The next day's noon sun woke me from my nap. Rainbow and I didn't have much to do, but, since Rainbow wanted to hang out with the Squirt today, we powered through it as fast as we could. Rainbow and I had just finished dealing with our weather duties for the day when Conner came wheezing up to us.
<<Hey.>> He doubled over, and I waited for him to catch his breath.
"I guess you've got your plans for the day then?" Rainbow smiled. "One of these days, you, me and Scoots need to spend a day together, just the three of us."
I gave her a nuzzle, ear twitching towards Conner's gasping. <<I would love that.>> I waved good bye to my mare. <<You have fun now.>> With a small smile, Rainbow took to the sky, angling to the barracks.
I gave a soft glare to the goateed Eevee I was left with. "I was hoping to do that today, though."
"Yeah? Sorry, man." Conner gasped out. "I didn't want to be a messenger today, either. Fluttershy's hosting her tea party today, and I really didn't want to miss that."
I raised and eyebrow. "So, why are you here then?"
"Cy wanted to see you, and he wanted me to be there to oversee you two."
"Did he say what about?"
Conner raised a paw with his mouth open. He paused, before closing his mouth with a click. His paw folded as he racked his memory. "... N~o. No, I don't think so."
I face pawed. "So you just decided to deliver a message without getting the message. Good job." I sighed. I waited for Conner's breathing to even out before I started walking. "Let's go."
"Wha-? Hey, wait up!" Conner jogged to my side. "Slow down man! Fuck, girl, why're you rushing all the time?"
"I'm not, everyone else is just slow," I grumbled.
Conner shook his head. "You and Rainbow are becoming more and more alike as the days go by."
"And you're not with Joy?"
Conner raised his snout. "Of course I'm not. We're nothing alike." I snapped my teeth shut an inch from his face, causing him to jump back with a soft "Eep."
"Nothing alike, huh." I laughed. "You're right, you're not scared of your shadow!" I noticed him slow down slightly. "Wait... Oh, my, god. You are?!"
"I-it's not like that!" He whined. "It was late at night, I didn't turn on a light, the moon was full, and-"
"So you're just afraid of the dark!" I leaned in and gave him a noogie. "Don't worry, Auntie Leo'll look after you!"
"I'm a year older than you..." Conner mumbled. "I've my own Angel to look after me, and he can kick your ass any day!"
"Ha! That's if he could hit me! I'll run circles around that rabbit!" I boasted.
Conner smirked. "Ya hear that, Angel?"
"OH DEAR GOD, DON'T HURT ME!" I jumped over and cowered behind Conner. I only pulled my paws off my head when I noticed Conner laughing. "Oh, shut up. At least I'm scared of something real."
"Yeah, a fluffy bunny." Conner took his turn mocking.
I smacked him with my tail as I took the lead again. "If Looney Tunes taught me anything, it's you don't fuck with the bunny." We teased each other all the way to the farm.
Vince sat by the gate. He perked up when he saw us coming. "Hey, Cy's around back, at the rodeo track."
"The Apples have a rodeo track?" Conner asked.
"Yeah, Applejack's out there getting warmed up for her trip in a couple of days."
I nodded. "Ah, The Last Roundup." I looked over at Vince. "Be prepared for her to run off after the competition."
Conner had fallen slightly behind. "Since when did the Apples have a rodeo track?"
"They've always had one." Vince answered.
"Then, how come we've never seen it?" We all paused at that.
"Huh." I mused. "Never seen it in any of the sweeping shots of the farm on the show, now that I think about it... Before and after that episode."
"Why didn't Cy and I train there for the Running of the Leaves?" Vince asked.
"Do the writers just pull locations out of their asses?!" I threw my front legs up in exasperation. I took a few steps on just my hind legs before dropping back to all fours. "Wonder where else we've never been to in town that exist..."
"It's Ponyville!" Vince sighed. "It's not that big!"
"How far do we need to walk?" Conner complained.
"Not far." Vince reassured.
Eventually, we crested a hill and saw the track Applejack was running on. We trotted up and sat beside Apple Bloom and Cy. We watched as she cleared the last hurdle on the course, cheering with Apple Bloom. After witnessing Applejack beat her hay toss record -at least, I think that's what that was- Apple Bloom gave out another cheer, knocking her older sister's hat off and onto Vince.
"Applejack!" The filly crowed. "You're sure ta knock everyponys' hat off at the Competition!"
Applejack retrieved her hat from the covered Eevee. "Aw, shucks, Apple Bloom. I sure hope so."
"Hope so! I know so! After all, you're Ponyville's ten time rodeo champion!" Apple Bloom gestured to a framed display of blue ribbons. "I can't wait for you to win every blue ribbon in Equestria and become the Equestrian Rodeo Champion!"
<<Huh.>> I blinked.
<<What's up?>> Cy asked.
I watched the sisters head back to the farm. "I could've sworn that was more exposition ridden..." I shook my head. "What'd ya need me for?"
Cy looked at me. "Leo, I need your help learning something." He shifted his gaze to Conner. "You're here in case we hurt ourselves."
