In a generous act of generousness, antidakoda decided to donate 2 eggs! I went to Driftveil Bridge to hatch one of them. It hatched into...
a Beldum! Named Dakoda, after the person who gave me this egg. Oh, by the way, I gave up a Woobat I caught in PWT Relic Pass to hatch it. Now, time for grinding!
A long time later (but not SO long on the scale of all time so far)...
Done! I'll continue on to Opelucid now.
But before I could even get to Village Bridge, I noticed some commotion. Looking more closely, it seemed to be Useless unleashing his rage on a Plasma Grunt and an old man in a purple robe (who I labeled as a Plasma by association). Reluctantly, I decided to come to Useless' aid.
I sent out Dakoda, who was now a Metagross. With a swing of his giant metal blue arm, he demolished the enemy's Pokemon, leaving the Plasma grunt and old man (whose name, apparently, was Zinzolin) in awe. Then, I continued on my merry way.
When I reached Opelucid, I immediately entered the next route for more training. While I was there, I got rid of a biker gang that had been hanging around there.
A medium-sized time later...
I was finally ready for the battle against Drayden. And he was ready for me, too.
Dakoda vs Druddigon
Dakoda just pummeled away at Druddigon with Ice Punch. Oh, the dragon tried to defend himself, but not even a Sheer Force-boosted Crunch could break through that walking metal tank.
Winner: Dakoda
Keeper vs Flygon
Now, I know what you're thinking. "But Dialkia198, why send a Lopunny against a Flygon when you already have a much stronger Metagross with Ice Punch?" Well, I couldn't risk Dakoda getting outsped and killed by Earth Power. Keeper was the only other one with an Ice move.
Anyway, the battle. Keeper went first and hit with Ice Punch, but Flygon hung on with just a sliver of HP.
Flygon used Earth Power!
Crud.
A critical hit!
NONONONONONON-what.
Keeper survived with over half his HP left. Though Drayden healed his Flygon the next turn, Keeper hit with a critical Falcon Ice Punch. (Man, Keeper just loves to tank hits from ground types and retaliate with a crit Falcon attack!)
Winner: Keeper
Dakoda vs Haxorus
I admit, even though I overleveled, this was still pretty scary. Haxorus moved first and Dragon Danced.
However, Dakoda used his Scope Lens to find the Haxorus' weak point and hit right there with Ice Punch, spectacularly OHKOing it.
Winner: Dakoda
After receiving the Legend Badge, Drayden and I went outside to see what was causing this weird noise. But nobody could ever have expected what we saw.
In the orange afternoon sky, there was a giant airship. A hatch opened up in the front of the ship, and out came a huge cannon, which fired shots that froze the entire city in ice!
(I'm not quite sure, but I think I heard a primal roar coming from the ship afterwards.) Suddenly, out of nowhere, wild Plasma Grunts appeared. They said something about "finding the DNA Splicers" or something like that. However, Dakoda singlehandedly defeated every last one of them.
Then, I saw Zinzolin heading towards the gym! I quickly rushed in and had Dakoda and Keeper obliterate his team. He ran away, whining about how he felt so alive.
Before I could say "What", Drayden appeared. He told me that he had the DNA splicers the Plasmas had been searching for. He was about to give them to me, but in a flash of black, they were gone!
I looked around and saw 2 ninjas running away. They had to have been the ones who stole them! But which one had the splicers?
Arbitrarily, I chose the 2nd one and chased after him. His pokemon were stupidly weak.
Much to my dismay, this was because he was the decoy.
An ancient artifact with magical powers and some kind of link to Reshiram and Zekrom was now in the hands of an evil organization plotting to take over the world.
This was no longer about fostering orphaned eggs.
This was about saving the world.
I'm still gonna hatch those eggs, though.
THE TEAM: (On Rotation)
Delta/Serperior lv 50
Lucky Fire/Garchomp lv 51
Zyflair/Umbreon lv 50
Keeper/Lopunny lv 51
Boltthecat/Galvantula lv 50
Equinox/Rhydon lv 50 (btw, I'll let myself evolve him in 2 levels)
Light/Gardevoir lv 50
Dakoda/Metagross lv 53