I Don't Own Pokemon
I sighed as I looked around the massive shop I was currently in. After looking around and a bunch of questions, it turned out that the shops in Saffron, did in fact not have a Dusk Stone. It was annoying, but well I was heading to Fuchsia next to hopefully I should be able to get one there for Misdreavus.
Looking downwards at my currently occupied shadow, I shook my head, letting Misdreavus know that she wouldn't be evolving just yet. Trying to ignore the guilt I felt as I could feel her move around in my shadow in disappointment. Well, I couldn't tell if that's what she was actually doing, but I would be feeling guilty anyway so I figured I might as well have a reason.
Oh well, I'm still in a massive store, might as well see if their is anything else I buy while I'm here. I have more money than I really need, maybe I could buy a TM or something. Not sure what I would get though, I'd have to look thought the notes I didn't thin about taking, about all the TM's my team and I can learn. Well even if I don't buy anything I might as well have a look.
That's when, while I was making my way out of the aisle I was in, an arbok slammed threw the glass door's separating the small small shop I was in and the shopping complex it was apart of. Taking a step behind the shelving I was still near out of instinct I waited for a moment and my practice was rewarded as a Rocket grunt walked in soon after, saying.
"This shop and the rest of this building is now under control of Team Rocket. If you valuable your lives then hand over your Pokemon" I looked at him then at the arbok for a second, before feeling a small pit of angry form. Looking down at my shadow I made a nodding gesture at the snake, after a second my shadow was vacated.
Walking out from behind I noted at a few kids, properly newer trainers where looking horrified as they slowly handed over the pokeballs they had on them. Cowards, the lot of them, honesty, people need to grow a spine. Moving forwards the grunt noticed me, and a cocky grin appeared on his face as he held his hand out like I was going to hand over my team.
I raised an eyebrow at him, I enjoyed the twitch his eyebrow gave, he was about to say something when his arbok, that had been keeping an eye on the scared humans suddenly made a noise of surprise before falling into it's shadow. The grunt turned around to look at the sound, his arm was still extended though, so I took advantage of that while Misdreavus was finishing off the snake.
Grabbing his arm, which really annoyed me to do, I pulled him forwards. As he began to turn back in surprise I just yanked on his arm with much more superior strength. Throwing him to the floor I stepped forwards, ignore the gasps and other annoying sounds the humans were making as I stomped my foot on the grunts chest, hard.
"So what's a criminal organization like you doing in a place like this?" The grunt just glared at me for a second, before a look of something similar to understanding appeared on his face before, glaring at me before shouting in my face.
"It's you! That damn beast that's pretending to be human!" I raised an eyebrow at that, at least on the outside. On the inside I nearly had a panic attack, how the hell did he know that. It took me longer than I would have liked to respond, but considering that I had to control my face so it didn't give anything away, it wasn't that bad.
"Oh? Now why would you say something so rude, especially to someone that is in a good position to crush your ribs?" He just glared up at me before smirking, oh he thought he had something on me, that's cute.
"You wouldn't, after all if you do, then your little secret would be reveled. The Boss wanted some people to approach you but I guess I'll have to do. During you're little battle spree against some of our members a nifty little camera caught some interesting video footage. Now, if you get off of me, and get out of the organizations business then you'll have nothing to worry about"
Well wasn't that annoying, in the end I didn't even get to make the decision. I sighed to myself as I looked upwards at the roof in fake consideration, catching the grin on the Rocket, before nodding to myself. I raised my foot, and as he tried to make his way out from under me, with a self satisfied smile on his face, I slammed my foot back down, pinning him back to the ground hard, probably cracking a rib. Before saying
"Sorry to say, I hate you all way to much for me to care about a small thing like that getting out, to stop me from ruining you lots lives. Also you are really bad at negotiations, never start off with your trump card, you don't have anything else to follow it up with. You got to start of small. Like this, I need you to send a message to your Boss" He just glared at me, when I gave him my winning smile.
"You're going to tell him specifically 'You don't get to tell me what to do, and if you try, I believe the police would find a certain gym leader isn't as clean as he says' Now you're the middle man, I don't need to tell you what any of that was about, so I won't, after all your Boss will be the only one who understands it. And in exchange for doing that, I won't break you're ribs, well anymore, deal?"
