A demonstration

Principle Hue returned with Ash and Gary's class. Ash and Gary froze mid-step before shouting, "Vali?!"

"Hey, Brats!" Vali grinned at the two, "Are you going to hug me or what?"

Two blurs slammed into her while Ash's Pidgey left her human's head. Vali hugged the two tightly as murmurs exploded from the kids. The boys pulled away with Ash asking, "What are you doing here? I thought you wouldn't be back yet."

"I wanted to surprise you two and everyone was happy enough to help," Vali answered with a grin, "Now, go sit with your class, we've got a special treat for you guys,"

With great reluctance, the two did as she asked. Principle Hue spoke once the kids were seated, "Kids, we've got a special treat for you all. Two traveling trainers have decided to give us a little demonstration and one of them is a former student from here, Valkyrie Potter-Black!" Vali waved at them, "With her is Steven Stone who placed high in the last Hoenn Conference," Steven waved as well, "Now, I'm going to let them get to."

Principle Hue went to stand with the teacher for the class. Vali grinned at them, "First off, I prefer being called Vali. Ash and Gary are my adoptive little brothers in case you guys don't know. They're the reason we're doing that, so be sure to thank them," She saw their excited expressions, "Now, who wants to see some real-life pokemon?!"

Cheers exploded outward as Vali and Steven released their pokemon. All of them had been warned beforehand with Eevee immediately moving to settle on her shoulder's to stay away from the humans he didn't know. Empress had decided to stay in her pokeball mostly because most humans were beneath her notice. Steven spoke once everyone had calmed down, "Now, we're going to be doing a few attack demonstrations among other things. Does anyone have questions?"

One of the little girls raised her hand and Steven pointed at her, "What pokemon is they?"

The girl was pointing at Metagross. Steven smiled lightly, "They're a Metagross. They're a pokemon native to my home region of Hoenn and are a psychic/steel-type. If you had a pokedex, you would notice that my Metagross here is an entirely different color. This is due to them being a shiny."

Awed gasps exploded from the kids, Vali spoke up again, "Any other questions?"

"What's with that Sandshrew?" One of the boys called out pointing to Idril.

"Idril is a shiny Sandshrew and is beginning to go through the process of evolution," Vali explained earning a confused look.

"What do you mean by 'process'? Isn't it a quick thing?" The boy asked.

Vali shook her head, "No, it doesn't happen all at once save for pokemon that require evolutionary stones or bug-types like Caterpie. It happens over time to give the pokemon's body time to get ready for the evolution. The full evolution of a pokemon is usually that ball of white light," Vali bent down to call Idril over to her and pointed out the spots where her spines were starting to come in, "Some pokemon like Idril will have physical signs of evolution show up first while others like Charmeleon start to show an increase in aggression."

Vali and Steven spent most of their time at the school answering questions while allowing their pokemon to be looked at by the kids. Many of the girls wanted to pet Eevee, but she convinced them it was a bad idea. They showed off some pokemon moves that were more showy than anything else. At the end, Vali and Steven decided to have a practice battle. They had agreed to keep things light to avoid doing damage to the school. Vali chose Pippin while Steven chose Mawile. Principle Hue was acting as the referee, "This is a one on one battle between Pallet Town's own Valkyrie Potter-Black and Steven Stone of Mossdeep City in Hoenn. The battle will end when one trainer's pokemon is either unable to battle or they return them. Trainers release your pokemon!"

"Pippin," Vali called out and Pippin raced onto the make-shift battlefield.

Everyone had a small laugh when he tripped up and ended up sprawled on the ground. Pippin got back up as Steven called out, "Mawile."

Mawile walked onto the battlefield with a small smile on her face at Pippin's antics. Pippin mewed at her earning a small laugh. Vali grinned slightly at their antics, "Pippin," He looked at her, "Start off with Tackle."

Pippin darted forward and attempted to slam into Mawile only to be dodged. Mawile replied with Iron Head causing Pippin to go flying. Pippin managed to correct his body to soften the landing and shook himself before darting forward again. Steven called out, "Mawile, Play Rough."

Mawile tackled Pippin and began to roughhouse with him causing a few scratches to appear when she got her fake mouth to grab him. Vali spoke as the kids whispered to each other, "You've probably noticed that Steven and I don't call out attacks too often, right?" Everyone looked at her and nodded, "In battles, you won't always have a chance to call out an attack which means that your pokemon will have to attack on its own otherwise it might get hurt. Can you think of where you've seen stuff like this?"

"In the Conference battles," One of the girls called out.

"Correct, do you know why?" Vali asked as Pippin managed to free himself and used Charge.

The girl had a concentrated look on her face as she said, "Because the battles are too fast placed for the trainer to be able to give their pokemon too many commands."

"Correct," Vali grinned lightly before calling out, "Pippin, Spark and Ice Face,"

Pippin used the electricity he'd charged up and sent sparks towards Mawile. Mawile brushed them off and grimaced when Pippin sank his icy fangs into Mawile's fake mouth. Mawile shook Pippin loose before hitting him with Iron Head again followed up by Crunch. Rather than continue the battle, Vali returned Pippin earning shouts of confusion while Principle Hue called out, "Winner Steven Stone and Mawile."

Vali spoke once everyone had calmed down, "I ended the battle there because I knew Pippin wouldn't win the battle despite having a type advantage. He is a younger and weaker pokemon than Mawile who's been with Steven for awhile now. Rather than push Pippin and get him badly hurt, I saved him the pain while ensuring he'd be able to fight another day," She looked at them seriously, "Pokemon battles aren't fun and games kids. The pokemon will get hurt especially during high level battles. The pokemon that you will one day call your partner is going to be counting on you as much as you'll count on them."

One of the kids spoke up, "Ash's told us that you're going to be a fire-type master, how come you have non-fire-type pokemon?"

"Just because I want to be a fire-type master doesn't mean I can't have non-fire-type pokemon," Vali smiled at her pokemon, "When you find a pokemon that's meant to be yours, you won't care if they're not the type of pokemon you want or even a pokemon you considered catching. You'll know somewhere deep down that they're yours and you're theirs,"