Weather Research
"... And so now that's a thing." I had just finished recapping Angel on the whole Changeling thing at my next session with him. "Just another thing to throw onto my guilty conscience."
"I mean, you can if you want to." Angel shrugged, scratching something into his notebook. "But there's nothing you can do about it right now, so why worry about it?"
"But-!"
"The only thing that will make them change their opinion of you is time," Angel stared at me over his papers, "and you actively trying to make yourself a better... Eevee."
I broke eye contact with a snort. "You were about to say pony, weren't ya?"
He shrugged. "Still, if you're going to stew on it, use it to drive your progress to be better." Another note. "While we're talking about progress, how are things on that front?"
I shuffled around to get comfortable, unintentionally taking up the loaf position. "Well, Rainbow and I are still trying to get me to learn how to make it snow, which is what's been taking up my last few days."
"So you're going to focus on weather improvement, then?" More scribbling. "I assume that you've hit a snag?"
"Yeah. It's..." I paused. "I'm having problems getting the rain drops to get hard enough to turn into hailstones, or even just snowflakes. We've had Rainbow wait outside so that she doesn't accidentally get hurt, we've had her standing right beside me, in the loft, everywhere! She can't seem to figure it out either. So she's doing something drastic." I stuck my tongue out. "Research." We both chuckled. "Anyways, she's looking through the library for anything promising."
"Alright, fair enough. And how-." The chiming of the clock cut him off. "Damn, it's already been an hour? Well, next session, I want to know how things are going between you and the rest of the Pack, okay?" We both jumped off of our seats, although he blocked my path with the notebook. "I'm not asking you to focus on your Pack, just that you consider how things have changed between you and let me know your thoughts next time, okay?"
"Will do." I nodded. "I'm going to be checking in on the eggs and staying in the Daycare until Rainbow gets back."
"Alright." Angel placed the notebook down and jumped up to open the door. "I'll let Fluttershy know."
I padded out through the cottage, making use of Fluttershy's numerous pet doors. It wasn't until I had reached the Daycare's ramp that I registered that Angel had been drawing doodles in the margins. "Oh, that ass!" I scowled. "He had better be taking this seriously, or... or!"
"Or what?" Zann asked from previously empty space under the ramp.
"Or I'll tell Fluttershy!" I smirked victoriously. With a determined nod, I fully entered the Daycare and began to look over the first egg.
My ear twitched to Zann's muttering from outside. "Three... Two... One..."
"Mew FUCKED!" I yelped, jumping hard enough to brush my head against the ceiling. I zipped back to the opening, alternately staring at the emerged fire type and the slightly too small gap he crawled out of. "When?! How?!" Mentally measuring sizes and noting the lack of fresh dirt, I concluded that there was no way he had fit under there. "Bwuh?!"
"You're not the only one training with their mare." The bastard smirked. "Anyways, you got a sec? I need to ask you something, and Yomega's asked me to ask you something."
"I can't even fit under there..." I muttered. I stared for a second longer before sitting on my haunches and giving my cheeks a firm smack. "No, no! That way lies madness!" When I felt sufficiently calmed, I refocused on Zann. "W-what did you need?"
"Well~," He drew the word out, "Yomega wants to know when you might next have a chance to fill everyone in on the episode list, and I wanted to know if you've seen my cross peen hammer?"
"... Your what?"
"Cross peen hammer." Zann shrugged. "I've got some raw ores I wanted to smelt and work with, but they're a little too big to fit in my smelter, so I was going to use it to smash them into little pieces after I mailed them to myself. Had to settle for using my sledge instead."
"I haven't even heard of such a thing before, I wouldn't know it if it fell out of the sky onto me." I admitted. "Maybe if you pin a picture up here, we can know what to look for?"
"Okie-dokie!" He started pushing me back into the Daycare. Once I had given him some space, he began to unroll a missing poster for the tool in question. Reaching into the rafters, he grabbed a roll of tape. "An' wut a'out Yo'ega's thin'?" He asked around it.
"I'll have to get Rainbow's permission to stay here for a night, which could take some time. I wanna tentatively say two weeks from now?" I got back to checking up on the eggs. "Anything else you needed?" The sounds of tape being pulled and applied told me that I was going to be waiting for my answer. I managed to finish up the egg I was with at the same time Zann finished taping his poster up.
"Well, there is this one trick I've been working on..." He finally answered.
"Not in the daycare." I reminded him.
"Bah!" He grumbled. "It can't be that bad!"
I just stared at him. "This is a wooden shack, Zann."
"Point." He hobbled outside. "Alright, I'll show you, but then I need to let Yomega know what you said. You can give me your thoughts when we next see each other, 'kay?"
