Rusturf Tunnel

Rusturf Tunnel (Japanese: カナシダトンネル Kanashida Tunnel) is a tunnel between Rustboro City and Verdanturf Town, hence the name. Due to construction on the tunnel, Verdanturf Town can't be accessed through Rusturf Tunnel during the first stages of the game. is needed to fully travel across the Rusturf Tunnel. It is also the only way to travel to a secret area of .
After obtaining the , the follows the Grunt encountered earlier in the game to this tunnel. After defeating him, the player will receive the Devon Goods/Devon Parts, which can be returned to the Devon Corporation.
Later in the game, the player will find two people, separated by a pair of rocks which can be smashed using . After the rock is smashed, the man will give the player /an Aggronite.
==In the games==
===Construction===
Construction of the tunnel had originally begun by the Devon Corporation under the leadership of Mr. Stone in order to link Rustboro, as well as nearly the entire western half of Hoenn, to the large cities in the center of Hoenn, like Slateport City and Mauville City. The tunnel was very nearly completed when Stone realized that the heavy machinery used in the construction work was causing discomfort to the local Pokémon, . The project was officially canceled, though a continued to work on it without the use of machinery. By the time of the games, only a few breakable rocks remain to block off the tunnel.
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===Pokémon===
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====Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire====
===Layout===
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===Music===
Games	Situation 	Song name (Japanese) 	Song name (English) 	Composition 	Arrangement
 	Overworld 	トウカの森 	Petalburg Woods 	Morikazu Aoki 	Morikazu Aoki
 	When encountering Team Magma Grunt 	マグマ団登場！ 	Team Magma Appears! 	Go Ichinose 	Go Ichinose
 	When encountering Team Aqua Grunt 	アクア団登場！ 	Team Aqua Appears! 	Go Ichinose 	Go Ichinose
 	When battling Team Magma Grunt/Team Aqua Grunt 	戦闘！アクア・マグマ団 	Battle! (Team Aqua / Team Magma) 	Junichi Masuda	Junichi Masuda
 	After defeating Team Magma Grunt/Team Aqua Grunt	アクア・マグマ団に勝利！ 	Victory! (Team Aqua / Team Magma)	Go Ichinose 	Go Ichinose
 	Overworld 	トウカの森 	Petalburg Woods 	Morikazu Aoki 	Minako Adachi
 	When encountering Team Magma Grunt 	マグマ団登場！ 	Team Magma Appears! 	Go Ichinose 	Hideaki Kuroda
 	When encountering Team Aqua Grunt 	アクア団登場！ 	Team Aqua Appears! 	Go Ichinose 	Minako Adachi
 	When battling Team Magma Grunt/Team Aqua Grunt 	戦闘！アクア団・マグマ団 	Battle! (Team Aqua / Team Magma) 	Junichi Masuda	Shota Kageyama
 	After defeating Team Magma Grunt/Team Aqua Grunt	アクア団・マグマ団に勝利！ 	Victory! (Team Aqua / Team Magma)	Go Ichinose 	Minako Adachi
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
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Rusturf Tunnel first appeared in It's Absol-lutely a Bad Omen, where a cave-in occurred there due to an earthquake, trapping Wanda's boyfriend beneath the rubble. In What Would You Do for a Whismur?, used his , Mumu, to save Riley. The earthquake turned out to have been caused by a group of s led by Courtney. When Courtney spotted Ruby, she became interested in him, grabbing him and taking him with her deeper into the tunnel.
In Going to Eleven with Loudred & Exploud I, Courtney revealed that Team Magma had destroyed the boulders blocking the incomplete tunnel, thus effectively completing its construction. She challenged Ruby to a and offered him a chance to join Team Magma. Meanwhile, the local , alarmed by the commotion, called in two and an to help them. The Pokémon used together, defeating the Team Magma Grunts and clearing away the rubble that had been keeping reinforcements from reaching Ruby. In Going to Eleven with Loudred and Exploud II, Ruby escaped from being burned alive by Courtney with the help of Wanda, Riley, Gabby, and Ty.
==Trivia==
* The name of the tunnel in all the localized languages are a combination of the two cities it connects (Rustboro City and Verdanturf Town, respectively, for all languages except Italian, which is in the opposite order).
** This naming convention is popular in Japan, as in 京葉 (; named for 東京 and 千葉 ) and 東名 (; named for 東京 Tōkyō and 名古屋 ).
* When the two rocks in the tunnel are smashed, they do not reappear when the player leaves and re-enters the tunnel, unlike other breakable rocks found in various locations in the game.
* In Generation III, there is here, but it has no in-battle effect; this is because fog was not used as a until Generation IV. In Generation VI, there is no fog.
* Development in Rusturf Tunnel was halted due to its inhabitants being sensitive to loud noises, despite the fact that the only Pokémon found in the area naturally have .
==In other languages==
==Related articles==
Category:Hoenn locations
Category:Ruby and Sapphire locations
Category:Emerald locations
Category:Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire locations
Category:Caves
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