Bab 57: C057 - Pete's pokemon progress (un)precedentedly
AN: I've updates the map in the second aux chapter with names I've given to certain places like Spice Island and stuff. Mostly so I don't forget myself. Excuse my terrible handwriting~
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Another week later, Professor Elm and Vivian said their goodbyes and used the professor's Xatu to teleport back home with their son. Valentino was still happily running through Ilex Forest and recording all the different groups, herds, and tribes that have formed now that the chokehold of the Ariados tribe was over.
In this week, Professor Elm witnessed the hatching of Pete's third Miltank firsthand as he was going over research data in Pete's study at the time. Everyone else was currently out, only the older Miltank was present and working in the kitchen.
Pete later learned that this new Miltank was indeed the daughter of the older Miltank, so he was quite happy that his faithful helper in the kitchen got to witness her daughter's hatching.
A few more pokemon evolved this week, likely spurned on by the fact that Trapinch, a rather late hatchling, had evolved before many other pokemon did. Nobody except for Vibrava herself and Golurk knew that Trapinch was expending her ground type energy fully every single day by 'playing around on the beach'. After all, a normal Trapinch would dig one hole to trap pokemon inside, stay there for a week atleast and not dig several holes every single day.
Trapinch was also aided by the bond between her and Pete. He did write the pokemon bond feedback loop into existence that would help a pokemon get stronger by being bonded to a trainer with high typing affinity and Pete's ground affinity was his second strongest affinity just after psychic for which he had found more ways to train.
First to evolve this week were his two grass pokemon and Jasmine's Turtwig. All three evolved roughly at the same time after sleeping on top of a Leaf Stone for a few days and became Servine in case of Snivy and Grotle in case of Turtwig. Both evolutions were still mono grass type pokemon.
Later that same day, Pete's Blitzle followed and evolved into Zebstrika. Ponyta was desperately trying to catch up, but so far, he hasn't evolved. Pete kind of got the feeling that his mother would like for him to stay a Ponyta for a little while longer, so he hadn't offered the same treatment as he did for his grass pokemon by giving him one of his three Fire Stones.
Well, two Fire Stones because he complied with Growlithe's wish to become stronger the next day and gave it one of his stones to help it evolve into Arcanine. He honestly feared it was a bit premature, but he didn't technically even know how old Growlithe was, only that she was the smallest among the other dead siblings when he found her with Nidorino at the forest of Violet City.
Pete didn't have fire affinity to check and compare her growth and strength either, so he had tasked Growlithe with finally comprehending Dragon Claw from the TM he had taught her, and at least one different typing move from the other pokemon. She chose to learn the electric move Wild Charge from Zebstrika and finished learning both moves by the end of the same day Pete gave her the condition.
It was a bit of a surprise that she learned the move Dragon Claw, though it really shouldn't have been since he had tweaked the rules of move pools of this world with his novel.
In Pete's mind, Growlithe and Arcanine only learned Outrage and possibly Dragon Breath or Dragon Rage in the games. But since Growlithe did have claws, it made sense that she could learn the move once familiar with the typing energy.
When she did evolve, she immediately surprised Pete with her newfound speed. Her normal move Tackle had surely evolved into Extreme Speed at this point. There was no way that move was a regular Tackle anymore.
In case she wanted to stay idle now that she got her wish, Pete tricked her with weekly goals she had to complete so that she could follow the adventure group into Ilex Forest.
First, he wanted her to master a new typing energy every week by learning a new one or atleast developing a new move for a known typing energy when she had all the typings down that he knew she could learn.
She started with dark type energy through the Hone Claw TM and would get to poison type energy next week with Nidoking and Snivy. No, not Snivy. It was Servine now.
She already knew the dark type move Bite, Pete knew that, but he wouldn't want to spoil her great mood she had after evolving. So he let her enjoy the week and learn a single move with Hone Claw. She was likely going to learn more moves than that anyway. Adding to that, she had just learned electric type energy on the same day, so he let it slide.
The last evolution in Pete's team came as a surprise to most of them, even Professor Elm. He was, after all, one of his last hatched pokemon, and his species wasn't known to evolve particularly fast without an evolution stone.
Espeon evolved weeks before Pete thought it was going to happen. Usually, a 'high friendship' or as Pete would rather put it, a feeling of social belonging in a group, no matter how big or small, and a profound sense of self-worth was needed for Eevee to evolve into Espeon, Umbreon or Sylveon depending on the circumstances.
