Research 004: Shock, Steel, Small Danger [catching]

While continuing their little adventure inside the power plant, Dokuro was starting to think there would be nothing of actual interest inside. Sure, he had high hopes in the beginning, but the more he scrounged around, and Salandit too, it was obvious that most of the things he cared about were already taken by whomever worked there, or any other looter, and the things that Salandit was finding were just random items dropped by other trainers; he wasn't about to just take them for himself. 

Dokuro decided to switch focus. If he wasn't about to find anything great for his research, he might as well get some more training on his pokemon. He has been trying to avoid any wild pokemon so far, but now, it was time to get into action. 

He saw a Houndour across the room, but he figured that it wouldn't be a good idea to train salandit against it, and catching it would be pointless since he already had her. "Let's keep looking for a different kind of opponent Salandit" 

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[Passing on Houndour. Also, any pokemon spawned here, random Personality Please~]

It was a big power plant. Dokuro and Salandit have been walking around for a long time. It was starting to get stale. None of the pokemon there was also of any interest to him. At this rate it would have been a pointless trip.

"This is turning out to be nothing like I expected it. Where are all my incredibly detailed research papers?! Where are the interesting electric type pokemon?! Salandit. We have to get deeper. Maybe if we go all the way in we will find them. This cannot end like this." 

Salandit was starting to look at Dokuro with a little bit of worry. Maybe the lack of success was starting to affect him? Sadly nothing she had brought seemed to have cheered him up either. 

"Let's go this way. I can feel it. Something good will show up." And something did show up. There was a Durant that way. A steel bug. Dokuro just stood there. Staring at it from a distance. With a disappointed face. It was dead silence. He just stared. The Durant stared back at him. Salandit looked at both in confusion. "No." Durant looked weird at Dokuro now. Dokuro just changed directions, and continued walking inside the power plant. "I know of some bug maniac who would be very interested in having more bugs in his collection. Luckily I'm not one of those." 

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[Passing the Durant] 

"No. This is beyond hopeless. I don't want this little tiny mouse pokemon, I want something more interesting. Something more challenging for my pokemon. I don't want this trip to have been a complete waste of our time." Dokuro was feeling hopeless as everything he expected hadn't come to happen. He didn't imagine it would have come to this. "I think it might be better to just go already... Let's go Salandit, we don't have anything else to do here..." Said Dokuro, moping his way back. 

Salandit was clearly worried about him at this point. This time she decided to look harder for something to cheer him up. She looked hard around the plant, as she had never searched before, and when she came back with a pack of papers in her mouth "Is useless Salandit... there's nothing left of interest here..." Salandit shoved the papers at Dokuro, who was then forced to check them out. 

"Uh?! This... this... This is actually something useful! Processes on how the energy is transformed into electric energy through means that do not hurt the environment and therefore it just gets recycled. Different uses for the electricity generated, oh, oh! Thanks a lot Salandit. You have saved me from giving up. Now, let's go! Let's battle the next pokemon we find, alright? And add that pokemon to our group. It won't matter what pokemon is it." 

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[passing the dedenne]

This time Dokuro was walking around the Power Plant more motivated, thanks to Salandit's efforts to bring his mood back. 'I guess that in the end it truly proved a good idea to have this trip with Salandit. I cannot wait to see how much better she will be in combat too.' 

And not too far, they saw a wandering Smoochum. 'A Smoochum? What could it be doing here? This is the weirdest place for an ice pokemon, specially one born from Jinx. But nevermind, that is something for later, I decided to catch the next pokemon to show up, so here goes nothing.'

"Alright Salandit, here is the plan, we're not gonna let that Smoochum get away. You have the type advantage here, so it should be pretty simple. Use Ember on her before she notices us." 

Salandit got ready for combat. She was trying to hide her presence to land a good surprise attack on the Smoochum.

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[Random Personality please. ]

Salndit suddenly threw a flame from her mouth right at the Smoochum. The surprise attack being super effective at disorienting the poor baby pokemon. 

'Hehe, I was expecting that' Said a voice inside Dokuro's head. "Uh? What was that?"  'You might be thinking what is going on right now, right? Well, this is all going according to your fate' "Are you the Smoochum I just attacked? Because if you really did see this coming, how come you got hit so bad by such a simple attack?"  'Ugh!' Smoochum twitched to Dokuro's words, and then quickly stood up again. 'Listen here you lil piece of-' "Salandit use Ember" 

Smoochum evaded it in the nick of time in an almost comedic way. 'Hey! Watch it!'  "Why should I though? I just wanted my Salandit to gain more experience through battle. But I guess you aren't such a big deal anyways."

'UH?! That's it!' Smoochum suddenly jumped on Salandit with her lips puckered, and gave her a Sweet Kiss right on the forehead. Salandit, who was not used to having another female act like that in her way, was severely confused. She started going crazy, releasing a mix of poison gas in the are around and sweet scents. 'Ugh! What is this? This filthy pokemon is yours? Hahaha!' Said Smoochum telepathically while getting away from the gases in the room. 

"Hey is your fault she is acting like that! Salandit! Snap out of it! Come on girl!" Replied Dokuro pinching his nose to avoid breath in the gas, then getting into low ground to further avoid them. But Smoochum took this chance to step on Dokuro's head. 'Now listen here. I'm not just your average pokemon. Speaking to your mind should be proof enough of that, don't you think? Now, let me tell you this, I can definitely bring you greatness with my psychic powers, unlike this... lizard over there' Smoochum pointed at Salandit. 'Now, what do you say you take me out of this place? It gives me the creeps with how lonely it is. What do you say?' 

'Ugh... this is gonna be a headache...' "Alright, but under two conditions. One, I'm your trainer. Don't go around doing stuff by yourself and disobeying. And two, snap Salandit out of her confusion, right now." 

'Hey, I can read your thoughts y'know? Who did you just call a headache?' "Now means now." Dokuro was getting really pissed off with Smoochum's attitude. 'Alright alright'  Smoochum proceeded to Pound Salandit out of her confusion. 'Happy now? m-a-s-t-e-r?' Smoochum snickered and giggled making fun of Dokuro. 'Hey how about I read your future? Since we're gonna be together now. Hmmmmmm, oooh, I see. Yesss. Yesss. Your future holds greatness in it. As long as you have me as your partner, you will be unstoppable, hehe'  

"Just come into your pokeball..." Dokuro was already regretting his decisions on this. But he wasn't about to back down on his word to capture the next pokemon they found. Smoochum giggled at Dokuro, and then went inside a Moon Ball he was holding for her.

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