Chapter 32: Poke Exam, future plans and training.
After the pre historic pokemon fiasco I immediately headed to pokemon Centre to heal my pokemon. I also took a much needed rest and I slept like a baby. After resting I immediately sent a report on evolution of golbat to Linda. She called me immediately. Now you will assume it is to praise me for my new discovery. No! She scolded me for being reckless. Apparently the news recorded Aerodactyl and my battle. She scolded me for not being careful and I know she cares for me so that's why, but one thing you want to know is that you never want to be in the receiving end of her scolding.
I also informed her about the possible existence of other living pre-historic pokemon underground. I got commission for that. Fossil pokemon apparently can't breed so this will help in their revival. These pokemon will also be transferred to a safe place protected and monitored by rangers.
I was also informed by Linda the exam date and place it will be held and so was heading there. It's interesting how different the characters are from canon. Butterfly effect maybe.
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"So heard about your exams for pokemon proffesor. How you feeling." Gary said while we all were eating.
"I am trying not to think about it cause when I think about how I have to give exam in two days I feel nauseous. And that is putting it nicely." I said.
"Wait what exams." Ash asked.
"I am giving exam to earn a PHD so that I can become a full fledge pokemon professor." I replied shrugging.
"That's really admirable." Brock said.
"Thanks." I said.
"Hey you work on topic of evolution don't you." Gary asked. I nodded at that.
"Then is there any difference if we use a normal evolution stone compared to a premium grade stone." Gary asked.
"Well a premium stone has more potent power stored in them compared to a normal evolution stone. I believe there is something innate in each pokemon. Their potential you know. Each pokemon battle poitential is different. I believe if used premium stone to evolve compared to normal stone then the evolved pokemon with premium stone will come out much stronger than the one with normal stone. Of course both pokemon in comparision should have same potential." I stated.
"So if I want to evolve my staryu I should evolve with a premium level water stone." Ash asked.
"Yeah that would be best but you see these stones are really costly. One million poke-dollars to be exact." I said. Everyone gasped a little.
"What Misty, Brock you two are gym leaders. You should know it." I said.
"Yeah rock pokemon don't really need stones to evolve you see. Guess I got to learn something new." Brock said.
"Well I guess I might have skipped some lessons." Misty said solemnly. Must be some family matters. Shouldn't ask too much.
"Gary, Ash I heard you two learned with Professors Oak. You should know." I asked confused.
"Well I am not proud but sitting in class was not my kind of thing. I rather prefer the open." Ash admitted which surprise me. He was shown too competitive for his own good in anime. Not admitting to his mistakes in first season. Still in beginner stage. But this showed clear maturity. Guess some things are different from cannon.
"Well grandpa never taught us this to be honest. " Gary said.
"Guess we got to learn something new. Thankyou." He said humbly. I was surprised. Even Gary wasn't showing his arrogant self, rather he appeared mature. I smiled and nodded at that.
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'Guess I have got to work hard. They are not really what anime showed them to be. Similar but not exactly same.' I thought while heading deep in the forest not knowing that it was there way to impress someone they like plus they thought me as rival seeing how I battelled against aerodactyl.
After a whole day I finally reached Chinshiki city. Ironic how chinshiki means knowledge in Japan. I directly headed to exam centre and went to register. The exam was tomorrow morning at 10. I headed to pokemon centre to heal my pokemon and get a much needed rest.
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Oh my god I have exam tomorrow and I slept till 8. God I know I have all the pokemon knowledge from system but still. Ugh. Guess I will study after eating and meting my pokemon.
Some time later-
So yeah I said I will study but then spending quality time with my pokemon is also important so yeah. Here I am just starting to study for my PHD exam at 11 O clock. Got to revise got to revise.
Morning-
I am here in the exam hall running on coffee. I am on the verge of dying but okay. Just have to answer all these questions and get outa here. So all the best to me.
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So exams results will come in a few days. I decided to rest today too before starting my training. I think I will train here for quite some time. The next event from anime I am interested in princess festival for fun purposes obviously and maybe because everything is cheap. I think I have an idea for my poision types.
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"So today guys we are gonna try to improve the poision in a single attack. We have been training your strength till now, but now we need to train you such that even the weakest of poision attack can get your target poisioned. " I said. Crobat, Ivysaur Nidorino and Nidoran nodded at that.
"For you pikachu, I want you to learn magnet rise. It will help you with ground type moves and maybe if I am thinking in the right direction." I paused considering if I should give some hope.
"Maybe you will be able to fly." I said finally. It will help as then Pikachu can have the same advantage as a flying type pokemon. She won't just have ground but the air too as her field. She can dodge.
"Combusken I want you to build up the flame strong enough that even the weakest of the embers should be enough to melt the iron." I said. I brought a metal from the system that resets itself back to its original state after damage. Don't ask me how it does that it just does.
The training began. I have to become strong. So that I never have to use trickery or luck to win like with team Rocket.
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