With apologies to CanisAries, the pun was just too obvious.

Sparky leads with his Electrike, and Honey starts with Sap Grotle. Neat, the colors match.

Shock Wave isn’t very effective, and one bite from Power Turtle reduces Electrike to low health. Sparky uses a Potion, but it does him no good, and a second Bite takes Sparkledoge #1 down.

“Why do you have two sheepdogs and only one sheep?”



“So they can vote on who to have for dinner.”



“…”



“…you know I’m joking.”



This well-armed lamb is contesting the vote.

Sap bites it anyway. You might say Sap is a… Sapping Turtle.

This battle is in the bag. Literally. Honey seems to be very interested in getting out her PokeComm.

Sparky uses another Potion, and this time it matters:

Even with the power boost from Charge, it’s still not very effective. Bite kills it.

Sparkledoge #2.

No, I’m not interested in a discussion on whether the Eevee family is dogs or cats, because Vaporeon is a Selkie and that throws the entire conversation off for a loop. Eevees are what they are, and they defy any sort of Earth-based taxonomical labels.

Jolteon learns from its teammates’ example and sends out a Substitute to tank the inevitable Bite.

Sap Grotle promptly eats it.

Thundershock barely does any damage.

Surprisingly, Bite doesn’t do that much more damage to Jolteon than it already lost to the Substitute.

Jolteon tries a Tackle, which doesn’t do that much damage either. Grotle Bites it again, putting it in the red.

Spark doesn’t use any more Potions, but Jolteon gets another free Tackle in:

Grotle would’ve solo’d, but BBC insisted on coming in for the scoop.

She immediately gets Tackled.

And again.

Down in two hits. Never even got to use her Sand-Attack.

Send in the Budew.

Honey immediately regretted this, due to HA only being Level 9 against a Level 16 Jolteon. So she switched her out for another Pokemon.

Yeah, because this can’t be a bad sign at all.

I mean, she survived the Tackle, right?

She just couldn’t survive two Tackles.

Sheepdog versus sheepfrog.

I think there’s probably something about toads getting struck by lightning that I don’t want to think about.

Honey seems determined to send every single other Pokemon out before she sends Grotle back out.

… maybe you should’ve sent Snek out first?

Not that the Intimidate did Snek any good. Ekans fainted in one hit.

FINALLY.

And then Honey messes around in her bag for a few long moments before telling Grotle to Bite that thing again.

One useless Thunder Shock later, and Grotle … is paralyzed and cannot move.

Another useless Thunder Shock later, and Grotle is STILL paralyzed and cannot move.

This battle should’ve been over about ten turns ago.

FINALLY.

Up a level!

And Budew, too! Switch mattered for something, at least. HA actually grew up to level 11, but between level 10 and 11, this happened:

I’m glad you’re impressed. Because I’m afraid two-thirds of Honey’s party is ticked off at her right now, or will be when they wake up again.

To be continued…