Typechange Johto
- Thread starter E.I.G.
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Ooh, interesting. The line's a physical attack oriented line instead of a special attack, fitting the new default final stage being Gallade. And Gardevoir largely drops offenses for better defenses overall. I do like Gallade's focus on priority moves and just plain being faster for better damage, very aggressive. And Gardevoir's ability is very neat… off the top of my head I can't think of any abilities that inherently set up defensive lingering effects, just global stuff like weather and terrain. Giving Gardevoir a unique Future Sight variant is an interesting choice. if you don't mind me asking, what was your thinking there?
To be honest, I was kind of panicking. I decided on a whim that Warding Flame would be better as an ability rather than a move (and I believe I was right), but I still wanted Gardevoir to have a Fire-type signature move. So, since I had already established that these Ralts still had psychic abilities despite not being Psychic-typed, I looked around for on-theme Psychic-typed moves to base it off of, and arrived at Future Sight.
Hexenmoor Goldeen Line by Bugs
Second batch:
Goldeen (Hexenmoor)
-Ghost/Poison
-Ability 1: Swift Swim
-Ability 2: Cursed Body
—Hidden Ability: Corrosion
-Stat Total: 320
—HP: 35
—Attack: 67
—Defense: 63
—Sp. Attack: 50
—Sp. Defense: 45
—Speed: 60
Evolution: Level up outside the Hexenmoor (to any level) —> Seaking (Hexenmoor)
Seaking (Hexenmoor)
-Ghost/Water
-Ability 1: Swift Swim
-Ability 2: Cursed Body
—Hidden Ability: Lightning Rod
-Stat Total: 450
—HP: 65
—Attack: 92
—Defense: 80
—Sp. Attack: 68
—Sp. Defense: 65
—Speed: 80
Signature Move: Phantom Horn
-Ghost-type
-Physical (Contact)
-10 PP
-85 Acc
-Power: 120
Goldeen (Hexenmoor)
-Ghost/Poison
-Ability 1: Swift Swim
-Ability 2: Cursed Body
—Hidden Ability: Corrosion
-Stat Total: 320
—HP: 35
—Attack: 67
—Defense: 63
—Sp. Attack: 50
—Sp. Defense: 45
—Speed: 60
Evolution: Level up outside the Hexenmoor (to any level) —> Seaking (Hexenmoor)
Seaking (Hexenmoor)
-Ghost/Water
-Ability 1: Swift Swim
-Ability 2: Cursed Body
—Hidden Ability: Lightning Rod
-Stat Total: 450
—HP: 65
—Attack: 92
—Defense: 80
—Sp. Attack: 68
—Sp. Defense: 65
—Speed: 80
Signature Move: Phantom Horn
-Ghost-type
-Physical (Contact)
-10 PP
-85 Acc
-Power: 120
Hexenmoor Grimer Line by Bugs
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Grimer (Hexenmoor)
-Poison/Grass
-Ability: Toxivore
—The Pokémon can become Poisoned regardless of its Typing. Furthermore, while poisoned, the Pokémon's HP is restored instead of sapped (a la Poison Heal).
-Stat Total: 325
—HP: 50
—Attack: 40
—Defense: 80
—Sp. Attack: 50
—Sp. Defense: 80
—Speed: 25
Evolution: Level 33, outside the Hexenmoor —> Muk (Hexenmoor)
Muk (Hexenmoor)
-Poison/Grass
-Ability: Toxivore
—The Pokémon can become Poisoned regardless of its Typing. Furthermore, while poisoned, the Pokémon's HP is restored instead of sapped (a la Poison Heal).
-Stat Total: 500
—HP: 80
—Attack: 55
—Defense: 115
—Sp. Attack: 75
—Sp. Defense: 125
—Speed: 50
Learns Filtration upon evolution.
Signature Move: Filtration
-Poison-type
-Status
-15 PP
-100 Acc
-Targets own team
-For 5 turns, reduces damage from super-effective attacks (a la the Filter ability). If a Pokémon already has Filter, the damage to that Pokémon is reduced to x1.25, or x2.5 in the case of a doubly super-effective hit.
Grimer (Hexenmoor)
-Poison/Grass
-Ability: Toxivore
—The Pokémon can become Poisoned regardless of its Typing. Furthermore, while poisoned, the Pokémon's HP is restored instead of sapped (a la Poison Heal).
-Stat Total: 325
—HP: 50
—Attack: 40
—Defense: 80
—Sp. Attack: 50
—Sp. Defense: 80
—Speed: 25
Evolution: Level 33, outside the Hexenmoor —> Muk (Hexenmoor)
Muk (Hexenmoor)
-Poison/Grass
-Ability: Toxivore
—The Pokémon can become Poisoned regardless of its Typing. Furthermore, while poisoned, the Pokémon's HP is restored instead of sapped (a la Poison Heal).
-Stat Total: 500
—HP: 80
—Attack: 55
—Defense: 115
—Sp. Attack: 75
—Sp. Defense: 125
—Speed: 50
Learns Filtration upon evolution.
Signature Move: Filtration
-Poison-type
-Status
-15 PP
-100 Acc
-Targets own team
-For 5 turns, reduces damage from super-effective attacks (a la the Filter ability). If a Pokémon already has Filter, the damage to that Pokémon is reduced to x1.25, or x2.5 in the case of a doubly super-effective hit.
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E.I.G.
Robo-Bird
- Pronouns
- It/They
Nice.
I do want to mention that the story is progressing still. We aren't in another point where progress has stalled out.
I just take a while to deal with lots of changes all at once, and developing multiple transformation moments takes longer than I ever really realize.
This story possibly features a few too many for easy writing.
I do want to mention that the story is progressing still. We aren't in another point where progress has stalled out.
I just take a while to deal with lots of changes all at once, and developing multiple transformation moments takes longer than I ever really realize.
This story possibly features a few too many for easy writing.
You know you could just say poison heal.
Poison Heal isn't found on any Poison- or Steel-typed Pokémon, and to the best of my knowledge it doesn't allow the Pokémon to become poisoned if it somehow ends up on one.
Also, there are multiple cases in Pokémon where two identical abilities are given different names for flavor. Teravolt and Hyperblaze are one such example, although perhaps not the best one considering they're the signature abilities of a pair of opposing Legendaries. In the case of Toxivore versus Poison Heal, the name 'poison heal' implies that the poison is healing rather than harming the Pokémon for some indeterminate reason, while 'Toxivore' is derived from 'toxin' with the '-vore' suffix added, implying that it's actually eating the poison in a manner similar to Leftovers.
Grue
滅亡迅雷
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Well, anything in the Pokémon worlds, DSS actually mentioned that the Digidestined actually had some defensive energy when they were digital(it was the others from that world that resulted in the energy Issues), Light counts, and given nothing was mentioned in WfB Ki presumably serves the same purpose for Ranma 1/2. Not the most relevant in this specific fic though, given DSS is mostly consulting with the Professor rather than Alexa.
