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TPP Flora Sky Summary: Day 4

Previously on Flora Sky: Hannah hit a hard wall when trying to defeat Voice Bane and Turzoro City Gym Leader; Wattson! She managed to rebuild her team, get a LOT of grinding in and not only took down one but TWO gyms before the day was out. Having dealt with the members of Team Aqua in Snowround City to free the Underground, we begin our day in gorgeous and tropical Charpos Island. With four badges now under our belt, let’s see what new adventures await…

Having quite the full day before, Hannah begins where we left off in goofing off and exploring the beautiful landscapes of the island. While taking in the sights and fun of the beach, she runs into a Fisherman who gives her a Good Rod that Chat decides they want to use right away!

We’ve apparently traveled a LOT farther than originally expected as while wading in the shallows, we discover Route W some ways to the east of the island and there seems to be potentially another island. We don’t explore very far into it to know how far this stretch of land goes as Hannah pulls out her PokeNav to call home… only to realize she never got Mom’s number nor does she know her home phone number after only being in the place for less than a day. She hangs up before pulling up the call list again and hesitates a moment on whether to call Wally or A.A. since it seems her trouble senses are tingling and ends up calling Caitlin instead. Caitlin may be a Normal type specialist, but we know she’s anything but normal herself. In actuality she tells us how the gym is to be reopened eventually like all the leaders do but I’d like to think story wise she gave us some actual foresight that Hannah needed to hurry back to town.

It’s a good thing she did too because running up the first set of steps in Charpos City, Hannah finds Wally just as the peaceful town music switches into high gear. Wally notices Hannah’s presence and begs her to come see the commotion going down as now there is both an Aqua AND a Magma Grunt squaring off in front of the port entrance. Luckily they hadn’t noticed the kids yet, but Wally takes Hannah aside to explain to her how both Teams were pretty well known in the area and they caused trouble for Charpos all the time! The pair go quiet as they overhear the Magma Grunt shouting how this island is Magma territory and therefore no Aquas were allowed. The Aqua Grunt laughs and explains how everything on the sea should belong to Team Aqua and that includes the islands; starting with the harbor! Wally whispers how ever since these two groups started fighting over the island, Charpos hasn’t been the peaceful town it used to be. It may seem wrong, but he knows how strong Hannah is. Help him punish these fiends!

Well, Hannah’s not gonna say no to giving these punks a beating and she and Wally run up to ambush the quarreling team members before they know what hit them. The Grunts are naturally in disbelief to be ganged up on by a couple of kids and a battle immediately gets underway. The Aqua Grunt certainly is no pushover as his Seadra’s Poison Point ends up being a pain to deal with as Prinplup and Shedinja find out the hard way. Still, with a bit of team work between those two before the poison took out Shedinja, Aga was able to have a close call in defeating it. Wally apparently took out the Magma Grunt while Hannah took care of the other, and the Magma very bitterly screams how this isn’t the last they’ll see of hiiiiiiiiiim and flees. Good job, Wally! As for the Aqua Grunt, laughable as that was to watch his rival get beaten down by such an obvious wimp, he’s actually NOT done and threatens Hannah that he’s still got more Pokemon to keep battling. Lucky for the kids, his PokeNav goes off with a call from one of the Admins saying all units were to report in. Guess he better hurry to the harbor then…. Once they’re both gone, Wally heaves a huge sigh of relief and says he and Hannah should head back to his house to rest up. Along the way back there, he explains that since Team Magma has been the one reigning control over the island, there’s been several building projects and activities lately that seems super suspicious to him. It’s a lot to ask, but he wonders if Hannah would be up for a little ~investigation~ into what exactly has been going on while he’s been away from home working for Prof. Birch. If she’s up for it, he’d like to meet her outside the Magma Building.

Hannah heals up and heads for the beach to get in some fresh air and GET HYPE! before heading up to the gaudy and painfully obvious Magma Building. It’s a skyscraper of a lab compared to anything else in the area, painted red with a large M on the front to serve as their logo. Unfortunately, she had a feeling that as it appeared to be the Team Magma headquarters, no doubt she’d be dealing with Hank, Roy and Maxie once more. As so, she decides to start off being a little more cautious in her infiltration of the building, carefully staking out one of the workers and slipping on up to the teleporter. Ah… they have teleporters. That’ll make it hard to see what’s coming…

Sure enough, Envy steps out of the first teleporter to find a guard waiting on the other side but he’s no match for the swift teamwork of Penguin and Aga who unfortunately gets burned by the Grunt’s Slugma. (What have you done, sir? Do you know what you’ve started?! D8 ) It wasn’t all bad though as Penguin evolved into Empoleon! 8O The man doesn’t seem too deterred by being beaten though and simply states that Roy has been working hard on researching Groudon and he firmly believes Team Magma will find it soon enough. Duly noted, Grunt, duly noted…

