Vance is a great help in helping me train the new members of my team.
Now that Vance has a lot more time on his hands since all he is doing now is waiting to be officially discharged from ACE, he had volunteered to help me in training my pokemons. My main focus is trying to get the new members of my team up to speed. Among the four of them, only Archer, my scizor, is the best trained pokemon since Steven had trained him a little before passing him over to me. Archer was in Steven's possession for only a week before he passed him to me.
That alone tells you a lot about Steven's ability as a trainer. One week. That is all he takes to train Archer to be somewhere between a low-tier advanced level pokemon to a mid-tier advanced level pokemon from zero. No wonder he became Hoenn's new champion despite his young age.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I gave my new members their own respective nicknames. Scizor's name is now Archer, since he reminds me a lot about Archer from the Fate/Stay Night series due to the amount of red they both have and the 'cooler than thou' attitude. Nidoqueen's nickname is Ness, she liked the sound of the name despite it not having a meaning behind it. Pangoro's nickname is Hulk due to his hulking figure and his temperament. He is usually a gentle giant when unprovoked, but he can fly into a rage if someone press the wrong buttons like the green giant in the movies that I am so familiar with in my previous world.
Usually, that someone who presses Hulk's wrong buttons is Kratos, to no one's surprise.
Porygon-Z's nickname though, is probably the nickname that best describe him out of all the nicknames I had gave to my pokemons.
I named him Jarvis.
You heard that right, the same name that Ironman called his A.I. sidekick. Jarvis is an acronym for 'Just A Rather Very Intelligent System' in the Ironman verse in the first place. Ain't that the most apt and descriptive name for porygon-z? It is basically what its species is, a very intelligent A.I. given sentience.
Jarvis's species has no gender, but I refer to him as a 'he' anyway. I had also tried to experiment with Jarvis's ability to hack into networks. With Dad's permission, I had let Jarvis attempt and see if he can hack the heavily protected and encrypted network that our family uses for our farm's business.
He only took a minute to cripple it and shut it down.
I can now see why the President is able to find out so much information with Jarvis. The security of our family's database is by no means any less tight than the League's due to the strategic importance of our farm. The President giving Jarvis to me is really a show of sign of trust from him to me. He trusts me to use Jarvis's ability wisely and responsibly.
Jarvis's action also prompted Dad to look into better ways to protect our network and database. Wallace and Steven are also into it the moment I sent them a message about Jarvis's ability through my xtransceiver. If any criminal got their hands on a porygon and used it to infiltrate the League's system, it will be disastrous. We need to find a way to prevent something like that from happening.
As a battler, Jarvis acts like a robot. He follows every single instruction from me down to a T and analyses his opponents' battle style before formulating a response. He will grow to be a powerful battler soon, but his greatest strength lies in his ability to analyse a problem and come up with a solution in the shortest amount of time. The President is really going all out by giving Jarvis to me, and by extension, showing his support to the international force that is confirmed to set up in about two months time, give or take. Jarvis will be invaluable to us.
Ness is one of the most versatile fighters on the team. She has a good mix of both physical and special attacks along with the variety of different types of attacks that she can learn. She can probably be the next Bigblue in being able to handle any type of situation thrown at her. Archer and Hulk are both close-ranged battlers. Archer has the best raw physical defense in my team due to his steel typing and he can tear anything to shreds with his pincers. What I am trying to do now for him is to find ways to get over his weakness to fire type techniques and to find more options for him to engage in a long-ranged battle, just in case he ever finds himself in one. Hulk is the same too. Like what Brawly told me, he excels if it comes down to a fist fight but he only has a few options if his foes decide to snipe their attacks at him from afar.
We will solve that problem given time. I have confidence that they can all at least reach Elite level within the two months that is estimated for the international force to be set up.
The rest of my team are now experienced and strong enough to train on their own even without my guidance. I have taught them the various ways to fight alongside the combos that they can use. Right now, what they need to amass is raw power and proficiency in their techniques. The amount of help I can give them in this regard is limited. I can be creative in teaching them ways to utilise their techniques, but the only way for them to increase their raw power is practise, practise, and more practise.
