Pokemon Blue Nuzlocke Time! (Part 11.5)

[guardians_song]

Syaoran: (I returned to Saffron...)

Syaoran: (...to find the "security guard" mercifully asleep. With him down, I could sneak inside.
One wondered if he'd remain asleep when the Vermillion and Cerulean police began pouring in through the guard stations...)


Syaoran: (Though Silph Co.'s main office was a beautiful building, its former perfection was marred by countless marks of battle: the pool was contaminated by purple and green patches of poison, the potted plants torn asunder, and the counter scarred by deep gouges from Pokemon's claws.
It was obvious that the real security guards had not gone quietly.)


Syaoran: (Almost as soon as I ascended the first stairs, a jittery Rocket rushed up to me and sent out his Pokemon...)


Syaoran: (...To little avail.)
((Again - overleveled, right? Right? I mean, look at that poor L25 Golbat! I'm just making this a cakewalk... *twitch*))

Rocket: Our boss is "initiating" the merger as we speak! Nyah ha ha!
Syaoran: ...(I tied him up with an Escape Rope and went on my way.)


Syaoran: Neither are criminals!



Syaoran: ...Where am I going to find one of those?


Syaoran: So let's test out these "teleporters"...

Syaoran: Whoa!



Monarch: My mental arts are more refined than ever. Prepare for a beam of pure psychic power, miscreants.

Syaoran: (I wondered if his brothers were any more competent as fighters than he was...)

Syaoran: (I made a brief excursion to the Pokecenter to heal my friends. The security guard, now bound and gagged outside, could no longer prevent my re-entry. My only concern was the news of my assault traveling throughout the building...)


Klakarton: Ohohoh... So you captured one of the Great Old Ones.
Syaoran: What?! It's L30!
Klakarton: So it appears to your mortal eyes. But he merely sleeps.
Syaoran: I woke him up with the Poke Flute.
Klakarton: No, he merely entered a state of lighter sleep. Only when the stars align shall he truly wake. And then, the entire world shall tremble...
Syaoran: ...


Syaoran: (The workers were so dedicated that they slept here...)


Syaoran: (Evidently, word of my attack upon the Rockets had traveled...)


Ambassador: *hopping about in potted plant* Accept your defeat!


Syaoran: The police have already arranged a nice jail cell as your new home.
Scientist: Wh-what?! You're joking! We have the guards blocking off all entrances to Saffron, and the police here are either bought or brought to heel! You - you stupid kid... you think I'll fall for that one?!

((Pictured: an attack that literally went across two Pokemon.
Thank you for your failtastic nature, enemy AI. I never realized I could achieve a 1/2HKO.))

Syaoran: *starts drawing map* Oh, you had better believe it...


Syaoran: This is pre-Levitate, you idiot. Magnetons are Dig fodder.




Syaoran: You heard correctly.


Reservoir: *emerges from the ruins of a potted plant* It wasn't easy, but...

Scientist: -can exploit them!



((Pictured: The embarrassing legacy of a self-destructer with VERY LOW ATTACK POWER.

Remind me, who though it was a brilliant idea to make the Voltorb/Electrode line one of the canonical self-destructers, again?))


Ambassador: You don't say?





((BWAHAHAHAHA! Freakin' EPIC!)


Syaoran: Yulong! D:
Yulong: ...I must withdraw...
((Okay. Like I said, I THINK this was a Confuse Ray incident. Yulong's Attack is obscene, so it badly threw off my calculations for how much damage he'd get from this fight...
Poor Yulong, though. I think my heart literally skipped a beat when I saw his HP draining down to the bottom. I did NOT know how I'd deal with losing my Uberados so soon...))


Rocket Brother #2: ...What do you mean, you already beat one? D:

Syaoran: (With Yulong so badly weakened, I had little choice but to retreat immediately.)

((As you can see, Silph Co. is hard on one.))

Syaoran: (I re-entered Silph Co....)



Syaoran: The kid who foiled you at Mt. Moon, and the kid who took out your Celadon operation.
Rocket: Wh-what?!







Syaoran: He won't have it for long.



Syaoran: ...?!?!?!

Syaoran: (In one meeting room, several Silph employees were being held captive. I challenged their guard to a battle...)




