This is the best day ever

Well, we're back to the old Dream Team after boxing that egg-borne atrocity.

I make my way down into the well, where I find Kurt lying on the ground and looking like he's probably seen better days.

He mentions "Team Rocket" again, and how they've supposedly set up their operations in this very well. For some reason, he thinks I'm going to defeat them all by myself at his command. Not that I couldn't, of course, but for me to take orders from this guy? Fat chance.

I decide to go ahead and do it anyway, with further training as my excuse.

The well is chock-full of Zubats. Here a Zubat, there a Zubat, everywhere a-

...Well now that's odd. Every other one before this has been blue. And why is it glowing? It must be radioactive...

Cairo doesn't know what its deal is either.

But, this must be a particularly rare specimen, and would make a lovely trophy for the team. And if it really is radioactive, it logically follows that it would have superpowers! I must have it!

Such strength, to break free of a Great Ball... The label on it even said, "Catches Pokémon more reliably than an ordinary PokéBall. It's 'great!'" Cairo himself was captured in just a single PokéBall.

I have underestimated this bat.

But after several more balls thrown and many minutes of heart-pounding anticipation, it finally lays still, as a trophy I have so rightfully earned.

To think, this is a PokéDex entry that most likely would have never been made otherwise.

The world is ours for the taking.

After roaming around the grass outside the well for a while to train Flitwick up a bit, I get a call on my PokéGear from some guy named Ralph. Who he is or how he got my number are both mysteries to me, but he seems really excited about an outbreak of "quill fish". I decide to trek back to the area before Union Cave, since I have little better to do.

Ah. This what he meant.

I must have it.

Hooray!~

I don her "Flagrant". I've added two more team members in such a short time, but I suppose Garrison and Cairo won't mind stepping out of the limelight for a while.

[Note from real-life Frez: Whoa. A freaking shiny. I never find these, at least not outside of chaining, and especially never so early in a game. This is the third legitimate shiny I've ever found in a Gen 2 game, ever. I've been playing them since they were brand new.

I know this post was short, but I can't exactly say this was my original plan. I added the Qwilfish capture to beef it up a smidge.

Oh and the nickname is courtesy of Richie.]