"Victor and Gloria set out from Hammerlocke, only to meet a wild, and timid, Silicobra. Reflecting on his own past, Victor helps Silicobra to face its fears. Now, our heroes continue to Stow-on-Side…"
"Training Daze"
Gloria is seated on a large rock, as she watches Victor and Scorbunny, with Scorbunny jumping up and down in space.
"Okay, Scorbunny, this is the one, I'm sure," Victor says. "Use Double Kick!"
"Scor!" Scorbunny jumps up at a cliffside, spins and kicks it, before its other foot slips off it and falls back down, unaware of a crack running up the side of a cliffside to a boulder at the top.
"That was close, Scorbunny, try it again," Victor says.
"Scor," Scorbunny nods its head at its Trainer, before facing the cliffside and then jumps up at it. "Scor!"
Scorbunny spins and launches a kick, but it's foot slips and its hit face first against the cliffside, with the crack thickens up to the boulder.
"Scorbunny," Victor says, as he runs up to his Pokémon with Gloria sighing.
"Scor…" Scorbunny looks up to its Trainer, as he knees next to it.
"It's alright, Scorbunny, we'll get it soon enough," Victor tells it.
"Scor," Scorbunny smiles.
Gloria smiles, then looks up at the boulder, as it loosen and rock, before it starts to fall forward, "Watch out!"
Victor and Scorbunny look up to see the boulder falling toward them.
Suddenly, a Machamp comes jumping toward the boulder, with two arms pulled back, "Mac…" It punches forward, smashing the boulder into pebbles. "Cham!"
Machamp then lands next to Victor and Scorbunny, who look up to it, with Scorbunny in awe.
"Is that… Machamp?" Victor asks.
Victor's Rotom Phone flies up, "Machamp, the Superpower Pokémon, With four arms that react more quickly than it can think, it can execute many punches at once."
"Scor…" Scorbunny keeps on looking at Machamp, as Victor lowers his Rotom Phone.
"Are you two okay?" Gloria asks, upon walking over.
"Hum, yeah…" Victor gets up. "Thanks, Machamp."
"Mac," Machamp says, before it turns to see a woman approaching.
"Glad to hear nobody was hurt."
"Are you Machamp's Trainer?" Victor asks.
"That right, I'm Bea," she introduces herself.
"I'm Victor, this is my partner, Scorbunny…"
"Scor!" Scorbunny waves its hand, as Machamp crosses its arms.
"And this is Goria," Victor looks over to Gloria, who is holding a hand to her chin. "Gloria?"
"Bea…" Gloria says, before looking up. "Oh, I know why your name sounds familiar, you were the Gym Leader at Stow-on-Side."
Bea smiles.
"I thought the Stow-on-Side Gym leader was Allister," Victor says.
"The silent boy of mystery! Friend to Ghost types, Allister!"
Allister just waves his arms back and forth and rocks his head side to side.
"I stepped down a while ago to focus on my training," Bea explains. "And if you don't mind me saying, I was watching your training. You are trying to learn Double Kick, right?"
"Yes, ma'am," Victor says.
"Just Bea would do," Bea responds. "Well, I'm certain that you will master Double Kick eventually."
Victor and Scorbunny look at each other.
"Although, I'm not sure if you will make any progress that way," Bea says, causing the two to look down slightly. "Perhaps if I introduce you to my master."
"Your… master?" Victor asks.
Shortly, Bea is leading Victor, Gloria, and Scorbunny through Route 6, with Gloria looking at her Rotom Phone.
"You sure your master lives out here?" Gloria asks.
"Of course, I just visited him yesterday," Bea looks over her shoulder to her, then looks ahead. "And here we are."
Victor, Gloria, and Scorbunny look ahead to see a large one-story house.
Gloria looks back at her Rotom Phone, "That's odd, I can't find this on my Rotom Phone's map."
Bea snickers slight, "You won't be able to find it on any maps. My master enjoys training out here. So much so, he built his own house to live here."
"He built his own house…" Victor says.
"Back already for a refresher, Bea?" a Black Belt exits the house.
"No, master, I bought potential students," Bea bows slightly with her hands together.
"Oh, you don't say," the Black Belt approaches them.
"Victor, Gloria, Scorbunny, this is my master, Miyagi," Bea looks to the three, with a hand to the Black Belt.
"Nice to meet you all," Miyagi says, with a smile.
