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CHAPTER 15: Rescue time and Yureyu raid! Now with Cain, we can go past the gate that Shade had opened for us and finally try to save our friends! We end up climbing into Yureyu building, which was the centre of Reborn's economy, but then got destroyed and isolated by earthquakes. Which were caused by Team Meteor, after they infiltrated the place, to control Reborn. But oh well, we start defeating Meteor Grunts, release Charlotte, who proceeds to outplay two Meteor Grunts that held Shelly as a hostage and release her as well. We also save Noel, and proceed to the next storey, to find the new mute Heather. I'm in no mood to fight Dr. Sigmund, because I am trying to see through his motives for his actions... Also, he keeps saying "Lizzy, Lizzy", while talking to himself... So, I reckon he is talking to his deceased wife or daughter, and I'm feeling like saving him from his misery too. Dr. Sigmund reveals that within the Meteor ranks he hears a name he knows, but dismisses the possibility of being actually him/her as a coincidence... Plus, I want him to know that I don't really consider him a criminal. A psychotic doctor with... questionable methods for sure, but not a criminal, at least in my mind! I might be crazy, but the real evil person I want is Sirius... who keeps Anna hostage in the next room... Sirius has stolen Anna's Amethyst Pendant, and is also holding Heather's Ruby Ring!, So, we have to fight him, which means tag teaming with Cain (again, I might sound like a whiner, but WHY THE HELL YOU KEEP TRYING TO THRASH A FUCKING CHANDELURE WITH YOUR NIDOKING?!!!) VS SIRIUS Breath... relax... aaaaand action! The team I used was: (Also, meet two new members of my journey, Sakura, the Ninjask and Honesty, the shiny Scolipede!) Valor, the Forretress (Male) Careful/Sturdy (Item: Dread Plate) Protect Gyro Ball Payback Spikes Honesty, the Scolipede (Male) Adamant/Speed Boost (Item: Dread Plate) Protect Pursuit Poison Tail Steamroller Kindness, the Masquerain (Male) Naive/Intimidate (Item: Sea Incense) Air Slash Bug Buzz Stun Spore Hydro Pump Braveheart, the Butterfree (Male) Timid/Tinted Lens (Item: Insect Plate) Psybeam Silver Wind Tailwind Bug Buzz Sakura, the Ninjask (Female) Hardy/Infiltrator (Item: Earth Plate) Dig Metal Claw X-Scissor Swords Dance Valiant, the Kricketune (Male) Bold/Swarm (Item: Dread Plate) Strength Sticky Web Night Slash X-Scissor This fight turned out to be a handful because Sirius starts with Hitmontop (with Intimidate) and Chandelure. Hitmontop always Faked me Out, Nidoking wanted to Thrash Chandelure for like 6 times of soft resets in a row (every time, just at the very moment that I saw this happen, I soft resetted, not gonna ruin my nerves and mental state cause Cain is an idiot) and Chandelure destroyed my career with Heat Wave. Then, I realized that I was an incompetent fool too, because Valor had Protect (duh!). So, I protected the Fake Out from Hitmontop, Cain's Nidoking eventually decided to use Shadow Ball on Chandelure, getting it to red, and Chandelure's Heat Wave did 1/3 of Nidoking's HP and nothing to Forretress due to Protect. Next turn, Sirius heals Chandelure to full HP, Nidoking uses again Shadow Ball (am I dreaming) on Chandelure, getting it back to red, Hitmontop High Jump Kicks Valor to 2/3 of his HP, and I set a layer of Spikes. Next turn, I switch in Sakura, my Ninjask, who tanks a High Jump Kick by Hitmontop, getting her to half HP, as Sirius heals Chandelure again, and Nidoking uses another Shadow Ball on it, to get it back to red. Ninjask uses Dig (aimed on Chandelure), Hitmontop's High Jump Kick misses (xD), since my bug is underground, and Nidoking finishes Hitmontop with Thrash, but goes down to a critical Heat Wave by Chandelure. Sirius sends in Probopass, and Cain sends in Samurott. A good change there, Cain actually helps! Ninjask's Dig knocks out Chandelure, and Spikes, combined with a critical Razor Shell take down Probopass. Honchkrow and Manectric come in, so I Dig again and aim for Manectric. Honchkrow Brave Birds Samurott to 1/3 of its HP, but Samurott Razor Shells Manectric for about 40% of its HP too. In the next turn, Sakura's Dig takes out Manectric, but a Brave Bird from Honchkrow annihilates my Ninjask. At least Samurott's Razor Shell gets it to 1/4 of its HP, since recoil damage has stacked up too. Seviper comes in next to the wounded Honchkrow and I send in Kindness, my Masquerain. His Intimidate affects both Honchkrow and Seviper, since they are physical attackers. I proceed to Bug Buzz Honchkrow, taking it out, while Sevipe Poison Tails Masquerain to just above half of his HP, but poisons him as well. Samurott does decent damage to Seviper with Razor Shell (about 1/3 of its HP) and gets a Defence drop on him too. In the next turn, Kindness' Air Slash makes Seviper flinch and Samurott finishes the battle with Razor Shell. Sirius, Sigmund and the Meteors escape with the gemstone-made keys, Anna wants to chase them, since its a present from her dad, but Cain stops her... The loss of the precious pendant has upset her though, she feels sick, Heather still makes no sound and we solve a relatively easy railnet puzzle, to get to Tanzan Cove, where Charlotte and her sisters own a place where all us fugitives will be safe... Or not? Well, as soon as we see light, Heather mounts her Salamence and leaves to unknown destination. Cain leaves to trace her down. So us, Anna, Noel, Shelly and Charlotte head into Tanzan Mountain and then towards Tanzan Cove, where we meet Laura, Charlotte's sister, who turns out to be the Grass Type Elite 4 member! But Anna is still sick, so we need to buy some medicine for her, which means visiting the nearest town, Spinel Town, after finding our way through the messed up Chrysolia Forest... Turns out that things in this forest and this city as well disappear and reappear in random places for some weird reason... Things like trees, beds, cabinets, people or even Poke Marts... We will see what we have to do here the next time... Till then, enjoy everyone!

