Pokémon Trainer Hero
Chapter 28: Upgrades
After the scene in the classroom ended and said classroom was cleaned after Ambipom's tantrum, Izuku and Gar headed down towards the Support Department Wing to have Izuku hero outfit remade. In Izuku's trembling hands was a new costume design, hand drawn and detailed with help of Gar's novice skills. (Which were better than Izukus).
"Are you sure we should just barge in and make demands right to Power Loaders face?", Izuku looked up to Gar nervously, knowing that classes had ended and everyone had gone home.
Gar waved his hand at the question as he stated, "Oh my dear Izuku, we are not barging or making demands. Were just popping in for a surprise visit and asking for a favor."
"But normally I'm supposed to hand in any needed alternation or upgrades to my suit for Aizawa Sensi to hand in.", Izuku argued back with tension in his throat rising as they drew closer to Power Loaders class.
Gar rolled his eyes and explained, "And you do realize that not only does Eraser take his sweet time to hand it in, but then your bullet list gets flushed into the sea of dozens of others, just to be shuffled around and drawn from a hat."
"I dont think thats how it works.", Izuku sweat dropped.
"You know what I mean. It's better just to hand it to the main man himself, it speeds things alonge. Besides that, you need a new suit after what happened to your last one.", Gar alluded vaguely to the USJ where Izuku got creamed in seconds of fighting the Numo.
Izuku shuddered at the thought of it all! He was in such bad shape when they scraped him off the wall, that they had to cut his suit off his whole body just to address his wounds.
"No argument there.", Izuku shivered.
Just as they made it to the front of the giant reinforced metal doors, Gar sighs and rubs the back of his neck he says, "I sure hope Power Loader is in a good mood today."
"Huh? Why's that?", Izuku asks him, confused.
"You'll see.", Gar lets out a dry laugh.
"Deku-kun! Gar-kun!", someone called for their attention. The two teens turned their heads and saw two people coming towards them while waving their arms. "Hey! What are you guys doing over here?"
"Oh, Uraraka-san and Iida-kun.", Izuku noticed who it was and started to wave back.
"What are you doing here?", Gar called back.
"Fix up our hero outfits. Same as you I guess.", Iida called back.
Suddenly Rotom popped out of Gars pocket and said into his ear, "Take five steps back. Buzzt."
Without even thinking, Gar's body moved like muscle memory and stopped when five steps had been taken. Gar looked around and then asked, "Okay….now what?"
"Buzzt. You'll see.", Rotom buzzed.
Just then a huge explosion emerged from the huge metal door, knocking them off their hinges, directly hitting Izuku with a covered projectile and stunning the other three teens!
"Holy Dilaga!", Gar yelled!
"Deku-kun!", Uraraka yelled in fright!
"Midoriya-san!", Iida cried!
As the dust settled and all the teens rushed to the aid of their friend, a small laugh could be heard within the thick black smoke.
"Hehehehe! That sure didn't go the way I wanted it too. But at least something happened.", said the concealed voice in a giddy sounding female voice.
Just then Power Loader rushed out of the smoking room and screamed at the spot Izuku was currently sprawled out on, "Are you serious Mei!? Fifth time, this week no less!"
Gar sucked in air through his teeth as his fear came to light and knew now they should tread lightly. The smoke cleared and reviled a pink haired girl with workshop attire and huge steampunk goggles on her head.
She finally takes notice of Izuku, who she had landed on during the explosion, and exclaimed, "Oh hey there! When did you get here?"
"Are you getting some serious deja Vu Rotom? Cause I sure am.", Gar side mouthed to his pokemon while staring down at the familiar scene.
"I'm gonna take a pic. Buzzt.", Rotom buzzed with a wide smile!
Gar quickly grabbed the pokemon by the camera lens and exclaimed, "The Distortion World you are not!"
Izuku finally opened his eyes painfully after receiving such a blow, and the first thing his pepper fell upon was the pink haired girls exposed cleavage in her tank top! Izuku forced his eyes up as he mentallly freaked out, 'B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B!'
'BOOBS!', Uraraka screamed in her head at realizing the size difference.
'Gee, I wonder what they're thinking?', Gar thought innocently in his head?
'Gee, I wonder if I should tell Garfeild I took a pic anyway? Buzzt. Nah!', Rotom commented with a smile in his head.
"Mei! Get off him!", Power Loader shouted while hauling the girl off the green teen! "You seriously are two handfuls, too many!", He groaned while helping Izuku to his feet. He then noticed Gar, and changing his attitude almost immediately he greeted the tall teen gingerly saying, "Oh hey Garfield."
