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"Surfing will just take longer, but ok!" With that, Maddy jumped onto Jocasta's back and they took off, Star following close behind them.

Soon enough, they had made there way safely to the desert of Route 111. Maddy stood there at the edge of the vast expanse of barren and sandy landscape. She watched as the roaring wind carried sand in all directions. "Did I bring the goggles?" She asked, half to herself. She began to look through her backpack for them.

~arrives at the destination next to maddy~
Reaper: OK rest up crawdaunt. *returns crawdaunt*
Reaper: OK what now?

Reaper: Cacnea eh? This will be fun.
~walks around the desert in search of pokemon~

Reaper: Where is everyone at? No pokemon are in sight.
*looks around some more on his own*

~reaper finally spots a pokemon: trapinch~
Reaper: There goes 1.
~runs up to the pokemon and fades into battle~

Maddy tumbled out of the way as a stream of sand was shot at her. She whipped around and noticed a Sandshrew had approached her. She sent out Syuviel, it had been a long time since he had been in a battle. Syuviel began with a devastating Leaf Storm. His special attack was weakened, but Sandshrew took the most damage. Sandshrew countered by furiously swiping at Syuviel with his claws for a series of 4 hits. Syuviel quickly ended the battle by slashing the tiny shrew Pokemon with the sharp blade-like leaves that protruded from his arms. "Good work!" Maddy said, returning her partner. "I think I've done enough for now. I'll wait for the others." She went over and sat on a rock, waiting.

Arekku and Donovan come upon what looks like a large toy top that a child would play on, it was just standing there, doing nothing. The two began to walk around it but Donovan was blasted by a light blue wave of energy, Psychic. It didn't cause much damage, but sure surprised Donovan and Arekku. Arekku looked at the toy again realizing that it wasn't a statue or a toy, it was a Baltoy. "Bal." The pokemon said and hopped quite a far distance backward ready to fight. Donovan obliged and shot a Water Pulse to the waiting pokemon across the way. It was easily dodged by a single hop over the wave. The Baltoy seemed to glow and used Psychic just after. It hit and caused Donovan to faint. Arekku said, "What just happened!?" He thought about anything he knew about Baltoy then remembered his father's favorite strategy was to use Power Trick to rase attack with a defensive pokemon and raise defanse with an offensive pokemon.

"Alright! Lets go Glint!" She came out into battle, looking rather tough for the little softie she was. Baltoy moved first, using Rock Tomb to encase the glint, she dodged at the last second by moving outward and hopping up as the pillars of rock came to close her in. She launched an unexpected Ice Beam and hit the Baltoy, freezing it's lower half to the ground and doing a nice chunk of damage. The pokemon began struggling to get out and Glint ran in quickly to attack with Chomp, she managed but just after the opponent used Power Trick again to raise his defense. He barely hung on.

Arekku pulled a pokeball from his book bag and tossed it, hitting the Clay Doll pokemon. The ball wriggled three times and... ding! Baltoy was caught. Arekku walked over and pulled the pokeball out of the little ice suclpture. He then returned Glint and continued on.