Pokemon Blue Nuzlocke Time! (Part 5)

[guardians_song]

Training montage is a go!





((I seem to have ticked off the emulator at this point. There were several blank images like the above at this point. Fortunately, nothing too important was lost...))



Syaoran: At this point, Reservoir requested to take a short venture into Mt. Moon, saying that he felt something...

This exhibit now available at YOUR local overly-pretentious "modern art museum"! :D


((This battle may or may not have taken a Potion.))





Syaoran: Eh...?!






Syaoran: Um...
Reservoir: Got so carried away there I forgot to finish my sentence :U

Syaoran: Congratulations, Reservoir! You evolved!
Reservoir: Yeah... felt like I needed to have a battle in here. That Clefairy...
Syaoran: Eh?
Reservoir: Nothing.


Syaoran: (Unfortunately, so had the Pokemon thieves...)


Syaoran: *pries one off neck* You don't say?


Wormtail: Next time anyone needs to go out of their preplanned way for a special battle, can we just toss 'em in the PC and go do what they want when the rest of us have gone according to plan?

Syaoran: Pokedex entries for the unconventional additions...



Wormtail: See, boss? They're weaker than your "mythology".
Syaoran: ...It was never the carp that mattered...
Wormtail: Eh?


Syaoran: (As I approached the PC to alter my party, the Magikarp salesman made a hasty departure.)


Wormtail: I can kill you with my teeth. FEAR ME.








Syaoran: You know, he's rapidly gaining on your Speed and Attack.
Sky Terror: Aaaaawk! You think that Defense and Special can dream of comparing to mine?!
Syaoran: But if the foe is downed before it can strike back...


Syaoran: STAB! Finally!
Reservoir: "STAB"? What does that mean?
Syaoran: Oh, it means -
Queen Aria: It means I can stab people with this. *nasty buck-toothed grin*




Syaoran: His attack just surpassed...
Sky Terror: AAAAAWK!


Syaoran: (With the exception of one early mistake, we did not harm the local Jigglypuff population. LEERSPEAR explained that they were left out of the fights in the area, as the Balloon Pokemon were pacifistic singers who stayed aloof from territorial conflicts. There was also something strange about them being 'mediators' and 'strategists', too; after some point in his explanation, I had an unnerving feeling they passed for a local government.

As he explained the special status of these odd beings, Queen Aria was strangely serious and silent...)


Syaoran: *sigh* Much as I hate to say it, Sky Terror...
Sky Terror: BAH!! NO APOLOGIES! THIS RIVALRY ISN'T OVER!!
LEERSPEAR: ...One would think that I would be the Capslock addict.


Syaoran: ...And into the caves we go.


Syaoran: Is everyone prepared?
Pokemon: Absolutely!


((Water Gun, as I recall.))


...ound a Potion? Or a PokeBall, maybe. Safe bet in this place.


Syaoran: (A paranoid Bug Catcher attacked me when I tried to ask him for directions...)


Syaoran: (...but fortunately proved helpless in the face of LEERSPEAR's attacks.)


Syaoran: (My heart sank at the news that they were out and about...)


Syaoran: YOU sneaked up on ME! D:


Syaoran: (Fortunately, the ambush proved ineffective.)


Syaoran: ...My Pokemon didn't start out as the strongest. However, through hard work, training, and companionship, I -
Super Nerd: No ifs, ands, or buts about it! Weak Pokemon aren't good for anything! Only the strongest will do! Strength is immutable!
Syaoran: (I restrained myself from commenting that, in that case, he'd always be a weak Trainer...)




Syaoran: But those aren't directions through the ca-

Syaoran: Never mind.


Syaoran: (....! A valuable commodity; now I had an option to escape if my Pokemon's wounds grew too great.
For the time being, however, I pressed onward...)

((It so happened that, with the exception of the Clefairy battle, I did all of Mt. Moon without running back to a Pokecenter. Definitely not what I was expecting!

