[It's smiling at him, but it happens to be a proven fact that Char has a deep-rooted need to punch every Blastoise ever right in its stupid smug face. Thus, what he perceived was not a friendly greeting, but a stupid smug smirk all over that stupid smug Blastoise's stupid smug face.

So he decided that if this Blastoise was going to be a jerk -- as Blastoises are wont to do -- he would simply have to react in kind. Thus, here is one (1) Brick Break smashing Max's nice boulder.]