And It All Began So Well:
So we being the game with me getting blasted out of the sky. Okay, it actually begins asking for your gender and throws you into action (what, my name isn't important enough?) your character comes flying in on a Staraptor to stop two goons from a group called Pokemon Pinchers (I was debating whether this or Pokemon Nappers was the more stupid name, then I settled on them both being stupid) who were chasing a Latios. Latios escapes and they send a Pidgey at me which I catch without any problems (apparently StyIer tops can fly now) and then blast me with plasma balls which I dodge, once again, easily. The Pinchers run out of ammo and my sidekickpartner Summer (I picked the boy, obviously) comes in which worry the goons but then their boss comes in and tries to blast Summer out of the sky but my chatacter took the attack and we fade out from there with the boss saying Summer is like a good luck charm (know excuse me for having my mind in the gutter, while I suppose if I was playing a girl this seen would look like the boss was mocking Ben, however being I was playing as a boy this being said to Summer just gives a bit of a squicky implication to me). While falling my character remembers a meeting him and Summer had with Professor Hastings and Murph before plunging into the sea and losing his StyIer to a Mantyke. After a mini-game requiring you to turn your DS on its side as if you're reading a book and tapping when a bar is fall to reach Mantyke. And once you get your StyIer back you get hit by a submarine.

At Least I Didn't Need To Befriend A Beach Ball, Though My StyIer Is Already Talking To Me:
The submarine belongs to the Pokemon Pinchers as they fly out (did I mention they were flying on saucers?) they invade the nearby island where a Pichu had just performed a concert with a ukulele (yes, I just said that) and using purple waves made all the Pokemon vanish except for Ukulele Pichu. So after that LONG cutscene the game remembers your main character so has him swim onto Dolce Island. Your StyIer informs you (yay, it talks now, if I could name it I would call it "Navi") that it malfunctioned and can't remember your name so you tell it your name. Even though the island is uninhibited except for Pokemon, they still have a save machine which is now a helicopter TV... I swear this is the game and not a hallucinogenic trip I'm describing here. Getting deeper into the island I'm attacked by the Ukulele Pichu which is when the game decides to tell me how to capture a Pokemon (um, then what was that Pidgey capture I did before?) I take down with a few spins of my styIer (surely this will make a powerful partner...) when someone named Booker comes up and informs you he came here on a boat after seeing UFO swarm it and sends Ukulele Pichu to look for its friends as you head for his boat. However it's revealed Booker forgot to tie his boat down so it floated away, luckily there is another boat Booker has been working on for the Pokemon if a tropical storm hits (he also built the Ukulele for Pichu, though it only knows a simple note which it does by shocking the Ukulele) so after getting an Ursaring (yay, Pokemon Pinchers did a great job capturing all the Pokemon on the island, and I say this with a whole party of 7) to push the boat down the hill and it miraculously survives unscratched we're about to get on it when Ukulele Pichu jumps on with Booker saying it wasn't able to find its friends (probably because I had all of its non-Pichu friends with me at the moment, though he mentioned it was looking for its Pichu friends) so we set sail for Renbow Island. Interesting thing to note, I always have permission to carry the maximum of 7 Pokemon with me and can take a Pokemon from its home environment. Unlike in Metroid Other M, your higher-ups kind of realize you having all your perks at the beginning of the game kind of helps you in your mission.

