[16:25] [11/10/1276] [Oak’s Lab, Pallet Town, Kanto]
Bruno admired the charmander for a while before he noticed she was feeling….embarrassed? “Hello charmander, it will be a pleasure to have someone as you in my team together with ferroseed, here, come a little bit closer to us.” He said while gesturing her to approach them.
She took a few steps while coming close to them but still stood a little bit out of the reach of Bruno’s hand, Bruno noticed this and gave a look to his gramps which understood what he wanted and started picking an item from the bag on the side.
Oak quickly took out a pecha berry and tossed it to Bruno who expertly catched it and offered it to the charmander in his front, “Here, this is for you, we can take baby steps in this, it’s not a problem.” He said while giving a reassuring smile towards the charmander.
Charmander looked at him while steam seemed to appear around her head, she quickly picked up the pecha berry and ran towards a table that was pretty far from them.
Bruno them felt something touching his arm and saw that ferroseed was looking at him with hungry eyes.
“You want something to eat too, eh? Gramps, what does ferroseed like to eat?” He asked.
“Well, as you probably understood, the charmander likes sweet berries and this little one likes the sour ones as fertilizer.” Oak said while taking some of the items that were above the table towards Bruno.
“Anyways, let me finish giving you everything before you go do what you want, this here is a special backpack i bought from Silph Co.. It has an expanded space inside of it that equals 100 times the size of a normal backpack, one of it’s spaces is also a refrigerator, each pocket is an entirely separate compartment so you can set certain ones for specific items, it also is pretty light even while being full of items.” Oak said while giving him the backpack.
“I’ve already put some berries and food packs specified for your new partners in the fridge compartment, if you want to make food for them yourself, you might need to study a little bit since it’s a pretty difficult topic of research. I’ve also put a lot of different pokeballs in this compartment over here so you can choose which pokeball you want to use when capturing new pokemons for yourself, remember that while you still are an 8 or under badge trainer, you will have a limit of 6 pokemon that you can have with yourself, the rest you catch will be sent to me since i’ve already set myself as your sponsor.” Bruno kept nodding while he listened to his gramps.
“Now this is a map that currently only has the directions of the kanto region, if you want other regions maps you will have to go to each region’s main professor and ask for the most recent data of it, i won’t help you with this one since it is your journey.” Oak said while giving Bruno a big tablet which he could apparently locate everything in the kanto region, the image was something that Bruno recognized as a sattelite vision of the whole extension of Kanto with a little bit of johto in it.
“And this is probably the most important one of all, i’ll beat you up if you lose it Bruno Oak. Your own Pokedex, it has all your information as a trainer, your bank account and even social and other apps you can download from the pokenet.” Professor Oak said while Bruno picked up what looked to be a cellphone.
Bruno looked over the phone and saw something interesting in it, “Is this one of those rotom pokedexes? I thought it needed to have a rotom inside of it so it could work.”
Oak smirked while looking towards Bruno, “It works normally without a rotom, and as i said, it’s your journey, i’m not gonna help you with getting a rotom. Don’t you remember how hard it was to make you accept me as your sponsor? You said you didn’t want that much help from me and that the starter pokemon and pokedex was already good enough, i’m surprised you’re accepting everything i’m giving you right now.”
Bruno stood up from the ground after putting everything inside the bag, he sheepishly put his left hand on his nape while sweating a little, “I guess i was just too engrossed in making it my legendary journey, but you’ve given me way more than i thought i was going to receive, thank you gramps.” He said while giving Oak a hug.
He looked downwards towards the ferroseed and saw that charmander had her head tilted around the table she was hiding so she could look at him, Bruno gave a warm smile towards his gramps before saying, “Charmander and Ferroseed, let’s go out to play a bit, i’ll also give both of you some food.” He said while walking towards the exit and waving his hand in goodbye to Oak.
Ferroseed quickly rolled close to him while charmander, not so stealthily, followed both of them.
Oak looked towards the door they left and sighed, “I hope everything goes well for him, everything is getting more and more dangerous in these parts, now let me check with the gym leaders about the team rocket invasion that happened recently and see if it won’t affect us too much.”
Bruno rapidly got out and went towards the training grounds right outside of his gramps lab, it had four pokemon arenas, one stand in the side with an area for a referee in the opposite direction of each arena, there was also a building under the stand which stored some training equipment and and some cleaning supplies.
