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Austin and Pikachu followed Aaron out to a testfire range that Silph created for demond just like this one, Austin's had by his side; Bulbasaur.

The testfire range looked much like a gun range back on earth.

A long stretch of barren land roughly one hundred yards leads back into a tall dirt berm to act as a backstop. The range was pockmarked with craters and burns, likely from other tests. Off to the side and leaning over the range from high above, a structure of metal beams like a leaning power pylon looms over the range. On the point of the pylon, a camera-like dome shines in the sunlight.

Behind Austin and Bulbasaur; Aaron, Pikachu, and several Silph personnel holding tablet computers stood behind a screen of ballistic glass.

Aarons turns his eyes to the techs. "Gents, are we ready?"

One of the three men, a tall, gangly man with limp black hair nods his head. "Beginning sim. Standby."

'Sim?'

Above Austin and Bulbasaur, the dome-like apparatus on the point of the leaning pylon glows a dull blue, and down on the ground, a hazy shape standing a head taller than a man and thrice as wide begins to take form.

Startled, Austin took a step back as Bulbasaur narrowed his eyes and took up a defensive stance before his trainer.

The mass crackled like TV static and coalesced into a shape with two thick legs, equally thick arms ending in claws, a long muscular tail, and a wide head with a shovel-like plate along its skull.

'A Kangaskhan?' Austin wondered as the pixel-like details filled in on the pokemon like a loading video game. In just a second, the details sharpen to a life-like level, and there stands a Kangaskhan minus a youngling in its pouch. 'Some kind of hologram?'

The fake Kangaskhan grunted and slammed its tail into the ground, making a tremor run under the feet of everyone in the field. Its eyes are flat and lusterless, but they focused on Bulbasaur with a disturbingly life-like gaze.

'Not a hologram.'

"Whenever you're ready, Mister Ketchum!" One of the Silph techs call. "Have your Bulbasaur attack the Kangaskhan construct with a combo move!"

Austin cracked his neck and said," Let's do one of the new combos; Seed Blast."

Bulbasaur growled as the miracle seed that sat inside its bulb, suddenly began to glow with a soft, greenish light. The light grew brighter and brighter until it filled the entire bulb. The seed seemed to pulsate with energy, and as it does, a greenish aura began to form around it. The aura grew and expanded, filling the bulb with its vibrant light. As the aura reaches its peak, the entire bulb is bathed in a glowing green light.

Bulbasaur's bulb glowed as the grass-type aura channeled into its mouth. He trained his eyes on the Kangaskhan's center mass and worked his jaw. Then with a flourish, Bulbasaur spat a shotgun blast of seeds with an ear-ringing bang!

The seeds flew in a tight cone trailing with yellow light, spreading only to the size of a volleyball in the twenty yards they flew. Then Seed Blast crashed into the Kangaskhan's thick hide with a series of loud cracks, throwing bits of the Kangaskhan's rock-like armor that dissolved into static before they hit the ground. Several seeds were lodged in the armor, sizzling with unburnt Grass energy.

The Kangaskhan reeled back with a realistic gasp, holding its cracked stomach armor with a paw. It retreated with several lumbering steps, watching Bulbasaur warily. Above the Kangaskhan, a green HP bar of all things appears and drops to roughly 90%.

"Not bad at all…" One of the Silph techs murmurs as he taps away at his tablet. "One direct hit dealt considerable damage to a high-level construct." He taps a button on his tablet and the damage on the fake Kangaskhan vanishes as its life bar refills to 100. "Again, please."

Bulbasaur looked up towards Austin, who nodded back. "Let's give it another one. Everything you've got. We don't need to worry about pacing ourselves here."

Bulbasaur turned to the Kangaskhan and charged another Seed Blast, a combo of bullet seed and seed bomb, drawing up even more seeds than before. The muscles of his jaws quivered as he struggled to keep the attack contained, and once he could hold it no more, he snapped his mouth open and fired a wide-spanning blast with a bang like thunder.

