paladinlost | 28th moon [video]

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28th moon [video]

[In the foreground, one Cecil Harvey, who is holding a few TMs and staring at them thoughtfully. In the background, one Kayne the dragonite and one Mist the Swablu, apparently arguing. Mist seems to be winning.]

How do you choose which of your Pokémon receive a particular Technical Machine? Normally, I'd simply buy two copies, but those were won from Gym leaders. I doubt they have the means to give each trainer more than one.

[The argument becomes louder and louder with each passing moment. A terrified Ralts climbs on her trainer's shoulder and clings to his hair.]

...As you can see, the potential users are having a slight disagreement. If anyone has a suggestion, I'd be happy to hear it.

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Hina has a good... fifteen levels on the one who's third strongest in my group... While Sony just has ten. I've jus tbeen focusing on bringing everyone up to speed lately.

... though it's a little hard to do when I have two newborns to worry about.

I can understand that. I've been receiving newborns every few weeks since January, and I currently raise four. Thus, my oldest Pokémon are at much higher levels than everyone else. Though I train to train them a little every week, to keep them in shape.

Ahaha... I train them both a little each day, but they're so strong that at this point it takes a few weeks or a real tough battle for them to gain a level...

Mine will certainly soon reach that state. I generally set them loose near the city during the day and train the little ones myself at night, but even with that they only gain a single level each week, and it always takes the full week.

Yeah... I don't think the wild Pokemon around here are really made for fighting against ones who are as high leveled as Hina and Sony...

Hopefully there are stronger ones living near Cianwood or Blackthorn. Otherwise, training everyone will become quite impractical.

Mm... Lately it seems like the strongest ones I can battle I run into while fishing, but there's only so much I can do with that... And to be honest, I feel kind of guilty if I use Hina on the ones around Olivine.

You feel guilty? Why?

Ah, well... Don't you ever feel sorry for the wild ones if you go all out on them...?

Not particularly. Even a loss can help them become stronger, after all.

Ehhhhh...? It's not like they're Saiyans and gain more power with each near death experience...

Saiyans? I'm not familiar with that term.

--ah! ... I would be very surprised if you were! But, um... The point still got across, right?

Even if they do not gain levels, they still learn that some strategies do not work, and also how to gauge their opponents. That is also a way to become stronger.

Do you really think so?

--er, I mean... Regarding the wild ones, that is... I've never really noticed them changing how they attack or anything...

Perhaps not as a species, but individual members might, though I doubt they'd attack you again.

... if the same ones kept attacking over and over again, it would be like a never ending grudge match.

Or a rather one-sided rivalry, especially if we use different Pokémon to defeat them each time.

... it's almost starting to sound like bullying...

It would only be if we deliberately seeked them out.

... don't we, though? I mean, we do go out into the wild specifically to look for Pokemon to battle...

But we seek out Pokémon in general, not individuals in particular.

--ah!

... that's a good point.

In fact, I doubt we'd be able to recognize them. They do seem to have less physical differences than most humans.

And it's not like they get battle scars or anything...