Rolled 67 (1d100)

>>1953036
rolling to see how awesome the thread will be

Rolled 23 (1d100)

>>1953063
crit

>>1952930
>>1952938
>>1952948

"Grimer, take cover," you shout out.

"Take it out with a charge beam," you hear Kelvin call.

Grimer makes use of the still present clouds of toxic smoke on the battlefield. He does a fairly good job of concealing himself, and this allows the electrical beam to coast over his head. Porygon-Z begins to sputter and shift, making dinging sounds and freezing up, then Kelvin returns it to its pokeball. It seems you've managed to win a difficult battle, and the two super nerds approach you with blank expressions before offering polite congratulations.

"Those pokemon are amazing," says Kelvin finally, "Could you tell me where you found them?"

"Yeah, those poison types are pretty great," Marvin adds, joining in, "If only I had caught that Magnemite back north."

The three of you discuss the battle, and you tell Kelvin about the waste treatment facility in Aulder. You eventually turn to the subject of your reward. You receive the charge beam TM from Marvin, he tells you to load it into a PC with your pokemon and that if you're lucky it will work twice.

Kelvin's part of the reward is his research notes on Porygon and its evolutions, which Marvin is quick to tell you he also contributed to. There is a lot of data on the odd process by which a Porygon is created, and that the initial Porygon program was funded by Silph Co. twenty-five years ago, and involved multiple supercomputers, hologram generators, and some ditto.

The pokemon have the ability to breed and have such begun to be present around the world in recent years, though they are still very rare. The notes on their physiology show that they can be modified slightly, hence the creation of Porygon-Z. There are also some files on a special disk he tells you will boost the conversion moves of a Porygon holding it.

>Talk to them further
>Go talk to that psychic
>Something Else

>>1953110
>Go talk to that psychic

I can’t wait to read about portion neurology. But in the mean time, let’s go get to know this guy.

>Go talk to that psychic.

>>1953110
>Go talk to that psychic
he could help us with beldum bro

>>1953110
>Talk to them further
Ask them about Beldum, if they have seen one

Rolled 56 (1d100)

>>1953063
bo3?

>>1953148
Don't know what that means

>>1953110
>Go talk to that psychic

Also
>Something Else
Inspect Grimer's physiology. How's it levitating? What's going on there?

>>1953168
I think that's because of his ability Power of alchemy

>>1953129
>>1953128
>>1953126
>>1953123
>>1953168


You briefly ask the two if they have seen any Beldum, with Marvin shaking his head and Kelvin thinking briefly before doing the same.

"I'd love to get a hold of one of them," Kelvin tells you, "I'll call if I find any on my travels, but they're almost unheard of south of Nadia"

You thank them and say your goodbyes, walking over to the psychic from before. He is wearing odd flowing purple clothes and still working on bending that spoon. He catch him open one eye briefly as you approach before closing it.

"Welcome traveller," he tells you in a dreamy voice, "Do you seek enlightenment, or perhaps a battle. The latter can lead to the former of course."

Mina catches his eye, and he almost leaps toward her.

"Oh, my lady," he says, with exaggerated deference, "So beautiful is your aura, you must surely have the gift."

"O-oh, I never knew," she says, taken aback.

>Ignore his advance and ask him something
>Challenge the pretentious psychic to a battle.
>Encourage Mina to challenge him
>Brush him off an leave
>Something Else

>>1953168

Grimer floating was an odd phenomenon that has worn off by now. You remember seeing it absorb something from Koffing as it fainted. You think you can repeat this as an experiment and get some good observations, but you'll need to teach Koffing self-destruct.

>>1953181
Gaining that knowledge IC rather than OOC.

>>1953187
ok, I was thinking you were asking OOC

>>1953184
>Challenge the pretentious psychic to a battle.
DEFEND OUR LADY lets fight psychic to psychic

>>1953184
>Encourage Mina to challenge him

Ghost>psychic

>>1953184
>>Encourage Mina to challenge him
This is her greatest prey.

>>1953218
I like this

>>1953184
>Encourage Mina to challenge him
eyy.

>>1953218
>>1953221
>>1953224
>>1953225

"Well, if you think she's got a gift you ought to see for yourself," you say, "In battle."

Mina looks over to you for reassurance, and you give her a smile and a nod. The psychic seems a less amused, but quickly regroups.

"I would not want to damage the lady's pokemon," he starts, but is cut off.

"You don't have to worry about that," Mina says, looking irritated with him, "Two on two, standard bet. Let's go."

He looks a little flabbergasted, but he shrugs his shoulders and takes his position. You count them down, and they both throw out their pokeballs. Mina has chosen Duskull and the psychic has sent out a Kadabra. The trainers begin shouting their commands, and the Kadabra zips across the battlefield and launches a confusion.

Duskull is nonplussed, the attack only hurt a little and he retaliates with a night shade. It does more damage than you expected, and the Kadabra seems pretty drained. The trainers shout out commands, and Duskull vanishes into a shadow. Kadabra looks around for him to no avail. The ghost pops out directly underneath Kadabra, knocking him out with a shadow sneak attack.

The psychic looks very nervous at Duskull's display, throwing out his second pokeball with a look of reluctance. You soon see why, as a tiny Spoink pops out onto the battlefield. Duskull knocks it out with a single shadow sneak attack, and the psychic is flabbergasted, He offers a quick congratulation and then tries to excuse himself.

>What do you do?

>>1953297
>celebrate with Mina
Damn it feels good to be good.

>>1953297
>Congratulate Mina, ask how she think she did, maybe give her the reaper cloth?

that lets duskull evolve right?

>>1953297
Celebrate with Mina, give her a quick peck on the cheek

>>1953297
>congratulate Mina on a swift and decisivel win.

>>1953314
I like this, but it allows Dusclops to evolve, not Duskull

>>1953325
oh! well i still think we should give it to her now, might as well. and thx

>>1953337
I'm with you on this, let's congratulate her with a gift

>>1953325
>>1953319
>>1953316
>>1953314
>>1953310

As the psychic slinks away, you wrap your arms around Mina and kiss her on the cheek. You congratulate her on such a swift and decisive victory, you're genuinely impressed. She's appreciative and reciprocates your affections, but says it was nothing special since that guy was obviously just a big talker.

As you walk over to see the end of Oliver's battle, his Grimer narrowly winning against a Roselia, you hand her the reaper cloth you just purchased. She's unsure what it's for at first, but thanks you warmly. When you explain what it is, her face lights up with excitement. She gives it to Duskull right away, and he looks kind of funny with the oversized cloak.

Oliver is chatting with his opponent, an attractive green-haired woman with a pokemon league hat on. She keeps laughing and touching his arm, but he just keeps going on about the battle. From what you hear, it was a close one.

