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85.34% Pokemon: A life worth living / Chapter 95: C095 - Mega Reuniclus and Mega Steelix join the farm

Chapter 95: C095 - Mega Reuniclus and Mega Steelix join the farm

Despite wanting to, Pete didn't find much time to talk with everyone at the rather casual wedding feast before people started heading home - well, casual compared to the huge receptions Pete knew from his original world.

Falkner, Violet City's flying type gym leader, didn't get to have a single conversation with the soon-to-be-professor, which really bummed the blue-haired flying type trainer out a lot. Well, if he kept up his relationship with Sophie, he would probably find some time with Pete soon.

He had prepared a whole little speech where he wanted to thank Pete for telling the world all it took for Murkrow to evolve was a duskstone. His cunning Honchkrow was swiftly making his original ace Pidgeot, and runner-ups Swellow and Staraptor look bad in training, resulting in his training to become more efficient.

Pete woke up the next morning with Jasmine sleeping on top of him. Half her weight was lying on his shoulder, so one of his arms didn't wake up with him, and her hair was all up in Pete's face. Some mornings that might have been annoying. But after becoming husband and wife, there was no better feeling in the world for him.

With a big smile, he gently repositioned his sleeping wife to the side to allow for a slightly higher blood circulation in his arm which prompted Jasmine to sleep talk in a barely audible whimper, "Noooo~, five more minutes pwease."

In the end, it was almost an hour later before Pete finally had enough of Jasmine's cute sleeping face and gently woke her up so they could start their day. Like last time during the engagement, Sophie's room became home to the remaining Feelgood sisters while the guest houses were filled with Elm's and the rest of Jasmine's family.

Chloe didn't allow anyone to help during breakfast except for Pete's pokemon and Pete himself, who really wanted to give the big kitchen knife he got from Clara a whirl.

Later that day, three mega evolved pokemon: Milotic, Torterra, and Camerupt from Pete, Jasmine, and Courtney respectively observed the process of Pete and Jasmine deciding who the recipients of their new mega stones would be.

Ice/ground was the first stone Jasmine tested, but none of her pokemon were able to use it for mega evolution, which bummed her out a lot. Well, if even Steven Stone took a while to find a compatible stone, it made sense that the stone didn't work.

The steel/fairy mega stone was like a lock that opened by shaking. Every key you used would work. The stone could allow Klinklang to mega evolve and most of his fairy pokemon from Togekiss to even Whimsicott, too. Even his Serperior showed a reaction to it, suggesting that it may have a grass/steel or grass/fairy mega evolution. Before he decided on any pokemon, however, he gave the mega stone to Jasmine to test it out since the few pokemon she had didn't react to it.

"Are you sure? Steven handed you that stone, and so many of your pokemon reacted to it," Jasmine said with a worried look as she bit her bottom lip.

"Yep, you getting stronger should be our priority anyway! And I have so many more pokemon to choose from - it doesn't really make sense for me to hoard something that you could benefit from," Pete answered with a shrug.

Jasmine gave him a chaste peck on his lips because Elm was watching the entire process and even had several cameras pointed their way - for the imminent mega evolution, of course. She wouldn't have minded the other assistants of Elm, who spent the night on Pete's couch on Elm's invitation because Fred and Becca hardly ever left the house and Elm wanted them to breathe in the nice air in the paradise Pete had created here.

Valentino came back to the farm with his muscle-mommy girlfriend in tow in the morning after Reuniclus gave the couple a lift to and from Goldenrod City. Powerful psychic pokemon who knew Teleport were really, really convenient.

Pete watched in amazement as the steel/fairy stone reacted to three of Jasmine's pokemon - it was like that stone was like a universal mega evolution stone since it reacted to so many of them. It reacted to Excadrill first, which made sense because of its ground/steel typing. Then, it reacted to Donphan, which suggested it would have a ground/steel typing or ground/fairy typing mega evolution.

Reluctantly, both pokemon didn't vie for the stone though, because of the third choice: Steelix. Since the pokemon was her first and always considered by even her other pokemon to be her ace, the choice was simple.

Jasmine once more asked if it was really okay and then went ahead to mega evolve her Steelix. The form it took was the one Pete was familiar with from the games, and it didn't become a steel/fairy snake out of nowhere.

Elm, who had only seen a single mega evolution in person before, when his long-time friend Blaine, Kanto gym leader on Cinnabar Island, mega evolved his Charizard into Mega Charizard Y - the non-dragon variant - a while before Pete joined as his assistant professor. To this day, Elm still cursed the day that he refused to visit Agatha because of an egg hatching that made him miss Agatha's Gengar mega evolving a good while before Benny was born.

