I have a skill issue

I have a skill issue

(What did I do to deserve this?)

Detour-unexpected edition

I panted and cursed as I finally fell onto the grass from exhaustion.

"God damn it, why did I have to lose that dumb map."

"Sven, you can stop now." I said as my starter quickly stopped searching around, I patted his head before grabbing some random berries off of a tree.

"Here, eat some of these." I said as he quickly munched into the berries with glee.

So basically, I was just trotting along all daisy with Sven by my side when suddenly a flock of Starly striked and stole my map.

Then, I ordered Sven to chase after the starly but these Starly, as should be, were expert aerial maneuvers and my poor Riolu couldn't keep up with them and land a clean strike.

Now, we've been wandering around for a while now and have gotten no progress without a map.

"This didn't happen in my previous life…"

"Might as well do some training while we're at it, I guess."

"Sven, the training we are about to do will be slightly different from the previous times." I said as Sven looked at me, curiosity burning in his eyes.

"You will be fighting against Pokemon." I said as Sven nodded before getting into a fighting stance.

"Now, the Pokemon here are relatively peaceful, So we won't be fighting wild ones." I stated, "we will be fighting trained pokemon!"

Sven nodded, immediately understanding what I meant.

I grinned with excitement at his enthusiastic personality, "There's a trainer over there…it's pretty common for trainers to be around this area to train up their pokemon."

"Hey, Would you like a Pokemon battle!" The trainer said as I approached closer.

"I was going to challenge you to one either way, so of course yes." I responded and thus the pokemon battle began.

"My first pokemon battle, let's see how it goes!"

"Go, Ize!" The opposing trainer shouted and released a Budew, which is a relatively weak pokemon at this stage but could cause trouble with Stun spore and other status moves.

"Sven, Go!"

Sven leapt into a fighting stance, awaiting my commands.

"Quick attack with chain strike!"

It is common in fights for trainers to give names for specific fighting techniques they use, combination techniques or variations of actual moves.

Chain-strike is a simple technique in which Sven uses quick attack to create momentum and to use surroundings to land a multi hit combo from multiple directions.

"absorb!"

Sven quickly released a flurry of strikes from multiple directions on multiple body parts which also allowed him to cancel out the absorb.

"Ize, Stun spore!"\

"Sven, dodge and use quick attack!"

Sven swiftly dodged the spores before landing a clean uppercut with a quick attack, "Kick combo!"

Sven used his legs to release a barrage of kicks and the combo ended with a clean punch to the face.

After the kick combo, Budew collapsed onto the floor, fainted.

"Ize, No!" The trainer shouted with concern.

"Train your Budew to be more agile and less still, he barely moved his body the entire fight." I said as I approached him, "W-whatever." The newbie trainer said, teary eyed.

"Losses are simply opportunities to grow." He staid before leaving with Sven the Riolu.

"That battle was a disappointment, due to Sven's rapid growth he won't have a challenge from any of the trainers here…"

"It's going to be tough for him to grow without something to challenge him."

A Pokemon's strength thrives when under pressure and fighting equal opponents, without something to challenge the Pokemon's strength the Pokemon can only progress so far.

But my first priority it to get out of this dumb forest and make it to Jubilife city.

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It's been an ENTIRE DAY.

I decided to meditate and do other jazz Before I went to sleep last night, my mood has severely decreased since the morning. Getting out of this route sounds like it is gonna be impossible

As I lamented in my tragic thoughts of walking around aimlessly, I've already fought 3 trainers and Sven has finally gotten tired. Amidst all of this suddenly I sense a powerful psychic energy north of where I was at.

Me and Sven slowly approached the place and I saw herds of Bidoof walk away as a flock of Starly flew out from the trees.

"Let's go check that out, Sven." I said before slowly approaching where the Psychic energy came from.

I crossed through bushes to an open field and had to dodge a flock of Starly hurriedly flying away.

I hastily cocked my head around to see a lone Ralts on the ground, firing blasts of physic energy towards an Staravia.

"Most emotion based Psychic type pokemon like the Ralts line have an very powerful explosive burst of psychic energy…"

"That Ralts psychic energy is completely unbalanced, Even an psychic newbie like me can tell that much from my observations."

"There is no way that Ralts can win against that Staravia, even though that Staravia likely just evolved judging by its small size."I thought to myself, "I should just leave it due to the risk but…"

"The Potential that Ralts possess is immense, aside from them being incredibly rare around these areas and you usually need to use a special item just to find them, finding one possessing this much inner potential is incredibly rare." I told Sven, who simply nodded, " I need to harvest that potential if I want to become the best!"

