Petey

"double kick, level 14, he must be stronger than I thought." Ruse quietly said. He looked over his opponents, the rhyhorn was already down, and onix was focused on the recovering Sawk. That left the graveler on his own. Ruse smirked and let loose a water gun on it, it hit hard, but the graveler still launched itself at him "crap, Sturdy ability." It came down on the Slowpoke with a Rock Throw, but due to using Curse Ruse shrugged it off fairly well, despite the graveler being of a higher level.

Ruse rolled his eyes "whatever." he mumbled. *curse* he thought. He felt that alll too familiar feeling again, he was slower now, but physically bulkier. He stood his ground defensively.

"probably Rock Smash, it doesn't always look the same. You could have headbutted them and had the same effect. A basic attack that does a decent amount of "fighting type" damage. Fighting type moves such as that are twice as powerful against dark types, rock types, normal types, ice types, and steel types. That's why pikachu wanted you to train here, your most often used move will do you very well." They got to the third floor and noticed an immediate difference, instead of a floor filled with geodudes and other low leveled rock types there were simply three pokemon waiting, a graveler, a small onix, and a rhyhorn. Behind them was a small treasure chest. "careful here, these guys kicked my ass when I tried to fight them on my own a few hours ago, but he two of us should be able to handle them."

"ye, you are a Sawk, and I'd say you're about level 8, so you likely know Bide, Leer, and Rock Smash, those are your probable current moves. Moves are like different attacks that pokemon can do. Like pokemon themselves, moves have elemental properties, fire, water, grass, steel, and so forth. You are a fighting type pokemon, so most of your moves will be heavy hitting physical attacks, but for example, a move you have currently, Leer, is basicall done by you giving your opponent a sharp mean stare that will cause the foe's defense to drop, allowing your physical moves to hit harder. There are moves that hit from long distance, I specialize in those, there are moves that temporarily will make you stronger, faster, or healthier, and there are even some that can give status effects to their target, these effects can cause opponents to gradually take harm or be unable to fight back. There is a large amount of strategy to fighting in this world, and knowing your moves and when to use them will be the key to fighting well."

"woah... Well that explains things a bit." Ruse was awestruck, this revelation that multiple time periods worth of people were dropped into this pokemon world did nothing but give him more questions to ponder. "well in this world, as opposed to ours, there are over 600 sentient subspecies of Pokemon, I'm not sure if there are any humans or not, but I don't think so. They are also still a very primitive culture, they havent seemed to develop water faring vessels larger than small fishing boats, the most important thing to understand is how levels and moves work, when you workout in our world strength comes gradually, here it works similarly, but with noticeable improvements rather than subtle ones. If you can bench press 75 pounds then 'level up' persay, you will instantly be able to bench, say, 80 pounds with the same level of difficulty."

"wait, what was the year you are from on Earth? There werent many monks around in 2011"

"ye, keep this low key, but you're the third person to claim that. Me, you, and this poochyena that I haven't seen in a while. I dont understand why were here, at all. But you must have heard of Pokemon before now, where are you from precisely?"

"ssh, keep your voice down!" Ruse hissed. "no, this is real. I heard you claim to be human, which means you're from Earth, correct?"

"psst, come here for a second," Ruse whispered to him. "you must have heard of Pokemon before now, you seriously have never played it?"

"hmm... Good luck learning Karate Chop or any of the elemental punches if all you do is kick, but ok then." Ruse's face scrunched up,Ruse was curious, but didn't want to start anything negative with his new team member

"buddy, if you can keep punching and kicking, and can bark out orders, you can lead properly. Just give it a go"

"well, you want to lead the way?"

"mind if I join you to the last floor, I wasn't able to get far on my own"

"exponentially! Trust me, I spent the whole day here, by the time you get to the second dungeon you'll see the dojo employees are MORE than competent"

(my character was keeping the human thing secret, remember, he doesn't trust easily) "I kinda like the guy, actually hes definitally pretty damn physically strong for a level 2" Ruse thought "another human, huh? Interesting" Their team was pretty balanced, a strong physical fighting type, a swift mixed attacker, and himself, a slowpoke, and if what he knew about the fictional pokemon world was true in reality he would eventually get quite powerful with non physical attacks.

Ruse whispered to Pikachu "someone's pretty cocky huh? He any good?"

"not a very talkative guy" Ruse thought to himself. "oh, yea, well you just go through the door right down there, it leads to the stairwell to the next floor."

"oh, cool. Hi there man, Im Ruse."

CRACK! The Geodude was smashed into the wall by the force of Ruse's watergun, it had been a long day of training and downing all the vitamins and gummies he could afford, but Ruse had finally reached level 9, and was finally able to use a water attack. Ruse was just walking to the showers when something perked up his ears. It was Pikachu training some much larger and bipedal blue pokemon, a Sawk. "hey, pikachu, there you are! I haven't seen you for hours, what happened!?"

That's not a bad thing though.

Applebloom: 9 Scootaloo 21 5/5

Applebloom 11 Scoots 19 4/5

Applebloom 13 Scootaloo 17 3/5

13 Applebloom 17 Scootaloo 2/5

15 Applebloom 15 Scootaloo Sweetie belle fans, sorry she's gone, but don't take it out on Scootaloo, it's not her fault 1/5