Drace

By any chance on your way to Mount Valor did you go through a house and found someone hiding inside. If so, I'm assuming you went ahead and started doing that portion of the quest and found them. At the end they gave you an egg, if your team was full you wouldn't have gotten the egg. The answer to this is go pick up the help request but instead of looking for the ranger, surf up to Mount Valor toward that same house. If what I'm assuming is all true, a dialogue will play saying that Tropius got its egg back while still surfing toward the house. You can then go back to the Help Center and collect your reward. If this does not work I suggest downloading the latest patch here:

@Candy I believe we send both of our save files with the pokemon we want to trade in our party to @Inori and then fill out the form found at the start of this thread.

I found your male Spritzee. I'll trade you for a Popplio.

The purple book is a riddle to where a secret location in prison is. You have to go there to progress through the story. Here's a spoiler if you really want the answer.

I kinda like that the game is unfair at times. This is a game that plans to include all pokemon. So having an extremely difficult game to the point where all odds are practically against you really forces you to use every aspect of the game, whether it's new moves, items, or even pokemon you wouldn't normally use, to overcome challenges. I'm really hoping this trend of difficulty stays. However, what I do hate is how certain stats in pokemon, like their abilities, are randomized per battle, even during trainer battles. I experienced this first hand when the Grass Gym Leader's Serperior had an amazing set up of Leaf Storm, speed IV/EV, and Contrary ability. Only to beat the it after resetting a few times to the point where that same Serperior didn't have contrary anymore, which totally killed its build. This means you can actually stack odds in your favor by simply soft resetting until the pokemon you're stuck fighting against has its stats randomized to the point where it's non-randomized move set becomes significantly weaker.

Once you beat the entire Story at Grand Dream City, you can go back to the Train Station and a warp pad on the right side can take you back to West Gearen.

I ratted Flora out cause the lesser of two evils is still evil. So, instead of choosing a side, I plan on fighting both.

At Central Building the entrance to the far left.

@Alphagar I don't think it's actual trading but more like someone offering to be the middle man between two save files to transfer pokemon.

Hi I'm currently breeding high IV Ralts with Modest natures. If you're still looking for a Ralts, I'd really like a Torchic. Since I'm still breeding them, whatever preference you may have I might be able to do, I also have shinies but their IVs aren't very good.

After you beat the v9 story, go in the Train Station at Grand Dream City. There will be a teleport pad on the right side of the entrance that leads back to West Gearan.