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"Hmm..." While staring intently at Plumpkin, Calleo reached into a pocket of his vest and produced a small, odd-looking container of green liquid. "I can make a guess, but I'll need to see..." he snapped open the lid and poured the liquid into Plumpkin's mouth. Almost immediately Plumpkin started looking healthier; its leaves started turning green, the cracks started getting smaller, and Plumpkin's inner light got brighter. But then, in an angry-looking brilliant flash, the light blasted outward, breaking off chunks of newly-healed gourd. The leaves wilted again, and the light expended its new energy and faded again.

"...yeah, I've seen this once or twice before," Calleo said as he pocketed the empty container. He walked to one wall of the greenhouse at a brisk pace. "This Plumpkin got cracked once, was healed normally, but then got cracked again, right?" He asked as he reached between two plants for something growing on a plant further back. With a plucking motion, he pulled back with what looked like a rare type of berry. "I should be able to handle it."

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At the back of the greenhouse, Calleo put the rare berry in a juicer. "These things are hard and dense, so that'll take a bit," he noted as the machine started its work. "The problem you've got here is a Plumpkin's inner light is only supposed to shine from its eyes and mouth. Those areas are equipped to let the light filter though them harmlessly. Make a hole elsewhere and it shines unfiltered, at full power.

It's usually not all that big a deal. Certainly not something to give a Pokémon Center concern. But different pokémon, even in the same species, have different talents, just like different people do...and the wrong mix of high special potential and low physical training...ah, I'm gettin' technical, aren't I? The bottom line is your Plumpkin's own magic is getting in the way of its healing."

Calleo pulled a bag out of a drawer near him. The two trainers hadn't noticed the drawer until he had the bag in his hand, and when he closed it they couldn't see it anymore. "That thing done?" he asked himself, turning back to the juicer. "Almost..." he stood there for a few seconds watching it, and then pulled out the tray in which the berry juice had collected.

"Fair warning, this'll make the glow even dimmer," Calleo said, now heading for a large nearby cabinet. "But it's needed in order to stop that nasty flaring." He set the berry juice on top of the cabinet, opened the cabinet and pulled out a broad tray half-filled with dirt. "Then this stuff'll do the rest." He emptied the bag from the drawer into the tray. Sawyer was able to recognize it as some sort of compost mulch; as far as Tyler was concerned, it was just different-looking dirt.

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Plumpkin sat in the mulch, having just been fed the berry juice. It looked almost drugged, its eyes wavering confusedly. But then, the mulch started taking effect. It was as if someone had filmed Plumpkin getting sicker, and now was showing the film in reverse. Cracks knitted themselves closed, leaves plumped up and regained their healthy color...Plumpkin's inner light pulsed fitfully as it got brighter, though not quite as quickly as the rest of Plumpkin was healing.

"That dim light from the berry juice will last a few hours," Calleo noted. "It's not a health risk now. It'll lower Plumpkin's Special Attack until it wears off, but...this Plumpkin looks young enough that I don't suppose you care about its Special Attack yet?"