Chapter 129

I clicked my tongue in annoyance and held Aerodactyl's pokeball up, returning him to it. I expected this result to be honest, it's still kind of annoying though to see one of my pokemon go down so easily, even a new one.

Not a single one of my pokemon had ever went down as easy as that, and while Aerodactyl had been thrown around a lot earlier, he was in no way weak. He was still stronger than my Dragonite after all by a decent margin, he'd already proved as much.

Should I say, as expected of a champion?

Well, whatever, I didn't let my annoying show on my face, "So you can control and change the direction of Hurricane, huh? That's interesting to know." I instead said aloud, ignoring the reporters cheering loudly at Lance trouncing me in the opening of the battle, and focused on that.

It definitely was, and I'd be keeping that in mind for when I got around to teaching it to Pidgeot.

"A little something we worked out a while ago, it was tough, but nothing's impossible if you put in enough effort," Lance replied, grinning widely, "The attempt with using Giga Impact to muscle out of it was inspired though. If brute force isn't working, then you're just not using enough, huh? That's a favourite of mine too I do have to admit."

Yeah, just punch the hurricane, that'll totally work.

The sad thing is, in this world, if you got strong enough, that was actually a viable option. Limits and impossibilities were for quitters. As the tiny Pikachu that could make hundreds of feet or more wide craters with a swing of its tiny tail could attest.

And in the spirit of that-

I switched Aerodactyl's pokeball with Dragonite's.

"You're up next try hard." I said as I released him from within the pokeball.

Dragonite appeared in front of me within a burst of light and cracked out his neck, promptly mean mugging his opponent without a second hesitation, even though it was a Dragonite that had multiple feet in size on him and half again his bulk.

"Oh-ho, the Dragonite from the video!" Lance's eyes lit up excitedly, "And you've already got to the point where you're confident sending him out into battle within just a few days after the attitude he displayed?"

Dragonite, my Dragonite merely scoffed at the champions excitement to see him and promptly stuck up his middle claw and flipped the other bigger Dragonite the bird.

The bigger Dragonite gave him a nonplussed look, completely unimpressed by his attitude, where as Lance burst into laughter, "Quite the personality indeed, I've never seen a Dragonite like this one, it's quite novel." he said, "Will I be seeing the other you apparently captured as well during this battle I wonder?"

"That'd be kinda hard considering I don't have that one anymore," I shrugged in reply, "He's already with another trainer at this point."

Lance blinked, "You…traded a Dragonite? One that by the records I seen of it briefly was quite the specimen of the species and very powerful, more powerful than this one at least and had a very extensive range of attacks," he blinked, "Wow, they must have offered quite the option in return."

I smirked, "Nah, I gave her it for free, got nothing in return for it." I promptly replied.

"Eh…?" I relished in the utter shocked look that appeared on Lance's face at my reply.

Mwuahahahaha, not even champions are immune to my shenanigans.

"You gave…a Dragonite away for free? To her?" Lance goggled at him, repeating his words, "A girl, a girlfriend then? Fiance even? Starting young I see, but don't you think that might have been a mistake? A standard Dragonite, if such a thing can even be said, is generally purchased in the range of between five and ten million pokedollars, one such as that, going by its size and move pool, I'd estimate would get at least twenty five million, and you just gave it away to a girl?"

"Lover is more apt I'd say, but I'm still a free guy right now," I shrugged in reply, "Besides, it's a girl I care about, and wanted to make sure she'd have a strong pokemon looking out for her in case anything happened while we were apart. Twenty five million is hardly anything in comparison to that."

The best of it is, I'm not even lying.

I noticed a rippling murmur going through the crowd of reports as they took in my words. And a thought occurred to me, this will probably go viral. Which means, Hilda will probably see this.

Heh, hope she gets embarrassed.

"Twenty five…million!?" I heard the girl, Chloe sputter loudly in shock, "A pokemon can go for that much? And he just gave it away to a girl he likes? Not even a girlfriend?"

"It's so romantic, don't you think Chloe?" Delia tittered.

"…Yeah, seems about right for this kid." Surge snorted, shaking his head, "He's crazy."

"A remarkably mature point, I suppose I understand," Lance chuckled, "Still that other Dragonite is much stronger than this one you have now, wouldn't you have been better keeping it and sending this one to watch over her?"

It wasn't me who replied.

It was Dragonite.

An outraged howling roar tore from his throat as he snarled threateningly at Lance for daring to insulting his strength.

"She wouldn't have been able to handle this guys attitude," I shrugged with a smirk and crossed my arms, mirroring him, "Besides, you said it yourself with enough effort nothing is impossible. And stronger or not, I think this guy has got what it takes to go way higher than the other one I caught, he's just that much hungrier for it. Not to mention, me and this guy? We click way better and he takes to my training way better than that other Dragonite would."

"Hmm…" Lance cocked his head to the side and hummed as he examined the snarling Dragonite, who despite his rage at being belittled, had not moved to attack without my directions, "Well, you've got me there. Now you've got me excited though to see what you're capable of together."

"Well, keep your eyes peeled then." I replied.

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"You must be an incredible lay." Rosa commented.

"…Shut the hell up." Hilda, cheeks burning retorted, her face buried in her hands as the idiot revealed their….relationship on live world wide television.

Did he have no sense of shame at all? Or common sense? He was just gonna have people curious about who she was as well now and they would dig into his trainer records and there would be a link from his to hers because of Dragonite previously belonging to him.

"Though, he said it out loud as well, you're not official, you really shoulda put a ring on that cuz," Rosa hummed, "Once we're done here, I'm totally gonna rock that kids world, put a ring on him, make him my shota boytoy husband and get an Aerodactyl baby from him and a Dratini as well, I kinda dig that Dragonite's attitude too after all actually."

Hilda's head whipped up, embarrassment replaced by a glare, "Like hell you are slut." she growled, and pushed the half naked girl off of the chair she was sitting on.

Rosa fell to the ground with a yelp.