Poison types are immune to being poisoned except when an ability allows it, so the Poison Heal variant here needed to specifically remove that immunity.
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E.I.G.
Robo-Bird
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- It/They
True enough, although I've only really covered Ranma 1/2 so far as a place where the energy is already there without types being there.
DSS had a few bits and pieces, but they were quickly overshadowed by type energy contamination issues.
I like the subplot in DSS, but at the same time it is a tricky side part of my setting.
Here it mostly matters for the difference between "expresses type and can use moves" and "does not express type and has better defenses". The sort of energy injury that sparked the discussion is a place where you can find some odd interactions on that topic.
- Pronouns
- He/Him/Ey/Em
Right, that all makes sense. I was thinking in pure abstraction, ignoring the fact that anything that delivers a major typed energy injury would also break/deplete the victim's defensive energy, at which point the TE injury would prevent their DE from recovering. (I also thought that human-style strong DE and inaccessible TE was more the cause of humans having mostly even types, rather than the other way around.)
E.I.G.
Robo-Bird
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- It/They
Yeah, that is the issue that occurs. One part works with the other to make an issue that compounds.
I'm hoping that I'm keeping this consistent, but the idea is also that this sort of compounds.
Having tighter typed energy means there is more ability to have types drift to being more even, and also makes defensive energies stronger.
Having more even types means that typed energy tends to become tighter, compounding the issue, and also means that there is less weakness to any particular type as well.
Together they reinforce each other. The tighter typed energy is the first thing to happen, but they both lead to the overall end result.
Grue
滅亡迅雷
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Which inadvertently matches with more recent lore too, given that battle Terapagos's Resist First Hit ability is specifically attributed to having all Types in its description. Presumably that particular ability here only works for one hit at full health because Terapagos absorbs some of th energy, screwing up the balance.
(This does logically mean that human Alexa is tankier than the average human, given she's perfectly balanced. Probably either a Terapagos-style Ability or high defenses if she ever got a 'personal' Legendary Pokémon form rather than staying human at base, too.)
- Pronouns
- He/Him/Ey/Em
The other option for an Ability is Multitype: handling a Plate or Z-Crystal would tip her over into expressing the relevant Type. Maybe in a game she'd have her own variant of the Ability that prevents her from ever not having a Plate or Z-Crystal, since she'd just be human without something pushing her types out of balance and Nintendo et alia wouldn't want to open that can of worms.
E.I.G.
Robo-Bird
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- It/They
Yeah, Scarlet and Violet have been a big pile of "oh, I guess this is all sort of just canon now" moments for Typechange.
I've actually been thinking on this subject myself, although game implementations is a bit where I have not gone for Alexa herself yet.
Although it would be somewhat uncommon to encounter her personally as a fight in a game.
Hydropellant Poliwag Line by Bugs
While statting up my Hexenmoor Pokémon, I got the idea to go back and do the same for my Hydropellant Field Pokémon. So, here you go:
Poliwag Evolution: Level up in an Origin Sand desert —> Poliwhirl (Hydropellant Field)
Poliwhirl (Hydropellant Field)
-Water/Ground
-Ability: Dry Skin
—Hidden Ability: Sand Veil
-Stat Total: 385
—HP: 90
—Attack: 65
—Defense: 50
—Sp. Attack: 65
—Sp. Defense: 50
—Speed: 65
Evolution:
—Use Meditate 20 times in the caves beneath an Origin Sand desert and then reach Level 30 without resting or exiting the caves —> Poliwrath (Hydropellant Field)
—KO 10 Pokémon from the Poliwag line while within the lakes or wetlands surrounding an Origin Sand desert and then reach Level 30 without resting or exiting the area —> Politoed (Hydropellant Field) (Note that this evolutionary path is currently unknown because all known wild Hydropellant Poliwhirl chose community over vengeance)
Poliwrath (Hydropellant Field)
-Ground/Fighting
-Ability: Dry Skin
—Hidden Ability: Inner Focus
-Stat Total: 500
—HP: 100
—Attack: 125
—Defense: 80
—Sp. Attack: 60
—Sp. Defense: 60
—Speed: 75
Learns Brick Break upon evolution.
Politoed (Hydropellant Field)
-Ground/Electric
-Ability: Dry Skin
—Hidden Ability: Drizzle
-Stat Total: 500
—HP: 100
—Attack: 60
—Defense: 60
—Sp. Attack: 125
—Sp. Defense: 80
—Speed: 75
Learns Thunder upon evolution.
Poliwag Evolution: Level up in an Origin Sand desert —> Poliwhirl (Hydropellant Field)
Poliwhirl (Hydropellant Field)
-Water/Ground
-Ability: Dry Skin
—Hidden Ability: Sand Veil
-Stat Total: 385
—HP: 90
—Attack: 65
—Defense: 50
—Sp. Attack: 65
—Sp. Defense: 50
—Speed: 65
Evolution:
—Use Meditate 20 times in the caves beneath an Origin Sand desert and then reach Level 30 without resting or exiting the caves —> Poliwrath (Hydropellant Field)
—KO 10 Pokémon from the Poliwag line while within the lakes or wetlands surrounding an Origin Sand desert and then reach Level 30 without resting or exiting the area —> Politoed (Hydropellant Field) (Note that this evolutionary path is currently unknown because all known wild Hydropellant Poliwhirl chose community over vengeance)
Poliwrath (Hydropellant Field)
-Ground/Fighting
-Ability: Dry Skin
—Hidden Ability: Inner Focus
-Stat Total: 500
—HP: 100
—Attack: 125
—Defense: 80
—Sp. Attack: 60
—Sp. Defense: 60
—Speed: 75
Learns Brick Break upon evolution.
Politoed (Hydropellant Field)
-Ground/Electric
-Ability: Dry Skin
—Hidden Ability: Drizzle
-Stat Total: 500
—HP: 100
—Attack: 60
—Defense: 60
—Sp. Attack: 125
—Sp. Defense: 80
—Speed: 75
Learns Thunder upon evolution.
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Ice Path
E.I.G.
Robo-Bird
- Pronouns
- It/They
--- Ice Path ---
Alexa groaned as another attempt to hold a change failed for Herman as they trained while they walked. "I think we need to do something else for a bit," she admitted to her team with a huff of frosty air. They were close enough to see the entrance to the Ice Path cave system, but the urgent need to travel more quickly had been replaced entirely by an equally strong desire to get ready for an eighth Badge Gym challenge.
"Are you guys really sure you don't want to try out more Ice typed changes?" William questioned from where his team was instead getting an early start on League preparations. Unlike for a Gym match, the League involved getting ready for any possible type combinations or pokemon species, instead of just what was used by the next Gym. "I know you were all excited to see what everyone else became."