Jasmine talked to her Mega Steelix excitedly for a while as Elm did all sorts of poses to record every angle of Steelix and even Fred and Becca were watching, recording and measuring every change in Steelix' body with shining eyes. Like the seemingly random change in eye color from red to blue while the form of the head and its length stayed largely the same if one discounted the three protrusions growing on each side of Steelix' jaw.

Jasmine's Steelix wasn't the first recorded Mega Steelix, not even the first recorded mega evolution, but Elm was still as meticulous as possible in his work. After a good hour of everyone fussing over Steelix, Pete included, he tried matching the ice/ground mega stone to his pokemon and found a match in the very first pokemon he checked: Reuniclus.

The trainer in him wanted to immediately evolve his very first pokemon, but the nerd in him wanted to see potential pairings to the stone... and the inner nerd won out. He checked and found that once more, Serperior matched the stone, hinting at a grass/ice or grass/ground mega evolution. What baffled him was that only two other of his many pokemon matched the stone: his two Smeargle.

Had someone told him a pokemon like Smeargle didn't have a mega evolution, Pete would have accepted it. In another life, he might have chosen that mega evolution. But choosing anyone other than his Reuniclus made no sense to the trainer.

'You up for this, girl? I'm really excited to find out what your typing will be,' Pete thought with a wide smile as he regarded his shiny starter pokemon.

Reuniclus gave him an excited nod. She had worked hard to become and stay his ace after all, so she was a little bummed out when Mega Milotic took her spot from her.

When the mega evolution was going underway, once again, Pete's psychic affinity was broken open to allow a minor evolution in Reuniclus' intelligence. At the same time, the feedback loop once more worked backwards like it did when Milotic mega evolved and Pete unlocked yet another affinity.

No overwhelming feeling shot forth from him or within him at this moment. Because, unlike his other new affinity, Pete wasn't bonded to a single ice pokemon other than his new Mega Reuniclus.

His shiny blue pokemon actually retained its color palette for the 'sack' and the fluid inside, while her overall form was largely unchanged in dimensions and number of limbs. Instead, the stubby tail grew out a little bit and looked like an aquatic pokemon's tail fin while the solid body of the pokemon gained fin-like protrusions on each side of its face as well as a deep water-blue color.

Additionally, small quail egg-sized white balls formed around its neck akin to a pearl necklace and around the elbow joint on both arms. Cold air was given off from those balls, making the arms look a little hazy in the mist - they looked like mini snowballs, all things considered.

If his pokemon wasn't a shiny variant, Pete mused it might be the other way around with the 'egg-fluid' being a deeper blue and the solid body being ice blue. But until someone else repeated the feat of mega evolving a Reuniclus with this typing, he wouldn't find out. And, his Reuniclus was the first pokemon to be documented for mega evolution.

"How do you feel?"

Pete's first question after an evolution would always be for his pokemon's well-being, and this time, it was no different. He had already noticed his psychic affinity being broken open, and it felt exactly the same as it did with Milotic's mega evolution. He was very excited that he would get to talk with his pokemon in words, and Reuniclus didn't disappoint.

Despite being quite young, Reuniclus' voice ended up sounding like a woman in her early thirties. The voice sounded a little familiar to Pete, but he could quite place where he heard it from when Reuniclus spoke in his mind, 'I feel extraordinary! Thank you for this opportunity, Pete.'

"Haha, you can talk, too! Amazing," Pete gushed as he missed Jasmine's wry smile since she apparently missed an opportunity yet again.

The increase in power was much more pressing at this moment for Jasmine, though, after they got their asses handed to them. She chose to ignore her own reluctance and was simply once more happy at Pete doing something amazing. Getting to talk to her pokemon was more of a long-term goal, she convinced herself.

Pete's ice affinity didn't go through any crazy growth like it had the last time with the unlocked fairy typing - though, it made sense. His other affinities dwarfed the powers he wielded over ice by quite a lot, and he had a huge amount of fairy pokemon bonded to him.

As he tried moving his ice type energy as best he could while Elm fussed over his new mega pokemon and to the professor's absolute delight heard actual answers to his question in his mind, Pete reluctantly noted that he could barely cool down a drink a little using up all of his ice type energy.

Still, since it had the most room for improvement in the short term, Pete decided that he would compete with his pokemon on the 'non-stab' leaderboard for growth when he would set up the devices that measured a move's power. Let his pokemon decide if his attempt at Ice Punch would be acceptable enough to compete!


CREATORS' THOUGHTS
Nuclide Nuclide

There might not be a chapter tomorrow once more because I'll be on a trip consisting of two 5 hour train rides and a night with the boys. If there is one, it will be a few hours later than usual.

Chapter 96: C096 - MPLR: Move Power Leaderboard Rankings

The week after the wedding saw a lot of change on the farm. For one, Courtney had talked with Luna and Carl about adding another house to the farm grounds for just her on the other side of the hot spring. Construction started with Pete's express approval because, of course, he didn't mind his partner moving out if it was just a minute walk away. What he had more than anything on the Evergreen Meadow was open space.

