Let's Sperg Pokémon Reborn (Screenshot LP) -A Matureᵀᴹ take on the beloved franchaise- - it's absolutely shocking how the fucking borderline sexual harraser is one of the better characters purely by how awful everyone else is

[Mary the Goldsmith]

Episode 63: Solitary Journey

Spoiler

Welcome back to Pokémon Reborn, these next couple episodes are going to be something special I think.

Last episode Sargon and Hardy were put to sleep by Team Meteor, and Sargon wakes up by ximself for some reason, I like to think Sargon's autism is just that strong.

Since Hardy is out of the picture Sargon delves deeper into the complex and comes across a Glaceon that seems to want Sargon to follow it.

I'm sure this is not a trap...

Glaceon can use Frost Breath to freeze over gaps in the walkway allowing us to pass, if this Glaceon belongs to someone we know I don't remember at this moment whom it could be.

Interacting with Glaceon here causes it to jump down and wait for us by the lava (I think its supposed to be molten glass).

Another unreachable mega stone, classic Reborn.

Glaceon makes a bridge for us, and seemingly gets captured off-screen.

Oi, cunt.

Oh no, no, no! Absolutely not!

We've had enough trouble with that damn Glaceon
running around all over the place-- no way am
I dealing with you right now!​

What a faggot.

So I spent the next 10 minutes running around like a retard trying to find a way to proceed.

Eventually I figured out that you can break the glass with Rock Smash.

I do what I want and I like what I do.
Simple as.

Geoff, you deal with Sargon while I teach this thing a lesson!​

The battle itself is breeze since Mega Sheeple can take full advantage of the terrain here.

I wonder what was preventing Glaceon from doing this in the first place.

Well, do whatever you want.
This damn thing has been giving us the runaround for
a while, but it's not like I really care.​

We now have a temporary Glaceon. We also unlock some door, somewhere.

We can now cross this molten glass bridges easily.

But still can't reach the mega stone... fuck you Amethyst!

A useless area with no hidden items... Probably something I'm too retarded to figure out right now.

We can also make an ice bridge over this stuff, that I'm assuming is glass that has cooled off but likely too hot for Sargon to step on it, or maybe now it is safe to touch but doing so would break and Sargon doesn't want to lose a leg... I'm overthinking shit again, let's continue.

Reaching the end of the factory now, and there is another mega stone down there. by the way there are no wild encounters or trainers on this area besides the grunts we got Glaceon from.

ESPEON: --eon!!!
???: Shut UP, you damn mutt.
???: Seriously, the other one is still out there?
Quite a fiesty one, to say the least.
???: Well, don't just stand there, go catch it! This
might be our chance!
???: Yeah, yeah...

Yeah, whatever...

That's good.
You should work on that.​

The fight is nothing special, but its funny how by this point in the game Meteor Grunts are more or less resigned to the fact that attempting to fight Sargon is hopeless.
Anyway the guy goes back inside and locks the door, leaving us outside.

Espeon seems to use its psychic powers to move the crates around, clearing a path for us.

Moving past leads us to this ladder, which Glaceon won't follow behind us so we can't freeze over the walkway.

So we go back and break the window.

His fat rat has no chance against our bald sheep.

...Our problem.​

Ah great this is bloody fantastic...

Not that it's really my place to say this, but
the key for that cage isn't here.
That damn thing kept trying to steal it and free
itself with telekinesis, so we had to hide it in another room.
I think it's somewhere on the south side of the facility,
but I wouldn't know where in particular.
So don't bother harassing us for it.​

Fucking useless faggots.

We unlock the door before we go key hunting.

Next to our previous entrypoint we can break another window and access another room.

Inside we find a traumatized Grunt and an actually useful TM... huh this is somewhat strange but I will not complain.

Next we climb the walkway (Glaceon stays behind) and this allows us to reach the southern part of the room.

Moving to the left we still can't reach the fucking mega stone... let's just keep going left.

We find this room with another grunt and our key, that was easier than I expected, lets go free Espeon.

It's really cute that you're out here rescuing
Pokémon and all, but that's not going to bring you any
closer to the PULSE.​

Do you really have to mention the PULSE?!

Oh, please. Sargon will find it anyway. There's
no point in trying to hide it.​

At least shut up about it! Make them find it
on their own!

In this mess? Yeah, that'd be a feat.
And especially with that menace on their tail.
All it ever does is throw glass around.
You know how much we had to clean up?
Geez. Just take it away already.​

Sargon doesn't even react, xe's too busy bullying the devs of Concord on Xitter to even acknowledge the Meteor Grunts.

We now have Espeon following us, and he has the power of moving the glass crates around, but we can only have one pokémon following us, either Espeon or Glaceon.

The puzzle here is to use Espeon to shuffle crates around and use Glaceon to freeze over obstacles, you have to strategically position them since you can only have one of them follow you. its a nice gimmick but like all other puzzles it overstays its welcome imo.

WE STILL CAN'T FUCKING REACH THE FUCKING MEGA STONE!!!!!11!!!!!!!

Hey look another Mega Stone and we can reach it.

After flinging shit around we reach this room with some cultist.

So we kick his ass with the power of friendship.

And on the table was the Master Ball or well "Reborn Ball" as its known in here for some reason, feels a little anti-climatic finding it like this, since its usually a reward or something.
So what would be the best moment to use this? I'm guessing during the post-game legendary pokémon hunt but I don't know which one, what do you guys think?

We eventually find another window to smash trough and kick some scientists asses.

And we activate some elevator.

Shuffling the crates around in the room we got the cage key lets us get a useful TM, this late in the game, classic Reborn.
By the way I am not lost and unsure where to go I am doing a tactical recon of the area...

FINALLY WE REACHED THE MEGA STONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am pleased now.

The elevator we reactivated a while ago allows us to reach the walkway with either eveelution, so now we can freeze the gaps over.

This battle is going to be so much "fun".

The walkway allows us to reach this room with I'm guessing they are coffins since one of them supposedly contains Eclipse.
They each give you the option to release them but I don't want to risk zombie Eclipse sperging at me.

At the back of the room we find this key card.

