Sunnyside Up
"Alright, Bulbasaur, use Take Down!" The Picknicker outside of Ilex Forest said as we engaged in battle.
"Liteweight, float away!" I ordered. We were on Route…uhh…(forgive me, since Johto is an extension off of Kanto it's harder to remember route numbers) Route 34…yeah Route 34. We had just gotten out of the Ilex Forest, and Lyra was scouting ahead to make sure we could avoid any more unnecessary confrontations such as this one.
"On it boss!" Liteweight said with a grin as he gently pushed himself off of the ground and let the wind do all of the work. The Bulbasaur ran right under him and into a tree.
"Bulbasaur!" The girl whined.
"Alright Liteweight, now let's Tackle it and finish it!"
"Uhh…I'd love to but…"
Uh oh. "What is it Liteweight?" I asked a little worried.
"This wind is too strong! I need help!" I looked at the girl.
"You! This is serious, Liteweight will die unless you have that Bulbasaur use Vine Whip to get him right now." I urged her.
"Sucks for you then…" She said gloomily.
"Wh-what? Hey listen little girl! I'm not killing any of your pokemon! The least you can do is spare mine's life!"
The girl looked up at me. "Do you have any idea what it's like to have one of your pokemon killed?" I didn't answer. She clearly didn't want me to. "I had a full party of pokemon before not too long ago! A red haired kid killed half of them! If I cant keep my pokemon, why should anyone else?!"
Ouch…I remembered back on my Kanto journey when I went through the same thing after I lost my first pokemon…this girl would have to heal on her own though…I looked at Liteweight, who was trying as hard as he can to go against the wind but he was being carried quickly towards some tall trees…wait a minute…
"Liteweight!" I yelled "Use Tackle to bounce off of that tree and into Bulbasaur!"
"On it!" the Hoppip yelled. "Arghhhh! Bonzai!" He directed himself toward the tree and wall jumped off it and careened into the Bulbasaur, knocking it out.
"Yes! Awesome job Liteweight!" I ran over to pick him up, but he jumped up.
"No!" He said…"Wait a sec…I'm about to do something awesomer than that…" He said as he began to glow a bright white. It wasn't long before the white light enveloped him.
"Oooh! An evolution!" Dracula said, popping out of his pokeball. "That's like, over half your party evolved…"
"You don't have to long to go, yourself Dracula." I said as Liteweight's shape began to change. "Around five more levels and voila. You'll be a Golbat!"
"What's going on?" Gabriel the Togepi yawned as he popped out of his pokeball. "What's with all the noise?"
"Gabe, get back in your pokeball, you need rest…" I said.
"YOU need rest!" He said back in a pissy voice. "I wanna stay up and watch the evolution!" Oh crap, the evolution…was it over? I turned back to Liteweight just in time to see the light disappear from…him…
"What is it?" Liteweight the Skiploom asked. "In awe at my manliness?" He smirked.
"Try the exact opposite…" Gabriel snickered into Dracula's ear.
"Heh heh," Dracula laughed. "Poor guy.."
"Hey!" Liteweight shouted. "What are you two laughing at! We're all men here!" Gabriel and Dracula both cracked up. "Hank, what's going on?"
"Dude…you look even more girly than your basic form… I mean… that flower on your head… those ears… that face…I-I'm sorry Liteweight, but I need to return you for now."
"What? No don't you da-!" Too late. I returned him
"Alright, Gabriel, since you're up and out of bed…Where you should be.." Gabriel beamed up at me. "We may as well practice Headbutting crap."
"Awesome!" Gabe cheered.
"What about me?" Dracula asked.
"You're going to be my battler in case any wild pokemon come along. Gabe's still just a child so we need someone who I know can handle himself, and judging from the way you handled Silver back in Azalea, I'd say you fit the bill."
"Thanks Hank. It means a lot. Especially since I spent most of my time with you in the PC Box back in-"
"Shhh!" I shushed him, making sure that no one heard what he said. "it's hard enough to keep Talon's mouth shut…" I said to myself. "Listen Dracula, I'll keep this real simple for you: what happened in Kanto, stays in Kanto."
