During the next 3 days, Mikail's main focus was on Caterpie's training.
He made String Shot her primary focus and Electroweb her second priority.
The first part of the training for both moves was to shorten the time it took to execute them even further.
They did this for 45 minutes at the beginning of every session, 30 minutes for String Shot, and 15 minutes for Electroweb.
This also doubled as a capacity-increasing exercise, since the repeated use allowed her to produce more string.
He had already made her do this before, but he wanted to reduce the time it took her to perform the moves to 1 second.
At least this was his requirement for String Shot, as for Electroweb he would be satisfied if she managed to do it in less than 2 seconds.
Naturally, he would be even happier if Mothra managed to perform Electroweb in 1 second as well.
Mikail gave her a 15-minute break before they began the second part.
During the second part, he had her improve the elasticity of her strings first for about 25 minutes, then he made her focus on the hardness of her strings for 25 minutes, before she had to enhance their stickiness for another 25 minutes.
They had 5-minute breaks during each change to give her time to rest for a bit.
The third part was to increase the strength of Electroweb, which they did for 20 minutes.
After a 10-minute rest, they began the fourth part, which was to use String Shot to move around.
Mothra would use the move to pull herself towards trees.
He told her she should use her strings to swing around and that she could change directions mid-swing by using another String Shot to pull herself towards something different.
This would allow her to be really mobile, especially if she managed to use her sticky strings to coat the ground as he planned her to, which would at least slow her opponents down if not outright trap them.
They did the fourth part for about an hour and took a 15-minute break before beginning with the final part, which was a repeat of the first part.
During the last part, they spent another 45 minutes reducing the execution time of the moves.
All this took around 5 hours, which was more than enough since he did not want to overwork Mothra or make her lose her enthusiasm by overdoing it.
Besides Caterpie's training, he did not forget his other projects and tasks.
He kept feeding the Magikarps their supplements and he had to produce a second batch of them today since the first batch was only sufficient for 5 days.
Unfortunately, the poison-type specimen did not manage to get accustomed to the dose till the end and Mikail had to use a 'F'-class purple lily for the second batch.
The others did not show any obvious change yet, but Mikail thought this was normal since the experiment started only 6 days ago.
His own training had progressed as well, this time it was not his telekinesis that improved but his telepathy.
He now could transfer words instead of emotions and sounds.
Unfortunately, he could not properly listen to the thoughts of others yet.
The best he could manage at the moment was hearing individual words if the target thinks really hard about something, but he believed that he would get better with training.
His skill would allow him to enter the mind of others however he liked in the future just as it did for a certain bald man and Mikail had more than enough time to reach that level even if it took a huge amount of training.
For now, every step forward was progress towards that goal, which was the reason why he was happy about all improvements no matter how small.
During these three days, Natu had kept up his physical training like he had asked him to and today towards the end of the training session Natu had finally reached (mid) iron-stage.
'Species: Natu
Gender: Male
Type: Psychic, Flying/Air
Potential: Green (26.5%)
Parameters:
Stage: Iron Stage (mid)
Vitality: H -> G
Strength: G -> F
Endurance: G -> F
Agility: F
Energy Capacity: G -> F
Energy Density: H -> G
Condition: Healthy, Tired, Happy
Techniques: Leer (Novice), Peck (Beginner), Night Shade (Novice) -> (Beginner), Stored Power (Beginner), Gust (Proficient)'
He had used the Fearow's beak as Natu's new supplement and kept up the massage, which had helped the percentage of his potential reach 26.5 but the effectiveness of the beak fell below 1% during this time and the effectiveness of the lotion got reduced as well.
Besides that the physical training helped him increase most of his parameters to 'F', bringing his average to 'F' as well which classified him as mid-grade.
The boost of Night Shade is a pleasant surprise because Natu only trained in it for a bit but it still improved.
"Congratulations on reaching the (mid) iron-stage Natu.
All your training paid off.
I am going to give you an all-you-can-eat berry buffet inside the space tonight."
Natu chirped happily at his words before he focused on Caterpie who congratulated him as well.
After a bit, he turned to Mikail and said to him per telepathy.
'We are going to eat until we are on the verge of exploding.'
Mothra agreed from below and Mikail simply agreed.
"Sure, no problem both of you worked hard and have earned a reward.
Anyway, we need to go back inside and get cleaned up.
My Mother said that their friends are going to arrive shortly before dinner and she wants us all to be presentable by then."
His Pokemon expressed their understanding and he continued.
"It seems they are going to stay overnight as well and the whole next day, that means no training tomorrow."
Natu and Mothra started cheering when Mikail said that.
He simply shrugged and let them cheer while he bent down, took Mothra into his arms, and began to walk inside.
Once he was inside his mother ushered him to the bath, where not only Mikail but his Pokemon were washed as well.
He spent the next hour relaxing with his parents in the living room until they heard the doorbell ring.
His mother went to open the door and his father stood up as well to greet their guests.
She returned with 3 people following her, 2 adults, and a child.
His father went forward and they all hugged each other while exchanging greetings.
Once they were done, his mother faced him and started the introductions.
"Mikail, these are Lily Field and Thorn Field friends we met during our trainer journey."
