Feel The Ground Shake (Pokemon - Ground-type specialist)

[Jambory]

I won't lie, the idea that Brad just was like "Yeah, there's nothing all that interesting in this place, whoopsie-doodle", only for a group of Unown to show up after he got the Smeargles he needed to make his trade to go "Hey, check this shit out," and getting *a free Registeel* out of it, is incredible to me. What on Earth is going to happen now? Is he going to try to heal it? Is there a protocol for a trainer carrying a Legendary? Will he have to keep it in a certain place until he meets the right qualifications, or will he have to give it up immediately because having a Legendary is like finding a nuke? How will the Registeel react to now being owned by a Pokemon trainer after being inactive for who knows how long? If there's a Registeel in Johto, does that mean there's a Regirock, Regice, and Regigas hidden somewhere, or did it migrate here, either due to the Unowns' proclivity to transport people and Pokemon to different places, or whatever significance Statue Guy(name pending)'s ruins have?

This is such an interesting plot point to end the latest chapter on, and I can't wait to see what you have planned for later!

 

[rick1497]

Let's get a poll going. Which do you think is the more unimaginatively named? Kanto's "Rock Tunnel" or Johto's "Dark Cave"?

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Rock Tunnel. Most of the caves in Pokemon are surprisingly well lit, only a few require Flash to see. And, with HMs phased out, we probably won't be seeing any more of them.

 

[CelticMonk]

Everyone meet one of our next (eventual) Team Members.

Karn, Silver Golem.

His nature wasn't always 'Lonely'.

But he was by himself for just...so so long.

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I thought that was the reference for Karn! My favorite Planeswalker!! How did I never think of that as a name for Registeel? I disappoint myself

 

[Fossilhunter]

If there's a Registeel in Johto, does that mean there's a Regirock, Regice, and Regigas hidden somewhere, or did it migrate here, either due to the Unowns' proclivity to transport people and Pokemon to different places, or whatever significance Statue Guy(name pending)'s ruins have?

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with brandon it was implied he caught regice between the episode overjoyed! and pinch healing! in a random ruin, seeing that he was in kanto at the time this could mean that his other two regi's were also indigo native and the registeel that the MC caught could have been the registeel that brandon would have eventually caught. brandon did eventually travel to sinnoh to find regigigas though.

 

[ApiLol123123]

Wow, I was not expecting Registeel! Thanks for the chapter!!

 

[Hickity]

Registeel, huh? Cheeky, you captured a shiny graveller and ended up with a different sort of golem. Wasn't expecting a registeel though, I honestly thought it'd be a regigigas namdd Atlas. OP? Kinda but the ability could have held it back as much as necessary.

So all the others are going to be ground type, I believe? Looking forward to seeing the completed team. And really looking forward to Simon evolving and becoming S+, my boy is so close.

 

[kukukkuii]

Well there goes my theory of Quagsire being a shadow pokemon. It was a few chapters ago but i remember you saying that you were keeping track of everyones theories, and no one had managed to correctly guess yet what happened to Quagsire. Did anyone end up guessing right in the end?

 

[Pkbwgsc]

…and then he screams.

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Well, that's depressing. I think I did predict this sometime back but was hoping the situation was less… indiscriminate.
Obviously this story runs a bit on anime logic but also… i can't help but try and put some actual logic to that.

Spoiler: Math

Earthquake, 100 BP. So it moves the ground hard enough to hit with two times the force of a pokemon slashing a small tree in half with Cut.
A slash attack is obviously more focused than the probable method of damage earthquake works through; blunt force by shoving dirt up your butt.

According to google it takes about a magnitude 5 or higher to destroys trees, depending on soil. Lets round that up to 6 since they're likely to have been on the rockier and more open-spaced area of Route 31.
Quick google search says magnitude 6 is about equivalent to over 6270 tons of TNT. Assuming that to be true, double it with the Cut to EQ BP comparison. 12,540 tons.
10 PP for EQ, 10 times the energy, notably *concentrated* on a single area.
125,400 tons.

The Fat Man had a yield of about 21000 tons of TNT.
Pokemon… sure can be dangerous.

Everyone meet one of our next (eventual) Team Members.

Karn, Silver Golem.

