"I said only 'danger,'" Salamence said. "For you to have said that
we needed to escape our 'enemies,' there must be something that you
are withholding. Besides; when I allowed Grovyle to join my team,
it put him in unnecessary danger, and we were both captured. I've
learned my lesson since then; I will not allow anyone else to join
me, for their own good."
"Yes, and did you notice that it got you captured by an
organization of currently-undefeatable Pokémon and that we only
escaped because someone else happened to arrive at an
opportune moment?" Salamence replied.
We've known each other for less than a day. In that time,
Grovyle almost died, we got captured, and Grovyle broke his leg. I
saved him once. That's basically all that has happened, and there
is more bad than good, much of which was caused exclusively by my
presence. How he considers me a "friend" after all that is a
wonder... Salamence thought. Not to mention that, at the
time he chose to go with me, we had known each other for even less
time, and I had merely helped him because I was passing by.
"You've gotten hurt more in the past day than I in the last month,
solely because I was near you. All the more reason for Greninja to
stay out of trouble."