His head quickly turned around as he heard that shuffling sound, thinking for a moment that they had been spotted, though he relaxed again when he saw that it was simply a pidgey.
But then he heard another sound. Something louder. Something unlikely to be a native pokemon. "Take them now, go!" He snapped at the grunts who quickly dashed away.
He followed the source of the noise, finding some footprints in the dirt, and some trampled grass. "Who's there?" His hand reached down to his hip hovering over his pokeballs. "Come out, now."