She waved her hands towards the person she was mentioning while introducing them.
Lily Field had a slim figure with pretty good curves.
She looked like someone in her early 20s but here on Terra that did not clarify much.
Nevertheless, since she was a friend of his parents he did not think that there was more than a 5 to 10 years difference between them.
She had white skin, shoulder-length blond hair, green eyes, and a pretty face.
He estimated her height to be around 1.73 m, a bit larger than his mother.
Overall he would give her a 9/10.
Thorn Field seemed to be the same height as Mikail's father at 1.79 m.
He had white skin, red hair, brown eyes, and a relatively handsome face.
He looked the same age as his wife and had a good physique.
He ignored their clothes because the only thing he could tell was that they were of good quality.
The only noteworthy piece was what looked like a trainer belt for Pokeballs.
Arya continued while he was checking out their guests.
"The little lady beside them is their daughter, Rose.
Rose is a bit more than one year older than you, so I am sure you will become good friends."
Rose Field was a petite little thing.
He estimated her height to be around 105 cms
She looked really cute with her rosy cheeks.
She had white skin, strawberry-blond hair, green eyes.
Her posture seemed to radiate shyness.
"Lily, Thorn, Rose.
This is our son, Mikail."
Arya introduced him while he was checking out Rose.
"Nice to meet you.
Welcome to our home."
Mikail greeted them when he was introduced.
Lily approached him and pinched his cheeks.
"What a cute little boy you are.
I am sure you and our little princess are going to be great friends.
She is a bit shy when meeting new people but I believe that will be no problem."
Mikail's cheeks reddened a bit, if that happened because she squeezed his cheeks or because she called him a little boy will be left to everyone's imagination.
"I am sure they will get along just fine.
Mikail, here, looks like a fine boy."
Came from Thorne who walked in front of him together with Rose and ruffled his hair.
"Ni...Nice to meet you.
I am Rose.
I like Vulpix and I ho...hope we become friends."
Rose started introducing herself under the silent encouragement of her parents.
Mikail, who felt the stare of his mother's eyes at the back of his head knew he had to answer.
"Nice to meet you too Rose.
I am Mikail and I like Growlithe and Caterpie and Natu.
I hope we can be friends too."
Satisfied with his intro Mikail nodded to himself.
That seemed to be the end of the introductions because his mother addressed everyone.
"Let's go over to the couch and you can all take a seat.
I am going to set up the table and bring over the meal.
Then we can have our dinner and talk."
Lily's answer came instantly.
"Let the men and children go to the seating area.
I will help you with the dinner preparations."
So everyone except for the two women went to the couch and the men started to chat with each other while the woman busied themselves.
They had dinner shortly after and Mikail learned quite a bit about their guest while listening to the conversations happening.
It turned out that Thorn and Lily both were Senior Trainers like his father and that they were about 5 years older than his parents.
They had apparently met at the end of the first year of his parent's journey, where the Fields help them out of a dangerous situation.
His parents had apparently been surrounded by a small-sized Beedrill swarm and were getting worn down but Thorn and Lily saved them and from then on, their friendship only grew.
The two of them seemed to have retired the same year his parents did.
They settled down in Orchid City which is a Tier 6 city near Saffron City.
Now one would ask themselves did they really travel from there to Hope Town just to visit some friends and it would be a justified question because the distance between the two places is nearly 4.000 km.
Fortunately, they did not have to travel that distance the regular way.
Apparently, Tier 5 to Tier 7 Cities all had teleporting stations that could be used to travel between them.
The family of three booked a teleportation chain to Honey City, a Tier 5 city near Honeydew City, and took a bus to Hope town from there.
The funny thing was that the teleportation chain together with the waiting time between teleportation points took 40 minutes, while the 120-km long bus drive took nearly 2 hours.
After dinner, they all went to the living room where the adults resumed their conversation.
Mikail knew that he should invite Rose to his play corner to entertain his little guest but he was really curious what Pokemon Lily and Thorn had.
So he decided to simply ask if they could show them to him.
"Sorry, Uncle Thorn, Aunt Lily.
You are trainers like my parents, right?
So you have Pokemon too.
Can you show me, please?"
His parents started to laugh when they heard him.
"Our boy here absolutely loves Pokemon.
We should have expected him to ask to see your Pokemon."
Came from his father.
Lily answered Mikail's question after Edward said his piece.
"Sorry, Micky.
Except for 1 of them, I left the rest of my team at home to look after it while we are gone, but I can show you the one I brought along."
Before Mikail could answer her, Thorn started speaking.
"I on the other hand have my whole team with me and I see no problem with showing them to you.
We will have to go out to the terrace because some of my Pokemon are too big for the living room."
Mikail kept nodding his head while saying.
"Great, Great."
His parents kept chuckling at the little play their friends and their son were performing.
When Thorn talked about going out his mother was the one who answered.
"No problem we can sit at the terrace as well.
The weather is currently good enough, so that's actually a good idea.
Let me take some snacks and drinks there as well."
Arya stood up and went to the kitchen and Lily followed her.
They all went to the terrace and sat down except for Lily, who took a Pokeball from her belt and released the Pokemon inside.
Mikail, who was excitedly watching her was surprised by the Pokemon that she released.
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