CH5 (135), What Happened/The Squad (4)

Since I went over Mars as well, that left only three of my "old" Pokemon apart from my water types. Hmm, let's go over Hera next. If I'm not wrong Hera evolved to Pidgeotto roughly two weeks before I caught my Feebas.

After that, she spent the rest of the year and the time after that training herself thoroughly but carefully, not forgetting to take breaks or to request variations for her training as one would expect from someone with her Quirk and Talent.

About 3 or 4 months after the new year I think it was she completed the limit-breaking for the iron stage and broke through to the bronze stage, and as a result, her potential got raised to light purple (already).

Just a month or so after her breakthrough she achieved sapience and once she confirmed that she wanted a name we began going over the options.

Now, while thinking about a few good female names from the mythology of my previous life associated with air, since I kinda had a thing going with naming my Pokemon, except for Optimus and Prime, after such fantasy/mythology figures.

Turns out finding a female deity associated with the sky was harder than expected, or at least I did not remember many of them. We finally agreed on Hera since I said that she used to be the queen of the sky and a symbol that stood for royalty, which she did.

There was no need to focus on the frankly huge negatives associated with the original Hera since we only needed a good name. After that, she/we settled back into her routine.

She once more began training herself thoroughly but carefully, taking breaks or requesting variations for her training whenever she deemed it necessary or when I did.

Due to her steady schedule which made sure she did not focus on only one thing or that she did not overdo anything it took her a bit more than a year to complete the first phase of her limit breaking of the bronze stage raising all her parameters to S.

Once she did, she initiated her evolution becoming a Pidgeot and what for a majestic example of her species she became. Despite not unlocking any genes, royal or otherwise, during her breakthroughs or her evolution she looked about as regal as possible.

Her plumage was glossy as well as smooth, it felt soft to touch despite being tough enough to tank some damage. Moreover, in contrast to the 180 cm height average of the Pidgeot species on Terra Hera stood 250 cm tall.

Not only that, but her wingspan was impressive too at more than six meters. Flying on her was awesome and she could go so fast that it was unbelievable. One had to experience it explaining it was just not the same.

The feeling of flying on a Pokemon was nothing like flying inside a vehicle, the freedom was awe-inspiring. Obviously, one did need to be sufficiently prepared to avoid falling and a robust/strong physique was advantageous for the full experience.

The changes in speed someone with a strong body like me could endure were much higher than that of others. I think we went over Mach 1 during some of our flights, which would have not been advisable or safe if I was not as tough.

I mean no cockpit, no breath apparatus, only flying glasses, a saddle with harness (occasionally), and some robust aviator clothes. Sometimes I flew without the saddle and harness using my aura and/or psychic abilities to ensure I stayed on Hera.

I knew she could go much faster than that but yeah I don't want to risk that at the moment. I was not afraid or anything like that, I just thought it would be better to wait until I was stronger, tougher just in case you know.

I went a bit off tangent again, but it's every human's dream to fly and even if I can actually do so on my own, flying on Hera is just different, especially since she can do so at speeds that I can not hold a candle to.

Anyway, back to the main topic, it took her about two more years to complete her limit breaking for the bronze stage, so about three years after her breakthrough to the bronze stage she was ready to break through once more.

It was about 8 months ago that she reached the silver stage and like those before her she began at the (mid) silver stage as well. Her breakthrough and the boost in potential it caused raised her potential to deep purple.

This made her my Pokemon with the second-highest potential at the moment with Mothra being the first since she had a higher percentage than her.

On her parameter front she used the training of the last 8 months to mainly focus on raising her endurance, energy capacity, and energy density to D, while training her other parameters passively/on the side.

Since the agility was already at C-value, she now needed to raise 3 more parameters to C to reach the (high) silver stage. On another note, she also belonged to the group that finished their first round of resistance training.

With the help of my electric newbie, she had just 2 months ago succeeded in raising her relation to the electric type from a (minor) weakness to a regular/standard one.

We are currently taking a break for a while from resistance training but the idea is to train her ice resistance next, and about her masteries and moves.

Well, those were one of her main focuses as well and one of the reasons it took her longer than one would have expected to reach the silver stage.

