The Insane Asylum

Please note that this will contain spoilers to the story and events of Pokemon Black/White and Black 2/White 2. Leave now if this is a problem to you.

Drayden wanted to speak to me about DNA Splicers or something like that. Unfortunately it seemed Team Plasma wanted to interrupt us. With a freaking flying boat with an ice cannon. I mean, seriously? They just had to be all cool about it... sorry about that. Anyway, they pretty much blasted Opelucid with ice and then decided to hang around I guess. So me and Drayden beat them up. We managed to drive them off before they could get their hands on the DNA Splicers. But Drayden, eternal doofus that he is, took them out of their secure hiding place and let the Shadow Triad steal them. We tried to give chase, but one of them held me up while the others escaped.

Cheren and hugh popped up and we agreed that we had to do something. Drayden suggested heading for Humilau City. Cheren and Hugh rushed off so I used fly to head to Undella Town.

Deciding to get some more training in, I headed into Undella Bay and surfed on my Jellicent in order to battle the trainers therein. After a short while I found my way to a cave. Hugh buzzed me on the transceiver and pondered why I was taking the long way around. I didn't even know the Marine Tube was open again, but oh well these world perils have a tendency to wait until the hero is ready to tackle them anyway.

Some black belt guy was blocking the entrance, but smashing all his pokemon aside convinced him to move. Still, the inside of the cave wasn't quite as interesting as I had hoped. There was quite a few pokemon around and some trainers of course, but nothing quite like interesting puzzles or challenges to deal with. Still, it wasn't exactly boring either so it was fine to connect me to route 22.

That route was pretty short. The rocks made it tricky to navigate and the trainers bizarrely blocking some of the openings made things more tricky. Eventually though I made my way to Humilau City.

Hugh was waiting for me, but as per typical declared that searching for Team Plasma could wait until I defeated the local gym leader. Um, OK, whatever. Oddly the gym leader wasn't even at the gym and was off swimming somewhere. I took a quick look around only for Marlon himself to pop up, chatted a bit and then dashed to the gym to wait for me.

The gym was interesting, as it involved using lilypads to cross the water. It required a bit of thinking but naturally I was able to figure things out. I defeated the various trainers I came across and made my way to Marlon at the end.

I sent out my Ampharos to deal with his first pokemon Carracosta. Though its sturdy ability saved it from an immediate KO from Discharge, it couldn't do enough damage to my pokemon to prevent the followup attack. I decided not to mess around too much though and brought in Haxorus to clean up. I opted for perform a couple of dragon dances while Marlon's Wailord pointlessly boosted its special defence before sweeping through both it and his Jellicent with some rather powerful dragon claws. I muts say I'm very surprised that a gym leader this late into my journey is only opting for three pokemon, but there you go. Another gym badge was mine and Marlon soon left.

Guess I better go see what Hugh wants now.

Current location: Humilau City
Current team: Emboar (Lv50), Ampharos (Lv51), Krookodile (Lv49), Braviary (Lv51), Haxorus (Lv50), Jellicent (Lv52).

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