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Chapter 4: Preparations

The anime that I was thinking of that I thought would help me with my training was Dragonball, not Dragonballz or GT or Super. But rather I was thinking of the time before they became super powerful. When they trained under Master Roshi.

Before they were super powered, he trained them to be martial artists. They were just children and he made them contenders for winning the martial arts world tournament.

I think that the same training method would give me a good head start compared to others. Especially considering that I was reborn as a fighting type pokemon. Anyone can just train there moves repeatedly until they have mastered them, but this method would give me the speed and stamina to go with it.

So when the two months of waiting were over, I was ready to start training. I had a game plan and was eager to start. First, I needed to find a routine that would be similar to the training that I saw in Dragonball.

From what I can see, I would not be able to do that kind of training within the confines of this facility. Do not get me wrong this place has probably very good training equipment; but not the kind that I want. So, first things first, I need to leave this place and check out the city that it resides in and see if they got what I need. So, I asked my parents (it is kind of weird thinking of them as my parents.) if it is okay if I go explore outside of the lab. They agreed but only if I brought someone with me.

Well since I already have a shadow following me everywhere I go; I might as well let her walk beside me because she is probably going to follow me even if I told her that she could not come. So, it would kill two birds with one stone: my parents were satisfied, and my sister was happy to be included.

"So, where are we going" Mina asked excitedly.

"Well I wanted to explore the city and see if it had what I need to help me with my training." I explained.

"But, why don't you use the stuff at the lab; I mean that is what everyone is doing, even mom and dad and they are strong."

"That's just it; everyone is doing that. But I want to be better than everyone else, and that means to go the extra mile; to work harder than anyone; but also, smarter than everyone else. I want to train my way. When it comes to my kind of training it does not matter if you are with a trainer or at the lab; you could continue to do it even if the equipment is not readily available like it would be if you stayed in the lab. If I trained the way that everyone else did and then found a trainer and left with them. It would be likely that I would have to start all over again; due to not having the equipment on the road, so that meant I could not do the same training that I could if I had stayed in the lab. So, I would lose all the advantage that I would have had because I started early."

"So cool." Exclaimed Mina with stars shining in her eyes.

Jeez, I thought that it was a figure of speech they would put in the anime to show how amazed the character is, but I can see the stars. The stars actually replace her eyes. So weird.

"So, if I help you get all the stuff that you need, then can I join you when I train?" she begged.

Alright," I agreed. "you can join me and learn my training method."

So, that is how I got a training partner to help me train. We left the sanctuary of the lab and went into the city which turned out to be more of a town than a city. We took in all the sites and the sounds of it; while searched for our first destination. We saw people and pokemon roaming the streets just enjoying the weather. We saw some machoke, machamp, and hariyama working on a construction site along with some construction workers. We see some old ladies haggling at a local farmers market along with their pokemon.

We finally reached our destination, "miltanks Milk Delivery" was the name of the store. I stopped in front of it.

"Why did you stop?" Mina called back; as she was ahead of me due to me stopping so abruptly.

"We have arrived at our first stop." I said.

"Where?" She looked around in confusion. "this does not look like a place where you would find training equipment."

"Looks can be deceiving." I chuckled seeing the humor in it.

"Are you pulling my tail because that is not funny."

"Just come and see. There is a method to my madness. Just you wait and see." I said as we entered the store.

It took a while, but I finally got the owner to agree to help me out. For a couple of sand bags and a gallon of milk a piece each day, we would deliver milk to everyone in town, everyday at sunrise until further notice. It took longer than I thought due to the language barrier, but I finally got it across.

The look on Mina's face when I came out with the sand bags was hilarious. It took 10 minutes for me to stop laughing; but one look at her pout got me going again.

Once I was finished we headed home with her pestering me the whole way about the sand bags. When we got home, I figured that we could add some technique training. So, we went searching for a sturdy boulder to work on, we found one in a clearing. It was big and heavy; it was perfect.

Right now, my move set was scratch and tail whip. I do not know how I know this, but I guess it is just instinctual. I figured that if I practice my scratch on the boulder; then maybe I could upgrade it to metal claw. Since I am part steel type, I figured it would be easier for me to learn steel type moves.

And it was either this or attach a rock to my tail and continue using tail whip to upgrade it to iron tail. I did not feel like doing that yet. I will get there, but not just yet. Plus hitting boulder with my hands to strengthen it might help with my other typing which was fighting. I am going to do 100 scratches a day and each week add 20 more.

I am going to do that with every move that I learn or is trying to learn. I think that iron tail, metal claw, and dig would be a good starting point. Part of Master Roshi's training is to cultivate the land using only your hands. I figured that if I did that enough times than I should be able to use dig. If not then it might give me a good starting point, in learning to use it. So, we started on using scratch on the boulder.

Ouch. The pain. It feels like I am pulling out my nails.

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