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Day 35 continued...
Since my journal is quickly becoming the primary witness testimony on a future court case (if Hoenn even has a justice system; at this point it seems common law and anarchy reign -omit this statement during evidence review-) and I will eventually read this again when I am older and wonder what I was thinking at sixteen, I am going to point out that yes, I knew I was being baited to Slateport city, I knew the possibility of an ambush. What was I supposed to do? Leave it to the phantom authorities?

No, I wasn't stupid for trying to follow them to Slateport. I was stupid for trying to follow them by flying for the first time ever. I purchased a glider suit and harness system while exploring Fortree City. It was designed to allow you to use air travel regardless of the size of your flying pokemon, on the condition they were powerful enough to get you to achieve lift off. Since Capaldi is the size of my torso, I wasn't exactly going to be riding his back, but he did have enough strength to pull me. I learned rapidly as I plummeted off the side of Mt. Pyre that gliding behind a pokemon was not something you just dived into. I really should have read the manual. Thankfully I had Moof to help stabilize me and halfway to Slateport I think I got the hang of controlling my glide path. Capaldi barely had trouble at all taking us all the way into the cloud layer and beyond.

We made good time to Slateport because of this, I think taking an hour, hour-half before we were attempting our first landing. Capaldi tried his best; I place no blame on him. Moof tried to help too but thankfully stopped just in time to not get squashed. Sand hurts when you hit it at a decent speed. I used a super potion on my scrapes and anywhere I ached. As of writing this, it seems to have helped some. Still ache though. Thank Arceus I didn't break my legs. I will be reading the manual before bed.

Anyways, so when I was flying over Slateport I had noticed a large group of people in front of the shipyard. I was concerned I had missed Team Aqua but it turns out I arrived on the tail end of an interview with Captain Stern about some major archeological find. When the reporter was finished and the crowd began to ask questions Captain Stern took notice of me and pulled me aside while his researchers handled the crowd. He did have a look of concern -I was covered in sand and probably looked terrible- but was excited to inform me that they had found an underwater cavern on Route 128, and evidence that it was the home of an ancient pokemon thought long extinct. I tried to explain that I had come here for the same reason; Team Aqua was undoubtedly going to try to get to that cavern. How they even knew it existed before Stern did I still don't know, but I never got the chance to tell him. I was interrupted by voice from a megaphone.

Grandly claiming control of Captain Stern's submarine, thanking him for his contribution to their 'great plan of returning everything to the beginning' and emphasizing how honored Stern should be, the megaphone voice laughed and was recognizable as Archie. Captain Stern and myself ran into the shipyard, where the voice came from, a few reporters who heard the declaration following a distance behind us. Predictably we found Archie and that woman from the meteor falls, Shelly, standing beside the floating submarine. Archie actually dropped his megaphone, surprised to see I'd followed him. I was then mockingly applauded for my persistence and love of justice (about time someone noticed -strike that from court record-) and told boldly that my chance to turn the tide had passed. He claimed to only require a few modifications before they could use the submarine to bust open the seafloor cavern. I also saw no sign of the blue orb he had taken either.

His next statement confused me. 'I know you gotta do what you gotta do, scamp' (I am really hating that name, so degrading considering I nearly destroyed him on Mt. Chimney) 'I'm not gonna tell you to quit chasing us.' And he didn't. Instead he instructed me -if my honor demanded it- to seek out their hideout in Lilycove. Not sure how telling me where your hideout is makes it a hideout anymore, or if he really thought I was so little a threat to their plan that he would level the field by giving me this info. I'm definitely going, but I am certainly anticipating a trap now.

Shelly gave the grunts on the dock orders to detain me until the submarine was gone while she and Archie boarded. I got called a scamp yet again as these two pathetic goons tried to intimidate me. One of them haughtily proclaimed to be the 26th best in the Team. That had me smirking. They gave me their all, but Capaldi, Grawl, and Lucius showed them the door. The submarine was barely out of the shipyard when we finished, but there was still nothing I could do. Captain Stern was distraught, convinced his sub was going to become a tool for unimaginable disaster. I told him I'd keep that from happening. He seemed doubtful, but I've managed so far.

