A little smash and grab

Finally the gym leader showed up, this person looking much different from Norman in Petalburg. The man that appeared wasn't exactly what she expected but when he flexed she had immediately known this was the correct person. Nodding at his question and reaching for her pokeballs, she thought over her strategy one more time. There was a moderate amount of confidence for this gym as well. As the leader called forth the muscle pokemon Machop she threw her own pokeball out. The yellow psychic type pokemon appeared on the battlefield but instead of looking weary like he usually did he had stood up with a moderate amount of preparation for this battle.

"Alright let's have some fun!" Syndra called out gleefully to which she received some mental scolding from the Abra. Technically she didn't have to even verbally order moves since Abra could read her mind as to what she wanted. Convenient as that was however it didn't seem necessary. Making the first move without waiting for Syndra to verbally confirm the move the psychic pokemon. The words escaped her lips regardless, "Dazzling Gleam." A vibrant light shown from behind Abra from an unknown source to strike directly into the fighting type's eyes. It made him look more prominent that he actually was. He did it once more for good measure as well, confident in his ability to knock out the Machop with this move.

He... failed to knock it out? The psychic type looked down at his hands to figure out if he had done something wrong. To discern if the failure was due to his weakness or the sheer will of the adversary. The Leering made him flinch slightly but it wasn't enough to catch him too off guard. Reflexively moving an arm to defend himself against the incoming attack, the strike made its mark. That said it did minimal damage to the psychic type. Without waiting for instruction he had used Dazzling Gleam again with the glow of the light bursting from Abra's body.

Syndra watched the battle and didn't really feel the need to say much. Abra was doing what she would have suggested and doing well taking control of this fight. If anything she could give advice via telepathic link. It wasn't as if she was taking the gym lightly it was just how it turned out. "Try to finish it with another Dazzling Gleam." Producing another shimmer of light and sparkles Abra was keen on ending it this time.

Thankfully the fighting type was now down for the count. Abra looked partly relieved and partly disappointed that it took so long. The pokemon was recalled and next pokemon appeared swiftly afterwards. The appearance of the meditation pokemon however was surprising. "Oh. A Meditite... that's unexpected. Will that be a problem for you?" Syndra mentally thought over to the Abra who nodded in response rather than giving an actual mental or verbal response cue back. While he was pleased with the first win he wanted to prove he could do this all by himself and went back into a stance for battle. Luckily in this case there was a move that Abra had for this too though neither him or his trainer expected to use it for this gym. "Shadow Ball will work. See if you can hit two in succession."

As shadowy trails of energy began forming in between the fingers of the psychic type, he waited to allow the psychic type to strike him. It was another Karate Chop to which this time Abra was more focused on focusing his attack rather than blocking. Once he felt the attack hit, stinging more than the other pokemon had but barely so, he threw the now fully developed sphere of darkness point blank into the opponent's face. Jumping back as he repeated the process he formed another sphere and chucked it after the first one to see if he could finish the psychic type with that alone.

While yes the fighting type moves were not as painful to the psychic type did not mean that they did not hurt after repeated attacks. He didn't want to admit it but Abra was feeling some soreness where the attacks were hitting and the leering didn't help matters. Syndra noticed this and while it seemed Abra wanted to push his luck in taking another hit his trainer didn't. "Dodge this one and take a breather." This time she spoke aloud to get the pokemon's attention. He had known this was her intention but did not anticipate the girl saying it aloud which instinctively got the pokemon to take heed to these instructions. Shifting his body he is unable to dodge the chop fully as it grazes his left shoulder but his right hand lifted up into the air to collect more eerie energies. "There now Shadow Ball it again then shine Dazzling Gleam into its eyes."

The mental link served well in communicating those thoughts. In a sequence of attacks the shadow ball was thrown at the Meditite again though this time a Dazzling Gleam followed rather than a second orb of darkness, the light contrasting the ghost move. Thankfully Abra got those moves before the gym battle and the prep was showing off. Unfortunately it looked as though Abra alone wouldn't be enough to wipe the gym as from the fatigued look on his face told it all even if Abra was preventing his own thoughts of that from traveling to Synda.

The last pokemon was a pokemon that had been somewhat familiar. In her past the exploration event earlier that month had a Hariyama. That one was more intimidating though from what she could tell this Makuhita was stronger. Despite Abra's worn out physical state the psychic type once again got into battle stance but this time he began glowing a vibrant white light. Within it looked as if the Abra was growing out until finally the lights dissipated to show his new form. "Woah," Syndra couldn't help but awe at the new appearance. Enough so that the attack from the gym leader caught her off guard. Kadabra on the other hand was more keen and aware of it, sidestepping the full on tackle. However he was unable to avoid the gust of wind that came after.

The blast of circling winds created mixed feelings. At one side she was happy with the gust of air but at the same time this same gust of air ejected Kadabra backwards into the safety of his pokeball. One of her other pokeballs managed to get loose from her belt and swept into the vortex. Syndra realizing what happened lifted her hand to stop the pokeball though it was too late. The device flew open and as the gust dissipated a young amber fox flaunted her tailed as she landed on the ground effortlessly. Lowering her hand Syndra thought over what to possibly do now. "Guess we'll have to make due. Kadabra couldn't handle much more anyway..." she mused to herself as she placed a hand to her hip. Vulpix cried out to show she was ready in turn. "Confuse ray then use Fire Blast as he's disoriented."

The fox leaped forward with her eyes glowing an eerie white, staring directly at the fighting type to lure him to look at her. At the same time she inhaled a breath to prepare the heat inside her body to release the large blast of fire from her mouth.

Watching the fighting type stumbling about near Vulpix was actually quite funny. The fire type didn't seem to mind it much either and was more at ease for this fight. How it evaded the large stream of fire was impressive or maybe it was luck. Either way it almost look like it hit but Syndra wasn't fooled. It did manage its way over to the fox and push hard against her body as it fell, the pokemon being hit on right backside by the force palm amidst its toppling. At least now it couldn't follow up.

Trying to create space between the fighting type after its fall and herself, Vulpix jumped backwards shaking her body to get rid of the feeling of the Makuhita touching her. "Fire Blast while its down," the trainer called. Now the fire pokemon shot another burst of flames at the downed yellow pokemon to hit it then another. That said the fox was well trained and was careful with her fire as to not cause the flames to spread off the field much less create a problem within the gym.