Recap: We teamed up with Morgan from the Elite Four to take down Thor and Loki. We also defeated the Bug-Type Gym Leader.

There is a huge gathering of Team Asgard members right in front of this sealed door that Freyja is talking to. Saga secretly listens in by blending perfectly within the crowd.

Freyja: You all know the plan, right? The one with Jirachi and Divaevus, and how we use them to take over the world?

I shittily edited that picture in MS Paint because I am lazy.

Dave made me laugh really hard.

Freyja: He’s mad at Thor and Loki, too.

Grunt 1: Right…

Grunt 2: He’s pretty scary…

Dave: Hyagagagagaga!

Grunt 2: Dave, seriously, what are you saying?

Freyja: As you know, he already has Shaymin, and he’s secured a method of catching Divaevus… If he catches Jirachi, can you imagine how strong he’ll be?

Yes I can, and that is what I really badly want to prevent from happening.

Grunt 1: He’d be terrifying…

Grunt 2: I wouldn’t want to get on his bad side…

Dave: Hyagagagagaga!

Grunt 2: Dave, I… Forget it.

I have one for you! Take Foxxy! He never faints in battles, ever!

Grunt 1: But if he has three legendary Pokemon, how could an ordinary Pokemon be able to defeat him?

Freyja: Stop that talk right now! We won’t try to defeat Odin! He is our leader, after all!

Grunt 1: Then why suggest it?

Freyja: We’re only trying to protect ourselves, alright? Not to take down Odin! That’s traitorous talk! Who’s with me?

Grunt 1: Aye!

Grunt 2: Aye!

Dave: Hyagagagagaga!

Dave is my new favorite character in this game.

Alright, secret base! I’ll just quietly follow you guys there and…

Hey, where’d everybody go?

Why are you coming closer to me?

I… I’m just a regular Team Asgard grunt!

Sure you can! Here, take Foxxy as your protector-Pokemon! That’s a fair trade, right??

NOOOOOOoooooo…

Welp, it appears as though we’ve been kidnapped, Foxxy.

Yup, I’m sure practicing your Sand-Attack is the answer to all of our problems.

All of the grunts say this. How am I supposed to get out of here?

Oh no! I’m never getting out! There are ghosts of other dead trainers and their Pokemon residing here!

Oh, why, it’s Graham the Gym Leader!

He uses something called “Shadow Sneak” and turns Saga into a ghost.

He doesn’t turn Foxxy, though. He just jumps right over the computer table. Miraculously, nobody noticed. Guess Saga could have just jumped over the table, too.

Thank crap, there’s a Nurse Joy here.

We visit her a LOT in this place.

We get nosy and look at everything on all of the tables.

In the midst of fighting all of the Asgard Grunts, we come across this.

It’s a MUSHROOM that looks like POKEBALLS whose name looks like MONGOOSE.

First of all, weren’t PokeBalls designed by mankind? How is it possible a Pokemon just-so-happened to naturally look like them?

Unless the dude who came up with the idea for PokeBalls got the design from this thing in the Poke-verse.

I don’t know. This looks like something the developers came up with after being hungover. “How about… a mushroom… that looks like a PokeBall?”

Don’t mind me, just stealing all the food and drinks you guys didn’t finish.

Hell yeah! Now we have TWO Leftovers!

Saga gets the option to reply to this dude in 1 of 3 ways:

“It’s going to be OK.”

“Hah! You got fired!”

“…”

We choose to be nice and tell him everything is going to be okay.

Grunt: I know… Can I tell you my life story?

Now we get to say “yes” or “no”. I guess we’ll entertain the guy. Sure, tell us your life story.

Grunt: Professor Oak. Shall I continue?

Uh, yeah, go ahead, you haven’t really said anything yet.

Grunt: He offered me Pokemon to go on an adventure.

Of course, that’s kind of his job.

Grunt: But I arrived too late. I got the fourth Pokemon, a disobedient Electric one. We eventually bonded, but it took a long time. Shall I continue?

Woah, hold up, this is starting to sound pretty damn familiar. Please continue.

Grunt: We fought many enemies together. We rescued legendary Pokemon, even saw myths come true in the forms of Mewtwo and Arceus. I even fell in love with a girl. A Water Gym Leader with her Starmie. We eventually got married and had a kid. But we fell on hard times. We divorced, and I joined Team Asgard to make ends meet.

WOAH. OH MY GOD. NO WAY…

YEAH I KNOW WHO YOU ARE!

ASH KETCHUM!

Holy crap, this put the biggest smile on my face. To think that the Ash Ketchum I grew up with eventually joined an evil team is hysterical.

Dude, I am like, your biggest fan. I had the huge-est crush on you when I was a child.

And I’m not even ashamed to admit it.

