Chapter 62

Chapter 62

Virah raised her hand, "to start, Nitro, String Shot."

"Beedrill!" Her Pokemon yelled in response before spitting out a ball of thick, viscous string that shot out towards the trunk of a nearby tree.

"Whitney, what's the time?" Virah turned to Whitney

he pinkette raised her Pokewatch to show Virah that with the travel speed of the ball, it took around 4 seconds for it fly across 6 meters and hit the tree.

"The travel speed definitely increased..." Virah murmured while jotting down 1.20 meters per second on her notes in regards to Nitro's string shot, she then grabbed a ruler and measured the radius of the string upon impact.

She neared the now whitened tree trunk and with her ruler, counted how many feet Nitro's webbing spanned, "hm, five... point four feet," Virah walked away from the tree and jotted that number down, she wrote it next to Nitro's previous record, "that's two feet more than before,"

Virah nodded in approval and picked up a rock, "good job," she complimented her Beedrill, who called out his name excitedly in response, "next we're going to test your Fury Attack and Sniper ability have improved, after that, we'll go ahead and see how potent your Poison Sting has become by testing it on a plant,"

Nitro nodded and Virah went forward with the testing, like always, she started gathering rocks and piling them up on one spot.

She occasionally checked on her friends, who they themselves were training, to see how they were reacting to her "physically straining" herself and saw that they didn't seem to mind.

Once enough rocks were piled up, Virah continued on and started throwing them Nitro's way, who expectedly hit them with precise strikes directly at the center using his Fury Attack, his drills went on and proved their name sake true by splitting the rocks in half as if they were made of tissue paper.

The test went on until Virah ran out of rocks, afterwards she went forward to check the rocks that had been splt- which was all of them, - to see just how accurately Nitro broke them and to her shock, they were all cleanly split in half.

The only inconsistency were the areas where Nitro had struck his drills with, which resulted in the rocks having this odd circular dent, most of them were on odd areas but Virah chalked it up to the rock's position in the air rather than any flaw on Nitro's part.

Nodding, she moved backward and smiled, "good job, you did pretty well and honestly better than I expected," her words made her Beedrill tilt his head, she smiled sheepishly, "I honestly thought you'd only accurately hit around 80% of them after your random growth spurt but apparently not,"

"Beedrill." Nitro said seriously.

"Yeah... apparently you two got a massive boost after we got sick, which is why I'm testing both you and Jet to see what changed and what improved, so far, things are looking up," Virah patted her Beedrill's head.

Virah leaned away, "now, how about you use Poison Sting on that shrub over there and I'll start throwing these rocks away while we wait for the effects of your Poison to show?"

"Beeee-" Nitro's drills turned purple before shooting out two spikes that darted towards the shrub.

"Hello," the man waved, "what is this?" He pointed to the shrub, "it looked interesting so I thought I'd check it out,"

"Oh, it's just a plant I caused my Pokemon to poison, it's not that big of a deal," Virah waved the guy off, she rubbed the back of her neck, "really,"

"I feel it's interesting," the man said, leaning forward to pluck a leaf from the plant, "did you use toxic on it?"

"No, just regular Poison Sting," Virah replied before deciding to get to the point, "are you a professor that specializes in Poison Types?"

"Not really," he said, "I'm more of an aid," he corrected with a shrug, "and as for what my specialty is... well it's related to poison but mostly, I work on Pokemon cures as well as evolution rocks,"

"How's that work?" Virah asked, putting her focus on the shrub once more.

She collected a small amount of ooze with her index finger while waiting for the aid to reply, she rubbed the viscous liquid between her index and thumb, noting that it was slippery.

"What's it feel like?" The aid asked.

"Hm? Slippery, this might've been resin I think," Virah answered.

"Anti bacterial?" The aid asked.

"Yep, I think this was the plant's last ditch effort to save itself, by pumping its body full of these things to flush out the poison," Virah theorized, "I'm not really sure though since it's oddly black, and that usually doesn't happen to plant resin, even when they're poisoned,"

"You're right," the aid said, "it's unlike them to actually create puss, isn't it?"

"Plants don't have pus though don't they?" Vira mentioned.

"No, they don't, which is why it's so weird to see that this one has black resin," the aid said to Virah's nod of agreement.

"Exactly," Virah said, "there's something going on here that I haven't figured out yet, and most likely won't, at least not until I get a microscope,"

"A microscope huh?" The aid said, humming, "well, I think I'll leave you to it, I have somewhere to get to," the man smiled before walking away, "see you kid,"

"Bye," Virah waved, glad that someone so suspicious left her vicinity. She didn't know if he was part of Team Rocket or not but the possibility is there.

She's just glad she didn't die by his hands.