Now, since Eevee was trained almost relentlessly by Duosion and Farigiraf in psychic moves, Pete would add accelerated evolution speed by being familiar with the respective typing energy to his long term project called 'Eeveelution Research Paper'.
It was so long term, Pete even hoped that by the time he was old, he would have found eeveelutions that weren't in the games. Like flying, poison, or ground. Possibly even dragon, but he was not going to hold his breath for that particular evolution.
The evolution happened when Eevee, right after breakfast during daytime, finally used a move it couldn't in the games, Confusion. That might have helped the pokemon break through, but in his hopefully long life, Pete could find many other aspects that would aid in or decide an Eevee's evolution.
At this point in time, Pete and Valentino's trip to Hoenn was only a few days away, and he was watching his pokemon spar together with Jasmine's. During this week, he had told her about his TM with the reusable TM-CD function, which resulted in most of her pokemon seeing big progress on their move pools.
"You know, girlfriend or not, I'm a bit miffed you'd rather have me house-sit than come along for your vacation to Hoenn," Jasmine said in a quiet voice with a cute pout.
A full week of teasing by Vivian and Sophie had done wonders to cure her shyness and resulted in Jasmine talking much more openly around Pete. Maybe that was Vivian's plan all along.
The professor's wife certainly looked and behaved like it was her masterplan all along as she hugged him goodbye and whispered 'you're welcome' in his ear on the day of their departure.
"Well, the hotspring's almost done, and your mom and your sister are about to get here with her newborn. Isn't this sort of a vacation for you, too?"
"Hmph, I'll still need to tend to all your plants," Jasmine retorted with a pout.
"Oh woe is you! You have to pick berries so your pokemon can eat them for free! Such hardship, ah it breaks my heart," Pete comically quipped back by pressing the back of his hand against his forehead in a dramatic fashion.
"Hey, I want to be an elite trainer, not a farmgirl," Jasmine countered as she lightly shoved Pete with rosy cheeks.
"I mean, you could just do what I do and combine it all with training exercises disguised as fun little games. Like sniping a ripe berry from the tree with a well placed Rock Throw. Holding back and controlling the output of energy is good training, too, you know. Two weeks of that could massively help you with your ground and rock affinity," Pete argued with a warm smile.
Of course, Pete wasn't the only person in the world with an affinity. These past few days, since they became boyfriend and girlfriend, Pete explained all he knew about affinities and bonds.
Though she thought these were just urban myths like most people that weren't in the know, she did learn she had the rock and ground affinity through Pete's encouragement to try out. It likely came from her bond to Steelix, who used to be an Onix.
Not wanting to keep that from her sister, we learned that Sophie actually already bonded to her two first ever pokemon and gained a water affinity.
Even Corsola would eventually benefit from that, though Sophie was adamant she would not become a water pokemon trainer or gym leader like her sister was aiming to be.
"Haaa, can you keep a lookout for suitable pokemon then? Baltoy and Drilbur are very high on my list," Jasmine eventually relented.
"What happened to the Mudkip and Swinup line?"
"Ugh, not everyone wants to train a hundred pokemon, Pete. I still need to care for all of them and properly train them," Jasmine argued as she punched his shoulder.
Pete was really carefree about adding tens of pokemon to his farm. There was, after all, a reason most people would never start training more than six pokemon.
"Alright, okay. Steelix, Gliscor, Donphan, once Phanpy evolves, Rhydon/Rhyperior, and eventually Camerupt and Torterra will be an amazing lineup for an aspiring ground type gym leader. Claydol and Excadrill will be amazing additions, too. Claydol for coverage and Excadrill would be a ridiculous doubles partner for Steelix with Sand Rush and Sand Force abilities having such a crazy synergy with Sandstorm. And who knows, maybe your mom is crazy enough to buy you a Gible after all," Pete agreed with a laugh.
The twin's mom would arrive later that day with Lily, Jasmine's eldest sister, and her first grandkid. Pete had no idea that his joke would turn out to be the truth.
Bab 58: C058 - The in-laws move in (for the duration of his Hoenn trip)
"Hehe, look at it and weep! Tell your daddy later on that I won! Tehehe," Isabelle, the twin's mom, proclaimed like a villain once she held up a brown egg with purple tribal engravings.
"Ugh, mom. Did you really have to make it a competition of who dotes more on our baby sister?" Lily with her newborn daughter Emily on her arm standing next to Pete said with a deep sigh.
"What do you mean? Obviously, I'm the better parent! All he found were Johto pokemon while I not only found a royal Sinnoh starter but even a dragon's egg for my baby daughter!" Isabelle shouted with an upturned nose while Herbert, the other parent in question, looked on in obviously fake sadness. It seemed they were just messing with their kids.
