confusion [c/wild]

[attr="class","smdbody"]how unlucky for him that the first thing he ran into was a grass type; and not just any grass type, it was a pansage, something that he's already encountered and defeated before. feeling a bit disappointed he decided it was time to give his trevenant some time to train.

"i'm going to swap you out," he whispered to the milotic, who had no problem with swapping out. liam waited for the pansage to charge forward. he knew it would attempt an attack that was close ranged. so before the monkey got a chance to slash at mira he called her back into her pokeball before summoning out his trevenant.

"fifteen, use poison jab," he ordered. the elder tree pokemon looked confused for one second before realizing the situation. fifteen's arm started to glow purple before swiftly jabbing at the grass monkey's side. that was more than enough to faint the poor monkey.

"good job," he praised. he decided not to capture the pansage.

[attr="class","smdbody"]after the grass monkey liam hoped the next encounter would be something different. just anything not small and weak, as bad as that sounds. he wanted pokemon that he could use in his team. just any pokemon that could help with future gym challenges. trevenant had the next one covered but he wasn't sure what the third gym was.

stopping their path was a purple pokemon that looked fierce to the bone. he pulled out a pokedex and scanned the purple pokemon. it looked tough, but he wasn't sure what role it would play on his team. besides, he already had trevenant who knew a poison move.

"you can have a break," he said. he recalled the elder tree and called out his milotic, who was gearing for a battle. "don't make physical contact," he warned the milotic. the purple pokemon had poison point which was dangerous.

"scald like normal," he ordered. mira let loose a stream of hot water. the nidorino was hurt by it, but it retaliated with a poison sting attack, hoping to poison the milotic. the attack hit but no poisonining happened, luckily. mira followed that with two fast bursts of scald attacks. but the nidorino did not fall yet.

"it's tough," he admitted. mira waved her tail to agree, but it looked like it wouldn't survive another attack. so the milotic stood strong as the nidorino charged up for a peck attack. in the end she spat out one more water attack and that was that.

"good job," he complimented. no capture was attempted.

[attr="class","smdbody"]after that battle he recalled the milotic back into her pokeball to give her some rest. their journey so far had been pretty hectic, skipping from route to route not to mention the gym battle they just had. but it looked like not much rest was going to be had as another pokemon appeared.

this time he chose trevenant, who needed some battling experience more than mira did. fifteen popped out of his pokeball and eyed his opponent. "should be an easy battle. confuse ray then go in for a poison jab," he ordered.

the elder tree tried his best to confuse the kangaskhan before running close to deliver a poisonous jab. both attacks hit, but since fifteen was close enough the kangaskhan quickly leered and then bit into him, using a bite attack.

"stay close and poison jab!" he yelled out. the trevenant stayed practically beside the kangaskhan, delivering two poison jabs to the poor mother. fifteen backed off. the kangkaskhan tried to deliver one final move but hit itself in its confusion, resulting with it fainting by itself.

no pokeball was used. he was being very picky about what he was going to capture.

[attr="class","smdbody"]finally, something worthwhile came along. that sounds really mean when he thought about it, but it was true. the further one progresses along the less one cares about for newer pokemon. some of them, like liam, had no time to raise a pokemon from scratch. not again.

a flash of red appeared and back went the trevenant. it was getting rather tiring switching his pokemon between battles. he sent out mira and pointed at the drilbur who popped out of the ground earlier.

"you got this easy," he said. mira knew what move she needed to use so she hovered forward and shot out a stream of water at the drilbur. it was agile and fast enough to hop back into the ground to dodge it before reappearing in front of mira, delivering a dangerous metal claw attack.

it didn't do much however so mira immediately shot out another stream of hot water and this time it connected. it was enough to knock the drilbur back. 

the drilbur attempted another attack but fell when the final stream of water came. scald was more than enough to take down the pokemon.

this time he'll catch it. he threw an empty pokeball at the drilbur and walked over to mira to give her a pat on her head. "good job."