"Do you really think a Dragon typed Gym is going to let us just use the Ice type for a final Badge of the League?" Kingler bluntly questioned, the crab pokemon taking turns with William's Goodra to be a Dragon typed target.
"I'm halfway worried we're going to put in all this effort to stay one type, and they're going to ask for us to change types with every attack or something instead," Bellossom complained, currently Fire/Electric typed and annoyed by how that still wasn't quite a form that stuck if a Water type move came her way.
"Honestly, Kingler, I can see one asking for all Ice types," William argued jokingly. "Then you go against a bunch of dual typed Dragons strong against Ice types. Still, I think you might be focusing too hard on this one problem, and you need a break for something that isn't just getting ready for your next fight. We don't have as much of a time crunch now, and there is plenty of time to still try Cianwood if Blackthorn doesn't work out."
"I'd rather not make that flight if we can avoid it," Charizard admitted, and Alexa could only agree with that. The only upside to the new League Badge rules was that they probably would not need to head back towards the other side of Johto. "But at the same time, I don't think we are up for fun just yet. We had trouble with that when we hit seven Badges last time too, and I'd rather get the final Gym done first."
"Yeah, we're probably going to be all in on Dragon types for a bit," Herman grumbled in his bat Fighting/Flying form.
"The seventh Badge isn't as bad," Alexa confirmed, but she was fairly sure she was a reason why her team had the issue. "But the last one is supposed to be the hardest, and that means we need to take it the most seriously. We needed a couple of tries last League to get that one, and now we know they are going to ask for something worse than that."
"I think you are underestimating your abilities now," William said seriously. "But I do understand what you are saying. It took a lot of work for me to be able to handle the stronger Gyms."
"They are known Legendary pokemon," Suicune pointed out to him. "I think they might be right to think that Gym Leaders will treat them differently than non-Legendary pokemon now that it is at the highest level. I know that my trainers tended to either be unable to use me or strictly limited in how I could be used."
"Alexa Larch?" a new voice asked as they neared the small Pokemon Center next to the entrance to the icy caverns. "I'm with the Blackthorn Gym," the older trainer explained as he got up from one of the benches along the wall of the building. "Leader Clair wanted to make sure you had plenty of time to prepare for the challenge she is giving you, so she sent me to try and catch you before the Ice Path."
"I'm Alexa, but that sounds like a bad sign," Alexa admitted to the trainer, and heard her team gather together for the news. "What is the challenge?"
"Just a second, I've met a few ice cats so far that weren't the right person," the trainer admitted as he got out a small computer. "Leader Clair sent me with a video."
"Alexa Larch, I am Clair of the Dragon Clan, Leader of the Blackthorn Gym," the blue haired woman with a harsh look and a cape declared. "I have heard of your abilities, and that my Gym will possibly be your eighth Badge this year. In light of the current situation with Gym matches I want to make sure that a trainer such as yourself is properly challenged by my Gym, and as a result I am giving you this restriction as soon as possible so we can better find a slot for you.
"My challenge is for you to face my team of six Dragon typed pokemon with five or six Dragon typed pokemon of your own. Your team must remain the Dragon type for the entire match, while you will be permitted to make my team stop being Dragon typed if you think it will aid you. If you believe you can meet this challenge then let me know, so that I can arrange for the time to battle you."
"So, does that mean if we can do that right now, or if we think we can do that with a bit of work?" Charizard asked as the video ended, and to Alexa's mild surprise the Gym trainer did not seem surprised to see Charizard's Fire/Water form talking like a human. "Because if she's just telling us to go to Cianwood she could have said it differently."
"She means if Alexa thinks she will be able to do that before the end of the League, then Clair is willing to keep slots open for her match until she is ready," the trainer explain, a bit tiredly and to Alexa's confusion. At least until she realized that he was treating Charizard like a trainer traveling with her instead of part of her team. "You will need to ask for details there if you want to fit your match in around hers."
"I'm Alexa's Starter, not some random pokemon-trainer traveling with her," Charizard bluntly informed the trainer. "When I said 'we' I meant as part of her team that will be doing the actual battle part and apparently needs to find a way to be a Dragon type first."
The trainer looked a bit embarrassed at that correction. "Anyway, what's the answer so I can tell Clair?" he blustered a bit at that, and got out a rather well trained looking Dragonite.
"Kingler?" Alexa asked her crab pokemon to get a better idea of how far along they were with a Dragon Contagion.
"I've almost got something, but with how it has been going I might end up with at least a week just on that project," Kingler answered the implied question. "I wanted to try something in these Ice typed caves, but we might want to do more here if we are going with that idea."
"I think we can do it," Bellossom agreed strongly. "Let's try it, I want to try being a Dragon for this one if we can manage that. Worst case we have to tell the Gym Leader it isn't working."
"My team thinks we can do it," Alexa told the trainer and his increasingly concerned Dragonite.
"Right, I got to let her know," the trainer tiredly said and then flew off with his Dragon.
"I know Charizard was joking when he said we might have to be the Dragon type," Alexa admitted when the trainer was out of sight. "But looks like we do need to rush that one. How serious were you about the cave helping, Kingler?"
"I think we need something that is actually strong against Dragons around for me to really work out the last few details," Kingler admitted with a nervous clack of claws. "I have a handle on the resistances and Dragon itself, but there aren't many options we have for weaknesses right now to compare with. What we've done with Ice so far has helped, but I think a place where the Dragon type is just generally weaker should be a big deal."
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Alexa really thought she was going to get the best experience out of her team on this excursion. Wendrago were naturally Ice typed, hers in particular given she was partly made out of the stuff while in that form. That gave their team two out of six members with the Dragon type, and it was easy enough to have the rest pair up with Hydreigon Spinel.
"The plan is to have as many Dragon type perspectives as we can manage here," Kingler explained as everyone worked out who was going to be in what pair.
"Not to mention the best practice for keeping a change we have. Sticking together has to be harder than that," Rhydon agreed with a nod. "I think the only reason we weren't trying that before was because we didn't think we could use the Dragon type anywhere."
"We need two more pokemon at least if we want to use fused forms in the match too. Four if we have to make them Dragons with more Hydreigon Spinels," Charizard pointed out dryly. "Are you sure you want to go with me, Bellossom?"
"I want to know exactly what you mean about not liking the Grass type, and being able to check your mind is the closest either of us will want to get there," Bellossom admitted, still Fire/Electric typed. "Also you're our natural Fire type, and I want to see that too."
"I think he can probably tell you more about the Water type than I can, and less about the Fire type than you already know," Kingler mumbled with a look towards Alexa's currently Water typed Starter. "So, Alexa, would it be safe for the two of us to try that with the Frozen Flames too?"