"You too, hum… Master…" Victor bows slightly, while Gloria hides her laughter.
Miyagi smiles, "Now, why do you seek a Master?"
"Oh, well, I'm trying to teach Scorbunny Double Kick, but it's been having trouble," Victor says.
"I see, how about showing me a demonstration," Miyagi says.
"A demonstration?" Victor asks.
"Yeah," Miyagi responds, before pointing at a wooden armless and legless dummy on a stand a couple feet away. "Using that training dummy."
"Okay," Victor says, before looking down to his Pokémon. "Scorbunny, use Double Kick."
"Scor," Scorbunny nods its head, before jumping up. "Scor!" Scorbunny spins around and kicks at the dummy, with its foot slips and then falls down.
"Scorbunny," Victor runs over to his Pokémon and helps it up.
"I got to say, your Scorbunny is pretty close, as is," Miyagi says, before he approaches the two. "Okay, I will take you both on as students."
"Both?" Victor asks.
"That right, Trainers and Pokémon must train as one," Miyagi says, emphasizing his point by closing his hand.
"Oh, okay," Victor says, as he stands up with Scorbunny in his arms.
Bea walks over to Gloria, "Do you also want to train, Gloria?"
"Oh, no, I'm fine, really…" Gloria says, with a sweatdrop. "Although I better not let Sirfetch'd out or it might want to train too…"
"Now, here's a warning," Miyagi cups a fist into an opened hand, before leaning forward. "My training methods might seem unusual, but you and Scorbunny must agree to do whatever I said. Understand?"
"Yes, w-whatever you said…" Victor says, nervously.
"Scor, scor…" Scorbunny nervously adds.
Victor and Scorbunny are carrying empty buckets, with Scorbunny carrying it's on its head, up a cliff to a well. Upon reaching the well, Victor pulls on a rope leading down to the well, pulling up a bucket full of water, pouring them into both of his buckets and into Scorbunny's bucket.
Dropping the roped bucket back into the well, Victor picks up his buckets and starts carry them down the cliff with Scorbunny, when Victor's foot slips and he falls down, spilling both of his buckets, with Scorbunny falling after him, and its bucket spills over its head.
Victor and Scorbunny are each trying to pull plows around Miyagi's house, but could only barely move them, before Scorbunny slips and falls down, with its face covered in mud.
Victor and Scorbunny are pushing towels across the house's floor, while sweating.
Gloria's seated in a chair, with Sobble in her lap, watches as Victor and Scorbunny run to the side. They then look over to the side and see Bea and Machamp punching forward, before taking a step and punching forward.
Gloria smiles, before she sees Sirfetch'd going toward them, and looks panicked, before Orbeetle floats by, with psychic energy surrounds Sirfetch'd, lifts it off the ground and unable to move forward. Gloria sighs.
Victor and Scorbunny sit down next to the house, trying to catch their breath.
"I wonder… if Bea, Miyagi, and their Pokémon… do this kind of training…"
Unaware to the two, the wild Silicobra looks around a nearby cliff at the two, before it notices someone's coming and quickly hides behind the cliff.
"Every Trainer and Pokémon are different, and as such, must undergo different training," Miyagi tells Victor, as he and Scorbunny look up at him.
Miyagi then holds up a Poké Ball, "But here, let me show you the result of our training." He throws the Poké Ball. "Go, Hitmontop!"
The Poké Ball opens and shoots out red energy, which forms Hitmontop, "Hi-mon, top!"
"Hitmontop, use Triple Kick!" Miyagi calls out.
"Hi-mon, top!" Hitmontop jumps ahead, flips and starts to spin on its head, before kicking the training dummy three times, breaking it in half.
"Incredible," Victor says, with Scorbunny looking awestruck. He looks at his Pokémon. "Ready to get back to training?"
"Scor!" Scorbunny bumps its fists, as Victor smiles.
The wild Silicobra watches as Victor and Scorbunny get up, and it smiles, "Sili."
Victor and Scorbunny are carrying buckets of water down the cliff, before they start to lose their balance, with Scorbunny dropping its bucket, before Victor accidentally spills one of his buckets onto Scorbunny. Victor sweat drops.
Victor and Scorbunny pull their plows slowly, with them being stressful.
Victor and Scorbunny rapidly push towels across the floor back and forth.