As it turned out, the Zubats were around level 8 and I saw level 7 Geodudes later in the cave. Turns out Petra was the top of the curve. :U WHOOPS.))


LEERSPEAR: A part of our heritage... More simple, elegant moves make for better techniques, I say.


Syaoran: She was apparently struck speechless.

((I need to take screencaps at better moments >_>))

Syaoran: (I pointed to the direction from which I had come, and she thanked me and departed. I hope she emerged safely.)


Syaoran: (I started venturing through Mt. Moon's underground tunnels...)

Syaoran: (...And was accosted by a rough-looking fellow on my way to pick up an item.)

Syaoran: (A moment later, he viciously attacked me.)


Syaoran: (One of the thieves!

I memorized his uniform for future reference, taking especial note of the cruel whip he carried. It was obvious that what obedience his Pokemon had was "enforced"...)


Syaoran: (...I put the emaciated, mistreated things out of their misery, making a silent prayer that their futures would be better for it.)





Syaoran: (I contemplated decking him, but that would be brutish...)


Syaoran: (...Especially since I planned to "give" him an encounter with the Pewter City Police as soon as possible.
Those poor Pokemon would have justice in due time.)




Syaoran: I think many of the girls down here would appreciate you "showing off" your sense of direction. And any Escape Ropes you might happen to find.


Syaoran: (-a Moon Stone.
Looking at it, I saw that, under strong light, it gave off a strange opalescent gleam; I could well believe it came from somewhere other than this earth.
Queen Aria nosed about it curiously.)
Syaoran: What do you think?
Queen Aria: ...
So that's a Moon Stone, is it...
Syaoran: (She would say no more.)




Syaoran: (As with Brock before him, Reservoir made short work of his Rock/Ground types.)


Syaoran: (Further on, another Rocket accosted me.)

Syaoran: (The beast he sent out, however... this one didn't seem to object to its user's corrupt nature. Quite the contrary.)

Syaoran: (It attacked with relentless savagery, going for its opponent's weak points without a second's hesitation. Its terrible teeth, its slashing claws...)
Petra: Ugh-!
Syaoran: Petra, come back! Let's -
(I quickly evaluated which of my friends had the best ability to weather its mighty blows, then sent out Reservoir.)


Syaoran: (Unfortunately, the creature was nothing if not persistent in dropping the defenses of its opponents; uncertain that even Reservoir could weather a critical hit from those gnashing teeth with his defenses lowered, I began switching between Reservoir and Monarch to ward off the effects of the status changes.)


Syaoran: (Monarch found nearly half his life force torn away by a single blow; he could have survived a critical, but by the barest of threads.
I dared not have him try to finish with Confusion, in case the beast pulled out such a critical in his weakened state.)


Syaoran: (Fortunately, Reservoir found an opening, and put an end to the beast's hour of terror.)



Syaoran: ...Thank you, Captain Obvious.


Syaoran: (My team was ravaged by the beast's cruel blows; though Mt. Moon had, as of yet, been gentler than my expectations, that battle alone justified all the training I had given my friends and more. Had we been any weaker, it might have devoured us alive.)


Syaoran: Without even giving them over to scientists for study?!
Rocket: Ha ha! Kid, that's a good one!


Syaoran: (A cruel man and a sore loser.)


Syaoran: ...Is that supposed to intimidate me?


Syaoran: (Another one... well, this is the cave upon which they famously fell...)


Syaoran: (I prepared myself for battle, healing the worst-wounded of my friends.)


Syaoran: (A nerdy man screamed at me as I ascended the steps carved into the rock.)

Syaoran: (I tried to reason with him, but -)



Syaoran: (Monarch volunteered to fight him, having some intuition that he would be the most effective.)


Wormtail: ...I'd like to apologize on behalf of all of us that doubted ya.
Monarch: Apology accepted, my good rat.


Petra: I'm taking up juggling.
Voltorb: "Take up" - bzzt! - someone else, you - BZZT!


Syaoran: (The cavern lit up brighter than the sun as Monarch made short work of the Nerd's last Pokemon.)
Monarch: A performance worthy of royalty, I must say/


Syaoran: (Still convinced that I wanted his fossils, he insisted...)