"And me?" Vince asked.
"Moral support, mostly." The Jolteon admitted before focusing back on me. "Will you help me with it?"
I rolled my eyes. "Please don't play the pronoun game with me. What is it?"
"Oh!" Cy winced, rubbing the back of his head. "I've been thinking of trying to figure out how to Volt Tackle. I need you," he thrust a paw at me, "to teach me how to Extreme Speed first. I figure I could add the lightning to it afterwards."
I stared at the larger canine. I drifted my gaze over the racing track. "I think we'll need more space..."
Since Leo worked her ass of to become the fastest, and Cy became Jolteon, THE fastest eeveelution, I wonder how jealous Leo will get if Cy starts to out speed her
.... That is a very cute image there.
Dammit! She just had to ruin it so soon?
Just enough to leave me hungry for more. Loved the interaction between Leo and Conner, that was hilarious.
So the Eevees not only in tune with the Elements, but also becoming more and more like a mirror of its pony partner? Are we going to see The Elements times two when all of them evolved?
the problem with the eevees move sets is that they kinda suck now granted I haven't won any tournaments but I know a crappy moveset when I hear one
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Fortunately, if Leo is able to teach Cy to Volt Tackle then it means that the Eevee's are able to learn new moves, which, them not being bound to the four moves rule means they could potentially become powerhouses. Each of the Evolved Eevee's has at least one move that can be considered a "Pure" version of a primary elemental attack for their new primary element. This means that if they study that move and how they create it they could then branch out and figure how to twist that type of attack to create New attacks, such as Cy here wanting to learn "Volt Tackle" by combining his electricity with Extreme Speed.
Though... I'm not really sure why he needs to learn Extreme Speed first tbh, it's just an electrified tackle that recoils back on the user slightly, not an electric self delivered cruise missile... He'd be better off learning the normal Tackle from Yomega now that Zann's lost all of his physical abilities...
Come to think of it, they could also probably try to re-teach Zann some of his old abilities he lost when he evolved in the fire... Think of it like Physical Therapy.
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Why would he want to learn volt tackle in the first place? Jolteon is a fast special attacker
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Maybe he's going for a mixed set?
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maybe but jolteons physical attack isn't worth it
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At the same time, that's game logic and not fanfiction logic. Let's be honest, here anything could work.
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yea but if the eevees are based on the game then it would make sense that they would want to use the most optimal moves
the way I see this fic going is that 4 moves are combat related and another 4 are for utility and everyday use
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With creativity anything can be adapted to have combat applications, even utility skills, and there's something to be said for branching from having a specific specialty. After all, overspecialization breeds in weakness. Add the fact that since they already don't follow the 4-move rule means that thy definitely aren't following game-rule logic...
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It's called an AU for a reason.
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i know but its the competivie player in me screaming at the bad move sets
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Consider that the Pack perfers to fight like that: a Pack. Any weaknesses can be covered by the other members, especially now that half of them have evolved. Zann needs someone fast to cover his ass? Call up Leo, Vince, or Cy. Need ranged firepower? Zann's your dog, as well as anyone else with Swift.
If any two of them suffers from overspecialization, it would be Leo and Yomega. If you look at Leo's move set, she only has one non normal offensive move: Bite. Everything else either buffs her stats, debuffs the opponents', or gives a boost to moves of a single element type (water and fire).
Which is still more than Yomega's, but he has an AOE in Synchronoise. Leo is all single target.
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I never got into competitive play, I was always breeding. Out of curiosity, what moves would you add/take away to give the Pack the best move set?
don't buck with the rabbit
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baton pass would be good on vaporeon, jolteon, umpreon, eevee, and espeon. the idea is they each buff and pass the buff on to the next one as long as they can switch safely by the end of the chain they should have a mega puff pokemon that can do a lot of damege if they switch to a heavy hitter like flareon ( it should be noted that this is a gen 3 strat that got nerfed hard in gen 4)
I can pm you some competive pokemon history if you want more options
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Please do. I don't yet have a hard and set move list for them all yet. If nothing else, it will give me ideas for the kids.
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I would add Protect and some ranged attack learn-able by Eevee to Leo to start with. If Leo ends up as an Espeon, it would be important to keep Bite and probably add a few ranged attacks like Psybeam and Shadow Ball. If you were really willing to push the limits of an Eevee's moveset, Focus Blast would really round out the set. I'd also add Hyper beam to Abes' arsenal.
This is gonna be fun especially in the future
Unless Cy suddenly mutates into an electric rodent, its impossible for him to learn volt tackle.
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Cy is already a Jolteon.
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Keep in mind, they all know more than four moves each at this point and some have moves that aren’t even available to the Eevee tree. Let Cy learn what he wants.
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I'm pretty sure they meant morphing into a Pikachu species since that move is exclusive to them.
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Nice humor a bit short but still entertaining
But Leo is like RD, not Pinkie.
This was a awesomely chill chapter I loved it.
It's nice that Volt Tackle won't be a Pikachu exclusive in this story.