[X] My Assistant

[Jonahman10]

Amelia dropped down to the ground as Geodudes flung above her across the cave, a few moments ago she felt assure of the way to be safe was to protect herself with pokemon, however it might have been unwise of her, and those stupid Geodudes would pay for making her look stupid.

"Austin. Gust!"

A wind blew into the first geodude and it was flung against the wall. It yelped up before turning around, throwing rocks at her. Amelia let out a scream as a large rock almost crushed her, that Geodude would pay! Austin was hit by a few of the rocks, but her anger was shared with the flying pidgey up in the air. It cooed before flying down and hitting the geodude with its beak. The Geodude recoiled before hitting the floor. Amelia felt a little circulation from the chain of attacks, but the odor was still overpowering.

"Great job Austin! I knew you could do it, take a rest from this air."

Amelia smiled, Austin had showed that Geodude for messing with a Himan. A few hydroponic berries would serve him well when they got back. However, he had done a move without her telling him to do so. He was becoming more impulsive and less obedient every day. He might even need to go to obedient school, but he had done well today so maybe it was only a good thing.

"Hope, we should get rid of another. Use poison sting!"

How ironic that the Geodudes weren't already poisoned from the air conditions. The poison attack flung through the air and hit an unsuspecting Geodude square in the back, it reared straight towards her as a flame shot up from the corner. Quickly Hope was withdrawn as Amelia started Yelling and running farther into the cave. Amelia thought she heard some voices up ahead as she began to run.

The Fire

Sweat began to bead on her face as the sulfuric fire raced behind her, she couldn't hear anything but her watch beeping and the roaring of the flames, her watch showed the fire was sucking up the Oxygen in the cave. If she didn't hurry she would either be burnt or suffocated!

Things were certainly looking grim. She was way to young to die! She had never even dated someone, barely anyone would miss her, and her parents wouldn't be able to pay off their debts and the business would be lost. She held back tears, if she cried her water levels would go down more quickly and she wouldn't be able to sweat.

Probably nobody would find her body. Actually, she forgot that others came on the journey with her, one might survive. She would have to be optimistic if she wanted to survive. Well, then well good thing the sulfur was in deposits and not covering the entire floor, or else the entire place would have already been burnt to a crisp.

[Amissa]

"Oof! I'm coming too guys, wait up," Daniel said as he tried to keep up with the others. He stumbled into a column in the cave and was momentarily dazed by the bright lights appearing in the cave. He heard Torchic-chick use Sunny Day, so he just blinked and waited for his eyes to adjust. But the heat! The heat he was unprepared for and he wondered if the Sunny Day attack should be producing so much heat. The smell in the cave had changed as well. While the disgusting rotten-egg smell still filled his olfactory senses, he was also smelling something smokier that reminded him of birthday candles.

"Machop!" Hercules cried, suddenly clutching at Daniel desperately. The trainer could see better now, and his pokemon was obviously terrified.

"Oh...oh no." Daniel muttered. He could see the flames now, though thankfully they weren't spreading as fast as he would have expected. "Hercules, we just knocked a bunch of geodudes unconscious! Quick! Grab one and run ahead with the others. I'll catch up to you, buddy."

"Machop!" Hercules protested, but was unprepared when his trainer tore away from him and began running back the way they had come, towards the flames. He didn't hold on tight enough, and Daniel escaped from his grasp. He grit his teeth and looked around, easily finding one of the defeated geodudes. He held it tight, but did not run from the flames right away. He was waiting for Daniel to return, looking pitifully at the other trainers around him as though they could help.

Daniel, on the other hand, sprinted back towards where he and Hercules had battled a geodude. It was closest to the flames and it was rendered unconscious and unable to flee because of him. He wouldn't let it burn up! He tried to convince himself that things like death and injury only happened to people who were not Daniel Worthington as he scooped the limp geodude into his arms. It was heavy, but only about as heavy as Hercules and he'd carried his machop around before.

Somehow, it wasn't as easy as he had thought it would be and making his way back away from the flames seemed much slower and harder, not just because of the extra weight. He was coughing and feeling short of breath and even a bit light-headed. I gotta make it! He kept pushing and forced himself to go on.

He met up to where Hercules was waiting for him, carrying a geodude that weighed more than the little machop himself. It was no trouble for the powerful, Hercules, however. "Herc! Come on!" Daniel coughed and stumbled, falling forward.

"Chop! Machop!" Hercules shouted, urging Daniel on. He was doing better than his trainer at this point as a result of being lower to the ground where there was more oxygen and more visibility.

"I'm coming, Herc, but you lead the way." Daniel said, getting back to his feet. He clutched the geodude tight to his chest protectively. Hercules shifted the geodude that he was carrying so that he could have one arm free. Then, he grabbed onto Daniel's coat and dragged his stumbling and choking trainer along, leading the way to safety.

