"Hello Professor, how are you?" I greeted Professor Oak after he picked up my call. "Hello to you as well Professor Geo," I heard him say jovially and I had to smile because I knew he was teasing by calling Professor Geo. "I can't complain really, everything's going as usual," he continued his reply. "I've been following the news on you, congratulations on gaining your first two Badges; Your battle against Stephanie was especially impressive," the Professor said, and I felt happy and proud to hear him say that. "Thank you, professor. We're doing our best. We've actually just earned my third Badge," I returned trying to sound sowhat humble.
"I'm sure you do my boy, and congratulations on the new Badge," he said after chuckling a bit. "So, how can this old man help you my boy?" the professor followed up sounding both intrigued and amicable. "Can't I have just called to ask you how you are?" I mock complained, and he laughed a bit before I heard him say "Sure you can; Did you?". "Well, in this case, I indeed do have sothing I would like to ask you," I began and he chuckled a bit when I said that. "That's fine my boy; Go ahead, tell what I can help you with and I'll see what I can do," he said warmly and I decided to just cut straight to the matter at hand.
"Professor, I'd like to buy or exchange a few Cyndaquil eggs; Do you happen to have so at hand that you wouldn't mind exchanging or selling to ?" I inquired and I heard him release a sigh. "I'm sorry, but we currently have no Cyndaquil eggs available," Professor Oak admitted, though I had already expected sothing along those lines after that sigh.
"Still, I can apply for so for you with Brian or the alliance if you want," he helpfully offered. "Just tell what you are planning to use them for so that I can put it on the application to speed things up," he followed up, not even bothering to hide the curiosity in his tone, showing that he was knowingly not being subtle with his inquiry. I had to smile at his question, having already expected the professor to be interested in whether I had stumbled into sothing interesting to study.
Professor Oak's curiosity, along with his friendliness and exuberance were a major reason why he was still such a great guy after all. Still, I would have to disappoint him, at least in this matter. "I need them for a private matter, not a research project," I denied. "That's unfortunate," Professor Oak replied. "It would have sped things up," he added, and I knew he was right. Still, I had a way of having him help speed things up regardless.
"While those eggs are not for a research project, I did stumble upon sothing worthy of research recently, and if you could help speed things up with the acquisition of those Cyndaquil eggs, I would be willing to lend it to you for research. You'd just have to cite as the discoverer of the species," I enticed the Professor with a vague offer, only revealing that it was related to a new species at the end.
Since I had given a Shadinja to Kinji, their existence was going to co to light sooner rather than later even if I did not show off mine, so letting Oak Labs lead a research project on Shadinja was no problem as long as I was noted down as the discoverer of the species. Due to that, I decided to make this offer since doing so not only helped push my request but also bolstered my reputation in the science community.
"Oh, did you manage to co across another undiscovered species?" Professor Oak inquired excitedly. "You really are very lucky," he followed up and I only laughed a bit but did not refute since it was true. "Yes, I did," I confird; "I managed to find a species linked to Shedinja and Ninjask. In fact, I believe that it is the true or rather the comprehensive evolution of Shedinja, making Shedinja an incomplete evolution," I revealed and I heard the Professor take a deep breath at my revelation.
"Truly? That's incredible" He said in wonder and I automatically nodded even though he couldn't see it. "Yes," I affird. "Not only does Shadinja, that's what the species is called, have the bug/ghost typing, but it also has Wonder Guard and Speed Boost in its ability pool," I followed up with so information on Shadinja. "Fascinating," the Professor said. "What else have you found out so far?" He inquired, and I decided to share the rest with him as well.
"Interestingly enough, while Shadinja possesses the typing and Wonder Guard ability along with a similar na to Shedinja, Speed Boost is not the only thing it has in common with Ninjask. In fact, Shadinja looks like a Ninjask that has add-ons from a Shedinja. Not only that, but its racial value is higher than that of both Shedinja and Shadinja, and I would rate it at the sa level as that of Yanga, making it a top-rank species. In fact, considering its abilities, I would put it at the very top of that rank. Either way, Shadinja is the superior evolution out of all existing ones," I shared with the Professor, who attentively listened to everything I said.
"Incredible," he said after noticing that I was done. "A truly incredible find my boy," he praised warmly before his tone shifted to a more serious one. "I'm truly honored that you would want and my lab to do the official research on Shadinja, was it, but are you sure about that? I can arrange the matter of the eggs even without this," Professor Oak said and I had to chuckle a bit.
"I'm sure professor," I confird. "I believe you when you say you would have helped regardless, but this way you have a valid excuse to push things along. I don't want to wait too long for these eggs if possible. Besides, I don't have the ti to do it myself, and the earlier you can publicly work on the research the better since I have given a Shadinja to my good friend Kinji, who is a Bug King," I admitted; "I'll ask Kinji to keep his Shadinja a secret for the next half a year, but after that, he'll probably start using her in official battles," I followed up, practically telling him that Shadinja's existence was going to be public after around half a year.
