Pokémon Trainer Hero
Chapter 25: Old Wounds Die Hard
Gar walked down the halls with a bit of peep in his step. After discussing with Nezu on all the things he'd like to add into the sports festival with his pokemon for the past 2 hours, he came out much happier than he did when they first started the meeting about Bayo. Now that he was fully distracted from his old enemy, and whatever he may have in store, he was much more like his old self. Smiling and confident, without too much of a care in the world. He almost seems to skip as he walked down the hallway to seemingly nowhere in his state of oblivious adrline, while swinging Mimikyu in his arm like a child.
Before he could continue his happy stride to nowhere, a voice called out to him saying, "Garfield my boy. May I speak with you?"
Gar stopped in his tracks and turned to the deflated form of All Might in his 5 sizes too big suit. Gar smirked with a chuckle as he said, "All Might, you know I'm 20. I'm essentially an adult. You don't have to call me boy."
All Might bowed and apologized saying, "My apologies. I keep forgetting."
"So whats up?", Gar asked nonchalantly while leaning against the wall.
All Might twiddled his fingers as he nervously asked, "I...wanted to ask you a touchy question."
Gar immediately backed away while using his free hand to push the air between them, as he stated, "Woah their All Might! You're nice, but I'm not into older men."
All Might's face went beet red as he made a sound like he was choking on his own lung and stammered out, "N-NO! N-Not anything like th-that!"
Gar then puffed up his cheeks and then sputtered out a raspberry before laughing his butt off at the frightened man's face! After laughing and wiping a tear away, he finally said, "I'm just teasing All Might, calm down! So whaddya need?"
All Might came down and trying to recompose himself, he asked with a nervous tick, "How well can your pokemon heal injuries?"
"...", Gar looked at the man in silence as if he were waiting for him to get to the punch line of this bad joke. But when the man made no comebacks or follow ups, he was sure he was serious. So he asked back, just to be sure, "That's it? That's the touchy subject?"
"There's far more to it. Just answer.", All Might said firmly.
Gar coked his eyesbrow and replied, "Well, yes. They are. Why?"
"I was hoping they could heal a...severe injury I have.", All Might asked in a nervous and embarrassed tone.
Gars' eyes went wide with shock and worry as he grabbed the man down to his level and bringing him close he exclaimed, "What!? When did you get it?! Why didn't you tell me sooner!? How long have you hid it!? Why were you hiding it!? You're not a god All Might!"
All Might put up his hands defensively and exclaimed back, "No no no! You misunderstood! It's an old injury. I was just hoping you could make it go away."
Gar immediately let go of the tall man and said in a much calmer tone, "Oh...well if that's the case I don't know how much help my Pokemon can be."
"What!? But I heard one of them could make failed organs work again!", this time it was ALl Mughts turn to freak out and grab Gar up to his level!
"Calm down All Might!", Gar exclaimed as All Might began to shake him. All Might stopped, looking embarrassed, and dropped the teen to the ground. After nearly falling off his own feet he explained, "Look, healing abilities are supposed to be used for recent injuries. Not old ones. If we try to heal your wound, we may just end up doing the opposite. Like healing Cancer cells dying from chemo."
Just then All Might dropped to the ground, freaking out Gar in the process, and the man began to beg on his knees to the older teen!
"Please. I beg of you. At least try. I'm willing to do anything at this point! I need to be there for the next generation, but I don't know how long I'll actually be here! So please, PLEASE!", All Might begged him with his head against the ground.
"Alright alright! Just stop doing that!", Gar yelled, getting extremely uncomfortable by his display. All Might brought up his head and Gar rubbed his head in an uncomfortable sweat drop as he said, "Okay look. We can definitely try, but the least worst thing that can happen to you is nothing at all. Maybe it'll look better, but you won't be better."
"I'll do anything if it gives me more time!", All Might exclaimed as he looked like he was gonna start to beg again!
Gar quickly grabbed his head, bringing it up, and huffed a breath while saying, "Geeze. Okay first we have to talk to whoever treats or treats your injury."
"Well that won't be hard.", All Might said with a smile.
