Chương 36: C036 - A very late morning
Pete wasn't half as anxious as Jasmine about the prospect of sharing his tent that was clearly meant for two people who didn't have to be a couple.
So when Pete fell asleep quickly, Jasmine stayed awake with a wildly beating heart and a bright red face. She was tired, and it was hours past her usual bedtime, yet all her wild thoughts kept her awake for a good hour.
After that hour, Pete turned in his sleep and was now facing Jasmine, who could barely make out his sleeping face from the light of Rapidash's and Ponyta's mane outside.
Watching his relaxed face with the two Minccino tails giving him a very bushy afro haircut oddly stole away all of Jasmine's tension. She watched him for a while until her tiredness finally got the best of her, and she fell asleep with a small smile.
Despite the short night, Pete woke up only half an hour past dawn. But since the night was so short, Pete simply stayed asleep with his eyes closed for a good half an hour.
He only opened his eyes when he felt a warm, long breath on his shoulder. Without looking over, Pete realised that he only felt a small weight over his chest, Jasmine must have rolled closer in the night and just released a deep, relaxed breath.
Since it wasn't his fault, Pete decided to stay like this and enjoy the moment. He was sleepy enough to excuse staying in the tent anyway. His pokemon save for Golett, no, Golurk who once more did his 'duties' as a night patrol, were all bound to still be asleep anyway and most of them decided to sleep close to the eggs in the cave to stay away from the early sun.
All except for Sunkern, who was already doing his best to absorb all the rays of the sun shining his way - not that Pete knew that, it was just what he imagined in his mind.
It was past ten in the morning when Pete heard a quiet notification arriving on his tablet. He would have to stand up to read it because he didn't sleep with it in the tent.
Since his farm still wasn't even started, his diligence won the inner struggle, and he reluctantly peeled off Jasmine's arm and slipped out of the tent as quietly as possible.
He was immediately greeted by Rapidash surrounded by Ponyta, Blitzle, and Growlithe sleeping next or on top of her, and the older pokemon was tired but awake.
She regarded Pete with a warm smile that she also directed to the tent with a meaning he didn't quite get this early in the morning, not that it mattered. Pete spent a minute spoiling the flaming unicorn with brushes and scritches and went toward the buckets with water to freshen up.
After all of that, Pete finally fished out the tablet from one of the bags and sat down next to Sunkern to read the messages.
A few of them were from Professor Elm and his team thanking him for the recording of the fight and the evolutions, though his colleagues Becca and Fred commented on the fact that the darkness of the night made quantifying all the variables too hard.
Then there was a message from Carl informing him that they finished buying the necessary building materials for the first part of the construction and that his daughter Luna had stayed up all night finishing three different drafts for the house.
'*Ya better thank my flower properly! The little daisy sacrificed her beauty-sleep for you, and even almost skipped leg day while working out. Reason won though, and she, of course, didn't skip leg day,*' Carl's last message read.
"*You think you could come over today some time before dinner? The Vileplume have agreed to me staying and building a farm here, and our first battle for peace was a success!*"
Carl's response came not a minute later.
'*You were actually not kidding? Boy-o, I was sure you were just pulling out leg and opening a farm next to old boy Milton.*'
"*...will that be a problem?*"
'*Nah, dude. As long as you were serious when we in all seriousness said that logistics will have to be handled by you seriously, we are cool~*'
"*I get that talking like that is like second nature to you, but do you have to type like that, too?*"
'*How else could ya be sure y'aren't messaging with a stranger that stole Carl's phone, baka?*'
Pete's limit for a morning before breakfast was reached, so he didn't respond to Carl's message.
He did browse the designs Luna had sent over even after they went to bed this night, though. He immediately fell in love with the design that looked like Professor Elm's lab just with most of the building inside the hill and one deck on the 'roof' that you could access either from the hill or the glass dome and another deck on the other side of the glass dome just one floor lower and looking over to the lake.