Envy continues to make his way through the red checkered corridors, sneak attacking Grunts and picking up some more information as to what it is Team Magma is doing exactly. What we learn then: 1) Roy is doing research on Groudon for Maxie. That isn’t news since when we rescued Mr. Stone, the team leaders had been demanding he tell them any information he had on Groudon. 2) As to WHY they want Groudon, Envy learns from a Grunt that the Pokemon somehow has the ability to create more land, which Magma plans to use to give people more places to live. 3) A researcher tells him that Groudon is a legendary who is huge, heavy, and tough. 4) Another scientist warns him how even as much of a maze the building has already been, it only gets harder. Sure enough, heading up stairs reveals multiple Teleporters to choose from in going forward.

Teleporters… storage rooms… Teleporters… storage rooms. Dang this place sure had a lot of teleporters leading into dead ends. Still, among all the crates of equipment and Pokefeed, Envy did find something interesting. TM46 Thief! How fitting XD He could also hear just on the other side of the wall a familiar voice… Dammit Wally! You were the one who said to meet out front!

Many MANY trials with the teleporters later, Envy switches back to Hannah and runs up to where Wally is seen trying to peek around a corner into the next room. At least the kid is safe, but that likely means there’s trouble ahead. Wally is startled at first, but quickly whispers to her that the people just ahead are some of the big dogs of campus. Roy, Hannah can recognize just fine, but Wally explains that the woman he’s talking to is one of the Magma Admins named Courtney. They both hush up and listen in as Roy excitedly tells Courtney that he has at last found the means to awaken Groudon! There was a book he found at the Malias Library that told the legend of how a Red Orb could be used to capture the beast. AND! Their research at the Polar Forest was actually helpful since they saw a red light in the Deep Forest (now wait, is it in Polar Forest or Deep Forest or are those two connected somehow? Y’know what, never mind just listen) which he believes to be the Red Orb! Sounds like a bit of a stretch, but Courtney seems excited to hear it. She says how she’ll get ready to make an announcement to the team when- Uh oh! We've been spotted!

Courtney is steamed to wonder just how much of that these two kids managed to overhear and decides to fight! Don’t worry, Wally! Hannah’s got you covered! Our new big buddy Empoleon does a pretty good job in tearing up her Golbat but succumbs to confusion and knocks himself out before doing anything to her Magcargo. We manage to switch in for Ninat without trouble and destroy it with Dragon Rage! Courtney gets even angrier and calls for backup when suddenly it seems help has arrived for the kids!

It’s Sky! And he brought a friend! The woman demands Courtney leave… er… I think? Her language seems all kinds of butchered more so than we’ve seen from others. Courtney isn’t at all intimidated though and shrugs off the warning by saying they were done with this place anyway. Farewell then! The adults don't seem to pay this escape any heed and Sky introduces his friend as Cynthia; Champion of Flora! He asked Cynthia to help him expel the Magma from this…. IS THAT A POKENAV?! He immediately loses his train of thought and decides to register Hannah’s number. XD Now what was he saying? Wally tells the pair what they overheard and Sky seems concerned for the Polar Forest. Cynthia admits that while it is nice to be meeting new friends, this isn’t the time or place and she and Sky need to get back to the Platepics City Research Center with this news. After she leaves, Wally brings up that maaaybe he and Hannah should head to Platepics City too. Sky just hopes next time they all meet, they’ll have more time to talk. With that, the group has all split up and Hannah does a little bit of exploring before heading outside.

SURPRISE! Even though all the fuss and rustling is over, seems that Aqua Grunt from went and told his shipmates about the Magma scuffle he was in before Hannah and Wally showed up. Whatever the case, Archie comes charging up the steps with the Grunt, likely on his way to kick some Magma butt himself since they found the HQ, and stops when he sees Hannah. Strange to see her here, wasn’t she the brat who decided to kick them out of the Oceanic Museum? And now it seems she’s going after Team Magma as well…. What an odd child. He has learned her name though, so she ought to stay on her guard if she thinks she’s gonna go around making enemies with both sides. Perhaps she just doesn’t understand the reasons to the struggle.

