Ranma nodded his head to that. “Yeah.” Though, for some reason, the beans tasted weird.
Stroaks looked up into the sky, watching the stars twinkle as they have for millennia. “Beautiful night, don’t you think?”
Looking upwards, Ranma noticed the stars twinkling. He nodded his assent. “Yeah... They do look very good.”
“Nights like this could only be made better with a sexy Pokéwoman sitting on your lap,” The good, (perverted) professor said in all seriousness.
Ranma laughed slightly. “Heh, yeah. Well, either that or laying with her while you’re both butt-naked,” He chuckled.
“Like you and Ami used to do?” Prof. Stroaks asked with a smirk.
Ranma blushed slightly. “Heh, yeah. Man, she’s a fine one in the sack.” He chuckled again, unbelieving he was actually speaking so freely about this.
Considering that for a moment, Stroaks asked the younger man, “Mind if I take a trip to Cerulesbian City to have my way with her once or twice?”
Ranma stared at the PokéGirl Researcher as if he were crazy. “You do realize, Prof, that she might have a Tamer by now?”
Stroaks laughed at that. “Oh, Ranma, Ranma, Ranma... My naďve little friend,” He said in an almost chiding voice. “She’s from CeruLESBIAN City. They only have female Tamers there, and I don’t think she’d want to be tamed by women... All the time, anyway,” He amended at the end.
Rolling his eyes at the persistent professor, Ranma groaned. “Forgot about that,” He said, shaking his head.
“Yeah, but I better forget about it...” Stroaks frowned. “It’s hard as hell to get paperwork to enter that city unless I’m invited, and It’d take me over a year to do it.”
Ranma nodded. "Yeah...” Come to think of it, didn’t he need to get into there for a Badge? Hmm...
After a moment, Ranma shook his head, images of what he and Ami could do together ran through his mind at that moment. “So, Doc... What do you think of Ranko’s progress?”
“I think she’s coming along fabulously,” Stroaks said seriously. “I can already tell you got her at being a Level 5 PokéKit at the very least!”
“Already?” Ranma asked, surprised and impressed. Both with Ranko and with himself. If those memories of what Genma was like in his life as Saotome were accurate, then he was surprised he wasn’t doing something stupid.\
Stroaks nodded. “Didn’t you check her Data on your PokéDex?” He asked curiously. Everything a Tamer needed to know about his Pokégirl, or in this case, Pokékit’s status would be within the Tamer’s License/Handheld Comp/GPS.
Ranma shook his head. “No, been busy with training her,” He said in all honesty. “She loves training and really wants to get stronger.”
“Well, check,” The Professor insisted, quite curious as to how Ranma was progressing with Ranko’s training.
Shrugging his shoulders, Ranma did just that, using his Tamer’s device to see what was up with Ranko... And got an even more thorough surprise.
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PokéBall 1 [Alpha]
Name: Ranko
Level: 7
Species: Tigress
Type 1: Fighting
Health: 35
Attack: 56
Speed: 24
Special: 71
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“Level Seven!?” Stroaks gasped in surprise. “What did you do, level her up per day!?”
“Maybe per hour?” Ranma asked, staring. “Shee... Didn’t think she got so strong already.”
Stroaks smirked widely. “Ranma, you may just very well be one of the greatest PokéGirl Tamers of all time!”
“Nuh-uh,” Ranma said. At the Professor’s confused look, Ranma grinned and answered, “I’m the greatest PokéKIT Tamer!”
Blinking his eyes, Stroaks chuckled. “Well, you got me there.”
Ranma nodded and chuckled. “Yeah. And Ranko’s one hell of a Pokékit. She just absorbs moves like a sponge.” Much like he used to... If it were a dream or...
Ranma shook his head. Best dispel such thoughts now, lest he get confused.
Stroaks smiled at the younger man. “I get the distinct feeling that you and Ranko are going to go far, Ranma.”
Ranma smiled. “Thanx, Prof.”