All Might led Gar to the nurses office and barged into their without even a warning or hello to Recovery Girl. At first Gar was unsure if they were even in the right room since it looked much different than the last time he was there. It had definitely been expanded outwards quite a bit, with a small greenhouse attachment to the side and far more equipment. But all of Gar's thoughts were put at ease once he saw his pokemon. Florges and Comfy are busy growing flowers and herbs in the garden boxes and then sending them off to Blissey and Audino to be grounded and then put away into bottles and marked as many different medications. While Miltank sat contently in the corner, chewing on a bale of hay, and hooked up to a machine taking the milk from it's udders.
Recovery Girl noticed the two men barging in and with an unusually relaxed smile she greeted them. "Oh. Yagi, and Garfield too."
"Hey Chiyo.", All Might greeted her with a wave,
"Wow! This place sure has changed!", Gar announced while looking around the place like a child in a museum.
At which point all his pokemon stopped doing what they were doing and immediately ran happily up to him.
Recovery Girl gave a happy and relaxed smile as she said, "Well with all the Pokémon you gave me and all the specific things they do for me, I had to renovate the office a bit to accommodate. And it sure has been a real help having them all. I've actually had a little down time to myself."
As she talked, Gar pointed himself to the new fridge and pointed his nose in, since he never finished his lunch. Inside was filled to the brim with racks and stacks of bottled milk. Each one had a sticker with Miltanks face on it.
Gar helped himself to a bottle and downing it he exclaimed relieved, "AH! Now that's a quality glass of Moomoo milk."
"Stop drinking my supplies!", the old woman yelled at him while trying to whack him with her cane!
Gar blocked each strike with a well placed counter of his forearm, until the women stopped attacking him.
"Hey! It took me nearly 4 months to breed a Miltank with this level of sweetness in it's milk. I'll drink as much as I please, thank you very much!", he shot back at the old woman while throwing her cane aside and taking another bottle, to which he down the sweet milk in seconds.
"So what did you two break this time?", she huffed at the two with an exhausted tone.
"Why do you gotta say it like that?", All Might complained to her.
She gave him a skeptical raised eyebrow and shot back, "If it wasn't for your protege, Yagi, you would still take the top spot for 'most times visited in a week'."
Not wanting this to diverge into All Might's lackluster trainer and Izukus constant self harm due to miss guidance of his quirk, Gar broke them apart saying, "So Chio, you're the one that tends to All Might's wound?"
Recovery gril sighs and answers, "Unfortunately. I am the only one that can keep him stable. Though he always pushes the boundaries of that stability.", she stated while narrowing her already squinting eyes at the man.
"Oh come on Chiyo. I'm not that bad. Am I ?", All Might asks innocently.
Since meeting Kaminair, Gar had quickly learned about something called 'Jojo's Bizarre Adventure'. And right now the tension between the two felt like one of the 'Menacing' panels in the manga. As if they two were only seconds from a one sided beatdown….with Recovery Girl doing the beating.
"Ahem!", Gar coughed the word loudly, getting both of their attention. "I'd love to see a skeleton and an ancient artifact duke it out, but we should stay on topic here.", he threw shade at both of them to fully diverge from the previous topic.
"Topic of what?", Recovery Girl asked, while ignoring his previous comment.
"All Might wants to see if my Pokemon can heal his wound completely.", Gar explained.
The Recovery Girl gave a look of concern as she asked, "Didn't you say that a Pokemon's healing power is only for-?"
Gar cut her off while waving off her comment and saying, "Yes yes Chiyo. I already went over it with him and he's willing to do anything at this point, and I quote."
Recovery Girl turned to All Might and gave him a concerned and serious look she asked, "Are you sure Yagi? There is no telling what could happen. Especially with the age and severity of your wound and yourself. It could become worse. My quirk is far safer for you."
"Even if it gives me an extra hour of time or 5 minutes, I'll do it!", All Might exclaimed in a beg!
Recovery Girl sighs and replies nervously, "I sure hope nothing bad happens."
"Before we actually go through with this, how bad is the wound and what's it's condition?", Gar cut them off and addressed All Might.
All Might lifted up his shirt just enough to show his wound and Gars' eyes immediately went wide with shock and panic!
