Current team:
- Betsie.
- Jotaro.
- Barbara.
- Scone.
- Lmao.
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I finally reach Lake Acuity, and turns out, I am not the only one who often has to deal with Abortion's Tauroshit, for Commander Jupiter has just stomped all over him and his team in annoyance.
He claims he needs to get stronger, but I have no time to waste: I must now raid Team Galactic's base for real!
I bump into a grunt who is supervising the antennas. Turns out he's one of the many I have defeated along this nuzlocke, and upon recognizing me he's like "DON'T GET ANY CLOSER, THEY TOOK MY CLEFAIRY BECAUSE OF YOU AND MY FRIEND QUIT" and then claims he won't give me the key to the base and runs away... effectively dropping the key for me to take.
This key opens the Warehause. I lose it upon using it, but at least I'm in now... And in front of me lays a Dusk Stone. Nostalgia and bitterness wash over me, for that's the stone I was looking forward to before, when Wayward was still alive, to evolve her into a Mismagius... And now it is but the remnant of an empty promise.
...anyways, Jotaro sweeps every singre grunt both at the warehouse and the actual base, fueled by his rage and my own.
Then, I open the door that separates me from Cyrus, whom holds Mesprit, Uxie and Azelf hostages, and they seem to be in pain.
He's like "sure, free them", but beforehand he challenges me... And Jotaro sweeps him too.
Apparently he has a masochist kink or something, because in return for getting his ass severely pummeled by a buff bird, he gives me a Master Ball.
He then heads to Mount Coronet, aiming to reach the top and put an end to everything in existence. As expected, I, a 10 years old child, am the one supposed to stop him and save the whole freaking universe, but first I must release the lake trio, because good deeds are neverending here.
The scientists guarding the place seem very regretful... But still they are doing nothing to make things better, so yet again, 10 years old powers activate!
Commander Saturn wants to fight, because unlike Cyrus, he has no masochism kink involving birds... Well, too bad, because Jotaro sweeps all his Pokémon! Toxicroak does leave him on the red though, but with the help of a hyperpotion, the battle is easily won.
And then I release the lake trio, yay.
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I enter Mount Coronet from Eterna City, and find a lost Team Galactic grunt who has just realized he was supposed to enter Mount Coronet from Hearthome City instead... So I do just that.
Barbara sweeps the first grunt in our way, and the second, and the third, and the fourth, and the fifth, and the sixth, and the seventh, and then I get lost, and then I find the way, and she sweeps the 4 remaining grunts until there is no more, thua finding myself in front of a shiny gate that looks important.
I cross that gate, and I find myself in the Spear Pilar. Ahead of me lies the fate of the universe, and only I, a kid who should be learning nursery rhymes at school but instead went to meander the Sinnoh region around, can prevent the end of it all.
Two grunts block the way, leading to a double battle, and they are easily defeated by both Barbara and Jotaro: my best tanks.
Cyrus then uses the red chain or whatever he got from squeezing the Lake Trio, in order to summor Palkia, wielder of the Pearl, deity of Space itself. Everything begins to distort. The sky looks like the mixture of a fever dream and a drug trip, everywhere in Sinnoh.
Basically, Cyrus doesn't just wanna end the world, because what's the point? He would be floating around in the middle of freaking nowhere! No, he wants to reset it, rewrite it, and of course, like every bad guy ever, rule over everything.
Suddenly Abortion storms by (so far, this is his only mean of transport: speedrunning through the world) and he helps me defeat Commanders Mars and Jupiter with our (mine more) fabulous (than his) teams!
Then Abortion heals all my Pokémon and leaves, like his job here has been done. What a good NPC...
Palkia is about to erase the save file of the universe, but the Lake Trio stops him and Mesprit personally thanks me for being the only person with common sense, then they disappear.
Cyrus is livid. He claims he'll capture them again (even though he was the one who told me I could release them), but first he will squish me, and also calls me a minuscule worm.
You know who has vermiphobia? Me.
You know who is a worm? Himself.
And you know who loves eating worms? My Jotaro! FIGHT!
Cyrus releases Honchkrow, and Jotaro uses Aerial Ace, leaving it in the red, who reciprocates with Drill Peck, which barely does any damage, but before Jotaro can finish it, Cyrus uses a hyperpotion. Jotaro then oneshots it with one last Aerial Ace.
Weavile comes out, but is insta-killed by Jotaro's flight.
