Me: Next chapter time! I can't wait to do this one! *giggle* It's a fun chapter, or two! Here we go!
Episode 49- Human or Pokémon?
"Last chapter, Lucy, Hotaru and our very own authoress Gem had an important chat, and something unusual happened! Not that anything unusual is, well, an unusual happening here!"
"That was a lame attempt at humour, man!" One of the people said, before he covered his mouth with unbelievably wide dark green-blue eyes. "Holy crap I spoke human! Holy crap I did it again! Holy crap I-…!"
He was cut off by one of the others punching him atop the head, "Shut it! You're as annoying speaking human as Pokémon!"
"Pokémon…?" TJ said, eyes still wide as he walked down the last of the stairs, alarmed, not knowing where the others had gone.
"Oh boy, if what I think has just happened has happened, this is gonna be interesting…" Hotaru groaned as she looked at the seven's auras. The tallest of them spoke up, he was plenty taller than the three remaining of the recognisable group, and the 'newcomers', his hair was a pale blonde and fell down to his mid back, and he had one golden eye, the other blue. He wore a red jacket, with a yellow shirt showing at the top of the zip, along with a pair of dark red jeans with cream bottoms, and a grey pair of sneakers.
"Okay, who on earth are you, and where are Nevee and the others?" TJ said, stepping a few steps forward. Now would be a time to note his distinctive British accent.
"TJ!" One of the girls amongst the seven cheered, her brown and cream curls bouncing as she jumped on TJ's back, light brown eyes cheerful, giggling before reaching up to tighten the cream ribbon she had tied around her head. She was wearing cream shorts and a brown t-shirt with puffy sleeves.
"Eh? Hey… you kinda remind me of little… wait… Eve?-!" TJ exclaimed as he jumped a bit.
"Hi!"
"That's what I thought… these seven, are the other six's Pokémon turned into humans!" Hotaru said, looking around the six. Now that you looked closely, they did look familiar. The second one to speak – the one with the dark blue-green eyes – had reddish hair, messy, and slightly tanned skin. He was wearing an orange-red shirt with a pair of jeans, and a pair of red-orange sneakers. The one who had hit him had skin about the same light brown colour as Auberon's, with dark brown eyes, and dark green hair in a neater style that swept to one side, with a couple of hairs out of place. He was dressed mostly in green and brown. The three yet to speak at all was made up of a shy looking girl with green hair cut to her chin with an orange streak in the front, wearing an orange ribbon and having eyes of the same shade. Her clothes were made up of a green, no-sleeved top with a rounded collar that tied around her neck to keep it up, on her bottom half she wore black leggings and an orange, ruffled skirt, with a pair of green sneakers, with one black sock and one orange.
The final two seemed to just be sweatdropping at their companions, though the male was blushing from the fact the female was holding his hand. The girl had blue hair up in a pair of short pigtail on the sides of the very top of her head, and had her fringe and two streaks in the pigtails coloured orange, together with her eyes. Her face was dotted with freckles, like Eve's, and she was dressed in a blue strap top where the straps crossed at the front, with an orange tank top beneath it, as well as a pair of orange crops. The boy had green hair, its many separate layered strands seems to somewhat resemble leaves, and his eyes were a bright red colour. He was dressed in a scruffy green t-shirt with lights green sleeves poking out, and had a dark green scarf on, along with a pair of jeans and sneakers.
"Hi." The Girl said, obviously little Mudkip.
"Um… hi." TJ said, even he, who was actually nearly as quirky as Nevee, was getting freaked out by this new occurrence.
"Okay… so… if you seven are here and human, then… where are you trainers? And more importantly, what are they?" Lucy said.
Theme: Third Generation of Pokémon,
Comin' at you we're number one!
We're better than ever and we're never givin' up,
Gonna keep on fightin' 'til we reach the top!
Cos' we still gotta catch 'em all,
Never gonna let you fall!
Third generation of Pokémon,
Comin' at you we're number one!
