AN: To the reviewer who asked, the only parts of JumpChain that can be considered 'canon' are those made by Quicksilver, and I seriously doubt that you can point to any one other Jump document they didn't write and say "this is also canon because I like it/said it should be". As far as I'm concerned, I posted my Supplement to Reddit ( r/JumpChain/comments/c9rl75/centurion_challengegeneric_first_chain ) and no-one specifically objected to it, so it's as real as the SpaceBattles Body Mod Supplement, or the Personal Reality Supplement, or the Universal Drawback Supplement (which I recommend also checking out if you're looking for something that's been 'accepted' for a longer period of time).
At the end of the day, it's all fanfiction and it all exists to facilitate your own writing/escapism. That's why I came up with the Life Experience Supplement in the first place: the idea of being limited to a relatively-small amount of Choice Points, while also being expected to make your choices at the start of each Jump and to have no further influence past the beginning of each Jump, feels like a discredit to the work the authors of the Jump documents put into them (given how little exposure and relevance they have over the course of the Chain, compared to the immediate and obvious effects of Perks and Items). So I'm just, doing this Chain differently. If you want to use it, feel free. The rest is just, opinions.
Pokemon: City Life50; Actual Starter: Eevee (Shiny50); Freerunning; Swarmed+100 (100)
Priority: Physical Fitness100; Survival Training100; 3*Master Ball100; Rebreather50; HM Collection50 (400)
-Day 201-
Suffice to say, I didn't spontaneously drop dead over the course of the next hundred days. After the physical upgrade, it would have been pretty embarrassing if I had managed to somehow get myself killed after such a relatively-short period of time (equal to the one I'd spent without Physical Fitness in fact, that would have been mortifying).
I beat Roxanne. It took two tries because, rather than the one-to-two Geodude I expected her to have, she'd somehow gotten her hands on a Kabuto and an Omanyte. Not the most unexpected Pokemon for her to have, I recall her being desperate for at least one in ORAS, and with Steven Stone sponsoring her, it probably wasn't all that difficult to get her hands on two at the same time, but while Evan was getting good at Double Kick-ing Rock-types in the face, three battles back-to-back is a bit much for a single relatively-young Eevee. By the time the next battle rolled around, she had Swift and enough time to get the hang of staying back and peppering the Fossils (who were unsurprisingly-slow and unable to catch her) with 'ineffective' homing stars until they dropped from exhaustion, then fight the Nosepass up-close-and-personal while it struggled to nail her with Rock Tomb and Roxanne…
Well, she was a lot more subtle the second fight, but it wasn't hard to catch her giving my suddenly-toned body the fish-eye during Evan's first attempt. Of course, this wouldn't have been a problem, were it not for my internal debate about whether a relationship with someone my physical age would actually be appropriate given that (A) we're underage, (B) I'm still not really any more interested in dating even after my tone-up, and (C) I… couldn't see myself admitting to anyone that I actually had an additional twenty-five years of life experience under my belt, let alone someone my physical age that I would hypothetically be taking out on at least one date first, and I couldn't imagine her or any other prospective date believing that I was older than I actually was, even if I showed off the Psionics and Aura I would acquire later in the Jump, simply because I didn't have anything that couldn't have been acquired in-universe (not even a Cosmic Warehouse). And if they did believe me, well, where does that leave us? How much of the multiple lives I'd lived should count towards my actual age, let alone my dating prospects? The highest age I've ever reached as a baseline human? The half-plus-seven rule? Every year after turning eighteen?
At the end of the day, it was something I took little pride and much greater amusement in, rather than something I planned to act on just because she was a cute Japanese schoolgirl who was competent enough to run a Gym and take long-distance college classes at the same time. I didn't even know if I was still autistic, I sure as hell wouldn't wish that on my kids, and I had a lot to think on how romance would actually work for me during my Chain (and in hindsight, anyone else I brought along for the ride, since four-to-five Jumps would put their prospects much physically older than they were likely to be after entering any given Jump, let alone their actual age preferences). Thankfully, I wasn't interested right now, and I was too busy to care either way. I had a Pokemon Journey to attend to, and I wasn't quite sure where to try next.
