Chapter Eleven: Clearing the Two Towers
With my new team all set to go I started to head west to Lavender Town and had my rematch with Morty I made sure Jack was in the lead as the battle started. His Mimikyu was now a level 50 causing me some surprise. Jack broke the disguise with an aqua jet as Mimikyu set up with a sword dance. After surviving a critical hit from a shadow claw Jack knocked Mimikyu out with a single cut causing Morty to send in a level 50 Driftblim. I had Jack escape with a flip turn sending in Lanturn who tanked a shadow ball and saw Driftblim suffer a burn from his own flame orb. After surviving another shadow ball Lanturn healed with a para charge but could not survive the third shadow ball, so I sent Jack back after Lanturn feinted. Jack used an aqua jet to finish off Driftblim and Morty replaced the flyer with a level 50 Gengar who turned out to be a mega and used a shadow ball to finish Jack off and continued to take out the rest of my team causing me to fall back to the Pokémon Center to heal my team up.
After switching up my team a little and used rare candies to get my team all up to level 52 before challenging Morty once again with Jack in the lead of my team. The battle started off the same way except Jack had more health as he did not take a critical hit from the shadow claw. This time he sent in a level 50 Chandelure that survived an aqua jet easily before taking Jack out with a flamethrower. I sent in Rocket who took Chandelure out with a crunch and Morty sent in his Gengar afterwards. Rocket fell to a simple sludge bomb, and I sent in Flop who crunched down on Gengar as he set up with a nasty plot. Flop then survived a sludge bomb before finishing off Gengar with another crunch and Morty sent in a level 50 Weavile who took Flop out with an ice shard. I sent in Pokey in response who used a flamethrower to hurt Weavile as it used sword dance before falling to a knock off. I sent in Crabs who survived a knock off and finished Weavile off with a crabhammer forcing Morty to send in his last Pokémon the Driftblim. Driftblim used a charge beam to finish crabs off leaving me with just Fabio who survived a shadow ball and retaliated with an ice beam before falling to a second shadow ball ending the battle in Morty's favor. I had to retreat back to the Pokémon center to rethink my strategy and produce another battle plan before taking Morty on for the fourth time.
My fourth try I started out with Jack in the lead once again and quickly finished off Mimikyu without much trouble before getting away from the Chandelure with a flip turn sending in Fabio who tanked the flamethrower. After surviving an energy ball Fabio finished Chandelure off with a sparkle aria and Morty sent in his Gengar, so I switched in Jack thinking he was going to use sludge bomb, but he did not and instead used shadow ball. After Jack got off an aqua jet, he fell to a second shadow ball, so I sent in Flop who tanked a sludge bomb and took Gengar out with a single crunch. Morty then sent in his Driftblim who used a charge beam after tanking a crunch but did not finish Flop off. Flop finished Driftblim off with another crunch and forced Morty to send in his final Pokémon the Weavile who took Flop out with an ice shard. I sent I Lanturn as I knew he had a super effective move that he used in signal beam as Weavile set up with a sword dance. This process repeated itself before Weavile took Lanturn out with a single attack using knock off. I sent in Crabs who survived his own beating from knock off to finish the battle with a crabhammer. With my victory final achieved Morty gave me the TM for shadow ball, and I headed to the Pokémon center to heal my team up and prepare to tackle the tower here in Lavender Town.
I quickly blew through the tower and did not even have trouble with the Team Rocket grunts at the top of the tower. After talking with Mr. Fuji, he led me back to his house and gave me the Pokémon Flute so that I could wake sleeping Pokémon. With all of that done I made my way back East to Saffron City and took on Silph Co. It was a little more challenging for me as I ascended the tower and battle Team Rocket the whole way. After I beat all of the Team Rocket grunts, I took a nap in a bed that I found before Gary challenged me. I entered the battle with Gary leading off with Lanturn against his level 54 Staraptor who used u-turn to escape sending in his level 55 Darmanitan to take the para charge healing Lanturn back up to full health. After surviving an earthquake Lanturn finished off Darmanitan with a simple scald. Gary sent in his starter now a level 55 Venusaur who reacted to Gary's mega ring and used giga drain to finish off Lanturn. I sent in Barrage as a result who also fell to a giga drain so I sent in Squishy who out sped Venusaur and was able to get off a bug buzz before being coated in sleep powder and falling asleep, so I sent in Rosa who lived through a sludge bomb and managed to get off an ice beam before falling to a giga drain. So, I sent in Jack who cut Venusaur before surviving an earth power and finishing off Gary's starter with a second cut. Gary sent in his level 55 Electivire who took Jack out with a mach punch forcing me to send in Fabio who fell to a plasma fist then in came my final Pokémon in Squishy who also fell to a plasma fist ending the battle in Gary's favor forcing me to head back to the Pokémon Center and heal my team along with rethinking my strategy to take Gary down.
My second attempt was with Fabio in the lead and after barely surviving a brave bird from Staraptor Fabio's ice beam took out the bird and Gary sent in his level 55 Azumarill. I had Fabio weaken the fairy with a critical hit from a moonblast before falling to a play rough, so I sent in Rosa who took the fairy out of the battle with a giga drain after taking an aqua jet making Gary send in Darmanitan. I sent in Pokey who tanked a flare blitz and a u-turn before getting off a psychic the nearly took out the Electivire that Gary sent in. After taking an ice punch that froze Lanturn who I switched in because he was immune to the plasma fist that Electivire used Lanturn took another ice punch and a close combat along with a mach punch before using a scald that thawed him out and took the electric Pokémon out of the battle. Gary then sent in Venusaur who took Lanturn out with a giga drain so I sent Jack into the battle. Jack cut Venusaur twice avoiding two waves of sleep powder before Gary withdrew Venusaur and sent in Darmanitan who took the third cut like it was nothing. Jack fell to a flare blitz, and I sent in Pokey who survived a u-turn before knocking Venusaur out of the battle with a flamethrower. Gary with only Darmanitan left sent it back in and used flare blitz to take Pokey out of the battle so I sent in Barrage who survived another flare blitz before ending the battle with a razor shell. After bragging about how intelligent he was Gary ran off and I talked with a scientist who gave me a Lapras that I named Nessie.
