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It wasn't often that Neko would travel away from home, or wander into another town even. Though, for this specific reason she had to do so. See, she was on a mission. One that involved training actually, as her Riolu was pestering for action and the gym had been particularly quiet as of late.

"Look, if we find some trainer to battle and 'hone' your abilities will you shut up for the next week?" It wasn't like the trainer standing glaring at her male Pokemon was unenthusiastic about the whole affair. It was that Andrew was always running around, fighting and sparring with everything in sight! The poor woman had no time to just sit and relax anymore.

She'd left some of her Pokemon at a vacation center and that seemed to help a lot but there were still a bunch of them causing mayhem! Andy snorted at his new trainer in a very haughty manner and was about to reply when there was a loud deceleration of battle.

"Ah ha! Finally, a challenger!" The blue and black male ran off at top speed, his little legs pumping away.

"Oooh great, just what I need!" Neko let a hand rest on some of the balls around her belt, having bought very few with her for this trip. If worse came to worse...well she'd let them out. Running after her Riolu, and arriving on the scene was a shock for...there, standing and looking just as she remembered was Poke! And, wait...a strange blue sea dragon thing? Neko shook her head. No...no she was still there.

"Huh."

Andrew jumped up and in, straight away looking about ready to bust some knee caps. "HEY! Fight me!!!"

((SAIYA FTW!))

Before poke could say otherwise, it had gone way out of her control. A child had suddenly jumped in to ask for a pokemon battle, and before she could tell him not to, a rioulu had came and now a ralts and the rioulu were duking it out.

"That...just went way to fast..." poke stood a little dumfounded, before she noticed her old friend neko. "Neko!" poke called out with a wave. Though before she said anything else, she stood in front of the kid.

"Hey, you!" she told him sternly. "I will not have you atatcking my friends like that without my permission! now, how about you mossly off somewhere else, before I sick on you a much stronger pokemon". She hoped the kid got the message.

Andrew had looked joyful at the Ralts focused attack on him, he jumped out of the confusion quickly all ready for the next set of attacks, even preparing his own to use! That was...until the kid recalled his Pokemon and ran in the other direction. "YOU WEAKLING!!!" It was quite a comical sight, the small creature waving his paw at the retreating boy.

The trainer walked over to Poke, and smiled. "Hey, fancy seeing you here. Nice work by the way sending that guy off!" Neko turned towards this new face, glancing over her in an analytic manner but not to be anything except curious. Once she spoke a hello all of her guard went down and Neko smiled. "Hello, its nice to meet you!"

Andy pulled up next to the others with a very large sulk. "No one wants to battle with me anymore!" This was why they had ventured out. The female giggled at her Pokemon. "If you'd stop jumping every Tom, d**k and Harry maybe you'd find more willing fighters."

Sighing, she held out a hand. "Well, I'm Neko and this is Andrew!"

Laughing at her surperiority, poke turned to see that already, raieth and neko had introduced each other.
"It was quite weird" she jumped into the conversation. "I was walking in the forest, then I stumped upon raeith here...and I accidently threw a pokeball at her" Grinning slightly she noted neko's newest pokemon very much wanted to have a pokemon battle. "hmmm..oh well, I guess I'll have to calm down Andrew there as well, shouldn't I?" Poke then placed her hand in her other pocket, pulling out a small poke-ball and then chucking it to the ground. It burst open, lighting piling outwards untill it revealed what was inside; A glaceon.

"Well then, how about it?" she asked Neko.

Tick mumbled something that she shouldn't have said. It was lucky the Riolu wasn't really listening.

Raieth didn't hear what she said either. She was too busy looking at the Glaceon that had just appeared. She took a step back, there was something about the cold blue pokemon that made her uncomfortable. She decided to place Tick on the ground so she would have a little more mobility to watch the fight. She looked at the two women. "They no get hurt?"

Andrew was pleased with her initiative to the battle, running at him quite fast. Yet, the tiny Pokemon had agility on his side. Along with hours of honing his weight to the advantage, and a burst of quick attack, the Riolu was up and over her, to the other side. "HA! I might be small but you'll have to put a tiny more effort into your lovely attacks my dear!" He smiled, genuinely enjoying himself.

Scratching the back of her neck, Neko vaguely heard Raieth ask if they would be harmed but she was too focused and Poke had already answered her. She wanted to make a command, but little Andy was so gung-ho and if he lost with her commanding attacks there would definitely be a blame so she just kind of, shrugged and said "Be careful! Watch out for ice attacks, Andrew." He didn't have a large attack range himself.

The blue fighting type smiled, and nodded. He was part of the team but not...he trained with her because she had asked him to and for now this arrangement benefited him. "Lets see how you handle a little...force!" Andrew leaped forwards fast as he could, trying to gauge her movements and reactions while throwing his palm out. "FORCE PALM!!"

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*walking out of one of the near by hotels, gigaus streched slightly and cracked his neck* hotels, bad idea. *a sighed as he said this, obviously displeased with his experiance. after lossing his shack house, he has to leave the forest altogether. without equipment, save for his clothing and mask, pokeballs, and has basic supplies, giga was worried about sleeping outside*

soot the caterpie: =riding on his masked trainer's shoulder, the little bug was still half asleep after his night. half of it was spent getting the little baby togepi to stop running around while the other was finding a place to sleep that was comfortable= naayy. at least we got some sleep

digit the togepi:-wrapped in giga's arms, the baby egg was playing with the buttons on the sleeve of his long black coat, not really aware of the world around him-

*going to the center of town to get his bearings, giga spots small pokemon battle taking place. checking his side pocket, he makes sure he has his usual stuff and decides to head over* soot. pay attention to this.

soot:=foggly looking up from his dosing, soot also take notice to the battle= fine...

*geting close to the side of the battle, giga watches the little blue and black fighter lanuch an attack at the cool eon he was fighting. fouced on the eon's movements, he doesn't even notice the tall blue humanoid near by*

digit: -the little togepi on the other hand did. looking up to watch the action, not quite sure what was going on, he see the blue woman with a red fox, cocks his head to the side and stares- what is that?

"I should be faster huh?" Aya was asked, and she smirked. "Well then, if it's speed you want, then speed you will get"

Hearing her pokemons comments, poke decided it would be best to comply. "Quick attack!" she shouted out.

Before the little rioulu could touch her, Aya had jumped upwards, copying her opponents earlier move, and landed on the other side. She waited for his next move, beaming.

While the battle was happening, poke noticed a small togephi walk up to Raeith, and then it's trainer walk over as well. She then noticed while Raeith was enjoying the battle, tick did not. She frowned, not quite sure what to do about this; first and formost, she was a trainer who liked to battle. But what kind of message was she sending to those two?

"erm...it's best to play to your pokemons strengths while you battle" she explained to them. "Cause...thats how you bring out their potential"