Sprout tower.
A group of monks were sitting on the floor with reverence in their eyes.
Noah was among them.
The head monk stood infront of the group as his seminar was going on.
'I wonder if Buddha exists here?' Noah wasn't really listening to the man's speech about kindness, meditation, giving up material gains etc.
His main goal was the sprout tower.
In the past because of the rumours some researchers wanted to investigate the truth about the sprout tower but were unable to do it because of the obstruction from these monks.
And people who still think traditionally supports them making the pokemon association unable to do anything.
'Seriously, they are only using this tower as a mascot.' Noah was able to come to that conclusion after hearing on how much money these monks were getting from donations.
The seminar ended and the head monk looked towards the others and said:"You all have good patience for listening to the rambling of a dying old man, now you can all come forward one by one and tell us all what you learnt from the circle of life."
A muscular man was the first one to step forward.
"Life is all about suffering and the only way to escape from it is to give up everything and live a simple life." He declared loudly.
'Lord, no wonder these guys have stereotypes.' Noah held back Larvesta from frying the poor man to death after he disturbed the little bug's sleep.
More and more monks continued to step in and left some words with deep meaning which Noah could not understand with his two braincells.
Finally it was his turn.
"It's your turn young man." An old monk told Noah with his weak voice.
Noah stood up and stepped forward.
All the monks were eager to see what the newcomer had to say.
'Fuck I am getting nervous.' Noah was regretting his decision.
'I should've sneaked in during night time.'
He took a deep breath and said in a soft voice.
No one heard what he said.
That's when a young monk stood up and yelled:"We can't hear speak louder."
'Fuck you.' Noah almost cursed outloud.
He got ready for his embarassment and said in a loud voice:"The winds may blow and the water will flow."
And the whole crowd went silent.
An awkward silence enveloped the whole floor.
Noah was dying from embarassment and considered burning the whole tower down with lampert.
'Even I don't what I just said.' He just made that up on the spot.
At this a loud clapping sound could be heard,
It was the head monk.
He smiled warmly and said:"That was really profound and deep for a newcomer."
Noah know that the head monk said that to make him feel better but seeing others trying to hold in their laughter did not help at all.
"Now now it's time for meditation and connecting with nature so all may disperse."
Everyone scrambled away when they heard what the head monk said.
Noah was also one of them.
'I sacrificed my dignity for this research and if I don't find something I will really burn this whole place down with me.' Noah was considering homicide and suicide due to his embarassment.
'I should start from the top floor.' He was trying to do a sweep of every single floor.
An hour later.
Noah looked at the shaking pillar with his magnifying glass trying to find anything odd.
'There's nothing strange and the theory of this being made out of thousands of bellsprout corpse that I personally made will not be possible.' He stepped back and sighed.
He then sat down and leaned back against the pillar with his eyes closed.
'I have searched every floor and I haven't found anything.' He felt a bit of anger rising inside of him.
'This was a waste of time.' He leaned back on the pillar with some more Strength.
He then heard a snapping sound and felt himself falling.
He opened his eyes and saw complete darkness.
'Dont panic, it leads to disaster.' With this thought he screamed at the top of his lungs which caused the pillar to shake even more.
At this moment lampent came spinning down and reached out his hand.
Which Noah caught and held onto him.
He tried to get on top of lampent.
"Now slow and steady." Noah was balancing himself on both of lampent's arms like green Goblin.
They slowly descended into the darkness, the only source of light being lampent.
Finally they reached the ground and Noah jumped down.
It was a narrow space with nothing but a bunch of roots gathering like a ball in the middle and it seemed to be protecting something.
Noah having seen a lot of movies naturally knew what this meant.
'I think this may answer one of the most asked questions.' Noah took out a pocket and started to get working on it.
A few minutes later.
We can see Noah panting with sweat all over his body and the pocket knife was dropped on the ground.
The spherical roots were still there with some scratches on them.
'Yeah I am done.' Noah looked towards lampent who was spinning in the corner.
