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xaq_the_aereon That was a bit of a stretch even for my jokes. Anyway, with all the usual Poke Pelago shenanigans out of the way (I think I'll stop including those because even I'm getting bored of reading them) for this session, it's off to the Ruins of Life for our showdown with Kahuna Olivia.
"So you're hte one Gladion was talking about?" I get 2 steps towards the place and already I'm being interrupted, this time by a certain member of Team Skull with very punk-prismatic hair. Team Big Sister Plumeria makes her grand entrance!
Aaand right off the bat she calls her teammates dummies, "but cute in their dumbness." Wow, big on the nose, don'tcha think? (I mean, you're not wrong about them being dummies...) Oops, seems my picking on her dumb little siblings has annoyed her. Hey, they started all of it, ain't my fault I was the one who happened to finish it. But if that's how you feel, I guess there's only one thing to do. Erinys, introduce yourself to the lady.
[ROUND 1: vs Golbat]
Right away its Wing Attack hits like a ton of bricks. OW. Fortunately, its Poison-typing won't save it against some Corrosion-fueled Acid before Erinys tags out for Obsidian. The following Wing Attack hits nothing but air, and then Obsidian Rock Tombs it for the knockout.
[ROUND 2: vs Salandit]
Oh dear, seems I may be getting a taste of my own medicine. I'm tempted to send Serenity out and let her tackle its weakness to Water-type, but on the other hand, her recently-acquired Fairy-typing means she's vulnerable to Poison-type attacks.
As much as I want to Hydro Vortex and be done with it, though, I also want to see what her new move, Sparkling Aria, is like. The Salandit's Flame Burst bounces off rather harmlessly, and then holy cow that move is cool. It also one-shots the darn thing, so that works. "Phooey" indeed, lady.
She leaves with the whole "mess with us again and I'll get serious" routine. Sure thing, lady. I will too. Still, that was an undesirable power-sap prior to a Grand Trial battle...one which Isle Aplenny has left me fully loaded to handle. You think 187 Sitrus Berries and 128 Leppa Berries should handle any HP and PP recovery prior to hitting a Pokemon Center? I also have 44 Lum Berries that do the same thing as Full Heals, and the only reason my supply is that low is because I have 18 of them planted now. (See how boring this stuff can be to read?)
Anyway, a few minutes of recovery later and the team's all good. On to the Ruins of Life!
Odd, I expected to see Lillie here by now oh there she is, with Professor Burnet as well. Seems Lillie got lost while avoiding Team Skull again, so Burnet guided her out here before going to catch a Battle Royale match featuring The Maskedandtotallynotherhusband Royal. "What do you think he looks like under that mask, anyway." Okay, ma'am, you can drop the kayfabe.
And, of course, Lillie heals my team up. *facepalm* Silly me. She asks Nebby what it is about the Ruins that's so important, but before she can get anything closer to an answer than "Pwewww!" Olivia shows up...and reveals that she doesn't even know our names.
*FACEPLANT*
And then she just nonchalantly goes into her spiel about how now that I've completed the three Trials of Akala I have earned the right to take on the Grand Trial. I am about to shrug it off as a potential massacre if Plumeria hadn't just recently done a number on Erinys without so much as a critical hit.
...Which reminds me, Olivia uses Rock-types and I didn't swap Serenity to the front. Whoops. Well, whatever, I'm hoping to get a little something for Erinys out of it anyway. Here we goh she'll let me take a second to get ready? ...Ah, to Hell with it, let's go!
[AKALA GRAND TRIAL]
[ROUND 1: vs Anorith]
Olivia opens with Smack Down and shows me the error of my ways in trying to lead with a Fire-type. I'm sorry, Erinys. ;_;
Trusting that Serenity can handle a hit better, I take a turn to revive Erinys. Serenity barely flinches from a Smack Down. Good. Another Smack Down next turn puts her just above half health, but Sparkling Aria wipes Aronith off the field and scores Serenity and Serana both a Level Up.
[ROUND 2: vs Lileep]
Rock/Grass is a tough matchup here. The Grass-typing eliminates Serenity's water advantage while putting her in danger. However, it doesn't cover Rock's Steel-type weakness, making Gauss the logical tag-in. Mirror Shot does a number on it, while Brine after Brine just scratches the paint. A second Mirror Shot wrpas this one up in a big hurry.
