Chapter 72: C072 - What happened during the time skip? (Teaser for Volume 2)
AN: I got stuck already when writing the second chapter of Volume 2 so this is me telling you I will likely cut down chapters to 1-3 a week until I find my mojo back. I'll work on something else in the meantime to try and get back on this with renewed fun and vision. Enjoy this chapter so you can see what I had worked out for the farm during the last "two years" or 700~ days.
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While others thought of Pete as a upcoming professor specializing in evolutions and moves like Professor Rowan from Sinnoh and the currently youngest professor, Professor Kukui from Alola, one professor in particular thought that Pete would become the professor specializing in pokemon typings, especially the fairy typing.
The typing was among the newest discovered and recorded typings in recent history, but it wasn't new. There were a few species known or at least suspected to have fairy typing like the Clefairy line and the Jigglypuff line. But Pete wrote about the typings in all his papers, like it was the most natural thing to know.
First, Pete renamed the elusive Marill line the 'Azurill line' after 'discovering' the condition for an egg of the species to be a Azurill. Then, he surprised everyone by giving all three evolution stages fairy as secondary typing. Academics all over the world were furrowing their brows over this matter and tried to prove or disprove the young assistant professor, but Professor Magnolia from Galar immediately accepted Pete's very short reasoning he offered in his papers.
Later, Pete had written a paper on the fairy move Misty Terrain that could prevent poisoning and named several pokemon like the Azurill line to be prime candidates for learning it. He named several species by name and listed their typing as reasoning. Starting from the Togepi and Snubbull line, who were very much expected to be at least normal/fairy if anything else.
Pete went as far as naming psychic pokemon powerhouses like the Ralts line and Mr Mime secondary fairies. He had no proof to offer, so many people didn't accept the young assistant professor's word. Yet barely anyone could even offer inputs. Fairy pokemon were notoriously rare and shy in the first place.
To help prove the naysayers wrong, Professor Magnolia of the Galar region talked it through with Professor Elm and curated several pokemon to be sent to Pete's farm. With some help from the professors of Alola, Unova and Sinnoh, unwilling or otherwise, the old professor from Oak's generation sent Pete eggs and pokemon that were either caught for this occasion or were rescued from abusive trainers. They gathered one or more Igglybuff, Togepi, Ralts, Flabébé, Dedenne, Milcery, and Hatenna. With the intervention of the Joy clan, Pete was also sent a pair of Comfeys.
Ten weeks after Pete came back from Hoenn, the Joy Clan had finally started their Alola expedition and had built several poke centers in the region. With Pete's tip, they quickly found Comfeys and managed to bond with several in a very short time.
Betty Joy, the Nurse Joy of Violet City, was among the first to bond to a Comfey and had proven Pete's words right. Floral Healing and Aromatherapy were two moves almost every Comfey knew by instinct, and they loved helping when in a calm and joyful environment. Betty even kept Pete up to date on the happenings on Alola with weekly updates.
An old friend of Professor Magnolia, the Ballonlea gym leader Opal in Galar, even went as far as changing the typing of her gym officially from psychic to fairy after the two old ladies drank tea and talked about Pete's research for an afternoon. It became the first ever fairy gym in any league and was therefore the center of attention for quite a while.
In the meantime, Pete had proven the Sylveon eeveelution with both of the hatchlings of his Hoenn-bought eggs, making his farm a true haven for fairy pokemons. Espeon had taken both of those Sylveon as his partner and had six offspring at this time. Five of them were either eggs or Eevees still, the other one evolved into Jolteon with a Thunder Stone.
Duosion, as most of Pete's originally hatched pokemon from the container egg haul, had long ago evolved into a shiny Reuniclus. She had won the place of Pete's ace from Arcanine the day of her evolution and continued growing stronger quickly.
Her biggest advantage was her strong physical and special attack with her biggest weakness, her speed, barely factoring in on account of all the defensive moves she knew in addition to her abilities Overcoat and Magic Guard. Even if she was hit, together with her own powerful healing moves, her ability Regenerator helped her recovery even more.
She, too, had found a mate recently in one of the two Ralts that had evolved into Gallade thanks to the Dawn Stone Pete had flown in from Unova. However, they did not have any offspring yet. The other Ralts, the female one, had naturally turned into a Gardevoir already.
Thanks to the four affinities Pete had unlocked, all his bonded pokemon with these typings had an unnaturally fast growth speed. He was prepared to make it his next longterm research project after exhausting most if not all the 'hidden' evolutions he knew thanks to his previous life.
None of his pokemon had died yet, but there was one instance where someone had tried stealing Pete's shiny Miltank and Jasmine's shiny Quagsire. They had succeeded, too. But not for long.
The two poachers brought two very big, very old Sableye they had somehow managed to enslave with one of those collars that Team Rocket had invented, but they found the wrong farm to rob. Sableye's only weakness, fairy type moves, was something Pete's farm didn't lack.
