I raise spearow to lv 14, raise wartortle to lv 21, and raise Mankey to lv 15. Spearow gains fury attack and become usable. I look at my team; I think we are ready, after all that training, to go through Mt. Moon. I have already gone inside the cave and caught a lax lv 7 zubat and battled the first two trainers, so the entrance is nothing new for me. I battle my way through the first few trainers and always lead with wartortle so I can destroy any poison point pokemon I see with sp attacks. I head back a ways through to the pokemon center, heal up, and head back in. I run into my first team rocket grunt who's guarding an item. ( can't remember what the item is lol ) I fight him off and grab the item, then I take a different path and fight some more grunts. So far none of my pokemon get poisoned. Then I get to where the fossils team rocket is looking for are- apparently a nerdy kid has found them first. I begin a battle with the kid. First out is some poison pokemon I can't remember what it is ( hey, give me a break, I'm on a hardcore canoe trip as I do this part of the game ) but that is not the troublemaker; it gets KOd and out comes a koffing. I've switched out to spearow now so that wartortle is safer- wartortle cant OHKO it so it's better to keep it reserved than to have it poisoned. Spearow uses peck, and koffing eats it. I'm marveling at its excellent defense when it uses poison gas and poisons spearow. I facepalm. This is exactly what I feared. I look at spearows Hp and koffings- spearow is as good as dead. Unless the exit is right around the bend, creulean city is close by and this battle goes well. But the following battle goes terribly- i try fury attack and it only hits twice in both times i use it. Meanwhile koffing decides to wreck me up with tackle. And wreck me it does, because by the time I killed Koffing, spearows down to 6 Hp. My hope for spearow to live is crushed by reality- there were to many Ifs. I proceed from the battle to the fossils painfully and pick the Helix fossil. Spearows down to 4 hp- it's about to breathe its last. I walk along sadly. Spearow dies. The loss is a reminder that this is a Nuzlocke, and I need to be better prepared. Spearow died for a good cause- to protect the more important members of my team, wartortle and mankey. I mourn spearows death for a bit, but I have to get a move on. I head on to the exit, which isn't far away. outside, there is the other half of route 4, which boasts many ledges to hop off. I know from past experience that this route is a one way street; once you go down you can't come back to the top. So I teach my pokemon mega punch and mega kick using the tutors on this route, mega punch on mankey and mega kick on warturtle. This way if either dies, one will still have a super powerful move. I hike down to creulean after grabbing TM roar and enter the city and restore my pokemons health, as well as put spearow in the dead box.