EDIT: Ok, before I begin. A word of advice to those playing FRLG. DON'T use Virindian Forest as a training ground. to many chances for Poison to kill you're pokemon
Parts 1-3
Parts 4-6
Parts 7-10a
Part 10b:the downpore, of vines!
Now that I've got an answer to Misty, I need to get everyone up to par, starting with Chomper. He pops out of his pokeball and starts tearing through the wild pokemon with glee, though I have to call him off several times before he kills them. "No need to actualy kill them," I tell him, "just knock them out." He seems to understand, and controls his attacks. Then, after a while, he starts putting off attacks until he's been hit once. I couldn't understand that, so I pulled out my pokedex, and realize that he's learned Focus Energy. Seems fine to me, so he finnishes off the bellsprout and comes back to me. Almost expecting it, I close my eyes instantly as the bright light apears. I had just checked ratata's information in the pokedex, so I knew that the evolution was called Raticate. When the light cleared, Chomper stood before me, looking like he had let himself go REALLY badly... I wondered if he lost any speed in the evolution, but that fear was quickly demolished as he travels nearly as fast as I can see to take out another ratata. I smile and call him back. He was done trainging
After several more hours of intense training, the only pokemon left is Victoria. Easing her into it, not wanted another POWDER episode, I constantly switch in and out. Bullet Seed is useful, but I'm leaning toward using Vine Whip more, which makes me wonder if using the TM was really worth it. I guess it doesn't really matter, since none of my other pokemon could use it. As she gets better, Victoria begins taking on opponents by herself, except for the pesky spearows of course. I can see her eyes light up with exileration at the idea of battling, which I assume is a good sign. Like all my other pokemon, she needed to be taught to control herself, but once she did everything went smoothly.
Finally Victoria reaches the level of strength that the rest boast, so I take her into the gym. First up is some guy in a swimsuit, sending out a couple of lower level water types. "Vine Whip!" Two water types up, two water types down. Victoria looks rather pleased with her acomplishment. I know that, no matter how wimpy she may look, victoria is a force to be reckoned with. Next is an EXTREMELY overconfident girl, who says she'll wipe the floor with me, when she only has one pokemon. The battle was quick, and painless on my side of things anyway. Seaking got away with only a few scars. So I turn to face Misty, but suddenly the gym is glowing with intense light. I was NOT expecting Victoria to evolve... But indeed, that's what happened. I look up in my pokedex that I now have a Weepinbell. Funny how it's called weepinbell, but Misty will be the one crying once it battles her.
Speaking of whom, misty seems completely unfazed by the whole escapade. So either she's used to it by now, or she's just dumb. Not wanting to assume the later, I assume she's seem at least one evolution in here. So, with a confident looking Victoria in tow, I walk up the pedastal and chat with Misty. She says something about a policy, and her's being all out offensive. I woder to myself what mine is, and pretty much come up with the same idea.
Anyway, the Staru I'm facing doesn't look particularly powerful, but is indeed fast. It starts spinning in circles, and I'm wondering what's happening. Suddenly a great ring of water smacks Victoria from behind, coming from the pool. Weepinbell can't seem to work out what's happening, but takes my word for it when I say that Staru is the problem. One down. Now Misty sends out Starmie. This thing does look powerful, and I'm wondering if I should've trained more. I tell Victoria to Vine Whip once again, and without Staru she seems to have cleared her mind. Starmie takes a heavy hit, but not heavy enough. Water Pulse comes again, but this time Victoria expects it, and knows what's going on. "Bullet Seed," I command, hoping she'd string together enough to take out this moster. At first it seemed like she had, but no. Starmie still stood. I told Victoria to repeat bullet seed, but Misty decided that she wanted to heal Starmie first. While Misty was putting up the used bottle, however, Victoria used the opertunity to get in five hits with Bullet Seed. Now seeing a chance that I hadn't attempted before, I switch tactics. "Sleep Powder!" I yell, "sweet dreams," I add as the Starmie falls asleep. "Now finnish this with Vine Whip!" Two hits was all it took, and I was walking out with this lovely Cascade badge and a very confident Victoria.
Part 11: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
As I head out I think more about my "policy" for battling. I decided that, for two reasons, mine was NOT an all out offensive. 1) people who go all out don't care how much damage they do, and use moves that can poison other people's pokemon. I shuddered at the thought. I would never try to poison something else, dooming them to die once I left them, because I knew that, even if my pokemon didn't finnish them off, the poison would. 2) I do, on the other hand, use moves like Sleep Powder and Supersonic. Those are not all out offensive moves, but they are extremely usefull.
