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That was Sabrina. I dropped my pokemon off for healing and settled down in my room to think. I just got curb stomped. She didn't even have a single badge, but her Alakazam took out all my pokemon so quickly. Whether Broly was there or not, I suspected the answer would be the same. Kisame, my strongest pokemon only accomplished the goal of getting it to move. Quicksilver, my fastest wasn't even able to make it move.

I had no chance. Virtually zero odds of winning if she would be competing, and I strongly suspected that she would be. After all, to start a new gym, one had to defeat the first two of the Elite Four to prove their strength. The problem was no one could challenge the Elite four without making it to the semi-finals of the regional conference.

She'd be competing for sure. I'd be faced with that Alakazam again. Only, after it had gotten over a year of battle experience. Would it take it only a single move to take out each of my pokemon then? I kept spiralling deeper and deeper into my thoughts before the pokeball on my desk burst open. It was Igneel. He stomped up to me, snarling and growling. He looked around and then jumped towards me.

I was scared that I'd somehow lost the allegiance of my dragon type pokemon until I felt his hands wrap around me in a hug. I swallowed him in my return hug and smiled. Pokemon were empaths, to an extent. I had no idea how he felt my feelings all the way from his ball and then how he knew a hug would make me feel better.

It didn't matter though. Fuck all this thinking. I'd promised Igneel, Broly, Kisame and Quicksilver the opportunity of challenging Lance himself. I promised them victory. I'll be damned if I couldn't fulfil that promise. Sabrina's Alakazam would go down like all other pokemon in our way.

I was already coming up with strategies for how to defeat the Alakazam. The only problem was most of these strategies involved Dusknoir, my recalcitrant ghost type. There's nothing for it. I'd have to ask Oak. A large part of me instantly rebelled at that thought. I was doing this to show myself as different from Oak, as my own independent being, but at the first sign of trouble, I was running straight to him.

I tried to reason it away, but I couldn't. I told myself I was better than Oak. How would I be better if I couldn't solve a problem as simple as a stubborn pokemon without his help. Besides, I already had a good idea on how to make him comply. I'd have to beat him into submission, or at least Broly would.

I went to bed with training plans moving in and out of my mind. I woke up the next day to find that I'd been sent 10,000 pokedollars from the league. 8,000 of that was from the Cerulean gym challenge. Apparently, taking out three water type pokemon with a single water type was worthy of some big bucks from the league. The other 2,000 was from the Saffron challenge.

This windfall was good because I had a lot of shopping to do. I dressed up and after attaching Igneel's and Dusknoir's balls to my belt I went to the Saffron department store to make my purchases. The supplies Oak had sent had been rarely dipped into. I'd only actually spent 2 days in the wilderness after all. I was in cities for the rest of it. I calculated that the supplies I still had would last me for a good three months in the wild. Praise Arceus for space technology.

Since I was covered for things like my food and pokemon food, I focused on making training purchases. I bought heaps of rare candies. I'd be adding them to my Pokémon's diet to stimulate their growth. I also bought three new gravity bracers. Two of them were for Charmander. I got one at his present size and one quite a bit bigger that could be tightened. I also bought one for Milotic. The pokedex was quite useful in giving me exact dimensions for my pokemon so that was a plus.

I then went to the TM section. This was where I spent the least time. I went to get TMs for Igneel. I bought flamethrower, fire punch, and dragon rage. On my way out of the section, I spotted a TM for U-turn and I got that for Quicksilver. I salivated for a bit around the TMs for Hyper beam, Giga Impact and Protect. The Protect TM was a bit cheaper than the Hyper beam and Giga Impact ones, but it still cost as much as all the other TMs I had bought, and then I changed my mind. I returned all the TMs I'd gotten and picked up the one for Protect. It cost me a good 8,000 pokes but I knew it would be worth it. Protect was one of those moves that every pokemon could learn. All I had to do was teach it to one of my pokemon and then have them teach it to the others.

The other moves I wanted could be taught by me. It just required a little imagination and hard work. Two things I had in spades. I had come up with a plan for the next three months of training. I was going to have to travel a bit to get to my ideal training grounds, but they should have everything I need.

I got back to the centre around noon and packed up my things. After reclaiming my pokeballs. I checked the map and then set off on Quicksilver.

We had a long flight ahead of us. We'd be doing our training in an important bit of wilderness near Fuchsia. It was important because that was the area that would eventually become the safari zone. Right now, though, it wasn't anywhere as domestic as that yet. It was filled with wild pokemon, famed for killing trainers.

It would be dangerous, but that kind of environment was well suited for growth. Pokemon grew best in conflict. An environment filled with strong wild pokemon that they could battle against constantly would shape and sharpen my pokemon into deadly instruments.

Quicksilver made good time and we were at the safari zone in a bit over four hours. I had her set us down a bit close to the stream, but not too close. The sun was beginning to show signs of setting, so we built camp first thing. I'd always been a city boy in my first life, but Donnell had the highest marks ever recorded in the survival section of the License examinations. I leaned heavily on his expertise, and I had set up in no time at all.

