After beating Bugsy, i went to the pokecenter and healed up my team. Since nothing of interest is left in this town, I decided that the next step was to travel to Goldenrod City.
Imagine my surprise when B comes barreling down the street and starts interrogating me about Team Rocket. After I told him, quite smug, that I was the one that scattered the rats, he scoffed. Then Challenged me to a battle.
RIVAL BATTLE #2
My Team:
Tots level 20
Madebelle 19
Fodder 3
B's Team:
16 Gastly
15 Zubat
16 Bayleef
It was an extremely easy battle. Madebelle used sleep powder, And Gastly was knocked out cold. I ust Growth 5 times, then vine whipped his Gastly into submission.
His other two pokemon was ended in much the same way, and I was once again Victorious over B.
After some (not-so) nice words, B left, quickly entering the forest. Not one to be left behind, I followed his lead.
Much to my dismay, however, the road was block. By a tree. How in the world was that possible when my Rival just passed through? Talking to the nearby kid, he told me that he lost his Farfetch'd somewhere in the forest. He also mentioned that The Farfetch'd can cut trees.
So I quickly offered to find the pokemon, hoping to use this to my advantage. The boy quickly said yes. So using a repel, i quickly looked for the bird.
Finding the Farfetch'd wasn't that hard. What was hard was getting the damn thing to move towards where the boy was. After going around in circles for hours, i finally managed to push the thing in the direction i wanted him to go. But Before i could get back to the kid, my repel wore off, and A Venonat appeared.
Deciding quickly that i wanted her on my team, i threw my only great ball, afraid of actually attacking her less i accidentally K.O her.
Damn it.
So i tossed pokeball after pokeball hoping to capture Venonat. and all of them failed. Saving my last ball, I sent out fodder, hoping it can do some damage without KOing her.
After Fodder failing to attack her four times and getting nearly K'Oed, Fodder manage to get a crit Tackle, and lower Venonat's HP enough to secure her Capture.
Zen the Venonat is my Newest member of my team! Yes!
Now heading back where the kid was, i was surprised to see what looked like his boss giving the kid a new one for losing his Farfetch'd.
However, the Boss wasn't ungrateful. He gave me his HM Cut as a reward and left with the kid and pokemon in tow. Not my actual plan i had in mind, but this works too. Teaching Tots Cut (With much pain in my heart) I finally removed the blockage.
The rest of the trip out of the forest was uneventful besides a battle or two.
On Route 34, i quickly battled all the trainer there. None of them really gave me any challenge but The exp was worth it.
Especially since Madebelle Managed to evolve!
(Forgot to take a picture in my happiness)
Madebelle the Weepinbell has Arisen!
With my happy bordering insane mind, i strutted into Goldenrod.
My first priority was to heal my pokemon. After that, i headed to the department store to buy some great balls. after all, i have a possible team member waiting for me on route 34!
And the First Pokemon to pop up was Drowzee. And I Immediately wanted her.
A Scratch and a great ball was all it took for her to be mine.
Hypnotist The Drowzee, joined my team! that's two in one journal!
The first thing i did after catching Hypnotist was to depoist Fodder. Then I decided that Zen and Hypnotist needed some training. setting back out to route 34, i grind those two into fighting machines. However, The Egg in backpack, not wanting to be forgotten, decided to hatch. I nicknamed the Togepi that came out pi and deposited him.
Zen was first since she was the weakest. I had to deploy the switch technique so it can get exp without getting murdered. After level 14, she finally was able to train by herself and made her training much faster.
Hypnotist, however, was trained against other trainers from route 35 and trainers from the gym. I also taught her Thunder Punch and FIre Punch, just so she can hit most types for decent damage. With that, I quickly head over to the gym and challenged Whitney to a battle.
My Team:
Hypnotist level 20
Tots 23
Madebelle 21
Zen 20
Whitney's Team:
Clefairy 18
Miltank 20
Hypnotist was sent out first against Clefairy. Hypnotist used Hypnosis and the pink fairy was in dream land. Hypnotist proceeded to fire puch the thing until it was knocked out.
Miltank, however, didn't like being put to sleep. it rolled out and Hypnotist keep on missing until...
Grief Stricken I sent out Madebelle and managed to put the tank to sleep. I used growth 4 times and then Vinewhiped it to Unconsciousness.
I had won. I have my third badge. but at what cost?
