~Soutarou POV~
'WHAT?'
Soutarou stared flabbergastedly, and gulped a bit…
[✨Snivy ✨( ♀️)
Abilities:
Overgrow
Hidden Abilities:
Contrary
Absorbed Items: Miracle Seed
Held Item: N/A
Level: 20
Size: Average Sized Snivy
Potential: Level 100 (MAX) Master Tier
Affection Level: 10 (extremely wary of humans…)
IVs
Health Points: 31
Attack:31
Defense: 31
Special Attack: 31
Special Defense: 31
Speed: 31
Moveset: Tackle, Leer, Vine Whip, Wrap, Growth, Leaf Tornado, Glare, Leech Seed, Mirror Coat, Pursuit, Captivate, Iron Tail, Twister, Grassy Terrain, Magical Leaf, Sweet Scent, Giga Drain, Attract, Protect, Substitute, Cut, Grass Knot
Basic Energy Manipulation: Flash, Grass Energy Manipulation, Grass Control, Pressure/Intimidation
Status Panel End.]
'What the hell? Two abilities- wait a damn second… Well, doesn't Milotic have more than one ability too? Let's not talk about Ralts she's just a hacked existence that puts almost every legendary to shame… And how the hell did both of the supposed normal Pokémon I get end up with near maximum talent? Plot armor? What's even crazier is…'
'Is… that this Snivy is over her level cap for her evolutionary line! She should've already evolved into a Servine! On top of that… Snivy somehow absorbed a Miracle Seed meaning her Grass Type moves are going to be busted… what if I stack another Miracle Seed on top of that? No… No need…'
'Still…I completely forgot that I have the ability to use my background to buy items for my Pokémon… I guess I'll have to go do that… I doubt I'll need it right away, but I'll keep it in mind… But hold on a damn second… some of the moves that Snivy has… Don't you need TMs for her to learn them?!?!? What sort of bullshit is this? Just how many damn egg moves does she have? Everything up to Leaf Tornado I was like ok fine that makes sense those are level up moves and then fine even up to Sweet Scent those moves as egg moves…'
'But Hidden Power? Cut? Giga Drain? Substitute? Those are most definitely TM moves! The only possibility that's outside of TM moves is maybe… learning like Ash's Pikachu learned Iron Tail… But this is really absurd… Snivy is honestly more broken than Milotic is right now… Well… This is a pleasant surprise, but most definitely a welcome one.'
Soutarou started smiling goofily while softly staring at Snivy. Which made Snivy all that much more uncomfortable…. Eventually the trio of Pokemon and Soutarou retired for the night and Soutarou asked Snivy if she wanted to sleep with them or if she wanted to return to Pokéball or even if she wanted to sleep separately. To which Snivy just bumped her Pokéball with her vines and returned in a bright stream of red to her Pokéball. Soutarou was a bit sad that Snivy didn't want to snuggle…
'Have I become some Pokémon cuddler or something? Whatever eventually Snivy will join… Hopefully…'
Soutarou's eyes glinted in calculation before making a sudden realization that made his lips turn upwards.
'Well there's always another way to prove my sincerity…'
Soutarou planned and schemed before forcing himself to try to fall asleep, which only backfired instead and he stayed awake for nearly three hours before Ralts had to use Hypnosis on him to get him to stop rustling around and sleep…
~Soutarou POV, seven hours later~
Waking up groggily, feeling like shit since Meowstic had woken him up right in the middle of his deep sleep.
'Dammit… I'd have preferred six hours of sleep to this… Well whatever… At least I slept unlike the night before last…'
Soutarou straightened himself out before yawning and stretching and then scoping a sleepy Ralts into his arms.
Playing with Ralts' hair, he gently placed her back on the bed, before deadpanning at Milotic who had somehow rolled all the way to the door and was now drooling all over the floor.
'So unreliable…'
Soutarou then went down for breakfast, asking the Meowstic to serve his Pokémon breakfast as well once they woke up before he went into the main study room of the manor and sat down at the desk. Sitting down, Soutarou turned on the computer that was in the study and pulled up a map and stared at it.
