Petalburg City

Oh hello again, Caldar. Did you get lost or something?

- Something like that…

Did you pick up any badges along the way?

- I got 4.

Great, I’ll use these pokemon then. Are you ready?

- Bring it on!

Go Spinda!

- Go LoafLoaf!

- Rollout!

Facade!

Spinda glows and leaps at LoafLoaf, striking him head first and bouncing off. LoafLoaf curls up and starts rolling, he slams into spinda.

Facade!

Spinda begins to glow again while LoafLoaf builds up speed. They both slam into eachother, spinda is sent flying while LoafLoaf continues rolling along.

LoafLoaf rolls in large circles around the arena, building up speed while Norman uses a hyper potion on his spinda. Just as the healing is complete, LoafLoaf ploughs right into spinda. Spinda is sent flying into an arena wall and then flops onto the floor leaving a spinda-shaped crater in the wall.

Go Vigoroth!

Facade!

LoafLoaf has become a blue blur as he rolls around the arena getting ever faster. Vigoroth’s paws glow and it punches LoafLoaf with both paws. While vigoroth is busy punching, it’s run down by LoafLoaf’s rolling out.

Go Linoone!

Facade!

He sure likes to use that move…

It’s difficult to track LoafLoaf’s movements at this point. Linoone glows, charges at LoafLoaf and smacks head first into him so hard that LoafLoaf stops rolling. However the impact also sends linoone flying so fast that it cannonballs through the arena wall and shoots off into the distance.

Let’s see if you can’t roll over Slaking!

- LoafLoaf come back! Go Colonel!

Counter!

Slacking is poised to receive an attack but seems sort of disappointed when nothing comes near it.

- Bulk up!

The Colonel flexes his muscles as he gathers strength. Slacking scratches itself and yawns idly.

- Bulk up!

Counter!

The Colonel remains fixed in his previous pose and gathers more strength. Slaking starts to look bored when no attack was sent his way.

- Bulk up!

The air around the Colonel starts to shimmer slightly while he continues to gather strength. Slaking takes a moment to pick it’s nose.

- Bulk up!

Counter!

Gathering still more strength, the ground starts to shake under the Colonel’s feet. Noticing it had nothing to counter again, slaking turns to Norman and gives him a quizzical look.

- Bulk up!

While slaking sits down and prepares for a nap, the Colonel begins to glow and the ground starts to crack around his feet.

- Bulk up!

You’ve got to attack sooner or later! Counter!

The Colonel’s glow gets brighter.

COM~…..

As the ground shakes more violently, small shards of the floor float up and hover around the Colonel.

…BUS~…

The Colonel’s crest stands up and he fixes his eyes on slacking.

…KEN!!

Slaking gets back onto it’s feet, stretches it’s arms and takes a fighting pose.

- Double kick!

Nonono, don’t slack now!

The Colonel dashes at slacking and kicks it into the air. Leaping upwards to meet slacking in the air, the Colonel kicks slacking back into the ground. After the dust clears, slaking lies at the bottom of a new crater in the middle of the arena. The Colonel stands over it and grins.

Well, that was unexpected…

Really?

I award you the Balance Badge!

- Thanks.

Did you find your professor friend?

- Not yet.

Have you tried Fortree City?

- Not yet.

I step out of the gym and a man is standing there waiting for me.

Hello! I’m Wally’s father, you’re Caldar? I saw you help Wally catch his first pokemon.

- Oh, er.. yes. I helped Wally.

I wanted to thank you for your help, now that Wally’s out and about more his health has improved a lot! Here, take this.

He hands me a HM03 diskette.

I’m sure a trainer like you will make good use of it.

- Thanks!

Route 110

After teaching LoafLoaf how to surf he carries me across the lake on route 103. As I make my way to Mauville I notice dark clouds rolling in above.

The clouds block out the sun, they’re so thick it becomes as dark as night. Thunder booms in the distance as I notice the egg in my backpack starts to shift.

- Oh, the egg’s hatching! I wonder what it’s going to be?

…

A flash of lightning brightens up the sky for a moment and rain starts to fall. A boom of thunder catches up. Cracks start to form on the egg shell.

- You’re not going to watch? I thought you like to see new pokemon your your database?

…

- What’s wrong with you? You always have something to say!

Shards crumble away from the egg…