Bab 48: C048 - Plans upon plans after completing a plan
A few days later, it was time for Professor Elm's visit. Since the Meowth was out of the sack, Pete had discussed logistics with him a little, and the professor agreed to bring a few things he hadn't thought to bring before. Most important of all were his pokemon.
To get full research potential out of his TM, Professor Elm had ordered several TMs of every typing. And to round out what he is able to teach his pokemon who were eager to train, Pete had asked if the professor could bring some TMs with him.
Goldenrod's stores didn't have too much diversity in what they sold to the public, and Pete, who could have maybe asked Whitney but didn't, had no connections with Silph Co or Devon Corp at this point in time.
Pete's pokemon, at least some of them, had made sparring, and team-battles their go-to hobby if they weren't helping out on the farm. For that, they had even created a battlefield near the lake where Pete usually swam with his Milotic. Those battle-hungry pokemon of his were eager to get new sparring partners with the tribe leaders the professor was the trainer of. Jasmine's pokemon were no exception to that.
For battle pokemon that would likely accompany him on his trips to other regions, Nidoking was the clear leader. The three Farfetch'd and surprisingly the shiny Miltank were close behind, but all four of them were rather young Pete had deduced in his time spent with them.
His shiny Duosion was, of course, exluded from the list because no matter what, Duosion would accompany Pete. His first pokemon in this world had only ever grown closer to him since her training bore fruit, and she learned almost every typing all of his pokemon were capable of. So far only dark and dragon type energy eluded her.
Sunflora used to have a very apparent drive to become stronger for a short while, but that more or less stopped with his evolution just as quickly. Now, he was simply content with tending to Pete's berry trees, using Life Dew on his vegetable beds, and socializing with the Glooms, Vileplumes, and Bellossoms.
But there was still a grass pokemon in Pete's team that was more than eager to battle: Snivy. Frustrated with his inability to learn Dragon Claw, it had surprisingly taught itself the dragon move Twister two days after having 'learned' the TM.
Only very few pokemon of his were able to figure out how to use dragon type energy through the TM. Those who did got a few tips from Pete on how to form moves with it. He described the moves Dragon Breath and Dragon Pulse to them, as well as Dragon Rush and Dragon Tail with the Breaking Swipe variant.
The Milotic were the only ones making any progress with it, but it was still too early to tell. Especially since Snivy would probably figure out even more moves the moment he evolved.
The Marill, no it should be Azumarill, the Azumarill family would likely also want to tag along, if only for the fact they would love to see the world. That might also be true to Zorua and the two Minccino, but they had recently started competing in who would build the more comfortable nest with the towels and pillows Luna had brought when she finished the interior design for Pete.
Speaking of that, yesterday was the day the rush order for the sky light glasses from Cianwood finally arrived, and Luna and Carl had finished the house in record time.
Well, it would have been record time in Pete's old world, but with pokemon and some miraculous items, it wasn't unheard of to build a two bedroom house in less than four days.
Instead, they had finished a one master bedroom, two bathroom, and four guest room house with a giant open kitchen and a study/lab above it in a glass dome in a good week as promised. And, Pete already had plans to increase the size of it all.
It wasn't strictly an extension of the house, but he would start building a sort of stable with his own hands and the help of his pokemon soon. A stable that would lead to a big warehouse-esque room inside the hill, same as with Herbert's company, and would be connected to the hallway of his house.
Winter didn't really lead to snow and frost in the climate of the Evergreen Meadow, but some of his pokemon would likely still prefer to have shelter from the cold and rain of the winter time.
Did he want an outdoor bath or even hotspring mayb-
"What are you thinking about?"
Jasmine's voice roused Pete from his musings. Right at this moment, he was on the first floor of the glass dome at his work desk, but no reports or other files were open on it or the tablet sitting in his lap. Clearly, Pete was just sitting here.
"Hmm? Oh, it's just with the house done there's still so much to do! I was thinking about what to prioritize," Pete answered with a warm smile as he faced the young gym-trainer-to-be.
