(Bringing a joint post from Grifspark and Romdinner. More credit goes to him for this post, since he did most of it. But hey, I'm an important part of this post too!)
It was about noon when David had reached the cave; the giant opening was breath-taking. David stared at it for a couple of minutes after coming to his senses. He turned left and sat on a rock by the left of the cave. After a couple of minutes of staring at the sky he started searching his backpack for something. He kept taking thing out of it with a disappointed look.
"Please don't tell me I lost them." Were his words as he took the last thing out of his backpack (a pair of socks) "Well that's great; I can't even keep track of things that are in my backpack."
As he got used with the idea about his lost items he started putting back the mess of thing near him. He put his all of his belongings back leaving his black hoodie out because he wanted to take it on as he was going to enter the cave. He put his backpack on and he put his hands in his pockets and to his surprise he felt two small round things in one of them.
"So there you were…..now I remember I put you here so you won't get squashed among my stuff." David said as he pulled out two berries.
Those were the berries he was given by Spoink. An Oran berry and a Lum berry, But he wanted the Oran berry most as he wanted to see how it looked like.
"Now that I have you I can start searching for more. Wingull come out."
"Wingullllllll"
"Look at this berry; we have to search for them so we can use them when you and the others are low on health."
And with that said the two of them started searching around the area for the desired berries.
Meanwhile……………………………………….
Andy knew that last match was a lot closer than he had made out. Facing Suffix against a Fighting-type was a risky, especially a trained one. A flick from Andy's wrist caused the Pokéball he held to retrieve the Fire-type to its portable home. Andy scooped up Suffix once again, and let him rest back on Andy's shoulder. He was rather proud of the Slacker-Pokémon, being so enthusiastic about the fight, which was rare. Molotov put up a good fight too, and surely learnt a thing or two from the fight.
Andy led himself against a huge oak tree, and slumped down to the floor. He had been walking for a while, and needed a rest himself. "Mhm... fancy a rest?" he asked Suffix, who obviously nodded in response.
"Wing~ull!" squawked a nearby Pokémon, which was followed by a small white bird swoop down.
A confused frown appeared on Andy's face. What was a Wingull doing this far inland? The only times you'd ever see a Wingull away from water was when it was owned by a trainer, and none other than Andy were to be seen nearby. Unless of course it was looking for something? Andy pushed himself up from his resting point, and edged closer to the Wingull, careful not to make a sound. The Water/Flying-type pecked the ground with its beak slightly, and then turned to the sky.
"Wing?" it twirped, as it spun to Andy's position.
It stared at Andy with confusion and a little shock for a moment. Andy shuffled forward once more, but it was a mistake. "Wingull! Wingull!" it screeched, as it flung out its wings, and took to the skies. Andy tried to keep an eye on it, but the bright sun made him shield his view.
Andy shrugged, and then patted Suffix's head, and then turned back along the path. "Mmkay, let's go."
David was in a tree looking for both the berries and his apparently lost Wingull. The sun was very strong and made David's sight very limited. As he wanted to get down he heard a cry for far away. It was Wingull, the little bird happily landed on David's head pecking him gently. David was glad as well that it came back and got down.
"Try not to do that again, you had me worried."
"Wing…Wingull." the Pokémon said in a soft voice.
Then Wingull got up and pointed David into a direction. Even though he got lost and wandered a bit far, on her way back the Pokémon saw a bush filled with blue berries. They rushed to the specific location and quickly started picking berries. After about five minutes of hand and beak picking David had a backpack pocket filled with dozens of berries.
"I think this will be more than enough even if we have to face ten trainers like Flannery." He said laughing between his words. "Wingull come back into your Pokéball!"
And after the Pokémon went into its Pokéball David went back at the entrance of the cave and went in, not noticing that he left the zipper from his berry pocket a bit opened, leaving the berries to fall one by one. Upon entering the cave David's sight was caught by the most significant and most beautiful thing in the cave "the waterfalls" which were the reason why this cave got the name of 'Meteor Falls'. The falls were falling into a small indoor lake. David went and touched the surface of the water. It was crystal clear. Light was still coming from the entrance of the cave so the first few rooms were medium lighted so the vision was still good enough for anyone who entered.
