Such considerations didn't matter to the blue haired pokegirl though. Her interest was in making things that would help those that she cared about, and this was part of it. They could quite comfortably live their lives out as they had been, as there was plenty here to let them be happy and comfortable. But there were things that they could have used and would give them the chance to have advantages that they would otherwise have lost.
Pokeballs were certainly one of those things that would be of great help. There were plenty of reasons for a pokegirl to be carried in her ball, from ease of transportation, to keeping them hidden. Of course, it also made it easier to 'steal' them, but many such thieves forgot that while it was easy to snatch a trainer's pokeballs when he wasn't looking, nothing made the pokegirl inside automatically listen to him. Why, she could remember one story of a would be kidnapper grabbing a pokeball that had been checked in to a center, and then having to run back to that same facility when the pokegirl inside started chasing him around.
At the same time it would save on more than just train tickets. After all, being in pokeballs made it easier to heal pokegirls sometimes, and since there weren't any pokecenters in the area, she was going to have to create at least a system to help in that too. On top of that, there were all sorts of variations of pokeballs, from ones that stood up to more heavyweight types, to ones that drew in water types. Now, most wouldn't be much help as there were no pokegirls to catch, but they could possibly support the ones that were already there. And she couldn't help but think of the possible opportunities for the technology, like with teleportation could allow for medicines to be sent to ravaged areas faster.
As she raised her hand, she looked at the rough device in her hand and felt a bit of satisfaction at her accomplishment. What she held was the realization of what was in her drawings, even if it wasn't exactly totally workable. It certainly wasn't pretty, as it was clearly cobbled together in a basic sphere shape, and was more of the size of a softball than a baseball but the main thing was that it seemed to work.
Well, there were kinks to work out, seeing as she wasn't about to retry what happened with that Cornish hen and she was pretty sure that the neighbor's dog was afraid of her now. Ami had a moment of chagrin as she looked over her creation as she recognized that she wasn't quite there. Of course, she likely wasn't going to be able to fine tune the design quite as well as some of the experts would have, but then she hadn't been either trained for this work, or given the equipment special created for such an application. In fact, she'd lucked out that the Kirijo Group had put out suitable computer chips, and that the Nanjo Combine had the alloys that would do the job that she needed of them.
Happy with the fact that she'd managed to get this far, she put down her creation and picked up a small screwdriver. Perching a pair of magnification goggles onto her nose, she gazed down at the device and began to getting to the fine tuning. As much as she wanted to run out and show the accomplishment to her fellow pokegirls, she rather doubted that they wanted to get zapped by something that looked like a demented version of a round and metal Rubik's Cube. Not only was it not pretty, but it didn't seem to be particularly safe. Heck, if anything, she wanted to avoid trying it herself, at least until she worked out all the bugs. Even then, she'd only test it under controlled conditions, as she didn't want to have a malfunction come up because she just hadn't been careful.
Hopefully Minako would keep her distance for that one, as she didn't think that Mrs. Tendo wanted her laundry covered in soot again.
Taking care to be careful in her work, Ami set about the delicate work of adjusting the interface between the control system and the mechanical parts, while:
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