Against my better judgement I decided to open the coffins, and Eclipse's corpse seems to be missing.
Apparently if we had given Blake the Ruby ring back in episode 49, Aster would be here mourning Eclipse and we would fight him and he would then chose to leave Team Meteor and take her corpse with him, but since we didn't and he already had his change of heart back then, he is no longer here and he seems to have taken Eclipse's corpse with him already.

The second coffin contains Anna, this is actually worse than a zombie Eclipse.

Both twins are here.... yeah lets just get the fuck out before they wake up I hate these two.

Some more crate shuffling and we find this, neat.

And that's gonna be all for today, for beyond this door lies the infamous "Reborn Glass Gauntlet" and the infamous "Void Cutscene" and I want the gauntlet to have its own episode, and depending on the lenght the Cutscene may also get its own episode, you'll see soon-ish what I mean if you don't know what those are.

 

[Tari]

depending on the lenght the Cutscene may also get its own episode

If you don't mind, I'll post the E19-exclusive battle in said cutscene after that.

infamous "Reborn Glass Gauntlet"

While i was recompiling the trainer files for rejuv i saw a trainer class and remembered that the paragon route attempts to do a gauntlet that's like that but it fails miserably from how completely out of place it is.

I wonder how many "gauntlets" there are in the mainline games, actually. The only one I remember is in the endgame of Black/White where you fight 4 Plasma Grunts in a row, but they only have 1-2 mons each so it's a joke

 

[WASR96]

If you don't mind, I'll post the E19-exclusive battle in said cutscene after that.


While i was recompiling the trainer files for rejuv i saw a trainer class and remembered that the paragon route attempts to do a gauntlet that's like that but it fails miserably from how completely out of place it is.

I wonder how many "gauntlets" there are in the mainline games, actually. The only one I remember is in the endgame of Black/White where you fight 4 Plasma Grunts in a row, but they only have 1-2 mons each so it's a joke

Emerald had an optional gauntlet where you fight 4 family members in a row pretty early in the game. Soon after the ptsd enducing route 110 May battle.

 

[Tari]

Emerald had an optional gauntlet where you fight 4 family members in a row pretty early in the game. Soon after the ptsd enducing route 110 May battle.

Ah yeah, that thing. That reminded me about the family gauntlet in BW2 as well, you need to do that 6 days in a row to get the full 6 fights of 1/2/3/4/5/6.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

Maybe it's because this has been going on too long, maybe it's because they left no impression, but I have no idea who any of those dead people are.

 

[Tari]

Maybe it's because this has been going on too long, maybe it's because they left no impression, but I have no idea who any of those dead people are.

Anna and Noel are 2 of the orphanage gang. The one with schizophrenia and the one with autism, respectively. Don't ask who Nostra really is.
Eclipse is the girl that got her soul deleted by Sirius' Chandelure when she turned off the PULSE-Clawitzer while Sargon was in the LCCC while going through Route 3 to get to Calcenon.

The twins both have dialogue if you wake them up with Heal Bell. Noel just tells you to talk to Anna.


Context: "Taka dead af boi" is turned on if you didn't fight Taka at the Water Treatment Center, and #Determination is on if you beat Solaris on Pyrous and didn't tell him to fuck off in the desert.

 

[Mary the Goldsmith]

If you don't mind, I'll post the E19-exclusive battle in said cutscene after that.

Sure, I don't plan on replaying the whole story once I update to E19 so go ahead.

Maybe it's because this has been going on too long, maybe it's because they left no impression, but I have no idea who any of those dead people are.

This is probably my fault since I post an episode almost every 2 months. I think their last appearance was over a year ago.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

This is probably my fault since I post an episode almost every 2 months. I think their last appearance was over a year ago.

Eh, I'd blame it more on the game making them not terribly memorable.

 

[Mary the Goldsmith]

Episode 64: Lost to the Universe's abyss

Spoiler

Hello welcome back to Pokémon Reborn!

Its time for us to challenge the infamous "Reborn Glass Gauntlet", before we go in I'll let you guys know Sargon's backpack is filled with an ungodly amount of Full Restores, Full Heals and Max Revives to compensate for the fact that I am about to face 30 pokémon in a row with the same 6 pokémon currently in my team. That being said if I run into too much trouble (say my entire team keeps getting oneshot or I have nothing capable of taking out an enemy mon) I will concede defeat, change my team and try again. Now without further ado lets go.

Oi, I'm here to kick arse and smoke a fag.
And I'm all out of smokes.

I saw them! For just a moment...
We've been looking everywhere for you, Glaceon!
Come out!
Come back to me!​

Indeed, if beckoning them were all that were
necessary, we would not be in this predicament.​

Wait, wasn't the schizo cured a while ago?

Oh... You're right, of course...
I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking...
I never think...
I never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, thought...
But they came in and there's Sargon!
Sargon, are you here to ruin everything again?​

I literally just said that I'm here to kick arse, retard.

Why else would Sargon have stolen them?
Those are OUR Pokémon!
We're the ones who cared for them!
Give them BACK!
Give them back... Give them back...
You took them away... Why did you take them away?
Do you have any idea how quiet it is without them?
Do you?
Do you? Do you? Do you?
DO YOU?!

I think that's enough, Zero.
I could commend you on getting here once again
despite the sleep effect, but that's hardly necessary.
After all, you've never really known failure, have you?​

Of course not, who do you think I am?

Maybe-- maybe-- you lose a battle or two.
But that's not failure. That's just a set back.
You always end up on top.
And why?
Is it your determination?
Or is justice on your side?
Or maybe it's just the bond you have with your
Pokémon and friends.
But all of those things are just cliches to handwave
the fact that in this world, some people are given the
privilege to succeed and some are not.
I am fortunate enough to have come into that
privilege after having been denied it for years.
But you...
This is just how you've always been, ever since you got to Reborn, isn't it?​

Fuck you! I did not spend all those days grinding exp,
beating up hookers and niggers, for you to just sperg about
"Muh privilege", kill youself faggot!

To whatever god you pray to, I hope you've paid
your tithes,
Because I intend to test the limits of your fortune until they break.
Zero. It's time for a reunion.

