With nothing to do but press on towards the Chrome Circle as I deal with severe psychological trauma from witnessing the sudden destruction of my hometown, I first must head to Agassiz Town before I can challenge the gym here in Fianga City. Maybe some of the nerds here can help me, given that I, you know, just saved their asses.
Well, no, actually, Wilson did that, but I'll take credit anyway.
I is in your Collider, taking all your credit.
I also stole someone's Leftovers off the table.
Science is not a verb.He does offer to teach one of my Pokémon Return, but I decline.
There's more scientists upstairs.
I already don't want to know the context of that.
"And created this thing. I'll trade you for it!"Is that even yours to trade?
Easily done by poison, but... No deal.
I sincerely doubt that Team Rocket is anywhere near as competent as Team Olympus.
"I left them in the end, but I stole some DNA. I can't seem to get the cloning right, but I made this weird thing. Do you want it?"Sure, I love weird things.
These are, coincidentally, last words of the final log of the Mew Genetically Enhanced Clone Devolopment Team, whose remains were found twisted into grotesque forms by some strange force and with several heads exploded. That fills me with great confidence.
Oh good, just Ditto, not Mewtwo.
Oh yeah, before heading to the Collider I bought 20 Great Balls. It took five of them capture Ditto. The sex machine goes right into the box.
Because it is?
That's it, the lab is no longer useful, so on to Agassiz Town!
What a beautiful morning. I've almost forgotten why I've been losing my mind lately.
I haven't forgotten.Anyways, time for some route planning.
I'm here in Fianga City. My eventual goal is Ladoga City, highlighted on the map, but I need to be able to Surf to get there because nobody in the Vesryn Region knows what a boat is. In order to use Surf, to say nothing of finding the actual HM, I need to challenge the gyms in Fianga City and Agassiz Town. However, to challenge the Fianga Gym, I need Cut, which I'll need the Agassiz Gym's badge, and the last I heard, the Cut HM was in the possession of our obnoxious troll rival, Jake. Meaning it's time to kick Jake's ass again.
The troll will suffer.After getting these badges and HMs, I'll have to Surf from Kivu Town to Ladoga, with a likely stopover in Turkana Town between Agassiz and Kivu.
First, some last-minute stuff from Fianga.
The house next to the Collider is full of cops who could have been useful yesterday.
Impersonating an officer, vigilantism, and cosplay. All terrible, terrible felonies.
"It's tons of fun!"Sure, why not? It'll feel good to mete out some vigilante cosplay justice.
"like."Sweet. Now I'm also a mercenary.
"difficult, too dangerous. Please return when you've obtained the Diamond Badge."Bah.
Heading back behind the Collider because I just remembered he was there...
"questions asked?Ah yes, the black market Egg Dealer. Sure, I'll take the egg, it's probably illegal but what the hell do I care about anything anymore.
Okay then. I have an egg. I put Geodude in a box earlier to make room for it.
It's... it's jumping up and down. What the hell kind of egg is this?
Anyways, on to Route 308. The first trainer I encounter right by the entrance...
The hell, man? You whip your Pokémon?
I get the feeling I might be underleveled for this place.
Ivysaur took down Butterfree, so I sent Staravia to finish him.
Next he sent out Wortortle, so I responded with Weepinbell. No challenge.
Last was Charmeleon, who mauled Poliwag with... what the hell, Dragon Rage? Can Charmeleon even learn that? I attempted to have Riolu CopyCat it, but it didn't work for some reason. Staravia dropped next, barely managing some damage.
Last up was Weepinbell, since I can't very well send the Egg into battle against Charmeleon, unless I wanted an omlette. Actually, an omlette doesn't sound so bad right now... Anyways, Weepinbell managed to pull off a very lucky win after using Sleep Powder and several Pounds.
Ugh, Dragon Rage. Holy balls, that was ridiculous.
After picking up my team's blood off the ground and having it placed back into their bodies, I press on.
(~_~)¬>
First up was Magnemite. Butterfree paralyzed it before switching to Riolu. Riolu was paralyzed by Thunder Wave, but smashed Magnemite with Force Palm. Next was Unown. I don't really have anything for Psychic-type, so I send out Poliwag. Who fainted in two turns. Staravia's up next. She lasted three turns, but brought Unown down to 10HP via Endeavor. Though paralyzed, Riolu finished off Unown with Quick Attack.
Enough with the trainers. How about some wild Pokémon?
Everything about that thing is creeping me out.
