Lucki

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Lucki had an idea. "Go, Raiden!" The wiry electric-type should be able to keep up. "Spark!"

Raiden tensed, gathering the electricity around himself, then tossed the sparking cloud of energy toward the absol, who dodged aside easily, then darted forward.

"Quick attack!" Lucki shouted. Raiden blurred forward, but the absol twisted aside, avoiding the attack and raking him across the shoulder with its claws.

Maybe... "Okay, wait!" Lucki called.

The manectric slowed to a stop and glanced back for a second before focusing on the absol again, which was creeping to the side, then lunged for him.

"Thunderwave!" Lucki shouted at the last second. Startled, Raiden released an unfocused, all-around shock like that of the Electrode in Wattson's gym. The absol tried to dodge, but it was impossible. The attack hit and the absol spasmed in paralysis. Lucki threw a pokeball. It hit the absol, turning it red and sucking it inside, only to burst open again immediately.

But the absol was looking worse. It stumbled slightly as it stood up, no longer so graceful.

Quickly, Lucki called, "Quick attack! Bite!"

Raiden slammed into the absol. It managed to recover and twist away from the following bite, but it didn't counterattack. Instead it jumped back.

"Another quick attack!" Lucki shouted.

Raiden ran at the absol, who tried to dodge. He hit it glancingly and it clawed him viciously in response, opening bloody cuts on his chest and side, then jumped back again. Raiden was staggering himself now too, but he was still standing.

"Quick attack, and spark!" Lucki called.

Energy built around Raiden. He ran at the absol, who managed to twist out of the way only to be hit by the spark attack.

Lucki threw another pokeball. This time, it held.

She sprayed a super potion over Raiden's injures, then recalled him. Then Lucki opened the absol's pokeball.

It materialized standing, facing her. "Release me."

"You talk!" Lucki gasped.

Her voice was smooth and silky, a seductive milk and honey sound, faintly exotic and utterly alien.

"Release me," the absol said again in the same beautiful voice.

"Hey, wait a second," Lucki told her. "I'm not a bad guy. I guess wild pokemon tell stories about us," she admitted, remembering how Raiden had acted, "but we're really not like that."

The absol seemed unmoved. "Release me," she said a third time.

Lucki sighed. "Look, just give me a chance, okay? If you don't like being my pokemon and still want me to let you go, I will."

"You'll regret this," the absol said. "I am disaster."