"If it works at all it should be safe," Alexa admitted thoughtfully. "Well, it should be safe for us, maybe not with someone else who tried." They could always break their types, and even had the option to get out a Frozen Flame more easily. "Should the two of us start, or do you two want to start, Charizard, Bellossom?" Herman and Rhydon were repeating their prior change instead of using a new combination this time.
"Go ahead, I want to see how many legs you two end up with before Kingler makes sure Charizard tries with her later," Bellossom offered with a reminder to the crab pokemon's threat towards Alexa's Starter.
"Hey, that's right, I do still need to try that with you," Kingler replied happily. "But Alexa first, I want to see if two Flames make this Contagion as easy as the last fusion made Ice."
"You tried this one, right William?" Goodra asked from where the pokemon was eagerly watching the proceedings with the rest of William's very distracted team. Most of them were having trouble with the idea that they missed a chance at another Gym match before the League.
"Unless you think it will help me with Acid Armor, it probably is not safe for the two of us to try," William pointed out. "Also if you think you can handle my illusions better than Chesnaught did, because that is why we didn't keep trying."
"Both of those issues at once is probably a bit much to handle," Suicune laughed at the idea. "One of you not dealing with illusions well would not be helped by the other not dealing with being liquid well. Also, Goodra is still Ice/Water typed, that only makes the possible liquid issue worse."
Alexa looked over at Charizard who had the Pokedex for the moment now, and then tapped the Hydreigon Spinel Kingler had out. Then felt herself grow much longer and more limbed than she had before as Kingler once again got an actual head to use. She could in particular feel her head spines fuse into some more proper horns that she could see on Kingler's head too. They both ended up with mandibles instead of reptile jaws, which Alexa was halfway used to already from being a Vespikiln. Their entire body was covered with a coat of strange looking plates that were mostly purple armor, but with a solid layer of ice on top that extended over the edges, and those plates seemed to make up their entire body as a sort of chitin-like shell. They had ended up with four arms with three large claws on each of their hands and six legs that ending in just big points that stuck into the ground. Their tail similarly was now spiked instead of spined.
"You know, I kind of forgot that you keep ending up with extra limbs on your own," Kingler commented, and Alexa took a moment to check on her crab pokemon's thoughts while everyone chuckled at that fairly true statement. "Everyone else had a lot more trouble with those." Blunt was the best word to describe Kingler's mind, but with a bit of humor that resulted in something surprisingly close to Charizard.
"You will either have fun doing this with Charizard, or both of you will hate it," Alexa joked as she inspected herself more. She felt Bug like despite not being one for the moment, which was odd as Kingler had not had the chance for that type. "Also, if this feels normal you might not even notice the Bug type."
Kingler rolled her eyes at that. "What types did we end up anyway?" Alexa's current other head questioned Charizard.
"You two are flipping between Ice/Dragon and Dragon/Ice," he answered with a laugh. "I don't think two Flames are going to let any other type get in there." Then he walked over and put the Pokedex into one of their claws. "Here, let me go see what Bellossom and I end up as before you get started."
"Fine by me," Kingler said and moved them over a distance. "I want an excuse to move Alexa around a bit anyway. She really isn't bothered by all the extra legs and that's odd."
"Wait, really?" Alexa asked with interest. "The others haven't been as fine with that?"
"I'm not as good with extra limbs as you are Alexa," Kingler pointed out dryly. "That's why I want to walk a bit to see what you'd do with them." Then cut off Alexa's uneasy response. "I don't mean that we don't like the extra limbs, I mean you take to them a lot faster than the rest of us."
"Oh, right you guys did take a bit longer to start moving around like that," Alexa admitted as she let Kingler get used to the feeling, something new to feel her pokemon experience. "Huh, that's strange."
"I think she means the rest of you for some reason," William pointed out with amusement, and Alexa huffed as her team laughed at that.
"I'm just going to fuse with Charizard now," Bellossom laughed as the Fire/Electric lizard got out another Hydreigon Spinel from their bag. Alexa made sure to get the Pokedex ready, even as Kingler still shuffled them around a bit more. Trying two things at once wasn't entirely new but wasn't something they had practiced with, since they had focused more on working together when fused. Alexa thought it was probably an after-League thing to try, but maybe that was something to think about instead of their upcoming fights.
Bellossom and Charizard fused into a somewhat simple combination, with a finned Charizard body shape that had a mixture of brownish-red and blue colored scale splotches, two slightly wider than typical heads, and a number of flame vents along their back between their largest fins. "Huh, I didn't think we were that close in shape," the both of them declared with a touch of annoyance.
"Dragon and Fire or Water it looks like," Alexa told the two of them from the data she could see. "You two able to get along fine, or do we need to switch now?"
"Well, it isn't the Grass type," Charizard pointed out.
"I think I can feel his problem with it already," Bellossom complained before he could continue. "His mind is doing weird things with how he feels things. I do not want to see how that works with photosynthesis to know exactly what it would do for both of us there."
"Yeah, I'm getting walking like this faster just having Alexa here," Kingler agreed with the concept.
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William looked around the icy cavern with interest even as he kept track of Alexa's group of two headed Dragons. He could admit privately that it wasn't that bad to use that particular change, but the frosty environment around them wasn't the place he'd want to be a Dragon.
It was a well developed path, clearly expanded on and made safe for travel some time recently from the layout. The past few years had clearly turned an interesting place to travel on a journey into a fairly normal if rather cold path through a mountain. It was sort of sad in a way how progress had changed the place, but it wasn't like the local pokemon were complain-
William was not the only one to outright stop at the sight just past the next corner. Where a collection of Delibird had apparently decided to set up a souvenir shop using one of the new translation devices that were now everywhere. There was actually a small crowd around the location, including a tired looking Officer Jenny who was talking with the oldest and smuggest of the white and red bird pokemon, and a Gatpotear that seemed to be among the pokemon more than the humans.
"Is this Slow-Slim all over again?" Alexa questioned with quiet disbelief.
"They don't seem to be selling any body parts," Kingler pointed out from the same body. "Although I think I see a couple of Sneasel in the back of that cavern."
"I'm more concerned with the Gatpotear," Charizard said carefully. "I don't recognize this one."
William paused at that, and could see that Alexa had not really looked at the former human among this group before. He admittedly had not seen all of the people the two of them had transformed, but that was mostly because not everyone had gone back to Mahogany Town right away. "Alexa, is this someone who got it after you guys?" he asked quietly as the collection of Dragons he was with moved forward, somewhat happy that Suicune was going with human to hopefully make a bit less of a scene.
"No, I recognize her. That's one of the last ones," Alexa admitted with a glance towards Charizard. "When you had to go to that other camp right before the storm thinned out enough for people to get out in time."
"One of those we didn't think made it to Mahogany before we left," Charizard noted curiously. "I don't suppose we know her name? This is pretty far from there."