"Oh? How high on the list is helping my sister get a Milotic?" Jasmine asked with a wide grin.
"Ugh! I don't know if there are other Feebas in the lake just yet. I still can't believe your sister thought it was a good idea to start with an insult and then offer to make them prettier. Those two Feebas looked so heartbroken as they fled the shore," Pete responded with an exasperated sigh.
"Can't your Milotic call them over again? I feel like they would listen to them. And Sophie could try her tactic again, this time start out with her offer because she already said the hurtful words," Jasmine offered while surpressing her snicker.
"Yeah, can't hurt to try... let's hope she is convincing," Pete relented as he picked up a bag and placed his tablet inside.
"Let's go grab your sister."
An hour later, Pete and Jasmine were watching Sophie stand in the lake in a bikini, anxiously waiting for Pete's Milotic to come back. Growlithe was on Pete's lap, getting her fur brushed with a blissful expression on her face.
"What do you think her chances are?" Pete asked in a quiet voice to not disturb Growlithe's relaxed mood.
"Pretty good. She told me her game plan just now, and I think it could work," Jasmine whispered back.
Eventually, the two Milotic popped out of the water with two Feebas following behind.
"Ah! There you two are! Wa- WAIT! Don't flee again! Please let me finish my point from before! I'm so sorry for being so insulting the other day," Sophie pleaded as the two Feebas turned tearful at seeing Sophie's face and were about to spin around and swim away.
"Look at me, I'm really pretty, right? That's because I hold the secrets to becoming pretty!" Sophie continued as the Feebas stayed behind reluctantly.
Pete looked to Jasmine as if asking if Sophie was serious, but Jasmine, her identical twin, just kept looking ahead with a slight blush on her face for the shameless proclamation of her sister. She didn't dare to face Pete after she had told him she approved of her sisters chances after hearing her plan.
"You see, come closer, and I'll share that secret with you two. The two Milotic next to you, I can make you just as pretty as them," Sophie offered with a conspiratorial grin.
The two Feebas looked at each other and then to the two super pretty Milotic in envy. As if deciding that their life wasn't worth much if they don't get prettier now, they swam forward to Sophie with determination blazing in their eyes.
"Yes, yes! Come to me, my pretties," Sophie mumbled with a crazed expression on her face, but she quickly composed herself when she heard her sister's cough.
Sophie proceeded to take out a make-up kit with waterproof colors as well as some berries she had gotten from Pete's farm and started to paint on the two unsuspecting fish pokemon and feed them some more 'beautifying berries'.
Pete kind of wished he was anywhere but here as he saw a hideous Feebas becoming even uglier with bright pink eye-shadow and cherry red lipstick. The two of them looked like clowns in his opinion, but then Sophie's plan fell in place.
She whispered into the ears of one Feebas, and it looked to the other painted Feebas in shock before it started to evolve with a mirthful smile on its face.
Sophie turned to the other and whispered something in its ears, too, before it started evolving with an astonished look.
Pete got the entire process on camera, proving once and for all that Feebas evolved into Milotic. But he still had to ask Sophie how she did it. Later, he would cut out that part of the video and make something up in his report.
"What did you tell them, Sophie?" Pete asked as he walked forward to Sophie into knee-high water.
"Huh? Oh, the first one I told that I made sure it was prettier than the other, so I gave it ugly makeup and made his extra pretty. For the second one, I told it that it was painted in the same pretty makeup as the other one, and it was so pretty that it instantly evolved. The second one would either evolve with it or look at me as if I was stupid," Sophie whispered back so the evolving Feebas wouldn't hear it.
"Wow, that's... kinda mean, just like your first try," Pete responded in a low voice with a deadpan expression.
"Ugh, I know! I don't think they'd have given me a second try, though, so I was desperate," Sophie admitted with an embarrassed expression.
"Well, you still have to convince them to stick with you. Any other manipulations planned for that?"
Sophie looked at Pete with a pout, but then Pete sensed something and looked back to the beach. Someone was teleporting here.