Yes, yes... That's right...
You can see how it feels to have your friends ripped away too!
HYPNO!
Bring them out.​

Cain and Shelly slowly walk from each side, seemingly possessed.
Oh great the white nigger is still alive...

They can't HEAR you anymore, Sargon!
Not that you ever say much...
How does it FEEL?!​

Feel what?

Save the gloating for later, Zero. We're on a schedule here.
The others should be coming shortly too, and we need to be ready.
It could get crowded in here... but that's fine for our purposes.
After all, everyone who sets foot in here becomes a
puppet for Hypno to play with.​

When she ran off from Calcenon, we seized the
opportunity.
And then others came to find her...
And others to find them...
And now here you are.
Dominos just love to fall.
You should try it sometime.
Like, now.​

And we begin, the first match a 12v6 battle with everyones "favorite" characters. cue the gauntlet theme!

Metal Version

Movie trailer version
Pick your poison.

I immediately switch out Troonyn8tr for Sheeple (because of Marowak's ghost typing), the enemy "Anna" sets up Sticky Web, While NoSuit attacks with Rock Slide dealing good damage to Anna and not so much to Marowak, while Sheeple takes the attack meant for Troonyn8tr.

Next turn Sheeple barely survives a Pollen puff from Anna, and retaliates with a terrain enhanced Thunder Punch, but Marowak has Lightning Rod... so nothing happens, but NoSuit takes out "Anna" and leaves Marowak in the Red. Sadly Marowak finishes off Sheeple with another Shadow Bone.

Fun Fact: Shelly's Leavanny will always have the same name and gender as the player character, shows how much Shelly looks up to Sargon.

In the next turn NoSuit is oneShot by a Seed Bomb from "Sargon", Burnout avenges NoSuit by taking out "Sargon" with Flamethrower, and is in turn oneshot by a Rock Slide from Marowak...All according to plan...

Time to raise what I call the "Shield Wall", I send out Troonyn8tr and WheelOfFate who transformed into a Bronzong this battle, first up I revive Burnout just in case, WheelOfFate easily survives a Shadow Ball from Heather and finishes off Marowak with Extrasensory.

Next turn I use WheelOfFate's turn to revive NoSuit (I want my team to be as complete as possible), and he even survives another Shadow Ball, while Meowstic sets up reflect, Troonyn8tr does little damage to Heather with Meteor Mash, and that thing keeps getting faster each turn.

Next turn I heal WheelOfFate to mantain my defenses while Troonyn8tr does slightly more damage to Heather with Zen Headbutt, both mons attempted to finish off WheelOfFate with another Shadow Ball from Heather and a Psychich from Meowstic, but to no avail.

Now I revive Sheeple, and since I'm starting to worry about "Heather's" speed and it getting lucky with a crit, I use Iron Defense on Troonyn8tr to ensure he becomes as unkillable as possible, and I'll be damned WheelOfFate keeps getting piled on but he keeps enduring. Next turn I heal WheelOfFate and Troonyn8tr finally takes out Heather with a crit Zen Headbutt.

"Cal" here can probably melt trough my wall very quickly, so I withdraw Troonyn8tr and send out NoSuit, WheelOfFate fortunately survives a Heat Wave. I heal WheelOfFate in the next turn, but Rock Slide did a lot less damage than I was expecting.

NoSuit and WheelOfFate survive another powerful Heat Wave. WheelOfFate finishes off Meowstic with Payback and NoSuit takes out Volcarona with Scald.

I healed NoSuit in the next turn and decided to risk attacking Mimikyu with WheelOfFate to break its disguise, but sadly both mons outspeed so WheelOfFate died to a terrain enhanced Steamroller from "Cain".

I unleash Mega Sheeple upon the enemy... who actually outspeeds us and our poor sheep gets ganged up by both, receiving a Stomping Tauntrum from "Cain" and a Play Rough from Mimikyu... fortunately she survives and retaliates with a terrain enhanced Thunder Punch towards "Cain" while NoSuit uses Rock Slide to break Mimikyu's disguise.

One Full Restore, and a Terrain enhanced Thunder later we take out Mimikyu.

REEEEEEE Cain's Primarina, yes I'm still salty about that, so I heal Sheeple and have her oneshot Primarina with a terrain enhanced Thunder, after surviving a Daazling Gleam and a Poison Jab from "Cain" Sadly the poison killed Sheeple at the end of the turn.

My favorite combination, since I can just spam Earthquake, the fact that Burnout flinched from "Cain's" Rock Slide didn't even matter as NoSuit took care of everyone including the field.

I heal burnout, Nidoking immiedataly attacks with Blizard, fortunately Burnout dodges it, then survives a Hurricane from "Noel", while NoSuit oneshots Nidoking with Scald, and he was Cain's Last pokémon so we only have to deal with Shelly.

I heal both my mons in the next turn, sadly Burnout dies to a Crit Hurricane, but NoSuit avenges him with Rock Slide.

You can tell they are both seething despite being possessed and not aware of what is going on.

Ha, get rekt!
Ok, who's next?

In that case, Zero?
Heheheh... I've been looking forward to this for a long time.
But which one do we give up? Which?
Let the girl go. Cain has opposed us more frequently.
Understood.
Good morning!​

Sargon?

​

Fuck off Shelly! I'm busy.

And good night,​

What? No, fight me... you...fucki... Whi...gger....

And the screen goes black as the Pulse Hypno puts Sargon in a coma.


Voice can be heard but Sargon can barely understand what they are saying.

Fun Fact: You lose the Saphire Bracelets after this, I guess this implies Bennet took advantage of the situation to loot Sargon's backpack. And considering his obsession with Sargon's doppelganger Luna, lets hope looting xer backpack is all he did.

???:Th-re -s n- -xcu-e f-r --is.
Pl--se -e s-lent-​

Just like that we are thrown into battle against a mysterious opponent. Sargon instinctively attacks.

Die!

So this thing outspeeds us and lands a Shadow Claw, but Troonyn8tr survives just fine and retaliates with Meteor Mash, but of course Weavile has a Focus Sash, on the next turn it gets a lucky Critical hit that nearly kills our tank, and of course it fucking misses the second Meteor Mash.

So we heal, and tank his Shadow Claw twice before we can finish it off.

As always the enemy outspeeds us and does some good damage with Super Power, but Sheeple retaliates by oneshotting it with a terrain enhanced Thunder Punch.

At this point I realize I don't exactly have a counter for Ghost types on my team... anyway, we both land a Critical hit on each other.

So I heal on the next turn and NoSuit survives two more Shadow Balls (fortunately none were crits) and we finally take it out with Scald.

Absol immediately Mega Evolves and takes off a huge chunk of Narcissa's hp with Knock Off but "she" retaliates by one-shotting it with Moonblast, get fucking rekt! Also based on the Team I'm guessing our mysterious opponent is Luna... Bennet is probably jerking off to this isn't he?

Since Gothitelle doesn't do that much damage with Foul Play I employed the next few turns to heal Narcissa, Troonyn8tr and NoSuit just in case, and then took out Gothitelle with a couple Moonblasts.

Shut...up...White Nigger...

Sargon responds by pure instinct

Narcissa outspeeds it, so we take out Umbreon with a couple of Moonblasts, after all the trouble I had with this thing on the gym battle with Luna, I'm glad Narcissa killed it quickly.

We go back to the blackscreen, and voices that Sargon can't really understand.

???: W- w-ll tr--m-h -s a f-mily.
L-st ti-e a -an a-ked m- th-t, -e -eft t--
-rena cr-ing.
​

I wonder if every conversation feels like that to Sargon since xe rarely pays attention.

Aaaand we are now fighting two mystery opponents.

Ninetails leads with Aurora Veil, next Troonyn8tr does a lot of damage to Clefeary with Meteor Mash, while NoSuit doesn't do that much to Ninetails using Scald and Clefable paralyzes Troonyn8tr. Fun Fact my team got healed but only in terms of HP any moves used in the previous battle are still spent in this one.

In the next turn I use a Full Heal on Troonyn8tr and he takes out Clefable, while NoSuit takes a lot of damage from Ninetales' Freeze-Dry.

In the next turn I switch NoSuit with Burn out and so Bisharp's Sucker Punch fails, while our lizard survoves a Freeze Dry easily, Troonyn8tr finishes off Ninetales with Meteor Mash.

They both gang up on Burnout and our lizard dies to a Critical hit Sucker Punch followed by a Crit Blizzard without managing to attack, Troonyn8tr does some good damage to Jynx using Pursuit at this point I only have 1 Meteor Mash left so I'm saving it.

I deploy Sheeple and heal Troonyn8tr and refrain from mega evolving as Sheeple would gain the Dragon type and get wrecked. Sheeple does little damage to bisharp with a terrain enhanced Thunder Punch and holy shit that Bisharp does a ton of damage to Troonyn8tr with Knock Off. So I start spaming Iron Defense with him and use Sheeple's turn to heal our tank, and sadly our sheep dies to another Crit Blizzard.

Spoiler: Fun Fact

I added a little break to the event between the fight with Shelly/Cain and and Sargon falling into the Pulse's control so I could change WheelOfFate's species, I also originally intended my pokémon to be already Mega Evolved to get the proper "Pulse" Experience, but the script the game uses to heal my party seemingly also reverts them to normal, but its for the better.

I use WheelOfFate's turn to revive Sheeple, but sadly WheelOfFate gets ganged on and dies to a ShadowBall followed by a Knock Off, Troonyn8tr avenges it by killing Jynx with Pursuit.

So I continiue to boost my defenses as I'm dreading a crit Knock Off or something, and a thunder punch does little damage to Glaceon, funny how a Stab move boosted by the terrain from a mon with 6 level advantage does that little damage. wasn't expecting it to be a oneshot, but did expect it to do at least double the damage it did.

Sheeple manages to land one final Thunder Punch on Bisharp before dying to a Blizzard/Knock Off combo, is it just me or does the AI favor targeting the pokémon on the right? anyway Troonyn8tr does very food damage with Zen Headbutt to Glaceon.

I immediately heal NoSuit, so Bisharp's Sucker Punch fails and Glaceon launches a Shadow Ball at NoSuit but he tanks it pretty well (They are prioritizing attacking the mon on the right), and Troonyn8tr takes out Glaceon with another Zen Headbutt. Sargon also bought some leftovers from Temmu before the fight.

I revive Burnout in the next turn, and stupidly attack Sandslash with Zen Headbutt instead of trying to finish off Bisharp, and NoSuit keeps getting ganged on and Bisharp fuckign steals his lunch... I revive Sheeple on the next turn before NoSuit dies.


Burnout is back with a vengance, and proceeds to oneshot SandSlash with Flamethrower, fearing for its life our Mysterious opponent Switches Bisharp out and sends out Gardevoir, who takes the Pursuit meant for Bisharp. (I'm running out of moves here damnit).

Gardevoir immediately Mega Evolves and attacks with a terrain enhanced Thunderbolt, than Burnout barely survives, he retaliates by one-shotting Bronzong with Overheat and I use Troonyn8tr's final Meteor Mash to one-Shot Gardevoir too.

I heal Burnout in the next turn and take away roughly half of Froslass's health while the retarded Bisharp thought he could kill Burnout with Brick Break, in the next turn Froslass attacks Troonyn8tr with the Z-Move Sub-Zero slammer, but out tank survives it, Burnout then finally finishes off Bisharp with Flamethrower and Troonyn8tr takes out Froslass with another Pursuit.

At this point we have already defeated one of the mystery trainers and only have to deal with the other. I risk not healing and Espeon does manage to land a Psycoshock on Burnout, but our lizard survives and takes it out with a Critical Hit Inferno Overdrive, I actually forgot Burnout was holding a Z-Crystal I thought he was gonna Mega Evolve.

I heal the next turn and Alakazam dies to a single Pursuit from Troonyn8tr, at this point I already won there is little to do in a 2v1.

I did regret using the z-Move on a Fucking Espeon, Metagross died to a Crit Overheat anyway so I don't regret it that much. Burnout redeemed himself from getting constantly one-shot to basically carrying the last stretch of the battle.

Sweet Victory! Both trainers just say "???" btw.

back to unintelligible screeching and blackness.

