The Paras was secured in a pokeball. Furrlicity wasn't very interested in the weird bug but he figured that the professor would be interested to see it. Maybe he could trade it in for something later or even trade it to someone else. For now, though, he would just keep exploring.

Humming to himself, Furrlicity gave a stretch as he walked through the trees. Leaves crunched underfoot as he kicked them up. While he had been looking at his catch, he realized that he had forgotten to put his pokemon back in slots and to pick up his Gardener trait again. That had been an easy fix; he felt much better with the little poppies that would occasionally spring up under his heels.

Pretzel still sat on his shoulder, now more alert than he had been before. The Treecko took in the scenery, though, his childish nature keeping him from being the impressive guard he wanted to be.

A few more intense seconds of staring, then the bug simply got two X in it's eyes and the HP bar dropped to 0. Maybe some sort of internal logic to keep the game from bugging out? Like, a timer so battles wouldn't last forever or something? It felt kind of cheap. But, well, for now all he could do was accept it.

Summoning his pokeball, he tossed it at the creature. It would feel kind of weird to just leave it out here. Plus, even if he didn't want to keep it, then Ash would surely enjoy giving it a once over. Picking up the ball, he turned it over in his hand a few times as it registered in his inventory.

"How you feeling?" Was asked to Pretzel. The Treecko just shrugged.

< Well... I, uh, haven't... taken any damage? So, we can still keep going! >

Nodding at the answer, Furrlicity checked his inventory spots again. Just one slot left. He'd need to invest in an upgrade for that soon.