'Hmm… I'm so close to Viridian… Challenging Giovanni is a straight no, as for other gym leaders… It's not like I have to challenge only Kanto gyms either… At this point in time Kanto and Johto are still jointly, the Indigo League…'
'The Indigo Plateau Conference only requires eight badges… and the competition just happened a few weeks ago with registration for the next just opening up last week… leaving me with a little more than eleven months… Based on the time frame Gary and Ash don't yet have their starters, but will soon… Also meaning Brock is the Gym Leader right now… As are Misty's sisters…'
'Lt. Surge is someone I'll go after just to have someone to trash talk to… I'll prolly go after Erika as well… Though both of those gyms will put Milotic at a disadvantage… I'm fairly certain if I can teach Milotic iron tail to a higher degree and teach her some non-water type moves we can pull through… As for Erika I'll just have to hope Ralts evolves into a Kirlia and use her and Snivy to tank through the entire gym… But I also want to head to Johto to try to get the safari zone Dratini…'
'At the same time I have a feeling Ralts would really benefit and so would I if we went after Sabrina, as crazy as that is… Plus if I'm the one to beat her and bring her emotions back there might be… Nevermind…'
Soutarou glanced up towards the bedroom as if fearing Ralts' tantrum. He sighed in relief and continued pondering.
'So my Kanto list to target is Pewter City, Cerulean City, Celadon City, Vermillion City, and lastly Saffron City… As for Johto I definitely want to go against Falkner in Violet City, Bugsy in Azalea Town, and Chuck in Cianwood before heading towards the Safari Zone. As much as I want to fight stronger trainers and gym leaders, there's honestly no point if it's to meet the eight badge requirement…'
'Still there's a whole lot of opportunity in Johto and Kanto especially considering my memory here is the clearest, other than Alola and Kalos. Speaking of… I don't really want to do this… But Ash is honestly a bad trainer; he relies on bonds to power through every battle very early on… I'll acknowledge generation eight Ash, who won the World Championships was on a different level… But Ash, who was playing around right now? Garbage, why do you think Charizard stopped listening to his commands?'
'So instead I'll take Daiman's charmander, and considering Daiman was a rich boy I'm willing to bet that he stuffed that bad boy full of tutored moves. I also could've done that… but where's the fun in playing with cheats? It's like playing survival minecraft, but giving yourself all the items. No fun in that, I want to explore, I want to get dirty, I want to fight. I want to pull through within a hair's breadth, I want to suffer, I want to lose, and I want to build real bonds with my Pokémon…'
'Even though in my last life I died because I tried to PKSM cheat a shiny Pokémon, that's not because I wanted to artificially inflate my Pokémon's level, it's simply because I couldn't get a shiny Ralts no matter what after six days of shiny hunting. In the end I gave up and said fuck it.'
'I'd never cheat the story line or leveling up…'
'While I'm going after the easier gyms, don't misunderstand that's so I can get the nit and gritty down early. Leveling up and whatnot… After that, what am I going to do?'
'I'll go around and start challenging every strong trainer without hesitation. Gym leaders that I didn't get badges from? Challenge their gyms just for the hell of it. I don't want my badge collecting record to have any losses, so I can aura farm at the Indigo Plateau Conference, but everything else is a free game. In fact I hope I lose. I hope I barely win. It's in those moments that Pokémon in the anime evolve rapidly. Plus my real goal at first is to bide my time for a bit, so I can at least handle an average Team Rocket Captain. Based on how buffed Team Rocket is in this time line unless I'm at the higher end of Gym Leader of strength I'll be in for a fucking ride to Arceus' side once again.'
'So going after Sabrina so early is already an extreme risk, but that's one I have to do for growth's sake. Still some of the other gym leaders like Whitney and Clair, or even Jasmine, I have an extremely bad feeling… It's like if I show up in front of any of them I'm getting kidnapped immediately.'
'If not kidnapped at least severely injured. Maybe even dead. My instincts are screaming at me. Worse, Jasmine and Whitney are older than Ash's and Misty's generation unlike the anime… they're about eight years older… which is weird, but it's ok I guess…
'As for Pryce or the Team Rocket Members there's no questions asked there. Funnily though my instincts don't flare when I think about going to Pryce's gym… but I still won't risk showing up in front of the strongest villain in the entire world, no scratch that the current strongest trainer in the entire world.'