"Oh sweet unholy Giratina!", he jumped back in a scream while covering his eyes! "OMA! OMA! OMA! OMA! OMA!", Gar chanted to himself in the corner of the room! (OMA: Oh My Arceus)
Even the other pokemon all look appalled and frightened by the sight of his injury!
"Are you o-?", All Might cautiously asked the teen and approached him with gossamer.
"YES! Yeah yeah! I'm good! Just…. surprised me is all. Just….give me a minute.", Gar exclaimed while keeping his back turned and stretching his arm out behind him to keep All Might at away. All Might stayed put and waited for Gar to recompiuse himself. Gar took some calming breath and said to himself, "Okay. I'm fine, I'm good. I'm fine, I'm good. I've seen much worse. I'm an adult and I can handle this with class.", Gar turned around to All Might and immediately his eyes fell again on his wound which caused him to freak out in the same manner as before. "NOPE! I can't handle it! I'm a child! I have no class!", Gar shrank into himself again and tucking uis knees into his chest he started to shake!
"Um…. Garfeild?", All Might asked with concern.
"Sorry sorry. I just…..oh boy! Just keep the shirt down for now.", he exclaimed over his shoulder and didn't look back until he heard the ruffle of All Mights clothing. Gar got up from the floor and brushed his school uniform off and said, "Okay. I can see that we will need way more healing power! Just gimme 10 minutes. I gotta go grab something."
20 Minutes Later
All Might and Recovery Girl waited around until Gar got back much later than he said, with a pale color on his panicked face that he was desperately trying to hide from them.
He rubs the back of his head and says with a dry laugh, "Sorry for the wait, you two. I had a war flashback when I accidentally envisioned All Might's wound on Eraserheads face and I had to fight that battle while ...", he ranted on, getting more and more frantic, until he stopped himself from seeing the expressions worn by the two heroes. Gar coughs to recompuse and says, "Uh you know what, it's not important. What is important are these guys.", he says happily while plucking three pokeballs off his belt. "Recovery Girl, meet your three new assistants.", he exclaims while throwing them into the air!
The pokeball burst open and three pokemon materialized in front of them. One was new, had been seen before, and one looked vaguely like another pokemon in the room.
"Now who are these Pokemon?", Recovery asked sweetly while petting one.
Rotom popped out of Gars pocket and floated over to each individual pokemon, pulling up its data and picture while reading it aloud.
"Chansey. The Egg pokemon, dex #113. A Normal type and the evolved form of Happiney. A kindly Pokémon that lays highly nutritious eggs and shares them with injured Pokémon or people. The egg Chansey carries is not only delicious but also packed with nutrition. It's used as a high-class cooking ingredient."
Chansey was a pink, ovoid Pokémon with stubby arms and dark pink feet. It has tiny eyes and three hair-like growths on each side of its head. The tufts of hair have dark pink tips. On the center of its belly is a dark pink pouch that contains a single white egg, and finally, it has a short tail.
"Chimecho. The Wind Chime Pokemon, dex #358. A Psychic type and the evolved form of Chingling. Its cries echo inside its hollow body to emerge as beautiful notes for startling and repelling foes. It can even transmit these sounds into healing vibrations or ultrasonic sound attacks."
Chimecho was a small, round Pokémon with a mainly bluish white body shaped like a fūrin wind chime. It has beady, yellow eyes and three stubby limbs. Its body has a horizontal amaranth-colored pattern. Underneath its body extends a long, tag-like tail that has amaranth patterning at the bottom. A yellow, globular growth, that looks like a suction cup or a sucker, is connected to the top of its body.
"Aromatisse. The Fragrance pokemon, dex #683. A Fairy type and the evolved form of Spritzee. It devises various scents, pleasant and unpleasant, and emits scents that its enemies dislike in order to gain an edge in battle along with skillful dance moves for quick and precise attacks."
Aromatisse was a bipedal, avian Pokémon. Its body is covered with fluffy purple feathers and around its lower body is an even fluffier mass of pink feathers. There is a black bow on its lower back. It has a white face with a small, curved beak that resembles a mask used by plague doctors or a masquerade mask. Its eyes are black with red sclerae and pupils and full, black lashes. It has feathery ears with yellow centers. Each hand has three yellow claws and it has paw-like feet with three toes.