???: You wanted to feel that control.

No idea why the previous phrase is heard clearly, maybe the speaker is closer to Sargon.

???:Th- -nd -f a mea-s -oes n-t -ake i-s m--ning -nd.
N-, th-s -s --e o-ly w-y!
Th-s i- -y pu--ose!​

*Screen flashes*

???:LIAR!

???:I w-ll a-ways l-ve yo- mo-e -han s-e, or an-one el-e, -ver c-ul--​

The screen flashes again and the sound effects the move hypnosis play, and a sounds like an explosion the game calls it "Black Void".


Sargon awakens here in this sort of "Black Void" I guess.
Wait a minute.
This isn't my world!
DISAPPOINTED!



And there you have it kiwis the infamous "Reborn Glass Gauntlet".

Spoiler: My thoughts on it.

This was tough, but not as tough as I imagined, sure I cheated with the healing items, but I never felt overwhelmed, for example I was dreading the Mega Gardevoir and Shelly's Yanmega but I oneshot the former and the latter didn't give me that much trouble, unlike Kiki on the Test runs who could sweep my entire team and no amount of healing items would let me defeat her, or Radomus' gym battle, fuck that retarded faggot. I almost enjoyed this, hell I like how the game so far has been treating Sargon as this sort of unstoppable force that Meteor Grunts just dread even coming in contact with him xer

Beilive it or not this battle is not what is considered infamous about Chapter 18, what I refer to as "The Cutscene" is far more disliked by the fanbase. I want that to be its own episode, so thats it for todays episode, see you soon!

 

[Tari]

what I refer to as "The Cutscene" is far more disliked by the fanbase

When you get to the "end" of it, backtrack a bit until you see writing in the tiles.

The Gauntlet's been nerfed as well. Ribombee used to hold a Focus Sash, and you didn't get any healing at all between battles.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

I'd find it very creepy if I had friends that named their pets after me.

 

[Executive Petrel]

Y veeveelutions in a fangame? Is the dev a furry?

 

[Cedric_Eff]

It’s neat to see a play through of this. Can’t wait to see more.

 

[Tari]

Is the dev a furry?

No, but he has a hard vore fetish. May his self-insert rest in stomach acid.

 

[Mary the Goldsmith]

I'd find it very creepy if I had friends that named their pets after me.

Hadn't thought about it that way before, but you are right.

Y veeveelutions in a fangame? Is the dev a furry?

Don't know for sure but Trannies usually have all manner of degenerate likes

 

[Tari]

I'd find it very creepy if I had friends that named their pets after me.

The only person in this game who isn't mentally ill is Hardy. Shelly is probably doing it so that she feels like she's always around her friends since she's legally emancipated at age 12 and canonically an immigrant from Johto.

It’s neat to see a play through of this.

The Rejuv playthrough is currently ongoing if you'd like to check out the other side of the rebornverse.

No, but he has a hard vore fetish

Not 100% sure on this since the source is an edit to the wiki page that's only allegedly from someone who knows him, but it adds up with the forced ironic joke of naming the Ame event "HEAD of the league" in RPGMaker for a postgame quest.

 

[Mary the Goldsmith]

Episode 65: Lost to the Universe's abyss Part 2

Spoiler

Welcome back to Pokémon Reborn, hope you are enjoying the storyline and the "deep" dialogues because this episode is the most dialogue heavy the game has been so far.


Sargon has been trapped in a Time REEEEEEEE-ing into the darkness hoping to open a portal to escape. So we begin exploring this strange place.


There was a healing crystal here, but it made a weird noise and I don't think it actually healed my party.


Who the fuck are you?
Where am I?

Another one for Reborn City, huh?

They sure have been pushing that new League.
Just between you, me, and the ol' battered fence
post, I hear Reborn City's kind of a dump.
Why anyone would wanna go there is beyond me.
And yet, buncha you ambitious Trainer-type folk have
been headin' out in droves.
But off you go now.
Train's leaving any minute.​

Yeah, whatever.

The guy disappears and the sound effect of a train running can be heard.

This whole part of the game is gonna get really "Deep" with tons of metaphors and gay shit, but don't worry I have a TRUE & HONEST P.H.D. in Media Literactyᵀᴹ so I will be able to explain all of it to you guys, trust me.

Ame appears and pushes Sargon out of the way, while the Train is heard crashing, a callback to episode 1.

If we ignore the path that Ame pushed Sargon into and attempt to follow our original path, we find these guys staring into the void, they are the other player characters we could have chosen and were present at the train at the start and likely perished. This is deep because reasons.

Let's continue our path.

Oh, Pop Quiz! Are you going to take on the Reborn League?

​

No, Fuck you!
You're not real... I think.

Whaaaaaaat? Then what was the point of beating us all for?
Don't tell me it was all for your ego ego ego ego ego
ego ego ego ego ego ego ego ego ego ego ego ego
ego ego ego ego ego ego ego ego ego ego ego ego​

Yes.

(Actually the reason is autism but don't tell Sargon that xhe'll REEEEEEE at you for several days)

I always praise this game's tilesets but this one just sucks, I get what they were going for but its still shit.

I'm Kiki.

​

Kiki?
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

It's a pleasure to meet you, but is everything okay?
I heard something happened at the station...
Well, you're here, so I guess you're all right.
Ame asked that I bring you in for salvation too.
Don't worry, it shouldn't take long. Let's go inside.​

And she disappears, I don't know why Victoria's apparition introduced herself as "Kiki" maybe its because Victoria is retarded.

After running for a while we come across a representation of the room we got our starter in, this is an obvious metaphor for all the balls this game sucks. Also trying to take any of the pokéballs displays the message shown on the second pic.

That is unless we choose our starter.

If we accept the sound effect for the move Horn Leech plays,the screen flashes red and the tables disappear. Nothing happens if you choose "no".

You come around here often?

​

I don't care if you are a ghost I'll kill you anway!

Ahaha, just kidding~
Man, Sargon, I am SO glad to see you.
I mean, I thought I had stars in my eyes, but I guess it was just you~
But really, I've been wandering around here for a
while and I was starting to get worried.
I have no idea how I got here, or what's going on,
But what do you say we stick together until we
figure out what's what in this place?
Then again, there's only one path, so I guess that won't be hard.
C'mon, let's go~​

He then walks into the void straight ahead, were we thankfully can't follow him, so we continue on the diagonal path instead.

