Author's note: After seeing the official Smash Ballot winner in the form of Bayonetta, and listening to a remix of "Battle Against a True hero from Undertale", this is where I used my time to create conflict and differences between the two friends with a mix of action. Hopefully, you will enjoy this for this new character wants more things to do with Victor and Flora. Mechanics from all Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games are implemented.
As morning arrives, both pokémon bring themselves up for a morning stretch on Flora's little garden. Gathering small stacks of apples, oran berries, and three heal seeds stored in a fruit nest, Victor checks out the remaining stashes inside the hut, "Oh come on. There has to be a reviver seed there."
"What are you looking for? Your bag is packed already. We have an Escape orb as well." Flora tidies her hut from the mess Victor makes. Her stack of 60 sticks maybe more than enough for their travel.
"Miss Flora, do you have any Reviver Seeds?" Victor gets no response for a while, "Flora? Just tell me if you have any of those seeds." Gazing at her little figure, her tilted head sways to the side slowly, "Are you not carrying any reviver seeds?" once again, she gives him a no for an answer, "What?! How come you are not getting those useful things?"
"I … I do not see its … merit. I just give them to … other pokémon … needing those. All the dungeons I go through at that mountain last for a couple minutes." Sitting next to the traveler's bag, Flora sees the victini clenching its left paw tight. As she's about to hide behind the bag, Victor's head just swings down his head touching the floor.
"Oh my gosh! This ride is gonna be long." Knowing the risk of exploring with a partner, he tells himself that perhaps he may find a piece or two in the dungeons they visit. "Well, we could go on without those for now. Looks like you had experience exploring dungeons before. Right?" Flora passes a nod to him. Lifting his big head up, he poses his Victory paw gesture to the somewhat quiet shaymin. "So let's go then! We may be able to find a way to make you fly like your neighbors!"
For Flora to be helped by a pokemon that she helped, a part of her makes her a bit scared on the new dungeons that may as well be longer and harder than the ones in Sky Peak Mountain. If this journey can make her dream come true, she wants this dream to happen. If she has to work for it, then Flora sees it as the way to get it. As for Victor, it has been a long time since he helped a pokémon that is quiet and shy in nature. The fact that his nature is a stark contrast to this shaymin only makes it tricky. However, this journey he willingly takes sparks a new interest in his stagnating life.
Three days has passed since we walk and climb our way through the mountains. That gave both of us some time to learn more about each other. Today, we begin our first dungeon exploration in a place called Mystery Jungle. If we can somehow make it through, Oran Forest and Apple Woods will be close. Upon entering the dungeon, both of us immediately get charged by a nidorina and a nidorino. As I blast a confusion attack to the nidorina, I turn around to see Flora being at a distance. As the nidorino tries to avenge its partner, I stop its horn attack with my paws holding the side of its head. It yelps out in pain for whatever its hurt with. I cannot feel a single touch of my companion's grass type moves. Looking at the ground, I see a bunch of broken sticks laying next to its feet. With our attacker's push weakening, I shove it forward as hard as I can. Like the nidorina, that pokémon will not give us any trouble for now.
"Oh dear. I hate this dungeon already. Can we make it out quick Mister Victor?" Flora insists for a quick rest before continuing on the journey.
"With poison type pokémon like these two, I get what you mean, being grass type and all. I can deal with that. But why are you not using your pokémon moves Flora?" Victor gets back on his feet quickly and continues onward to the path on the west of the current room.
"UUuhhhmm … I … rather dodge encounters and … hide. I just fight mostly with tossable things … like sticks … and pebbles. Rarely do I … use … my pokémon moves." Following suit with the victini, Flora sticks close to the slightly bigger pokémon.
"You don't fight a lot? You almost never use your moves? You just attack with sticks and stones?" Flora answers him with a no, "I appreciate on what you bring for the adventure. You cannot just stay far and hope for the enemy to leave you be all the time in dungeons Miss Flora. What if you have to use your pokémon moves if needed be in battle?" entering a room where the stairs is located, a Haunter gets in the way.