The girl, who's name is Kendra, accompanies your party to the pokemon center and you all heal up your pokemon. You learn she has pokemon league ambitions, and that she sure is impressed with your friend being able to beat her five pokemon with just his three.

>Go search out a trainer
>Talk to someone
>Look for information on something
>Train your pokemon
>Move along to the next route
>Something Elss

>>1953381
>>Look for information on something
>>Train your pokemon
Try and get recordings on grimer floating and get Koffing Self-destruct
>Something Else
Tell Oliver to get Kendra's number, she is obviously hitting on him.

>>1953381
>Train your pokemon
That was too close a battle. We need to train our pokemon more, better understand their moves and capabilities, rather than just throwing out a pokemon we had never even practiced with.

>>1953391
this

>>1953391
thirded

>>1953391
>>1953396
>>1953411

"I'm going to to and do a little training," you tell your friends, and Oliver offers to join you.

You think for a moment, then pull Oliver aside, "I think you ought to train with Kendra. I'm going to go work with Mina for a while. She seems to like you, so spend some time with her."

He seems a little unsure, but then smiles, "Yeah, she'd be a great contact for the league!"

The four of you go your separate ways and you and Mina go behind the pokemon center to an old unused paved lot. You release Grimer and Koffing first, then take out your pokedex. You search the MoveDex for a video explaining the procedure for self-destruct and open it for the two poison pokemon. While they watch, you explain some basic training maneuvers that you think will benefit ghost pokemon to Mina, and help her get set up.

After your confident she has the exercises down, you approach your pokemon. The video is wrapping up and you ask Koffing if he has it. He gives you an affirmative look and you release Larvitar and Beldum. Lining up your pokemon in a two on two formation. You explain your experiment and set up your pokedex for recording. At your command, Koffing prepares to self-destruct while the other three brace themselves.

You observe the events as they occur, Koffing charges energy, which explodes outwards from his body in a massive blast. Your pokemon are barely hit due to his distance and he falls to the ground, energy expended. You see Grimer pulsate and glow, as a wispy smoke-like energy emanates from Koffing and pulls toward Grimer. As Grimer begins to float, you know the experiment worked.

You repeat the video a few times, and compare it with similar data from other trainers. The power of alchemy ability is a strange one, that takes a bit of energy from a fainting pokemon. Grimer with this ability can adapt with the information they gather and temporarily adopt the abilities of fainted allies.

You leave Koffing with the pokemon center attendant and work on training your pokemon.

Choose a pokemon

>Train stats
>Train moves
>Train battlefield tactics
>Something else

>>1953487
>Train moves for grimer, try to teach him minimize

>>1953487
>Train battlefield tactics
w larvitar, i feel like we havent trained with him in a while

>>1953487
>>Train battlefield tactics
Beldum, since he can't learn moves to adapt

>>1953510
>>1953519
>>1953523

Battlefield tactics with Beldum and Larvitar wins

Roll 2d100

Rolled 23, 9 = 32 (2d100)

>>1953530

Rolled 31, 15 = 46 (2d100)

>>1953530

Rolled 61, 2 = 63 (2d100)

>>1953530

>>1953531
>>1953534
>>1953537

You call over your two most senior pokemon and explain to them that they will be working on combat maneuvers. You release Deino and call over Grimer, encouraging them to watch their more senior teammates at work. Larvitar and Beldum line up against each other for a mock battle.

You tell them both to go easy, so to make the most of the exercise. They fight each other "hand-to-foot" for a while, avoiding any powered moves. You coach them as they go, giving them pointers on how to make the most of opponents' weak points and openings. After a little while, you have them use their moves at their own discretion.

Beldum takes a screech from Larvitar and goes into a fairly effective take down attack. Larvitar rushes him for a bite, but misses entirely. Beldum charges up a hidden power which he pushes directly at Larvitar. The green pokemon is almost knocked out by the attack and you recall him.

Suddenly, Beldum stands completely erect and emits a strange cry. You walk toward him to check on him, but he simply does it again. There's a lot of reverberation and you can feel the chime in your teeth. Mina walks over concerned, stopping her training, and your phone begins to ring.

>What do you do?

>>1953563
>Answer the phone
Shit shit shit, is beldum ready to evolve?

>>1953563
Sees who is calling while keeping an eye on beldum. Wait, this is Beldum evolving! Let him evolve.

>>1953563
>Hickory speaking.

>>1953575
>>1953587

You pull out your phone, it's Pine calling. You answer, hoping he can help you with this situation. You start to try to explain that you think Beldum is trying to evolve, but Pine cuts you off and tells you that he already knows.

"Just go to the center and send me Beldum via PC. In a few minutes I'll send him, well them, back as a Metang."

You tell him you want to witness the evolution, and Pine reluctantly agrees. He instructs you on what you need to do, and it's simple enough. Just avoid getting between the two of them and let them do their thing. You receive the pokeball and Pine wishes you luck.

You set up your camcorder and take to the same vacant lot as before with Mina. You throw out the two pokeballs and she squeezes your hand. The two of you watch as the two identical Beldum float toward each other. They beep and click at each other in a rhythmic fashion for a short while while drawing closer. Soon enough they are pressing their eye cases against each other.

The metal of their bodies begins to separate at the point of contact and the internal wires connect with each other. They are now beeping as one in a more complex pattern. The metal flows outward and the two begin to slowly grow as it coats them. In a few minutes, you are looking at a Metang.

You walk up to him and congratulate your starter pokemon on his evolution. He gives you a knowing look and bows slightly before taking off into the air. He charges his energy and fires off the familiar hidden power, then does something similar and begins to levitate. His claws coat in a greyish light and he slashes forth, then fires off a blast of force at a nearby bottle, collapsing it. He is faster, stronger, and more confident than ever.

Beldum has evolved into Metang. He seems to have learned confusion, metal claw, and magnet rise as well.

>Continue training pokemon
>Go for a battle
>Something else

>>1953631
Go for a battle

>>1953631
>>Continue training pokemon
See if the held item influences the hidden move type

>>1953631
>see if you can ride metang

>>1953649
I change my mind for this!

>>1953649
>>1953663

ROLL 1d100

Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>1953668

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>1953668

Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>1953668

>>1953673
>>1953674
>>1953676


You decide to take some more time training Metang an getting to know what he can do. You see that he retains the ability to change the type of his hidden power depending on held item. The two of you soon realize he might be able to channel this power into a punching move. You hand him an item at his request

>Charcoal
>Nevermeltice
>Hard Stone

>>1953682
>>Hard Stone

>>1953682
Charcoal

>>1953682
>Nevermeltice

If he learns ice punch, it’ll give us an edge against ground types.

