[IC] Pokémon Tech. [PG16 for later purposes/started/accepting in OOC thread]

[Super Chaos Sonic]

"OK then, Miss Jenna." Ethan said with a smile. [i]Alright, she has a Raichu. A lot of thunder attacks plus a lot of speed. OK I can do this...[/i] he thought as he looked at Rai. "Rai! I want you to use Tail Whip!!" Ethan called out the first attack. Rai nodded and then used the move tail whip. Ethan knew it wouldn't do any damage to the Pokemon per say, but it definitely brought down Jenna's Raichu's defense. "Now, use Horn Attack!!" Ethan said as he snapped his fingers. Rai nodded and then yelled, [b]"RHY....HORN!!!"[/b] Rai rushed towards the Raichu and began to strike at Raichu with his horn. [i]Yes, let's hope I can win.[/i] Ethan thought with a smile.

[.:Abarai Renji:.]

Wendy did follow, but not just because Mark was rude to her, but she wanted to see the fight between their teacher and the Ethan person. She was amazed by the fact that he had such a powerful first Pokémon - or at least looking powerful - which was a Rhyhorn. She had never seen one before other than in pictures, and she smiled as she observed it. Just then, she turned to Mark, a bit of a frown on her face.

"You're really rude, you know." she stated. "I was trying to thank you for a good match. But then again, if that's how you are to anyone, I won't argue." her smile returned. "I hope I can fight you again. And hopefully, I'll have more confidence then!"

[Master Red]

((OOC: I find it adorable that he thinks he could ever win against a Raichu that is at least 60 levels higher ))

Jenna knew there was no reason for her to try to avoid a Tail Whip. First, it was hard to avoid anyways, Second, Ethan's Rhyhorn was at a ridiculously low level and would barly scratch Skittles anyways, given that it ever hit. "Skittles, you know what to do" She simply said, and the Raichu jumped over the Ryhorn as it charged at it with it's Horn Attack, sumersaulting and shooting Jenna a wink as he did so. Before it landed however, several more Raichus appeared next to it and started to run about, jumping over the Raihorn every now and then and laughing.

"If you thought I chose Skittles to give you a chance at winning you're wrong" Jenna laughed, "I won't attack you, not with damaging attacks at least, but I won't make my pokémon a punching bag" She added, and stretched out har arms a bit behind her back. "Skittles, just for fun, use Agility as well" She commanded, and at that the several Raichus on the field started to run about at an even faster pace, some of them were taking a rest every now and then or scratching themselves behind the ear. But no one would stay still for very long.

"hey thanks Mark!" Beau chimed happily as he was, somewhat, praised by his room-mate. Although from what he had gathered from mark he kind of figured that was as good as praise would get. "And F-Y-I, Princess' doesn't know Horn Attack yet, she knows Peck and I'm not sure if it would've been strong enough to break the ice.. It would've been embarrassing if she got stuck instead, wouldn't you think?" He answered, and then returned to watching the battle between Jenna and Ethan.

[Super Chaos Sonic]

[b]"R-Rhy??"[/b] Rai said looking at all of speeding Raichu's running around him.

[i]Dang it...but I'm not giving up just yet.[/i] Ethan thought, smiling. He looked at the running Raichus and then said,"Rai, I want you to use Horn Attack on all the Raichus!" Rai looked back at Ethan, with an expression that pretty much said, "Are you freakin' serious?" Ethan smiled and said,"Trust me Rai. I know what I'm talking about." Rai slowly nodded and then began to use Horn Attack on all the Raichus. [i]Come on...hit the Raichu, please.[/i] Ethan thought, getting a little anxious.

[GreyCat]

Blair sat in a corner out of the way. Ling curled up in his lap and watched the battles with him. Out of all the courses at the school, the only ones he cared for were battling, geography, survival and mythology. And battling lost a bit of it's flair when Ling was added to the equation. Losing he didn't mind so much, but Ling would lose [i]hard[/i]. So spectator sports it was. Besides, he was still annoyed at getting caught sneaking in.Ling didn't seem to mind being kept off the field either, so it was something of a win-win for him. Despite his annoyance at his teacher, he ha to admit she had style and skill in battling. Just watching Skittles was more educational than the class itself.

