Winter was suitably impressed with Crasher Wake.
Ned delivered a beatdown to the Veilstone Karate Quads, despite being supereffectively damaged by the fighting-type moves.
(Should I have held off his evolution until after beating the gym that supereffectively damaged his secondary type?) Well, too late now. The Hyper Potions picked up during the journey healed him up until Maylene. Due to being level 37, and thus 5 levels higher than her ace Lucario, Ned wiped the floor with Bubblebeam.
After the gym battle, Lucas came around begging for help, and Winter obliged. The duo cleaned up Team Galactic in a double battle
(although I would argue that the player character always does more work in double battles, sigh), after which Looker came whizzing in, late as usual. HM Fly was obtained, as well as a Porygon that was instantly permanently boxed.
As Winter had done a good deed, she deserved to splurge! Star Pieces and Nuggets were sold to finance her shopping spree at Veilstone Dept., which mostly consisted of Vending Machine drinks, repels, and Poke balls. Then she biked back to Cafe Cabin to purchase a dozen Moomoo Milks. On the way back, she ran into a male Scyther. With level 32 Sansa in the lead, it was Quick-Attacked to red health and caught with a Net Ball.
In case anyone's interested, here's the team now: