I Don't Own Pokemon
I stayed in the city for a little longer than I thought I would but there was a reason by it. And that was there were a bunch of massive markets in the city and most had TM shops, so I just spent a few hours out of my life and saw everything that was available for me to buy. And by a few hours, I spent like two days just waking around looking at different disks.
It was just one of those things that was productive and mind numbing enough that I could use it as a nice way to just spend time doing nothing. Of course I still did something, as after a bunch of mild deliberation, mostly because of how expensive some of the TMs were, even though I have way to much money as it is, I still ended up buying in total four disks.
The first was Ice Beam which I gave to Vaporeon, while she might not really need it because she already had Aurora Beam, from her own admission, she couldn't find away to modify that move so I figured that I would give her an Ice type move that she could mess around with. As she seems to enjoy modifying moves as a slightly strange hobby but then again I couldn't really say anything there.
The next TM I got was Rock Polish, while Lycanroc was the only one that could use it, he most certainly would make up for the fact that it covered a massive weakness in his battle style. He is a melee fighter, and while he is pretty speedy in general, compared to the rest of the team, besides Snivy of course, he's actually one of the slowest, right in front of Vaporeon, but she is more of a long ranged battler so she didn't need to be. Rock Polish will make him much more dangerous when he's up close to his opponent.
After those two I also ended up getting both Sunny Day and Rain Dance, because reasons that it can power up some of the moves that the Pokemon that would be receiving the TMs could use. And because I had given myself a headache making a bunch of illusion umbrellas a little while back because it stared raining down on us hard. Yep, the main reason I bought weather changing moves was to change the weather, crazy right.
Anyway, the ones that got both those two TMs were Vaporeon, surprisingly, Pidgeot, not so surprisingly, and Mismagius, not surprising at all. On the other side of things, Sunny Day only went to Charizard and Snivy, and Rain Dance went to Luxray. Basically now everyone of my Pokemon can now change the weather at will, and to be honest I was kind of worried giving that ability to Mismagius, because of the terror she would inflict on a city by constantly changing the weather from raining to sunny over and over again.
Though I still gave it to her, while figuring that if she did do something that bad I would just scold her some to make sure she knows to not do it, or just fix it myself. Yeah myself, zoroarks can learn both of those moves as well, which is interesting to know. Though, I'll be completely honest, when I learned that, the idea of making it rain suddenly in a park full of people totally crossed my mind as well, but the difference is I have the self control to not do that without having to be told.
Anyway that's literally the only things I've managed to get done in the last few days, but I needed it. Just some time on my hands that I could spend on my own, leaving Riolu back at my rented room in the Pokemon Center with Mismagius. It was nice, no city leveling battles taking place, having to worry about the emotional states of my team members, or even dealing with having to be overly conversational in general.
I could just revert back into my anti-socialness for a while and just recharge my batteries in a sense, still I am aware that I have stuff that I should get a head of. Like actually traveling instead of getting stuck in a city for long than was really needed. So after I decided that I've spent enough time by myself, I made sure that my supplies were up to their correct amount and set off to Nimbasa City.
It was about three days into my five day trip to Nimbasa, when I ran into the first minor annoyance, just some kid that wanted to battle me, because of eye contact or something. Anyway, I was going to refuse it on the fact that it's just kind of what I do now a days but after a moment of consideration I nodded to the kid. I mean of course I wouldn't be giving it my all, that would probably kill someone, but this would be good for Snivy to get some experience.
"Sure I'll battle you" I could practically feel the excitement from the kid in front of me and the shock from both Mismagius and Riolu. While I'm sure that the others would have also been surprised by my words as well, they weren't actually out at the moment. One of the rare times during my in between city journeys that practically everyone was in their ball besides those that were just expected not to be, aka Mismagius and Riolu.
"Ok great! This is going to be awesome!" He then walked back a few feet and got out a pokeball from his pocket before throwing it out into the air while calling out the Pokemon's name, something that I almost forgot that people did. I never did it and for that matter now that I'm thinking about it only like three people that I can remember from my time in Kanto did that, and one of them I know was from Sinnoh, is it a Kanto thing then? Whatever, I'm not going to start now.
With that I reached down to my belt, and grabbed Snivy's pokeball and tossed it out into the air. As he appeared in front of the opponent Pokemon, a mienfoo. He looked around the surroundings for a moment before turning to look at me with confusion clearly written on his face, so I just shrugged and said to the Grass type.