As the Grunt runs past her to inspect the fortress for information on the now empty hideout, Archie decides he’d rather talk to the girl. But for the moment he’s more curious of her than anything. WHY does she seem to hate both sides? Surely with them being such opposites she should agree with one or the other, right? And if she were to choose one, he would suggest she side with Team Aqua. They may be extreme in their beliefs, but Team Magma is extreme in their actions, leaving destruction in their wake as they claim to expand the seas. It is a threat to the Sea-loving Aqua to have the waters be choked out like that. …. …. …. The Grunt returns with the same information Hannah overheard: Team Magma is heading for the Polar Forest to seek out the Red Orb! (Though from a lore point, how terrible would it be if, after he explained how dangerous Magma actually is, she just told him herself?) With this new piece of information, Archie is determined that Team Magma needs to be stopped before they find that Legendary! He leaves Hannah with a word that if she planned to continue in her own sense of justice, just be careful, and keep an eye out for Team Magma. They are the real threat after all…

More surprises, no sooner did they leave, we get a call from Mr. Stone who seems to somehow have the capabilities to teleport us via the PokeNav despite having just told us we could use the Teleport Service by the Pokemon Center. … Sure. Whatever. It’s potentially an emergency since he called to tell us everyone else from the Base Raid has already arrived.

Well! Since we’re suddenly back in Platepics City, even if we weren’t ready and I’m sure Mr. April is still hanging out on the beach and wondering if Hannah planned to come back before the end of the week, guess we’ll just carry on as usual. Healing up, buying Poke Balls, playing with our bike and teasing the idea of just skipping town before heading to the tower. Hannah does eventually go to the Research Center where, just like her first visit here, upon entering she shifts over to Envy.

Technology is amazing! As Envy makes his way through the maze of a tower, he finds out that the Research Center allows the public to come in to ask for help with their Pokemon and are responsible for making all kinds of devices to make things better for Trainers. After failing a pop quiz from an old man, he tries again with a different set of questions and earns himself an EXP SHARE! 8O He also finds a scientist who has finally crafted Flora’s very own Fossil Reviver and a man who says he plans on going into space. Huh, the company must be working on a rocket somewhere then…

Upon reaching Mr. Stone’s office, or at least where we saved him last time, the room is… empty! However, the man in the green suit from last time isn’t blocking the stairs this time (perhaps it was to keep Magma from getting into the real treasure trove of the building) which Envy decides to explore. More. Floors. Egads this place is huge! At last we make it to Mr. Stone’s office where he has Prof. Birch and Cynthia at his desk in discussing the current issue when he notices Envy has arrived. Come quickly, lad, there’s some urgent news! He heard from Cynthia what they found out at the Magma Building and so it seems Envy has learned about Magma’s plans to awaken Groudon. While police had been keeping an eye on the Magma Building for some time but with the building empty now, there’s little point to that anymore. Now they have been seen in the Polar Forest! See, legend states that a long time ago, there was a great clash between the Titan of the Land and the Titan of the Sea and…

He cuts himself off because while that may be important, we really don’t have time to be going over the old legends. What’s important NOW is going after Team Magma and stopping them before such old tales can come to life once again. Sky and Wally have already gone on ahead and Cynthia announces it’s high time she and Envy got over there as well. Professor Birch also takes that as time to leave and comes around the desk to greet Envy. It sure is nice to see the kid has grown up to be so strong and active in protecting their new homeland in such a short time and he asks that while they’re there, he should register Envy in his PokeNav since things are looking like they’re gonna be getting serious. With that, he explains that his part in the operation requires he head back to the lab and take some materials he got from Mr. Stone and get them ready. Good luck to Envy though in taking on this very hard task head on. Just know that he and everyone else will be there to support us. (Professor… ;o; ) After he leaves, Mr. Stone calls Envy over to give what little he can to help in this task. We received the Master Ball! 8O He wishes the young man the best of luck and also gives his support in how he believes Envy WILL be the one to save them. We get the EXP SHARE onto AirBnB and the Master Ball to Ninat for safekeeping before heading out.

After making our way back through the Bee-bug Forest, Hannah takes a different turn this time and uses Air Cutter to head into a new branch of Route B she couldn’t before. There she gets jumped by Ninja Boy Takashi who warns her to always be alert of her surroundings else she find a world of pain. (Guess he knows where we’re off to, huh? XD ) Hannah gets in a huff as his Ninjask swiftly takes down AirBnB and she sends out Shedinja for a true ninja showdown! Takashi knows he cannot hurt her counterpart, but he takes advantage in knowing she can’t hold out forever either; spamming Double Team and Swords Dance in preparation for whoever will follow when Fury Swipes runs out! As much as Shedinja kept missing, as little damage as it was doing, Sheddy still managed to hold out and land a hit for victory! 8D But Takashi isn’t done yet and sends out a Koffing that spams Smokescreen until Shedinja can’t hit with (or use) Fury Swipes any more, rendering it useless. However, she switches over to Penguin and while he tries to cast a Smokescreen to protect himself, our Starter finishes him off with a Drill Peck no problem! Takashi has to concede defeat and tells her how surprisingly good she’s gotten, and allows her access to the Moon Stone he was guarding. Sweet! <3