Sufficiently creeped out by a single wild Pokémon, back to fighting trainers.
What the hell kind of name is Majesia?
Oh, Kirlia. Cute. I guess that means Ralts can be found in this area? The lack of anything to fight Psychic-types is really hurting. I switched Riolu for Staravia. She won, but not without damage.
Next was Lopunny, which I've never seen before. I've heard of Lopunny, in that it was supposed to be more sexualized than Gardevoir and even Jynx. Looking at it now, I don't really see how. It has what looks like breasts, but not really. I guess if you were a serious furry, maybe. Plus, this one is a
male Lopunny. Not sure of its type, I have Riolu Force Palm it in the face.
Normal-type. Otherwise, Lopunny's Quick Attack would not have done 20 points of damage to Riolu. Then again, I didn't think you could get STAB from Quick Attack(though I'm not sure why I thought that).
I don't really care about your vanity, or your yiffiness.
Seeing that I need a lineup change soon, I simply run in circles for a while to hatch the egg.
After several dozen laps around Fianga City, and ignoring multiple stress fractures in my legs...
Cute! But useless. Promptly boxed.
I switch Togepi out for Zorua, the kumiho. This is because I've been seeing a lot of Psychic-types, and the map says Agassiz City has a place called Psychic Temple, where I'm assuming there's going to be plenty of mindrape to be had.
Zorua's first battle was against a wild Espurr. Zorua came out disguised as Riolu, causing Espurr to try and use Confusion against it. No sell. Zorua gained two and a half levels and learned Fury Swipes. Second battle, same thing; wild Espurr, Riolu disguise, two levels. Not bad. I've found my Psychic-killer. I've also noticed that Espurr's cry is not recorded in this version(using v1.4.1 I think).
After the third battle(in which Zorua learned Faint Attack, dropping Fury Swipes), I noticed that Zorua disguises itself as the 6th member of your team. This lends itself to one hell of a simple anti-Psychic strategy. Have him dupe either Riolu(at least until Riolu evolves, at which point it's probably less effective) or Weepinbell, due to both being weak to Psychic attacks. The illusion effect is only broken when Zorua takes damage, and as far as I can tell, the AI does try to use attacks that are super-effective against it's target(or what it
thinks should work). The only problem I can see is that when I send out Zorua, it uses its own cry, despite the form of anothe Pokémon, so I'm not sure if a human(actual human, not an NPC trainer) opponent will be fooled.
Anyhow, it's not long before Zorua is brought up to the same(admittedly low) level of the rest of the team. Let's see how he works against another trainer?
First was Wooper, who for some reason missed with every attack. Next was Quagsire. I switched to Weepinbell because I wanted to add "FOR MASSIVE DAMAGE" to the end of "Weepinbell uses Vine Whip". It worked, and Weepinbell learned Acid, forgetting Pound. Same damage level, but Acid is multi-targeting and Weepinbell gets STAB from it.
You have no idea how much bad luck I've had.
No idea at all.Despite the majority of wild encounters being Espurrs, Zorua managed to dig up...
She's a solar powered meganekko.
Here comes another cosplayer.
Nothing too bad. Skiploom was beaten down by Butterfree, who lost to Beedril when I tried to switch out. Staravia cleaned up Beedril and Beautifly.
There goes another annoying cosplayer.
Next is this old man.
Why is everything on this route so disturbing?! Furries! Furries everywhere!
Perhaps my disturbia was a little premature. (*_*)
Stun Spore kept Mr. Mime paralyzed while the idiot Encored Butterfree's Gust.
That thing looks like it wants to beat the crap out of someone with that 2x4.
Which it did. Although with Rock Throw instead of a 2x4. Still, it's Butterfree taking construction material to the face. I have to stop doing that.
Why would I want to do that?
Next fight is an artist. So far, she isn't annoying me.
She had two Smeargles which kept switching using Baton Pass. One had Hypnosis, the other had Headbutt. Both had their skulls caved in by Riolu.
I'm sick?! Lady, on this route there's at least two furries, one guy who whips his Pokémon, and another who enslaves his, and you call
me sick?
All anger's forgotten.
BADASS DETECTED. DEPLOYING HELL YEAHS.Following that, a few more trainers go by, and I encounter someone who is often mistaken for the Kanto Champion.
I can't see why. Red was the Kanto Champion.
His first Spinda was annoying because of Uproar, but Lucario facepunched it. Next was Poliwag destroying his Numel, followed by Lucario facepunching another Spinda.