That leaves Joy, who is now old enough to start training. She is also the one that gave me the biggest surprise with her growth rate. It is like she had hit a magical growth spurt.
I think I now understand why the League chose to give me a cleffa as my reward for the Ever Grande Conference. If I thought that Dolly was a fast enough learner, she paled in comparison as compared to Joy. If Dolly absorbed new techniques like a sponge, then Joy is a black hole that sucked in any knowledge that she is given.
Her initial growth rate may be slow but once she gets past the initial baby phase, Joy is on the road to start to grow into a monster. Already, she can hold her own against Fuzzy even if Fuzzy is not coming at her at his full strength. She is barely a month old.
My family looked very satisfied at the pokemons that I had chosen (or given) to bring along with me when I start to go about on my travels in an effort to thwart the prophecy. The sight of me training my team rigorously seemed to spark a fire in Dad as well. He now joins in on our training whenever he is free, he is trying to get Chewy to evolve into a hydreigon as soon as possible.
It was about two weeks after I got the new members of my team when Wallace had given me a call. He had said that if the international force that I proposed is going to work like a global police, then it will be beneficial for me if I enter Hoenn's LSDF for a short while to get a grasp on how they run in Hoenn so that I will not be going in blind. I agreed and my parents are fine with it as well.
However, the LSDF that I am assigned to will be at Lilycove.
Wallace's reasoning is that Lilycove is on the verge of making a full recovery and the LSDF there are doing everything they can in implementing new measures to ensure that an invasion will never occur at Lilycove again. They are basically restructuring the entire way on how the LSDF works and it will be a good opportunity for me to go and learn from them since the international force will also be starting from scratch. Lilycove is a little too far from home, however, and it will take hours to journey there from home and vice versa even through flight. I also cannot rely on Vance's gallade to Teleport me around since he won't always be at home all the time even if he retired from ACE. I have to find a place to stay at Lilycove during my short time in Lilycove's LSDF.
I don't know how he knew since I never told him, but in the end, Steven offered me to stay with him at his home in Mossdeep. Mossdeep is close enough to Lilycove and he can Teleport me to work in the morning with his claydol before going for work himself at Ever Grande. I can use the LSDF's psychics to Teleport me back to Mossdeep after I knock off from work. It is a privilege given to LSDF officers who do not have pokemons that are able to use Teleport, so travelling will not be an issue.
Usually, my parents will have serious objections about me staying alone with another guy, but this is Steven. His name itself is a representation of everything good and righteous in Hoenn since he is our next Champion. Vance himself have no problems with it since he does crash at Steven's place often enough and they are good friends. He trusts Steven to take care of me where my family can't.
Also, I will be staying temporarily with the next Champion. Think about all the training tips that he can share with me during my stay there.
I am excited to report for work at Lilycove already.
Oh Arceus above, save me.
This is so boring.
It was interesting to learn what the LSDF really do and the plans they have to protect the city. The city has been rebuilt and any signs of the invasion had been erased. The members of my team that had also experienced the invasion were a little jumpy at being back here, but they got used to it soon enough.
The point is, after I had learnt all I can about what the LSDF does and how they do what they do, I have nothing to do.
I only took one week to learn the ins and outs of Lilycove's LSDF. I still have about two weeks left to go before Wallace deemed it satisfactory that I had at least learnt the basics of Hoenn's LSDF and how they operate. I know that what I learn here will be helpful in the future when I enter the international force, but still.
So boring.
I have been patrolling the city for hours already on Flamel's back in a LSDF uniform. Many of the LSDF officers here at Lilycove were sceptical that a thirteen year old girl entered the force to learn their workings for a few weeks before running off again, but Officer Haley is there as well and she set them straight.
It also helps that my team and I wiped the floor with the officers who had openly doubted my ability when I challenged them to trainer battles after working hours. No one talked shit about me after that.
The battles we had were good battle experiences for the newer members of my team. However, there are some really strong officers there too that required me to use pokemons on the level of my battle-hungry trio. I didn't win every single battle since there are extremely skilled trainers there, but I won most of them. I had quickly gained the respect of the LSDF officers stationed at Lilycove after that.
