You Can't Spell Dragon Without N - Part 25

Let's skip ahead a little bit. I'm currently inside Dragon Spiral Tower. 

There is a huge explosion from up above, but I don't know from what. I head further upstairs and find Cheren hoping along some ancient pillars. 

What is he doing? He'll break his neck up there!

I follow his lead and eventually run into a room where Cheren and Brycen are fighting a bunch of Team Plasma grunts. They tell me to go on ahead. 

Like I need to be told twice...

I realize that there is a bunch of trainers and higher-ish level Pokémon up here so I can train up my weaker ones, like Bigguns. 

I send him out against a Team Plasma memeber who kills it with a critcal hit from a High Jump Kick.

Well... that's great... I was hoping to use this tiny tick to take some initiative later on in the game. Try to keep it together. 

I get nervous about training here and beat up the rest of the grunts with Licky and Xanadu. They don't even break a sweat. 

I even get feel another explosion from higher in the tower. The whole place is shaking a lot. 

Suddenly an old man named Giallo, which is actually also a great form of Italian thrillers in cinema, reveals himself as a sage. He was making a speech to his grunts, but I interrupt him and suddenly I'm surrounded by four grunts at once. All of them ready to fight me.

I sweep them all easily without trying myself or my Pokémon too much.

I head upstairs and there he is... N is standing with a black Dragon.

He tells me that he now has the power to take on the Pokémon Champion and rid the humans of the world of enslaving Pokémon. He then proceeds to tell me that the only way to defeat his plan is to use Reshiram, which needs to be awoken. 

Zekrom then starts to fly around and swoops in and snatches N off of the ground and flies away for good. 

Cheren and Brycen finally beat the couple of trainers that they were fighting a while ago and tell me that we all need to gather our forces to beat N. We meet up with Cedric who is surprised that Zekrom is real and he seems a little scared to be honest.

Even Alder joins us and says that he is scared of N. Mostly because Zekrom and Reshiram both nearly destroyed the world... by themselves. He thinks that it is a very, very good idea to go out and find Reshiram before Team Plasma tries to and to defeat N. 

The only thing is that no one has any clue as to where to find Reshiram. 

We all decide to go to the oldest place we can think of to look for clues. 

Odessa's home. Relic Castle. 

But first!

I head onto Route 8 before leaving, looking to find a replacement for Bigguns. 

The first Pokémon I come across in this area is a...

Oh... great...

It's a Stunfisk. It's a Ground/Electric-type. It's not the best... but it will have to do for now. Plus it's also it has Electric moves, which will be good in replacement of Bigguns and Cowface...

I name the guy Racksy.

After capturing him I head into the Moors of Icirrus, which is also a new area, but all that I can really find in here are Stunfisk as well, since everything is frozen at the moment, due to winter. I head out and get ready for the long trek back to Relic Castle (since I cannot use Fly at this time).

I decide that back tracking will be a great time to train Pokémon.

Gregford is up first and is slowly taking things out in Twist Mountain as we head through it. He can even hold his own against Ice-types, because he has a Fighting-move.

That is... until a wild Vanillish take him out in a critical, super effective hit...

I feel a little bad at losing him, but I hadn't grown super attached to him. It's either that or I'm becoming comfortably numb to all the death in this Nuzlocke. 

After heading through Twist Mountain I decide that I should go visit my old Audino training grounds to help boost some levels. 

And that's the end of this post after the training here.

My Team:

Racksy (Stunfisk) level 40 - Route 8

Xanadu (Krookodile) level 50 - Desert Resort

Shorty (Minccino) level 40 - Route 16

Totts (Boldore) 40 - Twist Mountain

Licky (Lampent) 50 - Celestial Tower

Odessa (Cofagrigus) level 40 - Relic Castle

PC:

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The Fallen:

Bigguns (Joltik) level 35 - Chargestone Cave

Gregford (Swasbuck) level 34 - Dragon Spiral

Cowface (Zebstrika) 46 - Route 7

Catapult (Trubbish) level 30 - Route 5

Cracker (Foongus) 31 - Route 6

Dexxter (Vanillite) level 30 - Cold Storage

Tumbles (Ducklett) level 29 - Driftveil Bridge

Conch (Liepard) level 34 - Route 2

Zkippy (Lillipup) level 15 - Route 1

Upstairs (Oshawott) level 12 - Nuvema Town

Butterball (Pansear) level 18 - Dreamyard

Yuko (Blitzle) level 15 - Route 3

Amasya (Roggenrola) level 18 - Wellspring Cave

Flathead (Timburr) level 17 - Pinwheel Forest

Woodrow (Scraggy) level 30 - Route 4

Cannot Catch At These Areas

Lostlorn Forest

Ninjas Can Kiss My Lucky Egg - Part 20

I turn on a little background noise, this time it's Jurassic Park 3 on the SyFy channel. 

