My Past Even Gets Jelly - Part 27

The location that I am starting us off at is Driftveil City.

I head towards the water with Racksy newly learning Surf and head into the water for a single reason.

To catch a brand new Pokémon and the first that appears is a...

A Frillish! I can deal with that! It's a Water/Ghost-type, so actually... this will be the third Ghost-type that I have...

Great... my team is getting stacked with not just Dark-types and Ghost-types.

I catch the level 10 jellyfish and go to the next name on the list, which is actually Royal. So it fits extra perfectly.

I head into some super intense training for Royal. 

30 levels worth of training. That's enough until...

Royal evolves into Jellicent!

I finally continue to make my way forward to get to Opelucid City after the long training session and back to Route 8.

There's a massive blizzard going on here and that reminds me to buy the TM at the Mart. Which is exactly what I do. 

I save it in my inventory for later.

I'm about to finally reach the end of Route 8 when Bianca comes up to me and orders a battle from me! I'll give her a heaping plate full of battle if she really wants it.

Bianca has four Pokémon, which is what seems to be her limit.

She sends out a Stoutland, which would have been the final evolution of Zkippy...

I have Royal out first, but get nervous about any Dark-type moves he may have. I switch to Xanadu and her Stoutland uses Work Up. The blizzard conditions aren't the greatest to fight under and Hail hits them both. Xanadu is quite tired of the cold and Brick Breaks Stoutland which makes him pass out.

Next up, is her Simisage, which I send out Licky to counter. Licky is hit by Leer, but ends the round with a Flame Burst. 

Bianca's next is her Emboar, which Royal wants a part of... Royal lets a strong Water Pulse go, but it isn't quite enough. Bianca must have thought something like this would have happened and I'm hit by a massive Assurance. Gladly, Royal's Cursed Body activates and disables Assurance, which is great. Hail hits us, but Royal's Brine takes out the rest of her Emboar and he goes down hard.

Her last mon is Musharna which Xanadu practically laughs at and is already knocked out.

She follows up the battle with some compliments to me and hands me a few Full Restores, which will be useful on things like Victory Road... if I ever make it that far.

Route 8 leads to Tubeline Bridge, which is just a giant bridge with tons of traffic underneath it. It does however give me an okay TM for Flame Charge. 

But at the end of the bridge...

Lying in wait...

Team Plasma's ninjas. They take my arms and lead me to Ghetsis. Ghetsis starts talking like he usually does, which means it's time to tune him out. But I do remember hearing about legends and heroes and how everything that I am doing is for naught. 

I also pick up that he trained and educated N, which is a little scary to think about.

He continues to talk about how only Team Plasma will be able to use Pokémon and then tells me that I am not worthy enough.

With that Ghetsis leaves me and as do the ninjas.

I'm left alone to go to Route 9, where a person literally throws a TM at me, which contains Fling.

I see lots of biker dudes around here, which means new training, but I also see... grass! That's a new area, which means new Pokémon!

I head directly into it and...

It's Conch! Or at least a Pokémon that looks like him...

I catch it, but it is no replacement for the original. The newest edition to my potential team is named the next name on the list. Chowchow. 

With that... I finally take my first steps into Opelucid City.

My Team:

Racksy (Stunfisk) level 40 - Route 8

Xanadu (Krookodile) level 52 - Desert Resort

Shorty (Minccino) level 40 - Route 16

Totts (Boldore) 40 - Twist Mountain

Licky (Lampent) 51 - Celestial Tower

Royal (Jellicent) level 44 - Driftveil City

PC:

Odessa (Cofagrigus) level 40 - Relic Castle

Chowchow (Liepard) level 33 - Route 9

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

Raise The Draw Bridge! - Part 16

Elesa said that she can help me get into the next city, which in turn will get me to the next gym. 

I head over to Route 4, where she said I would meet her, but before I can meet up with her.

Cheren wants to fight. Great, I just put Odessa out front to train.

He sends out a level 24 Liepard, which I then switch into my own (Conch). I'm meet with Torment. The next turn I Slash while Cheren uses Pursuit. I then follow up with an Assurance, which KO's his Liepard.

He then sends out a level 24 Panpour which Conch Slashes and then gets Scalded in return, luckily not being burned in the process, since that would just kill him (more or less) and I can't use any Burn Heals.

He sends out his Servine which is now level 26. Conch uses Slash and he counters with a Leech Seed. Conch uses Assurance next, which activates Servine's Sitrus Berry, and Servine uses Growth setting himself to deal more damage next turn. Leech Seed hits me and activates my own Oran Berry. Conch Slashes again and Servine counters with a Leaf Tornado.

Conch is at 11 HP...

Leech Seed hasn't sucked at my health yet, but it is going to...

It activates and Servine sucks the life out of Conch... for the last time... 

I send out Catapult which knocks him out with an Acid Spray and a Sludge, but only after taking two Leaf Tornadoes himself.

Tranquil is his last Pokémon, which is the evolved form of Pidove.

I send out Xanadu, which gets off a big Rock Tomb and he counters with Air Cutter. Xanadu finishes it off with Crunch. 

I need to mourn Conch, but Elesa drags me from grieving.

Alder the Pokémon Champion is here and greets us and Cheren immediately disses him, but Alder is pretty snappy himself and throws it back at Cheren.

He heals our Pokémon, which means he heals Conch, but Conch can't be revived... because he's dead.

Alder wants us to fight with some kids...

I'm always up fro cracking a few skulls after I lose my strongest teammate.

Cheren and I team up and take down these toddlers. It's supposed to be Alder's way of teaching Cheren that everything isn't about becoming stronger, but about having fun and becoming friends with them. 

Cheren can't and won't admit that he is wrong and sulks off. 

I become mopey as I realize I have lost Conch...

I lower him into a grave and bid him farewell.

Elesa makes a call and allows the bridge to be lowered when I finally make my way back to Route 4. 

Driftveil Bridge leads to Driftveil City. On this bridge there are no trainers, but... there are shadows of Pokémon that fly above it. Sometimes they drop wings, which power-up Pokémon and sometimes... they have a Pokémon in them!

Like Ducklett...

I run into this little Water/Flying-type and catch it. I name him Tumbles and I'm excited for this guy because he will be insanely powerful in the next gym, which is Ground.

I head into Driftveil, which has water that I can Surf and Fish on, but I have no poles or the HM for Surf yet, so I will have to wait to catch a new Pokémon here. 

Cheren and the Gym Leader are talking when I head deeper into the City and Clay is pissed at us.

He had captured some Team Plasma members, but they escaped when he raised the bridge. Both Cheren and I agree that it's not our fault for him being a moron, but he blames us anyways and forces us to find them before we can challenge him in his gym.

Before searching I explore the city and find very little, but this city is situated in an area that can catch me three new Pokémon, right now!

I take a couple deep breaths and head to the first area.

My Team:

Tumbles (Ducklett) level 24 - Driftveil Bridge

Xanadu (Sandile) level 31 - Desert Resort

Catapult (Trubbish) level 22 - Route 5

Shorty (Minccino) level 19 - Route 16

Odessa (Yamask) level 22 - Relic Castle

The Fallen:

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