[Master Red]

The horn attack did hit, some of the clones at least. The speed and agility of the well trained raichu, as well as it's skill with Double Team (which it has perfected over the years) made it terribly hard for the young Rhyhorn to be able to actually hit them all. "Well, I have to say I admire your effort and I guess it's good that you're destroying the clones as that will make it a bit more challenging for Skittles" Jenna, chuckled and then observed as there were only three raichus hopping about on the field. "Skittles, use thunderbolt, just for fun" SHe then commanded, and the middle Raichu shot a powerful lightning attack at the Rhyhorn. This was of course useless given that the Rhyhorn was a ground type and electric attacks not working against them, but as Jenna said, it was just for fun. After shooting the attack however, and revealing which Raichu was the right one, the three started to jump over eachother and run around in circles, mixing themselves up properly so it was impossible to tell which Raichu was the real one again. After they had mixed up, they simply sat down and looked at the Rhyhorn with a smug look on their faces, saying: "Go on then, you'll never catch me anyways".

[Super Chaos Sonic]

Rai growled some, but he heard Ethan call out, "Focus Rai! Were still in this fight!" Ethan looked at the battle and then thought, [i]But not for long. If this Raichu keeps up the attacks like this, Rai will be down for the count.[/i] Ethan sighed and then said,"Rai, use Tail Whip again! After that, I want you to use Horn Attack as many times as needed!!" As if on command, Rai used the move Tail Whip and it brought down Raichu's defense some more. Then Rai began to use Horn Attack about four times to attack the real Raichu, and not some after-image from the agility.

[Master Red]

The two last clone were caught up with eventually, mainly because they were playing about too much instead of actually doing their work properly. Jenna didn't really blame Skittles for playing such pranks though, the Rhyhorn was horribly weak and Skittles would most likely take it out with a body slam if Jenna had him attack. Something was off though, as Rhyhorn attacked the last Raichu on the field, it disappeared as well, meaning it was another clone. Before Ethan could ask her about it Skittles looked out from behind Jenna, he'd created an additional clone after attacking and hid, just to mess with Rhyhorn a bit more. "He's skilled isn't he?" Jenna mused, "I didn't even notice him sneaking off here until I actually felt him brush against my leg!" She continued, laughing a bit. "Anyways, This match is over, I've seen your Rhyhorn's moves and how you battle... you better go and get lunch now" She stated, kneeling down towards Skittles, who was panting a bit after all the running, who then jumped into her arms and climbed up to sit on her shoulder. [b]"Rai-Rai"[/b] it chimed and laughed a bit, enjoying that his tricked had worked. "Now, what you need to do is focus more. It is not only your pokémon's responsibility to find the opponent, you have to do your best to find it too." She lectured Ethan and with a "Class Dismissed" she turned on her heel and walked back into the gray barracks.

"WOW! I never even saw Skittles creating another clone and hiding behind Jenna!" Beau exclaimed, being utterly amazed over Jenna's and Skittles' skills when it came to battling. [i]"I wonder if I'll ever become quite as skilled"[/i] he thought to himself and bit his lip a little.

[Super Chaos Sonic]

Ethan nodded slowly and said,"Ummm, O-OK...Miss Jenna..." He was a little upset that he was lectured like that, especially in front of the other students...it was totally embarrassing to him. He looked at Rai, who was gently nuzzling Ethan's leg, as if to say not to worry about it. He simply smiled and then patted Rai's head. "Thanks Rai. You did awesome today, I'm really proud of you." Ethan smiled and then stood up and said,"Come on Rai...you need to a long rest." He held up his Pokeball and then had Rai recalled to his Pokeball so Rai could rest a little. Then he walked towards the other students and said,"Man...that whole lecturing thing was a little embarrassing..."

[.:Abarai Renji:.]

Wendy had observed the other battles between the students, and mostly the fights between the teacher and two of the students; Beau and Ethan, who did their best in fighting her, and one of them actually beat her Pokémon. She was amazed at how Beau was so skilled, although Jenna was right about his Goldeen, and she was a bit amused at how Ethan tried his hardest with his Rhyhorn, but failed against Jenna's Raichu. In the end, however, they had something that she took note of; confidence and courage. She took mental notes through the whole battles, as she was iron-willed and determined to get more confidence. "Shi?" her Shinx asked as she had stood still and silent for a long time now, and she snapped out of it, looking at him. "Oh, sorry Sparky. I was just watching their fights." she explained and petted him, which made him smile with glee. "Shinx! Shinx!" he giggled, and she smiled back. "Don't worry. If we have to fight again, we'll win. Alright?" she held up her palm, and Sparky gave her a high-paw in return. "Shinx!" he said with new-found determination, before she picked him up and headed off to get some lunch.