[Aureylian]

Delainey could feel a powerful heat on her back. At first, she thought it was the heat from Axel's flames, but then she heard screams and turned around. She could see a huge, bright blue flame spreading across the floor. She backed up, trying to get away from the flame, but she hit a wall. She had no where to go, she was stuck.

The fire was spreading, but where could she go? She breathed in deeply and tried to keep calm. She knew panicking wasn't the best thing to do. Delainey pulled out Axel's pokeball and called him back. Almost as soon as the red light vanished, it reappeared and he was back on the ground. "Axel, stay in your pokeball!" She tried yelling, but couldn't stop coughing. Not only had the smell gotten worse, but it was now almost suffocating her. She realized that if the fire didn't kill her, the smell would. She once again tried putting Axel back into his pokeball, but he would not stay. Axel wasn't about to let Delainey do this alone.

A few seconds later, a few rocks flew out of the wall. Three little Trapinch appeared near a small hole where the rocks had come from. Axel and one of the Trapinch stared at each other for a few seconds, then turned back to the wall and dug a bigger hole. Axel tugged at Delainey as if to follow them, then he ran to the hole. "Cyn, Cyndaquil!"

"Okay." She told him. Delainey followed Axel through the hole, but she had too look back. She could see that the fire was still spreading, but she couldn't see any of the group. The Trapinch kept digging until they came to another part of the cave, away from the fire. She climbed out and brushed the dirt off of her.

Not long after, she saw Daniel and Amelia run into the same part of the cave. "Guys, over here!" She yelled, trying to get their attention.

[Wildivlax]

Crystal felt a large heat. She looked around and saw a huge flame leaping and lunging through the cave. She tried to scream, without much prevail, though. Aron popped out of his Pokeball and saw the flames. He then started to dig. Crystal noticed this and was pretty sure she knew what he was thinking. "Good idea," she whispered. She followed him down into a tunnel, crawling on her hands and knees.

The idea for Crystal's escape is not my idea, it is Ozzy's. I am just letting you know that it was not mine.

[Amissa]

Hercules led Daniel into a darker clearing where he caught up with Amelia. They were far enough from the flames now that Daniel felt safe enough to sit on the ground for a moment and catch his breath. He was careful to avoid any sulfur deposits and set the geodude down on the ground beside him. The air seemed clearer here, though it was still smelly. Back the way that the trainers had come, it looked as though the fire was burning itself out though that might have simply been Daniel's hopeful imagination. Hercules set the geodude that he'd been carrying beside the other one and walked over to Daniel, leaning his forehead against his trainer's. The two shared a moment of gratitude and relief before looking around at the surrounding area.

Daniel felt around in his pack for a moment before realizing that he must have dropped his flashlight somewhere behind him. However, his hand hit his pokedex and the little computer fell out beside the geodude.

"Geodude, the rock and ground type pokemon. Geodude is resistant to poison, normal, flying, and rock, and fire type attacks." The pokedex informed them, lighting up with a picture of a geodude.

Daniel tilted his head slightly and grinned to himself while Hercules backed away and leveled a glare at his foolish trainer who had risked his life to rescue a pokemon who was resistant to fire and poison from a burning disaster that would have most certainly caused more damage to the human. "Well, I guess that's good to know now isn't it?"

"Machop," Hercules muttered.

"How about you, Amelia, are you going to be okay?" Daniel asked as he put his pokedex away and pulled out his cell phone to use as a improvised flashlight. Suddenly, Daniel looked up as he heard someone calling.

"Guys, over here!"

He cast the light from his cell phone around until he could see Delainey waving at the trainers from nearby. He headed in her direction, using the faint light to judge whether she looked okay or not. As far as he could tell she was in one piece. He felt a slight rumbling under his feet and scanned the ground in alarm. Hercules could obviously feel it too because he began clinging to Daniel's pant leg in surprise. Eventually the rumbling stopped and Daniel could see an aron appear, poking its head out of the tunnel that it had made. He watched as Aron and Torchic-chick climbed out of the tunnel.

He smiled at all of the trainers. It was perhaps a stupid time to smile, but something about narrowly escaping from certain doom always left him feeling pleased and giddy. "Is everyone all right then? Is everyone here?"

[Jonahman10]

Amelia was nearly scorched when she managed to get into a cave, protected from the flames. Ducking down, she barely survived. But quickly the flames burnt out enough that they could escape. The embers nearly caught her hair on fire, her watch went crazy. The cavern seemed to have a clean air pocket in it. Her lungs relaxed despite the flames flying out around him.

Soon they were able to emerge. Amelia realized that the only person here she could really connect with was Daniel as she stepped into the charred cave. She looked at him, he was kind despite being young and inexperienced. Perhaps his family could help hers....

She moved on ahead, grumpily reminded that she almost lost her life due to carelessness in a fight. Her anger only escalated the farther in they went as crisps of metallic machines glistened in the dark. Her watch detected greases and other lubricants in increasing quantities. There was some sort of factory here, with tons of machines. How could someone build machines of these in a place like this....