"Sven, we are saving that Ralts!" I ordered before leaping out of the bushes, "Chain-Strike!"

Sven used Quick Attack to use his momentum to jump off a bunch of trees to release a flurry of attacks at the Staravia.

The Staravia let out a screech which Riolu ignored due to his Inner focus ability, which gives him a natural resistance and makes him calm at any moment.

The Ralts's eyes widened in shock as he witnessed Sven release another Chain-Strike on the Staravia.

"Sven, Dodge!" I shouted as the Staravia suddenly charged up an wing attack and flew into the air before flying straight down.

"Ralts!" The Ralts screamed before releasing an well timed confusion which hit the Staravia right in the abdomen.

"Sven, seize this opportunity and use Chain-Strike with a kick combo!" I ordered and Sven once again did a combo of attacks from all directions before using his legs to kick the Staravia repeatedly.

The Staravia chirped with annoyance before releasing an wing attack which promptly knocked Sven straight to the ground, "Ralts, Follow my commands." I promptly ordered, "I am not here to hurt you, I am here to help you…trust me."

The Ralts simply nodded with confirmation. "Keep using Confusion and support Sven's attack as much as you can!"

The Staravia growled at Sven but was promptly hit by a barrage of Confusions and Sven got up to his feet once again.

"All out Barrage!" I ordered, Sven suddenly bursted with speed and released an combo of varying attacks from all directions, Confusions were released at the Staravia who couldn't do anything as Sven promptly finished the barrage of strikes with an uppercut.

The Staravia quickly rose up, battered.

"Tch, even after all that it is still standing up?" I thought to myself, "I knew the Starly line were an prideful species…but still!"

The Staravia was then hit by a confusion, " Sven, Chain-Strike!"

Sven once again used an chain of strikes against the Staravia and finished the combo with an clean kick to the wing.

"Ralts, Confusion barrage!"

The Ralts continued to launch Confusions at the Staravia who decided to do one last gamble and charged at the Ralts with anger in it's eyes.

"Ralts, DODGE!" I yelled, I knew it was futile as Ralts aren't the most agile pokemon there is.

"Sven, Quick attack!" I ordered and Sven promptly ran at incredible speeds toa ttept to keep up with the Staravia, but the Staravia also used Quick attack.

"Tch, This is bad!"

To my surprise, the Ralts instinctively leapt into the air to dodge and released a confusion at the Staravia who lost momentum.

Sven then crashed into the Staravia and with one clean strike knocked it onto the ground.

The Staravia then quickly fled out of desperation as the Ralts nearly collapsed from Exhaustion.

"You have a lot of Potential, You know that?" I said to the Ralts who looked at me with curiosity, " You showed impressive durability to be able to handle yourself against an Staravia and also showed powerful inner psychic energy, You also showed powerful physical abilities…for an Ralts at least."

The Ralts simply nodded, excitement in its eyes.

"That's why I want you to join me and Sven, I guarantee you, me and him will treat you well and make you grow even stronger." I offered, The Ralts pondered about my invitation.

"You will become more powerful and have free food, shelter and care…the both of us will benefit as you will get stronger and have opportunities to fight and I will achieve my goal."

The Ralts nodded in acceptance, obviously interested in my proposal.

"But first of all, are you a male or a female…?"

The Ralts simply looked at me, dumbfounded.

"Stomp your foot if you're a female, if you're an male then throw this branch." I said as Sven gave me that branch which I gave to the Ralts.

The Ralts took the branch and threw it far away, signifying that it is indeed an male.

"Well, Do you want a nickname?" I asked the Ralts who just shrugged his shoulders and nodded(which was surprisingly cute.)

"Then…"

"How about Bellator?"

The Ralts pondered before nodding quite happily, it was pretty clear he liked the name.

"Okay then, Welcome to our squad, Bellator!" I yelled.

"We will start training tomorrow and hopefully get out of this damn forest!"

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The past few days I have decided to move at a slower pace and instead focus on training Bellator and Sven, I wanted to get the most out of Route 204 and want to train my Pokemon as we slowly progress through the forest.

Due to Bellator being sort of a natural counter to Sven, He got a good training partner and the both of them could push each other to their limits. I also had them fight some trainers we came across but none of them were really impressive, the most impressive was one that had both a Starly and a Shinx which was actually a difficult fight for Bellator.

I recognized that Sven had a large influence on Bellator's fighting style as throughout the training sessions I started to notice Bellator start to copy and even mimic Sven's agile movement, at his current stage he isn't very good at them but he is still making an effort.

One night, I decided to ask him a pretty important question.

"Bellator, answer me honestly…what do you want to evolve into?" I asked. " cla if you want to be an Gardevoir and punch the air if you want to be an Gallade"

The Ralts pondered silently, that's how he has always been. Silent and calculating, always keeping everything to himself and almost never asking for help.

"I, As your trainer, will help you grow and such." I stated, "But I will also take care of your physical health and mental health, so if you ever need anything or need help…I a here for you and almost always will be."

"You seem to be interested in Sven's agile and melee combat, which is why I asked you this."

"If you become an Gallade, Then I will be able to connect and help train you even better…" I said, "and you probably like hand-to-hand combat right?"

Bellator nodded, before he stood up…

And punched the air.

I simply smiled, "I see, then tomorrow I will start teaching you hand-to-hand combat and other basic techniques."

The following day, I started to teach Bellator basic fighting techniques and a fighting style that would likely suit him.

"Now I don't think in your current state you will be able to adapt Sven's speedy rushdown fighting style, so how about we approach a more defensive approach?" I asked, The Ralts line were incredibly intelligent due to them being psychic types, even more so than humans.

Bellator seemed to like the idea as he nodded.

"Well then, I am going to teach you some defensive techniques and also how to use your moves in a way which allows you to benefit in a close range setting." I said, "The first step to doing so is to have a good grasp over the move, Double team."

"Double team is creating clones through concentration through the energy provided in either Aura if you have a strong enough Aura, which is what most Pokemon use." I explained, "The other option for psychic types like you and what I will be teaching you, is to very simply concentrate and focus your mind."

"Since you are an emotion-based psychic you have to use your emotions when concentrating and forming clones of yourself."

"Now, Let's start the practice!" I ordered.

Bellator closed her eyes and started to concentrate, unlike with psychic type moves, Double team does not release any psychic energy even though it is formed through concentration through the mind and spirit.

"Sven, I also want you to learn Double team." I said, "For you it is a bit different but it shouldn't be that hard since you are naturally able to equip and use Aura much easier."

"Form the Idea of clones, they don't have to be made of Aura like Aura weapons but you have to bend your Aura core to allow you to use Double team." I said, "all Normal-type moves are either easy skills that can be used with Aura or just very basic moves enhanced through concentration."

After a while of them training, Sven quickly formed one clone during the training while Bellator was struggling quite a bit.

"Bellator, you aren't like the Abra line who are logic based, you are emotion based and become stronger when emotions are at play." I said, "Use your emotions to fuel up your brain and that should help with your abilities."

Bellator simply nodded, his entire body tensed up and his eyes glowed an deep blue before 2 clones appeared.

"That was even more than Sven!"

Obviously after a while Sven almost instantly caught up and the two were both training their double team.

"Alright, I think that's enough for today." I said after I thought that enough time had passed. "We need to start continuing through the forest.

It's been a few hours at least and I started to see more Pokemon appearing, at first it wasn't really a problem but then we ran into a bit of trouble.

"Oi…"

"Ah, of course I had to run into two Dustox."

The two angry moth Pokemons tared at us, I could see malice oozing from them, obviously pissed off.

"I THINK WE SHOULD RUN!" I shouted and Had Ralts climb onto me as me and Sven dashed for our lives.

I narrowly dodged a spray of acid, this was common for Dustox as they gain the ability to spew Acid as an defense and attack upon evolution.

"Bellator, Confusion!"

Bellator launched a confusion at the two Dustox as I narrowly avoided the acid sprays, "Sven, BEAT THEM UP!"

Sven released an barrage of frantic strikes and attacks, he slammed one of the Dustox onto the ground before doing an kick spin technique on the other one.

I stopped my running so that Bellator could get a good hit with Confusion, "Sven, use Chain-Strike!"

Sven launched a flurry of attacks without a single break. The Dustox got angry and sprayed acid on him.he coughed before slamming them onto the ground.

The two Dustox fled soon afterwards, likely deeming the risk to hunting us not worth it.

"Dustox are relatively harmless as they never kill somebody even if they are enraged, in fact most of the time they are the ones killed in self-defense, but they simply steal items out of desperation."

We decided to continue walking and…

My eyes lit up and it felt like I was in a dream…

"Finally!"

