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And he was back in the ruins. He didn’t know why this place called to him, but he found himself here more often than he thought he might. It worked, he guessed. He wasn’t so creeped out by the more mystical species, anymore. Whether that was from exposure or a near perfect team he wasn’t sure, but that didn’t matter. What did matter was that he was continuing to strengthen his companions. He’d initially planned on a single, well-balanced team, but he’d grown attached to some of the others he’d befriended, and figured it might be a good idea to train them up as well, just in case he needed to rearrange his party for a battle.

He thought he heard something approaching and stopped, his hand moving to the pokeballs that stored his current team. Whatever was coming after him, he could handle, but first he had to figure out what it was.

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((Anything!))

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What have we here?



Species: Baltoy
Gender: Genderless
Ability: Levitate
~Moves~
Guard Split
Power Trick
Imprison
Explosion

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A Baltoy? Easy enough, he was sure. He let Bolt out of his pokeball to watch, but sent out River to do the actual fighting.

“Surf,” he ordered. That move should work well enough. They could faint their opponent and move on, and Bolt could get a taste for how battles were done.

River did as requested, and a wave of water rushed toward the wild Pokemon. Baltoy fainted, and Luke fed a treat to each of his Pokemon.

“Well done, now let’s get out of here.” He returned the Pokemon to their pokeballs and headed off to his next job, like always.