Cepheus

TM46 - Thief Found in Ametrine City, south of the Ice-skating place Tm49 - Echoed Voice Ametrine Mountain (outside - labeled as Ametrine City) - after the big staircase follow the path a bit an then go right around that rock and follow that path. (there is also an Ice Gem on that white rock next to it)

New Sticker found in Ametrine City: Help the System-Administrator defeat the Virus in his System (The building next to the Pokemon Center) - Defeat all 3 "Missingno"-Trainer on his computer on the glitch field to obtain this sticker

Chapter 11 - Kyogre Awakens - The true Power of Protomorphosis! I'm done griefing over my Kecleon... now I need to replace it... and I chose Skitty to acompany me from here on out. But I needed to get it in shape first - So I decided to go on a quick training run and visit "Sea Mauville". Within Sea Mauville I found the TM18-Rain Dance but I couldn't explore it further since I need to be able to Dive in there. I've let Skitty fight against the swimmers on the Routes 106 - 108, and it eventually caught up to my other Pokemon, and I still got my Moonstone from the meteor falls. I used the Moonstone to evolve Skitty into Delcatty after it learned Play Rough. On these routes I caught: Wingull and two Tentacools... which got traded for an Trapinch, an Oddish and a Forretress. I returned to Lilycove City and hopped onto my Tentacruel and ventured forth towards Mossdeep City. Once arrived I looked around first, like I always do. A Lady in the PokeMart gave me the TM60-Quash, a Fisherman gave me the Super-Rod and in the Space Center I received a Sun Stone. I headed into the Gym to obtain my next badge. Inside the gym were giant floating rocks, serving as plattforms for battles with the various trainers. To travol from rock to rock, I got lifted up into the air, just like I would float! What a funny feeling! I reached the gym-leader... well gym-leaders! Why are there two? Tate & Liza were the gym-leaders of this Psychic-Gym. They are twins and have some sort of telephatic connection... that's why they do double battles in their gym. I chellenged them anyway, since I'm not afraid of double battles... and I really didn't need to worry about this one... seriously... They only used Solrock and Lunatone. While I used Sandslash and Wormadame. Sandslash opened with a Fury Cutter against Solrock, which continued with Sunny Day and Lunatone used Light Screen to Protect them and Wormadame followed up with Razor Leaf. Tate used a Hyper Potion to heal up his Solrock, which then got defeated by another Fury Cutter/Razor Leaf combo, while Lunatone used Psychic against Sandslah. - Solrock was down and Lunatone heavily injured. Liza then used a Hyper Potion to patch up her Lunatone... but one hit by Sandslashs empowered Fury Cutter made quick work of it this time. I received the Mind Badge from them, which allows me to command Pokemon up to Level 80 and use the HM07-Dive. They also handed me TM04-Calm Mind. Sandslash was *promoted* to Veteran after this fight and transfered to the PC. As I left the Gym, the earth began to shake heavily! A huge Earthquake! Also a giant pillar of light shot towards the sky, just south of Mossdeep city! What is going... oh no... Team Aqua! They must have found that underwater cave! Steven approached me and wanted to talk to me at his house, where we would not be disturbed or distracted... I didn't know he lives here. Inside his house we talked over the current situation, that Team Aqua must have found that ancient Pokemon and that we have to stop them. He handed me HM07-Dive and a scuba-device, so that I would be able to reach that cave. I taught Dive to Tentacruel. I patched up my Pokemon at the PokeCenter and chose Trapinch as a successor to Sandslash. I went to the Coastal Cave north of Mossdeep for a quick Training-session for Trapinch which eventually evolved into Vibrava. Inside that cave I caught a Snorunt, which got traded for a Tympole and I found the TM79-Icy Breath with my Mach Bike, and a deep part of the cave fully covered in Ice, where I found TM07-Hail, a piece of Eternal Ice and a Glalitite. I the center of the room was giant ice-block that almost froze me when I touched it... maybe I can evolve one of my Eevees here into a Glaceon? - That would be so awesome! I love Glaceon! After my visit in the cave I quickly ventured back to Sea Mauville... now that I can use Dive, I could explore it even further. A little girl handed me a Key she found, it had a tag on it with the number 1. I headed to the Door with number 1 and found another key... that went on until I finally had the Storage-Room Key. I went outside on it's backside and entered the storage-room... which was FULL of NUGGETS! I found 8 big nuggets and 4 normal sized ones, the TM13-Ice Beam and a Beedrillite. I returned to Mossdeep City and made my way to the Underwater Cave to stop Team Aqua. I battled my way through the members of Team Aqua and the wild Pokemon here, and Vibrava learned Boom Burst and evolved into Flygon... and immediatly learned Dragon Rush. (I evolved it later than it needed to be, so it could learn Boom Burst first). Inside the cave I found the TM55-Scald and TM26-Earthquake before wenturing into the deepest parts. Once I arrived there I witnessed how Archie has just beaten Maxie and was mocking him... and right behind them it was still sleeping... the legendary Kyogre! Archie challanged me to a last battle, to stop me from stopping him... He send out Mightyena and I countered with Wormadame and her Bug Bite. Mightyena took a few hits before going down. He then send out Muk and I used Reuniclus to defeat it quickly. Next was Crobat vs Pachirisu... and after that he send out his Ace - Sharpedo, and this time he used the Mega-Evolution... to bad that Sharpedo still is very weak in terms of defence even when Mega-Evolved. After I beat Archie, Shelly showed up and tried to stop Archie from awaken Kyogres, because it's power is to strong to control, it would destroy the world instead of creating one like Archie wants... But Archie didn't listen... the