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#72 The battle starts?
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And here I got to show of Xain and Cali's motion blurs. Or half of them at least, I figured I couldn't get away with making a strip that consisted of nothing but motion blur panels. Not that I didn't consider it... Because of the way the blurs and characters are laid out it would have been tricky to give everyone their own speech bubble with "<insert pokémon name here> go!" so I had them share one with the more generic "pokéball go!" which, in various pokémon stuff, is typically used when throwing an empty ball for an attempted capture. Although it also makes sense that people would say it if they didn't want their opponent to know what they were sending out.
Brendan's crappy aim has already been established and, once again, it lands him in some serious trouble. No wonder May wants to switch teams, trying to take on Xain and Cali without Brenda's torchic to help would no doubt turn out very badly. As to why none of the pokéballs opened or released their pokémon, I can't think of any particularily good explantion right now so you'll just have to chalk that up to creative liscense.




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