Pete's five Whimsiscott and the three Dedenne had discovered these poachers and made quick work of them. Since then, Golurk started roaming the nearby forests, and his two Milotic and the Dragonair offspring of the female Milotic started roaming the waters.
An Officer Jenny from Goldenrod City had later identified them as suspected Team Rocket members who had fallen off the grid, and Pete's farm fell victim to a few more visits by shady people after that. Someone wanted to target him or his farm.
It made sense if you didn't know about his, Courtney's, and Jasmine's pokemon's strength. Pete had many valuable pokemon, a giant farm with priceless berry trees covering a giant hill, a Vespiquen tribe lived near the crops for delicious Combee honey, and he was shown to have six shiny pokemon in the latest interview he gave in addition to Jasmine's Quagsire and Courtney's Turtwig. The shiny Turtwig was a birthday gift from Jasmine when she gifted the birthday girl an egg from her Torterra.
Reuniclus, Golurk, Jumpluff, Miltank, a male Combee who had hatched a few weeks ago and a Slowbro he had caught teaching the dark move Nasty Plot to his three Farfetch'd to buff their Air Cutter and Air Slash moves' special attack. Those were his shiny pokemon at this time.
Pete was still a little miffed that he couldn't use his King's Rock on a shiny Slowpoke instead, but the King's Rock won't turn bad. There will be a use for it in the future. And a shiny Slowbro looked cooler than a shiny Slowking anyway.
Pete was, however, sure it would not help Eevee evolve into anything. It was a fun evening, no eeveening, trying it out with two freshly hatched sisters. But sadly, nothing happened, and they later turned into Sylveons, not any Queen Eevee normal evolution. Queevee? Queeveon?
It turned out there was no king of painter pokemon either. His two Smeargle were the two most laid-back pokemon on the entire farm. They even found a different use of Mirror Herb or, as it is now called in Johto: Tutor Herb. The two made every artist stereotype from Pete's old world proud and discovered through sketching a fire move and grass move respectively that you could also smoke the herb.
Pete was currently preparing for a doubles tournament he was asked to be a commentator for at Goldenrod City's gym. Tournaments like these were happening quite often, and Pete's recent popularity had reached a new height so he was frequently asked to help host these events. He usually accepted if Jasmine would attend the tournament, too.
Each contestant for this particular tournament was allowed to bring two pokemon, and Jasmine, who would have her audition as Olivine City's gym leader in two weeks, was the absolute favorite of it. Jasmine had won contest after contest when she started attending tournaments several weeks after Pete came back from the Hoenn trip.
The pokemon pair Jasmine would bring for the doubles tournament were her recently evolved Excadrill and Donphan. The two were among the most competitive of her pokemon and had great synergy for Sandstorm with their Sand Veil, Sand Rush, and Sand Force abilities.
Jasmine's father, Herbert, had brought a Drilbur with him when came back from a work trip, and the eventual Excadrill made a great doubles partner for most of her pokemon, and that was without her being fully trained yet. Tournaments like this were amazing coaching opportunities, though. If she only cared about winning, she would simply bring Steelix and Gliscor.
The Drilbur had started as a mischievous brat when it arrived, but it had only messed with Pete's crops once, and it had almost cost her her life. Drilbur started behaving much better after that. She became a dedicated worker, likely to gain enough strength for payback on Golurk and Pete's three Farfetch'd. But none of the older pokemon on the farm were slouches. She would have to fight an uphill battle if she wanted payback.
"Got everything?" Pete asked as he waited for Jasmine dressed in a smart beige suit with a white shirt and a dark brown tie and shoes.
"Yep! Can't wait to see Whitney again. She didn't come over in so long," Jasmine answered as she walked closer and then stopped to give him an appreciative look. Pete cleaned up nicely when he wore the suits he bought for all his interviews and meetings after coming back from Hoenn.
"Yeah, your sister might be a magician," Pete quipped back with a wink as he did little spin and a pose.
The suit was an original 'Sophie' specially tailored by her for him, though Pete forced her to lean into a minimalist style. Sophie's first sketch for this suit was covered in stitchings for vines, flowers, and pokemon. It was a mess you couldn't look away from, but for all the wrong reasons.
"I like you better when you are running around in nothing but shorts on the farm," Jasmine retorted with a playfull roll of her eyes.
"I'll put on a show for you later," Pete joked with a grin. "Did you say goodbye to your girlfriend Courtney yet?"
"It was one kiss! Our lips barely touched! We aimed for cheeks on the same side! We were both drunk and light-headed from the hot spring," Jasmine shot back with a shove and a blush.
"Don't worry, I'll stop teasing you when it stops being funny," Pete argued back with a laugh and shouted toward the other girl in question, "Courtney!! We're off to Goldenrod! Remember to call if any more idiots try stuff! I'm only taking Reuniclus, Espeon, and the two Sylveon with me! The rest are yours to command!" Pete shouted toward the river.
"Enjoy and good luck, Jasmine," a far away voice answered back. Pete could see her talking with her Mamoswine and Camerupt about something near his raised beds.
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