A/N: My apologies for the wait, but Act 6 of NPMA finally begins. I took the time to get ahead with the writing, which it feels nice to not be playing catch-up. Being ahead also gives me time to play my recently purchased Octopath Traveler, along with the Kirby Star Allies DLC later this month without worrying quite so much about getting the chapters sorted in time. That said, too much relaxing and I'll be behind again... it's tricky to balance.
In any case, Act 6 is the longest part of the whole story. So prepare for five consistent weekends of NPMA chapters. I hope you'll enjoy!
Nanka's Pokémon Miiverse Adventure Act 6!
The Story So Far!
Pushing the troubling events of Team Rocket to the back of her mind, Nanka continued her adventure, making her way to Cycling Road. There, she and Jolt encountered a sleeping Snorlax. After trying to ask the Snorlax to move, a battle ensued, leading Nanka to catch Slothful the Snorlax.
After a 'relaxing' bike ride down Cycling Road, Nanka arrived at Fuchsia City, enjoying time at the Zoo and beach.
Nanka also visited the Safari Park, helping find the Warden's missing teeth, as well as winning the Secret House competition. She also caught a playful Rhyhorn that she named, Keraton.
Afterwards, Nanka and her team of Jolt, Chu-Chu, Keraton and Licker took on the Fuchsia City Gym Leader, Koga. Thanks to their efforts, Nanka won the Soul Badge, and just in time as well.
The day after Nanka's Gym battle against Koga, the Gym along with the remaining open stores and attractions shut, wrapping things up in preparation for the holidays.
Of course the Pokémon Centre had to remain open, and it was here that Nanka would spend her three days of Winter festivities, feeling homesick. Loneliness it was not, her Pokémon made sure of that, but it was the first time she had celebrated without her mum. She ended up spending quite a bit of the 25th phoning back home, recalling her journey.
Nanka sat in front of the green telephone and monitor, fidgeting on the spot with excitement, much to Jolt's discomfort as he sat on her lap.
The screen flickered, and as sound squeaked from the telephone speaker, Nanka started to cheer, "Happy-"
"Happy Holidays, Poppet!" Mrs Chandler exclaimed loudly the moment the screen lit up, the surprise causing Nanka to reel back, falling off her seated stool. "Come on, Poppet; you should have expected that."
"Piikaa!" Jolt grunted back, annoyed at having been carried along for Nanka's surprised fall.
The mother and daughter begun to chat, with frequent greetings and chirps from their respective Pokémon. They extended their talk for as long as possible; enjoying the company that they had for so long before, but for the first time on the festive holiday, were apart.
"Hmmm, what's this?" Nanka inquired as she opened up a second present from her mum, unusual given their usually slim finances, finding a spiny edged leaf inside.
"Oh, that's a little extra. I was hoping you wouldn't be spending the holidays alone, perhaps bumping into G-Man along the way." Mrs Chandler mused, a sneaky smile on her face as she added. "Next holiday, you should try and stand under it with him. I'm sure he'll be pleased."
"T-thank you." Nanka replied uncertainly, looking to the red berried leaf. 'I wonder why Mum wants me and G-Man to stand under a holly leaf…'
When she wasn't hogging the phone of a city filled with other travelling trainers and tourists, Nanka and her travelling companions enjoyed the luxuries of being stuck at the fairly warm Fuchsia City.
From second fun-filled trips to the only slightly chillier beach to joining in on the city's tradition of a free guided tour of the Safari Zone, the group made sure to have a blast; regardless of their location. They even enjoyed a delicious banquet courtesy of the Pokémon centre; easily Devourer and Slothful's holiday highlight.
"I… I can't believe how much I spent…" Nanka mumbled, staring down at the holiday food bill, "…I can't believe how much I still have left."
"Pikaaa, Kaaachuuu. Pika!" An impatient Jolt called out to Nanka, having already run ahead up the route.
Shaking away her disbelief at how a poor village girl like her had earned so much through trainer battles along and lucky nugget finds, Nanka started running over to Jolt, calling out, "Coming Jolt."