The flight north to Lilycove went better now that we'd had some experience, though the landing still needs work. It was early evening by the time I hit the Lilycove beach, and I am exhausted. I went to the Center first to restore everyone before exploring the city briefly. Mostly looking for the best meal I could possibly imagine and a bed more comfortable than a Pokecenter cot. I ended up running into May at the foot of a staircase leading to an elevated portion of the city, and the Lilycove department store apparently. When she saw me there was no avoiding her, despite my current mood being anything but amiable to unfettered excitement. She asked if I had come here to shop, but I barely got a word out before that bouncy girl was challenging me to a fight. League rules, can't say no. My team was clearly as enthused as I, because they didn't play any games. Capaldi ended her swellow on the first blow and Lucifer took out her sceptile, then refused to switch out. He dealt with her other two, even though one was this massive wailord (as big as a building I swear) so that the rest of the team could actually enjoy their RnR.

After the battle May confided in me that she was considering going back to Littleroot because her pokedex was quite full of field data that needed her father's analysis. I mentioned that mine was pretty full too, but I had more pressing matters than field data. She thought I meant the gyms and the Pokemon League, and I agreed I was going to continue that path, but -and she didn't let me finish. It was all 'good luck then' and handshake and then she was gone into the darkening evening. I really could use her help tomorrow with storming Team Aqua's hideout, but I guess it's just me and the team now.

Mickey's currently sleeping on the floor of our room at the Lilycove hotel: good food, good room, but the owner is a little creepy. He's got the rest of the team in their pokeballs in his arms, except Lucifer who is sleeping at his head. Or was. He just popped his head up because of a noise. Mickey popped an eye open too. Since we know Team Aqua is harbored in this city, they are expecting some trouble tonight. I hope that's not the case because I am too exhausted to deal with it.

And now I am on the news because of that incident in Slateport City harbor. This is not how I wanted to become famous.
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Day 35 continued...
Since my journal is quickly becoming the primary witness testimony on a future court case (if Hoenn even has a justice system; at this point it seems common law and anarchy reign -omit this statement during evidence review-) and I will eventually read this again when I am older and wonder what I was thinking at sixteen, I am going to point out that yes, I knew I was being baited to Slateport city, I knew the possibility of an ambush. What was I supposed to do? Leave it to the phantom authorities?

No, I wasn't stupid for trying to follow them to Slateport. I was stupid for trying to follow them by flying for the first time ever. I purchased a glider suit and harness system while exploring Fortree City. It was designed to allow you to use air travel regardless of the size of your flying pokemon, on the condition they were powerful enough to get you to achieve lift off. Since Capaldi is the size of my torso, I wasn't exactly going to be riding his back, but he did have enough strength to pull me. I learned rapidly as I plummeted off the side of Mt. Pyre that gliding behind a pokemon was not something you just dived into. I really should have read the manual. Thankfully I had Moof to help stabilize me and halfway to Slateport I think I got the hang of controlling my glide path. Capaldi barely had trouble at all taking us all the way into the cloud layer and beyond.

We made good time to Slateport because of this, I think taking an hour, hour-half before we were attempting our first landing. Capaldi tried his best; I place no blame on him. Moof tried to help too but thankfully stopped just in time to not get squashed. Sand hurts when you hit it at a decent speed. I used a super potion on my scrapes and anywhere I ached. As of writing this, it seems to have helped some. Still ache though. Thank Arceus I didn't break my legs. I will be reading the manual before bed.

Anyways, so when I was flying over Slateport I had noticed a large group of people in front of the shipyard. I was concerned I had missed Team Aqua but it turns out I arrived on the tail end of an interview with Captain Stern about some major archeological find. When the reporter was finished and the crowd began to ask questions Captain Stern took notice of me and pulled me aside while his researchers handled the crowd. He did have a look of concern -I was covered in sand and probably looked terrible- but was excited to inform me that they had found an underwater cavern on Route 128, and evidence that it was the home of an ancient pokemon thought long extinct. I tried to explain that I had come here for the same reason; Team Aqua was undoubtedly going to try to get to that cavern. How they even knew it existed before Stern did I still don't know, but I never got the chance to tell him. I was interrupted by voice from a megaphone.

