Toorop heard Davey say he wanted his Pokémon to get stronger, but wasn’t necessarily interested in the Pokémon that they’d likely find in the forest.  He thought “Agreed there isn’t a high probability of anything good, but may as well spend some time looking to be sure.”  As he was about to vocalize this he was given the universal “shut up” sign and him and Machop both paused and set their boulders down.<br/><br/>A moment later Davey was battling a Ladyba.  He brought out his Kakuna first.  Toorop laughed a bit knowing that Kakuna was about as dangerous as a wet noodle, but understood that it needed the xp.  Then Davey finished the battle off with Tentacool and that was that.  Toorop approached afterwards to congratulate him and suddenly Davey summoned Kakuna and it evolved it Beedrill!  “Hell yeah!  Nice job!”  Toorop said to Davey.  “That’s dope, congrats!”<br/><br/>Toorop eyed some movement just past Davey and went to investigate.  He crept up slowly and peaked through the thicket and saw a couple Nidorans running around.  “Here’s something worthwhile.” he thought and motioned for Machop to get ready.  He also signaled for Davey to come over so he could catch/battle the other Nidoran.<br/><br/>Machop and Toorop stepped through the brush and Nidorans stopped playing and instantly turned to face the intruders on their territory.  Toorops Pokédex scanned the two and informed him there was a male and a female in front of him.  “Machop let’s get that one!”  Toorop said as he pointed to male Nidoran.  Machop nodded and smashed his right hand into his left fist “Hmph” he grunted as he stepped into the ‘ring’…<br/><br/>Nidoran gave a slight movement towards Machop, but all the training they had been doing gave Machop a slight edge in speed and he was able to hit the Nidoran with a low kick first.  The Nidoran being so low to the ground took the kick well and it didn’t seem to do much damage.  It countered with a poison sting and due to the close proximity Machop was unable to dodge.<i>BAM</i>… Machop took it, but you could tell he was not unaffected.  “Machop could be seen digging down deep and mustering his ‘guts’ and caught Nidoran with a karate chop.  It caught Nidoran off guard because it was sure Machop wasn’t going to be able to counter so quickly.  The two broke apart after that flurry of assaults and Nidoran gave Machop a Leer and Machop hesitated to push forward too quickly.  He then went for another Karate chop and caught Nidoran.  Afterwards Machop gave a slight stumble as he ‘stuck and move’ like he had been trained to do.  Nidoran again tried a poison sting<i>Whiff</i>.  Machop was able to misdirect the attack and dodge it completely.  Toorop stood anxiously watching knowing Machop didn’t need him yelling directions.  Machop knew what to do and Toorop had all the faith in the world in his capabilities.  As Toorop was watching Machop used revenge and caught the Nidoran -who was visibly struggling at this point- square.  Machops legs again gave a slight faulter as the effects of the poison hit.  Toorop decided it was time to interject and threw a Pokeball at the Nidoran.  The Nidoran was drawn into the ball…<i>wiggle…wiggle…click</i><br/><br/>“Wahoo!  Helluva job Machop!!”  Toorop yelled as he went to pick up his new Pokémon.  “That was awesome buddy.  You really put on a display!”