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Wait a moment—wasn’t that… wait a holy fucking second didn’t Voltorb have a white bottom half? What the heck was this—

He then remembered Eva Morales’s research findings about Pokémon that had different forms—was this possibly one of them? That definitely had his curiosity—how could a different-looking Voltorb exist?

“Well, you can join the rest of my other strange almost-familiar looking Pokémon,” he hummed right before the strange Voltorb began firing a barrage of hard-shelled seeds at him—a Seed Bomb attack!

Right then and there a loud roaring noise came from the skies, before the Salamence came screaming in with a Flamethrower attack, incinerating the Grass-type attack before swinging the flames around and bathing the strange Voltorb in flames.

A few moments later the strange Voltorb attempted a Gyro Ball attack, however literally threw themselves straight into the continuing incinerating hear of the Flamethrower before it started to glow ominously—

“Oh, no you don’t!” he yelled as he threw one of the four Safari Balls at it before it decided to go the ol’ exploding route—

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catch attempt on h!voltorb!

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The next thing that came across his path was a—aww, cute! It had floppy ears!

The only problem here was that the moment the Phanpy saw him, said Pokémon immediately charged at him in a Rollout attack, trying to knock him off his feet!

“Whoa! Hey! That’s not nice…” he trailed off as he barely had time to leap out of the way once the Ground-type ricocheted and redirected their direction, continuing the Rollout attack.

It didn’t take too long before the same loud, draconic roaring noise cut through the air and came screaming down with a Dragon Claw and swatted the Phanpy off its trajectory.

An angry squealing noise came from the smaller Pokémon, before rolling again—this time in a Take Down attack; however another Dragon Claw swatted the Phanpy back before rolling to a stop at his feet.

A second Safari Ball is bonked on the Phanpy’s head afterward.

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catch attempt on phanpy!

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The next thing that comes waddling his way is something that he’s very familiar with—considering he already has one of his own!

“Aww, cute turtle!” he hummed as he watched the Tirtouga flop around—headed towards the nearby lake.

So with a little encouragement, he then shooed the dual-type along—without catching it, of course. Once he was sure the turtle had managed to get into the water, he then returned to where he was originally headed—because he was looking for something.

Well, two somethings.

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Okay, admittedly, he already had one variant of the edible Pokémon—but didn’t his friend Remiel Calcifet have a lot of these…? Or was it the Sinistea that the Galarian Ambassador hoarded?

Either way.

He cackled as the Applin came crashing down, kind of like how a certain person discovered Gravity (not the Pokémon move) and the Salamence came in screaming with a Flamethrower at the ready, almost incinerating the Applin.

“Whoa, Gabe! Whatever gender the Applin is, they didn’t do anything to you!” he yelped as he had to dive out of the way because those flames were still hot!

The Applin, not wanting to be outdone, used Withdraw and hid deeper in its apple, before lashing back with a Rollout that went ricocheting into the trees—only to be met with the burning maw of the draconid’s Flamethrower.

Once the Salamence was sure that the ‘threat’ had been handled, Alexei then chucked the next Safari Ball at it—and knew he had to pick up the pace because he was running out of time…!

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catch attempt on applin!

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The moment he saw the—aww, cute! It reminded him way too much of Guillermo Marceliño’s Zuza—well, the smaller version of her, that is.

(And hilariously, out of the myriad of his partner’s Pokémon, it was Zuza of all things he got along the most with. Wonder why that was.)

“I already have you, but she’s weirdly-colored… and besides, I’m not sure how Zuza would take to seeing another one of her kind. I’onno if she’s a hella jealous mare, so…”

He then left the pastel Ponyta to wander into the undergrowth…

He was sure the one he was looking for would turn up soon. Now the problem was, he was going to be doing another back to back to back Safari trip because… well, he’d heard things about what was coming soon!

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“There you are!” he breathed out, before the cute little Fire-type (he remembered Andrea Vaneau had one) gave him a buck-toothed smile…

…and then began causing a racket with its extremely loud Hyper Voice, which made him clap his hands over his ears!

“Whoa! Not nice!” he grumbled as the Salamence came down from the skies, flinching at the loud noise and screaming as an avalanche of boulders in the form of a Rock Slide came crashing down and around the Fuecoco, who was still causing a fucking racket.

(This little one should be arrested for disturbing the peace!)

And then the next thing the Fuecoco did was trap the Salamence in an Encore, which was a bad idea considering that the move he’d last used was Rock Slide (this would only make the battle end much faster)…

The Salamence cackled before even more boulders began raining down and around the Fire-type, determined to yell his ear off.

He could feel himself shouting the words, “Make him shut up!” because the Hyper Voice rang really loudly and painfully all around them—

Before a particular bunch of falling boulders knocked the Fuecoco upside its head.

“Is it over?!” he continued, before the Salamence vehemently nodded—he had no idea he was screaming at full volume.

The last Safari Ball was then thrown at the conked-out Fuecoco, sporting a rather large bruise on one side of its head (this is what an encore of falling boulders can and will do to you).

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catch attempt on fuecoco!