'Name: Hera

Species: Pidgeot

Gender: Female

Age: 7+ years

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Type: Flying, Normal

Potential: Blue (78.37%) -> Deep Purple (16.59%)

Genetic variation: None

Abilities: Keen Eye, Tangled Feet, Big Pecks

Talents: Composed

Affinities: Flying, Normal

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Bond: Mikail (strong)

Quirks: Calm

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Parameters:

Stage: Silver Stage (mid)

Vitality: D

Strength: D

Endurance: D

Agility: C

Energy Capacity: D

Energy Density: D

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Immune: Ghost

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Resistance:

Grass (Minor), Ground (Minor), Bug (Minor)

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Weaknesses:

Ice (Minor), Rock (Minor)

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Standardized:

Electric

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Condition: Healthy, Happy

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Masteries:

Air E. Manipulation (Beginner) -> (Advanced)

Neutral E. Manipulation (Novice) -> (Beginner)

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Techniques:

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(Unofficial) Initial:

Steel Slash (in progress)

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Novice:

N/A

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Beginner:

Hurricane

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Proficient:

Tackle, Sand Attack, Whirlwind, Feather Dance, Wing Attack, Swift, Protect

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Advanced:

Twister, Agility, Quick Attack, Aerial Ace, Air Slash, Tailwind, Roost, Air Cutter, Steel Wing

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Mastered:

Gust'

Hera's neutral energy manipulation only got a slight raise from novice to beginner mastery, because most of her focus was on her air moves/manipulation.

The only reason it rose in the first place was that her second typing was normal and that she learned as well as trained a few normal (type) moves.

She first finished learning Protect and raised it to beginner mastery, before moving on to Quick Attack. She brought that one from proficient to advanced mastery for the speed it gave her.

After that, she focused on her Gust before she learned Swift and raised it as well as Protect to proficient mastery. I feel like I should mention that Protect and Swift are not part of her natural move pool.

So, her learning those as smoothly as she had even with help from the others was a testament to her work ethic and talent/potential. Just like the fact that she raised so many of her moves to advanced mastery.

However, that was something that many of my Pokemon had in common and I was proud of them. I made sure to tell them as much regularly as well since positive reinforcement was important.

Not to the degree that they became arrogant or complacent, but still very important. As a wise turtle once said too much salt turns the soup into waste, but the right amount of seasoning enhances the taste.

Everything in moderation indeed. Ahem, while I did tend to go a bit overboard with the praises I made sure they knew not to get arrogant or complacent.

Just had to visit Slowbro, Mama Milotic, Papa Raichu if it came down to it. Nothing brought one down from a high faster than seeing someone far out of their current reach, but it also motivated them by showing them a goal to achieve and surpass.

I wouldn't want them to become depressed or discouraged after all. It was a delicate thing that I believe I have done well enough until now. Anyway, I started to digress once more, didn't I? I can't seem to stop it.

As I said, she focused more on her flying (type) moves and mastery over them and the air in general, so her air energy manipulation rose from beginner all the way up to advanced mastery.

I mentioned Gust earlier and that was the only move she had actually mastered for now, because we both believed that it would help her learn and improve other flying-type moves.

So, after she was done with those normal moves and Gust, she raised her Agility to advanced mastery before she went all-in on flying-type moves for along while.

She raised Wing Attack to proficient before focusing on Roost and training that one to advanced mastery to help her recover a bit whenever necessary.

After that came Tailwind, Air Slash, and Aerial Ace, which she began learning in that sequence before alternating her focus between them until she brought them up to advanced mastery as well.

Those moves were all part of her natural moveset, so it was easier to learn them than other moves like Air Cutter which she began to learn next.

We/she wanted a wide range move so she used Air Slash and Gust as the basis to learn Air Cutter and promptly brought it up to advanced as well. Once she got it down it became easier to raise it thanks to her mastery in Gust and Air Slash.

After finishing with Air Cutter, she went to Mothra and Horus for some tips with Steel Wing for some type-coverage. Steel Wing took her the longest to learn relative to the other moves, but she still kept at it until it she had raised it to advanced mastery as well.

Then she began learning the last move in her natural movement, Hurricane. She took inspiration from Gust, Air Cutter, and Air Slash for that one and learned it relatively smoothly.

That happened around 3 months ago and since then we were working on combining Steel Wing and Air Slash into a move that would turn her wings into swords/blades that could cut her opponents.

Steel Wing served as the basis with Air Slash provided the cutting power, a dangerous combination once mastered. It took 3 months but she was starting to get it to work as intended so only a month or two and she should have turned it into a working move.

We weren't really too sure what to call it, but ultimately Steel Blade lost out against Steel Slash. Now, seeing/going over all the things she had achieved in these less than four years I can just say no wonder it took her longer to raise her parameters, but it was still worth it.

Anyway, that was pretty much it on Hera, which left only Parvati and her super-follower/right-hand man Prime. Let's begin with QueenBee or Parvati as settled on after gaining sapience.

It took her and Prime the longest to become sapient, which she did some time after completing the first limit break, all parameters at S, at the bronze stage. While Prime did shortly before finishing his limit-breaking for the bronze stage.

Anyway, shortly after she became sapient she said she wanted a serious name as well as the others, so we went over some mythological figures that were associated with bees and settled on Parvati.

