CH119 (349), Ideas And Arrival

Well, something I had not expected came out of Togepi's welcoming party. Gible and Togepi became fast friends throughout the party. Whether that was because Togepi felt that Gible needed some extra happiness or something else I did not know, but by the end of the party the little fairy and the little dragon were acting like good friends that knew each other for a long time.

They even roped Tyrogue into their little group, and I was jokingly considering if I should bring out some juice so that they could drink to their brother/sisterhood. I could call them Luffy, or rather Lucy, Ace, and Sabo, but that was just some fancy fantasy.

There was no way I would name them simply because of some funny thought I randomly came up with. Anyway, due to the way the two, sorry three young ones acted yesterday, I was not surprised when they all insisted to stay together while I was spending some time with one of them.

So, instead of spending some time with Togepi to get closer, or with Gible for the same reason, or working on Tyrogue's routine, I spend the time with all three of them. We played and talked together during the time I would have spent socializing with Togepi as well as Gible, and the other two watched and cheered a bit during Tyrogue's training before they became too fired up and began doing some training of their own.

I also brought out the Eevee squad as well as Nyx and they joined the young trio sometime after lunch. I naturally also made sure to keep an eye on Utopia to supervise and talk with everyone else. It was during times like these that I was super thankful for my second thought stream and my master control of Utopia, which allowed me to not neglect my other Pokemon while spending time outside of Utopia.

Still, that did not stop me from thinking about how great knowing a cloning technique would be. I had not forgotten my ideas regarding Double Team and Substitute, but the implementation was too hard and for the foreseeable future out of my reach.

Yet I had not stopped thinking about solutions as well as alternatives, and I had come up with something that I was confident would/could work. It was something that required me to train up one of my elemental affinities, but I was ready to do it since it would be worth it.

Besides, I had already unwittingly done the first step for the ground element during the personal competition, so working on that element made sense. Essentially, I was going to create something like an Elemental Clone like the Earth or Water Clone from Naruto, just better.

The reason I called it better was that the only way my version could be differentiated from me was by using astral/soul abilities. I would need to incorporate astral energy to solve that problem, but I was not planning to work on that as well for now.

As for my clone itself, I planned to train my ground abilities up, until I could create a Ground/Earth Clone. Then I would work on infusing my aura into the creation process to create a more lifelike version that also gave off my life signal, and could do what I could do to a certain extent.

The next step was to include my mind/mental energy into the process, to turn the clone into a full-fledged copy that also gave off my mental signal. Afterward, I would use my second thought stream to control the clone, and viola, I had a second body that was perfectly under my control.

I could obviously do something similar by only using my ground and psychic abilities, without the aura, but that would be an inferior version, that would lack "life", so I preferred doing a triple aspect clone. If I ever added astral energy to that clone, I would have practically created the perfect clone.

Oh, and if everything worked out as I wanted it to, then I could use my ground, aura, and psychic abilities as well through my "triple clone" while controlling it. The best part was that as soon as I unlocked a third or fourth thought stream, I could create another clone giving me access to another body. I would be redefining the word multi-tasking, and that would solve or at least ease my time problem by quite a bit.

Anyway, where was I before I went off-tangent again? Ah, yes, I spent the day with the young ones and before I knew it Kyoday was nearly over. I was a bit giddy when I went to sleep since I would be visiting Oak's Lab tomorrow.

It might have been an Egg Center and not the main laboratory, but it still belonged to Oak. Besides, I would be getting a Charmander egg, and that was already enough of a reason for me to feel giddy. Who knew? Maybe I would get to meet the legend himself if he decided to show up.

Well, it was also possible that he was busy with something else, or that my appearance did not attract his attention, but I was hoping that he would show up at some point since I would like to see the man for myself.

While thinking about some more random things, I fell asleep.

I woke up a bit earlier than usual even without setting any alarm. Since I was already up at 6 a.m and only had to be in front of the academy at 9:45 a.m for my meeting with Mr. Cameron, I decided to stock up a bit on the food front, so I went inside Utopia and began cooking all kinds of food for my Pokemon.

As soon as a batch was done I would store it, where it would stay fresh until I took it out. By the time the fourth batch was close to being done, it was already 8:30 a.m, so I began cleaning up the kitchen while the latest batch finished cooking.

As soon as it was done, I began handing it out to everyone instead of storing it since they had already woken up by this point. I did not stay inside Utopia to accompany them for breakfast but left instead for my own breakfast with my parents.

When I went downstairs mom had already prepared everything since she knew I would be leaving for the academy at 9:30 a.m at the latest. Once I was done with my breakfast I thanked mom for the food, and she as well as dad wished me luck on my trip.

