After healing at the centre, I head towards the library & learn
about some Sinnoh mythology crap. Soon, an "earthquake" happens,
& I'm sent to Lake Valor to investigate. I teach BlueBomber
(Drifblim) Fly & hop on her (That sounds rather wrong...) to travel
all the way to Veilstone City. From there, I travel south to Lake
Valor & find that the dudes that were previously blocking the site
were no longer there. So I go inside to investigate, & find nothing
but spacemen & flopping Magikarp. I eventually reach the cavern in
the middle of the lake & find a spaceman with a weird haircut. The
weird haircut man (Who called himself "Saturn") challenged me to
a battle.
I sent in Faricimo (Kricketune) while the weird haircut man sent in
a Kadabra. Kadabra gets the jump on Kricketune & uses
Embargo...And that was a good move to use, because...Faricimo got
to reply with Sing, which hits. While Kadabra spent the next turn
slothing around, Faricimo shows her usefulness by OHKOing with
X-Scissor.
The weird haircut guy then sent in Bronzor. Faricimo got down to
business, laying in a couple of X-Scissors, while Bronzor didn't do
much, boosting its Defence. Faricimo, eventually cancelled that by
Screeching at it, while Bronzor continued its pathetic attacking
onslaught, doing not much with each attack. Eventually, Faricimo
lands the KO with X-Scissor, & left the weird haircut guy with one
Pokemon left.
So, He sent out his final Pokemon: A Toxicroak, while Ungulate
(Misdreavus) comes in (The battle was in a dark cave). In short,
Ungulate lands an easy 2HKO with Psybeam & wins me the battle.
After that, the weird haircut guy gives me a random hint about
getting my ass to Lake Verity. So I randomly took his advice, flew
to Twinleaf, & healed up at home. After healing, I run to Lake
Verity, get rid of the annoying spacmen, & confront Mars,
challenging her to "Round Two".
I sent in Faricimo while Mars sent in Golbat...Bad
matchup...Faricimo survives a Wing Attack, but misses with
Sing...Not a good start...I then switch out Faricimo for Treadshot
(Pachirisu), only for Treadshot to be badly poisoned by Toxic.
Treadshot retaliated with Discharge, OHKOing Golbat & annoying
Mars.
Next, she sends in Bronzor, while Faricimo comes back in. After a
while of trying to fend the metal plate off, Bronzor gets the upper
hand, eventually KOing Faricimo. Big O (Prinplup) comes in for a
revenge kill on Bronzor.
Big O stays in for Purugly. After not doing much damage on the
first turn with Brine & Fending off an attack with Protect, Purugly
unfortunately managed to hit with Hypnosis on the third go & puts
Big O to sleep. Purugly then started an onslaught with a Slash,
followed by numerous Faint Attacks. Big O eventually woke up &
killed Purugly two Brines later, winning me the battle, & really
agitating Mars.
After the battle, I get told to visit Lake Acuity by Prof. Rowan.
After healing at my House in Twinleaf, I fly to Celestic, Teach
Faricimo Strength (Over Fury Cutter), & begin my march to
Snowpoint City. Fighting my way through Mt. Coronet, I then arrive
at the beginning of the Icy Routes, knowing I was in for a hell of a
fight with the hail pelting down every turn & battle. After a long
fight, I finally arrive at Snowpoint City, where I heal up at the
Pokemon Centre, Stock up on Potions & Revives, before entering
the Snowpoint Gym for Badge #7. Knocking out the trainers &
completing the annoying puzzle, I confront Candice, Save the
Game, & take her on.
I send in Big O (Who was now level 50, one level away from Hydro
Pump!) while Candice sent in Snover, who got the Hail going for
her. Due to Snover's err...slowness, Big O got the jump & landed an
easy OHKO with Drill Peck.
Then came Abomasnow. Big O Drill Pecks the big bitch, doing just
over 55% damage to her, while she eats a Sitrus Berry, before
hitting with Grasswhistle, putting Big O into a slumber. I then
decide to play it safe, switching in Metapod (Mothim) predicting a
Wood Hammer. Abomasnow used Swagger. When I switched
Metapod in, I had planned to use it as death fodder, to one, get
Big O awake and two, give it the best chance of beating the yeti.
So, I use an Awakening on Big O, waking him up, while Abomasnow
replied with Avalanche, OHKOing Metapod. You served well
Metapod (Albeit, as death fodder).
Big O came back in and Drill Pecked Abomasnow, putting her in KO
range, while Abomasnow used Swagger? Strange, Candice could've
took out Big O with Wood Hammer there...Anyways, predicting a
Hyper Potion usage, I decide to take advantage of that and use my
only Full Heal to get rid of the confusion (I didn't want to risk
letting her getting free recovery due to hax) while Candice
predictably uses a Hyper Potion. Big mistake, Candice, with Big O
no longer confused & at +2 Attack, hell was about to break loose.
Big O then came along & OHKOed the big Yeti with Drill Peck,
giving me a decisive advantage.
Then came along Sneasel, who got the jump on Big O & hit with
Slash, but it wasn't enough to stop Big O from OHKOing it with
Metal Claw.
Last was Medicham, & decided to abuse Detect. After the first
Detect, I decided to take advantage by topping up Big O's health
with a Hyper Potion. After another turn of Detect abuse, Medicham
switches attacks & strikes with Force Palm. It was a bad mistake &
Big O pounced, KOing with Drill Peck & winning me the battle, the
Icicle Badge, & the TM for Avalanche.
Unfortunately, Big O after the battle was just under 300 exp from
Hydro Pump, so I wen into the grass at Acuity Lakefront, & killed
the random encounter, giving enough exp to level up & learn Hydro
Pump...And then evolve into Empoleon!!! :D
After that, I took Big O's Exp. Share, went back to Snowpoint,
healed up, & put Big O at the rear of the party, before setting out
for Lake Acuity, & that's where we leave off...