When we last left our honey of a heroine, she’d bought one Harbor Mail, six Poke Balls, and exactly the wrong kind of potion for Melanie. Now, she goes off on a quest to get some money to buy a Potion, or, if she’s lucky, just find a random Potion lying on the ground somewhere and save herself the trouble.



Will she succeed? Will she fail? Will she waste her Poke Balls?

Zorua averted!

Quickwave Tailow averted!

Cottonee averted!

Pidgey averted! (And also another Tailow, but that’s not important.)

Venipede… what?

WHAT.

WHAAAAAAAT?

Our current team. While Venipede didn’t get a name for a while, it was eventually translated to “Yes, hugs” or, my personal favorite, “Hugbug.”

And for the record, I am fully in favor of Hugbug. OOC, I adore the Venipede line for various reasons, one of which is Bionicle. They remind me of my favorite kraata, the Power Scream kraata.



Disclaimer: this may or may not be an actual Power Scream kraata, as we can’t see if it has a black tail. But I hope so.

We are now at five Poke Balls, which thankfully is enough to satisfy Melanie, but not without the Potion. Of course, even if we use any more Poke Balls, it’s likely that our next attempt to buy a Potion, if it isn’t in Democracy, will net us at least one Poke Ball by default as well, since Poke Balls are at the top of the menu. On the other hand, if our next attempt to buy a Potion isn’t in Democracy, then we might not succeed in buying a Potion at all.

Then this happens.

Rounding out the team at six Pokemon. Three of which are Grass-types.

Battery Shroom joins the team, leaving Honey now needing to buy one Poke Ball as well as one Potion.

She wastes another Poke Ball trying to catch a Pidgey, but fails and flees in shame.

After a few more encounters, none of which she chucks any balls at, Honey goes back to her hometown and sits down on a bench, pondering what went wrong.

But when she heads back into the grass, she repeats her mistake.

It doesn’t even work.

She tries again on a Ralts.

Yaaaay, PC bait!

The PC is where it’s AT.

After wasting her Super Pottion on healing a measley 16 points on MGM, she wastes the final Poke Ball on a Zigzagoon.

It doesn’t even catch.

So, now, rather than having six Poke Balls, one Harbor Mail, and no Potion, she has no Poke Balls, one Harbor Mail, and no Potion.

Um, yay?

To be continued…