"That's fine. I can understand why you did it, and it won't interfere with our research," Professor Oak returned, pretty much stating that he was accepting. "I'll talk directly to Brian and get you four eggs. I should have them delivered to Pallet City the day after tomorrow at the latest," Professor Oak ntioned after pondering for a mont. "Do you want to co over and pick them up, or should I have soone send them over to Hoenn?" He inquired a mont later, and I thought about it.
"It would be great if you could send soone over," I acknowledged, and he hmd. "I could send them to Dan's Lab, but Littleroot should be a bit far from your current location, so Lilycove would be better for you right?" He asked and I acknowledged that that was the case with a "Right". "Alright, in that case, I'll have soone et up with you in Lilycove City for the exchange once the eggs co into my possession. Just hand the PokeBall with the Shadinja to the courier," Professor Oak affird, and I just said "Alright" since there was not much left to say.
"Great," the Professor said cheerfully. "I've got to call Brian now, so have a good day my boy," he said sounding excited, and he hung up after I wished him a good day as well. While so people might have found that last bit a bit rude, I could not help but laugh after Professor Oak hung up because I found it funny seeing/witnessing a big shot like Professor acting excited like that.
Anyway, I took a look at the ti once I stopped laughing, and I saw that there was still more than an hour and a half until my lunch agreent with Kinji and Violet, so I found a deserted place to enter Utopia. My Pokemon were hanging around my place and they surrounded when they saw appear. I first praised the battlers on their performance during the Gym Challenge before talking about the battles with everyone to hear what they thought about the battles.
Halfway through our conversation, I began to hand out lunch and we ate while we talked. Being the little fatty that I was, at least capacity-wise, I was not worried about being unable to eat anything during the lunch with Kinji. Either way, the ti spent with my not-so-little family went by pretty fast, and before I knew it, 80 minutes had passed, leaving only 10 or so minutes until my lunch with Kinji and Violet. I told my Pokemon to continue without and left Utopia before hurrying towards the restaurant we agreed to et up at.
I saw Kinji along with his plus one wait for when I made it there, and we made our way inside after exchanging greetings. We talked about my Gym Challenge, and Violet was pretty enthusiastic during our conversation, which was a definite plus since it showed that she fit right in with our little group since all of us were so kind of trainer, which made being a Pokemon enthusiast a kind of must-have condition. I an, she had said that she ca from a Pokemon-related background, but seeing her behaving like that was much better proof than being told about it.
Once we had eaten, we split the bill and I left the two alone after we agreed to et up for breakfast. I made my way back inside Utopia and went around overseeing my Pokemon who had started their second training sessions of the day. After the session was over, I decided to start a massage session, starting from the ones that took part in the Gym Challenge. I would obviously not be able to go through everyone in a single day, especially not since I had to take a dinner break, but by the ti I decided to call it a day at midnight, I had finished massaging roughly 20% of our family.
As I lay on my bed, I decided to look at the results my third thought stream had made so far while digging through my super library in its/his quest to learn humanity's actual age. That proved to be harder than one would expect since he/I not only had to go through the history books of the 4 known civilizations but also books from other sources since humans had periods where there was not a unified governnt even during the tis of those civilizations. Not to ntion that apparently there were humans even before the first unified civilization that got taken out by w.
Anyway, there was a lot of work involved in the research. Way more than I had expected when I decided to do this, so I/my third thought stream had chosen to start with the easiest ones first. Obviously, that was the current/4th civilization, which according to the books was 4885 years old, this year included. After that, I/he jumped back to the first civilization, and that's when things started to get more complicated since that period had more than just the two calendar periods we have.
There was obviously the period/calendar of the governnt that caused the end of the 1st round for humanity. That one ended in the year 5693, but that was only their latest calendar which began after their governnt had achieved unification. Before that, there was a period in which each continent had its own governnt, and they all used their own calendars, which unsurprisingly started whenever they managed to unify their continent. The oldest calendar of that period was the southern one, which dated back 1744 years, aning that it took that many years from the mont that their continent was united until the continents ca together to form a unified governnt.
To be fair not all continent calendars were that long, so one could argue it only took that long because so continents took their ti with their unification, but even the "youngest" calendar, belonging to the eastern continent, was already at the year 685 before the unification happened. Now, obviously, there were calendars in use before the southern one started, so that had to be looked up and properly compared to find accurate numbers, which made for a lot of work. Honestly, at this point, I had wondered if this was not way too much work for a passing/sudden interest, but I had decided to at least finish the first one and go from there.
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