Chapter 10 is here! Yay I feel so accomplished to have gotten this far. I've decided to write shorter chapters btw. Oh and this chapter bounces to what is happening with Max. Nothing major, well maybe...it depends on what i feel like including :)
Max sat alone in a small room. He had no idea where he was or how he had gotten there.
The room around him was made of steel. Every wall, and even the door was hard, cold steel. It seemed to Max, that the room was a storage place of some sort. Stacks of boxes where piled here and there and labels such as "use caution while handling" were stamped onto them.
Max had already attempted to get out, but the door was barred shut and the only other way he could have gotten out was a small window that sat high up on the wall. Unfortunately for Max, the base of the window was higher than he was able to reach. He had already tried to stack boxes on top of each other, but that had resulted in multiple falls. The boxes just weren't strong enough to hold him up. It was either that, or he didn't have enough balance.
So, Max had given up his efforts to escape and was now sitting on the steel floor. He had his knees pulled up against his chest and looked quite helpless. In the current situation, he was helpless. He now tried to remember exactly what had happened to him.
"It was night time, and I had just walked out of the Pokemon Center. I was going to train my Gardevoir. I rounded the center's corner and....and.....and what!? Why can't I remember anything!?" He pounded his fist against the ground in aggravation.
"It makes no sense. I was walking through Lavaridge content and happy, and then the next thing I know I wake up in a steel room with no way out," he said aloud. He was repeating everything to himself, trying to make sense of the situation.
"If only I had my Gardevoir. I could get out of here! Ugh, where is my Gardevoir?" When Max woke up and checked his bag, Gardevoir's poke ball had not been there. While he looked for an exit, he had also searched for his Gardevoir, but hadn't found it anywhere.
The space in between the rounding of the corner and the awakening in the steel room was a large black space. The repetition of the events was getting him no where and he decided to just give up. He let his thoughts wander, and after a little while they settled to circulate on his sister, May. He hadn't seen her in a while and he missed her. It wasn't just being locked in a room that made him miss her, he genuinely missed her.
For months before he left he had been meaning to call her and ask about how she had been, but he had been helping his dad with the gym renovations and had never gotten around to it. Now, as he sat on the cold floor, he felt guilty. What if he never saw her again?
She'd never know about all the cool things he'd figured out about Pokemon and how he'd been offered an assistant position to Professor Birch himself.
He was so lost in thought, that, at first, he did not notice the Bidoof that had crawled out from behind a stack of boxes.
He continued to not notice that it was there until the small creature crawled up to him.
"Whoa! How did you get in here?" Max asked it. "Bi-doo!" it replied. It hopped over to a pile of boxes and disappeared behind it. Max stood up and walked to where the Bidoof had disappeared. He was greeted with the sight of a piece of the wall lying on the floor and the Bidoof standing next to it. The part of the wall had been moved, and in its place there was what seemed to be a small passage way.
The passageway was dark, and Max couldn't see where it led to. He got on his knees and peered into the darkness. If his eyes weren't playing tricks on him, then he thought he could make out a change of light at the end of the darkness.
"That means it must have a turn in it somewhere," he said aloud. The Bidoof sat by the entrance just watching him. Luckily, the tunnel was big enough for Max to fit through.
"Since you got in here then that must mean that this leads either to the outside, or to a place where people are," Max said to the Bidoof. The creature just stared at him. Max then turned back to the hole in the wall.
"Well, here goes nothing!" and he crawled into the darkness with the Bidoof following.
ahhh the chance of escape. but where will the tunnel lead do you think? guess you'll just have to wait for the next chapter XD that shouldnt be long though since it's spring break for me. i'll have a lot of free time on my hands so expect updates rather quickly....err scratch that. i may update quickly...at least that's what i hope will happen.