Off to the
Temple of Time Timelocked Temple to find a way to enter the 5th Sigil hall. May or may not be catching God in the process. Maybe it has to do with what Tesseract is supposed to do. So far I've seen it: cause minor earthquakes, do rather limited damage to Victreebel, teleport Zeus, disintegrate Artemis, and now it's supposed to open a cave blocked by a rock slide.
The Timelocked Temple... do I need a safecracker to get in?
Huh, looks like some ruin. It's all ruiny and such. There's bound to be something here.
Such as this. This bug has given me problems before. This one was Lv.93.
Have you ever seen the shape of an ant nest? It's pretty crazy.
Lots of Fire- and Bug-types here. There was also Heatmor, but that's a predator who feeds on bugs.
Some rubble. I guess I'll have to go around, until I can get that ability to remove tons of rubble that I'm eventually going to have to do.
Found a stair going up.
On this floor I found the Rare Box: Sacred Sword. Neat. Too bad Rare Boxes fall squarely into the Too Awesome to Use category.
Wait a moment... a Sacred Sword in a Temple of... GODDAMMIT! At least make me gather some macguffin stones and play a song!
I suppose this changes the floor plan. Or opens a black hole in a populated city. One way to find out.
It also looks like the statue the WONDER RESEARCHER had.
Well, that was partially unexpected.
The time-change removed the exactly one piece of rubble that was blocking me from going up to the next floor.
Changing floors restores the timeline. I bet Celebi and whatever other Pokémon involve temporal metaphysics must be pissed right now.
That cliff implies I must fall down. I reach another stair going down, which leads me to...
No not that, get out of the way you annoying bird.
The stair leads me to this:
God-weapon get! The description reads: "Transports user through time to deal a devastating blow. Can also be used outside of battle." Interesting. Even better, Cresselia can learn it! Go go Team Sparkle! It's a
-type move with 5PP, and damage and accuracy ratings of 100.
Using the statue there warps the room so I have a path out.
Yup. Time to rip the timeline a new one.
"Tesseract move.""to Divaevus and Zeus."Go Team Sparkle! I wonder what he means by "mystical energy".
Unown can't learn anything!
"Effective on any given attack.""it might end!"Well obviously. I wouldn't be doing this if that wasn't the case.
I can use Tesseract in the field, but so far does nothing. Using it on the legendary bird statues in the north of town does nothing. I guess it's time to head to Varlox Cave.
This is the north end of Zarivar Town. As I cross the water the waterfall that leads to Varlox Cave, I catch this.
Nothing else attacks me as I make a short jaunt through an underwater tunnel to Varlox Cave.
As Wilson said, whatever may be the entrance is blocked by rocks. But now, I can open it.
Time is now screwed.
This is it, the final Sigil Hall, the Hall of Legends. It's another frickin' volcano, because I haven't had enough of those already. Also, Pokémon follower sprites don't appear here, even the ones that actually have one(I can't talk to them).
I only hope I can make it there before Zeus reaches that legendary trainer. Hah, who am I kidding, he's already there.
The hell? You guys can use Tesseract too?
I suppose you have a low opinion of him?
And he's getting a band of psychotic murderers instead.
"Hall of Legends!"What? I'm not here to jump the guy, I'm here to
stop him from being jumped.
I swear, N looks like a girl.
They open up with Zoroark(poorly disguised as ice cream) and Crobat. Zoroark isn't too hard, but N also has Reshiram. Since Reshiram thoroughly stomped my team before(the reset
was accidental, the F12 key is right next to Prnt Scrn when I finally took it down) I'm going to focus on beating up Cyrus' team.
I guess fried bat is tasty too. Zoroark gets Spored this turn.
Dialga. Crap. That's one of the Creation Trio. Not sure how to fight this one since I've never played past Gen III(I probably should). Strange that it's one level lower than Crobat.
Fortunately, Victreebel is faster, and Spored Dialga. It's resistant to Electric and especially Grass, indicating... Dragon/Fire? I think Reshiram was Dragon/Fire as well.
Dialga woke up and used Roar of Time. Victreebel did not survive. Zoroark got a critical hit with Night Daze on Excadrill.
Sent out Heliolisk, realized what I was about to use and switched to Cresselia.
I was (probably) right about Dialga being Dragon/Fire, as Earthquake took it out. The attack also brought Zoroark down to a single hitpoint.
Cyrus' last Pokémon is Weavile. Shouldn't be too hard. I hoped Cresselia was faster than Excadrill(stat check - she's not). Since that's not the case, I use Cressie' turn to heal Excadrill while he drops another Earthquake.
I was hoping for a kill on Weavile, but at least Zoroark is out of the way. I just hope that Exacdrill is faster than Reshiram.
Nope. I do have an idea on how to deal with that. Meanwhile, Cresselia hits Weavile with Moonblast(she learned it at Lv.99).
Cyrus is out of the fight. Everyone, gang up on the god!
Next turn, I revive Excadrill while Heliolisk uses Bulldoze(which for some reason targets everyone like Earthquake).
