It was a short walk to the cave mouth and didn’t feel the need to wait so we walked straight in what we didn’t compensate for was the darkness. I looked around in my backpack and found a small torch I had with me, turning it on i’m nearly scared shitless at the sheer amount of zubat in here.
“Woah!” Jumping in fright. “Well that was a surprise”. I got a pretty peeved stare for that. “Oh come on Sammy. You would have been surprised in my situation”.
“Actually I wouldn’t cause i’m not a pansy like you”. She teases smugly. I look down at her with a smug stare.
“Oh really? How about when I do this?” I casually say as I come close and suddenly reach down grab her by the legs and hang her by her ankles with us face to face much to her embarrassment.
“Oh! You’re gonna get it now!” Her shouting in my mind and calling out was not ignored by the zubat and all at once they are woken up with a deathly screech. We turn to look up and see every one of them staring at us. I look at Sammy still hanging by her ankles in my hand and quickly bring her to my chest and noticing that Bane isn’t here freak out but getting out is my first priority and make a quick exit to the cave mouth with a wave of zubat on our tail.
“Where is Bane?” I ask out in a rush worried that she may be still in here and hoping that the little pup stayed outside which was a better choice than coming in at the moment.
“She isn’t with us?” she asked me dumbly not know that Bane wasn’t here.
“Ah, Nope”.
“Maybe she’s outside already?”
“Hopefully she is or else we’re in trouble”. In all my running I didn’t notice that I had run down a different path and came to a dead end with the horde of zubat behind us still in a death rush hoping to get to us. “Whelp, we’re dead”. I look to the side in a hope to see another path but only see a crack in the wall only just big enough for us to squeeze through. “That’ll do nicely”. shoving Sammy inside then just squeezing in as the horde get to where we were but a moment ago and bashing a hole right through the wall into another cavern.
“Holy crapping Arceus that was close!” Getting an angry glare from Sam I quickly shut my mouth If I feel as though I want to keep my tongue.
“That was a good idea, Now if this isn’t so hard let’s get out of here and find that damn pup and get whatever else you’re after”.
“Sure”. “That idea sounds pretty good right now”. We climb out of the crack in the wall and turn in both direction looking at the destruction the horde of angry zubat had wreaked. In both directions is destruction as far as the light of my torch can see. That was nothing compared to the despaired stares the Pokemon I could see had on their faces see their home wrecked in the frenzy. Then I notice something under a pile of rubble, I look closer and see it is a hand, a sandy tan coloured hand.
“Sam!” Sammy stares at me blankly taking in everything that happened. “Move these boulders! Please.” I’ve never seen her move so quickly than then especially after seeing the hand hanging out from the pile of rocks. Within moments the boulders are moved revealing the mangled but alive body of a Mawile. It is exactly what i’m after but Im scared to touch it. “Sam grab it we’ve gotta take it to the Pokecentre!” Sam instantly but gingerly grabs the heavily damaged Mawile and carries it in her psychic control while following behind me at a steady pace. I continue to search through the rubble for more injured and but don't see any till we make it nearly to where we found the horde when I notice something under some rocks and have a look to see what it is.
I push aside a boulder about the size of my chest and underneath the rock in a small alcove is a quivering Poochyena. My poochyena. “Bane! There you are!” I quickly Grab her and bring her to my chest nearly smothering her in the biggest hug I could without hurting her. “Let’s get out of here”. I take one step toward the entrance but the ground around us suddenly falls away on us..
“OH, FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU…….”
“AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH”
*Grown*
Meanwhile Twilight has made a breakthrough
“Spike! I think i’ve done it! I must try it now”. Twilight cries in elation and excitement at finally completing what had taken her weeks to formulate.
“Twilight, It is 11 at night. Leave it for the morning”.
“Sorry, Spike i’ve gotta do it now when it’s fresh in my mind. Here we go”.
Twilight’s horn then lights brighter than can both their eyes can take and which a explosion follows which lapses both of them into unconsciousness.
Back to the unwary group as they fall
It was a bright light. I thought it was my death but the light looks solid and scary. I scream and this scream is far from manly.
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHH”. We hit the light and instead of feeling death embrace me. Sammy, Bane the mawile and I travel straight through and hit the ground but it isn’t the ground of the cave that was supposed to be our deaths what we hit was a tad more welcoming but still painful, I feel around me feeling as though I was trampled by a tyranitar. I notice the ground is a very soft grass and look up and see it must have been thick to cushion our fall.
I get up slowly wincing in pain looking around trying to see my pokemon and the mawile that we were supposed to save.