'Actually my gut feeling or my flight instinct has been flaring for almost any and all well known female trainers above the age of 22… I'm almost certain now there was another Soutarou… or someone who matched my profile with the three powers… Could it be that…? No… No point in bothering with this now even if that's true it means nothing when I'm as weak as I am right now. I'd better just start training my Pokémon and secretly do the same for my powers…'
Soutarou sighed and ran his hand through his hair in slight stress…
'More questions… always more questions…'
He shook his head to clear up his negative thoughts before slapping his cheeks to wake himself up.
'I'll begin my journey today, once Ralts and Milotic wake up we'll head out. Though even before that… I guess I should lose these luxurious clothes… Even if this is fitted to perfection and is completely suitable for combat and comfort it's more ideal to wear sports clothes, cargo pants, running shoes, and of course a backpack. Who knows when I'll need something or when I'll need to run.'
Soutarou headed out of the study and back into his bedroom, the primary bedroom of the manor, and threw open the massive master bedroom closet. Revealing a spacious closet that rivaled the size of the room almost, with hundreds of unique outfits hung and shelves and dressers with pants, underwear, socks, and shoes meticulously arranged on low to the floor shoe racks.
'Am I at a high end department store or my closet? Talk about over the top… I haven't been in here personally, because Sebastian and the Meowstic usually leave my daily attire out for me… but I guess it makes sense when you consider just how rich people in this world can get…'
Sighing and looking around, Soutarou spotted a M Corp. unique product, that was one of their best sellers, the storage backpack, specifically the XL Night Edition.
'Those crazies in our development department created this… by applying the concept of the inner world of a Pokeball in a backpack they were able to create an enlarged backpack that can store literally this entire closet and more in here, not to mention it'll be practically weightless compared to how much it should weigh...'
Soutarou glanced around the room and scratched his chin, 'As for my outfit I should go with something simple…'
In the end Soutarou picked a white shirt with a golden M etched in the upper center, lightly baggy sweat pants with zipper pockets and a white strip running down the side, off white stylish shoes that looked like a cross of hiking and high top running shoes, a black half sleeved zip up without a hood with a thin golden line going across the mid section and golden lines going upwards on both ends of the zipper, a black wrist band to match his Mega Evolution bracelet, a small black earring stud with a light golden M, and the XL Night Edition spatial storage backpack.
He then began to pack several spare sets, along with a few sets of formal clothes, an even more summer friendly variation, a winter variation, nearly all of the underwear in the closet, all of the socks, half a dozen hats & caps, and lastly a dozen pairs of shoes. Throwing the backpack on he jumped up to see if it was heavy only to feel like there wasn't anything inside…
After that he went back to the bedroom and opened several boxes he had ordered. Placing each of the contents into the backpack in an organized manner before pulling up a check list he had printed out.
'Socks, check. Underwear, check. Spare clothes, check. Formal attire, check. Variations of outfits, check. Spare shoes, check. Swimming clothes, check. Dozens of Towels, check. Plastic bags and trash bags check. Self folding and unfolding tent, check. Cooking utensils, check. Small gas stove, check. Gas for the stove, check. Non-perishable human food, check. Flash light, check. Matches and lighter, check. Lighter fluid and fire starter fluid, check. Spatial water pouch and water bottle, check. Water filtration device, check. Heated & cooling sleeping bag and spare temperature managed sleeping bag, check. Max Repels, check. Full Heals, Potions, Super Potions, and Hyper Potions, check. Pokemon training gear check. 25 Ultra and Luxury balls each, check. Non-perishable Pokeblocks of all types, check. Mini-fan, check. Portable batteries, check. Replaceable batteries, check. Chargers, check. That should be it…'
Soutarou paused for a moment before grabbing another item and slipping it into his pants pocket, 'System Custom Summersdex, check. I only put about 1,000,000 pokedollars into my account, if I really need more I just need to call Sebastian via my Summersdex…'
'By the way, after I made the concept for a Phonedex my system's pokedex just evolved into it and even auto updated with all 1025 pokemon up to generation nine, even before Oak publicly released the data… Which is interesting, but oh well… Preparation complete, let the journey begin!'
Soutarou smiled while waking up Ralts and Milotic…