"Uh, thanks Rotom.", Gar thanked the pokemon awkwardly.
"Buzzt. No need to thank me for what I'm already the best at! Buzzt.", Rotom stated proudly while returning to Gar's pocket.
As Rotom explained the three pokemon, Chansey ran up to Blissey and immersed the pokemon in a happy hug, to which Blissey returned. The two of them stood there like that for the remainder of the explanation until All Might noticed the two pokemon loving each other with coos and face rubs.
"Why are those two hugging? Are they friends?", All Might ask while pointing to the two pink pokemon.
Gar gave a small giggle at the two and explained, "Actually there it's more than that. That Chansey is the mother of that Blissey. So this is a mother daughter reunion."
"Well that's just sweet.", Recovery Girl cooed at the two.
"Anyway. Now we can start the procedure.", Gar stated while getting back on topic.
"Should I remove my-?", All Might asked as he started to lift up his shirt.
"AH!", Gar screamed in fear while averting his eyes! Immediately realizing his reaction, the teen saved himself saying more casually, "uh, I mean, um, no-no. You can keep it on. Just …. try not to move or squirm too much.", All Might obliged and kept his short covering his body. Once the teen had recompiused himself, he started off the procedure by taking out the Key Ring and putting it on. "But first, let's do this."
"Ready Audino?", Gar asked the pokemon while holding up the ring. Audion chipped in confirmation. Gar then touched the stone and spoke aloud, "Key stone, react to my heart! Let us combine our power as one. Unearth the power buried deep within and bring it forth to create a new form to fight. Beyond evolution, MEGA EVOLVE!"
White light emerged from the stone that connected with the one Audino was holding, and the pokemon was enveloped in a sphere of light that hardened and eventually burst open to reveal Mega Audino.
"I'll never get tired of watching that.", All Might whistles at the sight.
"Eh. It gets kinda old after the 200ths time you watch it.", Gar said back with a board additude.
"I don't see why you don't want me to do that.", Recovery Girl added with a hint of jealousy.
Gar made a move to hold back a laugh and even Audino turned her face away to hide the amusement of its face. Gar regained his composure quickly and said, "Oh Chiyo. Mega evolution isn't something so simple as slapping a mega stone to a Pokemon and making it stronger. It is a connection between trainer and Pokemon. Something that takes time and trust. Something that took me weeks to accomplish with Audino and all my other Mega pokemon." Recover girl looked a bit distraught and upsit at that news, so Gar followed up saying, "But maybe you'll be able to sometime in the future."
"You ready All Might?", Gar asked All Might, who nodded. "Ready Chiyo?", he asked Recovery Girl, who nodded with emergency equipment in case things went south. "Ready guys?", he asked the group of pokemon who loosely encircled All Might with each one giving off a cry.
Gar nodded and stated, "Then let's do this!", he thrusted his arm forward and exclimeined, "Everyone, use Heal Bell and Aromitise, use Healing Samba!"
All the pokemon in the room then produced a noise similar to a bell, while Aromatize performed an unusual dance, and a pink hue surrounded All Might so thickly he eventually was covered completely in a giant sphere of pink! The sphere swirled around him like a whirlpool and eventually condensed into an even smaller and more soil looking sphere that exploded in an enormous pink energy wave that blasted out of the nurses office and enveloped the whole school!
All was quiet as the pink fog dissipated quickly and revealed a very shocked looking All Might, who did not appear to change in any capacity. Recovery Girl and Gar each gave their own disappointed expression at seeing the unchanged man, and even the pokemon looked distraught by the results. Everyone gave a sad sigh until they heard the sound of someone breathing unusually loudly. For a moment they all wondered what it was till their eyes casted on All Might, who was breathing through his mouth in a deep and rapid succession with the most shell shocked expression alive. It was almost like he was discovering oxygen and the process of breathing for the first time.
"Uh, All Might.", Gar said gently to the man, who did not stop breathing but casked his gaze to him. "I don't think there's enough air in this office for you to be doing that.", he joked lightly.
All Might took another gulp of air before replying with a disblifed voice, "I-It's just-just….. amazing. I-I can breath again. Without it feeling like I'm going to cough up a lung."
