Chapter 7 – Fuet Cave
"HEY! Amber, come on. You don't have to be like that." Garnet catches up to Amber who is walking North of Willcliff City. "What about Marblesea Town's gym?"
"As long as I can stay away from that idiot." Amber continues walking and a young female trainer walks up to her.
"Let's Battle!" The young trainer girl, sends out a Litleo. "Go!"
Amber quickly sends out Seake. "Bubble!" Amber shouts out the attack in a commanding voice, triggering Seake to quickly use the attack and take out Litleo in one hit. "Useless." Amber returns her Seake and looks around continuing to walk while the girl behind her sees her Litleo fainted and cries.
Garnet crouches down to talk to the girl. "You should hurry up and take it to a Pokémon Centre." Garnet then runs over try and catch up to Amber. "HEY! That wasn't very nice. Well… can't you calm down? I mean Lapis has already gone in the other direction."
Amber sighs and waits for Garnet to catch up. Amber sees a Pokémon come out of the grass, and takes out her Pokédex to analyse it. The Pokémon is a purple rat-like Pokémon with a horn on the top of its head and large ears. "Nidoran, the Poison Point Pokémon." Amber sends out her Quitten. "COVET!" A commanding tone comes out of Amber.
Quitten hearing the commanding tone, quickly takes action out of fear and raises its front paw at Nidoran after which, Amber throws a Poké Ball at the Nidoran. The Poké Ball shakes furiously and breaks open. Quitten uses another Covet attack on the Nidoran as the Nidoran kicks the Pokémon away with two kicks from its hind legs. Amber throws another Poké Ball at the Nidoran. The Poké Ball continues to shake furiously from side to side.
"Oh, are you going to catch this one?" Garnet watches the Poké Ball continue shaking. "Are you going to name it?"
The Poké Ball stops shaking and Amber heads over to pick it up. "Don't be stupid." Amber turns to Garnet, "It doesn't need a name." Amber looks further at the stats of the Nidoran with her Pokédex. "Good enough."
Garnet and Amber look at a cave entrance, "Well, seems like we're going to have to go in here to get anywhere." Garnet looks at the Pokédex he is holding, "Good thing this thing had a Habitat function with the Pokémon. Gives me an automatic map."
Amber enters into the cave without Garnet; Garnet looks around for Amber after finishing checking the map, not seeing her he runs into the cave to follow her. Amber looks around at the cave that is lit up from the entrance while walking straight.
"So, we're at Fuet Cave." Garnet looks around to find many trainers battling in the cave system. "They seem to be too busy battling amongst themselves to fight us. That's good."
"You shouldn't be glad, you and your Pokémon need to get in more training." Amber criticizes Amber's battle with the gym leader in Willcliff City. "You shouldn't even have gotten the gym badge."
"Well, I have it now, don't I!" Garnet says glad, much to Amber's annoyance. "Well, I wonder what Pokémon I should catch to improve my team." Garnet looks around to find a Rhyhorn in the cave. "I know, that Pokémon." Garnet looks to get his Pokédex out to find what Pokémon it was but finds that it has already escaped. "Damn." Garnet looks around to find a trainer coming up to him to challenge him to a battle.
"Ho, Ho. Boy. Are you interested in the caves?" The trainer sends out a Rhyhorn and blocks Garnet's path while Amber continues walking forwards only to be blocked by a young boy who sends out a Lillipup while she sends out her Quitten.
Garnet looks at the trainer. "Not really. Though you have to get through this cave to get anywhere it seems." Garnet checks the data on Rhyhorn and sends out his Teddiursa. "Ted, use Seismic Toss!" Garnet calls out happily having the battle with the trainer. "By the way, isn't it kind of rude to just walk up to a trainer and force them into a battle?"
"Rhyhorn, use Horn Attack." The trainer ignores Garnet's question and just calls an attack for his Pokémon to use.
The Rhyhorn charges at the Teddiursa and its horn manages to hit Ted, but Ted manages grab onto the Teddiursa and fling the giant Pokémon across to the opposing trainer. "Alright, Ted. Let's use Seismic Toss again!"
"Rhyhorn, use Scary Face." The trainer calls out, but has his Rhyhorn flung next to him again before it can use the attack. "Alright then… Use Horn Attack!"
Garnet takes out his Pokédex to check the health of the two Pokémon. "Damn it… Seismic Toss isn't doing enough damage to effectively take this Pokémon out in this attack. I don't have any other Pokémon. Hang on… it doesn't have any Ground or Rock-type moves. Alright!" Garnet returns Ted to its Poké Ball. "You did well, Ted! Alright. Pyrophyte, take out that Rhyhorn! Earth Power!" Pyrophyte is hit by a Horn Attack from the Rhyhorn.
"What?!" The opposing old trainer freaks out at the name of the attack as his Pokémon is taken out by a large pillar of earth from underneath it shooting it upwards into the air. "Oh no!"
Garnet smiles and looks for Amber, "Oh. She must have already finished her fight long ago." Garnet runs forward into the cave to find a Magnemite in front of him. "Awesome! Let's catch this." Garnet looks through his Pokédex and sees the Magnemite still floating in front of him while he scans it. "Electric-Steel. I don't want to defeat it with Pyophyte. So, Ted should do the trick." Garnet sends out his Teddiursa and calls out for it to use Seismic Toss.
