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Mike took the poke ball from Nurse Joy. "Thank you." He said as politely as he could, then, by force of habit, he flipped his wrist, sending out the ball, it hitting the ground, releasing Doug, and coming straight back to his hand. The Aron seemed a bit mad for unjustly being forced into his poke ball. Mike sighed and stood up. "I'm sorry, ok? I just figured it would be better if you went in there instead of forcing you to walk..." The pokemon roll his eyes, accepting the apology and his trainer smiled.

Mike then looked at Sean, who was looking away and he felt a little sad because of it. Maybe he said something wrong. It probably was him reintroducing himself, making his new friend feel like an idiot. Mike sighed and headed out the door, towards the poke mart, not knowing what to say. Doug, loyaly, trotting behind him.

As Mike entered the mart, he noticed the manager from before, who was already getting angry, seeing another "hoodlum" in his store. "Get out." he calmly said as he turned around, "We're closed." The trainer seemed a bit confused. "Aren't poke marts open 24/7?" The manager sighed. "Smart-ass. Just get what you need and get out." Mike sighed and quickly grabbed a poke ball, a potion, and two oran berrys, completely draining his funds. He then purchased his items and left, hoping not to anger the short man anymore.

When they left, Doug noticed a supicious looking trainer, looking around and then running out of town. The Aron soon gave chase, wondering what this man could be up to. Mike noticed his pokemon running around the time it exited Adinitium City and he couldn't just let his Aron wander off. So, he chased after Doug, hoping there was a good reason that it was running.

By the time Mike had actually caught up to Doug, the trainer from before let out his Houndour. "There you are you little..." His pokemon cut him off with a grunted a poked at the strange man. Mike crouched down, now watching the trainer. It didn't exactly feel right but, something about this person was, off.

Soon the man, sent a blue light from the poke ball, at first connecting it to the Houndour but, then the connection snapped and the trainer tried to walk away. His pokemon chased after him, whimpering a bit. The man then gave an evil look to the pup shouting, "Your useless and I don't want you anymore!" And then he continued walking but, the Houndour didn't want him to leave, biting at his pants, trying to keep it from walking. The trainer, now furious, kicked the pokemon, sending it flying back a few feet, hitting its head as it landed. "Stupid dog..."

Mike, who watched the whole thing, charged in, punching the bastard in his face knocking him over. While Doug ran and stood in between the wounded pokemon and its horrible trainer. "What the hell!? Why did you do that?" Mike, gritted his teeth and clenches his fists. "Because you harmed that innocient pokemon!" The man, rubbed his cheek and laughed. "That bitch (female dog) isn't innocient. She sucks and I released her but she wouldn't leave me alone!" Doug and his trainer both glared at this pitful excuse for a human being. "That doesn't give you the right to harm her! Now get out of here, you make me sick." The man stood and angerly stared at Mike. "Don't you dare..." The young trainer put up his hand, silencing him. "I don't want to hear threats from someone who's so weak that they have to hrut pokemon to make themselves feel better." And with that, the older trainer ran off, yelling something about revenge but, Mike didn't care to listen.

The Houndour's painful whimper, brought Mike back to what was important here. And he ran over and joined Doug, who was staring at the pup, wondering if it was going to be ok. The trainer tried to touch the pokemon, but she barely was able to crawl back and howled out in pain. He pulled his hand back and reached into his bag, pulling out one of his newly purchased, oran berries, carefully rolling it to the Houndour. "Here. This will make you feel better." The pokemon looked at the berry, then at Mike, and back at the berry before eating it. Its healing proteries quickly worked as the pup started feeling better, but couldn't get up. And having no other choice, the trainer picked her up and ran back towards the pokemon center, Doug running along side him.

At first the Houndour struggled but soon gave up, feeling to weak. Mike was able to quickly make it to the center and shouted for Nurse Joy, who came out. "What's going..." She stopped as she saw the pokemon and ran over to the trainer. "W-what happened?" Mike, panting a bit, handing her the injured pup. "I'll tell you later but, what's important now is this pokemon!" Nurse Joy nodded as she took the Houndour and rushed off to the emergeny part of the center, with Mike and Doug following her.