the things that you might like don't grow inside of me

And no further than thirty or so meters that confident jaunt in Elinda's step came to a halt as an irritated grunt sounded out from behind her. Blinking once in confusion and turning to see what had happened to Aron, she'd see that the Pokemon was still there.... sort of. The Steel type was no longer right beside Elinda as she had been a few moments ago, however, Aron seemingly struggling in place several meters back as she attempted to take additional steps forward only for her tiny legs to dig deeper into the soft ground. Frowning slightly, Elinda would cross her arms as she made her way back to the Pokemon, squatting beside Aron and looking her over. Gaze drifting over towards the tall grass next to the Pokemon Center, the girl would fall back to sit as she took a moment to yank off one of her hiking boots and reach inside, pulling out a single Poké coin. Slipping the boot back on and standing up, Elinda would casually flip the coin over in her hand before pulling it back to throw at the grass - at which point it would abruptly change course to a different part of the field and be yanked out of the air with a metallic clink as it landed on something. Definitely not the ground, though.

"First scrap of the night, Aron." Elinda said, a small grin coming to her face as she stood up and Aron turned around, nearly falling over in the process as Magnet Pull continued to exert its invisible tether on the Steel type. No point catching whatever it was - both of Elinda's current Pokemon were Steel types, and having something on the team with that ability would be more of a nuisance than a help. At least the ability narrowed down the potential possibilities as to what they'd encountered, even if they couldn't see it yet. As far as Elinda knew there were only two Pokemon with that ability, and only one that appeared all that often outside of Sinnoh and Hoenn. And if Magnemite had Magnet Pull that meant it _didn't_ have Sturdy, making this a fairly easy fight if they ended it quickly.

"Magnemite. Get close, bury it before they can fight back." Elinda muttered, just loud enough for Aron to hear as the trainer knelt down next to the Pokemon. Harsh, maybe, but they weren't going anywhere until the other Pokemon was unconscious and its ability stopped working - she couldn't even recall Aron to her Pokeball until then. Squaring her stance, Aron didn't need to be told twice as she suddenly raced forward, now helped as Magnet Pull more or less guided the Steel type to her target. As the grass whisked by her armored hide the wild Pokemon would suddenly become visible mere feet ahead, at which point Aron would brake, hard, sending a wave of mud towards her opponent with Mud-Slap. A dual Steel-Electric type itself, Magnemite did not get off easy as the earthen sludge slammed into it, blinding the Pokemon's one eye. Surprised and disoriented, a yellow flash would light up the evening as Magnemite blindly let off a blast of electricity in panic only for the charge to follow the dripping mess it was covered in down to ground. With her opponent still up but clearly hurt, Aron merely continued to follow her standing orders from Elinda with another Mud-Slap that slammed into Magnemite's center mass, knocking it down to the ground - this time, however, with no reaction, and with the invisible tether that had been holding Aron in place now gone.

"Oooooiiii. You get him?" Elinda called out a few moments later, the frantic shuffling in the grass having stopped following the brief flash of electricity. Even as she said that, though, Aron would come forth from the field, gingerly shaking off the clods of moist dirt still clinging to her feet.

"Gonna take that as a 'yes'. Come on, still plenty for us to do." Elinda continued, grin back to her face as she turned to continue down the path they'd been originally following, Aron once again in tow.

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Aron - Level 7 (+2 = 9). Sturdy. Headbutt, Tackle, Harden, Mud-Slap.