This post has been edited by Jonahman10: May 3 2010, 03:21 PM

[Amissa]

Daniel followed Amelia, moving swiftly to keep up. She seemed angry to him. He couldn't see her face, but something about the quickness that she moved with and the heaviness of her breath led Daniel to believe that Amelia's rage was escalating. If felt almost as though waves of anger were radiating off of the group's fearless leader. It took a few steps before Daniel found out what was ticking Amelia off so much.

In the light of his cell phone, Daniel could see glinting fragments. He thought that they might be mineral deposits or maybe moisture in the cave. Curious, Daniel approached one of the objects and explored it tentatively with his hand. He felt the hard touch of metal beneath his fingertips. Some parts were jagged, others smooth, but even with the light of his phone, Daniel couldn't figure out what the machine would be used to accomplish.

"It feels greasy," Daniel announced, wrinkling his nose at the slippery substance that was now all over his hands. "Eww," he complained quietly. He rubbed his hands against his jeans until his hands felt a bit less gross. "It's like a...factory. Who would want to build a factory here? How could no one have known?" Well, he could see how no one would find out about a mysterious factory down here. It's not like people were lining up anxiously to explore this place.

"What the heck were people trying to do here?" Horror was creeping into his voice as the possibilities ran through his head. Didn't whoever was behind this even consider the damage this might do to the natural environment? If they couldn't get to the bottom of this soon, Daniel worried that the pollution in the cave could spread to devastate the entire town.

[Aureylian]

Delainey walked closer to Daniel and Amelia. They seemed alright. The two of them had probably felt the full force of the fire. They didn't seem worried, but she was. They walked a little bit ahead of her and stopped. They were stopped long enough for her to catch up, and then she figured out why.

She pulled out her flashlight, and an extra she brought which she handed to Daniel, and looked around. There were machines. And quite a few, from what she saw. They didn't look abandoned, but they didn't look top of the line, either. They were covered in some kind of oil. What could anyone do in a place like this? she thought to herself. She looked back and could still see the fire. Pulling out a Pokeball, she brought out her Swinub, Fuyuko, Fury for short. "Fury, Mud Sport!" The small Swinub dug into the ground, throwing dirt onto the fire, which eventually went out. One problem down, one more to go.

All of the sudden, she heard sounds. Sounds of laughter and something hitting the machines. She looked around and all she could see were shadows. Something pulled at her hair, "Ow!" She kept looking around, again, nothing but shadows. "Who's there?" She yelled.

[Amissa]

Daniel happily accepted the spare flashlight and tucked his cell phone into a pocket. When Delainey called out to someone that he couldn't see, Daniel shone the light in her direction. There was a heavy pause as the boy's mouth hung open and all of the color slowly drained from his face. He backed up against the jagged metal mechanism behind him, ignoring the discomfort it caused. His mouth worked, trying to form words to warn Delainey of the danger behind her.

"G-g-g-g-gh," Daniel stuttered. He'd never liked ghost pokemon much, not after too many horror movies as a child. His experiences with ghosts in his last adventure had left him even more terrified of the tricky pokemon type. Little did he know that he was much more prepared for this encounter than for his first.

During Daniel's first adventure in Castle Vonmoto, Hercules had no idea how to fight ghost pokemon. Usually, his fighting moves would pass right through them. However, there had been a riolu belonging to another trainer who had used a special move allowing it to strike even the evasive ghosts. It was called foresight, and Hercules had taken careful notes during that fight. By now, the fighting type was sure that he could use the move himself. If he needed to, he would use foresight to help him defend his frightened trainer. He bravely stepped in front of Daniel, preparing for an attack.

"G-g-g," Daniel took a deep breath and tried the word again, "GHOST!!"

This post has been edited by Amissa: May 24 2010, 12:27 AM

[Aureylian]

Daniel shone the flashlight in Delainey's direction, but still all she could see were shadows. The "shadow" pulled her hair again, and she called Fury back to her pokeball. "Stop that!" she yelled again. She wasn't afraid, but when she looked back at Daniel, there was fear all over his face.

"G-g-g, GHOST!!"

Ghosts aren't scary, she thought to herself, although, most people weren't raised by them. Daniel was pointing behind her, too afraid to say anything. Before she had the chance to look behind her, there was a horrible high-pitched scream. She covered her ears and knelt down, trying to escape the sound. When the screaming stopped, she was able to look at what was causing the noise. A little Misdreavus. She flew around the three of them, first to Daniel. The red "necklace" around her neck began to glow, which caused her to laugh, and in turn, seemed to scare him a little more. One thing she knew, Ghosts, especially Misdreavus, fed on fear. That's where the true fear comes from. The Screech Pokemon flew over to Delainey, causing her "necklace" to stop glowing. The tiny Pokemon gave her a very confused look. "I'm not afraid of you."

