When Axel opened his eyes, he found out that he was in a hospital bed. He looked around and found out that Agnes was sleeping on the chair right next to him. As he tried to move, Agnes woke up with a surprised face and went out of the hospital shouting,
"Brother woke up. Come fast. Brother woke up…."
'She is always so lively.' thought Axel not bothering to say anything.
Axel looked and felt his body. He found out that he was incredibly tired. He had multiple scars all over his body and it was very hard to even move his body.
He could feel that his body was also recovering at a faster pace than before.
'Is this because my soul and my body are more connected than before?', thought Axel.
Yet, he didn't have the time to ponder over it as his parents came running towards him. He could see the worried face of his mother and father.
His mother started to ask multiple questions rapidly.
How are you?
What did you do?
Why did you go to such a dangerous place?
"Just let him breathe for a second.", said his father, and his mother finally calmed down.
The worried face of his mother turned to anger when she realized how incredibly stupid her son had been.
Then followed the barrage of shouts and berating.
Axel didn't have a reply to all of her questions cause he knew that he was stupid and had done something wrong.
Due to the system and his Pokemon and his team, he had started to overestimate himself and thought that such a trip would be like a holiday. How wrong he was.
The doctor finally came and said,
"Mr. Axel, your body is too weak and you need at least a week of bed rest. You are suffering from malnutrition and there are multiple wounds on your body. None of the injuries are serious but you need to take it slow."
"Thanks, doctor but I just don't understand why I am covered in wounds. The last time I checked, I didn't have so many injuries.", asked Axel.
"I will answer that.", came a voice and he realized that it was Blue.
"When you finally got out of the cave by god knows how, we were waiting for you. Only your commander, Krishna was left standing. All of you fainted at that point. So, we carried you to safety.
But Malamar was quite angry with this. So, it counter-attacked us. It didn't directly come to fight with us but we had to face a lot of Pokemons on that island. So, in that time, you were injured."
"What about my team? Are they okay?"
"They are fine. They just need some rest just like you."
"But only a month is left before the tide battle. I need to get ready.", said Axel.
"Axel, you need to take things slow. You need to take care of your health first. Besides, your team is training and working hard. You can just monitor their progress and the progress of your Pokemons."
"But how? They are on that island."
"Haha, that is why I have come here to give you the good news. We are Aeus Island too. This is the hospital on Aeus Island. So, don't worry about it."
Axel didn't know how a hospital was created when he was not here but he didn't bother to ask.
He later found out that the hospital was not in his area of Aeus Island. Aeus Island was pretty big and there were other people who owned the part of the Island. The hospital was part of the land that the league owned.
After 2 days, with constant requests from Axel, the doctor gave him a temporary release.
Most of these medical equipments were transferred to his area and now Axel was sitting in a wheelchair watching the fight between Blastoise and Gandiva.
Yes, Wartortle had evolved to Blastoise now and it had become powerful. There were a lot of improvements in his Pokemons and Axel regretted now seeing it happen.
One of the joys in his life was to see his Pokemons improve and become stronger. Beedrill was very close to reaching pseudo-champion rank. With his system, Axel got to know that Charizard and Shedinja had also reached pseudo-champion rank.
Aron had started to train hard and though it had not evolved, it had become proficient in battle.
Finally, Koffing and Pawniard had started their training too. But their training was not specific. Serena had started to train them in Axel's absence but since she didn't know Axel's vision in training them, she only took a general route and taught them some general moves and focused on their physical stat training.
Other Pokemons were training on their own but Axel knew that he had to focus on Koffing and Pawniard's training.
But first, it was hidden power typing time!!!
Axel went ahead and then put the TM on the top of both of their heads.
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Ding!
Congratulations, Koffing has unlocked its hidden power.
Hidden power type: Dark
Congratulations, Pawniard has unlocked its hidden power.
Hidden power type: Electric
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Axel looked at the stats of Koffing.
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Pokemon's name: Koffing
Pokemon Nickname: N/A
Pokemon Rank: Common rank
Pokemon Tying: Poison
Ability: Neutralizing Gas
Hidden ability: Stench (locked)
Potential: Brown (Monstrous)
Health: 800 /800 Attack: D+
Agility: D+ Defense: C
Sp. Atk: D++ Sp. Def: C
Moves: Stockpile (U) (Lvl 14), Pain-split (Lvl 8), Toxic (U) (lvl 18), Gunk shot (U) (Lvl 9), Explosion (Lvl 3), Heat wave (U) (Lvl 14)
Hidden power: Dark (0%)
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It had improved a lot in this past month. Axel could say that it had been working very hard.