"Mr.Lamp would you mind burning these roots mildly?" Anger boiled inside Noah seeing his Pokemon spinning around with no care in the world.
Lampent came forward and used will-o-wisp small wisps of dark blue flame shot out and started burning the roots.
Noah then took out a gas mask from his bag and wore it on his face.
He cared for his safety but forgot about the safety of the thing inside.
After a while the flames subsided revealing a black sphere inside.
Upon closer look dark red circles were around it and from the middle of these circles black cubes were sticking out.
Noah took it with his bare even though he had gloves what can some leather gloves do against something that turned a bellsprout into a tower.
One may ask where he got that conclusion from but he was pretty the thing in his hand is a wishing star.
'I think it makes pokemon gigantamax I think? Or was it called dynamax?' Noah did not watch the anime not play the games.
'What is it even doing here?' Noah had a lot of unanswered questions.
He stored it in his bag and got into of lampent.
'I need a green Goblin suit and I am all set.' He joked in his mind as he reached the exit.
A few minutes later.
Noah saw that a group of monks with the head monk infront of them has gathered around the hole he made in the hollow pillar.
He just got out from their and was met with their angry gazes.
"What were you doing inside? We saw smoke coming out of there!" The muscular monk from earlier shouted at him.
He then stepped forward with his pokeball in his hand.
But was quickly stopped by the head monk who raised his hand to stop him.
He reluctantly stepped back.
'Yeah hide behind your daddy.' Noah mocked in his mind.
"If you have achieved the thing that you came here for then quickly leave." The head monk said in a solemn tone.
"You knew?" Noah was a bit suprised learning his cover was already blown.
"I am someone who watches the news and seeing you appear here is enough evidence for me."
"Now leave." He said again.
Noah did not want to piss them off anymore and wisely left.
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Naoh's hotel room.
Noah leaned back on his chair doing a stretch and let out a yawn.
He just finished writing his daily journal.
This was a habit that the previous Noah had.
It had been 2 days since he released his research report on sprout tower and the wishing star.
In it he spoke about how this mysterious stone has some energy that can increase the size and maybe even the power of the pokemon that comes in contact with it. This theory also answer why there was a 100-foot bellsprout in the first place.
He also laid out a blueprint on how to convert these into battle gimmicks and how it will change the way of Pokemon battles forever.
'I won't get copyrighted right?' He mused in his head.
This research became famous throughout the world and his name has now been appearing in almost all the news channels across the globe.
Now one may think how did they believe his theory, thats simple really because in the galar region hundreds of these stones have been found and there was also the dynamax phenomenon going on.
And his research results gave them a breakthrough because they were doing the same research as him.
And the blueprint he laid out and the item he called 'dynamax band' really helped them.
If he was gonna copy he would do his best.
'And there is also the rewards.' He looked towards the coat hanger and saw a fire chicken and a grass turtle sleeping together with Larvesta inside his hoodie's pouch.
'I wanted a mudkip and a treecko but I could only choose one from only two regions.' Noah was still happy with what he had.
This was a genuine torture method.
If you were to ask Noah which region had the best starters, he would without hesitation will say hoenn region.
He took almost two hours and chose the fire chicken with tears in his eyes because it was the starter which he used most of the time.
And turtwig was a personal favourite of his.
'Now I have five Pokemon on me and I am thinking about a team consisting of eight Pokemon, having too much will be a burden.'
Even though he had a lot of favourite Pokemon he have to realise that this isn't a game.
'I also have been invited to prof.Oak's T.V show and I am considering if I should go?' Noah thought for a while and decided to leave it for tomorrow.
He stood up and walked towards his bed quietly as to not wake up his Pokemon.
He turned his head around and took one last glance at all his Pokemon.
At the corner lampent was doing his usual while zubat was hanging upside down on one of his arms.
The three baby pokemon were snuggling together in his hoodie's pouch.
He turned off the lights and went to sleep.
Atleast he tried to sleep.