"Ugh… where are we…?" Scarlet's familiar voice said from darkness. "Who am I…?"
"Don't say that, Scarlet, with your family history that is so not funny!" Gem's voice joined in. You couldn't see, but you could tell Scarlet was rolling her eyes at this.
"Geez, lighten up Authoress."
"She has a good point with that one, Scarlet." Auberon's voice chorused in.
"Shuddup Aube."
"Eee! S-Someone turn on the lights!" Nevee squealed.
"How? We ca-…!" Indigo was about to say before the light source somewhere in the room light it up, illuminating the group of six to each other.
The looks on their faces were priceless.
"HOLY CRAP WHY ARE WE ALL EEVEELUTIONS?-!" Auberon screamed in his usual paranoid voice, jumping higher than ever in his now Leafeon body. He didn't look like any natural Leafeon, though, the leaves were all the same red as his normal hair and his eyes were his own.
"Why am I the same Eeveelution as Gem?-!" Scarlet exclaimed right afterwards, causing the black fur atop her head – normally yellow – to fall into her eyes and her brush it away with her paw casually, before falling flat on her face.
"How did I know that would be the first thing she'd say?" Jaspa said, standing on all four paws. He was an Espeon, but the usually lilac fur was a golden colour, and the gem in the centre of his forehead black.
"Look, we have more important things to worry about than the fact you're the same Eeveelution as big mouth!" Indigo, a Vaporeon with black insides to her fins, said, standing up beside the Espeon Jaspa.
"But it's so not fair! Why do I have to be the same species as the annoying authoress?" Scarlet whined. Gem, her fur all just a little darker than a normal Flareon's, flicked her hard in the face with her tail, "Ow!"
"This is coooool!" Nevee giggled, she was a little Eevee with red fur around her neck and on the end of her tail.
"It's not cool! This is the meaning of uncool!" Scarlet said.
"Isn't it a bit cool being a Pokémon though?" Auberon said, giving her a look. Scarlet shrugged.
"It'd be a hell of a lot better if Gem wasn't the same Pokémon as me!" The Ketchum girl replied. Gem sweatdropped.
"I so knew this'd be your reaction… anyway, look, something has obviously happened to us, I don't have a clue what' she ignored all the suspicious looks she got after this comment 'but something has happened. From what it looks like, we're in a room of a cave, and there's something else out there, we need to look and try and find a way out of this."
"We don't even know for sure where we are, cave or not. And where are the others? Why haven't they been turned into Pokémon?" Indigo asked,
"That's why we have to explore, Indigo. Duh." Auberon said, rolling his eyes. Indigo glared at him.
"I don't know why the others aren't Pokémon, Indigo, but it probably has something to do with the fact they are not permanent main characters, and we all are." Gem said, ignoring the little tiff between Indigo and Auberon, still not really in the mood to join in the banter of the group with quite as much enthusiasm as normal, "And I have to admit, Auberon is right, we need to explore to get out of here. But, we need to stay in contact somehow."
"I suppose if I tried hard enough, now I'm a psychic type I could try and work out a psychic link between us all, temporarily." The golden Espeon suggested, gem on his forehead growing.
"You just became a Pokémon, how can ya think you can master powers like that straight off the bat?" Scarlet said, giving him a weird look, before having to bat the fur out of her face yet again. Gem knew full well that with his vampiric gifts, the new form would only enhance them.
"At least let him try." Indigo defended.
"Geez, we can sure tell you two made up after whatever made ya wanna slap him." The unusually coloured Flareon said with a roll of her eyes. Indigo glared playfully.
"Need I remind you I'm currently super effective against you?"
"…Point taken."
"All of you shut up or I can't do this!" Jaspa barked. Everyone went dead silent. "Good children…" He muttered under his breath before closing his eyes and letting the black gem glow even brighter. He just about managed to concentrate with being able to hear Nevee's usual bouncing. It took over a minute of silence among the (very impatient) group, but then he opened his eyes and nodded, "Done it. Just try it out."