[Naimo]

Clover was still gently clutching Chris as she rejoined the group. "Wow, that was an amazing battle," she cried to Ethan. "I don't think we've met yet; I'm Clover Addison, and this is Chris." She awkwardly held out her hand from under Chris; she didn't want to wake him up, not after his first battling experience. Besides, he did look rather cute asleep. (And no, that's not Naimo fangirling, she does agree that Spheals are cute, whether they are awake or not; it has absolutely nothing to do with the real Chris whatsoever.)

[fenrir]

Lunch came and went rather quickly. The small group consisting of Mark, Beau, Wendy, Clover, Norman, Blair, and Ethan seemed to stick together. Even if Mark was hesitant on accepting Blair and Ethan.

-Math-

"Settle down class..."

The Math teacher, Mr. Ferral, was once again forced to silence his class. Porygon-Z shot a Signal beam towards the back of the room, and the bright beam of light flashed brightly between the rows of seats. It hit the wall and disappeared, not leaving a single mark. Mr. Ferral sighed and patted Porgon-Z's head, which merely floated by his side. Porygon and Porygon 2 were also by his side, the former hiding between his feet and the latter secretly uploading a file that would blast the Pokemon equivalent of 'Peanut Butter Jelly Time' as loud as possible. Mr. Ferral knew this, but wasn't bothered. While giving the class a lecture Porygon-Z would stop the file from being uploaded.

"Now that I have your attention, welcome to my class." He stated in between sighs.

"As you all should have noticed when you came in, there is a seating chart by the entrance. Most of you, thankfully, read that and sat in your designated seats."

As the teacher continued, there were whispers among the students.

The Math class was quite large, built for several groups of students. This allowed for groups to discuss amongst themselves while the teacher prattled away.

It's quite a standard classroom, with tables, seats and a front desk with a whiteboard. There are a couple of drawers and cupboards with supplies such as rulers and calculators as well as various objects that are used for the younger children to make demonstrations and more visual examples. The walls to the classroom are mostly empty with the exception of a couple of cubist paintings.

[Master Red]

Beau had been seated next to Mark and some boy with violet hair that was combed back neatly. He had decided he didn't really cared for him as he hadn't even responded when Beau said hi to him, twice. The good part of Beau wanted to believe that perhaps this boy only had a bad day or maybe he was deaf? The latter part was somewhat unbelievable as deaf students would most likely have a hearing aid or an interpreter or something, the bad day thing could work but even people with bad days usually responded if you talked to them. They mostly didn't respond in a kind manner but they did respond. This boy... Colton, according to the name on his seat, had acted as if he was seated next to thin air and he didn't even look at Beau, not even once. Rude, that was what this boy was, Beau was certain of that.

Beau sat glaring at the boy for a while as he pondered upon the reasons to why this boy was unpleasant when he all of a sudden looked right at him. Or, well, so he thought. What they boy happened to look at was in fact Mark, Beau was just an obstacle for his view as he saw it. As the boy, Colton, looked at him Beau was caught a bit off guard and raised his eyebrows a bit, being slightly embarrassed that he'd been caught glaring at the boy.

"I think I know who you are..." Colton said, his voice sounding very matter of fact and to the point. Beau looked a bit confused and then pointed to himself and blinked a couple of times in confusion. "M-" He was cut off before he actually had time to ask by Colton. "Not you, why would I know who [i]you[/i] are?" He stated, and for th first time ever he actually seemed to be looking at Beau. His voice was very dry and and he seemed almost amused that Beau thought he had been addressing him.

That was it, Beau did [i]NOT[/i] like this Colton person and it was most definitely rudeness that had caused him not to say hello back to him.

[GreyCat]

"Just to remind me, because this makes no sense to me, but why exactly do we have to learn math?" Blair gripped to himself. Besides counting stuff and adding and subtracting them, he hated maths. He idly pressed buttons on a calculator with on hand and held Ling's leg with the other as he tried to run off to who knows where. Maybe he should consider a leash or something. It would make things so much easier. He opted instead to return him. Ling promptly burst back out. "Settle Ling. One of these day's I'm gonna put you in your ball and tie it shut since you refuse to stay put."

[Naimo]

Clover had no idea who the people she was sat next to were, but they were fast to pay her compliments about Chris' cuteness. The Spheal was patiently sitting on his owner's lap, and was being very good in keeping quiet and making no fuss. Sometimes, Clover just couldn't love him enough. To her, Maths was an interesting subject, and she wondered what they would be doing. It felt like one of those lessons where Pokemon evolvement was not going to be as great as the lessons they had prior to this one.

