Recap: We made it to the top of Mt. Press and fought Odin. We won, but now he’s really pissed off.

So, ARCEUS is talking to Odin right now, calling him some kind of hero. Saga is paying very close attention, but Odin is choosing not to listen because he’s all butt-hurt that we kicked his ass.

Arceus: Team Rocket, Eusine, all of them. What happened, Odin? Or should I say… Gold?

STOP IT

STOP IT

ODIN IS GOLD?!

Odin: Agh! Gold is a figure of my past! I am not Gold anymore! Arceus! You hold a grey plate! You know why? The power of your original plate, the Divine Plate, has left you! Your plate has come to life by the name of Divaevus! And I know where he will appear… his power will be mine! Saga may have Jirachi now… but I will acquire it soon enough! As a living god, Arceus, I’m sure you already know my plan… Jirachi has the unique power of granting wishes! Unfortunately, it can only do so once every thousand years. But by using Divaevus’ Tesseract ability, we can skip through time and Jirachi can grant wishes constantly! This creates a neverending circle of wishes!

Odin: Not even you! Divaevus will be mine! Hahaha… haha… haha! *walks offscreen*

???: …Is he gone?

Who, you mean GOLD?! Yeah, GOLD is gone.

Fucking hell…

???: Zoroark, return to normal form!

Tobias: knowledge of an enemy’s past to get them spilling all of their secrets. Zoroarks have an interesting ability. They can create almost any sort of illusion. As a Dark-type specialist, I make it my business to know this kind of thing. My name is Tobias, the Dark-type member of the Elite Four. You may know my brother, Graham, the Ghost-type Gym Leader. We trained together, and I wouldn’t really say either one of us was the better trainer… but my Pokemon are quite a bit stronger. I’m concerned about what Odin said, though…

You mean what GOLD said??

I can’t wrap my head around this. This game is too epic for my meager brain to handle.

Tobias: A wish loop would be exceedingly dangerous if Odin could control it. Odin won’t try anything for awhile. He tends to be a sore loser, so you should have some time to relax. Why don’t you try fighting the last two Gym Leaders, and challenging us, the Elite Four! I’ll expect you there, Saga. At the Quasar League. Goodbye for now. *disappears*

You must excuse Saga. She needs to take a breather for a moment to take everything that just happened in and process all of that information.

It looks like we might be coming down to the wire, as we are incredibly close to the Elite Four now. Saga knows it’s time for some team re-evaluating, so she takes Daena and Enlyn out of the PC to see what they’re all about.

This is Enlyn’s stats and information.

And this is Daena’s.

The shit is this moveset??

That’s cool, Daena, I’m still trying to decide whether or not I like you.

Yeah, I don’t get it.

Audino is supposed to have some kind of appeal, and I guess I’m missing it completely. I hated her moveset, especially since most of it seemed to help the opponent rather than an ally, so I changed it and gave her whatever TMs I had that she could learn. Even then, I was disappointed. I thought that there might have been some secret benefit to raising one of these, but I must have just hyped her up too much when in reality she’s nothing special. It did not take long for me to make my official decision that no, Daena will not be replacing any member of my current team.

Enlyn, on the other hand, I did consider using in my lineup, but the problem is his psychic-stuff. I already have a Psychic Pokemon in my team who has really earned his spot: Zephyr. I don’t feel I need to have two Psychics in my final roster, so I decide to keep Zephyr and leave Enlyn.

I wound up putting Enlyn in the Daycare to keep Vick company for the rest of eternity.

So, my regular team is six is going to stay (for now), as Enlyn and Daena have failed to impress me. We move forward to the next town, Blackfist City.

You guys need to know three things about me before fully understanding the remainder of this chapter:

1. I have never played any Pokemon games that were released after Fire Red/Leaf Green. I did watch the Twitch Plays Pokemon stream, but I still have yet to actually play future gens on my own.

2. I play Zeta well into the night and by the time I post each chapter, I’m already way past the point you are reading about.

3. I thought getting a Leafeon meant I had to give a Leaf Stone to my Eevee.

Bottom line: I had no clue this rock had anything to do with Eeveelutions until AFTER I had already evolved Foxxy. I sincerely appreciate all of the comments explaining what the Ice Rock and the Mossy Rock do to an Eevee… I only wish I had been posting these chapters as I had been playing so that I had the chance to take your guys’ advice.