After gazing at the waterfalls he started walking along a narrow path which led to a corridor surrounded by stalagmites and stalactites. The pillars were everywhere coming from the ceiling or the ground; it was a view that would impress even the most unmoving person. As he was going he saw a glimpse of a shadow ahead of him, David started running but he kept a distance until he could take a good look at the person. The person was running as well, and from the looks of it he was also a trainer. Knowing that he run to him and put his hand on his back.
"Excuse me, I'm David."
"Oh you startled me….. The name's Sam."
"You trying to get out of the cave too?"
"No I'm searching for somebody."
"Did somebody get lost here?" David said with a worried look.
"It would be good if they get lost." were Sam's word as he put his fist onto the wall.
"They?"
"Yes … they….Team Magma ….. A nasty group of Pokémon thieves which stop at nothing when it comes to getting what they want."
"MAGMA……" he said looking like something in him had been ripped apart.
In a matter of seconds David had a flash back from the time team magma busted into his home and put his and his sister's life in danger. David could not forgive them for what they have done so he knew that they must be put to a stop
"They stole my Pokémon back in Kanto and now I'm trying to get them back."
"I had been threatened by team magma's evil doing as well , and I swore to stop them if I have the occasion."
"Welcome onboard then, I'll tell you that they are lurking around here somewhere so be careful , they seem to be searching for something maybe a rare Pokémon…."
"Ok thanks for the advice."
"I'll take off now but again be careful and don't forget that we share the same thoughts about team magma and eventually we will get them."
"OK…" David could just say as Sam quickly disappeared into a part of the path.
David when left and kept walking, knowing now that team magma was in there as well. His goal was simple: find team magma and stop them. He went along the path, this time looking more caution for any shady characters. As he exited the patch he stumbled upon a steep edge. Next to him was a even narrower path than the one he had just came. You had to lean to the wall to get down. Before he wanted to go down he looked down wanting to see the distance. It was about a meter and a half to the ground. David was still looking down when somebody got to the end of the path as well.
"You kid there… what are you doing?" were the words that came from a tall and spooky man.
He was mainly wearing red and black, it was obvious buy the way he looked and the big flashy magma sing on his chest that he was a team magma member. David got a hold of himself and was reaching for his Pokéball.
"Stop right there….Poochyena, Zubat, keep an eye on him. Make one rash move and I'll tell them to attack you."
David stopped his movement as the two Pokémon came closer to him. Since David was seemingly unarmed, the grunt grabbed him in an attempt to subdue him. David kept trying to get out of the grunt's tight grip and just as we was about to get freed a strange looking Pokémon came rushing towards David and the grunt.
"Suffix, stop!"
The call was far too late to stop the short stopped disaster. Shoveling berries into his mouth, Suffix charged forward. One of the only things which could get Suffix energetic was either combat, or food. The later was much more effective. The Slacker-Pokémon, completely contradictive to its personality, waddled forward, tracing the path of berries dotting the cave.
"SLAK~OTH!" it yelled, as it slammed into something.
The 'something' gave way, and fell. Unfortunately, that something, unbeknownst to Andy and Suffix, was David.
"Ouch….I feel like I've been hit by a Ryhorn." David muttered as he opened his eyes.
He turned his head right and could see the grunt who got hold of himself and got up. They were both hit by something and fell down the edge landing on the ground. David was still lying down; He could see the whole cavern. It was spacious, numerous stalagtites coming down from the ceiling. There were some stalagmites as well but fewer that the ones coming from above.
Andy flew through the cave, leaping over the occasional boulder which blocked the way. Suffix had moved around them, and this would get to him quicker. Grabbing the Slacker-Pokémon by under the arms, he picked Suffix up, leaving him to flail his arms down in order to grab some of the fallen berries.
"What the hell got you so riled up kid?" Andy asked his Slakoth, gazing down to one last berry with intent.
It kept squirming, and Andy was two seconds from returning him to his Pokémon, when one thing caught his attention. The faint fluttering of familiar wings, and the gentle, although vicious growling of something nearby. Andy froze in his position by the edge of the hill, but then turned his head around slowly. Standing on the cave floor, bearing its teeth, was a Poochyena, which looked as if it were about to tear the head off a Machamp. Hovering above it was the well known purple flying Pokémon known as a Zubat.