He went to the building and picked up a bucket, quickly filling it with earth and mixing it with three aspear berries he found in his backpack, “Come here ferroseed, absorb some of these berries and stay a little in the sun while it’s still out.” The moment he finished saying it, ferroseed already had half of his body inside the earth in the bucket while his body was softly glowing from the rays of sunlight.
Bruno also quietly picked a pecha berry and put it in his side and waited while looking towards the sun going down in the horizon, a few minutes later he heard something in his side, he turned his head and saw the charmander was a little bit closer to him now while eating the berry, ‘Baby steps but always going forward, this is good.’
He then quickly remembered that his starlight’s eyes had the ability to check hidden information of others, he quickly tried to use it on charmander.
[Status]
Species: Charmander (Female)
Nature: Timid
Ability: Solar Power (Initial)
Age: 2 months old
Physical characteristics <
Badge level: 0
Combat skills: Scratch, Ember, Ancient Power(N), Counter(N)
Support skills: Growl
Utility Skills: None
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Titles: Shiny, Young Alpha(N)
‘That’s quite a lot of information, i thought it would show less, apparently she is the child of an alpha and i won’t say no to this genetic present.’ Bruno said while focusing on both titles.
Shiny: The Shiny title marks this Charmander as a special colored one within her species, this change also grants stronger power when utilizing her flames. (1.5x)
Young Alpha: The Young Alpha title signifies that this Charmander will stand as a dominant force among her peers. Larger and more powerful, her aura exudes confidence and command. This title boosts her physical prowess and reinforces her authority in battle. (1.3x)
Bruno felt elated after seeing both titles, ‘So shinies are actually stronger than normal versions of the pokemon, and i wonder if the alpha one will get stronger when she grows up.’
‘Let me see her physical characteristics now.’ Bruno said while mentally clicking on it and seeing a lot of data of the charmander in front of him, her height, weight, energy condensation in her cells, if she had any disease, porcentages of muscle, bones and fat, it basically showed everything she was now and even her future growth patterns.
‘This will probably help me a lot in modulating their required nutrition and path for growth, it’s strange that i can’t see iv’s and ev’s, i’ve always thought these things didn’t make much sense in a pokemon’s real body so they might not even exist in here. Let me check on ferroseed now.’ Bruno thought while now focusing on the next pokemon which was almost sleeping in the bucket.
[Status]
Species: Ferroseed (Male)
Nature: Relaxed
Ability: Iron Barbs (Initial)
Age: 3 months old
Physical characteristics <
Badge level: 0
Combat skills: Tackle, Knock off(N)
Support skills: Gravity(N), Leech seed(N), Harden, Toxic(N)
Utility skills: None
Title: Barbed Monarch(N)
‘We have the older one of the team here and what is this barbed monarch title?’ Bruno thought and immediately received a new display in his front.
Barbed Monarch: Conveys a sense of leadership and dominance by exerting the presence of a royalty in the battlefield. Enhances steel and grass type attacks and defensive skills(1.5x) while giving a boost to the sharpness of Iron Barbs ability(2x). This title is only gained by having a true royalty bloodline in your species.
‘So he is basically royalty between the ferroseeds? Damn, gramps went really hard on helping me in my journey. He got me great items and even got me a junior shiny alpha and a royalty little steel ball.’ Bruno thought while chuckling.
Both of his pokemon looked at him with confuse eyes, ”Ah, don’t worry about it, i’m just so happy that i’ll be able to travel with both of you. I have a lot of secrets i carry with me, but both of you will discover them since we’re partners, there’s also a goal i have made for myself and would like to give both of you this goal too.” Bruno said seriously to both pokemon who waited for him to say it.
“We’re going to get as strong as legends and gods, champions will just be a part of our story as we pass through everything that dares to be in our path, we will aim for the true top of this world while also living a happy life together, are you with me in this one?” He asked both pokemon who looked surprised at hearing about his dream.
Both of them looked at each other for a few seconds before firming their gazes at Bruno.
“Char Char!” Said charmander with a firm voice for the first time.
“Ferrrr.” Ferroseed emitted a sound that seemed almost like a growl in confirmation.
Bruno immediately laughed and fastly gave both of them a hug, not minding ferroseed’s thorns and actually being able to hug the charmander that didn’t try to run from him, “I honestly couldn’t ask for better companions at the start of this journey.”
He quickly released them from the hug and said, “Now there’s also something really important, names, we need something to differentiate you from all the other ones from your species, it will define how other people and pokemon will refer to you in the future.”
