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Chapter 184 The Fathead Fish Awakens

Chapter 184 The Fathead Fish Awakens

"Come on, let's see what goodies Aunt Cynthia has prepared for you." After returning home, Wei Xin sat on the sofa. Pipa, Kukui, and Gladion were all helping out at the research center. Togepi, holding a baby bottle, sat in his lap. Wei Xin removed the styrofoam from the box.

Inside was a USB drive and an oval-shaped stone with small black and white spots.

"The Unchanging Stone?" Wei Xin recognized it at a glance.

An item that prevents a Pokémon from evolving while it is being held.

Some people equip this item on Pokémon they don't want to evolve, such as Litten, Rowlet, and Pink Dragonair.

You mustn't become like that.

"Is it to extend Togepi's training time?" Appropriately delaying a Pokémon's evolution can effectively increase its potential, and learning moves ahead of time is one example. Wei Xin inserted the USB drive into the computer.

It's a training program that goes from Togepi to Togekiss and then to Togekiss, with all three abilities: Vitality, Serene Grace, and Super Luck.

"Champion-level training program, 99% chance, a rare find." "The boss is feeding you, that's really thoughtful of him." After Pokobi had eaten and drunk his fill, Wei Xin took the empty bottle from Pokobi's hand.

"Beep!" Happiness was gone with a snap, and Togepi cried out in distress.

The trainer is bad!

Until Wei Xin stuffed the Unchanging Stone into Pokémon's hand.

The little guy looked at the stone in his hand, pondered for a moment, then slammed it twice on the coffee table and laughed. Then, he became intensely curious about the toy in his hand, opened his mouth, and without thinking, bit down hard on the immutable stone.

"Pfft~" Pokobi sniffed, his teeth aching from the stone, tears welling in his eyes, and looked up at Wei Xin.

This doesn't taste good.

Wei Xin couldn't help but chuckle: "This isn't for eating."

Children always go through the oral stage. Wei Xin recalled that when Ralts first came home, it seemed that it didn't have a mouth—oh, it did, but it only licked the game cartridge and then stopped.

Wei Xin was considering whether or not to let Pokerby lick the cassette tape too.

Togepi suddenly felt a chill, as if something bad was about to happen.

Wei Xin put the Everstone into Togepi's eggshell to prevent it from evolving prematurely due to high friendship. Kirlia placed a small bowl of cookies on the table. Togepi smelled the aroma and immediately stopped crying and started eating the cookies with gusto. While eating, it hid the cookies back into its eggshell and occasionally took a sip of the prepared milk.

"Sound~"

After eating and drinking his fill, Pokobi burped, patted his belly, and was completely satisfied.

Tibrim skipped over to Togepi, took out her soothing bell from her hair, and tied it to Togepi's hand.

It's yours.

Togepi shook the bell in his hand, and a clear sound rang out. Togepi's emotions were gradually calmed down, and he hugged Tibrim tightly.

"You're going to give the Soothing Bell to Pokopf? It's no longer needed?" Wei Xin asked.

"Timmy." Tibrim nodded. It was only natural for an older sister to give her younger sister something old. Moreover, Tibrim held Rotom up in front of Weixin, opened the shopping cart, and found the latest Soothing Bell, which was said to be more effective. She didn't have a Soothing Bell now, so the trainer had to buy her a new one.

Okay, okay, is this how you play?

Wei Xin smiled and waved his hand, "Making money is for spending, so buy!"

In addition to the new comfort bell, Wei Xin also bought a bunch of children's gifts for Togepi. Wei Xin flipped to the page about evolution stones and planned to prepare the light stone for Togepi as well.

However, just as gold is divided into 18k and 24k, jadeite also has emerald and snowflake green, and there are also differences in quality among light stones. In fact, there are even counterfeit goods that are of inferior quality and passed off as superior ones.

There are actually people selling evolution stone blind boxes?

The person who invented the blind box should stuff themselves inside it and be launched into space.

For Togepi's sake, Wei Xin decided to wait until the Hoenn issue was resolved before asking Daigo if he had any in stock, since he was the expert.

Just then, the phone rang. It was the professor; there must be a result regarding the meteorite incident.

Wei Xin answered the phone.

"professor?"

"I've asked the observatory, and they said that based on observations and calculations, theoretically, no meteorites will fall in the near future, so you can rest assured," the professor said bluntly.

No meteorite? That shouldn't be the case. Wei Xin remembered that in the game and manga storyline, Shizana secretly guided Team Aqua and Team Magma to awaken legendary Pokémon, Rayquaza, precisely because the impending meteorite was too powerful and could potentially destroy the planet. Wei Xin tentatively asked, "Professor, do you think it's possible that this meteorite might change direction? Suppose, suppose a Pokémon, during its trajectory, slaps the meteorite and sends it crashing to Earth, or maybe it hitches a ride..."

