["Hello?"]
Hearing that Axel had gone silent, Fairy Queen kept calling out, ["Mr. Axel, are you still there? Is your signal bad?"]
["Does your Rotom have a voicemail function? If it does, can I just leave a message?"]
Axel snapped out of his confusion and spoke helplessly, "I'm here. It's just that this history exam thing..."
["Oh, is it because you think the exam is difficult?"], Fairy Queen's voice sounded relieved.
["The history exam of the Paldea region is indeed too hard for someone from Aurient like you. But I can hack into the exam program and change the question bank to select questions from Aurient history instead. What do you think?"]
["I heard that over there you have nine years of compulsory education. Since you're so amazing, your academic subjects must be excellent too, right?"]
Axel: "..."
'No. Absolutely not.'
'Aurient history is way too damn long!'
He would rather just attend a couple of classes. Anyway, the history of the Paldea region is very short. With his supreme-level mental power to help, getting a passing score should be easy.
And while attending the lectures, he might even find some clues about the Four Treasures of Ruin Pokémon. No loss at all.
Thinking this, Axel answered Rotom, "No need for cheating. I'm the kind of person who prefers to keep my feet on the ground."
"Just help me contact a history teacher. I'll attend a class then, and in about two days I should be able to take the exam."
["Is that so?",] On the other end of the phone, Fairy Queen immediately felt deep respect for Axel.
Even when he had the chance to cheat, he refused. This was truly the legendary hero.
["No wonder you were able to easily solve the bullying problem and even save the Sinnoh region."]
["I'll contact the best history teacher for you right away. What do you think about Professor Briar? If not, Professor Raifort is also fine."]
Axel blinked, and the person he had poked at in his dream immediately appeared in his mind.
Emmm... although he didn't know why Briar was making guest appearances in so many different positions, if she were the teacher, the class should at least be quite pleasing to the eye?
Axel nodded, "Then please help me contact Professor Briar. Thanks."
["You're welcome. The car is already parked downstairs at the hotel. You can get in anytime once you're ready."]
———
Axel didn't have much to pack. After recalling Little Ho-Oh and the others into their Poké Balls, he quickly went downstairs.
A very sci-fi looking Team Star car, colored red, blue, and bright yellow, was already waiting at the entrance of the hotel.
Axel had seen this type of vehicle before. Essentially, they were a modified Revavroom.
Different from the one he saw last time,
On this Team Star car, Axel could vaguely sense the power of three attributes: Fire, Water, and Electric.
There were also various breakthroughs in the manufacturing process and materials. Compared with the Team Star cars Axel had seen before, this one had made great improvements.
"As expected of the vehicle of the person behind Team Star... pretty nice."
Axel touched the Revavroom at the front of the car and softly praised it, then took out several kinds of matching food and stuffed them into Revavroom's mouth.
"Vroom! Vroom!", Revavroom immediately let out a metallic roar. Its eyes curved into crescents as it leaned its body toward Axel.
"Letting me get on? Then I won't be polite."
Axel got into the car. White smoke immediately burst out from behind Revavroom, and the scenery behind them began retreating rapidly.
Revavroom's driving skills were excellent. It weaved through the endless traffic on the streets, and soon they reached the outskirts of the city, bursting into an even faster speed.
Water currents and flames intertwined inside the Team Star vehicle. Even though the soundproofing was excellent, Axel could still hear faint bursts of steam.
According to Axel's rough guess, Revavroom was also using the power of steam, just like Volcanion.
This speed might already surpass Dodrio, which was known as the fastest among birds.
If used in battle... even a simple Charge attack might cause massive damage to the enemy.
Suddenly, the figure of the General flashed through Axel's mind.
He wondered how the special training of Archaludon, Dragonair, and Gholdengo was going.
When he was together with Cynthia, he had been busy day and night. He had actually forgotten to ask.
Only now did Axel suddenly realize that, aside from the path of Dialga, the General might also have other development routes.
"When I meet Fairy Queen, I should ask about it properly. But having the General pull a carriage would still be too strange. I wonder if it could become a mech Tyrannosaurus instead?"
As that thought appeared, an image formed in Axel's mind: a heavily modified General carrying a machine cannon, covered in steel armor, with a ferocious face.
The more he imagined it, the more Axel felt that this training path might actually succeed.
There were already so many Paradox Pokémon in the Paldea region. If the General looked a bit like a future species, that would be perfectly normal, right?
Decision made. If he couldn't obtain the Time Dragon trait, he would let Archaludon undergo mechanical modification as a transitional solution first.
As one of his early Pokémon, it had to have enough style.
"Vroooom!"
While Axel was lost in his thoughts, Revavroom suddenly slowed down and gently shook its body.
"We're already here?", Seeing the massive city ahead, Axel snapped back to his senses. He hadn't expected them to arrive at Mesagoza so quickly.
Just like in the games, this city was enormous, with a thriving commercial district and all kinds of shops.
Perhaps because it felt a strong sense of belonging here, or perhaps because of Fairy Queen's orders, the Team Star car noticeably slowed down after entering the city.
Axel could see all kinds of shops on both sides of the road. Among them, Day Cares, stores, and various Pokémon-related businesses were the mainstream.
After moving forward for a while, a huge staircase appeared in front of them. The Team Star car slowly stopped, signaling that the rest of the road could only be walked by Axel himself.
"Such a good boy," Axel gently patted Revavroom's head and fed it some more food before looking toward the massive staircase in front of him.
The entire staircase stretched for hundreds of meters. At the very end stood a gate decorated with a huge red Poké Ball emblem.
It was the most representative building of the Paldea region—Naranja Academy.
As he walked up the stairs, Axel constantly saw students around him sparring with each other.
"Hahaha! Isn't my Muk's Substitute, Protect, Toxic combo awesome?"
"My Poliwrath's Belly Drum Baton Pass isn't weak either!"
"Starter Pokémon? What starter Pokémon? My Trick Room team ignores the gap between the rich and the poor!!!"
"I admit you're all strong, but the Serene Grace Blissey from our medical department is truly invincible!"
"You're invincible? Then what is the Justified Arcanine from our criminal investigation department?"
Axel: "..."
If the four big characters "Naranja Academy" weren't written on the distant gate, he would have thought he had walked into a Team Rocket hideout.
"I really don't know what kind of teacher could produce a bunch of such scheming students."
Axel didn't believe that these people could summarize all those tactics just from a few battle videos he had released.
There must be some mastermind giving them guidance behind the scenes.
"Scheming?", At that moment, a girl with an Eevee backpack and short hair interwoven with red and blue suddenly appeared beside Axel. Her appearance looked very androgynous.
"Ever since we started deeply studying your tactics, the injury rate across the entire school has dropped from one percent to less than one ten-thousandth."
"In our eyes, you are the true hero."
"You are?", Axel looked at the girl, even though he already knew the answer.
The girl took the initiative to shake Axel's hand.
"Let me introduce myself. I'm the Fairy Queen you were talking about!"
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