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RSE Scramble 03!
Before I originally posted this update on SPPf, I had to... "secure" the Nosepass I was assigned, so to speak. More on that in a future update. For now...

Walking down Rustboro City's main street, Anti remembers the unfinished Rusturf Tunnel project. From what she has heard, it's a dead end thanks to the cancellation, but she's just a little bit curious anyway, and decides to go have a peek inside the cave to see how far they managed to get.

Before she can even step outside the city limits, the thug from the other day sprints out of the Devon building like his butt's on fire. Another familiar face, Devon guy, whines and half-jogs after him.

"Waaaiiit! Don't steal my goods!" Devon guy calls out pathetically.

After he goes past, Anti thinks about what he said for a moment, then giggles. "Heheh. Goods."

Anyhow, Anti's wondering why Thuggy McLoser is still running around like he owns the place, and decides to hunt him down. Turns out he went straight to Route 116, likely unaware that the tunnel project never got finished. She heads into the cave after him.

Just as the tunnelers said, there are indeed more Whismur in the cave than she can shake a stick at. Anti is practically kicking them off left and right as she stumbles through the mist, and bumps into the Team Aqua thug. He screams and backs away, and Anti hears the cry of another Pokemon with him. Looking ahead through the fog, she sees the guy has already recovered from his shock, and is leering nastily at her.

"Come get some! Yeah, you know you want it!" Generic Aqua Thug beckons with one hand, the other keeping a struggling Wingull in check, and backs off a couple steps.

"There's a dead end behind you, you know," Anti dryly points out.

"Wha--" Thug hastily checks behind him, and curses. "Oh come ON!"

Anti sighs, rolls her eyes, and sends out Somnolent to soak up half the experience from the thug's Poochyena. Chester gets to properly own afterward, and the thug runs away crying, dropping the Wingull and the Devon Goods in his frustration at getting beat down by a fluffy pink kitten.



A strange old man comes into the cave, and the Wingull cries out happily. Evidently, she belongs to the old man, who sincerely thanks Anti for rescuing his "Peeko". She didn't even notice him outside the cave earlier, really. Anyway, the old guy, named Mr. Briney, and his pal Peeko exit the cave to return to their seaside cottage.

Figuring the Devon guy probably wants his goods back, Anti sprays on some more Repel and returns to the city, where the guy has been waiting this whole time. She forks over the goods with a big smile on her face and dollar signs in her eyes.

"Wow, thanks!" Devon guy says. "Here have another Great Ball!"

Anti scowls. "That's it. Toadstool, use Stun Spo--"

Two seconds later she's in the Devon president's office. The prez wants Anti to deliver the goods she just got back, as well as hand off a letter to his kid in Dewford Town. She is more than ready to say "Do I LOOK like your freakin' gopher?" when President Stone also hands over yet another shiny cool device. She's too busy staring at it to listen to the explanation of how it functions, but she does catch things like "map" and "annoying phone function".

She leaves the building, and heads south to see if she can find a way to the island where Dewford is situated. She sees Brendan standing around near the entrance of the city.



After the usual greeting, Brendan demands a battle to get revenge. His Pokemon end up on the other side of town. Unfortunately, while Anti is busy laughing at Brendan, he manages to get himself registered on the PokeNav's Match Call list. Dang!

As if it wasn't obvious enough, Mr. Briney used to be a sailor, so Anti takes her time going to his cottage. She's not looking forward to the old people smell that probably permeates the place. On the way, she notices those little trees with the "USE CUT HERE" signs nailed to them. She has the Cut HM, but none of her teammates can use it. What is she to do?

"Kyamo!"

Anti turns toward the source of the familiar sound.

"Kyamo kyamo!"

It's her old starter Pokemon, Spaz! Looks like he actually missed her. He runs down the road on all fours toward her, smiling happily.

Then a Magikarp splashes out of the water right next to him.

"KyamoAAAAAARGH!!"


Spaz proceeds to freak out six ways to Sunday while the Magikarp flops and gasps in the dirt. Some things never change. Anti comes over and retrieves her spastic Treecko; turns out he was even prudent enough to bring his Poke Ball with him. He apparently wants to tag along for the journey, but after seeing that kind of reaction to a Pokemon that can't even hurt him, Anti knows she still can't use him for battle... then she gets another idea.

*ding!* "Spaz learned CUT!"

After watching Spaz expertly slice away the cut trees with his... claws?... Anti retrieves the sweet hidden treasure and continues south until she reaches the cottage where Mr. Briney lives.



After watching him chase Peeko in circles around the tea table, Anti gets his attention and says she needs a lift to Dewford. Briney is more than eager to repay her for rescuing his Wingull, and they're off to sea on his boat.

Unfortunately for Anti, Briney is a crazy old man driver.


Even worse, Dad calls while Briney is narrowly dodging coral reefs and actually managing to pull off racing-style drifts with his beat-up old boat.

"Anti? It's your dad. You've been out there for a long time now... Don't you think you should take a--"

"NO." *click*

Briney nearly crashes the boat into Dewford Island, and Anti escapes as fast as possible. Wondering just where this Steven guy could be, she looks around inside a few houses, beats up some Fisherman's Pokemon on the beach, and briefly explores the cave. It gets pitch-black one floor down, so she gives up that place for later.

Anti checks out the gym in town. It's also super-dark in there, but experience points are beckoning to her, so she does some more bait-and-switch with Somnolent. All of a sudden, he starts glowing.

"Congratulations! Your Somnolent has evolved to KADABRA!"


"Okay," says Anti. "But he still can't--"

"Somnolent learned CONFUSION!"

Anti punches the air in triumph. "SWEET!"

She speedily rushes to the end of the gym where Brawly waits.

"Your Kadabra's looking at me funny," Brawly comments.

"That's because he's super-effectiving all your Pokemon before they can come out," Anti replies.

"What the--awww!" Brawly checks his Pokemon; every single one of them has already fainted. He sighs. "Fine... here's the Knuckle Badge."

"Score." Anti shines it on her shirt and puts it in her bag.

Brawly mutters something about his badge making Flash usable outside of battle to light up dark places, which is just what Anti needs. A good Samaritan Hiker gave her one such HM back in that dark cave, now that she thinks of it, and considering it's one of the most useless freaking moves ever, who better to use it than Spaz?

*Team Anti*


Toadstool (Shroomish F), L.17 @Miracle Seed
-Mega Drain
-Stun Spore
-Leech Seed
-Tackle

Somnolent (Kadabra M), L.17 @Oran Berry
-Confusion
-Teleport

Chester (Skitty M), L.14 @Silk Scarf
-Tackle
-Attract
-Sing
-Tail Whip

And Spaz, the team mascot/HM slave.

Next time: the world's surliest delivery girl!