Next, Cyrus lets out a Gyarados, and guess what? Jotaro also loves eating fish! He flies up in the air and down against the enemy, leaving the blue derp in a low yellow. However, Gyarados retaliates with an Ice Fang, leaving Jotaro in the exact same situation, but my badass Jojo reference of a bird is much faster, and with his next attack, he leaves his foe at only 1 or 2 HP with his next attack. Next turn, Gyarados leaves Jotaro in the red, and here's the situation I am facing: I can deal the finishing blow in this turn, but if Gyarados outspeeds me, Jotaro will be killed. Plus, what if the foe uses a hyperpotion? That has priority over moves, and thus risking it will have been futile. I decide to heal my Staraptor, and my suspicions had been verified, as Cyrus does the exact same. Then the battle proceeds. Jotaro uses Aerial Ace, Gyarados attempts a Giga Impact but fails, Jotaro repeats his last move and leaves Gyarados in a low yellow. This time, Gyarados's Giga Impact doesn't miss, but Jotaro tanks it, staying in the green, and finishes the overgrown karp noodle with one last Aerial Ace.
Cyrus releases Crobat: his last Pokémon. My badass bird leaves him on a low green with Aerial Ace, but he reciprocates with Bite, leaving Jotaro on an even lower green, who uses a stronger Aerial Ace, leaving Crobat in the red. After Crobat leaves Jotaro in a low yellow by using Air Slash, I follow the same train of thought as before, and use another hyperpotion. Then Crobat attempts to turn the scales by using Cross Poison, but doesn't succeed to poison Jotaro, and falls to his last Aerial Ace.
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With the battle being finished, the very much crushed Team Galactic leaves, and Rowan and Lucas walk towards me. Rowan then begins a philosophical talk about how he doesn't know whether he sees fury or sadness in Palkia's eyes, but that he seems to be waiting for me, wishing to test me. "Listen to what his heart says, try to get into his mind." He adds. "He is out of control. He trusts you, and he wants you to end this."
Lucas decides he wants to talk too, saying that he crossed paths with Abortion, who said that he completely trusts me, and that he knows I will do what I must, thus giving me more main character syndrome.
"I also believe it." Lucas continues. "Help this Pokémon, he is suffering because of Team Galactic."
Both dudes push me forward, as if I wasn't gonna go there myself, and the battle against the deity of Space begins. Yes, I still have the Master Ball, but I decide to save it just in case, and attempt to catch Palkia in a different way. Jotaro leaves him in the yellow with an Aerial Ace, and he retaliates with a Dragon Claw. I then throw an Ultra Ball, but it twitches twice before Palkia reemerges and uses a Water Pulse, leaving Jotaro in the red and confusing him.
I switch to Lmao, to yawn and put Palkia to sleep. Palkia uses Ancient Power twice, which isn't a very good technique against Quagsire. Lmao uses yawn, and I take the extra turn to heal Jotaro, just in case.
Palkia leaves Lmao in the red with Spacial Rend, but fortunately falls asleep right after. At that moment I hesitate between throwing another ultraball or healing Lmao in case Palkia wakes up and kills him. Refusing to lose any more Pokémon I heal Lmao, and luckily Palkia is still snoozing by that time, so I throw an Ultraball. At the second twitch of it, the legendary escapes in his sleep.
I am too scared to attack. What if I kill the god of space? However our lord and savior is too strong for me to successfully catch, so I tell Lmao to use slam, thankfully leaving Palkia in the red but alive, so I use another Ultraball. However, not only do I fail to catch it again, but also it wakes up and uses Dragon Claw, and then follows up by also throwing in another Spacial Rend, thus leaving Lmao also in the red, whose response to such pain and agony is to yawn.
After I heal Lmao, Palkia uses Spacial Rend once more, leaving Lmao in a low yellow, but fortunately falls back asleep after that, and stays asleep after I heal Lmao once more.
The next Ultraball fails, but doesn't wake Palkia up, so I throw another one and...
One...
Two...
Three...
Caught!
I give Palkia a fitting name for a deity of Space, and thinking that Homira would be a good name for Dialga, the deity of Time, the now caught lord and savior shall from now on be called Madoka!
Rowan and Lucas congratulate me. The world is saved. As they drag me away, all I can think of is the joy of nobody having died in this chapter, plus now I own best anime girl in my pocket.