Wow...people actually read this? O_o Well, I apologize, but this is really a huge bit to type up (so much I had to halt the challenge altogether). Bear with me as I try to finish this part up!

Progress (cont.)

Our normal-type hero defiant Bob continues his journey to be the Pokémon unMaster of the wonderful world of R/B/Y. After beating that annoying Marowak with a clever Bubblebeam from Meowth, Bob's monsters stomped the Rocket Grunts with ease with his Pokémon superior levels, although the Poison Monsters gave Bob and Pokémon a severe hernia with their infamous Confuse Ray and Smog attacks.

And the point of all this unrelated mess? Simple - the PokéFlute given my Mr. Fuji which allows Bob to save not-so valuable money on Awakenings, wake up annoying sleeping monsters, and...not much else. Oh well.

With this miraculous contraption, Bob managed to awaken the almighty Snorlax (why couldn't he capture it already and get it overwith?) at Route 12, and it was quite in a grumpy rage indeed, with a powerful Headbutt that caused much mayhem to Bob's Pokémon, despite them all being stronger levelwise. After a tense battle of stat messing and Rest manipulation, since Bob doesn't have any sleepers, Snorlax was finally caught and made as part of Bob's own. Onward to Fushia by Silence Bridge and the road afterwards! (Routes 12, 13, 14, and 15)

Training the mighty Snorlax was a hassle, as it only had 15 PP for direct attacks (Headbutt), so Bob had to end up using Ether after Ether (he only used 2 Ethers BTW). He had to end up putting it away at the end of the lineup at Lv. 32. Whee. >.> The rest of the monsters had a good workout, Raticate and Dodrio especially, as their attacks came in useful and sweeping many of the trainers' teams along the way. Meowth evolved by accident at Lv. 40 in Persian. An accident because Bob originally perceived for Persian to learn Slash at Lv. 44 and felt suspicious that Meowth wasn't learning anything useful for a while. It turned out the opposite - Meowth learns the attack at the Lv. 44...and Persian learns at Lv. 50+! :eek: :eek :eek:

Nevertheless, Bob's monsters ended up to be very powerful, all over Lv. 35 at least, with the exception of Snorlax, which was at a mere Lv. 32. Nevertheless, fight for the next Gym Badge! >D

Bob's monsters (which was now Snorlax, Clefable, Dodrio, and Persian; Raticate was put away), managed to get the better of the trainers in Koga's Gym, but not without a fight. The trainer's monsters packed a considerable punch with dangerous moves such as Psychic and Slash, to annoyers, such as Poison Gas and Sand-Attack. Training Snorlax was much a hassle due to this, but...it learned Body Slam in the process! Needless to say that the walls didn't stand a chance. :b

The fight with Koga was tough, due to the high-defense nature of the Pokémon he had, as well as the Koffings and Weezings knowing Explosion. The newly trained Snorlax managed to crush the competition, with Clefable ready with its Minimize-Rest combo and many healing Lemonades supporting. Finally, the Badge of Souls was finally his!

After the fight with the Poison-type Ninja Master, Bob wanted to complete his Normal-type team as well as obtaining the much (semi-)useful HMs of Surf and Strength to complete his game and at least do something interesting for once, such as actually making an effort to play the more modern Pokémon games for instance.

And there no better place than the Safari Zone.

'For just $500, you can catch all the Pokémon in the Park,' says the ad. What it turned out to be was a scam of some sorts, driving players mad with the crapshoot of Throw Bait, Throw Rock, and Throw Ball. The only problem with this is that it'd was foolfull, rather than foolproof, as Pokémon run for no apparent reason, and there's no type of strategy of some sort to actually catching anything worthy. In fact, Bob would be better off throwing Safari Balls left and right and be lucky that he caught something (actually he was - he manage to swipe a Chansey with one Safari Ball in the Safari Zone without fail on the first try. Lucky huh? =b).

Even though our hero defiant Bob managed to clean out various odd items of various sorts, including the semi-valuable HM03 (at least for this type of challenge for the fomer one) and the Gold Teeth useful for even-less valuable HM04, he still was upset about the hectic mess of capturing monsters this way, and not even with using Pokémon! (imagine if a Rock was thrown at a real Rhyhorn, and how that'd play out. X_X)

So, he had to use the backdoor method - the Seafoam Islands Monster Catching Trick (or the Cinnibar Shore Catching Trick if you prefer). (1)

After a long voyage of sea, more sea, sea trainers, and annoying Tentacool to boot, our favorite hero defiant got on his pet Goldeen (how you get your body weight on something so small like that?) and Surfed up and down, down and up, so much, that he fell asleep on the seashore. =b

And what's this...a Tauros! A real one to boot and its Tackle was enough to do some considerable damage for a Lv. 26 monster, even to Lv. 30-40 monsters! Woohoo! This one's his!

Tauros' moveset wasn't that bright however, and its level (as well as Chansey) were pretty low compared to the current status of the challenge, so they had much training to do, until they hit the mid - Lv. 30 range, which was pretty neat. They also learned some really neat moves, such as Softboiled, Thunder Wave, and Body Slam. Koolness. ^_^

So now, after going uphill by Cycling Road (Routes 16, 17 and 18), and building up his Chansey and Tauros (which was a hassle, as they were quite strong, especially the Fighting Types), and capturing the Cycling Road Snorlax for novelty reasons, Bob continues his adventure by freeing the city of Saffron from the Rocket Team (do they really make Rockets?) and by heading onward and facing Sabrina, the master of the annoying metagame monsters of R/B/Y - Psychic.

Dut, dut, duh! *Cheesy dramatic thunderclap, and then curtain falls*

(1) - I only used this trick because catching monsters by Safari Zone rules well...suck. The Safari Zone only plays out essentially as a hit-and-miss game of luck and tediousness, especially for extremely rare beasts such as Kangaskhan and Tauros. Will this trick be legal to use in this challenge?

-Chris R.