We head on into Small Town where Hannah makes her first priority... the PokeMart. Okay, but after that her first priority was to head over to the Pokemon Lab where she found A.A. managing the place while his dad is occupied with whatever it was Mr. Stone asked him to do. One of the assistants explains that Professor Birch is an expert on the habitats and distributions of Flora’s wild Pokemon. (Makes me wonder if he was called into all this cause he knows something about Groudon’s actual home…) Well since there’s not much else to find around here, Hannah heads back out and makes her way over to the Day Care where… it’s time to say goodbye to AirBnB. It’s unfortunate, but the Gligar was falling too far behind in levels and that last battle just seemed to prove he was out of his league with even somewhat friendly battles being too much. Take care, little one~! ;o;

Of course, no trip to Small Town would be right without stopping by to see her mother. Hannah remembers well how she realized she had no way to call her the last time she needed some advice, and Mom is quite happy to see her drop in. Is that a PokeNav? REGISTER! But also, what has Hannah been up to all this time? Well… not to worry her, Hannah shows off the badges she’s earned which delights her mother to see. Doing the League Challenge, is she? Well here’s an Amulet Coin to help! 8D <3 Hannah takes a short rest in her fairly clean and mostly unused bed before setting out on the road again as Mom wishes us luck. ;o;

Heading through Mt. Fullmoon, Hannah eventually makes it to the Polar Forest’s entrance where Sky trots over happy to see her arrive. However, he warns her that the forest is huge and filled with many dangers; not including the numerous Magma and Aqua that have started fighting in the deeper depths. For that, he has to test her strength before allowing her to pass. (Why not have Wally do this, sir? If you’re so strong, you should be dealing with the Teams. |D;; ) Unfortunately… he’s right. B L A C K O U T 8D;

Okay, the second round was REALLY close but pfffhahahahahaha classic fail XDD

It’s actually on round 5 (if I counted right?) that we finally make it past Sky thanks to Penguin just CRUSHING THIS FIGHT! >O Okay, to be more specific, we’d mostly been struggling to make a dent into Sky’s Hippowdon while it could basically one-shot most of our team while healing off the damage inflicted to keep the Colorblind Clan from being able to team up on it. THIS TIME, after our Empoleon knocked Vulpix aside with Bubblebeam and faced off against the Hippowdon, Sky had his hippo try to heal off the damage while Penguin did more damage than it could heal. Normal, except Sky for some reason totally blew it by using his one attack attempt on Crunch instead of Earthquake, which did little more than a dent to our Steel-ly warrior here. Sky tried to use a Hyper Potion, but Penguin did some massive damage (without a crit even, I’m not sure why that one did more than usual) and was able to finish it off on the next turn without a fight. Last up was Leafeon! Which went down to Drill Peck, but not without putting up a valiant effort with a Grasswhistle / Giga Drain combo to take Penguin down before he could wake up. Too bad, Sky, WE WIN! 8D <3 Sky is in honest shock and can only give a “wow” before telling Hannah how she really surprised him. BUT! Don’t forget to heal up before entering the forest!

The game actually doesn’t give us a chance to do that though as the cutscene has Hannah enter anyway where we find A.A. just as surprised to see her here as she is of him. Didn’t she just see him back in town, how’d he get here? WHY is he here? Wasn’t he supposed to be watching the Lab? He says that his dad told him about Team Magma’s scheme. Also Cynthia and the others have moved deep into the forest already and they should really catch up. Without further explanation he takes off into the Polar Forest, leaving Hannah filled with suspicion and caution as she makes her way at her own pace. Something strange was definitely going on in these woods…

We run into a Team Aqua Grunt who’s upset that Team Magma got here ahead of them, but interestingly, after the battle, he explains he thought Hannah was a Magma member who had come back. Come… back? Have they already left? We better hurry! Except after a few battles later, Hannah blacks out before getting to the heart of the Polar Forest. Envy decides he needs a bit of stress relief and goes to the Berry Master’s garden to both pick and plant before heading back into the fray. (Note, the transformation powers that be seem to be totally on the fritz during all this as our kid keeps changing nearly every time they interact with the garden XD Maybe it really is related to Shaymin after all)

