A Heart of Gold: A Pok?mon Story
Iridium - Part 4
Violet City
As I left the gym to go heal my Pokemon, I got a call on my PokeGear. It was Professor Elm. He said he had discovered something about the egg, that in order for it to hatch, it needs to travel with an active party. He told me to meet his assistant somewhere in Violet City and hung up. Where in Violet City, I had no idea. Great.
I went to the Pokemon Centre first to rest up my Pokemon from their battle with Falkner. Whilst that was being done I looked around the centre for Elm's assistant, with no success. I collected my Pokemon and went over to the Poke Mart to stock up on supplies. To my surprise, there was Elm's assistant inside. He thrust the egg into my arms, said a few words and left. I stood there with a confused look on my face as I had no idea what to do with the egg. I thought it best to carry it because it would get crushed if I stuck it in my bag along with all my other stuff. I went and bought some items and left.
Outside there was a girl there dressed in a kimono. She caught sight of me and my egg. She approached me and mentioned how the egg was passed from Mr. Pokemon then to Professor Elm and finally to me. After a few more works, she did a weird dance move and walked away. As she left, I wondered how earth she knew where I got the egg from. I quickly brushed away my thoughts and headed towards Route 36.
Route 36
A quick look at my PokeGear map revealed that I could take a small detour and explore the Ruins of Alph and end up back just south of Violet City. When I entered the route, in the distance was some sort of strange dancing tree. I asked the man there what it was and he didn't know, only saying it was blocking people from passing. Then out of the blue, he gave
HM06 (Rock Smash). What a nice man. I immediately taught Rock Smash to Geodude.
Ruins of Alph
There really wasn't much to see here. Just a few old structures and a building used by the scientists who study the Ruins. I wondered into one of these structures and stumbled on a room with what seemed to be a puzzle in the middle. I went to take a closer look and saw it was like those small, cheap slider puzzles you got in a kids meals at PokeBurger except bigger and made of stone. The attendant who was there had no qualms with me attempting to solve it.
It didn't take long at all to solve it and as I slid the last panel into place, the whole puzzle glowed. The ground started to shudder and I began to wonder if I had set off some kind of ancient defence mechanism which would kill me in some horrible fashion. My morbid thoughts was interrupted when the floor underneath me gave way and Totodile and I plummeted down. Fortunately the drop wasn't too big and I was fine. A man was standing close to where I fell and instead of asking if I was okay, handed me an
Unown Report, which was some kind of e-book reader with some information on a Pokemon called Unown. The exit was near the middle of this massive chamber so I walked along a few corridors to get to it. As I caught sight of the ladder, an odd black Pokemon seemed to jump off the wall. This was the Unown that the man was talking about. Totodile weakened it with a few attacks and I added it to my collection.
[UNOWN | Lvl 5]
I returned to the surface and headed onto the route which led south.
Route 32
A man at the start of route gave me a Miracle Seed, which boosts Grass-type moves. Since I didn't have a Grass-type Pokemon with me, it was pretty useless at this point in time. I carried on catching a Hoppip which floated past me.
[HOPPIP | M | Lvl 6].
Further along I noticed a Pokemon munching on some grass in the middle of the route. I checked my Pokedex and saw it was a Mareep, an Electric-type Pokemon. This would make a nice addition to my team. I sent out Totodile, forgetting that water was weak against electricity. However Mareep didn't seem to know any electric moves which made attacking and catching it pretty simple.
Mareep | F | Lvl 6
Next to be caught was a Bellsprout, whom Spearow almost knocked out in one go. Along the route there were a few trainers, all who gave my Pokemon very little trouble. Along the docks there were a few fisherman who were ..uh.. fishing. I guessed they would be using water Pokemon which would be perfect for training my Mareep. It's lack of Electric-type moves was a worry so I had to train it against wild Pokemon until it did learn a Electric-type move. And sure enough at Level 10, it learned
ThunderShock.
I approached the fishermen and they all were keen for a battle. My Mareep wiped the floor with them. There was one fisherman who sported four Magikarp in his team. I rested Mareep from that battle and gave Spearow a chance to battle. Spearow was not happy at how little a fight the Magikarp put up.
I went onto the route and saw a Pokemon Centre was up ahead. A man outside was trying to sell Slowpoke Tails for 1,000,000 bucks. I laughed at him and went into the Centre. While my Pokemon were being rested, a fisherman offered me a fishing rod, which I accpted. To be honest it looked like a piece of Magikrap. I thanked him, collected my Pokemon and withdrew Bellsprout from my PC.
Bellsprout | M | Lvl 6
A Bird Keeper outside saw my badge that I got from Falkner and challenged me to a battle. I gave both Geodude and Mareep a battle each and they were both too strong.
The entrance to Union Cave now stood before me. Who knows what I would find inside.
Summary
Pokemon obtained
Pokedex
Seen: 23 | Obatained: 12
Badges
1
Party
Totodile - Lvl 15
Spearow - Lvl 10
Geodude - Lvl 12
Mareep - Lvl 12
Bellsprout - Lvl 6
Egg