I Don't Own Pokemon
It was about two weeks later, and I had just left Cinnabar, the delay was a mix of because I couldn't find a ship leaving the place that didn't cost more than everything I currently owned, for the first few days, and because of the fact that I wanted to test out how strong Rockruff was, while also testing Charizard's limits with his new body.
Speaking on the latter of the two first as that would be quicker, he was a lot stronger, barring on where I predicted him to be on, as he was a bit weaker than Luxray in terms of straight power, but he did have more base stamina surprisingly enough. Though that wasn't saying much as Luxray can skyrocket his stamina and energy reserves with Charge.
And on terms of speed, he's max flying speed was about three-fourths of what Pidgeotto could manage at his base. Which was pretty fast in normal terms but compared to the only other Flying type on team, it was incredibly slow. Though that wasn't fair to Charizard as Pidgeotto was already fast as hell, times six with a maxed out Agility, and then double that again with Tailwind?
Well to put it simply, I'm pretty sure Pidgeotto has broken the sound barrier repeatedly by now, and the only reason why I couldn't counter the amount of times he has, is because he somehow managed to somehow negate the sonic boom after the first two times. Though I have no clue how.
Anyway, back to my point, Charizard while much faster and stronger, hasn't sky rocketed into the number one spot, but he certainly is in the running. As he could actually fight Vaporeon in mock battles without immediately losing now, in fact the battles were much closer. Vaporeon, still has yet to lose and is still in fact winning without going all out, but the gap, because of type has dramatically shrunken.
So while I was getting Rockruff's training started, I had Pidgeotto start to teach Charizard Tailwind as well as showing him how to properly use his wings for moves like Wing Attack, and Twister. So far he's been learning pretty quickly but from what Pidgeotto's told me, Flying type moves replied on momentum and skill.
While Charizard was supplementing that was brute power, as that is what he was use to when it comes to moves, which was a problem. The three of us were trying to sort it out, as if he could learn to use the moves properly, like Pidgeotto did, then with his brute force the attacks was be devastating. That's basically all that has happened with Charizard.
Moving onto the newest member, Rockruff, while after some research, I learned he wouldn't be learning an insane amount of moves, that just meant he would just have to do something similar to Vaporeon, and get stupidly good at the moves he can now. Though he did already have some decent moves from what he got from his parents being, Thunder Fang and Fire Fang.
Which added some nice base coverage for some of his type weaknesses. Added onto that though, the only other moves he knew were Odor Sleuth, Tackle, and Rock Throw. Well not bad, it quickly appeared that he had a similar but sadly not as useful problem Mismagius use to have when it came charging up an attack, it took forever.
It wasn't his fault, but it did limit the amount of work we could get done to train up his body, so I compromised. He would have to, with the help of Mismagius, use Rock Throw at targets while running and dodging, small powered attack from my ghost. It wasn't the most interesting but did show results and gave my team some time to rest on the beach, which was a nice bonus.
It also let me spend some time to think on what Rockruff could specialize on, though sadly I still haven't come up with a permanent answer he could fill. Like Luxray as a powerhouse, or Mismagius as a sneak attacker. As all of those traits seemed to show up with time, and I just didn't have that yet with Rockruff.
Which was unfortunate as if I had an answer I could guide him to that goal faster if I have to wait to see where he falls into the best. The main problem with that was I couldn't have the other team members have mock battles with him as it was completely one sided, which didn't do anything but make Rockruff feel like he wasn't catching up fast enough.
So I had to outsource that, by every couple hours, looking around and challenging some new looking trainers, which was good for Rockruff as it gave him some proper battle experience. Though it was about the fifth day point where I decided to try out something else. It was a theory that came to me while doing research on Rock types.
The premise is that he would, instead of forming the rocks for his attack as fast as possible, spend the extra time to increase the density of the attack, to make the damage quality better than the quaintly of rocks that he could throw out at his opponent. It was still a little iffy as he only recently started on this method, but it seemed to help out.
As his damage output has increased, but the time it took to make the attacks was bothering me still. So while he was still working on improving his Rock Throw, I spent that time thinking about how he could mitigate the problem of him having to dodge attacks while charging up his attacks.
I still didn't have a concrete answer, even when the first full week had passed but, I was probably getting close to figuring it out. Though at that point, I figured that Rockruff was good enough with his one Rock type move to start him up on some other kinds, so the next two days were spent with Luxray helping the pup out with learning Iron Tail.
He hadn't mastered it yet, but that might be because the little guy decided to use Iron Tail, as a jump off point to try and learn Iron Head and Iron Defense. I was already planning on having him learn those moves as well but after he learned the first one, but he decided to take that as a challenge when I told him the plan.
So he has in the beginning stages of three new Steel typed based moves, and while not prefect, it gave him more things to practice with when he used a game of tag to train with Mismagius. While he wasn't close to hitting her yet, he was getting better on his reaction times, and attack speed with the Steel moves.
Sadly, while I would have like to have him practice with the two TMs I gave him, Double Team and Protect. I knew that those could come later on after he has a strong base of moves to work on. So that's how the next two days went, at least for most of it as I also had him train up his body, which was how the last two days were spent in total, only working on his strength and speed.
