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Chapter 138 - Chapter 130: Collecting Badges

At the break of dawn, the Sinnoh team were already awake and prepared breakfast in order for them to go to the nearest pokemon center. Danny Phantom was about to hide due to its hate for light like an edgy teenager, but Ramiel stopped it.

"Oh no you don't. You're my minion now, you are a soldier. You're prepared for everything. Wear this for now if you don't like the sun." Ramiel gave it a pair of shades and the haunter reluctantly put it on.

"And you missy, go in your pokeball. It isn't cramped, I improved the space. Look inside of it, isn't it awesome?" Ramiel opened a modified pokeball and it had the properties of outer space, having a nice amount of space while lifestream water and ores are floating around.

Ray growled a bit like it was grumbling and entered the pokeball. Real men don't catch strong ones in master balls or other special ones. The only acceptable ones are the OG or fashion balls.

The team started walking and they arrived nearby a pond, seeing some pokemon in it. "Hey, what's that cutie over there?" Tifa was interested only in the cute ones and saw a blue mouse with a tail that's like a wire.

"Ahh an Azurill, there's some others too. Want to catch it nee-san?" Fubuki saw some others while Tifa eyed the cute little Azurill like a hawk.

The sisters took out their Abras and Tifa's Budew was always on her person so she let it go and pointed at the Azurill.

"Come on, Budew. Can you catch that for me? It's going to be your friend." Tifa patted it on the head and her Budew nodded at her. It spitted a couple of bullets from its cute mouth and the rodent got hit. Poisoned, because of Tifa's Budew that is cultivating dangerous poison.

She then caught it with a pokeball quite easily, hitting it right on the head that added to its injury. "You have to call out the moves Tifa, or we'll quickly get a legend here that our pokemon are super good or something." Tatsumaki advised and ordered her Abra for a bipedal toad that looks really poisonous.

"Abra, use confusion then iron tail." Tatsumaki crossed her arms and her Abra used its psychic abilities on the unsuspecting croagunk. It quickly went in circles like a drunk and her levitating Abra teleported on it and slugged it on the face with a fiery fist.

"Teaching your pokemon a couple of egg moves? That's dirty." Ramiel raised a brow and Tatsumaki huffed. "Well, you're teaching your Machop martial arts. And surely, when your haunter evolves to a gengar, you'll be teaching it how to fight too."

"Abra, teleport to that piplup and use fire punch then thunder punch respectively." Fubuki ordered her Abra and it whacked the wild piplup with two elemental fists right on its face after teleporting.

They caught their 2nd pokemon quickly and were prepared to take on the first gym leader. Even if they didn't have time to teach the newly caught ones.

"Come on, let's get to the pokemon center. Ahhh, Tifa. How about you become a pokemon coordinator instead of entering the league?" Ramiel looked at Tifa carrying her cute pokemon and they'd definitely work in those comps instead.

"A coordinator?" She tilted her head and Tatsumaki nodded. "Yeah, that'd fit in nicely. It's like a pokemon fashion show. You would compete by showing off beautiful combos with their moves. But the next rounds still have to be a battle."

"That sounds like a good idea to be different. I'd guess that Yuna will be a coordinator too, we'll compare our badges when we see them later." Tifa nodded and was already imagining the moves she could combine with her pokemon.

"Okay, let's register later. Though coordinator leagues are registered in the arena they'd be set in. So we'll have to watch out for them." Ramiel explained and they went to their first poke center.

They saw their first nurse joy and the psionic sisters analyzed her with their powers. "Ahhh, as I've thought. Nurse joys and officer Jennys are pokemon. Their biology is just like pokemon, as an all female race, they only give birth to other nurse Joys." Tatsumaki nodded and has solved a mystery that was in her mind for some time now.

"There was that shiny nurse Joy that was tanned in Orange islands. Now that I remember, nurse Joys in Alola aren't tanned even though it's a tropic climate. She must be a shiny." Fubuki remembered and Ramiel sighed at their antics.

"Hey, it's not nice to just check people like that." He chopped them on the head and they handed over their new pokemon to see if they had any diseases or something. They were too lazy to check themselves.