Rocket Brother #3: What do you mean, "brother, SINGULAR"? You mean - AAAAAAGH! You little brat! I - I - Mommy!


Syaoran: (They were too panicked to give me much information beyond the obvious; I was able to shepherd them to safety at the Pokemon Center, taking care not to be seen.)

((Warped out again...))

Syaoran: Call this an unscheduled performance review.


Syaoran: ...Toughened, you mean. And I'll do my utmost to see that he gets to "toughen" as few Pokemon as possible.


Syaoran: You think this is a game?

Syaoran: ...You think you can intimidate me? After Pokemon Tower, nothing can scare me.

Syaoran: I'm not satisfied until Silph Co. is freed from your tyranny!






Syaoran: Thank you for the information.


((We now take a brief interlude to examine Pokedex entries obtained from methods other than capture.))






((Back to your regularly scheduled programming...))


Scientist: That rotten Silph Co. President!

Syaoran: And it had nothing to do with your obvious corruption, did it?



Syaoran: Where's Russia?
Scientist: Exactly my point!
(For the curious, here's Tiksi's Wikipedia entry.)

((It's interesting how blatant the original game makes it, through small references like these, that Pokemon was meant to be set in an alternate version of our world. Later it changed to being in Kanto/Johto/Hoenn/Orre/Sinnoh/Unova, but in the beginning...))


Syaoran: What?!


Syaoran: That - that's not how things work!


Syaoran: ...You really think I'm stupid, don't you?



Syaoran: After this, you'll work on producing license plates in prison.





Syaoran: You mean, the brothers I already defeated?
Rocket: ...*whimpers and curls up in the fetal position*


Wormtail: Who are you calling "little"?

((I love this animation, sorry.))

((Same with this animation, even though it's used against me. :( ))

Syaoran: What gives you the idea I'm just scurrying around?

((Fun fact: you can tell that Rival is pre-set here and at Pokemon Tower. But I haven't the slightest whether he's pre-set up at Cerulean Bridge or Route 22. Any ideas?))

Syaoran: Not in the slightest.



((Another 1/2HKO! XD))

((Whoo-hoo! Live like a windrammer as you crit! :D))





Syaoran: Quit messing with Pokemon!


Syaoran: ...Yes, I guessed...


Syaoran: Get downstairs, go to the Pokecenter or Pokemart. Take care not to be seen. There are others gathered there. Good luck.

((Warpedy-warpedy! :D))


Syaoran: ...Believe me, you're not the only one...


Syaoran: "Slaves", you mean?


Syaoran: Weak Pokemon? Don't you mean "weak Trainer"?
Scientist: Shut up! It's not my fault, it's theirs! That's scientifically proven! Just go away!

Syaoran: I get the point!


((Kadabra, Machoke, Graveler, Haunter...)


Juggler: -kids here!


Syaoran: ...Say. All Psychics? Are you from the Saffron Gym?
Juggler: What's your point, kid? They wiped the floor with us! If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!
Syaoran: And how did they wipe the floor with Psychics?
Juggler: That's confidential, brat!






Syaoran: YES!



Syaoran: (This kind young lady offered me rest and encouragement. Good heavens, did I need it.)

Syaoran: (He taunted me as though I were naive and foolish, but I detected a note of jealousy in his voice...)



Syaoran: (He looked wistful, and I left him sitting on the floor, contemplating his battered PokeBalls.)


Syaoran: Your mistake.

((Note to designers: Give Self-Destruct to Pokemon with an actual Attack stat.))


Syaoran: And Silph Co. doesn't?!
Scientist: Bah! Only with all these bothersome ethical regulations. *sneer*
Syaoran: (Somehow, I thought Silph Co. was definitely better off without him...)



Syaoran: I rested again, and -


Syaoran: S-Shaoron?! What are you - are you helping with Silph, too?




Syaoran: You - you don't care? When they have control over -
Shaoron: Heh! As if that matters to me!


Syaoran: ...After Pokemon Tower, that no longer - ugh! - is enough to daze me!




((I PANICKED when I saw this.
My only consolation was that it was likely overleveled, as it had been back in Cerulean.
Eheheheh, no. My team's levels, as you'll see in a bit, were 32/37/32/28/36/32. I was completely unprepared to deal with this high-level a team. And all prior indications were that I was OVER-leveled, given that the strongest Rockets were waving around L33 Pokemon.
I was very bleeping glad I had Super Potions out. I needed them for the Gyarados.))


