A/N: Now presenting Act 1 Continued of Nanka's Pokémon Miiverse Adventure, or I guess with the Director's Cut being on this site, it would be entirely appropriate to call it chapter 2 nowadays. Back on Miiverse, I didn't know that it had a 100 comment limit per post, which lead to the sudden end and beginning of the previous chapter and this one respectively. For this chapter, I have aligned each segment to the left, so now we have a direct comparison between the two formats. Feel free to mention which you think makes for easier reading.
I should also note that the original NPMA never had titles for the various Acts. Now that those acts are chapters, I kind of feel obliged to give them titles.
Nanka's Pokémon Miiverse Adventure Act 1 Continued!
Nanka stared up at the Gym, admiring the firmly built stone structure. Jolt meanwhile pumped his fist; sparks buzzing as he eagerly anticipated shocking his opponents down.
"Well, we've hopefully done enough training." Nanka reassured herself, her smile dipping a little as doubts crawled about her head. "All we can do now is do our best."
Jolt rolled his eyes at his trainer's downbeat attitude, instead running to the gym doors with a confident, "Pi-Ka-Chuuu!"
"Hiya! Over here!" A spectacled man called out to Nanka and Jolt.
Unsure if this is what they were supposed to do or not, the two of them started to walk over to the man. Nanka stopped though, when from the corner of her eye, she noticed a statue. More specifically, she noticed a name on the statue's plaque.
"So G-Man already has his first badge." Nanka uttered quietly.
"Hey there, champ-in-the-making! Before you challenge the Gym Leader, you need to know of the rules!" The Gym aide said enthusiastically as he pointed to Nanka.
"W-Who? Me?" The novice trainer stuttered back, pointing to herself in confusion.
"Yes, you! You've got the potential; you just need to know the Gym rules!" The Aide continued to shout out enthusiastically. "Aside from X-Items, there will be no items. An each trainer are to use the same amount of Pokémon per match, unless the Gym Leader allows otherwise… or if it's your first Gym battle!"
The Gym's Aide begun offering advice to her, so naturally Nanka listened keenly.
"It will be tough for your Pikachu at this Gym." The Aide said with a jovial shrug. "Electric attacks are harmless to Brock's Ground-type Pokémon."
Nanka and Jolt froze on the spot.
"H-h-harmless!" Nanka stammered out as Jolt hung his head in despair.
"Harmless." The Aide replied. "You also have to beat a Gym trainer first."
As Nanka started her trial match in order to be allowed to take on the Gym Leader, Jolt remained frozen in shock.
'That's probably a good thing.' Nanka thought as her opponent sent out a Diglett. "Come on out, Venom!"
As Venom the Nidoran Female landed in front of the Diglett, a thought popped into Nanka's head, 'Did… did G-Man beat this Gym with just his Eevee and Spearow?'
As the Gym Trainer spouted facts about how lights years measures distance and not time, Nanka celebrated her and her Pokémon's victory.
"We did it guys! We won!" Nanka praised her Pokémon as a grin spread across her face. "Now we can take on Brock."
Venom gave a smiled and nodded contently, whilst Dusty looked away as she beamed, fiddling her hands and feet. Jolt remained frozen in shock.
Resting up before their scheduled Gym battle, Nanka looked to her trio of Pokémon and considered which of her two viable choices she should start the match with.
"D-Dusty… you wouldn't mind if you went up first, would you?" Nanka asked her Butterfree, who shook her head in response. "Really? That's great then! We'll start with you first and then send out Venom against the Leader's stronger Pokémon."
Meanwhile, Jolt moped in the corner, feeling very left out.
"An-and we'll have Jolt as… back-up! Yeah, a-a trump card!" Nanka quickly added, trying to cheer her downcast Pikachu.
As Nanka approached the Gym Leader, her heart was pounding, her legs trembling and her head filled with worries.
"I'm Brock! I'm the Pewter Gym's Leader!" The dark haired Gym Leader stated loudly, causing Nanka to jump out of her thoughts.
"Oh, u-uh yep-yes… I'm Nanka and I'm…" Nanka stammered out, before taking a deep breath and continuing, "…I'm here to, well, challenge you… if y-you'll accept it."
A gentle smiled appeared on Brock's face, immediately easing a little of the tense and heavy pressure Nanka was feeling.
"I believe in rock hard defence and determination!" Brock continued to proclaim, using lines that sounded like they'd been said thousands of times before, yet never seemed staled or rehearsed. "That's why my Pokémon are all Rock-types."
Nanka gave a small nod in response, as Jolt scowled at the mention of Rock-types and their inevitable part Ground typing.
"Do you still want to challenge me?" Brock asked.
The word 'no' danced on Nanka's tongue. She felt she'd stumbled into something that required more dedication and commitment. She was pretty much doing this on a whim, trying it out simply because it seemed fun.
