It didn’t take too long for the first thing to literally fling itself in his path—by falling with style from a nearby treetop. Damian blinked and backed up a few paces as the thing…literally landed a few steps ahead of where he would’ve gone—if he was walking maybe a little faster he’d have a Pokémon on his head, and that would’ve been weird. Eyebrows perked up slightly as he took a look at what the hell had decided to interrupt his search.

Once his Pokédex had spat out the information he needed, the Mantyke let out a little squeak—before suddenly opening fire directly at him with a Water Pulse attack! “Whoa! What the hell?!” he yelped, barely diving out of the way as the Water-type attack struck the tree behind him. “I haven’t even done anything to you!” he began, shaking his head slightly before pulling out a Pokéball at random and sending its occupant out.

His eyebrows shot up in surprise as his newest member of the team, an Elekid, emerged from the burst of red light. Punching its fat little fists together, the Electric-type then dashed forward with a Thunder Punch, without even so much as a warning from his companion! “Whoa! Excited much?” he said with a chuckle in the Elekid’s direction—who by then had smacked the Mantyke with the super-effective attack before rolling away.

The dual-type let out a squeak of surprise, before quickly calling up a Wide Guard just in case it was attacked from out of nowhere. However, the Elekid instead decided to use Screech, catching Damian off-guard with the loud explosion of noise that came from the Electric-type’s vocal chords. It sounded like a grossly out-of-tune electric guitar, and he shook his head a few times before sticking his fingers into his ears to clear out the ringing…

“Whoa. That’s insane,” he muttered, watching as the Elekid this time let out a Thunder Shock, catching the incoming Mantyke head-on before it could use Headbutt in an attempt to get close to its opponent. “Wait, let it try hitting you,” he said to the Electric-type, “…let’s see what’ll happen,” he added with a bit of a grin on his face. Another Thunder Shock ripped through the area, driving the Mantyke back even further—before it released another Water Pulse attack.

“Meet it with a Thunder Shock, then close the distance with a Thunder Punch!” he went on a few moments later, and a jolt of electricity collided with the incoming wall of water; which caused the Water-type attack to evaporate on the spot the moment it had met the other attack. The Elekid then made a quick dash forward, and smacked an electrified fist at the Mantyke a few moments later, sending it backwards and rolling away from where it had fallen.

“Nice…nicely done!” he called out, cheering a little for the Elekid, who was now waddling back to where he stood.

After the first one had been taken care of, a second blur came in, way too fast for Damian’s liking. He tried to follow it, before it came to a stop and he realized what it was—it was another one native to his home region!

“Well, then. You want to take care of it?” he asked the Elekid, who then waddled off and quickly aimed a Thunder Shock at the annoying little Ninjask, who’d taken to flying around just above and out of the Elekid’s reach in an attempt to annoy the other. To annoy the Electric-type even further, the dual-type then boosted its Speed further with Agility; which infuriated the Elekid to such a point it began firing off successive Thunder Shock attacks; each aimed at an attempt to take down the other—or at least force it to land so it could smack the living daylights out of it with its other attack!

“Wh—whoa,” he muttered a few moments later, feeling the fine hairs on his arms suddenly rise because of the static electricity that was present in the air due to so many Thunder Shock attacks being aimed rapid-fire by the Elekid. Grumbling, the Electric-type then reared back before firing its biggest Thunder Shock attempt at the Ninjask, which had attempted to dash out of the way again with another Agility-assisted boost, but the Electric-type wasn’t going to have it, no way.

The Electric-type attack finally landed on the Ninjask, before it was forced to come to a landing—where the Elekid rushed up to it and began pummeling it with Thunder Punch after Thunder Punch. In retaliation, the dual-type used Fury Cutter; and for a while it was alternating between electrified punches and loud, almost-deafening buzzing noise between the two.

The altercation then ended with one last surprise Thunder Shock point-blank at the Ninjask, before another Thunder Punch sent the thing flying away from where it stood—before the Electric-type continued to release built-up excess energy between the weird things on its head.

Even if he already had an Electric-type that he was currently training, he wanted to have some variety when it came to having as many Pokémon on his team as possible.

So the moment the Shinx appeared, he knew he had to get the little feline—despite him already having the Elekid. What? You should always have at least more than one available option… he thought to himself as he quickly recalled the Elekid before sending out another one of his companions—and the one he felt best was prepared to deal with this kind of shit.

As the Sneasel emerged from the flash of red light, the Shinx then hissed in its direction—just because the dual-type had leered in its direction. “Luna, please play nice… you know what? Don’t overdo it. That’s all I ask from you,” he said, before the Sneasel charged forward with an Agility-assisted boost charge as the Shinx then Charged up its energy for just in case the dual-type came too close.

A sudden crashing of icicles from overhead caused the Electric-type to look up for a few moments before letting out a yowl of surprise as an Icicle Crash came smashing down on it. A few moments later, several flash-frozen chunks of ice came shooting right at the Shinx as the Sneasel then switched up to Ice Shard—deciding to take the thing down without even having to approach it.

A few moments later, the Electric-type then rocketed forward in an attempt to slam its electrified body at the Sneasel in a Spark attack; but due to the Sneasel being quick on its feet—had gotten out of the way with another Agility-assisted escape. Annoyed that its target had eluded it not once but twice now, the Shinx then turned around and Charged itself up again before attempting another charging Spark attack.

In retaliation, a second barrage of large, frozen obstacles began raining down on the Shinx as another Icicle Crash came out of nowhere to stop the Shinx in its tracks. Not amused at the obstacles, the Electric-type then tried to wreck the little temporary ‘prison’ it had gotten trapped on—only for the Sneasel to suddenly rain down another series of Ice Shard attacks on it right as it had broken out of the frigid trap.

Another Icicle Crash ensured that the Shinx wouldn’t be getting away, and it was at this point Damian tossed a blank Pokéball at it, watching as the Electric-type was absorbed into the flash of red light…