Chapter 21

Jack arrived at the place where both males and females nidoran live. Although they are not very aggressive pokemon, they are still very dangerous because bodies are full of poison.

Jack look around and saw a group of nidoran not far away. There are around 20 of them both males and females. One Nidorino and Nidorina are leading this group. Jack looks at the information for this two pokemons. Nidorino is level 24 and Nidorina is level 22, both are of light green aptitudes. They are still very strong for the current zubat so Jack choose to leave this group.

If possible Jack like to meet those that are outcast from their respective group. Jack also wants to catch some of the good aptitude nidoran to sell it. Final form Nidoking is very powerful especially if they were with hidden abilities. Since team rocket is the largest organization, they network is very big and they has the knowledge of hidden abilities.

Not all hidden abilities are good and suited for respective pokemons but hidden ability of nidoran species can be said one of the best. It took around two hours to find alone nidoran. This one is only of deep orange aptitude so Jack decided to kill it for poison sacs. Although Jack does not like to be cruel, he has no other choice if he wants to become stronger.

"Zubat, use Astonish, then use quick attack." Jack ordered before nidoran notice them. The level of this nidoran is only 13 so zubat can solve it pretty much easily.

After hearing an order from Jack, zubat use Astonish to stun nidoran and use quick attack to solve it. But this time the soeed of quick attack is a lot faster than normal which surprise Jack. After checking the information of zubat, Jack become very happy because quick attack has broke through elite rank. Both speed and maneuvering skills of quick attack has reached another level.

After being hit by quick attack of expert rank, nidoran got blown away and hit the tree behind. "Zubat, use swift before it gets up and wing attack to solve it." The battle only took a few minutes before it is over. That why surprise attack can be very deadly.

Jack decided to stay in this place awhile catching some good aptitude nidoran and training zubat. During this time Jack catches several nidoran including one with hidden ability. Sadly the aptitude is only light green and the rest are green aptitude. Initially there are 8 nidoran 4 males and 4 females, unfortunately he had to kill one for the poison sacs. It took him two days to catch them, he does not want to catch anymore unless he met with light blue aptitude because he needs to feed them before selling in headquarters. As deep green ones they are usually in big groups guarded by Nidorino and Nidorina. Going back to headquarters and coming back took a lot of time and dangerous after provoking beedrill and spearows group.

Meanwhile, zubat has also improved a lot. His level is increase by one and another ability, Astonish, also broke through elite level. Both supersonic and wing attack have also improved a lot. He can't train toxic yet because the opponents are all poison types.

"Now, lets move to another place." Jack said while patting the head of zubat. As of now, he has already got 2 out of 12 poison sacs. For the others, he need to go to the places with many wastes which are suitable for some pokemons. Many pokemon of poisons type like these kind of environments.

"I really don't want to go to these places." Jack signed. These places are probably the most polluted places in the island and the smell are terrible. It is unbearable for some people and inhaling too much will cause diseases. This one month will literally be hell for him. If is not absolutely necessary, he will never go near them in the future.

In an instant a month pass by, during the month Jack vomited countless times. The thing he needs right now is to find water source for a bath. But those suffering are not without benefits. Zubat is almost the same size and weight as normal Golbat and his level has reached 20 and currently facing a bottleneck. He has learned both quick guard and haze as well. They are both practical moves, especially quick guard. It is like a reflex move and beneficial in improving battle instincts.

Pokemon: zubat (deep green)

Gender: Male

Level: Level 20

Attribute: Poison, Flying

Characteristic: Infiltrator

Holding items: None

Hereditary Abilities: Aerial Ace, Agility, Hypnosis

Basic Abilities: Absorb, Gust, Astonish(E), Quick Attack(E), Supersonic, Meanlook, Wing attack(E), Poison fang, Swift, Haze, Quick guard

TMs: Protect, Doubleteam, Toxic, Steel wing, Taunt

Not only that Jack has successfully gathered poison sacs of five different pokemon species. Two for each species, one to feed zubat and the other is for him to make poison. These species are from grimer, koffing, gulpin, seviper and trubbish. They all live in polluted environment so it is not hard to find them. During this time Jack only catch 3 koffings, one deep green and 2 green. The others are too smelly so few people like them. Except koffings because they can learn the move self destruct. This is a very popular move for dark organizations like Team rocket.

After feeding the zubats poison sacs, zubat has grown taller and now he is even slightly bigger than normal golbats. An oversize bat. He only needs five more kinds to compete his poison and promote the aptitude but they are rarer than the rest.

For now, Jack decided to go back to headquarters first before searching for an egg. One of the reason is without zubat breakthrough to level 20, their chance of survival is very slim. But before going back he really needs to take a bath because he stinks too much which is bad for his profile.

But in order for that he needs to go to water source. In the wild, the place where water are usually very dangerous. All kind of predator are there and usually under control of some totem pokemon in the area. Luckily not far from Jack, there is a stream and this stream is relatively safe. Most pokemons avoid these areas because of smell so this stream is left unoccupied. Of course Jack needs to go a little deeper for clean water so there might be unseen dangers.

When he is about to set off, Jack felt a drop. "Is it going to rain?"