Misdreavus tried everything, from making scary faces to screeching again. "You don't scare me," which was true. Delainey was not, and could not ever be, afraid of ghosts. When her parents left, Ghost-type Pokemon were all she had. They took care of her. "Try all you want, you won't get very far."

It seemed to be a new concept for the "scary ghost". It was a very common fear, being afraid of ghosts. She floated back to Daniel, feeding on his fear, but still giving Delainey a confused look. She shone her flashlight over at Daniel, trying to at least comfort him. "It's okay, she can't hurt you. Not much, anyway." When the light hit the Pokemon, Delainey noticed that she had some kind of oil-like substance on her, conflicting with her movements. She walked towards her, wanting to help, but she just moved away. "Stop, I just want to help you."

[Amissa]

"I'm not scared,"Daniel told Delainey, much louder than he'd intended. When the ghost was near him, and at the moment it was very near him as it clearly liked something about him, he found it difficult to control his voice. It was a little like how he felt around pretty girls when he first meets them. Strange that those two should both fall into the box of "stuff that freaks Daniel out". "Besides, I don't buy all that 'it can't hurt you' garbage. I've seen ghost pokemon at their worst and it's left me with a certain...uh, respect."

He felt much better when the misdreavus moved on, apparently having satisfied its curiosity with him. He took a deep breath and sagged slightly against the machine. "Oh man, I didn't think of that. This place is probably full of ghost pokemon." He wasn't sure if he would have been so eager to go in this place if he'd considered that ghosts might be lurking around. He felt himself shaking as his body relaxed and he hoped that the girls wouldn't be able to see how afraid he was in the darkness.

"And what's up with that weird glowey necklace of yours? It glows when the ghost is near you. That's sort of spooky," Daniel muttered, but Delainey seemed more interested in the retreating ghost. He couldn't see what she was so concerned about and while he was too scared to get close to her or the pokemon, he kept his attention on her, looking and listening in case something bad happened and she needed some backup.

[Aureylian]

Daniel said that he wasn't scared, but Delainey knew better. She tried to hold in the small amount of laughter, thinking it was better than embarrassing him. "Okay, Ghosts can hurt you, but a lot more things would be worse. Imagine if a Fire-type or Rock-type attacked you... Ghost-types don't hurt as much. There are probably millions of ghosts in here." Well, maybe not millions, but still a lot.

She was trying to calm Daniel and help the Misdreavus all at the same time, which was turning out to be a little difficult. She walked towards her, but the small thing kept moving away. "It's okay, I promise I won't hurt you." She made her voice more soothing, as if she was talking to a baby. She followed her a few feet and the Misdreavus backed herself into a corner.

Then, suddenly, she turned on the offensive. She let of a Psywave, it wasn't all that powerful, but it was a little disorienting. Delainey had to back up to escape before something bad happened to her. "It's okay!" She felt bad, the poor thing must be terrified. A red flash of light appeared out of her bag, taking the form of Delainey's Taillow, Sora. Sora was flying in the air, facing the Misdreavus. I don't want to capture her, but how else can I help her?

"Sora, use Peck!" The little bird flew straight for the Misdreavus, pecking her head. She shouted at him, using Screech. Sora staggered back, the loud noise hurting his ears. "Two can play at that game, Sora, use Growl!" Sora let out a huge growl, which seemed to scare Misdreavus more. "Peck, again!" While the Misdreavus was recovering from the growl, Sora used Peck. This time, it really got to her. She fell to the ground, mostly because she was covered in some kind of oil. Delainey caught her just before she hit the ground of the cave.

Delainey sat down on the cave floor and pulled out a small towel and a pokeball from her light brown bag. She rubbed the towel over the Misdreavus's small body. It only took her a few minutes to remove all of the sticky substance, probably something she had gotten off of the cave walls. She took the Pokeball and a red light engulfed the small Pokemon.

Shake...

Shake...

Shake...


The ball stopped shaking. Delainey let the Misdreavus out of her Pokeball. "I think I'll call you Phoebe," she said. Phoebe smiled at the name.

"Mis, Misdreavus, Mis"

Delainey pulled out her pokedex and held it up to Phoebe. "Misdreavus, the Screech Pokémon. It loves to bite and yank people's hair from behind without warning, just to see their shocked reactions." Hah, that's definitely true.

This post has been edited by Ozzy: May 28 2010, 03:30 PM

[Jonahman10]

Amelia slipped ahead yet again not paying attention to the others. She didn't even look back when she heard screaming. She had to get the bottom of this! She scurried ahead as soon more and more mechanical devices came to sight. Fury arose in her as her speed picked up throughout the cavern.

Soon assembly lines could be seen, parts were being strewn together by machines. Gasses and oils spilled out onto the cavern floor. Her watch couldn't stop vibrating. She went down the line until it became clear what they were making. They were making some dark colored pokeballs.

All of this for some stupid pokeballs! She quickly summoned Austin to her side.

"Gust!"

