Badge #2, Pt 2: Onyx Ward

Welcome to the Onyx ward - the fourth ward you can access in Reborn City. Only threee more to go. This ward is barren compared to the other wards and it's unlikely you'll visit here again except for the Move Relearner.

Before following either of the paths up, enter the first building - the Onyx Arcade. You can talk to the various NPCs here to get some incredibly dated jokes, as well as them telling you the PvP services are down. (You can't use them anyway, due to the patch, but nevertheless). You also can't play any of the games as you don't have a coin case! But if you did, you could talk to the NPCs behind the counters to find that they're giving away a small handful of Pokémon (yikes!)

Next to the arcade is a cut-out with a door to an apartment building. The girl on the left of the building will tell you to investigate the Day Care couple (it's the building next to the Pokécentre in Obsidia) as they're acting strange. If she's not there, you need to talk to the Daycare Couple at least once (but if you do that, you can talk to the girl after completing the miniquest and the game accepts it fine).

Return through the gate and into Obsidia and make your way to the daycare. You need to alternate between talking to the old man and the old woman, where they reveal... they were Team Meteor all along!

After kicking their shins in, return back to Obsidia Park and enter the house at the top where you will find a Warehouse Key. (That's not obvious in the slightest, wtf?) This will open all of the locked warehouses (minus one) in the Coral Ward. In order, from right to left:

1. The furthest right one will contain a Happiny.
2. The middle one will contain... nothing. (Unless you found the hidden Spoink in the slums then it will contain a Spoink hidden within the crates.)
3. The left-most lower warehouse next to the decks will contain the real daycare couple!
4. Finally, the top-most warehouse will contain... you can't open it. Oh well!

Before you return to the daycare to hatch your Slums egg that you put off hatching, return to the girl in the Onyx ward who will give you another mystery egg. This egg is completely random and can't be savescummed as its type is determined at the start of the game. It'll be one of these: Clamperl, Frillish, Spheal, Seel, Remoraid, or Clauncher. This event can be done at any point before you get your 13th Badge, but it disappears afterwards.

♫ GlitchxCity - Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Sky Tower Remix (vaporwave remix, lol)

When you're ready, head up to the Onyx Trainer School. The right entrance is blocked off by some students, so you'll need to enter through the Gym Entrance to the left. Oh no! You're blocked off by Incel Fern who - mad about not being asked to help with Obsidia - raises a gate preventing you from accessing the gym. Plan B: exit the Gym Entrance and go use Regular Entrance. (Everyone here seems to use water types. Why? It's a grass type gym.)

The way to the left is once again blocked off by a gate, so proceed to the right instead, up the stairs to the second floor. There's several students who will change you in double battles along the way. Walk into the first room next to the stairs and talk to the guy inside to get his Coin Case. The second door next to the old man is blocked off, and the third door contains a guy playing Minecraft (ft. terrible wordplay) and a set of Protective Pads on the ground. You'll see him again in a few chapters time.

Going left again, the next open door has three bedrooms with a Quick Claw, TM196 Swift, and TM161 Focus Energy. If you wish, interact with the bookcases to read four Bethesda-esque diary entries (how fucking old are these gym leaders, anyway?) Finally, talk to the person facing the wall who will scream, run away, and open up the set of double doors which leads to a room with a handful of move tutors.

As you go down the stairs to the next gate, there's a computer. Interact with it to unlock the gat- sorry, that doesn't work. But you will get a cutscene with a mysterious stranger who performs a small bit of AI reinforcement training and unlocks the gate for you. You can travel up and to the right to unlock the other gate next to the Pokémon Centre. Talk to the girl next to the gate as well to get two terrain seeds.

Now, the gym puzzle. Go straight left to clear out all of the trainers to avoid them getting in your way during this. Go left to right and interact with all of the computers, entering the following answers in this order:

1. TRUE
2. 20 (or 15, if you go by the books; either is accepted)
3. 37 (see Cubchoo)
4. TRUE
5. 465 (see Corsola)
6. TRUE
7. 367
8. 1 (see Starmie)

With the gym puzzle solved, you can go straight left across both rooms to talk to Fern, who will tell you to fuck off. Talk to him again for another battle.

After breaking his shins, you can proceed into the gym to battle Florinia. This is also a relatively easy gym battle, and likely the last easy one. Some tips:

• A good fire type will completely dismantle her team, with the exception of Cradily which will kill you with Rock Tomb. (Now with a much less illegal moveset!)
• Technician Kricketune has one last hurrah in demolishing her team with Hyper Voice and Bug Buzz. Just keep wary of her Cradily.
• For dealing with the Cradily, a fighting type (such as the Pancham you found earlier) will handily beat it.
• Roselia or another Grass type is immune to Spore from her Breloom, and can easily OHKO it with a Poison move.
• Her Bramblin can hit very hard and is immune to Icy Wind, and with Shadow Sneak can get a priority kill out on you easily.

With that, you now have your second badge! Sheldon gives you the TM for Nature Power, then Amaria returns to let you know that the Team Meteor guy you've been tracking was seen in the Beryl Ward! That said, there's a few things we need to do here in the two wards before we trot over there. Your level cap is also increased to a whopping 35, so you can finally evolve your starter.

There's one new event in the Onyx Ward; in the building with the girl who gave you the random egg, one of Fern's lackeys is now hanging out there and will open the door to the rooftop of the building.

Set the weather to Sunny. In Obsidia Park there will be a Petilil in the flower field. Talk to it with a Pokésnax in your bag and it will join you. You can evolve it now, or wait until you get to Apophyll Island in a few hours to get a Hisuian Lilligant!

Make your way back down to the Obsidia Slums to find a psykkkiatrist harassing a child to go to his orphanage. Interact with them to get the Itemfinder key item, as well as a medium EXP Candy.

If you go down the western lift to B1F, and around to this hidden doorway, you can enter the room to find a Makuhita.

Next stop: The Jasper and Beryl wards!