"Authoress stinks." Auberon's voice said in their heads. He promptly also received a flick in the face from her tail, "Ow!"
"Now come on, we need to split into groups and go out searching." She said, walking toward the exit of the encircled room.
"How many to a group?" Indigo asked, tilting her finned head to the side, pawing at one of them as she got an itch.
"Two. There's three passages, I'll save you guys the trouble and go with Nevee, the rest of you can go in your usual duos, and you all know what they are." Gem said, "Eevee, come with me. Geez its weird calling her that now."
"Coming Authoress!" She giggled in response, hopping over to the Flareon.
"Good luck you guys, keep in touch." Gem said as she started to lead the Eevee away.
"You'll be the one needing luck!" Auberon snickered, before receiving an Ember, "Ow!" He yelped before the authoress ran off with the hyperactive Nevee on her tail… literally. The Eevee was holding onto Gem's tail with her teeth, and letting herself be dragged along. That girl will never cease to scare them.
"…Let's just go." Scarlet said with a huge sweatdrop. The others all nodded, and they ran off in the pairs we all know well.
~X~X~X~
"Asher, for god's sake stop eating so many hamburgers!" Turtwig said, smoking the Charmeleon-turned-human around the back of the head as he ate about his sixth burger… in two minutes.
"These guys are even more insane than their trainers…" Lucy said with a sweatdrop, sitting with Hotaru on the end of the canteen table. TJ was sitting with Eve latched onto him, talking to her and also talking to Muddy and Bulby. Blaziken sighed.
"Tell me about it. I'm not as insane as Gem, but my god these guys take it too a whole new level." He said, Tikamo quietly nodding by his side.
"Is she really always this quiet?" Hotaru asked with a sweatdrop.
"Unfortunately, yes. She takes her species shyness too far." Blaziken said, patting the girl's shoulder and making her stiffen up a little. "Tika, stop being so shy!"
"I-I can't help it… th-this is we-weird, B-Blaziken…" Tikamo said shakily. Blaziken sighs, and gave the girl a quick squeeze around the shoulders.
"Come on, it'll fix itself soon… or Gem'll fix it… though best not to count on the last one." Blaziken sighed, yet again.
"Hey, Blaziken?" A curious sounding Lucy asked.
"Yes?"
"Do you know about Gem's… past?" She said, hesitating a bit, wondering if it was just as tender a subject with the fire type as it was with Gem. Blaziken sighed, before nodding. He casually brushed some of his long hair out of his eye, before speaking.
"Yes, I was her first Pokémon, I know everything. Well… technically not her first." He said.
"Yeah, we know, she told us about her first one… how she lives with it I don't know, it's not so bad with the weird gifts and all that, that's normal to us, we've seen plenty worse… but seeing her first true Pokémon dead like that…"
"Yes, it was very hard on her… she blamed herself for a long time. She tries not to think about it, it hurts too much. It a miracle she even told you two, she never speaks a word about it even to me."
Hotaru was about to speak up, before a clash from the other end of the table caught the group's attention, all of them sweatdropping when they saw Asher was now running away from Turtwig, who had a squished Burger on his head.
"Nananana you can't catch me!" Asher laughed, sticking his tongue out at his friend before running out of the centre, followed by the Turtwig-turned-human.
"Hey! Guys wait up! It's the middle of the night for god's sake! Geez!" Muddy said as she got up too, and ran out.
"M-Muddy!" Bulby called after her, before also following.
"Guys! Oh my god they really are just as bad as their trainers…" Hotaru groaned, standing up, "We better go after them, there hasn't be TR around for a few chapters, and knowing Authoress this could be one of those annoying times they do appear!"
"…Good point, let's go! TJ, mind Poké-Sitting Tikamo and Eve for us?" Lucy said.
"I'd rather come, to be fair, girls." The boy replied as he stood up, "I haven't had much to do."
"Blame Authoress, everyone else does. Anyway, fine, come on then, just make sure Eve doesn't run off." Hotaru said. TJ nodded.
