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[Galick]

I think Fluffy can learn it.

P.S. If you're playing this on the computer, where'd you get it? I want to try the Nuzlocke challenge on Emerald myself, but my old GBA cartridge deletes any and all saves made on it due to corruption. Then again, a one-sitting to-the-end nuzlocke challenge would be even harder...

Not sure what Galick uses, but I use Visual Boy advanced
And you can acquire the ROM from a Google search

I use Visual boy, yeah.  Also: Working on update for tonight, expect it in a few hours.  And feel my raaaaaaage over the internet as I post an image of the FIRST thing I fought in the forest.

Spoiler: FUCK YOU (click to show/hide)

[warhammer651]

did you catch it or just smash it?

[Galick]

did you catch it or just smash it?

I already had Rover from the forest, so I just smashed it.  Update incoming.

[Galick]

Spoiler: Aqual?  School?!  WHISHMUR?!! (click to show/hide)

I named it Rover after a little bit of thought...he was pretty hurt from Fluffy's hit though, so I just put him in the pokeball for now.  I'll get him patched up when I get to Rustboro.  I smiled to my team and kneeled down to rub across Fluffy's ears for a job well done - but he was already off searching around for something.

I sighed and we went on through the forest at a leisurely pace - well, for me it was leisurely at least...Zippo was on high alert for some reason and even Octavia wasn't prancing around and humming to herself like normal.  The two of them pressed right next to me with just enough room to walk.  I was a bit worried to be honest...the two of them had never acted like this.  Vishnu seemed to be in high spirits though...she was just soaring around us in big lazy circles letting out the occasional chittering cry.  There were a few wild pokemon that attacked us, but Octavia was more...aggressive today.  The one few pokemon that got close were met with a combination of Zippo's breath and Octavia's mind.  There were a lot of corpses in our wake.

The sun was shining overhead as we made it to a clearing and...a guy in a business suit was standing there searching for something?  Who comes to the woods in a business suit?  And why?  He saw me standing there and grinned widely before rushing over to me.

Little girl!  Little girl!

He...didn't get far before Vishnu landed on his shoulder with her barbs just inches away from his neck, Zippo standing just in front of him on one leg with the other raised up to slash at him, Fluffy huddling close to me with her teeth bared and Octavia's horn was glowing...a lot.

Hehe...uh...call off your pokemon, little girl.  I just wanted to ask if you've seen a Shroomish around here.  I wanted to catch one...

Uh...c-can all of you come back?  Please?

They didn't listen...they just stood there ready to kill this guy because he was a bit too excited about talking to me...

All of you!  Stop!

The guy was looking really nervous now...sweat was dripping off his body and all of my friends were...they were about to kill someone.  If he moved right now they'd just let it all out and he'd end up...

Stop.  NOW!  Return!

That one got their attention...they all slowly turned to look at me and sheepishly backed off the shaken man to come to my side.  I didn't give them any attention as they did and simply stared at the man that my pokemon nearly killed.

I've seen a few Shroomish.  They're mostly near the Petalburg half of the forest, I've seen a lot less since coming to this side.

I sounded a lot more calm than I felt...why did they do that?  What did this guy do?

He smiled at me and seemed like he wanted to step closer but then thought better of it.

T-Thank you, little girl.  I'll be heading back to Rustboro then...

Ugh...been waiting too long for this.  Mate!  Give me the research papers and I won't have me pet rip out your throat!

W-what?  Who was this guy?  And...what did he say he was gonna do to this man?

Poor guy didn't know what to do...but my friends did.  They all ignored the Shroomish guy and stepped forward, each one of them growling at him.  He stepped back and swore as he finally noticed me and them...

  Bah...looks like I'll have to take out this runt first then.  Let's go, Pooch!



He called out a Poochyena and it growled way back in it's throat at the rest of my team...this one was quite a bit bigger than the rest of the ones we fought and it was covered in scars.  It's right eye just had a slash through it and it's socket was empty...just a pulsing angry hole where it had been.

Fluffy was the first to act since she was the closest.  She stepped forward and looked back at me as the rest of them understood and stepped back, ready to act.  She growled at the Poochyena and it opened the battle by kicking up a lot of sand and dirt, making my eyes sting but Fluffy was ready for it even if her trainer wasn't.  She just kicked up it's head with her tail like the first one and slammed her head into it's own.  And she did it again as it's head swung down and then again and again until both their heads were seeping blood but the Poochyena wasn't getting back up...or moving.



