Appendix:Pokémon XD walkthrough/Section 1
Welcome to Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness. If you need to check on generic Pokémon information, you've got a giant Bulbapedia full of info. Now, let's get started. Make a name for yourself (sorry, ladies, you can only be the boy), and you'll be on your way.
Pokémon HQ Lab
Sim Trainer Jadlet
Level 50 Metagross
You start out by watching the opening cutscene. Shadow Lugia and these shady guys in helicopters steal the SS. Libra and leave the two pilots in the middle of the ocean with no supplies whatsoever.
Now you'll be partaking in a fight. You're you with a Level 50 Salamence (foreshadow?) against a Level 50 Metagross. Just use Earthquake twice and you'll defeat it. When the battle is over you'll find out it's just a hologram- no Salamence for you. You actually have a wimpy Level 10 Eevee. You live in a giant mansion/lab that works on Pokémon. Head to the room to the left to you to find your mother Lily and Professor Krane. Lily asks you to find your sister Jovi, an annoying brat, and Krane tells you to find a P☆DA. If you don't remember/didn't play Colosseum, a P☆DA is your device with which you can check your Shadow Pokémon, Pokémon viewed, Mailbox, and Poké Spots.
Now's a good time to explore the Lab and get a feel for the building. One of the rooms is your room (the room next to the one with the Plusle in it) and there's a P☆DA shining on the table. Grab it, and you'll get a preliminary e-mail from Professor Krane. No biggie. There's also 3 Potions in the room. In the bottom-left room of the second floor is Adon hiding under the desk. Speak to him and he'll give you important information where Jovi is. Leave the HQ Lab (by leaving the boundaries of the building, of course), and head for the ? on the map to Dr. Kaminko's House.
Dr. Kaminko's House
Trying to enter the house leads into Kaminko Aide Chobin, a character probably more important than Kaminko himself, who has awesome glasses and mistakes you for a burglar.
Kaminko Aide Chobin
Level 5 Sunkern
Now that he's out of the way, he'll realize you're a child and apologizes. Enter with the building and listen (or ignore) Chobin's ramblings. You'll find Jovi being annoying to Dr. Kaminko. Talk to Jovi and she'll temporarily join your party. Leave the manor, and head home.
Pokémon HQ Lab
The scientists have just finished the Snag Machine, a machine for snagging Shadow Pokémon. It seems perfectly convenient that a trainer with a Shadow Pokémon is about to- Wait, what was that?
On your way out, you'll find Professor Krane being kidnapped. Quickly chase them outside, and you'll see them preparing to run away. Go to them, and one of them turns around and fights you.
Spy Naps
Level 11 Shadow Teddiursa
Simply throw a Poké Ball to Snag Teddiursa. Despite losing a Shadow Pokémon, Naps and the other two guys scram with Professor Krane. Things don't look good... But on the bright side, you've got a second Pokémon in your party. After a long cutscene with the family, the family will continue work on their other invention, the Purify Chamber, without Professor Krane. They want you to get a Machine Part at Gateon Port. Jovi wants to be a pain and tag along.
Gateon Port
As soon as you arrive, Jovi decides to make a scene and runs straight into Thug Zook without looking. Zook is a big tough guy with too much pride. Zook threatens to hurt you and Jovi with his Shadow Zangoose, which he releases in public, but before he can he is stopped by... Midget Old Man and his two Bodyguards-- Er... Mr. Verich, someone who has won the favor of Gateon Port by providing free food and drink, and his two bodyguards. The blue-haired one sends out an Alakazam to kill the Zangoose. The three people leave as Zook storms off, and Jovi thanks them, and then Verich turns around and says what just seems like an old-man-ramble.
Head into the shop at the left of Gateon Port after running into Miss Annoying's friend. Talking to the guy at the bottom-right, and you'll find he's an Eevee expert. You can give Eevee the...
- Water Stone for a Vaporeon
- Thunderstone for a Jolteon
- Fire Stone for a Flareon
- Sun Shard for an Espeon
- Moon Shard for an Umbreon
Choose one and only one and you can evolve your Eevee with it. Helpful, but not what you were looking for in the Parts Shop. Talk to the guy who just repaired the movable bridges, and he'll take you back to the Shop and give you the Machine Part you needed. Before you leave, if you want two more Shadows in your party, you can use the Bridge System to reach two other trainers, one on a cliff and one at the top of the lighthouse, in that order.
Casual Guy Cyle
Level 6 Taillow
Level 10 Shadow Ledyba
Bodybuilder Kilen
Level 6 Zubat
Level 10 Shadow Poochyena
Well, that's a wrap for Gateon Port. Feel free to do some exploring. If you want to enter the Krabby Club, however, you'll need to do one more harmless battle.
Navigator Berk
Level 6 Wingull
Level 6 Lotad
And if you want the TM45 Attract, there's another battle to help raise EXP.
Sailor Bost
Level 6 Marill
Level 6 Whismur
And now it's time to head to Agate Village after heading back to Pokémon HQ Lab for directions.
Agate Village
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