As the group made their way along, Oz suddenly felt something tugging at his backpack. At first he thought it was Tsubaki or Iggy. But wait a minute, no, they were walking in front of him. Then what could possibly be..? He slowly turned around and came eye to...eye with a strange pokemon he'd never seen before! "Whoa!" he shouted in surprise. When he tried to pull his backpack away from the critter, it wouldn't let go. "Hey that's mine," he said, trying to remain calm. But the little creature got angry and attacked. "Oh no! Here it comes!" Oz said, calling his pokemon to the ready. "Let's do this, Iggy! You first! Use ember!
The nauwillian torchic rushed over, breathing little flames at the mass of the creature's tendrils. It fought back, but torchich was winning this hands-down. Perhaps Oz had the type advantage. He wasn't honestly sure. But when the thing fainted, he was going to attempt to catch it. He wasn't going to let that opportunity pass him up. When tangel has passed out, Oz called out to Iggy, "Good job!" he grinned, as produced a pokeball from his backpack. He threw it at tangel. The ball wiggled and wiggled. But it was to no avail! The pokemon just wouldn't stay in the ball!
Oz sighed as he watched the pokemom get back up and scurry away. Picking up the unused pokeball, he stuffed it back in his pocket and decided to keep going. Too bad he hadn't the time to take a picture beforehand. He readied his camera once more. "Come on you two, remain on alert for anything strange."
