The villa district was in the city center. As soon as Gengar and Noibat came out, they flew toward a wildlife park, carefully avoiding passing vehicles, pedestrians, and surveillance cameras along the way.
"Wait for me, roto!" Rotom panted as it fell behind, its speed nowhere near enough to keep up with Gengar and Noibat.
"Gengar." Gengar stopped to think, then made a decision.
"Roto? What are you doing, roto! No, roto!"
Gengar swallowed Rotom in one gulp, then nodded to Noibat and continued flying ahead.
Half an hour later...
"Gengar!" Gengar spat Rotom out. Rotom shook its head before finally seeing that they had arrived in a park.
"Roto! The inside of your belly is amazing, Gengar, roto!" Rotom flew around excitedly.
"Gengar, Gengar." Gengar waved a hand, indicating that it was all standard stuff, then decided to start special training with Noibat.
How had these two little fellows suddenly gotten the idea to do special training? To answer that, the clock needed to be turned back a little.
It had been a sweltering afternoon, while Gengar and the others were staying in the countryside with Cheng Tian.
The others might not have noticed, but Gengar had discovered that Noibat secretly slipped out every night, going who knew where, and only flew back from outside at breakfast time the next morning.
"Gengar?" Its curiosity piqued, Gengar wanted to find out exactly what Noibat was doing, so it followed.
It later discovered that Noibat went to the nearby forests of White Horse Mountain every night to find Pokémon to battle, seemingly giving itself extra training.
"Noi!"
An Ursaring swatted Noibat away with one slap. Noibat forced its wings to flap and took flight again, unleashing Air Slash to slice at Ursaring's body. But apart from one bloody gash after another,