"Sven, Bellator…"

"Welcome to Jubilife City!"

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That would be a good place to end the chapter off…But the original amount of content had for store isn't enough to put it at the length I want to as I don't like making chapters below 3K words…So I am just going to write the next chapter lol.

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The moment I entered Jubilife city I didn't think about anything but use my trainers license to find a place to stay at the PokeCenter and sleep.

So now that it is morning and I have just awoken, my Pokemon woke up first and at this point they are just my own personal alarm clock.

"Well then, I plan on first heading to the League official building." I said as I finished doing the things you do during the morning.

League official buildings or just LOB buildings are buildings where you can register for a trainer license, register for a Pokedex or Pokenav or request technical help. You can also apply for certain jobs such as Pokémon coach or caretaker.

The city of Jubilife is always crowded as it is the largest city of Sinnoh and also the capital for obvious reasons. Surprisingly there isn't a gym here which is odd as gyms are usually the main funding for city's, but Jubilife more than makes up for it through it's expansive assortment of resources and hotspots.

I walked along the street, I had to keep Sven and Bellator in the Pokeball due to how crowded it was. I saw plenty of Pokémon flying around happily and I came across many small shops and franchises. I saw a Crispy Growl which took me back to when I used to eat their top tier hot dogs.

I finally arrived at the League official building and when I entered it was fairly plain, only a few people were at the place and most of them were likely waiting for their registration to complete.

"Welcome, now why have you come here?" An male worker asked me as he typed something on the computer.

"Hi, I am here to register for a Pokédex and Pokenav." I said as the worker simply nodded, "Okay then, please tell us your first name, last name and date of birth so that we can confirm you indeed have a trainers license."

"Nick Devolver, November 14th 1999."

The worker then typed something on the computer before turning back to me, "Hold on, I am gonna go get a Pokedex and Pokenav from the storage room."

After a few minutes the worker arrived holding a red rectangular shaped Device and a more round orange device.

"Okay, now all you need to do is to register your trainer ID on those two devices. The worker said, "if you need any help then you can come here."

I registered my trainer ID on both devices, I already knew how the two devices worked very clearly so it was very simple and easy to do.

"Alright, thank you for your help!" I said as I left, waving. The worker also waved his hand and I exited the building out to the crowded city.

"I guess I should explore this city a bit huh." I said before walking down the street, I didn't really eat breakfast as I only hand one piece of bread so I decided to enter Crispy Growl, The restaurant unanimously known for their perfect hot dogs and a very common choice for breakfast and lunch.

The memories rushed through me as I heard the familiar ring and the consistent smell of hot dogs as I entered the building.

"Sven, Bellator…it's time for breakfast." I said before taking out two Pokeballs and releasing them.

I got quite a bit of attention as Riolu and Ralts weren't exactly the most common Pokemon to see around.

"Hey, I would like to have 3 hot dogs." I ordered as the lady at the front simply nodded as she took my order.

Crispy Growl was also pretty well known for their fast delivery as not long after I had 3 freshly made Hot dogs on my table and the waitress also gave me ketchup, mustard, and other toppings for Hot Dogs.

I felt eyes on me but simply ignored the feeling I had in favor of the crispy Hot Dogs in front of me.

"Choose whatever toppings you want." I said as I put some ketchup and other ingredients before eating it whole.

Sven let out a cry of excitement, which was rare in none battle circumstances as he stuffed his face full with the Hot Dog. Bellator had to pat him on the back so that he wouldn't choke, Bellator himself ate his meal very neatly compared to Sven.

"Eat slowly Sven, No need to rush, nobody is gonna snatch it away from you." I Reassured the Riolu but I don't think Sven was really listening.

After we finished eating the Hot Dogs I stood up, I started to feel the eyes growing more and more intense. It felt as if malice was oozing through somebody.

By the time I stepped out of the building I heard a creaking noise and screaming as my vision went pitch black.

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"W-what…the…!!!" I hastily observed my surroundings, The room was dark and there were people all standing beside me and one in front of me.

"It seems the bastard has woken up." The man said, he held an large bat menacingly as I was tied to a chair. " You must be some spoiled rich kid to have two such rare Pokemon…"

"I am sure you have figured it out by now, we are going to sell you for a ransom and also sell your Pokemon." The large man said, "We are going to get quite a large sum of money out of this, so can you really blame me?"