She only got one turn in, but I think that should be enough. Excadrill is fairly fast(2nd only to Heliolisk herself, though by a fairly wide margin).
Next turn, similar plan, revive Heliolisk while Excadrill uses Earthquake.
May not have
needed to revive Heliolisk, but at least she got the EXP for it.
This should be much easier than Reshiram. I swap Cresselia out for Lucario while Excadrill uses Rock Smash.
Vanilluxe used Blizzard that Lucario shrugged off while the game said that Excadrill "avoided the attack!". I haven't seen that message before.
Lucario and Excadrill enjoy a nice ice cream treat they certainly earned.
Dude, your eyes are kinda messed up.
Are you a hippie or something?
I AM NOT HERE TO FIGHT HIM THOUGH WHY THE HELL NOT!I wonder who it is? I've got two guesses, one that doesn't make sense and one that would drive me irrovocably insane. The first guess would be Red, which doesn't make sense because I've already met Ash, but it is most likely anyway. The other... well, that should be obvious, no?
First though, I leave to heal up and grind. This requires two uses of Tesseract(one to alter the cave, one to return to normal and returns me to the entrance).
After a very long time grinding up, I come back.
Time to see who the legend is, after all this time.
My first guess was right, it's Red.
Uh... hello?
You're not... already dead or anything, are you?
Although that would solve a significant problem if he is.Oh, it's on.
Red looks nothing like Ash, though.
Now he does. Hmmm, that Pikachu is female. Was Ash's Pokémon's genders ever confirmed in the anime?
Presumably, Pikachu should be his best, but it's only one level higher than N and Cyrus' team.
That was a pretty underwhelming start. It only lasted one turn, and Pikachu used Live Wire. Not quite sure what that does. Victreebel was paralyzed by Pikachu's Static ability.
Now that's just a stupid choice to send against either Victreebel or Heliolisk. Come on! If this is his GSC team, doesn't he have Charizard or something? Heliolisk also absorbed the Live Wire without problem.
Blastoise tanked the first Thunderbolt, but not the second.
Now he uses Charizard. Too bad he's using it on Heliolisk.
It is, after all, possible to fry a flame dragon.
I definitely remember him having this on his GSC team.
Somehow, she knew Ice Beam. She also used Giga Impact, and I used the recharge turn to heal Victreebel's paralysis.
Now this one I don't remember him having, but I also don't remember what he had in it's place.
It hit for a lot of damage with a Life Orb-boosted Psycho Boost, but fell to an Earthquake. Just one more to go from this legendary trainer.
Sparkles for the sparkle god. Rainbows for the rainbow throne.
SPARKLES FOR THE SPARKLE GOD! RAINBOWS FOR THE RAINBOW THRONE!
I'll admit I got a little lazy with grinding her up. The only Gym Leader rematch she could reasonbly take was Devon, who has really poor EXP and money gains.
After a few turns slugging it out, Venusaur's Sp. Attack is bottomed out from Leaf Storm, and his HP bar is red. It's time.
Cresselia. Wreck time itself.
(It took two hits. Tesseract isn't that great of an attack move.)That felt like it was easier than it should have been.
Excuse me, but are you mute or something?
No wait, he's probably dead. I mean, logically, he should be three years older than Gold(who is Zeus), but he looks my age.
Oh, he's not mute. Still on the fence about the dead part, though.
After a flash of light that I can never screenshot quickly enough...
"tessering through space."Is "tessering" even a word?
Anyway. Zeus doesn't really have much of a sacrificial Mareep now, does he?
How so?
Hehehehehehehe...
Not quite.
Will that be a 12-inch ruler or a metric ruler?
Kinda hard to do that when he doesn't have a team to fight with.
Then both Zeus and Red are (un)dead?
Are you sure? You look like you lost the G instead.
"and rule the world!"I suppose you haven't noticed it yet.
Oh, now you do.
Ayup. I guess that means you have to try and sacrifice me now, right?
"I win by default!"No it doesn't! It means you don't battle at all!
For the record, I will say that killing Red won't be effective as you think it is.
That should be pointing at Zeus, but the screen panned away.I think that too was supposed to be Zeus saying that.Holy crap, you guys?! Wait, how the hell are Artemis and Apollo alive?!
Mom! Dad!
...Jake."save him just in time. How delightfully adorable."Didn't Zeus screw all three of you over? Like, completely screwed over?
Plus, Jake is not my friend.Well, this should be fun to watch. Two of the most elite trainers in the world and Jake against these poor idiots who still think Zeus cares for them.
Darn, no free ass-kicking show.
Humility builds character.
And I have... a half-beaten team. Great. (=_=)
Whom I've beaten before along with Maladeux the Dread Plate. Speaking of which, isn't Jake going to send that one out?
Disregarding the fact that you killed him.
Time to kick inifity's ass, then.
"extinguished from your eyes!"Eep. He's got a full team this time. I'd have been worried with just the three from last time(Metagross, Shaymin, Divaevus).
My team is still beat up from the battle with Red too.
That's a much higher level difference as well.