"*Design two!!! Did you get inspiration from the professor's lab? If you did, job well done. I loved his house,*" Pete responded to Luna's message with the designs.
He picked up an empty bucket and some personal hygiene items and went over to the lake under the watchful gaze of Rapidash and Golurk. The three Farfetch'd and two Marill were awake by now and decided to join him since the latter two were sure Azurill was save sleeping in the tent.
Before he arrived at the lake, Luna's answer on his choice arrived.
'*AAAARGH!!! I forgot to put my phone on silent! I didn't even sleep for four hours and now I'm sure I won't get any more sleep!!! I wish I could be angry at you, but Arceus dang it, why did I not put the phone on silent!!*' To which Pete only responded with a 'sorry' and a wry smile he didn't put in emoji form.
Since he could get Luna and Carl over to work already, he decided to also message Sophie for Exeggutor's help, though it was still a little early for her so he didn't put much stock into getting an answer soon.
As Pete was washing up in the lake with the playful Marill and Farfetch'd protection crew.
The Farfetch'd were actually cleaning their feathers just like regular ducks from his old world would and Pete loved watching them do it with a warm smile. His house would get a pond at minimum and a small creak if possible, that was for sure he decided at this moment.
"Hey, aren't you quite the pretty Feebas?" Pete shouted to some pale brown fish watching Pete wash up with rapt attention from the lake a good stone throw away.
The four fish looked to be blushing, but they also decided they couldn't handle the compliment and scooted away quickly underwater.
"Well, it was worth a try," Pete mumbled under his breath at his attempt to make the Feebas evolve to Milotic by starting off with a single compliment.
He would just have to keep at it and come here often. His haul from the second container at the very start held some colorful scales that he could try gifting them eventually. Getting one of the most powerful water pokemon that are considered almost mythical creatures because they are so rare would be worth almost anything.
On his way back to the tent, Pete noticed the tell-tale signs of Teleport in his psychic aura field he kept up as both training and an early alarm system.
"Pete! There you are!"
Instead of seeing just Exeggutor and maybe Sophie, Pete saw the whole family Feelgood arrive. Well, the ones he knew plus an addition he had not seen before. Herbert with a wide smile, Isabelle with a curious gaze looking around and a grumpy Sophie that was clearly woken up extra 'early' by her parents. The fourth person was a young man who looked like a slightly taller, cleanly-shaven Herbert with Isabelle's hair and eye color.
What took some double takes for Pete were the almost twenty bags hanging on Exeggutor. Pete didn't know what they were for since his deal with Herbert wouldn't even come close to filling twenty bags.
"Pete, meet our oldest son, Buddy," Herbert introduced as he walked over to hug Pete with wide outstretched arms.
"Where's our youngest daughter?" Isabelle asked as she looked around, briefly staring at the single tent on his entire field of grass with a small smirk.
"I think she's still sleeping. We went to bed really late," Pete admitted with a scratch to the back of his head before Herbert crushed him in a hug.
"Oho? Why did you go to bed late at night? Did our little flower become a woman?" Isabelle asked as her smirk deepened. Sophie blushed deeply, and Herbert's hug became even more strangling once he heard his wife.
"No, no, you misunderstand. Herbert, please...relea...se....me," Pete coughed out with barely any air in his lungs. He took a step back from Herbert once he was released, took a deep breath, and began to explain.
"We fought an Ariados tribe last night, and they only attacked at midnight. We won with no casualties on our side and even had the fortune of witnessing an evolution each from our teams," Pete explained as he gave Herbert the stink eye.
"So our little daughter is still pure?" Isabelle asked with the smirk never leaving her face. Though, this time, she spoke a little louder.
"Mooom, come on!"
Loud enough to wake up Jasmine and make her embarrassed enough to shout out her displeasure.
Chương 37: C037 - Hatching a construction crew
"So, what brings you here this... uh, early?" Pete stammered out as he prepared a fruit/berry salad as breakfast for him, the pokemon and all his guests.
