I enter Veilstone Gym and put Big O (Prinplup) at the front of the party, so he can gain as much Exp. as possible before the battle with Maylene (Because battling a Level 30 Lucario will be tough and beating it with Big O means Big O would be one G.L.M.P. (Gym Leader Main Pokemon) Solo away from evolution (And several levels)). I beat the Four Blackbelt's with their endless supply of Machoke's, put Big O at the rear of the Party, & solve the annoying puzzle before approaching Maylene & commencing the battle.
Maylene sends out Meditite while I send out Faricimo (Kricketune). Faricimo gets the jump on Meditite and lulls it to sleep with Sing. One Fury Cutter later and Maylene switches Meditite out for Machoke. Faricimo continues to use Fury Cutter, gaining the momentum, while Machoke uses random moves like Drain Punch & Karate Chop. Maylene eventually scrambles for a Hyper Potion while Faricimo continues to build the momentum with Fury Cutter. Maylene then halted this momentum, KOing Faricimo with a Critical Hit Karate Chop.
BlueBomber (Drifloon) comes in its place & revenge Kills Machoke with Gust.
Maylene then sends in Lucario while I switch BlueBomber out for Big O and attempt to give Big O his second out of the three G.L.M.P. Solos he needs for evolution. The fight becomes a war of attrition, Lucario spamming all of his moves (Metal Claw in particular???) while Big O alternates between using Bubblebeam & me giving it Super Potions. Eventually, Maylene gets a lucky Force Palm which paralyzes Big O & put him in KO range while Lucario was in KO range too, with the fight between the two coming down to whether parahax kicks in or not. Arrgh, the suspense. Big O...Doesn't get fully paralyzed & KOes Lucario with Bubblebeam! Whew...That was a close shave for Big O, & he's now one G.L.M.P. Solo away from evolution (And now 7 levels as Big O grew to Level 29).
Maylene send the sleeping beauty back out while Big O takes a rest as BlueBomber comes back in to finish Maylene off. BlueBomber then cleans up, 2HKOing Meditie with Gust & wins the battle for me, the spoils being a Cobble Badge & the Drain Punch TM.
After leaving the Gym, Dawn comes and asks me to take her Pokedex away from the Spacemen. I was "forced" to accept and took on the spacemen after healing at the Pokemon Centre. After dispatching the spacemen (Turns out Dawn also has a Kadabra in tow as well as Clefairy...) I went inside the warehouse to take the items in there, healed again at the Pokemon Centre, and started to head south as I began my journey to Pastoria City (After finding out that Veilstone wasn't BlueBomber's home).
I head south down Route 214, beating the trainers along the way. Nothing special happened, apart from that Faricimo finally got a powerful attack to use in the form of X-Scissor. Eventually, I arrive at the Grand Lake Hotel (Or whatever its called) and got to have a rest. I then went inside the cafe & cleaned out the trainers inside, before resting again. I then traverse across Route 213, beating the local trainers, before arriving in Pastoria City. I then heal at the Pokemon Centre and head for the Gym, which I enter, dispatching the trainers, doing the water puzzle, before confronting Crsher Wake to fight for Badge #4.
I send out BlueBomber while Crasher Wake sends out Gyarados. BlueBomber performs poorly, not doing much with Gust while 2 Dragon Rages and a Critical hit Brine was all it took for Gyarados to KO BlueBomber. Treadshot (Pachirisu) comes in for BlueBomber, revenge killing Gyarados in style by showing off her latest addition: Discharge.
Crasher Wake then sends in Quagsire while I switch in Metapod (Mothim). While Metapod peppers away at Quagsire with Confusion, Quagsire wastes his time lowering Metapod's Defence with Tail Whip, get a Super Potion used on it, before ultimately missing with Rock Tomb, allowing Metapod an easy KO.
Crasher Wake then sends out his final Pokemon, his main Pokemon: Floatzel. I send in Big O in an attempt to get Big O his Third of Three G.L.M.P. Solos. The two do little damage to each other, Big O alternating between Pecking & having his health topped up with Super Potions, and Floatzel spams all of his moves (The most damaging one being Pursuit). Eventually, my tendency to use items prevailed as Big O sinks Floatzel, winning me the battle, the Fen Badge, & the TM for Brine.
After that I head towards the Pokemon Centre, & heal up. I find a man in a spacesuit & approach him. He mumbles on about packages & energy sources, before catching me listening to his talking to himself, & ran away. I find him again at the gate, & he runs away again. As I go to pursue him, Someone appears again and wants another fight!
Someone sends out Starly while I send out BlueBomber. BlueBomber survives a couple of Wing Attacks before 3HKOing with Gust.
Someone then sends out Buizel while I send Treadshot into the fray, who easily shrugs off an Aqua Jet to OHKO with Discharge.
Then Big O came in to deal with Ponyta, and gets flinch-haxed by Stomp. Luckily Ponyta switched to Ember after one Stomp, allowing Big O to OHKO with Bubblebeam.
Then Faricimo came in to deal with Grotle, who was ready for round two. Unfortunately for Grotle, the bout was short lived, being lulled to sleep before being 2HKOed by X-Scissor, winning me the battle.
After that, I healed at the Pokemon Centre, & went back to pursuing the guy in the spacesuit. I eventually caught him & he challenged me to a battle...with a pathetic Glameow. BlueBomber made easy work of the cat & he walked off like a coward. Cynthia then approached me & gave me a Super Potion. I then returned to Pastoria, equip BlueBomber a Exp. Share, heal at the Pokemon Centre, find out that Pastoria wasn't BlueBomber's home, & head out for Route 212 to train up BlueBomber ready for Fantina's Mismagius.
After clearing out that route, I arrive in Hearthome, find that the Gym is still not available, heal at the Pokemon Centre, & head for Celestic Town. After clearing the Psyduck from Route 210, I prepare for what would be, the Deep Fog wars (I didn't even have the Defog HM). The battles were long, with regular misses, but with one trainer to go, night fell. That meant Ungulate (Misdreavus) finally got to see some battle action, against a veteran, who was rather funny, because he kept on using Girafarig to Baton Pass nothing to Machoke, before switching Girafarig back in, because Machoke presumably could do nothing to Ungulate, while Ungulate pounded away with Psybeam (Which kept hitting despite the fog), defeating him. I then arrived in Celestic Town, healed at the Pokemon Centre, & got ready to do some more training ahead of Hearthome. And that is where we leave off...