Welcome to the Super-Duper Ultra-Hyper Electro-
Dazzle Happy Boom-Time House of Cheer!
Just ignore all the superlame reality junk.
I need more banners! And streamers! And... hm...
...Ways to cover up the persisting revelation that the
best years of my life are already behind me and from
now on everything is an inevitable decline!!!​

Lol I called this one out all the way back in episode 4

Wait, is that a safety hazard?
Oh, who cares?!
Anyway, don't think I'll go easy on you just because you're the one he chose!
As former captain cheerleader, I have to convince
myself that the Onyx Trainers' School's honor depends on me!
OTS, we represent! We pack a punch and don't relent!
All right, all right, all right! I'm wired so let's--​

She then disappears mid sentence, so we just move on like nothing happened.

Oh hi, Fern.

A little birdie told me you were coming here to

challenge my sister.
But see, I know you, Sargon.
You don't deserve to challenge her.
You're not good enough.
Not even I was good enough.​

So you admit I'm better?

It's not like it's a matter of our family, and our school's
pride.
But you're worthy.​

He then walks away and fades.

we can't go further so we turn back.

Oh hi "Flobot"

...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
please notice...​

Fine, I'll say this in your language:
01101011 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 01110011 01100101 01101100 01100110

Florinia then fades away.

Kinda hard to see but Corey jumps down I guess to say hi.

further ahead we pass by Shelly and Cal staring at the distance together.

A little ahead we now see them passionately making out, or maybe they're just talking, kinda hard to tell due to the limited sprite sheet.

Next we see Cal Karate kick Shelly in the face which causes her to flee from him. I dont blame him, prolonged exposure to Shelly has that effect.

Next we see him alone finally at peace.

A little down we see present day Cal (the blue haired guy) looking back at what we just saw, this clearly represents him fondly looking back at the time he kicked Shelly in the face.

A little down we have a crapton of Blakes, this has several possible interpretations:

Cal told Blake the story of him kicking Shelly several times over the years, so he "looked back" at this several times.

Cal actually has several brothers besides Blake and Cal is the only one who didn't inherit the hairstyle.

Blake is so powerful he is capable of cloning himself when he feels like it.


moving on we see that Blake was the one who taught Cal the epic flying kick and Cal ran off to show Shelly.

Further ahead Shelly is alone because she has no friends.

Heather's "Therapy" can be heard in the distance but we never see them.

And Sargon is the one who gets shocked.

A bit further ahead we run into the schizo girl.

Your light shines brightest in the darkness after all!

So make sure you never, ever, ever stop shining, no matter what happens~
I know this is a little backwards, but just hang in there, okay?
She should open a path for you...
Unless...
Hey, Sargon?​

Fuck off Schizo!

If two stars fall, passing like ships in the night, do you
think they would wish upon each other?
If that would happen, then which wish would win?
Maybe we just have to chase them to the horizon to find out!​

She then jumps into the void.

Moving on we find a bunch of people recreating the infamous meme.

memes aside I legit have no idea who those people are supposed to be.

I believe the guy in the red is supposed to be Dr. Connal, the guy who tried curing the schizos with electroshock and who last appeared in the LP in October of 2021... man I have taken forever with this LP. Anyway lets move on.

It's really you this time, right?
I lost you before, and I've been seeing some really weird stuff down here...
Earlier, I saw a version of you... but I think it was from the past?
You didn't seem to even see me at all.
It was pretty cold.
​

No, that was me.
I just try to acknowledge you as little as possible.

But I thought we were gonna stick together, ahaha...
Listen... I keep feeling like there's something just behind me.
So really... Stay close this time, okay?
Let's go slow together.​

And he walks away into the void. where we can't follow him, so we just continue down the only path.

We find Kiki ahead, this causes Sargon to get so mad xe walks right pass without talking to her.

I was not expecting the Garchomp jumpscare so the fucker actually starled me.
Fucking lizard nigger!
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

How is it FAIR that I had to be the one to go!?

How is it FAIR that my body had to be the one KILLING itself?!
I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS.
Do you think I was SATISFIED?
Do you think I didn't have DREAMS?!
Do you think I knew a SINGLE GODDAMN THING about staying CALM?!
Defeat the inner chaos?
I AM MADE OF CHAOS!
AND THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT THAT!
Unlike these whiny, self-absorbed children whose
greatest problem is what their FUCKING HAIR looks like.
They have NO idea what it's like to wake up one day
and suddenly hear that despite EVERYTHING they
have EVER sought to do with their life,
Despite giving themselves to others every step of the way,
Despite surviving a "family" that communicated mainly in drugs and violence,
Despite having climbed over all of the SHIT of life just
to make ONE GODDAMN OASIS of serenity in this
FUCKING BALLISTIC world,
The only reward you get is DEATH.
DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH
DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH
DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH
Tear my stomach open.
Pick out my intestines.
Grind them into the dirt.
My body would do it all on its own anyway.
The only thing I ever taught was mercy.
But no one could teach that to me.​

I'm glad to know you are suffering.
Fucking cunt!

She fades away and we follow the path once again.

Up next we find whom I assume are Aya and Cain's parents having a dance-off while Aya watches and Cain cries in the corner because he is a faggot.

Ah they were meant to be fighting lol, its hard to tell with this limited sprite animations.

Please come back...

I'll clean my room and won't complain anymore--
I'll do anything I need to, just... Please...
Love each other again?​

Lol, I'd leave the house too if I had a son like Cain.

A bit ahead we now have to different scenes, on the left we have Cain getting groomed? Or maybe he is blowing the guy and the other two pedos like to watch, and on the right we have Aya's father showing off his sick dance moves to Aya, while she looks away in shame, knowing she will never be as good of a dancer as her old man.

Then we see Cain walk away from Aya, while their parents and the pedos from before all watch, and Corey is also there for some reason, is the game trying to imply Corey is related to them? Way too late to attempt retconing Cain's obsession with Heather Amethyst.