Their Pokémon adventure was resuming once again, as they set off on Route 15.
Nanka loved the little gateways she would come across on her journey, mainly due to the binoculars they had, allowing her sneak peeks at wonderful places to travel. She decided to stop and look through the mounted binoculars on Route 15's gateway, looking out to the vast sea.
"Oh, I think I see an island, and that's-", Nanka found herself at a loss for words as she spotted a large shining bird, flying out at sea as mist seemingly flowed from it's gliding wings. "…A-a-a Legend… Legendary!?"
"W-was that Moltres!? No, it was blue… I think, so it must have been Articuno!" Nanka rambled as the distant bird soon flew too far, vanishing from sight. "N-no, it couldn't have been, it must have been a large and funny coloured Fearow or something… right?"
Nanka continued to ramble and peer through the binoculars, unaware of the unassuming man approaching her.
"Hi! Remember,"-Nanka screamed in alarm, snapped out of both her ramblings and her sightseeing.
"Sorry! Ever so sorry, Nanka dear, I did not mean to startle you." The glasses wearing man apologised, whom was catching her breath after the shock.
"I-it's okay… it was my fault." Nanka replied, calming herself down. "I got lost in thought."
"Aha! You haven't changed a bit." The stranger replied, as if he were familiar with her.
Nanka froze, 'T-this guy knows me! But who is he…?'
"I'm Professor Oak's aide!" The lab coat dressed man announced, much to Nanka's relief. "I'm here to give you this one-of-a-kind EXP All item if you've managed to catch fifty Pokémon!"
"Ehehehe…" Nanka giggled nervously at the Aide's salesman manner of speaking, replying. "My apologies, but I'm nowhere close to catching fifty Pokémon."
"Is that true?" The Aide inquired.
After a quick rummage through her bag, Nanka handed over her Pokédex for the Aide to inspect it.
"Oh, I see." The Aide noted as he handed back Nanka's Pokédex. "You've only caught twenty two kinds of Pokémon. Sorry to say, but you're way behind G-Man."
"Well, he's certainly better at catching Pokémon than me." Nanka said, smiling as she remembered her friend's boasting of all the Pokémon he caught, which seemed to be every time they bumped into one another. "I bet the professor is really proud of him."
"Y-yeah…" The Aide replied with the fakest of smiles, before muttering under his breath just loud enough for Nanka to hear, "you think he would, at least."
Nanka was once again lost in thought. Surprisingly, said thoughts were not of the legendary bird she had glimpsed, but rather what she had managed to hear the Aide utter. Hearing such a remark, she had tried asking what he had meant, but the Aide refused to elaborate.
"Thinking about it… G-Man did get mad back on the S.S. Anne, when I mentioned the professor…" Nanka mumbled to himself. '…I still need to get him to apologise for that.'
Her thoughts were soon interrupted by a trainer's challenge.
Nanka and Ribbon had been sitting down for about half-an-hour, the former staring down at her Pokédex, the latter keeping a steady gaze on their trainer.
"I still can't decide whether you should learn Wing Attack or not, Ribbon." Nanka voiced her indecision, looking at the four moves Ribbon currently knew, pondering if she should replace one. "Bite and confuse ray are super useful, I only just taught you Koga's bite and leech life… I think it might be better to keep it."
"Are you okay with not learning wing attack?" Nanka inquired, with Ribbon nodding in response, the bat Pokémon leaving the decision up to their trainer entirely.
When Nanka locked eyes with a glamorous looking lady, she was not expecting said lady to respond, "I raise Pokémon because I live alone."
At a loss for words, it took a while for Nanka to respond, even as the Beauty trainer was sent out her Bulbasaur for a Pokémon battle to start. For the battle against the Beauty's grass starter duo of Bulbasaur and Ivysaur, Nanka had Ribbon demonstrate why keeping leech life was a good decision; quickly taking down the opposing team whilst keeping in tip-top shape.
"W-well… it's good to see Slothful is putting that Strength move I taught her to good use." Nanka noted with a nervous chuckle as Slothful chucked the Picknicker's Oddish into the distance.
