[attr="class","wildtemp"]

It didn’t take too long for him to very nearly stumble on the first Pokémon that would catch his attention—and what in the name of everything holy and unholy at the same time was that?!

“Whoa!” he yelled as the funny-looking Voltorb chased after him with Electro Ball, and very nearly losing his balance caused him to smack into a nearby tree as the blur literally sped by before smacking into a nearby rock.

“Geez!” he grumbled as he pulled out a random Pokéball one-handed and tossed it forward, before seeing that it was his Camerupt, Aced.

“Whoa. Okay, uh… deal with that before it explodes!” he hollered, getting back up and getting well out of dodge range as a Rock Slide erupted around the strange-looking Voltorb.

Quick to retaliate, the strange Pokémon then charged forward again with another Electro Ball trying to whack into the Camerupt to absolutely no effect whatsoever—before an Earth Power juggled the funny Voltorb into the air as he threw the first Safari Ball one-handed.

---

catch attempt on h!voltorb!

[attr="class","wildtemp"]

Now that Aced was out and lumbering near him, the next Pokémon was about to do the same thing the funny-looking Voltorb did—but decided against it because well, there was a guard Camerupt and he wasn’t going to let anything get past him anytime soon.

Either way—the dual-type looked at the smaller Phanpy, who stared back with the two tiny little beady eyes before making a hasty run for it.

“Was there something nearby?” he asked as he turned to the Camerupt, who yawned before trundling forward slowly—did he spot something else?

“H-hey, wait for me!” he yelped, trying to keep up with the dual-type.

---

skipping Phanpy

[attr="class","wildtemp"]

The next Pokémon that came out and tried to challenge them was something that looked like—

Aww!

“Cute,” he grinned, however the Tirtouga only wanted to get to the water, so there was that.

“No, Aced, we’re not going to attack that one. Let ‘em get to the water… we have bigger pies to find.”

In a manner of speaking, of course. Two pairs of eyes watched as the Tirtouga flopped towards a nearby lake and then disappeared beneath the surface of the water once the Pokémon had managed to get to the shallows.

---

skipping Tirtouga

[attr="class","wildtemp"]

Okay, so by technicalities he was sort-of Galarian, by adoption at least? Well, that certainly threw a wrench in the moment he found out about his relation to Demiyah and Kazuko just being—a big-ass faced half-lie.

Well, the one person he wanted to yell at about it had been buried so long ago, so that was out of the question.

“Dad, you asshat,” he huffed before the Applin very literally almost smacked him on top of his head! He had about half a second’s worth of warning before the whooshing noise alerted him to the presence of the—

“Whoa!” he yelped as his Camerupt looked up and literally spotted it before he did, actually sending out a juggling Earth Power to keep it airborne even while it used Withdraw to boost its defenses—

And then the surprising thing happened, the Applin began using Rollout mid-air!

“Okay how in the hell is that even possible—” he trailed off before the rocketing fruit of a Pokémon came screaming his way, and the Camerupt had to sleepy-blink before trapping it again in the Earth Power juggle to wear it down!

“Geez,” he grumbled as he very nearly got a concussion from the fruit as it was eventually shaken so much it almost came to a wet, splattering crash on the ground.

“Yikes,” was all he could add after that as he dropped the second Safari Ball on its dizzy head.

---

catch attempt on Applin!

[attr="class","wildtemp"]

The next thing that came barreling out of the undergrowth was something… well. Something that reminded him of his ‘other’ half. (Well, technically, that side of the family, but then again it was so difficult to comprehend he was actually a Joy and not that…)

“That’s got to be the weirdest-looking Ponyta I’ve ever seen,” he wondered out loud, before the funny pastel-colored mare charged right at the Camerupt with a Psybeam attack!

“Whoa,” he yelped, getting out of the way as the Camerupt then countered with a Lava Plume attack that caught them off-guard because of the heat.

“Huh, so you’re scared of fire?!” he continued as the pastel Ponyta neighed, before shooting a Fairy Wind attack, which was met by the dual-type with a Rock Slide attacked that knocked it into a daze.

Quickly taking aim, he chucked the Safari Ball, realizing that he was about to run out of time if he didn’t pick up the pace!

---

catch attempt on the pastel Ponyta!

[attr="class","wildtemp"]

And there he was!

After the pastel Ponyta was sucked up into the Safari Ball, he then saw the main prize—the entire damned reason he came out here, literally incinerating a pile of oranges that it was about to eat.

“Oh no,” he chuckled quietly, because from the looks of things, this Fuecoco had a rather insatiable appetite!

The sleepy Camerupt waddled forward—and the Fuecoco was taken by surprise. For a moment there, though, the two stared at each other…

…before the Fuecoco rolled a scorched orange in the sleepy Camerupt’s direction. Aww!

“Well ain’t that nice,” he muttered quietly as the Camerupt lumbered over before sniffing at the orange—and then eating it in one swallow.

…okay, Aced, you’re a Camerupt, not a Snorlax.

Arashi continued to watch the silly exchange, before the Camerupt sneakily Yawned, catching the Fuecoco off-guard as it was eating through the pile of oranges.

…at least the other Fire-type didn’t see what was coming as it fell asleep mid-chew on another incinerated orange!

“That… you sneaky bastard,” he grinned as he then dropped the final Safari Ball on the Fuecoco’s head.

---

catch attempt on the Fuecoco!