That night, Iris sleeps with Excadrill under the stars. She realizes (through the power of monologue) that Excadrill had realized how powerful Haxorus was as soon as the battle began, but Iris completely failed to understand. Iris gives Excadrill a heartfelt speech, and you can tell it's listening because its eyes start watering, which in anime pretty much means the ultimate heartfelt connection has been achieved. Iris mentions that its lack of long range attacks might be a problem, so it gets up and decides to practice focus blast, because a move suited for Alakazam is definitely something Excadrill needs to know. After hours of training, it succeeds.
In the morning, Georgia shows up and steals their breakfast (what a *****), and Iris challenges Beartic to a rematch. Using its new focus blast, Excadrill easily defeats Beartic-- oh wait no it gets hit by ice beam. Iris screams “Excadriiiiiiiiiiiiiill” in a needlessly dramatic way, giving it the strength to continue, and it ties with Beartic. Georgia doesn't care about losing to a non-dragon and leaves, telling Cilan that she'll steal their next breakfast, too.
Okay, so… Solid episode, actually. Georgia annoys me with her silly motivation and newsboy cap (dammit, those are for college girls, you’re like ten years old), but she’s still better than Burgundy, so whatever. I do enjoy how Iris is such a crappy dragon trainer that she needs to use anything except a dragon to overcome her challenges, though. Has Axew ever won a battle except against Scraggy?
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Started: July 6, 2005