"Hiya Hiragi.", Gar greeted him back.
"Ah, I see we got some new faces. And who are you three?", He asked, finally noticing Uraraka, Iida, and Izuku.
"Uh uh uh!", Izuku stammered out!
Gar jabed the teens ribs with a sharp elbow and said, "Calm down Izuku. He won't bite you."
"I-I-I-Izuku M-M-M-Midoryia, sir!", Izuku finally managed to squeak out in a heavy stutter!
Power Loader laughs and says back teasingly, "Nice to meet you M-M-M-Midoriya."
"Tenya Iida, sir!", Iida exclaimed in a shout while bowing deeply.
"Ochako Uraraka, Mr. Power Loader sir.", She introduced herself with a slight bow.
"Nice to meet you as well. Now don't stand out here, get inside before you let all the AC out.", Power Loader motioned to the non-existent door. Everyone mulled into the still smoking workshop and saw that a third of the room had been colored black by an explosion that had happened near the front of the entranceway. Whatever did explode was no more and couldn't even be guessed on what it was. As they walked to a cleaner part of the room, Mei finally took notice of Gar and excitedly ran up to his face.
"Oh hey! It's you again! Uhhhhhhhhhh, Gum right!?", she asked excitedly, getting only inches from his face.
"Actually it's Gar. And your, um, Mei right?", he said back while pushing her away.
Mei pointed a thumb at herself with nostrils flaring with self pride as she exclaimed, "That's me, Mei Hatsume! Soon to be-!"
Before she could go off, Gar quickly clapped his hand around her mouth and stated in a tried voice, "Okay okay thank you Mei! But we don't need the whole speech again."
"I'm so glad you're here!", she exclaimed while getting back in his face!
"Yoooooooooou are?", Gar asked back while backing away.
"Yep! I've got something to show you, that you'll just love!", she exclaimed with animated hands!
Gar was about to protest or look for help, but Izuku, Uraraka, and Iida had already been taken to another part of the workshop by Power Loader. Suddenly Gar felt his arm get grabbed and his whole body nearly forced off his feet as Mei dragged him to the opposite end of the room where she brought him to a table with something covered by a sheet.
She rubbed her hands together and then thanked off the sheet in one swift tug while saying, "Ta-da!"
"It's my pokebox. That hasn't changed…...at all. What a surprise. Really Mei, you…. shouldn't have.", Gar droned out sarcastically with a forced smile.
Mei waved her hand and explained, "Oh no silly! The insides have been upgraded, not the outside. Unless you want me to!", She became more excited!
"Elaborate...on the inside upgrades.", Gar specified.
Mei looked to the side while tilting her head and explained excitedly, "Welllllll, in short, you can grab even more of your Pokemon and can be used with more repetition without hurting Motor."
"Rotom.", Gar corrected her.
"So why don't you give her a test run?! I've made sure to calibrate her more thoroughly to work in the space time frequency without any major setbacks.", She exclaimed while looking at Rotom floating near Gar's head.
Rotom's smile dropped immediately from his face and hid inside of Gar's jacket. Gar patted the pocket reassuringly and said to her, "How about on Saturday, like we planned. Rotom is definitely not ready yet."
"Or will be! Buzzt.", Rotom vibrated from his pocket.
"So what are the...other things?", Gar deviated from the topic.
Mei clung onto the question and diverted her attention to something else. She ran to the other end of the room and grabbed something out of a locked storage box. She ran back and placed another covered object on the table in front of the pokebox.
"Gum field!", She announces!
"Garfield.", Gar corrected her again.
"I present to yooooooou, this!", She stated proudly while ripping off the sheet!
"Wow! I…..what is it? I have no idea what this is?", Gar asks in confusion and nervousness at what could happen to him next.
In front of Gar sat a very unusual device that looked more like a pump powered ball throwing dog toy that attaches to the forearm. It had a glass rectangular screen with several different colored buttons (most likely a touch screen), a round opening near the screen that had an indented cupped track that ran the full length of it, but had no opening at the end. So whatever went into it was designed to make sure it didn't leave the track and was therefore retrieval. In addition the whole thing was outlined in a light plastic cover, painted gold and white.
"Try it and find out!", Mei exclaimed while waving her hands excitedly.
Gar looked at her skeptically and said bluntly, "I don't fully trust you on that."