I'd gone through an unblocked Rusturf Cave (between Verdanturf and Rustboro) to challenge Roxanne, seeing as she was the first Gym Leader in the games and thus the most likely to have a similar team. In reality, that had been somewhat unfounded: I'd learned from Winona's Gym guide that all Gyms had multiple teams of Pokemon based on how many Badges the challengers presented. I'd simply chosen Roxanne first because I'd hoped my metaknowledge of her team composition would change things to some degree, but… well, it was still a good idea to get her and Brawly out of the way first, but that didn't mean they weren't tough as all hell for Evan's first and second Gyms: one where most of her attacks were resisted, and one where she'd be taking double damage on any failed dodges. So, do Brawly second and keep my metaknowledge advantage, or leave him for later after I'd potentially evolved Evan into literally anything that wasn't Glaceon? Espeon and Sylveon came to mind… but Tate/Liza and Flanner-y…
Wait. Tate and Liza. They wouldn't obligate me to do a Double Battle or refuse me if I only had a single Pokemon, would they…? Did they have the power to make that decision arbitrarily? …shit, I didn't even think about that. And even if I did, if I wanted to get anywhere in a hurry… I might be able to learn to teleport with Psionics, but I highly doubted that it included explicit Psychic-type Moves in the Perk's capabilities. I probably didn't need a Pokemon who could Fly and Surf, but having one that knew Dive might not be a bad idea…
Whatever, I can always come back to that idea, and to them, later. Question now is, Brawly or someone else?
I could justify not evolving Evan too early because she had Double Kick and Roxanne used Rock-types, but Brawly could actively exploit her Fighting-type weakness at this point, and I could easily work around that by either Evolving or-no, spending fifty Choice Points on teaching her Stored Power as an Egg Move wouldn't give her Psychic-type STAB, nor would it fix her lack of stat-boosting Moves to take advantage of its quirk. And hell, didn't Brawly have a Machop, a Makuhita, and a Meditite in Emerald? …Evan could exploit her Adaptability-boosted Normal Moves anywhere, it won't necessarily make it that much easier, and even if it did-I should probably just ask her first instead of panicking, shouldn't I?
I should probably also give the context that we were currently in Slateport City, given that their port was much more active than the dinky little thing that Captain Briney ran on Route 104, and that the third (potentially the second, for me) Gym with Wattson was in Mauville, just to the north. Also, their open-air market was actually pretty kickass, lots of people selling fancy foods that probably didn't come from any of the four local regions (and definitely didn't in my world, but even with other Regions proving the world was bigger and more Earth-shaped than just Japan, it was still so hard to be sure credit was being given where it was due for various inventions and the like). I even got Hidden Power and a Secret Power TM's relatively cheap. Apparently, Evan is Ghost-typed (Rolled IV's: 21/2631/22/831/28/531), which… isn't terrible, but it isn't Dragon-typed as I'd hoped (she could always learn Shadow Ball, or Signal Beam, or Aurora Beam as a Vaporeon, but I didn't know of any Dragon-typed Moves she could learn). In any case, fun was had for the day. Then I went out with Evan to Route 103's river and (not that I thought I'd need it, but better safe than sorry) used another one hundred Choice Points to 'Discover' the Survival Training Perk.
Y'know that scene in the Matrix, where Neo abruptly 'knows Kung-Fu'? Well, it wasn't quite as obvious as that. There was a very slight rush of contextual knowledge for things like 'how to spearfish in that river right in front of you' and 'how to weave those reeds into a hammock or clothing', but it mostly just sat in the back of my head, only coming up when I specifically asked a question (or presumably put myself in a position) where knowing how to survive would be relevant. If I was back home, I would know in an instant whether or not a native fruit was safe to eat or not, or how to avoid wild animals in any given biome. Here, it was toned down a little more, since there wasn't as much call for it in a world where the native Tree Fruits were all harmless Berries that you could very easily grow and multiply in mere days with no actual botanical skill.
If I had to compare it to anything, it would be the Freerunning Perk I started with. By now, parkour was so central to what I could do that I barely even thought to mention it, but the 'information-granting' Perks weren't very impressive on the outside. Having been able to cartwheel and somersault with the best of them from birth in this life, it was a bit harder to keep track of what the Chain was responsible for and what I'd just naturally developed in my new life. The Survival Training I'd just Discovered could be explained away as years of training in the wilderness… except that I'd never done any, the same way I'd always been incredibly acrobatic despite never taking the time to learn the skill so thoroughly. A Perk like this would inevitably fade into the background as an 'informed' attribute (because it would never be clear if this was something I'd learned the hard way, or just my convenient Perk kicking in to tell me what I needed to know), whereas Physical Fitness would be fairly obvious… until I surpassed it with, say, Spiderman's supernatural physical abilities.
