Mario was looking for a room to hide.
Too much had happened in such a short time. The criminal named Salazar shot his sister in the shoulder and causing her to lose consciousness when she fell on shis head. Then they took him and his friends to a room to tie them up until Mienshao arrived so she decided what to do with them. Meanwhile, they wanted them to answer some questions. The first was the human and they took him to a dark room. The interrogators was a Pokémon that had four arms and very muscular, and the same Pokémon that looked like a skunk. He answered the questions with sincerity, but they did not believe him. Even Machamp hit him, knocking him out instantly.
When he woke up, he saw that he was tied in a log. But what surprised was to see Sneasel facing a Pokémon with strange mustache. He said nothing while he looked around and everyone was very distracted. So he took the moment to try to free himself, but he couldn't. Then the shell fell through his chest. He wondered if he could use it to cut it, since it didn't seem very sharp. Well, since he didn't have many options. So he grab it with his paws and then take it with his fin. To his surprise, it worked very well until it was cut and released.
After this, he thought of freeing his sister and the rest, but he was afraid that an Ingobernable would discover him and try to catch him, in addition the battle would end at any moment and it would also be a risk to stay there. So he went to the door with as much stealth as possible.
When he reached the door. He saw that Mienshao already had Sneasel at her Mercy. Then he learned that the reason the Ingobernable were paralyzed by something the thief did after Gardevoir moved.
He felt so bad leaving them behind, especially his older sister, because it turned out he had a good chance and wasted it. Of course, if he had done so, Gardevoir would have attacked them or would free the other Ingobernable. The case that if it had been a success or failure, he could not avoid that he could have done something for them.
Then he felt his heart instantly stop when he saw that Mienshao threw Sneasel out the window. They were on a very high floor and that would mean that when they fell... she was... he was very shocked to see that moment he never thought he would witness in his life.
He was paralyzed. Would it mean they would do the same to their friends? To her sister? Their thoughts were interrupted when they realized that he escaped and ordered them to go after him. So with no choice, he had to leave as fast as he could.
Now he needed a place to hide and calm down. They hadn't seen him yet, but they were very close. This made him worry too much and could not think clearly.
So he hid in any room. He closed the door and walked away from it. The room was too rectangular, empty and too small. He wasn't sure if it was the right place to hide from the bad guys. Speaking of the bad guys, he could hear them coming from outside the room. They were too many.
If they found him, that would be all for him. He couldn't get out of here and run away. he was lost.
Right now he was hearing how they were checking each room and would soon be here. Mario backed away without losing sight of the door. What was he going to do? What was he going to do? This was the end.
When taking another step, the ground low (like a ramp) and Mario ended up falling backwards. He ended up entering another room from below. Very surprised and watched the floor rise again.
He didn't understand what just happened. That floor had gone down for a few moments and then went up. If he hasn't wrong, that was a secret passage. Real one. Those that appear in Scooby Doo and Indiana Jones. It was pretty cool.
That thought was interrupted when listening to los Ingobernables when entering the room that Mario was previously.
"He's not here." Said an ingobernable female voice.
"Keep looking. He must be close." Another Pokémon said. Skuntank if Mario is not wrong.
He heard no more noise after that. They're already gone. Mario breathed, knowing that he evade them. He really got lucky. Too much. He sat on the floor and took a moment to calm down and reflect.
He couldn't believe that the thief is gone. It was sad what happened, very similar to what happened with his own father. He had hopes that one day he would come back and everything fixed, that he could have a complete and happy family. But Sneasel could never reunite with his father. And as it seemed, she didn't have a mother either. He can't imagine how she lived alone all that time.
He had a good life thanks to his family and his friends. He never had to fight for something and he always had someone to take care of his back. Like his mother, his sister, even his new friends. He was very grateful.
Now they were tied, in danger. He wanted to help them, but what could he do about it?
He was not a fighter like Snivy, not even knowing how to fight. His ideas were not as good as his sister. He lacked the security of Vulpix. He couldn't heal like Buneary does. He was obviously not strong like Deino. The calm of Cubone or the cunning of Sneasel. The only good thing it was is with the spring and no longer has it. They had taken it away.
It wasn't even the same. Only outside. He looked at his fins. Four days ago they were human... Four days he was at home with his mother. Safe and not in this castle full of bad Pokémon.
He shouldn't never have gone in that house in the first place. That way his sister wouldn't have done all that. The rescue team would have escaped from here if it wasn't for him. Even Sneasel would be alive. It was all because of him.
How he could help them without him or them dying? He would never forgive himself if he failed. He couldn't and did not know what to do. What his older sister would do?
All his thoughts were interrupted at the moment before him and to the left, a Pokémon fell through a secret entrance that is the same as Mario's. And to his surprise that Pokémon was Deino. The only one who was not captured.
"Deino!?" Mario asked, while he got up quickly.
He was so happy and confused. He didn't expect to meet him here. The truth, he never thought to go looking for him, due to recent events. He had too many things on his mind.
"Deino, are you-?" He was interrupted when Deino accidentally hit his jaw with his head when he got up.
Deino was also hurt, but a few seconds he wondered why the pain until he saw Mario. He wasn't sure if it was him, so he grabbed his shoulder and began to examine him as if he were a shirt to look imperfection or a hole.