"Yena!"..."Zu~bat!"
Andy turned the rest of his body to the Pokémon, and shuffled backwards slightly. "N-nice... Poochyen-" he was cut short as a small step back brought around a seemingly common fait in these caves. "-Aaah!" he yelled, as a third step back was miss-placed, as his balance was thrown upside down as the trainer fell down the side of the cliff.
It was only a meter and a half, but it hurt like hell. Andy had most of Suffix's weight slammed onto him, meaning he felt in an even worse state. "Ah, Arceus-dammit..."
Clambering up to his feet, Andy let his eyes adjust to the light. The two Pokémon remained on the cliff edge, reluctant to come down, although waiting for some kind of order. Wincing in pain slightly, he began to move back in the direction of the entrance to the cave. He had already fallen over, and getting where he could see things clearly maybe he could get some kind of perspective. Andy shuddered as he felt something moderately soft underfoot.
"Hey, kid." Yelled the voice, "Get the hell off me!"
Andy quickly got up when he realized that the soft surface wasn't maybe some moss but an actual human being. He took a few steps away from the man trying to come up with some kind of apology. David saw the whole scene and started laughing from the moment he saw the trainer on the grunt. It was a moment than had to be immortalized in a picture. He put his hand in front of his mouth trying to stop his laughter but it was impossible.
"Sorry…..it was an accident……" Andy said in a low tone.
"You brat!!!!" the grunt yelled as he got up trying to get the dirt off of him.
"Don't worry even a bit, he deserved that and even more" David quickly assured Andy. "He is a part of Team Magma, that was just a tiny bit of what he should get"
Andy grimaced at the realization he had just stood on someone, but didn't feel nearly as guilty once the message had been given that he was a Magma grunt. In fact, it all sounded rather comical.
"Whoa, Team Magma? Don't they, you know, steal Pokémon?"
The second voice spoke up once more. "They don't only steal them, but use them to do their filthy work. They should be put in jail." He said, and then clambered up.
The voice was a boy, and looked roughly the same age as Andy himself. Rushing over to David, Andy could only assume that he wasn't in team Magma if he spoke to them like that, and that hopefully the voice would be friendly. "Hey, erm... I'm Andy."
"David." He replied, before glancing at Andy.
"What are Team Magma doing here!?" Andy yelled, before being shushed by David.
David shook his head. "Not really, but I guess it's what they usually do. Searching for Pokémon to catch or steal, and stuff to steal or sell..."
Andy nodded. He couldn't really have thought they'd being doing anything else here, especially in MeteorFalls, which was famous for Moon and Sun stones, which were rare everywhere else in the world. The Grunt brushed off the final piece of dirt from his uniform, and motioned up to the cliff edge.
"Hey, get down here!" the Grunt yelled to his Pokémon, as the Zubat flew down, and the Poochyena leapt down, landing safely on the ground. He turned to Andy and David, with a sure sign of anger in his eyes. "Hey, you two. You're gonna pay for that!" The two trainers looked themselves in the eye and with a nod of the head they knew what they had to do.
"Suffix, I guess you're up!" ….. "Come out Numel and take them down!" The two trainers shouted in sink.
"You too, get in there and Show them that this is no child's play"
"Andy ready for this?" David said simply ignoring the threats made by the grunt.
"Hell yeah, just make sure you can keep up."
"That won't be a problem my friend." He replied with a confident look in his eyes.
"Enough with the chit-chat, Poochyena start off with a Tackle, you Zubat use Wing Attack"
"Numel use Ember to block Zubat in its tracks." David said as he looked to Andy letting him know that he should go after Poochyena. Numel rushed and with a blow of its mouth dozens of fire sparks went hitting Zubat knocking it down.
Andy placed down Suffix without a second glance. "Suffix, follow up with Scratch!" Andy yelled, as he pointed at the Poochyena. A second had passed and the Slacker-Pokémon had not moved. Andy sighed heavily. "Oh come on! You were ridiculously hyper a minute ago..."
"What was that about catching up earlier?" David asked being a bit surprised.
"Oh ha, ha." Andy muttered, as he frowned slightly.
