Monster Hunter

With Lucia Aldrete

Dear lords, he would be a terrible father. Those puppy eyes were too pure, they were blinding.

Maybe this was how Hideo Kino and Eris Halla kept getting away with their shit.

"Right now, huh?" He echoed, watching her spring back up to her feet. "Well, I don't mind. But first... How's your leg feeling?"

A doctor had to keep his priorities straight, after all.

"Woah, for real? You must be a really smart girl!" He praised with a grin, leaning his head onto his fist whilst squatted. "That'll be useful. Maybe I can teach ya a lil' about medicine, too."

First aid and Pokemon healing were universally useful skills— specially if she was going to run around getting into trouble.

"If you're feeling fine... We can go catch the meanie that hurt you earlier." He said, winking. "I'll teach him a lesson for messing with my student."

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TL;DR:Doug is using his Tapu Lele avatar power, healing scales, to speed up Lucia's leg's recovery.

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313+25 = 338

Monster Hunter

With Lucia Aldrete

With her leg healed, he had little reason to stop them. Perhaps some hesitance— he was essentially escorting a child into a danger zone— but he figured he could handle whatever came.

"Alrighty! But carefully!" He said, beaming back at her before glancing back at his Orbeetle.

Garo nodded back at him before moving to take point.

"Garo here's an Orbeetle, Lucy." He said as they walked, pointing at the bug type. "He's a bug-type, and also a psychic-type. He's really smart— he's also like a radar! With one on ya, ya can probably find just about anyone."

The living radar glanced back at the girl, eyes glowing briefly before it nodded her way.

Then, it turned away from them and began to hover faster.

"Guess it found something already— pokemon out, Lucy! Let's go!"

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TL;DR:Doug is using his Tapu Lele avatar power, healing scales, to speed up Lucia's leg's recovery.

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TOTAL = 394

Monster Hunter

With Lucia Aldrete

Garo looked livelier after his short intro to Lucia. Almost cheerful, for such a frownie looking bug.

"Let's!" Doug said, grinning.

Oft in the distance, a Gouging Fire felt chills run down its spine.

Probably just stepped on a Ting Lu footprint without noticing. Surely...

It did not realize yet the misfortune barreling towards it at top speed.

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TL;DR:Doug is using his Tapu Lele avatar power, healing scales, to speed up Lucia's leg's recovery.

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TOTAL = 678

Monster Hunter

With Lucia Aldrete

Now that they were so close— and shouting— the creature's attention was quickly fixed unto them, it's gaze burning into them with searing ferocity, before it reeled back its head and roared at them.

"Then that's the one getting a whooping!" Doug declared, stepping between the dinosaur and his new charge like a Stoutland protecting its Lilipup.

His Orbeetle hovered forward, gaze aglow.

The world took on a magenta hue as the Orbeetle(?) presumably invoked Psychic terrain, enhancing its psychic prowess and limiting speed options within its vicinity.

That gave Doug an idea.

"How are ya goin' 'bout building your team, Lucy?" Doug asked her suddenly as he glanced back at her, winking.

In the meanwhile, Garo went ahead and gave a psychic shove against the lumbering titan, pushing back harshly.

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TL;DR:Doug is using his Tapu Lele avatar power, healing scales, to speed up Lucia's leg's recovery.

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TOTAL = 678

Monster Hunter

With Lucia Aldrete

As it turned out though— Drill run was technically countering the lumbering titan's typing— and as it was held down by the Orbeetle's psychic pressure, the dinosaur had no choice but to take the blow in full, releasing a furious roar as it bit unto its side.

"That makes sense." Doug said, nodding with a smile. When he was young, his method hadn't been too dissimilar— except that he only captured bugs. But they had to be the big, cool bugs, like Pinsir and Scyther to get into his 'main' team.

"And right ya are! A guy like that, ya can tell it'll be strong n'useful from the get go." Assuming Lucia could control it, at least.

Doug knelt before Lucia, grinning as he pointed at Hero and Garo going at it against the beast.

"Ya know about typings, right? Super effective moves, ineffective moves, all that?" He asked. "One of the basic team building strategies is called Typing Coverage."

He held up a finger, actin' all scholarly like.

"The simple principle is to have pokemon that can hit a wide range of types, while also resisting lots of different types between themselves." He explained. "That way, if ya find something that say, Hero's struggling with, ya can switch in one of yer pokemon that resists that thing, and also hits it back real hard."

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TL;DR:Doug is using his Tapu Lele avatar power, healing scales, to speed up Lucia's leg's recovery.

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TOTAL = 783

Monster Hunter

With Lucia Aldrete

Doug smiled, and shrugged.

"Eh. I'm a bugcatcher." He said simply, as his Orbeetle and her Dunsparce continued to abuse the unfortunate titan. "Been so since I was a kid. I could tell ya to always pick the stronger pokemon, but honestly? The best trainers can make their favorites work."

If there was one thing he didn't want to pass on, either to Lucia, or any other future proteges he might look over, it was the flawed belief that only certain pokemon were worth using, if one desired victory.

"It's good to keep typings in mind, but if you're clever, ya'll be able to make it work even if ya become a type specialist like me." He said, before winking. "That's what Gym Leaders and Elite 4s do, and they're strong, ain't they?"

He grinned.

"Still, it's good ya got the basics down so well already. Yer a smart lass, Lucia." He said. "Keep types in mind when building yer team— even if ya only ever use yer favorites, ya'll find that most pokemon out there have a lotta options available to them."

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TL;DR:

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TOTAL = 969

Monster Hunter

With Lucia Aldrete

"They're only weak to three!" He said, pouting. Well, she wasn't entirely wrong. "Well, they are resisted by seven other types, I guess."

Still, he didn't seem to mind it much, grinning Lucia's way. She didn't seem to be judging you, which helped.

"Why? 'Cause I love 'em." He said with a simple shrug, turning his gaze over to the battle unfolding before them and smiling.

The titan had fallen already, panting. Though looking worse for wear, Garo and Hero had fought tooth and nail and brought low even that mighty titan.

"I don't got a reason— not any based on logic anyway. I've always thought they were neat, and... I guess I never grew out of that." He said.

Just as she loved hero unconditionally, it seemed Doug loved his bugs much the same— if not quite as personally as she loved her partner.

Not for all bugs, anyway.

"Speaking of cool pokemon..." Doug said, grinning as he gestured with his neck at the titan. "This one's all yours. Go get 'em, champ. "

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TOTAL = 1008