Something to keep in mind (literally, as it happens) in the future. "Hey, Evan." I called her over. "I'm thinking about the next Gym challenge, and we have three options." Four if the Petalburg Gym is open, but somehow, I doubt it. "We can go south to Dewford Island, but Brawly uses Fighting-types, which'll be pretty rough on you. We can go north to Mauville, where Wattson focuses on Electric-types but has a few Steel-types you can Double Kick into oblivion. Or, we can try Lavaridge Town, which has Flannery and her Fire-types. Any preferences?" Visibly thinking it over, she slapped her right forepaw on the ground once. "You want to get Brawly out of the way next?" Nod. "He would probably be a lot easier if you evolved. Do you still want to fight him now, even with another type disadvantage?" Firm nod. "Alright, let's do back and see when the ferry's next departure is."
Helpfully, that giant Harbor building in the games that only serves as a plot device (for Team Aqua to steal a submarine to get to Kyogre's resting spot) before defeating the Elite Four just naturally got used for the SS Tidal to ferry people to Lilycove and the island cities. I'd still have to check the dates, though… And probably get Zubat'd again. Joy.
-Day 361-
Well, Brawly had taken a few weeks of fighting his Gym Trainers before Evan got used to Fighting-type movements (namely, the whole 'walking on two legs' thing) and managed to outlast the Machop, Meditite and Makuhita he used, but it happened. I mean, it would've been pretty silly if I had taken us more than a hundred days to achieve that. Journeying to Mauville to fight Wattson, he'd used a Voltorb, an Electrike, and a Magneton (the first 'fully-evolved' Pokemon Evan had ever fought), and he'd been a cakewalk in comparison. Not to say he was weak, of course, but not having to deal with elemental weakness and resistance (except for the Magneton, but Double Kick was still very useful in that regard) helped to close the gap. Shortly after the victory, I'd spent another Hundred Choice Points on Three Master Balls, solely because I didn't trust myself not to stumble across a Legendary or Mythical roaming Hoenn, and I'd like to at least ask them some stuff before I release them. After all, Legendaries have important jobs to do, and I needed to keep at least one Master Ball for the Pokemon Conquest Jump so I could clown Nobunaga and his bullshit-OP Arceus.
Not having anything special to comment on, I'd headed North to tour Mount Chimney. Which, despite being an active volcano, was much cooler than it would have been back home at the kind of closeness I was. Not that the laws of physics aren't already obviously-different in this universe, the mere existence of Pokemon proved that, but either the native humans are much more heat-resistant than back home to have an active volcano's rim be a touring site, or the rules in regards to molten earth or airborne heat dispersal were wack in this realm of existence. Anyway, we went down the volcano's Jagged Pass, checked the suspiciously-blank rock face that I recall being a Team Magma base in Emerald and then moved swiftly on when I realised that actually exposing and challenging a national crime syndicate was not a good idea with a single Eevee, and arrived in Lavaridge Town where Evan fought Flannery's Slugma, Numel and Torkoal for her first 'first-try' victory over a Gym Leader. I can't say she was vastly worse than Wattson, though she was definitely a bit newer like Roxxanne was, and if I'm on my fourth Badge, the Camerupt probably would have been a more appropriate choice than the pre-evolved Numel. Ah, well. Not going to complain. Well, not about her, though getting Zubat'd while we were trying to relax in the Hot Springs wasn't very amusing.
Then again, getting used to public bathing in a Japanese-inspired land meant remembering that cultural nudity was a thing. I opted to bring underwear at least just because having to share space with multiple naked people of both genders was awkward enough without being naked myself, even if such a thing was normal around here. Still some bloody nice Hot Springs, though. Ended up spending a second day here just because I was pissed about getting Zubat'd (and I could tell Evan was too) the first time, and I didn't regret it at all.