The wind slammed into the machines tearing up some weaker appendages, but otherwise doing little. Smoke was caught up in the wind and it was noticeably cleaner on the other side of the room. She punched a device that was placing a button onto the capsules, only to realize that the machine was made of something very hard. She withdrew with a yelp and stepped back into the cleaner air. The fresher air was clean and good in her lungs.

She heard footsteps off on the other side of the chamber men in black came out and started yelling at her. She barely cared: she knew it was them.

"Hope, it's time to show them what happens to litterers in Gigarte!"

Sorry for inactivity. After we beat up these guys the RP will be done.

[Amissa]

Daniel ventured over to Delainey cautiously after it appeared that she had beaten the ghost into submission and captured it. He couldn't help feeling a touch of admiration at the neat capture even if he didn't fancy the pokemon. He listened to the description from the pokedex and frowned. What a mean pokemon, Daniel thought as he tried not to look repulsed. Hercules still kept himself between Daniel and the ghost, though he appeared less ready to pounce than before. Daniel rubbed the machop's head appreciatively, scratching him gently between his crests. I'm glad that none of my pokemon entertain themselves by biting me for the fun of it.

In the darkness, Daniel didn't see as Amelia ran off further into the cave, but he heard what sounded like her quick footsteps as she pounded ahead. "Oh man, we're getting left behind. Come on Delainey and uh, you too I guess, Miss Dreavus." Daniel's nickname for the pokemon sounded polite and reflected the fear proper respect that he felt for the ghost. "I think Amelia's found something down this way."

He pointed his flashlight in the direction of Amelia's footsteps and took off at a run. It was no easy task, since there were obstacles such as puddles of lubricant for the trainers to slip on and machinery that had to either be climbed over or hurdled. Daniel skid on one of these slippery puddles but didn't fall over. Hercules was not nearly as graceful and slid right into Daniel and knocked them both over. At another point, Daniel tried to vault over some machinery but his pant leg became caught on a jagged edge and ripped. He didn't mind the tear, but he got tripped up again by the snag and it took him a minute to free his clothes and push on. The cavern became better lit as the trainers moved on, illuminated by some light bulbs strung along the ceiling of the cave. Pipes lined the walls of the cave now and they leaked a putrid fluid from their joints. The noise from the machinery also increased as Daniel caught up with Amelia.

Daniel paused in the chamber to try to make sense of all that he was seeing. On the assembly line, high-tech machines built and placed pieces together until they formed what appeared to be a rather sinister form of a pokeball. Amelia commanded her pidgey to use a gust attack on the machines, blowing bits and pieces all over but also blowing the more noxious gasses away from the trainers. Daniel quickly stalked about the place, trying to keep a low profile both to avoid being seen if anyone came in angry that a bunch of trainers were messing in their operation and to avoid Amelia's wrath. It was clear that the young woman's temper had reached a breaking point and he didn't want to be caught in her line of fire when she finally found out who was behind all of this. Daniel pocketed a few items that looked interesting including one of the dark pokeballs and some mechanical bits that had flown off during the gust attack. He looked for logos, brand names, or any clue that might be helpful when they brought all of this to the attention of the police.

Daniel was wondering why all of this pollution and destruction was necessary just to create this funny pokeball. He'd certainly never heard of any other pokeball requiring so much. In fact, weren't early pokeballs made from plants? He grabbed two more of the pokeballs and shoved them in his bag. His other question was what were all of these machines being powered by since he was sure that the Gigarte government would log any excessive energy drain and investigate immediately. Daniel didn't get any more time to wonder at the place because at that moment a hidden door opened on the opposite side of the chamber and three men clad in black came running towards them.

"So yous are the guys causin' all the trouble out 'ere eh? Well ya know, caves like this can be very dangerous. It wouldn't be too surprising if say, none of you ever made it back," the first man, presumably the leader replied to Amelia's challenge. He moved in towards the young woman who looked fired-up and confident in herself.

Daniel didn't feel quite as certain as one of the men walked threateningly in his direction. So much for hiding, Daniel thought as he backed up and looked around. His attempts to be inconspicuous had put him in trouble. He was now cornered between two assembly lines with nowhere to go. The approaching stranger smirked when he saw Daniel's distress and the young trainer got a good look at a scarred face with blue eyes. The man's hair was hidden under a black cap but it was the scars along his mouth that made him memorable. His lips were lined with bumps that looked to be old puncture wounds leaving the man with a permanently crooked grin. It struck a chord in Daniel somehow and he noted to tell his mother about the man later. There had been some faint memory of a story that she'd told to Daniel once when he was little that told of a man who had his mouth sewn shut for telling lies. So I need to remember never to trust this guy. Not that I would trust him anyway. He might as well have "Look at me! I'm the bad guy!" written on his shirt.

"C'mon Herc, we're going to have to fight our way out!" Daniel shouted, intending to sound angry and brave. "We'll teach these guys that they can't ruin our environment. It's payback time for all the damage you've caused!" Shouting did make Daniel feel braver, and he even managed a genuine smirk of his own.

