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"But then again, this Eevee has nine partner moves with different types, which somewhat reduces the advantage of evolution and devolution," Eddie mused.
Indeed, the types of the nine partner moves corresponded to Eevee's Normal typing and the eight evolved forms' types. This way, Eevee could use attacks with different type advantages to increase its winning chances without evolving.
"But it still needs to evolve, not only for the power bonus from the Adaptability ability, but also for its own type resistances. Team Rocket's experiments still have value."
Eddie considered this and still felt that Eevee needed the evolution and devolution capability.
After all, being able to launch attacks with different types didn't mean its own typing could resist opponents.
Simply put, when facing a Fire-type Pokemon, Eevee could use the Water-type Bouncy Bubble to counter the opponent.
However, Eevee itself remained a Normal-type Pokemon, so when attacked by Fire-type moves, the damage it received wouldn't be halved.
If Eevee evolved into Vaporeon, not only would its Water-type moves gain increased power, but when attacked by Fire-type moves, the damage would be halved.
"Alright, little one. Since you're so friendly with me, let's go on adventures together," Eddie said, retrieving a Luxury Ball - completely black with a yellow horizontal stripe across the middle.
Originally, he had wanted to use a Pokeball like an Ultra Ball.
However, for this Partner Eevee, the Luxury Ball was more appropriate.
After all, Partner Eevee's signature move Veevee Volley was an enhanced version of Return, and the Luxury Ball could accelerate friendship development with Pokemon.
That partner move had guaranteed accuracy in the games. Although nothing was truly guaranteed in reality, if the strength difference wasn't too great, this move's hit rate would approach near-certainty.
"Vui? Vui Eevee!!" (You want to capture me? Then defeat me first!)
After seeing Eddie retrieve the Luxury Ball and make his proposal, Eevee immediately jumped back and declared battle.
"...I already brought out the Luxury Ball. You're really not giving me any face here," Eddie said, looking at Eevee with embarrassment.
Just moments ago, this little cutie had been affectionate with him. Shouldn't Eevee enter the Luxury Ball obediently? Instead, this one had directly declared war on Eddie.
"...Fine, if you want to battle, then come on. I hope you won't hit me too hard," Eddie sighed.
Eevee was only level 25. Its strength was genuinely weak - Eddie could have defeated it on the server's opening day.
"Now the weakest Pokemon in my team is Gengar. Let it battle you!"
Eddie retrieved a Pokeball and gently tossed it, causing Gengar to appear before Eevee with a sinister laugh.
Although Gengar was the weakest main Pokemon on Eddie's team, it was now Peak-level, and the immense power emanating from it was beyond Eevee's imagination.
When Eevee saw Gengar, it instantly sensed a powerful threat, then its body rapidly grew larger.
Its fur changed from brown to fiery red, and its body transformed from a 30-centimeter small dog into a nearly 2-meter-tall large dog.
"Hey, hey, hey! This height is excessive! Shouldn't Flareon be about 90 centimeters tall? What's with your 2-meter body?!" Eddie exclaimed, staring at the large dog before him while his mouth twitched continuously.
He knew this Eevee could evolve without evolution stones, but the process would be quite painful.
He didn't know whether the energy was diminished or if this was an experimental side effect.
But this height differed from established records - the original Flareon wasn't this large. It was almost like a mutation.
Could this be because it was a Partner Eevee?
Hearing this, Flareon roared twice in explanation, and Eddie understood why it had grown so large.
"You were injected with strange substances. What did Team Rocket do to you?" Eddie felt even more disgusted with Team Rocket after hearing this.
Although Eevee had become much stronger now, Eddie believed it wouldn't willingly experience such trauma.
"Forget it. Since you've become stronger, that's beneficial for you. I'll take you to destroy Team Rocket in the future! Now, let's battle! Gengar, Shadow Punch!"
Eddie launched the first attack.
He decided to end this quickly, but didn't plan to use overly powerful moves to avoid injuring his future partner.
Gengar displayed its large white teeth in a sneer.
It extended its fist, now filled with ghostly energy, and struck Flareon forcefully.
Flareon was startled by Gengar's attack but still launched a counterattack.
It opened its mouth, releasing raging flames from the Fire-type Pokemon's maw.
The air temperature, heated by flames reaching hundreds of degrees, rose sharply.
"This temperature... setting aside the power of this Flamethrower, this heat isn't much inferior to Charizard's. This Eevee is stronger than I thought, but move power isn't just about temperature!" Eddie observed.
Indeed, as Eddie noted, Flareon's Flamethrower had extremely high temperature, and the move appeared very powerful and dazzling.
But Gengar simply smiled silently, its Shadow Punch directly breaking through the flames to strike Flareon directly.
"Eevee, this is my strength. You should understand you're not my match. Stop fighting and enter this Luxury Ball," Eddie said, seeing Flareon cry out in pain from the hit.
Eddie felt somewhat sorry for it.
But Flareon didn't surrender, directly changing from Flareon to Vaporeon.
It fired a Water Gun at Gengar, attempting to change its attack type to defeat Gengar.
"Sigh, you're truly determined, but that's not necessarily bad. Gengar, Thunderbolt!"
Since Eevee chose to fight to the end, Eddie would accommodate it.
Of course, he also used the Power of Viridian to secretly tell Gengar to reduce its attack power.
Gengar rolled its eyes at Eddie, then unleashed Thunderbolt to shatter the Water Gun, with the attack's aftermath striking Vaporeon.
Although Gengar had weakened the power, Eevee was still relatively weak and suffered from the electric attack.
However, it still didn't give up, changing from Vaporeon to Jolteon, thus reducing Thunderbolt's damage.
Then it continued attacking Gengar with Thunder Shock.
"Gengar, Hyper Beam," Eddie commanded, seeing that Eevee was determined not to surrender until defeated.
He simply let Gengar finish this decisively.
Gengar rolled its eyes at Eddie again, as if saying this should have been done earlier.
Then it gathered terrifying energy in its mouth and attacked Jolteon.
The devastating light attack directly dispersed Thunder Shock and completely struck Jolteon.
At this point, Eevee was beaten back to its original form and collapsed with serious injuries.
Eddie threw his Luxury Ball at Eevee.
Eevee didn't resist. It was convinced and consciously allowed itself to be captured in the Luxury Ball. The Luxury Ball didn't even shake, directly capturing Eevee.
"Ding! You have completed the hidden quest: 'Capture Eevee!' Obtained quest reward: Information about a rare Grass-type Pokemon, provided by Erika."