"So that's good. Yes?", Gar looked at the recovering Girl who seemed to nod anxiously.
"Yes yes yes! Thank you Garfield! Thank you thank you thank you thank you! How can I ever repay you for this!?", All Might exclaimed, suddenly jumping from his seat and grabbing Gar off the ground, into an extremely tight hug while swinging him around.
"Let. Me. GO!", Gar choked out in a raspy voice!
"Strange request, but I'll abide.", All Might agreed while dropping Gar to the floor, allowing him the breath again.
"It seems you've gotten much stronger as well.", Recovery Girl noted while checking on Gar.
"No, that's the healing high.", Gar coughs out, making Recovery Gril give him a confused look. After Gar got to a sitting position and coughed, he explained, "When someone directly receives more than one dose of Heal Bell in one sitting, they react the same way being injected with adrenaline feels like. Right now All Might is practically on an all natural form of crack cocaine. Minus the additive part."
Hearing only the second to last part, Recovery Girl went to worrying on All Might's health and said to him, "Yagi, perhaps you should-Yagi?", when she didn't see the man standing in the previous spot, she immediately was put on edge with fear of his internal state of being!
Then she immediately calmed down when she heard someone chugging some kind of liquid down, turned around and saw All Might by the fridge-containing the moomoomilk-scaring down bottle after bottle.
"Yagi please! Slow down or you'll choke!", she yelled at him while jerking him with her cane!
All Might appeared unaffected by the blows and apologized in between double fisting bottles,"I'm sorry Chyio. GULP! It's just. GULP! I can't remember the last time I could. GULP! Eat anything and keep it down! GULP! It's a miracle! GULP!"
Recovery Girl, stopped her assault and exclaimed firmly, "I understand, but please take it easy! You're on a high right now and I dont think your body is reacting in any normal-."
Suddenly the old woman stopped herself as she saw All Might hunch over into himself like he was experiencing abdominal pains. But he wasn't moaning or grabbing at his stomach, just hunched over with his arms tucked in and standing extremely still.
"Uhhhhhhh whats he doing?", Gar asked nervously. Suddenly the man started to shake and quake like an earthquake or a bomb ready to explode! The pokemon immediately became afraid and hid behind Gar for protection while the older teen crouched down and hid behind the old woman, saying fearfully, "I'm scared Chyio!"
Then in a very low voice, All Might barley said in a whisper, "I feel…..I feel…..", the pokemon and two people back away from the man as his shaking trew even more violently. "LIKE I DID BACK IN MY HAY DAY! HAHAHAHA! I'M GONNA GO OUT AND DO WHAT HEROES DO BEST! HAHAHA!", All Might exclaimed as he shot straight up and inflated into his hero form!
All Might then ran past the pokemon and two people as he ran straight towards the window that overlooked the outside!
"Yagi wait!", Recovery Girl tried to stop him! But it was all in vain as the huge man burst through the window and wall, leaving a huge hole in the relative shape of his body!
After the dust settled and the last few bricks came trinking down from the new opening, all persons and pokemon stared out into the long dust trail left by the super changed man for a few minutes. Unsure if what they just saw happened, really happened.
"That really is one powerful high.", Recovery Girl finally commented as she broke the silent trance.
Gar, who also snapped out of it, snapped his fingers and cursed to himself exclaiming, "I knew I should've grabbed Morelull! Sleep Powder would have been really useful right about now.", as all the pokemon present beg to calm down due to the change in atmosphere, Gar looked out into the opening of the city ahead where All Might dashed doubt towards, and asked Recovery Girl, "So should we go after him?"
"I don't think that'll be a good idea. We should just wait until he comes back.", she shook her head. She then looked to the new opening and added, "And clean up this mess."
Gar sighed and said, "I'll go get Metagross. Fixing things is easier with a Psychic type."
6 Hours Later
"And that's how I performed a triple lobotomy in under 12 hours.", Recovery wrapped up another of her stories of her younger years.
"Wow.", Gar whistles into his tea cup.
For the past several hours since All Might left, Gar had stayed behind with Recovery Girl in case he decided to show up at some random point with-no doubt-any sorta injury from over exerting himself. He helped clean up the mess, and then waited around for his return with some tea and stories from Recovery Girl to which he actually engaged in.