"Of course, if she's as like Nevee as she seems, she'll be just as scared of the night… Nevee told me that when she told me to leave a light on in our room." He added on the end when he got weird looks.
"Let's just go. Blaziken, you might as well look after Tikamo now." Lucy said.
"Alright, Tika, climb onto my back." Blaziken said, crouching. The shy girl clambered onto his back and held on tightly, "Let's go."
~X~X~X~
Nevee and Gem…
"Hey, Authoress?" Nevee said, in a mildly normal tone. Gem looked to her, managing a small smile.
"Yes, Nevee?"
"Why are you upset?" The ten year old asked, tilting her head to one side. Gem hesitated, confused by this, pretty sure she hadn't shown any sign she felt sad in any way. "I can feel it, Authoress. I can feel you're upset." It didn't take her to figure it out once Nevee said this.
"So you're an Empath too…" The authoress muttered to herself, before speaking aloud, "It's not something I can talk about, Nevee, I'm sorry."
"I see… I understand." Nevee smiled, her childish, cheerful little grin able to bring a genuine giggle bubbling from Gem's lips. "Hey, Gem?"
"Yes?" She asked again, wondering what it was this time.
"Do you think TJ likes me at all? Or does he think I'm weird like everyone else does?" Nevee asked, tone going solemn. Gem gave her a reassuring pat on the shoulder.
"He likes you, he's quirky too, just like you. He agreed to read you a story, right?" Nevee nodded, "There you go, that's some proof for you." And believe me… if my friends and Pokémon who know my secret can still like me as a friend, then… you've got it easy… She added in her head, making sure it didn't broadcast to the others.
"I hope so… I… think I like him… but I'm not sure, this is really weird for me…"
"You being this calm is weird, Nevee. Don't worry, you'll figure it out." Gem assured. Nevee smiled.
"Thanks Authoress…"
"No problem, now come on, we need to find a way out of here and back to TJ and the other two."
"And the Pokémon who came from our Poké Balls." Nevee pointed out. Gem looked at her for a minute, blankly, before facepawing.
"Crap… if that means what I think it does… we need to hurry, Eevee. Come on, let's go." Nevee nodded, and the two doubled their speed.
~X~X~X~
Auberon and Scarlet…
"Where're you guys, Indigo, Jaspa?" Scarlet thought to her friends who were somewhere else in the cave.
-"And we're supposed to know, how exactly?" Indigo thought back, sending a mental roll of her eyes too. Scarlet stuck her tongue out.
-"Try and keep the line clear for if there's an actual problem, Scarlet." Jaspa added.
"Fine, fine, see you guys later." Scarlet whined, before stopping the mental communication and looking to Auberon. "Got any idea which way to keep going?"
"Nope, not a clue." The Leafeon beamed innocently, as if they weren't trapped in a cave in Pokémon's bodies. Scarlet facepawed, before falling flat on her face again, "You need to work on that."
"Well, hopefully we won't be stuck like this much longer, so I shouldn't have to 'work on' it." Scarlet said. Auberon shrugged.
"Who knows."
"Look, let's hurry, I wanna get out of here without any encounters with cave-dwelling Pokémon, okay?" Scarlet sighed, starting to walk on ahead. Auberon sped up to follow her.
"We could kick some Pokémon's ass any day, Scarlet!" He said in an enthusiastic tone. Scarlet smiled a bit.
"True, if it were something like a Geodude or something else weak, but knowing our luck, it wouldn't be something so simple." She said. Auberon nodded knowingly. "Do you really think this is cool?"
"You would too if you and authoress weren't the same Pokémon."
"True."
"…Betcha can't catch me!" the odd-eyed ten year old then laughed before tearing off ahead as fast as his four legs would carry him.
"Hey! No fair! You got a head start!" Scarlet shouted after him before speeding after him.
The two messed around for a while, chasing each other, seeing who was the fastest. Both of them won plenty of the races, and both of them caught each other a lot, they were acting like they always would when they were little kids. You could almost imagine them as tiny Eevee doing the exact same thing as they were now.
