"Thanks for the warm welcome!" Carl had never really had friends before this and was grateful that he was making one now. He continued, "Well should we go look for someone that could help? I saw the lab assistant go this way." He turned around and was headbutted by a blonde haired boy. "Whoa!" Carl yelled as he fell to the ground from the immense force from the pace that the boy was running at. "Pip!?" Piplup too, fell from the force. Piplup rolled out of the bag, and was picked up by the welcoming arms of a stranger, with bright red hair.
"Hey, Are you alright?" Shay said, hoping that the boy, Carl, was okay.
"Yes I'm fine thank you." He replied, softly taking Piplup from her and placing him in his bag.
"Are you ok." he asked Piplup, placing him in his bag.
"Pip!" Piplup replied, nodding its head, as to imply it was fine. Piplup then turned to scowl at the boy who was still rubbing his head, sitting on the ground.
"That wasn't very nice!" Shay said to the boy, scolding him.
"Sorry 'bout that. I got a little excited. Heh, heh." The stranger cleared his throat, and then walked away.
"That was uhhhh, a little suprising." Shay laughed.
"Yeah very, interesting. So... What should we do until they hand out the Pokemon?"
"We could have a battle!" Shay smiled as she talked, then she realized she hadn't battled for 2 months.
"Sure, I love a good battle!" Carl exclaimed, excited for the battle.
Carl led Shay to a small arena inside the lab.
"Come on Skitty," Shay said nervously as Skitty hopped off of her shoulder.
The arena was a little on the small side, but was enough to to suit them. The each went onto opposite pedestals and sent out their Pokemon.
"Go Piplup!" Piplup was as enthusiastic about the battle as his trainer was. The symbiosis between them was a good thing to have in battle between trainer and Pokemon.
"Lets do this Skitty!" Shay said confidently, even though she had no idea what to do. As Skitty pranced into the field, she looked over at Carl, hoping that he would be the first to act.
"Piplup, use bubble!" Piplup ran and jumped up in the air, and sprayed down on Skitty. But the bubble was no match for Skitty's speed.
"Skitty, now, come back with a Zen Headbutt!" Skitty went on with the command. Then realized she was about to hurt another Pokemon. She did not want to, so tried to stop mid-way. This caused Skitty to roll into Piplup, causing some damage, but more to itself as it rolled into a post at the end of the Arena.
"Finish it off with a peck!" Piplup jump onto the podium that Carl was on, and jumped of, flawlessly performing a nose dive peck. Causing Skitty to roll over and faint.
Carl walked over to Shay, and shook her hand, complimented her battle and looked at the crowd that had gathered around to see the fight. At that time many wanted to challenge Carl.
"Whoa!"