When I found this rock, I was like, “hmm… this is odd, it reminds me of that snowy rock earlier”.

To make matters even worse, Foxxy TRIED to evolve RIGHT HERE and I cancelled it thinking he was attempting to become an Umbreon again.

Foxxy was trying to tell me he was about to become a Leafeon, which was all I wanted from the moment I got him, and I didn’t listen…

We high-tailed it into Blackfist City because I had read there was a department store here.

No, I don’t read major game spoilers, but I did look up whether or not Zeta had a department store PURELY for the sake of evolving Eevee with a magical stone.

This was the moment I got so stoked that I was about to get a Leafeon…

One of the very few good things to come out of my gameplay in Blackfist was using a Shiny Stone to evolve Yukio.

I had to look up how the hell Togetic evolved because it felt strange he was in such a high level without becoming his final form yet.

I was devastated when I learned the Leaf Stone didn’t work. I gave Foxxy a disappointing look, but he just smiled back at me and swished his tail, telling me he loves me.

I looked up how to evolve Eevee into a Leafeon at this point and found out about the Mossy Rock. STUPID-ASS me FORGOT about the mossy rock I had already discovered and said “aw fuck it, let’s evolve him into something else”.

Everything about evolving Foxxy has been a disaster this whole game. I had to suffer through him sucking as an Eevee up until practically level 50, ruining any chance of him actually learning a typed-move as a different Pokemon, only to screw up the only possible time I could have made him a Leafeon. Really, the only reason I wanted one so bad was because I rarely ever train Grass-types and I thought it would be cool to have a Grass-type Eevee.

So, I took a breath and weighed my options.

In my Randomized Emerald playthrough, I ended the game with both Umbreon and Vaporeon, so those were out for this run. That left me with a choice between Jolteon, Flareon, Glaceon, and Sylveon. Putting Foxxy in the PC was out of the question at this point, as I had already put so much time and effort into him that there was no way in hell I wasn’t taking him to the end.

As I sauntered around the store all depressed, I found this egg-dude who was willing to sell me a Rare Egg for $200,000. I bought it, hoping it would cheer me up, and boxed Xion in the PC to make room for it.

It was now time to evolve Foxxy, since I thought Leafeon was an impossible feat.

Prepare yourselves, my friends… I wound up evolving my Eevee into……………….

Glaceon!

The Ice-type was my winner because of the fact I hadn’t played the gen he was introduced to. That, and I also don’t really train Ice-types.

I deleted his shitty moveset and bought the TMs for Hail, Ice Beam, and Frost Breath from the department store to teach to him.

I walked up to the top floor and ran into Demetri, the next Gym Leader. I hadn’t even gone to the Gym yet. I had no idea he wasn’t there.

He knows my name and says he has been waiting for me to battle him, then vanishes.

I did try out the Safari Zone here, but didn’t find any Pokemon I felt like training.

Whilst waiting for the Rare Egg to hatch, I head out grinding and realize that I absolutely adore Glaceon. Ice-type moves are amazing and ridiculously fun. Foxxy wound up freezing people very often and won a lot of battles without needing the use of any Potions. I was disappointed at first that I didn’t get my Leafeon, but I ended up ecstatic I chose Glaceon.

He even followed me out into the middle of lakes while I was floating on my Instant Lapras.

My assumption is that Foxxy was freezing the water into paths of ice so he could walk alongside me even when I was SURFing.

The Rare Egg was a Gible. I was cool with that, I wanted one earlier on in the game anyway. She was a girl and for her “G” name, I called her Genevieve.

I went to go look at her stats and saw the little star symbol on her picture.

That means… she’s… a shiny!!

I have my first-ever shiny Pokemon!! In my YEARS AND YEARS of Pokemon-playing, never have I ever caught a shiny!

You can bet your ass she’s sticking around!!

I decide she is going to be Xion’s replacement, so I keep him in the PC. Sorry, friend. You were a valiant fighter!

In one of the houses in Blackfist, you can find an Exp. Share. I use that as well as the switching method to level up Genevieve as fast as I can.

Holy crap, look at her! She is the coolest-looking shiny!

This is the team I now have as I am about to face Demetri for the first time… and I’m loving it.

I think it is going to be incredibly hard for any future Pokemon to be able to steal someone’s place in my new-and-improved team.