"I barely got the name of the one that might have died," Alexa answered and then started them towards the shop.
As they approached it became clear that the shop was just the start of a rather notable makeshift town. It was made out of some easily purchased building parts and rather cheap tents. A town of mostly pokemon that was in the process of being set up. It was clearly very new, and it also became more clear that the Gatpotear was actually standing awkwardly instead of confidently in her place basically behind the smuggest Delibird.
The Gatpotear was not the first of the group to notice them, but William felt that Alexa's team was currently justified in getting the slowly growing number of confused looks starting from the edge closest to them. However, the Gatpotear seemed to be the first to realize that Alexa was one of the multi-headed pokemon given the whisper to the smug Delibird and the Officer Jenny.
"Alexa Larch?" the Jenny questioned first.
"That's me," Alexa said. "I'm currently sharing a body with my Kingler, so she's my other head right now." William felt the general confusion that happened as a result of that simple statement was more justified than Alexa saying it like it was just that simple.
"Alexa Larch, it is very nice to meet you. I have to thank you for helping out my daughter, Storm, during the storm," the Delibird immediately declared and waddled forward laughing at his own pun. "She rushed back home immediately, and I am relieved to know she could get out of that safely thanks to you."
"I'm glad to have helped. Um, adopted or biological daughter?" Alexa asked simply.
"Adopted," Storm the Gatpotear said slowly while her apparent father simply looked on with confusion. "Have you met many humans with pokemon parents?"
"Not many, but some. It isn't that odd of an option," Alexa pointed out. "I know you were human enough before for the Gatpotear change, but I suppose you could have been changed into a human first."
"Maybe we can return to the major issue," the Officer then took charge of the conversation. "Miss Larch," she started in a way that clearly said 'Legendary Larch'. "These pokemon are moving their homes too close to the main route."
William waited for the rest of the issue along with Alexa and the rest of their group. Then a bit longer just because that could not be all of it. "Is there a problem with pokemon building a small town on the main path?" he asked when Alexa's waiting turned a bit darker in mood. Having her paired with Kingler was probably not the safest for reactions to this sort of news, and that much honestly wasn't enough for him either.
"Pokemon habitation is to be kept away from main routes in order to protect both the pokemon and travelers," the Officer said bluntly. "Trainers disrupting the homes of pokemon and pokemon reacting to travelers too close to their homes is too great a risk when they are this close."
William looked at the Jenny, then at the small town that had not stopped construction for this, then over at the Delibird, and finally at the souvenir shop that was quietly selling again now that the Officer was distracted. "They have a store," he pointed out, because that kind of ruined that entire argument. "And buildings, and about a half dozen translators. Not to mention the two trainers I can spot." The second was a normal human clearly on the pokemon side of the divide. "This isn't just 'habitation', it is a small town." William was very familiar with pokemon run towns.
"We even have a permit," the Delibird said smugly to match his expression, and held out what was clearly a duplicate copy. "I went to the League for it and everything."
"This is a form signed by Dan Icicle," the Officer said tightly, and then frowned deeply as a trainer card joined the paperwork clearly showing the red and white bird in question with that same name listed.
"My daughter's birth parents helped me out a lot when I was younger," the Delibird, Dan, said much more somberly. "They helped us all deal with the changes to the caverns and the way the world is changing overall. To get us ready for humans being around more. This is just the biggest change yet."
"I may not have been a pokemon before," Storm then added with a touch of confidence, although still nervously. "But I've lived with them my entire life. We aren't that different from the trainers I've met, and... Okay we are different from the towns I've seen, but we can still make our own. They are more different from each other than ours is different from them."
William wasn't sure that the former human really understood how much she was putting herself as a pokemon there, but he also knew that fact was the main thing that had won Alexa over to the pokemon side of the argument for sure.
"Maybe Officer Jenny can explain to me why I would be a better person to ask about this than a League official?" Alexa asked firmly after that, possibly looming a bit alongside Kingler's head.
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Charizard wasn't sure what to make of the small town they were now staying in for a bit, at least long enough to get someone from the League here to deal with the issue. Right now he was too cold to care by far due to sharing a Dragon type and a body with Bellossom.
"I hate to say it Alexa, but this is not working," Kingler finally got around to saying. "My whole plan for this was to see the Dragon type's Ice weakness, and I kind of can't do that if I am attached to an Ice/Dragon."
"I'm not sure how much it will help you. The rest of us are a bit miserable," Charizard commented on that, with amusement from Bellossom joining his own.
"Yeah, I'd rather be trying the Ice type without Charizard instead of being this cold," Bellossom agreed aloud.
"That's probably a good idea," Alexa admitted. "We are also the only two who don't need this to be Dragons right now, so it isn't like we need to try this longer."
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[Author's Note]
This one might be a bit messy, but it was fun to write. Which I needed after the struggle leading up to working on it.
Alexa groaned as another attempt to hold a change failed for Herman as they trained while they walked. "I think we need to do something else for a bit," she admitted to her team with a huff of frosty air. They were close enough to see the entrance to the Ice Path cave system, but the urgent need to travel more quickly had been replaced entirely by an equally strong desire to get ready for an eighth Badge Gym challenge.
"Are you guys really sure you don't want to try out more Ice typed changes?" William questioned from where his team was instead getting an early start on League preparations. Unlike for a Gym match, the League involved getting ready for any possible type combinations or pokemon species, instead of just what was used by the next Gym. "I know you were all excited to see what everyone else became."
"Do you really think a Dragon typed Gym is going to let us just use the Ice type for a final Badge of the League?" Kingler bluntly questioned, the crab pokemon taking turns with William's Goodra to be a Dragon typed target.
"I'm halfway worried we're going to put in all this effort to stay one type, and they're going to ask for us to change types with every attack or something instead," Bellossom complained, currently Fire/Electric typed and annoyed by how that still wasn't quite a form that stuck if a Water type move came her way.
"Honestly, Kingler, I can see one asking for all Ice types," William argued jokingly. "Then you go against a bunch of dual typed Dragons strong against Ice types. Still, I think you might be focusing too hard on this one problem, and you need a break for something that isn't just getting ready for your next fight. We don't have as much of a time crunch now, and there is plenty of time to still try Cianwood if Blackthorn doesn't work out."
"I'd rather not make that flight if we can avoid it," Charizard admitted, and Alexa could only agree with that. The only upside to the new League Badge rules was that they probably would not need to head back towards the other side of Johto. "But at the same time, I don't think we are up for fun just yet. We had trouble with that when we hit seven Badges last time too, and I'd rather get the final Gym done first."
"Yeah, we're probably going to be all in on Dragon types for a bit," Herman grumbled in his bat Fighting/Flying form.