He just tried to spit on me, which was just rude. I gave him a disapproving look before raising my left leg. Placing all my weight on the man below me, with my right, before stomping down on one of his hands. I let him wallow for a moment in a little pain, before telling him.
"See, now I'm changing the nice deal I gave you into something you can't refuse. If you don't tell you're Boss my message, then I'm sure it wouldn't take to long before I find another Rocket member in this store, it would take even shorter than that to convince them you sold them out. I mean you did tell me about the one thing you guys had on me right? I bet they won't be to happy about that"
He just groaned for a second so I kicked him lightly, well semi-lightly, after a few seconds I got a nod from him. Giving him a smile that he flinched at I took my foot off his chest before kicking the bag, he had on him to collect the pokeballs, away towards the stunned trainers.
"I recommend you leave while you can, you need to deliver that message after all, and it wouldn't do for you to get arrested with the rest of your gang" Turning away from him, I walked out of the small store, while sending out the rest of my team, as I noted that Misdreavus had returned to my shadow. I looked at my team for a second, before grinning, telling them.
"We're about to do some cleaning. Team Rocket's being stupid again, they've taken over the mall we're in. So I think it's only fair to take it back from them" They all called back at me, telling me that they were ready. With that the six of us began to raise absolute hell.
"So you just happened to be near by to round up, over forty unconscious members of Team Rocket after a bunch of trees fell on them? Is that really what you're going to say happened?" I nodded, completely ignoring the way she looked at me. After a second she just sighed before shaking her head.
"Whatever, it's not like I'm the one that has to file this. Anything else you want to add?" I just shook my head. She just sighed before nodding to me, before turning and made a hand motion, and with that about three ambulances drove off to various hospitals in the area. I might have gotten angry after seeing a few of the members kicking a kid's Pokemon.
Watching as the Jenny got into a car and drove off, I frowned as I looked back at the store front. I'd have to be more careful from now on. This was practical a declaration on war, at least that's how Giovanni would see it. I brought myself sometime with my little message, no doubt sending him in a panic. But that won't last as long as I would like it to.
This was going to be a headache, wasn't it, I could handle the grunts without any real problem but he already knew that which meant sending something big, sooner or later. And while I knew my team was strong, only maybe Luxray was about strong enough to handle himself in a direct confrontation with the eighth Gm Leader. I'll have to get back into doing some serious training then.
It was annoying because I knew I could have handled it better, what happened to my impeccable self-control, I mean, it's still there for every emotion expect my rage. Sighing I shook my head, thinking about it wasn't going to do anything, so now that I was done with all the interrogations, I tilted my head down towards my shadow and gave a nod, and with that I dropped into my shadow.
Falling out of a over hanging tree branch, about twenty yards away, I gave Misdreavus a look of mild annoyance, that she simply giggled at. Shaking my head, to myself. I adjusted my bag before making my way off out of the city, I had about a month before I reached Fuchsia. And I was going to take full advantage of that.
For all the training I gave the team, I knew I should have completely become adjusted to being a zorua, yet I still made problems with it. It's time to get rid of those problems, and get the rest of the team up to about Luxray's level. I probably wouldn't be able to get them all their but it shouldn't be to hard to at least in that amount of time to get everyone at least on more equal footing.
Stepping down the mostly empty route I sent out my team, watching everyone appear for a second, making sure I had everyone's attention. I said to them all.
"Alright team, we have about a month before the next Gym battle, so besides the obvious traveling and basic training we are going to be doing, does anyone want me to help you all out with anything specific?" They all looked at me for a second before some shrugged: Luxray, who really had all the moves he needed that he could learn, and Pidgeotto, who didn't really know his own learn able move set to ask for anything specific. The others though told me.
"Captain, I wanna evolve! But since we can't do that then I wanna figure out how to be all sneaky" That was something I kept meaning to get around to, Misdreavus wasn't the best when it came to being defensive, which meant she had to be stealthy and fast to make sure she didn't get hit.
We never got around to improving on Shadow Hopping, something that was basically the most important part of her battling style. It wouldn't be to hard to have her learn Confuse Ray, which would help in not getting hit, and along with focusing heavily on stamina training for her use of Shadow Sneak, mix in a Mean Look trapping the opponent in battle, and she could be quite the ninja.
