CHAPTER 15: Snow White and and antivirus system installation.
LONG CHAPTER WARNING! GET YOUR POPCORN AND ENJOY!
Each and every single one of the people who know me, understand just how painful it was for me to write this chapter. Why? Because it is the Terra chapter and I will lose about 95% of my brain cells while mentioning her. So, we will refer to her as "the annoying hammergirl". "Annoying" is quite a mild word to describe what "it" (not she) really is, but oh well! Lack of creativity? Probably my cells are at a low enough level to get writer's block already!
Anyways, after getting a tan defeating Charlotte, our goal was to go to Ametrine. With Shelly. To get there, we cleared firstly the PULSE Avalugg. Then, we got there easily. By climbing another snowy path. As soon as we got there, we defeated a virus and collected a Sticker, taking a first taste of Gen I, before having to face the annoying hammergirl. Oh, we also unveiled the backstory of ZEL. Quite an interesting backstory that we aren't allowed to read again, because the diary is supposedly locked with a magical force, so when you try to interact with it again, it does nothing. Which is a bit inconvenient, because in my first run I had to soft reset 3 times to get the grasp of the story, since it was the only way to hear it again.
VS PULSE Avalugg
The mystery of the mysterious benefactor (AKA Heather) was unfolded before us soon. Blake, Heather's guardian (?) hid all the city's food, and Heather was secretely feeding the citizens under his nose. He found out and, as a good Meteor Guardian, locked Heather in. Like what Corey did, but in a more brutal way. I begin to see a pattern with Heather's "dads" or "guardians". In the process of saving her, we find Blake's porn magazines Cal, who reconciles with Shelly and offers useful information about his arrogant, also annoying brother. Blake must be the annoying hammergirl's boyfriend. The speak like they come straight out of Elohell. Bronze 5 would be my guess. Unless they created Tinfoil division. They'd be stars in that one.
Ahem, I keep getting sidetracked by idiots! So hard to focus on actual facts now! So, after solving Blake's house's puzzle (he was stupid enough to need hints hidden to remember the password. Not surprising for an idiot of Blake's calibre) we went ahead with Shelly and rescued Heather! Who became a truly nice girl, and even acknowledged my help, after reconciling with her best friend, in a very touching moment! At last, we have another ally! By the way Heather, the answer is "No". Not everyone would endanger themselves to feed an entire city of strangers secretely. Only a good person would.
With this done, Heather and Shelly go on riding the latter's Salamence and I rejoin Cal. And have a nice goose-chase vs Blake. Who keeps acting like his true self. Fern reloaded. A jerk. We smack some Meteors (relatively) easily (not very easily though) and, after some point Cal rides his Charizard to help our aerial unit (AKA Heathermence) and I join Shelly and keep double battling vs all of Team Meteor!
By the way... Come on Shelly, why isn't your Venomoth named after me? Or your Scolipede... Please make it a thing Ame, she even hugged me in Calcenon! I'M HER FAVOURITE!
Gotta say, I love Shelly's determination. I'M RIGHT BEHIND YOU, GIRL! Wait, whaaaa? I'm not? ASTER?! Yes, I will battle you, I need TMX Waterfall, and thank you for your change of heart and help after Eclipse's incident. It shocked me too. But we have to, like HAVE TO do it now? In the middle of a chase? And Jesus Christ, do you have to be THAT strong? Seriously, why Aster isn't Reborn's champion already? Also, do I have to get destroyed by everyone after destroying Samson? Is it divine retribution for abusing Big Top Arena with Acrobatics? *Sigh*... Anyways, enjoy watching myself struggling vs Aster. I defeated him twice, but first win was about 70% luck, so I decided to F12 it. Then I realised that my program wasn't recording, so fuck that. And I recorded it again. Still, his extreme luck found like 10 thousand ways to screw me up. Crits, Freeze hacks, it's all there. By the way, Magmortar and Electivire are super ugly and have stupid coverage moves. Ice Punch and HP Ice? In an Icy Cave? Seriously? Heat Wave that melts Ice and makes Water conduct electricity of Thunderbolts and Thunder Punch? Can I fight the annoying hammergirl now? Can't be as hard as this one was.
VS ASTER
So, I get TMX Waterfall in this pleasant (NOT) break from the main story. And I advance, to fight the idiot. The only thing that might be colder than the Ametrine Peak is Blake's jokes. But it makes sense. Ice type ex-Gym leader. But, even though he defeated Shelly, he is easy! I take him down on my second try, quite easily. At last, thank God, an easy victory! I had started to think that everything from now on would be hell. Aster/Eclipse with Aya as teammate, Charlotte, Aster again...
VS BLAKE
Blake "gets rekt", the flees together with his fleas, Heather takes the Ruby Ring and leaves with Shelly, Cal takes me down to Ametrine City centre (THANK YOU!) and we have the valuable, yet obvious information that the annoying hammergirl lied about the Ametrine sleeping signal. So, we go back to Agate Circus to confront her. We interrogate her with Ciel and Samson and she admits to be a Meteor. Then she flees too. In the Digital void that Gen I was. Aaaand I'm underleveled again. I refuse to get destroyed by her, since that would be a massive blow in my ego and my pride, so I decide to grind first...
Finally, when I'm ready, I dive into the digital chaos, feeling the tingle of my body turning into 1s and 0s and search for the annoying hammergirl though stupid NPCs. Oh, a Mewtwo. Get destroyed. Yes, this is your destiny, now STFU and get your purple a$$ out of here, whining Overpowered raidboss.
VS T3RR4
The team I decided to use to face the annoying hammergirl was the following one:
And, without further ado, behold the computer format I performed/installation of AVAST's latest antimalware/Gen I nightmare I faced. Or the one Terra faced. Yes, I am healed now. I can mention her without having a nervous twitch. YEEEAASS.
A Ground type specialist went down on first try by a Poison monorunner. Good job Terra, keep saying yourself you are good. We all need to lie to ourselves sometimes.
So, we get our 12th Badge, the Gravity one, the TM for Bulldoze, we enable the TMX Waterfall's outside-of-battle usage, which is great, since we now have to go save Amaria and Titania. Or Team Meteor from that redhead vicious murderer who thinks that is better than them. Yes Titania, you're a better murderer than Team Meteor, good job. Oh, Gravity Badge also gets the Level Cap up to Lv.75. Exactly where it was before. Terra, you're useless even for raising level caps.
Ahem, no more rant, no more salt, I'm freeeeeeeeeeeee! I hope all the salt I poured made your popcorn tastier. You know, the one I suggested you got at the very start of this chapter.
See, everything happens for a reason!
Till the next chapter of this pooooiiisonous run, when we will save Amaria, defend Fiore mansion and get our next Badge vs Ciel!
Till then, enjoy everyone!