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A bellowing noise announced the presence of the first Pokémon that Lars was pretty sure had scented him, but not seen him yet.

Shit! he thought as he recognized the familiar bellowing. Long, long ago… way back when he was still a rank and file Ranger climbing up the ladder—he had encountered a bloodthirsty, slightly bonkers Abomasnow.

That one rumored to have kidnapped people and eaten them afterward?

Yeah, he’d captured it and it was now ‘technically’ his.

The only problem here was that he hadn’t yet found a way to cure the bloodthirstiness from something that was supposedly a creature that was a guardian of the snow drifts a couple of regions over.

“Nope,” he said to himself, quickly backtracking and taking a different path to avoid the territorial Abomasnow.

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The second—

Lars almost burst out laughing.

He’d acquired one of their kind recently, and even if it was way too big to ride around in such a small place as Shoal Cave, he was determined to let the Mamoswine have some exercise time.

For now though, this one looked like it was searching for food. He didn’t want to interrupt it, or at the very least separate it from its family.

So he left the Mamoswine alone, who was foraging through the ground with its large tusks, looking for something edible it could take back to what he guessed was a family somewhere in another section of Shoal Cave.

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The last thing he meets is something he’s not even remotely interested in capturing, but he knows that somewhere out there, someone is looking for one.

Even if he doesn’t get anything in exchange, it was time for his one good deed of the day to make someone else’s day a little better!

Much as he wanted to throw out Ryujin and bring the house down literally with a single Hydro Pump, he decided against it. Instead, he calls forth his Gardevoir, Lynette. A bit of an unorthodox choice, but he has an idea on how to make this work.

The moment she appears, the Donphan strikes, rushing forward in a Rapid Spin maneuver. Kind of like those spinning tops of death with spikes all around.

But she’s faster, and a smirk before she warps out of the way with a well-timed Teleport ensures that the Donphan continues spinning like a top—before crashing into a nearby wall.

The cave shakes for a bit.

“Hey, don’t wreck the place,” Lars called out from one side, watching as his Gardevoir reappeared and took aim with a blast of lunar energy—a blindingly bright Moonblast attack!

The Donphan is still stubborn, spinning like a top, and doesn’t even notice the Fairy-type attack catch it on one side and forced it to stop spinning, crashing to the cave floor which makes the place tremble again.

“Geez, really?” was all he said next, Donphan getting up and charging with a Fury Attack. Another Teleport away from danger, and one more Moonblast later, the Donphan’s down, and out comes an empty Pokéball, flash of red light arcing as it attempts to capture the strange elephant…

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Catching Donphan!

(used Moonblast twice for one SOS endeavor!)