I know I'm a toxic person, but you could at least say "bye" first.
But I guess that's just what I deserve.​

This place is running me a bit ragged... and not in the good way.
If I keep seeing things about you, probably you've
seen some things about me too.
To be honest, I'd rather just forget about most of that stuff.
Well, obviously that's why I ran, ahah...
But then, the only place I ever ran was in circles.
I guess it's hard to do anything else when you don't know where to go.
Hey, Sargon?
Do you know what you want to do in the future?
Like, after this is all over?​

Yeah, obviously.

Yeah~? I'm not too surprised.
So many people seem like they're just cut out and set
on whatever it is they want to do, but I never was like that.
Ahaha, I can barely settle on a romantic partner.
Even with how much I joke and flirt about that stuff,
It's just a way of keeping myself safe from
commitments and disappointment,
If those are even any different.
Who knows~
Maybe one day I could find somewhere I actually can feel like I belong.
Place or person-- either way.
But I've gotten around enough to know that I'm the problem-- not them.
Even if they do nothing wrong, I still never feel like I can stay.
But hey, everyone's a little bit broken, right?
And some pieces just don't fit together.
No matter how much lotion... Well, never mind!
You can go on ahead this time.
Sticking together never works out anyway.
And maybe, just this time, I'll stop running.​

He stays in place this time, as Sargon moves ahead, Note: answering "No" to his question about the future causes him to say "We were made for each other" but has no other effect since you relationship with him increases regardless of your answer.

Up next we find the all-female remake of the Piper Perri meme, although none of them are interactable, only the Doctor is.

I have no intention of extending to you the same

mercy as when last we met.
I am here to reclaim what has been stolen from me.
Lizzy, Lizzy...
I will do what must be done for your sake.​

The women disappear and he stays there, attempting to speak to him again causes him to repeat "Lizzy, lizzy" several times.

Next up we find multiple Coreys mourning a woman, I'm guess she is meant to be Heather's mom, none of the Coreys are interactable nor is the coffin.

And blast her husband twice.
History cares nothing for hopeless romanticism.
He is as naive as I've been.
For neither does history care for its own study.
I only needed to recover the scars I carved, not earn my own.
But I understand now.
Reality accepts nothing less than full commitment and sacrifice.
Those unwilling to choose that path have it chosen for them.
Then there's only one road left to walk.
Ironic.
Perhaps this loss was just what I needed to gleam the way.​

We ignore him and continue our path and we now run into best girl

You...

You thought you were strong together.

And here you are now.
Let this be a lesson.
Numbers do not help.
Friends do not help.
Nothing ever helps.
No one ever helps.
No one ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever
ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever
ever ever ever ever ever ever ever helps.​

She fades away too.

We see Corey again, although this time he is mourning Heather apparently.

Next we have a ton of Els? Eliases? the priest guy who groomed Bennet, apparently he too has the power to multiply himself.

We then come across Radomus and Luna, they slowly approach each other, and once they are together Radomus takes a quick step back, and when Luna approaches him again he turns to the side. He then turns to look at her, she jumps in place and they both leave together. I made a .gif of this but it kept refusing to upload.

I guess this means Radomus initially rejected Luna's advances before saying "Fuck it" and giving in.

Moving on we run into this literally who.

But one day, one of those little meteors decided she

wanted to go further than any of the others ever had.
So she kicked up her trail, revved up her spacedust, and off she went,
Sailing far, far away across the galaxy,
Further than all her best friends,
Further than all her loving family,
Further than any meteor had ever known it was possible to even go.
And when she was very, very tired of flying so far
away, she found a little planet she liked, and she
thought that she would finally rest.
So, the little meteor started to descend to the planet's surface.
But that planet's atmosphere was so hot, and so thick,
And the little meteor was so exhausted from flying so
many millions and millions of moons across space...
...That she burnt right up in the sky!
And do you know what happened?
All the people on that planet looked up, and they said,
"Look!
A shooting star!
Let's make a wish!"
And so, everyone on that little planet,
Which had scarcely seen such a star in its life,
Wished, And wished, and wished, and wished with all their might,
And those people smiled, and knew hope like they
had never known before, and felt happy.
And by the time it would have come to the surface,
there was nothing of the little meteor left at all...
It had all-- poof!-- vanished!
And even though it disappeared from the world
forever, do you know what that little meteor did?
It lived happily ever after,
In the joy it brought, and the hearts it touched, and
the smiles it inspired in its final moments as a shooting star.
So even with its last little itty bitty bit of life,
It never, ever regretted what it had done, even once.
So, make sure to smile for me too, okay?​

No, fuck you!

10/10 story I cri every tiem. BTW.

The literally who disappears and some gay pervert teleports behind Sargon.

Apparently this is Radomus in his younger years; he fades away after saying the line.

Next we have Radomus with a Ralts.

Now he is with a Kirlia.

And finally the gossip Gardevoir we all know and "love".

A collection of Radomus' many hats, and Gossip Gardevoir is always accompanying him,fucker even has a batman mask.

Here we have the schizo twins, Luna, Bennet some fucker with glasses, Gossip Gardevoir, Second best girl Serra all standing behind Batman Radomus, they are probably playing hide and seek or something.

Here we have Solaris and Ellias observing their respective kids (its hard to see but Solaris is at the bottom of the pic), someone mentioned here a while ago that Luna and Taka were supposed to get married so I guess this is symbolizing that.

???:This is funny...
Hey... Don't you even know who your real ally is?
Don't you?
Don't you~?​

Who the fuck are you?
???:Hey... Who's really made it so you could get this far?
Who?
Who~?
Me, duh.

???: Hey...
Haven't you been having fun?
Haven't you?
Haven't you!?​

Depends what you mean by "fun".

???: So you're like me... Hehehe~
Why else would you keep playing?​

The mysterious voice shuts up and we can proceed. Now currently there is nothing here but in Episode 19 the devs added a new boss battle at this exact spot. Since I don't want to break my current save file updating @Tari has helped us see what this battle would look like:

Sargon runs into the PULSE Hypno.
Are you the one showing me all this faggot shite?

I'll take that as a "yes", bring it on bitch!

