chapter 32

When Alex asked Daisy the assistant Doctor and intern of Dr Armin Richards all the attention and eyes if occupants in the room turned towards her.

" Let's begin with Rattata."

"Rattata is a small, quadruped rodent Pokemon. Its most notable feature is its large teeth. Like most rodents, its teeth grow continuously throughout its life and must be worn down by gnawing. Rattata has purple fur on its back, and cream fur on its stomach. It has a pair of thin, cream-colored whiskers and a long tail that curls at the tip. Females have shorter whiskers and lighter fur color.

Rattata can live wherever it can find food, which it searches for most of the day. Thanks to its sharp fangs, it is able to eat nearly anything. When it is threatened, Rattata can deliver a powerful bite. Its large teeth are also useful when using its former signature moves, Hyper Fang and Super Fang. Its hardiness lets it live in many environments, although it mainly lives on plains and savannas. Because it reproduces so quickly, a pair of Rattata can quickly colonize anywhere. " She narrated everything she learned about them at her academy.

" This is something anyone can find just by looking at them and knew about pokemon moves.

As for reproductive ability, bug types and Pikachu can easily match it. They are known for high number of progeny.

What I want to know is how we can beat them down in the most effective and cost efficient way?" Alex said

" This…. I don't know anything else, Sir. This is the theory we were taught at the academy about Rattata."

" They can learn biting attacks, and are weaker in body skills which is greatly strengthened when they evolved into raticate.

They have an innate skill called " guts" which can increase their attack power when they suffer from paralysis, poison or even sleep and they know sleeptalk.

Their smaller body makes them easy to maneuver around and the trap holes won't be effective against them.

Only leg hold trap and snare trap are effective against them. They can easily pass by the other traps.

But their numbers can turn many of our traps invalid as these traps can't reduce their number much. I thought of these traps to injure big pokemons as well as some occasional smaller ones.

But for pokemons as small as the Rattata makes many strategies will be null and void.

If we could use some explosion in the middle of their group our attacks would be more effective. What other ways do you have to combat them? " Alex asked the other people.

" Sir they have sensitive nose so we can irritate them by launching smelly objects in their group." Said Glynda, the terrain and scout leader.

" It is a good thing. We will be having our main battle by the walls of the town and we would arrange barricade at a hundred metres away from the wall at most.

This way we can take care of many canine. The sharp foul smell would make their attacks disoriented and we can easily take them out.

Also barricade the front of the wall. We will place iron spikes as well as spiky wire barrier around the front line.

This way at least the front line soldiers have some semblance of barrier separating them from the incoming pokemons . Only flying and underground Pokemons would be unaffected from this arrangement.

But we all know that at least 60 to 70 percent of Pokemon would be land travelling and rest will be a combination of flying and underground travelling ones." Alex elaborated.

" But what should we do about the flying and ground type Pokemons?" Jim, the second lieutenant asked.

" To deal with them I can't think of any equipment or trap which won't be repelled back at us, but I can only think of two ways and whether these can be implemented or not is a completely different thing." Alex said

" Oh, what is the trick we can use here?" Blake, the fighting specialist asked.

" For pokemons hiding underground, we can use magnitude, earthquake and Earth power to deal with them but most of our own people can be affected and the traps we set up can be destroyed.

We can use this trick only when they are nearby so that these traps can be effectively utilised and the harm to us ourselves would be reduced to the bare minimum.

And this way can be circulated because there are many pokemons who can use these three ground type attacks and we can also increase the strength of our corps exponentially." Alex explained

" Yes, it is good trick to deal with pokemons hidden underground. But how do we deal with flying ones?" Gold asked

" The move which we can be used to stop their flight is a rare one. Not many pokemons could learn this move and we cannot use it at a grander scale like the earthquake trick. " Alex explained

" What is this rare move?" Nora asked.

" It is a psychic type move, Nora. I don't know if you have heard about it it not. " Alex said

Now all eyes were gathered on Nora, the psychic specialist of the corp to get more information yet she didn't know it.

" Psychic move. Which move could it be?" Nora mumbled not able to recall the move Alex was speaking about.

" It is called gravity. It is a non-attacking psychic move. It increases the effect of gravity in a certain area making it difficult for them to float or fly around.

I don't know if it can work on ghost type as their form is gaseous but for flying types, it is very effective.

As long as the physical strength cannot bear the increased gravity on their body, they will fall on the ground hard. And on ground, they are sitting slowpoke. They can be taken down quite easily." Alex said

" If such a great move is present then we can easily win the flying types. But why haven't we heard of this trick?" Jean asked.

" The reason you haven't heard about this move is because it is an innate trick which can only be learned by clefairy and dusclops. There is an evolved formed of nosepass, a probopass who could learn this trick.

Clefairy is a super rare pokemons in par with Eevee and Dratini line as you all know. Dusclops are a ghost type in hoenn region but it is still a difficult trick to learn.

As for nosepass, it is a Hoenn Pokemon too but they can only evolve into probopass in a very high magnetic region and when four nosepass join in such an environment they fuse and a powerful probopass is formed.

They evolve similar to magnetite and koofing." Alex explained the things behind the move' Gravity'.

Hearing these things, they felt their hope to combat turn dim. But Dr. Richards have some doubts about the move and he asked," But can other pokemons not learn this trick too?"

" Yes, we can tutor it to other Pokemons but it is a psychic move and we all know just how difficult it is for a Pokemon to learn this psychic moves.

The only pokemons I know about who can learn it are Jigglypuff, Abra line, Chansey, etc. The Pokemons who can learn this trick are the ones who have psychic powers or have some control or can affect magnetic field around themselves.

So magneton could learn it. " But it will take at least a few months to learn this trick and I don't think many people would spend so much time on a non attacking move." Apex told them.

" Anyway let's discuss about other pokemons weakness and effective way to take them down?"

They continued their meeting for a few hours and then when the sun began to set they all left him alone in the office while Jean his secretary was just outside dealing with other official works for him.

Now I have to make my Pokemon evolve into their next form.

Alex discuss how to face the Pokemon. Next will be the evolution of his Pokemons as well as the Alex meeting all his troops for the first time. Stay tuned.

To be continued