"You do know that fighting is not my thing. I'm not that skilled like you in that way. I prefer helping others." Spraying out her Sweet Scent attack, the ghost type floats in a daze. That daze is enough time for Victor blows it away with a Confusion attack.
The two travelers begin their climb towards the second floor. The victory pokémon continues his fair criticism, "You do not always have to be on the back Flora. You need to realize that there will be pokémon that I can easily lose to. But if your way of fighting is just sticks and pebbles, they can beat you quickly with their moves."
After taking the criticism fair and square, Shaymin gives her own share of view about Victor himself upon entering the second floor, "Well, you are right. But … you are too … quick on the battle. You just … fight anything that just … picks on you or me. You could … just take your time."
"I am not feeling this good after a good criticism. You are not a battler, but you got me. If you have to convince me to trust your instincts, then demonstrate it as much as you can in this journey." Travelling north of the second floor dungeon, Victor and Flora continue their battles with a few Ariados and the common Nidoran residents.
"I want to be able to fly. If … I have to fight the way you fight at times, then I … I will fight. But don't expect me to be good at it." With her eyes set on the approaching venomoth, she tosses some sticks towards it and knocks it out before it could do anything. They immediately notice something that looks like a wearable ring with a yellow-teardrop-like ring. Flora finds it pretty to her eyes with no knowledge as to what it does. So Victor helps her on wearing the bracelet-like ring.
The journey goes smooth thanks to Victor's battling prowess and Flora's intuition. There are times when the shaymin restrains the victini from engaging an enemy he can beat easily in that room. She tells him to just stay put near the exit of a tunnel and let it pass so that they can find the stairs quicker while being able to get the items they can find with no interruptions. Some extra ammo makes Flora happy while Victor loses his worries upon finding three Elixirs and two Reviver Seeds. Normally, Victor learned to take hits from strong enemies. However, his enemies had been sloppy in combat and weak to his type. With Flora being at his back firing her Sweet Scents and Leech Seeds from time to time, he can easily dodge just about every attack. When Shaymin has to fend for herself, she does ok for a pokemon that refuses to fight and her small size thanks to her capability to heal up quickly both naturally and with her Synthesis move. She mostly shoves and uses he sticks up close. All of this gets Victor thinking of the opportunities he could teach to Flora as a dungeon trekker. Everything she showed him on stealth shines an answer for his common problems back when he travelled alone in dungeons that he struggles. For Flora, this amount of fighting that she is having now increases the tension and adrenaline all over her body. That makes concern as to how much adrenaline she can handle rationally.
Once the two pokémon entered the twelfth floor where there is a big room with little puddles of water on the edges of the room, and a tunnel at the top. Seeing this journey as a small success, they make a run for the only stairs left. As they reach the middle of the room, gusts of wind surrounds the corners of the room and the entrances of the tunnels. "Victor! What is happening here?"
"What? I thought that this place had no bosses. Am I wrong here? Please let me be wrong Flora. I'm wrong on this one. Right?!" With these gusts surrounding the room, Victor sees that he may have to do the whole fighting alone.
"Look what I have in here. A cutie psychic-flaming pokémon with a scaredy grass pokémon going through the dungeon no problem. I can't just leave you two right now, can't I. Why don't you entertain me?" with the winds fading out, an insect of the sun descends from the sky. With a dark pink colored circle in the middle of its wings surrounded by tones of yellow, crescents on each side of its wings matches the middle color, and orange lines and black lines on the inner-outer butterfly wings, the pokémon of the sun's child appears. "You have trespassed your way in here without meeting the king of this jungle. As the queen, I can make an exception if you entertain me with your skills in combat."
"Wait … wait mistress. Just … why can't you just leave us alone? I don't want to fight." Flora drops the pouch of sticks she holds.
"Looks like your girl here is such a little togetic in every single thing. I may be a pretty Vivillon with kindness. That does not stop me from fighting to be stronger. Tell me little fire type, everything has to be fought in life. Right? You know yourself." If fighting a boss pokémon is not enough to make him tense, Victor's perspectives has been challenged once more. It have had been a long time since his beliefs are questioned. With Flora's clever intuition, he seems to be uncertain as to what his true stand is, "Taking too long to tell me? Then, let's dance you two."
