-Started out by going to grab my new Pokemon from the desert on Route 111 and grabbed Scrap II the Sandshrew for possible later use.
-Loudred finally got Stomp, which means I no longer have to rely on Uproar as a base STAB move.
-Spent quite some more time grinding because I know how painful Norman can be if you're unprepared for him. While I wasn't very happy with them only being level 30-32, I had trained Infernus to level 36 to get a Blaziken, as well as Hariyama.
-I had expected to have more trouble, walking through all the trainers in the gym with Fake Out/Vital Throw and took on Norman by opening with Blaziken and using six Bulk Ups, allowing me to one hit everything with one round of Double Kick.

-Got given Surf, which will add a lot of power to Pelipper at last, and then went to grab a nice Amulet Coin from Mum.
-Headed over to Mauville, and went to get Thunderbolt for Wattson, and caughted Shocky the Voltorb on the way. Turns out nothing on my team can learn it though.
-Surfed over to visit Steven and finally found Lionel the Zigzagoon, who will be Loudred's replacement if he ever dies.
-Took the long trek up the route and I really can't wait until Loudred evolves, due to it really feeling weak at this point.
-Arrived to slaughter some Aqua thugs, who were pathetic, all to be crushed at the hands of Hariyama and Pelipper.

-For wrecking these fools, I was given Mirage the Castform as a present and continued on my way to fight off my rival.
-May thought she actually stood a chance, but I took virtually no damage with her Pokemon falling at high speed.

-After a lot more grinding, I finally evolved Rusty into an Exploud, ready to face the gym.
-The gym was very easy thanks to Duncan having Shock Wave, but when I got to Winona, she went down easily other than that pesky Altaria. Fortunately, a 2x Howl boost allowed the newly evolved Rusty to one hit Altaria.

-Headed south onto Route 120 and then to Route 121 and grabbed Puppet the Shuppet and continued on towards Lilycove City, where I took on May for the last time.

-Headed up onto Mt. Pyre and took out Team Aqua before knocking out a wild Shuppet.
-Went south to Route 123 when I was done at Mt. Pyre and failed to catch a level 26 Oddish and then headed west to get some extra exp.
-I then headed over to Mt. Chimney and my Magma Emblem responded, opening up the Magma Hideout for me to grab a new Pokemon. It was a Graveler, and I was pretty happy. Until it used Selfdestruct and almost killed Infernus.
-I healed up and continued through the hideout, battling my way past hoardes of thugs, until I got the PP Max, which I swiftly used on Blaziken's Flamethrower before continuing on.
-I got into the volcano room, and watched Groudon jump into the sky before challenging Maxie to our second battle. He really doesn't get much stronger over time.

-After Maxie's loss to me, I decided that I'd give Team Aqua some punishment too, seeing as they stole Captain Stern's sub, so I headed to Lilycove and sailed out to their little hideout and began the fight.
-I headed into Archie's room, and it turned out he had already left, so I stole his stuff and caught Thunder the Electrode, then went off to find him.
-I made it to the room with the sub, but it was already underwater! So taking out Archie would have to wait, but for now I'd just have to punish Matt.

-The sub left the base, so I decided to follow it to the east, towards Mossdeep City.
-I got to Mossdeep, grabbed a few things from around town, chatted with Steven about Team Magma's plans to steal the rocket fuel and decided to head over to the gym, where Pelly, Bugs and Rusty would be the main members of my team for the gym.
-I got through the gym pretty easy, but the gym leaders were a whole different matter. I knew Surf would be needed here, but I hadn't realised how much until the battle started.
-I came out with a bang, using Surf with Pelly and Stomp with Rusty, knocking out Xatu and putting Claydol on red HP. Then came Lunatone, and I continued with Pelipper Surfing and Rusty healing or using Stomp when possible. I then realised that with both Pokemon on lowered HP, I had to switch or lose one, so I sent out Beautifly in the place of Exploud, and managed to take out Lunatone with critical Surf, just leaving Solrock and Claydol. Fotunately, Flamethrower didn't one hit Beautifly, allowing me to finish them both off with Surf.