"Maaachop!" Hercules cried, leaping forward to face the man with the crooked grin. The man's grin faded slightly and he backed away from the superpower pokemon.

"I expected as much," the man muttered. With a flick of the man's wrist, a pokeball appeared in his hand. Daniel's eyes widened and he wondered vaguely how the stranger had accomplished the trick. Maybe the ball had been hidden in his sleeve? "Let's see what you've got, kid. Go Nuzleaf!"

There was a flash of light before the form of a grass type pokemon appeared before Hercules. Daniel was shocked. He certainly hadn't expected litter bugs like these guys to come up with a grass type pokemon. Maybe it was Daniel's imagination, but he thought that the pokemon's face resembled its trainer's somewhat.

"Herc, use focus energy!"

"Nuzleaf, use razor leaf!"

The fight was on!

This post has been edited by Amissa: May 31 2010, 08:36 PM

[Aureylian]

Phoebe floated around Delainey, tugging at her hair playfully. Delainey could still see the ‘respect’ on Daniel's face. Would he ever get used to ghosts...? She turned around when she heard footsteps.

"Oh man, we're getting left behind. Come on Delainey and uh, you too I guess, Miss Dreavus. I think Amelia's found something down this way." Daniel ran ahead of her, after Amelia. He had gotten a few feet ahead of her, leaving her in the darkness.

"Hey, wait for me!" She pulled out her flashlight and pointed it in the direction that they both ran. The light was dim, which meant the battery would run out soon. Crap... Phoebe flew ahead of her also, but not as far as the others.

"Mis, Mis!" Delainey followed her. Phoebe lived in this cave, maybe she knew her way around. "Hold on, I'm coming." She ran after her, not wanting to get too far away from the others.

As she followed Phoebe, more and more machines came out of the darkness. “Where did all of these come from…” she was thinking allowed to herself. Maybe some voice would tell her the answers, but she knew that was crazy. The machines were closely packed, but Phoebe flew right in front of her, guiding Delainey around them.

As she got farther into the cave, she heard noises. Clacking noises. The sound of more machines. She eventually caught up to the others, the smell of some type of gasoline filling the air. It was the same smell as the liquid that was covering Phoebe before. She could see an assembly line. The machines were making some type of Pokeball. She made it in time to see the final destruction, although it wasn’t much, of the Pidgey’s gust. Amelia looked angry, very angry. The sudden burst of wind cleared some of the air, making it easier to breathe.

When the wind died down, Delainey walked over to the assembly line to get a better look of this new creation. She bent over to pick one up, but Phoebe flew in front of her. “MISDREAVUS!” she screeched.

“Phoebe, what’s wrong?!” Delainey was confused. What was it with these Pokeballs that made Phoebe so angry. Phoebe started to respond, but there was a loud thud in the back of the chamber. Three men in black charged towards the small group. One man broke off and came at Delainey. He seemed to be the scrawnier of the three.

He was tall and very thin. His light blonde hair was covered by a black cap, but it was sticking out all over the place. He stepped closer to Delainey and Phoebe flew in-between them. He seemed a little weary of the ghost, but then he sent out his own Pokémon, a Lombre.

“Lombre, Furry Swipes!”

[Jonahman10]

Quickly the man sent out a murkrow. Amelia countered with a a furious yell. The pokemon seemed brainwashed blindly obeying commands without a reply. Was this what the pokeballs did? How could they ruin a city for slavery!

"Stupid jerks! How could you be so evil! Hope, POISON STING!"

Hope flew in for the sting and the murkrow didn't react when it was stung. It just countered by slamming Hope full body with it's wings. Hope flew back waiting for the command.

"Wing Attack that Zombie back, Hope!"

The buzzing of Hope grew louder as she grew closer to the Murkrow. By the time they were slamming into each other they were both badly injured, yet the Murkrow showed no pain. HOpe screamed out in a yelp as the Murkrow landed a strong blow to Hope.

"Hope, that's enough! Austin let's do this."

Anger was even farther against him know, she would downright punch the man's head if her fist wasn't throbbing with pain.

"GUST!"

The Murkrow didn't get up. Amelia jumped up with glee, but as she turned to the man, he was talking into the microphone.

"Activate the self-destruct function NOW. We can't have them find out..."

The man went out quickly. Amelia turned to thew others who were still battling, "Hurry up there going to blow the place up!" She decided to wait for them, they had helped her find this place anyway, she would need to help them or look selfish...

[Amissa]

The nuzleaf summoned a group of sharp-edged leaves. With a wave of its hand, it sent if flying directly at Hercules. "Chop!" Hercules grunted as the leaves sliced him, leaving small bleeding cuts all over his body. Daniel was stuck standing directly behind the machop and could do nothing but duck down and cover his head in order to avoid being sliced to ribbons.

