Chapter 164

As I made my way through the Viridian Pokemon Centre, carrying my sulky little virgin of an Aerodactyl above my head I got a few odd looks from the scant amount of others within the hospital for pokemon, mostly from the working Chansey, but there were a few people beyond those that came to see me here as well.

None of them tried to even talk to me though in spite of that, in fact I felt they shied away from me.

Weird.

I wasn't really going to complain though, while I'd decided to be well...less of a selfish, ignorant cunt after my talk with Surge, and wouldn't have shooed them away, I still have things to do and random people wanting to talk to me would get in the way of that.

It wasn't long before I reached my destination, the secondary building of the Pokemon Centre where the pokemon that were left at Viridian by those the Pokemon Centre sponsored like myself were allowed to roam as they pleased.

'Damn.' I whistled as I overlooked the building from the small hallway junction connecting both the main Pokemon Centre building and it. It was absolutely massive and shaped like a dome.

It was probably around the size of three football fields put together, if not a little more, absolutely gargantuan. It made sense though, pokemon came in all shapes and sizes, and lived in all manners of habitats, so it would need to be at least this big to let them live comfortably.

...Well depending on how many of them were actually there. It was honestly probably pushing it just with my pokemon. It's a good thing I had mostly all my bigger pokemon with me before now.

Humming, I took one hand off of Aerodactyl and balanced him above me with just the other hand, before fishing out my phone and bringing up my pokedex app. The door to the habitat was just like the one the pokeball storage room was sealed behind, though unlike that one registered trainers here with pokemon currently within the habitat, could gain access by presenting their ID as a trainer. It was a state of the art facility that according to Nurse Joy monitored the insides in real time, and if anything were to go wrong, a red alert would not only be sent to the police station and Officer Jenny, but the employed Ace Trainers by the League that protected Viridian City, and of course the Viridian City Gym Leader and his forces.

I paused for a moment, '...How the fuck did Jessie and James ever manage to hold this place up?' I wondered. Putting Giovanni aside, since he would definitely drag his feet if he heard it was Team Rocket behind it, just how were Officer Jenny and the Ace Trainers not alerted?

Did they somehow subvert the system? But, from what I remembered, they didn't really do anything like that and just attacked the joint. Granted, I wouldn't put it past them to be able to actually subvert the system. Jessie, James and Meowth were the most incompetent thieves this world had ever seen, barring Cassidy and Biff maybe.

But they were hyper competent at everything else. They were incredible battlers, incredible at raising pokemon. Expert mechanics, miners, actors, cooks, waiting staff, cleaners, hackers, builders, con artists, escapers, gardeners, infiltrators, fighters and all manner of all professions and abilities. And that wasn't even going into their own personal interests and specializations like Jessie being a qualified nurse and James being a top tier pokeringer and much much more.

And that isn't also going into their absurd loyalty and work ethic. Quite frankly, if it were possible, they would be at the very top of my list of people to recruit to work for me. The amount of boons I would get from them working under me would be absurd. Having all their talents to put to my uses, as well as them increasing the efficiency of looking after my pokemon as a whole....and Meowth being able to translate anything any pokemon said would be absolutely insane.

Not to mention Jessie was absurdly hot.

....I may have resolved to better myself as a person after my epiphany, but baby steps and all that. Rome wasn't built in a day and all that.

'She is damn hot though.' I nodded. And that skirt on those thigh high boots she wore when I saw her back on the day I first arrived here in this world, should have been illegal.

Like Arceus dayum!

Shaking my head and putting the dayum that was Jessie out of mind for the moment, I pressed my phone up against the scanner at the side of the heavy duty security door and waited for a moment as the system worked to process the data.

Bip!

"Access granted," the scanner chimed in a pleasant voice, "Welcome Jord Odhar."

With a soft hiss, the door unlocked and began sliding open.

'Alright,' I nodded and took a breath, before making my way inside, and as soon as I did the door hissed once more and closed tightly behind me. Good system that, I should get one for myself.

That done with, I looked around my new surroundings, and as I did I couldn't help but whistle, both in awe and surprise, "Incredible." I uttered with an astounded blink.

The inside of the massive dome was like that of a massive vivarium. Up above, artificial sunlight streamed down to the world below from a massive spherical construction that rotated slowly. I wasn't sure how though. Perhaps a machine that recreated Sunny Day? Well, that didn't really matter for the moment.

Or well...it did because I want that!

But it wasn't just, the entire place was incredible.

As far as my eye could see were dozens of roving areas of land all in different habitats.

A wide open grassy plain, a wide forest of trees filled with all manner of plant life and berry trees, even just from where I stand I can see an abundance of Oran Berry, Pecha Berry Trees, Cheri Berry trees and more for pokemon to snack upon. In the centre, I could see a massive lake, with multiple large streams wide enough for multiple Gyarados to swim through without issue spreading out across the massive dome vivarium. Small mountainous rocky areas filled with craggy plateaus, swampy marshes filled with murky pools, a small volcano like area and magma pool and even what looked cave system that led into the ground.

And all along the massive walls that made up the inside of the vivarium were all manner of natural terrain, ledges, small tunnels, burrows and such that pokemon could rest or live within easily.

And of course there were pokemon everywhere. A cluster of Nidoran and Nidorino were grazing atop one of the hills on the grassy plain, I could see dozens of flying pokemon like Spearow, pidgey, Pidgeotto and even a few Murkrow and Hoothoot. The most abundant were the water types I could see within the massive lake habitat in the middle and the streams branching out from it.

Huh, neat.

"....Where the hell are my pokemon though?" I wondered. I mean, I could see a few pokemon I had species wise, but I don't actually see any of my specific pokemon.

I'd definitely know if I saw them.

....Most of them.

Some of them I've not exactly interacted with yet.