Xanthia raised an eyebrow as Edward continued to insist he thought she was the type to go for cute pokemon. All pokemon were cute in their own way if you thought about it for a moment.  Come to think of it.. Edward's Abra was cute.  Especially now that it raised its arms into the air in a thumbs up. Letting out a small laugh, Xanthia turned to face the Skiddo.

[color=ed1c24]"Alright now.. Beep. Supersonic!"[/color] She ordered, placing her fingers in her ears.

Beep floated in front of Xanthia and let out a pulse of disorienting sound.  The Skiddo let out a cry as the disorienting sound engulfed it.  It staggered back and forth dizzily before tripping over its own feet and falling to the ground.

[color=ed1c24]"Beep! Thundershock!"[/color]

The Magnemite beeped and shot a burst of electricity from its body, which headed towards the Skiddo.

The Skiddo made a cry as the electricity jolted it from its confusion and its entire body glowed yellow as it used grow.  Without hesitation, it fired a seed, which implanted its self on Beep and swallowed the Magnemite in vines.  Leech Seed.  Great.  Just about the only grass type attack which could actually do damage against a steel type.  Either this was dumb luck, or the Skiddo before her had seen a steel type before.

Beep cried out as its body was jolted from the affects of Leech Seed.

[color=ed1c24]"Another Thundershock, Beep!"[/color] She ordered.

Beep shook its body and electricity sparked between it and the grass type across from them.  Of course, it wasn't very effective against the grass type.  Xanthia was really just hoping to paralyze the creature, as she heard if you give a status to a Pokemon, it became much easier to capture.  However, she had no such luck.

Instead, vines sprouted from the Skiddo's green mane, reaching out and slapping Beep repeatedly.  Of course, this wasn't doing much either... considering Magmemite was both a steel and electric type pokemon.  However, combined with the leech seed, it was doing far more damage than Xanthia liked.

[color=ed1c24]"Anubis!"[/color] she called, hoping the ghost type might help her.  [color=ed1c24]"Beep, try a Sonicboom!"[/color]

She'd been hoping to get a status affect on the creature, but she'd tried twice with no results.. and two times were enough for Xanthia.  Beep let out a wave of energy from its body in the form of what looked like a bunch of arrows.  The energy collided with the Skiddo, forcing it backwards and making it pause in its constant whipping of Beep.  Anubis floated over at the sound of his name, and cackled at Xanthia, pointing a finger and floating away on his back with the egg clutched in his claws.

[color=ed1c24]"Ah you insufferable.. Another Sonicboom Beep!"[/color]

Magnemite sent off another jolt of energy, this time the Skiddo was ready and leaped out of the way, before lowering its head and charging at them both.  It connected its entire body to Beep's body, and both of the Pokemon fell back. It was hard to know which Pokemon the Tackle had hurt more, as both fell back, staggering dizzily backwards.

Xanthia chucked a Pokeball at the Skiddo as it stumbled back and forth, watching as surprise filled its eyes and it was sucked into the Pokeball.  She held her breath, watching as the ball shook once.. twice... three times.. aaanndd... in an explosion of red light, the Skiddo exploded from the ball, vines stretching from its back to slap Beep in the face.  

[color=ed1c24]"OH GOD DAMNIT!  Beep, hang in there! Use thundershock!"[/color] Xanthia glanced over to Anubis as Beep sent out a wave of electricity into the Skiddo.  [color=ed1c24]"Anubis.  If you help me catch this thing i will let you play with the egg as much as you want for the rest of the day.  I won't try and get it back from you."[/color]

Anubis lazily ignored Xanthia.

[color=ed1c24]"Two whole days!"[/color]

This got Anubis' attention and he stood, making his way calmly over to Xanthia.  He nodded and set the egg in her hands before striding into the battle and narrowing his eyes.  Energy seeped from his eyes as he generated a Hypnosis.  However, he didn't really care to select a target.  So not only did the Skiddo fall asleep, but Beep did as well.

Xanthia grit her teeth as she stared at the smug look on Anubis' face.  She sent out a second pokeball, swallowing the Skiddo in a stream of light.  This time the ball shook three times and the red symbol in the center lit up.  A successful capture.  Her first capture of a pokemon.

Immediately after the ball ceased shaking, Anubis grasped the egg from Xanthia's hands and floated away with it, stroking the surface possessively.

Xanthia just glared at Anubis as he flew off, leaving her with Beep snoozing in the grass next to her newly captured Skiddo.  [color=ed1c24]"the worst."[/color] she grumbled, walking over to retrieve her new pokemon. She quickly returned the sleeping Beep to its pokeball.  Hopefully they wouldn't be out here for much longer.. because her new pokemon was sleeping.. beep was sleeping.. and now that she'd lost her trump card.. there was no way she was going to be able to rely on Anubis.

Heaving a sigh, she started to register her new pokemon by placing its ball on the center of her Pokedex's screen.  Immediatly, stats came up about the Skiddo, gender and level.. current moves, and habitat, as well as offering her the chance to nickname her new Pokemon.

[color=ed1c24]"Female.  I think i will call you Terra."[/color] she stated, typing the name into the Pokedex, before sliding the entire thing into her pocket and placing the new ball at her side.  Well... now she was down to one pokeball, two dusk balls.  She would have to pick up new supplies at the next town.  Which should be right after this field.. she hoped.  She didn't have any healing items.. the one thing she'd forgotten to pack on  her journey.  Like an idiot. 

Moving over to the center of the field where her and Edward had separated, Xanthia waited, scanning the area for a berry or two.  She just needed one for Beep.. and then she'd feel a lot safer about wandering around the fields.  Though.. now that she was paying a bit more attention to Anubis and her egg.. she noted he was doing a good job of keeping thing away from them.. mainly by scaring the pants off of a few wild pokemon.  Maybe this was to help Xanthia.. or maybe it was just because the mischievous creature liked to scare things.  Honestly.. Beep was easier to read than Anubis.. which was saying something because they were known for emoting very little... if at all.