And welcome back to more Pokemon Platinum. Let’s get started here with Route 212. This is a really long gauntlet of trainers so this will take a long time. Another bad thing about this Route is that it rains 24/7 which creates a lot of muddy spots for you and your Pokémon to get stuck in. I do pick up a few important items like TM06 Toxic, TM 62 Silver Wind, and a few useful vitamins. I make my way to Pokémon Mansion, owned by Mr. Backlot. Inside I get a few gifts from his maids (a Luxury Ball and another Soothe Bell to be exact) and I even battle some of them. I find Mr. Backlot who nicely allows me to take a look at his Trophy Garden which gives me a chance to try and get a new Pokémon. I actually run across a Pikachu as my first Pokémon but I’m unable to catch it thanks to critical hits… lame… I decide to head back to Route 212 finish fighting the trainers, stop at Hearthome and then fly back to Solaceon Town and continue my adventures on Route 210 to save the Psyduck in the morning.
*16 ½ hours later*
Ok, it is another bright and sunny day in the Sinnoh region… though it is really rainy in real life… but that doesn’t matter because we have work to do. We need to save those Psyduck. I give the “SecretPotion” to the Psyduck and it cures them of their chronic headaches just like Cynthia said it would. And speak of the devil, here is Cynthia now! She thanks me for helping the Psyduck and clearing the path to the northern part of Route 210 and rewards me with… another favor… yay! She wants me to travel to Celestic Town, which is just to the northwest of this route, to deliver an “Old Charm” to her grandma. I take the charm and the two of us go our separate ways. Now, the way to Celestic Town is extremely long and is full of trainers and fog. The fog is easy to deal with since I have a Zubat with Defog but the trainers are really difficult the further you go along this route so I’ll need to be extra careful. Especially since I can never seem to get to Celestic Town without having at least one Pokémon faint… wish me luck…
We over all… the route was bad… but one part could have been disastrous. It was in a double battle with a Gyarados and Raichu. I send out Porygon2 and Roselia. I had no idea that the Gyarados had Ice Fang and almost destroyed my Roselia. He lived but with about 20 HP and got frozen by the attack. My Discharge attack goes off from Porygon2 hitting everyone on the field including Roselia and he lives with 4 HP!!! He’s fine now and so is the rest of the team. Everyone is chilling out, all healed up, in Celestic Town.
I look around town trying to find Cynthia’s grandma and I eventually find her near the shrine in the middle of the town. Unfortunately, I also find a Galactic grunt here with her. Cynthia’s grandma tells me that his intents are to blow up the town and its ruins… well I can’t let that happen. After I beat him and save the town, I give the Old Charm to Cynthia’s grandma and she escorts me to the ruins and informs me about the legendary Pokémon that protect the lakes of Sinnoh. Just then, that weird blue haired man that I’ve been seeing on my journey every now and again comes into the ruins wanting to know more about the legends of these Pokémon and how they created this world. It turns out that he is Cyrus, the leader of Team Galactic, who wishes to create a more perfect world. He threatens that if he does not receive the information the town and ruins will be destroyed. His eyes turn to me as he immediately recognizes me from Mr. Coronet. I get in his way of trying to destroy the ruins and he challenges me to a battle.
He starts out with his Sneasel a Lv. 34 Ice/Dark type and I go into Empoleon. Sneasel goes for Slash but it does nothing even with a critical hit. I go for Brine which gets Sneasel down to low health. I use Aqua Jet to out speed it but it lasts with 1 HP and goes for Slash again. He heals it up and I use Aqua Jet again. Sneasel uses Screech to lower my defense but I get off Brine followed by and Aqua Jet and that is that. He goes into Golbat (a Lv. 34 Poison/Flying type) and I switch into Porygon2 for the rest of the fight. After Golbat uses Bite and trys to Confuse me with Supersonic, I get off a Psybeam for super effective damage. Golbat goes for Poison Fang and I finish this with another Psybeam. His last Pokemon is Murkrow, a Lv. 36 Dark/Flying type. After a Drill Peck from the Murkrow, I defeat it with just one Discharge. Cyrus retreats saying he knows enough for now. After chatting with Cynthia’s grandma a bit she gives me HM03 Surf as a reward. We can use this to get across the sea to new parts of Sinnoh and Canalave City.
After these events, Cynthia shows up to check on the town and makes sure the Galactic bomb set here was deactivated. She tells me that Team Galactic is a much bigger threat than she originally thought and tells me I should go to Canalave City to read up on some Sinnoh history at their famous library. Maybe then we can see exactly what they want to achieve and how. After finishing my business here, I decide to fly down to Floaroma Town and surf my way to the Fuego Ironworks for a new Pokemon.
I give HM03 Surf to Empoleon since he needed a really good water move and I head to the Fuego Ironworks. I have about 2 Pokémon in mind that I could have worked with and the game is actually merciful this time! The Pokémon that I get is Magmar. I catch him in a Great ball and name him “Vesuvius” after the famous volcano. Now I need to get ready to train him up from Lv. 29 to about Lv. 42 to match the team. I should note he is a fire type with a Jolly nature, so that means more speed and lower Sp. Attack. That is actually not good but I can deal with that. Anyway, time for training!
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