*Starts Playing "Pig Mask Army" Theme From Mother 3*:
So on Renbow Island and meet up with a few kids (one becomes important but I forget his name) and you go into Booker's house to rest but Ukulele Pichu runs off after seeing Pokemon Pinchers. After being introduced to Nick, Booker's apprentice, who probably should be wearing black and listening to "Crawling in my skin" being he comes up with over-imaginative stories which are most often then not negative. Upon realizing Ukulele Pichu is gone someone tells you UFO's are invading Teakwood Forest next to Cocona Village and some old lumberjack named Arley went to investigate but never came back. Being a Pokemon Ranger, you're given the task to see what's going on and quickly find Pokemon Pinchers continuing to use their purple waves to wipe Pokemon from existence and then you get to Rasp Cavern where they try to do this to Ukulele Pichu but the kid who's name I forgot and decided to go with you as he's worried about Arley stops them. Capturing there Buizel and Croagunk I continued on through to find Arley trying to keep Ukulele Pichu from continuing being it's dangerous, but perfectly lets two kids pass him with nothing more then a warning. Pokemon Pinchers steal a slab from one of the many scattered tablets around the islands and upon Ukulele Pichu attacking them they destroy its Ukulele and say it's not worth vaporizing. Upon seeing you they sends out a Cranidos to attack... and after attacking one of the Pinchers by mistake you capture it without much difficulty. Having the slab, they try to run away but another Pincher slams into them, having heard a ruckus. After being reminded he was suppose to be keeping Raikou busy, Raikou appears and begins chasing after them away. The kid says that it's a Mission complete and you get a message you got 50 Ranger Points... which you can't use as the StyIer is busted. Getting back to Cocona Village you see the local doctor Edward treating one of the older citizens who slipped when he saw Raikou run by as another citizen begins singing a song about a Legendary hero who rode on Raikou. Arley mentions that he hurt his back so he and Edward goes back to Arley's shack and you head back to Booker's where you're told Ukulele Pichu went running to.

Time For Traveling Back And Quests:
Booker is unable to fix Ukulele's Pichu so after that you're introduced to Quests and your first one is to go with Nick to Docle Island to get some string Booker needs to fix Pichu's Ukulele. Nothing special here, the "boss" was just six Sunkerns which I got all in one circle. Anyway it'll take some time for Booker to fix Pichu's Ukulele so you go on patrol when someone says something is happening on the outskirts of Cocona Village. You get there and see a ball of glowing light hovering over a tablet. After it scares everyone but you away, it turns into Celebi and you enter a boss fight with it... that came out of nowhere. It was an easy capture however and after you do it takes you back in time. You meet a kid from the past who's name I also forget and he figures out pretty quickly Celebi had taken you from the future and berates it for it. But before he tells it to take you back, he wants to hear a bit about the future thus causing who knows what time anomalies. After hearing about the Pokemon Rangers and revealing that you're in a place called Cocona Plaza, Celebi takes you back to the future where you're then told Booker is probably done fixing Pichu's Ukulele. However first let's do a few quests that we can do. First one involved the old man who injured himself seeing Raikou wanting you to clear a fence in Teakwood Forest... something which I already did making that the fastest quest ever. Then I did one for a little girl who wanted a Pahcirisu to help her Pachirisu... and I already had a Pachirisu in my group so that makes this the tied for the fastest quest ever. Another involved me solving an old couple's argument by catching a Geodude in Rasp Cavern. Now while I did awake the Geodude once I released it so when I went back to get it I remembered I needed a Water-type Field Move... and the only Pokemon that knows it this far in the game is Marill which is all the way of Docle Island. Anyway I did that quest which was longer then it should have been (by the way, each mission awards you 10 Ranger Points... you know, the points you can't use yet) and went back to Booker who fixed Pichu's Ukulele and tells you you should go to the Oblivia's only regional Pokemon Ranger: Rand. He also says Rand daughter could fix your StyIer so it's off to Rand, however Ukulele Pichu decides to tag along and it's explained how it works... though I myself haven't had Ukulele Pichu jump out to help me yet.