used hte Blue-Gem to awaken Kyogre! I could literally feel it's immense power in the air around me. Then Kyogre left the Cave on search for nature-energy. Pachirisus Pokeball began to glow but it flickered... with an error message "exception error - destination unreachable - try again later". Did the heavy rain somehow interrupted the Pokemon-Storage-System... I guess my Pachirisu is safe for a while until Kyogre is stopped. Archie got a call from the Team Aqua Members outside to report: Immediatly after Kyogre awakened, heavy rain set over the region... and apparently the rain was stronger than anticipated by Archie... it was out of control, and Kyogre headed for Sootopolis City. Maxie explained that, in order to reset the world into it's primal state - Kyogre would annihilate everything on the planet... and now even Archie realised that this is not what he wanted. We left the cave together and Maxie and Archie want to plan how to stop Kyogre, and that they await me in Sootopolis City. After they left Steven finally arrived on one of his Pokemon. I told him about the situation, and he went ahead to Sootopolis City to inform an old friend of his about the situation. I immediately went for Sootopolis City myself. Once I arrived I saw Steven talk to a man, which must be the friend he mentioned, so I approached them. Steven introduced me to Wallace - Sootopolis City's Gym-Leader and Guardian of the Cave of Origin, where Kyogre wants to go to gather Nature-energy. We went for the Cave of Origin where Archie, Maxie and Shelly were already waiting. Since I held the Red-Gem, which could disrupt Kyogres powers, it was I who had to go and face it. Shelly handed me the Aqua-Suit. A special protection-suit developed by Shelly during her time with Devon Corp. Brendan showed up to to wish me luck for this mission. I braced myself... took a deep breath and entered the Cave of origin. I used a Max-Repel... because I didn't want to wear down my Pokemon against the wild ones here before I have to face Kyogre. I ventured deeper and deeper... and with every step I took, Kyogres screams got louder and louder... and the quakes it caused within the cave got stronger and more frequent. As I reached a pool of water at the lowest part of the cave I put on the Aqua-Suit. and got a call from Archie. He told me, when Kyogre appears I have to jump on it's back and ride it down to the deepest part of Hoenn below the cave, where it will try to absorb as many nature energy as possible. Kyogre appeared and I did as I was told... I jumped onto it's back and rode it to the deepest part of Hoenn... Woooooow... if it wouldn't be like the end of the world outisde... I would just stay here and admiring the view... it is beautiful down here! How ever Kyogre reached it's destination... and began to absorb nature energy immediatly and began it's protomorphosis! It was like it hurls itself into a crystal-like cocoon. A symbol appeared it's shell... it was the greek letter Alpha... it began glow and then the cocoon shattered and before me arose Proto-Kyogre! It is HUGE! Somehow Proto-Kyogre caused Heavy Rain here inside this cave. Proto-Kyogre looked into my eyes with a challanging look - like it was mocking me: "You want to stop me? Don't make me laugh! C'mon give it a try - puny human!" I reached out to the Masterball in my pocket... but I put it away... Kyogre wants a real fight... even if it is currently destroying the world it shall aknowledge me as a worthy trainer through a battle, before I put an end to this madness. I need to catch it... if I juts defeat it, it will eventually rise again and cause havoc again. I send out Pachirisu and ordered a Thunder Wave, which I taught it beforhand. I think I caught the mighty Proto-Kyogre off guard, since it got hit and paralyzed. P-Kyogre used Water Ring to engulf itself with water to heal its wounds over time. A Discharge and a few Superfangs later, Kyogre was heavily wounded, but it managed to attack with it's Origin Pulse and KOed Pachirisu just as I threw an Ultra Ball to catch it, but Kyogre broke free. I couldn't help it anymore... I'm sorry little fellow... you will be remebered. Tentacruel was next and attacked Kyogre, to counter its Water Ring. A few Ultra Balls later... I tried a Dive Ball... and it worked! I caught Proto-Kyogre! The Power of Protomorphosis is now in my hands... but... "with great power comes great responsibility" - to quote a famous superhero-comic. I must not use it's power lightly... best would be to seal it away somewhere... The cave began to shake! Was it going to collapse? I didn't want to find out and ran away as fast as I could... luckily I found a way back up. With Kyogre sealed inside it's Pokeball its tremendous power could not cause any more havoc. The rain stopped and everything seemed to go back to normal... Everyone congratulated me to this great effort, and Archie handed me the Blue-Gem for Kyogre... with it Kyogre can perform the Protomorphosis anywhere and anytime... but do I really want this? Team Aqua and Team Magma left. Troy handed me an Eon-Flute, with which I could summon Latias to fly around with me... even when it's inside the Storage-System? HOW? Well if I learned one thing on this journey... Don't question flawed logic... Pachirisus Pokeball began to glow red with a warning "conflicting data - veteran status achieved & defeated"... yeah it should have been transferred after my battle with Archie, but Kyogres powers got in the way... "Analyzing Team" appeared suddenly as a message and Tentacruels Pokeball began to glow too. "Conflict resolved - Pachirisu status: defeated - Tentacruel promoted to veteran as a result." Both got transferred to the PC... well now I can't surf around to reach the PokeCentre... I took a quick stroll thorugh the City and found Sablenite... then it dawned upon me - the Eon-Flute. Iplayed it and Latias appeared. I jumped on it's back and let it fly me to the PokeCentre. This day was exhausting... I need a rest... Team: Pokemon caught and traded for: Backup-Pokemon on PC: Veterans: Fallen:

Wow... that is... I mean Anorith has GIANT ROUND EYES... how can anyone not see that? Besides the red marks don't even have an iris or pupil or something... Maybe we need a thread: "Where are the Pokemons eyes"

Finally it makes sense, how my Pokemon miss the sleeping opponent! Edit: 300 Posts HYPE - SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Noooooooooo!!!!!! No more hilariously "american" Lt.Surge posts!!! You sir, did a quite good job in your acting! I literally forgot you where "Stratos" after a few weeks! (although I always remembered that it was just acting) Round of applause!!! *clap clap clap clap clap* It was very entertaining! The Oscar for the best male lead-actor goes to... ... Leonardo Di Caprio! ... no wait... that would end the internet... It goes to you Stratos!

Chapter 10 - Only trouble with Team Aqua - Farewell to a friend I hardly knew... I was all set and head for Mt.Pyre, where Team Aqua was searching for some kind gem. Just outside of Mt.Pyre, the very small Route 122, I caught a Pelipper... and for my surprise it held a Lucky Egg! I returned to the Safari-Zone immediatly to check their PC and could get that Lucky Egg from it, before it got traded away... for a Bagon! I gave the Lucky Egg to my Kecleon, since it had a few Training-sessions to catch up, compared to my other team. I returned to Mt.Pyre and went inside. I didn't know Mt.Pyre was a Pokemon-Graveyard, were trainers lay their beloved partners to rest... I took a moment to pay respect to all those Pokemon... but I was soon thrown back into reality when a Duskull appeared out of thin air before me and scared me almost to death (how ironic...) I managed to catch the Duskull, and I received a Golbat for it. Kecleon could catch up to the rest of my team due to the Lucky egg and the wild pokemon and trainers here. An old Lady handed me a Cleanse Tag, and I found some Lax Incense and Sea Incense. On the top floor I found TM30-Shadow Ball and a Medichamite. I stepped outside to reach the top of Mt.Pyre, where I found TM61-Will-O-Wisp and a Bannettite... I didn't take long and I could see Team Aqua before me. I battled their members to reach the top and meet again with Archie and Matt, who just grabbed one of two gem-stones lying on top of Mt.Pyre... guarded by an elderly couple. Archie said something about awaken a legendary Pokemon with the Blue-Gem he just took, and that it sleeps in an undersea cavern... and now he needs a U-Boat to reach and that would go to Slateport City to get one. Team Aqua retreated and went straight for Slateport City. Before I could follow them, the elderly couple stopped me. They told me that those two gems, the blue-gem Archie took, and the red-gem, which was still lying there, should never be seperated or something really, really bad would happen. So they asked me to take the red-gem with me, if I'm persuading Team Aqua... so that the gems are not seperated.... That made sense, so I took it with me. The old man told me a story: Long time ago, Kyogre - The Lord of the Sea and Groudon - The Lord of the Land fought a seemingly never ending battle. While Kyogre summoned heavy rain and giant waves, Groudon fought by chasing away the clouds and cause a drought and fill up the sea with earth... Then suddenly the two gems appeared... the red-gem, the one I'm holding right now, weakened Kyogres power. And the blue-gem, which is in Archies posession, weakened Groudons power, and thus the two Pokemon were slowly drained of their power and they fell asleep and finally ending their battle... This battle took place here in the Hoenn-region... and is most commonly acknowledged as the story how the Hoenn-region was created by those two Pokemon: Mt.Chimney in the west symbolizes Groudons power of the Land, and the deep sea in the East symbolizes Kyogres power over the sea. I took of to Route 123 and caught a Gloom there and received a Ghastly in return. I went the down the entire Route 123 to Mauville City, from there I took of to Slateport City. As I arrived there I headed for the port where Capt.Stern was giving a TV-Interview... guess I'm not too late... or so I thought just as I wanted to warn him about Team Aqua, Archie was making an anouncement via some speakers, that they are about to steal the U-Boat. We went inside and found Archie and Shelly in front of the U-Boat. Archie challanged me to come to their hideout in Lilycove City... If I'm brave enough to stop them... of course I am! Some members stood in my way, nd buyed Archie and Shelly some time to escape with the U-Boat. Capt.Stern was so nice to organize a small ship immediatly to follow Team Aqua to Lilycove City. I made a quick stop at the Shopping Center to stock up on Medicine and Pokeballs. I met a few Team Aqua members in the City and one was clumsy enough to mention that their hideout is in the cove in the water just outside the city. I went to the beach, jumped on my Tentacruel and went there right away. WOW!!! They must be here for a long time... There are theses Teleporters everywhere! I managed to find my through this mess... and eventually landed in... I think It was Shelly's room... I'm a girl... and that was clearly a girls room, with that cute scented Wailmer-doll... There was a photo on the shelf which showed a black haired haired girl, a young man and a starshaped-pokemon with bangles dangling from it's head. On the back side was an hard to read note... it was an old note that's for sure... there was a date and if I deciphered everything correct the note reads: "07/??/2003 Me, together witch Archie and Jirachi" So this Photo is around 11 Years old... and it shows a young Shelly and Archie.. with a JIRACHI??? How come Archie knows a Jirachi... or yet is a friend of one? Why is he trying to "set everything back to the beginning", when he was a good guy that even a Jirichi would befriend him? What happened to him that he would do such evil things?? I put the Photo back on it's place and continued on and eventually came across Matt's room... which was... well almost empty... all that was there was a bunching-bag, an old cassette-player and a Pillow... Yeah... this was clearly Matt's room. I found the TM97-Dark Pulse there. And I eventually ended up in Archie's chamber... it was bigger than the others and had more of a "Boss"-Stlye decoration... Here I found two Electrodes just wandering around... I managed to catch one, while the pther exploded on me and my Pokemon. For that catched Electroede I received an Torkoal. I found a Nugget and a MASTERBALL! I think Archie wanted to use that Masterball to catch that Legendary Pokemon... to catch Kyogre, once he has awakened it... but not on the watch of me, Hoenn-Ranger Aplha-Sapphire! I take the Masterball with me... If something goes horribly wrong... I will catch it, so that Archie can not use it's powers to destroy this world we live in! I managed to find my way to the U-Boat... but a group of 5 Team Aqua Members stood in my way and battled me 5 vs 1! But they were pushovers... they only had one Poochyena each... and my Sandslash KOed them with one Magnitude. Now the only one that stood in my way was Matt. He obviously challanged me to buy time for Archie... but I had no choice. He send out his Sharpedo and I send out Kecleon. After a bit of skirmish, his Sharpedo was on the brink of defeat when it landed a critical hit with it's Ice Fang against Kecleon, right after I ordered it to attack... Kecleon was heavily injured and I couldn't recall it fast enough... Kecleon KOed Sharpedo... but Sharpedo's Rough Skin was enough to rip up Kecleons wounds enough. Kecleon couldn't handle it's injuries any longer and was defeated... I tried to recover it with a revive... but it was to late... ... I... I... I failed... I'm sorry Kecleon... you trusted me as your trainer... and I failed you! I'm sorry Beedrill... I couldn't keep my promise... I failed you too... please forgive me... As soon as Kecleon was back in it's Pokeball it began to glow... but different than usual, not like it was transfered to the PC because I beat a hard challange... I began to glow red... but I'm relieved... my Pokedex said it was transferred to another special-Box in the PC-storage system... I looked up and saw how the U-Boat just began to merge underwater. Matt said, that he would do anything for Archie... He wants that his dreams come true... Why would anyone support someone who wants to destroy this world we love? He also said that the Cave of the Legendary Pokemon lies deep under water, and if I want to stop them I need to find away to go underwater and that I should check out the Coastal-cities around... Wait... Is he trying to help me? - Why? I thought he wants to do everything to help Archie... Well I guess my next stop in this case is Mossdeep City... it is the only coastel-city beside Lilycove and Slateport City... But for now... I need rest... I need a moment to grief over the loss of friend I hardly knew... Team: Pokemon caught and traded for: Backup-Pokemon ond PC: Veterans: Fallen Pokemon:

For all you IV and nature breeders... you guys are sick! Sometimes... Kids need to learn the hard way:

Glorious PC-Gaming MAster-Race will understand:

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If you like J-RPGs: (or more specifically the "Tales of"-Series go pick up Tales of the Abbys! It's glorious! It has just the right mixture of story, humor, "darkness", war, character development and plot-twists! and it has Mieu, the most adorable little talking magical bunny-thingie ever

Well... If Slifer is on the field before Rayguaza, Slifer would destroy Rayguaza... even Mega-Rayguaza... because of it's effect - which reduces the ATK-Points of the summoned enemy monster by 2000. And every Slifer Player will keep as much Cards on his hands as possible to keep it's attack high enough - normally Sliver will have about 3000 Points. If Slifer get's summoned AFTER (Mega-)Rayguaza then it would totally depend on their ATK/DEF Points Theory: To Summon Mega-Rayguaza you need 'normal' Rayguaza on the field, because you can't Mega-Evolve a Pokemon which is still in it's Pokeball. If Slifer is on the Field, it would blast away 2000 ATK-Points from Mega-Rayguaza right when it would be summoned... So if Mega-Rayguaza does not have 5000+ Atk Points, Mega-Rayguaza is defeated if we assume, the Slifer player is smart enough to keep it's Atk-Points high with 3+ Cards in hand. And since Slifer is a Divine-Beast, it doesn't matter if M-Rayguaza has any Special-Effects... because they are negated by Slifers "Divine-Presence". (god... I'm so nerdy...) @topic: another way to see the Pokemon games:

Chapter 9 - A new Badge, a training session and arival at Lilycove City I challanged Winona, the Gym-Leader of Fortree City. Her Gym looked like a giant tree-house with giant open windows, thorugh which the wind was blowing. She lead with Swellow but luckily I got Pachirisu not so long ago, and made quick work of it. Then she used her ace, Altaria, right away, but Pachirisu hit it critical with it's Ice-type Hidden Power. Skarmory was next and I send out Sandslash to take it out with Rock Tomb. Pelipper was her last on and I used Pachirisu again. One hit with Spark and the victory belonged to me. I received the Feather Badge from Winona, which allows me to control Pokemon up to Level 70, have 6 Pokemon on my team and use the HM02-Fly out of combat. Also I received the TM19-Roost from her. As I left the Gym, two of my Pokeballs began to glow... it was Golduck and Swalot and both got send to the Veterans-Box... ... Is this the revenge for me beating the system after I beat Brendan near Mauville City?? Great... now I have to restock my team with 3 Pokemon. I went to the PokemonCentre and healed up my team and chose - Solosis, Tentacruel and Burmy to fill up my Team. And since all three were far behind (well Tentacruel not so much) in training I decided to use this day to train my new partners and re-visit a few locations. First I returned to Mauville City to exchange my Mach-Bike for an Acro-Bike. I also went shopping and bought all the TMs the PokeMart had in stock: TM09 - Venoshock TM40 - Aerial Ace TM42 - Facade TM57 - Low Kick TM78 - Bulldoze TM82 - Dragon Tail TM98 - Power-Up Punch I then went to the Fiery Path where a giant boulder was blocking off a part of the cave before. I met Aarune there and he handed me the TM96 - Nature Power. As I explored this part of the cave I found a Firestone and the TM06 - Toxic. I went up to Mt.Chimney to fully explore the Jagged Path, now that I had an Acro-Bike with me. I found the TM43 - Flame Charge and TM69 - Rock Polish. A few Trainers rechallenged me I put these to a good use for the training, and soon Solosis evolved into Duosion, and Burmy evolved into Wormadame. I returned to the Riddle-Master and his challange house. This time it was full of giant boulders which I had to push around. For solving his challange I received a Smoke-Ball. When I felt that my three new team-members were strong enough I returned to Fortree City and ventured forth to Route 120. There I entered a Cave in the middle of a lake. In there I caught a Golbat, which got traded for a Minun, and I found the TM11 - Sunny Day. On Route 120 I even found a Ball Lightning, which I will give my Cosplay-Pikachu to hold. I went on to Route 121 where I found a few Members of Team Aqua, who were on their way to Mt.Pyre... hmmmm looks like I have to intervene there soon... Is this the Safari-Zone? I always wanted to visit it! Entry is FREE???? Sweet!!! I caught a Heracross there for which I received... a second Eevee!!! Wohooo!! In the Safari-Zone I found an Absolite, which I could only reach with my Acro-Bike, and the TM85 - Dream Eater. I returned later with my Mach-Bike to pick up TM22 - Solar Beam. But there where two TMs I couldn't reach... I would need both bikes to reach them... bummer... As I continued on Route 121 I encountered a Shuppet, for which I received an Electrike! I reached Lilycove City where I met Brendan again, who came just out of the Shopping Centre. He ran a few errands for Professor Birch... and he "certainly didn't buy any Pokemon dolls." - *tihihihi* yeah as if... you are not a good liar Brendan. However he challenged me to another Battle, which I decided for myself in a landslide... again. He finally evolved his Pokemon and added a Swellow to his team. So now his Team consists of Swellow, Breloom, Wailord and Blaziken. My Duosion even evolved into Reuniclus. After he left Gabite's Pokeball began to glow... and you know the drill by now... it was Taken to the PC. I decided to take Kecleon with me this time. I went a bit shopping myself and on my stroll thorugh the City I saw that the Team Aqua was lingering around here, and blocked the water-route with a lot of Wailmers. I was given the TM44 - Rest from a man. Since Team Aqua is blocking my way... it seems I need to take action and head for Mt.Pyre and stop them there... whatever they are up to now. Hoenn-Ranger Alpha-Sapphire! GO! Team: Pokemon Caught and traded for: Backup Pokemon on PC: Veterans:

A little, not very important, ORAS - fact explained: I put the spoilers for those who want to to play thorugh the game first...