"Kachuu! Pika Pi, Pikachu!" Jolt yelled up to her, and though she had no clue what he was saying, she felt the tone was encouraging. "Chu! Chu! Kachu!"
Looking down to Jolt, the Pikachu's face was full of confidence; confidence directed towards her. Nanka's quivering lip turned to a firm smile and her wavering eyes flared up with determination.
Turning to face Brock and holding up Dusty's Pokéball, Nanka replied resolutely, "I do!"
Brock nodded, "Fine then! Show me your best!"
The moment the strong looking Geodude prepared its Tackle attack, Nanka shouted out, "Dusty! Use Confusion; quickly!"
Dusty did not hesitate, hearing the urgency in her trainer's voice, an so released her Psychic energy in the form of her Confusion attack.
The Confusion blasted into the charging Geodude, quickly blowing it back into the wall behind Brock.
"W-wow." Nanka uttered under her breath as both she and her Confusion firing Pokémon were impressed at the strength of the attack. "Um, I mean… keep it up, Dusty!"
The Rock-type wasn't knocked out though, an upon recovery, Tackled into Dusty. Dusty was knocked back, but she was only fazed by the attack, it was clear who had come out worse from the exchange of blows.
As per Nanka's instructions, Dusty continued to fire off her Confusion attack, successfully felling Brock's Geodude with the 3rd hit of Confusion.
"Geodude, return." Brock called out, withdrawing his fainted Pokémon and reaching for his 2nd Pokéball. "Go, Onix!"
To the Pallet Town girl and Viridian Forest Pokémon, the towering Onix that was like nothing they had ever seen before was absolutely terrifying.
With a twinkle in his seemingly closed eyes, Brock shouted, "Onix! Use Bide!"
In panic, all Nanka could think about was making sure Dusty would be safe and so blurted out, "Harden up, Dusty! Protect yourself!"
So Dusty began to Harden up her entire body, bracing for the Bide attack to land… as Onix stood still… completely still.
"Um, H-harden again… just in case." Nanka suggested, puzzled.
When Onix's Bide was unleashed, a slither of orange energy came out of Onix and then fizzled away harmlessly.
Brock sighed in disappointment, "I misread how she'd react."
Nanka remained puzzled; unaware that her cautious nature had saved Dusty from the attack. "D-Dusty! I think this is your chance!"
Her Butterfree struck the now moving Onix with a Confusion, dealing some damage, though the Onix barely budged from the blow.
"It's going to take more than that to take down my Onix." Brock declared. "Now Onix, weaken her Butterfree with Screech!"
Being struck by the rock snake's sound waves, all of Dusty's hardened sheen was ripped away from her body. This alarmed Nanka, but remaining confident in her Pokémon, continued to ask Dusty to focus on striking back with Confusion.
With a third Confusion, Brock's Onix wavered, before toppling down to the floor unconscious.
"Pika!" Jolt cheered, throwing a clenched fist upwards.
"We won?" Nanka murmured in disbelief as she and Dusty stared at the fallen Onix.
"F-free?" Dusty said as she carefully inched towards the Onix, checking that it had indeed fainted.
"We won." Nanka whispered as a smile grew on her face, going on to run towards her tired Butterfree and throwing her arms around her Pokémon. "We won! We won, we won, we won!"
A brightly bushing bashful Dusty buried her face against her tightly hugging trainer.
"I took you for granted." Brock stated as he strolled over to the hugging trainer, whom had also dragged her unwilling Pikachu into the group hug. "As proof of your victory, here's the Boulder Badge!"
Nanka finally let her Pokémon free from the embrace, Jolt immediately jumping away in case he was pulled into another hug, to be handed the presented badge.
"Our first Gym badge." Nanka whispered to herself with a glowing smile.
"I've got to apologise to Venom later." Nanka said to Jolt as the two walked back to the Poké Center. "I put her through all that training and she never even got to the battle."
Jolt wasn't listening, nor was he even following Nanka at this point. His trainer soon noticed, wandered over to where he stood and followed his gaze.
"We'll be heading there soon enough, Jolt." Nanka said as the two of them stared at the grand, grey Mt. Moon in the near distance.
A/N: An thus Act 1 came to a close. This first Act had the most amounts of edits for the Director's Cut, as it wasn't until towards the end of Act 2 that commentators mentioned how much they enjoyed the story elements of the series. As such it wasn't until after Act 2 that I really begun to focus on the story elements, planning some jokes ahead of time and describing Nanka's journey and battles in greater detail.
I'm glad to see a follower and review for this tale already; I hope you'll continue to enjoy it. I'm incredibly busy this month, so I barely have time to read and reply right now, but I appreciate the readership and comments. If there are any suggested improvements and corrections, they'll have to be sorted out at a later time (the joys of work, eh?) Thank you very much!