Under the Sea, Where Everything Is Darker:
Getting to Lapras Beach which you need to go through to get to Rand (before the tide was in so you couldn't travel along the full beach, an excuse used in the previous game and also makes no sense). Once there you meet Nema, Rand's said daughter trying to get the Lapras owner to help her retrieve one of Pokemon Pincher's flying machines which fell into the water. She makes up some excuse that in Oblivia the first little girl who asks you for a "wish" you have to grant her that plus 2 others. So her first wish was for me to get the flying machine but first I had to get the Lapras to trust me so after that was quickly done we start out non-chase-mini-game water level. Also, like in the last game, I have to leave my "land" Pokemon up above. Anyway deep below I find the machine being examined by a Horsea and Clamperl who attacked me. I capture them and then a Kingdra takes the machine and we enter another underwater chase mini-game with it. Catching up to it it drops the machine so now we need to go into dark waters which you can use Chinchou's to light up the area you're swimmin but are warned about the Sharpedo's lurking in the depth. Finding the machine you're attacked by the Sharpedos but they aren't difficult. You take the part back to Nema who hears that you're going to see her dad and joins you, using her second "wish" to have you carry the machine part which you just walk over to and "put away" despite it being as big as you are. However I first did another quest which some guy lost his lucky lure and I had to go down to look for it. At first I searched all around the Sharpedo area (and for some reason the "corridor" which I chased the Kingdra though vanished despite it having been a long corridor) and found nothing but remember a little alcove up above where I found a Luvdisc with the lure. I captured it and completed the quest and decided to stop there. Oh, one last thing to mention, being there are no Ranger Stations in Oblivia, in order to re-charge your StyIer without a Pokemon's help you use these Gigaremo looking things.

So we begin taking the Z.Z. Flyer over to Nema's house when we run into the Pokemon Pinchers. After catching their Eevee and Piplup they run off and we hear Raikou's roar and an explosion. We continue on to find that Nema's house in on fire! Luckily they have 3 Water-type Pokemon nearby so I go back and catch one and use it to put out the fire... then a bigger fire lit up. My StyIer activated and explained the Team Target Clear so I went back, got the 3 Water-type from the previous area (I had already broken the rock hiding the Shellos as soon as I got to the area) and did the Team Target Clear and put the fire out. So what is out reward for saving Nema's house? She asking for three more requests and one is us carrying the Z.Z. Flyer to her room, or the outside of her room as the fire damaged her room. Nema says she's a "scientist", though she does fix our StyIer which she is curious about since it talks unlike her fathers and after fixing it we can finally use the Modification feature and use our Ranger Points to make our StyIer stronger. Nema's father isn't here so she suggests we go to the Wireless Tower. But before I do I take a quick peek upstairs and find a whole bunch of books about Archeology and Oblivia Legends. I also realized that the design on their rug in their living room was in a shape of a Articuno. Though here's a question, where is Nema's parent's room? The house only has the living room, her room, and that library upstairs.

To get to the Wireless Tower we must travel through Mt. Latolato and on our way there we have more Pokemon Pincher fights, one with an Ivysaur and another with Wobbuffet. We get to the Wireless Tower and find Rand standing up against several Pokemon Pinchers and help him (and when I say "help" I mean do it all myself) against a Gligar, Skutank, and Aipom, it was somewhat annoying but I go through it. We go inside the house next to the Wireless Tower and meet both Nema's parents, her father Rand the region's Pokemon Ranger and her mother Leanne who is an archeologist. We find out Pokemon Pinchers has taken over the Wireless Tower and then an assistant(?) of their named Burkhart comes in electrified reporting the Wireless Tower still have exposed wires that he got sh+ocked by. After a quick scene with him trying to "charge" my StyIer with the electricity he's surrounded by and my StyIer complaining about warranty violation me and Rand head to the Wireless Tower. Climbing to the first level we're introduced to Agitated Pokemon, Pokemon who you first need to clear their "agitated" bar before you can catch them and while circling them doesn't decrease the bar by much, using your Assist Pokemon does knock them out of it much faster. We have a battle with a Pokemon Pincher using one of Ukulele Pichu's Pichu friend and after freeing it the two Pichu talk and Ukulele Pichu's friend runs off. On the next level we're introduced to the exposed wire by seeing a Pincher getting shocked by it (when you talk with him it says he's knocked unconscious... even though he's standing up). Battle with a Larion and 2 Aron later and we come to the next level which introduces strong winds. We get to the top without much trouble except for a Team Target Clear needing two Hitmonchans and we cut to a cutscene with another Pokemon Pincher boss, this one is a girl with blue hair and clothing, trying to figure out how to destroy the Tower's antenna. Two grunts come up to her and give her the emblem which they had stolen from Rasp Cave and tell her the Pokemon Rangers and Raikou are coming up. Just then Raikou comes in and accidentally destroys the antenna and then seeing us she flies off in a Z.Z. Flyer. A boss fight with Raikou takes place and after defeating it we see a symbol in the electricity it creates upon vanishing and we record it.