Grandly claiming control of Captain Stern's submarine, thanking him for his contribution to their 'great plan of returning everything to the beginning' and emphasizing how honored Stern should be, the megaphone voice laughed and was recognizable as Archie. Captain Stern and myself ran into the shipyard, where the voice came from, a few reporters who heard the declaration following a distance behind us. Predictably we found Archie and that woman from the meteor falls, Shelly, standing beside the floating submarine. Archie actually dropped his megaphone, surprised to see I'd followed him. I was then mockingly applauded for my persistence and love of justice (about time someone noticed -strike that from court record-) and told boldly that my chance to turn the tide had passed. He claimed to only require a few modifications before they could use the submarine to bust open the seafloor cavern. I also saw no sign of the blue orb he had taken either.

His next statement confused me. 'I know you gotta do what you gotta do, scamp' (I am really hating that name, so degrading considering I nearly destroyed him on Mt. Chimney) 'I'm not gonna tell you to quit chasing us.' And he didn't. Instead he instructed me -if my honor demanded it- to seek out their hideout in Lilycove. Not sure how telling me where your hideout is makes it a hideout anymore, or if he really thought I was so little a threat to their plan that he would level the field by giving me this info. I'm definitely going, but I am certainly anticipating a trap now.

Shelly gave the grunts on the dock orders to detain me until the submarine was gone while she and Archie boarded. I got called a scamp yet again as these two pathetic goons tried to intimidate me. One of them haughtily proclaimed to be the 26th best in the Team. That had me smirking. They gave me their all, but Capaldi, Grawl, and Lucius showed them the door. The submarine was barely out of the shipyard when we finished, but there was still nothing I could do. Captain Stern was distraught, convinced his sub was going to become a tool for unimaginable disaster. I told him I'd keep that from happening. He seemed doubtful, but I've managed so far.

The flight north to Lilycove went better now that we'd had some experience, though the landing still needs work. It was early evening by the time I hit the Lilycove beach, and I am exhausted. I went to the Center first to restore everyone before exploring the city briefly. Mostly looking for the best meal I could possibly imagine and a bed more comfortable than a Pokecenter cot. I ended up running into May at the foot of a staircase leading to an elevated portion of the city, and the Lilycove department store apparently. When she saw me there was no avoiding her, despite my current mood being anything but amiable to unfettered excitement. She asked if I had come here to shop, but I barely got a word out before that bouncy girl was challenging me to a fight. League rules, can't say no. My team was clearly as enthused as I, because they didn't play any games. Capaldi ended her swellow on the first blow and Lucifer took out her sceptile, then refused to switch out. He dealt with her other two, even though one was this massive wailord (as big as a building I swear) so that the rest of the team could actually enjoy their RnR.

After the battle May confided in me that she was considering going back to Littleroot because her pokedex was quite full of field data that needed her father's analysis. I mentioned that mine was pretty full too, but I had more pressing matters than field data. She thought I meant the gyms and the Pokemon League, and I agreed I was going to continue that path, but -and she didn't let me finish. It was all 'good luck then' and handshake and then she was gone into the darkening evening. I really could use her help tomorrow with storming Team Aqua's hideout, but I guess it's just me and the team now.

Mickey's currently sleeping on the floor of our room at the Lilycove hotel: good food, good room, but the owner is a little creepy. He's got the rest of the team in their pokeballs in his arms, except Lucifer who is sleeping at his head. Or was. He just popped his head up because of a noise. Mickey popped an eye open too. Since we know Team Aqua is harbored in this city, they are expecting some trouble tonight. I hope that's not the case because I am too exhausted to deal with it.

And now I am on the news because of that incident in Slateport City harbor. This is not how I wanted to become famous.
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