Jolt Badge get! It raises our Pokemons’ attack, lets us cut trees, and also looks like the head of a Jolteon. I wonder if Sparky makes them out of the Substitute dolls that Jolteon makes that don’t get eaten by Grotle.

Honey also gets a Shock Wave TM and a promise from Sparky that they’ll rematch one day. But until then, Honey has other things on her mind.

Such as triggering battles with other trainers.

Greasemonkey makes me think of a Panpour caught in an oil spill. Not sure I like that mental image.

This led to a tense battle of HA Budew versus Declan’s Pikachu. Thanks to the two levels HA gained against Sparky, Grass resisting Electric moves, status conditions, HA’s Absorb attack, and certain instances of poor decision-making on both sides, HA once again managed to drag out a battle to even longer than is reasonably possible.

But she left Pikachu with a parting gift.

Grotle killed Pikachu with Absorb anyway, so all it really did was lower the amount of health Grotle got back. But if Grotle’s paralysis had kept him from moving, Pikachu would’ve died in two turns anyway.

Or you’ll get 100 percent fainted like our poor Budew.

Honey tries to check into a hotel, but fails.

Thankfully, the Pokemon Center is always open.

Honey buys Poke Balls, eventually settling at 10 as a nice round number.

Since Honey needs money to buy a ticket to the next stop on her Tunod tour, she fights another gym trainer. Grotle OHKOs it with Bite, and we get the money we need to buy that ticket.

Unfortunately, she puts the cart before the Horsea.

Boathouse? You mean the bar full of sailors?

“It’s not a bar. I swear.”



(No, this was not actual text in the game.)

Um, you’re sure this isn’t a bar? Because ‘serenity’ and ‘ticks’ are two words that most decidely do NOT go together.

(I know why the name was shortened – the limitations of the coding – but since everyone refers to it as the Serenity Ticket in singular, something like SERENITICKET would have been less awkward. And more punny.)

Believe it or not, it took us some time to manage to say “yes”.

And here we are!

LOL nope. We immediately ask the guy to sail us back to Oceanview.



Then we have him sail us to Serenity.

And back to Oceanview.

And back to Serenity.

AND BACK TO OCEANVIEW.

Honey, feeling a distinct sense of Deja Vu, walks away to try to think about this a while.

And probably to be seasick somewhere.



To be continued…