I am under the direct command of Officer Haley, who has been very nice to me and who was the main person teaching me the ropes. Right now, she is on leave for a few days to prepare for her upcoming wedding a few months later. She had invited me to her wedding but I would probably be somewhere outside Hoenn by then. She was a little disappointed by that.
Snap and Toothless flew lazily in Lilycove's skies. They are wearing a large visible band around their neck to signal that they are a part of the LSDF. It is how we identify if any pokemons flying in the sky here is hostile or not, especially the larger ones. The attack on Lilycove could have been better prevented if Lilycove was able to quickly identify that salamence who fired the opening salvo of Draco Meteor was a hostile one. The end result is the band that Toothless and Snap are now wearing. Anyone who wants to let their pokemons out for a flight in Lilycove's airspace have to first register themselves at the LSDF office to get a neck band for their pokemons if the pokemon in question exceeds a certain size. The neck bands that civilians and trainers receive will be of a different colour from the one the LSDF uses for the purpose of quick identification. Most of the LSDF officer's pokemons are trained to at least listen, or if they are cooperative enough, take orders from fellow LSDF officers since things can be very chaotic in times of crisis. By being able to quickly identify if a pokemon belongs to a LSDF officer, things can potentially be done a lot smoother.
The trainers only have a time limit of a few hours before they are required to return the neck band back to the LSDF. The same arrangement apparently now applies to Slateport as well since like Lilycove, they are both important ports of Hoenn. The arrangement is a little harsh, but no one is complaining if it can help prevent another invasion. I had heard that a better method will be implemented soon that would not need civilians and trainers to go through the hassle of a neck band, but I am not privy to what it is yet. The neck band will still stay for the pokemons that belongs to LSDF officers since it does help us in our duties to a certain extent.
There are also more psychics employed to detect the presence of any hostile thoughts towards Lilycove among other things. The inner workings of it is a little complicated and technical, so I will skip the details.
If I squint a little more and tilt my head at the correct angle, I can see a small speck in the sky that is Fuzzy. He does not need a neck band due to his small size, but he wants one anyway. My colleagues are amused by his antics and gave him the smallest neck band they can find. Fuzzy is just too small to properly wear any of the neck bands available to tag him as a non-threat, even the smallest neck band looks like a cape on him after I tied it around his neck. He still wears it anyway, since I told him that he looks like some kind of superhero in it.
I took a quick break under the shade of a nearby tree as I hydrated myself. Some of my pokemons who enjoys the sun and the patrol are out with me as well. Hulk needs a lot of exercise as a fighting type, so he enjoys the long patrol that we are currently doing since he will be walking a lot. Rena enjoys the sun since she is a sun pokemon. Lily would have been with us too, but she is not that mobile without Rock Surf and I don't want her to ruin the pavements of the city with it as she travels alongside me, so I left her at the backyard of LSDF HQ to enjoy the sun there. It is where the officers of the LSDF let out their pokemons to take a break. Archer is outside since he wants more experience in acclimatising himself to the heat and Lilycove does receive a lot of sunlight here, making the climate a little hot and also humid, thanks to the sea nearby.
"Mummy! Look! Pokemon!"
I turned and saw a four or five-year-old girl running up to my pokemons, not afraid in the slightest. Her mother ran up to her and quickly apologised to me. From the looks of it, she was scared stiff that my pokemons might react unfavourably to her child. It is not an unfounded thought. There are trained pokemons that don't like interactions with any humans foreign to them.
"It's fine. I'm taking a short break anyway." I reassured the woman as she apologised profusely to me for her child's actions. She had assumed that her daughter had caused inconveniences for me as I go about doing my patrol.
Flamel gave a small nudge at the girl with his snout, eliciting a giggle from her. The woman continues to stare at me with her eyebrows furrowed in thought, much to my confusion.
"You were at Lilycove when the invasion happened, weren't you? I remember that rapidash and the espeon, these species are not commonly seen in Hoenn. You had helped me and my husband in saving my girl and then pointing us to the nearest shelter."