"Don't take it like that, I was just joking, rest assure that the two of us will beat this scum in no time. And don't worry about Suffix ….help is on the way" David said with a big mischievous grin on his face.
Andy didn't bother replying, he needed to focus on the fight. Sort of, he now needed to wait it out, until Suffix bothered to try and fight. "Suffix, Yawn!"
A barrage of pink, although fairly clear bubbles were fired toward both Zubat and Poochyena blocking a bit of their sight of Numel and Suffix. David took advantage of the situation and lunched a direct attack on the two Pokémon.
"Andy get Suffix ready to be picked up… Numel, Tackle those two." David whispered to Andy then shouting the command.
"Suffix, just stand up!" Andy yelled. Suffix didn't seem to think of this as taking too much energy, and pushed himself up, although still using his arms to hold himself up.
Numel jumped over the bubbles and went first for Zubat knocking it down into Poochyena, Numel keeping itself stuck like glue to Zubat and pushing as hard as it could. The two Pokémon went into one of the stalagmites behind the grunt. Pieces of the stalagmite flew in the air, one of them hitting the grunt in the head.
"You'll regret that" the grunt said, anger vibrating through his words.
"Numel now come back and lift Suffix up."
David saw that due to the Pokémon being lazy he would have to help him get around so he thought he could ride on Numel's back. Numel got near Suffix and somehow the Pokémon agreed and without any doubts it climbed upon Numel. You could see a glimpse of enthusiasm in Suffix's eyes but still its laziness could be felt from miles away.
"Hmm..." Andy muttered to himself, wondering quite what David was thinking.
"Zubat use Supersonic, Poochyena use Sand Attack"
"Andy, thinking of what I'm thinking?"
"Thinking what you're thinking? Wh-" and then it hit him. And it could work.
"OK Numel use Growl to stop the sound waves" ……… "Suffix, use Yawn again!"
The Supersonic hit against the Growl and negated each other while the flow of bubbles got hit by the sand keeping it out of reach from Numel and Suffix.
"You're starting to get on my nerves, enough playing nice Zubat use the stalagmites to conceal yourself and then hit that Slakoth with a Wing Attack............Poochyena you keep hold of Numel with a Bite."
The two Pokémon sprung into action and as they were told , they surely did. Numel and Suffix didn't see what was coming and in a few seconds both of them were hit. Suffix was thrown off of Numel hitting the ground while Numel was suffering as her skin was pierced by Poochyena's teeth.
"Numel, knock him off."
"Suffix, get back up and try scratch!"
The Pokémon focused……well at least Numel did…..as it started jumping around until it smashed Poochyena into the wall. Zubat was flying above Suffix as it was about to attack him.
"Numel use Ember to distract Zubat"
But Zubat evaded the attack and by being ordered it launched an attack and dived upon Suffix. It bit him and swept Suffix off of his feet carrying it around. Suffix didn't really like the situation in which it was put, but who would have? The fans from the bat kept hurting Suffix minute by minute.
"Hold on Suffix!" Andy yelled, as he turned to David. "Mind givin' me some backup?"
"I'm on it."
"That won't happen anytime soon….Poochyena stop Numel…Bite again." the grunt laughed out.
"Numel jump!!!!" David said as the Pokémon came near Numel. The Pokémon dashed beneath Numel leaving it to smash into a stalagmite. "I like your style……..Numel, Ember and keep it coming."
A fierce stream of Ember was launched after Zubat, but Numel had to be very careful not to hit Suffix as well. It kept using it but the bat evaded every time. It was flying under a big stalactite.
Andy, unable to provide any real support in his position, began to observe the battle field. Grinning, he glanced at David. "Hmm... I'm sure a Zubat wouldn't be too happy about hitting a stalactite... Hint, hint."
"We're on the same track" David said with a big smile. "Numel use Ember beneath Zubat and go slowly up with the attack."
"You want to get beaten or are you just plain stupid…. Zubat just simply go up and avoid that."
The bat went up and without any awareness of the stalactite above it, it knocked into it loosing grip of Suffix and letting him fall, then falling down as well. Andy flinched slightly as the Slacker-Pokémon fell to the ground with a thud. Suffix didn't look too beat up, but it must have hurt a lot.