Ash: Now, leave me to my drinking. But take this, as a reward.

He gives Saga the TM for Giga Impact. She tries to ask him for an autograph, but he won’t comply. He just wants to drink.

Zephyr isn’t following Saga this time. Xion was at the front of the party and he was fainted at this point in time, so no one was behind Saga.

Freyja: Once we have Jirachi, he can catch Divaevus… and the world will fall at our feet to our master plan!

Grunt 1: Good!

Grunt 2: Finally!

Dave: Hyagagagagaga!

Grunt 3: Err… what IS our master plan?

Freyja: Nevermind that now. The point is, can you imagine how powerful Odin will be with three legendary Pokemon? We need to be able to defend ourselves! We need a Pokemon that Odin cannot defeat!

Grunt 3: Hold on just a minute! Isn’t that mutiny? Odin is our leader, and he’s very kind to us! Well, compared to Giovanni and Archie and those guys. We can’t betray him! What are you implying, Freyja?

Freyja: No… no I didn’t… I didn’t mean anything like that! See… uh… lately, Odin hasn’t been too happy with us. After I lost in Onega Town, Thor losing in Fianga, and them losing together in Ladoga… well, a mad boss with semi-divine Pokemon isn’t a good combination.

Grunt 3: I guess… so what do you propose? What Pokemon can stand against three legendaries?

Freyja: Well… these two Pokemon we have here are world renowned. Sableye is known for having no weaknesses… and Shedinja is famous for his Wonder Guard ability. As you know, Wonder Guard allows you to only take damage from a type you are weak to. If we can fuse these two Pokemon in such a way that Sableye gains the Wonder Guard ability…

Grunt: We would have an invincible Pokemon!

Freyja: Exactly! Now ready the machine!

???: Not on my watch!

Freyja: Corlett! Ugh! Not the Elite Four again!

Corlett: That’s right! And it’s not just me! Saga, come out!

Damn you for pointing me out…

Freyja: Town! If you win, I’ll stop this experiment! But if I win… you become a Team Asgard grunt, to serve me forever!

Well hey, it wouldn’t be so terrible to join Asgard, maybe I’ll finally have that date with Ash Ketchum that I’ve always wanted.

This was the extent of what Foxxy did to contribute to the battle.

Barret knocked her out in one hit.

Level 50 stats.

Mienshao uses U-turn and then immediately after hitting Barret, Freyja sends out Lucario. I feel like U-turn had something to do with that.

He went down after spamming Spark a few times.

Mienshao came back out so I asked Shawn to take care of him. WE GOT HIM ALL THE WAY DOWN TO A SINGLE HP AND HE WAS BURNED when Freyja used a Full Restore.

So… frustrating…

One Hyper Potion on Shawn later, and Mienshao drains the health he just received.

Shawn couldn’t withstand Mienshao’s punches and went down, but made sure to burn him before going out.

Freyja freaks out and withdraws Mienshao, putting Medicham in his place. Zephyr tries to win against him, but fails.

Yukio makes an attempt to win but also goes down.

Luckily, Saga revived Shawn in the midst of battle, as losing to Freyja is not an option.

The Medicham gets pummeled and Mienshao comes back out for the third time.

His burn finally takes him out and we win against Freyja!

Corlett: Not quite, Freyja! Go, Ampharos! Ampharos, use Thunder! Shut down the system!

Freyja: You two… You’ll pay for this! You’ll never escape this room!

Hot damn, there is so much happening I don’t even know where to look!

I’ll tell you where to look, though. On the right side above Sableye is Graham.

Saga… hun… turn around, you’re missing all the action.

Graham: Corlett, Saga! Let’s go! We’re out of here! Shadow Sneak!

Graham: You seemed to have an adverse reaction to Shadow Sneak. You were out for twenty minutes.

Probably because I’m not used to turning into a ghost and then turning back just as quickly. You didn’t steal anything while I was out, did you?

Graham: Corlett’s gone back to the Pokemon League. You… you have a duty to the world. You have to stop Odin atop Mount Press. I would accompany you… but I have a Gym to manage, you understand. Before you go, I recommend you search this base in its entirety. There’s many rare items, Pokemon and different things you can find here, I’m sure. I wouldn’t be surprised if they had a Master Ball around here someplace. Anyways, I must be off. I wish you the best of luck… and I am proud to call you a friend. Goodbye, Saga. May we meet again.

…I’m not sure I would call you my friend…

We did find a Master Ball, but we had to activate some program on one of the computers in order for it to appear. If you go into this room without activating it, a message pops up that insinuates you must have missed something.

I don’t know what the hell he meant about Pokemon, I found none anywhere in here.

Okay, we’re out! Looks like our next step is going to Mount Press.

Spoiler alert: I really hate Mount Press.