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"The Trophy Garden." Ginji smiled as he landed too. "And an opportunity for a capture, this truly is a wonderful Fall day." he laughed slightly as he returned Dragonite and went stalking into the grass.

Bonsly sat under a tree, crying. "Poor thing." Ginji muttered as he threw an Ultraball trying to capture it without a battle. The little tree like organism broke free, the ball destroyed in the process. He sighed loudly as the Bonsly attacked him with a Slam, knocking Ginji off of his feet.

Ginji sent out Scyther, knowing that this battle would be short and sweet. In a swift fluid motion, the Scyther Slashed Bonsly. The little guy retaliated with another Slam, but instead missed and ran into a tree. Scyther mocked Bonsly as it attacked with a False Swipe, nearly KOing the little bugger. Bonsly attacked one more time with a Rock Slide before Ginji managed to toss a Great Ball.

Wiggle. Wiggle. DING!

Arekku had walked up a very short hill near an irregular shaped bush, "Um..." He scratched his cheek in thought. Weird, he thought that looked more like a Porygon's shape but the colors were that of a bush. "Either I'm losing it, Mr. Backlot has issues with his hedges, or that is a Porygon..." He walked up and poked at it. The 'thing' jumped, but sadly it was just the pokemon hiding behind the leafy over view of the bush, a Cleffa rolled out from the spot. Arekku took a step back for Mandy to hop off of his shoulder.

The little Cleffa wasn't too pleased about being disturbed, but was also drowsy from it's previous sleeping state. "Cele.." The cute little pokemon yawned with and agitated face. Since Mandy had to first move, she jumped up and launched a long stream of stars in a Swift attack. The unavoidable technique hit Cleffa forcing it backwards, the angered cutie got up and bounded it's way toward Mandy, ans it was coming down a little purple light surrounded it's forehead and Cleffa copied the attack with Copycat, sending the blast of stars at Mandy. The attack didn't do much but it baffled Mandy.

The Cyndaquil took a few steps back after breaking free of her shocked state and ran at full speed at the Cleffa. Just short of the small opponent, Mandy ducked her head down and Headbutted the fe with all she could, the attack sent the little foe back into the bush it came from. Arekku sighed, thinking he had accidentally defeated it.

"Well, I guess we'll have better luck next time, eh Mandy?" He was about to walk off but Mandy stayed and continued staring at the spot which Cleffa entered the bush. Suddenly the air around the battle area became filled with a soft lovely lullaby, Arekku recognized it as Cleffa's Sing technique. Mandy instantly fell asleep, "Aw, come on!" He quickly returned Mandy and tossed Zoey's pokeball. The Zubat came flying out of the ball and zoomed around the bush where the enemy was hiding.

Quickly Zoey sonar-ed in to where Cleffa was hiding and dove into the bush, knocking the foe out of hiding with a Wing attack. Cleffa tried to sing again but it's voice was meek and not effective enough to protrude Zoey's Ultrasonic voice. Arekku quickly grabbed a pokeball out of his pack and tossed it, the ball hit and the Cleffa began to try to break free...
''Wriggle,,
''Wriggle,,
''Wriggle,,
.......Ding! Arekku caught the Cleffa. Arekku looked around for Sunny, "She must have stepped into one of those miserable portals..." He shrugged,and returned Zoey. He found his way to the mansion, thanked Mr. Backlot and flew home, finishing the newspaper article on the way there and sending it into the office via TADS.

Max walked into Aqua HQ. He saw someone sitting on a couch. "Hi My name's Max. I'm new." he said. His Totodile came and headbutted him in the back of the legs trying to get his attention. "And this here is Totodile." he said motioning towards the little blue gator/crocodile thing.

Max turned in surprise to see another person. "My name is Max. Max Rant." he said talking the man's hand and shaking it. Totodile kept reaching up trying to get to the man's hand. "Apparently Totodile wants a handshake too." he said with a chuckle.

Arekku grinned and reached down to shake the Totodile's hand, "Hey Tommy!" He says after he's finished. The Cyndaquil on his shoulder hops down and offers to shake the Totodile's hand, "This is Mandy." Tess pops out of her pokeball as well, the shiny Machop bows to the other two in the room as a greeting. "Chop, Maaachop."

Tommy, noticing the extreme politeness, shook his head. "No, no. No need to be so polite, Max." he stated. Machoke came and poked Tess in the back of the head playfully, while Chiko somehow came to complete the Sinnoh starter trio. Tommy noticed the suddeness of it all.

"sure." Tommy stated, hustling to the team rooms. He'd need to be prepared.