Pokémon trainer hero
Chapter 4: Typing's, Balls, and Food.
Later at the Lunch Hall.
After everyone had gone through hell and high water, having to do 50 more laps on top of their previous ones, Aizawa then kept them in Gym Beta to do even more exercises until lunchtime rolled around. All the students, especially the more athletic ones, were extremely exhausted and aching all over from the nearly nonstop working and moving around. Even Gar commented that he hadn't had a workout like that since he scaled Mt. Silver at age 11. Gar even took Mimikyu with him to Lunch, with the small creature being held in his arms. Although he wasn't supposed to have his pokemon in the open, especially around other school students, Mimikyu did have the advantage of looking like just a toy so long as he was held and acted accordingly.
Once they all got their food and finally sat at their tables, they all nearly melted right into them from sheer exhaustion! Some fell right to sleep, some fell face-first into their food or the table, and some went completely stiff in their seats. While others were just too hungry to even care about being tired.
One of them being Gar, who was now ravenously chowing down into his meat curry, meat pie, meat soup, and meat sandwich like a starving animal. He made the more horrible sounds when inhaling his food and had a whole list of other lousy table manners. Everyone sitting around him looked on in disgust as he mindlessly continued to eat.
Having had enough of it, Iida spoke up and stated, "Gar-kun, can you please! Your table manners are absolutely horrendous! It's making us lose ours."
"Wha-?" Gar looked up to Iida with a full mouth and glazed expression.
This only made Iida nearly vomit at him, which Gar noticed and swallowed the food remaining in his mouth.
He wiped his face with his sleeve and asked, "Sorry, what did you say, Tenya?"
"Your table manners! My goodness Gar-kun, did your mother teach you nothing?" Iida asked in a nauseous tone.
Gar's face went from exhaustion to anger in 0.001 seconds as he threateningly pointed his fork at Iida and stated firmly, "DON'T EVER! Bring my mother into anything!"
"I-I- I'm sorry, okay?! But that's no excuse for your table etiquette." Iida put his hands up defensively.
"He's right, Iida-kun, you didn't have to bring his mom into this.", Uraraka stated plainly while mindlessly failing to pick up her food.
"My point still stands!" Iida defended himself.
"Well, you could've just said that.", Gar said while pulling his fork away and taking back his calmer expression. "And besides, I've been on my own for a long time now. No time to think about table manners when you travel by yourself, sleep in the wilds, and train pokemon.", he explained while taking another bite of his food.
"I guess I can understand that, but while you're here in this prestigious school, you will be retaught proper table manners.", Iida stated firmly.
"Yes, mom.", Gar sassed him.
"Sorry, mom, we'll do better.", Uraraka added mindlessly.
"Well, make your proud, mom.", Izuku also added, half awake.
"Please stop calling me mom.", Iida said in a small and embarrassed voice.
"Yes, mom.", they all replied in unison. This only caused Iida to blush and hide his face.
A little while later, Mina eventually joined the table sitting next to Gar, who hadn't noticed her yet. She waited for a moment to see if he would acknowledge her or any of them, but Gar only continued to numbly much away.
"Hey Gar-san.", Mina called for his attention.
Gar came back to reality, and turned to her with a half-full mouth; he said, "Huh?"
Seeing his derpy expression and puffy cheeks made Mina giggle a bit. So she quickly took a moment to take a pic of him.
After pocketing her phone, she asked, "So back at Gym Beat when you and Bakugou battled. You said something about typing's. What is that exactly?"
The light returned to Gar's eyes. Hearing this and shaking himself awake, he swallowed his food and explained to her, "Well, typing's are a system of simplifying which Pokemon belongs in which group. Like your Worlds Animal system; Kingdom, Phylum, Genius, and Species. Stuff like that. We have a more advanced system for Pokemon in Egg Groups, Body Shapes, Height and Weight, and so on. But typing is just a straightforward version. A Pokemon is usually given a typing group when taking into account lots of factors.", At this point, Mina looked totally lost. Gar saw this and sighed while saying, "Maybe I should just simplify it. If a Pokemon lives in the water and has features related to living in water, then it's a water type. If it lives in the cold, then it's an ice type. Fiery parts or a hot environment? Fire-type. Spews toxic material and makes others sick? Poison. Though finding certain types for some Pokemon is harder for others, they either have to observe them in the wild or battle them with certain moves to see what works the most and least effective, then make a determination from there."
