Entry #9
Today was a rough day.
Lots of traveling to bring Harmony to Professor Elm while trying to train the team. Very long walk, very little money for repels (it all goes into antidotes and potions), and very slow training for everyone but Harmony. Upside, she knows extrasensory, which is an absurdly strong move for a pokemon under lvl 10. Also, her defense and special defense stats are crazy good. Hopefully, she could become a flying replacement for Ace.
Made it, picked up cash from Mom, practiced Cut with The Beez, started the way back while training Harmony. Arrived at Goldenrod, gave the city a good once-over, kept going to find trainers to battle and Pokemon to catch. Newest addition to the team? A male Nidoran who knows double kick! Will prove to be instrumental against Normal-type gym leader Whitney. Still carry memories of that Miltank of hers and its rollout attack.
Training went well. Ace evolved into Pidgeotto, Thorsday into Flaafy, and Zumba into an actual fighter! Harmony was showing amazing progress!
Then it all went to shit.
We were fighting a juggler. He used a bunch of Voltorbs at various levels. Weakest, lvl 2. Strongest, lvl 14. Harmony was on a roll with two of them and had a good advantage over the lvl 14 one (which was 2 lvls higher than her). It charged up its special defense, so I opted for metronome instead of extrasensory.
Harmony exploded.
I threw off my glasses and just stared open-mouthed at my screen. My adorable Togepi. My precious Harmony. Blown to bits. Let out a few high pitched wails but managed to not cry.
Nidoran evolved into Nidorino! And his very first battle as a Nidorino was against an equal-lvl Raichu. Nice thing about Nidorino, they have very balanced stats, no real weak points. But Raichu got a crit with thunderbolt and now my Nidorino is dead too.
Healed up, caught a Sunkern in the National Park where Nidorino died. Didn’t care. Maybe tomorrow I face Whitney. Maybe she wipes me out. Do I even care anymore?
Nidoran/Nidorino
Nickname: Empererth
Sunkern
Nickname: Fodder
R.I.P. HARMONY EMPERERTH