There most certainly was stuff under there! There was a large open field home to a herd of ponyta and a cave visible from a distance. And there were also several trees but not a forest's worth. Justyna raced towards it full speed, coming back to herd Anna and Dawn towards it.

"We should get to the next city…" Dawn pressed.

"Nonsense Dawn! We have a whole mess of time!" Indeed. Somewhat Timeless Adventures awaited them!

The ponyta standing in the meadow scattered when Justyna charged in. Anna released her psyduck, seeing it as a good opportunity to take advantage of the type situation. Psyduck was quickly defeated by a small feisty ponyta.

"That's just sad." Justyna commented while Riceball dowsed another ponyta.

"And very stereotypical." Dawn noted.

She and Paul stood there as Justyna and Anna chased and trained with the ponyta. Dawn sent out Kitt, who playfully chased the ponyta, who ran in turn. The skitty was much too cute to not be deadly.

Justyna and Riceball beat their way through the ponyta across the meadow and under the bridge. Here, the ground lifted into a cliff side. She walked alongside it and saw the big jutting cave entrance but refused to take it; she had a funny feeling there was a different entrance somewhere. Her obscure senses were correct. Under the bridge was a small, almost unseeable, entrance. She called to Riley but he didn't need an order to charge into the cave without thinking.

Justyna followed it without thinking too, leaving Riceball to keep watch outside. Thinking, she waddled back to the others. Kisa and Luxio were out as well as Paul and Kitty. Riceball called to them and pointed back to the bridge and the cave hidden underneath it. The pokemon rolled their eyes. They knew their humans all too well by now. Kisa nudged Anna and she and Luxio guided her towards the cave. Kitty followed excitedly and Dawn ran after him with Paul floating behind them as fast as he could.

The cave was found, and they all squeezed through the entrance. They were unused to its darkness; the way it was in reality. Luxio gave off a shower of sparks that quickly vanished, only telling them that there were stairs to their right. They cautiously got down them. Then they quickly became lost. Even Paul couldn't see through this dark.

Since their pokemon did not TELL them why they were there, the two woman didn't have the sense to call out to Justyna. So they were quite surprised when an eerie blue light came from the darkness. Anna and Dawn backed up against the nearest wall, holding their pokemon tight. Riceball broke free and rushed out of their small field of recognition; they cried after her. She soon waddled back, quite frustrated, with Justyna behind her. You could now tell because Riley was on her head with an Aura Sphere in his palm that glowed brightly.

"You guys made it! Isn't this cave great?"

"It's big and dark." Dawn stated, unamused, "And we're lost!"

"Look at the stagathings on the ceilings and walls!" Justyna gasped, "Nature working very, very slowly!"

Anna sighed and glanced over at Dawn. She, in her, lightly surprised, monotone voice, exclaimed, "Ahh." Justyna shrieked and jumped; startled Riley fell off her head and the Aura Sphere and the light disappeared.

"What?" Justyna shouted, she looked around in the useless dark.

"Something was standing next to Dawn." Anna said, "I'm sure it was nothing. Calm down and turn the light back on."

Riley made another Aura Sphere. The light revealed nothing around Dawn. Anna shrugged; perhaps she just had yaoi on her mind.

"Alright," Justyna said, quickly getting over her shock, "Let's check out the cave." They all grouped around the light and followed her. It was then when Dawn stopped and listened carefully. She had felt something. She glanced at Paul who had stopped as well. She heard a low breathing sound. RaSpY. She turned around slowly.

"Oh," she said, surprised.

"WHAT?"

When the light was back on again, they shined it over by Dawn. In front of her was a small, blue, fat shark. Dawn quickly whipped out the pokedex, which told them that the creature was a gible.

"It does math?" Justyna asked.

The gible ignored Anna and Justyna; it stared at Dawn with a blank yet unmovable expression. She looked back at it without phasing. After several minutes of it not going away, she stepped back. The gible stepped forward.

"Aw, it likes you." Anna said.

"But she glared at it with hard, soulless eyes…" Justyna said. Dawn glared at her.

"Maybe it's attracted to Dawn's emoness." Anna joked.

After several more minutes of the gible not leaving, they determined that that must have been true. So Dawn took out a pokeball and the gible was welcomed inside. She stared at it, considering the situation.

"Yay." Justyna offered, "You caught a gible."

Dawn released her new pokemon, who stared at her again. She noticed that he had a long dorsal fin on his back. Awkwardly long.

"I think I'll call him Anthony." She said. Anthony gave a monotone squeak of approval.

They explored the cave some more, until Dawn realized that Makowca could produce a much larger light source than Riley. Then they explored the whole cave with Riley retiring on a Justyna head. There were tons of rock pokemon and more gibles. Paul noticed Anthony waving to a bunch of gibles that looked at him in disbelief and shouted "WTF?" In gible of course. To which he responded with a shrug.

The cave came to a dead end. While they turned to leave, they saw a compact disk lying on the floor.

"It's a TM; Earthquake." Anna saw when Dawn picked it up.

"How'd it get here?" Justyna said

"Maybe the gibles made it." Dawn said sarcastically. Anthony glanced up sharply when she said so and sighed with relief when he saw that she wasn't seriously considering it. He was taught the move and the TM was put out of their mind.

They ventured back, dealing with the rock pokemon in their ways. When they came outside, it was raining. At least they were under a bridge. Anna suggested that they go back in the cave.

"Good idea, but we already went in this cave; let's go in that one!" Justyna pointed towards the one in the rain, several meters away. Dawn and Anna were reluctant to go out in the rain, so Riceball lightly Water Gunned them. They ran after Justyna, through the rain and into the other cave.

It was dark again; Makowca gladly helped. They kept out her, Riley, Kisa, Paul, and Anthony. The cave had very straight walls that spiraled downward. Since they were wet and in the cave, Anna and Dawn joined Justyna in exploring it. Paul twitched when they agreed to it. He felt bad things in the straight walls. Things…that were…not straight. Yet through that he also felt a twinge of sadness and fright, hiding in the back of the cave. Riley passed through his mind and he puffed up his ghostly chest and floated after Dawn and the rest.

I love stories; look at all the stuff I can make myself do and get away with!