"Can I go back now?"
After Natsu finished thinking, the Giant Dragonite was still deep in thought. He couldn't help but ask.
*Uuuh~*
The Giant Dragonite shook her head.
"She says she's worried more problems will show up, ow. She wants you to stay for a while and observe."
Natsu's expression twisted. He was the type who wanted to be busy when idle, but wanted to relax when busy.
That was why he loved reading—it felt both busy and idle at the sa ti.
"Tell her there definitely will be problems, but I'll co back regularly to extract the Gigantamax energy."
owth translated. The Giant Dragonite's face grew even more conflicted.
"Forget it." Natsu rubbed his wrist. "I'll give her a full-body checkup first. That way you'll feel more at ease."
To owth's shock, Natsu pointed at the ground, and a large pile of instrunts appeared on the open floor.
Everything a Pokémon Center had, Natsu's system carried. And what a Pokémon Center didn't have, he often did as well.
Of course, he didn't have so of the rarest lab equipnt.
"Have her use the weakest level of Discharge." Natsu held up a modified plug.
owth relayed the ssage. The Giant Dragonite tilted her head, then pressed one of her antennae against the plug.
*Bzzt—* Soon, the complicated instrunts all lit up.
The Giant Dragonite curiously stared at the strange pile of machines.
*Uuuh?*
"She's asking what we're doing."
"We're giving the young Dragonite a detailed examination. It'll show us her internal condition clearly."
Natsu turned the computer screen toward them.
owth leaned closer, then froze.
"Isn't this just a CT scan, ow?"
"You still want to leave or not?" Natsu glared at owth.
*ow ow ow!* owth imdiately started bragging about Natsu's *amazing* equipnt.
"Alright, have her put the young Dragonite on this bed-like machine."
Natsu pointed at a platform.
Convinced by owth's bluffing, the Giant Dragonite carefully placed her child onto the platform.
Though she couldn't understand why, with all those instrunts, Natsu was only using this one.
Soon, an internal image of the young Dragonite appeared on the monitor.
"Relax, your child is health—"
Natsu glanced casually, then suddenly froze.
"Uuuh?"
"She's asking what's wrong?" owth leaned in nervously.
"Natsu, hurry and say it, ow—what is that?!"
owth saw the scan and went completely stiff.
Even as a layman, it could tell sothing wasn't right.
"I-Isn't her heart and lungs way too big, ow?"
owth pointed at the heart—larger than her entire cat body—and lungs shaped like massive horse lungs.
Natsu's gaze lowered.
"What a hassle…" He stood up and stretched lazily.
"Rotom, get ready to record."
His phone Rotom appeared.
Originally, Natsu thought the young Dragonite had no major issues left.
But now that he had discovered this, he couldn't ignore it.
Soon, Natsu was weaving between instrunts—adjusting settings, drawing blood, then suddenly pulling out a pan and switching on an induction stove.
Seeing this, the Giant Dragonite's worry deepened even further.
Before long, after all the busyness, Natsu finally finished preparing… *a sandwich*.
"How is it, owth? Tastes good, right?"
"I think we're about to get beaten up." owth hurriedly stuffed the sandwich into his mouth. After not eating for a whole day, he was starving.
Forget it—better eat first.
*Uuuh!* The giant Dragonite lowered her head, suspiciously staring at Natsu. The pressure of her enormous pupils was overwhelming.
Even without knowing much, she could tell Natsu definitely wasn't just running a check.
"Tell her that a lot of tests take ti. The results will be ready in about two hours."
owth relayed the ssage, and only then did the giant Dragonite pull her head back.
Leaning against the machine, Natsu chewed on the sandwich, suddenly missing Brock.
Sigh, it was all because Professor Oak restricted his cooking—every ti he used lab equipnt to make food, Oak would respond with a sharp explosion.
Natsu quickly finished the sandwich, twitched his nose, and caught a strange sll.
Following it to the cave entrance, the closer he got, the stronger the stench beca.
Outside, he found the air thick with smoke.
Within the smoke, Natsu spotted a Gengar.
ITS mouth and nose were stuffed full of spicy sludge, wheezing and puffing smoke.
Natsu: "…"
This stuff was harmless to Poison-type Pokémon and could even slightly enhance their Poison-type moves.
