Chapter Two:
The duo soon arrived at a lush, green forest. A soft breeze blew the grass back and forth and there were small pink flowers all over the ground. Naruto could faintly see dirt paths and clearings which Pokémon most likely had worn out from traveling where the trees were more scarce. The only thing that ruined the peace of the forest were the creatures that inhabited the world the two humans were trapped in. Some of them looked like birds and worms while some others really confused the two of them.
"Is-Is that a moving seed!" Naruto asked and pointed towards a yellow seed with small leaves sprouting from the top of it's head, black lines below its eyes. And last but not least, which freaked the blonde out the most, a face!
"What does it look like, dobe?" Sasuke asked and nearly gaped when he saw what looked like a cluster of eggs with faces somehow made it's way past them. "This place is weird."
"Definitely! Did you see that egg thing?" the Uchiha nodded. "Teme, we should hurry up! We don't want anything to happen to that Caterpie thing, right?"
"Uh, right," Sasuke agreed and headed into the strange forest and started on the path leading... somewhere. Naruto followed after him, a bit reluctantly, mumbling something about 'not wanting the teme to think he's the best and knows his way around this forest when they haven't been here before in their life'. Sasuke scoffed at Naruto's childishness and continued on his way.
"Slow down, Sasuke," Naruto complained when the Uchiha's pace became too fast.
He appeared to not have heard the blonde and continued on his way, deeper into the forest, not even waiting for the blonde to keep up with him. Naruto would just have to learn how to keep up. If they had to rescue someone, then they would have to get the job done quickly. He didn't know much about child kidnappings or when a child got stolen, but he knew that the first forty-eight hours of a child's disappearance was vital. Usually after that time limit, the child would be dead.
Sasuke was about to head down an odd staircase that appeared right from the ground, when an odd orange worm - caterpillar, thing? - appeared out of no where and went to attack him. Luckily, he was a ninja, so he was able to dodge the attack with ease. Naruto appeared out of nowhere, which annoyed the young Uchiha, and launched an attack at the worm.
The worm was hit by the attack and flew back into a nearby tree. It struggled to stand back up, rising Naruto's hopes slightly that he had defeated the strange creature, but it stood up, a fierce look in it's eyes, crushing his hopes. The orange creature launched another attack at the blonde, an attack that covered him in a silk-like thread and slowing him down immensely. The blonde wriggled around, trying to free his newly yellow body from the web that was shot at him, unsuccessfully.
Sasuke's new sharp claws appeared from behind the worm and slashed it's back, effectively rendering it incapable of movement. The odd creature fell over into a heap onto the ground, all of it's energy used up from the battle. To Sasuke's displeasure, it seemed as though he had lost a great deal of his stamina since his breathing was laboured. He was pretty sure that he had better stamina than this. Maybe it was being transformed into a Pokémon that had effected his abilities? He was shaken from his thoughts by a loud Naruto.
"Oi! Teme! Help me get out of this web!" he shouted and squirmed around a bit, not unlike a huge worm with a yellow head with long ears that had dark brown tips. Sasuke frowned, but helped the hyperactive blonde anyways. Naruto owed him for helping him out of this. He used his sharp claws to hack the thread-like substance to pieces, it looked as though Naruto was covered in thready looking snow.
The blonde shook his body, scattering the web all over the place, and landing a good chunk of it on top of the Uchiha, who glared at the yellow mouse in front of him.
"Sorry, teme."
"Hn." Sasuke turned and headed down the seemingly random placed stairs in the middle of the forest and headed down to another story of the dungeon. The stairs were a light grey colour and the stairs weren't placed to far apart, or the Pokémon wouldn't have been able to walk up and down them. What confused him the most was not the randomly placed stairs in the middle of a forest, but why no one else, besides him and the knuckle-head, were using the stairs.
"Hey, teme. Why is there no one else using the stairs besides us?" The dobe just had to ask, didn't he?
Sasuke scowled and turned to face the blonde. "How am I supposed to know?" he grumbled and continued to descend the staircase.
Naruto bounded down the stairway and was soon out of the staircase. "Oi! Teme! Hurry up!" he shouted and jumped into a lower level of the strange forest. It was slightly darker on the new level since they were underground, but it seemed to still have trees and flowers everywhere. A couple more Pokémon walked by, seeming to ignore the strange duo of ex-humans.