"The seventh Badge isn't as bad," Alexa confirmed, but she was fairly sure she was a reason why her team had the issue. "But the last one is supposed to be the hardest, and that means we need to take it the most seriously. We needed a couple of tries last League to get that one, and now we know they are going to ask for something worse than that."
"I think you are underestimating your abilities now," William said seriously. "But I do understand what you are saying. It took a lot of work for me to be able to handle the stronger Gyms."
"They are known Legendary pokemon," Suicune pointed out to him. "I think they might be right to think that Gym Leaders will treat them differently than non-Legendary pokemon now that it is at the highest level. I know that my trainers tended to either be unable to use me or strictly limited in how I could be used."
"Alexa Larch?" a new voice asked as they neared the small Pokemon Center next to the entrance to the icy caverns. "I'm with the Blackthorn Gym," the older trainer explained as he got up from one of the benches along the wall of the building. "Leader Clair wanted to make sure you had plenty of time to prepare for the challenge she is giving you, so she sent me to try and catch you before the Ice Path."
"I'm Alexa, but that sounds like a bad sign," Alexa admitted to the trainer, and heard her team gather together for the news. "What is the challenge?"
"Just a second, I've met a few ice cats so far that weren't the right person," the trainer admitted as he got out a small computer. "Leader Clair sent me with a video."
"Alexa Larch, I am Clair of the Dragon Clan, Leader of the Blackthorn Gym," the blue haired woman with a harsh look and a cape declared. "I have heard of your abilities, and that my Gym will possibly be your eighth Badge this year. In light of the current situation with Gym matches I want to make sure that a trainer such as yourself is properly challenged by my Gym, and as a result I am giving you this restriction as soon as possible so we can better find a slot for you.
"My challenge is for you to face my team of six Dragon typed pokemon with five or six Dragon typed pokemon of your own. Your team must remain the Dragon type for the entire match, while you will be permitted to make my team stop being Dragon typed if you think it will aid you. If you believe you can meet this challenge then let me know, so that I can arrange for the time to battle you."
"So, does that mean if we can do that right now, or if we think we can do that with a bit of work?" Charizard asked as the video ended, and to Alexa's mild surprise the Gym trainer did not seem surprised to see Charizard's Fire/Water form talking like a human. "Because if she's just telling us to go to Cianwood she could have said it differently."
"She means if Alexa thinks she will be able to do that before the end of the League, then Clair is willing to keep slots open for her match until she is ready," the trainer explain, a bit tiredly and to Alexa's confusion. At least until she realized that he was treating Charizard like a trainer traveling with her instead of part of her team. "You will need to ask for details there if you want to fit your match in around hers."
"I'm Alexa's Starter, not some random pokemon-trainer traveling with her," Charizard bluntly informed the trainer. "When I said 'we' I meant as part of her team that will be doing the actual battle part and apparently needs to find a way to be a Dragon type first."
The trainer looked a bit embarrassed at that correction. "Anyway, what's the answer so I can tell Clair?" he blustered a bit at that, and got out a rather well trained looking Dragonite.
"Kingler?" Alexa asked her crab pokemon to get a better idea of how far along they were with a Dragon Contagion.
"I've almost got something, but with how it has been going I might end up with at least a week just on that project," Kingler answered the implied question. "I wanted to try something in these Ice typed caves, but we might want to do more here if we are going with that idea."
"I think we can do it," Bellossom agreed strongly. "Let's try it, I want to try being a Dragon for this one if we can manage that. Worst case we have to tell the Gym Leader it isn't working."
"My team thinks we can do it," Alexa told the trainer and his increasingly concerned Dragonite.
"Right, I got to let her know," the trainer tiredly said and then flew off with his Dragon.
"I know Charizard was joking when he said we might have to be the Dragon type," Alexa admitted when the trainer was out of sight. "But looks like we do need to rush that one. How serious were you about the cave helping, Kingler?"
"I think we need something that is actually strong against Dragons around for me to really work out the last few details," Kingler admitted with a nervous clack of claws. "I have a handle on the resistances and Dragon itself, but there aren't many options we have for weaknesses right now to compare with. What we've done with Ice so far has helped, but I think a place where the Dragon type is just generally weaker should be a big deal."
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Alexa really thought she was going to get the best experience out of her team on this excursion. Wendrago were naturally Ice typed, hers in particular given she was partly made out of the stuff while in that form. That gave their team two out of six members with the Dragon type, and it was easy enough to have the rest pair up with Hydreigon Spinel.
"The plan is to have as many Dragon type perspectives as we can manage here," Kingler explained as everyone worked out who was going to be in what pair.
"Not to mention the best practice for keeping a change we have. Sticking together has to be harder than that," Rhydon agreed with a nod. "I think the only reason we weren't trying that before was because we didn't think we could use the Dragon type anywhere."
"We need two more pokemon at least if we want to use fused forms in the match too. Four if we have to make them Dragons with more Hydreigon Spinels," Charizard pointed out dryly. "Are you sure you want to go with me, Bellossom?"
"I want to know exactly what you mean about not liking the Grass type, and being able to check your mind is the closest either of us will want to get there," Bellossom admitted, still Fire/Electric typed. "Also you're our natural Fire type, and I want to see that too."
"I think he can probably tell you more about the Water type than I can, and less about the Fire type than you already know," Kingler mumbled with a look towards Alexa's currently Water typed Starter. "So, Alexa, would it be safe for the two of us to try that with the Frozen Flames too?"
"If it works at all it should be safe," Alexa admitted thoughtfully. "Well, it should be safe for us, maybe not with someone else who tried." They could always break their types, and even had the option to get out a Frozen Flame more easily. "Should the two of us start, or do you two want to start, Charizard, Bellossom?" Herman and Rhydon were repeating their prior change instead of using a new combination this time.
"Go ahead, I want to see how many legs you two end up with before Kingler makes sure Charizard tries with her later," Bellossom offered with a reminder to the crab pokemon's threat towards Alexa's Starter.
"Hey, that's right, I do still need to try that with you," Kingler replied happily. "But Alexa first, I want to see if two Flames make this Contagion as easy as the last fusion made Ice."
"You tried this one, right William?" Goodra asked from where the pokemon was eagerly watching the proceedings with the rest of William's very distracted team. Most of them were having trouble with the idea that they missed a chance at another Gym match before the League.
"Unless you think it will help me with Acid Armor, it probably is not safe for the two of us to try," William pointed out. "Also if you think you can handle my illusions better than Chesnaught did, because that is why we didn't keep trying."
"Both of those issues at once is probably a bit much to handle," Suicune laughed at the idea. "One of you not dealing with illusions well would not be helped by the other not dealing with being liquid well. Also, Goodra is still Ice/Water typed, that only makes the possible liquid issue worse."
