Kanade and Mucai chose to walk down Route 34. The weather was nice and a gentle breeze drifted across the trail surrounded by tall grass. Ahead of them two trainers were battling their pokemon. One had a Miltank, the other a Shiny Snorlax. The Miltank' trainer called out to her asking her to use Rollout. It missed! Mucai watched on expectantly.
The Snorlax's trainer had him use Body Slam. The massive Snorlax loomed over the smaller Miltank and slowly toppled forward, landing on her with a heavy thud. Dust kicked up and the impact shook the ground. The Miltank fainted with the single hit. Kanade's Tropius squealed in delight. The Miltank's trainer used a revive on her, then recalled her after telling her she did well. The Snorlax's trainer congratulated his pokemon and had him return as well. Each trainer waved at Kanade and Mucai before parting ways.
They continued on the path a bit before Kanade was stopped by Mucai running in front of her. He jumped in the air and flopped hard on his belly. His legs landed sprawled to each side. He grunted in pain and repeated the action, a bit of dust kicking up from his heavy impact. He smiled and continued. Kanade quickly figured out he was mimicking that Snorlax's Body Slam. Her Tropius continued to jump and smash his belly off the path and though she worried she encouraged him. "Here why don't we move to the short grass over there." She figured it may hurt less.
A rock served as his first target, a round rough looking protrusion from the grass. Maybe if he aimed at something, anything he could learn. He bounded upwards and splayed his legs.
The rock hit him painfully under the ribs. Ouch! No, he needed something better, something softer. A flower was next. Mucai liked flowers and felt bad about crushing the lily. But he needed to learn Body Slam. It looked so powerful, so cool when that Snorlax did it. He managed to crush the plant but it didn't have that same effect that Snorlax was able to produce. Mucai sniffed the squished flower and whimpered sadly.
A small ant crawled in front of Mucai and he glared down at it. It wasn't a pokemon, but it would have to do. He pounced and smashed his belly where he thought the ant was. Though he left a small impact mark in the soil beneath the soft grass he couldn't see where the ant went. He looked at Kanade confused. She was equally unsure, having not known what he'd been watching or that he'd even had a target.
A tickling sensation erupted on his belly. He'd landed on an ant's nest and the entire colony was now swarming on his sensitive belly. This would not do! How dare they?! Mucai flapped his wings a few times, ignoring the itching, the biting, the sensation of little feet on his tummy. He flew over to a nearby pool of water and dropped like a rock. His legs landing outwards and his neck forwards. A mighty splash blew skyward as he hit the surface with a powerful belly flop.
As he flew up he sighed with relief. Though it stung a bit, there were no more ants crawling on him. He landed in the short grass and wandered back to his trainer. That was the last time he'd pick on bugs. Kanade was smiling at him. Why? What had he done to please his trainer. Then he realized she didn't know about the swarming, biting insects. She was yelling something at him but water made it hard to understand. He shook his head and then he could hear better. "Mucai do that again! Just like that! It looked like a perfect Body Slam!"
He was confused. All he'd done was rid himself of an annoyance. However his trainer asked him to do it again and she did a good job of teaching him new things. He ran hard across the grass and jumped. A short time aloft and he impacted, this time into the tall grass. Dirt flew everywhere and he was surprised to find a stunned Caterpie under him. He carefully crawled off it and nudged her with his nose. It ran away frightened. He had learned Body Slam and beaten a Bug. Even if he hadn't meant to. He puffed out his chest with pride. The Tropius ran back to his trainer and cried out his excitement. Kanade cheered. "Good job Mucai, you did it."