"Nurse Joy, the three of us want to enter the Sinnoh league." Ramiel handed over their pokedex and they registered for the league.

"Ohh, that looks cute too. It's carrying an egg." Tifa saw a Chansey and patted it on the head. It greeted her with its stubby arm and she was satisfied.

"Come on, let's win our first badge then." Ramiel took their pokemon back and they started to go to the first gym.

Though while they were travelling, they saw a kid with a sour look on his face. "Hey, isn't that the edgy kid, Paul?" Fubuki saw him and she immediately wanted to beat him up just by the look on his face.

"Yeah, he really does look punchable like Blue. I'm gonna challenge this punk. Hey you, punk ass looking... Sorry, sorry, he's just a kid." Ramiel pinched her cheek because she was about to curse him.

He just looked at her and was surprised by Tatsumaki's enmity. "Yeah you, punk. Battle me." Tatsumaki looked at him coldly and Paul squinted his eyes. "Then I'll humor you."

He took out a Starly, a cute looking bird that's like a chonky swallow and Tatsumaki took out her overpowered Abra that has all of its egg moves already.

"I'll give you the first move, Arceus knows you need it with your little brain, compensating with strong pokemon." Tatsumaki had a smug smile on her face, taunting him.

Paul gritted his teeth and a vein almost popped from his neck. "Starly, use double team then peck!" He shouted out and the bird conjugated clones of itself to confuse her Abra. But the little thing with its closed eyes knew how to differentiate energy signatures.

"Heh, you are already dead! Abra, teleport, calm mind, then focus punch." Tatsumaki uttered multiple moves at once and her Abra appeared above Paul's Starly, using calm mind. It suddenly slugged it right on the head with focus punch.

It plummeted down to the ground and was surely unable to continue. Raising a cloud of dust as it crashed. "Heh, what a weakling." Tatsumaki ridiculed him with a grin.

"You claim that I compensate! But you used two TM's on your pokemon!" Paul was of course outraged, but Tatsumaki shrugged. "Who said that I gave it TM's to learn from? This little guy didn't know any moves besides teleport when I found it."

"But no matter, this one. I haven't taught any moves yet. Hmmm, it only knows mud slap, poison sting, taunt, and astonish. Good enough for punks like you." Tatsumaki messed with his mental and Paul got salty.

"Chimchar! Go and use ember!" He shouted out his orders hastily. "Croagunk, side step three times with a leap." Tatsumaki's Croagunk used its powerful legs to leap to the side three times and the little monkey's ember ran out.

"Use taunt, then astonish." Her croagunk made fun of the chimchar and its fiery temper made it lose control. "No! You stupid monkey!" Paul tried to call it back, but it charged right at the frog and Tatsumaki grinned at him.

Her croagunk suddenly shouted when the chimchar got close and it froze in place by the sudden stimulus. "Slap it to hell!" Tatsumaki angrily shouted and the croagunk used mudslap at it multiple times on the face.

"Chimchar, you stupid monkey! Use flame wheel!" Paul squinted his eyes and the monkey spun in the air, charging at croagunk. "You really have a pea sized brain huh? Croagunk, stand in front of a rock and jump when it gets close."

The chimchar couldn't stop its trajectory and it crashed right onto a damned rock. Stunning it in place. "Finish it off, use astonish then mudslap it until it is defeated!"

Her croagunk shouted again and added to its dizziness, debuffing it to oblivion. Croagunk then smacked it around easily. Basically a wild croagunk put the beatdown on his chimchar.

"Heh, what a dumbass. Chimchar, use flamewheel. You think I'll let my pokemon tank that? Study in a school first kid, you need it with your double digit IQ. Maybe you'll be able to beat a gym leader." Tatsumaki roasted his ass and he immediately retreated after she shaked him off of some money.

"Tatsumaki, do you have eccentric hobbies like bullying kids or something? That guy is just a ten year old or something. He's just a prick, not really an evil mastermind." Ramiel sighed and Tatsumaki realized that she got too into it.

