battle ensues

ooo, guess who decided to show up.
none other than mr. rival meanie-pants.

he said something about having caught a bunch of "new, smart" pokemon. pff. he hasn't met my pokemon. but he insisted on fighting, so i obliged to wipe the floor with him.

he sent out a pidgeotto or something first. i sent out aozashi, who (thanks to brock's TM) knew rock tomb, so pidgeotto was toast.

then he sent out his bulbasaur. aozashi is weak against him, and pocki probably wouldn't fare much better... since one of those move tutor guys taught wagashi mega punch, i thought maybe it was worth a shot.

 

seems i was right to think so.
wagashi gained just enough exp to level up and learn bite, and so mr. i'm-a-genius sent out abra. bite made quick work of it, too.

then he sent out a rattata... despite being hurt from his battle with pidgeotto, aozashi was a trooper.

so he was out of pokemon. rather than taking his defeat gracefully, he decided to tell me that i smell (again).

very mature, mr. meanie-pants.
i thought i might be able to go and do something productive again when he deliberately comes back just to tell me how sorry he is for me.

you know what?
you smell.
of jealousy.

and furthermore...

i've made some more progress!

since pewter city, my pokemon and i have been hard at work traversing through the depths of mt. moon. and let me tell you, it isn't a friendly place 'n'

but i found another cute critter to add to my repertoire <3 a clefairy that i named azuki.

the grunts in the cave also had this adorable little pokemon called a sandshrew... i did some digging and figured out that you can only get those on leafgreen ;~; but i asked sadako-senpai if there was anything i might be able to do to get one and she taught me how to input some cheats into the emu. i don't like using cheats (they tend to suck the fun out of the game...) but one common pokemon can't hurt.

so, behold! aozashi!

notice a naming theme yet? ~_n

i'm in cerulean now, where the gym leader uses water types. misty shouldn't be too hard to beat with pocki. she and wagashi are both at level 18 already! i'm so proud 'u'

well, time to get back to work~

i found shorts boy!

 

-giggle-

i concur, mr. shorts boy!

pokemon!

so i discovered you can play gba games on the computer today!

i'd never heard of that before, but when i finally got it figured out (you have to set your own controls and everything...) i downloaded a rom and started playing! n_n i have to admit, it was sadako-senpai who mentioned it to me. she told me some of the basics and helped me figure things out before she went to work.

pokemon was one of the first roms on the download list, and it's an old favorite of mine, so i couldn't resist 'u' i think the one i downloaded was firered -- i played it a looong time ago when i was little, heehee. it was hard to pick which starter to get because they're all super cute! ...but in the end i picked squirtle.

i named him wagashi~ <3

i don't think i've gotten to far in the game, but it's been fun so far. i'm in... uh, pewter city, i think. my rival is a meanie-face. ;n; he always somehow manages to get to where i'm going like five minutes before i do! what's up with that?

and he's always like, 'smell ya later'!
...i don't smell. 'n'

well, anyway. i took some screenies while i was playing! i just beat the pewter city gym leader with wagashi and he evolved into some other... turtle thing. wartortle. squirtle looked cuter, but i think he got stronger, so that's okay.

oohhh, and i found a pikachu in the viridian forest! i think that's pretty rare (even so, it was a nice change from the caterpies and the weedles everywhere. >-<) she was harder to catch than the other pokemon but i managed to get her. i named her pocki. <3

aww. isn't she cute? be jealous ~_n

i didn't think to take screenies while i was playing the game earlier (i took these just now for visual effect), but i think i'll do that from now on. it sounds fun! that way i record my journey along the way ^_^

off i go to the world of pokemon~!