Just a question, by explode you don't mean mean he litle bugger is actually gonna pop do you? Because I can just imagine the next lines of the story being: "The rodent poke'mon let out an scream full of pain as the elctricity engulfed him, then suddenly the charge exploded outwards electricity and innards spraying poke'mon and trainers alike in a gor mess"
Author's response
Well, explosion does usually mean blast. You try hooking up an American computer in Europe and you'll see what I'm driving at. Bolt currently has about three times as much electricity as he can handle pumping through his system, and pichu are notorious for being unable to control their electricity which would lead people to believe that the darling trainers might be picking bits of fried pichu off the landscape for some time to come. However, my beta is trying to convince me not to do this, so it could go either way.