Entry #15 Back and Forth

Trainer: Triton
Money: 78672
Badges: 6
Pokémon Team:
     King Pepé (Kingdra) Level 42 Ability: Clear Body
     Sandy (Charizard) Level 42 Ability: Shell Armor
     Gigabuzz (Electabuzz) Level 40 Ability: Overgrow
     Tsuntsun (Claydol) Level 40 Ability: Torrent
     Polyphemus (Machamp) Level 44 Ability: Magma Armor
     Flafa (Venomoth) Level 40 Ability: Hustle

Leaf's Ability: Rain Dish

The first thing to do was to cross the water on Route 122 and get to Mt. Pyre. On the way, I ran into a Slowpoke lounging on the rocks. I have a Slowking already, but I caught it anyway.

Mt. Pyre has an inside and outside. The inside has a bunch of trainers and items, while the outside is where you find Team Aqua. In the interest of crushing Team Aqua, I went for the indoor area first to catch the experience. Almost right away, I ran into a Girafarig.... which in the past has been my least favorite Pokémon. I used to administrate for a Pokémon RPG online in which the members knew me for my love of Giratina. They would trade me them, gift them for my birthday, and even bribe me with them to get certain "privileges"(never worked). Unfortunately, whenever they said "Hey Mars, want Giras?!" I never knew if they meant Giratinas or Girafarigs. It became a favorite prank because of how much it ticked me off, hehe. I laugh at it now, because that was years ago, and if anything I now look at Girafarig as a way to own a Gira when I'm not playing a later game. Therefore, the male Girafarig became GiraJr.

*sniffle* "Aw, I love you too" <3

Don't give me that,
Stop your irresistible pony looks and be a normal giraffe.



Ability: Poison Point



With my past relived, I continued through the inside of Mt. Pyre. The four floors of trainers gave great experience and I found the TMs for Thunderpunch (#30) and Secret Power (#48). Outside, it was a quick climb through the grass and to the top. There I faced four Aqua grunts and watched with pride as Claydol and Venomoth completely pummeled all in their path. Their leader Archie didn't bother to fight, but instead fled with the red orb.

Realistically, I should be able to take him out, but I guess four grunts as an audience isn't enough to make everyone disband. More fun for me later at the Aqua base >:]








Team Magma had taken the blue orb before Team Aqua crashed the party, but sometime in their conflict a Magma Symbol was dropped, and the old woman who watches over the orbs gave it to me to use. It is basically the key into Magma's hideout, which is at the base of Mt. Chimney above Lavaridge Town.
I  continued to battle and find pretty good items on route 123. This route is a series of cliffs that level down to the Berry Master's house. The catch is that once you hop over the cliffs, you can't go back, so it takes at least two runs to cover all of the ground, but usually more if you aren't careful. It's worth it because of the valuable items, like max potion and elixir, that are scattered everywhere. I did one run, caught a Nuzleaf and named her Hazel, and flew back to Lilycove so I could run through route 123 again. 

Ability: Rock Head

I also collected all of the berries. If a chemist and a food scientist really dug deep, could they make an ultimate berry juice?



You know, maybe something the gives you a little more than TWENTY HEALTH POINTS (Berry Juice) would be nice.






I headed to Lavaridge and prepared myself for taking on Magma's hideout, buying some extra super potions and status medicine, then tried reaching the hideout by going up Mt. Chimney. Their base is actually too high up to do that, unless you have an Acro Bike to scale the rocks, so I had to go around and use the cable car again.

Do dee dum, speeding up a mountain~

NONONO Awwwww CRAP

Traffic jam...





Several hours (seconds) later, I found the hideout and went on rampage with Electabuzz, bulldozing ten trainers (and the wild Seaking I could have caught.. whoops) before Thunderpunch ran out of power points. Everyone else took care of it from there. A PP Max, Full Restore, and several more items later, I found their leader Maxie in a magma chamber facing Groudon's sleeping form. Time to take care of business.

Trainer: Triton
Money: 119068
Badges: 6
Pokémon Team:
     King Pepé (Kingdra) Level 44 Ability: Clear Body
     Sandy (Charizard) Level 44 Ability: Shell Armor
     Gigabuzz (Electabuzz) Level 45 Ability: Overgrow
     Tsuntsun (Claydol) Level 43 Ability: Torrent
     Polyphemus (Machamp) Level 45 Ability: Magma Armor
     Flafa (Venomoth) Level 42 Ability: Hustle