Which leads to what I was doing now, currently I was walking down a staircase which was leading to a small port that was stationed in Fuchsia, that's right, I went full circle. I want to get to a place called Dark city in the next, at most, three weeks, and that's with me taking my time to help out Rockruff.
Speaking more on the Gym, it was fairly new, and I'm pretty sure was something that happened in the show some how, though I don't remember any specifics. Either way, it was currently ranked as a lower leveled gym from rumors I've heard/ looked into online, being compared in difficultly to about Surge, so while it might not be an impressive battle, it will still count.
My current hope is to have Rockruff ready for the gym by the time we arrived there, which was why I was slowly down on not just rushing there. He should be on about that level, and if not then well, it'll give him some good battle experience for fighting opponents stronger than him, that was actively trying to win, not just help him on reaction times.
I stopped my thinking on the subject and instead made my way threw the crowed of people that were also departing from the ship. While I didn't have a plan onto where I should be going right this second, I wanted to get a few things done before I leave Fuchsia, involving looking threw some TMs and restocking on potions, and other items.
I would have done the latter at Cinnabar, but everything there was 'pure 100% Cinnabar Island' Pokemon food and water. And because it was so 'pure' it costs about three times more than the base cost of the stuff that I normally got, that was about three times larger in quaintly.
Needless to say, I, being the cheap person I am, didn't buy anything there, so I had to do so here, where the prices were actually at a normal level. Besides that, there wasn't really much more to do here in the city, so I was planning on just setting out soon after I was done with all of that.
So with that, I looked around for a bit, as I didn't remember where anything was, before finding an trainer shop. As I stepped into the building, I noted that Mismagius, who had been accompanying me, from her position in my shadow had vacated said shadow. Looking around the decent sized shop, I figured out where she went quite quickly.
As she was floating in the air looking at a plushy in confusion, she was blocking my view of what it was so I didn't really understand why she was so interested, at least until she turned around with it in her arms. I held back a chuckle as I watched amusingly as my ghost started swing the Mismagius plushy around in her arms.
Still, I wonder why the shop owners have that as a plushy, looking over at where she got it, I noted there was a surprising amount of them that were positioned on some of the shelves. Not mismagius plushy's but of all kinds, I recognized basically all of them, expect a few that were clearly hand made, and that wasn't actual Pokemon, more like a stuff toy version of a kids idea of new Pokemon.
It was interesting to look at as I pulled off another box of food off of a shelf, most of them where Pokemon from Kanto and a few from Johto, but there were a few that clearly stood out. Like the metagross, garchomp, and gardevoir. Those three, were the only ones that were out of place region wise and happened to be the three signature Pokemon of three separate Champions.
I wonder if I should be offended that one of Alder's Pokemon isn't up there, well I've never really been that patriotic and I don't even remember being in Unova before, personality, so I don't think so. While I was looking at the toys, I noted someone had walked out from one of the back rooms, seemed to note that Mismagius was having fun with her toy counterpart, before yelling out.
"It worked! Pokeball go!" I focused much more heavy attention onto the idiot that was trying to steal my ghost, only to not it was a kid. Well that didn't stop me from being pissed, but it did stop me from immediately and cruelly yelling them, ruining all of their self-esteem before probably breaking one of their bones for good measure. Instead I took a measured breath as the Pokeball bounced off and said.
"Oi!" The little girl should be glad I didn't instantly start ranting, but instead she just looked at me angrily before yelling out.
"Hey I saw it first! It's mine!" This little piece of...I took another controlled breath before saying.
"No, she isn't, in fact she's my Pokemon, and you just tried to steal her from me" The kid didn't seem to understand the implications of that but did understand from the look on my face that I was angry. Thankfully for her, that's when the parents decided to show up, as they rushed threw the door the kid came threw.
the dad saw the pokeball by my ghost who was just looking around confused, before floating back over towards me. Before sighing and turned to his daughter and said.
"Anna! What have we said about trying to capture Pokemon that enter this store?" She looked down at her feet, while the mom just looked at me with a look of sorriness, so I just shrugged, telling her juts deal with her kid and I'll leave it be. After a moment the little girl, Anna apparently, said under her breath.
"That they probably are with a Trainer, but daaad! I want to have a Pokemon!" Bloody kids, well that's not really fair to Pokemon, Luxray and Rockruff both are only a couple months old and they are so much better than this. The dad just shook his head before lading his daughter back into the backroom, while the mother walked forward and said.
"Sorry about that, she's been going on a Pokemon craze lately and her toys aren't helping. She just turned nine and well, she doesn't want to have to wait another year, you know how kids are" I chose not to say anything and instead just nodded along with a fake understanding smile, while holding up the bag I filled and asked.
"It's fine, anyway, sorry to move on so suddenly but where is the check out?" She just seemed grateful that I was moving on so quickly, it seems this has been a big issue in the past then, whatever not my problem, with that I was escorted to the register and was checked out.
While Mismagius returned her look alike, I began to put up the food and water I had gotten while also lamenting at the fact that there wasn't any TMs to buy in the store, oh well, I'll just go ad buy some later. Right now I just wanted to leave the store and get a move on, so that's what I did, as Mismagius dropped back into my shadow as I set off.
Not much happened but the point of this chapter was made, Rockruff's training has started and Kyu is now on his way towards the last gym battle he needs before taking some down time before the league starts up. Anyway, See ya.