We head on into Puel City for… reasons??? And Hannah heads on into the Museum where she looks around for a while before meeting with the curator. He says he has a special exhibition hall he wants to fill with modern and vibrant paintings of Pokemon but for now it’s unfortunately blank. If Hannah should happen to find any such works, he’d like for her to show him. Okayyy?? Well this was a nice detour while the world is in danger. XD

-SPIT TAKE!- OR PERHAPS I SPOKE TOO SOON! Seems Hannah (or someone in the chat) knows more than I do as in this hidden museum room is an Aqua Grunt she tries to hound for information on the current situation but he claims to know nothing other than the room he’s guarding is for Team Aqua only. They rent it, it’s legal, why she gotta be so rude?! (Lore-wise, part of me wants to say he actually does know something so all this wasn’t a total waste.)

We eventually get back to the Polar Forest where Hannah makes her way deeper than before, so deep she found a quaint little cottage. The only one there seems to be an old woman who tells Hannah to sleep for a while. Upon waking though, the woman doesn’t seem to believe Hannah when she says she’s rested, and tells her to sleep longer. Hannah, having already had several pieces of weirdness happen in this forest already seems leery of the offer and flees. After getting passed the pair of grunts we passed out to before, Hannah gets surprised to find that there ARE still some Magma members around as she finds one that doesn’t want to attack her for some reason. Best not push her luck, she doesn’t talk to him and hurries on ahead.

With some steady precautions (and monarchy mode) Hannah gets a Super Potion from Miss Tea that the Linoone picked up earlier and uses a Repel. Teaches Shedinja Air Cutter so we have less chance of finding herself in the same mess she was with Takashi, and gives Aga the EXP SHARE so she might start to catch up with the rest of the group. \o/

We then run into a Grunt who’s worried about Hannah trying to find the Orb like everyone else is and puts up a fight to stop her from pursuing the matter any further. It seems like a good time to head back to the Old Lady’s Rest House before continuing onward. And boy was it good that we did because a few bends in the road later, Hannah ducks behind a tree as she spots Archie telling a few of the Aqua members to guard the pathway. No one is to follow him! She waits for the guards to take their posts before running up between them where she finds they aren’t mere grunts, one of them is an Admin!

Aqua Admin Matt starts off with a Gyarados while Hannah started off with Penguin and Miss Tea, and they do okay despite the Grunt’s Golbat casting confusion on Penguin. However, Matt got lucky when, after using a Super Potion, the Grunt followed up with a Crit Bite attack to take out the Linoone! D8 Having just seen a Bite attack, sending out Shedinja was a bad idea, yes it was, and there he goes. As does Aga but at least Penguin was able to take out Gyarados before she got knocked out so we got some points (and a level)! Bringing out Ninat the Gabite, we get to see Golbat go down making it a two-on-one battle against Matt’s Cloyster. The pair of each take a free shot at the Cloyster before it gets a chance to attack! Victory! 8O Matt scoffs that even though he lost, Archie’s WAY more powerful than he is. He’s not worried! Archie will make SURE Maxie won’t get anywhere NEAR Groudon! Somehow… Hannah’s not so sure about that and heads on through to the heart called Deep Forest.

These woods are lovely dark and deep... But no really, they are. The Deep Forest is much darker than the Polar Forest was, and the paths are much more narrow. Fortunately after the roughing up just received, we run into Sky who, uh... Doesn’t seem very enthused to see us, but also notices how hurt we are and he heals up the team! And then disappears. …. Curiouser and curiouser. Ah well, better do as he says and keep going.

As we come around a bend, Hannah finds the path starting to widen, a set of stairs… a pair of statues long since worn down but their swords aimed to form an archway looking almost menacing. This must be home to a Legend… Hannah takes a moment to take the Master Ball from Ninat and put it in the top of her bag so she may take no chances in capturing Groudon. Just ahead, she can see Maxie and some of his members are already on the scene, the leader gloating how at long last he can see his dream realized. Just beyond this boulder that blocks the shrine… Suddenly Sky and Wally leap out from the other side of the statues and charge forward, only to have the two Grunts come up to block them from reaching Maxie. Maxie uses a device to completely OBLITERATE the boulder, leaving nothing but faint glints of dust as the Red Orb suddenly appears! Hannah rushes forward just as he gleams about no one being able to stop him from touching the Orb! Maxie is angry, asking how HE was to be caught off guard! But no matter, if it’s a fight she wants, she better prepare for a world of pain! Penguin outright ANNIHILATES him! XDD Taking two attacks on his Golbat, Penguin gets lucky with a Crit to one-shot his Camerupt, and then struggles a bit with Magmar after getting burned but really was in no danger at all. EAT IT, MAXIE, EAT IT! >O