Oh, I did that? I can't really remember what I did during the invasion other than the machamp trying to kill us. We are all suddenly caught in a war and everyone is so busy trying to fight for their lives and also to defend Lilycove. I might or might not have encounter this woman and her child. I really cannot recall.
"I was here when it happened." I admitted. "But I'm sorry, I really cannot recall who you are and whether we did meet each other back then. It was too chaotic."
"It has to be you. I remember that long blond hair of yours as well. Thank you!" The woman suddenly thanked me and did a ninety-degree bow, which I quickly waved it off and tried to straighten her back. She really didn't need to thank me even if I did help to save her and her child, I was just trying to help defend the city at that time.
"Mummy?"
"Come here, Sophie, this is your benefactor that saved your life. Say Thank You."
"Thank you, pretty lady!"
That got me flustered immediately.
After a short while, we parted ways as my team and I returned to doing our patrols with a lighter skip in our steps.
"Never thought that we will encounter something like this, eh, Flamel? Rena?"
Flamel gave a snort in response although I can tell that he feels the same way I do.
'I guess good things can also result from bad ones, Mistress. It felt nice knowing that our efforts to protect this city had helped, even if it is only a small family of humans.'
"It does, Rena. It really felt nice knowing that we helped made a difference."
I hopped off Bigblue's back and recalled him while simultaneously releasing some members of my team. Flamel, Rena, Joy and Archer came out and stood by my side. Fuzzy landed on my shoulder from where he was flying about in the air previously and I felt my shadows moving a little from where Dolly resided. We stood within the Shoal Cave, the location where we tracked the criminal down to. He escaped here somehow when the LSDF forces were searching to apprehend him back at Lilycove.
At that time, I happened to be on patrol near the beach and the criminal would have made his escape if he didn't have the unfortunate luck to bump into Fuzzy, who was having fun flying in the air and immediately recognised him from the wanted poster as the thief who stole some valuable artworks from Lilycove Museum a few days prior and disappeared. When he first escaped, the thief had even somehow cut off the power lines of the surveillance cameras in a huge area of Lilycove, so I couldn't use Jarvis to track him since by the time the cameras were restored, he had vanished with no clues to follow.
I know that these power lines are only there temporarily since Lilycove is still under reconstruction even if it will be finished soon. The cables and power lines will be relaid and shifted underground once the reconstruction is over. Lilycove's security can still be a lot better. I had pointed out the flaw about the surveillance cameras to Officer Haley when I went through the layout of Lilycove with her a few days back and she agreed with me. We just didn't have the time yet to fix it since relaying these lines is a lot of work and back then, the reconstruction of Lilycove takes precedence since the Government urgently needs to build living spaces for those who had lost their homes.
The thief had been laying low these few days and it got to the point that the LSDF thought that he had somehow made his way out already. Apparently, he didn't. The thief was just waiting for the best time to sneak out.
Fuzzy immediately contacted me through Rena and we all gave chase to where Fuzzy had spotted him. I had phoned my colleagues for assistance as per protocol but they will be a little late considering that their focus on searching for the thief is at the wrong side of the city. It will take some time for them to reach me. The thief had used a smoke ball to escape from Fuzzy, much to his irritation. We then subsequently tracked him down through the sea until we reached Shoal Cave, where he went to hide in to escape from us.
I hopped onto Flamel's back as I pulled my coat tighter around my body. Shoal cave is known for housing ice type pokemons due to the low temperature here. This is the only place in Hoenn where you can realistically find wild ice types since our tropical climate is unsuited for them to thrive in Hoenn. I can still endure the temperature of the Shoal Cave on the ground floor, but I cannot say the same for the lower levels. I can only hope that the thief that we are after did not went further down, my body adjust poorly to the cold and I certainly do not want to be down there if I can help it.
"Let's search for that thief. The rest of you stay alert for any ambushes from him or the wild pokemons here. Rena, can you find him?"