But Mei fired back with an excited expression of pure unrivaled joy with sparkles in her eyes! Backed up by her inner aura that read 'I won't take no for an answer'.
Gar eventually conceded defeat and exclaimed with a sigh, "UGH! Fine."
Gar took the object and layed it across his forearm, which immediately snapped surprisingly comfortable straps around his arm in three places, securing it in place. As Gar looked it over, the three teens and pro hero came back from the otherside of the room, having their business all sorted out. Approaching the two teens, Izuku was the first to speak up.
"Hey Gar….whatcha got there? Some kind of a Yugioh duel thing?", he asked while examining the device on his arm.
Gar shrugged and replied, "Don't know? Mei made it for me. Now that I look at it closer, it kinda reminds me of the Power Styler that the Pokemon Rangers of my world use.", the other people in the room all paid to look at the older teen dumbstruck. Gar noticed this and realizing they had no idea what he was talking about, he followed up with a sweatdrop "I'll tell you another time."
"Come on come on, turn it on!", Mei bounced up and down like an excited child.
"Ooooooooooh! Touch screen!", Gar marveled as the screen lit up in an array of colors after being powered up. After the device booted up, it brought up a scrolling list that showed a picture next to it. Gar scrolled through a few of them and voiced his findings. "Hey! This thing has a photographic list of all the pokémon I have!"
"Select one!", Mei chirped!
"Come again?", Gar asked her perplexed.
"Select one! Do it!", she practically yelled!
Gar looked at the device and hovered his finger over the several other buttons, unsure of ehichone was the 'Select' and which was the 'Self destruct' one. "So how do I...you mean….like this?", he asked while pressing one of the buttons with a small blip sound.
Then faster than the blink of an eye, the opening adjacent to the touch screen glowed extremely bright! "WOAH!", Gar shouted while throwing his arm away from his face at the shock!
A loud crackling sound emanated from the device and moments later that light died down. Gar cautiously brought his arm back down and felt something roll around in the device's sleeve. Gar eventually brought his arm down enough to see what it was, and was stunted at what he found!
"It's, it's a... pokeball?", Iida observed with confused expressions all around the room.
Gar then took the pokeball and threw it into the air. It popped open, and the light formed into a yellow, bipedal Pokémon with a white belly. It has conical ears with black stripes and a red orb on its forehead. Its long neck has several black rings around it near the base. Its stubby arms resemble flippers and each foot has a single white nail. It had a long, black-striped tail with a red orb at the tip and bleated like a sheep.
Everyone looked at the pokemon confused until Gar piped up and stated, "An Ampharos? Wait a second...that's my Ampharose! How and why?!", he exclaimed while looking at a very excited Mei, who looked ready to burst at the seemes!
"Weeeeeeeeeell, I might've taken the liberty of getting some blueprints off your friend there! I believe it was the poke-rider and PC box schematics, and incorporated it with some designs of my own!", she practically yelled out in excitement! "I never knew that you could make energy to data teleportation technology so easily!", she bounced with excitement as everyone marveled at her breakthrough device!
Gar looked down into his coat pocket and was about to question Rotom on why he gave such sensitive info to her and why he has it in the first place! That is until he saw Rotom's horrified expression and knew that it wasnt of his choice. So Gar dropped any thought of seeking answers and went back to looking over the device on his arm.
"Holy Magikarp! I can pull my pokemon from the storage vault anytime I want!?", he asked with disbelief, as Mei vigorously nodded her head! "Mei! When did you have time for this?"
"I pulled three all-nighters.", Mei sated proudly with an extremely exhausted look in her eyes that was only kept lit by sheer willpower and coffee…...lots of coffee.
Gar turned to Power Loader and side mouthed to him, "Is she okay?"
"Absolutely not.", he shook his head with an exhausted groan in his throat.
"I almost forgot!", Mei suddenly shouted out, getting Gar's attention back. "Unfortunately there's a cool down feature if you use it too much. Which will last about 6 hours."
Gar looked over the whole machine again while petting Ampharos, and asked, "How many Pokemon can I swap in and out before the cooldown feature activates."
"I've counted around six.
"So now I can now use 12 Pokemon at any given time. That sure makes a big difference.", said with satisfied slight disappointment. Gar then got a light bulb and asked Mei, "Say. Think you can install one of these as a wall device in my room? Going to the vault to get one Pokémon is kinda wearing out on me."
The girl simply shot him back a smile brimming with new found energy and passion, but Gar was looking past her at Power Loader, who gave him a thumbs up.
