ML54: Hooray!
Tyson: *Eye twitch* What are you so happy about?
ML54: I managed to find time to write this chapter! I thought I was gonna be late!
Buizel: It feels like this isn't fini-
ML54: It's a two parter!
Buizel: ...Of course it is...
Gracie: U-um...ML54 doesn't o-own pokémon...
Thunderstone Peak Part One
"So… That's Thunderstone Peak, huh?" Pachirisu asked, looking up at the large, imposing looking mountain. There were flashes of thunder striking the summit every few seconds. The edges of the mountain as sharp and jagged as the shape of the lightning striking it.
"…Yup," Tyson said, stepping forward to enter the small, cave entrance at the bottom of the mountain. "Now c'mon, that snivy isn't rescuing herself."
As he walked, he noticed that none of the others had responded to him and he turned. There, he found that Gracie had her fluff pulled up to hide her face, Pachirisu was on top of Buizel's head, nuzzling into it in fear and Buizel looked uncertain, stroking Pachirisu's tail to try and comfort her.
Tyson sighed and slapped his paw into his face. "Oh, for the love of...guys! It'll be fine!"
"A-are you sure?" Gracie asked, peeking her eyes above her fluff to look the annoyed pikachu in the eye.
"Of course, I got this after all," He said, flashing them his bracelet, which contained his light ball. "Plus, the dungeon sick are feral, we can outsmart them, easily."
"I wish I shared your confidence," Buizel muttered, dragging his feet to follow him, bringing Pachirisu round to hug her, properly. "I got your back in there, Pachi, don't worry."
Pachirisu nodded, nuzzling his chin a little, before steeling her resolve and bouncing out of his arms. "I know, Bui-Bui, thank you! Let's do this!" She announced, putting on a determined expression, despite her tail shuddering.
Gracie flinched at being the only one being a wuss, and bravely stepped up beside Tyson, willing herself to let go of her fluff. You have a new move now, Gracie! And hyper voice should do some damage!
Tyson rolled his eyes, noticing how small the steps the buneary took were, impatiently tapping his foot on the ground. "Take any longer, Fluff-Butt, and we'll leave you out here!"
That got her attention, and she immediately jumped to the group, not wanting to be left alone in this scary place.
Once she was there, Tyson rolled his eyes and motioned for the group to follow him. "That's better, now let's go and find this snivy."
Floor One
"Well, that didn't take long!" Buizel groaned to himself, jumping out of the way of a punch thrown by a black and yellow, humanoid pokémon.
"Elec!" The pokémon cried out as its fist slammed into a rock that Buizel was standing in front of, causing it to explode into pieces.
"Encore! Yay! So cool!" The pokémon blinked, before looking over and finding Pachirisu cheering at him.
Over to the side, Gracie was tilting her head at Tyson, who was leaning against the wall with her. "Um…What's she doing?"
"She's using encore. It's an annoying move that locks that electabuzz into the thunder punch that it just used," Gracie scratched the back of her head as Pachirisu ran between the pokémon's legs, confusing it a little…before Buizel hit him in the face with a few waves of wind.
Gracie shuffled her feet a little more as Tyson glanced down the hallway to his left. "Don't you think we should help them?" She asked.
"Nah, they've got it," Tyson waved off, spotting something on the other side of the door, picking it up. "Hey, how are we on oran berries?"
"I'm being serious, Tyson! They might need our help!" Gracie said, folding her arms, clearly worried about her friends.
"So am I," He replied, walking up to her and handing her the berry. "They may not be as strong as I am, apart. But together, is a whole other story. Just watch and learn."
"Follow me! Hey, over here! Bet you can't hit me!" Pachirisu cried out, pulling her left eyelid down and sticking her tongue out at the electabuzz. Thus, causing it to grind its teeth and slam its electric coated fist into the squirrel.
"Oh no, Pachirisu!" Gracie gasped, about to run in to help, but Tyson spread his arm out in front of her. "B-but! We have to he-"
"Take another look, Long-Ears," Tyson deadpanned, motioning his head towards Pachirisu, who merely giggled as the electricity soaked into her skin.
Gracie's eyes widened as Tyson explained. "She has an ability called volt absorb. She doesn't get damaged by electric-type moves, she gets healed by them."
"Fooled you! Get him Bui-Bui!" She called out, to which Buizel grinned, took in a deep breath and declared: "Water gun!" Then fired a burst of water at the back of its head.