Mina mulled over this for a bit of coyly asking, "Sooooooooo, since we are basically your world's equivalent of pokemon, what would my type be?"
"Your type?" Gar questioned. "Well, from what you told me about your quirk, I'd say you would be a Poison-type.", this made Mina squeal with delight.
"What about me? What type would I be?", Kaminari asked excitedly while sitting down with them.
"That's easy, pure Electric.", Gar pointed. Kaminair then did a fist pump into the air and cheered!
"How about me?" Kirishima asked while coming to the table.
"Rock or Rock-Fighting.", Gar answered. Kirishima smiled with bright teeth!
"What about-." another person began to ask until Gar cut them off.
"Okay, ya know what. How about I just go down the list and name it off in rapid-fire, okay?" Gar asked as everyone else was starting to move over upon hearing the conversation, nodded with him.
Uraraka and Izuku snapped out of their tired trance to pay attention; even the aloof Todoroki and distant Tokoyami joined out of curiosity. Gar sighed and rubbed his chin; he looked around at where he should start. Who was the easiest to identify and then move from there? He already did it with Mina, Kirishima, and Kaminair, so who's next? He just thought to do everyone at the table he's sitting at and go from there.
So he turned and looked around and pointed at people; he said, "Pure Water. Fairy-Psychic combo. Normal or Normal-Fighting. Pure Fighting. Pure Fighting or Fighting-Normal. Electric-Fighting Combo. Fairy or Normal-Fairy. Pure Normal. Pure normal again, though you could squeak by with Steel. Pure Normal or Pure Ghost or Ghost-Fairy Combo. Dark-Flying. Fire-Ice combo." He pointed to Tsuyu, Uraraka, Sato, Shoji, Ojiro, Izuku, Aoyama, Koda, Jiro, Toru, Tokoyami, and Todoroki in that order.
Gar then stopped when he came to Iida and thought for a moment. After some silence, he finally said, "I'm not sure what to put you as Tenya? I would say normal, but you got metallic parts so that you may be Steel. And you also move really fast, so maybe Flying?"
"How do I count as a bird?" Iida asked, confused?
"Oh, trust me, the Flying Type is very lenient! There are these two pokemon called Doduo and Dodrio, who are wingless bird pokemon who are Flying types and can learn the move Fly. I'm not sure how though, and I've never seen one use Fly in a battle before. Soooooooo, yeah. One, or the other." Gar explained.
Iida obviously didn't like his answer but accepted nonetheless.
Gar then turned his attention to both Sero and Mineta and scratched his head. "I don't know? Normal or Bug-type, I guess?" he shrugged.
"BUG!?" they both shouted!
"Why Bug?! Is it because I'm short? It's because I'm short, isn't it!" Mineta cried in anger!
Gar put his hands up in defense and stated quickly, "Well, there's nothing that says Elemental about you two, and the closest thing that your Quirks come close to in the natural world are Bug Types."
Sero and Mineta sank to the floor and muttered to themselves while softly sobbing about being compared to an insect.
Gar sweatdropped at this and turned to the final person being Momo. He looked at her, and after about a minute of uncomfortable staring, he finally said, "I have no idea."
"What?" some of them asked aloud.
"Just like that?" one person asked.
"That's it?" another added.
"Yep.", Gar replied simply.
"So does she not fall into any category?", Izuku asked.
Gar shook his head and replied, "No, she falls into every category!"
"What! How?", Momo asks, surprised!
"Your quirk allows you to create anything. So you technically could create anything with different Elemental or Natural properties or uses.", Gar explained as Momo looked on, trying to figure this out herself. "All in all, if I had to put you into one category, it would be Normal-type."
"Normal type, that's it?" one person asked incredulously.
"That's it.", Gar replied while feeding Mimikyu his food.
"That's disgraceful, dude. Momo has way more skill than to be considered Normal.", Kaminari puffed out his chest in defense of her.
"And everyone else I mentioned as Normal should belong there due to their 'skill.'", he sassed him back.
That caused Kaminari to lose his confident attitude and glanced over at everyone else placed in the Normal type, as they glared back at him with daggers in their eyes.
"It's that or nothing; besides that, she reminds me of two different Pokemon with their properties. Ditto and Arceus." Gar followed up.
"What's that?" some asked.
"Ditto is a pokemon that can transform its body into just about anything.", Gar explained.
"Hey, just like Momo. Kinda.", Uraraka stated while looking at the girl, who was agreeing with the connection.