"My Oddish! I got that one in a trade!" The Picknicker cried out, running after her thrown Pokémon.
"Snnnooorrr…" Slothful yawned as she sat down, resuming her planned break time now that she'd rid herself of the pests.
"All five… all of my Pokémon… beaten by a Jigglypuff!" The Biker cried out in despair as he returned his fainted Grimer.
"That was incredible, Melody!" Nanka exclaimed, with both amazement and pride.
"Jiggly! Puff Puff!" Melody cheered, running over to Nanka to partake in a delightful chest-high hug, even if said hug was far less cushiony than she'd like.
Nanka was unaware of her less than innocent Jigglypuff's thoughts, gleefully hugging her victorious Pokémon that had bested three Koffings, a Grimer, and even a Weezing; all on her own.
Nanka continued to stroll down Route 15, holding a content Melody in her arms as Jolt ran on a little further ahead. Whilst keeping an eye on her speedy electric starter, Nanka bumped into a blonde haired Beauty. Before she could even attempt an apology, the Beauty trainer had spun around and looked to Nanka with a sly smile.
"Oh, you're a little cutie!" The Beauty commented with a playful tone, winking as she leaned in closer to Nanka.
"C-cutie!? I, um… I g-guess…" Nanka stammered out as her face immediately blushed bright red, stepping back from the pretty woman with the seductive voice.
The Beauty seemed surprised by this, but her sly smile soon returned as she leaned once again towards Nanka, twirling a lock of her hair with her manicured nails. "Well, here I was just giving you but a small compliment and you seem more than a little flattered by it."
If it was at all possible for Nanka to blush more; she would.
The Beauty had planned to tease the adorable girl more, but upon noticing the Jigglypuff in Nanka's arms, chose to instead remark, "Oh my! You haven't evolved your Jigglypuff yet."
"Yes! I haven't!" Nanka shouted quickly, leaping on the chance to change the topic. "I figured she wasn't a high enough level."
"Jig." Melody said with a nod, still happily being held by Nanka.
The Beauty stood back from Nanka, a less mischievous smile on her face as she explained, "Oh no, Jigglypuffs' won't become Wigglytuffs' through levelling. You'll need a moon stone for that."
"O-oh, thank you for the tip." Nanka replied, before glancing down at Melody, a question now dancing in her head.
After a battle against the complimentary Beauty; a cruel mistress who took advantage of Nanka's uncontrollable teenage attraction towards pretty women and men with many a subtle body movement, Nanka took some time to think about the advice she was given.
"Sooo, we have plenty of moon stones stored away. What do you think about evolving, Melody?" Nanka asked her Jigglypuff, currently skipping alongside her.
Melody hummed to herself, weighing up the pro's and con's, before a slow shrug, "P-puff?"
"Perhaps we should think about it later." Nanka said, before giggling to herself. "I'm so glad that I don't have to worry about stuff like evolving or when I'd want to."
Nanka had all of her moon stones stored away, and she had no idea when she'd next get access to a PC, so she had plenty of time to let the question brew in her head. In the meantime, she decided to continue onwards down Route 15.
Her next Pokémon battle was against a confident junior trainer, who said that Nanka looked gentle.
Nanka considered herself a gentle person; Jolt on the other hand was not.
"Looks like we're onto Route 14." Nanka noted as she looked up from her Town Map. "Well, you're on Route 14, Jolt. I'm still on Route 15."
Jolt gave a puzzled look to Nanka, and then looked to the invisible line that divided the routes. He hopped over to Nanka, entering Route 15. He then hopped back to where he had been, entering Route 14.
"Route 14!" Nanka cheered as she hopped over to Jolt, then hopped back to where she had been. "Route 15!"
"Pikaaa!" Jolt cheered as he hopped back to Route 15, then cheered again as he hopped back to Route 14.
The two of them hopped back and forth between the minute line dividing Route's 14 and 15 for the next ten or so minutes.