The Flareon tackled the Leafeon at the end of their little game, the two rolling over a few times before landing laughing with Auberon below Scarlet. They laughed with each other for a while, before Scarlet rolled off and they just lay there.
"That was fun." Scarlet smiled.
"That sounds so wrong after the position we were in Scarlet." Auberon said sticking his tongue out. Scarlet smacked him with her tail playfully.
"Ew! That's so gross Aube!" She said, giggling. Auberon grinned.
Then suddenly, their calm playful little game was disrupted by a loud thud from the tunnel just up ahead. They both jumped and turned to face the tunnel, both looking freaked out.
"Wh-What was that?" Scarlet stuttered. There was another thump.
"It s-sounds like big footsteps." Auberon stammered back, gulping. They both looked at each other, "Wh-What do we do?"
"Uh… r-run?" Scarlet suggested, Auberon quickly nodding in agreement. The two turned around and ran off the way they came, faster than their legs could carry them.
A minute later, a small, cute little Larvitar wandered down the tunnel where they'd heard the loud, 'big' footsteps. He looked confused as to where the voices had gone at first, before shrugging and returning to playfully slamming his foot into the ground to use his earthquake attack again.
~X~X~X~
Indigo and Jaspa…
"Wonder how the others are doing…" Indigo pondered as she and Jaspa walked uneventfully down their pathway.
"Probably the same as us, not finding anything and wondering if we're ever getting out." Jaspa replied, looking around.
"You're always the pessimist, aren't you?" Indigo said with a small sigh, walking up close to Jaspa's side, the fins on her head brushing against the golden fur of his ears. He was barely hiding a blush.
"I've learnt to be that way, Indigo, I find it hard to see the good in things, especially recently with my own and your situations." He said as calmly as he could.
"You need to learn not to be that way, Jas. After all, I can keep up a good happy face, why not you? I try not to let my problem effect my whole life." The Vaporeon said. Jaspa shrugged.
"Mine does affect my whole life, that's the problem, it never leaves me, when Dax isn't around you can pretend it hasn't happened, my condition is continuously with me, I can't stop it." Indigo's head nuzzled against his side. Jaspa nuzzled his head against hers.
"Everything'll work out…" She said softly, looking at him. Jaspa smiled a little.
"I hope so, Indi, I hope so." He said, smiling and nuzzling against her neck before quickly moving back a minute later when feeling the blood pulsing there. He now registered something that someone in his time in Pokoh had said to him… "I can also say that you're more afraid of what she thinks of you than you are of what you might do if you lose control of your little 'gift'." Was Kris right after all? If she was, did that mean he'd spent so much time worrying about her obviously perfectly normal view on him, scared she thought him a freak, when really he should've been scared and worrying about the little incidents that were now starting to occur? Her blood was beginning to tempt him. He'd been up close to many people recently, more than he wished, but only when he was really close to Indigo did he feel such an urge.
"Jas? Jas you okay?" Indigo asked, snapping him out of his thoughts instantly as he looked into her worried blue eyes.
"Um… yeah, I'm fine." He said hastily. Indigo frowned. He never said 'um', ever. Jaspa was too smart and too concentrated to ever need to say 'um'.
"If you're sure… come on, we need to find an exit." She said unsurely. Jaspa nodded.
~X~X~X~
"Asher you stupid prat get back here!" Turtwig called after Asher. Asher just laughed, "You idiot Team Rocket could be out here!"
"Like they'd know who we were!"
"Oh they would, that stupid Meowth of theirs would tell! You gotta remember he hears what we sound like when we speak Pokémon in human, duh brain!" Turtwig snapped.
"Ah shit good point…" Asher said, stopping running suddenly, not even slowing he just stopped on the spot, making Turtwig slam into him and them both to fall over. "Oi!"
"That was your fault!"
"So?"
"Guys! There you are! For god's sake can you guys go a day without arguing over something?" Muddy said as she and Bulby reached them, both of them pulling the other two to their feet again.