"Herc, how bad are you hit? Herc?" Daniel asked as he stood up, noticing that the razor leaf attack was done. He took one look at Hercules and his breath caught. In all of the battles that he'd been in (and those were fewer than Daniel would likely admit), Hercules had never been cut. Daniel had never seen him bleed really. Even when he'd met Hercules in the Pokemon Center, he'd been recovering from a bad bludgeon to the head and the sight of the oozing cuts stunned the trainer. Thankfully, Hercules seemed to be managing despite his injuries. He had a pained look on his face but he still managed to breathe deep and focus his energy.

"Now Nuzleaf, use Nature Power!" The man with the crooked grin commanded, his grin growing ever more crooked as he observed Daniel's concern for his pokemon.

"Nature Power? What does that do?" Daniel muttered and fumbled to retrieve his pokedex. He didn't have time to look up the attack, however, as the Nuzleaf spread its arms wide and began to glow. Is he summoning the powers of nature in this nasty place? Of course, even polluted and corrupted places like this grotto contained nature's magnificent power and the Nuzleaf brought it to life in a rock slide attack.

"Karate Chop, Herc!" Daniel shouted as he hit the dirt once again. He threw his arms over his head as Nuzleaf manifested huge boulders, each one bigger than Daniel, and held them levitating above its head. Nuzleaf used a hand signal just like the one he used to command his razor leaves and sent the gigantic rocks hurtling towards Hercules and Daniel. Standing before his trainer in the face of the oncoming rock slide, Hercules managed a smirk. If it had been another razor leaf attack, he might have been done for, but rocks were his specialty.

"Machop! Machop! Machop!" Hercules said as he attacked the boulders with his Karate Chop attack. The boulders crumbled and broke as he struck them and he didn't let a single one get past him or hurt Daniel. He moved forward with each attack. While the broken bits still struck him and dealt damage, by the time Nuzleaf was out of boulders to throw, Hercules was upon him. "Machop!" He cried as he delivered the blow to Nuzleaf, striking it right across the shoulder and causing it to fall backwards.

Belatedly, Daniel managed to get his pokedex out and working. "Nuzleaf, the grass and dark type pokemon. Nuzleaf is especially vulnerable to flying, poison, fire, ice, bug, and fighting type attacks."

"Good to know, now Herc, give him one more karate chop," Daniel said as he brushed dust and rocky debris off of himself. He stared at the Nuzleaf, thinking it odd that despite being dealt a super-effective attack it neither flinched nor showed any sign of pain for fatigue.

"Nuzleaf, use growth and prepare for another razor leaf attack!"

"Don't give it the chance to hit you again, Herc, hurry it up!"

The nuzleaf looked up at Hercules coldly. This pokemon was so frozen and so empty that it gave Hercules chills just to see it. It hadn't even bothered to get back up from where it had fallen. Hercules hoped that his next attack would knock it unconscious just so that it couldn't look at him with those dead eyes anymore. As he watched, those eyes became bigger along with the rest of the pokemon until Nuzleaf was a fair deal bigger and stronger than it was before. There was no more time to waste on pity! This had to end now! With that resolution, Hercules brought his hand down with another karate-chop and the nuzleaf fainted from the attack.

"You think that's the end, kid? We'll never let you escape. Go Poliwag!" The man with the crooked grin sent out a small water type to challenge Daniel's machop. Daniel almost smiled at the little pokemon. It was cute, or at least it would have been if only it would move or speak on its own will.

"Hercules, use low kick on poliwag," Daniel instructed. Since poliwag didn't have any arms, he was hoping that if Herc knocked it down, it wouldn't be able to get back up too easily.

"Poliwag, use your hypnosis attack!" The poliwag obediently locked eyes with the approaching machop and began to sway from side to side. The spiral shape on its belly began to twist in a confusing but oddly soothing way. Before Hercules could deliver his low kick attack, he fell fast asleep. "Good, now use water gun!"

"Herc no!" Daniel pleaded, but Hercules would not wake up even when he was hit by several jets of water from the poliwag. The poliwag wasn't nearly as strong as Hercules and yet it was doing a good job of defeating him. The fighting type was weary and wounded from all of the day's travel, fighting, and excitement. By the time Hercules finally woke up, Poliwag's water gun attacks had worn him down to such a point that he could scarcely make it onto his feet. He trembled and shook as though he might collapse at any moment. "Hercules, try a karate chop, buddy. Come on, give it a try," Daniel kept his voice gentle, not commanding Hercules to fight if he didn't want to but asking him to please carry on if he could.

Hercules took a deep breath and tried to get a fix on just where poliwag was. He was hurting badly and he felt dizzy but he somehow managed to scrape together the last of his energy and rush at his foe. The opposing trainer seemed surprised by Hercules's sudden burst of speed as the machop leapt forward and brought his hand down over the top of the little poliwag, striking it squarely on its head.