It growled, and tried to turn to face Buizel, but something compelled it to slam its electric coated fist into Pachirisu again. In return, Pachirisu's eyes watered and she placed her paws over her eyes, letting out a little sob.
"Oh no, she's hurt!" Gracie gasped, covering her mouth with her paws. Tyson rolled his eyes, motioning towards the electabuzz, who was looking fairly uncomfortable.
"No, she's not, that's fake tears. Pachirisu's just fighting dirty again," He explained, rolling his paw in a circle. "It lowers a pokémon's special defence. "This is how their team dynamic works, Fluff-Butt."
Gracie blinked, turning to Tyson as Buizel shot another water gun into the back of the electabuzz's head. "What does that mean?"
Tyson rose an eyebrow at her. "It just means how they work together. Pachirisu runs around, drawing all attention to herself with follow me, then locks them into a fairly useless move with encore, then drops their special defence with fake tears. Then Buizel can just wail on them with his special moves until they go down," He explained, before he looked and saw both Buizel and Pachirisu surround themselves with stars and fire them at the electabuzz, knocking it out.
Gracie blinked again, before giving Tyson her full attention. "So, what would you say our team dynamic is?"
"You hit them from afar, I go up close and personal," He shrugged, rolling his eyes. "It's really the only one we could go for."
"…Oh," Gracie said, sweat dropping. "Sounds a little…basic."
"So long as it works…" He heard four dings and grinned. "Level nineteen, look at you."
"I…really don't feel like I'm earning this…" She mentioned, looking over her battle brace, rejecting quick attack in favour of her other moves.
"Hey, I didn't earn my level up, either," He mentioned, show her his own battle brace, showing that he was level twenty-seven. "It's not about earning it, it's about what you learn while getting it. You've seen how well team work can do against higher level pokémon now, so that should help you once you're in the zone, yourself."
"Hey guys, you ready to head out?" Pachirisu called out to them, rushing over to the exit of the room they were in.
"Think so," Tyson replied, pushing himself off the wall. "C'mon Long-Ears, let's get out of here."
Gracie blinked, but sighed and smiled. "Okay…But if all Pachirisu's going to do is draw all attacks to herself and absorb the electric ones, then I'm going to be helping them."
Tyson grinned back. "Looking forward to it."
"Alright guys, there's a couple of sleeping pokémon around the stairs," Tyson whispered, motioning towards a blue and yellow dog-like pokémon. It was napping with two other green dog-like pokémon, which were smaller than the blue one. "Looks like a manectric and two electrike."
"Well, I say let sleeping pokémon lie," Pachirisu whispered back, glancing at the group. "If we're quiet enough, I reckon we should be able to get through without waking them up."
"I don't know…" Tyson grumbled, looking them over. "Those electrike are a lower level than the manectric, so me and Gracie could deal with those, while you and Buizel deal with the manectric. After all, we may need all the levels we can get."
"I'm with Pachi on this one, Tyson," Buizel mentioned, folding his arms. "We don't know what they're capable of and our priority should be finding that snivy."
Tyson sighed, turning to Gracie, who jumped back. "What do you think, Fluff-Butt?"
"U-um…" The buneary mumbled, not liking the fact that she was being put on the spot. "W-well…I am only l-level nineteen…"
"How about we flip for it," Pachirisu decided, pulling out a poké coin from her and Buizel's wonder bag. "Heads we fight them, tails we don't. And flip!" She said, throwing the coin in the air.
It spun a few times, before falling and landing on heads, deciding that they should fight. Buizel sighed, motioning for Pachirisu to follow. "Okay then, me and Pachi will get the manectric's attention, while you two deal with the smaller two?"
Tyson nodded, getting down on all fours, preparing to charge in. "Got it, now get in there!"
"Okay, pushy!" Pachirisu said, rolling her eyes, before getting down on all fours herself and ran into the room, smacking the manectric in the face with her tail on the way. Buizel sighed, but smiled and chased after her.
"Follow me! Over here, cone-head!" Pachirisu called, sticking her tongue out at the larger pokémon, who growled and chased after her.
The two electrike woke up as well, about to follow after them. But a yellow blur smacked into one of their sides. This caused the other electrike to look where the blur had come from and found Gracie standing there, extending her ears in preparation.
"U-um…Y-you're g-going down, mister…or uh missus electrike!" She stumbled, realising half way through her taunt that a dungeon sick pokémon wouldn't understand her.
The electrike growled, before shooting forwards and slamming into her gut, causing her to fall flat on her back. "Oof!"
