Man... Trainer battles were a lot harder than they'd originally sounded. Any wild pokemon he'd ever encountered would have succumbed to Angela's ferocity a long time ago. Scratching his chin and looking on for an opening anxiously, it seemed like there was little either pokemon could do.

Shellder seemed set in his defensive strategy, and Dratini was locked into a constant offensive routine.

It can't stay in that shell forever, can it...?

"Keep it up, Ang'! ... But don't exhaust yourself! Slow and steady. Squeeze 'em out!"

And, doing as her trainer commanded, the dragon wore a hardened expression and tightened its coils, taking out its frustration on that shell, even gnawing angrily on one of those spikes.