When we last left our Honey, a Pikachu in a suspiciously cosplay-ish scarf had given her a Delusifier for the sole purpose of having her take on his ‘superiors’ in Team Fusion and, according to Pikachu, lose.

But how does the Delusifier work?

Just fine, just fine.

Hmm… another set of mysterious Zelda-ish ruins like the ones in the swamp. Will this be another link between worlds?

If this rain wasn’t freezing cold, I’d say ‘No sleet, Sherlock.’

Excuse me, but given how much heck your grunts put me through just to reach you, I think any ‘passing kid’ would have passed somewhere else long ago.

And her dog!

Surprisingly, this is not a double battle. Possibly it’s not scripted to be one, or possibly it’s programmed to, if only one Pokemon in the player’s party is conscious, just have it be a single battle.

After two turns, the couple switches to Magmar, because what kind of couple has an Electabuzz and no Magmar? Sadly, not even Grotle the Wall can stand up to Magmar, as it used up all the energy for its most powerful attack, Razor Leaf, while reaching the ruins.

Honey gets cent back to the senter – I mean sent back to the center. Predictably, Blake still hasn’t finished fixing the ship, as he conveniently won’t be finished until she’s beaten Team Fusion.

Also predictably, by the time Honey makes it back, Grotle is once again her only Pokemon conscious.



This time, however, Grotle has some Razor Leaf energy left.

That was one hit. One. Hit. On a Fire-type. Yes, it was a crit from a Pokemon eleven levels higher, but still.

There’s a reason Sapping Turtle gets all the Exp.

Due to some ill-timed Absorbs, the chat leaves Magmar with openings to use Fire Punch. It even gets around the rain’s nerfing Fire-type moves by using Leer.



This only delays the inevitable.



Electabuzz then faints to one hit from Razor Leaf. Predictably.

“..squashing an unwanted pest? I’ll do it myself.”



“…about an end to you.”



He has a neat monogram, if you’re into copyright violation.

And true to Edgychu’s word, he has a Zoroark.

…that, though clearly capable of creating illusions as seen by the imaginary Kryptonite all over the place, somehow also has Intimidate.

Zoroark starts off with Fury Swipes, but it only hits twice. Grotle then uses Absorb to heal back more damage than Zoroark dealt it, which is a running gag on certain foes.

The next Fury Swipes hits four times, and Grotle saps back exactly as much health as Zoroark dealt it. Short a high crit rate, Fury Swipes clearly isn’t going to cut it.

So Zoroark moves to Pursuit, which does a trifling amount of damage. Grotle then pulls out the big guns and uses Razor Leaf. Which, even after the physical/special split and the Intimidate, still takes Zoroark down.

Yeah, yeah, no one likes a sore loser.

The group leaves, and Honey gets a phone call. Lucky it didn’t interrupt her in the middle of the battle, because that would’ve been awkward.

It’s Blake, announcing that the boat is in working order. When he hears that Honey’s taken care of Team Fusion, he congratulates her for it and tells her to comee on down so they can set sail.

Amazingly, he says this directly after Honey just clearly walked straight through the boat… without even denting the metal. Or denting Honey, for that matter.

Just what is our Host, anyway…?

To be continued…