Chapter 28
"How Does This Work?"
We had finally arrived back at the Magma Base, and had gone back inside.
Once inside Maxie led me back to the battle room and said, "Rosella, I don't think you going to like this much, but the kind of training I have in mind for your pokemon is a sort of resistance training exercise."
"Resistance training? What's that?" I asked
Maxie replied, "Its when you use a pokemon that has a type disadvantage against another type that has an advantage in the fight. For example, if I were to use my Mightyena against your Azumarill. That would cause me to have the advantage because of Mightyena's electric move it knows."
"I think I get it know." Rosella said.
"Good." Maxie said.
"Come on Sweetheart, let's get started. I hope you don't mind battling me while we're doing this, and don't worry I will take it easy on you. Since you're still fairly new to this, and I don't want to break your spirit. Now you said that you had a Skarmory, a Flaafy, an Azumarill, a Ninetails, a Togetic, and a Bayleef; so this is what I had in mind to pit against each of them. For Skarmory, I was going to use Numel against it. For Flaafy, I planned to use Torkoal. I already told you basically what I was going to use against your Azumarill. Mightyena, of course. Now I'm going to use Magcargo against your Ninetails, Golbat against your Togetic, and Camperupt against your Bayleef. For you to do well in this exercise, you'll need to learn pretty quickly to adapt your battling style against whichever pokemon you're facing."
"Are we going to do this all today?" I asked Maxie.
"No, of course not, Sweetheart. You've had enough training for one day. I was just letting you know what I had in mind for tomorrow." Maxie said.
"Oh." Rosella said.
"That's right, little one." Maxie said.
"I don't believe in over-doing it, so I thought it best to tell you today what we were going to do tomorrow."
"Okay, that makes sense." Rosella said.
"Come on Rosella, let me walk you back to your room so that you can rest. It's been a long day."
Maxie now walked me now walked me back to my room, and once in my room I pondered exactly how I was going to battle Maxie's pokemon the next day. Trying to come up with a possible plan that I could use for tomorrow was really hard because besides the 3 pokemon I had known he had, and had actually seen them in action. I wasn't too sure exactly how I was going to battle Magcargo, Numel, and Camperupt. Thinking that I would just get some sleep and worry about it tomorrow, I went to bed since it was starting to get late.