Worthless mutt...ye haven't seen the last of Team Aqua, lass.  You just made a powerful enemy...

I was still stunned as the man called back his Poochyena and ran away while the Shroomish guy simply thanked me over and over before shoving a pokeball into my hands...no, it had blue on it.  A great ball...he then ran away back towards Rustboro, making sure to keep to the clear path at all times.

G-Good work everyone...l-let's get out of here.

They seemed to understand that at least and without a sound from either of them, Zippo took point and Fluffy took to my side as Vishnu kept circling overhead in a much wider circle than she had been.  We went through without a sight of anything until we got near the forest's exit and came out onto a clear path.  I smiled as I heard the rush of water nearby - a river.  I knew that Rustboro was near a river...wonderful.  We were almost there and still had enough daylight to reach it.

A few hours later we had crossed the bridge and made it to the city proper...Rustboro.  This was my kinda town.  Finally somewhere a decent size...


The city probing the integration of nature and science.

I smiled to myself and made a beeline to the pokemon center.  All of them were tired and needed rest..and I was worried about Rover.  I handed them to the nurse and filled out the forms for Rover as she took them all to the back.  She came back about fifteen minutes later and handed me all my pokeballs but she had a sad look on her face.

Listen sweety...about Rover.  He's not well.  Looks like he was born with a bad leg and before you caught him, he was in pretty bad shape.  I wouldn't recommend putting him into any battles...they won't go well and the poor guy may need to be put down.

O-oh...t-thank you, Miss.  I'll keep that in mind.

I left without another word and called out my friends one by one until each was in place in front of me.  I looked at them and none of them were really scarred or damaged...but Rover obviously couldn't stand on his back leg.  He kept it off the ground and limped with every movement...his paw was more a nub than an actual paw as well.  No nails on it, no pads, just a hunk of flesh that looked a bit rotten...no wonder he attacked me in the forest.  He was probably starving thanks to not being able to hunt with that leg.

I called them back and wondered the town for a little while, stopping in to see a 'Mister Cutter' who supposedly taught pokemon a technique to clear away brush and bushes and other things like that.  I found him outside a small house and after a bit of talking from him he gave me a manual embossed with 'How to teach your Pokemon to CUT!' in big bold letters on the front...he obviously wrote it himself.  I thanked him for his time and decided to stop by the trainer's school while I was in town.  Maybe it's different from the one in Saffron...



The smell was the same at least...blood, sweat, and musk filled the air in the small building.  There was a man up front - the teacher, I guess, who was lecturing the class about how Pokemon are powerful and strong and how we must rely on them to defend us from others.  A bit afterwards, he pulled up the classic training movie that showed a pair of Scyther in the wild slicing eachother up to leave one of them gashed to pieces while the other stood battered and bloody over what was left of the first before drinking it's blood.  The kids were in awe of the film and soon afterwards, he showed a second one of a typical pokemon battle of a pair of high level trainers.  The film was kinda grainy on this one and it was obviously amaturely done, but the effect was there.  I could make out the distinct shape of a Nidorino battling against something massive and rigid...I think it was an Onix.  After a bit, the massive rock snake was getting tired and couldn't do anything to hit the agile Nidorino so the creature, seeing an opening, leapt up and smashed it's foot into the Onix's form and a loud -crack- could be heard.  It did it again, and again, and again while the Onix cried out in pain over and over as it was struck until it fell over with what looked like mud seeping from it's chest before the Nidorino stepped forward and pressed it's foot to the Onix's head and pressed until it went through and into it's brain.

I had seen the video before, actually...I saw it when I was about five or six in Saffron.  It was a pretty typical film to show kids this age so they knew what they were getting into with pokemon.  The rest of the lecture was kinda boring, really.  Just a lot of talking about grooming, feeding, breeding habits, stuff like that.  The teacher smiled at me after it was done and waved me forward to hand me a small claw.  He told me it was a 'Quick Claw' from a Meowth and that it would help increase my Pokemon's speed.  I thanked her and left the room and met the guy who said I was a rookie back in Petalburg.

