Pokemon, a genius scientist who traveled from one piece

A new day, the beach training ground.

"Dai Dai, don't make the Flamethrower too powerful. You need to coordinate with Lulu and Bibi."

Su Sheng was giving his three Houndour special training.

Meanwhile, Rika and Itsuki were engaged in battle training.

"Slowbro, Ice Beam!"

Under Itsuki's command, Slowbro opened its mouth towards the sky, its dull gaze locked onto the Murkrow soaring in mid-air.

This Murkrow was one of the Pokémon released and imprisoned when Rika attacked the Saijinya Group's truck earlier.

When Su Sheng took Rika away, it voluntarily followed, hoping to become Rika's Pokémon.

The next second, a winding ray composed of several ice shards pierced through the air and struck upwards.

"Murkrow, Payback."

Rika ordered coldly.

Dark energy ripples surged around Murkrow's body as it circled rapidly above Slowbro, dodging the Ice Beam shots while approaching its target.

The Dark-type move Payback would be super effective against Slowbro if it hit.

And the strength of Rika's Murkrow was not to be underestimated.

Although it had only just been caught, its movements were surprisingly agile.

Several times, it narrowly avoided the edges of the Ice Beam.

It was getting closer and closer to Slowbro!

In less than three seconds, the Murkrow in the sky was less than two meters away from Slowbro.

When the distance between them was less than half a meter.

Itsuki suddenly grinned, revealing a mischievous smile, "Such agile movements, the complete opposite of my Slowbro... or so it seems?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the Shellder that had become Slowbro's tail slammed downwards into the ground like a plug.

This caused Slowbro to stand upside down, barely avoiding the "Payback" attack.

But that wasn't the end!

The Shellder with its fierce eyes spun like a top.

The Slowbro above also turned a full 180 degrees, with an Ice Beam charged in its mouth, aimed directly at Murkrow's head.

The Ice Beam fired again, hitting accurately! Super effective!

Murkrow crashed to the ground in pain.

"How was my Slowbro's Double Team? Rika."

Itsuki said triumphantly.

As someone who would be able to serve as a member of the Elite Four in the Indigo League in the future, Itsuki's talent goes without saying.

Not to mention that after spending time with Su Sheng, his Pokémon had received the most scientific training.

Rika silently recalled Murkrow.

Because Murkrow had fallen backward, Itsuki hadn't seen it at all.

The last trace of a cruel smile on Murkrow's face as it fell.

Boom~

Rika sent out her second Pokémon... Houndoom!

That's right, it was that Houndour with the terrible temper.

It had evolved a few days ago.

"Emmm..."

Itsuki glanced at Su Sheng, who was training his three Houndour not far away.

Rika's Pokémon had evolved, so there was no reason why Su Sheng's three would still be in their baby form.

Was there a reason?

After all, Pokémon weren't cultivation novels, with some kind of "accumulated realm perfect breakthrough." Unless it was something special like Growlithe, where some skills had to be learned before evolving.

Otherwise, in most cases, they should evolve when they're ready.

But since Su Sheng was doing this, there must be a reason, after all, he had been taking those three dogs to the basement recently, messing around with something... Itsuki pondered to himself.

"Houndoom, Dark Pulse!"

At this moment, Houndoom had already opened its fanged mouth, releasing a dark shockwave.

Boom—

The Dark Pulse, with an attack range far greater than Payback, hit head-on.

Before the smoke from the explosion could dissipate, the beach where Itsuki and Rika were located was surrounded by a layer of translucent crystalline space, like Trafalgar Law's Op-Op Fruit ability.

"The power is really strong, but it doesn't seem enough to defeat my Slowbro directly."

Itsuki and Slowbro's figures emerged from the smoke.

At this moment, Slowbro was covered in wounds from the Dark Pulse, and its movements seemed a bit staggering due to the injuries.

But... its expression was extremely confident!

"But in that case, the outcome has already been decided."

Itsuki also showed the same confident smile as Slowbro.

"Trick Room?"

Rika glanced at the strange space.

A special space that Psychic-type Pokémon can create. As long as you are in this space,

both sides' speeds will be reversed.

Slow Pokémon can instead unleash faster speeds!

"That's right... Scald!"

Itsuki shouted.

Slowbro, which was almost the slowest in the Pokémon world, unleashed super speed like a Dragonite's Extreme Speed the moment its master finished speaking.

In the blink of an eye, it appeared in front of Houndoom, opening its mouth to release Scald!

However, at that moment.

Slowbro froze in place, its expression becoming even more sluggish than usual.

"Slow, Slowbro, what's wrong?"

Seeing his Slowbro suddenly stop moving, Itsuki was immediately confused.

"Slow..."

Slowbro just wanted to respond.

But it immediately tilted its head, spun around, and fell to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

When the dust settled, Itsuki looked at the Slowbro with swirling eyes and quickly ran over.

"Wah! My Slowbro! Wh-what's going on!?"

"That move just now... was Perish Song."

Su Sheng walked over.

"As expected, I can't hide it from your eyes."

Rika wasn't surprised by this.

In the last moment when Slowbro's Ice Beam was about to hit.

Murkrow used "Perish Song," a special skill that causes the listener to lose their ability to fight after a certain period.

Payback was just a feint.

Rika's real purpose was to have Murkrow approach Slowbro to ensure that the quiet Perish Song could be heard.

"Damn it, Dark-type fighting styles are just despicable."

Itsuki said angrily, knowing what had happened.

"Woof!"

Houndoom bared its fangs and roared at Itsuki, scaring him half to death.

Itsuki fell to the ground with a thud, and noticed the three Houndour with equally unkind eyes following Su Sheng's feet, and then remembered that Su Sheng's current handheld Pokémon were also Dark-types.

Oops, I accidentally offended both teammates.

"I won this 2V2 battle."

Rika stared straight at Su Sheng, "Su Sheng, you promised me that as long as I beat Itsuki, you would help me with my revenge plan."

Not only Rika, but Houndoom's eyes were also full of desire.

What Rika was talking about was naturally the revenge plan against Aldous, one of the Elite Four of the Indigo League.

As early as when Rika first joined, she had stated that she wanted to do so.

But because of insufficient strength, Su Sheng did not agree at the time.

In the following days, Su Sheng gave the reply, "If you can beat Itsuki, then I can consider it."

And today, Rika did it.

"You're really in a hurry."

Su Sheng's gaze swept over Rika, Houndoom, and Itsuki one by one.

In fact, he was willing to help Rika, not for her, or rather, not entirely for her.

One big reason was that Su Sheng himself was also very interested in Aldous, or rather, the Saijinya family.

You know, Saijinya is the richest man in the Johto region, and both of his sons are Champion-level.

Such a family is not much worse than the Dragon Master family.

Why is there no trace of them at all in the era of Ash a few years later?

Dr. Su Sheng, who likes to explore the unknown, is very curious.