Pokemon Shield Nuzlocke - Cobalt Kirgrace - PT 1
Please Note: This run is largely complete. While I appreciate any advice, and thoughts, nothing you say will change this run. I just have poor drawing skills so I can’t commemorate this in art, or in comic form, so I wanted to write it all down the only way I know how. Please. Enjoy!
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Alright, everyone. This is my story of facing the hyper-competitive Galar League. For all you Watching from other regions, I’m gonna be real, Galar plays harder than most of you are used to. I mean, killing Pokémon isn’t meant to happen, and outside of the Gym Challenge, it’s legit illegal. The problem, Galar fights involve Dynamax Stadiums, and these special things are called Dynamax Bands.”
There’s a sigh, as the long red-haired mess of hair looks down. “Dynamax makes some of the most insane, most powerful hitting fights around. You haven’t watched a Pokémon battle until you’ve seen a 5 foot tall Gengar, suddenly turn 80 ft tall, and slam a 90 ft tall Charizard in the chest with more Ghost energy than your local graveyard could muster in a year. The side effect is, when you have that much energy in a fight, you risk losing Pokémon. Gym Challengers are a special breed of person. On one hand. They get some serious perks. Your average Gym Challenger that survives more than one Gym, can gain sponsors for serious amounts of Cash, the notoriety and fans come in floods, and legitimately the rush of being in one of those fights is the closest you can get to being constantly naturally high.
There’s a soft chuckle. “I’ll be feeding in some of the footage I took during my challenge, on my Roto-phone, so please forgive the quality.” Another chuckle and the young man brushes some hair out of his face, tucking the long bangs behind his ear, and pinning it in place with his glasses prong.
“Oh, and to circle back for a second. It’s not like Gym Leaders or the Champion don’t face death in the League either. Last year’s challenge ended with Leon losing a Vivillion on his team, during the Championship match with Raihan, whose Dragon team takes no quarter even before they start Dynamaxing. Starting this challenge is signing a death warrant for your team at one point or another, and you’re just waiting to lose your best friends. You sell your soul for fame…
The money…. all of it. If you’re lucky, you quit when you lose someone after your first fight with a Dynamax band on. And it’s a member of your team you don’t care about. But those who are going for the win? For the ultimate glory? We’re crazy. And stuck on the Dynamax energy. I don’t think any of my team that’s still here can live without it. Something about these fights changes you. I’ll talk about that later, and maybe you’ll understand. But for now, let’s start talking about how I got started on this insane freaking path.”
-scene Change. Title Card. All that shit, and switch to narration-
So, when I woke up, on that wonderful March morning, I never expected that I was gonna go full crazy. I was watching the Match between Leon and Raihan, and missed the slamming blows between the two of them. My neighbor, Hop, comes sprinting in, and practically drags me over to his house, because of Leon. Yes, the same Leon I’m busy trying to watch on TV, is coming home. Hop is one of those guys that has an older brother complex, where he needs to be better than his brother when he’s able to show him up. Out here in Postwick, the roads are constantly filled with local wild Pokémon, so his Wooloo keeps us safe, and we go catch Leon at the train station.
Now I’m going to tell you three things.
1) Leon is as charismatic and amazing as he is on TV as he is in person. So freaking humble, and a great guy.
2) His Charizard is a terrifying monstrous beast. This thing is a good foot and a half taller than most Charizard, sitting at a solid 6’8, and has to be close to 280 pounds of solid steel muscles, fire, and scars.
3) Leon is a bit of a Himbo. He means well, but this guy… I swear his Charizard is the only reason he hasn’t permanently gotten lost in a Weald somewhere in Galar.
With that out of the way, we bring Leon back to Hops house, have a wonderful Barbecue, where we talk out the insanity of the Challenge’s final battle’s this year, and the Star Tournament that’s coming up next year, after the Gym Challenge coming in May, after things reset themselves.
After filling ourselves, Leon says he’s brought back gifts and takes Hop and Me outback. No joke, he’s bringing back Pokémon. Great Pokémon by the way. Despite being offered first go, Hop lets me choose first, and the only reason I know is that he’s got his eyes on the Sobble that’s now bouncing around his family’s garden, and squirting little blasts of water at a Scorbunny that’s sprinting around. The dude’s already planning on trying to beat Leon’s Charizard with proper Type Matchups.
I ignore the craziness that’s going on over there and instead go to this little Green Monkey Pokémon, that’s currently beating his little wooden drumstick on the rain gutter, and making a complete racket, but he’s making a good beat and some half-decent noise by hitting different parts of the pipe. I sit down next to the little guy and, using my hands, match his beat a little bit until Leon and Hop’s mum shouts at us to stop shaking up her entire house.
We both stop, and I’m turning all shades of red, but this is how I meet my boy, Ringo.
Hop, love my boy here, but Hop has absolutely no Chill. 10 minutes after getting Ringo, and he already wants to battle. No stakes. No Dynamaxing and he wants to fight my type superior Pokémon, just to prove that he can beat the type matchup.
That’s right. My first fight, after receiving my first Pokémon, is against my neighbor, and good mate, who’s gonna do me dirty and send two Pokémon against 1.
Ringo and I do pretty well, bringing Hop down a peg, by managing to dodge around his Wooloo’s insistent slamming Tackles, and then using his branch drumstick to just slap his Sobble around like a putty ball.
No harm, no foul though, as Leon heals up all of our Pokémon with his medicine stash, and spends the next half hour, listening to Hop practically begging for his brother to sponsor him into the League.
Leon at this point, I think knows that Hop isn’t going to stop, but he knows that Hop isn’t ready, and absolutely will be crushed if he just jumps for it. But he shuts Hop down and instead says we should go check in with the Pokémon Professor, Professor Magnolia. Get a quick checkup, and make sure our new Mons are strong and healthy and all that, tomorrow morning. Just get our shit together, you know.
We relax, enjoy talking shit about the match which we finish watching the Match Hop recorded, and I head home. Now, at the time, I didn’t realize Leon was being very quiet most of the night, especially rewatching his battle against Raihan. Having experienced loss with my Pokémon, I get it. Sometimes sitting through the replays of my worst fights? Watching some of my Pokémon lose….. everything? I can’t talk about it at the moment, and seeing their final moments again?….. well. I have a lot of respect for Leon, I don’t think I had before.
The next morning, my mum surprised me with a small stack of Pokeballs, and told me under no circumstances do I go all the way through Wedgehurst and to the Professor without a few extra Pokémon to keep myself safe. Even if killing other trainers Pokémon is illegal, unless you’re a Challenger, boosted up on Dynamax…. it still sometimes happens in the Wild. Wild Pokémon that hasn’t been tamed yet? Extremely dangerous. Dynamax energy can be found in the wild and can boost random Pokémon that will wreck you, your pet Pokémon, and your day, as you end up in the hospital. No joke. This can be real as shit. I ended up in a hospital for a week, when a wild Wooloo ended up tackling me mid-road as a kid, and I broke my leg. Crutches and cast rocked…. no. No, they didn’t.
Anywho, Ringo makes a Mess that morning, spilling a whole bowl of food that he’s eating, just because he wanted to drum on the Bowl.
He’s a good kid, but this is 90% of the reason we ended up in trouble later on before he started to chill out a little later on.
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