"And the other is the creator of my dimension and created everyone and everything in it.", Gar said like it was nothing.
Everyone stared at the young man with huge eyes and dropped jaws! No one moved, ate, or even replied, apart from Gar, who continued to share his food with Mimikyu. They didn't just hear what they thought they did! Right?
"Wait, so this Pokemon Arceus is basically your dimension's version of god?" someone finally asked.
"Yes.", he replied.
"And since you said you caught every Pokemon, that means you caught God?" another person asked.
"I guess I did.", he shrugged.
"So you just compared Momo….to God?" the same person asked again.
"Yes.", he said simply.
No one said a word until someone suddenly shouted, "Momo is a GOD, everyone! MOMO IS A GOD!"
Momo squealed out in surprise and blushed at the connection!
Which causes someone else to shout out, "All hail our lord and savior, Momo!"
"ALL HAIL!", the whole class cheered!
"You guys! Please stop!", Momo begged them as she hid her lobster-red face into her hands.
As everyone was cheering and Momo was slowly dying from happiness and embarrassment, Kirishima suddenly stated, "Oh wait, we forgot about Bakugou. What type would he be?"
Since Bakugou wasn't there at the lunch table or in the lunchroom with any of them, the ash-blond was totally M.I.A.
Gar snapped his finger and shot back quickly, "That's easy. Dark-Fire combo."
That made everyone laugh out loud until someone else asked, "Lemme guess, Aizawa Sensei would be pure Dark, right?"
Gar shook his head, which made everyone stop, until he replied, "Don't be silly. He'd be a Fairy type."
This got another round of laughter from the class as they all joked around with each other on their typing's or combos, which carried on till the end of lunch.
In the Hall
After lunch ended, the teens walked down the hall in a huge group talking amongst one another as they made their way back to their home class for their next heroics lesson. They still weren't at the classroom when Iida, who saw Gar's visible Pokeballs hanging around his belt, asked, "Gar-kun, why do you have your Pokeballs out in the open? Aren't you afraid that if someone knew about them, they'd steal them and then use your pokemon against you?"
Gar shook his head and replied, "Even if someone did manage to snag one of my balls, they wouldn't open."
Iida looked at him confused and followed up with, "But we just saw Bakugou-san use them but a few hours ago?"
"That's because I allowed him to use them.", He explained like it was simple.
"I think I can speak for all of us when I say we need more context to that statement.", Momo stated, with everyone agreeing.
Gar sweatdropped and explained, "Sorry guys, I guess I forget you don't know how things work in my world. You see, we have these things called Trainer IDs. Every trainer or someone with a Pokemon has one. It's basically something that's wired into the Pokeballs we own in order to use them. It's like a touch-activated thing; I don't know all the details. So if someone without a trainer ID or a different ID wouldn't be able to use someone else's Pokeballs, they just stay in rest mode. So when Katskui used them, I simply deactivated the lock feature for anyone to use."
Everyone seemed to understand and nodded to show it.
"And even if they did manage to hack or overwrite my ID, my Pokemon would never attack me! I've built unbreakable bonds with all my Pokemon, so I'd have nothing to worry about. Even if they did want to obtain my Pokemon and control them, they'd either have to; mind control them, have me trade them, or steal them with a Thief ball.", He explained further.
"What's a Thief ball?", Someone pipes up.
Gar put his arms behind his head in a resting position and explained. "A specialized Pokeball that is, as the name implies, designed to steal other people's caught Pokemon. Rewriting the person ID with their own.", Hearing this new bit of info made everyone gasp. They didn't think it was possible, but if you could lock it up, someone could eventually break it open. "But they're highly illegal! So anyone caught buying or manufacturing any would be granted the worst punishment possible. So many criminals or regular idiots are just too scared to attempt to make them." Gar followed up, seeing everyone's shocked expressions, which did calm them down some.
Just as everyone was coming off that shock, Toru piped up and chirped out, "So, off-topic question; what other Pokemon do you have? You said you could only have about 6, and we've seen 4, so who are the other 2?"
Gar looks to where he assumed where the invisible girl's face was and replied, "Sorry Toru, but that's a surprise.", while bopping the tip of her nose, though only getting her head.
"AAAAAAAAWWWW! I HATE SUSPENSE!" Toru complained while waving her arms up and down.
"Speaking of Pokemon, what do you eat in your world?" Sero asked out of the blue.