"Hey Garfield. Before I forget. I got your shipment ready.", Power Loader suddenly said to him.
Gar looked at the man with surprise and joy as he exclaimed, "It's finally here? Oh boy!"
Gar vibrated in place with his arm jumping at his sides as Power Loader went to one of the storage lockers and pulled out a large plastic storage box, that he set down in front of the excited teen. Once he moved away, Gar practically attacked the bin, ripping it open and marveling over its contents like a child! The other teens cautiously approached the teen and carefully looking into the box, they saw it was filled with an assortment of different colored and neatly arranged clothing.
"What's that?", Uraraka was the one to ask the obvious question.
"My new outfits, duh.", Gar stated without looking up from the clothing.
Gar then thrusted his hands into the bin and pulled out a sweatshirt that was colored an array of different toxic colors. He admired the clothing article for a moment before rubbing the material into his face, feeling up its softness and newness. Even Amphrose got in on the action, as the pokemon thrusted its stubby arms into the bin and pulled out a swat shirt with a rocky like design. The pokemon then tried to put the clothing on its body, but ultimately failed as it tried to stick its head through the arm sleeve hole. Gar saw this and helped the pokemon by properly placing the sweat shirt on its body and zipping it up. Amphrose wiggles it's arms happily as electricity surges around its body.
"Woah! There's so many!", Izuku says amazed while pulling out a green hoodie that was designed to look like plants.
"Are they all for you?", Iida asked while looking into the bin.
Gar nodded vigorously and answered back, "Yep! I requested each one to incorporate the design of each pokémon type. Which reminds me, I gotta find a good barber nearby to get my hair dyed again…..I wonder what color I should choose?", He said to himself while moving his hand through his unkempt hair.
As Gar muttered to himself, Mei approached him from the side and said, "So Grub fiend."
"That's not even close to my name.", he cracked his neck in her direction at her gross mispronunciation.
"What do you do? Like with your pocket monster pets. Are they just pets or are there more that you do with them?", she asks, ignoring the comment.
Gar throws the hoodie over his shoulder as he taps his chin in thought, the answers, "Oh you know; I battle, strategize, breed. I dabble around all areas."
"Wait.", Mei suddenly says to him in a weirdly calm tone. "So you….you make babies too!?", she exclaimed excitedly.
"Make babies? Ha! In my short time I've made enough babies to save a collapsing ecosystem! And I have too.", Gar boasts proudly while puffing his chest and flaring his nostrils. "But also make perfect EV and IV babies. More shiny babies than anyone else. I might as well be called 'The Baby Making Guru' for all the babies I've made.", he stated, full of zeal.
"Then….then….then maybe you like to make some babies with me!", she asked him as both a statement and a plea!
Gar rubs his chin as he replies back, "Well….the whole process to make the perfect baby is a very long and tedious process with a lot of trial and error, that I've combed out over the years. And a second pair of hands would dramatically help in such an endeavor….so yes! You can definitely help make babies."
Mei pumped a fist into the air as the three teens and the teacher all stared at the other two teens with expressions riding on both shock and horror! Their faces were pale, their bodies were sweaty and cold, their ears rang after hearing them speak, their eyes were wide, their bodies stiff yet tense, and their jaws hung straight open! Gar eventually noticed their others' deep silence and turned his attention towards them. Only to nearly jump off his feet at their expressions that looked like scary faces to him!
"Are you two even hearing yourselves!", Uraraka suddenly shouted at both of them!
Mei and Gar both looked at each other and then back to the others with innocent expressions as Gar answered back in a nonchalant and confused voice, "Yes, we're talking about making babies. What's the issue?"
At that moment, Uraraka's eye rolled to the back of her head and she promptly fell onto the ground!
Everyone looked around the unconscious girl until Mei asked,"What's her problem?"
"No idea.", Gar replied with a shrug. "Anyway, I gotta get going. Much to plan and no time to spare. And I'll see you on Saturday for another…..test run.", he said to the girl while grabbing the bin full of clothes and making his way towards the doorless room with Amphrose close behind.
"You won't be disappointed!", Mei said in a singing tone, to which Gar sighed exhaustedly.
"Thanks again Hiragi, I owe you one.", he said to the man, who waved off the gesture. Gar then left the room for several seconds before poking his head back in and addressing Mei, "Oh and Mei.", the girl looked at him with a hopeful smile. "Go the Distortion World to sleep. You need it!", he said in a serious deadpanned tone before finally leaving the room altogether.