Badge #12, Pt 2: Gen Wun

Have you ever played a Gen 1 game? No? You're not missing out on anything. The games were borderline unplayable until Gen 4, and even then they take it a bit far with the HM shit until Gen 7. (You should play Photonic Sun/Prismatic Moon.)

Back to the circus. Enter the side room of the circus and talk to Samson for a cutscene, then talk to him again to enter the computer. Welcome to Glitch City. Keep going straight forward (where you will be rudely interrupted by all of the NPCs) until Terra destroys up the path in front of you. Unfortunately for her, her corruption left a ladder there, so go straight down it to make it to Mt Moon. There's a bit of corruption here too, so just walk straight left, down, sneak past the NPC, and down again to escape it. (The ladders and NPCs here are completely fake.)

You'll be spat out in Reborn City, back in the Opal Ward. The scientist from the very beginning is still there to the side (which is a neat detail). Walk down past the NPC guarding the stairs and go down the stairs where the exit to Peridot Ward otherwise would be. Now we enter... I'm not really sure. Team Rocket's hideout? I never played RBY. Sneak past the NPC guarding the puzzle to access the puzzle (the stairs don't do anything.) This puzzle blows!

Follow the path set out by the red arrow to make it to the exit. (Or turn on walk through walls and walk straight down.) Don't get tricked by the stairs (which will reset you back to the beginning) and go out the door instead; this will put you in Lavender Town (I think?) The only door here that works is the house in the centre of the town. That door will spit you out in a Gen Wun version of the Byxbysion Wasteland; continue upwards and then to the southwest to find an open door. Going through here will have you find... I don't know what this area is.

Activate the dragon statue immediately next to the entrance (who would've found this naturally, seriously?) to open a door to the southeast. There's an NPC guarding your way forward (with a fucking sand veil Sandslash, seriously x2? You've been spared from that); after getting past him, go down the stairs to teleport to the blocked off area and find a Dubious Disc. Go back and exit out of the one-tile-wide door below the NPC to find the fake Citae Astrae. (You can catch more Porygon here!)

Exit out of the bottom to get a small easter-egg (if you found the previous one), and you'll be put on the map that haunts my nightmares. At the top is a door that teleports you to Cerulean Cave (allegedly); the path here is very linear, so just follow it down until you find the Creature. Talk to it to battle a Level 75 Mewtwo. (Yes, this is an extraordinarily stupid fight especially with the field effect, but as a fellow creative I approve of the abrasiveness).

Pass through the gates to find a Light Shard, and then open up into the next room to find Terra. Talk to her to start the gym battle. Whilst this is indeed a very stupid fight it's also the free-est gym in the game as this field effect simply does not work at all. Some tips:

• The field effect here is really fucking stupid. It reintroduces the physical/special split screwing over a lot of Pokémon, and the Synthetic Seed forces Pokémon to switch to the QMARKS type which takes neutral damage from all hits.
• This does mean you can cheese it with something with very high SpDef, as special attacks calculate on the highest stat.
• Toedscruel will troll you if you don't lead with a grass type. It's neutral to hits, so don't worry about spamming Leaf Storm.
• Aside from that... this is (and always has been) a free gym. Basically anything other than fire types will work here.

Collect your badge, then exit through both doors to the south to get a cutscene back in the real world with Ciel. Now that you have waterfall, it's time to go rescue Amaria.