We took a ten minute break after that so I could get through the refractory period befoing at it again. After we were doh got a shower before I cooked dinner while Melissa repced the sheets. "UM~ A good cook and fuck? I sorta feel bad that you'll be leaving in a week." she joked as she ate the meal I prepared for her. Like usual I ate with my pokemon who were thankfully small enough to fit in her house minus Gaia of course. "Must be a generalist unless you are a variant specialist." Melissa ented with a raised eyebrow after seeing most of my team.-

  "I train whatever I happen to get lucky or unlucky enough to obtain." I said holy. "Speaking of I will probably be spending most of the four days training my challenging pokemon in anti rock type tactics for the challenge." I said calmly. "Don't know why you are telling me since we are merely shag up un till you get your badge after all." Mellissa said with a shrug. "Figured you'd like to know in case I am te showing up." I expined with a shrug of my own.-

  "Thanks for the heads up I guess , ready for round two?" Melissa asked with a seductive look. We went another couple of times before calling it a night and going to sleep. In the m I got a quick shower before cooking a few eggs and some Spoink ba that I paired with fresh squeezed oran and leppa berry juice. Melissa was thankful for the meal before she headed off to the gym for work while me and Tank headed towards the raining ground. Each city and most towns have an area specifically set aside for training pokemon of varying power levels.-

  In the case of Rustboro the training areas fher powered pokemon rarely saw use so it was no surprise that it was unoccupied when I arrived. The tier four danger area was a wide opehat sisted of extremely hard reinforced stone floors inside of a warehouse like building with equally reinforced walls and roofing. I released my eeam once I was within the ter of the area and they looked around curiously. "Vul , Gaia for the few days both of yoing to be w on your ability to face off against rock type pokemon for the uping challenge." I said sternly.

  "Gaia , your metal cw is the only move you have that will wainst rock type pokemon effectively while the rest are either not very effective or will barely do more than tickle them. Thankfully you are poised to tank or avoid most attacks they throw at you so rock polish and iron defense are going to be our set up moves right out the gate uand?" I asked Gaia and she hummed in affirmative. I turn my attention to the real problem with fag this gym in the form of Vul.-

  "You oher hand are unfortunately uhe worst ditions for this particur typing as every move they have will be super effective against you and you don't have any moves to return the favor. You have three options for this up ing battle that you o choose between." I said and Vulodded with a determined expression. "The first is to figure out how to perform one of three different super effective moves that your species possibly learn in the form of iron tail , rock smash and sor beam befetting a det grasp of them." I paused to let Vul process that information.-

  "The seethod you won't like but it may allow you to chip away at the gym leaders pokemoime. You o run away and use leer as much as possible before hitting them with stomp while their defenses are at the lowest." Vul snarled in e at this option. "I get it , really I do but you are that screwed against well trained rock types. Make no mistake our oppos are going to sist of exactly that." I said firmly and Vul stopped snarling but clearly hated that idea still.-

  "The final option is also not a great oher as it's simir to the st except you will use swagger to fuse the opposing pokemon before putting the psychic move extrasensory you have to use whittling them down and hopefully taking at least one of the leaders pokemon down. I think you should focus on learning sor beam personally sin addition to sunny day it will turn you very dangerous for the leaders pokemon." I said seriously and Vulodded in agreement. Sunny day and sor beam were a dangerous bo as it turned a slow and highly telegraphed attato a fast and very hard hitting one.-

  While I doubted Roxanne didn't also know this sidering how popur the bo was it was still our best option unfortunately. Thankfully it owerful bo I intended for Vul to learn anyways so we lost nothing in case she had a ter ready for that bo. I didn't even bother trying to pn around okemon Roxanne had since like all gym leaders she had a wide sele of pokemon at her disposal. I just sincerely prayed she wasn't going to use something like a Kabutops because that species dual water and rock typing was the bane of my teams existence.-

  "Alright both of you get to work on your move training , oh and Gaia if you make a more powerful steel type move during this time our ces of victory will increase dramatically so do your best alright?" I asked and both of them sounded off loudly before finding a spot in the area aing to work. I walked over to Vul since I had an idea about how to speed up it's learning of sor beam.-

  "If you are trying to learn sor beam then maybe it would be best if you had some strong sunlight to focus on." I suggested helpfully. I wasn't going to directly spell it out for Vul to use sunny day but I hoped my hint would help it figure it out on it's own. I didn't want to ever find myself in a situation where my pokemon froze in battle because I couldn't figure out a strategy fast enough. I hoped to stimute their minds intizing by themselves in case we found ourselves in such a predit.-

  While my two heavy hitters were training their own way for the uping challeurned my attention to Rune. "Yoing to work on your elemental training today so find a spot ao it." I said and the rge reptile did as I anded. I meanwhile traded away three scarves and four berries for two tickets to see if I got lucky. I did in fact get lucky as I obtained an ability ticket as well as a skill ticket. I tore the skill ticket without hesitation since I holy don't think it ossible to have a bad experieh them , I got chemistry.