Giving you all the reputation I can only cause you got a Dustox!!! <3

Before Kiki's death she was just trying to care about everyone's feeling, ignoring what really should be done. After Kiki's death she gets more determined and, indeed, a much more likeable character. She has a purpose since that moment, before that, she was just roaming around aimlessly! Edit: Sorry for spamming in your topic Amine! Got carried away...

LOL! Depends on the monotype rules I guess! At least she didn't get a Gardevoir! I can say for sure that I dislike Victoria more than Fern... Fern is an asshole, but she is just, plainly put, dumb and illogical.

Fern probably started smoking the leaves of his own pokemon, based on the amount of nonsense he spews out every time. It was a matter of time for them to abandon him. If you mean Victoria, then she held it longer than Cain... Only got her Togekiss in our fight in Devon... But she is stupid anyways. xD

Indeed. He cheated in an extremely smart way. Could've gotten Drapion and Skuntank if he wanted to eliminate weaknesses legally.

Used the Power Items as soon as I got them. Woobats/Noibats in Railnet for Speed, and when I maxed speed, i kept slaughtering woobats to max out attack/special attack. (It gives +4 with the correct power item, and, since speed was already maxed, it just gave me points where i needed them). For tanky builds, Seacrest's garden, caterpie/wurmple/hoothoot, max hp, then switch to proper power item to give only Defence/special defence EVs by keeping slaughtering hoothoots/wurmples/caterpies. This was the main process I followed. Before power items, I don't EV train at all, it's too painful... If you need more details, don't be afraid to ask me! I can give you examples, I'm just in a hurry right now, cause I have to run to my University

My best wishes to drown your enemies in poison gas! And, get a Dustox, for God's sake... Keep it pure, not like Cain who got Absol and Galvantulas when he saw the counters come towards him... xD Good luck!

