Reborn Into Pokemon With An Odd System - Volume 1 Chapter 17
As soon as they separated Max went to Professor Vlad’s laboratory and found him looking through some paperwork. He ran into the room “Hello Professor, do you think that you could help me identify a pokémon that I haven’t seen before?”
Vlad gave him a smile and nodded “Sure tell me what it’s like and I’ll go through the database.”
Max dug into his pocket and took out Deino’s pokéball and brought him out, the small pokémon began to move towards Max and nuzzle his head on his legs. Max looked at Vlad “All I know is that his name is Deino, I was hoping that you could tell me more about him.”
Vlad looked at the pokéball in Max’s hand and then at the pokémon that was acting like a puppy that had finally found its owner. “How did you get it?”
Max petted Deino’s head “He belongs to a girl that I met, she let me borrow him for the day so that I could get to know it a bit better. We decided that she was going to let me battle her tomorrow before we leave.”
The professor looked at him surprised “She let you ‘borrow’ him?”
He nodded and sat down on the floor with Deino sitting next to him. The professor brought out a blue pokédex and scanned Deino.
[Deino the Dark and Dragon-type Pokémon since Deino never stops biting anything it’s dangerous to get close without being careful. Due to the fact that it’s eyes are underdeveloped it’s always bumping into everything and always has bruises.]
Vlad got closer to Deino and tried to touch it, probably due to smell as soon as the professor’s hand got close to its head the pokémon jumped up and tried to bite his hand. Luckily Vlad was prepared and quickly pulled his hand away.
That didn’t seem to matter to the curious pokémon as it began to run towards the professor. Max almost burst into laughter as Vlad kept dodging all the tackles from Deino. He hit a spot next to him, “Deino come and sit here.”
The small pokémon turned towards Max and raised its hind legs “DEINO DEINO”. It ran towards him and sat by his side rubbing its horn-like spiky hair on his arm.
Vlad let out a deep breath and looked at Max and the pokémon with amazement “How long have you two known each other?”
Max turned to face the professor “About 5 or 6 minutes ago. Why?”
The professor shook his head and smiled “He’s a big responsibility, Deinos are known for being big eaters and they also like to tackle everything. I’m just amazed that a Deino that is so energetic is so obedient to someone he just met.”
He nodded and began scratching the pokémon’s head, “Well this one seems to be calm, I mean he didn’t try to tackle you until you got closer. This little guy is simply mischievous, I wonder how Cynthia handles him. Anyway thanks for the help, I’ll go back to the pokémon field that you have behind this place and check out what this little guy can do.”
The professor seemed to be about to say something but stopped and shook his head, “Just make sure that you aren’t seen by other kids, don’t forget you’re supposed to be in Professor Oak’s lecture.”
Max nodded and began to head out, once he was outside he looked at the door that the young girl swung shut and sighed. He shook his head and thought “It’s all up to her now.”
He ran back to the arena with Deino next to him, once they were back in the center of the field Max looked at the small blue pokémon and smiled “Deino do you think that you could show me what moves you know ?”
“DEINO DEINO”, the hairy pokémon raised his body on his hind legs and stomped on the ground several times and then stood still. Suddenly it began to charge to the edge of the forest, and Max followed it from a distance.
Deino ran and hit the tree, there was a loud noise as the tree was ripped apart on the place of impact. It began falling down from the direction it got hit, in other words, it was crashing down in Max’s direction. He quickly rolled left and managed to evade it but his heart was beating extremely fast.
“DEINO, DEINO” the energetic pokémon jumped on top of him and began nuzzling its head on Max’s cheek. When Max managed to stand up, Deino stood up straight and tall, obviously proud of its accomplishment. Max laughed nervously and rubbed the pokémon’s head “You sure have a strong head don’t you, I assume that move was Headbutt. Earlier you were trying to tackle the Professor, I wouldn’t even want to imagine what that would have done to him if you weren’t simply playing around hehe. Still though pretty sure that the whole camp heard that, still that’s fine, even if someone comes to investigate I already got permission.”
He looked at the proud pokémon “Is there anything else?”
Deino looked happy and once again ran to a tree but this time instead of using only his head, he used his whole body and slammed into the tree. Max heard a loud impact and found an indentation on the tree where the pokémon had just hit.
He quickly examined Deino but other than a slight bruise there was nothing, he sighed and thought “If this is how powerful pokémon are, then pokémon battles just got a lot more serious. Looks like it’s true what they say about seeing it in person is way different than seeing it on TV.”
“DEINO, DEINO, DEINO” the pokémon began to try to wiggle out of his grip. Max looked at it with a slight smile “Oh is there more?”
The pokémon nodded and turned its head to a nearby tree, It dug its feet into the ground and slightly lowered his body and opened his mouth. As soon as his mouth opened a purple light took the shape of the dragon and hit the tree and made an explosion that took a good chunk of the tree off.
Max was about to praise the small pokémon but saw that he wasn’t satisfied, his attack wasn’t able to knock the tree down. He laughed but before he could say anything the young pokémon opened its mouth again and for a slight second, a blue light began gathering and was shot out.