We get back down to find Buckhart had caught two Pinchers, but they trick him by saying there is a flying pizza which actually works and they run off and me and Rand take chase. Upon getting to the Big Booker Bridge we meet with the Pokemon Pincher boss that shot us out of the sky, a guy with red hair and clothing and tells us they have Summer and she is fine before blowing up the bridge with Voltorbs. Going back Rand sends you to go tell Booker about the broken bridge as he and Buckhart examine the Wireless Tower. Going back to Booker, once he hears about what happened he runs off with Nick telling us the bridge is Booker's masterpiece and then he upgrades Pichu's Ukulele so it could play longer. While traveling back Celebi appears and takes us back in time where we meet two other people from the past, Tanvir and Kira, who are curious why the oracle's door is closed. They see me and Celebi and say they heard about me from Ravio (the kid from the past who name I forgot, BTW the other kid's name we met at the start was Ralph) and have Celebi send me back to the present. Passing Rand's house they call me in as Leanna had made a discovery about the symbol we saw but Rand didn't. There is a legend about a hero of Oblivia who rode on the back of Raikou by drawing a symbol which summoned it. The StyIer doesn't have a "drawing" function (then how did we record the symbol?) but Nema upgrades it (with it once again complaining about warranty violation) and gives us the Sign Mode and we head outside where I draw Raikou's sign and summon it to the shock (get it?) of everyone. They talk about how was it possible for the hero of the past to draw like the StyIer and come to the conclusion the hero didn't need a StyIer and he had a strong connection with Pokemon and therefore I had a strong connection with Pokemon blah blah blah, unless you have short term memory just a cutscene ago we traveled back in time, doesn't take much brain power to figure out your the Hero of Oblivia or at least will be. Anyway you ride Raikou to Big Booker Bridge (BTW, no NPC reacts differently if you're on Raikou, they give the same default message besides you using a Legendary Pokemon has a horse) and after almost giving Booker a heart attack he says it'll take awhile for the bridge to be fix but that's no problem as you just jump the gaps with Raikou. On the other side you surprise a women when a women says you're like the Hero of Oblivia, except on Mitonga Island where you are now the Hero of Oblivia rode on an Entei.

After riding into Tilt Village a cutscene forces you off Raikou and you meet up with good ol' Murph who was sent over because he was annoying everyonethey thought you could use the help. You tell him about what happened and says not to worry about Summer as she's a trained Pokemon Ranger and hopes that Professor Hastings believes no news is good news as you can't communicate with the Union thanks to the down Wireless Tower. Murph also alerts of reports made by Kellyn that all over other region's people dressed like Pokemon Pinchers grunts have been reading up about Oblivia legends and sends Murph to stop them from discovering a book in Oblivia called "Legend of the Oblivia Region" which there is only one copy of and was written by someone named Amun. Going around town to find out where this book was we meet a magician named Hocus (we were told about him earlier, but it was only a slight mention) and he performs a trick teleporting Ukulele Pichu somewhere, but comes back on screen along with Doctor Edward. Anyway we eventually find out that Amun had a mansion and that's probably where the book is (and also hear it's haunted) so we go to it but the gates are locked so Murph tries to do a Target Clear like Barlow did in the last games but winds up hurting himself instead and soon Ukulele Pichu points out there is an entrance through Noir Forest. The gimmick with Noir Forest is that the Dusclops living there will teleport you back to the entrance if they spot you in their field of vision. Getting through that we get to Amun's Mansion and enter it to have it locked behind us and enter a battle with three Misdreavus. Capture them and when you go further in you'll see a Pincher grunt walk into a room which a Dusclops then puts a bookcase needing two level 3 Cuts to get rid of. We explore the mansion and find a room with plates which begin flinging at us. Murph freaks and runs off but falls into the gap in the hallway which this room goes around, and this room has a Golbat that knows Level 3 cut (but the door locked behind after Murph ran out so we need to go around the Mansion to get to the bookcase. So after much walking and getting a Vulpix to burn down a web containing two Golbats and cutting a metal fance, we get to the bookcase and destroy it. In the room there is a bookcase lying against the wall which opens up to reveal a secret room behind it Murph walks out of. We go down to find Pokemon Pinchers and take down a Chikorita and Bayleef before entering a room finding the female blue haired and clothing boss from the Wireless Tower. She begins talking about Red Eyes (Black Dragon) and soon introduces herself as Blue Eyes (White Dragon... okay, I'll stop that now) and sends a Maganium at you which is a Boss. You defeat it and before Blue Eyes can get away Ukulele Pichu jumps on her and shocks her. Murph then find the book we were all looking for accidentally and gives it to me as he takes Blue Eyes back to the Union's boat for questioning. Also, while in the mansion, I found out that as long as they aren't hit in the battle, you can pretty much re-charge your StyIer without losing a recharging Pokemon as Assist Pokemon don't run off if you used them in battle unless they are it. So if you need energy, just get into a battle with a "wild" Pokemon, set your re-charger at a corner, and let it charge up your StyIer for free. Now back to the game.