Victor immediately fires off a Flame Burst attack towards the butterfly. But the queen already sees this coming and scatters an orange powder around herself. She sees the little hedgehog just about to toss a stick towards her. She lets her wings get hit once and pretend that she gets hurt.
"Flora. I think that works against her. My fire moves are not working somehow." Victor sets his paw forward with concentration.
"Ohhh. You are suddenly helpful little grass type. Hehe. Not really. I'm just playing with you two. For you however, the real game begins. Your fire moves mean nothing to me!" as another stick closes in on the butterfly, she swings her little head and fires off a string shot just to catch it. It follows it by twirling around in position and tosses the stick back to Flora where the shaymin is too slow to react and dodge as she takes the hit. Her left side receives a cut that kept Flora aching as bits of blood slowly ooze out.
The queen butterfly flutters forward in a twirling dance. Victor attempts to blow off a powerful confusion as the shaymin sprays out her sweet scent all over the room. As the vivillon gets close to the two pokémon, she flutters her wings and fires off another string shot connecting to one of victor's plump legs. Just as Flora is about to connect her Leech Seeds to the butterfly, Vivillon drags off Victor along with her obtained swift speed with those stacked quiver dances, causing chips of damage at Victor's survivability by the drag on the ground and occasionally slamming the edge of the walls where the water splashes him. While Flora struggles to hit the queen with her sticks and moves, she had to weave out of the way when she's about to get hit by Victor. It does not take long for the vivillon to cut the string and flick her target towards the other target. The moment the victory pokémon crashes on the shaymin, both little pokémon get tossed towards the nearby puddle. Beaten by the damage, the bug queen already warms up its wings as it blows a gust stronger than what most bug type pokemon would use in a fight around the room. The power of vivillon's hurricane lasts as fast as it has started under five seconds. While the victini ends up nearly unconscious, the little shaymin fares a little better thanks to her Synthesis keeping her alive from being done for. It does not stop the little hedgehog from gazing at the challenger that she had not met at all beating the two of them.
"Oh goodie. Quite a fight your partner did to me with its attacks. His fire means nothing to me. Even his psychic moves just tickle. I am sorry to tell you that your boyfriend is done. No more seeds left. All that is left for the medic humble…" As Flora immediately gets wrapped by loads, the vivillon drags its prey in the middle. Immediately quiver dancing in the middle, gusts of wind form around the two which generates lift with the power of a hurricane for the boss queen to flicker her smaller body, but the string loose from her mouth, and toss Flora high into the air. With the bug queen looking at Victor, she points out to her challenger, "The sky and earth will do the work for me. Well then, I hope you two can come and see me again for another round."
"Flora … no! Not like this! Losing to my advantage…" the victory pokémon can only stare at the sky as his client that brought him a purpose. If this road is the only way that can bring them closer to the town, he sees their scenario as messy end. What breaks him is his experience bringing him to his defeat by a bug pokémon of all things.
High in the air, time seems to be inexistent for the helpless shaymin as she approaches her humiliating demise. Paralyzed by fear, Flora rattles in the air throwing out all of her moves in no order. Seeing how fast the ground closes in, she screams out to the world with eyes shut. Unaware of her own actions, her entire body glows in green with powerful energy as dusts from the battleground below get absorbed around its back. The moment the Vivillon queen turns around and looks above, two leech seeds get stuck on her antennae. In the middle of it all, the tear drop on Flora's bracelet glows yellow bright as the sun. As her flight gets uneasy, upon looking up towards the sky, seeing the hedgehog going out with an unprepared energy, it was that this moment that the queen knew that she may be doomed.
When the two ladies are close and at gazing distance, the vivillon takes the full force of Flora's legendary Seed Flare. After the explosion, the entire arena settles down in silence with a sun patterned butterfly nearly out for the count.