This time it didn’t take the shape of anything it was just a wide ray of light that exploded as soon as it touched the tree. When the tree hit the ground the small pokémon raised his body on his hind legs once more and ran to Max’s leg. He lifted the small pokémon up and raised him up in the air “There we go haha, you sure are strong aren’t ya, that first attack with the light that turns into a dragon it’s the one that Cynthia called ‘Dragon Rage’. The only difference was the color but that’s probably because you’re a Dark-type. But what was that last attack called?”
“That last attack is called Dragon Breath, when you use it on a Pokémon it has the ability to stun them for a few seconds as well.”
Max turned around and found Vlad walking towards him. He quickly remembered what they had done and turned to look at the three fallen trees. He scratched his head and looked at Vlad “I’m sorry, we didn’t mean to destroy them, at least I didn’t hehe.”
Vlad gave a small chuckle and waved his hand “Don’t worry about it, as long as you don’t destroy the home of a pokémon then you are fine, just make sure not to get too carried away.”
Max nodded in agreement “I won’t Professor.”
Vlad gave a smile and nodded “I just came here because of all the noise, I’ll be heading back now.”
They waved at each other and he brought his attention back to the pokémon “Okay so you know Headbutt, Tackle, Dragon Rage, Dragon Breath, and the obvious one Bite. Hmm, I don’t really feel comfortable letting the others know what attack we are going to be using so let’s find out a way to fix that, Okay?”
“DEINO, DEINO” the pokémon began to jump around from side to side. He laughed and began to think “Hmm I’ve seen someone use a whip before to give orders but that isn’t my style. There was also another fat dude that danced around with his Squirtle but that’s just too embarrassing. We don’t have much time to prepare so it has to be something simple that both of us are comfortable with.”
He sat down on the ground and began pondering “One of the only things that I can think of is that I could whistle, but some freakin jerk could start whistling as well and that would just confuse you.”
Deino quickly shook his head and bit on Max’s sleeve trying to pull him up. Max got up and petted the pokémon’s head “You wanna give it a try?”
The pokémon nodded and stayed staring at Max, with a shrug Max began to give each move a special tune. After practicing for a few hours Max called it a day “We can try it, but if I see that someone else is trying to mess us up or if you can’t hear me then there is no other choice but to start giving verbal commands okay.”
“DEINO, DEINO” he could see the confidence from the pokémon’s posture. “Okay then looks like you are confident in our plan, I should learn that from you. Well, it’s time for lunch so what do you say huh wanna go and take a bite.”
He raised his body on his hind legs and dashed towards the direction of the cafeteria. Max quickly ran after him, trying to catch up.
Deino sat down next to the cafeteria door and waited for Max to catch up. Before they entered Max looked at him and crouched down “Look it’s a really busy place inside there okay, I’m going to need you to stay by my side and make sure that you don’t tackle or bite anyone. Is that clear?”
“DEINO, DEINO” they both gave each other a nod and entered, he got his food and asked the lunch dude for some pokémon food for Deino. At first, he looked at Max, and then at Deino, Max quickly understood that the guy was wondering what a 5-year-old was doing with a pokémon so he quickly added: “I’m taking care of him for someone.”
The man nodded and gave him a bowl of pokémon food, while he had the bowl in one hand and his tray on the other Max began to look for Ash and the twins. He found them sitting with Serena but she had her head down on the table. He looked for her friends and found that they had already made a new one. He sighed and thought “I shouldn’t sit with them, at the moment she’s still hurt and the only reason that she is sitting with them was because she has nowhere else to go. I’ll simply have to talk to her tomorrow after the battle.”
He led Deino back outside and found a big rock to sit at. He lowered the bowl of food on the grass and began to eat his food. Deino quickly gobbled everything up and then burped and laid down on the grass. After he finished his food Max followed the pokémon’s example and laid down looking at the sky.
Deino woke him up, the sun had already begun to go down. He petted the hairy pokémon’s head and smiled “Let’s go and get the others to meet you.”
The pokémon nodded and together they went to his room. When he opened the door he found the three kids sitting in the bottom bunks playing cards. When they saw Deino they quickly ran to touch it but they were surprised when Deino ran to them and tackled all three.
Max burst in laughter as he saw the domino effect of Deino hitting Jake, Ash, and Jack. The three kids looked at the pokémon who had just hit them go back and stand at Max’s side.
Jake began laughing “This pokémon and you are made from the same stuff haha, this brought back some pretty unpleasant memories.”
Jack nodded “Yeah, it sure did.”
They sat down and began talking about their day, Oaks lectures were boring, and then they started talking about how they met up with Serena but she looked depressed and didn’t say a single word. Max nodded, as he started feeling like shit.
In the end, the rest of the group got to know about the battle and its reward. The twins looked at him with excitement “You’re going to battle someone who is 5 years older than you, with a pokémon that you just met? How come all the exciting things happen to you? What time is the battle?”
“In the morning, after the battle, I will go to Serena and talk to her again.”
They nodded and began playing cards as Deino and Max slept since they were going to have a hard day.
During his sleep he heard a shout, “OOWW he bit me.”
Jake laughed at his brother “Idiot that’s what you get for trying to touch him while he’s asleep.”
Max smiled and returned to his deep and relaxing sleep.
