Chapter 37

I ended up spending a good hour and a half in that gym hall. After meeting and greeting all the pokemon myself. I brought out Pidgeotto, Fearow and Chansey and allowed them to fully meet the rest as well.

Shiftry immediately challenged Pidgeotto to a battle. Shiftry was a bit stronger than before, but where before the first battle was quite close, in this one, Pidgeotto won decisively. Which was to be expected, since while it seemed Shiftry had been training during his time at the Pokemon Centre, when they last battled Pidgeotto was freshly evolved and getting used to his new abilities, and since then had continued training and fighting more and more under intense gravity. Shiftry had the superior move pool, but Pidgeotto's physical abilities were just that far ahead.

Though, Shiftry's technique and based speed sure wasn't anything to scoff at, even without a speed enhancing move. If I can get him to learn Sunny Day from Bellsprout or Oddish, using it with his Chlorophyll ability, his speed will be massively increased.

After Pidgeotto won and Chansey healed up Shiftry, I decided to get some training in with everyone and put them all through their first gravity training session. Metapod didn't really do much beyond wiggle around a bit, and the trio of Clefable, Bellsprout and Oddish while happily training at my order, didn't seem to be the types that relished in training.

That was enough for me.

The others though? They all threw themselves into it. Shiftry was a warrior type, so he would have done it regardless, but he trained even harder than he would usually I think after getting his ass kicked again by Pidgeotto. Zubat, I wasn't sure of his motivation. Graveler was easy, since I let him know that the more he trained under Gravity the faster he'd be outside it. Milotic and Charmander on the other hand, I think were like Raticate. They wanted to please me I think, and as such trained hard under Chansey's Gravity attack.

I myself, Pidgeotto and Fearow joined in as well. And we went for three sessions of a half hour. After each session, Chansey used Heal Pulse to heal us all right up, and we continued. Honestly, I only called a halt to the training after an hour and a half because everyone was getting really hungry and Chansey was looking exhausted.

So I returned all my pokemon to their pokeballs, grabbed my bag and left the training gym behind.

I went to the cafeteria first before anything else. To order food, a nice big dinner for myself and have the cook prepare enough food for all my pokemon. The horrified look I got from the one manning the counter when I listed all the pokemon with me was funny as fuck.

Once I grabbed my food, I was surprised to find Hilda already sitting at one of the tables, some guy skulking off from her table with a disappointed look on his face.

I made my way over and sat down the opposite side of her at the table, "So what's his problem?" I asked, casually picking up my fork and taking a bite of my food, while jabbing my thumb over my shoulder at the guy walking away.

"Just a guy asking me out, I told him I wasn't interested," Hilda shrugged, "Where did you get off to?"

"I wanted to spend some time training with all my pokemon, so once I got them all transferred over, I did just that." I replied. I was tempted to look over my shoulder at the guy and see if he was giving me a look since I could practically feel a glare burning into the back of my head. Would it be mean to mime getting a blowjob to him to taunt him?

"Smells like you got right in amongst them as well," she noted, bringing my attention back to her, grabbing her nose and waving her hand in front of her face, "You reek of sweat."

"Well I worked out with them for an hour and a half," I shrugged. It was honestly kind of amazing how casually that was now for me. I mean, I wouldn't have lasted the full time of an hour and a half under the Gravity without the Heal Pulse, and it was at a lower level for my new pokemon to get used to first, otherwise I would have been exhausted in just ten minutes or so. "I'll shower after I eat and get a room for the night."

"You can bunk with me tonight if you want, I've got one to myself and there's four beds in the room." Hilda replied.

Honestly, that sounded great. It would save me the bother of having to get Nurse Joy to set me up with a room. I mean it would only take like ten minutes, but I'm a real lazy bastard sometimes. "I'll take you up on that then, cheers." I said.

She looked at me weirdly for a moment. And I think, just think that she was expecting me to throw some innuendo at her or something. Which to be fair, would be fully expected with how I acted earlier, but right now I'm tired and hungry, and besides I got a lot of it out of my system earlier. You gotta build up a resistance to a hot piece of ass like her, or at least I did before I could calm down around her.

"So, I've been thinking." Hilda started after a moment of silence.

"Did it hurt?" I smirked at her, "The first time usually does without preparation."

"Oh haha, a bimbo joke and a sexual innuendo in one, aren't you funny...not," Hilda rolled her eyes and snorted at me, "But in all seriousness, what do you think of traveling with me for a while?"

I paused in my eating. I didn't really want a traveling companion to be honest. Nothing against her, because so far, even beyond her general twenty out of ten on the boner scale, she was pretty likeable and chill to be around. But I'm the type of guy who likes to keep my own space y'know? On top of that, I don't really want anyone else to know how I train my pokemon. It was imperative to my image later when I became famous, I can't have people abusing my methods like me. I'm selfish like that, there's some things I just don't want to share.

But on top of all that, I can't explain things like knowing where these rare pokemon are when I'll be making a beeline for them without being suspicious.

Temporarily it could work I guess. If I abuse the gravity training in the mornings before she got up and out of the way, then it should be doable. And loner or not, sometimes company is nice even in my own space.

"I guess for a little while I'm fine with it." I replied with a shrug. "Though I'm afraid there's a naked rule only in my tent."

"Good thing I have my own then, huh?" Hilda retorted without missing a beat.

Not to mention, her banter was great man.