"???"

Faced with Wei Xin's conjecture, the professor on the other end of the phone was taken aback. A meteorite turning a corner? Do you think this is a game of billiards? He tried to force himself to accept Wei Xin's point of view, but he failed.

He believes that what's gone astray isn't a meteorite, but Wei Xin's brain circuitry. If the people at the observatory knew this, they would only suspect that Wei Xin is making fun of them.

The professor gave up thinking: "I'm not a professional in this matter. You handle it yourself. Remember to get some rest early tonight. The development of the bracelet is almost finished. Come help with the testing tomorrow."

After saying that, the professor hung up the phone.

Wei Xin shrugged and put down his phone. There was still no news of Kyogre and Groudon in Hoenn, so the only way to find out what happened was to go to Hoenn himself.

Seeing that the trainer had finished, Sylveon jumped onto the sofa, its tentacles wrapping around Wei Xin's hand, forcefully pulling Wei Xin towards itself. Kirlia had already kissed her, and she wanted to kiss him too. Then she felt a force pulling at both the trainer and her tentacles; it was Kirlia's psychic power.

Kirlia made a big X with her hands in front of her chest.

No!

Using his telekinesis, he untied Sylveon's tentacles and threw her to the ground.

"Mia!" Sylveon panicked, jumping in front of Kirlia, arching its back, baring its teeth, and its tentacles poised to strike. Kirlia, your days of monopolizing trainers are over, give me the trainers!

Kirlian crossed her arms, one in front of the other, assuming a fighting stance.

If you want it, you have to come and get it yourself; that's the rule I set.

A strong smell of gunpowder filled the room.

It's time to put an end to this, to get it over with once and for all.

A life-or-death battle involving the ownership of trainers is about to erupt.

"Alright, no fighting. Besides, Kirlia's ability is Telepathy, so your moves won't hurt her at all." Wei Xin moved between the two little guys, rubbing Kirlia and Sylveon's heads at the same time, and yawned wearily. "Sylveon, can you take care of Togepi for me? I'm taking Kirlia to get a bath."

Watching Kirlia and her trainer head towards the bathroom, Sylveon puffed up its cheeks in anger, kicked its hind leg hard, and yelled, "You stinky trainer, you're so fickle! I'm not sleeping with you tonight!"

Turning her head, she nestled sadly in the kitten's bed.

"Toot!" Togepi hopped over to Sylveon, patted Sylveon's thigh, and asked, "Can you play with me, sister?"

Let's play ball!

"Mia!" Sylveon was in a bad mood and glared at Togepi with resentment.

The trainer focused all his attention on the little guy as soon as he got home. Honestly, what's so cute about this little thing? He looked at Togepi's face again, at the innocent, harmless smile.

Well, she is somewhat cute, but so what? This little thing was hatched by Kirlia and her trainer together, and she's the one who has to take care of it.

Impossible, absolutely impossible.

Sylveon got angrier and angrier. Even if she went out of the house today, she would never play with this annoying little thing. So, she used her antennae to turn Togepi around, turned it towards the other Pokémon in the house, patted it on the back, and told it to go play with its other friends and not bother its sister.

"Let me be angry," Sylveon snorted twice. "The trainer did nothing wrong. Kirlia did her part, and she just got a little too close to the trainer, which wasn't wrong either. But she's still unhappy, and the trainer won't comfort her. So it's still the trainer's fault."

She will not forgive her trainer unless he comes to coax her.

A little coaxing will do the trick.

Togepi turned back and approached Sylveon. Seeing that Sylveon was in a bad mood, it took out some cookies from its pocket and placed them in front of Sylveon.

Sylveon raised one eye. You think you can please me with just a cookie? What do you take me for?

"Beep!" Seeing that Sylveon was still unhappy, Togepi stuffed all the cookies and Everstone hidden in its eggshell under Sylveon's belly. It even hung the comfort bell on Sylveon's body. When it found that its eggshell was empty, Sylveon still ignored it and sniffed in grievance.

My sister doesn't like me; it might be because I'm not good enough.

Togepi didn't cry, but just lowered his head, turned away dejectedly, and unexpectedly slipped, screamed in fright, and closed his eyes.

However, no pain came. Togepi felt something wrapped around its body. When it opened its eyes, it saw Sylveon's tentacles.

"Beep beep!"

Sylveon turned her face away, glancing sideways at Togepi's delighted expression. She snorted twice. She was simply fulfilling her promise to the trainer to take care of Togepi and was carrying out her mission. She wasn't reminded of her past self by seeing the little creature's sad back.