"Hmph, that kid deserves it. He'll release those guys now so they won't be in an incompetent trainer's grasp." Tatsumaki rationalized and they just let it go for now.

"Come on, let's have a meal for our new pokemon." Ramiel took out his camping equipment and started cooking while he trained Ray, Danny, and Swolechamp.

He even gave Swolechamp weights while he worked out. Thinking of unlocking a special move that will let it compete with the likes of Dialga and Palkia. "You don't have a mega evolution right? Work hard and I'll turn you into the very first mega machamp." Ramiel slapped it on the back and his machop saluted.

And now that he had a pokemon that can fight with his machop, he let them spar. Danny got trained with boxing and they started beating the shit out of each other. Getting healed time and time again as they fought for supremacy.

"Ooh! Danny is doing it! The Dempsey roll!" Tatsumaki cheered as his haunter weaved its large head left and right while releasing a flurry of focus punches as its floating fists glowed.

"Your machop is starting to believe! It really is learning Bang's martial art!" Fubuki was shocked, seeing his machop deflect the attacks skillfully, waiting for a chance to attack.

It saw Danny move its head a bit too far away and it smacked away its floating fist. With a knife hand, it chopped right on the crown of its head. The score, now 3-2 in favor of Swolechamp.

"Okay, boys. Practice makes perfect, keep on fighting and after every match, eat a snack." Ramiel of course kept them motivated and the two drooled as they saw their food.

"Huh? A wild munchlax huh, it probably got here due to the smell of your food Ramiel." Tatsumaki pointed at the round and fat munchlax that was peeking at their food.

"Hmmm, a munchlax huh? All my pokemon are going to be gen 1 at this rate. Well, it got introduced in gen 4, but it evolves into gen 1. Weird if you ask me." Ramiel shrugged and beckoned it over.

The small and round baby walked towards him and Ramiel thought of giving it a balanced diet with a mix of exercise. "Heh, you'll be Hafthor from now on. I'm gonna turn all this blubber into pure muscle." Ramiel pinched its abdomen while it was eating some low calorie food, but high in protein.

"Now, if you want more. You have to exercise just like those guys." Ramiel pointed at Danny and Swolechamp. He took out some equipment like atlas stones and other weight equipment. Ordering it to pump some iron and lift to develop power.

They then continued their pace to Oreburgh city. Going straight to the mine so they could talk to the gym leader Roark.

Seeing a red head with a hard hat on, Ramiel called onto him and they were lead to the gym. "Challengers eh, so here's the rules. We use three pokemon and we can't change them. Got it?"

He took out his first pokemon and it was a geodude. "Let's go, Swolechamp." Ramiel released his machop. It looked calm and collected, going into a stance while gesturing for the geodude to come at him.

"That's a really strong looking machop." Roark nodded at it, seeing the rippling muscles on it instead of the lanky ones in the wild. "Enough talk, more fighting." Ramiel wanted to see his machop compared to other people's pokemon.

"Okay, geodude use sandstorm!" The little ball of rock started raising dust and a sandstorm raged around the arena.

"Swolechamp, close your eyes and feel for vibrations." Ramiel opted for a counter attack and the sandstorm was weak anyways, it would just cause damage if it hit the eyes.

"Pretty brave huh. Geodude, use rollout!" Roark's geodude spun like a top and Ramiel's machop noticed that something was coming.

"Use close combat then revenge." Ramiel gave his orders and his machop ran at it, trusting his orders. The geodude whacked him with its spin, but he was used to Danny's focus punch Dempsey rolls and tanked it without any issue.

It then started attacking the geodude with fierce blows. Its hardened fists crashing right onto the rock's face. "Geodude!" Roark saw his pokemon fly away and Ramiel's machop bowed.

"Next." Ramiel nodded at his machop's strength and skill. "Go and rest now geodude. Onix! Let's go and avenge geodude!" A large collection of rocks appeared, dwarfing Ramiel's machop.

"Machop." It went into a stance and had a glint on its eye, smirking at seeing a large punching bag. "Swolechamp, bulk up." His machop flexed and got larger.

