Pokemon POV starts,
Team 3,
Aerodactyl was the leader of the team. It didn't have good leadership qualities. It had never led a team before, so it decided to listen to everyone's opinion and make a decision.
This was something that Axel had said he needed to do because he needed to learn a lot. Also, it had Staraptor in its team. Due to its passive move 'Intellect mind', it would think of various kinds of strategies to deal with its opponent.
Currently, they were tracking one of the groups of Hawlucha. The group has one pseudo-king rank Pokemon, one elemental rank Pokemon, and finally two rare rank Pokemon.
It was a weak team for Team 3 to deal with. They had four pseudo-king ranks, one rare rank, and one common rank Pokemon. But Staraptor suggested that they must first try against a weak team to see how compatible they were.
Staraptor was serious about this hunt. It had to win this time. Last time, it was Magneton that emerged victorious in the battle. This time, it was going to show both Magneton and Blastoise how strong it was.
It has improved significantly in the past two months. Not only had it reached a rare rank, but it had also improved on its ability 'Intimidate'.
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Pokemon's name: Staraptor
Pokemon Nickname: Gandiva
Pokemon Rank: Rare rank
Pokemon Tying: Normal/Flying
Ability: Intimidate (mastered)
Hidden Ability: Reckless (100%)
Potential: Red (Advanced)
Health: 2500/2500 Attack: C+
Agility: C++ Defense: E
Sp. Atk: C Sp. Def: E+
Moves:
Active move: Quick attack (G) (Lvl 39), Aerial ace (E) (Lvl 41), Double team (E) (Lvl 46), Wing attack (G) (Lvl 38), Feather dance (G) (Lvl 38), Tail wind (E) (Lvl 40), Fiery aura (E) (Lvl 46), Mud-slap (E) (Lvl 43), Agility (E) (Lvl 43), Heat Wave (E) (Lvl 43), Flamethrower (E) (Lvl 43), Mud bomb (C) (Lvl 25), Hurricane (G) (Lvl 39), Sunny day (G) (Lvl 38), Mud sport (G) (Lvl 32), Fury attack (U) (Lvl 19), Roost (C) (Lvl 24)
Passive move: Struggle king (Stage II), Intellect mind (Stage I)
Hidden power: Fire (34%)
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It had mastered the ability 'Intimidate'. Staraptor felt that its ability was too good in a fight. So, it concentrated most on its ability training. Axel had always been told to focus on the foundation and base before exploring other things. Staraptor took that advice and mastered its ability. It was a massive thing for a rare rank Pokemon to master its ability.
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Intimidate (Staraptor): The user's aura could now not only flinch the target but also paralyze them in fear when needed. The more the user kills, the more killing aura it gathers.
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Even Axel wondered why Staraptor could be so lucky. Axel had some Pokemon that had incredible potential. Staraptor was one of them. It had a passive move called 'Struggle King' that made it more powerful. It just takes its training seriously, and now it has mastered its ability, where its aura would gain killing intent when it starts to kill.
But those were not the only things that had changed since it came to the fairy realm. Some of its moves had also leveled up and have been upgraded.
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Agility (Staraptor) (Level 40): The user can use and stack up the move 3 times, and its reaction time will rapidly increase during that time.
Double Team (Staraptor) (Level 40): The user can create four illusory copies of themselves. This will directly raise the evasiveness of the user.
(Level 45): The user can switch to any of the illusory copies when they want.
Tail Wind (Starptor) (Level 40): The user can now manipulate the whirlwind to increase its speed to a very high level. At this time, the user cannot change its direction.
Fiery Aura (Staraptor) (Level 40): The stamina consumption had decreased, and it could use this move for 10 minutes now. The speed and perception of the user have increased with its attack power. Any fire-type move would increase in power when used in this form.
(Level 45): The attack stat and fire type moves power would rapidly increase while using the move.
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These were the moves that had leveled up and had been upgraded. It had not progressed a lot in the moves department, but this was already overpowered for a rare rank Pokemon.
Finally, its passive move 'Struggle king' had also reached stage II.
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Struggle King:
Stage I: The user's potential is very low. It takes time to grab new things, but as it trains hard and never gives up, its potential will rise to an impossible level.
It will have to struggle to reach the top.
Slowly improves all the user's stats, including critical hit rate and perception.
Stage II: With enough struggle, the user can learn impossible moves that they could not have learned before.
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The upgrade of 'Struggle King' had increased the potential of Staraptor to a whole new level. With the effect of stage II, with enough struggle, this Pokemon could create any move without any restrictions. Of course, Staraptor might not be able to use that move as effectively as its flying-type moves, or it might need some training on mastering those moves, but that was secondary.
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They were watching the Hawlucha tribe for more than half an hour, and finally, it was now time to attack. There were four of them.
ROOOARR
Aerodactyl fired up a powerful 'Meteor beam' towards one of the rare rank Hawlucha. That rare rank Hawlucha instantly died after being hit by the attack. This was the most powerful special attack of Aerodactyl right now.
The beam of the meteor was fast and had very high penetrating power. But that's not all. After the beam was hit, it sort of exploded, which also affected other Hawlucha. This was the upgraded version of 'Meteor beam'
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Meteor beam (Aerodactyl) (Level 40): The move is faster than before, and the user's defense will increase while preparing for the attack. The power of the attack has also increased.