“SAAAAAAAAAMM, WHERE ARE YOU!?”.
“I’m over here”. What I hear of Sam sounds frail and weak. She sends out a beacon in my mind to find her (assuming they can do that) to which I follow to find her curled up in a ball in pain, It is hard to look at and instantly run to her side.
“Sam” I lean down and carefully pick her up ignoring all my pain so to make sure she’s ok.
“What are you doing?” Sam asks painfully.
“I’m carrying you. You’re in no state to walk”.
“And neither are you”. She had a point. I am in no state to walk but the others had to be found. I get up and walk away from where we landed and wade through the grass looking for the others. It takes us a good few minutes to find Bane and the Mawile. Bane is a little worse for wear and the mawile next thing to dead. I rush over and gently lay Sam away and reach for my trusty bag which was nearly destroyed in the fall but held together enough for nothing to fall out. I reach in and pull out a Pokeball to which I aim toward and activate it on the Mawiles arm absorbing the severely weakened and nearly dead pokemon for safekeeping.
“Seriously, Rob! You had those things and never thought to use them”. Sam deadpans
“I never thought of using them before now because I preferred to have you out with me”. I laugh sheepishly. I get a smack over the ear for it. “Ow. Oh come on. We gotta get out of this grass and see where we are”. I put Bane away seeing as she’ll be useless at the moment, pick up Sam and put her on my shoulder as I walk away limping slightly.
Perspective of the crash with Luna
It was just another day in Canterlot castle and which at this time of night I can be found laying around in my chambers sleeping and reading to my hearts content. I was halfway through a Batmare comic-book when I hear a massive boom out over the fields of long grass. (Lame name blame the writers). I look out over my balcony to see a large white portal in the sky above the field. I stare closer and suddenly see something fall through and crash land in the grass.
“I wonder what that is?” Flying out the window and going for a closer look. As I get closer I start to hear snippets of conversation and touch down behind some grass to listen.
“I’m carrying you. you’re in no state to walk”. Came the voice of the first being. The next part I didn’t hear but I suppose this first being did for he just gave an almost aghast stare and grabbed a bag that was hanging on his back looking a little worse for wear. He grabs out two red and white ball things and leans down to somewhere I can’t see. I reposition myself and get a quick glance of a creature that I haven’t ever seen before. I was short maybe 4 and a half hooves tall while lying down. It had a sandy tan coloured fur, What I suppose is fur and on the back of its head is a massive jaw. I nearly jumped at the sight of it but I changed my mind and become enraptured when the first creature a 5 and a half hooves tall creature leans down with one of the balls and jabs is in an arm making the ball grow and open which also absorbs the creature.
I became scared after seeing that and decided that hiding may be a good idea. I sit there for a few minutes not even watching what was unfolding with the creature but eventually I hear them move away. I get up and look in the direction they went. They were heading toward the castle, I get into the air and fly back to the castle silently where I find a whole squad of guards already put together. I touch down in front of the group.
“Guards. You’re to find a creature in the Grass Fields and detain it and anything with it, am I clear?”
“Yes, Princess Luna”. They all answer at once.
“Good. Now move out”.
Back with Rob and Sam
It feels like forever that we’ve moving through the grass and I am starting to feel tired. I stop and look up at Sam on my shoulder.
“I think we should get some sleep here”. All I get is a nod so I slowly and painfully lay down on the grass and lay out with Sam laying on my chest. It doesn’t take long for her to fall asleep and I follow quickly but I haven’t rested long before I start hearing noises of jangling metal and hushed talking. I lay perfectly still praying to Arceus that we are not found. I don’t know why I decided to hide and instead of going to the noise is probably the fact that I have no idea where we are and I really don't feel like running into trouble. I slowly reach down to my waist where I have stuck my knife too and pull my 12 inch kukri knife from its sheath with only the barest whisper of scraping leather on metal.
I listen carefully for the noises and thankfully they pass us by but by the sound of it they were close. I lean down and gently and carefully shake Sam awake. “Shhhh. Sam, we have to go. I think somethings looking for us”.
“Why aren’t we going to the searchers?” Sam replied groggily.
“I have a feeling these searchers are not the good kind, let’s leave it at that”.
“Fine then, let’s go”. We both quietly get up and start crawling away from the sound barely making any noise. We can hear the sounds of movement everywhere and crawl more carefully as we come close to being spotted. At one point I even got a glimpse of the searchers. They were a small looking Rapidash in armor and instead of fire all over the body it only had hair.
“I have a bad feeling about this place”.
(what will happen next to our group of stranded adventurers? Find out next time!)