Annoying encounters dealt with, I enter Kariba Town.
Asking around town, I find this info.
It was nothing. Everything is fine.How big is this damn Collider anyway?
At the Pokémon Center, some old guy gives me a Lucky Egg. Elsewhere I find a kid trading Absol in exchange for Rapidash. Unfortunately, I haven't found Ponyta or Rapidash yet. But other citizens are just as fun.
Well, you sound like you're doing it right, so I can't help you.
Next, someone offers me a (probably stolen) bicycle.
I've accepted contraband before, so why not?
Lastly, there's someone in town with a sick Corsola. Nothing to do there for now, so it's on to Route 308.5! Yes, the route is named Route 308.5.
Hopefully not too far until Agassiz. That kid over there thought I was tall. I thought he looked like he just got beaten, mostly because a few minutes later he was. By me.
The next guy however was almost as loud and obnoxious as Jake. Louder, but not as obnoxious.
Though I don't think he's going to use those cables to give my car a jump...
His first Pokémon was Magnemite, no problem. His next one was...
Mighty Mouse? It caused some damage to the team, but eventually went down.
I think he's on speed.
This is an interesting place. Oh, and that girl on the right was a Cool Trainer who wasn't tough, although she had a Heracross that used Aerial Ace, which I doubt it can really learn.
Of course it is.
And that guy to the south was another whip-abuser who had 1st-stage evolutions of the Johto starters.
There isn't just trainers here, of course.
Bastard took down Butterfree.
Why am I finding desert Pokémon?
Dumbo. No wait, Dumbo was a Flying-type elephant.
Huh. I guess that explains the desert Pokémon. However, I caught them before entering this area.
There doesn't seem to be any wild encounters in the sand, but there's some trainers who are pretty weak. There is one in particular...
Artemis? Isn't that one of Team Olympus' commanders? (I may have missed it before, but an NPC in Fianga said Olympus had four leaders: Athena, Apollo, Artemis, and Zeus. Artemis is the one we have not seen yet.)
She first sent out Sandshrew, who fell to Poliwag after he got rid of the sand storm with Rain Dance. Next was Durant who took down Butterfree but was finished off by Lucario. Her last was...
A random trainer with her own speaking segment? I'm still willing to bet that she's an Olympus commander.
Anorith and Weepinbell trade blows, but Weepinbell has a speed advantage.
The mountain in the middle of the place had some Go-Goggles on top. Supposed to be useful in nasty weather like the sand storm I'm in the middle of.
The east side of the mountain had a male Ranger named Artemis as well. So the one from before might not have been an Olympus member at all, just another lazy developer moment. Same lineup, except instead of Anorith, he had Shieldon.
The rest of the place is just trainers using mostly Ground-types. However, the training is paying off, for some of the team more than others.
Finally crossing the desert and reaching the outskirts of Agassiz Town, but something is blocking my way.
The fun begins.
I could use some popcorn.
"my passage to the Quasar League!"
"I've got better things to do."Trust me, you don't want to try and reason with him, Artemis.
By the way, I'm pretty sure that's the real Olympus commander Artemis this time.
Aww, they ran away. I really wanted to witness a beatdown, going either way.
"to a battle? We'll put this HM up at stake! Whomever wins, gets it!"Speaking of beatdowns...
I've been looking forward to this!
Why is the screen black?
Well, this isn't going to work...
Better.
Heh. I didn't take it down. Wing Attack brought Grovyle down to 1HP, and the sand storm finished it off. I even considered having Poliwhirl use Rain Dance to get rid of the sand storm before switching out.
Might as well do that now.
Utterly blowing away your rival's starter like that is a wonderful feeling.
Oh, Jake expanded his lineup a bit.
Would have been one hit if not for Sturdy. So I slapped it.
Just what the hell is that thing? And why did I send in Butterfree?
I guess it was a Bug-type, because it had Shed Skin and was weak to Gust.
You lost!
You lost!Youlostlostlost
Revenge is fun!
Funfunfun
"Take this HM, I did promise!"Obtained HM01 Cut!
"Jake out!"And that's it for now. Went through Route 308, Kariba Town, and ended up delivering a serious amount of kickass against Jake, and learn to Cut ourselves. ...I didn't mean to say "ourselves" there. I might have thought it, after having to listen to Jake's whining... Next stop, the Agassiz Gym, as we eventually continue on to Lagoda Town.
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