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"As long as we don't get swallowed by sudden, snowy holes in the ground, we should be alright," Tails said. "Tristen, if you want to go, I can keep you warm."

He flipped through the channels, listening for any hint of weather. To him, the screen was almost entirely too dark to make out, his eyes only catching sudden flashes of color or movement. And, of course, the static between channels.

"I'll go." He said. "I want to try to help."

"Don't be doing this because of you feeling some obligation." I said.

"Hypocrite." Freth and Pryce said.

"What?"

"...stuck?" Tristen asked him, looking back at me. Apparently Tails has a way with words without realizing it.

"Alright, if we are going to do this, lets try to get it done before everything becomes unable to be traversed." I said to him. "Lets have a look around the area, try to find whatever out of the ordinary."

"Monstressor, let's try it again, Hyper Beam!" Sub commanded his Pokemon, the trainer and his Puptar were in the new training room of the headquarters. It was a state of the art training facility, complete with alternating environment field. The current field was a rocky wasteland like area, well suited for the rock type that Monstressor was.

"Pupi pupitar!" Cried Monstressor as he hopped forward twice, towards a rather large boulder in the center of the field. The Pokemon pulled back as it landed on the second hop and began to store energy as its body began to shake slightly. "Tar!" It shouted and attempted to release the stored energy, but instead of a Hyper Beam firing out of its mouth only a slight crackle of energy came out, looked similar to a few firecrackers going on. "Tar..." Moaned the Pupitar, feeling as if it failed.

"Aw, don't worry buddy. That was better than last time, at least you managed to muster something up. We just need to work on building up more power and sustaining it as you attempt to release it all in one shot. You can do this, I know you can." Sub said as he tried to cheer his Pokemon up as he walked up behind him and patted him on the back.

"Alright Monstressor, that's enough for today." Sub said to his Pupitar which was leaned up against the boulder he was trying to Hyper Beam, panting. "We'll try again tomorrow after you rested up, return bud." The trainer took out a Dusk Ball and recalled the creature back to the device with a red beam of light. "Glad to see him working so hard." He said as he pocketed the ball and went to exit the room.

"Huh? Oh, hey Lykas." Sub said as he stepped back a bit from the door as he saw the others. "Also hey to you Odd." He said with a nod and turned back to Lykas. "Yes, it's perfectly fine, didn't get to blow anything up today." He grinned. "Try not to gravely injure Odd, can't afford any medical bills after spending so much on this place."

Dakota put his hands behind his head and motioned for his pokemon to follow him. Aeon, being a ghost didn't cause I noise or have trouble going through the halls. Quil, being a small pokemon didn't have any trouble either. King... was very surprising. A large onix went through the halls and the very worst thing that happened was a single paper fell off the wall. Floors must be waxed or something Dakota thought seeing Onix do no damage to the floor.
The three went to team Snagem's gym to practice. Dakota ordered his pokemon to wait while he set things up. The pokemon watched for ten minutes as Dakota raced around setting things up for them.
For Aeon, he set up a straw man to practice attacks. For Quil he set up a small agility course with targets to practice attacks on. And for king he had painted targets on some of the boulders.

"Alright, Aeon, I want you to use will-o-wisp followed by a shadow ball on the straw man. Quil, I want you to run this agility course and use ember to things on your side and flame wheel on things infront of you. Onix, I want you to use dig then come up behind the boulder and use rollout. Let's get going!"

Dakota watched Aeon first. Aeon kept trying to use will-o-wisp but could only conjure a fire for a few moments. Dakota went to it and gave Aeon a little pep talk and said "Alright, will-o-wisp is ghost fire? Think of something hot, close your... eye? Then shoot it quickly followed by a shadow ball.". Aeon tried this and seven light blue flames surrounded Aeon. It moved one of its hand and the whisps shot at the strawman followed by a perfectly executed shadow ball, something Aeon was talented at. Most of the flames missed, but it was done right. "Alright Aeon, I want you to work on the speed and accuracy of will-o-wisp.". Aeon nodded and went straight to work.

Next Dakota went to help quil which had run the course a few times, really no problems except with timing flame wheel just right. He watched one more time and saw Quil hit the wooden board he was supposed to break through. "Alright Quil, I want you to remember, flame wheel is not a stationary move. So don't wait until the last second to do it, alright?". Quil looked at Dakota seeming a little mad about the advice, but accepted it. Quil ran the course faster this time, and ten feet before hitting it Quil englufed itself in flame and began to spin. Quil aced it. "Good job!" Dakota yelled applauding. Quil blushed with embarrasment.

Finally, Dakota came over to King. "Alright King, I want you to dig under neath this boulder here, then I want you to use rollout on it. Got that?" King nodded not giving Dakota a moment to move and began to dig. A few moments passed and Dakota heard a loud thud come from behind the boulder. A second later, large cracks came across the boulder and it was shaddered, an anxious King hovering over the mess of rock stood above Dakota waiting for approval. Dakota lifted both hands for a high five and yelled "Perfect, King!". King took this a little to seriously and swung his tail and Dakota trying to give hime that high five, Dakota went flying into the wall. "Oww...." Dakota muttered as King slithered to him and helped him up. Dakota patted his head and began to speak "You're doing pretty good, but there's always room for improvment. I want you to dig undeground until you can cross under the base in less than two minutes. Think of it as a race."

Dakota stood where he was and watched his pokemon train offering tips when he could.

"Whoo, that was a good work out." Sub said as he walked into the HQ through the front door. His shirt was off and halfway tucked in his pants as it hanged off on the side. "I feel all sweaty though." The Murkrow on his head cawed in agreement. "Hush up Nevermore, it's not like you did anything but sit around all day on my head."