In the end, I come to the conclusion that my policy is to fight how I want. yeah, not very specific. I stop thinking about it for a while, and head back up north to see this Bill kid. Seems like he knows a thing or two about pokemon. I notice a new patch of grass, and check my map to see if this is a different route. Yes it is! Time to see what I can catch. Caterpie! "Hmm, do I really want another caterpie? I don't want a repeat of POWDER..." After mulling it over, and a little encouragement from Scortch, I throw the pokeball and
Monarch joins the team. I resolve to work on his later, however, now is not the time.
I blow through all the trainers, LVing up JackieChan as we go, and I come to a house with a beautifull view. I was never much of a photagrapher, but it wouldn't've taken much of one to get an awesome picture from this cliff. The view holds my gaze fore a few seconds, minutes, or hours, I'm not really sure which; but I finally break off and enter the house. I see a clefairy, but no boy. Disapointed, I turn around and start heading for the door
"WAIT!! HELP ME!" cries the little pokemon. I turn on the spot, I had never heard pokemon talk before... "I am Bill, but my experiment got messed up and I fused with a pokemon. Please, could you help?" Trying to hide my laughter at the deep voice coming from the little clefairy, I nod. "Ok great, just flip that switch on the computer when I'm in the machine." These instructions souded easy, until I realise that there are about 50 switches on this thing... Hoping that I magicaly pick the right one, I flip one of them, and it seems to work. Now I'm just hoping that a boy comes out and not a mutant. Indeed, Bill walks out and thanks me by giving me a ticket to a brand new cruise ship, the S.S. Anne.
Excited about the prospective of going on a cruise, I eagerly head toward vermilion city. Suddenly I realize that all the paths are blocked... How can I get to the cruise ship in time? Then I notice the police officer standing by the door of one of the houses, muttering something along the lines of, "blast that team rocket, how are we gonna catch him now..." Anger stirred in my heart, Team Rocket again? I'll show this guy. I head into the house, and am shocked to find the whole wall blown out. "How in the world did this happen?!" The wife was in too much shock to tell me, but the husband said that Team Rocket stole his TM Dig. I race out the hole and release Dracula to scout out where the thief went. He had not gone far, and with a little persuasion he gave me back the TM and vamoosed. I head back, Charmeleon leading the way into the night, to give the TM back to the rightful owners; however, they say to keep it, and that they'll just use diglet instead. Chomper, here's a new move for you.
I continue on to route 5, where I stop and check out the native pokemon. Meowth! Eager for a new addition to the team, I catch
Frisky and leave him with the Day Care Center just south of where I caught him. [outside note, this guy doesn't breed for you, so I'm allowing it] After running around for a bit, I pick up Frisky for $500 and start training him myself. I notice his naughty behavior at first, but he begins to respect m commands, and becomes a powerful force. Suddenly one battle he begins chucking coins at his opponent. I find this a double blessing, gaining some extra dough and EXP at the same time is always good! In fact, I start wondering if he's better than Chomper. having two weak to the same type, with the same coverage doesn't sound right. I try to put off the decision for now.
Part 12: anxious waiting
I reach Vermilion city, laughing at the reduclously high level weedle, who should've evolved by now I'm sure. After healing I notice the electric type gym is barred by another one of those anoyying trees, so I head out to do some preperations. I was already told that the ship would be leaving in a few hours, so I had plenty of time to check around. I try to catch a diglet, but my pokemon were just too powerful; however, I am sucessfull at catching a Sandshrew, which I quickly name
Sandman. Maybe it will be of assistance in the Electric type gym. I continue the battling the many trainers in the area, when suddenly I hear a loud horn. It's time to depart!
Currently in Party
Frisky LV 20
Naughty
Pick Up
Scratch/Growl/Bite/Pay Day
Scortch LV 23
Docile
Scratch/Growl/Ember/Metal Claw
Dracula LV 22
Naive
Wing Attack/Astonish/Supersonic/Bite
Victoria LV 22
Docile
Vine Whip/Growth/Sleep Powder/Bullet Seed
Chomper LV 23
Rash
Guts
Dig/Focus Energy/Quick Attack/Hyper Fang
JackieChan LV 20
Hardy
Scratch/Fury Swipes/Low Kick/Karate Chop
In the Boxes
Flapper lv 10
Impish
Peck/Growl/Leer
MONARCH lv 8
Lax
Tackle/String Shot
Sandman LV 14
Bashful
Scratch/Defense Curl/Sand-Attack
AirAce
Impish
Tackle/Whirlwind/Gust/Quick Attack
R.I.P
POWDER
lax
Tackle/String Shot
-died to crit tackle from Pidgey