Pokemon The Wandering Scientist - Chapter 5 Chapter 5

Suddenly, the wind starts to blow, from Gardevour’s side towards Gengar.

(We only have one chance, do not let Gengar get behind you, otherwise the gas it’s emitting will be deadly.)

Gardevoir teleported to the edge of the battleground, anchoring at that spot.

“Gengar! Rain Dance!”

(Stop it! Don’t let it create shadows!)

Gengar’s fingers moved slightly, and a rain cloud starts to form on the sky, but before it could expand, Gardevoir blasted it with a glowing sphere of energy, which was light enough to cast away the shadows. The cloud was then too thin to block sunlight.

Next, Gardevoir turned her raised hand towards Gengar. Spheres of psychic energy were blasted at it.

“S.Double team!”

Multiple Gengars were created from energy, Then, they all sent out a copy, which when in contact with the psychic energy exploded into smoke.

(Hyper Beam!)

It was at this moment that the rings on Gardevoir’s arm showed its purpose. Energy was flowing from the environment into the gap between those and her arm, accelerating as they pass through, when they converge with Gardevoir’s energy at her palm, a laser beam is then formed.

By a flick of her wrist, the laser swept across the whole place, casting the smoke away. After that, a faint blue cage surrounded the smoke area, the moment Gengar came up due to the loss of shadow areas, it was teleported mid air and held in place by psychic.

As Gardevoir slowly raised her hand upwards, energy started converging on her right palm.

“You lost.” William shook his head slightly.

“You sure?” Alex raised an eyebrow.

The next moment, the gengar that was lifted off the ground turned into a puff of smoke, creating a large smoke screen.

“Yeah, I’m sure.” William said as a blast of psychic energy blasted the smoke screen, reducing the shadow volume it creates, and a second blast of psychic energy appeared without warning, striking Gengar just as it emerged from the shadows, which was slightly to the left of Gardevoir.

That blast of psychic energy was enough to send Gengar flying away and fainted. After all, it was a future sight blast against a poison type enemy.

“I lost.” Alex said as she sighed, walking towards Gengar.

That was a signal, both pokemons reverted into their original forms, signalling the battle was over.

“Thank you Gengar, you did great.” Alex went ahead and rubbed Gengar’s head softly, whom had an apologetic face.

William walked up and held his hand up, “it was a good spar, We never tried anything like so, right Gardevoir?”

Gardevoir nodded.

Alex looked at them both, and after a few seconds, she finally held her hand out as well, shaking their hands.

Alex quickly took her hand back after that.

“How did you know my tactic?” Alex couldn’t help but ask.

“Well, I’m not sure what’s your whole tactic, but this is my interpretation. What you’re planning is to make us create an image that you’re going to let Gengar get near us no matter what, then, if we established such a thought, we would forget that the actual reason we had to avoid Gengar getting close was to prevent the toxic gas, most likely neurotoxins or something dangerous anyways, from getting into us. If that was the case, the smoke created from the substitute exploding would carry say toxin and contaminate us.”

Alex’s eyes widened as she heard William’s interpretation, since it was exactly her tactic.

“How did you discover it?” Alex had to know why.

William and Gardevoir turned towards each other and smiled. Before turning back towards Alex.

“Two reasons,” William pointed out two fingers.

“Firstly, your Gengar’s skills were almost all related to gas, anything gaseous created by your Gengar is enough for us to be aware about.” William closed a finger.

“Secondly,” William pointed at Gardevoir and himself, saying proudly, “We are a team, Gardevoir gives the information, such as wind speed and humidity, while I process said information for useful data. Which in our case for example, the smoke created by the substitutes created a blast, which was sending the gas forward, Gardevoir was able to capture the abnormal air speed and relay it to me, while I process it and realise that you were trying to send those towards Gardevoir.”

“But wouldn’t it be near impossible to relay such amount of data to someone by words?” William’s eyes lit up hearing her question.

“Jason was right when saying that I’d like you as a partner,” he shook his head a little. “Gardevoir, show her how it actually works.”

After a second, Alex couldn’t help but open her mouth a little being surprised.

What she experienced was basically a huge information inflow into her brain. Not the normal kind of talking information, but as if her brain was thinking said information.

Information on wind speed, gravity, humidity, energy field strength and flux.

Most of the things that you’d expect influence a battle was existent.

“I understand now, these information were transmitted as signals, and reconstructed directly in your brain, instead of the normal way where one breaks apart the information, gives it out by an inefficient way, then the other person has to reconstruct the meaning, using only the inefficient way.” Alex’s eyes also started to lit up.

“Basically, a better way to transmit information.” William helped sum it up.

“Anyways, I believe its about time we head on to Vermillion City?” William suggested.

Alex responded by nodding. Her face obviously indicating that she wasn’t paying attention.

William shrugged noticing Alex’s situation, he then went off, with Gardevoir following.

After about 5 minutes, Alex followed up, with Gengar probably in her shadow.

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Vermillion City-

“I wouldn’t rant normally, but this is way too bad.” William, his clothes battered from the days of traveling.

“I mean, I planned to go through all gyms slow and steadily, while leaving some time everyday to do activities I actually prefer, and yet?”

“I had to go all around the place because of Team Rocket! They better give me compensate or else!”

“Or else what? You’re stuck in Team Rocket as well.” Alex’s untimely statement struck William like a thunder.

“Yea yea, I know, you don’t need to tell me that…” William sighed.

With nothing in sight to do, all William and Alex could do was search around for anything related to Anne.

That didn’t last long, as they saw a group of people cluttered together with something related to Anne.

An obviously split group, one side with adults at around 20-30 years old pretending to be school girls, and a group of teenagers.

The adults were trying give out tickets to the youngest boy, a boy with a pikachu on his shoulder.

This whole scene was feeling weird for them.

It didn’t last long, as a man walked up.

“Hello Anne, how are you?” The man said with a large smile on his face.

“I’m fine thank you, would you prefer having a cup of tea while we chat?” Alex replied to him, knowing that he is the agent they had to meet up with.

“That’s exactly what I was thinking, let me introduce you to a nice cafe around here, follow me.”

The man then went off, Alex following him.

William and Gardevoir had no choice but to follow them.
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