The next morning, I have a look around Celestic Town, where I find that Celestic isn't BlueBomber's home. I enter a shop and find some guy who goes on about making choices in the morning & gives me a Choice Specs. I equip it to Treadshot (Pachirisu) & decided to deal with a man in a spacesuit who had intentions of blowing up the town. After dispatching the space suit guy, I went in the cave and learnt about mythology & got the HM for Surf for looking at it. I left the cave & went on my way to dispatch the trainers on the Celestic side of Route 211. Knocking those out of the way, I made my way to Veilstone, to buy the TM for Protect, & find out that the TM for Frustration costs 8,000 Coins (>_>). So I arm myself with 1,000 coins & play on the Slot Machines.
I gain 1,000 coins when I decide that there had to be a faster way. At that point, I remember about the Gentleman & the Socialite on Route 212 & their high payout. So I go there, get out my Vs. Seeker (Which had a fair bit of dust on it), and grind until I had enough money to get enough coins to get the TM (Frustration) compulsory for BlueBomber for when the evolution requirements were fufilled (Fantina's Mismagius Solo). In short, I get enough to get the TM, & make my way back to Hearthome to tackle the Gym.
I enter with BlueBomber at the fore with Treadshot's Choice Specs equipped, and clean out the eight trainers that lurked there, part way, I gave BlueBomber my two Rare Candies & got it to a level where it can learn Shadow Ball. Then, at Level 39, with Choice Specs equipped, & lurking at the front of the party, BlueBomber & I took on Fantina...
BlueBomber came out for me while she sent out BlueBomber's evo: Drifblim. The high level of BlueBomber overpowered Fantina's number & was easily OHKOed by the Choiced Shadow Ball.
Then came out Mismagius, the one Pokemon BlueBomber needed to solo to evolve. Mismagius got cocky & used Magical Leaf??? Magical Leaf??? On a Pokemon that could be OHKOed by a Shadow Ball??? What. A. Blunder. Is. The. AI. In. The. Game. Really. That. Dumb? Probably. So, BlueBomber took advantage of Fantina's Blunder & OHKOed Mismagius with Shadow Ball, completely filling BlueBomber's evolution requirements.
After the costly mistake, Fantina then sends out Gengar, who like Mismagius, outspeeds BlueBomber, & like Mismagius, bunders by using Spite??? What. A. Dumbass. Even. I. Would. Know. That. Shadow. Ball. Was. The. Better. Move. Which. Considering. Gengars. Special. Attack. Base. Stat. Would've. Easily. OHKOed. Poor. BlueBomber. Who. OHKOes. In. Reply. With. Shadow. Ball. Game. Over. I win the Relic Badge, the TM for Shadow Claw, & on top of that, BlueBomber grows to Level 40 & finally evolves into the Mighty Drifblim! As a reward, BlueBomber gets taught Frustration.
After that, I go to the Pokemon Centre to heal up. I see that before going to Canalave, it would be wise to train up my Pokemon (Big O (Prinplup) in particular) by exploring those routes previously inaccesable to me (The water part of Route 213, Route 218-221) & make some important decisions, as Big O needs to have his movepool ready by the time I get to invade Team Galactic's Veilstone Headquarters, & that means grinding, grinding, & more grinding (Boo!). So I decide to delay Big O's evolution until Level 51 (Where Prinplup can learn Hydro Pump) & aim for a moveset of Drill Peck, Hydro Pump, Ice Beam, & Protect.
So, before I can go & train, I see that I lack a surfer (Big O can learn Surf, but...), so I decide to go & catch a Pokemon to teach Surf to. I grab my Good Rod & fish in a body of water on Route 209. I eventually hook a Goldeen, reduce his health, & catch it in a Poke Ball, naming it Goldfish. I add it to my party at the expense of BlueBomber (Well at level 40, it doesn't need much grinding at the moment...), teach it Surf, & hang ten on Route 213. After getting all the goodies that were there, I ride my way to Route 219 on a bike, & defeat the trainers on that route & those on Route 220 & Route 221. After that, I beat the trainers on Route 218 before arriving at Canalave City, where I send Goldfish to the PC & bring BlueBomber back out. I then try to cross the bridge before Someone appears, challenging me to a battle.
I send out Treadshot while he sends out Staravia. Treadshot scores an easy OHKO on Staravia with Discharge.
Then Big O comes in on Ponyta. Big O OHKOes Ponyta with Brine, after shrugging off a Fire Spin.
Faricimo comes in on Grotle for "Round 3". Round 3 ends quickly, Faricimo putting Grotle to sleep & 2HKOing with X-Scissor.
Heracross then comes in while I send in Metapod (Mothim). Heracross gives Metapod a challenge, putting him in KO range after 2 Night Slashes (No Crits fortunately), but was 2HKOed by Gust.
Treadshot comes in again to deal with Someone's final Pokemon: Buizel. Treadshot again scores a OHKO with Discharge & wins me the battle.
After that, I heal up at the Pokemon Centre & set sail on a leaky boat to Iron Island. I defeat the trainers there & after beating a couple of spacemen alongside a guy with a Lucario, I get an offer to take an egg. I decline, due to lack of space in the party. After arriving back in Canalave, I find that it isn't BlueBomber's home, & take on Canalave Gym. after easily schooling the trainers there with Big O, I take on Byron for Badge #6.
I send in Big O while he sends in Bronzor. Thinking that it would be too easy to beat Byron, I switch in Faricimo to give her a chance to take it on. She switches in on Extrasensory, which doesn't do much damage (Thanks to Bronzor's pitiful Special Attack stat). After missing with Sing, Faricimo puts it in KO range with 2 X-Scissors while it uses in order: FlashCannon, Extrasensory, Hypnosis. Unfortunately, Hypnosis hits. I then switch Big O while Byron heals up with a Hyper Potion. Big O attacks with Brine, which doesn't do that much damage. While he whethers a couple of weak Extrasensory's & a missed Hypnosis, Big O puts Bronzor in KO range with 2 Pecks, before delivering the knockout blow with it.
Big O stays in for Steelix, almost KOing it with Brine while Steelix Dragonbreaths, not paralyzing Big O. After Scrambling for another Hyper Potion, Steelix eventually drops after 2 more Brines from Big O.
Last, but not least, comes Bastiodon. I send in Metapod with his super-duper trusty-dusty HP Fighting (Which I assume to be weaker than Confusion). While Metapod sprays Bastiodon with HP Fighting, Byron again proves the lack of intelligence that the AI has by using Rest (With more than half-health), consuming the Chesto Berry, then Resting again with about the same health as last time. Metapod abuses the Resting period & 3HKOes Bastiodon with HP Fighting, & winning me the battle, the Mine Badge, & the TM for Flash Cannon.
After that battle, Someone appears (again?) & tells me to go to the library. Before going there, I heal at the Pokemon Centre. And that's where we leave off...
