[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

The Gym is not advertised, so she needs the help of a passing cop or something. But it's a big white mansion with a widow's walk facing the sea. A dark figure up there in the rain disappears when Shiva approaches the house, and the heavy wooden door to the Gym opens by itself upon the first knock. The portal leads to a very dim hallway.

(Ohh, I hoped that Vaporeon would gain Happiness or such. Anyway, as longs as it's noted as bonding experience and she had her fun, it's all fine!)


Upon noticing that it's raining here as well, Shiva adjusts the hood of her Ranger's Cloak a little and recalled Helios into the safety of his Ball. After a quick rearranging of her party on Bill's PC within the Center, she roams the town a little and ended up at masion that gave her chills running over her whole body simply from standing in front of it. But she's very relieved that the dwelling gloomyness isn't so....tangible anymore.
'Mechanized toys looking like a boat with a face attached to an iceberg'.... ? These catch her interest, and she chuckles a bit at the thought that these thingies look like a Pokemon.

An encouraging coo from Raphael later, she steps through the wooden door and into the dim hallway of the presumed Gym. A white light of a Pokemon being summoned breaks the darkness and silence, with Delphox enlightening the way with his wand Shiva follows the hallway in worried anticipitation - The thought that she can make it as well as the dream give her the strength to march on.

Eyes watch her from the shadows. Wooden carvings everywhere cast dim little shadows of their own. Every cloud passing overhead makes the shadows dance and deepens the gloom inside the Gym. The crystal goblets and pitchers on a little table to one side do nothing to break up the grayness.

Another heavy wooden door opens, and out steps Chuckles. He's not laughing or even smiling - you've heard from Ventus how the name is a misnomer. He wears a long black cloak and a gray suit. He appears to sniff the air and make a decision.

"Lovely day for a battle, isn't it?" he asks drily. "You are a challenger. Very well. Do you know the rules of my gym? Are you ready to begin right away, or would you prefer to make an appointment?"

[Iron]

Nathan listens attentively as the professor outlines the various missions.  When she gets to the third one...

"I can definitely keep a secret, professor.  Promise."

So, what's up with that third one?

"In the basement of this very museum, we have been keeping a massively oversized Rampardos. It won't stay in any Pokeball and it shrugs off attacks like Thunder Wave and Spore. It's chained to the wall and inside a steel vault, but we need someone to subdue it so we can transport it to a safer location. Not a word of this to anyone, not even the interns. And we need it alive to study it properly and for ethical reasons, of course. We can loan you a brave Machop, and you should take five (or six without Machop) Pokemon of your own for sure. Strong ones."

[Spiritmon]

Spoiler

Spoiler

~~Onwards to the next Day then~~


This night, Shiva would have a most curious dream that she'll remember upon waking up, it's not a lucid one though. Thinking about it several times through the day, she'll eventually come to the conslusion that it's due to her subconscious mind processing the worried anticipitation she holds for the Main Event of this day of hers.

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Complete darkness surrounds her in this dream, it's as pitchblack as noble Zekrom's scales. Silence reigns.
Shady fog accompanies the darkness, it's impossible to see anything.
Shiva herself seems to float in the same way she did under Lilith's Telekinesis, it's a comfortable feeling.
In fact, she soon notices while it's so dark and ominous, she feels fine - as if she was NOT in danger, as if the darkness and the silence surrounding here were friendly and calming.
Without making a sound, a tiny and dimmly glowing feline approaches her on small paws: Shiva automatically outstreches her hands to welcome the creature.
It stops, but eventually takes a leap into her hands, it seems to float there or have no weight at all as she cannot feel it resting in her hands.
It looks at her with glowing red eyes, Shiva returns the gaze.
The figure turns out to be an Umbreon; and as it closes its eyes Shiva follows and feels an immense wave of warmth and compassion run through her - 'Darkness isn't always bad. You already know that through me - be brave and don't back up because of fear of his well-trained ghosts. You've prepared for this, now go and show it....'
Spectral did have the potential to evolve into a Sylveon under Shiva's friendship if things would have been a little different.
Her glow intesifies. It's almost blinding now.... Shiva could almost feel it physically now...!

Flashing awake all of a sudden, that 'physical' feeling must have come from Vaporeon who STARED at her with curious eyes and her mermaid tail wagging in excitement, from the look of it she just took a heartfelt leap directly onto her Master's chest and stomach while she was still snoozing.

It was WAY too early in the morning, still feeling tired Shiva opted to stroke her waterly Eeveelution's cheek as a greeting. "Well, good morning, dear one... You're heavy, please get down of me. What's wrong that you're giving me such an eager look, is your Egg close to hatching already?" Vapreon shook her head, and took Shiva's hand between her teeth in response - a little reluctant, Shiva allowed herself to be dragged to out of bed and to the window by Vaporeon. 'Master, LOOK!!!' she seems to say.

Shiva couldn't see anything special apart from the rain and frowned a little in confusion. A begging chirp from Vaporeon made her understand though: "O.... Oh.... Well, OF COURSE you can play a little in the rain! Let me just.... eh.... get dressed properly and stuff...."


~~In the Lobby of the Center~~

With Vapreon almost wiggling of excitment beside her, Shiva picks up the Pokemon of hers who fainted yesterday with a delighted thankyou to Nurse Joy, places them onto a Box of Bill's PC and moves on to send Harylect to Heart/@Spiritmon, as agreed. He comes with a held paper note that said 'Here you go Heart, take good care of him.'

I'll just auto-add the 2000$ for Harylect then. Stats of the bug are here: http://pokemonuranium.co/forum/showthrea...t#pid45255
He doesn't hold the Charcoal though as I might need it today depending on the situation.

If Terra/@Lord Windos as the early bird is already around, she lets him know that she'll be roaming in Corsage Port today; in case anything happens she'll give a shout.


Grabbing breakfast from the cafeteria then (not much, toast and coffee do the trick) Shiva heads outdoors on Vaporeon's request, and quickly finds a bus stop nearby where she can enjoy breakfast while being protected by the rain. Vaporeon and Azu however were overjoyed and played in the rain like there's no tomorrow, fetching one another and jumping into puddles to heart's content. Azu even showed what Shiva has promised to Vaporeon upon convincing her to join: How she can make more rain fall down on them just by taking some dance steps! Vaporeon eagerly copied the moves Azu made but it didn't work on her as she doesn't know Rain Dance - booh! (This isn NO Training Session, just some bonding between the Water Types and Vaporeon-Shiva. Takes roughly 15minutes.)


Soon however, play time ends and Shiva asks them to return to their Ball now; Azu and Vaporeon object a little but eventually agree. In return how these two, Helios comes out - Carefully, Shiva takes the Alakazam's hand into hers and opts him to do the same in order to teleport:

"We'll be going to Corsage Port, Helios... You know this place. A haven city similar like my hometown, but with a much different feeling. We battled there, I fainted due to overstressing myself, you caught me up in my fall when you were stll an Abra. Concentrate, concentrate.... Bring us to this place please."

Assuming everything works, Shiva reappears in front of the Pokemon Center in Corsage Port! How's the general feeling in this city, has anything changed since the last time the group was there, and most importantly - which building looks like it was the local Gym and does something answer upon her shyly knocking on the door and mentioning that she's there for a Gym Battle?

It's not close to hatching at all. Still feels like a solid mass, no movement inside. It will probably take many days, as Beldum has a reputation for being slow to hatch.

Larvesta will definitely help a lot. There are also high-tech incubators available that can speed up hatching ($2250 for the Non-Almanac version). And walking around with the Egg in your party helps.

"I might remember in take this little one with me when needed. Welp, time to begin my day." With everything set, Heart take a look in his PC to enter in contact with Shiva. When Heart user the PC he have see the little eletric bug there with Shiva note. Heart smile and send her the promise money. He also take some time to see the information from the little bug pokemon. "Huh. Volt Absorb heh? This ability will work very well when Typhon learn Discharge. Welp, time to go do bussiness."

@Iron
Heart reange his party with this combination: Rose, Gustav, Natu (to use as a Teleport), Gargryph, Percival and Iron (Alola Geodude). Natu was out of the pokeball ready to use the Teleportation. But before anything, Heart bring Alola Geodude out of the pokeball. He decided to talk with the little Geodude. "Hey Iron. How are you? We gonna go to face the Gym Leader of the Ice-type, and your help will be very much important. But I want to clarify something: When we face Zamboni, dont even dare in using Lethal moves or attack the pokemons of Zamboni when they are already fainted. Director North warn me about your violent tendecies to attack fainted pokemon. So I want to beg you: Please, PLEASE! Hold your violence insticts okay? I dont want to such thing happen in your first Gym Battle okay? When your foe be fainted, leave that way. If you begin to act violent i gonna call you imediatly to the pokeball. Do I make myself clear?"

Geodude nods immediately, no argument here!

Hm, was that a little too easy?

Heart thinks that was a little suspect. But he decided to cast that out for now. Heart return Iron back to the pokeball and he finally talks with his Natu. "Okay then. Lets go to bussiness! Natu! Use Teleport! Our destination: Ginger Town! Imagine a place with many Water Falls, and with nature everywere. With a market selling many types of things. Look to the image in your head and lets go!"

With a instant, Heart disapear in a flash of purple light, finally reaching his destination in Ginger Town, to finally face Zamboni. "Great job Natu. Rest a bit little one. You done a amazing job." With that say, Heart changes Natu to put in place Nidorino. Heart currently team: Iron, Rose, Percival, Gustav, Gargryph and Caesar. With that team in hands he go in the direction of Zamboni, more than ready to challenge him.

[Dragonstrike]

"In the basement of this very museum, we have been keeping a massively oversized Rampardos. It won't stay in any Pokeball and it shrugs off attacks like Thunder Wave and Spore. It's chained to the wall and inside a steel vault, but we need someone to subdue it so we can transport it to a safer location. Not a word of this to anyone, not even the interns. And we need it alive to study it properly and for ethical reasons, of course. We can loan you a brave Machop, and you should take five (or six without Machop) Pokemon of your own for sure. Strong ones."

"Any advice on what kinds of moves Rampardos tends to use and how strong it is?"

[Iron]

Correct, $1200 for Riolu.

"You look strong enough to handle this Riolu. He'll be glad to get out of the Shelter."

Indeed, upon being adopted, Riolu turns almost shy. Unlike with Heart, he doesn't kick you or threaten you at all. When you finally open the door to leave, and it's clear it's happening for real, he runs ahead in a frenzy of excitement! He starts running back and forth on the street until you catch up. He's so happy!

Riolu was caught!
Happiness: 4
Loyalty: 1
Disobedience: 4
Evolves when either Happiness OR Loyalty is 5. (Pressing B on the Pokedex can or delay this evolution).
Inner Focus - trainer can switch his ability to Steadfast for free upon evolution.
Counter, Force Palm, Feint, Copycat, Screech, Reversal, Nasty Plot, Blaze Kick

[Iron]

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~~Onwards to the next Day then~~


This night, Shiva would have a most curious dream that she'll remember upon waking up, it's not a lucid one though. Thinking about it several times through the day, she'll eventually come to the conslusion that it's due to her subconscious mind processing the worried anticipitation she holds for the Main Event of this day of hers.

Click to read

Complete darkness surrounds her in this dream, it's as pitchblack as noble Zekrom's scales. Silence reigns.
Shady fog accompanies the darkness, it's impossible to see anything.
Shiva herself seems to float in the same way she did under Lilith's Telekinesis, it's a comfortable feeling.
In fact, she soon notices while it's so dark and ominous, she feels fine - as if she was NOT in danger, as if the darkness and the silence surrounding here were friendly and calming.
Without making a sound, a tiny and dimmly glowing feline approaches her on small paws: Shiva automatically outstreches her hands to welcome the creature.
It stops, but eventually takes a leap into her hands, it seems to float there or have no weight at all as she cannot feel it resting in her hands.
It looks at her with glowing red eyes, Shiva returns the gaze.
The figure turns out to be an Umbreon; and as it closes its eyes Shiva follows and feels an immense wave of warmth and compassion run through her - 'Darkness isn't always bad. You already know that through me - be brave and don't back up because of fear of his well-trained ghosts. You've prepared for this, now go and show it....'
Spectral did have the potential to evolve into a Sylveon under Shiva's friendship if things would have been a little different.
Her glow intesifies. It's almost blinding now.... Shiva could almost feel it physically now...!

Flashing awake all of a sudden, that 'physical' feeling must have come from Vaporeon who STARED at her with curious eyes and her mermaid tail wagging in excitement, from the look of it she just took a heartfelt leap directly onto her Master's chest and stomach while she was still snoozing.

It was WAY too early in the morning, still feeling tired Shiva opted to stroke her waterly Eeveelution's cheek as a greeting. "Well, good morning, dear one... You're heavy, please get down of me. What's wrong that you're giving me such an eager look, is your Egg close to hatching already?" Vapreon shook her head, and took Shiva's hand between her teeth in response - a little reluctant, Shiva allowed herself to be dragged to out of bed and to the window by Vaporeon. 'Master, LOOK!!!' she seems to say.

Shiva couldn't see anything special apart from the rain and frowned a little in confusion. A begging chirp from Vaporeon made her understand though: "O.... Oh.... Well, OF COURSE you can play a little in the rain! Let me just.... eh.... get dressed properly and stuff...."


~~In the Lobby of the Center~~

With Vapreon almost wiggling of excitment beside her, Shiva picks up the Pokemon of hers who fainted yesterday with a delighted thankyou to Nurse Joy, places them onto a Box of Bill's PC and moves on to send Harylect to Heart/@Spiritmon, as agreed. He comes with a held paper note that said 'Here you go Heart, take good care of him.'

I'll just auto-add the 2000$ for Harylect then. Stats of the bug are here: http://pokemonuranium.co/forum/showthrea...t#pid45255
He doesn't hold the Charcoal though as I might need it today depending on the situation.

If Terra/@Lord Windos as the early bird is already around, she lets him know that she'll be roaming in Corsage Port today; in case anything happens she'll give a shout.


Grabbing breakfast from the cafeteria then (not much, toast and coffee do the trick) Shiva heads outdoors on Vaporeon's request, and quickly finds a bus stop nearby where she can enjoy breakfast while being protected by the rain. Vaporeon and Azu however were overjoyed and played in the rain like there's no tomorrow, fetching one another and jumping into puddles to heart's content. Azu even showed what Shiva has promised to Vaporeon upon convincing her to join: How she can make more rain fall down on them just by taking some dance steps! Vaporeon eagerly copied the moves Azu made but it didn't work on her as she doesn't know Rain Dance - booh! (This isn NO Training Session, just some bonding between the Water Types and Vaporeon-Shiva. Takes roughly 15minutes.)


Soon however, play time ends and Shiva asks them to return to their Ball now; Azu and Vaporeon object a little but eventually agree. In return how these two, Helios comes out - Carefully, Shiva takes the Alakazam's hand into hers and opts him to do the same in order to teleport:

"We'll be going to Corsage Port, Helios... You know this place. A haven city similar like my hometown, but with a much different feeling. We battled there, I fainted due to overstressing myself, you caught me up in my fall when you were stll an Abra. Concentrate, concentrate.... Bring us to this place please."

Assuming everything works, Shiva reappears in front of the Pokemon Center in Corsage Port! How's the general feeling in this city, has anything changed since the last time the group was there, and most importantly - which building looks like it was the local Gym and does something answer upon her shyly knocking on the door and mentioning that she's there for a Gym Battle?

It's not close to hatching at all. Still feels like a solid mass, no movement inside. It will probably take many days, as Beldum has a reputation for being slow to hatch.

Larvesta will definitely help a lot. There are also high-tech incubators available that can speed up hatching ($2250 for the Non-Almanac version). And walking around with the Egg in your party helps.

"I might remember in take this little one with me when needed. Welp, time to begin my day." With everything set, Heart take a look in his PC to enter in contact with Shiva. When Heart user the PC he have see the little eletric bug there with Shiva note. Heart smile and send her the promise money. He also take some time to see the information from the little bug pokemon. "Huh. Volt Absorb heh? This ability will work very well when Typhon learn Discharge. Welp, time to go do bussiness."

@Iron
Heart reange his party with this combination: Rose, Gustav, Natu (to use as a Teleport), Gargryph, Percival and Iron (Alola Geodude). Natu was out of the pokeball ready to use the Teleportation. But before anything, Heart bring Alola Geodude out of the pokeball. He decided to talk with the little Geodude. "Hey Iron. How are you? We gonna go to face the Gym Leader of the Ice-type, and your help will be very much important. But I want to clarify something: When we face Zamboni, dont even dare in using Lethal moves or attack the pokemons of Zamboni when they are already fainted. Director North warn me about your violent tendecies to attack fainted pokemon. So I want to beg you: Please, PLEASE! Hold your violence insticts okay? I dont want to such thing happen in your first Gym Battle okay? When your foe be fainted, leave that way. If you begin to act violent i gonna call you imediatly to the pokeball. Do I make myself clear?"

Geodude nods immediately, no argument here!

Hm, was that a little too easy?

Heart thinks that was a little suspect. But he decided to cast that out for now. Heart return Iron back to the pokeball and he finally talks with his Natu. "Okay then. Lets go to bussiness! Natu! Use Teleport! Our destination: Ginger Town! Imagine a place with many Water Falls, and with nature everywere. With a market selling many types of things. Look to the image in your head and lets go!"

With a instant, Heart disapear in a flash of purple light, finally reaching his destination in Ginger Town, to finally face Zamboni. "Great job Natu. Rest a bit little one. You done a amazing job." With that say, Heart changes Natu to put in place Nidorino. Heart currently team: Iron, Rose, Percival, Gustav, Gargryph and Caesar. With that team in hands he go in the direction of Zamboni, more than ready to challenge him.

We'll say Heart has been to Ginger Town before, 'cause I don't think it happened onscreen. But he did explore the region for a bit before joining the party, and he would have landed in Corsage Port and gone west.

Zamboni's Gym is quite simple on the outside. The inside has been transformed into an arena, which already has some spectators in the stands, reading books or chatting or partaking in the unending stream of sports refreshments (beer, hot chocolate, hot dogs, hot fudge sundaes). 

There are signs directing challengers where to go. Heart follows signs saying "First Time Challengers with 1+ Gym Badges =>" and comes out onto a hockey field, slick with ice. Little wooden platforms allow the challengers a firm place to stand if they wish. And a windshield. And a pair of skates on a stand.

The center of the court is a Pokeball design, of course, and the button is replaced with a little pool of water. It looks extremely deep, but it's not all that wide. A Snorlax would get stuck in it. Couple boulders around, too, like in the classic ice puzzles.

Zamboni comes skating out. Heart's trainer card appears on a big LCD screen.

"Welcome, welcome, challenger Heart! The rules are going up on the big screen right now!"

http://pokemonuranium.co/forum/showthrea...4#pid14144

"My first Pokemon will be Delibird. Everyone, give a big cheer for challenger Heart!"

It's hard not to like Zamboni, and he always gives himself a few handicaps in his Gym Battle, preferring to showboat and be a graceful host instead of guarantee a win!

[Iron]

"In the basement of this very museum, we have been keeping a massively oversized Rampardos. It won't stay in any Pokeball and it shrugs off attacks like Thunder Wave and Spore. It's chained to the wall and inside a steel vault, but we need someone to subdue it so we can transport it to a safer location. Not a word of this to anyone, not even the interns. And we need it alive to study it properly and for ethical reasons, of course. We can loan you a brave Machop, and you should take five (or six without Machop) Pokemon of your own for sure. Strong ones."

"Any advice on what kinds of moves Rampardos tends to use and how strong it is?"

"We've seen that it uses Outrage, Iron Head, Zen Headbutt, Take Down, and Chip Away. There may be more. We're pretty sure it doesn't know Superpower, at least, or this steel wouldn't hold it."

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Eyes watch her from the shadows. Wooden carvings everywhere cast dim little shadows of their own. Every cloud passing overhead makes the shadows dance and deepens the gloom inside the Gym. The crystal goblets and pitchers on a little table to one side do nothing to break up the grayness.

Another heavy wooden door opens, and out steps Chuckles. He's not laughing or even smiling - you've heard from Ventus how the name is a misnomer. He wears a long black cloak and a gray suit. He appears to sniff the air and make a decision.

"Lovely day for a battle, isn't it?" he asks drily. "You are a challenger. Very well. Do you know the rules of my gym? Are you ready to begin right away, or would you prefer to make an appointment?"

The further Shiva goes in the hallway, the closer she sticks to Raphael for soothed nerves and to Delphox for warmth + light, the time noble and ominous and scary Chuckles himself appears she has linked arms with her dearest magical fox.

She's obviously afraid, but does her very best to ban that feeling into the darkest corner of her being and cloak it in a veil of confidence and quiet WILLPOWER as she faces the ghostly Leader with a neutral expression. "It's raining", was all she says at first. ".....And I came from quite the distance to this city for the purpose to conquer my fears. Postponing this by making an appointment for the battle is no option..." *strengthening of posture and eager headshaking* "I don't wish to leave this mansion without facing the challenge now please."

Mustering Chuckles a little, she continues. "What are your conditions and rules for a battle then? Do you....accept Double Battles? I heard you do, and I took some time to find combinations of moves and Pokemon that'll hopefully ensure me leaving this Gym and city with a third Badge."

Delphox just stoicly watches this figure that seemed to unhinge his valued Master, not breaking contact between his own pure white eyes and this man's deep black ones once. He has his orders.

[Spiritmon]

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~~Onwards to the next Day then~~


This night, Shiva would have a most curious dream that she'll remember upon waking up, it's not a lucid one though. Thinking about it several times through the day, she'll eventually come to the conslusion that it's due to her subconscious mind processing the worried anticipitation she holds for the Main Event of this day of hers.

Click to read

Complete darkness surrounds her in this dream, it's as pitchblack as noble Zekrom's scales. Silence reigns.
Shady fog accompanies the darkness, it's impossible to see anything.
Shiva herself seems to float in the same way she did under Lilith's Telekinesis, it's a comfortable feeling.
In fact, she soon notices while it's so dark and ominous, she feels fine - as if she was NOT in danger, as if the darkness and the silence surrounding here were friendly and calming.
Without making a sound, a tiny and dimmly glowing feline approaches her on small paws: Shiva automatically outstreches her hands to welcome the creature.
It stops, but eventually takes a leap into her hands, it seems to float there or have no weight at all as she cannot feel it resting in her hands.
It looks at her with glowing red eyes, Shiva returns the gaze.
The figure turns out to be an Umbreon; and as it closes its eyes Shiva follows and feels an immense wave of warmth and compassion run through her - 'Darkness isn't always bad. You already know that through me - be brave and don't back up because of fear of his well-trained ghosts. You've prepared for this, now go and show it....'
Spectral did have the potential to evolve into a Sylveon under Shiva's friendship if things would have been a little different.
Her glow intesifies. It's almost blinding now.... Shiva could almost feel it physically now...!

Flashing awake all of a sudden, that 'physical' feeling must have come from Vaporeon who STARED at her with curious eyes and her mermaid tail wagging in excitement, from the look of it she just took a heartfelt leap directly onto her Master's chest and stomach while she was still snoozing.

It was WAY too early in the morning, still feeling tired Shiva opted to stroke her waterly Eeveelution's cheek as a greeting. "Well, good morning, dear one... You're heavy, please get down of me. What's wrong that you're giving me such an eager look, is your Egg close to hatching already?" Vapreon shook her head, and took Shiva's hand between her teeth in response - a little reluctant, Shiva allowed herself to be dragged to out of bed and to the window by Vaporeon. 'Master, LOOK!!!' she seems to say.

Shiva couldn't see anything special apart from the rain and frowned a little in confusion. A begging chirp from Vaporeon made her understand though: "O.... Oh.... Well, OF COURSE you can play a little in the rain! Let me just.... eh.... get dressed properly and stuff...."


~~In the Lobby of the Center~~

With Vapreon almost wiggling of excitment beside her, Shiva picks up the Pokemon of hers who fainted yesterday with a delighted thankyou to Nurse Joy, places them onto a Box of Bill's PC and moves on to send Harylect to Heart/@Spiritmon, as agreed. He comes with a held paper note that said 'Here you go Heart, take good care of him.'

I'll just auto-add the 2000$ for Harylect then. Stats of the bug are here: http://pokemonuranium.co/forum/showthrea...t#pid45255
He doesn't hold the Charcoal though as I might need it today depending on the situation.

If Terra/@Lord Windos as the early bird is already around, she lets him know that she'll be roaming in Corsage Port today; in case anything happens she'll give a shout.


Grabbing breakfast from the cafeteria then (not much, toast and coffee do the trick) Shiva heads outdoors on Vaporeon's request, and quickly finds a bus stop nearby where she can enjoy breakfast while being protected by the rain. Vaporeon and Azu however were overjoyed and played in the rain like there's no tomorrow, fetching one another and jumping into puddles to heart's content. Azu even showed what Shiva has promised to Vaporeon upon convincing her to join: How she can make more rain fall down on them just by taking some dance steps! Vaporeon eagerly copied the moves Azu made but it didn't work on her as she doesn't know Rain Dance - booh! (This isn NO Training Session, just some bonding between the Water Types and Vaporeon-Shiva. Takes roughly 15minutes.)


Soon however, play time ends and Shiva asks them to return to their Ball now; Azu and Vaporeon object a little but eventually agree. In return how these two, Helios comes out - Carefully, Shiva takes the Alakazam's hand into hers and opts him to do the same in order to teleport:

"We'll be going to Corsage Port, Helios... You know this place. A haven city similar like my hometown, but with a much different feeling. We battled there, I fainted due to overstressing myself, you caught me up in my fall when you were stll an Abra. Concentrate, concentrate.... Bring us to this place please."

Assuming everything works, Shiva reappears in front of the Pokemon Center in Corsage Port! How's the general feeling in this city, has anything changed since the last time the group was there, and most importantly - which building looks like it was the local Gym and does something answer upon her shyly knocking on the door and mentioning that she's there for a Gym Battle?

It's not close to hatching at all. Still feels like a solid mass, no movement inside. It will probably take many days, as Beldum has a reputation for being slow to hatch.

Larvesta will definitely help a lot. There are also high-tech incubators available that can speed up hatching ($2250 for the Non-Almanac version). And walking around with the Egg in your party helps.

"I might remember in take this little one with me when needed. Welp, time to begin my day." With everything set, Heart take a look in his PC to enter in contact with Shiva. When Heart user the PC he have see the little eletric bug there with Shiva note. Heart smile and send her the promise money. He also take some time to see the information from the little bug pokemon. "Huh. Volt Absorb heh? This ability will work very well when Typhon learn Discharge. Welp, time to go do bussiness."

@Iron
Heart reange his party with this combination: Rose, Gustav, Natu (to use as a Teleport), Gargryph, Percival and Iron (Alola Geodude). Natu was out of the pokeball ready to use the Teleportation. But before anything, Heart bring Alola Geodude out of the pokeball. He decided to talk with the little Geodude. "Hey Iron. How are you? We gonna go to face the Gym Leader of the Ice-type, and your help will be very much important. But I want to clarify something: When we face Zamboni, dont even dare in using Lethal moves or attack the pokemons of Zamboni when they are already fainted. Director North warn me about your violent tendecies to attack fainted pokemon. So I want to beg you: Please, PLEASE! Hold your violence insticts okay? I dont want to such thing happen in your first Gym Battle okay? When your foe be fainted, leave that way. If you begin to act violent i gonna call you imediatly to the pokeball. Do I make myself clear?"

Geodude nods immediately, no argument here!

Hm, was that a little too easy?

Heart thinks that was a little suspect. But he decided to cast that out for now. Heart return Iron back to the pokeball and he finally talks with his Natu. "Okay then. Lets go to bussiness! Natu! Use Teleport! Our destination: Ginger Town! Imagine a place with many Water Falls, and with nature everywere. With a market selling many types of things. Look to the image in your head and lets go!"

With a instant, Heart disapear in a flash of purple light, finally reaching his destination in Ginger Town, to finally face Zamboni. "Great job Natu. Rest a bit little one. You done a amazing job." With that say, Heart changes Natu to put in place Nidorino. Heart currently team: Iron, Rose, Percival, Gustav, Gargryph and Caesar. With that team in hands he go in the direction of Zamboni, more than ready to challenge him.

We'll say Heart has been to Ginger Town before, 'cause I don't think it happened onscreen. But he did explore the region for a bit before joining the party, and he would have landed in Corsage Port and gone west.

Zamboni's Gym is quite simple on the outside. The inside has been transformed into an arena, which already has some spectators in the stands, reading books or chatting or partaking in the unending stream of sports refreshments (beer, hot chocolate, hot dogs, hot fudge sundaes). 

There are signs directing challengers where to go. Heart follows signs saying "First Time Challengers with 1+ Gym Badges =>" and comes out onto a hockey field, slick with ice. Little wooden platforms allow the challengers a firm place to stand if they wish. And a windshield. And a pair of skates on a stand.

The center of the court is a Pokeball design, of course, and the button is replaced with a little pool of water. It looks extremely deep, but it's not all that wide. A Snorlax would get stuck in it. Couple boulders around, too, like in the classic ice puzzles.

Zamboni comes skating out. Heart's trainer card appears on a big LCD screen.

"Welcome, welcome, challenger Heart! The rules are going up on the big screen right now!"

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"My first Pokemon will be Delibird. Everyone, give a big cheer for challenger Heart!"

It's hard not to like Zamboni, and he always gives himself a few handicaps in his Gym Battle, preferring to showboat and be a graceful host instead of guarantee a win!

With all these cheers, Heart give Zamboni a respect bow. Even now, Heart still have the style of a ArcHeart coming though his veins. "Its a honour to be here Gym Leader Zamboni. I okay with the rules." From his belt Heart takes Iron Pokeball. He hold for a seconds and then throw with style. "As much everyone already know my name, let me present myself. I Heart! ArcHeart! PUNisher and a Pokemon Rare Collector! Now Iron! Show your might might Thunder little buddy!"

With that say Heart release Iron the Alola Geodude, who comes to the field with sparks around his body. "Remember what you have promised Iron. Lets do this!"

(Bring the initiaves and lets begin the battle!)

[Dragonstrike]

"We've seen that it uses Outrage, Iron Head, Zen Headbutt, Take Down, and Chip Away. There may be more. We're pretty sure it doesn't know Superpower, at least, or this steel wouldn't hold it."

"That's certainly a powerful moveset...but at least it's unlikely to know anything Lethal...something that big and powerful is also bound to be noticed by someone eventually if it's not taken care of soon...alright, I'll see if I can overpower it for ya.  How strong is this Machop, though, if I may ask?  I'm going to have to plan this carefully..."