Alexa looked over at Charizard who had the Pokedex for the moment now, and then tapped the Hydreigon Spinel Kingler had out. Then felt herself grow much longer and more limbed than she had before as Kingler once again got an actual head to use. She could in particular feel her head spines fuse into some more proper horns that she could see on Kingler's head too. They both ended up with mandibles instead of reptile jaws, which Alexa was halfway used to already from being a Vespikiln. Their entire body was covered with a coat of strange looking plates that were mostly purple armor, but with a solid layer of ice on top that extended over the edges, and those plates seemed to make up their entire body as a sort of chitin-like shell. They had ended up with four arms with three large claws on each of their hands and six legs that ending in just big points that stuck into the ground. Their tail similarly was now spiked instead of spined.
"You know, I kind of forgot that you keep ending up with extra limbs on your own," Kingler commented, and Alexa took a moment to check on her crab pokemon's thoughts while everyone chuckled at that fairly true statement. "Everyone else had a lot more trouble with those." Blunt was the best word to describe Kingler's mind, but with a bit of humor that resulted in something surprisingly close to Charizard.
"You will either have fun doing this with Charizard, or both of you will hate it," Alexa joked as she inspected herself more. She felt Bug like despite not being one for the moment, which was odd as Kingler had not had the chance for that type. "Also, if this feels normal you might not even notice the Bug type."
Kingler rolled her eyes at that. "What types did we end up anyway?" Alexa's current other head questioned Charizard.
"You two are flipping between Ice/Dragon and Dragon/Ice," he answered with a laugh. "I don't think two Flames are going to let any other type get in there." Then he walked over and put the Pokedex into one of their claws. "Here, let me go see what Bellossom and I end up as before you get started."
"Fine by me," Kingler said and moved them over a distance. "I want an excuse to move Alexa around a bit anyway. She really isn't bothered by all the extra legs and that's odd."
"Wait, really?" Alexa asked with interest. "The others haven't been as fine with that?"
"I'm not as good with extra limbs as you are Alexa," Kingler pointed out dryly. "That's why I want to walk a bit to see what you'd do with them." Then cut off Alexa's uneasy response. "I don't mean that we don't like the extra limbs, I mean you take to them a lot faster than the rest of us."
"Oh, right you guys did take a bit longer to start moving around like that," Alexa admitted as she let Kingler get used to the feeling, something new to feel her pokemon experience. "Huh, that's strange."
"I think she means the rest of you for some reason," William pointed out with amusement, and Alexa huffed as her team laughed at that.
"I'm just going to fuse with Charizard now," Bellossom laughed as the Fire/Electric lizard got out another Hydreigon Spinel from their bag. Alexa made sure to get the Pokedex ready, even as Kingler still shuffled them around a bit more. Trying two things at once wasn't entirely new but wasn't something they had practiced with, since they had focused more on working together when fused. Alexa thought it was probably an after-League thing to try, but maybe that was something to think about instead of their upcoming fights.
Bellossom and Charizard fused into a somewhat simple combination, with a finned Charizard body shape that had a mixture of brownish-red and blue colored scale splotches, two slightly wider than typical heads, and a number of flame vents along their back between their largest fins. "Huh, I didn't think we were that close in shape," the both of them declared with a touch of annoyance.
"Dragon and Fire or Water it looks like," Alexa told the two of them from the data she could see. "You two able to get along fine, or do we need to switch now?"
"Well, it isn't the Grass type," Charizard pointed out.
"I think I can feel his problem with it already," Bellossom complained before he could continue. "His mind is doing weird things with how he feels things. I do not want to see how that works with photosynthesis to know exactly what it would do for both of us there."
"Yeah, I'm getting walking like this faster just having Alexa here," Kingler agreed with the concept.
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William looked around the icy cavern with interest even as he kept track of Alexa's group of two headed Dragons. He could admit privately that it wasn't that bad to use that particular change, but the frosty environment around them wasn't the place he'd want to be a Dragon.
It was a well developed path, clearly expanded on and made safe for travel some time recently from the layout. The past few years had clearly turned an interesting place to travel on a journey into a fairly normal if rather cold path through a mountain. It was sort of sad in a way how progress had changed the place, but it wasn't like the local pokemon were complain-
William was not the only one to outright stop at the sight just past the next corner. Where a collection of Delibird had apparently decided to set up a souvenir shop using one of the new translation devices that were now everywhere. There was actually a small crowd around the location, including a tired looking Officer Jenny who was talking with the oldest and smuggest of the white and red bird pokemon, and a Gatpotear that seemed to be among the pokemon more than the humans.
"Is this Slow-Slim all over again?" Alexa questioned with quiet disbelief.
"They don't seem to be selling any body parts," Kingler pointed out from the same body. "Although I think I see a couple of Sneasel in the back of that cavern."
"I'm more concerned with the Gatpotear," Charizard said carefully. "I don't recognize this one."
William paused at that, and could see that Alexa had not really looked at the former human among this group before. He admittedly had not seen all of the people the two of them had transformed, but that was mostly because not everyone had gone back to Mahogany Town right away. "Alexa, is this someone who got it after you guys?" he asked quietly as the collection of Dragons he was with moved forward, somewhat happy that Suicune was going with human to hopefully make a bit less of a scene.
"No, I recognize her. That's one of the last ones," Alexa admitted with a glance towards Charizard. "When you had to go to that other camp right before the storm thinned out enough for people to get out in time."
"One of those we didn't think made it to Mahogany before we left," Charizard noted curiously. "I don't suppose we know her name? This is pretty far from there."
"I barely got the name of the one that might have died," Alexa answered and then started them towards the shop.
As they approached it became clear that the shop was just the start of a rather notable makeshift town. It was made out of some easily purchased building parts and rather cheap tents. A town of mostly pokemon that was in the process of being set up. It was clearly very new, and it also became more clear that the Gatpotear was actually standing awkwardly instead of confidently in her place basically behind the smuggest Delibird.
The Gatpotear was not the first of the group to notice them, but William felt that Alexa's team was currently justified in getting the slowly growing number of confused looks starting from the edge closest to them. However, the Gatpotear seemed to be the first to realize that Alexa was one of the multi-headed pokemon given the whisper to the smug Delibird and the Officer Jenny.
"Alexa Larch?" the Jenny questioned first.
"That's me," Alexa said. "I'm currently sharing a body with my Kingler, so she's my other head right now." William felt the general confusion that happened as a result of that simple statement was more justified than Alexa saying it like it was just that simple.
"Alexa Larch, it is very nice to meet you. I have to thank you for helping out my daughter, Storm, during the storm," the Delibird immediately declared and waddled forward laughing at his own pun. "She rushed back home immediately, and I am relieved to know she could get out of that safely thanks to you."
"I'm glad to have helped. Um, adopted or biological daughter?" Alexa asked simply.
"Adopted," Storm the Gatpotear said slowly while her apparent father simply looked on with confusion. "Have you met many humans with pokemon parents?"