Rena's eyes glowed a faint psychic blue as she tried to pinpoint the target's location by focusing her powers on searching for malicious or hostile intent. A short while later, she starts to run in a direction and the rest of us followed. Rena have masterful use of her powers to track down criminals due to her ability to sense hostile thoughts. Dolly is able to do it too, but Rena's ability is a lot more refined and useful for tracking down an individual. Dolly is more proficient in tracking large groups of people.
I groaned inwardly in my mind as we went further and further towards the interior of Shoal Cave. My luck is still as shitty as ever.
We descended down the tunnels and slopes and I can see ice forming on the rock surfaces the lower we went down. The temperature around us starts to plummet the lower we went and Flamel increased his own body heat to protect me from the cold, a gesture which I greatly appreciate. Thankfully, the wild pokemons here gave us a wide berth and avoided me and my team as we continued our chase for the thief. They know that they don't stand a chance against us even if they decide to attack in groups.
Except for one super persistent pokemon.
A glalie, one of the largest I had ever seen and clearly taller than me, burst out from his hiding spot somewhere near the rocky walls of the cave. We don't want to spend more time here than strictly necessary, so Flamel simply trapped him with a Fire Spin and we moved on with Rena leading the way.
I wasn't expecting the glalie to force its way through and gave chase while firing beams of ice at our backs.
Archer got visibly annoyed and shot a Flash Cannon at the glalie as a not-so-subtle way to tell it to back off. The glalie seems to take it as a challenge and unleashed a Frost Breath, the impact from the two attacks resulting in a shock wave that shook the cave a little.
This wild glalie is strong for a wild pokemon. I wonder how it managed to train itself to this level?
Joy supported Archer as she used Gravity on glalie, causing the glalie to immediately slam face first into the floor. Fuzzy sent a Thunder Wave at it to get it to stay down and we continued our chase to find the criminal. He shouldn't have been able to go too far. Last I heard from my colleagues, he was supposedly injured from a scuffle he had with some of them when they were chasing him down.
We traversed the cave in a series of loops and turns. During the entire duration, the glalie actually caught up to us several times despite the wounds he received from us and attacked us relentlessly. We managed to beat him back every single time and escape unscathed, but it is annoying having to deal with it while we are on a race against time to catch the thief.
Rena warned us telepathically that we are getting closer to the thief and we all mentally prepared ourselves for battle. The criminal is known to have several pokemons on him. As to how many, we don't know the exact number, but my colleagues have told me over the walkie earlier before we reached Shoal Cave that they spotted at least three different pokemons during their battle with him. I think that it is reasonable to expect a flying type or a water type from him if he managed to make his way here from Lilycove. It would be impossible to reach Shoal Cave otherwise. If he had a pokemon with Teleport he would have used it already, so it is safe to assume that none of his pokemon knew that move.
We reached a large cavern that is totally frozen in ice and I realised that it is probably one of the lowest levels of Shoal Cave. Flamel's heat is enough to warm me up but I don't want to take any chances with my body. My body can give out on me at the worst possible time. It also sucks that both my xtransceiver and my walkie are unable to contact any of my colleagues since we are so far underground.
Rena went to blast her psychic powers at a huge boulder and crushed it into smithereens. The thief scurried out of there and immediately released his pokemons: a mawile, a smeargle, and a pelipper.
We were about to face off, but then the glalie burst into the cavern through a wall and began his attacks on us. Again.
"Flamel, Joy, we are bringing the glalie down! The rest of you, after the thief!"
Flamel charged into battle with me on his back and Joy headed right in with a Zen Headbutt, smashing the glalie into the wall.
Joy may be tiny, but she sure packs a punch. She is somewhere around the intermediate level right now, which makes her a lot weaker than the other members of my team.
However, she is only about a month old going to two. A month old and she is already at the intermediate level. I really don't understand how she grew so strong at such a rapid rate. It feels almost unnatural.
There's really a lot of things humans still don't know about the cleffa line.
Flamel used a Flamethrower to cook the glalie and Joy used a Copycat on Flamel to use her own Flamethrower on the glalie. That should put it down for a good while.