As Nanka praised the victory of Ribbon, and the Bird Keeper tended to his Farfetch'd, the latter decided to begin chatting, "Have you ever heard of the Legendary Pokémon?"
"Eh?" Nanka replied as the image of the glistening bird from earlier flashed through her mind. "Y-yeah…"
"I heard the three Legendary Pokémon are all birds of prey." The Bird Keeper added as he looked to the sky with wistful eyes. "I'd love to spot one."
"Did you teach any of your Pokémon fly?" The next Bird Keeper, one of many along Route 15, asked as he sent out his Spearow.
Nanka lowered her head, despondently replying, "N-no, I don't-"
"I taught all of mine!" The Bird Keeper proclaimed smugly, as he sent out his Doduo to wait on the side-lines, readied as his next battling Pokémon. "I even taught it to my Doduo here, and he's supposed to be a flightless bird Pokémon."
Dejected and irritated, Nanka enjoyed Jolt's merciless approach as he struck down the birds with Thunderbolts.
'It's getting late…' Nanka thought as she looked up to see a few twinkling stars visible, "…and I don't know where the exit is."
Nanka and Jolt were amidst Route 13, a route comprised primarily of a wooden fence maze. With several trainers wandering it's narrow paths, it could be quite chaotic.
Luckily, Jolt had found a wider patch within said maze, where Nanka decided to set up their tents for the night.
On an early and chilly December morning, Nanka and Jolt made their way out of Route 13's wooded maze; certainly a unique feature to the river fronted area.
Nanka stifled a yawn as she commented, "N-not much further to… to Silence Bridge."
Jolt ran ahead, looking up to the cloudy sky and the small rays of morning sun peeping through them, as Nanka continued to mumble, "Then we'll… g-go toooo… Lavender tooowww…"
Jolt turned back to Nanka, wondering what was taking the sleepyhead so long to catch up, only to find Nanka dozing off by the Route's sign.
Jolt's eyes sparkled, much like the beautiful blue river, as he eyed up the rippling spots perfect for fishing at.
"Kachu! Pikachu, Pi?" Jolt called out to Nanka as he swung his arm, making the motion of casting a fishing rod.
"You've already fished here before, Jolt. This is where we got Chu-Chu after all, and besides…" Nanka replied, holding out a hand to feel a small droplet of water fall onto it, "…it looks to be raining soon."
"Kachu!" Jolt huffed, stomping his feet.
"Piiikaaachuuu!" Jolt shouted out a battle cry as he leapt at Nanka's yellow bag, quickly unzipping it and pulling out the old rod.
"Jolt, we don't have time to be fishing. We need to get to the nearest town and restock on supplies." Nanka snapped back, grabbing hold of the Old Rod and attempting to pry it from Jolt's paws. "C'mon, leeettt gooo!"
The trainer and starter continued to argue and fight over fishing rod, only halting when the slow pitter-patters of rain begun to pour down as a drenching shower.
A window swung open on the lone cottage set up on Silence Bridge, an orange jacketed man poking his head out as he called out, "You two need some shelter?!"
Forgetting their bickering, Nanka and Jolt quickly accepted the offer and ran inside the cottage.
"Well, I'll be!" The orange jacketed man exclaimed, eyes upon the old rod as Nanka and Jolt shook off the rain. "That theirs one of my lil bro's fishing rods."
In the midst of pulling out a towel from her shoulder bag, the soaked Nanka and Jolt looked to the friendly fisherman holding their old rod, and inquired, "Your brother, sir? Do you mean the Fishing Guru?"
"That's the one!" The Silence Bridge's lone homeowner chuckled with his upbeat and booming voice. "I looove to fish! He does too, and I reckon from your fighting over this beat up rod, that your Pikachu seems to be quite the fishing lover too."
"Pikkkaaa!" Jolt nodded furiously as grabbed the old rod from the Fisherman's hands, holding it aloft his head as if it were a sacred treasure.
"Well I'll be!" The Fisherman chuckled. "Fishing is a way of life, but it's mighty unusual to see a Pikachu follow that way of way of life!"
