Jordinio Version - Chapter 40.1

For a few moments, as the battle drew to its ultimate conclusion, there was silence all around us.

Whether it was shock, awe, or just plain old confusion I couldn't be sure entirely, nor did I really care. My attention actually was more on the gleaming pokeball in my palm.

A proud smile on my face.

"Way to go mate." I praised the try hard bird within. We hadn't won, not even close, and Lance had obviously been taking it easy on us. We are nowhere near the level of a champion.

But let me put it like this. If an average Caterpie knew Electroweb and fired it off at Pidgeot, it would hardly do anything to him, even with him being weak to electric attacks.

It was simply because of how much more powerful Pidgeot was, he was on a completely different level. Though not something as arbitrary as simply numerical levels.

Why think this? Because, while Pidgeot and my other pokemon weren't even close to the level of Lance's, they were at a level where they could actually hurt them.

A level that simply could not be ignored even by the strongest.

And that in of itself was an achievement as far as I'm concerned. After all, one only had to look at Paul's battle with Cynthia to understand. Even as someone on Ash's level at Sinnoh, and with quite the strategy prepared, Paul fell short simply because Cynthia's Garchomp was so far above his pokemon in level that it didn't even matter that Garchomp was locked in place and took a full on Frenzy Plant from Paul's starter pokemon to the face.

It did fuck all.

The fact Pidgeot and my other pokemon simply couldn't be brushed off like that, told me we were on the right path, or a right path at least.

And that was amazing to me.

Clapping drew me from my thoughts and I looked up to see Lance boldly walking across the decimated battlefield towards me, his cape mantle swishing majestically from his shoulders as he did, clapping loudly and proudly, a big grin on his face, "That was a splendid battle Jord!" his voice boomed out from his lips, "Give it a few years and you're going to be a real monster." he praised me as he came to a stop in front of me and stopped clapping to hold one hand out to me.

I took it, shaking his hand, "Gimme six months." I grinned back.

Lance barked out a laugh, "Well considering your progress so far in only two, another three times that….well, you might be right!"

Before I could say anything else, the crowd of reporters erupted into a frenzy of cheers and questions.

"Champion Lance, how is it a trainer so early into his career has managed to take down two of your own esteemed pokemon!?"

"Jord, how do you train your pokemon for them to be so powerful!?"

"Champion Lance, is this perhaps you deciding to take on an apprentice for the first time?"

"Jord, there was a big focus on your love life during this battle, care to comment? What about this mysterious girl you are involved with caught your attention?"

Lance rolled his eyes at the last comment as we finished shaking hands, but I personally felt a smirk spread across my face.

Lance's eyebrows rose as I turned away from him and looked at the reporter who had asked that last question, it was that guy from Kanto News, "The first thing that caught my attention about her, can't really be said during this kind of interview, never mind live I don't think." I shrugged.

After all, the first thing that I noticed about Hilda had been that big ol' badonkadonk of hers.

"Yes, it's best not to go into detail on that part." Lance snorted in amusement, crossing his arms

The reporter from Kanto News blinked owlishly at me for a moment, before his eyes widened in understanding, "Ah…I see," he coughed, "Okay…then how about defining features that can be commented on, perhaps her personality? Surely this mystery girl must be quite astounding to catch the eye of one such as you, a rising star!"

"I'm a rising star?" I asked with a blink, looking to Lance.

"Well, you will be now, with your big debut here your name is gonna be on everybody's lips for at least the next few days, and you're gonna have a ton of eyes on you with what you've accomplished and how well you did in our battle," Lance shrugged, "Usually something like this would be more gradual, but you've kinda just exploded onto the scene."

"Huh, neat," I nodded in understand before turning my attention back to the reporter from Kanto News, "So other things about her I liked then? Well I mean beyond the obvious, she has really pretty eyes, a bright vibrant blue and her hair is like fluffy chocolate. And then there was the banter, she's great at that."

Let me see how much I can embarrass Hilda.

…Granted, it probably won't be all that much considering she's a former actress and would be used to stuff like this.

From there I went into a long tangent of bullshit about things I liked about Hilda, and some more that just popped into my head for shits and giggles.

"I see….could it be that you have already found the one you want to settle down with already?" the reporter asked, his cheeks flushed.

I think he's feeling a little embarrassed now to have had me go into this crap. Poor guy, this is why shame is useless.

"Well I'm still single for the moment, but that's for me to know mate, and you-" I looked him in the eyes and grinned at him, "To dot dot dot."

"I see." was all the man said in response.

I think he was flustered.

"Jord, is there anything else you'd like to say aloud at this moment? Your plans going forward, what your aims are? Anything?" another reporter jumped in, this one with a cameraman right behind her.

I was about to say no, when a thought appeared in my head and a wide smirk spread across my face.