"Not many, but some. It isn't that odd of an option," Alexa pointed out. "I know you were human enough before for the Gatpotear change, but I suppose you could have been changed into a human first."
"Maybe we can return to the major issue," the Officer then took charge of the conversation. "Miss Larch," she started in a way that clearly said 'Legendary Larch'. "These pokemon are moving their homes too close to the main route."
William waited for the rest of the issue along with Alexa and the rest of their group. Then a bit longer just because that could not be all of it. "Is there a problem with pokemon building a small town on the main path?" he asked when Alexa's waiting turned a bit darker in mood. Having her paired with Kingler was probably not the safest for reactions to this sort of news, and that much honestly wasn't enough for him either.
"Pokemon habitation is to be kept away from main routes in order to protect both the pokemon and travelers," the Officer said bluntly. "Trainers disrupting the homes of pokemon and pokemon reacting to travelers too close to their homes is too great a risk when they are this close."
William looked at the Jenny, then at the small town that had not stopped construction for this, then over at the Delibird, and finally at the souvenir shop that was quietly selling again now that the Officer was distracted. "They have a store," he pointed out, because that kind of ruined that entire argument. "And buildings, and about a half dozen translators. Not to mention the two trainers I can spot." The second was a normal human clearly on the pokemon side of the divide. "This isn't just 'habitation', it is a small town." William was very familiar with pokemon run towns.
"We even have a permit," the Delibird said smugly to match his expression, and held out what was clearly a duplicate copy. "I went to the League for it and everything."
"This is a form signed by Dan Icicle," the Officer said tightly, and then frowned deeply as a trainer card joined the paperwork clearly showing the red and white bird in question with that same name listed.
"My daughter's birth parents helped me out a lot when I was younger," the Delibird, Dan, said much more somberly. "They helped us all deal with the changes to the caverns and the way the world is changing overall. To get us ready for humans being around more. This is just the biggest change yet."
"I may not have been a pokemon before," Storm then added with a touch of confidence, although still nervously. "But I've lived with them my entire life. We aren't that different from the trainers I've met, and... Okay we are different from the towns I've seen, but we can still make our own. They are more different from each other than ours is different from them."
William wasn't sure that the former human really understood how much she was putting herself as a pokemon there, but he also knew that fact was the main thing that had won Alexa over to the pokemon side of the argument for sure.
"Maybe Officer Jenny can explain to me why I would be a better person to ask about this than a League official?" Alexa asked firmly after that, possibly looming a bit alongside Kingler's head.
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Charizard wasn't sure what to make of the small town they were now staying in for a bit, at least long enough to get someone from the League here to deal with the issue. Right now he was too cold to care by far due to sharing a Dragon type and a body with Bellossom.
"I hate to say it Alexa, but this is not working," Kingler finally got around to saying. "My whole plan for this was to see the Dragon type's Ice weakness, and I kind of can't do that if I am attached to an Ice/Dragon."
"I'm not sure how much it will help you. The rest of us are a bit miserable," Charizard commented on that, with amusement from Bellossom joining his own.
"Yeah, I'd rather be trying the Ice type without Charizard instead of being this cold," Bellossom agreed aloud.
"That's probably a good idea," Alexa admitted. "We are also the only two who don't need this to be Dragons right now, so it isn't like we need to try this longer."
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[Author's Note]
This one might be a bit messy, but it was fun to write. Which I needed after the struggle leading up to working on it.
Grue
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So looks like Union Cave's the only one of these 'route' caves not to have a town in it now.
('Mon towns becoming more common in Kanjoh after the double whammy of translation proliferation and Alexa does make sense, though it's probably going to be slower to spread to the other three Japan regions even considering the Hyphen town in Hoenn and the Sneasel one in Sinnoh. Overseas probably isn't getting that step for some years yet outside DSSlsnd unless they get a similar brand of nonsense, and even DSS is just importing their Mon town for a different kettle of Water types.)
('Mon towns becoming more common in Kanjoh after the double whammy of translation proliferation and Alexa does make sense, though it's probably going to be slower to spread to the other three Japan regions even considering the Hyphen town in Hoenn and the Sneasel one in Sinnoh. Overseas probably isn't getting that step for some years yet outside DSSlsnd unless they get a similar brand of nonsense, and even DSS is just importing their Mon town for a different kettle of Water types.)
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Robo-Bird
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- It/They
I've really decided that my set of pokemon stories takes place during the time where pokemon and humans become more intertwined.So looks like Union Cave's the only one of these 'route' caves not to have a town in it now.
('Mon towns becoming more common in Kanjoh after the double whammy of translation proliferation and Alexa does make sense, though it's probably going to be slower to spread to the other three Japan regions even considering the Hyphen town in Hoenn and the Sneasel one in Sinnoh. Overseas probably isn't getting that step for some years yet outside DSSlsnd unless they get a similar brand of nonsense, and even DSS is just importing their Mon town for a different kettle of Water types.)
I also had fun with this little idea, and as I noted: I needed some fun stuff for the story to get going again.
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Robo-Bird
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- It/They
I know their dagger creation and throw is a signature attack, but I don't know if I established anything about what ability they have.
I'm not sure what sort of thing would fit them well, maybe something to do with multi-hit attacks? If there is a canon one like that it might be a good choice.
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Judging by the existing Scyther line and the fact this evolution ditches the Bug type, Technician(boosts power of moves below 60BP) is probably one of their normal Abilities(as everything else bar Mega Scizor shares Swarm, which isn't as useful on a non-Bug). Skill Link is the only canon multi-hit Ability, but it affects number of hits so it depends if the daggers vary in hit number like Magma Flaafy's bombs. Hidden Ability probably related to body morphology, that seems to be the theme with the Scyther line's hiddens.
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E.I.G.
Robo-Bird
- Pronouns
- It/They
Technician looks like a definite here, as the dagger attack is meant to be relatively low damage with multiple hits. I'm not entirely sure if that would be a variable number of hits or not, but it might be best to have it like that.
The hidden ability is probably Dark type related from what you bring up here, but I don't think there is any canon ability that really fits there.
Shanker Stats by Bugs
Gotcha.
Scyther Evolution: Use Dark Stone —> Shanker
Shanker
-Dark/Flying
-Ability 1: Malice
—The Pokémon's Dark-type moves increase in power by 50% when its HP is at or below 1/3 (a la Swarm).
-Ability 2: Technician
—Hidden Ability: Sharp Spike
——The Pokémon's critical hits deal 2.25x damage instead of x1.5.
-Stat Total: 500
—HP: 65
—Attack: 95
—Defense: 75
—Sp. Attack: 55
—Sp. Defense: 75
—Speed: 135
Signature Move: Jugular Throw
-Dark-type
-Physical
-10 PP
-100 Acc
-Power: 30
-Hits 2-5 times. Has a boosted crit ratio.
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