[ROUND 3: vs Lycanroc]
Okay, I have to meet this challenge head-on. Obsidian, you're up! Dusk Form faces off against Midnight Form. I realize it isn't an effective move, but at 190 power boosted by her Tough Nails ability, I'm willing to bet Breakneck Blitz will do a number....I'm also willing to bet she'll use a Super Potion if I do and it isn't fatal, so I'll hold off. Rock Tomb should work for now.
Guess Olivia will use HER Full-Force Z-Move, Continental Crush, instead. That...stung. O_o;; Right then, my turn.
Breakneck Blitz drops it to 1 HP, and then Rock Tomb drops Obsidian. Dammit. Fine then, the one named for the goddess of revenge shall have her moment to shine. Type-matching be damned, she's still faster. Come back, Erinys!
...And she used a Super Potion, just as I suspected she would. Dammit, tag out. Serenity, one more time please. She shrugs off a Rock Tomb, but loses enough speed that Lycanroc goes first next round...with Bite, leaving her with just enough HP to finish things off with Sparkling Aria. That's my girl. ^_^
[GRAND TRIAL COMPLETE!!]
With that, Gauss hits Lv 35 and learns Flash Cannon. More importantly, however, is that Erinys gets what I intended for her, hits Level 33, and evolves into a Salazzle. She could learn Captivate, quite an appropriate move, but the setup I have now works for me.
My apologies, Obsidian. I should have healed after that Z-Move. However, you earned something out of this yourself: the Rockium-Z. It's not as much of a nuke as Breakneck Blitz powered by Thrash, but where's the fun in that? Anyway, Olivia shows us the usual Z-Move posing, and wow but Lillie seemed to enjoy her She-Hulk display there. XD ...Okay, okay, Nebby, we'll go into the Ruins now... ...or not? o_O Instead we head back towards Konikoni and oh hi Hau! Seems he ran into Glasses-Guy from the AF as well. Interesting...and, unsurprisingly, Lillie wants no part of it. Okay, guess I'll...uhh...head back to the Pokemon Center in Heahea City for now?
[ONE CHARIZARD RIDE LATER]
Okay, team's healed back up, time to see what that Stoutland was keeping me from, just as soon as I clean out the Poke Mart's TM shop of the defensive TMs. A run east and we, at long last, enter the Hano Grad Resort...and just as I get in, a little girl tells me a wedding's about to start and invites me to watch. Awww, of course I wi--
It's a pair of Pikachus. I just got scammed. :/ Wait, did the bride Pikachu just say Pikanchi? What the...
...Well, that was adorably annoying. The kid gives me a Rose Incense for my troubles, at least. Anyway, Rotom's telling me to go into the hotel, so naturally I divert east to the Hano Beach. Guy on the shore warns me about all the swimmers being Trainers looking to battle, so I'm gonna stay off Lapras for a bit. Besides, there's something much more urgent, much more fate-of-the-universey going on here:
PYUKUMUKU CHUCKING!!!
Seriously, I'm about to spend a few minutes hurling Pyukumuku back into the ocean to keep them from drying out and hotel guests from getting grossed out. WeeeeeKERPLUNK. WeeeeeKERPLUNK. Weeeoops that's a Staryu...aaand Erinys somehow one-shot it with Venoshock.
WeeeKERPLUNK. WeeeKERPLUNK. WeeeeKERPLUNK. WeeeeKERPLUNKokay we're done and 20K richer for it. This is a good-paying gig, I must say! Anyway, that was fun, let's see what's on the west end of the foyer.
Over here we see a Reporter freaking out over the world-famous star "Chuuster," who is...another...freaking...Pikachu.
*sigh* Right, heading inside, and just past the entry way is Glasses-Guy, who finally introduces himself as Faba and shows me what the wondrous place he wants to show me is: Aether Paradise, the Aether Foundation's artificial island. Sure, let's go, this isn't sounding at all like some P*TA/Sc***logy hybrid that I should be fearful of, and that's not just my hiding my remembrance of the place from Moon under a layer of sarcasm, nosireebobarinoh hi Hau! Wow, he and Olivia finished up already? Even though he's got a Fire-type as his main. Wow, good job buddy. :DWait did Olivia just say that she's single? Seems Prof. Kakui won't be going with us, so we'll meet up with him on Ula'ula Island.
On the way to the ferry, Hau informs me that the main reason Aether Paradise can float is because it's got Pokemon holding it up. WHAT. ...Oh, you cheeky little shit, you just wanted to get a reaction out of me. Still, wouldn't put it past them.
[ONE CHEESY-AS-HELL MAP TRANSITION LATER]
And we're here! Faba gives us the standard tour spiel about what the place does, how they develop new Poke Balls downstairs, and how none of our empty Poke Balls will function on the island. Makes sense, no catching the conservation efforts, I guess.
Another AF person comes down the central elevator, addressing Faba in a manner that infuriates him due to it not inflating his ego (holy crap I hate this guy already), at which point he dumps us off on her. After that, Wicke turns and introduces us to herself and the twins...no, I'm not striking that one out, this lady is somewhat ridiculously stacked. Hau and I give a proper Alola before he freaks out at the fact that she knew our names. Apparently the staffer we helped protect the Slowpoke from Team Skull with ID'd us to the group. Yay us! Anyway, up we go to the main entrance.
Upon reaching there, she comments on our trial-going status and guesses we must be about 11. *looks down* I think you missed by about two dozen years, ma'am, but I'm gonna go along with it. Apparently 11 is about the age kids in the Pokemon world start going off on their own. Sheesh. With that, and without getting off the elevator, we go straight to the top floor to go see President Lusamine. A few well-placed Sudowoodo once again shoehorn our path to make sure we don't miss our duly-appointed plot point.
Aaaand there she is, trying to act all motherly to the Pokemon in the conservation center...even back in Moon, the cheese of that first line set off alarms in my head.
"Even pokemon from distant worlds are worthy of my love." I made note of that line the first time around. The fact that she looks like a teenager in her 40s didn't help any either. Though Hau's waitWHAT reaction is hilarious. She makes a remark about his look, and he mentions how he doesn't know anyone who could pull of her look, except perhaps Lillie and was that a look of recognition we just saw, lady?
Bigger question: What the hell was that shakingOH GOOD GOD AN ULTRA WORMHOLE JUST DUMPED A JELLYFISH IN FRONT OF US. Hau wants me to distract it while he gets Lusamine and Wicke out of danger. Alright time, time to take on an Ultra Beast!
...Next time!
"So you're hte one Gladion was talking about?" I get 2 steps towards the place and already I'm being interrupted, this time by a certain member of Team Skull with very punk-prismatic hair. Team Big Sister Plumeria makes her grand entrance!
Aaand right off the bat she calls her teammates dummies, "but cute in their dumbness." Wow, big on the nose, don'tcha think? (I mean, you're not wrong about them being dummies...) Oops, seems my picking on her dumb little siblings has annoyed her. Hey, they started all of it, ain't my fault I was the one who happened to finish it. But if that's how you feel, I guess there's only one thing to do. Erinys, introduce yourself to the lady.
[ROUND 1: vs Golbat]
Right away its Wing Attack hits like a ton of bricks. OW. Fortunately, its Poison-typing won't save it against some Corrosion-fueled Acid before Erinys tags out for Obsidian. The following Wing Attack hits nothing but air, and then Obsidian Rock Tombs it for the knockout.
[ROUND 2: vs Salandit]
Oh dear, seems I may be getting a taste of my own medicine. I'm tempted to send Serenity out and let her tackle its weakness to Water-type, but on the other hand, her recently-acquired Fairy-typing means she's vulnerable to Poison-type attacks.
As much as I want to Hydro Vortex and be done with it, though, I also want to see what her new move, Sparkling Aria, is like. The Salandit's Flame Burst bounces off rather harmlessly, and then holy cow that move is cool. It also one-shots the darn thing, so that works. "Phooey" indeed, lady.
She leaves with the whole "mess with us again and I'll get serious" routine. Sure thing, lady. I will too. Still, that was an undesirable power-sap prior to a Grand Trial battle...one which Isle Aplenny has left me fully loaded to handle. You think 187 Sitrus Berries and 128 Leppa Berries should handle any HP and PP recovery prior to hitting a Pokemon Center? I also have 44 Lum Berries that do the same thing as Full Heals, and the only reason my supply is that low is because I have 18 of them planted now. (See how boring this stuff can be to read?)
Anyway, a few minutes of recovery later and the team's all good. On to the Ruins of Life!
Odd, I expected to see Lillie here by now oh there she is, with Professor Burnet as well. Seems Lillie got lost while avoiding Team Skull again, so Burnet guided her out here before going to catch a Battle Royale match featuring The Maskedandtotallynotherhusband Royal. "What do you think he looks like under that mask, anyway." Okay, ma'am, you can drop the kayfabe.
And, of course, Lillie heals my team up. *facepalm* Silly me. She asks Nebby what it is about the Ruins that's so important, but before she can get anything closer to an answer than "Pwewww!" Olivia shows up...and reveals that she doesn't even know our names.
*FACEPLANT*
And then she just nonchalantly goes into her spiel about how now that I've completed the three Trials of Akala I have earned the right to take on the Grand Trial. I am about to shrug it off as a potential massacre if Plumeria hadn't just recently done a number on Erinys without so much as a critical hit.
...Which reminds me, Olivia uses Rock-types and I didn't swap Serenity to the front. Whoops. Well, whatever, I'm hoping to get a little something for Erinys out of it anyway. Here we goh she'll let me take a second to get ready? ...Ah, to Hell with it, let's go!
[AKALA GRAND TRIAL]
[ROUND 1: vs Anorith]
Olivia opens with Smack Down and shows me the error of my ways in trying to lead with a Fire-type. I'm sorry, Erinys. ;_;
Trusting that Serenity can handle a hit better, I take a turn to revive Erinys. Serenity barely flinches from a Smack Down. Good. Another Smack Down next turn puts her just above half health, but Sparkling Aria wipes Aronith off the field and scores Serenity and Serana both a Level Up.
[ROUND 2: vs Lileep]
Rock/Grass is a tough matchup here. The Grass-typing eliminates Serenity's water advantage while putting her in danger. However, it doesn't cover Rock's Steel-type weakness, making Gauss the logical tag-in. Mirror Shot does a number on it, while Brine after Brine just scratches the paint. A second Mirror Shot wrpas this one up in a big hurry.
[ROUND 3: vs Lycanroc]
Okay, I have to meet this challenge head-on. Obsidian, you're up! Dusk Form faces off against Midnight Form. I realize it isn't an effective move, but at 190 power boosted by her Tough Nails ability, I'm willing to bet Breakneck Blitz will do a number....I'm also willing to bet she'll use a Super Potion if I do and it isn't fatal, so I'll hold off. Rock Tomb should work for now.
Guess Olivia will use HER Full-Force Z-Move, Continental Crush, instead. That...stung. O_o;; Right then, my turn.
Breakneck Blitz drops it to 1 HP, and then Rock Tomb drops Obsidian. Dammit. Fine then, the one named for the goddess of revenge shall have her moment to shine. Type-matching be damned, she's still faster. Come back, Erinys!
...And she used a Super Potion, just as I suspected she would. Dammit, tag out. Serenity, one more time please. She shrugs off a Rock Tomb, but loses enough speed that Lycanroc goes first next round...with Bite, leaving her with just enough HP to finish things off with Sparkling Aria. That's my girl. ^_^
[GRAND TRIAL COMPLETE!!]
With that, Gauss hits Lv 35 and learns Flash Cannon. More importantly, however, is that Erinys gets what I intended for her, hits Level 33, and evolves into a Salazzle. She could learn Captivate, quite an appropriate move, but the setup I have now works for me.
My apologies, Obsidian. I should have healed after that Z-Move. However, you earned something out of this yourself: the Rockium-Z. It's not as much of a nuke as Breakneck Blitz powered by Thrash, but where's the fun in that? Anyway, Olivia shows us the usual Z-Move posing, and wow but Lillie seemed to enjoy her She-Hulk display there. XD ...Okay, okay, Nebby, we'll go into the Ruins now... ...or not? o_O Instead we head back towards Konikoni and oh hi Hau! Seems he ran into Glasses-Guy from the AF as well. Interesting...and, unsurprisingly, Lillie wants no part of it. Okay, guess I'll...uhh...head back to the Pokemon Center in Heahea City for now?
