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I went back to the Wild Area to catch a few more pokemon.

In Hammerlocke Hills, I get a Inkay who I name Inkling.
In Giant's Cap I get a Shelmet I name Helmut.
In Bridge Field, I get a Cufant I name Elly.
In Stony Wilderness, I get a Dewpider I name Aragog
After catching Aragog, Cherry evolved into Tsareena.
In Giant's MIrror I catch a Pawniard I name Queen.
On Route 6 I catch a Yamask and name her Carmen.

I let Carmen take damage, and get her to evolve by walking under the stone bridge.

When I get to Stow on Side, I run into Hop, who is only a little more difficult than usual.

Then I decide on my team for the Gym: Queen, Carmen, Palina and Emma Frost.

None of the gym trainers prove much trouble for me. Then... I challenged Allister.

He started with Yamask, which Queen took out pretty easily. Next up was Mimikyu, who was easily dispatched as well. I let Carmen finish it off. Next up was his Cursola, who was a bit more of a problem. Carmen took a curse, then I switched out to Emma Frost who finished it off. Last up: His Gengar. Dynamax was a problem. The solution: Protect. Unfortunately... protect did not protect Emma Frost enough, taking nearly half her health. I switch to Palina, who takes massive damage on the next turn... but stays alive. I use my one healing item on Queen -- knowing it meant Palina's demise. But with Max Darkness, I think that was the case either way. I'm sorry Palina. You deserved better. Palina goes down, but Queen comes out healthy, against a non-dynamaxed Gengar. Gengar uses Hypnosis... it misses. Queen uses Dig. It does massive damage! Gengar uses hypnosis again.. it fails again. Queen uses Dig, and finished off the match, earning me my next badge.

Outside, Bede is causing trouble defacing public property. He then challenges me to a battle, which.. proves a little more difficult than I'd hoped. But all my pokemon come out alive, and Cherry finishes off the battle (though just barely. I think one more hit would've been it for her). The CHairmen then disqualifies him for being a vandal.

In Glimwood Tangle, while battling a chef, Elly evolves into a Cooperajah. And after a double battle, Trix evolves into Cinderace. I also catch a Galarian Ponyta who I name Galaxy.

When I get to Balonlea, I put my team together to face the Fairy Type Gym: Galaxy, Queen, Elly and Trix. None of the gym trainers are any problem.

Opal starts with Weezing, while I start with Galaxy. In two turns, Weezing is gone. I switch to Trix, while Mawile uses Iron Defense. But it's not enough to save it from Pyro ball. Togekiss comes out next, and Trix does a little damage to it, before I switch out and play it safe. Queen does a bit of damage, before taking a little too much from a draining kiss. So I swap out to Elly, who finishes it off. Last is her Alcremie. She Dynamaxes. Elly digs. The first hit does a bit of damage, but dig saves Elly from more damage, and does quite a bit in return. I use my next turn to heal, and the final Dynamax Move doesn't do much damage. It's not very effective. Alcremie uses a draining kiss to heal itself almost back to full, but that doesn't save it from Heavy Slam, as the 5th badge is mine!

After returning to Hammerlocke, Opal kidnaps Bede. Then Hop challenges me again. His Snorlax is very bulky, and takes a while to go down. His Heatmor puts up a pretty good challenge, and nearly kills Elly. But Cole and Trix finish off the battle with no casualties.

On Route 7 I caught a Morpeko and name him Jekyl . Cole evolves into Coalossal after catching Jekyl.

On Route 8 I caught a Sandaconda and named him Nagini.

I take 4 pokemon with me into the gym when I arrive in town: Cole, Trix, Elly and Jekyl. Only one trainer proves any difficulty, the one with the Avalugg.

The battle with Melony goes easy at first. Trix wipes out her first two pokemon no trouble. Then I switch to Cole to finish her third pokemon. Unfortunately.. Dynamax Lapras takes out Cole with one Max Geyser. I swap to Elly, who uses Dig. Max Geyser doesn't do much, and she avoids the second attack. With Dynamax Gone, Elly reduces Lapras' health slowly but surely. Until Lapras puts Elly to sleep. I'm forced to switch to Jekyl, who barely survives an attack -- but one Spark does the job, and Lapras is gone. Sad to see Coal gone, but the 4x weakness to water was going to be a liability sooner or later.

Outside, I meet up with Sonia and after eating Hop challenges me to another battle. His team is a bit tougher, and the hail makes it hard to deal with. Trix BARELY survives the hail. But I still manage to win without any casualties.

I get a water bike from the same guy who gave me a normal bike after beating some team yell grunts. Once Emma Frost learns Bite, I return to Hammerlocke and bike across the water to get a Dawn Stone and use it to evolve Emma Frost to a Froslass.

When I arrive at Spikemuth, Marnie challenges me to a battle. I wasn't entirely prepared, so it was more difficult than it should've been. I have to switch out a few times after Toxicroak comes out and does some real damage to Cake. But I finish the battle without any casualties. Would've been nice to have a pokemon center before this..