If Caleb had thought the previous rooms were bad this one was by far the worse. The room itself looked like a bomb had gone off. There were scorch marks all over the walls from Joltik's electric attacks and Caleb was certain he could even make out the shadow of an intern running scorched upon an opposing wall. Shuddering he turned away. Joltik was still quite low levelled so he must be really stressed out in order to produce this much damage. Raltz however didn't seem to be phased in the slightest. Moving out in front of his trainer the little pokémon started searching the area for any psychic indications of where Joltik was. It didn't take long before Raltz had a rough idea of where the spider was hiding. Before Caleb could react, Raltz was racing off in the direction of the spider, his trainer trailing behind.
"Wow hold up! Where are you going?!" Caleb cried out.
Making their way to the very back of the unit, the two of them stopped before a collection of turned over incubators. The incubators were littered with webs crisscrossing over one another and sitting right in the centre, little sparks of electricity lighting the air around him, was Joltik. He was as aware of them as they were of him, all six eyes trained upon the two strangers in front of him and he was not happy to see them.
"Raltz" Caleb whispered. "I need you to reach out to him. I really don't want this to end with Titus having to be sent in here. Joltik is just confused I'm sure of it. We need to calm him down understand?"
All he got in response was a slight nod.
From beneath his small helmet of fur Raltz rolled his eyes. Honestly, his trainer had no faith in him what so ever. As soon as Raltz had spotted the spider he'd started reaching out to him and Joltik was confused yes but more importantly, he was scared. The little spider had no idea where he was or where his trainer was either. Of course he was going to lash out! If someone had separated Raltz from Caleb he was pretty certain he'd raise entire buildings looking for him!
Raltz stopped in his tracks. He'd never realised how much he'd come to care for his trainer over the passed couple of months. Well, this would certainly need some looking into but not right now! Right now, he had a job to do.
As Raltz edged closer towards the spider the little creature started chattering like crazy and it's fur stood on edge, like little needles ready to strike. Closing his eyes, Raltz reached out his mind to the little pokémon, poking and prodding until the spider realised what was going on.
"Are you going to calm down?" Raltz asked.
"I have no idea where I am, I woke up to find I washooked up to wires and you're asking me to calm down?!" The little Joltik raged.
The spider fired a warning bolt of electricity at Raltz feet, trying to intimate the psychic pokémon into leaving.
"If you asked I could tell you where you are you know" Raltz replied.
The spider started making it's way across the various webs, looking between the green and white pokémon with the red horn and the tall human boy standing behind it.
"Is that your trainer? Did he do something to Chloe? Is that why she isn't here? Where is she?!" Joltik screamed mentally at Raltz.
Caleb had no idea what was going on around him. The Joltik seemed to be going crazy and yet Raltz hadn't moved in minutes. Was this some kind of attack that Raltz was performing that Caleb had no idea of? Was he okay? Running a hand through his dark hair in distress Caleb felt useless. Looking down at Raltz again he could just make out his eyes beneath his fur, they were glowing a soft blue and didn't seem to see Caleb at all. Was he in some kind of trance?
"Urgh! This is awful! I need to know what's going on!" He cried out in frustration.
Back and forth the two pokémon argued.
"I haven't touched your damn trainer! You've been here since I got here and you've been unconsciousthis whole time!" Raltz exclaimed.
"Oh yeah? When did you get here then?!"
"Around four months ago if the passing seasons are anything to indicate!"
Joltik stopped his scurrying and stared at Raltz.
"What? I don't understand... I've been here for that long? Where is Chloe?" Joltik asked.
"I do not know. However I am sure my trainer, or one of the other humans, will know so please, you need to calm down, stop attacking everything, and please see reason. You will not get the answers you seek without my help. Besides, I think I'm the reason that you're even awake right now. You'd been unconscious for so long. I just wanted to help. I think I brought you out of your state too soon and the humans were not prepared. I am sorry" Raltz sympathetically said.
Joltik whimpered out loud, his eyes down cast and his body visibly defeated. Caleb watched as Raltz eyes stopped glowing and the little pokémon swayed on the spot. Dashing forward, Caleb reached out and scooped him up before Raltz fell over.
"Easy buddy! You okay?" He asked.
Raltz only nodded and gazed over at the spider. It's whole body was shaking as it gave out little cries. Caleb furrowed his brow, it was clearly distressed. Slowly, Caleb edged towards Joltik, taking long easy strides, still cradling Raltz in his arms.
"Hey little guy... I'm not going to hurt you okay?"
Caleb got no response to indicate that Joltik understood what he was saying. As he reached a closer proximity to Joltik he knelt down, still holding Raltz in one arm and reaching out towards Joltik.
"I promise I wont hurt you but I have to try and move you okay? Think you're up to moving? You're not going to electrocute me are you? I don't really fancy becoming a lightening rod you know". Caleb chuckled at the last part, trying to put the small yellow spider at ease.
Still, he got no response. Sighing to himself Caleb knew he was going to have to try someone drastic. It would either work or his short life would end here... and he'd be nothing but a charged body smouldering on the floor.
Well, I better do this before I change my mind!
Taking a deep breath, Caleb reached out and lifted Joltik up from his web, cradling him in his arm opposite Raltz. The small spider looked up at him, with all six eyes, but didn't do anything.
Thank God for that! I genuinely thought I would die trying to pick up this little guy! I wonder what Raltz did?
Deciding not to dwell on the issue, Caleb turned and quickly made his way out of the ward. The sooner they were out the better!
