I traverse some weird, winding corridors. This place doesn't look like I'd imagine an ironworks would look. Whatever. A "worker" that's standing around challenges me. Let's see what the freaks here can do, then.
The first trainer leads with Machop. Enki takes a beating, but defeats the fighting pokemon with surf. The Machoke that follows is stronger, and my poor Enki doesn't stand a chance. Kazza, who is becoming one of my most powerful, gets revenge. And that's it. Well, he did manage to beat one of my pokemon, which is better than what that stupid swamp could do. I should have switched to Kazza as soon as Machoke showed up. My mistake. I revive Enki and continue.
There are arrows on the floor in some places. As soon as I step on one, I find myself spinning uncontrollably in the direction the arrow was pointed and don't stop moving until I hit a wall. Then I regain control of myself and it's like nothing happened. This is crazy. It makes the whole thing some sort of weird maze. Well, it's not a tough maze, anyway. So I try to ignore how stupid this is.
My next opponent only has one pokemon. It's Steelix, a nice metallic pokemon for this iron-themed place. It's higher in level than Enki, but with surf, I have the advantage and the battle is over quickly. A few looted items and a ton of arrows later, I meet my next opponent. Again, I'm only facing one pokemon. This time it's Rapidash. Enki's been doing well with surf lately, so I take my chances, but the fiery horse is too fast and stomps Enki before he has a chance to do anything. I bring Hanuman in. Rapidash is too strong. Hanuman gets a hit in, but takes a lot of damage from the stomp. Getting desperate, I start reaching instinctively for Articuno. I resist the temptation, and switch to Nanabozho. The rabbit takes several hits and gets caught in a fire spin. But somehow, Nanabozho outkicks the horse.
These trainers do have stronger pokemon, but if they only use one or two, I'll have the advantage. Or perhaps that was the last of them. I seem to be in the center of the place, having worked my way around the perimeter. I meet Mr. Fuego. We talk for a while. The man is obviously unhinged. He put the arrow trap things on the floor because he thought it would make it easier to get work done. I humor him while waiting for an opportunity to get the hell out of here. This is clearly a dangerous man and I am getting nervous. He gives me some useless item because I took the time to visit him. I feign gratitude and make an outwardly calm, but quick, exit. I reach the door and fly away. There's nothing else for me here and my team needs healing.
I find another place where I can explore where I could not before I had surf. Of course, that means fishermen along the docks. And that means more battles in which I switch Sekhmet in so for a quick victory and a little extra spending money, although I've no idea what I'm supposed to spend it on in this insane world. The first fisherman I encounter leads with Gyarados. Sekhmet brings it down easily with spark and does the same for the next Gyarados, but she does take some damage from dragon rage before finishing them off.
The second fisherman is one of those stupid ones that leads with Magikarp, so I take the opportunity to set up toxic spikes. Then I take the opportunity to set up barrier. With Enki's defenses massively enhanced and anything that comes out being poisoned, he should be hard to remove. This is assuming I'm not making extra work for myself on account of this trainer using Magikarp after Magikarp after Magikarp. Nope, Gyarados is next. But Gyarados is part flying and will avoid the toxic spikes. I switch to Sekhmet again. Gyarados bites. Sekhmet flinches. Gyarados twisters. Sekhmet sparks, but Gyarados doesn't go down. This one is tougher than usual. Gyarados dragon rages. Sekhmet can't handle that. Nanabozho comes in with a quick attack to finish Gyarados off. It doesn't quite get the job done. The second one does, though. Just when I think we're making a battle out of things, I'm back to squashing Magikarp. Enough of this! Hanuman takes that one out in one hit. The next one requires two hits with rock smash. And the last one goes down in two rock smashes as well.
I surf through some rocks only to be challenged by a guy in a sailor suit. He might be an actual sailor, but I'm just going to assume it's more of this costume nonsense and ignore it. First up is Mantyke, which is easy enough for Nanabozho to smash. But then the sailor or whatever he is brings out Gyarados. Sekhmet is down. I could try to revive her. Instead I switch to Hanuman. That doesn't work. I switch to Kazza. But apparently I am outpredicted, because this trainer has his Gyarados use bite, which would have been terrible against Hanuman, but devastates Kazza. Psybeam wrecks Gyarados and confuses it, so I pull off the win.
It looks like the next city is up ahead. I just have to defeat one more trainer, and then I can explore a new city. Excellent. This trainer is only using one pokemon, and it's Luxio. Enki would fare poorly against and electric type. I switch to Kazza, who will probably be knocked out in one hit because he's so wounded, but it will spare Enki, at least. The Luxio confuses Kazza and Kazza actually finishes himself off. Unfortunate. Hanuman heavily damages the cat with flame wheel. Luxio retaliates with roar, which somehow forces Hanuman out and switches Enki in. This Luxio is pretty hurt, so I try to finish things with cut. Not enough damage. Luxio doesn't use an electric attack, though. Instead it's another roar. This time roar randomly switches Enki with, haha, Articuno. Goodbye little cat. I'm off to loot some berries and then it's a new city: Canalave City.
I enter the city gate. I'm stopped by Dawn's father. Apparently Professor Rowan sent him to find me and upgrade my Pokedex. I'm also asked to look out for Team Galactic because they might be up to something. Not like I care. I let him play with the Pokedex and pretend I care. Good, he's gone. It's not like I've been dutifully catching pokemon for this project. I wonder how long until they're onto me? Maybe they already are. Well it's not like they can do anything to stop me at this point. I resolve to continue ignoring the Pokedex project and, passing by the thirsty guard, enter Canalave City. I go straight to the Poke Center. Heal now. Explore later.
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