Again, Stroaks smiled. “You’re very welcome. And I really don’t mind helping you at all, Ranma. You’re much more... Well-mannered than A LOT of the Tamers that have come through my lab over the decades...”
“Really?” Ranma asked, surprised. He would’ve thought that he would’ve came across as arrogant, egotistical and just plain idiotic. Which, when he really thought about it... Was a par above most of the male gender in this world.
They were doomed... Doomed, doomed, doomed...
“Yes, you are,” Stroaks said seriously.
To that information, Ranma shook his head. “Weird”
“How so?” Stroaks asked. “You’ve got a wonderful mother, it’s obviously from her you get your good manners from.”
“Not that...” Ranma said seriously. “Just surprised that you don’t have any really polite guests.”
Stroaks grunted. “Polite in this day and age? Hell, my own Grandson told me to ‘go fuck myself’ the last time I saw him.” He shook his head.
“How... Rude...” Ranma commented, unsure of how to react to such news.
Stroaks nodded. “Gary’s always been a problem child... But I can’t blame him for turning out that way. He never got to know his parents...”
Ranma grimaced. “Yeesh... No wonder he seems so fucked up.”
“Yes, but at least my grandson had a reason for being such a little fucking bastard,” Stroaks said without hesitation when he slandered his grandson. “It really didn’t help his manners any when he came into a literal fortune when he came of age. His father’s capital, estate, and assets became his when he turned eighteen and became a Tamer last year. He drives around the League in an Armored RV with over a dozen HUMAN GIRL cheerleaders catching any pokégirl he so damn pleases.”
Ranma stared. What kind of PokéGirl Taming journey was THAT!? A good one sure, but it took the whole point out of it! “Damn, that totally sucks.”
Again Prof. Stroaks sighed. “I was hoping when he received his father’s fortune, he’d mature... Instead he just went off, spending thriftlessly and tormenting other Tamers, especially that poor Ash Sexum...”
Ranma sighed. “Sounds like people I know,” He said. Or did he? He wasn’t so sure anymore.
Nodding his head, Stroaks said, “It’s just awful. Sure, Ash is a little slow from all those blows he took to the head as a young kid, but he’s really an over-all decent young guy. It’s like Gary decided automatically that that poor little retard was a threat to him and decided to be Ash’s rival.”
Ranma sighed. “Fucking moron,” He grumbled. “People like that shouldn’t be trainers,” He said honestly.
Nodding his head in agreement with the Ranma, Stroaks said, “I agree, but the League makes those tests so goddamn easy, what with the hardest question being to spell out their own name correctly.”
Ranma rolled his eyes. “No kidding.”
Stroaks chuckled. “I bet you got a one-hundred percent on that test, huh Ranma?”
“Yeah,” Ranma said, rolling his eyes. “That test was too easy. Honestly, there could be SOME challenge to it. But no, it allows every moron with an IQ of negative-twelve to pass it.”
“Figured it would be for someone like you," Stroaks said. "You really are one of those few people with insight. Sure I can’t talk you into becoming an assistant? The world NEEDS good PokéGirl Researchers...”
Ranma shook his head. “Nah... Thanks for the offer, Prof, but Ranko needs me right now.”
“You could still keep has as a ‘pet’,” Stroaks suggested seriously. “Hell, that’s why I keep that Vaporita around.”
Ranma shook his head again. “No, it’s not that... I really... Just want to be out here, traveling around and meeting people.”
“Wanderlust,” Prof. Stroaks reasoned.
Ranma nodded. “Yeah,” He said, sighing slightly. “Just want to grow and learn.”
“Can’t blame you for that,” Stroaks said seriously.
“Thanks,” Ranma said, smiling.
It was then that there was a sudden rustling of the bushes nearby, a shadowed, but definitely feminine figure started to come into view. “GRRROOWWWLLL...”
“EEP! IT’S THE BEAST!” Stroaks squealed like a little girl, grabbing Ranma by his shoulders and pulling him in front of him like a human shield!
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