Get Blitzle at a rainy night next to Julia's Gym and use Zebstrika's Spark/Flame Charge moves to check Yanmega, cause it can be a handful. Get a female Blitzle and name her Electra!

CHAPTER 14: Cleanse the Poison with Steel After defeating Fern, it is time to heal, re-arrange our team and handle Aya, who can give us a quite hard time. I've been in need of a badge for God knows how much time, and I have spent nearly my entire fortune on Common Candies. If I had a house owned in Reborn, I would've sold it to buy more. Maybe it is the only part of the game where the enormous amount of content between badges makes it impossible not to use Common Candies. The fact that Gym Leaders keep dieing without handing us the badges isn't helping either. So, now, we have to re-earn the Poison Badge... OK, rant of the day is finished! Back to content! The team I have used for this battle was: Valor, the Forretress (Male) Careful/Sturdy (Item: Dread Plate) Protect Bug Bite Payback Spikes Kindness, the Masquerain (Male) Naive/Intimidate (Item: Sea Incense) Air Slash Bug Buzz Stun Spore Hydro Pump Happiness, the Ariados (Female) Hardy/Sniper (Item: Dread Plate) Sucker Punch Pin Missile Night Shade Shadow Sneak Royalty, the Vespiquen (Female) Bold/Pressure (Item: Sky Plate) Heal Order Air Slash Toxic Power Gem Generosity, the Venomoth (Male) Hardy/Shield Dust (Item: Mind Plate) Giga Drain Signal Beam Sleep Powder Psybeam Fiery Wings, the Vivillon (Male) Naive/Compound Eyes (Item: Mind Plate) Bug Buzz Psybeam Draining Kiss Aromatherapy VS AYA So, Aya reluctantly sends in Nidoqueen and Tentacruel and I send in Valor and Kindness. Tentacruel Icy Winds, dealing about 30% of Masquerain's HP, but it barely scratches Forretress. Masquerain then outspeeds Nidoqueen and Hydro Pumps it, nearly taking it out. A Sludge Wave gets my Masquerain to red HP, but does nothing to Forretress. Valor uses Spikes, which deals (due to the Wasteland field) one third of maximum HP of every grounded enemy pokemon, knocking out Nidoqueen and getting Tentacruel to 2/3 of its HP bar. I switch out my Kindness, since Aya sends in Gengar, and send in Happiness, my Ariados. Gengar tries to Focus Blast Valor, but misses, Tentacruel's Sludge Wave does nothing to Valor and almost nothing to Happiness, and Valor uses Payback, dealing just less than half of Gengar's HP. In the next turn, Happiness uses Sucker Punch on Gengar and takes it out. Tentacruel uses Icy Wind, but does minimal damage, and Valor uses Spikes again, bringing Tentacruel at 1/4 of its HP. Dragalge comes in, so I try to hurt it as much as I can, knowing that Aya will heal Tentacruel, since it is in the red. Aya heals Tentacruel indeed, to full HP (with an Ultra Potion). Happiness Sucker Punches Dragalge, but only deals about 1/4 of it's HP, then goes down to a Dragon Pulse by Dragalge. Valor uses Spikes again, taking Dragalge to just below half HP, and Tentacruel to 2/3 of its HP. I send in Fiery Wings, and Psybeam Dragalge, but do minimal damage to it, since its Sp. Defence is too high. Tentacruel's Icy Wind and Dragalge's Dragon Pulse take aim both at my Vivillon, taking it out, but Valor's Spikes are enough to take down Dragalge as well! The raidboss is down, should get only easier from now on! Also, Tentacruel is now at 1/3 of its HP. Aya sends in Drapion and I send in Generosity, my Venomoth. Tentacruel Sludge Waves in vain, cause it just scratches Venomoth, who proceeds to Signal Beam Drapion to leave it at just below half HP. Drapion Night Slashes Forretress, but it's not a crit, and Spikes take down Tentacruel (finally!), leaving Drapion in red HP. Aya sends in her Venusaur, her last hope. Venomoth heals Forretress, who has been an absolute star, mostly because Aya follows the strategy of "not focusing the tank", combined with his Sludge Wave immunity. Aya also heals up her Drapion, using her second and last Ultra Potion. Aya's strategy seems to have changed, since Venusaur Leech Seeds Forretress, while my strategy of spamming Spikes remains unchanged. Both Drapion and Venusaur to 2/3 of their HP after the turn... Or not, cause Leech Seed heals a S***LOAD, and Venusaur restores waaaaaaay more than expected! But oh well... In the next turn, Venomoth Signal Beams Drapion into critical HP, Drapion murders brutally my Venomoth with a critical Night Slash (fml), Venusaur tries in vain to Nature Power--> Gunk Shot Valor, and Valor finishes out Drapion with -what else?- Spikes. I send in Royalty, my Vespiquen, who tanks a Nature Power-->Gunk Shot with 30% of her HP and uses Air Slash on Venusaur, getting it to roughly one third of its HP. Spikes aren't enough to take it out, and another Nature Power -->Gunk Shot finishes my Vespiquen, but Spikes take out Venusaur as well, and grant me the much desired victory! Battle tip: A tank (immune to Aya's Poison STAB moves) that deals a percentage of the opponents maximum HP per turn (Forretress with Spikes) is OP, unless you have a move to counter it. Thank God Salandit/Salazzle isn't released yet, or this could've been a REALLY tough battle. In the Salazzle case, I'd probably have to utilize my Tailwind strategy with Braveheart, my Butterfree, again, combined with Hydro Pump by Kindness... Or just bring my newly acquired Ninjask and use a Power Herb boosted Dig to murder it as soon as it comes in. LOL, coming up with strategies for the next release already ! Also, props to my Generosity for outspeeding Drapion, was a key factor in this victory, and something I was not expecting! Fern is disappointed with our win and leaves, Aya gives us our badge, raising the level cap to 50 and gifting us the TM for Sludge Wave... Couldn't it be Sludge Bomb? Generosity would love that.... So, after that, we have to go to the railnet. We now can use Strength, so we have to save our friends! We run there, find Cain and we are off to save everyone, once again! Till the next time,enjoy everyone!