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Damn, got too tied up in ground types and didn't consider the obvious answer. Though it was about as likely as Sandy Shocks all things considered.

'Mythical' Pokemon (since that's apparently a distinction these days)

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Kinda? Feels like Pokemon Company kinda adopted the fan term but doesn't really acknowledge it in official resources. It's a superficial label really.

That makes sense, so SSS would be: Weather trio, creation trio, and aura trio, and ultra Necrozma. Does anybody else reach that level of power lore wise?

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Unlikely, but possible candidates:
Hoopa regularly throws other legendaries through its portals, and it's heavily implied to reach through parallel timelines in some cases iirc.

The light trio of Sun and Moon who are described as having infinite capacity and infinite output of energy.
Ultra Necrozma notably being one of three pokemon ever seen to surpass 'an Arceus' in terms of stats, for what that's worth.

Same vein as above, Eternamax Eternatus.
And the two dogs who beat it.

Terpagos who, depending on how it's interpreted, has the power of all other types, somewhat like Arceus. Responsible for Terras, and its passive presence was enough to allow all sorts of goofy stuff with time travel.

I wonder if any of those hundreds of Unown had actually decent potential instead of D or lower?

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Iirc weren't the potentials going up as more gathered? They could be a Wishiwashi case.

If there's a Registeel in Johto, does that mean there's a Regirock, Regice, and Regigas hidden somewhere, or did it migrate here, either due to the Unowns' proclivity to transport people and Pokemon to different places, or whatever significance Statue Guy(name pending)'s ruins have?

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We do have the Sinjoh Ruins to consider from the remakes. All sorts of justification with that stuff.

 

[LordVishnu]

Did anyone end up guessing right in the end?

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Only in the sense that he's a walking 'Nuke'.

If there's a Registeel in Johto, does that mean there's a Regirock, Regice, and Regigas hidden somewhere,

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Is there more than one Regigigas lore-wise? I know via movies and the anime we have multiple sets of the lower Regi scattered in the world but I thought the Big Guy was more unique.

Rock Tunnel. Most of the caves in Pokemon are surprisingly well lit, only a few require Flash to see. And, with HMs phased out, we probably won't be seeing any more of them.

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It's giving me a chuckle that people are actually answering this. I wasn't being serious lol.

 

[Tortonium]

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[Repse Krad Eht]

'Mythical' Pokemon (since that's apparently a distinction these days) would be divided up in the bottom three categories. Except for Phione. That trash gets 'B'. At best.

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Phione unironically isn't even that special. They float around in packs (the Heartgold/Soulsilver entries say as much).

'B tier mythical' is actually overestimating their special factor. They're literally just a rare-ish Pokemon breed, like a psuedo-legendary, in-universe.

 

[Fossilhunter]

Is there more than one Regigigas lore-wise? I know via movies and the anime we have multiple sets of the lower Regi scattered in the world but I thought the Big Guy was more unique.

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in the games there's one in hoenn on a small island, one in sinnoh in his temple and one in unova in twist mountain. in all the other game's it's either trade or through ultra wormhole or gigantomax raids. so for the game's it could be argued that there are multiple regigigas around. in the anime the one that stopped the glacier in giratina's movie (which is canon to the anime series by the way) is not from snowpoint's temple but from a place called Ten'i Village so this brings into question if regigigas is a unique existance in the pokemon world.

 

[Aetra]

Upheaval. Cataclysm. Magnitude 30.

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I'd call it Downfall

in the games there's one in hoenn on a small island, one in sinnoh in his temple and one in unova in twist mountain. in all the other game's it's either trade or through ultra wormhole or gigantomax raids. so for the game's it could be argued that there are multiple regigigas around. in the anime the one that stopped the glacier in giratina's movie (which is canon to the anime series by the way) is not from snowpoint's temple but from a place called Ten'i Village so this brings into question if regigigas is a unique existance in the pokemon world.

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Oh true, never really thought of it. Maybe there are multiple Regigigas like the other Regis. Imagine if the Regi's could fuse with their clones to become their continent moving/shaping forms, like an asura mode or hecatoncheires form to match Mega Rayquaza and Primal Groudon/Omega.

 

[Delta333]

Congratulations, you caught regidepressi.

