With the
Zefer Zepher Zephyr badge in tow, I left the Violet City gym and was bombarded with a phone call about that egg, (if this was a normal RPG that egg would end up being a huge plot point, but Pokemon is far from normal) and so I went and picked it up, and was then told that eggs only hatch when they're in my party.
I mean, it's not like I already have three eggs in my party already. Did I mention that in my last update? I don't remember, whatever, I have those eggs from Primo.
Anyway, I was finally able to leave that horrible city (I only dislike it becase it reminds so much of my hometown, full of old people who refuse to accept that modern technology is actually a good thing), on my way out, I was given a souvenir, a Miracle Seed, and when your only Pokemon is a Bayleef, you take what you can get.
On the way to Union Cave, and my newest team member, Support learnt Reflect, so unlike RNG from my Emerald challange, my starter has a full moveset almost straight away.
Exploring the basement of the Union Cave (10% encounter rate in basement, 5% everywhere else) Support and I stumbled upon an Onix, who we figured would die from a single Razor Leaf, so we poisoned her and stalled, catching her on the last Pokeball, they have stupidly low catch rates. So I named her Behemoth and looked at her stats, pretty normal, annoyingly she couldn't attack because she had no Rock, Ground or Steel moves, oh and her nature...? Bold... It's happening all over again! Bold is the new Quiet! I'm calling it now.
So after a bit of grinding and two phone calls from Youngster Joey, Behemoth learned Rock Throw, and was able to you know, contribute.
On the way into Azalea Town, I met Hiker Anthony, who assumed, that because I travel, I see all kinds of towns.... Azalea would have been the fourth town I had ever seen, but I didn't want to upset him.
(Do you guys remember in my first HG update, (of course you don't, it was ages ago) that the first thing Support did when I spoke to her was sneeze? Well, Behemoth's first interaction with me was 'nipping my feet'. What the hell? Onixes shouldn't do that.)
So the locals kept banging on about this Kurt guy, who could make Pokeballs out of fruit, sounds cool, I thought. But he was all like, 'nuh-uh, I'm ggoing to stop Team Rocket, and ran off'. So I begrudgingly followed. We ended up at the bottom of a well, and he just happened to have hurt his back, so I would have to do all the work instead. There are reasons why the elderly annoy me, this is just one.
Well, my first battle against Team Rocket, time to ROCK IT. Get it, because they're Team Rocket, and I was using Behemoth... come back! I promise I'll never make a pun again... unless I forget, which, I almost certainly will.
After powering through Team Rocket, I met executive Proton, who is 'the cruelest guy in Team Rocket'. He then proceeded to send out a level 8 Zubat... I had iterally only a moment ago defeated a wild, level 9 Zubat. I didn't have the heart to tell him.
After breezing through Proton, Kurt's back magically restored itself, and then he took me back to his house with his instant matter teleportation powers, which I assume rely on his back being healthy, because he otherwise would have been able to take on Team Rocket by himself.
Deciding to leave the old man with my Apricorns, (you have to give old people something to do, otherwise their mind goes) I went to the gym, and Onix learned Rage, which is a shame, because I can't use it. I just want to shout I'm about to unleash my Rage, so bad.
And so, Support vs. Bugsy, but for all intents and purposes it was really Support vs. Scyther, because screw Kakuna and Metapod, they literally served no purpose other that to annoy; Kakuna's poison typing meaning no poisoning it,
and Bugsy using his Super Potion on it and Metapod's Shed Skin, made them both very hard to take down. Scyther itself wasn't too bad, basically I just set up a Reflect, and poisoned it, and healed as appropriate. GG Bugsy.
