Blake thanks Honey profusely for her help, showering her with praise and giving her another ticket. He explains that he needs to return the boat he took Honey to Haunted Isle to its owners, or else “the fee will double.”

Dude, you totally wrecked that boat and fixed it up again. I’m not sure how much they’re going to charge you for whatever it looks like now, but the fact that you fixed it while stranded on an island with only whatever you brought with you should at least give you enough credit for a discount, if there’s any justice at all in the world.

But, then, maybe the rental service will be angry that you got the boat wrecked to begin with, so right now, you’re in enough trouble anyway that Honey won’t push it.

And thus he sails off into the sea spray.

Honey has places to go as well.

But she goes to Oceanview instead of Seaspray.

And then she goes to Serenity instead of Seaspray.

Thankfully, this running gag ends at Seaspray Town without further ado.

The placement of the dock facing the opposite direction helped keep things from getting too comedically erroneous.

What a surprise! Budew Hair comes to see us. She’s surprised to see Honey too.

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

Strangely, Chelle’s Pikachu isn’t present. Maybe she has PC problems as well.

Absorb from Grotle does pathetic damage, even with Grotle eleven levels higher than Bayleef. And the turn without Razor Leaf gives Bayleef the chance to set up a Reflect, halving damage from physical moves.

Thankfully, this is the last Absorb for a while, since the move’s now out of energy. Not so thankfully, Honey doesn’t seem to notice and keeps trying to push Grotle to use it anyway. When Grotle does get Razor Leaf, it doesn’t do all that much damage, because it’s not very effective and there’s a Reflect. And then Bayleef uses Synthesis and heals all the damage anyway.

Chat realizes that due to Honey’s last Pokemon Center checkpoint being at Haunted Island, blacking out could get them stuck there. This is met with a mixed reaction – some are panicking, some want to get stuck there, and one of the devs promises to fix things if we do get stuck there.

The height of the stakes clearly gets through to Honey, who tries to flee. But there’s no running from a trainer battle.

To make a long story short, Grotle gets poisoned in the process, and really does black out.

Miraculously, no dev intervention is required, and Honey wakes up at the Serenity Island Pokemon Center. Clearly anti-frustration features are at work here.

In the meantime, we learn some interesting lore.

I’m not sure what kind of evil plan this is, but I want in on it.

Attempts are made to withdraw Pokemon. Unfortunately, Honey opens the wrong box, and nothing is gained from it. Nothing is lost either, thankfully enough.

While close to the Lighthouse Challenge and with two empty spots in her party for a potentially won Def-Eevee, Honey doesn’t try it yet. Instead, the mob looks for a democracy house to equip the Exp. Share to Oshawott.

This isn’t it.

Neither is this. (Honey still doesn’t speak to anyone inside the Fusion Resort. Possibly wise, given that the Fusion boss promised to kill her the next time she poked her honey-colored hair into his business.)

Somehow Honey winds up in the TM menu. Turns out none of her party are dragon enough to claw anything.

She makes it to the gym, but never deillusifies the rock in front of it, because she gets a little lost.

Returning to Fusion Resort, Honey learns from a sign on the wall that the tutoring service is on the fourth floor. That would be nice, if she could reach the door.

Time to see how good the Voices are at using an elevator.

Our first stop is the second floor. But not content with that one, Honey doesn’t even leave the elevator before she pushes another button.

Of course you can’t reach the top floor yet, silly girl; Michael’s probably up top there, and he’ll murder you if you try it.

So instead she decides to explore the second floor. Fun! Adventure! A possibly ill-thought-out plan on the Voices’ part! Or, even better, anticlimax! Who even knows what will happen next?

Well, I certainly don’t, or else I’d be hinting at it.

To be continued…