>>1953693
forgot about ground, since I assumed levitate
>>1953682
switch >>1953686
to Nevermeltice

>>1953682
>Nevermeltice

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>>1953682
ALRIGHT! OUR BOY DID IT!
>Nevermeltice

>>1953689
>>1953693
>>1953706
>>1953718
>>1953719

You give him the nevermeltice and it locks to his head like a tiny crown. He focuses his energy and punches forward. His fist and the air both feel cold to the touch. You keep at it for a while and the frosty energy begins to become more and more concentrated. Soon he's firing off basic ice punches, and you think he'll be using the full version soon enough with a little investment.

After a lot of work, Metang is starting to tire out and you return him to his pokeball after praising his excellent performance today.

>Train Deino or Grimer in moves, stats, or something else
>Something Else

>>1953723
>>Train Deino or Grimer in moves, stats, or something else
Basic calisthenics for the entire team that can do them. (stats)

We gonna be /fit/ and so will our team.

>>1953723
Train Grimer moves

>>1953723
Let's get Deino going with Crunch and try and teach Larvitar Stealth Rock
Grimer should improve his HP pool

>>1953729
I like it.

>>1953729
>>1953730
>>1953731
>>1953738

Roll 2d100

Rolled 79, 71 = 150 (2d100)

>>1953743

Rolled 17, 12 = 29 (2d100)

>>1953743

Rolled 34, 64 = 98 (2d100)

>>1953743

Rolled 53, 33 = 86 (2d100)

>>1953743

Rolled 51, 79 = 130 (2d100)

>>1953743

rolling

>>1953744
>>1953748
>>1953749

You call over Deino and Grimer, who march over to you seemingly pumped up by Beldum's display. You start performing exercises and encourage them to follow along with your instructions. As they copy you, you increase the speed and change up the movements. Then you start adding in requirements, like performing certain moves. You keep this up for a good long time and then let them go on their own for a while. They both try to outdo each other, and you take the opportunity to look through your pokedex.

They're performing quite well, so you try to incorporate some moves they ought to be able to learn. You tell Grimer to compress himself, and he is soon performing minimize. Deino picks up roar on the first try, sending Grimer back to its pokeball. Then you pull her aside and begin working on crunch. She's got the basic pretty well, but every so often the dark energy just pulses out in all directions.

You keep your pokemon working for while, and eventually they get tired out. Larvitar and Koffing both seem to have recovered a little bit, and you work on a similar routine as you did with the other two.In short order, Larvitar has learned scary face and Koffing gets the basics of haze. Koffing runs out of steam early, so you work for a little while with Larvitar. He seems to have gotten bigger and grayer recently, and he now works on the beginnings of thrash.

Eventually he too tires, and you head over to the pokemon center to drop off your team for a well deserved rest. While there, you run into Oliver and Kendra. Your friend seems to have finally gotten the message and the two sit with hands intertwined. You and Mina walk over to the pair, who greet you and discuss the day's training and your plans.

Its getting late and you won't have much travel time left unless you hit the road soon. You could always stay her for the night, but you should be able to reach the next pokemon center in Fina Town before its too late if you leave now.

>Stick around
>Move along route 117

>>1953786
>Move along route 117
Let's get this show on the road.

Can Metang carry Mina? I know she doesn't like hiking much. But if Metang's too tired that's ok too.

>>1953786
Where did we leave dratini?

>>1953808
It's with the prof, we are trying to get an egg
also, this>>1953798

>>1953810
Thanks senpai
>>1953798
Supporting this too

>>1953798
>>1953810
>>1953818

You decide its best to head out now, and you retrieve your pokemon from the pokemon center attendant. You, Oliver, Mina, and Kendra, who is coincidentally going to Fina Town as well, all head out along route 117. You get to know your new traveling companion along the way, learning that she is from the Falia region originally and has gotten both of her two badges since her family moved to the Danat region last year. You make good time along the road, but you are still traveling as the sun sets.

You have some difficulty navigating, and eventually find yourself off the route traveling along a dirt road. You are unsure how long you have been off track. Your group stops to get its barings, when suddenly you hear the roar of a motorcycle. Then another, and you soon realize you are surrounded by three bikers. A fat bald man with an short pudgy girl on one bike and another man who has a mohawk riding the other.

"Hand over your pokemon," the lone man commands, "And no one gets hurt."

--------------------------------------------------------------

That's it for tonight, thanks everyone for playing. Twitter won't let me sign up for some reason. Will probably run tomorrow some time after 4PM EST or maybe earlier depending on how my errands go. Will be around for questions for a while.

>>1953850
In game terms, what level is our team?

>>1953850
thanks for running, see you tommorrow

>>1953850
Thanks senpai, see ya

I woke up, caught up, and then the session was over. Oh well, still a good read. Thanks for running, have a Muha.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VDgKUr1ZBQA

>>1953851
Well, its looser than in the games, but:

Dratini is about Lv 20
Grimer is about Lv 21
Koffing, Deino, Larvitar, and Metang are about Lv 25

>>1953875
we gotta start training dratini and grimer, it seems

>>1954209
Starting up within the hour

>>1954952

The three bikers dismount and begin releasing their pokemon. The one with the mohawk has a pair of Liepard. The fat one has an intimidatingly large Raticate while his girlfriend has a Koffing and a Trubbish. The bikers and their pokemon have encircled you and your teammates look to you for guidance.

>What do you do?

>>1955161
>Release our own, Deino, Metang, and Koffing

>>1955161
Release all Pokes

>>1955161
>oh, is that how we’re doing this? I was afraid you three had guns or something.
>you’re outnumbered and outclassed. If you give up now I promise we’ll be lenient.

And when they eventually get upity:

>very well then. I will take the poison types.

>send out koffing, metang, and dieno.

>>1955172
That seems like a bit too much to manage, especially since not all our pokemon have perfect combat discipline. Let’s stick to a triple battle at most.

>>1955170
This
We should wreck their bikes

>>1955170
>>1955172
>>1955179
>>1955194

"Oh, that's how we're doing this." you say, "I was worried you had guns or something."

"Fuck you cool guy," the fat one shouts, "You'll be sorry you didn't give up when my raticate's chewing on your bones."

You release your own pokemon: Deino, Metang, and Koffing. Oliver foilows your lead, releasing his three pokemon and an anxious Mina then does the same. The three bikers seem a little taken aback, but order their attacks nonetheless. Oliver has taken his opponent, the man with the two Liepard. He just has Nidorina sit back in reserve. The girl goes after Mina, but has a look of regret when she see's the two ghost pokemon fly toward her.

That just leaves the loud mouth with the Raticate to you.

>Send out one pokemon to fight it
>Use your numbers, like these guys tried to do to you.
>Something Else

>>1955227

>Send out one pokemon to fight it
Metang, iron CLaw

>>1955241
Ok.

Dunkle, what about Kendra? What’s she doing?

