Training with Eevee

The platforms they had to jump across shook and generally weren't very stable for long. The beam was stable, but a few sand bags randomly swung out. The monkey bars moved and weren't very easy to grip onto. The rock wall was missing some hand holds with some of them reappearing and disappearing randomly. The pool wasn't filled with regular water as it was too thick and weighty to be regular water. Getting out of the water was a little difficult as it didn't seem keen on letting go of her, Vali grunted a bit as she pulled herself out eventually. Once on dry land, she almost collapsed onto the ground feeling her muscles burn and protest.

Vali looked over at Eevee to find him slipping and sliding as he tried to get past the ice segment of his course. Taking the towel that Jolteon offered her, she began to dry off while walking over to the end of Eevee's course to offer some encouragement and suggestions. She called out, "Take it slower, Eevee. One paw step at a time, you'll learn how to be quicker later on."

Eevee looked at her before closing his eyes and taking a deep breath as he stilled his body. Once he wasn't in danger of falling over, Eevee began moving though at a much slower and more stable pace. When he reach Vali, she picked him up, "Good job, Eevee."

"Not bad, you two managed to finish the course in twenty minutes," Lt. Surge commented as he showed them a stop-watch, "Now, let's get down to some actual training. Eevee, I want a good look at your attacks considering the fact we focused on your base stats yesterday. Best way to do that is in a mock battle, Jolteon will be your opponent and you'll be working with the kid,"

They took their places on the battleground that Lt. Surge had appear. Jolteon seemed to smirk at Eevee who eyed the electric-type Eeveelution with some distrust. Vali took her place in one of the trainer boxes with Lt. Surge doing the same. Eevee glanced back at her with trust in his eyes, "Ready, Eevee?" Eevee nodded and turned forward as she pulled out her pokedex, "Let's start off with Swift, Eevee. Get Jolteon up and moving."

Eevee lept upward and released a rather decent amount of stars that streaked towards Jolteon. Jolteon lept out of the way with an easy grace to his movements and retaliated with a Swift attack of his own. Eevee used Shadow Ball to block the stars so he could land and let out a loud Growl that caused Jolteon to jolt back a bit. Lt. Surge let out a laugh, "Not bad, a bit sloppy, but considering where he came from, he's definitely better than I expected. Jolteon, Pin Missile!"

"Eevee, Endure!" Vali didn't really want Eevee to get hurt but she needed to see how well he could use it, "Dodge the attack as best you can while keeping up Endure,"

An almost impossible to see light green sheen covered Eevee's body as Jolteon released a ton of pin-like projectiles that flew towards him. With a move like Endure, it depended on the pokemon how it could be used. For some pokemon, it acted like an aura that absorbed some of the damage from an attack. For others, it deflected some of the attack. For more pokemon, it created a fragile shield that did it's best to take some of the damage. One time Vali had seen a match where one of Champion Timothy Carter's Venusaur tanked a full powered Blast Burn from his rival's Charizard without fainting. Eevee's Endure seemed to be acting as a mix between an aura and deflective shield from the way some of the pin's seemed to bounce off without being noticed as Eevee darted around the field. Eevee used Swift to get Jolteon to let up on the attack before going in close with Tackle and latching on with Bite. Jolteon let out a low yowl and used Discharge making Eevee let go with a cry of pain. Eevee released another Growl and rushed to create distance between them. Lt. Surge called an end to the bout before it could go any further, "That's enough."

Vali walked over to where Eevee was standing and bent down to check him over. Other than a few pin-like projectiles that needed to be removed and some electrical burns, Eevee was fine besides the usual exhaustion battle could cause for pokemon that aren't used to it. Carefully, she removed the pins quickly trying to keep from making the injuries worse. Eevee growled softly, but stayed still. When she finished, Lt. Surge handed over a potion for her to spray his injuries with, "Nurse Joy'll take care of any lingering electrical damage."

"Thank you," Vali sprayed Eevee's injuries making sure that each of the small wounds caused by the pins had closed up and that his electrical burns were treated though the one on the inside of his mouth was a bit difficult, "So what do you think?"

"Like I said during the battle, he's sloppy, but a lot better than what I expected," Lt. Surge tended to the bite wound that Eevee had given Jolteon, "My advice is make sure he can get all those attacks off properly and start having him store up power for Stored Power. Have him bask in either moonlight or sunlight, they'll both work since he's an Eevee rather than a Clefairy,"

"How exactly does it work anyway?" Vali wasn't very familiar with the move.

It was mostly due to how hard it was for any pokemon outside of the Cleffa-line to learn the move even if it was possible. Adding onto how rarely it was actually used even in Conference battles, it wasn't something that most trainers were even remotely prepared to deal with. Vali liked the idea of having a move that no one would be readily prepared to deal with outside of a select few trainers. Lt. Surge snorted as he probably guessed what was going through her mind, "Simple, a pokemon like Eevee stores the power somewhere inside of them like how a grass-type stores up sunlight for a Solar Beam only less of a one use kind of deal and without the whole being unable to move outside of special circumstances. Needless to say, it's a pretty damn hard move to go up against. If Eevee trains hard enough, he'll even be able to shatter both Protect and Light Screen though be careful of Reflect otherwise you'd be pretty damn screwed."

"So basically it's like Hyper Beam?" Vali asked feeling just a bit eager with Eevee looking a bit eager too.

"Yes, but it's a bit more limited since the pokemon using Stored Power doesn't exactly have unlimited space for that energy," Lt. Surge looked at the two in amusement, "And it's a lot like flexing a muscle,"

"Which means we'll have to train it," Vali looked down at Eevee, "Sound good?" Eevee nodded, "We'll figure out a schedule around it. I want to see the difference that sunlight and moonlight have on your energy,"

Eevee nodded with a determined look on his face. Lt. Surge clapped his hands, "Let's let Eevee rest, we should go check on your other pokemon."