I get outside and Celebi takes me back to the past where Ravio, Tanvir, and Kira are standing outside the Oracle's house once more discussing what to do. Before they could send me back to the present, a guy in armor called Steelhead comes out and says with the armor he can control Pokemon and sends out a Piplup. You catch it continuing to cause who knows how much damage to the time line as Steelhead retreats back into the temple saying they won't be able to stop him. Ravio suggests we could help solve what is going on with the Oracle but Tanvir says we can't as we're from the future and they must do it themselves. Before being taken back to the present, an Old Women tells us we can't tell anyone we've been to the past fearing someone might try traveling back and change history. After you go back to the present Celebi goes to its shrine and gives you access to Wireless Multiplayer Missions. Getting back to Tilt Village, Murph explains he's still questioning Blue Eyes though she keeps switching the questioning around so she's asking them and tells us to go tell Rand. We go back to Rand's House and give the book to Leanne and receive a report from Rand about the Wireless Tower still being broke. We go back to Murph (through this whole time I've been using Raikou because not only do I need it to jump over the bridge but it looks dang cool and I think Raikou is faster then walking), but first do a Quest where we save a bunch of Gravelers from some Pinchers grunts which we then get a Sign we can use to summon a Graveler... which makes no sense as we can just go and catch a Graveler anytime we wanted to. We get back to the story and give Murph the report and thankfully something interesting finally happens as Red Eyes (the Pokemon Pincher's boss with red hair and clothing) and offers to do a hostage exchange, Blue Eyes for Summer at the Daybreak Ruins, but says we must go alone and after Pichu tries attacking him he mocks us saying we can also bring along any Pokemon we want being we're useless without them (well so are you, otherwise you wouldn't be trying to catch the Pokemon, now would you?).

Murph gets Blue Eyes and tells her what's going on and he hands her to me and we go to the Daybreak Ruins. On the way some Pinchers try to double-cross us by taking Blue Eyes back with force using a Ambipom and Quilava. After getting them Blue Eyes suggests we forget that just happen (sorry Blue Eyes, I've already lost any worry about you guys, well your grunts, when I saw them accidentally attack one another and crashed their Z.Z. Flyer into each other) and we enter the ruins where Blue Eyes points out being this is a start of a mission so we better pose (apparently the Pokemon Pincher bosses have made their own poses only because they thought Pokemon Ranger poses were awesome... yay, now I'm not worried about the Pokemon Pinchers bosses anymore either). Another attempt to get Blue Eyes back is trading her for two of Ukulele Pichu's Pichu friends which offends her so they decide to just attack. Ukulele Pichu says good-bye to its friends and we continue on through the ruins having to do puzzles involving activating a light source with Psychic Pokemon and reflect the light into orbs which open up passageways leading deeper into the ruins. After more attempts to free Blue Eyes with a Xatu and another triple battle with a Bibarel, Sableye, and Bronzor we get to where the trade was to take place which has an Invloith (a stone with writing on it, like the one in Rasp Cave that Pokemon Pinchers took a chunk out of) when Entei appears and threatens Blue Eyes who tried telling it to go away. We enter a Boss battle with it and after catching it we get its Sign and Red Eyes appears. Much to my surprise, he did bring Summer and the hostage trade is done and as they fly off they throw Eletrodes at us causing the entrance to be blocked off. Summer mentions that they still have her partner Staraptor but not to worry as she had put a beacon in their HQ she could track with her StyIer but they broke it but we "tell" her that she could fix it at Rand's place. As to get out of here, there is an exit blocked by boulders which Summer tells us about a legend which said Entei could break through them (Red Eyes said they all saw us take down Entei, and I guess we told her we're able to summon Raikou so she probably thinks we can also summon Entei) so I summon Entei, bash through the rocks, and saved at the nearest Save Helicopter TV and quit.