"I'm surprised you've stayed here this long to hear an old woman's ramblings.", the old woman said while taking a sip of tea.
"Well I'm trying to keep my mind off something, so this really helps.", he said with a soulful voice while looking into his glass. Which made Recovery Girl look at him with worry. She was about to ask him what that meant when he changed the subject saying, "Also I'm used to old people telling me about their 'stories of the past' and whatever. Yours are actually pretty tame in comparison to this one old coot I know in Galar. And let me tell you something, that woman is ancient! She still remembers when Galar was ruled by a monarchy. A Monacary! Can you believe that?"
"Well I remember when quirks started to appear in society, so I can believe that.", she replied with a chuckle.
Gar looked at her wide eyes and astonished as he asked with a serious tone, "Tell me your joking?"
Recovery Girl said nothing but simply looked up at him with an impish smile in between her sips of tea. Suddenly the office doors flew open with a loud crash! The two people, and sleeping pokemon, all jumped in fright and tried to go to the office in a hurry, only to see a very worn out and smiling All Might in her civilian form!
"All Might!", Gar exclaimed!
"Yagi!", Recovery Girl exclaimed while hobbling over to him and then proceeded to whack him with her cane. "What were you thinking! Do you know how long it's been!? Do you realize you could have done serious harm to your body! Are you trying to kill yourself?!", she yelled at him while counting the assault!
All Might acted unaffected by the blows as he said with a star shining smile that never left his face, "I'm sorry Chiyo! Im sorry! But do you realize how long it's been?!"
"Too long?", Gar piped up.
"6 hours! I was able to keep my hero form for over 6 hours straight! I was able to do so much and stayed behind to clean up and answer media questions! I can't remember the last time I could do this!", he exclaimed while pacing around the room with extreme zeal and acting extremely animated!
"I'm glad you're happy Yagi.", Recovery Girl said with a huff while stopping her attack. "Now sit down and let me examine you before you do something else to harm your body!", she yelled at him while forcibly pushing him onto an examination table with her cane!
About an hour later Chyio had run several tests on All Might's healed body, ranging from: Physical examination, blood tests, blood pressure, x-ray, catscane, MRI, and more. After all was said and done, All Might sat on the examination table as Recovery Girl reviewed her findings and notes she complied together. After a bunch of Mums and hums of looking through everything for 20 minutes, she finally came up with the final prognosis.
"Well...it seems your scar has visibly healed much more, but it's still very noticeable. Seems the discoloration was taken away and now it looks like a normal scar.", she pointed to All Might's scar, which definitely looked slightly better.
After reviewing her notes with a flabbergasted expression, again, she told All Might, "And I'm very shocked at how well you actually healed up, Yagi! Not only has the look of your scar improved, but also your lungs have been repaired to near perfection and a new stomach has grown in place of your old one."
"And I have more time!", he stated excitedly!
"That you do. I'd say now you have about double the time you did before."The old woman nodded, with a shining All Might. But then her tone became serious and somber as she stated, "Though I wouldn't be celebrating so soon if I were you. You may have more time before you have to retire inevitably, but you still have a limitation, Yagi. I wouldn't go about pushing this to any extent if I were you. You don't want to go through a relapse. Now just promise me you'll at least try to be responsible."
"I will Chyio. I will.", he promised loosely to her, as he always did, and Recovery Girl expected this. As she revved her notes and findings once more, All might look around the room for something. When he could find it he asked the old woman, "Where is Young Garfield? I still have to thank him again."
"Oh he went back to the dorm while I was performing the tests on you. He didn't need to be here so I told him to go. But for right now you should be resting. After that high you just experience, you'll no doubt have a crash effect within the next several hours.", she explained.
"Oh….then that means….I still have several more hours to do more stuff before I burn out completely!", All Might shouted joyfully while jumping to his feet and looking towards the door!
"SLEEP POWDER!", Recovery Girl screamed as a small, white Pokémon similar to a mushroom, jumped out from behind her and then sprayed a cloud of white pollen from the three mushrooms on its head around All Might. Who then immediately fell to the floor and fell fast asleep, much too Recovery Girls delight and relief.