I shrugged out my acceptance. Zann smiled, before spreading his legs, arching his back, and began hacking up gouts of smoke. Soon enough, the cloud was big enough to completely obscure him. Although I couldn't see him, I could hear him stop coughing, and then some dull thumps of him moving around. Huh, so he learned Smokescreen. Neat.
Then the slight breeze blew the cloud away, revealing Zann to be missing. "What the fuck?" I asked the air, looking around. In doing so, I spotted Zann crossing the bridge leading to Fluttershy's cottage, hauling ass back towards Ponyville. There was another puff of smoke on this side of the bridge with a wispy trail connecting it to the one in front of me. "... There's a fire type Teleport? So cool!" I briefly gushed before returning to the eggs.
"Not cool, hot."
I began musing aloud as I worked. "Wait... If there's a fire type Teleport, and there's a dark type Teleport, does that mean that there's a Teleport for each type?"
"I would assume so."
"I need to step up my game!" I heard a thump behind me as I turned over the last egg. <<Rainbow?>>
"Yup, wassup?"
I stomped my way towards, then past her. <<We need to get Hail working pronto! I've got a new project for our training afterwards, and I'll be damned if I'm the slowest of the pack!>>
"What are you going on about?"
<<To the Weather Institute!>>
"You mean our training barn?"
<<That's what I said!>> I picked up my speed, jogging ahead. <<Did you turn up anything while you were at the Library?>>
"Not much, but I think I found some things that could help. First is the..."
<<Well, that sucked.>> I grumbled, wringing the slush from my fur.
"At least we seem to be going in the right direction." Rainbow offered from under her umbrella.
<<And at least you're dry.>> I launched a Sunny Day and stretched out under it with a sigh. <<Going to have to call it here, think I'm starting to run low on mana for this. Going to stay here and dry slash warm up.>> I glanced over at my mare to see her squinting thoughtfully at the Sunny Day orb. <<Bit for your thoughts?>>
"Just wondering how long that lasts." Rainbow finally looked away, blinking rapidly. "Could use it to replace Tank's heat lamp and save some electricity."
I snorted. <<Not nearly long enough.>> The orb winked out, forcing me to fire another one up. <<See?>>
"Well, darn." Rainbow sighed, hanging her umbrella by the door. "Hey, I've been meaning to ask something, but I'm not sure how to ask it..."
<<Just ask the gist of it, maybe?>> I shrug. <<Should be able to make it clearer from there.>>
"Okay, fair enough." Rainbow floated up and draped herself on a dried beam. "So... why do you have weather affecting abilities? I mean, I'm guessing that it's from you guys evolving from summons, but why do they have them?"
I blurred up to join her. <<Beyond the normal crazy powers have, you mean?>> I settled in on her barrel. <<You remember when we were talking about ability priorities?>> Rainbow nodded. <<Well, abilities also have other... attributes, like power, type and accuracy. But, just because an ability may be naturally weak or inaccurate, that can be overcome by how well the individual summon, or Eevee, trains. And summons have their own attributes. You with me so far?>>
"Seems simple enough so far..."
<<So, the vast majority of abilities are just creative ways to hurt each other. But there are some that mess with a summon's attributes, either on their own, or in addition to dealing damage.>>
"I'm not sure I understand.." Rainbow frowned. "Can you give me an example?"
<<Three off the top of my head would be Baby-Doll Eyes, Sand Attack, and Confuse Ray. The first makes us weaker, the second makes us less accurate, and the third just makes us confused, meaning we can accidentally release our mana early and hurt ourselves or allies without meaning to. None of them directly hurts the opposing summon, but they make it easier to fight them. Makes sense?>>
Rainbow nodded. "Yeah, but I don't see how that means you can affect the weather."
<<Honestly, I'm not sure on the "how" either, but I do know the "why". One of the attributes that all abilities and summons share is typing, or element. And each type has strengths and weaknesses against other types, Fire burns Grass, Water puts out Fire, it's all one large, confusing rock-paper-scissors mess. Where this all matters is if the type of an ability matches the type of the summon. Fire abilities are stronger when used by a Fire summon. Good so far?>>
"Yup. So, what type are you?"
I snorted. <<Normal. The most basic type. But us Eevees are unique, we completely change our types when we evolve. No other summon can do that. Yomega's a Psychic type, Zann's Fire, Lulu's Water, but all of them used to be Normal. This is where the weather abilities kick in.>> I felt Rainbow shuffle under me as she focused her attention. <<Each of them boosts the power of a different type, makes some abilities more accurate, and can do even stranger things based on an individual summon's biology. For example, Rain Dance, the first one I learned? Yes, it makes it rain, but it also boosts Water type abilities, weakens Fire type abilities, makes a few Electric type abilities more accurate, and some summons can use it to get faster or even regenerate damage. Some summons use these weather abilities to empower themselves, but others like me use them to empower our Pack.>>
"I guess you can't boost multiple types?" I gave Rainbow a questioning look. "Well, your Rain Dance and Sunny Day seem to stop the other one from happening, so..."
