One moment, Laia is sitting down for the start of the floor session.
The next moment, some kind of bizarre-looking monster is going at her with an enormous golden ring.
The moment after that, she's somewhere else.
That's not paralysis, that's moving a bit slower, ack, she was hoping it would be actually paralyzed - "Tackle!"
The leaf-bug flails around a bit but doesn't actually manage to tackle Wooliam back.
With six channels a day it makes sense to have lots of these, rotate through them, and then heal the lot of them at once when they're run down. She'll toss one of the empty balls at the leafbug.
The ball rocks gently from side to side and then clicks shut! If she looks closely there's a little screen displaying some information about the leaf-bug.
The illusion square informs her that this type of leafbug is called a Sewaddle, that this particular specimen is 1'2" tall and weighs 6.4 pounds, that this is a girl Sewaddle, and that it knows Tackle and String Shot. (There's some more information that's harder to interpret.)
She also has the option to record the nickname she plans on using for it, if she wants to.
She names it Hoja. She puts Wooliam away - he doesn't seem hurt - and she's not sure a channel will fix paralysis being slowed down, so she doesn't take Hoja out to introduce herself properly right away.
A little while later, she spots a man in a large hat, carrying an oversized backpack.
Wave wave. He looks her up and down, like he's checking for something, but seems satisfied.
"Things get pretty rough up ahead," he says. "Here, I'll give you a taste of it!"
He reaches for the Pokéball clipped to his backpack.
"- okay, but I'm from another planet so I might make a mistake, please correct me if I do!" she says, reaching for Wooliam again.
"It's really really different! Nobody keeps Pokémon in balls! Wooliam, Thunder Wave!"
The hiker's Pokémon moves shockingly quickly and manages to get in a punch before Wooliam can do anything, but Wooliam takes the opportunity to jolt it with electricity.
"Tackle! - sometimes we summon them from other planes by magic and they just go home when the spell ends, or you just have them around all the time, maybe in their own building with stalls if they're too big to live in your house with you. Also people don't battle with them nearly as much, it's a thing but I've never done it before today!"
The hiker's Pokémon is trying to get in another punch before Wooliam can hit it but it's not really working.
"I have one prepared today but only one so I can't show you without using it up! I'd just cast it and then I'd get a celestial Pokémon from Nirvana to help me. But I'm not very powerful so it wouldn't stay long."