Levi's World: Gold and Silver Adventures

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Chapter 14

The Last Union Title… Seriously.

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Union Cave is a short, dark, cold, damp, disgusting waste of rock. At least that is how Suzy explained it, she never was fond of cave dwelling pokemon to say the least, especially Zubat.

On another, sort of related note, the dictionary defines irony as "an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected." Keep this in mind.

The sun had risen, but you couldn't tell. Dark, looming clouds had formed from skyline to skyline, the deepest gray you could reach without hitting black. Lightning poured from the sky the way the rain did, quickly and consistently. Normally on these days people like to sit around or huddle up, but not us, we are going into a cave, that isn't intimidating in the least.

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"Guys, are you sure we should be going out there in this weather?" Suzy pleaded.

"Suzy, there is no weather inside the cave, and it really can't be any darker than it already is." I said convincingly.

"That isn't helping."

"Sorry. But it will be fine, maybe we will even find a huge nest of Zubat!"

"Not Funny!" She squealed. Kuro and I laughed to ourselves.

Jen walked up to Suzy and put her hand on Suzy's shoulder. "It'll be fine, you've got all of us!" She gave a thumbs up and a smile, which Suzy returned reluctantly.

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Kuro smiled and picked up his bag off the ground.

Union Cave was about ten steps from the center, ten cold, pouring, soaking wet steps from the pokemon center. We made it in there quickly, only to realize we couldn't see anything once inside the cave.

"Go Max!" "Go Magby!" "Go Cyndaquil!" Myself, Jen, and James yelled as we sent our respective pokemon out.

The cave lit up before us as the three fire pokemon appeared. Max shared glances with his new counterparts, and the other, female, Magby gave him a wink, to which he blushed and Cyndaquil scoffed.

"Okay guys," I started. "I have no idea how to get through this cave, and you are our source of light, so please lead the way!" The pokemon looked back and nodded before walking farther into the darkness. We started to follow.

Not surprisingly, Suzy was extremely clingy to me while in the cave. Her irrational fear of cave pokemon coupled with her fear of darkness must have been stressful, the finger imprints that were in my arm for a week told me so.

Jen, on the other hand, was exploring every nook of the cave, not letting up.

The first of many exciting things to happen in that cave was fast approaching.

"What is that?" I heard James exclaim. After a flash from his pokedex and some light shed on the situation by our trio of fire types, a large rock with arms and a face revealed itself. "Geodude. This rock is about to be mine! Go Cyndaquil!"

Cyndaquil left his partners and ran over James' side, without so much as a single command, cyndaquil launched a ball of fire that hit Geodude squarely.

The surprised rock pokemon fired a pair of boulders at the mouse, which it jumped over easily and athletically. After jumping off another thrown rock, Cyndaquil launched more and more fire balls, whittling the Geodude's health away.

Once Geodude finally looked up, it was hit smack in the face by a red and white ball, it didn't even shake. "Yes! Geodude is mine!" James yelled proudly. In retrospect, yelling in a dark cave full of creepy pokemon may not have been the smartest move because of the second exciting thing.

You guessed it… Zubat.

A storm of Zubat rushed out of a crevice in the cave wall, Suzy hugged on to me tighter than ever, I pulled myself between her and the bats before whispering in her ear, "Send out Annie and zap them."

She winced at the idea of having to face the bats, but listened, trusting me. The sheep pokemon sent out a blast of electricity as we moved against the cave wall. Annie redirected the majority of the Zubat away from all of us, and the bats didn't dare come near the source of the pain.

After a minute or so, all of the bats had left except for one, this one laid on the floor, knocked out. None of us moved towards it, but out of the corner of my eye, I saw a poke ball go flying towards the fallen pokemon, I first looked to Jen and James who were still standing in fear, I then turned to Kuro who was looking around as well. No Way.

I looked at Suzy whose eyes were focused on the shaking pokeball until it stopped.

"You caught a Zubat!" I yelled mutedly, fearing the release of more Zubat.

"I couldn't see letting Annie's attack going to waste, besides, it shouldn't be as scary since it is by itself." Suzy explained, all our mouths dropped. "I'll call you Gunner, since Zubat are so fast." She smiled and let the bat out of its pokeball.

She held out her arm for the bat to land on. "I want you to lead us out of this cave since you lived here and know where to go." The bat grinned wildly and flew quickly into the darkness. "Wait up! Ugh."

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We kept walking until we found Gunner lying on a rock jutting from the wall, he immediately jumped up and flew deeper into the cave. "At least he is leading us, this idea may work." I said cheerily.

We halted as a loud sound erupted from up ahead, it was an explosion. I shared a glance with Suzy who called out for her pokemon. "Gunner, come back!" After a few seconds, the bat flew into her arms, shaking vigorously. Yep, you guessed it, the third exciting thing.

Vince stepped into the light, which barely showed his darkened face. "I'm not here to beat you losers to a pulp today."

"Oh, thank goodness!" I said sarcastically. "I don't ever think we could beat you again. And again. And again…"

"Shut it wimp!" He said, face going red. "I have been… excavating this cave for some… precious material." Jen and James looked at one another confusedly.

"He has been blowing up the walls of the cave to kidnap pokemon." I explained. Jen and James nodded in comprehension. Vince grunted angrily.

"Don't push me." At that point Gunner was tired of his talking apparently, because in the blink of an eye, the bat had latched on to his face, flapping his wings to keep the boy's hands from getting a grip.

"Gunner, leech life!" The bat obeyed, causing the boy to fall over, passed out.

"Okay guys, let's go see what damage he did, we need to save these pokemon!" We all ran through the darkness until we finally came across a large pile of rubble. But what we saw was amazing, all the pokemon, Geodude, Onix, Zubat, and many other types of pokemon had all begun rebuilding the cave by stacking the rocks up to cover all the holes. In the center of the cave opening lay a Voltorb.

"That bastard left his pokemon here. He doesn't even care about his own pokemon." Kuro's fist was shaking.

"It'll be fine, man." I said. "Let's take it to the pokemon center in the next town, maybe someone will want to adopt it."

"Anyone would be better than that horrible Vince." Suzy added.

Kuro walked past all the working pokemon and picked up the Voltorb, which opened its eyes briefly and smiled before falling back asleep.

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"We should be out of here soon." As soon as I said that, light appeared ahead.

"You should have said that three hours ago." Jen said wiping the sweat off her forehead.

"Hehe, sorry." The cave opened up to a bright field, and in the distance you could see Azalea Town.

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I'm surprised I found time to write this out, but I'm tired and I have to work tomorrow. Haha.

I forgot to say last time to vote in the poll on my profile, I fixed the problem that it had two chapters ago and it should be working fine now, vote because it will effect which chapter I decide to write!

Thanks again to all of you! And I'm having fun with your characters, sjshark23!

Till next time,

Crobat!