A little snappishly, you demand an explanation. For a moment you reach for Scallion’s Pokéball, thinking to help him down with Scallion’s vines, but then you remember that Scallion is unconscious because this little $#!t blew him up, and you’re just annoyed all over again. You give your attacker – who, you’re now pretty sure, must be Miguel the “super nerd” – a few minutes to climb down to your position. You don’t say that part, I guess because you’re a diplomatic little nerd, but you should. Y’know, like you could have done in the first place if he hadn’t tried to gas you and blow you up. “What do you want? I-I won’t turn over my fossils to anyone y-y-you’ll have to kill me!” Bird Jesus Christ, what is with this guy? You tell him – a little impatience coming through in your voice – that you just want to talk. “Koffing, stand down and come out!” A third Pokémon, with a purple sphere-shaped body covered in little vents, floats slowly out of the cave and hovers next to the Grimer. “AHH! I-I-I-I-I I surrender!” You see a young man with long black hair step up to the edge of the rocks above you, his hands in the air. It’s kind of a bluff you wouldn’t actually hit a defenceless person with a dangerous toxic powder like Stun Spore (…even one who just had his own Pokémon try to Smog you unprovoked). You tell Aura to fly up to the ledge and ready – but not release – another wave of Stun Spores. But you also realise that you need to bring this fight to a close. Part of you wants to immediately stop and take a quick sketch or some notes on how its slimy body is behaving – do Grimer have “muscles,” and what do the paralysing spores do to them? What is the actual mechanism of the effect this attack produces on a Pokémon with an amorphous body of sludge? You wonder some weird things for a kid in the middle of a Pokémon battle, I gotta tell you. The Grimer quivers as the golden powder takes hold, then slumps. Before it can regain its balance, you tell her to blanket it with Stun Spore. No time like the present, right? You have Aura swoop around behind the Grimer and fire off a focused Gust that dislodges its sticky “foot” from the hillside and sends it bowling further down towards the cave mouth. You have a few seconds to capitalise on that confusion. This guy just tried to gas you! Who gives a flying Feebas about his equipment? You realise that the Grimer is taken aback as well you can sense that it was expecting new orders and is unsure what to do now that its master seems preoccupied. You have just a moment to feel rather offended by that remark. “No, no, no, my equipment! That gas is corrosive, you fool!” Second, you hear a startled yelp from the ledge up above you, where the first enemy commands came from. First, with the smog gone, your vision is now clear and you can see a squelching, purple goo-like Pokémon that you recognise as a Grimer, clearly trying to sneak up behind you using the heavy brown clouds as cover and just as clearly alarmed that it has now been exposed. Aura appears from her Pokéball in a flash of light, and without even a word from you, she begins to flap her wings, using Gust to blow the clouds of choking, toxic smoke back into the cave it spewed out of. You have a Flying Pokémon time to use her. You need to do something about this smog before it chokes you – and hey, you’re a smart kid, you know exactly how to deal with that.
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