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The first thing he encounters, it’s something he already has in the form of Lucius, his own Chandelure.

He knows how…territorial that particular Pokémon can get, and the moment he spotted this one, he knows better and gives it a wide berth. Oh, he’d heard the stories of how the Litwick line can literally suck out souls to make more of their own kind… mostly with lost children.

That alone was terrifying in and on itself.

Shuddering slightly, he continued on his way, keeping an eye out for a particular Pokémon he was chasing for. He didn’t have so many left on his wish list anyway, so to speak.

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After he left the Chandelure behind, the next thing he came upon was a… lion cub.

Wait, a lion cub? Doing a double-take, he blinked, before sighing—that certainly didn’t look like a rabbit, although it was pretty close.

Unfortunately, Lars didn’t have any room for this one on his team, either. Watching the Litleo pick at something in the area, he then gave it as wide a berth as he could—because even if it looked playful now, he was pretty sure that was going to come back and bite him in the ass if he let his guard down.

Hey, he was being careful, to say the least!

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Even though he already had a Typhlosion, he remembered seeing someone who was looking for a Quilava and wanted them. In exchange was a Snorunt—and he was meaning to look for a Glalie anyway, at any rate. He remembered he already had a Froslass, so…

“Well, then,” he remarked as he threw a Pokéball at random forward and watched as the shape that unfurled from its depths was a… it was his Swampert, Ryujin.

Well, that was a one in six chance, so who knew he was going to get that right the first time?

“Go, but don’t overdo it, okay?” he said as the Quilava unleashed a powerful Eruption. Wasting no time, the Swampert took a deep breath before releasing a powerful blast of water—a Hydro Pump attack!

The Quilava wasn’t going to back down from a challenge, and switched tactics to a Lava Plume attack. While the sheer heat of the Eruption had somehow evaporated the water, the incoming pillar of fire was easy enough to douse—a second Hydro Pump attack cancelled out the incoming attack.

Before Lars could get his bearings the Swampert slammed her hands down onto the ground before a powerful tremor shook the area—almost knocking him off-balance as well.

“Seriously?” was all he could groan—but it was effective. The Earthquake attack had halted the Quilava in its tracks, and out came a Pokéball, catching the passed-out Quilava in a burst of red light.