Moreover, the little thing didn't do anything wrong.

Sylveon put the cookie, the Soothing Bell, and the Everstone back into Togepi's eggshell, but kept half a cookie for itself.

She only needs to ask for something, and her trainer will buy it for her.

So don't be sad, I just don't care, it's not that I hate you.

Hey, don't hug me! I have no intention of getting close to you. When your sister is in a bad mood, someone else will suffer.

Damn, I guess I'm just unlucky!

Sylveon lay in the kitten's nest, idly waving its antennae to tease Togepi. Watching the little guy hopping around with boundless energy, Sylveon's mood improved considerably. When Wei Xin brought Kirlia out of the bathroom, they saw Togepi tired from playing and lying on the sofa, with Sylveon lying next to it. For safety, its four antennae were wrapped around Togepi's eggshell.

Wei Xin and Qi Lulian exchanged a glance and smiled knowingly at each other.

Isn't that good enough?

Night, Hoenn region, an underwater cave.

The cave was filled with mist, and glistening water droplets fell from the white marble pillars, landing in puddles on the ground as footsteps approached. Water Willow led the Ocean Team officers toward the deepest part of the cave. Blue light flowed on the walls, illuminating the cave environment. Soon, a cave emitting a faint blue light came into view.

Shui Wutong leaned against the rock wall beside her, her robust body cautiously peering out to examine it closely until she saw a gray stone statue sleeping quietly in the huge lake in the middle of the cave.

"Hahaha!" Shui Wutong shouted excitedly, ran to the stone statue, and opened her arms wide. "Finally found it!"

The officers of the Ocean Team followed closely behind. Blue light shone on everyone's faces, and the huge marine life statues caused everyone's pupils to contract sharply, tremble, and become uncontrollably excited.

"The legendary Pokémon that rules the ocean, Kyogre," Archie declared to Kyogre, expressing his ideals. "I am Archie, the leader of Team Aqua. I have been searching for you, Kyogre. Listen to me, the world is in chaos. Everyone is only concerned with their own interests. Both nature and Pokémon need a thorough cleansing."

He pulled out a huge blue jewel from behind his back, and its dazzling light illuminated the entire underwater cave as if it were daytime, just as he had hoped for—a clean and bright future.

"Come, Kyogre, lend me a hand, let's overthrow this corrupt world and create a brand new future."

"Wait a minute, leader!" The long-haired woman next to Shui Wutong called out, interrupting Shui Wutong's actions.

"Our ideal is right before us. Is there anything else you'd like to say? Shuiquan? Or have you begun to doubt our ideal?"

"No, I'm just—Water Wutong. Haven't you ever thought that with human power, we can really control all of nature? Perhaps our ideals will drag countless innocent people into this mess. So, at least wait a little longer, until the surrounding residents are evacuated to a safe place."

"We should not make unnecessary sacrifices for our ideals."

"In fact, our ideals might turn the whole world into hell."

"There's no time for that!" Archie said firmly. "The Magma Team guys have already gone to another cave. Groudon might wake up in the next moment. As for those innocent people, survival of the fittest is natural selection. Neither humans nor Pokémon should be favored."

"That's right, leader," the girl named Higana stepped forward and echoed.

"Just as dead plants and animals become nutrients, nourishing the earth," Higana coughed, swallowing back the word "earth" that she almost said.

"Ocean, humanity is also part of nature. If we want to save the world, someone has to sacrifice. So, throw down the precious pearl in your hand and lead us forward."

"That's right, Higana, you're right. Someone has to make sacrifices. We must bravely take this step for the future of the world."

As she spoke, Shui Wutong's expression grew increasingly manic. With a roar, she threw the precious pearl in her hand at the sleeping stone statue. The pearl emitted a dazzling golden light and exploded with a deafening roar. A huge pillar of light rose from the ground and shot straight into the sky.

"Awaken, Primal Kyogre, and destroy everything in sight!"

On Kyogre's body, the gray stone shell cracked and turned into dust. His eyes opened, and his scarlet pupils scanned everything around him. His huge body fell into the lake, creating waves that crashed against the cave walls, causing the cave to tremble and collapse.

Kyogre ripped open the sea, giant waves surged and tumbled, its body hovering in the gloomy night sky. With a roar of freedom, the vast world changed color. It flapped its wings, the waves surged, whirlpools rose in the ocean, huge waterspouts shot straight into the sky, torrential rain fell, lightning flashed in the clouds, and deafening thunder roared incessantly.

Then, the gaze travels across the sea and into the far distance, where Groudon, having torn the earth apart and been reborn, stands facing each other, roaring angrily.

Ignoring the panicked cries of the Pokémon and people around them, they moved forward.

The legendary Pokémon has awakened.