>>1955227
this >>1955241
normal dont work on us kek

>>1955244

Kendra seems to have run off, she's nowhere in sight.

Rolled 17 (1d100)

>>1955241
>>1955244
>>1955252

ROLL 1d100

Rolled 100 (1d100)

>>1955260
crit

Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>1955260
>>1955261
kek

OHHHHH FUCK
MY FIRST 100

>>1955270
Congratulations!

Rolled 100 (1d100)

>>1955260
rollan

>>1955261
metang gives no fucks

>>1955255
She's their bait.

>>1955261
That rat got rekt
Congrats senpai

>>1955270
Congrats on fucking sla-
>>1955275
HE'S DEAD ALREADY

Rolled 14 (1d100)

>>1955255
2 medals my ass
>>1955275
>>1955261
holy shit, 2 crits

>>1955261
>>1955275
>>1955278
>>1955279
DO not fuck with perfect IV metangs apparently.

Oh man thanks guys!
>>1955275
dude, he's gone! holy fuck

I think MEtang earned a nickname

Guess you could say that guy just got e-Raticate-d

>>1955261
>>1955275
Are we sure it was Iron Claw and not Karate Chop? Because we absolutely wrecked the poor bastard.

>>1955294
Rat pounder?

>>1955306
Wolverine

>>1955305
I mean, for the amount of damage it could also have been Close Combat. Sheesh.
Rip Raticate. Shredded to pieces.

>>1955309
Oh my. To shreds you say?

>>1955309
Or even hammer arm

>>1955261
>>1955267
>>1955275

You chuckle to yourself and stare down the biker, who looks like he's having second thoughts.

"Metang, use your metal claw."

"Raticate, Crunch. No wait, sucker punch," he shouts, seeming to lose his composure.

It's too late though, his Raticate just sits there confused. Then Metang's massive claw, surrounded by a massive amount of grayish energy, smashes right into its face. The creature is knocked out in one blow, and you can't help but feel there was no way that should have happened.

You glare down at the biker, who now looks absolutely terrified. He throws his money at your feet and gets on his hands and knees. You look around to find your friends doing well, both of them are wrapping up their battles without much difficulty. When the other two see the state the big one is in, they recall their pokemon.

"P-please, stop," he says, practically at your feet, "Don't hurt Raticate any more. We're sorry, we'll be good. You win, we're sorry we messed with your gang boss."

He just goes over more of the same for a while. His friends look absolutely terrified and they come over and perform the same sort of gestures, albeit with a bit less sincerity.

They give you 15,000P and a black sludge, and they seem to be cautiously waiting to see what you will do with them.

>Start ordering them around, be the boss
>Try to scare them
>Dismiss them, tell them to abandon crime
>Just tell them to get lost.
>Something Else

>>1955303
ayyy! Good one anon! Kek

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>>1955312
Shredded to shredded shreds.

Metang new nickname will be Shredder.

>>1955318
>Start ordering them around, be the boss
WE DA BOSS NOW

guys we could potential start our own team....but have it focus on science and stuff

>>1955318
>Something Else
Call the cops on their asses.

>>1955318
Make them give us a ride to the next town

>>1955318
>Dismiss them, tell them to abandon crime

>This is my turf, and I don’t want you chumps cutting in. Now scram.

Later, to Mina:
>Holy shit they fell for that.

>>1955318
>>Dismiss them, tell them to abandon crime

>>1955318
>Dismiss them.
Not worthy of our time.
Contacting authorities does sound good tho.

>>1955331
>>1955329
>>1955328
The thing is we are currently lost and have no idea where we lost the road, we should make good use of their bikes

>>1955318
>Dismiss them, tell them to abandon crime
Crime doesn’t pay, kids. Unless you deal drugs. Then crime pays lots.

>>1955337
I don’t think we’re that lost. We were just getting our bearings back when those three interrupted us.

>>1955325
>>1955326
>>1955328
>>1955329
>>1955331
>>1955341

"Well, I really ought to call the police on you three," you say, causing the bikers to go pale, "But I think I'm going to tell you to just give up this life of crime and leave."

The girl and the one with the mohawk nod their heads and get ready to take off, but the fat one stops them. He grabs your hand and bows his head.

"I will give you my word as a man that the three of us will go straight," he says somberly.

He gives you his phone number, telling you he owes you for letting them off so easy, and the three take off back toward the main route. It's easy enough to find your way back, and along the way you find a crying Kendra sitting by the side of the road. She doesn't really notice you, she's really upset.

>What do you do?

>>1955362
Say hey, sit down next to her, put a hand on her shoulder, ask her how she’s feeling.

>>1955362
Tell Oliver that he should go talk to her

>>1955362
>Go and ask her why the fuck she ran

this bitch really just left us to get robbed.

>>1955362
>Hey Ace Trainer! Why'd you scurry off?!

>>1955372
>>1955394
>>1955382
>>1955403

"What happened," you ask, a little irritated.

She snaps up with a shriek when you speak, then calms down for a second before starting to cry again. Oliver puts his arm around her shoulder and she cries into his chest. After a minute she calms down and looks up at you.

"I-I'm so s-sorry," she says, "I got really scared when the bikes came and I just started running. I know I should have helped, but I was just so afraid. Please, forgive me."

Oliver tells her he does, but Mina has her arms folded and is eying Kendra like one would a carton of milk a day past the expiration date. She looks to you.

>Forgive
>Don't Forgive

>>1955425
>Forgive

>>1955425
>Don't Forgive

>>1955425
>Forgive

>>1955425
>Forgive

>>1955425
>Shrug noncommittantly.

I wonder if Metang actually learned Guillotine

>>1955425
>Shrug

>>1955429
>>1955436
>>1955438

You look over to Mina and shrug your shoulders, she repeats the gesture and unfolds her arms.

"Look, you shouldn't have run. If you had stayed, you would have seen that everything was under control," you tell her, "But sometimes fear can take over, so it's forgiven."

"Just don't do it again," Mina says with an air of finality.

The four of you make your way along your route, eager to get the night behind you. In one of the longest hours of your life, you manage to arrive in Fina Town with no further issue. Your group checks in to the pokemon center and settles in. You get something quick to eat and everyone trails off to bed, eventually you join them.

The next morning you wake up earlier than anyone else. You chat with a few older men coming in from a morning jog with their pokemon. They are glad to give you the lay of the land. There's not much in town of note besides the pokemon house, which is the local hot spot for trainers. Van Noble runs it, he's something of a local celebrity. He challenged the Falia Elite Four and even got to the champion when he was younger.

You thank them for your time after your phone begins to ring. Excusing yourself, you answer the call. Professor Pine is on the line, and the two of you exchange pleasantries before he notifies you that the Dratini egg you wanted is in your PC box for transfer. He lets you know it'll be another four days before he can send you and Oliver your Dratini back.

