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It didn’t take him too long to find something—well that something was literally an overgrown apple.

“Wait, how the hell did you end up all the way out here—“ he remarked as he blinked at the strange Pokémon. Sure, he already had one of them, but…

A quick check of the trading forums he frequented revealed that there was someone else who was looking for this Applin, and he decided to grab it. Well, at least he could slowly get rid of the stockpile of Pokéballs he had with him, considering he had nothing left to catch now as his entire ‘armada’ was fine just where it was.

“Now, how to deal with you—“ he trailed off before summoning his Ribombee, Carina. Spinning in mid-air, he pointed at the Applin.

“Warm it up, will you? Do your worst—and by that I mean don’t oversweeten your Pollen Puffs!” he called out as the Ribombee made a mad beeline towards the Applin, spinning several yellow-colored Pollen Puffs as she did so.

The Applin was apparently hungry and unable to move, and quickly opened its maw before the Ribombee threw all spun yellow Pollen Puffs at it, shrieking in surprise because holy shit that was a big-ass apple and she did not want to be eaten! Several more Pollen Puffs followed afterward.

Once the Applin was full, Alexei approached it, unable to hold back a bark of laughter.

“So it couldn’t move because it was hungry?” he chuckled, to which the little Ribombee was screeching its way for being so greedy. “Well, ain’t that a hoot.”

Alexei then threw an empty Pokéball at it, because somehow, somewhere, he knew someone was going to take care of this little… food… pie… thing.

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catching Applin!