Sol wasn’t one to wait around for people to come to him or try to join a group. If he was going to travel with people it would happen organically.
He ran off on his own, ending up at the route that led towards Sinaloa. Sol instantly got to work training with Tyrogue. An Alolan Rattata appeared and attacked the duo for no reason. “Counter!” He shouted and the Tyrogue narrowly avoided the bite attack, then used his knee to slam into the rat’s stomach, inflicting extremely effective fighting type damage on the normal/dark type and knocking it out.
Sol and Tyrogue continued to train like this for quite some time, swiftly defeating alolan rattata’s with fighting type moves like Mach Punch and Vacuum Wave.
Amidst the training a lone Lillipup wandered onto the scene. “It’s so cute!!!” Sol’s eyes sparkled as his gaze set on the puppy. However, the Lillipup had a bit of attitude, despite its cute appearance. The dog lunged at Tyrogue with a tackle attack, blowing him back since Sol didn’t have the heart to demand a counter attack. “Tyrogue, let’s try not to hurt it too much! Use Fake Out!” Tyrogue jumped forward and clapped his hands right near the puppy’s face, emitting a burst of wind that blew the Pokémon back and caused it to flinch. Sol seized the opportunity to capture the Pokémon in its dazed state, hurling a pokeball directly at it. After a few moments of rocking, the pokeball clicked and confirmed that Sol had just captured his first wild Pokémon. “We did it Tyrogue! Our first wild Pokémon!” Sol cheered as he lifted Tyrogue up, repeatedly tossing Tyrogue into the air and catching him.
After settling down, Sol went over to retrieve the pokeball, only to notice it was no longer there. “What’s going on!? Did it roll away!?” Sol and Tyrogue began frantically searching the ground for the Lillipup’s pokeball.
Out of the corner of his eye Sol noticed a Fletchling perched on a tree not far from where the battle took place. The Fletchling was holding a small red and white spear in its beak, it had stolen the Lillipup!
“Tyrogue, Vacuum Wave!” Sol shouted as he pointed in the direction of the Fletchling.
Tyrogue jumped and immediately preformed a round house kick, sending a vacuum wave through the air that shot rapidly towards the robin Pokémon.
The wave connected and knocked the Fletchling back, clearly injuring it and forcing it to drop the pokeball it was holding in its beak. The angered bird flew towards Tyrogue with its beak glowing in a peck attack that hit Tyrogue in the stomach, sending him shooting backwards into a tree.
“Ugh.” He groaned, Sol knew it would be difficult to catch a flying type with his fighting type, but he deeply desired to win so the two could balance out each other’s weaknesses. “Mach Punch!” He shouted as Tyrogue’s fist flew blue and he charged towards the Fletchling as fast as he could.
Fletchling responded by using quick attack, flying towards Tyrogue and leaving a streak of white behind it. The two speedy attacks collided and sent both Pokémon tumbling backwards. Tyrogue slowly struggled to regain his footing, clearly looking injured, while the Fletchling had passed out, fainted. Sol seized the opportunity and threw a Pokeball at the downed bird. It rattled once, twice, three times, and then clicked, confirming Sol had captured his second Pokémon of the day.
“Way to go Tyrogue! You’re amazing, we’re two for two!” He shouted as he ran over to Tyrogue, hugging him tight. “Our journey is off to a great start and it’s all thanks to you! You deserve to get some rest.” Sol returned Tyrogue to his cherish ball and then walked over to the pokeball on the ground and picked it up, looking at it with pride before placing it in the front pocket of his backpack.
Sol proceeded to pick up the Lillipup’s pokeball and headed back into town, wandering around aimlessly until he eventually found the Pokémon Center and turned his Pokémon over to heal.
