Even when she wasn't sitting on the wing, the resolution of Shalin's model decreased slightly as Queen Zing kicked her wings up to the next level and leaped into the air. She turned her sound effect volume way down after the loud humming noise blasted both of her ears. Not only were these insectile predators fast and strong, but they were noisy, too!

Water rippled outward from the wake of the Beedrill's rapidly-beating wings, drowning out the hum of Prower's whirling tails against the drink. The ripples would make it more difficult for the Floatzel to swim, but it would also attract more prey to the surface. One the Beedrill was eager to run her foreleg stings through.

The mini-boss music blared in Shalin's ears as she and her unusual ride zoomed toward the grass-type with stings extended. No longer ensnared by the ghost-type's seaweed, Prower could contribute, too, and contribute he did. As soon as he took off, his tails buzzed against the water's surface, mist forming around his mouth as he sought to freeze the strong foe from within with his ICE FANGS.

The frozen seaweed dragged the Dhelmise's entire body to the surface, floating upright with its eyes completely out of the water. It was far from helpless, nailing the water-type from behind with an ANCHOR SHOT as he wheeled around for another attack.

Shalin was having far too much fun watching and feeling Queen Zing jackhammer the Dhelmise with her rear sting. The ride was bouncier than Balan at full tilt, and she could even watch the Beedrill's wings seemingly disappear in and out of sight from how fast they beat. It was mesmerizing!

A bit too mesmerizing; so much so that it wasn't until the Dhelmise had completely finished siphoning Prower's energy with a GIGA DRAIN that she came out of her trance. "Prower, yikes!" she cried, her arm shaking as she reached for the downed Floatzel's Poké Ball. The combination attack had suddenly turned into a duel between anchor Pokémon and one of the strongest insectile predators in the game!

Armed with a full team instead of just her Beedrill, Shalin rode the buzzing insect alongside Michiko, her Frosmoth. The defiant anchor Pokémon still floated above the shallows, as though it were taunting her to be beaten up a third time. If she had her way, there would not be a fourth meeting between them.

"This time... you're mine," Shalin boldly pointed, as did Queen Zing with her foreleg spears.

The more well-prepared Frosmoth, seeing the submerging Dhelmise, blew a volley of POWDER SNOW at the grass-type. Were that snow to freeze the ghost-type's seaweed, the ice's buoyancy might overcome even the anchor's weight and keep it on the surface!

If anything, Michiko's ice-type attack made the Dhelmise even more powerful, giving it added speed when launching itself from beneath the waves. "Get 'em, Dondon!" Shalin cried over her Beedrill's buzzing, lobbing the Tropius' Poké Ball to the back side of the Dhelmise. "Fly behind it and blow it toward the shore!"

With a huge GUST from his leafy wings, the fruit-bearing grass-type did as asked, the ghost-type swept away by the current he had created. Far from helpless, the wild submerged once more, this time shooting straight toward Shalin's Pokémon with a HEAVY SLAM that knocked so much wind out of him that he wound up sprawled on the sands. This wild was frighteningly powerful; she debated simply giving up on it, warping back to the Precipice Shrine, and trying another area...!

The adventurer was about to give up on the Dhelmise, when a Mantyke suddenly came to her rescue, a series of AIR SLASHES rocking the grass-type and making it blink red. Turning toward its source, the water-type's trainer was a familiar face from the Hearteater raid. "Thanks for the help," Shalin managed between breaths. "Couldn't do it without you!" She was already showing multiple scars from where her wounds had been healed at Shrines; clearly she had been back and forth multiple times already.

With the Mantyke handling the ranged attacks, it was up to Shalin to attack from close range to at the very least serve as a distraction. What she was going for wasn't a distraction. It was a kill shot.

Raising her Z-Pendant above her head, Queen Zing's POISONIUM-Z glowed a deep purple, venom seeping from all three of her stings as she absorbed Z-Power from Shalin's awkward-looking pose. "Finish it, Queen Zing! ACID DOWNPOUR!" With furious buzzing that drowned out all other environmental noise, the Beedrill raised her abdomen, plunging all three of her barbs into the wild in the most painful stinging attack she could muster.

CAPTURE COMPLETE!

Much To My Dhelmise...

DHELMISE has been added to Kyukon's box!