Pete had the chance to greet Buddy once they cleared the misunderstanding of Pete and Jasmine sharing the tent for other more adult reasons. Buddy was a friendly guy who had come back last night from a business trip to Hoenn for the families company.
Buddy was also the trainer of another Exeggutor, the son of Herbert's pokemon, as well as a Blastoise he had raised from an egg as a young child.
"Well, obviously, we wanted to see the magical tree and combine it with your delivery!" Herbert shouted from his position near the tree in question. His eyes were shining at the prospect of having such trees in the catalogue. He wasn't this excited for business in a long time.
"Uh, you got another delivery left then? Because I think you brought a few too many bags," Pete asked with a raised eyebrow as he stopped preparing the ingredients and looked up.
"Don't be dense, Pete. Obviously we brought a little extra since your method was proven to be feasible," Isabelle spoke with a snort from the little circle she had created with her two young daughters as they whispered about what happened and didn't happen last night. Both girls were blushing like crazy.
"Well, all these berries aren't ripe and could still be less effective than the berries grown on their original trees," Pete suggested with a shrug.
"Do you hate free stuff, Pete?" Buddy asked with a warm smile. His parents had already filled him in on Pete's modest personality.
"Nope, I'll take it all. Just letting you know that I don't promise anything. Bringing that stuff was your choice," Pete eventually said and got back to making breakfast.
The family and Pete kept talking and teasing each other when Pete looked to the cave where his pokemon decided to sleep. Solosis was up and spamming Heal Pulse on everyone as a form of training while the rest lounged around away from the sun in the cool cave. The only one not relaxing was Girafarig, who looked determined to learn the move Heal Pulse, too.
After breakfast, or rather brunch for the Feelgoods, Pete showed them around his future farm. Three hours later, they circled back almost to his farm and stopped at the place that Pete had designated as his future Berry Orchard.
Herbert and Buddy began taking out sapling after sapling from all the bags and piled on an astonishing three-hundred saplings of various berries and height. They even brought saplings for Mago, Occa, and Rindo Berries that Herbert didn't have in stock when they had made their initial deal
Pete had already told them earlier that he would take it and only raised an eye-brow. This was clearly many times more money than his initial deal with the family.
"Hey Golurk, Nidoking! Bring Sunkern with you and come on over," Pete shouted in the direction of the camp.
The three pokemon quickly arrived with Sunkern happily sitting on Golurk's giant hand. The rest of his pokemon had also followed along to see what would happen.
"Okay, guys. Our farm is still a little in the future, but we'll have to start somewhere. If you all help out, we'll be done in no time and can get to lunch," Pete addressed his pokemon.
"Golurk and Nidoking, I want you to dig holes appropriate for the roots of these saplings with distances between each other that I will show you. Everyone else, grab a few saplings and place them in the holes with the right sizes," Pete instructed with a warm smile.
Over twenty pokemon got to work, and with Golett's and Nidoking's meticulous work in creating the holes and filling them back up, they were done planting these hundreds of saplings in under an hour.
Pete then asked the Marills to water the plants as much as they could without drowning them or exhausting themselves completely and promised them their favorite berries as lunch in return.
All this happened under the calm but watchful gazes of two dozen Bellossoms and almost fifty Vileplumes, who had scared the crap out of Isabelle, Herbert, and Buddy. Seeing all these powerful pokemon at once really does awe regular inhabitants of this world.
"That went much faster than I thought," Isabelle concluded with an appreciative nod.
"Yeah, perks of being the trainer of so many smart pokemon, eh?" Buddy added with a small laugh. Having the ability, time, and knowledge to care for so many pokemon at once was a rarity in this world after all, and Pete was an odd one out with over twenty pokemon.
Pete got lucky, however, that most of his pokemon liked each other enough to care for one another, so he believed it wasn't his full credit. He gave most of the credit to Rapidash, who kept the 'family' happy, and it would be part of the truth.