He grinned at me and asked if I was brushing up on my skills and I didn't answer.  He shrugged and introduced himself as Scott and told me that he was on the lookout for any strong Pokemon trainers.  Guy gave me the creeps to be honest, but he didn't try anything with me.

I wondered around a bit more and saw the Gym near the north side of town.





Rock types...I didn't have anything to use against that.  I thought about it and left to the east of town, heading out little ways into the next route.  I was hoping to find a new friend I could use against her and I found...something.



I smiled to myself and called out Rover...this one looked easy and the little guy could probably weaken him enough for me to catch.  The pink thing looked at both of us and it opened it's mouth and a loud screeching noise ripped from it, making me scream and Rover to fall to the ground in convulsions.  I barely managed to recall it and send out Zippo when it stopped and tried to strike Zippo on the head - it succeeded, but only cause Zippo was still dazed from the Uproar it made.

Zippo growled low in his throat and scratched at the pink thing, raking it's talons down it's side and making it bleed.  I chose that opportunity to toss a pokeball at it, and with a soft click that I could barely hear the little thing was mine.  The pokedex chimed in once again, but I could barely hear it this time as I picked up the ball.  What to name it...and where can I get some earplugs...

Whismur damn near OHKed Rover, which kinda surprised me.  Uproar brought it down to the red instantly without a critical hit, so I sent out Zippo and he got brought down to the near yellow with one shot.  Damn thing's pretty strong, but this was at least one of the pokemon I was hoping to use this playthrough.  Hope it gets to get stronger and evolve.

Spoiler: Stuff I cut tonight (click to show/hide)

Octavia smashing bug trainers (that damage is from Poison Sting, by the way)


Vishnu smashing a rich trainer guy who I really couldn't fit into the narrative.


Battle against these twins which was over in two rounds from Headbutt and Poison Sting being awesome.


Fucking Magikarp trainer (who taught Octavia Double Team!)


Random goody.

Roxanne is gonna be fun though...none of my guys can learn Bullet Seed and Octavia and Vishnu would die nearly instantly to any rock attacks.  By the way, what's your guys opinions on this so far?  I had a LOT of trouble writing the beginning of this one, and overall I'm still not quite happy with the way it came out.  And please give me suggestions on how to improve, I wanna get better at this!

[hexedmagica]

Name it Decibelle! Also, your writing is very good, I don't believe that you have to worry that much about its quality, just keep it at the standard it is now and you should be fine.

[Urist Imiknorris]

I agree on both the nickname and quality points.

[Remalle]

Thirded on both counts.

[Bardum Idith]

By the way, what's your guys opinions on this so far?  I had a LOT of trouble writing the beginning of this one, and overall I'm still not quite happy with the way it came out.  And please give me suggestions on how to improve, I wanna get better at this!

I didn't notice any drops in quality either. Keep on with the good writing 

Decibelle sounds fitting to me, too, though I'm worried about the lack of Lovecraftian names. If you catch a Missingno, name it Azathoth. I know it will never happen, but anyways, name it Azathoth!

[Heron TSG]

Missingno is first gen only, sadly.

Decibelle sounds like a pretty good pun.

[Galick]

Really glad all of you like it.  I'll update tomorrow, mainly gonna be training so you'll get your first ~meta update~ with mostly just my commentary on strategies, various mons, and my thoughts on the challenge so far.

There will be a LITTLE bit of story to it, but mostly it'll just be my mouthpiece ranting about how screwed I am against Roxanne.

[Orb]

Not completely positive on this, but I think you can just skip the first gym. Then you could go to Dewford town, and go into the cave, and (hopefully) get that fighting type, and come back later.

You don't require cut to advance, just require the 'sailor' to take you to Dewford. Now whether or not you require the badge for him to transport you escapes me.

[Urist Imiknorris]

You need the badge to get to the events leading up to the sailor helping you.

As for Roxanne, I actually managed to beat her Nosepass with a level 11 Ralts. Part of it was double team and growl spam and part of it was it spamming harden. Oh, and a single potion. Congrats, you are no longer entirely screwed. You just need to be able to get past the geodudes, both of which know rock throw.

[Galick]

Alright.  So, my friend found out about me doing this and wanted to see.  He declared I was using 'hax' since I found so many female pokemon and made me prove my innocent.  He said to play Guile's theme while I was playing.  I decided to do one better.

