scraggy fumbled back as sand hit him in the eyes it attempted a kick with the sand itself butby the time it hit he was to close to stop anything, being tackled and instantly struggling to get up, only for his trainer who was busy gawking at gray's fancy hat before seeing it's condition and running for his only friend, he didn't have a pokeball for it so he had to get in the way of the battle. "ok ok, you win, jez" the boy said hoarsly with glassy eyes, attempting to keep from letting the other boy see his disgrace. "lucky there was a pokecenter over here" he said smirking as he ran in. He he had blown his chance to go proudly so hemmy had one last chance. stealing. He wasn't proud of having to do so but it would get him out of there.