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>tagging along with older sibling into the mountains
>sibling busy telling me how to use a pokeball, not paying attention, showing me pokeball
>suddenly gligar out of nowhere
>gligar latches onto sibling's face
>sibling flails and drops the pokeball
>I panic, no pokemon, no rocks, afraid to get close, sibling in danger
>pick up pokeball and hurl it at gligar's head
>gligar caught, pick up ball and hold it tight so it won't break out
>run with sibling back to the nearest pokecenter to treat poisoning
>scared to open ball for days despite sibling reassuring me a caught pokemon never harms anyone
I had to let it out to feed it though, and gradually we became friends.