I left our home at 9:35 a.m and considered a bit whether I should run to the academy or not before shaking my head in denial. There was no need to do that. Instead, I pulled out Horus/Xatu's ball and called him out.

I asked him to Teleport me to the academy gate and he did. I could have done so as well, but it would have taken more jumps and time, so I decided to leave it to Horus.

I recalled him after thanking him for his help. Mr. Cameron was not here yet, and a look at my watch told me that there were still 9 minutes, correction, 8 minutes until our agreed-upon meeting time. I began pondering if I should head to his office instead of simply waiting at the gate, but he showed up just a minute later together with his Alakazam.

"Good morning my boy," he greeted me and Alakazam followed suit. 'Good morning young Mikail,' he said.

"Good morning to you as well Sir," I first returned Mr. Cameron's greeting before doing the same for Alakazam. "Good morning to you too, Alakazam."

"Alright, let's not waste any time," Mr. Cameron said before he nodded at his Alakazam, who proceeded to teleport us to our destination.

We appeared at what looked like a reception room, and Mr. Cameron directly walked up to the reception desk. I followed behind him, and Alakazam was levitating along as well.

"Good Morning, I'm here for Mikail Geo's appointment," he said to the receptionist.

"Good morning, Mr. Cameron," the receptionist seemed to have recognized him since she returned his greeting without him needing to introduce himself.

"The appointment is scheduled for 10 a.m, so you're a bit early. Otherwise one of the assistants would have welcomed you," she said before giving a smile in my direction.

"Give me a moment and I'll call them to inform them of your arrival," she added before she took up her office phone and called someone. She spoke for a bit before she hung up and focused back on us, or rather Mr. Cameron.

"They'll be here in a few minutes," she informed us. "You can take a seat in the lounging area if you want," she added while looking at me before she motioned towards an area with empty seats and tables.

"Thank you, but we'll wait here. It shouldn't take them too long," Mr. Cameron flashed her a smile and I as his hanger on stood by his side. It turned out that he was right. Less than two minutes later a young man and woman walked up to us and greeted us.

"Yes, good morning to you two as well," Mr. Cameron returned their greetings and I did the same. "I'm sure you are aware of it, but this is Mikail Geo," he added while patting my shoulder.

"I'm leaving him in your care for the duration of his stay," he said in a serious tone. "I'll be back at 6 p.m to bring him back, so make sure he's well taken care of until then," he instructed and the two assistants nodded earnestly.

It seems Mr. Cameron's reputation preceded him seeing how the assistants working in Professor Oak's Lab were reacting. That, or he had left quite an impression on the staff of the center during his last visit.

"Alright, I'll see you later. Make sure you trust your instincts while choosing and good luck," he said to me before he vanished together with Alakazam.

Once he was gone I felt the pair of assistants relax a little, and the male spoke up to introduce themselves to me before he began talking about the center.

"With our introductions out of the way, let's talk about the center and your visit," the male assistant began explaining in a practiced tone.

"Our center maintains hatching rooms with optimal development and hatching conditions. Each room contains a clutch of eggs ranging from 12 to 16 Charmander eggs. The number depends on the time the eggs were laid and their development speed, as well as parentage/origin.

The lab is quite large and has 70 such hatching rooms. Removing those that contained eggs that have already been assigned, and rooms that contain eggs that were recently laid, you have access to 39 of those rooms," he declared before the female continued in his place.

"The reason you can not visit the other rooms is that Professor Oak is only willing to hand out eggs that have less than 6 months until their hatching. He is usually only willing to part with hatched Charmander, but he occasionally allows the handout of eggs if the reasons are sufficient," she explained while looking into my eyes.

"A request from the government or alliance is sufficient enough, but alliance request or not, Professor Oak was, is, not willing to budge on the 6 months rule. This rule was also one of the reasons that Mr. Cameron personally came to our center.

He tried to persuade Professor Oak to increase the hatching time so that you can have a bigger pool of eggs to choose from, but the professor refused, despite Mr. Cameron verifying that you have already successfully taken care of multiple eggs.

Still, even though he failed to get Professor Oak to increase the hatching time, he managed to raise the time you are allowed to stay at the center by an hour, which is why you can stay until 6 p.m, instead of 5 p.m," she finished seriously, apparently trying to make me aware of the effort Mr. Cameron invested for my sake.

The male spoke up once again after the female had said her piece.

"The two of us will be accompanying you until lunch, and after that, another two assistants will take over for us. You are not allowed to leave our sight during your stay here," he proclaimed.

"It's the lab rules, so there is nothing we can do about it. It's the same for everyone else as well," he added while shrugging his shoulder. That broke the professionalism the two had maintained so far.

"Alright, now that we've told you what we were supposed to, let's start with the first room," he said with a smile. They began walking further inside and I followed along.

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