Free real estate, if you will.

And speaking of free real estate, his pokemon and the girls' pokemon opened up a sort of open-air battle-gym that resembled a quarry more than anything on the other side of the lake.

It took a while to get there for the smaller pokemon, but it was meant for the bigger pokemon in the first place. The four trainers living on the farm, as in Pete, Jasmine, Courtney, and Valerie, decided that a crucial new training would be added to the training regiment they already worked through: Power Training.

What their pokemon were asked to do was repeatedly use a move at its full power to raise the level of output they could wield it at. That was where the quarry came in; they repeatedly destroyed the ground, boulders laying around or just rocks by wielding the moves against nature instead of other pokemon.

Like that, they could recklessly go all out without the fear of unplanned damage to themselves or others. The few bruises and sore muscles they would get through this kind of training were easily fixed by the many pokemon with healing moves on his farm.

The choice to put the training field there on the other side of the lake was mostly to make sure the noise didn't bother the farm, but also because there was little nature to destroy at the already rocky beach. With his Mega Milotic being the supreme ruler of the lake, there was little the water pokemon living there could do to sway the pokemon moving there.

Then, two unprecedented evolutions happened on the farm. The pokemon already existed, and the evolution condition was known. But Courtney bonded to two Eevee, and they evolved into Vaporeon and Glaceon after Courtney focused on the bonds. They evolved without their evolution stones.

It was easily explained, of course, if you knew that Courtney was the avatar to a legendary water pokemon. And since it said it 'presided' over water AND ice despite the mono-water-typing in the games, Pete brushed away that Courtney managed to evolve an Eevee into both typings just like that.

Yet, since he didn't want to advertise Courtney's status as a legendary's avatar, the observations and conjections he noted down would not be published in the near future.

With another week ending and his impending Alola trip, Pete stood near the cliff of the waterfall near his home, Ilex Falls. On his shoulders sat a freshly hatched Rookidee, given to him as an egg from Jasmine's brother who owned the shiny Corviknight, and on the other sat a slightly older Fletchling from his most recent egg haul.

Next to him was a bunch of expensive looking equipment with Devon Corp logos over most of them, and Pete was currently tapping his tablet PC to do some last-minute adjustments. Thankfully, the equipment came with comprehensive and all-encompassing software ready made, and all Pete wanted to change was how the data was saved to account for all the different pokemon and categories.

The first move power leaderboard rankings, or MPLR for short, were about to be recorded. Pete settled on quite a few categories to give many of his pokemon a chance at winning. There was raw power for every typing, divided by stab and non-stab. It was also divided by attack and special attack, as well as several moves that were more or less universally learnable throughout most species.

Then, there was a setup category where pokemon were allowed to use a single move to power up first before. Otherwise, Pete feared his pokemon would become too one-dimensional despite never stopping their spars or battles in the forest. That was also why every four weeks, the used moves for the raw power rankings would rotate to a different move, lest his pokemon only trained the power of a singular move. The raw power ranking was recorded once every two weeks, so they could compete twice throughout the categories.

The other 'major' category Pete included was power growth. It was only divided into stab and non-stab and would record a pokemon's % growth in attack power over the weeks with the same move.

Pete's condition for a pokemon to go with him to Alola a little over a week later was the highest %-growth in a move's power for the fully evolved pokemon when another ranking was recorded. Raw power ranking was his pokemon using a prepared move while the growth category was a move of the pokemon's choosing.

Whenever he was at the farm, Pete would hold the growth ranking every week while the raw power category was recorded every two weeks. That was, of course, subject to change if he ever felt it necessary.

"You look like a big nerd typing away on that tablet, you know?"

"Sorry - but if it wasn't my big nerd brain, what else made you fall for me? My amazing sense of humor? My cute butt?"

Jasmine slapped her husband's arm slightly and retorted with a pout, "I certainly didn't fall in love with the fact that you don't allow a single setup for a joke or how you win every argument before we even have one."

Pete looked up with a grin, "I love that about our relationship, though."

"Ugh, finish your task. My pokemon are getting impatient."

"And mine aren't? Look! Your one Rhydon already fell asleep in the shadow of the cliff while my Conkeldurr are both shadowboxing as warm-up. Clearly, my pokemon are more pumped about this than yours."

As Jasmine looked over, Pete finished the setup and asked his first pokemon to test out one of the hardest devices to create. The one recording the strength of non-material special attacks from typings like fairy, psychic, ghost...

'I'm ready, Pete. You want me to use Extrasensory, correct?'