 

[kukukkuii]

The moment a Furret bites down hard to snap a Ratatta's neck for its evening meal or a Pidgeotto pecks the guts out of a Caterpie

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I need to again say how much I like this stories reminders that this world is in no ways the happy-go-lucky childish adventure the games & anime disguised it as.

It's a horrifying, dog eat dog world with man eating monsters & walking nukes around every corner.

With this world you have to think what the hell parents are thinking sending children off into this world unattended. Like they actually want their kids to be killed & eaten.

 

[Zatch P]

Is there more than one Regigigas lore-wise? I know via movies and the anime we have multiple sets of the lower Regi scattered in the world but I thought the Big Guy was more unique.

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Apparently Regigigas showed up 3 times in the anime. One in Ten'i Village in the Giratina movie, one from Snowpoint Temple, and one in the Crown Tundra as a Dynamax Pokemon. Also once in the Hoopa movie but Hoopa summoned it then sent it back, so it could have been the same one as any of those.

I don't know how canon you'd consider movies, but even without that there still have to be at least 2 of them. The one from Snowpoint Temple went back to the temple at the end of the episode it showed up in and hibernated again, it wouldn't have shown up in the Crown Tundra.

 

[Fossilhunter]

Apparently Regigigas showed up 3 times in the anime. One in Ten'i Village in the Giratina movie, one from Snowpoint Temple, and one in the Crown Tundra as a Dynamax Pokemon. Also once in the Hoopa movie but Hoopa summoned it then sent it back, so it could have been the same one as any of those.

I don't know how canon you'd consider movies, but even without that there still have to be at least 2 of them. The one from Snowpoint Temple went back to the temple at the end of the episode it showed up in and hibernated again, it wouldn't have shown up in the Crown Tundra.

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Movies are in fact canon to the anime timeline, from the mewtwo's to volcanion's movie's at least the one after those then non-canon

 

[Gotenks]

One has to wonder, if the guy has been buried for a long time, and we don't know if there are any others of it's kind around, does that meant that the new addition would be a completely unknown pokemon to the world at large?

Wonder how would that work, also wonder if the trainers going "What the hell is that!!" would get tiresome.

 

[GasperVladi0]

Awwww, poor boy was lonely.

 

[Greatazuredragon]

So my guess the Unknown decided Registeel needed to get out of the fucking cave and out if it's century long depression.

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They wanted the mc to uncluter their basement. XD

 

[Rogos]

So, will Brad tell the researchers about this unexplored part of the Ruins, even if he took the most interesting thing in it ?

 

[Jambory]

Is there more than one Regigigas lore-wise? I know via movies and the anime we have multiple sets of the lower Regi scattered in the world but I thought the Big Guy was more unique.

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in the games there's one in hoenn on a small island,

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Most interesting aspect of this particular Regigigas is the means to get it. You would think all you have to do is get all 3 Regis, then go to the place where Regigigas is hiding, right? NOPE! You first have to wait 24 hours after catching your last Regi. Then, you have give your Regice a nickname and have it hold an ice-themed item (nevermeltice, casteliacone, icy rock, etc). Then you have to go to the Island Cave in Regice's room during the morning/day time, and boom, there it is.
I had to look it up online to figure out what I was doing wrong, but there is a girl in Pacifidlog Town in the northeast house that gives you a hint

{"'Six dots open three doors. Grandpa used to say that and I was always wondering what he meant. I had no idea it was some secret to meet special Pokemon. He told me another story too. I wonder if this has some hidden meaning, too... Grandpa used to say that this huge Pokémon sometimes visits our region. But you'll need to have something cold to meet it... I wonder what he meant. Ice cream, maybe?"}

but if you didn't know any of that, but still had all the Regis and went to the Island Cave, then instead of the game saying

{"The very earth is quaking! Is something approaching?!"
"Zut zutt!"}

It says

{"...?"
"There seemed to be some presence here, but it disappeared in an instant..."}

The way to get Regigigas in ORAS is so esoteric, it almost feels like a troll.

 

[TheDanny]

Kind of wish that it was Regirock that he found, since rock is closer to ground than steel, and it's appearance is also closer.

 

[Ever Tomorrow]

I know we're all caught up with the Registeel (for good reason), but I think it's cool he found a group of smeargle. The author didn't need to make them smeargle. They could've been more Eevee like every other author uses for their cuteness. Instead, we get the smeargle and examples of other 'mon that have multiple variations. I appreciate stuff like this.