>Go wake someone up
>Call that pokemaniac and get a Slowpoke
>Go train on your own
>Go check out the pokemon house
>Go to a shop
>Something else

>>1955507
>Call that pokemaniac and get a Slowpoke

Hell yeah.

>>1955507
>>Call that pokemaniac and get a Slowpoke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOqy8cC72wA

>>1955523
>>1955526
Ditto

>>1955507
>Call that pokemaniac and get a Slowpoke
and then lets go find that shell pokemon

>Wanting slowpoke
Why?

>>1955548
To research whether there is a psychic/neural connection between shellder and slowpoke/slowking.

>>1955548
For science

>>1955554
>>1955556
I would much rather research Minior, a pokemon literally from space.

>>1955564
There isnt anyone trading a Minior for a Dratini

>>1955573
Go C A T C H one.

>>1955578
I think studying whether Slowpoke and Beldum have similar evolutions and in what ways they differ is more interesting than research someone else has likely already performed.

>>1955591
So infp already on Slowpoke is more unique than info on Minior and the effects of breeding it has?

>>1955596
I don't think anyone has studied the similarities in two different pokemon that evolve via neural linking yet. I did not realize you wanted to study the effects of breeding on Minior as you never said that, and that may be interesting should we encounter one.

>>1955596
we are kinda focused on the study of pokemon that evolve to have more than one head or more than one brain

>>1955608
I think that's interesting, as we have Koffing and Deino, which similarly gain extra heads during evolution.

>>1955613
Beldum evolves by fusing with another beldum, we already took our pokemons to a lab to scan their neural system, we should do that again since beldum evolved so we can compare

To be 100% with you guys, I just dislike the whole Slowbro-line. I'd rather we invest time in just about any other pokemon.

>>1955638
I'm not saying we need to keep him, but it would be could to study it. Maybe we can keep him around till we get a shellder and then we can send him to the prof or try to trade him

>>1955653
I'd tolerate it, if we could get rid of it asap.

Honestly if we want anything, it shouod be to check out Chinglings and Chinmechos since those completely change form.

>>1955523
>>1955526
>>1955531
>>1955540

You decide not to hesitate, and call up the pokemaniac you met a few days ago. It rings several times before he answers, his voice creaky and tired. You remind him of who you are and he remembers immediately.

"I'm calling you about a Dratini," you say, "If you're still interested in trading for slowpoke."

He practically bursts your eardrum with his excited response. The whole process takes a while since he has to get to a pokemon center to use their PC for transfer. He chats with you about the latest episodes of some pokemon anime you don't follow, interspersed with repeated expressions of gratitude.

Soon enough the trade is started, you send away the egg in return for a Slowpoke. You thank the pokemaniac, whose name is Kevin as you find out. He tells you he owes you, and asks you call him if you're ever back in Aulder City before ending the call. You take Slowoke outside and asses her. She's actually quite a specimen, you imagine the pokemaniac had her specially bred. You're a little excited to have yet another very rare pokemon, trying not to let your luck get to your head.

She's not very experienced, the most advanced moves she knows are confusion and water gun. and she isn't particularly adept with either. She has almost perfect potential for her species though, not to mention the fairly uncommon ability to regenerate. She's calm and very affectionate with you, seeming to perhaps be a bit neglected.

Oliver seems to have woken up, and he walks toward you with a cup of coffee. You sip it, and it's just to your specifications. He really is a good friend.

"Thanks for not being to hard on Kendra," he tells you and you wave him off.

You tell him about your new pokemon and he's in awe, he never thought he'd see a Slowpoke and he asks if you're going to breed her. You're open but noncommittal, the road isn't the place to breed pokemon after all. You discuss your plans for the day.

>Go train pokemon
>Go check out the pokemon house
>Go to a shop
>Something else

>>1955665
>Something else
See if we can get access to machines with which to assess our Metang and get preliminaries for the Slowpoke.

>>1955677
This, also see if we can get a king's stone or a fishing rod

>>1955677
This. If they aren’t in town, we should send them over to one of our professors, to use the equipment there.

>>1955665
>Go check out the pokemon house
Sounds like its the only thing to do around here

>>1955681
this

>>1955681
Seconding Thirdly

>>1955681
Pls this I need more Magikarp in my life

>>1955677
>>1955681
Science, ho!

>>1955677
>>1955681
>>1955685
>>1955717
>>1955759
>>1955769
>>1955773

You tell your friend you want to get your new pokemon evaluated and you go your separate ways. Oliver goes to work on training, heading off to the pokemon house, while you get to work on your phone and pokedex.You get in touch with Professor Gum and request use of his equipment to gather information on Metang and your Slowpoke. He's glad to help and you transfer the two over for an hour, during which you get a good footing in the existing research.

When the results of the scan and your pokemon come back, you thank the professor and get to work analyzing the data. Slowpoke is like most aqueous mammalian pokemon, having a good deal of fat and a massive lung capacity for diving. The tip of the tail regenerates on all slowpoke, and it noted to be a delicacy, but the pokemon itself uses it as fishing bait.

Neurologically speaking, slowpoke have a much more developed brain than other animal-like pokemon but its activity is slow and limited by innate limiters on the pokemon's mind. The data is interesting and you can't wait to see how it evolves. The research warns you not to force a Slowpoke and Shellder together, stating it could result in the death of the slowpoke in question at worst and nothing at all in most cases.

The Metang research is interesting, as the processors noted in your analysis of Beldum appear mostly merged and working in tandem. Otherwise, the creature is essentially as you would expect two Beldum merged together. The claws have compensated for the presence of the larger body and everything has grown denser and more powerful.

You wrap up your research for now, finding it later in the morning than you had expected it. Mina has been sitting there watching you for you're not sure how long, and waves as you notice her. You embrace her and put your work aside, taking her by the hand and out into the street toward the shops. You get something to eat and browse around. You think to purchase a fishing rod, and inquire at the general store. The shopkeeper tells you he doubts you'll get a quality rod here, but that he has an old one he'd let go for 500P. As for a king's rock, he tells you to either check the trainer shop north of here, which you passed on the way, or else he could order it and have it there by the next morning. Getting it yourself would cost 1,200, while ordering it would be 1,500.

>What do you say?

>>1955795
Lets buy both here, and consider it a reward for beating those bikers, since that one guy did give us all that cash money.

>>1955795
>Buy a rod and check out the trainer shop

>>1955795

>Seconding
>>1955820

Cause we need more obvious random encounters in life.

>>1955795
Do we know how far is the shop?

>>1955815
>>1955820
>>1955842

You give the shopkeeper the 500P for his old rod and thank him for his help. You and Mina decide to backtrack to the trainer's shop for the discounted King's Rock. She doesn't want to walk, so she looks up a taxi service and gets the two of you a ride. After about a half an hour of driving, you arrive at the pavilion where you met Kendra, Marvin, and Kelvin the day before.

