Pokémon academy

Chapter 42

[Ash’s POV]

As days passed by it was beginning to get hard to keep up with the building pressure from the inevitable war coming towards us. I can only imagine what Giovanni might be doing to all the Legendary Pokemon. He might turn them into invincible weapons that know nothing but destruction. He might absorb their energy and use that for his advantage. There can be many possibilities to what Giovanni might reach.

With the limited resources left for us, we had come up with the best plan we could. I know he will be attacking the moment he feels right. We don’t know what burrow he’s hiding. We don’t know if he had a drilbur among us. He could be watching us working on our plans while planning his own to finish us.

He has all the Legendary and Mythical Pokemon, the Jewel of Entity and a huge army, maybe bigger than what I can even imagine. And no love for anyone’s life, He will send them all to their deaths to defeat me no matter what.

All I have is a small number of soldiers, My trusted friends, the four Jewels and my pokemon. And my selfishness for all of them. I don’t want anyone to die. If anything, I’d rather fight him alone. But that would just be dumb. So here I am building my own army for destruction.

I was brought back from my thought by an explosion, I lifted my head to see pikachu doing his best to deflect Max Charizard’s Flames.

Charizard’s ultimate form was named Max. Though he was mostly immobile due to his huge size in this room. He was invincible, his body was harder than anything, his flames were hotter than lava. The training facility inside the headquarters wasn’t adapted to his power. The fact that our minds were connected, I could tell he was only letting out a fraction of his strength. Not just that he was holding back but the terror I sensed from greninja was horrible. Even after being a water type, Greninja had a hard time getting in close to Charizard. None of the pokemon were able to reach within metres of Charizard due to the immense heat. The nearest anyone made was Zygarde, almost reaching about 5 metres in before its cells got blown away.

I watched every Pokemon trying his best to defeat Charizard. I wanted to test out his limits but there didn’t seem any end to it. The energy from the Jewel had increased his durability exponentially. I was impressed at how well he was able to control the immense power without losing his mind. Usually Charizard were known for becoming rebellious when they felt their trainer wasn’t up to their level of power, but seeing Charizard obeying my orders made me realise that I wasn’t the same old trainer I used to be, the one who trained a little charmander.

Yeah, I had a terrifying look on my face all the time. As the days passed by my temperament seemed to get worse. Pikachu was doing his best to keep me in check. I had stopped taking naps, I barely ate food, and I was always on round checking up on the training.

I was yet again brought back from my thoughts as the flames from Charizard’s horns intensed in front of me. I was about a metre above him, afloat in the air inside a barrier I made with the power of the Jewel of Energy. Pikachu, Greninja, Pidgeot, Xerneas, Rayquaza, Zygarde and Zeraora were breathing heavily on the field. Charizard seemed to be tired as well but was doing far better than any of those.

“Okay, that’s enough for today. Take rest.” I ordered as both Greninja and Charizard reverted back from their evolved forms.

I hovered down on the field and walked up to everyone. I felt like I was going too hard on them lately. But I had to make them ready for the war.

“Pikachu, you’re small, so you’re hard to target, but you say way too much in the air. That way you won’t be able to dodge the attacks better. Try to stay low and in contact with obstacles as much as possible. Use your limbs to change course at point blank range.” Pikachu nodded as he plopped on the ground.