On Palkiday something happened that would normally be seen as something good but unfortunately did not fit in my plans. 3 of the Rattata inside Utopia's subspace evolved to Raticate.
I said this was not good for me due to the project I was planning. Primary forms were more valuable, thus more receptive towards the treatment I was planning in hopes of inducing the variation.
Furthermore, I was planning to use the evolution as the final push to raise the change of a successful type transformation, so if someone from the starter project group evolved it would be detrimental to my plans.
Thankfully, the new Raticate were from the resource group, so I was lucky this time around. However, this counted as a warning for me, so I took out a recipe that contained a little amount of Everstone Dust. The other ingredients ensured that the Everstone Dust was harmless when consumed.
As long as a Pokemon ate a hundred grams of the pellets, it would be unable to evolve for a month. Still, the effect would vanish after 30 days, so it had to eat another 100 grams of the Forever Young Pellets to maintain the effect.
Well, it served as a reminder, so it could count as okay news, and just two days later on Kyoday, I got some genuinely good news. Mars/Ursaring's Strength rose to SS. This was his first parameter to reach SS, and with it, Mars officially began the second round of his limit breaking.
On the topic of Mars, I had not stopped working on a possible alternate evolution for him. One of the theories was to work on the total opposite of the evolution triggers for Ursaluna, which were some peat along with a full moon.
The triggers I could think of this one were a Solar Flare, possibly a Sun Crystal, or similar materials. If that worked, the new evolution would probably either be a pure fire type or gain the fire type as its second typing.
Another theory of mine kept the peat as a trigger but took the full moon out of the equation. The Solar Flare, possibly a Sun Crystal, or similar materials were the additional triggers in this theory as well.
Another theory kept both triggers but added other materials in hopes of influencing the evolution enough to adjust its body. Our main problem with Ursaluna was its "bulkiness" after all. Yes, it was superficial, but it was the truth.
Anyway, that was not the only good news, on Giratiday the next week, Tiamat/Milotic followed his example. Her Energy Capacity rose to SS. She had been working a lot on Hydro Pump lately to master the move, and her Energy Capacity benefited from the grind.
The next day, halfway through the sparring session with Yoruichi I managed to hold out for 15 minutes. She smiled at me while she congratulated me on my achievement.
I was pretty happy with my success, I became decisively less happy when Yoruichi's smile took a more sinister hue, and she said that she would now be reinforcing her fists as well during our spars.
"Well, shit" was my main reaction when she said that. Her relatively "low" damage output had been one of the main reasons why I succeeded in raising my time despite her fast speed, so her reinforcing her fists was going to hurt both figuratively and literally.
As expected, the following spar ended in 7 minutes. My time got roughly cut in half, which was not that bad, but I turned into a giant bruise by the time I could no longer hang on. Thankfully? Not sure if I should be thankful or not, I got healed up right away, just so that we could start another round.
The way it looked Yoruichi had the time of her life, I less so, but I did not utter a single complaint since this was for the greater good. Better get hurt now, than get hurt worse later on.
For the rest of the week, I relaxed since I decide to take a small break after the beating I took. Still, on Arcday the following week I resumed my usual schedule. On Giratiday Ali/Kirlia's Endurance rose to S, which only left his Strength before he completed his first round of limit breaking.
The days flew by and we reached the last few days of the month. Just when I thought the new month was going to start this way, Enji/Arcanine's Energy Density reached A on Palkiday, which was the last day. Thanks to this increase he officially began his limit-breaking, and his Strength was already at S, so he was already a step ahead.
With that, the fourth, as well as the final month of the fifth term, began, and it began great. Abzu/Milotic's Energy Density rose to SS. This was his first parameter at SS, and it signified the first success of his second round of limit breaking.
I was not going to count that half week as the official first week of the month, so it was on Mewday of the real first week, that the Energy Capacity of Nyx increased to S. That increase completed the first round of her limit-breaking. She acted spoiled and I indulged her a bit by giving her a private massage as well as a grooming session.
The next day was as usual, and by now all four of my little students had a silver stage Pokemon, and I was confident that Sorrel, as well as Marlene, would have another silver stage Pokemon before the academic year was up.
Palkiday was my get your ass kicked day, and I managed to increase the time I got beaten up to a consistent 9 minutes. No, I was not a masochist, I was just dedicated to the grind. I got the distinct feeling that I had managed to impress Yoruichi with my dedication, which was a nice bonus.
For the next three days, nothing out of the ordinary happened, but just a day before the second week began Seb/Nidoking's Energy Capacity rose to S. He was now halfway through with the first round of his limit break and had caught up with his sister.
The whole second week was as usual, and I had unfortunately failed to reach the 10-minute mark during the sparring session on Palkiday. For some reason, Yoruichi seemed determined to prevent me from reaching that milestone. Well, it helped me get better so I let her have her fun, and Mr. Burns seemed to find the whole thing too funny to intervene.
The first two days of the third week were a repeat of the second, but the routine got broken on Giratiday since the term exams began that day. Even if that had not happened, it would have eventually been broken by Shino/Yanmega. Shino's Agility increased to S on Dialday, and this was actually his second parameter to reach this point.
