[attr="class","Vgentemptitleb"]A wild pokemon appeared

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[attr="class","Vgentemptitle"]A wild pokemon appeared

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That little escapade with the Starly over, Honoka and her two pokemon continued on. Her Mareep and Buneary went back to chasing one another along the path, disturbing every little bug and bird along their way, and surely would have disturbed people, too, if there had been any. She found it perfectly hilarious, but other travelers and trainers might not. She did glance back once as they left the Starly where it was, and thought she saw a flutter of wings. A second glance confirmed that she had indeed, but they weren't feathered wings so much as scaled. A Butterfree had come out to inspect the commotion, although it was too late to have an interaction with anyone. It inspected the area and continued on after a few moments, giving no pause to the trainer and pokemon on the path ahead.

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Not much to her surprise, another Pokemon came out to inspect what the noise had been. It was a little late, and it was ahead of them instead of behind them, but it had come out curious all the same. Her two pokemon had noticed it as well, and her Mareep was absolutely delighted to meet another electric type pokemon, and the look in his eyes was literally begging Honoka to catch it. She couldn’t refuse him anything, really she couldn’t. She always fell prey to those eyes. She gave him a sigh and a smile and nodded.

“All right, all right, we’ll take him home. I won’t keep him if he won’t stay with us, though. Ok? I promise we’ll find you another electric friend you can hug all you want very soon, though, if he doesn’t care to stay with us.” Her mareep looked a little sad at that, but also understanding, and stayed beside Honoka as she prepped her Buneary to fight. The Mareep wouldn’t do much good against another electric type, and it hated having to fight against its own kind.

“Ok, kiddo, start with a dizzy punch for that one.” Her Buneary gave her a look that was like asking if she was crazy. “I know they have a tendency to...uh...blow up. I know. But maybe we’ll get the one weird one that doesn’t. You never know. If it looks like it’s going to, you should be fast enough to get away from the blast. If not, I have potions and I’ll owe you anything you want after this. Ok?” Her Buneary gave her a long suffering look but relented, preparing for attack.

The Voltorb, in the meantime, had noticed the party of three and was giving them eyes. Her Buneary would seem to shiver as if from the cold, none of them realizing that the Voltorb had used Eerie Impulse on the pokemon. Not that it affected much, but it was enough to unsettle her Buneary a little and prompt the bunny pokemon to attack and get it over with sooner rather than later. She would charge the Voltorb and, spinning, would punch it in the head -- body -- whatever. To their luck, it would cause the Voltorb to become confused.

:Nice! Ok, follow it up with Jump Kick and Focus Punch!” Voltorb rarely had any protective moves, and confused as it was, the Jump Kick would hit without worry of being blocked and causing damage to her Buneary in the process. The Focus Punch took a few moments longer in which the Voltorb tried to attack back, but hurt itself in its confusion with a failed Spark attack. The moment after, her Buneary would unleash the Focus Punch and cause the Voltorb to faint.

“Talk about a streak of luck for you guys today. You’re getting really good at this kiddo! We should see if we can get someone to teach you some new moves, what do you say?” She would say that as she threw a pokeball and came up to where her Buneary was next to the fainted Voltorb. The Buneary looked excited at that prospect. Even more so because Honoka mentioned as an afterthought that they should go for ice cream or treats or something after their day out.

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