, I was joking about the name, lol... If it's a she, name her Favela. If it's a he, name him... Favelo, or dunno,lol

I love Trubbish more, but yes, a good poison type can help a lot early on. Trubbish learns Toxic Spikes really early, which is a godsend in Reborn. Catch a Trubbish and name him Justin Bieber. He is trash anyways. OK, I'm now showing myself the exit.

No, sadly it wasn't me... Lol, get a female Meowth and name her Gemini.

Haha, I was kidding, no worries! I've named my cherished Kricketot (now Kricketune) Valiant, and he is truly a knight who has carried me numerous times in early game! And in a couple impossible missions later in the game too... Name him Lancelot, lol! I like the name! I'd honestly suggest you get a Deerling, but it's not available till very late on in the game... I had one in Pokemon Zeta and named her Viva Aldia. Cause Vivaldi... Four Seasons... Get it? I'll show myself the exit now...

This means I won right? RIGHT? Gimme my prize!!!! xD Good luck on your run!

CHAPTER 13: (Still) chasing the pretty boy... and other grassy problems After Kiki's murder, Victoria gives us TMX Strength, but (f*** my existence), not the Fighting Gym badge, which has been invalidated. No worries, it's not like we had a million chances to be given that before the horrible incidents of Pyrous Mountain. Same story with Byxbysion Wasteland's key, handing out a tiny piece of metal is a lengthy procedure that lasts for... a second... Ahem, rant over... Ventilate... Relax... Let's go again. So, Cain says he will open us the Byxbysion Gate, Victoria says she'll run things at Apophyll, so she won't travel with us anymore (MY PRAYERS HAVE BEEN HEARD!), I struggle to pretend to be sad about this, and I ride Amaria's boat back to Coral Ward again... Next to Byxbysion Gate, Cal apologises, saying he had sabotaged PULSE all along and Kiki didn't have to die... THEN WHY DID YOU MURDER THE MEDICHAM, ASSHOLE?! Also, if he had sabotaged the PULSE from the beginning, why he had to destroy it again with Magmortar's Blast Burn? 1+1=2, so we tell him that he can go f*** himself we don't believe him and he leaves. I believe he has truly regretted what he did, but all rest are cheap excuses, honestly. So, We speak to Cain, who... wants to fight us again, before letting us in Byxbysion... Err... we already kicked your butt, at Beryl Cemetery... but oh well... Our team consisted of: Valor, the Forretress (Male) Careful/Sturdy (Item: Dread Plate) Protect Bug Bite Payback Spikes Affection, the Leavanny (Female) Quirky/Chlorophyll (Item: Rose Incense) X-Scissor Leaf Blade Fell Stinger Slash Kindness, the Masquerain (Male) Naive/Intimidate (Item: Sea Incense) Air Slash Bug Buzz Stun Spore Hydro Pump Braveheart, the Butterfree (Male) Timid/Tinted Lens (Item: Mind Plate) Psybeam Silver Wind Tailwind Bug Buzz Happiness, the Ariados (Female) Hardy/Sniper (Item: Dread Plate) Sucker Punch Pin Missile Night Shade Shadow Sneak Generosity, the Venomoth (Male) Hardy/Shield Dust (Item: Mind Plate) Giga Drain Signal Beam Sleep Powder Psybeam VS CAIN Cain sends in Venomoth... Valor has no problem getting 3 layers of Spikes, even though Venomoth has Tinted Lens, so Signal Beam hurts a bit. I switch in my Braveheart and Psybeam it to death in 2 turns. Weirded out by the fact that Cain uses no healing items, I switch in my Happiness, who faces Cain's Haunter. A Sucker Punch and a Shadow Sneak takes out Haunter, after Ariados avoids a Hypnosis in the meantime. Nidoking comes next, takes 25% HP damage to Spikes, and I send in Kindness and Hydro Pump it to extinction. Then, Samurott comes in and same procedure happens, but this time it is Affection who takes it out with a Leaf Blade. Finally, Muk comes in. I send Ariados back in. Muk Minimizes, but gets Night Shaded to critical HP in a couple turns. Then it bloody Disables my Night Shade! So, I