Victor and Scorbunny carry buckets of water down the cliff, without spilling a drop.
Victor and Scorbunny manage to pull their plows back and forth.
Victor and Scorbunny put their buckets of water onto the ground, before they happily jump up.
"Alright, we did it!" Victor calls out.
"Scor!"
Gloria claps her hands together, "Congratulations."
"Well done to you both," Miyagi walks over. "I think it time to put your training to the test."
Victor looks over to him, "You mean a battle with you?"
"Wrong."
Victor and Scorbunny look over to Bea, who has hers Machamp behind her, "You will battle his prized students, me and Machamp."
Victor and Scorbunny are facing off against Bea and Machamp, with Gloria and Miyagi off to the side.
"Okay, begin whenever you're ready," Miyagi instructs.
"Let's start off with Strength!" Bea instructs.
"Mac!" Machamp charges ahead.
"Scorbunny, dodge!" Victor calls out.
"Scor!" Scorbunny jumps straight up, with Machamp slams a fist into the ground, where it was, breaking apart the ground.
"Now, Ember!" Victor instructs.
"Scor!" Scorbunny shoots out a series of small fireballs from its mouth.
"Mac!" Machamp crosses its arms, as the fireballs hit it.
"Machamp, follow up with Revenge," Bea says.
"Mac!" Machamp jumps up to Scorbunny, before punches it hard. "Champ!"
"Scor!" Scorbunny slams hard onto the ground.
"Scorbunny!" Victor calls out.
"Strength, again, Machamp," Bea instructs.
"Mac!" Machamp comes down toward Scorbunny, as it gets back up.
"Scorbunny, hurry, get out of the way!" Victor calls out.
"Champ!" Machamp slams its fist down, with Scorbunny jumping out of the way, with the ground cracking.
"Machamp, keep at it," Bea instructs.
"Scorbunny, just dodge it," Victor instructs.
"Mac! Champ! Mac! Champ!" Machamp goes after Scorbunny, punching at it, with Scorbunny jumping backward, out of the way of each attack.
"Scorbunny… we've been working on its speed, but this seems different," Victor realizes. "Not only is it faster, but it seems to be in better control. This is it. This is the result of our training."
"This is it, Machamp, it runs out of home, end it with Strength!" Bea calls out.
"Scor?!" Scorbunny, in midjump, looks over its shoulder to see a large boulder blocking its path, as Machamp readies a punch.
"Scorbunny, jump off the boulder and use Double Kick!" Victor calls out.
Scorbunny's feet are placed against the boulder, before jumping off it, "Scor!" Scorbunny is shot forward, spins around, and kicks Machamp in the chest, knocking it back slightly and off balance, before Scorbunny spins against and kicks Machamp again in the chest, "Scor!"
"Mac!" Machamp is knocked backward on its back.
"That should do it," Miyagi holds out an arm, before he sees Victor hurries over to Scorbunny.
"We did it, Scorbunny!" Victor picks up Scorbunny and holds it up, as he spins around. "We mastered Double Kick!"
"Scor! Scor!"
Bea walks over to her Pokémon, as it gets up, "So, Machamp, what do you think?"
"Mac," Machamp smiles, before looking ahead.
"Agreed," Bea looks over to Victor and Scorbunny. "With some more training. They have the potential to give the Champion a challenge."
"Good job," Gloria walks over to Victor, as Scorbunny stands on his shoulder. "I guess all that training works out."
"Yeah… oh, I almost forgot," Victor says, before he immediately goes over to Miyagi. "I think I get it."
"Get it?" Miyagi asks.
"The training," Victor starts. "Carrying the buckets was to improve our leg speed and sense of balance, and plowing was to improve our leg strength. ...But I couldn't figure out what's the point of cleaning the house…"
"Oh that," Miyagi says, scratching the back of his head. "Well you see…"
"Yeah?" Victor asks, as he and Scorbunny lean toward Miyagi.
"Today's the maid's day off and since the floor is so dirty, I just decide to have you two clean it," Miyagi explains, before he starts laughing, with Victor and Scorbunny falling down.
Gloria looks ahead shocked, while Machamp sweat drops, and Bea just sighs, "Some things never change…"
"A run in with a former Gym Leader gave Victor and Scorbunny the opportunity to master Double Kick. Now a step stronger, our heroes continue onward. What could be next?"
"Find out, as the journey continues…"