The glalie emerged with icy fury and I recognised the tell-tale signs of a Protect being used. The glalie had defended itself from the Flamethrower.
"Joy, Encore!"
The glalie looked suitably confused as it kept using Protect repeatedly instead of being able to attack. Its Protect lost its effect after two successful use, which was my goal all along.
"Flamel, Overheat!"
Flamel immediately unleashed the signature white hot flames of his onto the glalie as it screamed in pain. Finally, now it won't be bothering us. I will see if I can heal it back up with Joy's Heal Pulse later before we leave, but for now, I have a thief to catch.
Archer, Rena, and Fuzzy had finished dealing with the thief's pokemons by now and the thief is running away. I can't have that happening.
"Rena!"
'I'm on it!'
Whatever we were doing was interrupted as the glalie unexpectedly broke through Flamel's flames and charged recklessly with a Headbutt with no sense of direction, hitting the icy walls of the cave before charging again, repeating the entire process with a sense of vengeance. The cave trembled and quaked at the impact and I can feel a scowl working its way up to my face. At this rate, the whole cavern will collapse.
I heard the thief giving a scream and I saw the glalie heading for his direction. Shit, the thief may very well get himself killed. We still need him to tell us the location of the stolen artworks that he had hidden too.
"Dolly! Jarvis!"
My shadow dashed towards the thief and manifested in the form of Dolly, who used a Protect to defend the thief from harm. Glalie gave an enraged roar as it tried to call upon a Blizzard, but Jarvis shot out of my xtransceiver as he converted himself from data form to solid form and pushed glalie back with a Shadow Ball. The Glalie gave another roar before glowing a startling bright white.
It knows Explosion?!
I don't know what came over me right at that moment. I could have commanded my team to bring it down even before the Explosion can be used, but I did otherwise.
I unclipped an unused pokeball from my belt and threw it at the glalie. The pokeball struck and sucked glalie in as the rest of my team surrounded the wriggling pokeball and watched it warily just in case glalie managed to break free.
A few seconds later, the pokeball went completely still and it was then the realisation sank in.
I had caught myself another pokemon.
Dolly picked the pokeball up and floated back to my side to pass it back to me. I received the pokeball, still in a slight daze, as I muttered my thanks and turned my attention back to the thief, who is still paralysed in fear at his close brush with death.
"Flamel, Hypnosis."
The thief went still before falling asleep and I allowed Dolly to take us back to the surface with a Shadow Sneak. There is already a small force of LSDF on the outside and I spotted Officer Haley the moment we got back to the surface.
"Vel! Thank Arceus you are alright! It is going to be high tide soon and we tried contacting you but there wasn't an answer!"
"Sorry about that." I apologised as some of our colleagues went in to take the thief into custody. "We were too deep underground and there was this insane glalie that was out for our blood and kept chasing after us no matter how we tried to put it down. Putting it down is a difficult task in itself."
Officer Haley's eyebrow rose a little.
"Is it a glalie about this big?" She gestured with her hands and I nodded. Officer Haley just sighed before continuing.
"I don't think we had told you about it since you just joined, but that glalie is somewhat notorious around these parts for being incredibly persistent in challenging any trainers it sees. It won't stop until it has been knocked unconscious. We received complaints about it all the time and we sent word to the Rangers for them to deal with it. Somehow, that glalie was able to evade every attempts of capture by collapsing different parts of the caves and the Rangers don't want to risk the entire Shoal Cave collapsing just to catch a glalie. They put up a warning sign instead, which I guess you missed." Officer Haley pointed a sign which was erected right outside the entrance of the Shoal Cave with a very detailed description of the aforementioned glalie and a photo of it causing mayhem in the caves. She was right, I had missed it. I guess that a trainer had managed to snap a photo of the glalie before bailing out of there.
"Um… About that." I held up glalie's pokeball for her to see, and Officer Haley had a confused look on her face for a moment before coming to a realisation.