"They'll grow up healthily, right? Are you gonna graft them to each other anyway?" Herbert asked casually, not really looking for even more free info.
"Hmm, yeah. Since there was no real rejection yet from the bud transplant, I was thinking of making a few trees that could hold berries from berry plants that have a shorter life like the small Rawst Berry bushes. It will all depend on whether the bud stays on the branch for a second berry to be honest, but I'll try out a whole bunch of combinations," Pete explained, fully in his element as the whole family looked at him with warm smiles.
As Pete stepped away from the last sapling he had placed in a hole himself, the Vileplume and Bellossom initiated their plan for sticking around for all of this.
With yet another combination 'attack', the grass pokemon once more blessed Pete's plants with the move Pete associated with 'Grassy Terrain'. The whole newly created orchard gained a green hue and though Pete couldn't see it, he knew that all his saplings took proper root in the new soil and most of them even gained a bit of height as they began growing ever so slowly.
Last time, the pokemon used their full focus on a single tree, so the changes were much more pronounced. But Pete wasn't discouraged. No, he felt all the more thankful toward the Vileplume tribe, who made the start of his farm so easy without prompt.
The Feelgoods didn't stay for lunch after this magical show that made Herbert almost plot to steal all these Vileplume or possibly at least move his company over in a softer approach. Maybe he would need to raise more grass pokemon? Herbert looked at his youngest daughter with narrowed eyes as he hatched yet another plan.
The family also took Jasmine with them because Buddy would go to Cianwood City with her to meet Numel. Betty Joy had come through for them and arranged for a meeting for the young gym-leader-to-be.
Herbert's Exeggutor, after dropping them back off at Violet City, would stay with Sophie, who had agreed to help Carl and Luna get to the construction site after eating lunch at home with her parents.
As Pete was making a gigantic pot of curry for lunch, every pokemon relaxing around him suddenly turned their heads towad the cave. Pete had heard it, too. The sound of an egg hatching. Finally, it was time once more for new pokemon.
As Pete got closer and set up the camera of the tablet to document this moment with a video call to Professor Elm, he noticed with delight that two eggs were once more hatching at the same time.
Surprisingly, however, the eggs that were hatching weren't the Snivy, Trapinch, or Klink eggs, which were kept in the snuggly warm incubators. No, both Timburr eggs were hatching at the same time, just like with the two Minccino.
Golurk brought over a basin filled with fresh water and placed it close without prompt, and Rapidash, too, silently warmed the water a little for the newborn to take a warm bath once they hatch.
Minutes later, Pete's first fighting type pokemon broke out their eggs with a fighting stance that oddly looked like the two did the same choreography.
Pete had read up about this pokemon, and like you would suspect, they did not hatch with a squared log in hand. Just like the Farfetch'd who were very possessive of leeks and spring onions, Pete would have to provide them these logs.
And, Pete came prepared with two of each log of differing sizes. He wasn't quite sure how strong they would be right from the start.
The two were quite curious as they looked around at all these different pokemon before their gazes zeroed in on Pete and the logs stacked up behind him. The two male Timburr looked to each other, then nodded.
""Timburr!"" Both pokemon walked over, still with completely wet, short fur, and greedily stretched out their hands towards the biggest log behind Pete.
"Hey, hey, buddies. These logs are for you. Nobody will take them. Hop into the basins first and freshen up a little. Then you can play around as much as you like," Pete explained with a warm smile before nodding to Solosis.
His first pokemon was uniquely qualified to sing his praise and tell his new pokemon what to expect, so Pete left the cave shortly after to finish making the food.
As they ate, Pete once more felt someone arriving with Teleport.
"Holy canoli macaroni! Do you smell the air, my little flower? We're in heaven!"
"Ugh, dad. Keep it up, and I'll only bring your pokemon the next time."
It sounded like Luna and Carl had arrived.
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