*same area, around 6:30 AM*
"Hank…Hank wake up…"
"Uhh?" I said as Lyra turned me over and told me to wake up again.
"I checked the route. It's clear, we can get to Goldenrod without any trouble."
"Uhh." I said, trying to show that I understood.
*Same Area, 7:00 AM*
Now that I was ready and had refreshed myself in a nearby stream, I sent out Gabriel and Dracula.
"Ok guys!" I said. "Not a single wild pokemon yesterday, so today, we aren't leaving until I get someone from this route…and it better be because you Headbutted a tree!" I pointed at Gabriel. "Otherwise I'm giving the move to someone else!"
"No!" Gabriel said as he ran into a nearby tree, causing a nest to fall down. "Ahh! Hank! Hank! I found one!"
Dracula, Lyra, and I ran over to him. Inside the nest, was a sleeping Exeggcute. "Gabe, why so scared? It's only an Exeggcute…"
"She is cute…" Dracula said. Oh good lord. I didn't want to have to deal with this…pokemon on my Nuzlocke team can't have feelings for one another! It can only end in tragedy! The Exeggcute woke up. She looked directly at Dracula…then at Lyra, then at me, and each one of her…egg things…smiled with delight.
"Ex! Egg! Exeggcute!" She said happily.
"What did she say?" I asked Dracula.
"She said she'd love to come along with me!" Dracula said to me happily. "Hank, use a pokeball, come on! Use it!'
*Sunnyside the Exeggcute joined the party!*
"Wait…Wait a minute…" I said, smiling, realizing… "Oh my Arceus oh my Arceus oh my Arceus…" I started to hyperventilate through overjoyousness.
"Hank, what's going on?" Lyra asked, about to put her hand on my shoulder when I picked up the pokeball and spread my arms out towards the heavens.
"FULL PARTY!" I shouted as loud as I could.
"Dodrio!" I heard a Dodrio call in the distance.
"Hah. Looks like you could use some water." Lyra joked. "Come one we can get some breakfast at my Grampa's place."
*At the Day Care*
Not much happened here. We had an awkward discussion about how Lyra and I reminded her Grandma of when she first met Lyra's grampa. Oh, I left Dracula and Sunnyside in the Daycare for a little while so they could get to know each other. Hopefully they'd realize that they can't have eggs together and that their love was in vain.
"But I need the level-ups more!" Gabriel whined as Lyra and I entered Goldenrod
"No!" I said. "You're going to stay with the rest of the party and wait patiently until Sunnyside and Dracula come back! Then maybe we'll see about dumping you in the daycare, but I'd prefer you stay in the party Gabe. After all, you are friends with Talon right?"
"Yeah…"
"And you want to be the center of attention right?"
"Right again…"
"Well, stay then! Have you noticed how often I keep you out of the pokeball? Honestly kid, I spoil you." I raid ruffling his spikes.
"Heheheheee." He giggled. "I know.."
"Alright here it is." Lyra said. "The radio tower of Goldenrod City." Gabe and I looked at it, and exchanged wicked grins. "I'm gonna go explore the Underground Path of the city." She said. "You boys do everything you came here to do. We can meet up in front of the pokemon center later ok?"
"Alright. Sure thing!" I said. "See you then!"
She smiled and gave me a kiss on the cheek. "See you then." She replied before she left.
I looked out the door of the Radio Tower until I was sure she was gone.
"Alright she's gone!" I told Gabriel. "Lotto ticket?"
"Lotto ticket!" He agreed.
"It looks like…you've won an Ultra Ball!" the Lotto guy said.
"Wh-wait what? We did?" I asked, astonished I actually got a prize.
"Ooh!" Gabe tugged at my shirt. "Get a Radio Card for your Pokegear over there!" He pointed down the counter to where a cashier and a girl with pink hair were standing.
"Fill out the quiz correctly and get a radio free!" The cashier said with a smile.
"Thanks miss!" I said as I took the sheet of questions and stormed through them. They were all common knowledge so it was pretty easy.