<<Yeah, that's right. There can only be one weather ability going on at any one time.>> I settled in for a proper nap. <<Makes me glad I haven't run into anything else that can do what I can, yet. We'd be fighting over the sky for the majority of the fight...>>
[Third]
Princess Celestia sat on her throne, Raven at her side, working steadily through the day's paper work. Her two usual guards stared stoically ahead.
Or they could be sleeping with their eyes open again. Celestia couldn't blame them, paperwork was one of the dullest parts of ruling. At least Raven did an excellent job of vetting the unnecessary forms out.
The Princess of the Day had just put her signature on the latest denial for a tax increase when the court doors opened. One of her guards, Swift Wind, started running towards the throne. It was clear that he had run straight to her from his post in the guard's communications center.
"News from Northern Equestria!" He called once he was closer.
Oh? Could it be, after all this time? Celestia dismissed Raven.
The guard quickly dropped into a bow, almost forgetting his decorum. "Uh, your highness..."
"Yes?"
"I am simply to tell you that... it has returned."
I hope the info dump with the moves was useful to all five of you who needed it! 
Not much to say about this one, other than something about packing warm.
As always, Read, Review, and Enjoy!
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Will you be using made up moves?
How about Leer or Growl?
Maybe Leo will evolve into a Jolteon at some point?
There is another whether move call acid rain its not something you can do but it was a bug in one of the pokemon game win multiple whether move were use it's fix now but it's steel in older games
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There was a chapter way back about the difficulty of coming up with new moves, but we kind of saw during the invasion that sometimes it’s not named but the effect isn’t any one normal move.
https://youtu.be/UCzlAHYwU9s?si=l4TzP_x7f2eElWw3
Here is a link to YouTube talking about it
Either Pony Joe brought back the Chocolate Mountain, or Nergal's baby boy is stirring up trouble in the North.
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Maybe they have been already. How do they know their moves are actually one ones they think they are?
The better question is are they too stuck in the mindset of the games to even realize how they can. After all, Luke has several moves he invented himself. Granted, most were modified from aura sphere and bone rush.
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Additionally, Leo has created Nova Flare and discovered R and J moves, and Abes created/discovered a Dark type Teleport called Shadow-Port
Ah here we go, my theory that Leo will evolve into Glaceon come the Crystal Empire will either be proven true or false soon...
Y'know, I'm surprised you didn't call these new teleport moves "Misty Step." Each Eeveelution can use it following each of their typing variant.
Great chapter, Weather manipulation will be extreamly valuable in the frozen north, literally hero levels of valuable!
Change the cold weather over a long time into sunny weather with few clouds and the snow and ice will melt over time.
Maybe make it rain in the dessert all the time and become the region main water supplier.
Change the temperature of a region because they help grow ritch fields of produce to feeding countless other with valuable crop yields.
A weather Pokémon is worth a village, city, nations economy!
If I was a Pokémon trainer I would not focus on battle, I would focus on improving weather all over a nation with my Pokémon and make tons of money by cropfield efficiency alone!
Magnificent chapter, therapy and great lore!
Thanks for the inspiration of weather manipulation!
I will add it to my stories ♡
Have a great day/twilight/night!
I loved the Pokémon/world lore and I also happy Leo is getting the mental health help she needs. I really hope Leo evolves into Glaceon.
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I really hope that this does happen
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This is brilliant, but would be very sad. Glaceon are ice types, needing very low temperatures to be happy, normal weather would be hot and make them uncomfortable, hot weather would slowly running them until the fall ill.
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Sorry to dissapoint you, it means Luna has raided Celestias cake vault. Specifically the mint cookie deluxe Donats from the 'Donat Joe delightful sweets'.
So it's time for a sibling smack down.
Maybe a rap battle?
(Where do I come up with stuff like that? Basically I love silly stuff, what explained some of my stories content I write)
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Thanks for that bit of knowledge, it inspired a idea for one of my stories I write.
Have a snuggly day
I'm just gonna ask a question that's been hanging in the back of my mind regarding how the summons work.
Son we know thanks to Fire and Steel that ponies are able to summon most pokemons, even mythicals but not legendaries. So what about Arceus? Arceus is a mythical after all.
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Nope, they can't summon him.
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Oh so it must be one of/the exception to the rule, I see. Is there any other mythical they can't summon?
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Mew, the others are okay, but require a lot of reagents. I wouldn't be surprised if Nergal's hive is broke now, or was stockpiling reagents for a few years just for the one recipe.
There are also a few regular Pokemon that can't be summoned: Dittos, Eevees, and Castforms.
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I see. Well that's good to know. The au is so good i was thinking of maybe making a unofficial fanfic in the same universe. So knowing more about the limits of the summoning is good
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Oh cool! could you fire me a link if/when it goes live?