This time, the seeds spread out rapidly, but since there was a veritable storm of them, the Kangaskhan was struck over nearly its whole chest and head. The fake pokemon cries out and stumbled back, a number of seeds buried in its flesh. It covered its head and ducked, avoiding several botanical bullets that whizz by. The wounds on the fake pokemon didn't bleed, instead leaving behind simple holes that glow a faint blue. The HP bar above Kangaskhan's head jumped down to 45%, the green color changing to yellow.

" O-Oh wow…" Austin looked back when he heard one of the techs gulps. The middle tech glanced down at his tablet and cleared his throat. "Well, I uh, think we have enough data to work with on that one. Let's move on, shall we? I believe the next one is called Seed Scope?"

Once again, the Kangaskhan stood straight, its wounds vanishing and its expression returning to uncanny neutrality.

This time, Bulbasaur needed no prompting, taking a deep, lung-filling breath while grass-type energy was fueled by the miracle seed. Like with Seed Blast, he stood still for several seconds, letting the power behind the attack build before spitting a single hyper-sonic seed the size of a marble. The air cracked sharply as the seed broke the sound barrier and crossed the distance as little more than a streak of light.

Bulbasaur's aim was off even at the short distance, as rather than the center of Kangaskhan's chest, it hit her left shoulder, pushing in deep enough that the bones of a normal pokemon would be pulverized by the impact. The seed then explodes into shrapnel, shards digging into the skin and making a ghastly wound. The fake Kangaskhan went pale and grasps the hole with its opposite paw. Above its head, its HP dropped to 30%, which flashed red in a warning.

Austin turned back to the spectators, taking in their reactions.

Pikachu smiled slightly.

The Silph techs look between their tablets and the hard-light Kangaskhan with dropped jaws.

Aarons?

Aaron just smiled. "Mister Ketchum?" He calls over the ballistic barrier. "Fantastic showing. I believe you have one more?"

"We do," Austin nodded. Then an idea hits him, one that he pauses and mulls over. "Say, Alec? Is there any wiggle room on that royalty percent if we show something really impressive?"

A look crosses Aaron's face, one that stands at the midpoint of predatory and hungry, then it vanishes and is replaced with his pleasant resting smile a split-second later. "I… could be convinced to argue such a case to upper management for a better payout. What do you have in mind?"

" While we're not going to let this move be released for copying, it's proof that we have a lot to bring to the table." As Austin spook, Pikachu was already briskly trotting around the ballistic glass.

Aarons rubbed his chin folded his arms behind his back and gave Pikachu a searching look as he and Bulbasaur traded places.

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KABOOM!

Austin calmly watches as he felt the explosion wash over him and nearly take him off his feet.

The explosion was deafening. Even with his ears covered, Austin felt them nearly pop, and the shockwave is like a kick to the chest. Dust rushes past, dirtying his clothes and forcing him to close his eyes. The sheer, burning heat was present only for a moment, but it warms his skin to an uncomfortable level. Through the trees and off the building behind them, the echoes of the explosion roll through Saffron, rousing countless frightened bird pokemon from their perches and into the air.

As the dust settles, Austin rubbed the dirt from his eyes and opened them to take in the destruction.

Where the Kangaskhan was, there is now just a limp green wireframe in the vague shape of a pokemon, as if the fake pokemon had its hide blown clean off. Under it is a smoldering crater nearly a foot deep and fifteen feet wide, and the dirt within hisses as it cools from red-hot back to a burnt black.

Above the crater is Kangaskhan's HP bar. There is no number, just a flashing warning saying "ERROR".

Austin smiled and bends down, taking Pikachu into his arms without a fight and rising again. He wrapped his arms around his middle with his back to his chest, letting his hind paws and tails dangle. When he leaned down just enough to kiss his scalp, the electric mouse's ire cools considerably. "How about that?" He turns on his heel to the spectators.

The trio of Silph Co techs is struck dumb, all three of them glued to the tablets in their hands, all of them emitting a warning chime.

Aarons worked his jaw, seemingly speechless. His eyes look between the crater, then to Pikachu, then up to Austin. After a long moment, he smiled and combed his hands through his hair, brushing away debris that flew over the ballistic glass screen. "Oooh yes," he purrs. "We can work with this but what do you call this move."

" I call it, Raijin's judgment."