This Nuzlocke is a mess of Past and Present tense...
I stand in front of the Fuchsia city gym and remember there is a few trainers to the south I have not yet fought. Sucker gains a level from fighting both of them and I turn back to the gym.
I enter and fight the trainer to the right straight away, forgetting there is one to the left. I had switched to Flappers to get some extra experience.
As soon as Flappers gets the first hit in, the Hypno uses Psychic.
Flappers falls to the ground in one hit. My ears are filled with intense ringing.
Flappers, the huge mythical beast just dropped to the ground in one hit. My heart was racing. Gravy and Sucker were sure to fall. I sent Gravy out first and he managed to get a few cuts out before he succumbed to another psychic. I couldn't believe what was happening. Am going to fall to a normy? Is this where it ends? While I was speechless and barely standing, Sucker Leech Seeded the Hypno and it fainted. He cried at me then at the door and with my remaining energy I ran out if the gym.
This...this...can't be happening. I fall to the ground with my hands covering my face apart from my eyes. This is too much. I can't finish this. I can't fight Koga. I can't fight Sabrina. I won't be able to-
Sucker interrupted my thoughts with a cry. He looked me in my eyes and made me change my entire mood...at least, until I put my loyal friends in the PC.
We planned what to do next when we calmed down. I uttered to Sucker that we have to do this. For the ones we have lost. We've lost our hard hitters. We've lost everything that held this team together, we have nothing left. We only have a few patches of Grass we haven't explored yet. We need them. We need new recruits. How do we train them? In whatever way we can. Wild Pokemon. Unfought trainers. Day care. Rare candies. We need a tougher team to fight Koga and we need them for the long run. We need a new Pokemon to Surf. We need. More. Firepower.
Before I got to far ahead of myself, Sucker put his wing on my shoulder. I took a deep breath.
We'll need to fight Koga before we get any progress. We can't use Surf beforehand. I have the Super Rod. Remember that guys house? He had a small lake behind it. We can sure find some Goldeen or maybe even Seaking.
Poison type Pokemon will be of use, we can find one of them down the cycling road. Plus a load of experience. And on the way to this forsaken place there were a few patches of Grass. Maybe we can replace...find a substitute for Gravy.
That's right Koga...we aren't going down this easily.
As soon as I leave Fuchsia I find a Ditto. What luck! I thought Ditto were only available in Cerulean Cave or the Mansion. My Great Balls miss at first but as soon as a little damage is dealt, it gets caught like a rat in a trap. I name it droopy because its so friendly and feel like jelly.
This Ditto sprite is THE most adorable thing ever.
I'll have to play carefully with Droopy however, this guy will be taking a lot of hits in the future. But I realize that this is the best Pokemon to out in the day care. Doesn't learn any other move. Before long, I head back to Fuchsia to get him healed up. I also just remember about mentioning that small lake in someones back garden. I fish there for a while and...!
Poliwag...level 10.
I turn to Sucker. Well...we need all the help we can get. I catch it and call it...Waggles. (idk)
I quick look at its details and reveals that it is just a water type. I think it evolves into Water/Fighting next but I'm not so sure. Either way we will have either a Hitmonchan or Hitmonlee to cover for it. And a Lapras to cover the Water types after Silph.