"'Course we can." Asher said, folding his arms.
"Even I doubt we can, Asher." Turtwig said with a sweatdrop. Asher smacked him around the back of the head, "I am so going to hate not having long arms again…" The Turtwig-turned-human added as he smacked him back.
"Guys, stop it, seriously." Bulby said quietly.
"Psst! Are they who I think they are?" A female voice said from the bushes. Turtwig facepalmed.
"Didn't I say this was going to happen? I just knew it, I just knew it…" He groaned, facepalming again and again. Muddy stopped him doing so by shoving his hand down, "Gee you're stronger than you look."
"Suck it up, grass boy." Muddy said, before saying to Bulby, "No offence Bulby." Bulby just smiled.
"Robot time?" Meowth's voice said.
"If you have one…" Gareth replied.
"I always have one, man!" Meowth snickered, before the four head a loud noise as something rose from the earth and knocked down several trees. It was a basic robot-robot, with a huge R on the chest.
"Ah crap!" Was all Asher could think of to say, "We can't attack it now!"
"This humanised thing is turning into an annoyance now…" Muddy said, standing in a defensive stance in front of Bulby. Turtwig getting into a similar stance too.
But of course, stances were nothing against Team Rocket's rubber gloved metal arms. The arms grabbed onto both grass types, and pulled them off the ground and into the air in front of the big robot.
"Bulby/Turtwig!" The two yelled.
"Hehe! No way can you get them back now!" Gwen smirked, laughing that weird evil cackle.
"Oh we'll see about that!" Muddy said, "Now I've got longer legs I'm using 'em!" She added before bending her legs and then jumping up she managed to latch onto the arm.
"Holy crap Mudkip!" Asher exclaimed, "Dude! That was high!"
"Shut up and get up here too!" Muddy said as she tried to get a grip with her feet, but finding the metal was too slippy, "Crap!" She yelped as she started to fall when he hands' grip gave way.
"G-Gotcha!" Bulby's voice said, when a hand grabbed hers as she fell. Muddy smiled, squeezing the hand.
"Whoa!" Asher said as he just about made it to the other arm, pulling himself up to sit on top of it. Turtwig sweatdropped.
"Bulby gets the somehow heroic Mudkip, and I got the crazy Charmeleon? Awesome…" He said, extra sarcastic emphasis on the awesome.
"I could leave ya here ya know." Asher said, glaring. Turtwig just laughed.
"Just hurry up!" Muddy called over.
"Oi! Stupid twerps and deir Pokémon…" Meowth grumbled, pressing a button. The arms started to shake around violently, trying to throw the would-be saviours off them. Asher held on tightly, but Muddy's grip on Bulby's hand was not strong enough to keep her up, and she fell to the ground.
"Muddy!" Bulby exclaimed. Muddy shrieked as she fell, before landing on the ground right by the foot of the machine. Meowth snickered and pressed another button, making the foot lift, hovering over Muddy and slowly starting to go toward her, her frozen in fear, "Muddy! Move!"
She couldn't.
The foot was about to crush her, when suddenly a thick barrier of aura formed just above Muddy, stopping the foot from going any further, even if straining to keep the weight, but before it could shatter a rope – purple aura – shot out and grabbed Muddy, pulling her from under the foot right as the barrier snapped and the foot slammed to the floor.
"Lucy! Hotaru! Guys!" Asher said as he saw them, barely keeping on the arm by now.
"My god what have you gotten into now?" Blaziken said, raising an eyebrow when he saw them. Eve was just whimpered and clutching onto TJ, as scared of the dark as her trainer.
"Just help us for god's sake!" Turtwig said. Asher stood up on the arm, staying on the very end, the bit that connected to the body, which wasn't moving so much, and started to jump up and down, "Asher what are you doing?-!"
"Trust me man!" Asher said, continuing to bounce as it started to break away from the main robot's body.
"Meowth! What's going on?-!" Gwen yelled. Meowth was panicking.
