[He just gives a quiet scoff at that. If it's not one thing, it's another. He supposes it's the same regardless of the timeline.

Gale takes the moment to bring up the map on his device and showed it to Arcanine, who gave an acknowledging woof. He pats the Pokemon's head before getting on behind Aeslyn and then Arcanine took off towards Nova City.]

T'was here, as a matter of fact. This past moon, the cities had these creatures called "Pokemon" that we could befriend. [Capture, actually, but semantics.] This boy here was one of them that I took in.

[By that he means his overpowered Druddigon beat the poor thing, but again, semantics.]