*Radio Card Get!*
"Alright!" Gabe said. "What now?"
"Now we look for the gym." I said. The pink haired girl walked up to me.
"Excuse me, did you say you wanted to challenge the gym?"
"Yes…" I said, picking up Gabriel.
"OhmyArceusthat'ssuchacutepokemonwhattypeisitwherd idyoufinditwhatmovesdoesitknow?" The girl went berserk when she saw Gabriel. I have to keep in mind that he's the only Togepi in all of Johto
"H-his name is Gabriel, and he's a Togepi. They're rather uncommon in the world. I'm afraid I won't be using him in the Gym Battle though. He's still just a toddler."
"Oh good." The girl said. "I wouldn't feel right battling that cute thing!"
"Wait, you mean you're-?"
"Yep!" She said. She flicked her hair. "I'm Whitney, the leader of the Goldenrod City Gym! You look like…hmm maybe somehow you're related to my old teacher…does the name Bruce Coro ring a bell?"
"Yes, that's my father's name."
"Ahh. You must be Hank then. Sure I'll be glad to accept your challenge. I'll wait for you in my gym, but be warned: As a league official, I'm not allowed to bend the Nuzlocke rules. It's nothing personal. If it were up to me, I'd get rid of the rules entirely, but it's not up to me so do please be careful when you do face me. Tell you what: you can use as many pokemon as you want against my two ok?"
"O-ok."
"Alright. I'll see you in the Gym!" She said as she ran off.
"What just happened?" Gabriel asked.
"No time to really explain Gabe." I said. "We just need to get Dracula and Sunnyside out of the Day-Care and then we go challenge the Goldenrod gym and win my third badge." Little did I know, that my third badge would come at a terrible, terrible cost.
The terrible terrible cost is death by the way. Someone WILL fall next chapter, and the Nuzlocke truly begins… so: Whitney…she's a pain in the butt even when it isn't a Nuzlocke, so I remember training before challenging her, yet I still lose a pokemon…but that's the way the cookie crumbles in a Nuzlocke. So: X and Y, that was sort of out of the blue(For me anyway) I'm probably going to get Y because I LOVE the design of that legendary Yveltal, but it really only surpasses my desire for X by a tiny tiny bit. Either way, I'm definitely not regretting buying a 3DS now. Fenekin or whatever it is looks soo cute to me. If I get one of those games, I'm choosing it UNLESS I discover that it becomes another freaking Fire/fighting type. I mean, when I saw that Monferno and Infernape were Fire/Fighting just like Combusken and Blaziken, I was like "Im kind of disappointed with the unoriginality but ok I guess," But when I saw that Pignite and Emboar were also Fire/Fighting I was just like "I'm getting freaking sick of this gimmick! Screw this, I guess I'll choose Snivy instead then." Other news, im currently in the middle of a Platinum run through, where I get to catch one new pokemon with every gym badge (Fun device to make the game more fun, you should try it.) and I was bored so I looked at all six of my pokemon in depth and although my Torterra had proven to be a massive powerhouse, and my Gallade was a great offensive sweeper, it was my Rapidash that scored the highest marks on my 'tests'. Oh by the way, this was the first time I trained up a Gallade, Lopunny, and Mothim ever, and I am having an absolute blast using each and every one of them. (Fun fact: Mothim's pokedex entries only ever mention it stealing honey from Combee…is that really the only thing that makes Mothim significant? It could state how Mothim doesn't need a cloak like its relatives or something but no. It just steals honey from Combee.) It's also the first time I'm using a Seaking in Sinnoh. They're usually more up my Alley when I'm in the Kanto/Johto area. Anyways, I'm putting these guys on my Battle Revolution game so if anyone has a Wii, uses that game on Random Matchup mode, and sees a guy named Doobop with these pokemon…It's me. (Go easy on me though cuz im not one of those competitive battlers so my pokemons IV's or whatever they're called probably suck.) Anyways Will Hank be able to Handle Whitney's Gym? Who is the unlucky pokemon that kicks the bucket? Anyways, Until Next time, remember to not try to mate Zubat with Exeggcute ~ Doobop