Nonetheless, Shino still had not officially started his limit breaking since his Energy Density had yet to reach A. Thankfully that happened just two days later on Grouday, which officially started his limit breaking. He even had two parameters at S, so he had already covered a third of the way to finish the first round.
The last week began the day after that happened, and I aced all exams with ease once more. It had become a tradition on my part to sweep my exams. I had to get some sort of enjoyment of the situation if I was forced to sit through them.
I left the academy a happy man on Dialday after smashing the final exam for this term. I now had a month-long break to look forward to and as usual, I was going to rest and recover as much as possible during this time.
Well, Parvati/Beedrill decided to commemorate the occasion. Her Endurance rose to A, which also let her officially start her limit breaking, and just like Shino two of her parameters were already at S.
'Name: Parvati (QueenBee)
Species: Beedrill
Gender: Female
Age: 6+ years
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Type: Bug, Poison
Potential: Purple (46.88%) -> (51.93%)
Genetic variation: Royal
Abilities: Swarm, Sniper
Talents: None
Affinities: Bug, Poison
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Bond: Mikail (strong)
Quirks: Hardworking
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Parameters:
Stage: Silver Stage (high)
Vitality: A
Strength: S
Endurance: B -> A
Agility: A
Energy Capacity: A
Energy Density: S
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Resistance:
Grass (Major), Fighting (Major), Poison (Minor), Bug (Minor), Fairy (Minor)
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Weaknesses:
Fire (Minor), Flying (Minor), Rock (Minor)
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Standardized:
Psychic, Fire (in-progress)
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Condition: Healthy, Happy
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Masteries:
Bug E. Manipulation (Proficient),
Poison E. Manipulation (Proficient) -> (Advanced)
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Techniques:
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(Unofficial) Initial:
Furious Poison Cutter
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Novice:
N/A
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Beginner:
Endeavor, Mega Drain (new, +), Brick Break (new, +)
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Proficient:
Poison Fang, Harden, Bug Bite, Laser Focus, Assurance, Pin Missiles, Focus Energy (+), Toxic (new, ++), Toxic Spikes (+)
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Advanced:
String Shot, Poison Sting, Toxic Thread, Electroweb, Fury Attack (+), Fury Cutter (+), Iron Defense (+), Agility (+), Fell Stinger (+)
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Mastered:
Poison Jab (+), Venoshock (+)
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Combo moves/Custom moves:
Furious Cutter (Proficient, new, ++), Iron Lance (Proficient, new, ++), Furious Poison Cutter (in-progress)'
Parvati had made good progress on her quest to become Mothra/Butterfree's equal, no matter how hard it was or how impossible it seemed, and the results were proof of how much she managed to achieve.
Let's ignore her potential for now since it was only halfway through to deep purple. Since her potential was already at purple the only major progress I could see was during breakthroughs through the limit-breaking bonus. The rest of the section on that part had remained unchanged.
Her parameters spoke for themselves, and I was confident that she would be done with the first round of their limit-breaking before I began my tertiary education.
Anyway, the next section was proof of Parvati's willingness to work hard. She was one of the few that had already managed to standardize a type, and she was currently working on her second one. Enji was using his fire moves on her to help train her resistance against the fire type, and being burned alive was not fun at all, but she had yet to complain even once.
Anyway, the next one also showed her hard work, her poison mastery rose to advanced after she mastered Poison Jab and Venoshock. To be honest, she mastered Poison Jab while working on combining it with Furious Cutter, her first combo move.
She tried upgrading Furious Cutter once it reached proficient mastery, but adding a third move to an existing combo move was pretty hard, so after working on it she decided to work on other moves first, before returning to it once in a while.
She learned three new moves, of which two were learned from Prime/Beedrill. Toxic was useful in case poisoning someone proved to be challenging, and once she had gotten proficient with it, she began working on Venoshock to make use of Toxic and Poison Jab.
Once she had succeeded in that, we began working on another combo move, which was based on Iron Defense and Fell Stinger, so she first raised her mastery over those two moves to advanced.
The goal was to focus the effect of Iron Defence on her lances/stingers, and the practice helped her increase the move's mastery to advanced. While working on those she also worked on Agility, since a higher speed would help her deliver/hit with her new move.
Anyway, once she had become really good with the two moves she began integrating them, which was why she skipped past Metal Claw and created a currently unique move we dubbed Iron Lance. Once she had learned and gained proficiency with Iron Lance, she began focusing back on Furious Poison Cutter.
In all honesty, the reason Parvati focused so much on her combo moves was probably that Mothra could not copy them due to being incompatible with them. The difference in their physiology, namely the lack of limbs capable of utilizing the moves, made them useless for Mothra even if she managed to comprehend them by chance.
As I said, Parvati was taking her rivalry seriously, and I had no reason to do something about it since it was a positive rivalry and not a toxic one. The two did get along pretty well after all.
The rest of the break was calm, with the standard vacation program happening. Only 4 days before the start of the next term did something noteworthy happened. Stan/Gyarados's Energy Density reached SSS, and that was his second parameter to do so.
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