You make your way into the trainer's shop and find the King's Rock quickly enough, paying the shopkeeper 1,200P and moving on.

>Head back by car
>Walk back
>Stay here, scout a battle
>Something Else

>>1955892
>Head back by car
our lady dun wanna walk, i didnt know it was that far kek

>>1955892
>Head back by car
Go to the pokemon house to see whats Oliver up to

>>1955916
YEah, I like this.

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>>1955425
>Forgiving the bait for being the bate
>Forgiving a teammate for abandoning team
>Forgiving a woman
I suppose turning the other cheek is a virtue, but I wouldn't have done that.

>>1955907
>>1955916
>>1955932

Not wasting any more time, you get a ride back to town, making it in about a half hour. You chat with Mina while you hold Slowpoke and get her accustomed to the King's Rock. The little pink creature seems to be taken with Mina, who pets her passively as you ride. You have the driver drop you off by the pokemon house and give him a modest tip for a speedy ride.

You enter and find a plain wide space segmented into four quadrants. You see Oliver standing in the most crowded one, at the front of a group surrounding an older gentleman who is speaking. They are all very attentive, sitting at picnic tables around him and paying close attention. Given the vendors and seating, it seems to be a rest area. In another quarter, you find a lot of exercise equipment, while the other two hold small arenas.

>Go listen to the guy
>Go scout a battle
>Do some training
>Something else

>>1955949
>Go listen to the guy

>>1955949
>Go listen to the guy
why the fuck not?

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>>1955949
>Go listen to the guy

>>1955945
>>1955945
This is why we're a professor and you're a cuck

>>1955967
>>1955975
>>1955983

Well, you figure you might as well go see what all the fuss is about. You and Mina make your way over to the crowd and towards Oliver. You listen to the man, who is in the middle of a story about a pokemon battle.

"So old Scrafty was up against that damned Glaceon and he was frozen. He's basically beaten and just holding on. Only reason I don't recall him is I know he'd kill me if I did."

The crowd laughs, then returns to rapt attention and he continues, "So the dog-thing comes running at the ice block Scrafty's in and shoots another beam. The thing shatters from the force, but he ain't there."

He pauses, taking a sip from a bottle of water, "And all the while, I'm just shouting 'High jump kick' over and over, not really sure what's happening. Then there's a loud crack and he comes down out of the sky and kicks the fuckin' thing right in the face. And that's how I beat the elite four."

The crowd sort of gasps and murmurs, everyone reacting to the end of the story. The man just thanks everyone and walks off to the training section. You turn your attention to Oliver, and he's pumped up. He grabs Kendra by the hand and runs off to the training section, telling you he needs a battle later.

>What do you do?

>>1956038
I don't know.

Guess start doing practice techniques with Metang, Deino, Grimer and Slowpoke out in sight of the crowd and eventually someone will ask for a battle.

>>1956047
Do some drills with slowpoke.

>>1956038
>Follow the man and ask him about training tips and who he is
if he beat the elite four, we should talk to him a bit more
and if he's bullshitting oh well, gotta take risks

>>1956038
Seconding>>1956070

Our slowpoke seems to like Mina
What do you guys think of giving or trading her our Slowpoke
We could still do our reseach since she is in our group
Not saying we should do it now, just wanted to know what you think about this

>>1956091
It would be a good way to get slowking.

>>1956047
>>1956060
>>1956070
>>1956073

You follow Oliver and the gentleman over into the training area. Your friend is hard at work with Kendra, putting her through the paces with training exercises. Her Roselia is doing quite well, but her Clefairy and Pikachu are struggling to keep up with Oliver's pokemon. You pull out Slowpoke and Metang, prompting more than a few envious looks and surprised stares. You have your most senior pokemon instruct the new addition on all manner of battlefield tactics and maneuvers. The little pink creature seems to pick up pretty quickly, getting her special moves up to snuff and gaining a lot of experience in the hour or so you work with her. She even picks up the basics of hidden power from Metang, with hers being ground type it seems.

The older man watches your progress and eventually comes over as Slowpoke is winding down. He introduces himself as Van Noble and shakes your hand.

"Doing pretty good for yourself there," he says, appraising your Metang, "Smart to use them to teach each other, fun for the whole family like they say. So you going after badges? I think you could go far, you put your mind to it."

You thank him for the compliment, but you tell him you're a professor. You explain your ambitions and specialties, and he nods approvingly.

"Always liked professors," he says, "Giving out pokemon to kids and keeping the order, good thing that. Still, no reason you couldn't do both"

You shrug and he changes the subject, telling you he could probably teach one of your pokemon a move. He says this is his specialty, and he might even get something to stick that normally wouldn't. He tells you he wouldn't do this for free normally, but says you can call it a job interview.

>Choose a pokemon and a move for it to learn, I'll let you know if it's possible or not. Be reasonable, nothing unique or legendary and nothing that wouldn't make sense for it's physiology (Koffing and Punch moves, Larvitar wing attack, etc)

>>1956169
Pursuit for larvitar maybe

>>1956169
Larvitar - Toxic
looked up its moveset, it can learn this as a tm.
i was thinking after this we should spend some time w dratini, kind of neglecting it.

>>1956169
Larvitar-Stealth Rock

>>1956169
Can we get instruct on any of our pokemon? If not, let’s get earthquake on someone.

>>1956204
The prof should send us dratini in 4 days, he asked if we could let him get a few more eggs from him

>>1956221
Dratini is a stud

>>1956184
>>1956204
>>1956212

A lot of ideas run through your mind, but you still aren't sure. You tell Van you'll have to take a rain check while you figure things out. He tells you not to worry about it and that he'll still be here when you decide.You exchange numbers and you move back to your training. You have your pokemon take advantage of the exercise equipment for a while, boosting their base power and physical fitness slightly. There are a lot of beautiful women around your age as well as some youngsters and Jr. trainer wannabees.

>Challenge someone
>Train someone in something specific
>Leave
>Something else

>>1956271
>Something else
See if Metang is able to do Ice punch even without the Nevermelt ice

>>1956271
>Something else
Watch oliver’s Battle, then battle him.

>>1956271
I like this idea >>1956313

>>1956313
>>1956317
>>1956322

You release Metang from his pokeball. He stares up expectantly toward you and you have him demonstrate ice punch a few times. He seems to have it down well enough with the nevermeltice still attached after a few minutes of exercises, so you ask him to detach the item.

To both of your surprise, it seems he is unable to detach it. You inspect the chunk of ice to find it has begun to be absorbed into your pokemon's head. He has an idea, and begins to call on his hidden power in both arms at once. The frosty spheres grow over time and the nevermeltice begins to shrink. He reabsorbs the energy and delivers a few solid ice punches, then repeats the gesture until the ice vanishes and his hidden power returns to electric type.