Shaoron: So you have one of the legendary dragons on your side? Hahaha! You think that will give you the victory, don't you? But two can play at that game!

Syaoran: (!!!)
I - Reservoir, get it! You have the best Defense! You have the best chance of weathering its attacks!
Shaoron: Ha! Obviously you've never heard of the dragon's rage!


((...Two Super Potions later...))




((!!!))
Yulong: HIII-RAAAAH! *finishes Alakazam on the next bite*
Syaoran: Dang, that was close... a critical, at that time... Yulong, return! Go, LEERSPEAR!
((And THAT is why Nuzlockers always advise that you should treat every hit as a critical! DANG!))

LEERSPEAR: Hmph. Had I been of a more intellectual sort, I would have already inscribed a scroll in praise of the vegetarian diet.


Syaoran: ...And how do you know of the strength of Boss Rocket, Shaoron, when you've lifted not a finger to stop the Rockets?
Shaoron: Hahaha! Answer that question yourself, you naive child!

Shaoron: It's not like you have a chance anyway! So just go ahead and stop to smell the Vileplumes...
Syaoran: Who are you, and what have you done with Shaoron?
Shaoron: Heh heh heh... as if you'd understand if I told you...


Syaoran: ...


Syaoran: And what of the boy who just left?
Man: ... .... ... He... Let's not talk about him.


((^Pictured: EXACTLY HOW BUSHWHACKED I WAS BY THAT BATTLE.))



Syaoran: ...I hope I will.



((Ugh... Not a fun fight...))

Syaoran: ...Thanks. I appreciate all of this more than I can say.
Young Woman: Just keep fighting. One boy against this entire organization... We owe you. Beyond measure. Don't ever forget that.
Syaoran: ...I'll clean all I can out of this building, then head up to dispatch their leader. ...In the meantime, take care of yourself.
Young Woman: And the same to you.




((a.k.a. THE TM NO NUZLOCKER EVER WANTS TO USE, MA'AM?! Are you sure you weren't planning to hand that off to some dopey Rocket member?!))

((Silph Co. montage!))









Syaoran: (I found another room where the employees had been held hostage...)


((YOU DON'T SAY?))



((/end montage))



Syaoran: ...*walks forward*
Rocket: *throws up hands* Well, I can't stop you...


Syaoran: (As the door slid open, Giovanni turned around, smiling.)


Syaoran: (...After Pokemon Tower, this much mortal evil didn't disorient me, but...
It did faze me. That man... so much corruption...)


Syaoran: (I half-wondered if it had lost the will to battle after its earlier defeat; it handed me the victory with little bother, thank heavens. The rage seemed to have gone out of it...)


Reservoir: Yo, Giovanni! Type match-ups! They exist!


Syaoran: (...While the Nidoqueen was a member of his team I hadn't seen before, it seemed oddly familiar.
...I was going to have to ask for security tapes after this battle. Something wasn't right here.)


Syaoran: (In defeat, he lost his composure.)

Syaoran: (Such villainy, in a single man...)


((Shaoron was a MUCH worse boss than this. D:))


Syaoran: You're very welcome, ma'am.




Syaoran: ...May I also have security tapes of this battle? I... thought I recognized someone.
Silph Co. President: But of course! What a paltry thing to ask! This Master Ball, though -

Syaoran: I will. Thank you, sir.

Syaoran: And now -

Syaoran: (And so I departed from Silph Co., comforted by the knowledge that the company was saved...
...if not comforted by Shaoron's... behavior...)

((Back at the Pokemon Center!))

((Wormtail, tragically, is falling behind. He may get replaced before Elite Four.
Yulong, though... Whooooo. Higher Special than anyone on the team, best Attack stat by miles, Defense stat second only to the giant turtletank, and HP stat higher than ANYONE else... Bwahahaha! Tremble and despair, my enemies! For I have a legendary dragon-carp on my side! :D *glomps Gyarados for now and for all generations after this*))

((HECK YES!!!))

Next time: The freed Saffron , and the Fighting Dojo! (Sabrina to come the time after that, sorry. She'll probably have an update to herself.)