"I-I s-swear I thought it woulda stayed strong!" He spluttered. Asher was still jumping, and by now the arm was really starting to break, the wires could be seen and there were sparks. Then, the arm snapped.
"Whoa!" Both Asher and Turtwig exclaimed, landing on the ground. They both quickly got away from the machine so it couldn't try to squish them too, and stood with the others.
"Okay… now to get out Bulby." Blaziken said, "We could get him out in an instant normally… but now…"
"Leave it to me." Hotaru said as she formed a throwing dagger out of aura in her hand, throwing it was flawless accuracy and hitting the remaining arm, causing that to break too, dropping Bulby who quickly raced to the others, Muddy greatening him with a hug.
"Can I have the honours?" Lucy asked Hotaru.
"Go ahead."
Lucy smirked and formed an aura sphere in both hands, before looking to Team Rocket, and throwing them right at them. They hit the robot with a large bang and a cloud of smoke, before you could see the three being shot into the night sky.
"TEAM ROCKET'S BLASTING OFF AGAIN!" The trio yelled as they always did, their little trademark star flashing in the sky with a 'ting'.
"We totally did it!" Asher said, punching the air. Turtwig gave him a smile now.
"Yeah, you did pal. Thanks for saving me." He said. Asher grinned.
"No problemo Twiggy!"
"…Just don't call me that." Turtwig said, sighing. Guess it was too much to ask for him to be a normal friend, ey'? He thought to himself.
"Come on, let's get back to the centre before more shit happens!" Asher said.
"Spoken like a Ketchum, or should I say spoken like a Scarlet Ketchum." Muddy said with a roll of her eyes. Asher shrugged.
~X~X~X~
"Now we're just waiting for Auberon and Scarlet… what's taking them so long?" Gem said as she peered down the tunnel they should be coming from.
"Wanna bet they got lost?" Indigo suggested, still close to Jaspa's side.
"The paths were all straight, I'm sure. No side paths, nothing." Gem said, shaking her head. Jaspa closed his eyes, and using his psychic gifts he got from his Espeon form, he scanned the tunnels.
"Um… they seem to be coming from your tunnel, Authoress." He said, gesturing to it with a paw. Gem raised an eyebrow, just as the fire type and grass type ran out of the tunnel, panting.
"Sorry… we're late… got… a little spooked…" Scarlet panted out, taking deep breaths. Auberon nodded.
"What happened to spook you? Even Nevee wasn't scared in there!" Gem said.
"Some big Pokémon… was coming down… our tunnel…" Auberon panted. Gem raised her eyebrow further.
"There're no big Pokémon in there, I checked." Jaspa said, Gem nodding with him.
"Then what did we hear?" Scarlet asked.
"Probably a small Pokémon using earthquake." Indigo suggested, shrugging. Scarlet and Auberon exchanged a look before both slumping anime style.
"We got spooked by a baby…" The groaned in unison. The others all burst out laughing, Nevee completely oblivious to the situation but not passing up a chance to have a good giggle.
"Come on, let's keep going, you never know we could find a way to the others at the very least." The authoress said after she managed to stop laughing at them, just chuckling a little now.
And that was when the lights appeared on them again.
"Here we go again…"
~X~X~X~
Me: Not as action packed as I wanted, but I got a bit of relationship building into it, and I got TR to appear! Plus, its long! Heh… anyway, the end was a little rushed because I made a promise that I had to keep otherwise I'd have a couple of Pokémon set on m-… oh god no! NATHEN! ALEX! THEY GOT FREE AND THEY'VE COME FOR ME ANYWAY! EEEEEEK!
Shadow (Zoroark): (Oh yes, time to chase!)
Pikachu (Alex's): (Allow me to join you!)
Blaze (Infernape…!): (And me too!)
Me: OF ALL POKÉMON WHYYYYY HIIIM?-! *starts to run already* MY GOD NATHEN SHADOW BETTER NOT BE AS FAST AS YOU SUGGESTED! EEEEK!
Blaze: (Payback time again!)
*the three start to chase*
