Pine Gap: Justin Pryce WIld Encounter #5

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A Wild level 15 Slakoth has appeared. Please select a Pokemon for battle.

[Tyger]

The Pineco went on it's way, obviously bored or tired or frightened by the team. Whatever had motivated it to move had done it's job, and once again Justin and his team sat in the solitude of the forest, only bothered by the occasional wild Pokemon. If asked, Justin would say that he didn't mind. But, in all honesty, the man was attempting to attract a few Pokemon to him. He wanted a Pineco, so that was done. He'd captured a Slakoth earlier, and barely dodged an angry Mankey, but another Slakoth was on his mind, and what better way to motivate the lazy Pokemon but with food?

A loud burp rippled through the air, and Justin turned his head in shock at Freyja, who had gulped down the rest of her vegetables without so much as a sound... until now. There were a few seconds of silence before Justin let out a hearty laugh, crouching down to give the Ant Lion a pat on her head. "Hey, that just means ya liked it. Good 'nuff for me!" He snickered, cutting the last few bits of his meat. The rest of the dinner went by relatively undisturbed. The only sounds were the the stirrings of the nightlife, and the munching, happy chirps and grunts from the nomming crew. 

However, another Pokemon approached. Simba raised his head in curiosity to see the Slakoth practically dragging itself to the party in an attempt for food. The rest of the team didn't seem to notice as the sloth drug itself across the grass, so Simba stood up and walked over to Justin, nudging him with his nose. "Hey, Justin, we've got ourselves some company." The sentinel, and practical leader of the group took it upon himself to warn the trainer. Justin nibbled a few more times before looking up, watching the cute sloth approach with determination. "Oi, That's a cute one. I've never seen one move this much..." Justin murmured, watching the sloth approach with interest. However, when it neared the table, it stepped on something painful, causing it to cry out in shock.

Dayn, who had only woken up for the food and was still slightly groggy, jumped out of his skin and whirled his head towards the intruder that had managed to make it so close to Justin without the poor buffoon noticing. Angrily, it released a Dragon Rage towards the sloth in order to save his trainer. Justin gasped and fell over backwards to avoid getting any aftershock. "Whoah, whoah! Easy! It's okay, it just wanted food!"

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As Slakoth was noticed by Justin and his group of Pokemon the sloth Pokemon was really hungry and was ready to fight for a plate of vegetables if that was what it took since there did not seem to be anything nearby that was anywhere near as appetizing as the food Justin had. The young normal type was still in decent pain from the pine needle that was stuck in it's side but it was too hungry to try and remove. Slakoth slowly made it's way towards a plate at first without incident but it was not long before it's meal was cut short.

As the small Pokemon turned around a large blue ball of flame was headed it's way. The sloth Pokemon had not chance in the world of dodging it and the flame scored a direct hit sending Slakoth into a tree. As Slakoth slid down the tree it was rather shocked by the power of the attack. It could hardly move and was exhausted as the attack took a large amount of energy from the already lazy Pokemon. Slakoth was not sure what it had done wrong to deserve being attacked like that but it sure knew it was getting tired.

As Slakoth daydreamed about going to sleep it remembered a trick it had learned to escape from a bad situation. Slakoth were the king of Pokemon when it came to using Yawn and this one was no exception. It opened it's mouth as wide as it could and let out a loud yawn hoping to make Dayn sleepy so it could get away. Knowing the attack took a turn to take effect however the poor sloth hoped that it could last one more turn so it could try and get away as much as it wanted to get a meal.



Wild Pokemon Battle

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Slakoth: | Level 15|
Health: 15% (7/47 HP)
Status: Normal, Attack -1
I only wanted a few bites!

Justin's Dayn: | Level 27 |
Health: 100% (96/96 HP)
Status: Normal, Yawn will cause the sleep condition at the end of the next turn.
Fear the might of Dragons!

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[Tyger]

Justin would talk to Dayn later. Even though the whole team was scared and startled by the sloth, there was no reason to just outright attack like that. It had been in defense, so it did mean a bit to Justin because of that, but still, watching the Slakoth get hammered like that was something Justin didn't want to see again, considering it was just crawling to get some food. Cringing as the Pokemon flew from the table to a tree across the way, Justin shot a glance over at Dayn before walking out towards the Slakoth. The lazy Pokemon yawned at Dayn, trying to get the behemoth dragon to fall asleep. "I was startled, is all." The Pokemon grunted, feeling Justin's distaste from practically miles away. However, the Pokemon bowed it's head and returned to it's meal while Justin dealt with the Slakoth.

"I'm sorry my team attacked you. I didn't order that, and I know you just wanted some food. I'm sorry he attacked you." 

Justin eyed the scorched fur that blackened the Slakoth. Covered in ash and it's own burnt fur, the Slakoth managed to look adorable (Justin had a soft spot for these guys) and horrified at the same time. The Pokemon would need a good healing, as well as a good bath. Standing up after assessing the Pokemon, Justin returned to his bag and pulled out a pokeball. "Let me make it up to you. We're really not all that bad." Justin murmured, crouching down beside the Slakoth. Surreo, can you grab a few vegetables? There should still be some on the grill. Extra smokey ones.

Justin couldn't send the thoughts to Surreo, but Justin had managed to put together the thought that Surreo was always listening. It had unnerved him at first, but Surreo had enough self control to know when to listen, and when to butt out. Nodding his head, Surreo walked over to the grill and the rest of the team eyed the Pokemon with confusion. After this ordeal, Surreo was just going to keep eating? It wasn't until the Gallade walked over to Justin did they put it together. They tended to forget to. Rhoan, the Pignite, merely crossed her arms. "Hey, the thing lived through it, least we can do is take it along with us, ya know?" Rhoan snorted, and the team nodded in agreement. Justin rolled the Pokeball towards the Slakoth, and then placed the veggies down on a plate. Hopefully he'd catch this sloth on the first go. If not, Slakoth wasn't about to do anything. They were lazy half the time, weren't they?

-1 Pokeball (Auto-updated)

[The REAL Joey]

As Justin rolled the Pokeball forward, it tumbled onwards over leaves, twigs and all manner of natural debris created by the forest. Eventually, the determined red and white capture sphere found itself dabbing against the Slakoth's nose. Absorbing it in a red light, the Pokemon was covered from head to toe as it was digitised and scooped into the centre of the spherical device. Rattling back and forth gently as it absorbed in the Pokemon fully and shut close, the capture was now under way. Rocking back and forth, it was processing the newly acquired Pokemon.

Once...

Twice...

Thrice...

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*CLICK*



Congratulations! The Wild Slakoth was captured!


Please fill out the following information about your new Pokémon:

Slakoth
Name: [choose]
Gender: [Male/Female]
Level: 15
Moves: Scratch, Yawn, Encore, Slack Off
Ability: Truant
Nature/Personality: [choose]

[img src="http://pldh.net/media/pokemon/gen5/blackwhite/287.png]
[b]Slakoth[/b]
Name: [choose]
Gender: [Male/Female]
Level: 15
Moves: Scratch, Yawn, Encore, Slack Off
Ability: Truant
Nature/Personality: [choose]

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Victory!

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Your Gyarados fought courageously, gained 750 experience and has levelled up!
Dayn is now Level 28!


Your Trapinch observed brilliantly and gained 750 experience thanks to Exp. Share!

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