"Well, there is one last thing I'd like to say," I nodded and pointed straight at the camera, "Hey Cross, you're watching aren't you? How'd you like my Charizard? Feeling like an idiot now after you tossed him away for thinking he was weak? Just goes to show how amazing he actually is when trained by somebody who isn't a complete scrub like you."

And with that said, I closed down any other attempts at questioning me by turning on my heel and making my way towards the pokemon centre.

My job here is done.

I showed how amazing me and my pokemon are, I hopefully embarrassed Hilda and I insulted Cross on live television being broadcasted to the entire world.

Truly my genius is astounding.

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"Well, that's one way to end an interview," Lance commented as he followed me inside the pokemon center and I was actually astounded by my how empty it was, "Who is this Cross exactly?"

"Just a scrub," I shrugged and turned to him now that we were in the much quiet lobby of the pokemon center, "I actually ran into him when I got into Cerulean City and just before I met Hilda, he was a jackass that thought he was hot shit and tossed away his Charmander after I beat him in a battle using my Beedrill. Course I then caught the Charmander who is now my Charizard."

Lance clicked his tongue, "Sadly those types are while not common, not exactly rare either, fools that only see a pokemon for their current strength and ability and none of the patience required to properly raise them," he shook his head, "Though, blasting him on live television like that probably wasn't the most mature choice."

"Can't be helped, I'm a young brat after all, not even as old as most trainers are when starting out," I beamed brightly and innocently at him, "I simply don't know what I'm doing, I'm not mature yet after all."

"And I completely believe you," Lance nodded, snorting. He totally didn't, "Well it's not like you gave out his ID or anything, just his first name so there shouldn't be any harm. Moving on though, now that our battle has finished, let's finalize the deal over purchasing Aerodactyl's from you."

Mmm, yes.

Through the time we'd spent battling, I'd had plenty of time to finalize my thoughts on Lance and his clans offers and on my demands, "Beyond the first at a hundred million, I'm restricting your clan from breeding them for ten years," I stated, "So any others you purchase will be at forty million."

"Hmm, ten years huh?" Lance mused, stroking his chin and nodding, "A period of time that will be well enough for you to go down in the history books as the first owner of an Aerodactyl and the one that bred the species back into existence."

"That and I'll be widely known as the only person people can get the pokemon from over that period of time," I pointed out, "That's a lot of prestige to my name."

"True, though there will be those angry at you for it, for limiting the amount that can be bred and making it harder for others to get an Aerodactyl." Lance pointed out.

"Haters gonna hate, and most of them will just be common basement dwellers anyway," I snorted, "There's always gonna be people that hate you for being better than them and putting in effort to rise up the ladder and better yourself when they can't be bothered to do it themselves. Just entitled sad little shits."

"Well, you're not wrong I suppose, just odd you already understand that at your age, but then nothing about your achievements at your age make sense, so not worth thinking on," Lance shrugged, "Either way, those terms are acceptable, now we just need to find what pokemon can actually breed with Aerodactyl."

"No need to worry," I stole the famous line of an amazing bluenette, and best girl before I met Hilda, "I already know a bunch of pokemon Aerodactyl is compatible with. Honestly, it might actually have been fate that you turned up here to give me the offer, because you're one of the best bets for Aerodactyl's kids to be born even stronger."

And presented me with an opportunity.

"Oh?" Lance raised an eyebrow with interest, "I won't ask how you know, but the way you said that is telling enough. So Aerodactyl are compatible with some dragons then?"

"Yup," I bared my teeth happily as I crossed my arms and nodded my head, "Which leads me to my last demand. Something you have a better chance of providing than anyone else. I want a strong Noivern or Altaria, preferably one that has had some training from you."

"A strong female Altaria or Noivern then, huh?" Lance mused, "I understand your thought process. Not only would you be getting a strong pokemon out of this, but it would ensure the baby Aerodactyl are born even stronger."

He cupped his chin for a moment, before nodding, "Fair enough, this works to both our benefits as well, it speeds up the time needed to find a compatible female and the starting point of the infants," Lance said aloud, "I've got a few of both species that aren't a part of my main team that I've been training up on the side, which would you prefer?"

Huh, as expected of the dragon master himself.

….Damn what one should I go for then? Altaria had a mega form and would turn fairy then and would be a good counter for other dragons and fighting types and such. But Noivern are amazing themselves as well, those sonar abilities could come in really handy.

But, I have to admit I was always more partial to Noivern. But if you get an Altaria it totally has to be female right? Aesthetics are important!

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Sorry for the delay on chapters guys. Beyond some general problems, I was a complete idiot and let my curiosity get the better of me and ended up looking into the casualties and things going on in the Israel-Hamas war. Seeing the remains of poor young women that had been kidnapped and brutally gang raped and murdered by Hamas, and then shit like those poor young kids that were murdered in the bombing of Gaza...it just turned my stomach and killed my muse, so I took a couple days to just read some manwha and shit to take my mind off it.

Not really an excuse, but it is what is it is. As it is, I'm gonna try and get a few things written tonight.