shiningboxofjustice | PSL Post - Athrun Zala and Yukari Takeba

That's what I'm thinking.

Yet another thing I never thought to hear.

[He starts walking, and urges her on.]

I think I'd like to try to catch one of the poisonous ones. Could come in handy.

Honestly... it's not really something I'd ever thought I'd say.

[ Sure, she wasn't afraid of bugs, but they could still seem disgusting. But it just seemed like the pokemon was different somehow. ]

... Well, I guess they could. I mean, I haven't really seen Bulbasaur use any poison moves yet, so I don't know how well it'd actually work out.

To be fair, Charmander hasn't used any fire moves, either. Hopefully it will come in time.

Yeah, I guess they just haven't... figured all of that out yet.

[ Though now she had to wonder just how pokemon really learned moves anyway. It might be natural, but... somehow it didn't seem to be just that simple. ]

Or something.

[Athrun stops as two Weedle emerge from the tall grass.]

Well, here we go. With any luck I'll have one of these caught.

[Out comes Charmander.]

Well, good luck.

[ Yukari motions for Bulbasaur to go join Charmander since he's still out, and he immediately charges towards he nearest Weedle without even needing a command. ]

[And after this battle ends, Athrun is up one Weedle and his Charmander has learned Ember. At the moment he's healing up his new catch.]

Well, now things should get quicker.

[ Yukari's smiling as she's trying to patch up her Caterpie. Trying being the operative word, because well, it's trying to wiggle out of her hands whenever she's trying to apply the potion to it and instead trying to basically tackle hug her. The potion probably stung or something... or maybe he wasn't all that hurt. It was one of those answers, anyway.]

Yeah. Having him actually able to use a fire move will definitely help out a lot. Now if only this little guy would actually let me use the potion on him so we can leave.

Yeah, I noticed it doesn't like to stay still.

[He's actually kind of amused, though he would like to keep moving.]

Would you like a hand?

Please. That'd be a big help.

[ Yukari does manage to get her Caterpie to sit still now. But... she had to drop the potion bottle to do it, since she needed both of her hands to do so. If only because she needed to basically pet it to keep it still. ]

Of course. I'll take the Potion, in that case.

[Athrun reaches down and picks up the Potion, then carefully sprays Yukari's Caterpie with it. Since it can't move, the Potion makes contact and does its job.]

[ Once that's done, Yukari smiles as she looks down at the small pokemon. ]

See, that wasn't so bad, was it?

[ Her hands still petting the creature, and she's not exactly sure but it seems like it's letting out content sound... before it turns around and starts trying to climb up her arm, which gets a giggle out of her before she starts to help it up. ]

Okay. Okay. You can stay out of that ball for a little while.

It sure seems attached to you. Surprising, considering you just met.

[Athrun climbs back to his feet, as well, and resumes walking.]

Yeah. I know. Maybe it's just naturally friendly?

[ Or it... could be the ball thing? But somehow, she didn't think it'd work this much like it. ]

I kinda feel guilty about having Bulbasaur beat it up now though.

To be fair, it did attack us first. We reacted.

[Athrun carefully scans his surroundings as he walks. He doesn't sense anything.]

... Yeah, I guess.

[ Nothing yet either that she could see, so maybe it'd be nice for a while. Maybe. ]

Either way he's not upset about what happened now, so I guess feeling bad might be a bit silly.

Indeed. Focus on the future.

[Athrun believes that it's important to remember the past, but he doesn't mention that here.]

After all, that's the only thing we can change.

[ Yukari frowned at that, but nodded after a few more moments. And another nuzzling headbut from Caterpie.

He was right, after all. ]

Speaking of the future, are there any other pokemon that you're thinking of adding to your team later?

[Athrun shakes his head. There are over seven hundred different kinds of Pokémon, after all.]

With the variety of species there are, I haven't tried to plan it out. For now, what I'm thinking of doing is just keeping an eye on what's in each area and figuring out if anything fits then.

[ Yukari nods. ]

Yeah. I guess that's a good way to think about it. It's not like we really know a lot about the pokemon yet. [ Or even really had a good idea about which ones were even easy to find in Kanto. ]

Indeed. We'll have to play it by ear for some time now, I'd guess.

[ Yukari didn't say anything else for a few moments, mostly because she wasn't exactly sure what else to say there since the conversation had kinda...died off. But before she could even think of anything else, her eyes were drawn to a yellow shape that darted out in front of them for a moment before scampering away. ]

... Do you have any idea what that thing that just ran in front of us was?

[The movement had also caught Athrun by surprise. He's staring at the direction that the thing ran off in.]

...Not really. Looked like maybe some kind of rodent? It was moving so fast, it was hard to tell.

[Even for a Coordinator, it was fast. Athrun caught a bit more, but that's all he's got.]

... Think we should go try to get a closer look at it?

[ Of course, that might make it attack them, but they did still have their pokemon. It really shouldn't be that big of a problem, right? ]

I think so. The more we know about this place, the better.

[And that includes researching Pokémon. Athrun fixates on the direction the creature went and begins to move.]

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