Spoiler: So I made this. (click to show/hide)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IZQCpR2vO0

It didn't happen 'officially' in the story (though I would've liked to keep that full heal) but still...it's a thing.

[Galick]

Spoiler: Training Time! (click to show/hide)

Decibelle seemed to fit...or maybe that was just my ears still ringing.  I ran back to the pokemon center a bit away and handed them all over, filling out the necessary paperwork to register Decibelle with my team - the nurse even gave me a pair of earplugs, before I decided to take a look at the gym.  It was...a rough place, to describe it.  The walls and floors all seemed to be carved out of stone while the lights in the ceiling were just enough to see a few feet in front of me...it was supposed to be a mine, I realized.

Greeting me at the door was a guy wearing sunglasses despite the darkness, a sweater-vest, and jeans.  An utter dork, to put it plainly.

Hey there...you're here to take the gym challenge, right?  Well, I may not be a pokemon trainer but I do know my stuff.  The leader here, Roxanne, and all her little proteges use Rock type pokemon.  They're physically strong and can take one heck of a hit, but anything that hits them that isn't physical hits'm hard.  They can shrug off heat from the hottest fires, but water and grass trip'm up bad too.  Talk to me after you take care of business here, kay Miss?

Guy didn't even tell me what his name was...or ask me mine.  I shrugged and didn't reply to him, but I filed the information away for later...it didn't seem like Zippo would be much use here.  Sorry little guy.  I stepped up and a kid that was leaning against the wall grinned at me before dropping a pokeball from his belt to the floor and letting the Geodude within appear in a blast of red light.  I frowned and thought hard.

None of my pokemon could use water or grass...Octavia and Vishnu are the only ones who can really hurt them without touching them, but a rock would crush Vishnu's wings and Octavia was fragile...I sighed.  No real answer here...just had to hope Octavia could handle it this time.

I sent her out and the two pokemon took battle positions a few feet away from eachother.  I was about to tell her what to do when she surprised me.  Her horn glowed with a bright white light and suddenly there were two of them!  She did it again and again and again, and soon enough there were at least a dozen Octavias standing in the narrow hallway.  The Geodude didn't seem to know what to make of it so it did what Geodude always do.  Pick itself up on it's hands and heave itself at her...them...Octavia.

He passed right through the one he attacked and she vanished and then all the Octavia were suddenly running around in circles, mixing with eachother and circling the Geodude.  They all stopped when they formed a semi-circle and as one their horns glowed with that horrible light and with a literal popping noise, the Geodude's eyes exploded from their sockets in a spray of what looked like mud.  It collapsed to the ground and the kid nodded to me silently before gathering it's remains in his arms and heading out the door.  He made it out before the first sob caught in his throat and he ran the rest of the way until he was out of sight.  None of the other junior trainers wanted to battle me after that one.  They all backed off and declined my challenge.  Hearing that, Octavia seemed to relax and all of them formed back into her in a sudden flash of light and the little Ralts was left panting on the ground next to me.

I smiled down at her and leaned down to scoop her up and hold her close.  She let out a soft cry and smiled up at me as we left the gym for now - I didn't want to risk my friends.  And Octavia probably wouldn't be able to pull that trick again without rest.  A quick trip to the pokemon center later, all of them were refreshed.  I had looked through the Pokedex in the meantime and found out what Octavia'd been using for so long.  Her 'attack' was called Confusion.  It directly targeted the opponents' mind and physically caused damage by overstimulating it.  The multiplication was Double Team, an illusion to increase the odds of the opponent missing.

I called out all of them but Rover and went out to 116 to train against the wild pokemon.

Things were going well for a while...none of them were getting very hurt and I was getting the hang of them all.  Zippo had finally mastered his fire attack enough to use it in battle - it was Ember, the weakest of all fire attacks...and even it was enough to start a fire or burn something alive.  Octavia was her normal, joyful self just running around me and playing with her new Double Team until she got the hang of it...but she always stayed right next to me with her real self pressing against my leg.  Fluffy was finding item after item for me, from escape ropes to antidotes which were always useful and Vishnu was soaring overhead to scout out new opponents to test ourselves against.