We agreed that as long as it was just us I could call her with her now nickname QueenBee while using Parvati otherwise to protect her royal dignity.

Yep, royal dignity, she unlocked her royal gene during her evolution, but for the whole picture, I have to go back a bit further. So, she had evolved to Kakuna right before I caught my then Feebas.

After that, she spent about 20 months completing her limit breaking before she entered the bronze stage. During that time the supplements raised her potential by roughly 15%, bringing it to blue (54%) or something close to it.

So, the breakthrough bonus improved her potential to light purple, which meant the bonus of supplements towards her potential was drastically reduced. Now, there was a reason I was being so detailed and it had to do with the unlocking of her royal gene.

Anyway, she did her training raising her parameters until she completed the first limit break of the bronze stage, which meant she could evolve. Now, this took more than a year, a bit less than 1.5 years, and her potential only raised by a bit less than 2% during that time.

So, back to the story, we entered my space as we did for every evolution, I took out the stuff I prepared, and she began to evolve. Until here everything was like always, but then she began to suck in more energy from the surroundings which either meant variation or gene unlocking.

Since we did nothing that would cause the first one it had to be the gene unlocking. We were naturally all excited and after the evolution was over we took in her new form for a bit before everyone began congratulating her.

She looked like a regular Beedrill with a few extras just like Mothra had after unlocking her royal gene. Parvati had gained a white fluffy-looking mane around her neck as well. She also had marks/lines somewhat resembling a crown on her head as well as lines on wings.

Oh, and she was much bigger than a regular Beedrill. Regular Beedrill grew somewhere between 100 to 110 cm on average, but just like Mothra had been, Parvati was more than double that size.

She was about 220 to 230 cm in height and combined with her new royal traits looked pretty majestic. A while later I remembered to check her status and noted something I had not noticed before with Mothra, her potential had actually visibly reduced.

Taking into account the bonus from the stuff I had prepared and her at that moment current potential which was deep blue (84%) she had lost somewhere between 20 to 25% for the unlocking of her royal gene.

Still, it was a price worth paying and she made up for it with her breakthrough to the silver stage, which happened a bit more than 2 months ago.

The bonus she could get from the supplement and the breakthrough bonus brought her potential to what it was right now, purple. On a side note, I checked my super-library for any additional info on the unlocking of genes and I found some.

A part was still locked but from what I found there were 4 Tiers of genes and depending on the Tier as well as whether it was the first, second, or even third gene one was unlocking, the potential price one had to pay increased.

From what I saw unlocking Tier 1 genes like royal, shiny, or ancient cost roughly 40%, but that was what it should be outside my space.

The energy-rich and specially adapted environment inside my space reduced that to about 30%, while the stuff I prepared for her evolution lowered that once more to about 20%.

So, outside of evolution supported by extra stuff, the price for us was 30% roughly 75% of the original. This was naturally not definitive and I needed more examples, but I was pretty confident with the conclusion I had drawn from the information at hand.

The second gene seemed to cost 50% more than the first and the third 100%, while Tier 2 genes were double the cost of Tier 1 genes, so 80% for everyone else and 60% for us.

The rest of the Tiers were not accessible yet but I assumed they followed the same pattern. Anyway, thanks to the bonus of her royal gene her starting parameters in vitality, strength, agility, and energy capacity were one value higher than a regular Beedrill's parameters would have been.

The same had happened to Mothra's strength, endurance, agility, and energy capacity after her breakthrough to bronze, so I had been prepared for that one.

'Name: Parvati (QueenBee)

Species: Beedrill

Gender: Female

Age: 4+ years

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Type: Bug, Poison

Potential: Blue (38.7%) -> Purple (46.88%)

Genetic variation: Royal

Abilities: Swarm, Sniper

Talents: None

Affinities: Bug, Poison

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Bond: Mikail (strong)

Quirks: Hardworking

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Parameters:

Stage: Silver Stage (mid)

Vitality: D

Strength: C

Endurance: F

Agility: D

Energy Capacity: E

Energy Density: D

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Resistance:

Grass (Major), Fighting (Major), Poison (Minor), Bug (Minor), Fairy (Minor)

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Weaknesses:

Fire (Minor), Flying (Minor), Rock (Minor)

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Standardized:

Psychic

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Condition: Healthy, Happy

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Masteries:

Bug E. Manipulation (Beginner) -> (Proficient),

Poison E. Manipulation (Beginner) -> (Proficient)

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Techniques:

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(Unofficial) Initial:

N/A

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Novice:

N/A

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Beginner:

Toxic Spikes, Focus Energy, Endeavor

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Proficient:

Fury Attack, Fury Cutter, Poison Fang, Harden, Iron Defense, Bug Bite, Laser Focus, Assurance, Pin Missiles, Agility, Fell Stinger

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Advanced:

String Shot, Poison Sting, Toxic Thread, Electroweb, Venoshock, Poison Jab

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Mastered:

N/A'

Now about her resistance training. After she broke through to the bronze stage Horus and I helped her train her resistance to the psychic type, more Horus than me but I did help as well.