"Oh my! We came a minute too late! Pete stop pointing the camera in our direction, get it all on video!" Professor Elm shouted from the shore with Vivian, who had their son Benny on her arm.
Bab 49: C049 - Schooling the professor and getting schooled by his wife
"Ahh, delicious as always! And all these ingredients are already harvested right here?" Vivian praised as they all sat at the giant dinner table next to the open kitchen that Pete had never used with the twins before.
"Yep! I didn't ask it of them, but the Vileplume tribe is so elated at the peace we achieved that they keep using Grassy Terrain near the farm. All my crops, veggies, and berries are growing at record speed. I was already forced to task Golurk with changing out the earth surrounding the berry trees because all the nutrients were sucked up inside. Turns out that isn't even necessary, professor! Ground type energy can become nourishment for the earth and make it more fertile! Did you kn-"
"Ugh, can you nerds talk about that when we're out of the picture? Like, after dinner when the twins show me around the little love nest you built here?"
"L-love nest?" Jasmine stuttered out as her face turned as red as a Tamato Berry. In comparison, Sophie only gained a grin with a much less pronounced pink blush.
"Oho? Hehe, I knew it," Vivian muttered with a snicker as she watched the reaction of the twins.
"Okay, how about a change in the topic? Where's Valentino? Didn't he want to visit, too?" Pete asked to lessen the awkward atmosphere for the twins, especially Jasmine.
"Ah, yes. He'll arrive two days from now, most likely. He wanted to travel by ship to Goldenrod as part of the experience. He said he would miss out on too much if he just followed along with Xatu teleporting us," Elm explained between bites of Pete's curry.
"I see, that's pretty cool of him. Who knows what kind of pokemon he will see at sea," Pete mused.
"Let's just hope Tyranitar and Aggron can keep him safe. There was a big swarm of Gyarados spotted north of Orange Islands after the storm," Vivian butted in with furrowed brows.
"Oh, well, let's hope for the best then," Pete nodded with a wry smile.
It was after dinner, when Benny was asleep, passed out from too much delicious food, on a sofa in Pete's lab when the three 'boys' went upstairs so Pete and the professor could 'nerd out' as Vivian put it. Vivian took both twins by the hands and asked for another 'house tour' as well as getting shown to their room for the next few nights.
"So, you're saying ground energy can be substituted as proper nutrients? That's a fascinating prospect, but I hardly believe you're the first to notice," Elm said with furrowed brows as the two sat around a desk in the middle of the study where Pete had placed his tablet to show his boss some data points.
"I'm not," Pete explained as he opened a news article from Unova with a farmer talking about how his Digletts were the perfect helpers for the farm. He closed the news article, and it showed a berry farmer from Alola reporting something similar with his Claydol as the main topic. One news article report after the other was shown, always with farmers praising their good fortune after getting ground pokemon to work on their farm.
"I see. This really makes me eager to think about what else us professors missed by dismissing these 'mundane' accomplishments by pokemon! What else have we taken for granted? Is the air so good because of flying type energy? The very earth we live on and the water that sustains us, there's this myth about the primordial pokemon Groudon and Kyogre being named as the reason the continents, islands, and oceans exist as they do. Is the sun really a fire type pokemon?"
"Uh, professor, didn't you ask what other 'mundane' things we missed? Are Groudon and Kyogre really 'mundane'?" Pete asked with a laugh as the professor got all fired up.
"Ah yes, of course," Elm relented as he scratched his cheeks.
"Oh, and I believe these two really are responsible, by the way. At the very least for the ocean and shoreline of the southern part of this giant continent," Pete added with a smile.
What followed was Elm's eager recounting of myths in Johto and the neighboring regions that Pete gave his 'opinions' on, based on what he knew to be true from the games, the anime, and his foreknowledge.
And, it ultimately led to Pete recounting his meeting with Celebi that had Elm sitting at the edge of his seat with stars in his eyes.