"Onix, use rock throw!" Roark noticed the strength of Ramiel's machop and decided to whittle it down.

"Swolechamp, you know what to do." Ramiel nodded at him and it punched the rock to smithereens. "Tch, Onix. Use tackle and dragon breath!" The onix charged right at it.

"Close combat." Swolechamp nodded and grunted. Catching the tackle of the Onix with its bare hands. The onix charged up for a breath, but a sudden knee smashed right at its lower jaw and cancelled its attack. While in the air, Swolechamp released a nasty uppercut right at the side of its jaw, making it spin as it dropped down on the ground.

"Machop." It bowed again and stretched its neck. "Isn't that machop too OP?" Roark had a wry smile on his face, seeing his onix that got a brutal knee on its face, making him wince when he remembers it.

"That's a secret, now. Come on and start the last one." Ramiel gestured for him to release his last pokemon. "Geh, you sure are confident... Come on cranidos!" A dinosaur looking pokemon that screamed headbutt appeared.

"Cranidos! Use iron head!" The little dino roared and its shiny head glowed with energy. "Bullet punch then submission." Swolechamp punched right at its charge and their crash cancelled each other out. A small shockwave got released and the little dino stumbled backwards.

Swolechamp went behind it and hugged its waist, tripping its legs gave it a german suplex. It then put its beefy arm around its neck and choked it to submission. Not able to do anything with its dainty little arms.

"I guess that's that." Ramiel shrugged and Swolechamp bowed once again, finishing the fight in satisfaction.

"Just one pokemon, you're pretty strong." Roark sighed as he took back his cranidos. "Here, you deserve it." He gave them the badge and Ramiel nodded. Satisfied with Swolechamp's skills for now.

"Hah, this is what I don't like. We have to wait for them to recover before we can challenge them again!" Tatsumaki huffed and Roark gave a wry smile. "Yeah, they're pretty beat up." He scratched his head and thought that was impossible.

"Then we'll be back." Fubuki shrugged and pulled Tatsumaki who was complaining. "So that's a pokemon battle, it's pretty... Lackluster I guess?" Tifa remembered the battle and thought it wasn't really exciting.

"Well, that guy's just a noob Tifa. You can't really expect something from him. Besides, isn't your machop really overpowered? It beat up that Onix like it was nothing." Tatsumaki was impressed with Swolechamp's display.

"Machop!" His machop started glowing and it was starting to evolve. "Ohhh, lil bro's evolving into a machoke." Ramiel nodded and thought it was about time.

It grew up and was about the same height as Fubuki, it was slimmer than a normal machoke too. But it was impeccably lean. Any time it moved, the striations on its muscles were like steel fibers. "Machoke!" It struck a side chest pose and nodded in satisfaction at its evolution.

"Damn, it's shredded as hell. Are you giving it some Tren or something?" Fubuki can't believe how shredded it was. Normal machokes look like bodybuilders that were off-season. But his was incredibly lean.

"Of course it's lean, he's been eating clean. Isn't that right bud, give me a double bicep." It flexed and showed its biceps that were like Arnold's.

They then went to a hotel and let Tatsumaki and Fubuki beat up Roark with their Abras. All of them gaining the badge of the city gym.

Danny also evolved into a gengar after being beat up by Swolechamp as his punching bag. Hafthor started to lose some weight too, even though his belly was still big, his abs were being developed into a thick shell for his lifts.

While they were roaming around the city, Tatsumaki saw a suspicious meowth that was talking. "Hey... That's team rocket's meowth." She blurted out and the others immediately tried looking for the two goofy pokemon thieves.

"Hah, how are we going to catch that twerp's pikachu. We always blast off and lose a lot of dough." Meowth sighed while buying groceries. While he was going through the street, he got caught as a hand covered his mouth.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here? The talking meowth of team rocket." Ramiel smirked at him and Swolechamp grasped at him with one hand like a vice, his struggles not even budging.

"W-who are you? How do you know us?" Meowth trembled, seeing some people that had a dangerous aura on them.

