sky, causing a blast of air sending petal flying everywhere. Before walking up to Dragopult and offering her some berry juice as Haru nodded and walked up to Liam handing him the last key to the poucher base as she said "I think, you and Dragopult need a little more time to bond". She looked at Jen and said with a smile "I think your bond with Kiara is already strong enough so I have a special gift for you, came from Kalos recently".

She walked up to Jen and offer her a mega stone. "This is Pyroarite, a recently discovered mega stone, I want you to have this so you can mega evole Kirara. However, if you want to come find me later, I can train you. Mega pokemorph vs mega pokemorph." @Alisdragon911

She then step back and said "Enter the base when ready, mother awaits you on the bottom floor. She's already dealt with the remaining pouchers, you'll probably find then tied up or stuck to the wall by Aridos web. She can then bring you up to speed"

@bowtiesrcool86@James Davy (going to sped up things a bit here to steam roll the pouchers stuff, been keeping you guys far too long due to PL being a bit busy)