The world outside was shifting at a terrifying speed—but so was mine.
While governments, ministries, and entire education boards scrambled to restructure society, I had my own list of tasks. And none of them were small.
Moving Into the New House
The villa was finally ready.
Interior teams had worked nonstop—reinforcing rooms, installing berry storage units, converting the basement into a training + crafting zone, and Pokémon-proofing the backyard. Grookey loved the balcony garden. Mankey claimed a beam in the living room. Pikachu declared war on the Roomba—daily.
And at night, Chansey's zone kept the perimeter completely safe.
For the first time since the Merge, I slept without alarms, vines, or venomous snakes hovering over my face.
Almost peaceful.
Training Week
I didn't waste a single hour.
Pidgeotto (Lv 30) practiced advanced aerial maneuvers and precision Wing Attacks.
Mankey (Lv 20) focused on discipline—less tantrum, more technique.
Pikachu (Lv 16) worked on accuracy and stamina, especially dodging.
Grookey (Lv 13) needed the most attention. Grass Surge was strong, but his body was still recovering from malnutrition. Slow, steady training only.
Rhyhorn (Lv 32) was mostly sparring with the others, helping them toughen up.
Chansey also supervised whenever Happiny wasn't clinging to me with her new stone.
Curriculum Creation
Every night after training, I locked myself in my study and built the foundation for India's future.
Two full programs:
1. Intensive 1-Month Trainer Course (June)
For newly passed 10th graders:
Pokémon safety
Type basics
simple pokemon food.
First aid
Zone entry rules
Beginner battle ethics
Legal responsibilities
A compressed version of a 2-year subject.
2. School Pokémon Theory Curriculum
For 9th & 10th:
Pokémon behavior
Ecosystem balance
Survival basics
Identifying dangerous Pokémon
Emergency handling
Nutrition & care
Evolution cycles
It was brutal work.
But necessary.
Every new trainer's life would depend on it.
Pokéball Factory Check-In
Three days into the week, Colonel Rawat asked me to inspect the prototype factory again.
The moment I entered, the craftsmen practically dragged me inside like an anticipating audience.
"Sir, sir—look at this batch!"
They lined up newly crafted Pokéballs—perfect shine, stable lattice, flawless seals.
Production had increased—
100 functional Pokéballs per day.
Slow by commercial standards, but insanely fast considering the crafting complexity.
Still…
"Handcrafting isn't enough," I said.
Deshmukh, the senior craftsman, scratched his beard."We know. That's why the engineers are working on automation."
On the far end of the workshop, a group of engineers were huddled around a machine resembling a cross between a kiln, centrifugal processor, and precision molding unit.
The First Pokéball-Generation Machine.
It hummed, sputtered, and occasionally released smoke like it was threatening to explode.
But the lead technician grinned at me.
"Sir… a month. Maybe less. We'll crack it."
A machine-produced Pokéball would revolutionize everything:
Mass production
Cheap supply
National distribution
India could become the world's biggest Pokéball manufacturer.
Until then, we had strict limits.
Every Pokéball produced so far went only to:
Pokémon Department officers
Ranger units
High-level law enforcement
All under confidentiality agreements.
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Two days before today, something massive happened.
10th Standard Results Were Released.
And with them…The first batch of Trainer Program application forms.
The Numbers Hit Like a Thunderbolt
There were 1.36 million students who passed 10th this year across Maharashtra alone.
We expected maybe 200–300k to apply.
We were wrong.
Very wrong.
By the end of 48 hours:
612,000 passed-out students registered for the Intensive Trainer Course.
188,000 junior college students (who had missed the cutoff age before the Merge) applied to switch over and attempt the written Pokémon theory test.
That made it a total of:
800,000 new trainees starting in June.
Eight.Hundred.Thousand.
The scale hit me like a physical weight.
We weren't preparing a few classes—we were preparing the largest training operation in Indian history.
Curriculum Ready – But Teachers?
The syllabus was done.The materials were ready.Exams and assessments finalized.
But we had one giant missing piece:
Teachers.
My team and I could handle:
Mumbai
Pune
Navi Mumbai
Thane
Palghar
But Maharashtra was huge.
Nashik, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Kolhapur, Satara, Amravati, Jalgaon, Kokan and dozens of rural districts—All needed instructors.
We needed hundreds.Preferably thousands.
But not just any teachers.
We Needed Teachers Who Could Actually Survive Around Pokémon
So the Education Ministry and Pokémon Department worked with me to create a strict selection filter:
Top-ranking teachers across Maharashtra
Strong background in biology, environment, physical training, or safety
Clean psychological evaluation
High willingness to work with Pokémon
Ability to stay calm.
From the applications, around 1,800 teachers passed all filters.
They were the first generation of:
Pokémon Theory Instructors
But they couldn't go into class alone.
They needed partners.
Teachers Would Be Paired with Suitable Pokémon
Not high-level creatures.
Not aggressive ones.
But steady, reliable Pokémon that could assist them with:
Demonstrations
Safety drills
Practical lessons
Monitoring student teams
Mostly docile, calm species like:
Lillipup
Wooper
Pidgey
Eevee
Hoothoot
These pairings were important.
Students needed to see Pokémon as living beings, not toys or trophies.
Teachers needed emotional and physical safety backup.
And the Pokémon needed gentle environments.
Every selected teacher would undergo:
A 10-day training camp
A Pokémon handling workshop
A safety demonstration
Mental health screening
A supervised bonding session with their assigned Pokémon
This had to be perfect.
Because these 1,800 teachers would be shaping 800,000 future trainers—The first true generation of India's Pokémon society.
As I read the final list and signed the approval, reality sank deeper.
This wasn't just my responsibility anymore.
This was the beginning of something far bigger—
An entire nation, reshaping itself around a new world.
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While 800,000 new students registered for Pokémon intensive training — foreign governments began noticing something strange.
through intelligence channels.
India's Silent Purchases
India had been quietly buying an unusual category of items from Pokémon zones:
Small, vividly glowing, crystalline stones.
Blue, red, green, yellow, even rainbow-shifting ones.
Evolution Stones.
But only India knew that.
To everyone else, they were just:
"Unclassified Merge-Era Energy Crystals."
Because that's how they appeared in export documents.
Foreign Intelligence Reports
Within three days:
• CIA
• MI6
• MSS (China)
• FSB (Russia)
• Mossad
• DGSE (France)
…all flagged the same pattern.
Huge amounts of these crystals were being:
• extracted from Indian Pokémon zones• purchased by Indian government-linked companies• stockpiled in secured facilities
The price per stone?
$500 export value.
Cheap enough to buy in bulk.
Suspicious enough to trigger alarms.
But here's the key:
None of them knew what the stones actually did.
Not even remotely.
They only knew:
India was collecting them aggressively.
India refused to export even a single one.
India had classified all research related to them.
This alone was enough to worry the world.
Inside a CIA briefing room
"Why is India buying glowing stones by the ton?"
"No idea, sir."
"Military use?"
"Unknown. Energy readings are stable, non-radioactive."
"Then why the secrecy?"
"…that's what scares us."
Inside China's State Council
"Is it a weapon?"
"We don't believe so."
"Then why is India hoarding them?"
"Because they know something we don't."
Inside Russia
"Ah, others have seemed to realize."
No one knew these were evolution stones.
No one knew they boosted Pokémon strength.
No one knew they controlled evolution paths.
No one knew they were among the most precious items in the entire Pokémon world.
But foreign leadership understood one truth:
India was racing ahead.
Silently.
Deliberately.
Strategically.
And that terrified them.
Because if India knew the value of these stones…
Then every country was already behind
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