"Well, no worries. I kinda like you guys actually. I'm not really gonna hurt or feed you to the fishes." Ramiel shrugged and Meowth got even more scared.

"I have a proposition for you guys." Ramiel remembered that James is a chef and they're only really in team rocket because they have nothing to do with their lives. And James was funding their balloons and mechs.

Meowth gulped nervously. "W-what is it?" Meowth started sweating and Ramiel thought about it. "I need money in this world. A million pokedollars aren't a lot, we've already used up half of it. And that's where my proposition comes. Want to take over team rocket?" Ramiel smirked.

"T-take over team rocket? Are you crazy? The boss has influence everywhere." Meowth thought they were insane and Ramiel snorted. "Influence? Your boss has influence, yeah. But how will his influence protect him when he gets stabbed in the neck?" Ramiel smiled and Meowth went wide eyed.

'T-these guys are the real deal... They'll kill me if I don't agree.' Meowth's anxiety rose through the roof. "W-what do you want?"

"Let me see Jessie and James, team rocket needs an overhaul. And killing Giovanni is pretty easy." He shrugged, those guys are a loose cannon. And taking care of them along with the other teams will be a piece of cake with team rocket's influence in their hands.

Jessie and James will also be great owners of team rocket, James just wants to get away from his crazy fiancee and Jessie just wants a life of luxury due to being an orphan and was inspired by her mother who is an elite officer of team rocket.

"Do you agree or not?" Ramiel went up to meowth's face and Swolechamp released him. He then put his arm on his shoulder and smiled.

"W-we'll do it! Let me lead you to my partners." Meowth quickly went to where Jessie and James were.

"I didn't know our funds were being decreased like that so quickly." Fubuki was surprised and the others were concerned too. The money they receive by beating up kids and battles were really low.

"Hence, we are going to have Jessie and James get lots of money for us. This will last us a bit more, money is no problem anyways. I just want team rocket and the other teams wiped away from existence." Ramiel squinted his eyes.

After a bit of walking, keeping meowth hostage. They arrived at a clearing where Jessie and James were. "Huh? Meowth, who are they?" Jessie raised a brow.

"Hi, do you want to gain control over team rocket? Ahhh, by the way. You can't refuse..." Tifa, Fubuki, and Tatsumaki disappeared from their place and appeared behind them. Pointing their fingertips on their necks.

"Or you die. Easy as that, how about it?" Ramiel smiled and they gulped, breaking into a cold sweat. "W-what do you mean?" Jessie squinted her eyes. They aren't really loyal to team rocket anyways.

"Good, good. What I want to do, is annihilate all the other teams from the face of the earth. Easy enough right?" Ramiel explained and they all shouted in their minds. 'Like hell that's easy!'

"And of course, you need to start with the strongest ones. Because Giovanni will notice that they're being hunted down. James, you'll be a chef. I'll teach you how to be a chef first and you will open up a restaurant. Have some influence first to gather funds. Get your boss's attention, then kill him off after he leaves team rocket in your hands." Ramiel poked James' head and he groaned from the headache.

"W-what did you do to him?" Jessie got anxious, thinking that he was mind controlling him or something. "Easy, calm down. I just gave him some knowledge about cooking to make him the best. Work hard, you guys. Contact me when Giovanni inquires on what you're doing."

Giovanni had a soft spot for Jessie because her mother, Miyamoto was an elite of team rocket. And even though they fail every single time, they didn't get axed from the team. They're also acting as an independent offshoot. Something that only elites in the organization are able to do.

"Trust me, he'll contact you soon if you succeed which is a given. Use this picture as well, it'll curry some favor for sure." He handed them a picture of Ray.

"A... A shiny Rayquaza!?" They gaped like a fish and were sure that the boss would kill to get his hands on this pokemon.

"See you then, work hard." Ramiel waved at them and left them alone, leaving them confused as hell. "W-what are we gonna do Jessie?" James and meowth stared at their leader.

"This... We just have to do it. They have eyes on us, I can feel it. It's even making my skin crawl." Jessie felt that someone is watching them even though they left already.

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