The next thing I did was release my pokemon. The sun wasn't down yet so we had time for training. I had come up with a tentative plan of activities for each month of my stay. The goal of this month was fighting. They were going to brawl with each other.

I had them move to the stream itself partly so Kisame would have access to water and also so we wouldn't draw unnecessary attention to our camps. The battle between Kisame, Broly and Quicksilver was a mess. It was chaotic. And after two hours, no one had won but they were all bruised and battered. I had them march back to the camp and we settled down for dinner.

I had a granola bar that tasted surprisingly good while the pokemon had bowls of high-quality feed mixed with rare candies. Luckily, ghost types didn't need to eat. If not, I'd have felt extremely guilty for leaving Dusknoir in his ball.

We went to bed after dinner and woke up the next day to train again. I started by using the TM machine to teach Broly protect and then we were back at the stream. I divided them into groups. Broly and Quicksilver were working together. Broly was teaching protect while Quicksilver helped him learn aerial ace. Kisame and Igneel were paired up to work on his dragon breath and his grasp of dragon type energy. The fact was that Igneel was terrible at manipulating his own dragon type energy and Kisame was great at that.

I settled down to meditate and focus on my aura. I did the same with Igneel as I did with Kisame. I split off another tendril of aura towards the young fire type. After I finished that, I meditated some more and then decided to move between both groups of pokemon to aid the training.

By lunch time, Quicksilver had started to get the barest forms of a protective shield around him and Igneel's dragon breath had started to look like an actual move. We gathered to eat. I had another granola bar. Those were actually amazing. Specially designed and formulated to both taste nice and provide as many nutrients as possible.

After lunch, we settled down to rest. I played with Igneel, the lovable scamp. Broly and Quicksilver were flying around and having bro time while Kisame was teasing Igneel while he tried to hide behind me. I ended up soaked after playing with the two of them.

I hung out my clothes to dry at the camp and went to the stream in my underwear. Broly, Quicksilver and Kisame had another battle while I tried coaching Igneel through flamethrower. The key word here being 'tried'. His flames were powerful enough, but they couldn't get the required shape. He had power but not enough control.

The day ended and we went back to get dinner. Things continued like that till we experienced the first bit of excitement three weeks after we'd set up camp.

It was a night like any other until it wasn't. I'd just finished dinner and then slept off with my pokemon. The feeling that something was wrong was what woke me up at first. My heart was beating so quickly too quickly.

It felt like I'd just had a nightmare I couldn't remember. I tried calming myself down by meditating or using a mantra. Those didn't work. I felt pure unadulterated fear and surrounded by the darkness, that fear did not get better. I released Igneel from his ball to give me some light so I could see that everything was okay and banish my worries.

He formed out of the usual blast of red light and his appearance sent the darkness roiling. He was big, much bigger than he was when we got here. I don't know if it was the rare candies or the effects of constant training but all my pokemon had grown notably. His scales had become much rougher, his claws had gotten sharper, and he spoke with a notable growl.

Igneel's presence caused a problem though. I could now see all around me and my worries weren't calmed. Our camp was surrounded. They were everywhere. All around us lay large black hounds. Igneel's continued presence seems to have stirred them up. They started growling and began to approach. I released Kisame, Broly and Quicksilver. That made them hasten their approach.

I'd chosen a large clearing for a reason and this clearing was going to witness a battle of epic proportions if I had anything to say about it. I started giving orders. "Broly, use swords dance as many times as possible and then engage them in their midst. Use agility to move around a lot too. Cause as much confusion as possible" He nodded his understanding. Good.

"Kisame, wrap around me and use protect when you need to but spam hydro pump and water pulse as much as you can. I suspect these are fire types." She wrapped her body around me, and I felt much calmer by her close presence.

"Igneel, use metal claw. Make them bleed" He roared his anger to the skies and began to charge. I guess I didn't need to tell him to get going.

"Guys, aim to kill. These pokemon are wild and will be doing the same." I finally stated. This would be a long night.

A/N

Name; Donnell Oak

Age; 15

Hometown; Pallet

Next of Kin; Samuel Oak

Account balance; 1,050 Pokedollars

Pokemon;

Scyther (Nickname; Broly)- Male. Bug/Flying type

Moves; Signal beam, agility, steel wing, fury cutter, quick attack, slash, swords dance, protect, U-turn and wing attack.

Pidgeot (Nickname; Quicksilver)- Male. Flying/Normal type

Moves; Brave bird, aerial ace, steel wing, agility, roost, hypervoice, gust, whirlwind, U-turn, protect and thunderbolt

Milotic (Nickname; Kisame)- Female. Water type.

Moves; Brine, ice beam, hydro pump, dragon breath, dragon pulse, water gun, protect, recover, and bubble beam.

Charmander (Nickname; Igneel)- Male. Fire type.

Moves; Ember, dragon breath, scratch, bite, growl, metal claw, flame thrower, protect, and dragon rush.