-Ahem- Maxie is naturally angry, but tells Hannah how she still won’t stop him! She might not, but Archie arrives on the scene with a hearty laugh at how she doesn’t have to. See, that Red Orb? It’s not real. Maxie has NO idea what Archie is talking about, which the Aqua Leader points out there’s a lot of things he knows that Maxie doesn’t. Including that this forest may be a good place to hide the Red Orb, but THAT orb isn’t it. Watch! As Maxie turns around the Red Orb vanishes into thin air like an illusion leaving both Maxie and Hannah highly confused. Cynthia arrives on the scene with A.A. and is surprised to find both Team Leaders in the same place. She tries to use the opportunity to plead with them to stop seeking…. Just seeking in general I guess, before they ruin this land! Archie seems to feel for her a moment, but laughs off the idea because she really doesn’t need to beg for them to stop when there’s nothing here anyway. With that, he and Shelly will be on their way, which no one in the heroes’ ambush seems to mind. They came for Maxie anyway.

The Magma Leader isn’t one to be take so lightly, as before anyone can capture him, the man pulls the same stunt as he and the others had done in the Research Center, casting down a FLASH and vanishing from the woods. Cynthia approaches the shrine, but there’s no trace of him… She looks to Hannah and gives her thanks at least for helping them. “Team Magma and Team Aqua should no longer be excessive after this trouble.” I assume that means there just shouldn’t be as many of them from here on. Just as Wally finishes praising Hannah for her strength in taking down Maxie and says how they should probably get back to the Research Center to tell Mr. Stone what happened, the shrine seems to activate as a SHINY Celebi appears! 8O It phases THROUGH the party before opening a portal which sucks everyone into some weird white space. Floating…. Falling…. Our host hears someone calling….. Calling…

Hannah wakes up alone in the Torn World but it’s not nearly as dark as it was last time. The place is vast and treacherous, long flat plains that suddenly end to reveal black, bottomless chasms to keep one from jumping the gaps. It didn’t stop Hannah from looking though, trying to calculate any sort of way to get to the odd tree looking thing over one such jump. Deciding best not to try though, she keeps going until she finds an odd statue that looks like some monster’s face. Not much to it when she touched it, but something still seemed important about it. Push it? When she tries to give it a good shove, something strange…. TELEPORT!

We warp to the foot of a giant tree, but it’s not the one she was aiming for before. This one seems to be surrounded by a mysterious stone garden. Stepping into the garden reveals that the ground of the garden is frail as ice! A single step suddenly gives way to a hole in the ground, but Hannah seems fearless as always as she starts to make a path through the garden until she falls through. Ow…… But! It seems as bad as the fall was, it didn’t drop her into the abyss. Just back to the place she woke up the first time and she finds the odd monster head statue and goes back to the garden. Puzzle time! Getting all of the patches punctured it turned out there WAS a point to playing around with this dangerous game of hopscotch and a bridged formed over the nearby gap to the next land plate. Excellent!~

Monster statue? New tree? Figuring out a pattern sure would be nice, but shoving this statue just seems to rattle the entire Torn World! Best go look elsewhere then...While the statue didn’t cause anything immediately noticeable, is… is it snowing??? Rather faintly, but there does seem to be something small and white drifting down intermittently, but more importantly, a new bridge! But not enough. Two puzzles down, one more to go it seems if she wants to complete the pathway… All three gardens punched out without falling, go to the statue and-! More shaking. Hmm… might go check the bridges then.

Running down our newly made pathway, we suddenly come across Flash! Long time no see, ya old witch~! Flash is confused to what Hannah is doing in a place like this, which honestly she could be asking the same of Flash. However, after explaining that a Celebi opened a portal, Flash determines that the forest guardian must have been worried about the Shaymin that seems to dwell in this area? Or maybe it’s just lost? Either way, Hannah found a Shaymin the last time she got warped to this place, so she’s determined to find this thing if only to get home now. Flash warns Hannah though that Giratina and Dialga have continued their fighting in this broken world and….! There comes a loud roar from farther in and Flash realizes that they’re actually fighting nearby. Come quick!