Just wanted to mention, if your StyIer has missing energy and you release a recharging Pokemon, the Pokemon will offer to recharge your StyIer before running off. Also before we continue on, I did a Quest involving stopping a bubble headed Pokemon Pincher from "playing" with three Jumpluff by chasing them. You catch the Jumpluff to cheer them back-up and the Pokemon Pincher apologizes for chasing them and walks off (yay, because arresting a person part of a criminal organization is a Pokemon Ranger's job, wait...). After that Quest you also get the the Sign to summon a Jumpluff whenever you want. Anyway we get back to Tilt Village and Murph informs us that Booker had fixed Big Booker Bridge... that still didn't stop me from summoning Raikou though because it's so much fun riding it. Two other Quests I did was one involving using Entei to smash boulders that have fallen in Noir Forest and another involving you to deliver a parcel to the herb grower (named Herb :roll in Cocona Village and then he gives a parcel to give back his mom who was the one that gave you the original parcel.

We get back to Rand's House where Summer has Nema fix her StyIer as she reports that she heard Pokemon Pinchers planning on awakening Moltres and also something about the Involiths being keys to an Ancient Gate. Summer mentions about the beacon she dropped and could track with her StyIer so Nema takes her and your StyIer and makes it so they not only can you communicate with each other but also unlocked the rest of the Modifications options and your Power Charge. Summer's StyIer activates and points that the beacon is south of Mitonga Island. To get to where the beacon is you need to go through the path in Tilt Village which was previously "blocked" off. going through the cave you find Pokemon Pinchers mentioning they have 2 minutes until departure and you have to use both Entei and Raikou to break through boulders, jump ledges and platforms (some collapsing), and then onto the Pokemon Pincher's Submarine. You go in and here that it's going to dive so you decide to begin looking for Blue Eyes. No sooner as you in do a bunch of Pokemon Pinchers send 3 Makuhita and 3 Gabites which you capture easily. Going to the next room Pichu runs into a side room where there is a giant cage, cut it open with two Level 2 Cuts and you'll find the rest of the Pokemon from Dolce Island in there along with Summer's Staraptor. They decide to stay in the room until you come back and oddly in the room there is a Pikachu you can't capture and will recharge your StyIer. I note this because though they showed us 4 Pichus, we now only see 3 in the room so did one of them evolve or something?

Next room is another Dusclops Puzzle and then the room after that involves Agitated Makuhita and Sneasels attacking you. Next room has you take on 2 Rampardos and there is also a Save Machine in here... why would a Pokemon Ranger Save Machine be doing in a Pokemon Pincher Submarine? Well we get to the control room where Blue Eyes is and we battle two Pinchers who use a Totodile and Croconaw. Once you get rid of those Blue Eyes sends the real boss at you, a Feraligatr. Defeating it results Blue Eyes getting a call from "that person" and says they have to resort to Plan-Z, a last resort plan which results slamming the submarine into the rocks on the ocean floor to cause confusion as they all escape in Z.Z. Flyers. After waking up, the Submarine is standing upright when a ladder falls down, climbing it will reveal it's one of Ukulele Pichu's Pichu friends. You also see the submarine begin filling up and only have 10 minutes to escape. You need to use the grates as ladders while dodging falling objects and steam pipes... and yes, they are annoying, especially a series of steam pipes at the end. Also while escaping you need to "rescue" Pichu's friends, but you really only have to go out of your way for one of them as the others you'll just meet as soon as you pass by them (and there is 4, so I guess that Pikachu was just in the box with them). Getting to the final floor we found that Blue Eyes had been pinned by a box saving two Pokemon Pinchers and so we help save her and get out with Blue Eyes confused why we're helping her. Anyway we get to the surface but the Pokemon Pinchers and Blue Eyes have left, though lucky for us Murph in The Union (I finally realiaxed that's the boats name, yay I know, slow) comes by and picks us up after Nema informs there was a major disturbance on the ocean floor from a device she had put down there when she was younger.

