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Reno watched as Mikael caught the clay pigeon with his stomach, letting out a small sigh as the hollow object crashed into the hybrid and shattered with the impact. Quietly walking over to where the little kid was currently laid out, Reno stared down for a moment before finally speaking. "Still think that this can't teach you anything? Now, get up. Next time the clay pigeon comes flyin', ya need ta think a what ta do. Do ya smash it with that bludgeon ya call a tail or dodge around it? First few days a this, I'm gonna call the shot for ya. Afterwards,all I'm gonna do is tap my foot and you have ta be alert enough ta see it coming." Stepping back from the Dunsparce hybrid, Reno would give a small wave with his right hand to emphasis the get up and keep going point.

This method of training would continue on for the next few days, with Reno randomly switching where and when the clay pigeon, and eventually pigeons, were fired from. Once Reno was satisfied that Mikael was able to evade and control all his appendages to an acceptable standard, Reno would set up a new training device: a simple wood plank across two cinder blocks. "Break it without any tools." He simply commanded, waiting to see how exactly Mikael might go about it.

"Smart boy!" Reno shouted as Mikael simply pierced the board with his tail and spun. "And here I thought it would take a few tries before you got the wording. I don't need ya ta do it in one blow, I need ya ta do it however you can. Now then, let's kick it up a bit." Walking over to the now shattered board, Reno simply tipped one of the cinderblocks over before pointing at it. "The next thing ta break. Figure it out. After this, you get ta learn my lil trick."

Reno nodded in response to the boy's thinking skills. That one was to make sure that Mikael didn't automatically assume a new challenge required a radically different approach than the same one previously used. "There it is. Hard ta deny that tail is yer greatest asset. Gotta learn the strength ya can put behind it." Reno chortled, carefully removing a Pokeball from his satchel before opening it up for Mikael to see. "Now then, time ta learn a secret I used before I got the fun mental powers. Now, watch this." Staring down the Serperior now sitting across the junkyard, Reno visibly and slowly tapped his foot a few times with the occasional pause between his taps that was more deliberate than the slow speed of the demonstration. Nodding in response to the sounds, Snips would quickly fire a Razor Leaf at the detached hood of a car leaned against a car that embedded in the metal a few inches.

"Ya teach yer Pokemon ta listen fer the tapping of yer foot or some other small noise that ain't easy ta hear and you can communicate without having ta speak. Hell, shout a command and tap out a different pattern fer a whole different sorta trick. Now, your turn. Just practice with Snips here. I'm not tellin' ya which patterns ta use, that is yer own secret since a few taps ain't gonna be too distinguishable from one foot ta the next without somethin' tricky."

"Because kid, unless I say otherwise, you officially own Snips there." Reno simply replied, throwing the empty Pokeball at Mikael before sitting down. "You want to catch your own, you can. But first, you train with Snips and make it so that you and him can operate seamlessly. Whether you use the taps or go ahead with calling out moves, that's your choice. I taught you the trick to make sure you monitor your own actions during battle. Because a few absent-minded taps in battle, and Snips might spring into something radically different. A gift and training, all in one."

Rather than answer, Reno reached into his back pocket and pulled out an old metal square. Throwing the device at Mikael, Reno told him, "Its a SNAG. Connects to a personal database for the people I work for and provides us with information on Pokemon and such on a need-to-know basis. Since this model is old, it won't be getting any of the other information but it should still have that function. Use that and learn on your own what the taps produce. Makes for a fun learning experience."