Chapter 8 - Mega-Evolution and trouble at the Weather Institute! I was sooooo tired... felt like I have slept throught a whole day! Anyways, I continued my journey. I haven't filled in Gardevoirs place yet... I exited Mauville City to the east to Route 118, where I taught Golduck the HM03-Surf to cross the river. On the other side I met Steven again, I talked a bit and he wanted to tell me about the Mega-Evolution (finally someone can eyplain it to me!), but we got interrupted by a worried Pokemon-cry! A Latios descended before us! A LATIOS! WOW! Steven seemed to understood what it wanted to tell us - It was in need of our help. We jumped on it's back it flew directly to a small Island to the south. As we took foot on the Island Steven seemed a uncomfortable. We went on to a small grove where a Latias seemed to guard something. Suddenly another Team-Aqua Admin appeared! Matt was his name. He told us that Team Aqua needs the power of the Mega-Evolution for their plans and therefore need Latias! HELL NO! As if Hoenn-Ranger Alpha-Sapphire would let them have the power of this cute Latias and the Mega-Evolution! Matt's subordianate mentioned that she saw Steven before... and that he is somewhat famous like a Contest-Star... weird... They challanged us to a double battle, but Steven and I made quick work with them. Steven used a Metang. After their defeat they left... and Latias was very happy and Steven saw that Latias seemed to have took a liking in me... that I was worthy Trainer for it. I didn't know what to say... I'm flattered to be chosen by a legendary Pokemon. Latias went easily into one of my Pokeballs, proving Stevens theory right. Before we left Steven explained the Mage-Evolution to me and that Latios and Latias are somewhat guardians of it... Latias even held one of those Mega-Stones. Steven gifted me a Bracelet with another gem inside it (JEWELLRY! This guy knows how to treat a girl! *tihihihi*). He said it is a Mega-Bracelet with a special Key-Stone in it. A Trainer needs such a Key-Stone and it's Pokemon needs it's specific Mega-Stone... and trainer and Pokemon need a strong bond to eachother and both stones will react to eachother, allowing the Pokemon to perform a Mega-Evolution. Latios returned us to Route 118, where Steven and I seperated. Latias was transferred to my PC... yeah, I figured it would be to easy with a Legendary-Pokemon. But I continued my journey and I caught an Electrike, which I received a Sandshrew for. I decided to keep it in Gardevoirs place for now. Route 119 was long and full of trainers, and VERY TALL grass. I ancountered a Tropius and caught it... which got replaced by a Buizel. Except for a few relatively easy trainer battles, with which I trained up my Sandshrew (which evolved into Sandslash on the way), nothing important happend until I was nearly in Fortree City. Near the end of Route 119 is a weather institute... and it seemed that Team Aqua had occupied it. Time for Hoenn-Ranger Alpha-Sapphire to save the day again! I battled my way thorugh the members of Team Aqua until I reached their Leader for this mission... it was Shelly... again. She wanted to investigate some weather data from around thousand years ago... but why? I battled her and won with flying colours... again. She told me that, now that she saw the weather data, slowly doubted Archie's plans for "waking up an ancient Pokemon to increase the sea". Team Aqua left afterwards. The scientists thanked me and explained these weather data to me. Apparently, there are two ancient Pokemon who fought thousands of years ago. One with the power of the sea - Kyogre (which I assume Archie wants to awaken... according to my information) and one with the power of the land - Groudon! The yalso explained that they can gather power form the nature around them, to cause HUGE weather anomalies like torrential donwpours! This happens by some kind of "Protomoprhosis" ... which is a bit like a Mega-Evolution... but can be done by the Pokemon itself without a trainer... wow... The director of the weather institute gifted me one of their Castforms as a thank you. Me and my Pokemon took a quick rest, before continuing our journey. Moments later, near the gates of Fortree City, Brendan approached me and challanged me to a battle. His team didn't changed since last time - He led with Wailmer, followed up with Shroomish and ended with Combusken. I won again. Brendan handed me HM02-Fly, with which I can easily revisit Cities I've already been to, but first I need the Badge from the Fortree City gym. Also my Loudred got transferred to the PC after this battle... and it was so close to evolving into Exploud... *sigh* I entered Fortree City, I stocked up on supplies and visited the Secret-Base-Guild, where I met Aarune again. He told me about Secret-Base-Teams and handed me a Rulesign, which I can use in my Secretbase to change the battle-rules once I have a team. I saw Steven again as he left Fortree City to Route 120... mumbling something about a Pokemon there. I shrugged it of for now, for I wanted to see more of Fortree City... I met to old Ladies. On handed me the TM10-Hidden Power, and the other was able to tell what type Hidden Power would take, if one of my Pokemon would use it... handy! As I made my way to the gym... somewthing blocked my path... I couldn't see what it was... something just pushed me back everytime I tried to go down that path... strange. I decided to go to Route 120, to look for Steven. But before I could enter Route 120, finally my Pokemon-Egg hatched, which I received in Lavaridge Town! It was a Waynaut! ... but it got traded away as soon as it entered it's Pokeball... So now you take away a baby from it's 'Mother'??? HOW CRUEL ARE YOU?!?!? In return I received a Pachirisu... That might come in handy since Fortree City's gym is a Flying-typ gym. Pachirisu took Loudreds place in the team. I entered Route 120 and trained a bit with Pachirisu and encountered a Lineoone which I caught. I received a Burmy in return. Eventually I came across Steven who was standing on a bridge. He asked me to use a special Devon Corp. device... Suddenly a Kecleon appeared out of thin air! Wow... this Devon Scope makes invisble things visible... maybe it was a Kecleon that pushed me in front of the gym. Steven allowed me to keep this Devon Scope and since I was capable of performing the Mega-Evolution now, he also handed me a Sceptilite for my Sceptile... if it wasn't still a Treecko trapped inside the PC. I returned to the Fortree City gym, and indeed it was Kecleon that blocked my path, but once it wasn't invisible anymore, thanks to the Devon Scope, it ran away. I found a small path behind the Gym, and found the TM86-Grass Knot just lying there. I entered the Gym and prepared for the upcoming battle... Team: Pokemon Caught and Traded for: Backup Pokemon on PC: Veterans:

Chapter 7 - Training and the long awaited battle against Dad I had two new members in my Team - Gible and Gulpin, and I had to train both so that they would be around equal to the rest of my team. So a little training-journey began! I went to the Granite Cave with my Mach-Bike and could drive up a slope I couldn't climb earlier... it was pretty dark in there but I have good eyes, so there was no need for "Flash". I battled a few trainers and found a few treasures inside, the most notable are TM65-Dark Claw, an Everstone and another of those... I guess they are Mega-Stones, if my suspicion is correct, it was a Steelixite. I battled a few trainers who wanted a revanche. I beat them and my Psyduck eventually evolved into a Golduck. I also took on the next challange of the Riddle-Master... it was dark like in the granite cave, but again, I could see well enough to not need Flash. I completed his challange and gave me TM92-Trick Room. I went to Route 111 and into the desert to explore. I found two Fossils in the quicksand... unfortunately I could only grab one before the other one sunk into ground. I grabbed the Root-Fossil. I even caught a Sanshrew, which got "wondertraded" for a Tentacruel at Level 30. While I fought the trainers in the desert my Gulpin evolved into a Swalot, and Gible evolved into a Gabite. During my exploration I found TM-37-Sandstorm and a pair of Safety-Goggles. When I was done in the desert I returned to Route 113 and gathered around 1 kilogramm of vulcanic-ash, which did take a rather long time... well I guess ash doesn't weigh that much. The Glass-Blower made me a Blue Flute out of it. With it I can wake up sleeping Pokemon! I went on to the Meteor Falls and caught, yet again, a Zubat. I received a Solosis for it... and it was named "Ebola" from it's former trainer... WHAT KIND OF CRUEL JOKE IS THIS SUPPOED TO BE?? WHY would you nickname your cute little Pokemon after a deadly disease?? As I went on through the Meteor Falls I found a Moonstone... I could evolve my Skitty with it... hmmm... I exited the Meteor Falls towards Route 115 and battled a few trainers here. I arrived at Rustboro City and remembered that there was a scientist at Devon Corp. who could revive Pokemon from fossils. So I gave him my Root-fossil and moments later I received a Lileep... which strangely didn't got swapped away... maybe it is a rare occassion, because it is revived from a fossil... or maybe "Wondertrade" somehow lost connection to me for a moment... I accepted it and went on, back to Petalburg City where I would finally battle my Dad. I entered his Gym and battled through his new students, with Gabite and Swalot alone... And Dad... honestly I was prepared for more than what you showed me... I mean c'mon it was hardly a challange... my Swalot beat all three of your Pokemon with ease! Let me go a bit into detail: You lead of with Slaking, knowingly that is lazy and doesn't listen to every other command of yours... granted it is very strong to make up for it but WHY DIDN'T YOU UTILIZE IT'S SHEER STRENGTH?? I thought you want to battle me with all you got! However - You let it use Yawn, to put Swalot to sleep... I orderd Swalot to use Toxin, which HEAVILY Poisoned your Slaking... and it would slowly succumb to that poison, because it will just do nothing for you! My next move was to break your defence! Swalot used Acid Spray and lowerd your Special Defence heavily! Swalot fell asleep, because of yawn... but it didn't matter, I used played my blue flute to wake it up, and you orderd Slaking to Yawn AGAIN??? Another Acid Spray took down Slaking to the point where the stronger growing toxin would defeat it. You send out your second Slaking and it was like the same battle again... At least you showed a bit of competence with your Vigoroth. The first turn you ordered him to use Retaliate, a very strong attack if a Teammember got KOed before... but it was just enought to take down Slakoth to about 1/2 of it's strength. Instead of Toxin I used Body Slam this time to paralyze your Vigoroth... and I continued with Acid Spray... I am still amazed how strong it is after it's first use... I beat my dad, got the Balance-Badge, and can now controll Pokemon up to Level 60. I can use HM03-Surf (if I had it...) and I got the TM67-Retaliate. Sadly... Gardevoir got transfered to my other Veterans... well I must admit, from my current team it was there for the longest time... You got me out of the most dangerous situations... I don't know which Pokemon to use as a substitute yet... maybe I'll try my luck with the next Pokemon I catch... Dad acompanied me outside where we met Wally and his Dad. Wally wasn't here to challange my Dad, he just wanted to grab a few things from his home for his upcoming journey. Wallys Dad handed me HM03-Surf! (How convenient that I just got the Badge to use it!) Me and Wally traveled to Mauville City together from where we will continue our journey on Route 118 and onwards. But now I need a rest... marching all the way to Mauville City is exhausting... Team: Pokemon caught and Traded for: Backup-Pokemon on PC: Veterans:

Chapter 6 - Hot dance on top of Mt.Chimney! As left the Pokecentre Brendan called out for me. We went to the house of Professor Cosmo, where he told me that the Professor got kidnapped by Team Aqua... and that they went to the Meteor Falls, past Route 114. He went ahead to keep track of Team Aqua, so we could team up later. I made my way to Route 114 and found the house of a Fossilmaniac... his little brother gave the TM28-Dig. Near the house was an old man with a Poochyena, he gave me the TM05-Roar. I went on and found the house of Lanette... it was chaos in there, but she gave a Lotad-Doll if I don't tell anybody... soooo shhhhhhh! I encountered a Swablu and caught it, and received a Kecleon through "Wondertrade" in return. Once I arrived at the Meteor Falls I saw Brendan engaging Team Aqua who threatened Professor Cosmo. There were two Members of Team Aqua, one of them seemed to be a higher ranking member. Her name was Shelly. She challanged me and Brendan to a double battle which we easily decided to our favor... well I did... my Beedrill made short work of their Dark-types with it's Pin Missile. Suddenly some otehr strange guys appeared... all dressed in red. Shelly called them "Team Magma". Apparently these Magma guys are enemies with Team Aqua. Shelly's subordniate grabbed the Meteorite from the Professor and and they said something about combining the Meteorites energy with the energies from Mt.Chimney, whatever this means, and they fled. Maxie, the Leader of thos Magma guys approached me and told me that he doesn't care if we are trying to stop Team Aqua, but that it is their mission to do so, and if we tried to stop them he will show no mercy, and left. Brendan and I brought the Professor back home and he gave us the TM 23-Catapult, then I accompanied Brendan back to Mauville City, where he wanted to challange Wattson. I harvested some berries I planted earlier on the nearby Routes and restocked on refreshing drinks and headed to Mt.Chimney, to help stop Team Aqua, because that is my duty as Hoenn-Ranger! (*thihihi* I'm beginning to like this) **Side-Note: Where was Professor Birch?? Brendan said he would be there earlier... weird... maybe I misheard him...** The Cable Car wasn't blocked anymore and I went up... Wooooooow... what a view... As soon as I stepped out of the cable car, I saw Team Aqua and Team Magma fighting all over the place! Damn... this place is pretty hot, well it is the top of a vulcano... good thing I'm dressed pretty thin, or I would melt up here. I came across Maxie, the Leader of Team Magma, again. He was surrounded by 3 members of Team Aqua... I guess it's now all up to me now to stop Team Aquas plans! I battled with Shelly again, who was guarding her Boss Archie who was operating some kind of machine on a big Plattform, right above the vulcans main crater... I was a bit scared of the plattform... it didn't even had rails! What if me or one of my Pokemon would fall down there? - BUT I had to stop him... whatever he was doing... As I approached him, he mumbled something about "unplugging the ancient Pokemon", and as he noticed me he tried to explain his plans to me and told me that "the meteorite could be used as a Mega-Stone or a Key-Stone" and then stopped because "there is no need to go into more detail". I challenged him to a battle. My trusty Beedrill sweeped through his team, like it did with Shelly's! He then wanted to use a Mega-Evolution! - Wow really? you can just use this? I want to know what it is! But before he could do anything, he got a call from another member and mumbled something about Mt. Pyre and a special "Gem". This Phone-Call seemed to change his mind about the thing he was doing here, because he handed me the Meteorite and then left with the rest of Team Aqua... I guess I will meet them again on Mt. Pyre. Maxie approached me and was surprised I was able to beat Archie, and was then shocked when I told him about that Phone call... he also mentioned the special gem and that they would make their way to Mt.Pyre aswell... Hoenn-Ranger Alpha-Sapphire! Mission Successful! - See you next mission! (*tihihihi*) After everyone had left, Beedrills Pokemon began to glow... Now you are taking away my Beedrill? C'mon! He wasn't that of a challange... I found a small path near the Plattform that leads a bit closer to the Crater and found the TM59-Incinerate just lying there. Since Lavaridge Town was very close, I decided to go there first to get my next Badge before returning the Meteorite to Professor Cosmo. I entered the Jagged Pass and encountered a Spoink, for which I received an Eevee! Yay! Eevee!!! I love Eevee!!! It's so cute, cuddly and fluffy!!! - I could go and evolve it into Leafeon... but I guess I'll wait a bit longer before I decide. As I walked down the jagged pass, I heard from a trainer that you can jump across those stones with a Acro-Bike... hmmm I guess I'll have to come back later. I reached Lavaridge Town and a nice old lady handed me a Pokemon egg she tried to hatch using the heated sand... I entered the Pokemon Centre and took Psyduck as Beedrills substitute, for the comfort, since Lavaridge Towns gym is a fire-type gym. I entered the gym and what I saw was some kind of hot springs resort. Hot stones and water everywhere! It felt soooooo good... to bad I didn't have time to stay and relax for a bit. As I encountered Flannery she yelled at me... then went completely silent and yelled again... WHAT IS WRONG WITH HER??? Apparently she has just became the gym-leader and inherited the postion from her grandfather, so she is a bit insecure... however, she accepted my challange. She sent out Slugma and I send out Psyduck. Psyduck managed to faint Slugma with one Aqua-Tail - then came Camaub... the same with Slugma... one Aqua-Tail was enough. For her last Pokemon Flannery use Torkoal. Torkoal survived an Aqua-Tail and countered with Overheat! Damn that move is powerful! Because it is a Fire-type attack it wasn't very effective agains Psyduck but it did surprisningly huge damage. Flannery healed it up with a Superpotion, but that didn't stop my Psyduck to defeat it with it's next attack. Now the Heat Badge is mine. Now all Pokemon up to level 50 follow my orders, I may use HM04-Strength out of combat AND I may now carry 5 Pokemon in my team for this is my 4th Badge! She also handed me TM50-Overheat! Unfortunately this time it was Swellow who was taken from me... So now I had to fill in 2 extra slots in my team... As I exited the Gym, Brendan came up to me. He was worried about me if I made it unharmed because of those Team Aqua guys, how cute and caring of him... He was surprised when I told him that I beat and stopped them on top of Mt.Chimney. He handed me a pair of Go-Goggles, which I can use to enter Route 111 desert, because these glasses are sandstorm-proof! Brendan told me that he wanted to go to Petalburg City next, and told me that the Petalburg-Gym is most commonly the fifth gym to challange... sooo I have to go battle my dad at long last... Brendan, began to stutter as he asked me if I want to come along, I agreed although I knew of a few places I would want to re-visit. He kept stuttering with a big smile on his face... WAIT!!!! HOLD ON A SECOND!!! He was worried about me, he began to stutter when asked me if I want to come along... he was very happy when I agreed???? Oh-my-god... d-d-does he like me? I mean does he like me really much??? - I don't know what to do... oh god, oh god, oh god... Team: Pokemon caught and traded for: Backup-Pokemon ond PC: Veterans: