Recap: Saga defeated the Elite Four and was inducted into the Hall of Fame!

Aria and Saga have a nice little moment together celebrating her victory when suddenly, the screen starts shaking back and forth.

???: Aria! Aria!

At least they were nice enough to wait until I was finished with the Elite Four.

Oak: Luckily, nobody was hurt… but they emanated from Nyasa Town!

My hometown? The one that exploded earlier?

Aria: So?

What do you mean, “so“? Earthquakes are bad news no matter where they start. Way to be insensitive, Aria.

Oak: So, Odin’s notes said Divaevus was predicted to appear at Nyasa Town. I think he’s finally caught it!

NOOOOOOOOOOO

Aria: How is this possible? How could we let this happen? While we were celebrating Saga’s victory, we weren’t tracking him!

That’s because my victory is important, damnit!

Lies… all lies… nobody in the PokeVerse ever takes care of things like this. They always send a little kid out to do the dirty work.

Aria: But the world needs saving once again! Let me heal your Pokemon!

Why? Am I about to be projected into an immediate battle?

No no no no no no no, I’m not ready for this!!

Odin: He now resides under my control! I used his awesome power to cause a couple earthquakes to get your attention. I didn’t hurt anyone, did I? Saga! It is time! I’ve never forgiven you for that embarrassing loss on Mount Press… I will show you my incredible power! And after I win, Jirachi will be mine!

Oh hell… epic music is playing… this isn’t good…

I panicked when I told Yukio to use Grass Knot. It’s the music. Soundtracks in video games always set the mood for me. This theme is so intense that I freaked out briefly before remembering Ancient Power would be more efficient.

OH GOD HERE HE IS WHAT DO I DO

I can’t tell what type he is, so I just try a little bit of everything.

Eventually, it comes down to this. Red HP vs red HP. I have Yukio use FLY because I know he’ll attack first, and I only have 2 Full Restores left that I don’t want to use yet. Yukio lands the hit and I celebrate before remembering Odin’s got another Pokemon.

Ahh, that’s right, he’s got Shaymin. We all remember how to handle this guy, don’t we?

He managed to hit Shawn with Earth Power, but it didn’t stop him from Fire Blasting the legendary back into his ball.

Odin: Haha! Haha! This loss means nothing to me! I have Divaevus, I have everything I have ever wanted! Let me tell you a story, Saga!

Oh geez… I’d really… I’d really rather you not…

Odin: Legend says that there once lived a trainer so powerful, he sealed himself away in a dark cave, never to be seen again. I alone know where this cave is. The 5th Sigil Hall, they call it. The Hall of Legends! I will find this trainer, and I will destroy him! I will sacrifice him to the power of Divaevus, and finally Team Asgard will reign eternal! Haha! Haha! Haha! I have a god! There is no way to stop me!

There is. I just did it. I just beat you.

Odin: I won’t go there for awhile, yet. I still have to enact punishment for Freyja’s betrayal, and Thor and Loki’s failures.

That’s pretty considerate of you. I bet you won’t show up until I beat the Sigil Halls. You’re so nice.

Odin makes Divaevus use Tesseract and then vanishes in a smorgasbord of light.

Aria tells Saga to go South towards a place called Tisza Town so that I can go East to make it to the first Sigil Hall. She says my first priority is to locate the 5th Sigil Hall, but I’m sure I will need to beat the first 4 before I am able to do that.

I know, Yukio, I don’t want to fight the Elite Four again right this second either, but it looks like no one else wants to save the world, so we don’t have much of a choice.

…or do we?

Ranger Saga, reporting for duty!

We’d better hurry, then. Odin said he wanted to teach Freyja a lesson. We have to get to her first.

Sounds like we’ve almost disabled all of the Gigaremos, we just have one more to deal with after this. Zephyr is at the front of Saga’s party. Barret and Shawn have fainted from previous grunt battles. No worries, though, if we can kick Odin’s ass right after fighting the Elite Four, we shouldn’t have an issue with Freyja.

The battle goes smoothly until Lucario comes out.

A very nice Reddit user mentioned the reason Shawn’s Fire-type move was super effective against Lucario was because Lucario is Fighting/Steel type. I didn’t know that. I thought he was just Fighting. Everything makes so much more sense to me now regarding previous battles I’ve had with it. The only problem in this particular fight is that Shawn is fainted, so I don’t have a Fire-type move handy here.

FLY spamming pays off and Lucario doesn’t kill us.

Freyja’s last two Pokemon were Mienshao and Medicham, who also went down to FLY spamming.

You did. Now Odin’s going to be even more pissed off at you.

Freyja: After the amount of times we’ve already screwed up, I don’t think Odin’ll be too appreciative of this.

What did I just say?

Freyja: And now the Rangers are coming, to destroy the Gigaremo, aren’t they? A shame, it was really quite expensive. You’ll pay for this, Saga. I promise.

With another mission completed for the Rangers, Saga heads South. She can’t put off the Sigil Halls forever.

Looks like she’s already become a celebrity!

Wha… huh?

EWW

POKE-PERVERT

GET AWAY

STRANGER DANGER

Uh-oh… we probably shouldn’t be battling…

I’m sorry!! You didn’t give me a choice!!

I haven’t felt this bad in a Pokemon game since I read the theory that in Gen 1 you actually kill Gary/Blue’s Raticate…

After strange encounters of the NPC-kind, we finally reach Tisza Town.

This guy informs us that Professor Elm has gone to the Aroma Region, then mentions some ‘weird kids’. Total foreshadow.

We enter the Pokemon lab and by golly, some kids are bragging about being little thieves. They call themselves the Elite Four Fanboys and start gushing about the members of the Elite Four.

Oh for crying out loud. If I lose to a child, I’m going to have to rethink the whole “Pokemon Master” dream.