"Hey Herbert, I was just wondering... if her decision to become a gym leader didn't immediately make you scour the world for rock pokemon, what changed when she said she'll change her typing to ground?" Pete asked in a whisper since Herbert stood on his other side.
"Hmm? Ah, she certainly had the drive, but we didn't want to overwhelm her at the start with too many pokemon, and before you came, we more or less missed the timing on changing our approach. Your proposal, combined with the fact that she and her sister would likely move out soon and leave us with an empty house, gave us the perfect opportunity for this... parting gift? Don't tell Sophie, but we're in the process of acquiring a model agency for her," Herbert whispered back with a wide grin.
"Wow, when I married Tom, you gifted us a Thunder Stone for his Pikachu and a house... I kind of feel like you went cheap on us," Lily interjected in even more mock-sadness. This family was certainly very dramatic.
"Heh, the woes of the middle-child. Don't ask your brother Lucifern what he got when he moved out as the first child," Herbert mockingly spat back with a challenging expression.
"Oh yeah, poor guy has to live with one of the fastest shiny Corviknights in this part of the world and gets paid a premium for all the eggs of a Galarian pokemon he can sell," Lily argued back with no real heat.
"To be fair, we only gave him the egg and the Togepi he wanted to woo that girl. It was his luck that the pokemon came out shiny."
"That girl has a name. She's your daughter-in-law, Chloe!"
"Hey, no need to raise your voice. I know her name. Also, we're much richer now compared to when you still lived with us, so if you want something else, just ask," Herbert answered weakly.
"What are the two of you bickering about? I want to bathe in your applause," Isabelle rebuked the two of them when she noticed they didn't listen to her boasting.
"Sorry honey, you were saying?"
"Hmph! I was just saying how my sources found a hiker who had found an abandoned Aggron nest with his pokemon and that it had three eggs. Two of them were regular Aron eggs and the hiker couldn't identify the other egg so he sold it to a broker, which was me, and that's how we got here," Isabelle explained once more with a proud grin.
"I hope he didn't steal a poor Aggron's offspring," Pete mumbled with furrowed brows.
"Well, it would have stolen this egg at the very least, so... karma?"
"Oh, actually Aggron and Garchomp are both in the monster egg group, so they can have offspring together. With Aggron as a parent, Gible might even be born with steel and ground type moves like Metal Claw, Iron Head, or Sand Tomb. Technically it could even know a rock move if it lucks out, the Aggron line is after all steel/rock type," Pete explained as he drifted into his 'professor mode' as Sophie and Jasmine liked to call it.
The present Feelgood family members looked at him like he grew a second head. Only Jasmine remained smiling.
"Sooo~ you're saying the hiker might have poached the eggs?" Sophie asked with a tilted head.
"That's terrible," Lily interjected, thinking about how she would feel if someone would steal Emily from her.
"Ugh, the hiker didn't tell me where exactly he got the eggs from. He was very vague, so we can't bring it back," Isabelle mumbled with a sad expression.
"What I would like to know is how a local Aggron would even find a Gabite or Garchomp to mate with. I read somewhere that there is a small tribe in the Safari Zone, but as dragons, they don't really mingle well with other pokemon. Where did the hiker say he found the egg?"
"Uh, by the mountains north of route 38," Isabelle answered gingerly.
"Hmm, not too far away from the Safari Zone then... still weird," Pete mumbled with a thoughtful expression.
"He'll be like that for a while, come I'll show you around," Sophie said as she gathered everyone's attention with a clap.
"Come, you'll want to write this down, right? I'll take you to your study," Jasmine offered with the Gible egg in her hand.
In the study, Pete wrote down some info on a card and pinned it on one of two giant maps he had printed out in a shop in Goldenrod City. One was a map of the world as tall as he was and twice as wide. The slightly smaller map he pinned the info card to was a map of Johto with parts of Kanto and Hoenn on it.
Elm and Valentino especially had filled in several gaps Pete had when he filled out the cards with the data he had copied from the atlas he found in the cabin at the start of his journey. It showed noteworthy tribes and breeding grounds all over the region, as well as last sightings of legendary pokemon.
"Hey, how about you place Gible in the third incubator? Right now I only have the two Smeargle eggs, it would be a waste to leave the third one empty while you have an egg," Pete offered when he was done making sure that the flag was placed correctly.
"You sure?"