You get to Tilt Village and found that The Union had gotten a hole in it and needs to be fixed so Murph tells us to report it to Rand. On the way there I did two more Quests, one involving to destroy 3 traps set up by Pokemon Pinchers around Mitonga Island and another to get a boy who went into the Daybreak Ruins. After that you go to Rand and he tells you Booker could probably fix The Union. So after another Quest involving you calming down 4 Pokemon that ate spicy bread, you get to Booker who upgrades Pichu's Ukulele, noting Nick's work, and hearing that he's being asked to fix The Union he thinks we're joking around but takes Nick to see the boat he's being asked to fix anyway. Now with Pichu's friends with us, we go back to Dolce Island and after seeing the Pichu celebrate the return to their island Ukulele Pichu decides to stay with us, our blank expression saying so. When you get back to Renbow Island, Ralph gives you a letter from Blue Eyes explaining she acted as she did because she was demoted and was angry. She says that Red Eyes is heading to Faldera Volcano, which Ralph tells us where it is and need to boat to get there. Going back to Tilt Village we find that Booker is finished fixing The Union and also discovered that it was he who built it in the first place! Well we go to Faldera Volcano and as soon as we land we meet the Pokemon Pinchers who send an easily caught Torchic and Phanpy at us. As they run away they cause an explosion which results a lava flow that presents us from advancing until we stop it, which luckily has the Pokemon and conveniently placed rock to do just that! Getting higher up Pokemon Pinchers once again have Agitated Pokemon attack us, this time Charmeleons and Numels which they then send one of each species for us to capture. Up once more and we find a Rest House, not much to say after that.

Higher up we need to knock slabs of rock into lava to create paths and Pokemon Pinchers sending a Torchic and Combusken to be captured by us. We then come to a flaming rock and get this, first we need to extinguish the flames with two Level 3 Water Sprays (despite the water being sulfuric, seems like Marshtomp and Gastrodons (West, think they have East in the game?) natural habitat is there) and THEN we need to destroy it with a Level 3 Rock Smash. Anyway the next Pokemon Pincher sends out a Tyranitar which takes awhile but eventually captured. We get to the peak where Red Eye uses the Entei Emblem from the Daybreak Ruin to open a Monument. After they enter it it closes but you open it with drawing Entei's Sign and see Red Eyes firing his purple waves as Moltres. His Pokemon Pinchers goons send two Scyther but you catch those, but the battle took long enough to awaken Moltres and flies off. As Red Eyes flies off he has a Charizard destroy Summer's StyIer (because she helped us SO much when she had it) and we fly off on her Staraptor after Red Eyes. Another flying mini-game takes place with us dodging Pokemon Pincher's plasma cannons and the Hoothoot & Noctowl and Pidgey & Pidgeotto swarm they send at you. After catching up to Red Eyes and dodging his blasts he then has Charizard attack you in a Boss Fight. Upon defeating it Red Eyes points out Staraptor is getting tired when a Pokemon Pincher comes up informing they found where Articuno is as they go flying off and we fly back to Summer.

