Taking on the 3rd and 4th Titans.

My next stop was to take on the third Titan, the giant worm pokemon near Levincia City. We used the flying taxi service to get there and walked the rest of the way to the location I knew it would be.
Instead of allowing it to keep burrowing away from me during the second phase, I brought out Tina before walking over and had her jump down on it's head with a brick break, nearly knocking it out before a battle was even started. We then followed it to the location with the herb and started the actual battle. Penny was about to call out her Flareon but I stopped her and just knocked out the Titan with 2 Brick Breaks, only taking a bit of damage from a headbutt. It might have been a more fair fight if I came here before taking on team star, but im not complaining, the only Titan im actually worried about is the last one with how tanky the first phase is.
We walk into the den and collect the herbs to make into a Sandwich. Knowing the herb was salty I made sure to get some sweet things to combo with it. After me and Penny finish making the sandwiches I strip down like before and we eat the sandwiches. She finishes hers just fine but once mine is finished im hit with a massive spike of pain in my stomach and other organs that lasted for over 10 minutes, it was pure agony, but once it was over I felt better then before I had eaten the sandwich. I didn't sweat nearly as much as before, with no outward physical change like that time, so maybe it boosted the strength of my insides instead of my outsides.
Penny was of course very worried, and I can't blame her, if it didn't always turn out for the better, I wouldn't be putting myself through this pain. That being said, some of the surgeries I had to go through in my previous life were far worse then 10 minutes of intense stomach pain, so it hasn't become unbearable yet.
As we left the cave and walked back to the pokecenter, just breathing felt better then before, it felt like my lung capacity was far higher then before and my heart felt stronger, meaning my stamina was probably way higher to.
Knowing the 4th titan was far stronger then the 3rd, and upon Penny's request of wanting me to give my body a break before taking on the next herb, I spent the next couple days just relaxing and training my pokemon up to the next few levels to prepare for the titan battle and next gym.

After a proper rest we flew back to the other desert to take on the fourth titan. I had gotten Mist and Jasmine up to the proper level, so we headed to the spot I knew the titan would be roaming right away.
What I didn't expect was that I would see a giant Donphan, not the paradox version I was expecting. I pulled out the Journal and take a closer look. Sure enough none of the drawings show any Paradox versions of the pokemon. I figured the timeline was different from the games since Arven wasn't around and Professor Sada was the one to pick me up that day, so maybe the professor just never furthered their interest in the subject and just focused on the Herbs with their son.
This Donphan did seem to have the Large Tusks that the paradox one does, but everything else is normal except it's massive size.
Penny helps this time and calls out her Vaporeon while I call out Mist. While the Donphan did manage to deal heavy damage to both of our pokemon, we were able to knock it into it's second phase with a few rounds of Water Pulse and Liquidation. We took the time to heal up our pokemon with potions before following it to the den for phase 2.
The stat boosted version of the titan was much more difficult to deal with, it nearly took out both of our pokemon before we swapped to Leafeon and Jasmine. Thanks to Flower Trick ignoring stat increases thanks to it always being a critical hit, we were able to finish it off after only taking a bit more damage.

We went into the den and yet again made a sandwich with the herb, this time using some Meat to even out the sour taste of the herb, making it almost like adding Pickles to a burger. I hesitated to eat this one. The pain got worse and lasted longer after each herb eaten, it scared me a little what this one might do to me or even what the 5th one might do. If the want to get stronger wasn't so enticing, I might have given the herb to one of my pokemon instead, but eat it anyway.
If Penny hadn't been there holding my hand through the entire process, trying to ease my pain, I might have passed out. The pain lasted for a solid Hour this time, and was worse then before. It felt like somebody was preforming surgery on every muscle in my body without giving me any pain killers or numbing agents.
After the changes were done my entire body felt sore, like I had just finished a 5 hour full body workout without breaks, I could barely move. Penny wiped my body down with a wet cloth to get rid of the sweat and then rested my head in her lap.
"Your not eating the 5th one" she said as if it were fact. "I won't watch you go through a worse round of that." Her voice cracked a bit and I felt a tear hit my forehead. I looked up and saw she was on a verge of crying. Even though it hurt my arm to move it I reached up and cupped her face.
"I won't, im done after this, I feel like eating the last one might kill me if it caused me this much pain already." I motion for her to lay down with me and after a few moments she does, and I pull her close to cuddle against me. "I'm sorry you had to see that... I have a high pain tolerance but I didn't expect it to be that bad or for it to last nearly that long, I figured maybe 20 minutes at most since it seemed to double each time, but that was horrible." I tilt her head up to kiss her gentle. She returns the kiss but breaks from it after a few moments before looking me in the eyes.
"You are going to take a week break this time, I don't want to hear a word against it. You can barely move and whatever this did, your body needs to adjust. You are going to lay down in a bed and only get the minimal amount of exercise, you have trained more then enough for the next gym anyway." I simply nod and give her another peck on the lips.
"I wouldn't dream of going against you my love, ill take a week of rest." She smiles and nuzzles into my neck.
"Good, because if you don't, ill leave your ass." I couldn't tell if she was serious or not, but im not going to test it.

After I was finally able to start moving my body, even with the pain, I got dressed and we headed back towards the city, where we rented a place to stay for a week. As we walked I noticed the changes to my body, I was not at least 6'2", my muscles were more dense and compact, and after some rest would feel even stronger then before, to say my muscles were "Sculpted" would be an understatement. While I did catch Penny stealing glances at my body, her worry for me covered up any lustful thoughts she could be having at the moment. I did however catch plenty of people in the city checking me out as we walked to the hotel.