"I mean, what else am I gonna do? Hatch a few more wild Oddish instead of helping you out?"
"Thanks, Pete," Jasmine replied sweetly, placing the egg in the open incubator and going over to him for a kiss.
"And that, everyone, is Pete's study," Sophie announced with a snicker as she led her family into the study where Jasmine and Pete currently shared the kiss.
Jasmine shoved Pete away hurriedly with a cute squeal, blushed a bright red and glared at her sister.
Two hours later, just around sunset, Pete and Arcanine were enjoying a bath in his outdoor hotspring. Most of the time, the male Milotic would fill it up with fresh water, and either Arcanine or Rapidash would heat it up. So far, this setup was working just fine.
Water was Pete's weakest affinity, so after he was done brushing Arcanine's head gently and laying down with her in the water, Pete started his 'whirlpool' exercise.
He couldn't figure out how to create water out of nothing yet, so Pete first tried flexing his water type energy by shoving it away in waves, which was a really inefficient training method.
What he came up with next was spinning water around in his palm, which allowed him to continuously use up energy and vary the output. Pete was very happy with this training method. The little Marill really liked swimming into this admittedly small whirlpool and spin in it while giggling or 'fight' Pete on the direction of the spin.
"You can place the sleeping little Emily over there while we soak, and then we'll all just be a little quiet. Look over there. That's Pete's Golurk. Nothing will happen to her as long as he's around. Isn't that right, Golurk?" Pete heard Jasmine ask from the direction of his house.
Pete looked over past Arcanine's fluffy, wet mane and saw Golurk give his signature nod by moving his arm up and down. It was something he had taught Golett on the first day since the pokemon didn't have a neck for a proper nod. It warmed his heart that these little things stuck with his pokemon.
"That's just his way of nodding. Pete taught him that," Sophie said next, likely because Isabelle and Lily didn't understand what that gesture meant.
"Hey Pete~" Isabelle was heard next as she greeted him from the entry point of the pool.
The hotspring was only a short sheltered walk on rock slabs from the house while the roof of the walkway extended to roughly half of the hotspring Nidoking, Golurk and Steelix had created almost exclusively through rock type energy.
Since it was all half-built into the hill with the rocks for the roof protruding out of it, it looked like a natural formation instead of something he had built with his pokemon a week before.
"Hey, may I release my Starmie near the hotspring, Pete?" Lily asked as she took out a great ball from her bathrobe.
"Huh? Of course! I'm sure Starmie would enjoy a nice soak. If you're not against it, let it stay with my other pokemon near the lake at night. The two Milotic will make sure it will be safe," Pete instantly agreed.
"Ey! My two Milotic will make sure my sister's Starmie is safe!" Sophie interjected with a shout.
"Oh? That's... is that a color variant Starmie?" Pete mumbled out loud in wonder when he saw Lily's Starmie for the first time. The body of the pokemon was bright pink while the jewel in the middle was still its regular deep ruby red. The 'jewelery setting' remained its regular shining yellow. It wasn't dark blue with a copper setting and a sapphire blue gem in the middle like a normal shiny.
"Hehe, everyone reacts like that! It's not a regular shiny color variant but a pokemon caught on Pinkan Island in the Orange Islands! There's this berry that only grows on this island no matter if you try to plant it somewhere else, and when a pokemon grows up eating these, they'll turn pink! My husband Tom gifted me a pink Staryu on our first anniversary because that's my favorite color," Lily explained with a blissful grin.
And once they all put down their robes, Pete could see that Lily wasn't lying about her favorite color. Her bathrobe had been pink, and her one-piece swimsuit was as well. Very mono-chromatic.
"Where'd you leave Tom, by the way? He's welcome to stay over, too," Pete offered with a good-natured smile.
"Ah, he stayed at my parent's house for Emily's birth, but he had to get back to our home in Mikan Island. His sister Cissy is a gym leader there, and their younger brother Senta is a bit of a prankster, a brat, really. He... irked the wrong crowd and to better be safe than sorry, Tom hurried back to smooth the waters. Yeah, he and his sister only speak in water parables and metaphors... you get used to it... eventually," Lily said as she offered a weak smile. It suddenly became a little quiet. Apparently, they all held an opinion on how Tom talks, but nobody wanted to speak ill of him in this setting.
"Aaahh, I love your warm fur," Sophie said to break the silent streak as she clung to Arcanine on her free side.
"She really is pretty. All your pokemon I've seen so far look very healthy and strong," Lily praised with a warm smile as she watched her sister bury her head in wet dog fur.
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