Castelia Sewers
I took a deep breath, and promptly wretched. Dunno what I was expecting, seeing as this is a sewer...
Hugh: "Took you long enough! You lead, I'll follow!"
"Why can't you lead?"
Hugh: "Because then I'm at risk of being attacked or setting off a trap, duh!"
"Why would someone rig traps in a sewer?"
Hugh: "Just go!"
The waters were drained, due to the season, which makes little sense. We went up towards a staircase, only to be stopped.
Guy: "Waitasecond! I dropped something here! Just wait until I find it!"
"What? No!"
He moved in our way.
Guy: "It'll only take a while, I promise!"
Hugh and I went deeper into the sewers, his Pignite incinerating any Zubats or Rattatas that harassed us. We eventually bumped into a Janitor.
Janitor: "Must... clean... sewer!"
"Dude, this is a sewer. It's utterly filthy and that's how it's supposed to be. And it's just going to get dirtier faster than you can clean it."
Janitor: "Been here 10 days... can't leave until clean!"
We left him to his duty. We walked down the stairs into the channels of the sewers, and walked across the dirty floor. Hugh stepped in a Grimer puddle twice, each time getting his leg nearly eaten by the trap. We eventually stumbled upon a doctor.
"Okay, what are you doing in a sewer?"
Doctor Heath: "Giving out candy!"
Hugh mugged him for his eponymous Heath Bars, and I sighed before just leaving. We also found Leftovers in the sewers, which seems like a really bad place to find and eat food. I took it nevertheless, at Hugh's insistence. They were all grimy and sludged, though.
Hugh: "You never know."
"I... think I do 'know' in this case."
After eons of searching and getting lost in the mazelike sewers, we backtracked towards the entrance... only to find that the Plasmorons were holed up right near the entrance in the first place.
"D'oh."
Hugh: "Hey! You!"
Plasmoron 1: "What do you want?"
Hugh: "You villains!"
Plasmoron 1: "'Villains'? Seriously? How cliche and naive. The world isn't black and white, despite that being the name of this game, dude."
Plasmoron 2: "Well, technically we ARE villains..."
Plasmoron 1: "That doesn't justify it! Anyway, Qwilfish hair, leave us alone. We're just trying to liberate Pokemon."
Plasmoron 2: "Actually, Lord Dennis said we don't need to bother with that lie anymore, we can just admit we're thieves since we're not going to try this sneakily anymore. Brawn over brains."
Plasmoron 1: "Wait, what? We're stealing, not liberating?!"
Hugh: "Uh, yeah..."
Plasmoron 1: "...Sweet! And here I thought we were a bunch of sissies! You two! Give us your Pokemon!"
Hugh: "Anthony! Let's do this!"
Grunt 1 sent out Scraggy, while Grunt 2 sent out a Sandile. I sent out Natu, and Hugh sent out Pignite. Pignite used Flame charge on Sandile, taking it out in one hit. Natu weakened Scraggy with Peck, who Headbutted Pignite for light damage. Pignite then finished off Scraggy.
Plasmoron 1: "How do we steal Pokemon if we can't beat them?!"
Hugh: "You don't!"
Plasmoron 2: "Just let it go, you two."
They ran away.
Hugh: "They just run away like Patrat!"
"Patrat never run away from me, they're always suicidally overconfident and annoying."
Hugh: "Huh. Maybe they're just scared of me."
"Or your hair."
Hugh: "Or my piercing red eyes."
"Or your hair."
Hugh: "Shut up. Let's go further."
???: "I don't think that will be necessary, you two."
Hugh: "Hi Burgh."
Burgh: "Let me introduce myself. I'm- Oh."
"Hi Burgh."
Burgh: "I can assure you there's no one suspicious beyond here."
Hugh: "Oh, really? That's suspicious."
Burgh: "What is? The lack of suspicion or me saying that?"
"Both."
Hugh: "Whatever. I'm getting out of here. I'll never forgive those Pokemon thieves! No way!"
Burgh: "Sheesh, you'd think he had Pokemon stolen from him once. Or his younger sister did, or something like that."
"Probably not, I think he's just an aggressive jerk."
???: "You there!"
"Another '???'?"
A blonde, slick-haired man with sunglasses and a black coat walked out.
???: "That was most impressive. You may be a worthy one."
He left.
"Well, that was pointless."
Burgh: "Indeed. I'm going to my gym. You can come battle me."
"Iris is waiting outside the sewer."
Burgh froze up at this, and exited out a different way. I proceeded deeper.
Relic Passage
"Now, what kind of place is this?"
I looked around.
"A boring place."
I left.
Castelia Sewers
Guy: "You can go through here now, I found what I dropped!"
"What was it?"
Guy: "My sewer floor tile! You wouldn't believe how hard it was to find!"
I decided I didn't really care to go up there anyway because by this point the sewer fumes were making me want to kill myself, and exited the sewers back to Castelia's harbor.
Castelia City
Iris: "Welcome back! Wow, you reek! Anyway, find Burgh?"
I looked at the scissors in her hand.
"...No."
Iris: "Darn it. You win this time, Burgh..."
She tossed the scissors aside and left. I left too, to heal at the Pokemon Center and get ready to face Burgh. But first I needed a long shower.
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