"Vel, you couldn't possibly have…"
"I might possibly have caught the glalie you were talking about." I dropped the bomb on her as I clipped the pokeball back onto my belt. "That glalie nearly killed the thief with a Headbutt and then tried to kill all of us with an Explosion. Capturing it is the first thought that came to my mind to save ourselves."
Our colleagues who were also privy to our conversation had also crowd around us curiously. One of them even gave me a pat on the shoulder.
"Hah! Good job, Vel! Now we no longer need to deal with complaints from trainers about the glalie."
"Did you flip the entire cave over to catch it?"
"What do you mean flip the entire cave over?" I retorted.
"Hey, you are the Arena Flipper. Your cradily flipped half the arena over in your conference. I watched that match."
"So you are keeping the glalie?" Another colleague asked hopefully.
"I'm releasing it back into the wild the moment I healed it. This glalie is insane, I don't want to deal with it."
"Nah, keep it. If anyone can tame this crazy glalie, it's you."
"I already have fifteen members on my team."
"I thought you Veras are good at taking care of a large number of pokemons due to your farm?"
Wait a minute. My family has a farm, and I do remember that Dad had mentioned that he is planning to build an enclosure specifically for ice types. He wants to increase the number of ice types on our farm since there is a growing demand for ice types. Wild ice types are naturally rare in Hoenn due to our tropical climate so it is very hard for trainers to get their hands on one if they don't visit the Shoal Cave.
This glalie will do. Its vicious behaviour might be a problem, but Dad is also an Elite trainer. I will just transfer this glalie to him and tell him to take extra care in handling this glalie. This glalie is strong for a wild pokemon and any offsprings it might have may be strong too. Our farm needs strong and rare pokemons like this glalie for our growing business in dealing with ice types since it is hard to catch even a snorunt in Hoenn. No one really likes to explore Shoal Cave since not only is it extremely cold, it can be dangerous with how the cave layout changes during the high and low tides. You can be washed away by the tide if you are in the cave at the wrong time. That is not considering the number of wild pokemons there. Only Elite trainers can go in and out of the cave without much worries since their pokemon team will be well equipped by then to protect them from any kind of danger.
Who knows? Maybe Dad will add this glalie into his team. I know that he is considering rebuilding his team after he found out about me getting involved in politics. I think he wants to get back to his former strength as a trainer so that he can protect our farm and the family from harm if someone is foolish enough to have funny ideas. As a trainer, he may have been in retirement for a long time, but Fang and tropius had never stopped training. Right now, Dad also has Chewy with him too and Chewy is a pseudo-legendary. There is also a reason why he was one of Drake's best operatives during his time in ACE.
We all know Dad is a strong trainer even if we had never seen him in a real battle before. Having a glalie with him might do him so good too. The glalie species have the potential to be strong as well.
War may be averted for now, but there is no telling what might happen. All we know is that something will happen and it might not be good. All because of the prophecy.
It is always better to be overprepared than underprepared.
"… I see, I think I might really get the glalie into my team like you suggested. Anything else I need to know about this glalie?"
"I think that is about it, Dad." I replied through my xtransceiver. "Be careful, none of your pokemons can really handle ice types. Tropius and Chewy have a natural weakness to it."
It is night time and I had finished conducting training for my team in Mossdeep after getting back from my job. Tate and Liza were happy to see me and we had trained together for a short while before we decided to call it a day.
"I will be fine. By the way, is that the extent of your team? I thought that I had mentioned that you need to get a smaller size pokemon that is also strong in combat."
I shifted the camera of my xtransceiver to Archer, who is standing by my side with his usual poker face in my room at Steven's house. Steven is away for some ACE mission, so he won't be back for quite some time.
That also means that I will have to wake up early to travel to Lilycove to work every morning by flight. Thankfully I can use the LSDF psychics to help Teleport me back here for the return trip.
"Archer is about the size of an ordinary human. He fits the criteria, Dad, he can fit into most buildings. Jarvis is strong too and he can hide in my xtransceiver by going into data form. He acts like a robot, but he can be even sneakier than Dolly."
"I guess that will suffice, although I will still prefer if you have more pokemons that can follow you around like what Archer is doing. Are you free tomorrow night?"