Magnemite is thrown across the cave towards Garnet, the Magnemite sends a weak wave of electricity towards Ted but manages to paralyse it. "Zzzz…" The electric sound coming from the Magnemite's rage sends a shock of electricity through Ted's paralysed body.
"Oh, no. Teddiursa, can you use Seismic Toss?" Garnet asks Ted, and Ted manages to struggle to move and throw the escaping Magnemite back to Garnet's side. "Alright, we can catch it now." Garnet throws a Poké Ball at the Magnemite. The Poké Ball shakes from left to right three times, but stops shaking. "WE DID IT!" Garnet looks at his Xtransceiver which is ringing. "Hello?" Garnet picks up.
"Ahh, Garnet!" Mr. Carper is on the other side of the Xtransceiver. "We manage to retrieve Ralts from your Box. We also have two things for you to pick up in the box. They're two eggs that we managed to gain from another two Pokémon. If you want to hatch them, pick them up from the Box. If you don't want to hatch them, just call us back."
"Ok then." Garnet sighs, looking at the Xtransceiver hang up. "Well, I guess I finally get to hatch a Pokémon. I wonder what they are." Garnet continues moving to forward to try and find Amber in the cave. "Seems like a rather straight forward cave." Garnet finds two paths directly after saying that. "Damn it." Garnet tries to remember the map on his Pokédex. "Right, if I've been heading north all this time. The one on the right should keep me heading North rather than West." Garnet moves forward to see a fainted Nidoran with Amber fighting a Flabébé.
"Damn it, useless Pokémon. This is the second time Seake's had to cover up for you." Amber sends out her Seake. "Seake! Poison Tail!" Seake hearing the command uses the attack on the opposing Fairy Type Pokémon taking it out in one hit.
"What happened?" Garnet walks up to Amber asking why she's so mad.
"The Nidoran I caught earlier, is so useless. When I get to the Pokémon Centre, I'll put in the box and tell my mum she can keep it." Amber says returning Seake to her Poké Ball. "The useless rat."
"Don't be like that, I'm sure it can still fight well." Garnet tries to persuade Amber to keep it, but Amber puts her hand out in front of Garnet.
"Don't bother. I'm not listening to your bullshit." Amber continues walking through the cave. "My mother will use it for her experiments."
"What?!" Garnet hearing the last word in the sentence runs up to Amber. "Come on, there has to be another fate for it back at home."
"Nope, my mum wanted more test subjects. All of my useless Pokémon are going to her." Amber says not listening to what Garnet has to say.
"What if I wanted that Pokémon?" Garnet tries to change the fate of the Nidoran. "I mean, come on. If you don't want it, can I have it?"
Amber pauses and looks at Garnet asking, "What will you give me in return? This isn't going to be a free Pokémon, for your information."
"Ohh… um…" Garnet looks at the Pokémon he has out of Ted, Pyrophyte and the Magnemite. Garnet reaches for his Magnemite's Poké Ball. "Good luck, little fella… You'll need it…" Garnet walks up to Amber and shows his Magnemite.
"Oh, this might be interesting." Amber takes out her Pokédex to analyse the Pokémon. "This is impressive. Already some good Electric-type moves. That's viable, I'll agree to the trade." Amber smiles, putting away her Pokédex.
Garnet sighs, and they trade Magnemite's Poké Ball for the Nidoran's Poké Ball. Ntil "By the way, can I nickname this Nidoran?"
"What do I care what you do with it?" Amber continues walking looking at the Magnemite she just received. "You will also be awfully helpful in the next Gym Battle. Fool doesn't know what he did." Amber smiles, and continues walking until the exit.
"Well, I guess I'll call you Fonz." Garnet smiles, and revives the fainted Pokémon. Garnet looks around and sees that Amber has already left the cave. "You know; I think what Lapis was talking about was right… You really should."
"Eck, will you shut up already?! I can't stop hearing it. If you want to be useless trainers, then by all means, pretend your Pokémon have feelings. Live in your little doll house with them, I don't care. But I'm here to defeat all the gym leaders, so don't slow me down." Amber looks at Garnet annoyed, by the constant mention of her not treating Pokémon properly.
"But." Garnet is cut off by Amber just slapping Garnet across the face and then walking ahead of Garnet. "OW! What was that for?!" Garnet looks around to find that Amber has walked off and is nowhere to be seen. "She's left." Garnet walks forward to be cut off by a trainer in his way. "Damn it. This is not the time."
"Hey, I'm a trainer too! I like shorts." The young boy in front of Garnet is pushed away but moves in front of Garnet again repeating the same phrase.
"This is not the time." Garnet moves but is blocked by the young boy's PIdgey. "Damn it." Garnet sends out his Teddiursa, and fights the boy.
Featured Character:
Name: Amber Lavett
Age: 10
Pokédex Caught: 4
Pokédex Seen: 16
Badges: 1
Party:
Quitten (F) – Level 11
Serious – Nods off a lot.
Normal Type
Seake (M) – Level 12
Water Type
Timid – Often Lost in Thought
Magnemite (N) – Level 13
Electric/Steel Type
Docile – Often Lost in Thought
Featured Pokédex Entry:
Species: Nidoran (M)
Type: Poison
Pokédex Information: Nidoran has developed muscles for moving its ears. Thanks to them, the ears can be freely moved in any direction. Even the slightest sound does not escape this Pokémon's notice.
Habitat: Route 53