just Sucker Punch it to death before it has the chance to do anything else. Another easy victory... Cain opens the Wasteland's Gate for us and leaves it open, since "more challengers will want to challenge Aya". Then why the Hell you had to make it this hard only to us, Jesus Christ, those rivals are idiots... Anyways, we wander inside, catch ourselves a Nincada and a Venipede (of course), catch another Venipede, cause it happens to be shiny, and then proceed to the Gym, after a lot of wandering around. I always get lost in this place. We enter the Gym, and find that Aya is already fighting vs a challenger, who has a familiar voice... God damn it Fern! He beats Aya, easily as he said, and, while she goes to heal up before accepting my challenge, Fern wants to "at least give us a good fight as we are there"... I seriously doubt it Fern, but let's see what you have... Oh, btw, Hardy, the Rock time Gym leader has come to flirt with Aya welcome the new Poison type Gym Leader. Hardy is an old "friend" of Fern, aka, another person that Fern considers to be inferior to himself... I swap my Generosity with Royalty, to take advantage of her bulk, my Happiness with Passion, to check Ferrothorn and my Braveheart with Fiery Wings, just in case. Royalty, the Vespiquen (Female) Bold/Pressure (Item: White Herb) Heal Order Air Slash Toxic Power Gem Passion, the Larvesta (Male) Timid/Flame Body Ember Bug Bite Take Down Flame Charge Fiery Wings, the Vivillon (Male) Naive/Compound Eyes Bug Buzz Psybeam Draining Kiss Aromatherapy VS FERN Fern starts with Ferrothorn, who starts Gyro Balling my Valor. Cause a Forretress is sooo speedy! Needless to say it does nothing, so it tries Power Whip and Pin Missile (hits 3 times), as my Valor whistles innocently and sets 3 Spike layers. Fern is so dumb that, by the time he even considers Cursing up, my Passion is in, and Embers the Ferrothorn for about 45% of its HP per time! Even with 2 Curses up, Power Whip deals slightly less than Larvesta's half HP, while Power Whip deals even less, so, eventually between Fern's pointless healing, an Ember inflicts the much desired burn and in the next turn, after I heal up Passion too, another Ember takes down Ferrothorn. Fern then sends in... KROKOROK?! Wait wut... What a successful monorunner you are Fern, I laugh to myself, as my Fiery Wings annihilates Krokorok with a supereffective Bug Buzz. Then, Scyther comes in... by this moment, I'm on my knees laughing about Fern's incompetence... I send in my Royalty, who tanks a Wing Attack, losing about two thirds of her health, then proceeds to destroy Scyther with Power Gem... It is a OHKO. Then, Oh, God, Roserade comes in. I send in Fiery Wings and Bug Buzz Roserade, who, after Spikes damage too, is at just above 50% HP. My Vivillon survives a Hidden Power Fire with 30% of its HP, uses another Bug Buzz, taking Roserade to about 25% of its HP, but then goes down to another Hidden Power Fire... Kindness comes in and seals the deal with an Air Slash, after it tanks an Extrasensory, living with about 1/4 of its health bar. Finally, Serperior comes in. I just send in Affection, who gets Leech Seeded by Serperior but OHKO'es it after Spike damage with an X-Scissor. Bye bye Fern! The best line ever is said by Hardy "I think seeing Fern getting beaten is worth the trip down here on itself". Then, it is time to fight Aya, to get our Gym Badge! Or, we will fight Aya in the next chapter, cause this one is already too long! Maybe my rants are responsible for it, sorry for that! Till the next time, enjoy everyone! PS. On a short note, I'd like to thank all of you for the birthday wishes! I didn't know I had so many fans! The community here is really awesome, and I hope I can contribute something, in any way I can! I hope you are having fun reading my posts here and I'll keep updating it, it is so much fun!