Gar looked at him with the most off-put expression as he asked back, "Ex-cuse you?"
"You really like meat, right?" he followed up.
Gar nodded and replied, "Amongst other things, yeah. It's my favorite thing in the world. My mom was always strapped for cash, so we had meat on very rare occasions. So when I sought out on my own and gained enough coin, I would eat meat all the time. Why are you asking."
"So then, you eat... Pokémon?" Sero asked carefully.
Gar stifled a laugh and stated, "Well, duh. Where do you think meat comes from? A tree, a farm, the supermarket."
Everyone just stared at the older teen with expressions ranging from shock to disgust. Until Kaminari put it best, saying, "That's kinda wrong, dude. I mean, you train, battle, and love these things like pets. And on top of that you... eat them?"
"Don't you technically do the same with your world's animals?" he asked back, to which everyone gained understanding expressions on their faces mixed with disbelief. "Certain Pokémon have certain purposes; some are used in battle, some are more accustomed to domestic life, and some are better for eating. That's just how things are. And besides that, there are like a thousand different pokémon. Don't you think at some point someone would try a few of those meats?". Everyone still looked incredulously at these facts but nodded their heads nonetheless. "Even Pokemon eat each other. For instance, Corsola is the favorite food of Toxapex, Walrein is the natural prey of Sharpedo, and Swellow loves to gobble up Wurmple. That's called nature." Gar gave some examples for the class to understand, which they did, albeit in small increments. "My favorite is Slowpoke tail. You'll never taste anything better!" Gar recalled with happy sparkles in his eyes.
"What about the rest of it?" someone asked.
Gar shook his head and answered, "Nope, just the tail. The rest of the pokemon is just disgusting. UCK! It's like a garbage disposal, it'll eat anything, and its body doesn't process it properly."
"So you kill a whole animal for a single part." one person asked with a horrified expression.
Gar waved off the accusation and explained, "Don't be ridiculous! That would be wasteful. You just cut off the tail."
"That's totally inhumane!" someone shouted in horror!
Again Gar waved off the accusation and explained, "No, it's totally fine. Slowpoke naturally lose their tails all the time; sometimes, they just fall off for no reason. They grow back after a couple of days or so. And the Slowpoke almost never realized that they're in pain. I actually keep a few Slowpoke around just for the purpose of eating."
Hearing this, everyone's faces of horror returned to normal as they understood more of Gar's world and the rules governing the use of Pokemon. Just like theirs, so if there were a problem, it would be taken care of properly while having science and rules dictated it.
Gar then licked his lips as he added in, "My favorite dish is sweet and bitter smoked slowpoke tail curry. Mmmmmmmmm! My mouth is watering just thinking about it.", drool dribbling down his lips.
Izuku laughed at his funny face and mannerism, then added, "It must be that good since we just finished lunch."
As they talked some more and walked, they were just at the entrance of 1-As' door when suddenly someone asked something that halted them all in place.
"So then you could technically eat Mimikyu?" a voice asked Gar.
Everyone stopped in their tracks and slowly looked down at the curious face of Mineta. Who seemed dead serious about his question. Normally someone would berate him for such a question, but the context and the seriousness in his eyes prevented any of them from speaking. Even the quick and well-spoken Gar was dumbfounded, opening and closing his mouth like a fish. Unable to process any form of words or advance sound.
"Well...I guess?" Gar finally got out as he glanced over to Mimikyu, who was trying to hide in Izuku's hair. "But I don't think anything would even dare such a feat because of, well, you know.", he followed up, though this made Mimikyu only sad instead of scared.
Izuku saved the teen's butt by saying quickly, "Also, he's too cute to eat!" while holding Mimikyu in a cuddling hug, which the small pokemon returned.
Gar gave Izuku a thank you smile as Izuku gave him a thumbs up. Gar then turned back to Mineta and explained further, "And besides that, I don't think you can eat a Ghost-type Pokemon unless you're a Ghost-type yourself."
Just then, a very familiar and mono-toned voice called the teen attention, saying, "Hey.", the teen turned their heads to the voice and saw their teacher standing near the doorway, blocked by the crowd of teens. No one said anything or moved until Aizawa finally got fed up and firmly stated, "Enough chit chat and get back to class or unless you all wanna do more exercises until the end of school ."
"Yes, sir!" they all obeyed out of fear, in unison, while rushing back into the classroom and taking their seats to finish off the day. Yep. Aizawa would definitely be a Fairy type.