[ONE CHARIZARD RIDE LATER]
Okay, team's healed back up, time to see what that Stoutland was keeping me from, just as soon as I clean out the Poke Mart's TM shop of the defensive TMs. A run east and we, at long last, enter the Hano Grad Resort...and just as I get in, a little girl tells me a wedding's about to start and invites me to watch. Awww, of course I wi--
It's a pair of Pikachus. I just got scammed. :/ Wait, did the bride Pikachu just say Pikanchi? What the...
...Well, that was adorably annoying. The kid gives me a Rose Incense for my troubles, at least. Anyway, Rotom's telling me to go into the hotel, so naturally I divert east to the Hano Beach. Guy on the shore warns me about all the swimmers being Trainers looking to battle, so I'm gonna stay off Lapras for a bit. Besides, there's something much more urgent, much more fate-of-the-universey going on here:
Seriously, I'm about to spend a few minutes hurling Pyukumuku back into the ocean to keep them from drying out and hotel guests from getting grossed out. WeeeeeKERPLUNK. WeeeeeKERPLUNK. Weeeoops that's a Staryu...aaand Erinys somehow one-shot it with Venoshock.
WeeeKERPLUNK. WeeeKERPLUNK. WeeeeKERPLUNK. WeeeeKERPLUNKokay we're done and 20K richer for it. This is a good-paying gig, I must say! Anyway, that was fun, let's see what's on the west end of the foyer.
Over here we see a Reporter freaking out over the world-famous star "Chuuster," who is...another...freaking...Pikachu.
*sigh* Right, heading inside, and just past the entry way is Glasses-Guy, who finally introduces himself as Faba and shows me what the wondrous place he wants to show me is: Aether Paradise, the Aether Foundation's artificial island. Sure, let's go, this isn't sounding at all like some P*TA/Sc***logy hybrid that I should be fearful of, and that's not just my hiding my remembrance of the place from Moon under a layer of sarcasm, nosireebobarinoh hi Hau! Wow, he and Olivia finished up already? Even though he's got a Fire-type as his main. Wow, good job buddy. :D
On the way to the ferry, Hau informs me that the main reason Aether Paradise can float is because it's got Pokemon holding it up. WHAT. ...Oh, you cheeky little shit, you just wanted to get a reaction out of me. Still, wouldn't put it past them.
[ONE CHEESY-AS-HELL MAP TRANSITION LATER]
And we're here! Faba gives us the standard tour spiel about what the place does, how they develop new Poke Balls downstairs, and how none of our empty Poke Balls will function on the island. Makes sense, no catching the conservation efforts, I guess.
Another AF person comes down the central elevator, addressing Faba in a manner that infuriates him due to it not inflating his ego (holy crap I hate this guy already), at which point he dumps us off on her. After that, Wicke turns and introduces us to herself and the twins...no, I'm not striking that one out, this lady is somewhat ridiculously stacked. Hau and I give a proper Alola before he freaks out at the fact that she knew our names. Apparently the staffer we helped protect the Slowpoke from Team Skull with ID'd us to the group. Yay us! Anyway, up we go to the main entrance.
Upon reaching there, she comments on our trial-going status and guesses we must be about 11. *looks down* I think you missed by about two dozen years, ma'am, but I'm gonna go along with it. Apparently 11 is about the age kids in the Pokemon world start going off on their own. Sheesh. With that, and without getting off the elevator, we go straight to the top floor to go see President Lusamine. A few well-placed Sudowoodo once again shoehorn our path to make sure we don't miss our duly-appointed plot point.
Aaaand there she is, trying to act all motherly to the Pokemon in the conservation center...even back in Moon, the cheese of that first line set off alarms in my head.
"Even pokemon from distant worlds are worthy of my love." I made note of that line the first time around. The fact that she looks like a teenager in her 40s didn't help any either. Though Hau's waitWHAT reaction is hilarious. She makes a remark about his look, and he mentions how he doesn't know anyone who could pull of her look, except perhaps Lillie and was that a look of recognition we just saw, lady?
Bigger question: What the hell was that shakingOH GOOD GOD AN ULTRA WORMHOLE JUST DUMPED A JELLYFISH IN FRONT OF US. Hau wants me to distract it while he gets Lusamine and Wicke out of danger. Alright time, time to take on an Ultra Beast!
...Next time!