Greatest Pokémon Trainer

After making a deal with Darkrai, Fang Yuan and his crew leisurely made their way back to the research institute.

Rushing back from Star City, they hadn't even seen Cresselia, leaving Fang Yuan himself feeling quite down, in a Wise Man Mode, just wanting to sleep it off.

Maybe he'd have everything in a dream.

He should have known not to hurry back...

When Fang Yuan arrived at the institute's backyard, he casually tossed all the Poké Balls he was carrying and told the Pokémon to start doing their own things before heading into the house.

With no Poké Balls to constrain them, the Pokémon each began doing their own things.

Monferno was just about to call Ditto to train together when smartphone Rotom suddenly flew in, blocking Monferno's way.

Rotom: (๑◕ܫ￩๑)b

"Let Ditto train with me for a while, Rotom."

"Whoa!!" Monferno asked what for.

"Of course it's to form a super robot strategy, Rotom!!" Rotom said seriously as it pointed at the 3D Dragon that was downloading various moves programs.

It was laying the foundation for the Space Battleship Tactics; from today on it would start training Ditto to transform into a composite robot!

Monferno: (.≖ˇェˇ≖.)

What's the use of transforming into that thing, it's still one punch one knock out.

Monferno looked at Ditto.

"Busy busy!!"

Just a moment ago, Ditto's expression was like '◡'.

But after hearing Rotom mention the composite robot, it suddenly got starry-eyed.

This sounds more fun than sparring with Brother Monkey!!!

Monferno: ???

"Leave it to me, this special training is also for upgrading the performance of the Thunder Flame Armor, Rotom!!" Smartphone Rotom chuckled gleefully as it unceremoniously dragged Ditto away from Monferno.

"Whoa!!" Looking at the fleeing group, Monferno shook its fist, not buying their excuses.

As a research-type Pokémon, Rotom harbored the desire to transform research results into combat power. The advent of the 3D Dragon gave it hope.

Beforehand, Rotom could infiltrate home appliances powered by special motors and alter its type for battle.

For example, the Fire-and-Electric dual-type Rotom that infiltrated the microwave, and the Grass-and-Electric dual-type Rotom that snuck into the lawnmower were different combat forms of Rotom.

Rotom had been able to infiltrate home appliances like microwaves, washing machines, refrigerators, fans, and lawnmowers a long time ago, which were all things Ditto could already transform into.

And now, Rotom planned for Ditto to try something more challenging: transforming into a giant robot, which would then internally have the functions of five different home appliances in its weapons system.

Previously, Ditto might not have managed such a complex transformation, but now it had the Dream gene, after all. With effort, it should be feasible. If it couldn't even transform into this, the Universe Warship in the future would be even more hopeless.

Therefore, Rotom saw great potential in Ditto.

And Rotom itself wasn't just sitting back and reaping the benefits—it too needed to figure out how to manage multiple abilities simultaneously.

Lacking Eevee's astonishing talent for multitasking, it would struggle to control more than five weapon parts while inhabiting a robot's body. However, with the matching weapons programs from the 3D Dragon, everything was possible.

By then, its combat power data would be off the charts. Defeating Dragonites and Venusaurs would no longer be a dream; this was what Rotom was looking forward to the most.

Rotom imagined everything beautifully, and now all that was left to consider was the robot's appearance—it had to be imposing and commanding.

...

"Bwoo."

Eevee looked at Rotom, 3D Dragon, and Ditto, who were babbling as they ran into the research lab, and shook its head.

Its gaze finally settled on Monferno, who had just left.

It didn't have time to strategize for Rotom!

Its main task now was to figure out how to surpass Monferno and then get Fang Yuan to start a game animation company for it.

It had been thinking about this the whole way, but unfortunately, many ideas for getting stronger were not practical.

Just now, Eevee had also asked Dream about it, Dream said that if Eevee's basic strength hadn't improved, then if Eevee could use Z-Moves more autonomously without relying on Fang Yuan, there should be a chance to defeat the Guardian God.

Eevee: (╹⚇╹?)

This required Eevee to have a control over Natural Power close to that of the Kapus, which was not an easy thing to achieve... So Eevee was thinking about whether there were any other methods.

When Fang Yuan had already tucked into bed and was fast asleep, Eevee snuck into the room and turned on the cellphone.

It then logged onto the internet and started searching for the keyword: "Fang Yuan's Eevee".

Because of Eevee's impressive performance in the world championship, there were a lot of discussions about Eevee and Fang Yuan's Eevee on the internet.

Eevee planned to see if the foolish netizens had any incredible speculation that could help it quickly become stronger.

Unfortunately, from tieba to Weibo, to Zhihu, to forums, after about two hours of browsing, Eevee didn't find any definite or viable plans.

Questions like "Since Doctor Fang Yuan's Eevee can freely devolve and evolve, is there a possibility it could evolve into another form besides Sun Eevee?" made Eevee just PASS.

It wanted to as well!!

But the key point is that the solar energy in the Dream gene fixed the evolution chain, didn't it!

External stimuli like the Fire Stone, the Thunder Stone, the Water Stone, even if they were top-quality Evolutionary Stones, couldn't change the solidification effect of the Dream gene!

Unless it lost the Destruction gene.

But that gene is key to its use of solar energy, it can't be without it.

So that's why Eevee thought the netizens' wild ideas were not practical.

"Bwoo!!!（Wait a minute!!）"

Just when Eevee was about to give up hope, suddenly, it thought of a possibility.

If its own body couldn't possibly evolve into any other Eevee species besides Sun Eevee... then what about its Substitute?

Its Substitute was the most standard one, able to replicate the original's abilities 100% beside physical strength, even copying over the Dream gene.

Therefore, the joint attack tactics between Partner Eevee and Sun Eevee had always been one of Eevee's stronger moves.

But in reality, the Substitute technique could also change; even slight alterations to the substitute's size and appearance were possible, and Eevee had done this before.

If it further developed the Substitute Technique to the point where it could alter microscopic genes and remove the Dream gene from the substitute, could it possibly make the Substitute evolve into different Eevee forms?

Then, one Partner Eevee, one Sun Eevee, one Water Eevee, one Fire Eevee, one Thunder Eevee together attacking Monferno...

However, no sooner had this thought surfaced than Eevee shook its head again.

Because even if it was successful, the other forms couldn't possibly be as powerful as the Sun Form or the Partner Form; Monferno couldn't be defeated by sheer numbers.

So there still wasn't much of an amplification in combat power.

"Bwoo ahhh ahhh ahhh!!!"

The more Eevee thought about it, the more frustrated it became, increasingly feeling like Fang Yuan was making things difficult for it; was there really only the path to becoming stronger by mastering the autonomous use of Z-Moves as Dream had said?

It didn't believe it!!!