Victreebel flinched twice from Air Slash, and then when I used a Full Restore, Ninjask made a Baton Pass, sending several Speed increases.
A sped-up Metagross could be a problem.
I manage to Spore it before Metagross could take Victreebel down, and swapped to Excadrill. Arceus must have wanted Metagross to die, because it slept through the two turns of Earthquakes to bring it down.
Shaymin is in Land Forme now. Either way, it's got a double weakness to Ice. But first I must heal Cresselia.
While I'm at it, since Cressie can tank Shaymin's Power Whip, I toss some healing around to everyone else.
Although I can't do as much damage as I'd like with Ice Beam, I get lucky and freeze Shaymin. Arceus must have wanted Shaymin to die, since it stayed frozen for four turns. I've had opponents defrost the same turn they freeze, which is crap since it's rather hard to freeze them in the first place.
I hate Gengar. I hate Gengar a lot.
This is why.
Gengar had Shadow Tag, so I couldn't swap out. However, I did manage to Spore him, and took out half his HP before he woke.
I send Heliolisk to take out the rest.
I don't care whether Arceus wanted you to die or not, DIE.
This one generally has Levitate, so I can't use Earthquake.
Elektross also had Superpower, so I switch to D. Machamp. He tried to use Dragon Tail upon switching in, but of course that doesn't work.
I use the fact that Elektross can't do jack to D. Machamp to heal up again. For some reason, she waited until I was finished to start using moves like Ice Beam and Discharge, paralyzing D. Machamp.
Still wasn't enough.
Hooo boy.
Still, if the Divine Plate is what made Arceus Normal-type, then Divaevus should be making a god-call to Lucario's fist!
Unfortunately, after one turn I learned that A) Divaevus is NOT weak to Fighting and B) Tesseract brought Lucario down to 7 HP. However, since I can't risk someone else getting blasted by Tesseract, I try to Full Restore and hope I can burn out its PP.
Conjecturing that Divaevus is
-type, like Tesseract, and therefore gains STAB with it.
I use a lot of Full Restores, but Divaevus eventually runs out of Tesseract and switches to ExtremeSpeed and Dragon Pulse, which barely scratch Lucario. A critical hit from Force Palm leaves Divaevus paralyzed and barely alive.
Time to finish this.
And God is officially bitch-slapped.
Now, one last thing.
That would be a little more sane if you had the god out, not that beetle.
"Screw you! I'm not a bug-zapper!"Well, it is pretty funny.
Seems that way. So much for infinite power.
Good luck with that, Dad. That girl has survived a tactical nuke and a Tesseract both to the face. And her brother survived the nuke and cancer.
Oh nevermind, she just steps aside.
"As long as I'm alive I will always-"...But aren't you dead? I mean, you thought you hadn't aged since you last met Red...
Eesh.
Tell me you're going to dispose of that abomination's... wastes properly, like in an incinerator. Preferably the sun.
I'm assuming? Unless there's some other thing we need to be reminded of catastrophically.
Well... let's see.
Ł1.2 million for the land value of Nyasa town.
Ł500,000 or so in medicine and training fees for just my team alone.
Ł2.4 million for the manufacturing costs of all those damn Master Balls.
Ł3.2 million in taxpayer funds for Pokémon Center care.
Ł7 million on research studies on Victini to see if it can actually cure cancer(it can't, sorry Apollo).
Am I missing anything?
Oh right, the
human cost.
Fuck that, I wasn't going to be sacrificed.
Well, if your ability to survive things that you should not possibly have survived runs in your family, I don't think you have to worry about your brother.
"properly treated in prison. Your brother is safe."And, I'm assuming, a
fair trial? Nevermind, the Vesryn legal system is a joke.
Personally, I would have been up for just letting them go.
"suffering all came to a head in that battle."A year? But I started this back in... June. It's October. That's only five months unless I really suck at math.
Thanks, Mom.
"and morality. You are truly one with your Pokémon."Wait, what? I didn't choose Jake to be my rival. He kinda pushed it on me. And as for my morality, may I introduce you to Phione?
Err, what?
Time will tell, I suppose.
"other way around."Speaking of which, that list of financial costs I just read.
Oh, nevermind, that's pretty tacky.
"new Tesseract ability of yours.""and see me in Blackfist City, okay?"Hehe. Come here Jake.
*appears to put arm around Jake's shoulder, then switches to a headlock before pushing Jake's face near the surrounding lava*
You see this lava here. Realistically, at this close it should have been fatal to the both of us. If I ever see you again, we'll see if physics still fail to apply when I throw you in there.
"be your father."Of course, that'd be even more awkward than it already is otherwise.
Oh, god, not you too Mom.
"Region, and Hall of Legends conquerer!"I'm not blushing. It's really hot in here because of all the damn LAVA.
Well... that's it then?
For the main story, I mean.
Oh well. I've heard that there's far more post-plot content to check out.
So, next update I will begin to wander around aimlessly.
NOTE: Before leaving the Hall of Legends, I find that an Absolite was left for me. Huh.