Grabbing a fishing rod off a nearby shelf, the Fisherman knelt down to Jolt, "Weeeelllll, my unusual fishing buddy, how 'bout you take one of my super rods? Top of the line fishing tool here!"
"Oh no! I completely forgot about the other Snorlax!" Nanka cried out in despair as the turquoise skinned behemoth blocked the path back to Lavender Town, as it had the previous month. "I mean, I can wake it up with my Pokéflute but…"
Nanka looked to her exhausted Pokémon in their Pokéballs, some fainted and others without a drop of energy. Nanka then looked back to Jolt, who along with Slothful, were the only Pokémon in okay condition. As raring to go as Jolt was, and as powerful as Slothful was, it seemed far too reckless to challenge the snoozing Snorlax to battle.
After weighing up her options, Nanka voiced aloud her decision, "I-I think we should go back to rest at a Pokécentre. Slothful, Jolt; lets head back… all the way… to Fuchsia City."
Returning Slothful and getting back onto her bicycle, Jolt happily hopping into the attached basket, Nanka begun to cycle back towards Fuchsia City. This meant journeying through three routes and a wooden maze just to get to the nearest available Pokécentre.
From the middle of Thursday to a late night of the following Friday, Nanka made her way to Fuchsia City, then back to the still snoozing roadblock.
Much like with Slothful, the Silence Bridge dwelling Snorlax wasn't too pleased to be woken up, and so decided to attack.
Prepared for this, Nanka called out to her readied Eevee, "Ion! Sand-Attack that Snorlax!"
Ion threw sand into the Snorlax's eyes, irritating the Pokémon and impairing his vision.
Then the Snorlax forgot about it.
So Ion threw sand at the Snorlax once again.
Using the move amnesia though, whilst he still had sand irritating his eyes, the Snorlax forgot that it was ever thrown at him.
"Shrew, Shrew!" Arid cheered atop the knocked down Snorlax's belly.
"G-great job, Arid." Nanka stuttered out some praise for her Sandslash's victory, happy for him, but distracted by the many dug holes in the bridge. 'How did Arid use dig on a bridge? How did he not fall into the water?'
"Shreeewww!" Arid yelped as he was flung off from the rising Snorlax.
The surprisingly calm Snorlax looked towards the mountains, flapped his arms, and begun flying off into the starry night sky. Witnessing this, Nanka could only fall to her knees, trying to comprehend what had just happened.
After a brief internal debate as to whether she had imagined what she had seen from a lack of sleep or that her dream-turned-nightmare was a sneak peek into the future, prompting the girl to check her clothes weren't disappearing, she and her weary team made the short distance to Lavender Town for a night's sleep.
The next morning, the group all set off excitedly for their next destination; Saffron City.
"The road is closed?" Nanka repeated what the sweltering guard had said. "But why?"
The Saffron City gateway guard began sweating even more, stammering out, "I-I um, yeah… can't tell-say! I can't say right now, s-sorry."
"What should we do now…?" Nanka wondered aloud as she wandered around Celadon City with Jolt.
With nothing else to do, Nanka decided to return to Celadon City to restock on supplies. As they walked around the city, questions of where to go next filled their heads. The duo was walking to Celadon Mart with such thoughts, but when Nanka heard a familiar jingling sound, she froze. Looking in the direction of the sound, Nanka gazed affectionately at a large and familiar building, sounds and sights distracting her from her previous adventuring question.
It did not take long for Jolt, who had been thinking of a super cool and super sneaky action-packed plan to get past the guard and into Saffron City, to notice that Nanka was gone. It did not take long for him to find her either; unfortunately just outside the worst possible place.
"Pika, Pika, Kachu! Pikachu!" Jolt snapped as he spotted his fiery eyed trainer staring longingly at the formerly Rocket owned Game Corner.
"J-Jolt!?" Nanka burst as she noticed her scowling Pikachu, who ran around her and stood between her and the Game Corner close by. "I-I was just, um… c-collecting my prize. Yeah! With the game coins I'll earn- I mean earned… from before."