Eesh... I forgot how horrible this movie is...

I head off to the cave, where Clay is waiting for me. The entrance is being blocked by a spiderweb made by Galvantulas. He clears it for me and gives me the TM for Bulldoze.

I'm left alone and head into Chargestone Cave, which is a new area!

I'm excited for a new Pokémon, but first I have to deal with N, because I see him a few steps away. I take a deep breath, ready to fight him, but first a Pokémon appears!

It's an adorable tiny, Joltik! It's an Electric/Bug-type, which is also the smallest Pokémon in existence. 

I catch it, use the next name on the list (Bigguns, which is pretty funny) and remember I have to head towards N. As soon as I do ninjas appear. 

Yes... ninjas.

N spouts his random nonsense and calls the ninjas the Shadow Triad, calls me the chosen one and then he warns me that there are Team Plasma grunts up ahead. They leave me, but soon I am joined by Juniper and Bianca.

Nothing about what they say matters because... they give me a Lucky Egg.

I love them more than anything now. Bianca and Juniper are my favorites. They gave me an awesome item. An item that will pretty much double the speed at which my Pokémon will level up.

I give them the honor of my attention now and realize that Juniper wants me to find Klink so she can study it. I promise to do my best and head into the cave. 

There are lots of trainers and lots of random encounters happening here. I get in some much needed training. 

I run into more ninjas as well and they re-remind me of the Team Plasma grunts further inside.

I don't fight everyone here though. I can use some of these trainers for training later on. I'm planning ahead!

I fight Team Plasma left and right and eventually I see N again.

He's blocking the N-trance to Mistralton City. He's blocking... the N... trance. 

N challenges me to a battle.

He has four Pokémon. 

The first is a Boldore, which is the evolution of what Amasya would have been...

Bigguns goes out first, but is switched with Xanadu. Xanadu takes it out with a couple Rock Smashes. 

Next he sends out a Joltik, which is KO'd by a single Crunch. 

He sends out a normally dangerous Ferroseed next.

Normally, this is a dangerous Grass/Steel-type, but Xanadu takes it out easily with a Rock Smash.

Klink is N's last Pokémon and it's the one that I had to gather information on for the lovely Professor Juniper. 

Xanadu cleans up this last Steel-type and I have defeated N again.

Juniper and Bianca appear after the battle and N and Juniper talk for a bit. N despises Juniper and tells her that he does. After a short yelling match N runs off and Bianca tells me that she is Juniper's bodyguard now. 

I run into Mistralton City where a man and lady interrupt me. 

The man calls himself Cedric Juniper, Professor Juniper's dad. 

He upgrades my Pokédex and introduces me to Skyla, who is the next Gym Leader and a hot-shot pilot. 

She says she wants to battle me, but she has to wait because she saw a sick Pokémon on Celestial Tower. She says I can join her if I want and she runs off on her own. 

I explore the town and find a TM for Skydrop and not much else. 

Route 7 time!

I run into the tall grass and find a...

Zebstrika! The evolution of Yuko! I got Yuko back and stronger than ever! I catch it and call it Cowface, which is the next name on the list. 

Post end.

My Team:

Xanadu (Sandile) level 45 - Desert Resort

Catapult (Trubbish) level 30 - Route 5

Shorty (Minccino) level 35 - Route 16

Odessa (Yamask) level 30 - Relic Castle

Cracker (Foongus) 30 - Route 6

Cowface (Zebstrika) 29 - Route 7

PC:

Bigguns (Joltik) level 30 - Chargestone Cave

The Fallen:

Dexxter (Vanillite) level 30 - Cold Storage

Tumbles (Ducklett) level 29 - Driftveil Bridge

Conch (Liepard) level 34 - Route 2

Zkippy (Lillipup) level 15 - Route 1

Upstairs (Oshawott) level 12 - Nuvema Town

Butterball (Pansear) level 18 - Dreamyard

Yuko (Blitzle) level 15 - Route 3

Amasya (Roggenrola) level 18 - Wellspring Cave

Flathead (Timburr) level 17 - Pinwheel Forest

Woodrow (Scraggy) level 30 - Route 4

Cannot Catch At These Areas

Lostlorn Forest