Then, I took a break. A long way up North, I used the Fiery Path to avoid Route 111's desert (and briefly reflect on how taking the four Winstrates' challenge had not been a good idea with, once again, a single Pokemon, though at least there was no wager on the table), and made a pit-stop partway through the perpetually-ashy Route 113 to visit the Glass Workshop and pick up a Soot Sack, which I could later use to collect some of the falling ash to make powerful flutes and fancy tables/chairs out of for a modest fee. Definitely one of the few things I wanted to come back to later on, but it could wait. Just to the West was Fallarbor Town, a grey-covered crater where the locals had to plant especially-hardy crops to deal with Mount Chimney's perpetual ashfall. Also, thanks to the games, I knew that the one obvious crater had a Nugget of pure gold hidden in the base (though it was justifiably tiny, given that it was 'only' worth five thousand Yen), and I'd never object to a bit of disposable capital that couldn't be taken as prize money.
Next on the tour, through Route 114 to the southwest, was Meteor Falls. An enormous, open-air cave system with perpetually-flowing waterfalls leading down into a tranquil lake shallow enough to wade through, bright-yellow stalactites thick as your arm, and natural diving pools making up a cliff run that led all the way down to the southern exit. The lake I gave a shot, because I'd just traded Fifty Choice Points for a Rebreather that could provide fresh air through not just gas, but also water and supposedly, even in the vacuum of space (not that I'd be testing that anytime soon). Being able to open my eyes under the surface without getting chlorinated was nice, though I'd have to wash them out once I was done, and being able to swim alongside a Magikarp, a few Goldeen and the occasional Barboach feeding on the bottom was definitely the most fantastical experience I'd had yet. And Evan, of course. She still wasn't decided on her Evolution, so as much as I would prefer Espeon or Jolteon, I felt that giving her more comprehensive life experience was important.
Next up was the Petalburg Gym, the one you had to skip until halfway through the story in the video games. Of course, I hadn't needed to skip it myself, but I chose to do so mostly because the world was so predictable in some aspects that being able to plan around known or suspected teams was an incredible tactical advantage, and I hadn't felt it necessary to interrupt my experience reliving Generation Three (but in real life). I'd expected Spinda, Linoone, Slaking and possibly it's pre-evolution, Vigoroth (though to be fair, Vigoroth was very different after it evolved into Slaking), and I'd trained her in fighting Normal-types that specialised in high attack and speed, since Slaking were deceptively quick. Two tries later, she'd managed to get through all of his Gym Trainers for the third time, and finally she succeeded in knocking out his final Slaking with the Roxanne strategy: keep your distance, pelt them with Swift stars, and exhaust them until you can deal the final Double Kick. First time she'd taken a bad blow knocking out the Vigoroth, second time the Slaking had caught her with a very abrupt Hyper Beam. The third, she closed it out with the Last Resort she'd learned from her second bout, and as far as I was concerned, her improvement was what had mattered more than anything. Especially because it meant she only had Trump Card left to learn before she was done with what Eevee could learn.
Now, I'd promised my parent's I'd be home for at least a few days of my birthday. Let's see how this turns out…
-Day 401-
The answer was, not as awkwardly as I'd feared. My return had been a little delicate due to my rather… drastic physical tune-up, but they were mostly interested in where I'd been and what I'd done, and they just about burst in excitement when I showed them my five Badges. Not a record-breaker by any means, but not too shabby. On the other hand…
Staying in a house and room with people who were all as familiar as they were alien was deeply uncomfortable. Not enough to force me to leave, but enough that I didn't want to stay any longer than it took to finish off the leftovers. But despite my fears, they'd both understood, having been very independent during their childhoods and having assumed that all I'd needed was to get out of Fortree and see the rest of the region for a change, which… wasn't wrong, but challenging that view would be a little difficult.
In any case, I'd waited until I was re-lodged at the local Pokemon Center before I challenged Winona, mostly because I wasn't expecting a first-try victory and I didn't want to have to discuss any potential fuckups with my parents. Not that I think they'd be upset, I just… didn't want to touch the whole 'family' thing with a thirty-foot pole.