"Erm... Suffix?" Andy asked, a little curious of his Pokémon's condition. "SLAKO~TH..." it yawned, as Suffix picked himself up, ready to fight. Andy nodded to David. "Alright, now this gets interesting... Suffix, use Scratch!"
"It's about time... Numel, follow up with Ember!"
Suffix, using his arms to propel him forward, leapt at the Poochyena, and pulled one arm back for a Scratch attack. Bringing his right hand down, he slashed the Dark-type in the side, causing it to howl in pain, and jumped backwards to a safe distance. Its retreat was of no use as it was struck by a scattering of sparks and cinders from Numel, who was slowly closing in on the Poochyena.
Andy chuckled. "Yeah! Suffix, try Scratch again." He ordered, as the Slacker Pokémon nodded slightly.
"Numel now heat up that Zubat" David yelled. If he could keep Zubat under control, Andy's Slakoth could probably deal with the grunts Poochyena. Lifting his other arm, Suffix prepared for a second strike, while Numel ceased fire, and turned to the fallen Zubat. "Nu?" it groaned in confusion, staring at the position where the Poison type had once lain. Andy and David both turned to the sound, to see no Zubat. Suffix turned too, although it was a perfect sneak attack.
"Zubat use Wing attack on the Slakoth, Poochyena, bite it!" yelled the Magma grunt.
Suffix felt something sharp clamp his leg, causing him to turn back to the Poochyena, who had dug its sharp teeth into the Slakoth's leg. "Slak!" he yelled in pain, as a second attack struck his back. The bat-Pokémon slammed its wings into the Slacker-Pokémon, causing him to fall to the floor, overwhelmed.
Andy was ready for an order, but the words were caught in his throat. David on the other hand, was as ready as ever.
"Numel, charge 'em both with Tackle!"
Numel rose itself onto her back legs as a sign of agreement, before charging forward using all of her strength. Although being careful not to trample Suffix, she slammed into both of the foes Pokémon, launching them backwards with full force. Poochyena went flying smashing into the wall. Worse, Zubat came after Poochyena like its shadow hurting them both on the impact, then sliding down on the ground.
"Get up you useless Pokémon!!" the grunt shouted, his words fiercely going down his Pokémon's ears. Zubat started to flap its wing and after some unsuccessful flying attempts it finally got up but it was barely keeping its body lifted in the air. The grunt saw how Zubat was but didn't care less, he turned over to Poochyena ho wasn't moving a bit. "I knew you were useless, but not at this low level" he said as he called Poochyena back into its Pokéball. "Zubat try doing something worthwhile this time….Wing Attack on Slakoth"
The bat started going towards Slakoth gaining speed as it went on. Despite being so tired its speed was increased more by its fear of what would happened if it would lose the battle and what would its punishment would be. With that in mind in went with full force into Slakoth.
"Suffix, try and dodge it!" Andy ordered, although it was half-hearted and exhausted. Suffix dodged Zubat's attack but Zubat kept going after him until with a lucky break it hit him sending him rolling down into a nearby rock. "C'mon Suffix, try and get up!" Andy watched as his Pokémon struggled to get up but as it was just about to stand on his feet the Pokémon fell down. "Suffix... return." Andy muttered, as he flicked his wrist holding the Pokéball to return his battler. Andy nodded to David. "Ok David, show 'em who's boss."
"Numel you heard that, jump and hit Zubat with a Tackle"
"It just you and me boy now, you're weak friend just lost his precious Pokémon."
"You should keep your eyes on your Pokémon and not on my friend, I have faith in him and we got here based on our great teamwork, this is Zubat's last stand and the last attack is from both of us."
Andy was still a little caught on the Grunt's words. "Weak? Excuse me!? Ooh, you'll pay for that you son of a-"
This time Numel sprung with all of its force into the air going straight at Zubat with a fierce Tackle. Zubat went flying propelled by Numel's Tackle into the ceiling, then falling down on the grunt and staying there without any movement.
"You meddling little brats" were the grunts words as he went for another tow Pokéballs.
"Looks like it's not the end, get ready on your side!" David said turning towards Andy.
Andy chuckled, before turning to the Grunt. "I'll show you weak. Let's finish this David!"
