The walls were too familiar. The air was too tight. Noah was trapped, he couldn't get out. Prinplup was nowhere to be found. He reached for his other Pokéballs, but he could feel nothing there but his clothes. He looked at his own body. His hands, fingers, legs, his entire body, he was young again.
Then he opened his eyes. His consciousness was starting to melt with the memories he recalled in his dreams. This particular dream was of when he would be bullied as a child by most of the other boys in Twinleaf. They would shove him into a tight space, and lock him in, and subsequently laugh at his screams for help.
Noah sighed. Memories of his childhood were pointless; he could remember them all, what he really needed was to remember how he got here. He allowed his head to fall to his right, while his body was motionless on the ground. Prinplup was swimming in the lake where this all started.
Prinplup jumped out of and back into the lake, and his body looked like an arc. Splashes of water were going up wherever Prinplup entered the lake, and some of the water would flow onto the ground of the cave. Noah was thankful that he had enough distance between him and the lake as to not get wet.
For some strange reason, the scenery of Prinplup playing in the water gave him joy, as if some gray cloud was drifting away, and the sun was made visible.
Her rays were drawn and absorbed by Torterra. "Don't make me launch my attack," She said. "I don't want to harm Prinplup."
Noah smiled, even though Prinplup was almost completely knocked out of the battle, all it required was just one more hit. "Wrong decision," Noah grinned. "Prinplup! Use Ice Beam!"
"One more attack won't win you the battle, Torterra has managed to withstand all of your attacks so far. It will take at least two more attacks to defeat her."
Prinplup mustered the strength to get back up again. His body was weak, trembling, and aching. The pain was overwhelming, but Prinplup wanted to win for Noah. He wasn't willing to be the cause of yet another trainer losing their dream.
He opened his beak and gathered all the energy he had. A tiny dot of blue light started forming in the middle of his mouth, and slowly expanded into the size of a Pokéball. Prinplup took a deep breath, causing the ball to minimize to half it's size.
And he fired. The ball expanded into a larger size than it ever was during the preparing stage of this attack, and a beam of ice that crackled like lightning tore through the air, and collided with Torterra's body.
Torterra shouldn't have lost. It was mere luck that won Noah that battle. Had Torterra fired her SolarBeam, Prinplup would have surely been crushed.
A few days after that battle, Noah had reached Floaroma Town, and by then his Starly had become a Staravia, and his Shinx a Luxio. He also deposited his Geodude and Zubat, which he deemed too weak to be in his team.
A larger splash sound brought him back to reality. Prinplup had been building up speed all along and taking higher dives into the lake. Prinplup emerged once again from under the waters, but instead of jumping out of them and going back in, he swam to the edge and exited the lake. He stood without any kind movement for a few seconds, in which the majority of water he was covered in was shed away.
"I hope you enjoyed your swim," Noah said as he got out from under his blankets in the same manner in which Prinplup left the lake. "We have a long way ahead of us."
Prinplup joined Noah's side, and after thirty minutes of trying to return the portable tent to it's holder, they were walking once again. They entered a new area, which Noah believed to be the right path.
"This is a new area," Noah stated the obvious to Prinplup. "And since we were going deeper into Mt. Coronet, this could only mean we are on our way out."
His speech seemed to be more of an assurance to himself than to Prinplup. And the Pokémon smiled when he realized it. Noah kept on walking, his pace increasing with time, until he was almost running. He was sure that the way out of this cave was going to be at the end of the road he's taking.
Prinplup had a hard time keeping up with Noah, due to Noah having longer legs, and had to resort to running behind Noah, and he only hoped that Noah didn't start running, in which case Prinplup would fall behind and be forgotten about. The idea of getting out of Mt. Coronet consumed all of Noah. There could be no mistake.
Noah's mother had proven many times that her advices always help, and every prediction she made came true. To Noah, she was flawless, the perfect mother. Her mother's intuition couldn't be wrong, and if she instructed Noah to go back, then he would. There could be no mistake.
"There could be no mistake." Noah said between breaths, and stopped.
There weren't any mistakes. The light of he exit shined in the far distance. Noah's face filled with happiness and hope, and he ran towards the exit, while Prinplup had the hardest time catching up to Noah.
He wished that Noah would stop as soon as he's through and out into the open, so that he could catch up to him and return to his side. In what seemed to be the worst time, Prinplup tripped on a ledge and rolled onto the ground, sending dust flying and causing most of his body to suffer bruises.
Prinplup mustered the strength to get back up again, and ran once again towards the light, which Noah had already disappeared into. This was the exit.
There could be no mistake.