[.:Abarai Renji:.]

Wendy didn't actually know why they had to have Math, since they were training to become possible Pokémon Trainers, not math geniuses. Although once again, she thought from a different view and realized there had to be something connected to knowing math, and being a good Trainer. So she just sat patiently - Sparky on her lap - and waited for further instructions as of what they were supposed to do. 'I just hope it won't be anything hard...' she thought while petting Sparky's head.

[fenrir]

Mr. Ferral continued his lecture, and began to write on the whiteboard. "For now we will go over the basics to make sure you all are comfortable with that, later on we'll be discussing capture rate formulas and basic damage calculation. Two things that while aren't incredibly important, are good to know and understand."

Mark shifted in his seat. Math was boring, this teacher was boring, hell, everyone in the room was boring. Although that could be because it was math... He heard talking to his right, that meant Beau was talking to someone. But who? He glanced to his right, sure enough Beau was talking to someone. Someone awfully familiar... Eh, probably just a fly. He turned to face the teacher again, who was off explaining the multiplication tables for some reason.

[Master Red]

Colton's eyes narrowed a bit and he glared at Mark and after a short while he actually shoved Beau's chair back, causing the forementioned to almost fall on the floor, so he could get closer to the boy. "How dare you ignore me!" He growled, through his teeth as to not get too much attention to himself by the teacher. "You're the chairmans son, are you not?" he asked, still glaring quite intensely at Mark, his voice still having a hint of anger to it. Beau didn't understand what was going on at all where he was doing his best to keep his chair balanced against the table behind him.

[i]"Why is that Colton guy so interested in Mark?"[/i] He wondered, straining himself to keep himself balanced. [i]"Arceus, I wish he could just go back to his own seat, I'd rather do math than balancing like this!"[/i] he thought to himself growing even more annoyed with the boy than he had been earlier.

[.:Abarai Renji:.]

Wendy was busy with her studies until something caught her off-guard; Colton was up-close to Mark, and stating he was the chairman's son, like she had done before. 'Uh-oh, I hope he doesn't get in trouble...' was all she thought for the moment before she kept on studying, but then she gasped silently, covering her mouth as she understood what he had said. 'I-I knew it! Mark is the boy I saw with the chairman at the introduction to the school! Although... it's better to keep quiet now, than to speak' she thought and returned to the equations and formulas on the whiteboard and kept working. Sparky had now curled up to a ball near her feet, snoozing off slightly.

After a few seconds though, Wendy found it increasingly boring in the classroom, and wanted someone to chat with. But she didn't know anyone who sat near her. 'Oh, this is fun...' she thought sarcastically. She cast a glance at the whiteboard again, and saw that something was wrong in her calculation, so she turned to Colton, who was still standing over Mark like it was some form of interrogation. Lucky for her, Mark was a few seats from her place, so Colton was close too. "Excuse me, Mr. Colton. I don't quite get this calculation." she spoke while raising her hand.

[fenrir]

(OoC: Apologies on my part, would have posted this sooner.)

"You are?" He replied rather hastily, in truth he had no idea who this person was, but Mr. Ferral was nearly finished answer a girl's question a few tables ahead of them, soon he would descend upon their table. Thankfully Wendy interjected, asking for help. Although Mark did not know Colton, he did recognize the small coat of arms hidden in his blazer, it belong to a family he knew somewhat. At least, from what his eldest sister told him. Apparently they were quite famous for being snobs, to the point where even his eldest sister despised them, and it was rare for her to hate someone.

[Master Red]

The fact that Mark didn't know who Colton was did not amuse the boy, in fact, he quite looked like he would explode any minute. Add to this that he was asked by some girl to help her out with her maths!? It was all outrageous to Colton and he was going to speak his damn mind. "The fact that you are too stupid to figure out a simple calculation is not my problem!" He hissed at Wendy before turning his attention back to Mark, eyes ablaze with something one could only guess was anger. "Who am [i]I[/i]?" He spluttered out, in a voice that was obviously strained in an attempt from keeping himself from yelling. "The fact that you don't know this is just ridiculous, everyone knows who Colton Barrington III is, and you damn well remember it!" His voice actually rose gradually when he spoke and given that they were inside a mostly silent classroom it was quite obvious that was being said. A girl a few rows back with waist length violet hair seemed to be glaring at the boy through blue eyes. She had facial features quite similar to Colton himself and had an equally stuck up look on her face otherwise. Colton noticed her glare and seemed to choke back a bit and calm himself, adjusting his tie a bit.