Hannah follows Flash over to where we find the two dragons duking it out as the Torn World echoes and debris starts to fall from… somewhere? But then a new cry enters the fray as Shaymin appears between the two in its’ Sky Form! Casting a blue light over the area, it only seems to make the two giants angry before something else calls out of nowhere and Dialga and Giratina suddenly VANISH! Flash is just as confused as we are as to what caused them to disappear, but the more important thing right now is that Shaymin is looking pretty hurt. So hurt in fact it changed back into its’ Land Form. Going up to it, Shaymin seems confused and leery of the help and attacks! IT’S A SHINY~! 8D Good thing Hannah put the Master Ball in front because we-! … Decided to attack it with Bubblebeam and Rain Dance. XD Okay, but THEN we used the Master Ball! Our shiny new Shaymin is quickly named Acccddd! Acid? With Shaymin contained, Flash (or Shaymin? But more likely Flash) opens up a portal back to the real world where Hannah finally awakes to a strange bed in a strange house.

Downstairs she finds Flash and Sky talking when they notice Hannah is awake at last! Flash says that she’s already told everyone about what happened with Shaymin, but is all good now so BYE! Umbala, FLASH! Sky seems unfazed by this and brings up how worried everyone was when Hannah just disappeared before their eyes. Wally has already gone to tell Mr. Stone about what happened in the Deep Forest. After what happened with the Red Orb though, it doesn’t seem either Team Magma or Team Aqua have been as active after this most recent failure. The police also sealed off the Magma Building which will make it harder to figure out where Maxie and his team plan to go next… But! Since all seems to be well, Sky has a present for Hannah and gives her HM03 Surf! 8D<3 She’ll need the badge from here in town, but it’s good for crossing water once she does. Oh? Still confused? This is his home and Hannah is in his hometown! It’s a nice place isn’t it? He can hear the waves from here and wax poetry on life. Anyway, Hannah is free to continue her adventure now.

We step outside to discover we’ve arrived in Malias City! We do a little bit of exploring around into the other buildings before Hannah discovers the fabled Malias City Library. It’s a huge place with lots of books, and she makes her way through the winding shelves looking for the book Roy had mentioned he used to learn about Groudon back at the base. Perhaps not what she was originally looking for, but she finds a Scientist who tells her how he’s discovered a lot of things after reading some books, and was able to find at Blue Shard! He figures it’d do better in the hands of a traveler though and tells her that there’s tales of there being others in the Hippowdon Temple and the Abandoned House of Platepics City, but he can’t find those. (....-COUGH- I THINK I KNOW WHY -COUGH- ) Further exploration, Hannah also finds Leira, the Malias City Gym Leader. Leira says how the library has books from regions all over the world and is rumored to have a hidden room somewhere in the building. Not that the leader has ever found it, but it makes for a good story. However, Leira has also been hearing of Hannah’s adventures from Sky; fighting Team Magma’s leader and meeting Legendary Pokemon, how exciting! There’s a lot to be learned in books, but there’s more to learn in seeing it with her own eyes, isn’t there? But that seems to remind Leira that if Hannah is to continuing traveling, they’ll need to battle first. With that, the leader decides we’ll all meet at the gym!

Hannah decides she’d rather play the lottery, go fishing, and heal up first XD

We head for the Gym and- AWWW HEEEEELLL NAW! IT’S A WILD RIDE! D8 At least the programmer was kind enough to color coordinate which arrows go where, but still. Seems the gym is actually Steel themed, which would be a perfect training ground for our Penguin if he actually practiced any Steel-type moves. Ah well, it’s got a neat atmosphere once we get passed the spinners and enter the ~real~ gym with several tough trainers to boot. Also glitches, I think XD

Hannah reaches Leira who’s very calm in greeting her since this was an expected visit. It seems the leader only became a leader to test what she learned from the library in actual combat and would love for someone as experienced as Hannah to show her how it’s done! We defeat most of her team with Penguin, causing her to waste her potions early, and then after our Starter gets knocked out, realize that she can’t do anything to Shedinja. However, being Steel-types, there’s not much Sheddy can do either. The Bug manages to whittle down a good chunk of damage before using Struggle on her last Pokemon, Metang, leaving Ninat and Acid a chance to finish it off. Ninat wins! We get the Iron Badge! And TM47 Steel Wing! And an… awkward lecture with Leira saying we should challenge other Gym Leaders when we’ve now got 5 Gym Badges XD

Well with that out of the way, it looks like we’re heading out to sea. But first! We step outside the gym and get attacked by our first fanboy, erm, a middle-aged man named Scott who says he’s been looking for strong trainers like Hannah and tells her she should check out the Battle Tent! Oh, but it’s far away from here, so have a ship ticket to the island! And with that he is gone. What is with this region? XD

Our first trip on the open water, we find a young man working on a Secret Base. Since it seems like fun, he gives or perhaps teaches new ninja technique to Hannah TM43 Secret Power! Hannah decides she’s gonna check out that right away and set up a base on the spot! Further adventures out to see lets us find out that…. It seems all Experts are using Drayden’s sprite for some reason? Daaang demoted to random NPC. Guess I shouldn’t be too surprised since we find not much later the same thing happened Burgh being “Traveler”. Ohh gaaame. XD At least we got a Big Pearl and a Kings Rock for finding these two.