"It's your choice, but this kid challenged me to a battle, and I figured that you might want to test yourself out now that you've trained for a while. What do you say?" He looked at me for a moment before looking down at his feet for a moment, before looking back up with that look that I've seen in his eye recently spark up like crazy as he nodded before turning around to face his opponent.
Looking up at the kid in question again, I raised my hand before lifting three fingers up for him to see. After a moment I lowered one, and when he saw that, thankfully he figured out what I was doing as he tensed and got ready. Lowering the next finger down, the kid looked like he was about to give himself an aneurysm, and when I finally lowered the last finger, delaying it a bit to see how red his face would get in the tension, I beat him to the proverbial punch and called out before him.
"Grassy Terrain, then Magical Leaf" I learned quickly from a few mock battles with him and the others that Snivy was one that liked to cut to the chase, so that's what I did, making it short and to the point as I called out the two moves. Which he quickly took up on as the ground underneath us, which was already kind of grassy, suddenly glowed light green, as the Grass type's form glowed for a moment before the colored form of the leafs suddenly shot out of his body and launched at the mienfoo.
"Use Detect Mienfoo! Get close and hit it with a Force Palm!" The Fighting type launched forwards and seemingly flowed around and past the leafs that shouldn't be able to miss, but I didn't really bother being annoyed. After all Vaporeon has used the move more than enough for me to figure out how to counter it, after all Detect was a lousy substitute in comparison with Protect.
"When they're close use block the attack with one Vine before hitting them with another" Ok maybe I didn't shorten that as much as I could have but it's hard to call out a plan in ten words or less. Still, Snivy understood what I meant as the mienfoo got close enough to lash out their palm at Snivy, he quickly lashed a vine and knocked the strike off course before pulling out another vine and slammed it into the Fighting types back knocking them off balance.
"Aqua Tail" Snivy taking advantage with his opponent off balance by jumping up into the air a small bit before doing a front flip, something that he's taken from Vaporeon when using that move, and slammed his tail, now covered in water into the meinfoo's back smashing them into the ground.
"Jump back then Magical Leaf" Pushing off the Pokemon's back, forcing the Fighting into the ground even more as a launch board, and while Snivy was still in the air a large amount of leafs shot out from his form and slammed into the downed Pokemon, kicking up some dust around the impact point. As the Grass type landed on his feet, I didn't bother calling out anymore attacks.
I could already tell what had happened from the lack of shifting from the dust cloud, and sure enough, when the dust cleared the Pokemon was fainted. I noted that Snivy looked a little shocked at how easy he had won, which is fair I guess, but I'm not sure it's the best thing for him to automatically assume that he isn't as strong as he actually is. It could be a lack of experience pinning his power up against those that are on more equal standing with him.
At least I hope that's what it is, I really don't want him to have the same inferiority complex that Charizard has been struggling and just now starting to get over. It's unlikely but still not something that I really want to have to or deal with again. It wasn't exactly fun the first time around and I still have paranoia about how I handled that in the first place.
Though to be fair to him, he's scale of what a battle is started just ridiculously high, which would mess up any sense of scale that he could use until he gets a couple more battles in like this. So, hopefully, it's just a problem that can be fixed in time and I won't have to obsessively worry about it. Well, I'll probably still do that until I know I'm right about his sense of scale being off, but I'm trying to be optimist, though I doubt I'm succeeding in that effort. Whatever, I'll think on it more later, so with that I looked over to the kid, who looked down a little at his quite one sided lost, and said.
"You did decent, but the second Mienfoo got hit you just kind of stopped trying to find a way out and just let them take the hits which wasn't the smartest move" I'm not sure why I gave out advice, I'm pretty sure I didn't care that the kid looked so downtrodden by the lost, maybe it's because I didn't want to listen to him complain, well that sounds at least closer to home but I doubt that's right either. After a moment I just shrugged to myself before giving a nod to the kid and began to make my way out of the clearing.
This wasn't the longest chapter but it didn't really need to be in this case, all it was meant to do was just give Kyu a break from the stress that I've been piling onto his back. So this was just a nice stress releasing chapter, and Snivy also got a chance to shine as well, getting his first battle in, now if I can only get around to actually planning something for that whole coordinating thing, eh I'll work on it at some point. Anyway, See ya.