The blow sent the little water type reeling. It was impossible to tell through its emotionless face, but Daniel felt sure that Poliwag must be seeing stars. Hercules's mouth twitched into a brief smile and then a frown. Poliwag still wasn't defeated, and the pokemon pursed its lips and spat out one more water gun attack, which struck Hercules in the chest and sent him sprawling on the rock floor where he lay unconscious.

"Good job, Herc, return now." Daniel called Hercules back into his pokeball and reached for his second. "Come out, Geb!" The nincada appeared in a flash of light and briefly took in its surroundings. He thought that it was odd for Daniel to want to fight in such close quarters, but he kept his complaints to himself and focused on the poliwag in front of him. This last part would prove his undoing.

"Poliwag, use hypnosis again!"

"No way!" Daniel cried but Poliwag didn't care about his protests and used hypnosis anyway, and just like Hercules before him, Geb fell fast asleep. The following water gun attack did a great deal of damage to Geb, since the nincada was a ground type and was weak against water. Unlike Hercules, however, the splash of water painfully striking the trainee pokemon caused it to wake up from sleep. "Good that you're awake. Now use sand-attack."

Geb scratched up dirt and dust from the cave floor with his claws and flung it into the poliwag's eyes. The water pokemon didn't even flinch or try to move away from the attack. It just blinked its sandy eyes, leaving Daniel to feel sorry for the poor creature and a bit guilty for trying to beat it up. His pity evaporated almost instantaneously when Poliwag sent another water gun attack at Geb and managed a direct hit despite Geb's attempts to hinder its accuracy. Geb shuddered and hissed as the water struck him, like he was the Wicked Witch of the West and the water would cause him to melt. Once his shuddering had stopped, Geb seemed to just collapse on the battlefield.

"Geb! Geb?" Daniel ran over and checked the little bug pokemon, finding it unresponsive.

"It's fainted," the crooked grin man told Daniel.

"Oh?"

"Yeah, you lost."

"Oh." Daniel scooped Geb back into his pokeball and looked around. Lost? No way I lost. I'm the good guy and he's the bad guy. I have to win! But the battle was already over and Daniel had indeed lost. He had no more pokemon to battle with and suddenly he realized that he was a fifteen year old boy. Even being fairly athletic as he was, he was just some kid who went out to buy honey for his mom this morning. The man that he was facing was a hardened criminal. Moreover, he was a hardened criminal who still had a pokemon left to fight with. "I see." Daniel said as the realization slowly crept into his silly teenage boy brain. "In that case...LATER!"

Daniel made a sudden desperate dive over one of the pokeball assembly lines, but didn't quite make it all the way over. The man in black ran over and grabbed Daniel by one leg as Daniel tried to pull himself over the machine while dodging the mechanical bits that kept poking and prodding him, trying to make him into a pokeball. "Let go! Let go!" Daniel yelled as he kicked at the man with his free leg. He could hear the shouts of pokemon battles just ahead of him and he knew that Amelia and Delainey were still fighting somewhere a short ways away from him. If he could just make it over this machine, he could run for safety. "Let go! Let go!" Daniel finally managed a well-aimed kick, striking the man hard right in the nose. The man let go of his leg as he raised both hands to comfort his bleeding nose, his mouth now forming a crooked sneer.

Daniel pulled himself the rest of the way over the machine, but took a moment getting back onto his feet. Just as he got upright, something struck him on the head. Daniel rubbed the spot where he'd been hit and saw that he'd been hit with a pokeball. Uh oh. "Poliwag, go and water gun that little runt!" Sure enough, Poliwag burst out of the pokeball and Daniel took off running towards the two girls.

"Help!" the boy yelled as he practically dove behind Delainey while the poliwag chased after him, readying its water gun attack.

This post has been edited by Amissa: Jun 9 2010, 11:05 PM

[Jonahman10]

Amelia impulsively grabbed onto the hands of those out of the chamber and bolted out immediately. She couldn't risk her life, or business. She needed to alert the authorities immediately, or else she would be over her head, and quite possibly dead. She knew not what time the place would be gone, but it definitely wasn't nearly enough. Her big head was going to suffer yet again.


Her senses heightened and her heart began beat out of her heart. A burning sensation spread from her lungs to her feet. The others were still tightly attached to her right arm, as they were all dragged down the tunnel by Amelia's flighting heart, now matching the insane beating of the watch on her arm which had become a constant drone in her ears.

Suddenly she was blinded as fresh air filled her burning lungs. The drone of her watch subsided. An explosion behind her sent her and everyone else tumbling. Her knee was bruised and scraped as the rocks tumbled down. Then everything was black.

Next thing she knew she was being interrogated by police in a hospital room with everyone else. She smiled as she looked to everyone else, knowing that her business would be just fine.

Yeah, this was pretty bad roleplaying the entire time for me due to low muse but at least we finished it.

Yes, I did have permission to have the others follow.

Feel free to add anything else you RPers want to to wrap up the story in your own posts