Training Blues [w/ Logan]
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“Ooh, doughnuts…!”
Logan waited patiently for Daisuke to get the goods, while Karok waited a little less patiently, wiggling and staring first at Logan, then at Daisuke, and back and forth until they began to walk off to find a place to sit.
As soon as they were sat, Karok leaped up on Logan’s lap, head darting around looking for a snack. “Karok, get down! I’ll give you one as soon as I get one, calm down!” He laughed, setting the Quilava back on the floor.
“These look great! I love stuffed doughnuts!” He took two, and tossed one down to Karok who snapped it out of the air and nibbled away.
He couldn’t help but smile at Logan’s apparent excitement. Everyone liked doughnuts, right? As they sat, it seemed that he was indeed correct. “I’m glad you guys enjoy them.” Daisuke pulled a malasada from the box and took a bite, chewing slowly. He spared Logan a couple of glances, but for the most part stayed silent until he’d swallowed.
“So, um..About my ideas…” Daisuke paused for a moment to think of how to word them…if Logan hadn’t thought them silly, that was. “I don’t think I’d be able to train in the wild all the time…it seems like a good learning experience…but between Hideki’s regiments it might not be one hundred percent possible…So do you think I could simulate that? Or maybe…bringing wild pokemon to me..?”
Logan chewed as he thought about the question, swallowing before answering. “Well, maybe? I guess if you caught a few and battled them it might work? But wild Pokemon are, well, in the wild. Plus, beating up on the same Pokemon over and over again could make those captured pretty angry. The general idea is to find a few out in the wild, fight for a few hours, and then go find some Trainers to test yourself against. Battling wild Pokemon can be good experience, but its only against another Trainer with a team similar to yours that you can get the most out of it, y’know?”
He hoped he was making sense, and took another bite of his snack. “That said, you could always spar against my team if you wanted. We wouldn’t go all out for sure, just let your Popplio go all out on us and… Er, I don’t know how to explain it. Try to teach him! Basically. Is what I’m trying to say.”
Logan took another bite of his malasada to let Daisuke answer.
Daisuke nodded. So training against wild pokemon was definitely not as effective as...what he was already doing. On one hand, he wasn’t surprised...on the other, he kind of wanted Logan to advocate for it, anyway. Anything to discredit Hideki’s methods. Or...well, Logan did say ‘similar in strength’. The boy pulled a notepad and pen out of his pocket, mindlessly repeating some of Logan’s words as he wrote them down.
At the other’s offer to help him train, Daisuke blinked. “Y-You’ve already helped me so much, though...” He said. “Surely you have...other obligations...b-better obligations....than helping a kid that doesn’t know what he’s doing..?”


