"Extraordinary! To think you would meet Celebi, and it deems you and your pokemon worthy to give you its blessing! Why didn't you report it before, though?" Professor Elm eventually asked with a slightly hurt expression.
"Ah, you know. The news from Kanto had me a little riled up. The fact that one deep-cover Team Rocket hideout was revealed after another had me thinking that maybe our correspondence wasn't completely safe. Especially if we talk about something as... grand as the whereabouts and supposed relationship of a legendary pokemon with me. They, of course, wouldn't read it all, but 'Celebi' would surely stand out," Pete excused as he scratched the back of his head.
"Oh, yes. Oak contacted me, too. In his letter, he described some very unsavory matters that Team Rocket might be doing right here in Johto. Don't reveal it to anyone, but Champion Lance is about to raid a hidden lab near the forests of Olivine City with his cousin Clair, the gym leader of Blackthorn City. Some madman has been testing how to enslave pokemon through feeding them constant rage according to Oak's report," Elm described in obvious distaste.
"And that's just one lab. What about everything else these maniacs could be hiding? What if Team Rocket isn't the only bad apple here in the region?" Pete mumbled barely loud enough for Elm to hear.
Pete and Elm didn't delve deeper into the topic and instead continued discussing 'mundane' benefits they all took for granted thanks to living with pokemon. Pete did, however, blossom a seed of doubt in Professor Elm's mind.
Pete was just glad he didn't overdo it, though. Someone like Oak wouldn't have identified him as the source of the information with just this, but he should be careful who he discusses all these changes with in the future regardless.
When Pete and Elm settled on air, water, and earth quality as the first avenues to get data on for this discovery of earthly benefits they had overlooked, Pete called it a day and spend the rest of the day with his pokemon together with Elm.
The few pokemon the professor had brought were immediately integrated into the mock battles, and Feraligatr and Meganium liked the feeling of stretching their muscles like this. It was too bad that the professor's Typhlosion couple couldn't come along. They had recently hatched three new eggs and were tending to the newborn Cyndaquil.
The next morning had Vivian waking up extra early to help out in the kitchen. As the wife of the professor kept teasing Pete about his taste in women, they didn't notice that one of these women was listening in with a bright red face. Well, Pete didn't notice, and Vivian kept her schemes hidden.
"Tell me then, Pete. You're giving this girl all these tips and directions for her goal. Even going so far as to share training regiments, resources, and hidden knowledge for these evolutions. When are you finally asking her out then? Or are you just leading her on?" Vivian asked with a cheerful grin that turned a little dangerous with the last question.
"Hmm, it's not like I haven't noticed her interest, and I'm definitely interested, too. But with the farm and all, I just didn't find the right moment yet," Pete admitted as he didn't look up from cutting the ingredients.
"So all you need is the right place and time? A romantic evening picnic as you two watch the sunset over at the ocean, perhaps?"
Jasmine's heart kept beating harder and harder. This was the moment of truth for her. Hearing him say that he had noticed her interest almost made her squeal in embarrassment and hearing him say it was mutual almost had her faint in happiness.
"Well, that would likely work, wouldn't it?" Pete answered as he finally looked up from the cutting board.
"If my Elm had done that, we would have had a couple of little Bennys ages ago," Vivian countered with a huff.
"Oh, but that's a little too fast. I'd prefer if we got to it a little slower, maybe just a kiss first," Pete responded in a serious tone as he had noticed the shadow of someone standing in the hallway and he caught on to Vivian's and Jasmine's plan.
"Mhm, I agree. Shouldn't hurry along a delicate maiden like her. A small kiss is a good first date goal if you are both already fond of each other. It's decided then, I'll help you pack the basket for dinner," Vivian added with a mischievous grin. She had noticed that Pete caught on to the two's plan and said something she hoped would make Jasmine act a little bolder to prove her wrong.
It wasn't like she wanted to hurry them to the last stages of a relationship, but with Jasmine's shy personality and Pete's laid back nature Vivian feared they wouldn't get past holding hands for a few months otherwise.
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