The reward Heath had received for serving James was easy enough to understand, but what he got for serving Meowth was rather unexpected. After all, this thing looked quite... impressive.
[Pokémon language communication pill: After taking it, you can understand the language of one random type of Pokémon and communicate with them.]
Heath raised his eyebrows. This thing looked pretty powerful, and rather interesting, too. But only one random type? That really was a tricky issue. After all, there were plenty of Pokémon types. Heath had initially thought he would be able to understand all Pokémon languages directly, but he hadn't expected it to be limited to just one.
"Please don't let it be Psychic type." Heath was a little nervous. There was no need to understand Psychic-type Pokémon's language, since most of them could communicate telepathically with people. It was an extremely convenient ability, so Heath felt he didn't need to understand Psychic types. As for the other types, he thought any of them would do. After all, since he could get one pill, he might well get other Pokémon language pills in the future. Then he would be able to understand what those little fellows meant, too.
Heath swallowed the pill. It wasn't very big and looked about the same as a Skittle. He washed it down with Lemonade.
[You have taken the Pokémon language communication pill. You can now communicate with Grass-type Pokémon!]
The corner of Heath's mouth twitched. Well, then. He had Normal-type, Fire-type, Ice-type, and Dark-type Pokémon here, but never in his wildest dreams had he imagined that he would randomly get Grass type. He didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Grass-type Pokémon had a relatively low presence in the games, with few popular Pokémon among them, and they weren't