"I will be. Why?"
"The pokemon I mentioned that I will be giving you is arriving tomorrow. You will need to release… let me check if it is a he or a her… a her. You will need to release her into the sea for a swim regularly to keep her healthy and happy. Thankfully, our home is situated near to the sea as well, so you can just let it swim there and not worry about her mental health when you rest at home. I will be transferring the pokemon to you tomorrow night."
"So, what will I be getting?"
Dad gave me a mischievous look through the small screen of my xtransceiver.
"Secret."
"Dad~" I whined.
"Fine, fine. It is a lapras. I had to get my contacts to ship her over from the Sevii Islands so it took a while. Lapras will keep you safe when you are out travelling on the seas. Their species enjoys giving rides to humans on their back, so don't hesitate to use her to travel around if you feel like it."
I paused for a short while. A lapras? Those are very rare. Just how did Dad managed to get a lapras in such a short amount of time? That is including the time needed to ship lapras here to Hoenn and that takes a while.
"Dad, how did you manage to-"
"Get a lapras for you so soon? I told you, Vel, we are influential. All I had to do was to make a phone call. You see the extent of our influence now?"
That is Dad for you. He is the only one that can give you lessons while giving you presents at the same time.
"Honestly speaking, their species don't like to battle and that is part of the reason why they are on the brink of extinction. They rarely fight back." Dad explained over the call. "But that doesn't mean that they are bad at battles. On the contrary, they are very good at battling once they finally decide to battle. It's up to you on how you want to raise lapras, but I recommend that you train lapras like how you train the rest of your team. Most pokemons won't refuse the chance to train even if they don't like battling. Your Fuzzy and Kel are good examples of this."
Archer gave a curious sideway tilt of his head and squinted at Fuzzy as if in disbelief. Fuzzy simply squeaked back at him. If I read the situation right, I think Archer cannot comprehend the idea of anyone not enjoying battles.
I have a feeling that my battle-hungry trio may grow into a quartet soon. Maybe a quintet if Hulk joins in. Ness and Jarvis are good at battling as well, but they are not bloodthirsty. Dad had said that the lapras species does not like battling, so I don't think lapras will join the battle-hungry group.
But why do I have the sudden feeling that I will be proven wrong?
AN: Fourth Chapter for the weekend done and dusted. The reason for the quick completion of this chapter is because the glalie part was done a long time ago. I had wanted a glalie for Vel, but things changed along the way so it is not possible for her to get a glalie now. However, I really want a glalie to be in this story, so I gave glalie to Griff instead.
And like you guys suspected. Yes, a lapras. And I really hope you guys had a laugh when I released the nickname for porygon-z. I really think the name of Jarvis is 100% made for him.
I am also very glad and relieved that the plot twist pulled through. With that, I can now work on the travelling the world part. I will try not to disappoint.
As usual, I hope you enjoy the story.
Character and pokemon list:
Velda Vera, Age: 13, Female, Pokemon Trainer, Runner-up in the 528th Ever Grande Conference
Pokemon on hand:
1) Rapidash (Flamel), male
2) Swampert (Bigblue), male
3) Banette (Dolly), female
4) Flygon (Snap), male
5) Absol (Kelsa), female
6) Charizard (Toothless), male
7) Cradily (Lily), female
8) Espeon (Rena), female
9) Pachirisu (Fuzzy), male
10) Tyranitar (Kratos), male
11) Cleffa (Joy), female
12) Nidoqueen (Ness), female
13) Pangoro (Hulk), male
14) Porygon-Z (Jarvis), genderless
15) Scizor (Archer), male
16) Lapras (?), female
Griff Vera, Age: 42, Male, Owner of Vera Pokemon Breeding Farm, Husband to Hanna Vera (formerly Springfield), Father to Vance and Velda Vera
Pokemon on hand:
1) Mightyena (Fang), male
2) Tropius, male
3) Zweilous (Chewy), male
4) Glalie (?) male
5) Ninjask (deceased)
6) Ludicolo (deceased)
7) Zangoose (deceased)
8) Ursaring (deceased)