"I also want to evolve, Master, I don't like that I'm still in my starter stage while I could evolve" That was mostly what I wanted to get done for Charmander anyway, I knew he had to be close to evolving anyway. He was already one of the teams power houses, evolving would certainly help his energy reserves which has been his main problem in battle so far.
Being able to tire out fast, some some basic training and a couple mock battles and he'd be set. Of course, he would still have to train pretty hard to get on, the current top three strongest on the team's level. Luxray was at first then Pidgeotto, and lastly Vaporeon. The order worked out funny but that didn't mean it wasn't true.
While Misdreavus is quite strong in her own right, she fought closer to I did, with more sneaky and underhanded tactics, than overpowering force like Luxray, or insane speed and momentum as Pidgeotto, or the mix of both that was found in Vaporeon. Charmander wouldn't ever fit in anyone of those above mentioned four categories though.
I could already see what he would be, at least if my prediction was correct and if my direction with his training went right, he would be a juggernaut simply put. Of course I would still make sure he always had a plan in battle, but the little guy shrugged off attacks with almost the same easiness as Luxray did. While he might not be the strongest on the team he would probably be the most rounded out member.
"I would like to learn an Ice move, Sir, and maybe after some time give a try at Hydro Pump, besides that I just mostly need time to adjust to being a Water type" I looked down at Vaporeon, she was still the most quietest on the team. Even after evolving but I didn't mind, that it took her a while before telling me, I was just glad she told me in general.
So I gave Vaporeon a nod and put some proper thought into her move list, a move like Aurora Beam would certainly add some coverage, and have something to use on Grass types. And Hydro Pump? She probably didn't have the power to use it just yet, nor was she probably use to being a Water type long enough either to command such a large hitting attack.
But with some time and training for that move specifically, she would definitely be much stronger for it, even if she doesn't get the move down in time. The prep work for the move itself would be a lot of training in moves like Water Gun, which has a nice side benefit to both increase her stamina and water reserve.
Looking over at the two member of my team that didn't have anything specific they wanted to focus on, I first looked at Luxray. It would be good to increase his power outage even to a more ridiculous level. From memory I know Luxray can learn Electric Terrain which along with a maxed out Charge could have a single move of his be just stupidly powerful.
And besides that I also wanted him to train on using Giga Volt, and yes I did end up using one of Luxray's names for it, he actually had quite a few good ones. Still using that move enough to become skilled in it would just make his already great stamina much better, plus if he could manage to figure out a way to use it with having to use Charge at all then the speed on his attacks would properly skyrocket.
Pidgeotto, was an interesting team member to try and figure out what to teach him. After a bit of thought though I came to an idea, he already was the fastest member on the team, and since it appears that every member, even myself now that I'm thinking out it, has a specific skill in something. So I would teach him Tailwind, which would make him a speed demon once he becomes a Pidgeot.
He could, also get Swift as well, something like an auto tracking move would have been great during his battle at the Celadon Gym, but never late than ever, I guess. Vaporeon would have to be the one to teach him but I doubt he would have to much trouble, despite how he acts he's one of the smartest members on the team, just very bad at being observant and suffers from a one track mind.
Besides that Roost would also be something that he would benefit from greatly, it would be able to supplement his only slightly above average stamina. Something that I should also look into seeing how to increase for the entire team. Maybe a race? Nah that wouldn't be fair for most of them.
Looking back onto my shopping list of training topics to hit, I almost winced as I noted just how much I'll have to help them all with as well as having to deal with my own, to be fair, much more mild from of training. Oh well, I'm the trainer, it's in my job description. Glancing downwards at my team, all of who where walking besides me, having their own conversations leaving me to think.
I couldn't help but not really mind anymore, after all I would be spending that time with them, at worst it'd be a little tedious. But that's not anything bad.
This was a weird chapter to write, the start is where I'm starting off the next longer term recurring plot line, with team Rocket, while also needing something Kyu to do while traveling for such a long period of time. He's not going to be suddenly in Fuchsia, but from the pacing I've set so far in the story, it would take at least five to seven chapters before reaching Fuchsia if I wrote everything out.
So I figured that I would just say everything that would happen training wise here, so for the next three or so chapters don't have to have a minor focus on training, you all already know what their going to be training.
Anyway, See Ya