Decibelle was a decidedly sweet thing.  Whenever I called her out she immediately latched onto my leg for a hug before heading out and doing what I asked.  Her screaming sound was interesting...it didn't do much to insect type pokemon, but the more mammalian ones reacted like you'd expect.  Falling to the ground and screaming in pain.  I always made sure to keep everyone else in their balls when I was training Decibelle.









Things were going well, really.  We were just about to head home when a Nincada approached us from the brush with menace in its eyes.  I sent out Decibelle and told her to smash it - she'd done it to several of them already.  So, she ran out and pounded her fist into the bug's form to little effect.  This one was stronger apparently...after making sure my earplugs were wadded safely into my ears I told her to use Uproar which she gladly did - girl seemed to love screaming.  The sound waves hit the bug and like the ones before it, didn't really seem to effect it much.  Her eyes were closed as she screamed and she didn't see the bug approaching.  I did though...and I didn't do anything.

It leaped out at her and it's twin suckers jabbed into Decibelle's soft form, wedging deep.  She stopped screaming then and looked at it in shock as it started to drain her.  I could see the tubes thickening as it drew from her and she started screaming again.  Not as an attack though, but in pain.  It was all silent due to the earplugs.  She looked at me and I could see her pleading with me to save her, to help her, to get it off of her.  But I was too shocked to do anything...and with a final suck, her drained form collapsed down oozing blood from the twin wounds as I could literally see every detail of her bones beneath the skin.  Everything else had been drained out.  Her eyes were gone, her muscles absorbed, and her head was an empty hollow.  She was dead.





I was shocked still as the Nincada advanced at me with it's body grotesquely expanded and straining against it's exoskeleton from it's meal.  It chittered angrily and seemed almost about to attack me when one of my pokeballs opened of it's own accord and Zippo appeared in a flash of red light.  His reaction was immediate - there wasn't anything left of the Nincada after a bath of flames that scorched the surrounding area pretty well but left Decibelle untouched.  I moved to her automatically and carefully lifted what was left of her up into my arms and carried her without concious thought.  Zippo was moving in overdrive as he pecked each one of my pokeballs with his beak and one by one, every one of my team appeared.  They were all confused looking and their cries were calling for answers but Octavia silenced them all with a burst of that otherworldly light.  She slowly went to them and touched each one on the head in turn with a small spark coming from the contact and they all understood, one by one.  They followed me as I moved without thinking - each one of them in their respective guard positions and even Rover dragging next to me with his teeth bared, just daring anything to come close.  I finally found what I must've been looking for.  The exact little clearing where I found her.  I dug the grave by hand and gently lowered her in, ignoring the ichor and blood that must've been covering me.  I slowly filled the grave as my friends stood around me with their heads bowed and the only one who wasn't was Zippo who was standing fiercly at my side the entire time.  Before filling it completely though, I took the pokeball that she for such a short time called her home and lowered it into the grave with her right next to her body.  Slowly but surely the grave was filled and I decided to mark it.

I grabbed a long flat stone and another shorter one and began my work with a feverish intensity, only stopping the scrapes once I was satisfied it was complete.  The sun was long gone down at this point and the moonless night weighed heavily around us as I set the stone ontop of her grave.  It was engraved with a shaky musical note - far clumsier than what an artist could do...but I gave it my best.

We all made our way back to the pokemon center and I let them rest up as I checked into my room and took a hot shower, trying to wash away the day.  As I layed down that night, sleep didn't come easily...at least not until the nurse brought my friends and and I let them out one by one.  We all looked at eachother and I looked at the bed and shook my head.  I got out the sleeping bag from my backpack and rolled it out on the floor at the foot of the way too big bed and we curled into it together with Rover laying across my legs with Fluffy and Vishnu roosting on my chest.

We would challenge the gym tomorrow.  We wouldn't lose anyone else.

Spoiler: My Thoughts (click to show/hide)

That...was admittedly painful to write out.  I was completely shocked when Nincada took out Decibelle like that.  She was still in green HP and had taken out a few pokemon before it, but the damn thing got a critical hit and boom.  There goes our new member.

I won't be getting another Whismur even if I do find one in a legal area.  That was my one shot with them, and that chance is gone.  Farewell, Decibelle.  I'm sure you would've been an awesome Exploud.

[warhammer651]

ahem

FIRST BLOOD

Sorry, had to be said. Keep it up man, I like this.