She actually succeeded in her resistance training just two weeks ago, and about the same time our bond improved to strong.

She also did a lot move-wise which helped her increase her mastery over her poison and bug-type energy. Those raised from beginner to proficient mastery by proxy.

She had learned Iron Defense as a Kakuna and raised it together with Harden, Poison Fang, and Bug Bite to proficient mastery. She also focused on Poison Thread and Electroweb actually raising those two to advance mastery.

What can I say those two were pretty useful for it especially Electroweb and there was not much else to do as Kakuna. Once she evolved she learned a whole slew of moves to make up for her limited move pool.

First learning them before increasing their mastery once the move pool was sufficiently expanded. Toxic Spikes, Focus Energy, and Endeavor were learned and later on brought to beginner mastery.

Fury Attack, Fury Cutter, Laser Focus, Assurance, Pin Missiles, Agility, and Fell Stinger were learned and later on brought up to proficient mastery. We actually focused on Venoshock, and Poison Jab after she learned those, and she raised them until they reached advanced mastery.

That she did all of this in the roughly two years since she evolved to Beedrill showed just how right her Quirk of Hardworking really was, and her high potential may have helped a bit as well.

Now, only Prime was left and his case was a lot less "complicated" than Parvati's case. I mentioned that he gained sapience shortly before he finished his limit-breaking at the bronze stage.

Well, that event actually happened just 3 months ago and he still had to finish his limit-breaking. His endurance and energy capacity still had to be raised to SSS, but it shouldn't take more than a few more months.

I want to mention that it was still a lot earlier than regular Beedrill who did it mostly at the (low) gold stage and rarely the (high) silver stage. Holy Mew, I am actually bragging at myself while mentally monologuing. Let's just ignore that really quick and go on.

Anyway, I got him to accept Prime by saying that it used to be the name of the right-hand man of a great ruler, and that got him sold with the name.

I mentioned his evolution to Beedrill, so let's mention the one to Kakuna as well. That one happened about 4/5 months after Parvati's evolution I think. The Beedrill one happened more than a year ago, a bit less than 1.5 years actually.

What else? His breakthrough to the bronze stage together with my resources raised his parameters from deep green to blue. I mentioned his parameters and his stage, so his resistance training was next.

Hmm, just like Parvati he was training his resistance towards psychic energy/moves but it was still a work in progress. His moves and masteries should be the final point.

'Name: Prime

Species: Beedrill

Gender: Male

Age: 5+ years

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Type: Bug, Poison

Potential: Deep Green (46.2%) -> Blue (22.66%)

Genetic variation: None

Abilities: Swarm, Sniper

Talents: None

Affinities: Bug, Poison

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Bond: Mikail (weak)

Quirks: Dutiful

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Parameters:

Stage: Bronze Stage (high)

Vitality: SSS

Strength: SSS

Endurance: SS

Agility: SSS

Energy Capacity: SS

Energy Density: SSS

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Resistance:

Grass (Major), Fighting (Major), Poison (Minor), Bug (Minor), Fairy (Minor)

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Weaknesses:

Fire (Minor), Psychic (Minor), Flying (Minor), Rock (Minor)

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Standardized:

Psychic (in-progress)

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Condition: Healthy, Happy

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Masteries:

Bug E. Manipulation (Beginner) -> (Proficient),

Poison E. Manipulation (Beginner) -> (Proficient)

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Techniques:

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(Unofficial) Initial:

N/A

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Novice:

Focus Energy, Toxic Spikes, Endeavor

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Beginner:

Assurance, Fell Stinger

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Proficient:

Bug Bite, Harden, Iron Defense, Toxic Thread, Fury Attack, Fury Cutter, Poison Fang, Laser Focus, Pin Missiles, Agility, Venoshock, Poison Jab

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Advanced:

String Shot, Poison Sting, Electroweb

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Mastered:

N/A'

With the help of his boss, Parvati, Prime learned a lot of moves. You scratch that he learned everything she did thanks to her tutoring just worse, mastery-wise I mean.

Only Electroweb was raised to advanced joining String Shot and Poison Sting. Focus Energy, Toxic Spikes, Endeavor were left at novice mastery, while Assurance and Fell Stinger were raised to beginner mastery. The rest of his moves he was proficient in.

This all helped barely raise his poison and bug masteries to proficient. That concluded the old squad, except for the water types. You know talking about Beedrill made me remember Rose's reaction when she visited us 10 days ago and saw my Beedrill.

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