Update Three: to Eterna!
"We need the honey! With it, we will gather Pokemon in great numbers!"
"...you realize how crazy you sound, right?"
After being stopped by a pair of twins near where I last left off, I made it into Floroma Town. It's really quite nice here.
The flowers give the place a really relaxing atmosphere. There's a meadow to the north of town, but there're two weird
looking space men blocking the entrance, so I guess I can't go there right now....
I found a flower shop in town where some lady gave me a watering can that looks like a Psyduck. Awesome. She told me
I'm supposed to water plants with it. Awesome. Definately part of the job description for 'Pokemon trainer'.
I heal up at the Pokemon Centre and head to the route south of town once more to train a little bit. Nidoran's getting
behind, but she's just as stubborn and disobedient as Vulpix. Except that she lacks the mighty level of eighteen that Vulpix
has already obtained. Oh well. Onix got some training, too, so she's catching up slowly but surely. And Nidoran's now
around level fourteen. I think she'll evolve soon!
After healing and going back to the route and back several times, I feel safe enough to venture to the west of this so far
uneventful town. On the route, I meet this little girl who says something about 'Windworks', 'Team Galactic', and her father.
Trouble's a brewing; I can smell it. There's more of those weird spacemen blocking the route north! I guess I'll have to
continue west....
It's a dead end. There's just some building whose entrance is blocked by a spaceman. You know what, I'm going to go talk
to him, see what's up. I got a journey to be on, after all. Well, this fine gentleman turns out to be all but friendly and I stomp
him in a battle. Turns out he's from this Team Galactic. The coward runs into the building he's guarding and locks it from the
inside, but not before telling me his two buddies in the meadow have the other key. Stupid grunt.
So, I head off to the meadow, where I meet Galactic grunts #715 and #419. They're saying some weird nonsense about
honey and using it to attract Pokemon. Anyway, I decide to be annoying and interupt their intimidation of some guy. Of
course, they decide to each have a separate battle with me, during which my mighty team of Pokemon thrashes them as
ruthlessly as I thrashed their buddy. They run off after their lesson, leaving the key behind, which the grateful honey man lets
me have.
After healing up at the Pokemon Centre, it's back to the Windworks again. The first grunt I beat up met is waiting just
inside the door. He freaks out and runs, shouting something about alerting the commander. Great. Two more grunts, and
Nidoran is now a rather unruly Nidorina and Vulpix decided to take a nap and actually fell asleep during battle. Awesome.
At least Larvitar likes me, right? No, his level's getting too high now as well, so he's starting to not obey me. So sad.
So I finally meet this Galactic Commander whose named after one of the planets (like I bother to pay attention to some
idiot I'll probably never see again...right?). She's a little bit tougher than the grunts, but I thrash her quite throughoughly, too.
She runs, and father and daughter are reunited once more. The little girl mentions something about a balloon Pokemon
coming to visit. I wonder what that is.
Now that Galactic has cleared out, I'm finally able to head north. After beating up several trainers and getting some decent
experience for everyone except Vulpix (since she's pretty strong already), I came upon a forest. It doesn't look like it could be
that bad. Right after I enter, this lady approaches me and asks me to help her through the forest. In return, she'll keep my
Pokemon healthy during our journey. Sweet! No need to go to a Pokemon Centre every other battle because Nidorina
ignored my orders to death! Larvitar and Onix are having a field day in this forest; I never realized that rock is strong against
bug! At least, I'm pretty sure that's why I'm OHKO-ing these Wurmples with supereffective Rock Slides and stuff. Either way, this
place is great for training them. All the trainers here are paired up for double battles, so I get to battle alongside my
companion. She has a Chansey! I want! I'll just have to be patient and wait until I can get one.
Finally free of the forest and my Chansey-owning companion, I make it to Eterna, where I notice a bunch of Galactic grunts
wandering around. They aren't up to any battles, which is depressing. I talk to this one guy who tells me to do some stuff in
the Underground, where I happen to find a Fire Stone during my adventures. I guess that's pretty awesome; I can use it to
evolve Vulpix later, after she's learned flamethrower. After a while, I decide to investigate the gym, where I'm sure I'm about
to get thrashes around, considering half of my team is weak to grass. Towards the idea of lessening that ratio, I withdraw my
Dratini I'd been leaving in the PC finally. I feel pretty justified in using her, since the only Pokemon I have below her level is
Larvitar, and the difference is only one. Hopefully, her dragon typing will help me find a way to endure long enough to take
out this gym and get the awesome badge that'll make my Pokemon obey once more, at least, for a while.
Edit: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention this blond woman I ran into! She just came out of nowhere when I decided to investigate the
north side of town. Said her name was Cynthia, I think, and that she was a trainer. And she gave me an HM. Awesome.
Current Pokemon:
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|| Vulpix || Onix || Nidorina || Larvitar || Dratini ||
|| Level 18 || Level 18 || Level 17 || Level 15 || Level 16 ||
|| Female || Female || Female || Male || Female ||