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Cass heard the crackle of thunder, and then looked up at the sky - it's as clear a day as ever, which means ... there must be an electric type nearby. She is concerned for a moment if something happened, and moved towards the sound, accompanied by her Trubbish Jon, her Comfey Martin (who masks the garbage smell with Aromatherapy) and a new addition to her team - an Empoleon that she called Xinlan. Xinlan's righteousness and knightness makes her rush forward the most, but ...

Empoleon are more suited for a slow, regal walk.

As soon as another person comes in view, twirling her Togepi around, Xinlan inevitably trips. The small pouch that she's been carrying for Cass is sent flying, and Cass can only watch (in slow-motion, in her heart) how it's sent flying right into the mass of Voltorbs.

And lands neatly in-between.

"Oh my Arceus," she whispers, staring at the situation at hand, then at the other person - who maybe wanted to train here? The Togepi is charming enough, at least, not to charm only the Voltorb, but also Cass thoroughly, causing her to lose focus for a moment. "Oh, that's a really cute Tog- uh, hi! I hope we didn't interrupt your training, and ehm, maybe we can join you ...?" she asks, trying to put on a charming smile as well- that's just awkward now.

And she also, backhandedly, recalls a Xinlan in shock. She'd only suffer more with her type disadvantage and clumsiness.

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Cass really wishes she'd bring Umlaut - the Toedscruel could easily deal with electric attacks at least, and he can be quite stealthy if he really wants to. At least he's not one to disrupt nap time when everyone's in a pile on the floor. But, she'd have to make do. "Yeah, that's ... that's a really tall order," she remarks, looking around with concern - but she takes a deep breath. Now's not the time to give up on all that.

"We'll do our best," she reassures the other, and- oh, right! "I'm Cass, by the way." She turns to the charging electrode again, and taps Martin. "Martin, activate Grassy Terrain. Let's stay up," she commands him, and her Comfey lowers down, gently sending energy through the earth. It's subtle enough not to wake any Voltorbs just yet, and provide a little bit of healing over time.

"I don't think I'll have any ground moves with mine, but we'll figure it out." She turns to Martin again, who starts floating up a bit after embuing their environment with magic. She's focused on her pouch, too ... oh dear. If one of those decide to explode, it'd be gone for ...

Her hands hover over one more pokéball. "Let's make it quick," she adds, summoning Joseph, her Mr Rime (Mx Rime?). "You're nimble, right? Can you start progressing towards the pouch there?" Usually with a mild personality, he now looks at her as if she's gotten a heavy ball straight at the head.

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Cass nods at Nina's words, eyes locked on her pouch - her hands rest on another pokéball, too, but she doesn't call her most agile dancer yet. The Power Gem hits, but the Electrode's not taken down by a single blow, unfortunately. Starmie could dodge the Rollout, but- oh, there it comes.

"Teeter Dance!" Cass commands, her voice an odd mix of rushed shout and whisper. Immediately, Joseph falls into pace, tip-toeing tap dancing out of the way of the Rollout, and also managing to disorient the Electrode enough to str- "Move on!" Cass urges him through gritted teeth, while looking at Martin, then- "Sona, come out. Let's, uh, play some golf."

The Tinkatuff looks at her trainer with an incredulous look in her eyes. "Sorry, nothing is really precise enough not to wake the others ..." However, Sona is too far to get a precise shot in, and ... as much as Cass loves her, she's really not the most dexterous out there. And the other ranged attacks she can think of right now have a bit of a splash damage zone which isn't too great. Cass looks at the other trainer if she's got any better shots at the Electrode, while also staring at some of the mimimimi Voltorbs ... "Hypnosis," she shout-whispers to her Mr Rime.

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Now that the idea has left the confinement of Cass' mind, in which everything generally sounds like a good idea, the teen feels her cheeks redden. "Uh, yeah, I thought like- if they don't explode- that fast, then maybe- we could get it somewhere else ..." She, admittedly, has never seen any pokémon explode yet.

That is, until now. And even then, she only felt the heat of the impact, almost throwing her off-balance. "!!!" she barely held back a scream, trying to keep quiet even if it's futile now, anyway. Martin floats away unharmed, while Cass makes a break for it as well, following closely behind Nina. It's only fortunate that Jon's in her arms, highly alert, using Sludge Bombs to keep dangerously close Voltorbs and Electrodes away.

Sona is escaping by virtue of Skitter Smack, but doesn't actually hit anything - just uses the first stretch to get behind, and then get the hell out of there. She, by miracle, does manage to hit the pouch, sending it flying safely into the grass where Cass would search later. There's only one of her mons still there ... ... Joseph, dancing and dodging for his life as he combines his Teeter Dance with some Hypnosis and follows suit.

Out of breath, Cass would come to a halt when Nina does. She forces herself to take deep breaths, but also lets herself fall onto safe grass. "That was ... one hell of a workout." She definitely feels some burn scars on herself. "Are you ... alright?"

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Cass is breathing heavily, forcing herself to slow it so she could actually get some proper oxygen intake to recover. It's also distracting her from a rather painful sharpness around her leg area. "Yeah, I'm-" she starts, before taking in Nina's words proper.

And the pain sets in.

She hisses, and then hisses again as the Togepi splashed water on it, and the burn gradually fades. Her skin's still red, but she feels the sharpness, the heat fade into soothing cool. "Thank you, I didn't notice that," she says, now looking almost embarrassed - her pain tolerance could be almost worrying at times. She carefully stands up, and would questioningly raise her hand, asking both Nina and the Togepi for permission to pet her healer.

"But you're really good, having dodged all of them - that was quite the minefield, huh?" she laughs, trying to calm her heart down from that almost real near death experience there. (Given pokémon and their abilities, this actually still counts as normal.) "Never ran that fast in my life before."

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Cass' face immediately smiles fondly as the Togepi goes for the pet first, and she indulges for a moment in making the little egg as happy as can be. She does listen to Nina while doing so, and nods with a more serious face (an attempt; the Togepi is too adorable to actually stay too serious).

"Yeah, maybe a flying type would be good to bring ... or something really tanky," she wonders, taking one hand off the Togepi to do the classic thinker pose, "But I think swooping in and getting you out is probably the best?" She glances back at the direction they just came from. It's eeriely quiet, but frankly, she really preferred that over an Overture 1812.

"Oh, we're on our way to Petalburg City - are you headed there, too?" she wonders. Partially motivated by the Togepi's presence, she does also think it might be nice to chat for a while if it worked out for both of their journey plans.

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