Pete nodded toward Mega Reuniclus and gave her the go-ahead. After the attack landed, which only made the device shake a little once, a ping was heard on his tablet to show the PV or power value it recorded. The number was the first ever recorded at 580, which didn't awe the trainer or his mega evolved pokemon. With nothing to compare it to, this number meant nothing to Pete or Mega Reuniclus.

It did, however, make Pete appreciate Reuniclus' power when his Espeon used the same move and it 'only' recorded a 394. When it was Metagross' turn and the move was recorded at 404, Pete grew excited at Mega Reuniclus' apparent strength.

Recording every move he wanted took hours where he only had a brief pause for lunch where Courtney recorded the rest of the moves because she accepted the task of continuing the rankings when he wasn't at the farm for all the pokemon present.

"So? Who had the absolute highest attack and special attack?"

Jasmine had made herself comfortable on Pete's lap as he tiredly sat on the couch to relax his muscles. She gently brushed his hair, looking at him as he pondered her question with closed eyes.

"Do you want me to include our mega pokemon or just the... what will we call them? Regular pokemon?"

"Do both, I want the highest for megas and regulars," Jasmine hurriedly decided.

"Hmm, highest stab move recorded for all pokemon period was Mega Milotic using Hyper Beam as a test, but technically Hyper Beam isn't part of the rotation... Anyway, Pixilate seems to be absolutely broken for a pokemon of her power, and I fear what Clair's Mega Altaria is capable of among all the other dragon pokemon."

"Oh? What did the reading say?"

Pete opened his eyes and said in a disbelieving voice, "2.930..."

"That sounds like... quite a lot."

"It is, especially if you consider Hyper Beam can hit quite a lot of targets... For example, Mega Reuniclus' Hyper Beam got recorded at 2.023 while the older Rapidash's Hyper Beam hit for 1.110 PV. The highest stab move for regulars during the recording was my Serperior using Energy Ball at 503... I knew Serperior was a bonafide genius and goes into the forest for battles a lot, but he blew everyone else out of the water. Turns out my other pokemon, like Metagross, only really trained control over their powers and a wide moveset so far and even Metagross just barely managed to land over the curve with Flash Cannon at 438, clearly showing that he put more effort into his steel moves," Pete explained before sighing, "It really makes me wonder about the benefits of bonded affinity, though. His steel move was almost 10% stronger than his psychic move. And don't get me started on Arcanine getting a 475 with Fire Fang despite me not even having a fire affinity. Whatever she does in that hot spring all day must be amazing training..."

'Which is even more baffling since I know the numbers from the game and while most moves I chose for this contest today have either 70 or 80 power, Fire Fang has 65,' Pete inwardly thought. 'Well, Arcanine has a rather high base stat all things considered. Plus, my Arcanine does train quite a lot despite my joke.'

"So most of the fully evolved pokemon landed somewhere between 400 and 450-ish?"

Pete opened his tablet that was beside him to show Jasmine the numbers, "Actually the median is somewhere between 390 to 425 for stab and 255 to 270 for non-stab since they don't train those moves as much - is what I'm guessing. And that's only considering the better of the two scores between physical and special. We only have these few outliers where every pokemon from your team is in except for your Gliscor and Camerupt," Pete explained while showing his wife a sorted list that highlighted the highest score they earned for stab and non-stab in the physical and special category. "Both of them told my Reuniclus that they weren't very familiar with the chosen moves for today, but they had fire in their eyes when I told them to train them hard during these two weeks to show a better score."

"Wow, I mean I learned about the difference between physical and special attackers in school, and we had an entire textbook full of examples, but getting these numbers is amazing! I never knew Gliscor's special attack was so low!" Jasmine shouted in amazement before getting shocked while scrolling through the list. "And Mega Steelix! He barely scored higher than Donphan in special attack, and her score is almost 1/3 lower than her attack score! My only two pokemon worth training in special attacks are Claydol and Camerupt! Oh, Petey, you're amazing!"

"Yep, and don't forget to send your Garchomp over to Dragon's Peak with a kick to his butt. His score for stab dragon moves suck hard."

Jasmine looked over the numbers and shook her head, "His ground attack Drill Run scored a respectable 478 beating even your Arcanine, I'll let him off the hook this time. But he really should train his Dragon Claw... a 399 is really low..."

"Like I said," Pete said with a shrug.


CREATORS' THOUGHTS
Nuclide Nuclide

The numbers won't appear again. It took me almost a full three hours of comparing BST (base stat values) of pokemon to make the numbers comparatively believable and I still deleted a lot of boring number talk. Only %-growth will be a reoccuring number that I will feature in future chapters.

Before you ask, Ho-oh's Sacred Fire hit Giovanni's Mega Beedrill for >10.000 PV and wasn't Ho-oh's full power. Plus, if the mega evo's energy didn't kick in to save Mega Beedrill's life, it would have died.

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