Speed Test [Rank-Up]

With the way the battle was looking, Aeson was quite aware of some of the damages their battles had unfortunately caused, and while the Grovehart police were somewhat kind enough to try and cover some of the things, Aeson felt in his heart that what they did wasn’t right. They should have moved the battle away from citizens, they should have played smarter and been a bit more tactical than they had been. He looked over his pokeballs where his pokemon sat, and frowned a little more to himself. There were things that they would need to work on together, but first Aeson should work on himself. While he was pretty strong - he thought anyways - physically, sometimes he felt like he was lacking a little as well. It had been a long time since he put himself through a bit of physical training, with getting his bearings in Ethos and traveling there to have some conversation other than over the net. 

He looked down toward his hands and frowned, he could race Knight, being a canine pokemon he’d be pretty fast. At the thought, he thought of his other two pokemon as well, they would all be faster than him or should be, taking everything into account. His smile slowly grew, and he walked over to their pokeballs. He grasped them but didn’t release them yet, so he stepped out of his house and set up a small device that would clock their speed when they hit the end marker. This would give them their speed and he could compare his speed to his pokemons!

Aeson released his pokemon watching as each one bounced out of the ball and looked up at him a bit curiously, Queen sat on the ground, rubbing her paw along her face to clean, while Knight stood on all four, giving Aeson his full attention. Lil King was glancing around at his surroundings, before finally centering on Aeson as well. He explained to his pokemon what he was planning and that they were going to have a race together. This seemed to excite Lil King, always being one to want to challenge others, Queen didn’t seem too thrilled, but got into the starting position anyways. Knight seemed to look them over, almost inspecting them before he stood at his spot.

Aeson smiled at his pokemon, they were all so well-behaved and so he started to get into position as well, narrowing his eyes and he lowered his body to be doubled over slightly, fingers touching the ground with the front of his foot planted against the ground. There was a noise from the machine that he had setup, and the four of them took off. Knight was pulling ahead from all the others, at first it looked like he might win. But surprisingly, and thanks to Lil King being able to glide, he’d pick up the wind on his wings, using it to help him glide across the field quicker.

The speed test was what he expected it to be, Lil King came in first due to his gliding capabilities, Knight came in second, then it was Aeson,as his little Combee-Eevee fusion had a bit of trouble keeping up with the three of them. Her wings were too small to really catch a gust and glide, and while she did seem to be lighter than the others, she didn’t have too much stamina either.  When she finally crossed the finish line, Aeson carefully scooped her up in his arms and offered an apologetic smile to her.

“Well, I know where we need to start training. Queen you’re gonna need to work on your stamina, and so will I. We’ll set together some training exercises for all of us. Even if you can’t battle well, I’d at least like you to be able to outrun your opponent if worse comes to worse. I’ll see what we can do otherwise, alright.”

The pokemon gave a gentle cry in response, as Queen nestled in his arms and got comfortable. At least Aeson knew their speed levels and what needed working on, he’d get them a regimen scheduled tonight and make sure it wouldn’t be too hard on them. That regimen would also include himself, he knew he’d never be as fast as a pokemon, but he knew he could also use some improvement.

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