Jolt kept Nanka in his sights the entire time that she walked into the exchange booth, a thankfully separated building from the alluring Game Corner, ensuring she didn't try to make a detour to said Game Corner next door. That was in fact Nanka's plan, but any distraction was worthless as her Pikachu maintained his vigilant watch over her.
"H-hello, I'd like toooo… exchange my game coins please." Nanka said as she continued to hear the buzzing sounds of excitement, tempting her back to the ever so close-by slot machines.
"Sure, which prize do you want kid?" The plain clothed booth clerk asked, the more… office-like uniform she was wearing seemingly being a change made when the Game Corner was taken over by a non-criminal organisation.
"I guess I'll go with…" Nanka begun to say as she read the prizes featured at the booth, unsure as to what to go with, having had no prior intention of popping in here, "Oh! A Vulpix! I'll have the Vulpix please."
"Wonderful choice!" The Clerk responded with a broad smile, retrieving a Game Corner branded Pokéball from behind the counter, passing it over to Nanka at the same time as she received from Nanka the thousand game coins payment. "I will warn you though, that due to the former owners of this establishment being the nefarious Team Rocket, that some of these Pokémon haven't been all too well treated until recently. Your Vulpix might take a little while to warm up to you."
"Thank you." Nanka said with a nod, rushing over and presenting the prize ball to a now relieved Jolt. "Look, Jolt! We've got a Vulpix now; just like Vicky does."
Nanka left the gift booth happily humming her favourite tune, her cheeriness drowning out the alluring promises of fortune that ringed from the busy Game Corner nearby. Jolt didn't allow himself to relax until said Game Corner was out of view, breathing a sigh of relief as he and Nanka walked on by,
"Well, we do still need to restock on supplies…" Nanka said between her cheery hums, gazing at the Vulpix containing officially licensed Game Corner ball in her hands, "…but I think I'll leave that to tomorrow. There's something else I'd rather spend the day doing."
Nanka decided to spend the rest of the day getting to know about her new travelling companion; Beauty the Vulpix.
The first thing Nanka found out about Beauty was that the dark red furred fox was very shy. Perhaps 'shy' wasn't quite the correct word, but rather that it seemed as if Beauty was unsure how to even interact with people or other Pokémon. Beauty seemed puzzled when Jolt offered a handshake, tucking away behind her six pale orange tails, and was equally perplexed when Nanka rolled a toy ball over to her.
The following day, Nanka travelled to Saffron City… or she would have if the road wasn't still closed. There was a bright side to this delay on her continuing journey, and that was in giving her some time to train Beauty for the potential battles and dangers ahead.
Nanka thus opted to travel to Silence Bridge, having earlier spotted a small field brimming with grass type Pokémon. The fire type Beauty would be sure to have an easy sparring against the wild Bellsprouts and Oddish… that was, once Nanka managed to successfully convince Beauty to even try.
"Don't worry, Beauty. You can do it!" Nanka cheered for her Vulpix as Beauty entered her first trainer battle.
Beauty was, of course, quite hesitant about the whole thing. She only started to fight when the Nidoran Male began charging at her, and so leapt away from the horned foe, keeping her distance with a slew of Embers. These embers, along with one instinctive quick-attack, were enough to defeat the opposing Nidoran Male. This was all to Beauty's great surprise, sniffing cautiously at the fainted Pokémon, and yelping with fright as he was returned his Pokéball.
After a day of playing and training, Nanka returned to Celadon City to restock on items. As she cycled leisurely to the city, Nanka started to recount what she needed.
'So let's see, we need more Great Balls, more Super-no, more fresh water; it's better. Hmmm, what else…' Nanka thought, stopping only briefly to focus on a sharp bend in the road, and then looking to her Pikachu and asking, "Hey, Jolt; do you think we should buy more stones?"
"Kaaa…" Jolt hissed at the very suggestion.
"I guess you don't want a Thunder Stone…" Nanka said with a nervous giggle, "…but how about a different stone, for one of the others?"