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Sure i can do that! but i wouldn't count on it being soon. I'm still learning how to write fanfics and i need to rewatch all of mlp to learn how to write the official characters anyways. But i can give you a little idea of what i'm working on.
so far what i planned for the story is After the storm that took the eevees into the mlp world. A thief finds their house and seeing no one thinks it's a good way to make easy money. Somehow gets sent in the mlp world as well (maybe with a part of the spell discord use having remaining magic.) Becomes a delphox and decides to hide deep in whitetail woods, becomes a witch, learns how to make potions, goes into the everfree to get herbs once and stumble upon zecora and makes friends with her as a fellow potion brewer, and leaves back to her home after making a timberwolf into her pet.
It's pretty basic so far and it's the rough estimate of what the first chapters setting up the story will be like. There's more to it of course but i won't spoil too much what i planned
If you can combine two moves in canon, Grassy Terrain etc, wouldnt Acid Rain be a combination of Rainy Day and Smog? Or would it have to be Smog, Toxic and Rainy Day?
I mean, even if you actively played Pokémon you might not know all of this. The games aren't really difficult enough for it to matter.
"It has returned" are you thinking what I'm thinking?
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Unless you do Nuzlockes and somehow think a Gen 3 Onyx has Sturdy and can tank a hit from a Jynx.
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I'm assuming you found that out the "fun" way? That reminds me, I've yet to do a nuzlock, of any sort. Gotta get on that...
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Plus, it was hinted at but not outright stated, but the mythics that can be summoned require blood as one of the reagents. Life, itself, is the only thing powerful enough to summon one.
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Maybe if Luke were there. He's the D&D nerd.
Huzzah! New chapter!
POUNCE!!!
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You know now i wonder just how much blood it'd take to summon Xerneas or Yveltal if they could be summoned.
I mean yeah they are legendaries (and i won't open up the whole debate of mythicals technically being legendaries too) but speaking hypothetically, how many gallons of blood would it require to summon the legendaries of death or life
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How fond are you of Appleoosa?
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I mean it seems like a alright town.
Why do i have a bad feeling with you asking this question?
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The debates about the differences are the result of confusion as to what mythicals are. In short, there are no mythicals in game lore. A 'mythical' is literally just a pokemon one recieves via special real-world event. The name only applies in the real world.
That said, mythicals are often legendary.
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Wait, you're saying I could have my very own Rayquaza and all it would cost is the most annoying town in the show? Heck yeah! Let's do this!
Hmm, maybe Leo might find a clue on how to do snow there?
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Yeah i know. I just said i wasn't gonna go into a debate about it because the amount of forums i've been banned for for trying to peacefully explains that mythicals technically doesn't exists.
I mean legendaries are confusing too. Type:null/silvally for example. I've heard way too many people say he wasn't a legendary despite being one. He's just like mewtwo. A artificial one
Sombra is a Dark/Ghost type.
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If you go back to the comments on that chapter, you'll find I assumed that was the Hydreigon. The fact that it has similar stats to most mythicals doesn't hurt, either.
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Who said only one needed blood?
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Fair enough; Hydreigon just feels like the sort of summon that would require a blood sacrifice regardless of other worldbuilding.
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I'm trying to tell you they ALL needed blood. Basically, all non-legendary mythicals are pseudo legendaries and pseudo legendaries require blood.
Every time I think this fiction is abandoned, *BOOM* a chapter appears... thank Luna and Arceus for that!
Now if a certain someone could be inspired to continue theirs...
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I found out from Alpharad and Captain Kidd. Look up "WHAT DID I SAY, BRAYDEN?!" on YouTube. I've actually never played a single Pokemon game in my life, unless you count Smash Ultimate.
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Hey, I'm working on it, I swear
ENTER THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE!
Ok, it’s been a while since I’ve read this story and I’ve clearly forgotten a few things. Anyone want to tell me what this means or is referring to?
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Not really a reference to anything. I've just found that I tend to say "Jesus fucked" whenever I'm startled.
When will the eggies hatch!!! Oh and not sure if you will be introducing any thing from galar, hisui, and paldea but there is a new weather move called snowscape has the same benifits hail but doesn't damage. Not to mention my name favorite ice attack ice spinner.
Just curious does the whole pack know shadow ball
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No, only Abes knows Shadow Ball. And, while I don't have anything concrete, I do have nebulous ideas for some of that content.
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All that stuff still exists, but the Pack won't be aware of them unless and until they show up because they were taken from their world before those games came out.
Even more hilarious is Luke, who isn't familiar enough with Pokémon to realize that the Zeraora he fought would be something worth informing them about. Because he fought a Zeraora in what the author has explicitly noted as this flavor of dramatic irony.