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Faleen didn't have to wait long before a small form topped with white appeared off not far in the distance. A waving arm could be easily made out as it moved closer and closer. Finally it caught up with the Agent. Of course it was Nyx, she was due to meet Faleen for training, after all. "Hello Faleen! Are you ready to get started?" She certainly was, grabbing a pokeball from her belt and holding it up with a smile.

"Alright. I'll keep that in mind." Nyx chuckled, "Maybe I should have brought one of the fire proximity suits." She'd had one of them on when she caught Tazieff as a Charmeleon. Battling the fire type hadn't been difficult, or even require a suit however, as Faleen had commanded one of her pokemon to use surf and Tazieff had been caught up in the collateral damage of the attack. The scientist pressed the release on her pokeball first; The ball snapped open and a large winged lizard materialized beside her. "I brought Beaker, if things get out of hand."

Tazieff let out a low rolling growl when she appeared from her pokeball, not at any one in particular however. She just felt like growling. The Charizard spread her wings, stretching, preparing for desert time. Which reminded her... She desired sweets. Hopefully Nyx remembered her sweets bag. The large lizard sniffed the air and lowered her great head down to nose at Nyx's pockets.

"Wha- Yes. Hello." Nyx reached into her pocket and pulled out a pecha berry. It wasn't the pokemon's favorite sweet, but it was a start. The Charizard's head pressed against her trainer's hand, and a large tongue snaked out of its mouth and wrapped around the berry slowly before it snapped back into the waiting maw and Tazieff occupied herself with chewing and slurping loudly. "Alright. You'll get more if you behave, Tazieff."

"Yes, I caught her in the volcano. She's evolved since then." Obviously, Faleen could see that. Tazieff's head swiveled around to look at the blond human when she heard her name. A large head and muzzle moved right into Faleen's path of vision and stopped a few inches from her face, where two large nostrils began investigating, displacing the Agent's hair and showering her with hot dragon nose-breath. "Tazieff, stop that."

Nyx sighed and gently tugged the lizard's face away from Faleen, guiding the creature by the horn. "When you're ready, you can let it out."

Perhaps the Charmeleon's sudden appearance and roaring startled her, perhaps she felt that this new pokemon was playing a game of who can roar louder, or perhaps Tazieff just wanted to make noise. Whatever the reason, the large female Charizard placed her front claws onto the sand, spread her great leathery wings, and roared as loudly as she could at the smaller lizard pokemon.

Nyx covered her ears in response to the Char-line's shouting match; Tazieff certainly had a pair of lungs on her. At least Faleen's Charmeleon was not the most intimidating thing in the immediate area... though that was little comfort, as Nyx's pokemon could, on a whim, decide the humans would make better chew toys, or that she'd like to see what happened when you dropped one of the frail creatures from a great hight. Thankfully, her attention, and current desire, was on making noise.

It seemed that she had won. Tazieff rose on her hind legs and let out a string of hissing, growls, and chirrups while she beat her wings triumphantly, kicking up sand around her. "Tazieff, settle down. Sit." Nyx reached a hand into her pocket and waited for a moment. "Sit." This time the cacophony of celebration ceased and the great lizard let out a low rolling purr as her large head swung around to look at her trainer. "Sit." The large reptile's head cocked to the side slowly, and then very quickly she lowered her massive bulk and sat on her haunches. The scientist pulled a sweet treat out of her pocket and held it out as a reward to her pokemon, who licked it out of the human's hand and chewed contently.

"Alright. Now that everyone is calm..." Nyx said as she stroked the leathery skin between the Charizard's two horns, "What can you use as leverage over Charmeleon? What does the pokemon get out of working with you?" Nadja had driven that point home with her after the few times she'd been on a training session with the Elite, and Nyx had eventually even gotten Beaker to obey. The trick was finding it. Most pokemon could be swayed with food, however, as in Tazieff's and Newton's case. "And see if you can get him to sit."

"Why does he hate you?" Nyx scratched her head, not entirely sure where to start with the seemingly blood-thirsty Charmeleon. "I know this line tends to be temperamental..." Maybe it was just vicious, like the Charizard that escaped from the labs and left a few distinct scars on Nyx's back. Never mind that they'd done experiments on the beast that, because of a malfunction in equipment, had caused it to go on a rampage.

Tazieff finished her treat and turned her attention to the noise-making foe she'd defeated. If she noticed the other pokemon's aggressive posturing, she made no sign of it, choosing rather yawn and to twist her neck around, gnawing at an itch on her flank.

"Wha-" Nyx didn't have a chance to finish her thought before a thick smokescreen sprayed out of the fire type's mouth and enveloped them, reducing vision to the hand in front of their face. All she could do was throw an arm in front of her mouth and nose and cough.

The Charizard may not have been paying attention to posturing, but she did take notice of the thick smoke and her trainer's coughing. Tazieff reared up on her hind legs and started flapping her wings, blowing away the smokescreen.