Looks like Metang can use ice punch just fine now, and the nevermeltice has disappeared.

>What do you do?

>>1956408
Give him the charcoal and train a little

>>1956408
>Study the fuck out of this
how the hell did this happen? recheck his body are there any tools nearby we can use to take a look at his internal organs?

>>1956421
this

>>1956408
What the fuck

>>1956421
>>1956449
>>1956455

You postulate that since he was bred with unique adaptability and some Porygon ancestors, he has a particular skill with picking up elemental attacks. His body seems to have incorporated the item into itself while it adapted its energy. A Metang learning ice punch is hardly unique, but the ease to which he picked it up is pretty amazing. You write all this up and send it over to Professor Pine for his take.

You have him hold the charcoal and attempt to repeat what you did with the nevermeltice, but he can't seem to get it going in the same way. You have him hold onto it anyway, and practice his hidden power until he tires out.

>What next?

>>1956169
This dude is gonna hate us
>Larvitar: Foul Play or Stealth Rock Y'all should vote on one of these.
>Metang: Swagger
>Deino: Dragon Dance (I know you can't get it ingame but shhhhhhhh)
>Slowpoke: Psychic
>Grimer: Knock off
>Koffing: Gyro Ball

I say we have him do at least the first 3 of these. If he can only do one, do Dragon Dance. Other anons should vote on this to choose which move(s) we get and offer suggestions.

>>1956408
Improve his Speed and Attack stats while we train with someone else.

>>1956472
>>1956470
Second Dragon Dance

>>1956470
So his hidden power is still electric? or did the hidden power became fire no problem but metang can't do the punch?

>>1956495

It's fire while he holds charcoal like normal and he can't do fire punch.

>>1956470
ehhhh ill get behind dragon dance
and
>Ask Mina for advice about ghost type pokemon
i kind want one

>>1956505
If we ever gt one, I'd say Yamask, or Baynette

>>1956470
Maybe we could try to teach Slowpoke Icebeam using the videos Oliver sent us of his training with nidorina

>>1956472
>>1956486
>>1956505

He will do one move for free, any additional ones will cost a lot of money to train. He quotes you 100,000P for one, but that he'll do bulk deals for good customers. Also, he questions why your choice of dragon dance and asks if you're trying to take folks by surprise with a physical Hydreigon.He says most folks ask for nasty plot, but that you're the boss.

>Confirm Dragon Dance?
>Rain check


AND

>Train someone in something
>Look for a battle
>Get your party together and leave
>Move on from Fina Town
>Something Else

>>1956524
MY GUY, baynette is the shit
>>1956537
>Confirm Dragon Dance
>Lets go fish for a shelder somewhere

>>1956537
>Maybe we could try to teach Slowpoke Icebeam using the videos Oliver sent us of his training with nidorina
The oldguy has a point, maybe we should go for Stealth Rock on Larvitar and keep training Deino's Dark Pulse on our own

>>1956596
Also we should give our black sludge to grimer

>>1956596
Yeah, dragon dance Hydreigon is not that smart, Id rather have a sneaky pebbles Tyranitar

>>1956537
He is absolutely right. We need a special support/sweeper. Nasty plot it is boys.

Or stealth rock Tyranitar.

>>1956537
>>Rain check
>Train someone in something
The lowest levels in stats

>>1956615
Yeah, and training Larvitar should be good, a while ago we noticed that he was turning a little grey and according to our research that means he is getting close to evolving

You pull out Grimer and set him on some special exercises on the nearby machines. He is your least experienced pokemon and needs the most work, and you make sure he gets it. While he does this, you bring out Larvitar. He's gotten less attention than his squadmates as of late and you want to make sure he doesn't fall behind. When he comes out of the pokeball, you note how thick his torso armor is getting, and how gray he is. You have him work alongside Grimer for a while.

You have the two engage in a mock battle of sorts, having Larvitar dodge the slimy pokemon's poison type hits. They don't hurt much but its a good enough incentive for your dinosaur pokemon to keep his speed up. After some time at this, you have Larvitar work on his thrash attack while you give Grimer a black sludge and instruct him on its properties. Shortly after, the poison type demonstrates a fling attack and fires off the item into the thrashing Larvitar's face.

Your pokemon grow tired and you return them to their balls. As it grows later, the crowd begins to thin out. Oliver is still going strong with Kendra, and Mina has been doing a few exercises with her own pokemon.

>Go elsewhere in town
>Battle someone
>Train Deino or Koffing
>Hit the road out of town before it gets too late
>Something else

>>1956764
>>Train Deino or Koffing
Train Deino

>>1956764
>Go fish for a shell pokemon thing for our slowpoke

>>1956787

You're in a landlocked region, you won't find Shellder here. You'll have to go west or look for a trade.

>>1956764
Train Deino

>>1956794
Oh then
>Train Deino
:(

>>1956764
>Train Deino in the art of Plotting Nastily

>>1956779
>>1956801
>>1956809
>>1956841

You release Deino from her pokeball and begin to perform some exercises to warm up. You then work on battlefield maneuvers and discipline for a time, she certainly has come a long way in this department. You have her following your commands perfectly, and then you move on to practicing her bite to improve it into crunch. She has a lot more control, though her power still causes the technique to turn into a dark pulse from time to time. You work on this dark energy control a bit longer, thinking it may help her out if you give her over to Van to learn nasty plot.

You keep at it for a while and she is showing a lot of skill and control. She does eventually get tired and you recall her to her pokeball. There's only Koffing left to train, so you release him as well and start to go through a series of exercises similar to those you used with your other pokemon. You also have him work on perfecting haze once he's gotten all he can from the physical exercise. He gets that technique battle ready in about an hour.

Your pokemon are tired out, and so are those of your companions, so you make your way over to the local pokemon center. There's a few hours left that you could squeeze something in, or you could rest up and hit the road early the next morning.

>Do something in town
>Turn in early.
>Something else

>>1956865
>Turn in early.

>>1956865
Talk with our friends to see how well did their training go and then go to bed

>>1956865
this >>1956903
we did a lot today

i cant wait til we become full fledged profs and start handing out pokemon to trainers....

Isn't there a gym in this place? I'm sure Oliver's anxiously waiting on us to go first.

>>1956896
>>1956903
>>1956909

You talk with your friends about the days' events and Oliver talks to you at great length about how inspired he was by Van's story an how he can't wait to hit the next gym. He's disappointed that he won't have a chance to train his Dratini for a while, and he feels like he's hitting a new plateau with his training. You think you know what he means, you feel it as well. He talks about how he's going to miss training with Kendra once they go their separate ways in Ro City, and she looks wistful and sad.