This suggestion provoked a kinder reaction, as Jolt agreed to this with a curt nod
Purchasing only a few small bits on her way up through the Celadon Department Store, Nanka soon reached the Wiseman's gift store and it's selection of many stones.
"I already have a Water Stone, and I have several Moon Stones, but should I buy another evolution stone?" Nanka asked herself as she glanced at the many stones.
"I think Weepinbell evolves by Leaf Stone..." Nanka said as an image of Devourer popped into mind. "...or was that Gloom? I'll get a Leaf Stone, just in case."
As the fifteenth and final fresh water bottle popped out of the vending machine, Nanka sighed to herself, "I wish we could visit Saffron City."
Nanka picked up the fresh water and walked over to the table her Pokémon were sat at, munching away at a small lunch. The trainer slumped to her seat, her mind still focused on visiting Saffron City.
"I wonder why the road is still shut." Nanka mumbled.
As questions without answers lingered in her mind, Nanka mumbled, "I...I wonder if we could get by the guard somehow."
Nanka then felt a tap on her shoulder, causing her to look away from the sky and to Licker. A smirking Licker held aloft a fresh water. As Nanka looked to the bottle of water, she thought of how thirsty the guard seemed.
Nanka smirked "Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Licker?"
The guard was dead.
Licker looked to the body sprawled across the ground as she juggled a fresh water; her weapon of choice. She smirked; the deed was done.
"T-that's not what I was thinking at all!" Nanka cried out, trembling at what she had just witnessed unfold.
The guard's leg twitched.
Licker gasped; he was still alive! Grasping the fresh water bottle tighter, Licker prepared to finish the job.
Unfortunately for Licker, one of the most enjoyable days of her undead life was halted by her soft-hearted trainer, who returned her to her 'Confinement Ball' before she could finish the guard off.
Nanka was left trembling, staring at the guard's seemingly lifeless body, unaware of the hanging-on twitches and groans that her Haunter had noticed. Fear flooded Nanka's mind; thoughts spiralling to the worst possible outcomes.
She panicked; fleeing to Saffron City.
It was only the first day of the New Year, but after such an incident, Nanka had already decided on her New Year's resolution.
"Jolt..." Nanka started addressing her Pikachu. "From now on, I vow to avoid as much trouble as possible this year! The rest of our Pokémon journey is going to be incident-free!"
Little did Nanka know; that by entering Saffron City, she was already breaking her resolution.
A/N: Thus ends the... 14th chapter of Nanka's Pokémon Miiverse Adventure, and the beginning of Nanka's long time spent in Saffron City. Let me warn you now, Silph Co takes a long while to journey through.
In any case, I was advised early on with this Director's Cut to make the Pokémon attack name's lower-cased. I could understand the reasoning, whilst they are upper-cased for the games, the names of such things don't warrant upper-casing in real life. That said, as I read through this, I feel the attacks and key items have a lack of pop when reading the story; their harder to notice. I kind of prefer having them in upper-case, as improper as it might seem outside of the realm of Pokémon. I've alternatively considered writing attack names and key items in bold to draw attention to them, but what do you lot reading think?
As for the chapter itself, well it surprised me how long it took to get to Saffron City. I spent a surprising amount of time writing up small scenes with the trainer encounters on Route's 15 and 14, which I hope said scenes proved entertaining. It's worth noting that with the original creation of this series and the nature of the site it was initially uploaded on, that the majority of this story was improvised. A lot of the scenes were on the spot reactions to what had happened in the gameplay of my Pokémon Yellow playthrough, with some intended ideas having to shift or drop based on what occurred. Hopefully I managed to maintain both a consistent level of skill and character whilst writing this story.
That ending Licker scene by the way, easily one of the highlights of NPMA. I was proud of it myself, but it had folks roaring with laughter back on the original site, so I'm quite proud of it. I hope you new readers on this site enjoyed the scene just as much, as well as the whole of this Director's Cut chapter of Nanka's Pokémon Miiverse Adventure Act 6. I hope you'll look forward to the next chapter, which thankfully, will be arriving punctually on the next weekend.