Recap: Saphire began her journey with her starter, an Eevee named MDDW.

First things first, it looks like MDDW has been officially named! Saphire’s Eevee is from now on named Meadow. Thanks, guys!

As for what’s next, looks like Saphire is going off to catch herself a Larvitar!

It takes awhile, because I completely forgot where I even saw them. That’s okay, though, a little grinding never hurt anyone.

Finally, we find this guy.

Since he is ten levels higher than the wild Pokemon, Meadow takes this opportunity to set up Ingrain in order to heal for awhile, as I am a horrible trainer because I hardly ever buy potions.

First PokeBall throw and Larvitar is ours!

I name him by closing my eyes again and luckily, this little guy actually ends up with some vowels in his name. TEAG. Hmm… what could that mean?

He’s got a nice relaxed nature, which might be why he didn’t fight getting caught.

Stats. Sevens all around.

Aaaaand I am worried about his moveset. The only offensive attack he has is Cross Chop and it only has 5 PP. This means we’ll be running to and from the PokeCenter nonstop while grinding his level to match Meadow’s.

Before we even get a chance to use up all TEAG’s PP, he gets squashed by a Seel who knows Ice Ball. Looks like our first trip back to a PokeCenter is going to be because he fainted…

After healing, I try to get him to level up but he gets hammered by almost every wild Pokemon, so our strategy changes. I put him in the front and switch him out so Meadow can beat up the wilds. It works and TEAG gets a new level. All of his 7’s turn into 8’s.

My PokeCenter prediction comes true and we head there after every few battles to get TEAG’s PP back to normal.

During one said trip to a center, Saphire meets this guy. He wants to see her Pokemon Trainer Profile, but first she has to come up with a tagline.

After more random button pressing, this is the result of Saphire’s tag. “Count on evolve a tiny bit cold.”

The profile collector thinks it’s just the best thing he’s ever heard.

I level up TEAG awhile until he finally learns another move. He now has Drill Peck, which means we can rematch this guy’s Haunter.

Damnit.

We land one Drill Peck on him before he pulls out Water Pulse and sends TEAG’s HP way down.

The little guy holds on, though, and we destroy Haunter.

We move on to Petalburg Woods!

First guy we fight is a wild Kabuto.

(If you’re a TPP watcher: don’t worry my fellow Helix followers, we took him down!)

We also come across a Metagross and suddenly I begin to fear the inhabitants of this forest.

This guy stops us in our tracks to ask about Shroomish.

Hell no, dude, if there were any Shroomish here they were probably eaten by the all of the Metagross walking around.

Some guy dressed in blue comes running at us screaming that he wants some papers. The Shroomish guy hides behind Saphire and pushes her forward straight into a battle, as he is too scared to handle the bully himself.

He says he’s from Team Aqua and sends out his only Pokemon, an Aerodactyl. Pfft. We’ve fought plenty of these. This guy’s no threat to us.

You know, unless he knows Confusion.

No, TEAG! Don’t do it! There’s so much left to live for! I’ll be a better trainer, I promise!

Before Larvitar faints himself, Meadow steps in and teaches this guy a lesson. WITH HIS FISTS.

The grunt is defeated. Before he runs off, he tells us he has some evil plans in Rustboro.

It’s like he wants us to go stop him.

Saphire gets a Wailmer Pail from a girl in a flower shop.

We won’t be using this. I don’t think time moves forward in this emulator, so planting berries would really just be wasteful.

Hell yeah, double battle time!

Meadow gets confused but powers through it like a boss. We take these suckers down and then get paid.

Hooray, we made it to Rustboro!

See, TEAG? Didn’t I tell you I’d be a better trainer?

We pick up CUT. Okay, now I just need to teach it to—

Crap…

Depressed about the fact we can’t learn CUT, Saphire tries to cheer up this little sick girl with a funny word.

…She didn’t think we were very funny…

Okay, so we have ourselves a dilemma. TEAG and Meadow cannot learn CUT, which means Saphire needs to catch someone who does. Here are the Pokemon we have seen since leaving Petalburg:

Girafarig, Chansey, Volbeat, Combusken, Slakoth, Bulbasaur, Makuhita, Trapinch, Squirtle, and Rattata.

Also Kabuto and Metagross.

This is where you come in. Is it time for Saphire to catch another Pokemon, or should she conquer something else first?

As for TEAK, what should we call him?

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