She shook her head, realising that the attack didn't hurt as much as she thought it would, and jumped back to her feet, surrounding herself with green energy balls. "Alright! Take hidden power!"
The greens orbs fired forward, hitting the electrike, causing it to grunt in pain a little. It shook it off, however, and surrounded itself with electricity, before howling to the sky and letting the electricity fire towards her.
She jumped over the wave, feeling proud of herself for managing to do so, before the wave suddenly changed direction and shot up towards her, exploding on contact with her. She then fell to the ground, groaning in pain.
Ow! I was sure I dodged that! She thought to herself, rolling her ears up and taking in a deep breath. "Hyper voice!"
She let out a shrill shriek, a cone of sound shooting out of her mouth, surrounding the electrike. Thus, causing the electric to howl and whimper in pain, trying to cover its ears to block out the noise.
Once she finished her attack, she noticed this and prepared her hidden power again.
The electrike rubbed one of its ears, hearing Gracie declare: "Hidden power!" Before looking up and having three orbs of green energy slam into its face, knocking it out.
Gracie panted a little as a beam of light teleported the electrike away, looking at her battle brace and realizing that her hit points didn't go below half. Oh! I'm getting better at this! She thought to herself, happily, before a green blur shot past her, causing her to shriek and pull her waist fluff up to cover her face.
Tyson sighed as she did this, a beam of light teleporting the electrike he was fighting away, before motioning his head to the side. "C'mon, Fluff-Butt, let's go help with the manectric."
Gracie blinked, before lowering her fluff, sheepishly and nodding, already bouncing over to the sounds of fighting off to the side.
"Man, I don't know what I was so worried about!" Pachirisu giggled as the manectric tried to bite down on her tail again, only for her to absorb the electricity. "My volt absorb ability turns these high level electric types into complete pushovers!"
"That's great and all, Pachi!" Buizel groaned, firing another water gun, only for the manectric to jump to the other side of the squirrel, causing the move to miss. "But can you try and keep it in one place, I can't hit it!"
"Hmm?" She asked, looking up at the pokémon, who was growling and biting into her tail again. "Oh yeah, right!" She agreed, wrapping her tail round the larger pokémon's neck. Thus, causing the manectric to struggle in the squirrel's surprisingly strong grip.
Buizel smiled, giving a grateful nod to his girlfriend, before firing another water gun at the manectric, this time landing another direct hit.
"Hidden power!" They heard from the nearby, before three green orbs slammed into the manectric's side.
Buizel smirked, folding his arms as Gracie jumped up next to him. "You finished up with the electrikes then?" He asked, noting Tyson slam his fist on top of the manectric's head.
"They w-were a l-lower level," Gracie mumbled, kicking up a little dust. "Sorry for g-getting involved…"
"Ah, don't worry. You're helping, if anything," Buizel shrugged, before surrounding himself with stars. "Now let's finish this!"
Gracie nodded, taking in a deep breath.
Pachirisu noticed this and rushed away from the area, Tyson following her lead, trusting something big was going to happen.
The manectric, confused, looked around and noticed a cone of shrill noise surrounded by stars coming towards it. Thus, causing its eyes to widen in panic.
The attacks landed, causing an explosion of dust to surround the area. Then a beam of light teleported the manectric away.
The group sighed in relief, and Gracie heard three more dings coming from her battle brace and Buizel heard one coming from his. "Alright! Level twenty-two!" Gracie cheered, though stopped suddenly when she remembered that Buizel was still next to her, staring at her in surprise.
"Nice, you're almost caught up then!" Tyson mentioned, before nodding to the stairs. "Now let's head on out and finish this search!"
Meanwhile, a few floors up from where the team was, a snivy was looking over a few markings on the side of the wall. What was strange was that this floor of the dungeon only had the one room. "Hm…This is really weird."
The snivy got a pencil from her explorer bag, as well as a stack of paper, noting some things down. "I don't recognise the pokémon in this scripture, but that definitely looks like a drawing of a-"
She was cut off by a growl, so she turned, extending her vines out of her back. "Okay, I really don't like being interrupted! So, come out and show yourself, or run away and leave me in peace!"
"…YOU WILL NOT LEAVE THIS PLACE!" A voice screamed from above, before an enormous pokémon jumped down from the ceiling, causing the ground to shake around them.
The snivy sighed, looking over the pokémon. "Well, here we go then!" She announced, charging against the pokémon, her tail glowing green as she jumped to attack the pokémon.
ML54: Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! Please review, and keep on keepin' on! :D