For all our sailing, we eventually make landing on the beautiful Charpos Island! But don’t stay as we hang for a little bit before heading to the Harbor to use our new ticket to go to the Festa Zone amusement park! Hannah gets a call from A.A. who… doesn’t sound all that great… At first he asks Hannah where she is, and after realizing she’s at the Festa Zone, says it sounds like fun. He went to Route AB after getting the Iron Badge and has gotten into trouble….. Oh! But never mind that, he’ll be fine! …. Hope to see her soon… Click…

Well that’s not OMINOUS AT ALL!~ But Hannah decides she’s here on a mission after she overheard some rumors on the ride over that if she could beat the Psyduck Battle Tent, she could get something to help Aga evolve. The poor little Kirla could use all the help she can get seeing how quickly she keeps going down in battle, even if she does do well when able to attack. Hannah fails the first tent she tries, which required using some Rental Pokemon, but that’s not the one she was after anyway so XP The next tent is a giant Skitty, which catches her interest before she learns that she needs a Mach Bike in order to play. Right. Guess she’ll just go on with what she came here fore and heads next door to the Psyduck Tent. Which… seems the Mini Game here is a vague attempt to mimic the Underground in the Sinnoh games where clicking around until the wall collapses to find stuff is the aim of the game. Fun! 8D

With our Sun Stone finally in hand, we manage to evolve Aga into a Gallade! 8D … Wait, isn’t Gallade a Male only Pokemon? Well in this game, sorta. Either gender of Kirlia can use the Sun Stone, but Gallade is still male. In all honesty, general lore says that Aga is the world’s first Female Gallade, and I stand by that. Female pronouns continue. ^ w ^

We continue to explore the Festa Zone and find a mysterious house that appears empty with a message hanging on the back wall. Hannah’s ninja senses tell her that she’s being watched though, and she immediately checks under the table where she finds the great mystery himself, The Trick Master. Due to her keen observation, he’s a bit curious about her and notes that he can tell, he just can, that this is a girl who thrives with a challenge. Who relishes puzzles! Yes, yes! Consider herself challenged then as he invites her to enter The Trick House! However, Hannah considers herself already challenged and heads back to the tent with the Rental Pokemon to fight until she wins. Her only reward is a Full Heal but HER PRIDE, DAMMIT! The need has been satisfied and now it’s back to the Trick House to see what that’s all about. What is it about? Trees, for one thing, lots of Cut-able trees and finding the hidden messages needed to unlock the back room where the Trick Master hides. Oh! But isn’t she the clever one? The Trick Master is both infuriated and pleased with this prominent young student and tells her he’ll have a much bigger challenge next time. She still has much to learn before she can be called his equal! Farewell then, puzzle man, she’ll be back.

As we start to make our way back to the mainland, we take a turn on the ocean routes and head for Ocepac Town, a very old, traditionalist fishing village really. We head for the Pokemon Center to heal up and harass a young guitarist by refusing to learn Explosion multiple times. We also find an old man who seems fond of Azurill that says he’s made a wondrous device! And all he asks in exchange is some Pulhia Tea. Which Hannah doesn’t have. No Tea? NO DEVICE. … Consider herself challenged, old man~! Oh, but before she leaves town, we got back to mess with the guitarist one last time and have him teach Explosion to Ninat. WAHAHAHAHA

After much trial and error in seafaring, Hannah eventually makes it to Route Z! AB can’t be much farther now, can it? However, she’s so beat up by this point, it seems Chat decided to seek out trainers to try to purposefully blackout. Penguin refuses to fall to such traps like usual and gains a few levels. 8D

We finally end the day by discovering the Move Relearner in Ocepac Town and go back to surfing along the outskirts of the small island community to go fishing and do some badger hunting. A very peaceful ending to a very long day. But what about A.A.? What are Magma and Aqua up to, even if they are in much smaller force? Where is the REAL Red Orb? All these will be answered in time, I'm sure. But for now.... For now we relax. <3

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HOLY COW WE SLAMMED THAT PLOT PEDAL HARD ON THIS ONE~! 8O

We’ve got an allegiance going, and learning more about our bad guys, and getting new teammates and cruising on through the badge earning and our heroes are actually starting to get some depths at last.

Also, I’ll go back and fix it on Day 3, but I have been informed that Abner the Gligar’s chat name was actually AirBnB so it’s been corrected.

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