You get a glimpse at Sargon's updated sprite for episode 19 cue the PULSE Hypno theme:

Narcissa also gets a new shiny sprite in Episode 19. We lead the battle with Narcissa holding a Lum Berry, allowing him to use Calm Mind and then wake up from Hypnos Hypnosis, and almost kill it with a Moon Blast on the next turn.

We get put to sleep again, but we survive two Dark Pulses and finish it off with a second Moon Blast after waking up.

Now back to our current game version we continue the journey, its funny but if it wasn't for this added boss battle there wouldn't be a single pokémon battle this episode, this is basically just one huge cutscene.

Ahead we find Serra split in half, a clear reference to the fact that she has now "hit the wall" and thus "shattered".

Now we have Bennet being groomed by CIA operatives aka Glow Niggers.

A bit ahead we now see Bennet next to Luna, Hardy and his mom, one can only guess what impure thoughts are going on in his head.

I don't mind.

I'm...
Happy.
I was finally able to be of use to my master.
And that feeling is my own.
My own...
No matter how intensely I may feel it, even I know the truth.
All of my desire for him is just a reflection of his own longing for her.
And neither of us could ever realize it.
After all, a human, marrying a Pokémon?
How gauche! Unthinkable!
These aren't the dark ages anymore.
I'm not stupid, just a mess.
And even if I put all of those thoughts square out of my head,
I know they would all come rushing back the moment
I saw him again.
Is that just how crushes are?
Or is it just part of my fate to only have his feelings?
I suppose I'll never find out.
Not anymore.​

Lol, Radomus and Gossip Gardevoir's backstory is literally just this:

anyway lets move on.

I have no idea who this is supposed to be...

Apparently it was Terra before she discovered Tumblr, she fucks up the tileset and starts spinning in place, other than that she is not interactable thank god.

Then we have Titania and Amaria reenacting Amaria's suicide attempt in the waterfall.

Ignoring Titania we decide to "follow" Amaria down the path.

I'm a big fan! And just like you I'm about to start my very own journey!
Just got my starter, his name is woody! I'm so excited!
Any day now...any day...​

Thats.... great, good luck...
What did you say your name was?

My name is Andy, oh can we please take a selfie?
pretty please?​

...
fine.

And he fades away too, so we move on.

Hey more characters.

Do I know you?

...Ayrith , where all the villas are, and I am not married.
I work as Pokémon trainer and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of MooMoo milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.​

Ok, thats good...
but the Quiet life is not for me.

Nice hands...​

Thanks?

And she fades away too.

Up next we find Blake spartan-kicking Cal into the void for being a faggot. Blake then fades away without saying a word.

Up ahead we find them shitting themselves and doing nothing.

As long as a rope.

​

What? How long is a rope?

As long as it needs to be.​

...Huh?

Stop making excuses.​

I didn't mean to ruin anything...

If you're really tired, then go to sleep.​

Here, in the snow?

No, in the luxury down bed we've got-- Yes, out here.​

He will if you keep asking things like that.​

But I'm so cold...

Yes, that's kind of the point.​

I wanna go inside...

Stop complaining. It's your fault we're in this situation in the first place.​

I'm sorry...

No, you're not.​

I am... You're sounding like him.

Better him than you.​

This whole void thing feels to me like someone complained that 90% of the cast has no real personality or backstory and the retarded devs decided to remedy that in the most retarded way possible.

Shade makes a brief cameo in this episode, he quickly disappears without saying a word.

Don't know who that is... actually I do know who that is I just refuse to acknowledge its existence.

Next up we find Ame, victoria, Adrienn and DJ Nigger.

Once you take a step the screen flashes red and all their heads explode, based.

Next we find Z.E.L. and upon interacting with him he splits up.

Next we find this knight, but since Sargon is fed up with all this faggotry he xe just punches a hole trough his stomach.

And we just move on without a care for the corpse.

Luna just shows up out of nowhere.

It has been a fair few moments since our last visit, has it not?

​

Fuck you I'm not speaking to a hallucination!

But let us not linger on this.

I fear you have dallied here far too long as is.​

I'm not dilating, you're dilating
fucking Cunt!

I said "dallied" not "dilated"...
Though I do not fault you for it, this is my home rather than yours.
So I will handle this place from here.
Please, The way forward is yours alone.​

So we take the path Luna just created, because travelling trough dimensions is something she can do for some reason.

And we are finally back in the real world. Note: the dialogue says "Elias" but its just Radomus wearing a wig.
Guess who's back motherfuckers!
back again.

Ok, this episode was much longer as we are now about to engage into a half hour long cutscene, I already have the screenshots and text written for it, but I actually hit the character limit for a post. So I'm gonna have to split the episode here.

See you next time!

 

[Tari]

I believe the guy in the red is supposed to be Dr. Connal, the guy who tried curing the schizos with electroshock and who last appeared in the LP in October of 2021... man I have taken forever with this LP. Anyway lets move on.

Top: Some cultist doing the burial rites
Left: Sigmund Connal, Sigmund and Elizabeth Connal's parents (Her death was pretty much her father's fault, if you were curious.)
Right: I have no fucking idea about the one who isn't a cop. It's probably mentioned in the Jirachi Quest.

A bit ahead we now have to different scenes, on the left we have Cain getting groomed?

Pretty sure it's meant to be "bullying" but yes it's realistically grooming

I'm guess she is meant to be Heather's mom

That's Elena Molinar, yes.

I guess this means Radomus initially rejected Luna's advances before saying "Fuck it" and giving in.

Luna is the biggest plot hole in Reborn's lore because of the sprite that gets used here not having shorter hair

Now we have Bennet being groomed by CIA operatives aka Glow Niggers.

It's Elias. Iirc that sprite is used in the Subseven Sanctum as well?

all their heads explode, based.

oh god his vore fetish is expanding to other characters


anyway i looked through the pokemon reborn fics on ao3 and (islamic) someone made an abdl luna fic
there's also one that completely misses the point of bennett being infatuated with luna being the joke in itself

 

[Friendly Primarina]

I actually liked the meteor one. Is autism contagious?

 

[Mary the Goldsmith]

Is autism contagious?

yes, highly contagious in fact