 

[LordVishnu]

Crown Tundra.

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Isn't this the ridiculous DLC area from one of the recent games that has like every Legendary imaginable inside it?

Imma just gonna go ahead and say "No." to that whole thing. That place and the implications it's 50 some-odd Legendaries carries will not be appearing.

So, will Brad tell the researchers about this unexplored part of the Ruins, even if he took the most interesting thing in it ?

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I'm thinking…Nah. Too much effort. What if people start bothering him about stuff? What if they say he can't sell the Relic Coins because they're historical artifacts? Shudder the thought.

Kind of wish that it was Regirock that he found, since rock is closer to ground than steel, and it's appearance is also closer.

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Mild spoiler. Brandon will appear a little down the line in the story and he only has Regirock at this time. (No, Brad did not yoink the specific Registeel that Brandon has in the anime. It's a different one.)

This was a contributing factor to why I went Steel over Rock. I didn't want to retread the same ground. (Kek. Ground.)

 

[Jambory]

Isn't this the ridiculous DLC area from one of the recent games that has like every Legendary imaginable inside it?

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To make a long story short, the Crown Tundra has a small area where space is warped that allows you to find Dynamaxed Legendaries after a series of Dynamax battles, called Dynamax Adventures. It's basically the Gen VIII version of the Ultra Wormholes in USUM (Gen VII), or the Hoopa Portals in ORAS (Gen VI).
Pretty sure Gen IX does something similar too, but I haven't played Scarlet and Violet, so I don't know the specifics. Turtle-Planet-Energized Time Travel Distortions? Sure, let's go with Turtle-Planet-Energized Time Travel Distortions; I think that's the plot of SV...

 

[Fossilhunter]

To make a long story short, the Crown Tundra has a small area where space is warped that allows you to find Dynamaxed Legendaries after a series of Dynamax battles, called Dynamax Adventures. It's basically the Gen VIII version of the Ultra Wormholes in USUM (Gen VII), or the Hoopa Portals in ORAS (Gen VI).
Pretty sure Gen IX does something somilar too, but I haven't played those games so I don't know the specifics. Turtle-Planet-Energized Time Travel Distortions? Sure, let's go with Turtle-Planet-Energized Time Travel Distortions; I think that's the plot of Scarlet and Violet.

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from what i can find, scarlet and violet don't seem to have any dimansional bullshit involved with the legendaries appearing in the region. you just do 10 quests for a suit wearing guy who gives you a random snack and he gives you hints to the location of a legendary

 

[Jambory]

from what i can find, scarlet and violet don't seem to have any dimansional bullshit involved with the legendaries appearing in the region. you just do 10 quests for a suit wearing guy who gives you a random snack and he gives you hints to the location of a legendary

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Gotcha. Guess the DA in SwSh is the best way to shiny hunt Legendaries for now, then.

 

[Rogos]

I'm thinking…Nah. Too much effort. What if people start bothering him about stuff? What if they say he can't sell the Relic Coins because they're historical artifacts? Shudder the thought.

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Just sell the coins to the researchers. Also, maybe there's a reward for discoveries like these. But yeah, I understand if you don't want to bother with another subplot.

 

[OldSpartan]

Nice to get some more backstory on what Happened with the Quagsire and the other trainers Brad was hanging around with. They really grew on me with the short stories that were drip-fed over the previous chapters and it's tragic what happened to them. Hopefully Brad eventually finds a solution to helping Quagsire, though it doesn't look like it will be an easy fix.

And good to see Brad having some proper Pokemon adventures of his own besides fighting Gym Leaders. He makes some progress catching pokemon for breeding, meets some Unknown in an unknown ruin, and finds a Legendary along with a pile of loot. A great experience overall and one that I wasn't expecting. A welcome experience nonetheless. This trip was a goldmine and I expect he should get a good amount of money from both the Shiny and the coins. Enough to set him up for quite a while and maybe buy some pricey items for his team.

Hope he can get the Registeel out of it's funk eventually. But for all Brad's faults, he is good to his pokemon. I can't wait to see people's faces when he decides to actually use it in a fight. Hopefully it is properly thematic and is at a tournament of some type.