So, Winona. Not exactly a childhood crush, she was known more for her gracefulness and tranquillity (which I'd adopted into my own character), but she was definitely a strong female role model to look up to. Known to have a Swellow, a Tropius, a Pelipper, a Skarmory and an Altaria (and a Swablu she kept around for 'earlier' challengers). I could wax lyrical about it being an awesome battle, but her decision not to use her giant Skarmory (since we 'only' had five Badges) had me sighing in relief because boy that type matchup would not be fun for Evan to work around. Beating her ourselves… that took a respectable two tries, because her Swellow had Roost, her Tropius had Synthesis and her Pelipper had the Stockpile/Swallow combo, and while the first made for Double Kick bait for Evan, she hadn't been able to keep up the pressure on Tropius for long enough with Swift (something we worked on with her Gym Trainers for the second try) before she'd exhausted herself, and the Pelipper out-healed her Last Resort and water-blasted her into unconsciousness. The second time, she'd finally learned Trump Card and was able to blow the Pelipper away in a single hit, and her Altaria took just a bit too long spamming Dragon Dance to deal with Evan desperately spamming her Last Resort against her relatively-immobile opponent.
Suffice to say, it wasn't a clean or particularly-epic fight, but we won. And when we reached the Lilycove Department Store the very next day to look at the goods while Evan thought over what she wanted to evolve into, we ran into Tate and Liza, the leaders of the Mossdeep Gym. The fact that they were in Lilycove levitating toys to the counter took me off guard, but after beating the Elite Four, they appeared there in the games as glorified flavor text, so it wasn't that surprising. More importantly, it gave me the opportunity to greet them and ask them about the Double Battle restriction I'd 'heard' that their Gym employed before I sailed all the way over there. The answer was simple: as Gym Leaders, they had the right to instil arbitrary rules on Challengers to prove that they could adapt to fighting in a variety of conditions, and since no other Gym in Hoenn (or anywhere in this world's Japan) used Double Battles as their gimmicks, they were well within their right to force opposing trainers to have a second Pokemon. And just to confirm, no, deliberately using an untrained Pokemon you'd obviously just caught to skirt the rules was not allowed. Apparently, Psychic Humans could roughly tell the level of training a Pokemon had experienced, and while they were impressed with my dedication to my Starter, they couldn't and wouldn't change the rule for a single Trainer.
So now, I was caught in a very awkward position. Don't get me wrong, I did want to gather the Badges and enter the Ever Grande Conference. I had no illusions of crushing the Elite Four as in the games: even if we lost the first battle, proving we could get there was what really mattered to me. But I couldn't challenge them with only a single Pokemon, even if Evan was strong enough to wipe the floor with both of them at the same time (and she wasn't now and probably wouldn't be in the remainder of the ten years we had here)…
So. Do I stick to my principles, or do I change things up? Do I catch a second Pokemon and compromise by importing it as a Starter in one of the other Pokemon Jumps? Or do I just abandon the whole idea (which I was never amazingly fond of to begin with) and go back to just, touring the region and having fun seeing the sights? I didn't have any especially-strong feelings either way, I was barely more than a year into my trip as it is and I could still go to Sootopolis, or any of the other regions. Hell, I could travel internationally at almost any time, cities were big enough to have travel agencies with Flying-types and Psychic-types who knew Teleport. I can't imagine that fighting eight-Badge teams in the other regions would be doable with a single Eevee, Winona was down to the wire and it took both out-of-battle preparation with Trump Card and luck that she chose to use Dragon Dance over attacking Evan while she was already on her last legs, but she was going to pick an Evolution by the time we'd left Lilycove one way or another (and had almost Evolved into an Espeon after Winona, only failing to do so due to her exhaustion and visible uncertainty), so succeeding those Gyms was well within our power.
I mean, listen to me, focussing exclusively on Gyms when I could go and do just about any other job. But the thing about those other jobs, is that while fighting wasn't of huge interest to me or Evan, it kept us busy and it was an easy thing to focus on. By now, I'd built up well over a million Yen in prize money (more than ten thousand dollars) and I was currently spending most of it on one of just about every Technical Machine the Lilycove Department Store had in stock, because having an infinite supply of instantly-learnable techniques for my Pokemon would never be a bad idea, but what else could I spend it on? What else would I do with my life in this world?! I didn't have the heart to breed or farm the wild Pokemon, growing crops required a Grass-type… well, just about every job required a Pokemon of a specific type or fulfilling certain qualifications (like having two arms with opposable thumbs and a minimum lifting strength, or the ability to swim a certain distance and back under various conditions and carrying at least two human passengers), and the few things that didn't either didn't pay well enough for me to consider them worthwhile, or they weren't as interesting as exploring the world of Pokemon.