It had not learned any new moves but it had trained on its existing moves. Axel wanted to use the stockpile strategy on Koffing. Because it was perfect for it.
Koffing was known for its defense after all.
So, Axel thought to train it in 'Swallow', 'Spit up' and 'Substitute'. Axel saw the power of 'Stock pile' strategy when Snorlax used it in the previous tide battle. He could tell how effective it really was.
But one of the main requirements of using this strategy was to have high defense and high health.
Koffing may not have a high health like Snorlax but it had high defense. And the matter of high health could be trained from now on.
'Substitute' was just to use the move 'Explosion' effectively.
He moved to look at the stats of Pawniard.
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Pokemon's name: Pawniard
Pokemon Nickname: NA
Pokemon Rank: Common rank
Pokemon type: Dark/Steel
Ability: Inner focus (0%)
Hidden Ability: Pressure (Locked)
Potential: Brown (Monstrous)
Health: 750/750 Attack: C+
Agility: C Defense: D
Sp. Atk: D Sp. Def: D
Moves:
Active moves: Sucker punch (U) (Lvl 16), Retaliate (U) (Lvl 15), Iron Defense (U) (Lvl 16), Fury cutter (U) (Lvl 13), Thunder punch (U) (Lvl 18)
Passive Move: Warrior's pride.
Hidden power: Electric (5%)
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It was also quite diligent in its training. Axel could see that it was even more hard working than Koffing.
Axel had made the right choice in choosing this Pokemon.
As of right now, Axel didn't have a good strategy on how to raise this Pokemon. So, he concentrated on the basics.
He decided to teach it 'Swords dance' and 'Lash out'. These were chosen for obvious reasons. It was just for the basics.
The most important thing for pawniard was how to use its body effectively. Its body was combined with multiple swords and these swords would change as it evolved in the future.
Axel believed that if it was able to fully utilize the movement of its swords, then it would become very deadly.
Axel had looked into a lot of training manuals and programs for Pawniard and its future evolution but none of them were quite up to his standard.
"Blue, do you have any training manuals for Pawniard and its future evolutions? I had not found something that is quite satisfying till now."
"I have an answer for that but I don't think that you can get it.", said Blue.
"Oh, now I am interested. So, where can I find this mysterious training manual?"
"Axel, you know that the origin of Pawniard is from Paldea region. The region that is about to become the main region.
What you don't know is that it was mainly due to Kingambit that Paldea had a chance to become one of the main regions.
There are a lot of requirements to be selected as one of the main regions. One of them was that the people or the royal family, must have done something extraordinary for the human race.
300 years ago, the prince of the Paldea region had a Kingambit, and that Pokemon was so strong that the league became interested in this region. The Pokemon was a master-rank Pokemon at that time, it was the king of tide battles.
It had said to slaughter millions of Pokemons during its time. But when the prince became the king and then died due to old age, that Pokemon vanished.
It is said that the Kingambit who vanished is a guardian angel of the Paldea region and would come to assist the royal family at their time of need.
That Kingambit created its own style of fighting and only the royal family of Paldea region has access to it."
"Now, where can I get in contact with the royal family of Paldeea region?", sighed Axel. He knew that it was simply impossible.
It was not his region and the royal family would not benefit anything by giving the training manual to Axel.
"If I didn't have the solution, then I would not have talked about it. Of course, there is a way to get that training manual."
"Every 4 years, there is competition between the royal family of the main regions. The winner of that competition would get the chance to ask something from any one of the king or queen of the region.
The next competition is happening after 2 months. If you can convince the royal family of the Kanto region to get that for you, personally participate in that tournament, and win, then there is a good chance that you will be able to get that training manual."
"Oh, but have I not heard of such a competition?", asked Axel.
"It is mainly between royal families so it is not publicized much. You have a good relationship with the royal family. Maybe you will be able to get it. The fight is mainly between young trainers who have not reached 20 years of age. So, you have a good chance of winning this competition."
"Thank Blue, I will think about it."
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When Pawniard heard that Axel was trying to get it something that would make it powerful, it started to work even harder.
Meanwhile, as Axel was trying to rest, he heard a knock on the window and it was Staraptor that came to discuss something.
It looked quite serious.
After trying to understand it for some time, he came to realize what Staraptor was trying to say.
As of right now, Magneton was the most powerful of 3 of them. Blastoise and Staraptor were both weak to electric type and Magenton was an electric type Pokemon.
The most irritating thing about it was that it was not even confident about winning against Blastoise. How the hell was it going to win the competition after a month?