Beau had grown very tired of being pushed back like he was in his seat by this Colton figure adn since this whole ordeal with Mark seemed to take a whole lot of time he was not keen on waiting anymore. He used the loss of composure that Colton went through and pushed the boy back into his seat so that he could let the chair fall back into place. Colton had a shocked look on his face as he was pushed back, he had not expected anyone tol dare touch him, let alone shove him, and what shocked him more was that Beau actually glared at him before going back to his calculus book.

He looked like he would burst out in a fit but as he caught eyes with the violet haired girl a few rows back again he chocked back and retorted to just glaring at Beau as well as Mark. He'd have to deal with them later somehow.

[.:Abarai Renji:.]

Wendy didn't flinch at the boy's yelling at her, surprisingly enough. She was a bit startled at first, of course, because she didn't expect to be yelled at. However, she shook a bit out of said shock, and shook her head a bit as she then kept on with her studies, but she made sure to note down his name so that she'd not be yelled at for not knowing his name. 'Colton Barrington III' she thought as she scribbled it down, and let out a quiet sigh as she kept thinking. 'But, wait... this calculation is rather easy!' she thought after reading it over and over, and began to calculate it. 'That boy didn't need to yell, however...' she kept thinking, but just shrugged it off and kept on her work. She did feel a little embarrassed, though, for mistaking him for the teacher. 'Well, everyone makes mistakes!'

[GreyCat]

Blair rapped his pencil against the desk frustratedly. Staying awake was more of a challenge than he first thought it would be. Since Ling finally gave in and went to sleep himself, the distract he provided, constantly trying to break away, was gone, and not else was presenting itself to fine the vacancy. Math was on the bottom of his list of interesting subjects. Off this list, actually. He almost wished Ling would wake up... He hastily pushed the thought aside. Better Ling asleep than making havoc. To pass the time, he doodle on his paper, sketches of the professors three porygons and some stylized numbers.

[fenrir]

Math had ended rather quickly after the incident with Colton. Mark had spent the rest of the class ignoring the boy, who in turn was fuming. Their next class was Pokécare, or Nursing. Unsurprisingly, Mark wasn't too keen on the class. It wasn't so much that he hated it, it just seemed like something he wouldn't find much use in. He had always known his Pokémon to keep themselves in tip top shape.

----

The class was on the second floor, and similarly to the Math classroom, was very big. There were various tables, each having six to eight seats. The desk was much neater than Mr. Ferral's, and included a high end desktop and high tech... Touch screen blackboard?! This was clearly one of the more 'cared for' classes. One thing was quite odd however, amidst the cream colored walls and beige flooring, there were various eggs on the tables. Many students were excited, could this mean the eggs were theirs? There were shouts of glee as students found their respective desks.

The table belonging to Mark and the others had a bit more 'color' when compared to other tables. The majority of the eggs were just a plain white with small spots varying in color, their table had no eggs of such design.

In Mark's seat, there was a very bright yellow-orange egg, with two thick black lines around the circumference of the egg.

Beau's seat had a much simpler pink egg, with two black spots around the top.

Clover's egg was a white, almost cream color, with red and blue circular outlines scattered. The pattern was quite odd, to the point where even Mark found it amusing.

Wendy's egg was a deep blue green, with two large black spots on the sides. In those circles were two smaller steel gray spots.

Blair's egg was part dark blue and part aqua blue. Four thin black marks were also present, two for each side.

The final three eggs included a very light pink, with a red bottom, a pure blue-green egg, and a bright red egg with a yellow 'blaze' symbol starting from the bottom. They belonged to Norman, Matthew, and Ethan respectively.

[.:Abarai Renji:.]

Wendy was awed at the big, hi-tech classroom, as she had never seen so much advanced technology in her life. She felt like she was in some form of personal heaven as she looked around, before walking up to her desk, and seeing the egg. She was rather curious as she looked at it from all angles, and Sparky even leaped up at the desk and sniffed at it slightly, but only smiled gleefully as he knew what it was. "Shi! Shinx!" he said happily, his tail swishing a bit as Wendy giggled. "So, you like it?" she asked as she petted Sparky. "But I wonder... are these eggs meant for us?"