I didn’t want to see her again. Moving out for college was just a lie. The truth was I never wanted to look into those eyes again. Those cold, unfeeling eyes that dug straight into my skin.

“Bli Bli!”

I snapped back to reality to the sound of Blibly screaming. To my surprise I still had all of my limbs attached. Actually, they barely even had any grime on it.

“Blibly, you…” I immediately realized what had happened during those brief seconds that I zoned out for. Maybe the Pokemon didn’t understand me, maybe it did. Maybe it was fully aware of the instructions I gave but still stayed behind to protect me, just like its pseudo-owner tried to do.

“I told you to just go and bring Fred with you!” I couldn’t help but scream at the creature, whether or not it understood me was not the issue. It was still here with me, in danger’s way, “that jerk said he needed me alive, so I’ll be fine! So please… j-just take Fred and go.”

My voice started breaking apart as I tried to shove the pink marshmallow that was almost my size. But Blibly barely budged as she stood firmly between me and the assailant.

“Blibly please… I’m begging you, just go…” I sat down knees first onto the floor feeling helpless. Being captured and brought back to my kidnappers was one thing, losing friends that I’ve just made in a long time was another.

“Awww look at you guys ku ku ku, how touching,” the shady man mused on, “how disgusting… let them have it, Arby!”

I didn’t even need to look up to see what was coming next, the beefed up cobra was readying another shot of its gunky barrage.

This is it… Not only did I not manage to achieve a single damn thing, I even let the people that truly cared about me die right in front of me. How was this any different from my past life… Maybe mom was right… I am a failure, I…

“Bliii!” Blibly gave a yelp as she caught the full brunt of the blast again, weirdly enough it looked as if the attack did almost nothing to her.

“You’re…okay?”

“Bli~ ssyyy!” She tried giving me a thumbs up with what little fingers she had on her stubby arm. Even in this situation it was hard not to reward her efforts with a smile.

But of course, Blissey has one of the highest Special Defense stats in the game. And Sludge Bomb is a Special Attack! What makes it even better is that Arbok’s Special Attack isn’t particularly high either. Hopefully the Liberations Army grunt won’t notice and switch over to physical attacks. Until then, I have some time to collect my thoughts and think of a strategy!

“Bli! Bli!” Blibly was still holding her thumb up for some reason, not only that but she was waving her arm around, as if to catch my attention.

“Yeah I get it, you’re encouraging me right? I’m sorry I didn’t believe you at first, even though you believed in me…”

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“Bliiii!”

No… Blibly’s not giving me a thumbs up, she’s… pointing at something…

I looked over at the direction of her arm and realized what she was signaling me towards. Inside of Fred’s ecru jeans was something rigid and rectangular in shape.

But of course! If I could find a way to contact that good-for-nothing detective, we might have a way out of this! Sorry about using your stuff without permission but this is an emergency!

Without wasting any time I reached into Fred’s pocket to retrieve the device that looked very similar to the modern cell phones I was extremely used to back on earth. Except what I fished out of his pocket was nothing like that.

Orange in appearance, although it had a monitor in the center, the device had way more buttons and indicators than the phones I was used to. It even had a cover that flipped open like the Gameboy Advance I had back home.

Actually no… it looked exactly like the gadgets I used to play Pokemon on. That could only mean one thing…

“Bztt- Blissey, happiness pokemon. It is said that anyone who eats a Blissey egg will start acting kindly to all others.”

I knew it… It’s a flipping Pokedex… Great, I have no idea how to navigate this thing…

But wait, the way this interface looks…

Could it be…?

A few mashes of the buttons proved my guesses correct: the device acts the same way as the Gameboy Advance I used to own, plus a few more buttons which I wasn’t too sure about. But with that I was able to pull up the stats screen of Blibly, along with it the screen I most wanted to see.

Moves… As long as I know which moves Blibly has I can think up of a countermeasure! Even if she only learned moves like Pound or Takedown, I can still slowly chip away at the Arbok while sustaining with her ridiculously high special defense and recovery! Let’s see…

Heal Pulse… Soft-Boiled… and… Life Dew?!

HUH!? WHAT DID THEY DO TO HER ATTACK MOVES??

All 3 of her moves are just healing moves, with one of them only usable on a target besides herself. And her last move has strict conditions to activate as well. Even if she is level 48 there is no way she can keep tanking attacks forever from a similar leveled Arbok. Speaking of which… am I able to scan the information of my opponent’s Pokemon as well?

“Bztt- Arbok, serpentine Pokemon. This Pokémon has a terrifically strong constricting power. It can even flatten steel oil drums. Once it wraps its body around its foe, escaping is impossible.”

So it only gives out basic information and the Pokemon’s level… level 46… So I was right. It might be 2 levels lower than Blibly but without any method of attacking I’ll just be… Wait! I got it! I never thought this was going to work because I had Heal Pulse in the moveset but I just need to spam the move until its Power Points run out! Once the PP reaches 0 on a move, a Pokemon can no longer use that move in the battle.

But that’s exactly what I want.

As soon as all my PP is depleted I’ll be able to use that.

Maybe it was my expression of relief, or maybe it was from having his Pokemon scanned. Whatever the case, the shrill-voice-ninja-wannabe’s face twisted with anger as he mumbled something under his breath.

“People like you… Always looking down on me… I worked hard and finally got to become one of the higher ranked officials. No way I’m losing to some brat that barely knows how to use a Pokedex! Arby! Use Gastro Acid!”

The Arbok responded to its owner’s negative emotions and launched yet another wave of disgusting ooze towards us. Blibly shielded me and Fred from the attack as usual. Except this time, the puke had a nauseating smell that I couldn’t quite put my finger on (not that I would want to).

“How’s that!? Kukuku… I have just sealed your Pokemon’s ability. Now I can just slowly Wrap you to death…”

The self-proclaimed high-ranking grunt’s creepy grin widened from one ear to another, so much so that the ends of his lips actually managed to escape the high collared jacket he donned.

“Blibly… I want you to trust me on this…” I said while caressing over her soft and frilly scalp. There was only one way to win this fight, and I needed her complete faith for it to work out.

Thankfully she gave me a nod in return, as if saying she’ll be in my care.

I drew a deep breath and gave out the command.

“Blibly! Use Heal Pulse on the Arbok!”