Sasuke looked to the right and saw a strange round, blue berry on the ground. He bent over and picked it up, the texture of the berry was hard and it would probably be extremely crunch and bitter if one were to eat it. He quickly hid the berry in his hands, he didn't need Naruto to question him about another thing he had absolutely no clue about.
"Hey, Sasuke, what is this?" He held up a couple of golden coins with the letter 'P' in the middle of it.
"Probably money."
"Really? Then should we keep it?"
"If you want to."
Naruto looked around for something to place the money in, but couldn't find anything. He eventually decided on holding the money in his hands, tightly. He would probably lose the money at one point, but he could at least try to keep a tight grasp on it for the remainder of the mission.
This floor didn't take them as long as the last floor to find the staircase. They skillfully avoided interacting with any of the other Pokémon and they basically ran as fast as they could, whether if it was from wanting to save the child or just because this place creeped them out, they both didn't know the reason why.
As soon as they arrived on the next floor of the dungeon, an Exeggcute jumped out of nowhere and attacked Sasuke, rendering him incapable of movement at the moment. The Uchiha struggled to stand up, still worn out from the battle against the Wurmple.
The Exeggcute charged at Naruto as fast as it could, it was quite quick despite being a cluster of eggs. The blonde ninja, being utterly confused at what was attacking him, dodged the egg cluster and tackled it, making it fall backwards. Naruto jumped back up and threw a punch at the eggs.
Meanwhile, Sasuke was still struggling to move. He wanted to battle, he hated to be injured and a burden. No matter how hard he tried to move it wouldn't work. That's when he remembered the strange blue berry he picked up earlier. What would happen if he ate it? He examined the berry for a moment, judging that it couldn't do any harm, he popped it in his mouth and tried his best to chew the bitter, hard substance and swallow.
Naruto fell backwards. The egg thing had just tackled him, creating an angry Naruto in the process.
"There's no way I will be beaten by eggs! I'll be the Hokage someday! So I won't back down from this battle!" he shouted and stood back up, running at the Exeggcute once more and punching it right where the largest of the eggs in the cluster were. The Exeggcute fell to the ground and swirls appeared in its eyes. Naruto turned around to face Sasuke, panting.
"We should continue on our way," Sasuke said to Naruto, who nodded in agreement.
"Who knows how long Caterpie has!" the hyperactive ninja exclaimed, worry was in his voice. He turned around and saw the stairs right behind him and was not pleased. "Are you kidding me! We could have gone down the stairs this whole time while that egg thing was attacking us!"
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Caterpie sniffled and backed up closer to the wall when he heard some footprints of unknown Pokémon heading his way. "Mama?" he whimpered, even though he knew if wasn't her. How he wished she was here with him at the moment. He wanted so much for her to be here to comfort him.
"No, we're not your Mama, but we're going to take you to her!" a Pikachu said loudly with a grin on his face. Beside the loud Pikachu was a silent Sneasel, seeming to pretend he didn't know the Pikachu but probably did.
"R-really?" Caterpie sniffed.
"Yes! Now come with us! Oh, I'm Naruto and the teme over there is Sasuke," the Pikachu told him. Caterpie nodded and slowly followed after them.
"Thank you for saving me, Mr. Naruto."
"Don't call me Mr., I'm not old!" Naruto exclaimed loudly but continued on his way out of the dungeon with Caterpie, who was slowly starting to get cheered up. Sasuke was following slowly after, keeping an eye out to see if any Pokémon were following them and threatening to attack.
The trio arrived at the spot that they left Butterfree last. Butterfree looked over, hearing the crunch of dead leaves and flew over to Caterpie as fast as her wings could carry her.
"Thank you so much!" she said, tears of happiness were now streaming down her face as she attempted to hug the Caterpie the best she could with her lack of arms.
A/N: I have Bulbapedia to thank for the information about the Pokémon, client, reward and level of the Pokémon for the dungeons in this story since I will forget even though I'm playing Blue Rescue Team while writing this. I was originally going to put this and chapter one together, but I was like 'nah, I'll just give them the first part, see how they like it'.
A big thanks goes out to those who favourited, subscribed and/or reviewed the first chapter. You definitely gave me inspiration to continue, and write a longer chapter, this was seriously longer than I expected it was going to be.
Fixed the formatting problem.
