While Wedge took off for Eterna City, I pushed north towards the small town with all the flowers... after breaking up a rumble with Team Galactic, Pearl's edition of Team Rocket. (Nothing seems to sound as iconic as "Rocket" though, does it?) This is the fight with the "massive damage" meme in it.
I planted some berries, my Starly and Shinx evolved, I rescued a scientist that Galactic was holding against his will, received more TMs that I will never use, blah blah blah.
What's truly important is that I already received a Piplup.
After clearing out the windmill place, I walked back to Jubilife to check on things at the Global Trade Station. I wanted to see if you can have more than one pokemon registered to trade at a time (you can't.) But when I logged in to the GTS, I was greeted by a newborn level one Piplup, straight from Shizuoka, Japan! Check this out:
Here he is, ready for some fast upgrading. I don't know if that's Japanese for "piplup" or if he has been given a nickname.
He was originally owned by Yuta.
He was hatched on January 3rd at the day care center, four months after the game was released in Japan (and four months before the US release.)
Here's a screen I rarely look at.
He already knows Surf, the precocious darling!
So what did I do next? I ran out to catch some more crap types to offer in more trades. I put a young Zubat on offer, hoping to score a Turtwig.
Remember how crappy it was to collect all the starters in previous Pokemon games?
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