And exploring didn't pay the bills without prize money, and if you're betting on whose Pokemon is better-trained, you may as well do it at an official Gym. Not that the payout from Gym Leaders or Gym Trainers was amazingly high, but it wasn't meant to be. You didn't need all that much with what the Pokemon Centers offered you, just to stay roughly within the bounds of civilisation. Deceptively easy in this particular Pokemon world, there were smaller towns who offered lesser Pokemon Centers for anyone and everyone (who didn't have a known criminal record), and…
Well, what it really came down to was the power dynamic. I couldn't go without basic necessities; even when I gained my Cosmic Warehouse at the end of this Jump, I'd still need some basic tools and human interaction from time to time. Nor did I have the power to easily earn money by, for example, growing crops. This world actually exacerbated the issue due to the relative ease of acquiring necessities and quite a few luxury items. And unless I was free of the need to interact with people, I couldn't really choose to do 'whatever I wanted'. Much like my old world; good luck living without money and a legal way to acquire it so you aren't being chased by the cops wherever you go, and good luck legally acquiring money without a dedicated job that takes up precious days and eventually years of your life, just to have a roof over your head. I wasn't a planet-busting god just yet, I still had to make do with living a (relatively) normal life for at least a few more decades, and normal is…
Well, normal is hard to do when you go from 'normal' to 'fantasy world where people tame supernatural creatures to provide them with their needs and wants at their whims'.
Case in point, I was still waiting for Evan to decide which of eight (known) elemental forms she would like to spontaneously and semi-permanently transform into, each of which specialised in something different and each of which could manipulate the fundamental forces of the natural world with minimal effort. Though thinking about my Chain had reminded me of an interesting little titbit that would come up… well, not for a long time, but it would be a relatively-short time by the end of my Chain.
"Evan." Mild startling. "For starters, relax. I understand this is a big decision, but freaking out won't help you decide." Mix of mildly-upset and mildly-abashed. "I've been thinking: the big reason you're not sure which of the eight you want to evolve into is because you're worried you'll never be able to change your mind down the road. Right?" Patient nod. "Well, it occurs to me that there exists another way to change your Evolved form." Surprised and interested. "I've mentioned to you before, how I'm going to be leaving this world in… about nine more years, and that you'll be coming with me to the next world. Well, one of those other worlds is another Pokemon world, though it's a bit different in some ways and a lot different in others. One of those, is the ability for Pokemon to Evolve up and down their evolution lines." Not technically true, she'd need to take the Mythic Achievement Perk in the Pokemon Anime Jump for that, but she'll be Imported into that Jump (and therefore have some Choice Points to spend on herself), and I can't see her not picking that when we arrive. Especially with the bewildered look of wonder on her face right now. "So I get that you're nervous about which form you want to Evolve into, but even if you change your mind, you can change your body too in a few decades." Scrunched-up muzzle… probably distaste. "Yeah, I know that sounds like a long time, but it will happen one day. So don't worry about which form you take now. One day, you can try them all. Okay?" Nod. "Okay. Now then…"
I walked to the front of the semicircle, which I'd made by laying down eight coloured stones, and asked her a different question. "You know what I said earlier, about wanting you to pick Jolteon or Espeon?" Tentative nod. "Well, let me tell you why: both are known for high Speed and high Special Attack, which are the most important Stats for me. Being able to move faster than your opponent means being able to both dodge their ranged Moves, and stay out of reach of their contact Moves. Of the two of them… I think being an Espeon would be the better pick." Rolling paw (or as close as she could get), a 'keep going' gesture she'd picked up from me. "I like Jolteon because of an old bias, but in about a year… The thing that happened when I got really fit, and my muscles grew out? That's going to happen again, but this time, I'm going to make myself Psychic." Nonplussed. "I can choose how those things happen. Before Brawly, when we were at Route 103 on the Slateport side, I used the change to add lots of knowledge on surviving in the wild into my head. It didn't have a big showy effect like the first time, so you didn't notice. But I've made my decision on what I want, and it would be really cool if we were both Psychic and we could both project our feelings into each other's heads. A lot simpler to communicate, too. I'm quite sick of being nipped or poked with your claws for attention." Wry agreement.
"Alright. I don't know if a Sun Stone will do the trick, so let's just go back to the Center and sleep for the night. I want a few days so you can get used to being an Espeon and having Psychic powers, so we'll go and tour Mossdeep first. Then when you're ready, we'll pay the Sootopolis Gym a visit, and loop down to Pacifidlog. After that… we'll see."