Thank you all guys! God damn, I love this community, so many wishes, lol! <3

My intellectual property is getting ravaged, nuuuuuuu I'd prefer a more mystical name for Fennekin, something like... Galandriel... Oh well, I watched too much LOTR again...

I'm topping that, I've named my Forretress Valor. Chesnaught/Empoleon would also be mons befitting of that nickname!

Bugs are really abundant in the game... And in all honesty, I think you can easily get by with only the ones that are available. I would consider reasonable if you wanted Scyther as a starter, but almost all others you can get in game, and even before Julia! (Surkit and Pineco). Yanma is after Kiki at Azurine Island and Nincada at Byxbysion, just before Aya, just like Venipede. Egg moves are easy too. Pineco gets Toxic Spikes at Move Rel;earner. Nincada Silver Wind by breeding with Butterfree/Beautifly/Venomoth, who are easy to get. Surskit gets Aqua Jet at Lv.30, Bug Bite by breeding with Caterpie and Hydro Pump by breeding with Squirtle, which is also easily acquired as a starter. Don't wanna be rude, just trying to be helpful, since, people actually invest time in fulfilling these requests, and it isn't correct to bother them even when we can get something ourselves, just to save us from a bit of effort.

If fighting does win, I wonder what you'll pick as a starter... Infernape, Blaziken, Emboar, Chesnaught... Blaziken with Speed Boost IS and WILL be considered cheating

For weird reasons this sounds sooo ironic in my ears! xD

Thanks a lot fellow Reborners!

God, thanks guys, lol! I guess it is this time of the year, time for K-ON revision...

Really?! I did not know that... And I had my Covet Linoone as a helper, god damn! Well, I'll keep that in mind for my next run! Got a Poison mono planned now!