(Level 45): The speed and destructiveness of the move have increased.
(Level 50): When the attack hits a target, the beam explodes, doing AOE damage.
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The group of four Hawlucha was now reduced to three. All of them looked at Aerodactyl with vengeance. Their friend had just died. All of them let out their roars and flew high into the sky, using the move 'Flying press'. Some of them used 'Aerial Ace' while some of them used 'Wing Attack'.
At that time, something changed. A came forward and used the move 'Taunt' to gather the attention of those Hawlucha. Then it used 'Iron defense' and took out its big sword in front to block the attacks.
The move 'Taunt' was something that it had learned from Garry a while ago. Due to its oversized sword, it made sense to act as a tank.
All of them went forward to hit A while Aerodactyl used the move 'Wide Guard' and focused it on A.
BANG!!
BANG!!
BANG!!!
"Attack, all of you!!!", shouted Staraptor as it went for the attack too. It used the move 'Tailwind' to increase its speed and then used 'Fiery Aura'. After that, it fired up a powerful 'Flamethrower' to one of the rare rank Hawlucha and then used 'Aerial Ace' to attack one of the elemental rank Hawlucha.
A mighty flame hit the rare rank Hawlucha, and it instantly got burned after the attack. The elemental rank Hawlucha could also not dodge the attack due to 'Taunt'.
The attack injured both of them. Staraptor could see that it could finish off rare rank Hawlucha with another attack. So, it flew high in the sky and got ready to use the move 'Wing attack'.
Both of its wings shone in sky blue light, but if one were to look at it closely, they could tell that it was looking sharper. The glow changed its shape to a razor blade, and somehow the speed of Staraptor increased while using the move.
BANG!!!
The move was precise. The glowing blade shaped like wings cleanly cut off the head of a rare rank Hawlucha. It was already burnt and could not concentrate on the target, so it could not defend against the attack in any way.
After that, C took care of elemental rank Hawlucha while E and Aerodactyl fought against pseudo-king rank Hawlucha.
The battle was over in just four minutes. The pseudo-king rank Hawlucha took some time to deal with, but it could not do anything from the combined attack of C and Aerodactyl. A had also joined the fight after some time when it was healed a bit by all those attacks.
All of them celebrated, but Staraptor was not happy about the result. It was too slow. This was their first hunt, so they had to be ready. That was why the team took the time to observe the target. They needed to speed up the process.
Also, for a while, Staraptor had been thinking of creating a new move that would help it deal with flying-type Pokemon. Due to its passive move upgrade, it knew that it could do it. It had already developed the idea of how to do it, but it was still not getting there.
It had been training on this move for two whole weeks.
Staraptor noticed that its move 'Wing Attack' had been upgraded. Now, it was more powerful, and its speed increased while using this move.
Lairon was the only one who didn't do anything in this fight. It was too weak to do anything. It was only a common rank Pokemon, and the only reason why Axel made it participate in this fight was to gain experience.
C came up with a storage bag. The bag was not too big. However, it could somehow fit all the bodies of Hawlucha. This was a storage bag with space properties. Something of this world, and it was costly. Each of Axel's team members was given one.
They stored the bodies and went into hiding. The battle began near the Hawlucha tribe. Staraptor knew that some of them might have heard the sound of it. They might be coming here.
They were going to hide and sneak attack another group of Hawlucha.
'How is Magneton doing right now?', thought Staraptor.
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Team 1 was also focusing on the Hawlucha tribe, but they were hunting in a different place.
"Good job, Magneton. You have made our job quite easy. This is the third group that we have hunted today. It is already evening now, we will go back for today.", said Togekiss praising Magneton.
Magneton had trained on its electric move, especially on its move 'Thunder Wave'. Now, Hawlucha might have an ability called 'Limber' which would make them immune to paralysis but there was 50% chance that Hawlucha might not have that ability and even if they did have that ability, using it at the time of need was a different thing altogether.
Due to Magneton, they were easily able to paralyze the targets while Togekiss, B, and D focused on dealing with them. Bisharp also showed that it could not be messed with, but since it was only an uncommon rank Pokemon, it didn't contribute much. Koffing also made a little contribution in the fight.
In the evening, all three teams had come to show their results.
"What? Three groups? We could only hunt two groups, but they hunted three of them?", , Shout Staraptor from the top of its lungs.
It turned out that team 2 had also been able to hunt two groups, but team 1 was able to hunt three groups.
Staraptor was filled with anger, and this anger was all directed towards itself. It was the first day, so it had decided to go slow, but,
'It looks like I should change my strategy from tomorrow, and I must create that move as soon as possible.', thought Staraptor.
"It looks like you lost again, Gandiva.", came a voice from behind, which paralyzed Staraptor, not from fear but from anger. It was trying its best to look cool, but it was struggling to do so. It was Magneton.
It slowly turned back and said, "It is only the first day. We still have 28 more days to make a decision. So, don't be so happy."
It looked calm as still water. At least it thought that it did. Staraptor, Blastoise, and Magneton were truly rivals, and they would do anything to win.
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