We head back to Rand to report and that Articuno rug I saw before comes into play here as Leanna says that it comes from Aqua Resort on Sophian Island and Rand saying it was made by a master weaver who was said to know something about Articuno. Rand says that the quickest way to Sophian Island is by Staraptor but they mysteriously vanished when Burkhart comes in saying he say Pokemon Pinchers at the Hinder Cape's Warehouse. Me and Rand go there as Summer stays behind so Nema can fix her StyIer and find the Pokemon Pincher who sends a Ledian for a quick capture. There is another large cage and cutting it open reveals it had a bunch of Staraptor in it (what are the chances!). So with Summer's StyIer fixed and her Staraptor feeling better, I catch a Staraptor and taught on how the flying works in this game when we found a group of Pokemon Pinchers after Latios once again, but flee once we capture their flock of Wingull and Pelippers. Anyway we land on Aqua Resort and meet Supurno who can summon the bird Pokemon we caught while flying so we could use and Kasa who points us to where the weaver's house is. However we find the weaver isn't home and as we exit we run into Edward again. Just then an old man comes down saying he saw Suicune and its angry being chased by the Pokemon Pinchers and Weber, the weaver we're looking for (Weber, weaver, get it?) went after them in the Canal Ruins.

Going to the Canal Ruins we have to constantly keep summoning Raikou to jump over the water (we need to keep summoning it as every cutscene has us un-mount it). Anyway I do a quick Quest which involves me teaching some guy's Hitmontop how to spin again by capturing it and after we do that I get the Hitmontop Sign. I also found out that for some reason the game lists Forretress as a Normal-type even though it should either be a Bug- or Steel-type. Enough of that we come to someone who points us to where Weber went and we're informed we can scare Pokemon out of hiding using the Legendary Beast's roars which, unless you had a Pokemon with the Field Move in your party already, would need to do in order to clear an obstacle. Anyway you come to the Pokemon Pinchers who had corner Suicune and as you confront them they send a Yanmega and Dodrio at you. Pokemon Pinchers and Suicune run off you come to an underwater section which your StyIer informs it sense Z.Z. Flyers in. You go underwater (and somehow the Pokemon you caught in the ocean are now in the canals) and found two Pokemon Poachers who block your exit and you need two Gorebyss to cut through the cables they set up. Now to save you a lot of frustration, remember that at there is a pillar you can cut at the top which will block one of the Gorebyss escape routes (there are two Huntail which have the Field Move you don't have any Pokemon with it), and you'll need to do this or you'll wind up looping around in circles... like me...

Anyway you cut the cables, do another underwater chase mini-game with a Pokemon Pincher, but only to find that they had already stolen Suicune's Emblem from his Involith. After you take care of a Seadra and Relicanth that Pokemon Pinchers set as you, Summer calls you to the surface where Suicune and Pokemon Pinchers have appeared, with the latter running off and the former chasing after them once more. Though after following them you find four Pokemon Pinchers firing at Suicune with their purple waves but it's not staying under control for long. Seeing us coming, a Pokemon Pincher tricks Suicune into thinking we're working with them so we have a Suicune Boss fight. One Suicune Sign later we finally meet Weber who is stuck on the other side of the canals having been dropped their after grabbing onto a Z.Z. Flyer. Use Suicune to get over there and you'll go back to Weber's place and he reveals that his ancestor did indeed see Articuno and made rug designs of it, but unfortunately that's all. Leanna then comes in, having had Murph take her over in The Union, and they begin talking when Weber reveals the rug was made of Mareep Wool. Ukulele Pichu gets angry and shocks the rug until Weber explains that the Mareep had shed that wool and they simply collected it. However Summer noticed that when Ukulele Pichu shoked the rug writing appeared and doing it again revealed Weber's ancestor writing an oath thanking Articuno for saving it on a snowy mountain peak in Oblivia. The only place like that in Oblvia is Mt. Sorbet so they head there with Weber warning us about avalanches. As we get outside we meet Kasa, Arley, and Hocus having a tea party and found out that they, along with Edward who comes in later, are all friends who have just moved to Oblivia. I have a feeling the game is trying to tell us these characters are important... but I don't see how unless they are like the secret bosses of the Pokemon Poachers or some twist like that which will probably come out of nowhere. Anyway they hear we're going after the Pokemon Poachers and don't want to hold us up so I then save my game and stopped for today.