He saw both of them were focused in what he was talking and he gave them a warm smile, “Now, since i’ve met ferroseed first, you will also get the name first, since you are a little monarch of iron i think i’ll name a part of it with crown, it should have thorns like the ones you have in it too, hmmm….” Bruno kept thinking while ferroseed and charmander waited.
“I think i got a good one, what do you think of Silvthorn Crown? I can call you more easily as Thorn but i feel like it has a good feeling to it, what do you say?” He saw ferrothorn, no, he saw Thorn squint his eyes in delight while saying “Ferro! Ferro!” He could understand he was really happy with the name.
“And for your name my beautiful charmander, i already thought of a pretty good one when i first saw you, what do you think of Emberlyn Dracaria? I feel like it is an amazing name that brings out your flames and draconic bloodline through it.” The moment he said the name, he saw stars twinkling inside of Ember’s eyes, ‘It’s good that both of them accepted the names, now let’s check more about their skills.’
“I can already see what both of you can use as moves. Thorn, you can currently use tackle and harden in the common rank.” Thorn immediately looked a little embarassed at the comment, “But you have four more moves you can use that are currently dormant, we just have to train your known and future moves a little bit.” Thorn immediately cheered up after hearing what Bruno said while Ember was visibly anxious while waiting for him to talk about her.
“You will become what i call a semi-stationary tank hazard setter, we’re also gonna build up your resistance training a lot in the future. But for now i want you to show me your moves while i will also help you get a feeling to the ones i know you can already do.” He finished talking with Thorn and turned to Ember who visibly tensed up.
He smiled at her and said, “You don’t need to be this tense, i’ll be making check ups with both of you almost daily and you can’t be this tense every time, that will end up being bad for you mentally, you can relax when it’s just us, okay? Try taking slow and deep breaths for a while.” He said and noticed Ember had immediately started taking deep breaths and after a few puffs of hot air in his face, she visibly seemed to have calmed a little.
“Now that’s better, so Ember, the moves you can currently use are scratch, ember and growl, all of them in their basic forms while you also have dormant ones you need to understand. Your training will involve in you being fast while also dealing special damage from afar, but we still will build up your close combat knowledge since you need to know how to get away from someone that wants to fight up close, alright?” She immediately nodded after Bruno finished talking.
Both pokemon seemed to be a little confused at how he knew what moves they could use it, but he saw they visibly shrugged it off and went towards the arenas.
Bruno firstly followed Ember and saw her using ember, which basically was a small ball of flames being shot from her mouth, the flames travelled close 5 meters before disappearing in the middle of the air, he then picked up a target in the same building he picked the bucket and put it in her front at around a distance of 7 meters.
“Try concentrating even more your flames into a stronger one and see if you can hit this target at this distance, it’s okay if you don’t do it today, we can always keep trying it, alright?” He saw Ember nod and immediately started trying to make the flame more and more concentrated before failing in directing it more than 3 meters to her front.
“Nice try, just keep going at it, i’ll see what Thorn is doing.” Bruno said before coming closer to Thorn who had a sheen of silver around him at all times.
“I see you’re probably using harden, try rising the energy concentration inside of you before releasing the skill, if you can enhance the energy being used, we might just get an even better skill for you in the future.” Bruno said while also bringing a target to Thorn’s front at around the distance of 5 meters.
“While you’re also using harden, i’ll need you to focus on something else in between the moves. I want you to focus on the grass energy around you and inside yourself, try feeling it like a seed in your body and then try throwing the image of this seed at this target.” Bruno said while getting a nod from Thorn who started making stronger bursts of the silver light in his body and then he stopped for a while and focused, slowly a seed started growing on top of him, but it only stayed whole for a short time before fading when he tried throwing it forward, he then repeated the process over and over again.
‘I have to say they are showing themselves dilligent in training at this starting point, i guess my little speech was good for them. Let me also check if i have a book in this bag so i can take some notes of their training.’ He quickly went over some of the compartments and saw one that had 5 books and a lot of pencils, pens, markers and erasers, ‘Thank you gramps, you really know me well.’
Bruno smiled and started taking notes about everything important he could see in both of their stats and also what he could improve from their current training.
He really felt grateful from all these gifts he received from Oak, what he needed to do now was use these memories of mini-Bruno and the little he knew from pokemon in his last life to make the best team there ever was.