After heading back to the Pokémon Center, I healed my team and did a little revamping of it before going back out and heading farther along through the tower. After I went through another teleporter, I was stopped by a pair of Team Rocket admins and before a battle could start, I was joined by Brendan who joined me in a double battle against Archer and Ariana. The Team Rocket admin started off the battle with a pair of level 54 Pokémon an Incineroar and a Gothitelle while I started out with Nigel and Brendan started out with a level 55 Masquerain. I switched Lanturn into the battlefield after Nigel set the rain with the drizzle ability only to be hit by a fake out from Incineroar. Masquerain took the dark fire cat out with a scald before Gothitelle used psychic on Lanturn. The Team Rocket admins sent in a level 55 Mawile to replace the fallen Pokémon and it turned out that it was able to mega evolve. Masquerain used bug buzz to weaken Gothitelle before Lanturn used para charge to regain all of his health and finish off Gothitelle while hurting all of the others out on the battlefield. Mawile wasted no time and used a thunder punch to finish off Masquerain. Brendan sent in his level 55 Exploud while the admins sent in a level 55 Aegislash to replace the fallen Pokémon. Exploud used a focus blast to weaken Mawile and reduce its special defense before Lanturn used para charge to weaken all the Pokémon on the battlefield and taking Mawile out of the battle before Aegislash used shadow claw on Lanturn. The Team Rocket admins sent in a level 55 Primarina to replace Mawile as Aegislash used king's shield to protect itself from any damage. Exploud used hyper voice which hurt Primarina then Lanturn continued using para charge to hurt the others and heal himself as Primarina used scald to hurt Lanturn. Exploud's next hyper voice took Primarina out as Lanturn used para charge to heal again before Aegislash attacked and took out Exploud before the rain stopped. Brendan sent in his ace a level 55 Sceptile to replace Explode and I switched Nigel back in to set the rain back up. Aegislash protected itself from Sceptile using hidden power as the grass Pokémon mega evolved by using king's shield. Sceptile's second hidden power hit as Nigel used scald and Aegislash retaliated with an iron head into Sceptile. Predicting another king's shield, I switched in Nessie as Sceptile failed to damage Aegislash with a mega drain. Aegislash fell to a combined scald and hidden power from our team forcing the Team Rocket admins to send in their final Pokémon a level 55 Houndoom that mega evolved before taking a focus blast from Sceptile and using a dark pulse on Nessie only for Nessie to live and finish Houndoom off with a scald ending the battle.
Brendan healed my Pokémon after receiving a text on his Pokémon Nav before giving me a Treeko and running off leaving me to finish the tower by myself. With only the boss's office left I went ahead and went to look at what was going on in there only to be challenged by Giovanni who promised a world of pain for my trouble. I started off the battle with Jack in the lead of my team while Giovanni led off with a level 54 Hippowdon. Jack used flip turn to escape the battlefield and I sent in Barrage as Hippowdon set up stealth rocks around my side of the field. Barrage used icicle spear and hit the hippo Pokémon three times to take it out of the battle. Giovanni sent in his level 55 Poltegeist who had weak armor and quickly fell to four hits from an icicle spear attack. Giovanni sent in his level 56 Kangaskhan, and I switched out Barrage for Nessie as Kangaskhan mega evolved and used fake out. Nessie survived a power up punch and was able to burn Kangaskhan with a scald. They repeated that exchange before Nessie fell to a body slam, and I sent in Lanturn. Lanturn took a body slam before finishing Kangaskhan off with a para charge only to fall to an earthquake by Giovanni's level 55 Excadrill. I sent in Nigel who set up the rain and managed to get off a scald which burned Excadrill as it used sword dance leaving Giovanni with only one Pokémon to battle with. Giovanni's last Pokémon was a level 56 Garchomp who set up with a sword dance as Nigel used ice beam. After surviving the first ice beam by eating a berry Garchomp used scale shot but fell to a second ice beam after Nigel ate his own berry to survive the three hits from Garchomp's attack. With the battle over Giovanni ran off and left me with the Silph Co president.
The president thanked me for getting rid of Team Rocket by giving me a Master Ball so I left and went to the Pokémon Center to heal my team before I planned how I would continue my journey and what I would do as my opponents were now setting up against me and still had mega evolutions which I lacked. I went around the town and beat a dumbass kid that gave me a Mudkip so I would have one and I planned to make use of it and named it Muddy. Before I could enter them gym in the city, I was stopped by the Silph Co president's assistant and given a mega ring while being told that the gym leaders I had previously beaten were looking for rematches now.
Current Pokémon
Jack - Level 59 Samurott
Moves: Cut, Slash, Flip Turn, Aqua Jet
Barrage – Level 57 Cloyster
Moves: Pin Missile, Rock Blast, Razor Shell, Icicle Spear
Nessie – Level 57 Lapras
Moves: Ice Beam, Scald, Dragon Pulse, Thunderbolt
Lanturn – Level 58 Lanturn
Moves: Dazzle Gleam, Signal Beam, Para Charge, Scald
Fabio – Level 57 Primarina
Moves: Ice Beam, Sparkle Aria, Shadow Ball, Moonblast
Muddy – Level 59 Swampert
Moves: Rock Slide, Power Up Punch, Liquidation, Earthquake