Somehow, their party picked up a new member. Evie was happy. The more the merrier, as she had said before, and it wasn't like she was even expecting to travel as a group before she got here. Everything seemed to be looking up, and with that, the world of Sengun opened up to her. The group was about to enter the forest, and with that, it was time to find a new pokemon to catch. Lots of critters wandering around here, birds, small mammals, things like that. She saw a lot of pokemon she recognized in the grass, as well as a small bird that she didn't recognize at all... [i]So that's a Sengun pokemon, huh?[/i] Her pokedex revealed that its name was 'Kestra.' It was what she wanted, for sure, but birds were problematic for her. As it stood now, she stood a chance of taking one out, but she didn't want to risk trying to catch one. Trying to catch it meant conceivably leaving her bug-type Venipede in against flying attacks for an unknown amount of time, and she just didn't want to risk it. Not without a backup plan, anyway. She shook her fist at the small bird nearby, who just sort of seemed confused. [i]Next time...[/i]

She needed to have a fallback plan. If it wasn't going to be something new it had to be something totally radical. Something like a cool black dog or something. One that looked super pissed and like it wanted to bite somebody. Yeah... something like that. Something like the Poochyena eyeing her up right about now...

The script was writing itself, here.

Of course she had to catch it. Poochyena looked like it was gonna either battle her pokemon or else it'd battle her face, so this was only gonna end one way. "Get out here, Venipede, we've got a battle on our hands!" As it flew out of her pokeball, Venipede looked ready to fight, as if it had been antsy the whole time. [color=cc00cc]"Vennn..."[/color] it muttered under its breath. [i]Heck yeah, we're set to go.[/i]

It would have been nice to have a super flashy battle or something, but at such a low level, there were an awful lot of tackles and poison stings flying around and not much else. Only so many times you can shout "Venipede, use poison sting!" with flair. Evie slowly had become aware that she probably looked like an idiot. [i]Again.[/i] But it didn't matter. A few pokeballs down the hole and she was one teammate richer.

Venipede made out with minimal bumps and bruises, and her newest canine comrade had been poisoned and couldn't even summon the energy to to be mad anymore. Evie herself was tired and just a little bored thanks to her notoriously short attention span. But she was happy to have filled out her roster even just this small amount more. Tossing the newly-filled pokeball out, her new Poochyena slumped lethargically out of it and onto the ground.

"Pathetic showing, man, come on, where's your energy?" Evie rustled through her back searching for something before finding what she was looking for. "Here, good for you I brought these with. You'd be surprised how often they get left behind. Don't want you wasting away in that ball, right?" Poochyena whimpered lazily in response. After she administered the antidote to heal its poison, the little dog seemed to want nothing more than to just sleep. [i]Maybe it's a low health thing. Gotta admit I know how that feels.[/i]

Still, she was curious about her new battle partner. Sure they looked cool, but what could they actually do? Her pokedex held the answer. She began mumbling to herself, to solidify the information in her brain.

"[i]Female Poochyena... dark type...[/i] coulda told you that. Knows [i]Tackle and Howl...[/i] kinda useful I guess... [i]Quick Feet...[/i] so it was actually faster when it was poisoned? Guess I didn't notice... Yeah, alright. Rock on, little dude... er, little chick? Everybody's got nicknames for their Pokemon, and it looks like I missed that boat, so I guess I'll figure out what to call you. Gotta be something cool... something with feeling..." [i]What would she call her Pokemon...?[/i] "Is Fang too generic? Too last year? I need a name that's super cool. Rad as heck. Totally rad. The raddest." The more she thought about it, the more it made sense. "Yeah... [i]'Rad'[/i] is about as good as anything. Not the most ladylike but hey. Nobody's gonna care when you're trying to bite their face off, right?"