Chapter 83

By time we finished our morning training, it was already nearly ten in the morning, we'd been going for nearly three hours.

And both myself and my pokemon, were absolutely exhausted, my skin was disgustingly sticky with sweat.

While I was catching my breath, I looked around at my pokemon from where I was sitting, Chansey sitting by my side on the right, and Clefable sat on the left of me.

They were the least effected, since they didn't really train much, and that much only really applied to Clefable, and only a tad. She, while liking to learn new attacks, wasn't much of a fighter. And even then, both of them had expended quite a bit of stamina from repeatedly using Gravity and Heal Pulse.

Victreebel had collapsed on its side, while Bellossom lay limp against the poison and grass type. Milotic lay strewn across the floor, like a big giant limp noodle, Charmeleon had collapsed on his back, Shiftry was as always, leaning against a wall, cross armed and ever cool looking, but it was really only that wall keeping him up.

Both Fearow and Golbat lay face down on the floor, both of them with their wings spread out wide. Butterfree's massive form was perched on one of the benches, stoic as ever, but his bright red eyes were half lidded and huge white wings curled over.

Pidgeot, was really the only one who wasn't practically half dead from exhaustion of those who were training. He was stood on the ground, his beak spread into a massive, smug, pride filled smile. I'm still not sure how a beak can smile either. That is some whacky biology.

My eyes drifted to Golem, who had retreated back into his shell after training. The loss against Surge's Golem still had him down.

Fucking roided cunt and his cheap ass tactics.

Hypocritical, yes, very much so.

The only hypocrite I like is myself.

"Alright guys." I spoke up, since training was down for now, it was time to get down to business.

A massive of exhausted eyes turned to look at me, and Golem even pulled himself out of his shell.

"We lost against Surge, not a big deal though, now that we know what he's like, we could take him easy, but I have other plans," I began, "There's a bunch of strong pokemon I have my eyes on, and I need all your help to deal with them.

Specifically, a few of them are gonna be quite violent, so I need some of you guys on standby at the Pokemon Centre to keep them compliant if they get out of hand."

They perked right up at my words, "I've already picked out who's going to get sent back," I continued, "This isn't a punishment or anything guys, keep that in mind. Every single one of you are damn amazing, and yes I mean you too Golem, I'm picking you guys because I know I can trust you guys to keep them in line."

I looked each of them in the eye and made sure they knew I meant all of them, "The ones of you going back are; Clefable, Shiftry, Butterfree, Golbat and Golem," I revealed, and continued on before any of them could take it the wrong way, "Butterfree and Golbat, you're both strong as hell and you can keep them down with your spores and hypnosis attacks, Golem, you can take a hit like nobodies business, yesterday was just bad luck and poor planning on my part, Shiftry, well, you know your strong and Nurse Joy trusts you to keep other pokemon there in line and Clefable, I mainly want you there to let the others keep up their training with Gravity and healing them."

I'd pretty much ingrained how to continue training physically with them after all, they would get right down to it even without my constant supervision. And with Clefable there, all my pokemon not currently in my party, could reap the same training benefits on the physical route.

Most of them, accepted it without issue, there were two that didn't quite seem to be happy about it.

Golem, took on a morose look and slumped over, and Clefable gave me a big teary eyed pout. Golem of course took it wrong, but Clefable, she really only joined me initially because of my offer to teach her all I knew about the legends and such.

And I'd been keeping that promise. I'd told her all about Deoxys and Rayquaza, and what I knew of pokemon in space, and tended to just ramble on when we had some privacy after training from Hilda.

"Don't worry," I pat her on the head, "I'll ask Nurse Joy to let you use the computers, I showed you how to use one remember?" I'd done so back in Hollywood, way easier than just getting her a bunch of books and lugging them around.

Clefable's eyes lit up and she nodded along happily, losing her pout. For all I knew about the reality of legendary pokemon and things going on in this world, there was still much research into them that I knew nothing of, research she could happily read through with access to a computer.

"Well, as long as your happy." I shook my head, before patting her one last time and standing up, making my way over to Golem, resisting the urge to wince at his sullen expression.

"One loss isn't a big deal buddy," I got right to the point, placing my hand on his large, sturdy shell, "And it's not just on you, it's on me as well."

"Go.." Golem shook his head, and lifted his hand up and displayed one finger to me, staring me dead in the eyes.

This time I couldn't help but wince, there was no stopping it. Yeah, I got it. It wasn't just that he lost.

But it was that he lost to a single attack.