Mina lets you know she thinks her Gastly is close to evolving, and that she's working hard to keep up with the two of you. She admits she needs to catch a new pokemon, and asks if you're open to looking for one in the desert along the next route. You are fully supportive of course, and she smiles brightly and kisses you.

You enjoy a relaxing evening of low-key discussion with your friends. Ro City and Route 117 South lie ahead of you. The route is long and perilous at points, as much of it adjoins the Great Zatuy Desert. Ro City is a city of travelers known to be a place where one can start a new life, it also houses numerous archeological expeditions to the desert ruins. Oliver tells you of the local gym leader, a mysterious flying type specialist known simply as Wing.

You go off to bed with thoughts scrambling in your head of the numerous avenues available to you.


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That's all for tonight, thanks everyone for playing. May have a short session tomorrow around 12AM EST. Will be updating pastebing and sticking around a while for questions and comments. Feel free to come up with some kind of plan for what you want to do on the journey, ask for route information, pokemon information, etc.

>>1956995
Are there any other researchers in the area we are aware of who study physiology? Any large laboratories? Professors?

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>>1957018

You are certain that there would be a lab for biological sciences of some kind in Leva City, since it's the largest in the region. You think there was an expert on artificial pokemon there at some point, but he went off the grid a while back.

>>1957030
Leva City it is!

>>1957045
We're headed to Fina since ball and chain wants to look at the ruins there.

>>1957078
Anon we are in Fina now, next city is Ro

>>1956995
Are there gonna be megas and Z-moves in this quest? I think we covered it, but I forgot.

Are we going to be able to teach Deino nasty plot after we leave or do we have to do it now?

We should see if we can't get Mina a Fletchling and a Sandile in this desert. A Larvesta would be great for us too. Are those gonna be around the desert?
Mina might also benefit from the company of one of our poison types. Just sayin'.

Thanks for running, Dunk my guy.

>>1956995
see you tomorrow Dunkle
thanks for running

>>1957089

There can be megas and z-moves if you research that. Mega pokemon would be late game high investment stuff while z-moves aren't nearly as rare and you already know of them IC.

You got Van's number, so training a move would involve sending him the pokemon and giving it a day or so depending on the difficulty of the move.

There are definitely Sandile in the desert, there are no Fletching though. Larvesta are rare but not unheard of this far west and this would be the place.

>>1957086
We came along 115 to Aulder where Mina mentioned she wanted to go to Fina which required we go through Roz.
I thought we're in Ro/Roz right now?

>>1957119

I might have switched them at some point, so disregard what I've said before. She wants to go to Ro.

>>1957135
ah now the route numbering makes more sense.

>>1956995
>a mysterious flying type specialist known simply as Wing.
Rock Slide and Ice Punch on the way.

Wonder if we can get Thunderbolt on the Koffing.

>>1957553
If we take the charcoal away from Metang he should be able to use his Hidden Power Electric which should be helpful

>>1957868
I kinda wanna give him a miracle seed, a sharp beak or silver powder. Hell, maybe it's not even limited to type-boosting items. What about razor fang, light clay or big root?

>>1957933
Maybe it could work but for the next gym we could use his natural HP electric

>>1958510
Motherfucking magnets?

>>1958945
>>1958945
how do they work?

>>1959723
Found our new study. Magnemites. How do they work?

>>1959751
I'm okay with this

>>1959757
Even connects with the Beldum study.

>Welcome to another episode of the Pokemon Show
This episode: Motherfucking magnets, how do the work?

To explain the phenomena of Magnemite, we must first take a look at how they are created.

>>1960305
>Magnemite
The first part of a Magnemite, the body, is made up of a premier ball that was immediatly discarded after failing to catch a pokemon. Due to the sheet number of these ‘limited’ items, there are a lot of this pokemon.

The next step has never been recorded, however, it is assumed that the already faulty structure of the ball was damaged by the failure, thus breaking the containment of the pocket dimension to an extent and charging a magnetic force with electrical currents running through the metal exterior.

This then attracts various metallic objects towards the premier ball, which fuse with the casing and add a semblence of sentience to the ball, perhaps legitimately creating a sentient being through unknown means.

However, this stage is very unstable, and can be unpredictable. The next stage, Magneton, is far more stable of a pokemon.

>>1960326
>Magneton
An ‘evolved’ version of Magnemite, in truth simply a few premier ball Magnemites who became trapped With each other due to the large amount of magnetic force that constantly surrounds them.

Unable to move farther away than a few inches, this group of pokemon are actually far more stable of a form than the previous one, due to the balance in magnetic current. This version is capable of focusing more power into moves due to combine processing, as well as being capable of more intricate maneuvers despite consisting of 3 separate parts.

This form, however more stable it is, pales in comparison to the final evolution in this chain, the Magnezone.

>>1960369
>Magnezone
An aberration in the Magnemite chain of evolutions. A form not created by combining more forms into one, but by training and strengthening a Magneton in an area with a large amount of natural magnetism, as magnetism produced artificially seems to be unable to mutate the base premier balls to this level.

It is unknown if Magnezone evolves from a previously unknown secondary magnetic force, or if perhaps the pokemon themselves are simply unable to evolve without experiencing some kind of external aberration. However, Magnezone is known for one particular feature in addition to the 3 previous Magneton bodies; a large middle, modular saucer shape.

This saucer holds a large amount of power. The amount stored with rivals that of many major power plants across the globe. However, the reason why the saucer appears is unknown. Previously, the body of Magneton was comprised of three original Magnemites, forming a stable trinity. It is theorized that these Magnemites forming Magnezone scavenged parts from their interior and shifted them to create a singular, main control station.

While widely accepted, this theory is not popular among owners of Magnemites due to the reasoning that without a functional inner portion, the original premier ball bodies became husks of their former self, sacrificing their own conscious thought for the potential to create a new, more powerful being. Due to this fact, many trainers refuse to train their Magnetons in locations with large amounts of magnetism.

>This has been the Pokemon Show. Tune in next time to answer the question: why do Alolan Diglet have such sweet ass hair?

You awake at the crack of dawn, entering into the main lobby of a mostly empty pokemon center. The night nurse looks a little over-caffeinated, clicking madly at a computer in the corner without looking up. You get a few sandwiches for a to-go breakfast along with coffee for your team. Oliver has just entered the area, and he tells you the girls should be out shortly.

Sure enough, they pop out and you give them their share of the morning meal. You make your way out from the center and toward the south of the little town. Within a few minutes you are back on route 117, and an hour after that the road changes from paved to dirt. It's almost a desert, and you imagine it will transition fully as you go. You have a few hours of travel and no fixed schedule or appointments in Ro City, so you're free to take your time.

>Look for trainers
>Look for pokemon
>Look for items
>Ignore everything and focus on the road
>Something Else

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>>Look for pokemon