"This bastard…"

I needed to break free from this chair, I had to use fighting spirit to break out of this damn Chair. I concentrated my breathing, grasping onto that sensation before visualizing and creating my aura core…

The most simple version of utilizing Aura is to visualize your own aura so that you can sense other people's aura, this is the first stage to practicing aura and I have been training diligently in it.

"Don't say I didn't warn you…"

"Eh-"

My entire body erupted with power from fighting spirit as I used all of my force to break through from the ropes. The group became chaotic from surprise at the insane feat.

Being a fighting type enhances my strength beyond that of a human even at my level, I swiftly threw the chair at the big guy and then stole his bat.

"I'm taking this!" I said before bashing someone with it, "GET THAT BASTARD!" The large man shouted before getting pummeled with his own bat.

"Come at me!" I roared, I needed to get Sven and Bellator back and the only way to do that is to get past these goons. There weren't many of them, only around 5 or 6 but at my current level it could still be difficult.

"I am going to ask y'all kindly…" I started, "tell me where my fucking Pokémon are."

The gangsters stayed quiet, but I could tell from their shifty actions and slight glances towards the door to the bottom left that is where most Pokémon are being held captive.

"You guys are really bad at working under pressure huh."I taunted, "this is depressingly pathetic."

The gangsters roared with rage at my insults and charged me, I leapt onto a table before swinging my bat and hitting a bald gangster right in the head as another also climbed onto the table.

I could visualize his aura core approaching me from the very start so I swiftly smacked him down which caused him to squash an few others who let out grunts of pain.

I leapt off the table, still holding the bat in hand.

"Like I said, pathetic." I spat as I swung around my bat, "come at me bastards!"

The gangsters charged like an mob of fleas as the fastest one charged me down as I used my 1 year of practicing baseball to smack them dead in the face before quickly recovering from the attack to smack another one on the head.

The remaining 3 gangsters all attacked me as I decided to fight them head on instead of spacing them out, their attacks were unhinged and rapid but unrefined.

I sent an uppercut to one of them as I expertly smacked another one with a bat, stepping on him as I smacked the remaining one with an hit with the bat to head and launching another hit as he fell to the ground.

"That should take care of them. I don't really like mindless killing." I said as I slowly walked towards the door.

"Shut the fuck up…" I heard a voice say, I turned around to see the group of people rise up, like zombies.

"That man gave us hope, he gave us freedom…" The large man said, despite suffering a concussion.

"He gave us the opportunity when the rest of society abandoned us!" The large man screamed, "I don't even know my own fucking name but that man gave me one!"

"I am not going to betray the deeds he's done for us!" He shouted, "EVERYONE ATTACK!"

"Tch, this Isn't a normal gang of gangsters…"

I located their aura cores and started to use my surroundings to my advantage, I leapt onto the chair swinging my bat and threw an glass container which smashed onto the floor, glass flying everywhere.

However the flock of gangsters preserved their attack, using nearby weapons like wine bottles and sticks.

Blood dripped onto the floor as the injured group ran towards me blindly, waving sticks around and wine bottles.

I swiftly leapt off the table before using specially coordinated attacks to slam each of them in the face, I got whacked by multiple sticks and other inanimate objects while doing so, but due to my reinforced body they didn't hurt nearly as much as they should've.

I groaned as I forced my way out of the pile of gangsters before running back in swinging my bat in specific ways to target their sensitive spots such as the stomach, waist and face.

However, they kept getting up. They were limp and barely seemed conscious.

The large one roared with rage before throwing an powerful right hook which I dodged and smacked him with an bat, blood spewed from his face as he fell on the floor, unconscious and possibly even dead from repeated blunt damage.

The group roared with anger as they charged me, I narrowly dodged the attacks and got poked by a stick which flunked itself onto my face.

I used the now bloody bat too strike all of them with the bat, and eventually they too fell to the ground bleeding

"It's been a long time…"

"Since I witnessed so much bloodshed."

I approached the door at the bottom left corner which likely held my precious Pokémon.

I heard rapid footsteps and sensed an aura core that was overflowing with emotions and unstable.

"Shit!"

The door slammed open as a lean figure slammed the door open, he wore a leather jacket and sweated profusely.

The man scanned the surroundings as fair striked his very core…

"You bastard…"

"How dare you kill them!"

He pulled out a gun almost instantly, rage apparent in his eyes.

"I can't dodge this!"

I saw him pulling the trigger, his entire body shaking with anger and his aura core even more unstable.

I then heard the sound of a gun firing…