Like Agatha's Gengar, which already had Toxic moves.
So, in a way, he was just training it further.
Agatha probably wouldn't mind… right?
Natsu stayed silent, only telling Gengar to move farther from the cave, then quietly held his nose and went back inside.
Sitting down again, he waited while Baby Dragonite's data results ca in.
Gathering the pile of files, Natsu carefully examined them.
The giant Dragonite peeked over several tis but didn't dare disturb him.
Natsu's frown deepened.
"owth, get ready to translate."
He took a deep breath:
"The condition inside your child's body mainly involves the heart and lungs. The heart's volu has expanded 3.2 tis, and the number of alveoli in the lungs has increased fourfold."
"This has both advantages and disadvantages."
The giant Dragonite froze, signaling him to go on.
"Good news first: explosive blood oxygen supply.
"Your child's single blood-pump output reaches 1.8 tons per minute, sustaining **Outrage** for 17 minutes, compared to the normal maximum of 3 minutes.
"When the lungs expand, they can inhale compressed air containing 71% oxygen, extending the range of **Extre Speed** to 12 kiloters, compared to the normal 1.8 kiloters."
To make sure the giant Dragonite understood, Natsu explained the dical terms using familiar move enhancents.
Dragonite nodded. The benefits didn't matter to her—she wanted to know the downsides.
"Bad news. You'll need to brace yourself.
"First: amyloid-like deposits are forming in the aortic walls. There's an 85% chance the vessels will rupture within three years. Also, excess hemoglobin can't be tabolized, so the skin will constantly secrete rust-colored sweat. That part isn't too serious.
"Second: the overclocked oxygen supply causes free radical buildup. After each surge, cellular telores shorten by 0.3%, accelerating aging. But that hardly matters—because before dying of old age, the blood vessels will burst.
"Third: body heat dissipation is 2.5 tis greater than normal, requiring a colder environnt. Not really a big deal, just leads to excessive sweating."
"Slow down, owth! How am I supposed to translate all those technical terms, nya?!" owth snapped.
After stumbling through the explanation, the giant Dragonite finally understood her child's condition.
The biggest issue was that the blood vessels couldn't withstand the heart's output—sooner or later, they'd burst.
*Uuuh!!!* The giant Dragonite wailed in grief.
"She's asking if you have any solution, owth." owth glanced at Natsu, worried.
At this mont, he hoped this researcher was the world's greatest Pokémon doctor.
The threatening part of Dragonite's plea—owth conveniently left out.
"There is… a way."
"The heart valve's pressure threshold exceeds 3000 kPa, which could support a plasma thruster.
"The alveoli's nanofiber structure is perfectly compatible with chanical lungs using fluorocarbon breathing fluid.
"Based on an implanted plasma thruster, I could attempt to use biomitic materials to construct a second circulatory system connected to other vessels. That would greatly reduce the pressure on the original ones—so they wouldn't rupture."
Natsu shared his hypothesis.
owth, who was translating on the side, was going crazy.
Damn it—how was he supposed to put that into words? He barely understood it himself.
After Natsu explained in detail, owth wore a strange expression.
The more he listened, the more he felt like Natsu was just making empty promises to the giant Dragonite.
Whatever—right now they were grasshoppers tied to the sa rope.
Nodding, owth began translating for Dragonite.
The more she heard, the brighter the giant Dragonite's eyes beca.
*Wooooh!*
The giant Dragonite called out to Natsu.
Below, owth glanced at him with a strange look:
"She says she wants you to beco her child's Trainer."
"Huh?" Natsu's face stiffened. He had only ant to propose a theory and then leave the headache to Professor Oak and the others.
"Sorry, but your child's talent is a bit—" Before Natsu could finish, a pair of enormous pupils lood right in front of him.
"Your child's talent is truly one in a million."
Natsu corrected himself from the heart: "However, I have one condition."
"You must cooperate with Professor Oak and the others on their research into Dynamax."
The giant Dragonite hesitated, weighed it over, and finally nodded.
You can read more (around 80 free chapters) of Natsu's adventure ad-free here[sravenarchives/book/pokemon-who-let-him-leave-pallet-town]. Bulk uploads is a ss here, so updates here might be irregular.
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