Syaoran: (I wouldn't have taken either of the fossils he had unearthed, but it seemed the only way to pacify him. The man was more than a little obsessive and not terribly interested in listening to whatever I had to say.)


Syaoran: (After a moment's hesitation, I took the fossil on the left. Something about it called to me...)


Syaoran: (He took the other, putting it away carefully in his bag.)


Syaoran: (With that, he hiked off, and we went our separate ways.)


Syaoran: Is this...!


Syaoran: FRESH AIR! SUNLIGHT!
We survived, everyone!
Pokemon: Hoorah!
Petra: ...Dang, it's bright out here. How do you surface-dwellers manage?
Reservoir: Your eyes will adjust after a while, I figure.


Syaoran: Route 4... A new place, with new Pokemon. Heavens willing.


((I now have both Mega Kick and Mega Punch. I'll use the TMs if the spirit moves me, but otherwise I'm a hoarder. I really ought to put these in my PC, come to think of it.))


Syaoran: Hmph. Shows what these Lasses know. I stare at her for a while, and she doesn't even notice. If I'd just gone about my own business? She surely would have noticed me and accused me of stalking her before assaulting my Pokemon!


Syaoran: (...For some reason, I felt strangely blue as I walked into Cerulean, leaving the past and familiar territory behind.)


Syaoran: Doesn't that ruin the point? :\
Woman: You're a country kid, aren't you? Oh, you silly boy. You don't know what a status symbol is.
Syaoran: (Not in the way she did, certainly. I must admit, I wasn't sure about this 'city' thing.
Pewter may have been a city, but it had been more based around its museum and the paleontological investigations into rocky Mt. Moon than anything else. This place... felt different. Not necessarily in a good way.)


Syaoran: Cool, I -

Syaoran: (...the city was certainly MUCH different than what I was used to.)


Syaoran: Stop shouting. Nerve signals don't travel very quickly in a Slowbro, and you're likely confusing the poor thing. :\
Woman: Shut up! It's my Pokemon, and I know better how it works than some snot-nosed brat like you! It's just being lazy and insolent!
Syaoran: (...I was beginning to wonder if the gentleman I had met at the Mt. Moon Pokemon Center was a typical city resident...)


Syaoran: Do you ever get the feeling someone's standing on the border of your conversation?


Syaoran: I replenished my inventory.


Syaoran: I've heard of her. What about you, Reservoir?
Reservoir: *clutches a life-sized poster to his breast* Misty?! Can I have her autograph?!
Syaoran: ...In retrospect, I should have known better than to ask a lab-raised Water Pokemon that question.


Syaoran: - their operating system? :U

Syaoran: Oh. Wrong Bill.



Syaoran: (As he "entertained" me with conspiracy theories, I reflected that, though I had just spoken to two city residents who had shown nothing but enthusiasm and good cheer, it seemed a fair fraction of them were less-than-pleasant sorts...)


Syaoran: (My Pokemon, who had emerged from the cave in good (if battered) shape, now expressed a desire to rest, and I gladly obliged them.)


((Great image for a creepypasta!))

Next time is Nugget Bridge! See you then!

Comments

[sarajayechan]

Reservoir/Misty OTP? XD *bricked*

Also yay for getting through Mt. Moon so easily. @_@ It can be a real challege, especially with the twisty maze business.

[guardians_song]

He's just a fanboy, don't worry. :P

It turns out that Confusion!Butterfree REEEEALLY makes it more managable. XD (And Spearow for the Bugs, Squirtle/Wartortle for the Rocks.)

[sarajayechan]

Hahaha. XD I thought so.

Yeah, Confusion's not much of an attack in the long run but early on it can be a lifesaver.

[guardians_song]

It beats up Poison-types before you get any other super effective attacks and is the only supereffective attack you get before Brock if you're Charmandering it up. Butterfree = early-game gamebreaker, even if it falls behind later on.