When he finished, he was very happy. "Mario, it's you!" Then he ended up hugging with so much strength without realizing it. Mario was suffocating. "It's so good that I find you! Will you believe me that I got lost?"
Even Mario was a patient person, he admitted that he felt angry that he acted as if nothing happened after everything. But he understood that he didn't been through as the others and that it is not his intention to act that way.
"Well, I do believe you." Mario said. "But where you be all that time?"
"Oh, I saw a closet and decided to take a book. There the bookcase turned and ended from the other side." Deino explained. "I tried to come back and I couldn't. So I had to find a way out."
He know what Deino was referring to. As he could not activate the secret entrance and had to explore this mysterious space to meet with others. That explained the disappearance. Mario wondered what exactly all of this was and what was its purpose. But that didn't matter.
"I see. I don't know if it was good or bad that you separated."
"Why?"
"The moment you separated, they caught us."
At that moment, Deino was surprised by the news. "No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"Yes?"
"No- I mean yeah!" Mario said, correcting himself. "Luckily I was able to escape, but the others are still trapped."
"Chanfle!"
It was very bad news for Deino. His friends were in the grip of los Ingobernables once again.
"And Sneasel... um, she is..." Mario couldn't tell what happened to her. He lacked the courage to tell him. He didn't know how he would take it with the sad news. "I'll tell you later. We have to do something to rescue them."
Although Deino was not very smart, he knew that something was wrong with Sneasel, but he did not give much importance, since he cared about saving his friends.
Now there was only one issue. How would they do it? They had to make a plan before anything else. But Mario had no idea, he had a mental block. Actually, he had no intention of going there. The fear that something bad happened to them paralyzed his body.
"What is the plan?" Deino asked, causing him to pay attention immediately.
"Me?" Mario asked, in a shaky voice.
"Yes." He affirmed. "In the plans, I am the worst and I am not intelligent either. Also I am a fool, it would not work. Instead of you, you are very smart. Same as your sister."
Deino was very honest and his words were true. He never thought of a plan or thinking before doing such a thing. He was the one who listened to the people who told him what to do. But of course, there are not all people, since his mother told him never to obey anyone. Only to your friends and acquaintances. There were only cases that were due to strangers who thought they had no bad desire. Surprisingly, he never ran into those kind of people.
Now, Mario didn't think it was the smart as his sister. Or any good point. He didn't think Deino should trust him a lot. He didn't even trust himself.
Although he hated to admit it, Deino was not fit to lead someone. Even he admitted it and Mario spent enough time with him to believe him completely.
If it wasn't him, if it wasn't Deino. Who could? They could go to the human world to ask for help. His mother? To the police? Even a Mexican army? No. They will surely be watching the portal. Even if they achieved some way, will they believe them?
Would they lock them up for being 'unidentified beings'? If any way they were believed and were to help them. How would they end up? Dead or would fail or... There were too many possible endings. Besides Maria and her mother, didn't have faith in the police and the government, whose distrust was justified.
There was also that if at the time of asking for help, los Ingobernables did something and it was too late. It was also the same if they planned to escape from the castle and go to the town of Deino to do the same.
They only had the option of rescuing them personally, a very risky mission without doing it the right way. A task that he don't trust to do. They were just two boys against an organization of bad guys.
At that moment. Mario remembers that there was someone else trapped here. And that someone was Mew. He didn't know much about the mystical Pokemon, but Buneary and the others were surprised to see him. As if they couldn't believe it.
Then he look at Deino. "How strong is Mew?" He asked.
"Very strong." Deino replied, without understanding the reason, motive or circumstance of the question. "Why?"
"Because they have trapped Mew in a sphere."
"No la!"
"Sí la!"
"Chala!"
"If we can free him, he may help us rescue others."
Mario was almost certain that Mew will help them, since they had previously told him they would help him free him. Also, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." And he remembered that Mew showed a great resentment to los Ingobernables, so his help is almost guaranteed.
Although he doesn't know that Pokémon much, he hoped he would make a rescue plan better than he did. A bet that he's willing to accept.
"Sale vale," Deino said, accepting the idea without thinking. "Where is him?"
"He's in Gothielle's lab." Mario said as he headed for a wall. He quickly touched different parts, searching for something. "Surely there must be another secret passage. One that leads us to the laboratory."
In the room where they were there was no door or window. A room completely without exit. But Mario and Deino arrived here through different passages, so it was not at all crazy to think about that possibility.
"Help me find it."
"Okay." Deino said. "Although I don't want to sound lazy, but sometimes when I don't do anything and at the moment I least expect-." Then at that moment, the dragon-type Pokémon over on the wall. But the most surprised thing was on a switch that activated some stairs and the wall moved to the left. The detail is that the moment the wall was removed, Mario ended up falling down the stairs leading down. "The problem has already been solved. Do you believe me?"
There was no answer. "Mario?"
He looked at the passage and heard Mario. "I I believe you..."
He didn't understand what happened and why Mario was down. But he was surprised that once again the solution appeared from nowhere.
30 minutes have passed since Mario and Deino ventured into the secret passages until they reached the laboratory.
It wasn't easy at all, it was like being in a maze. They felt lost and with no idea what the right path is. They even ended up in the room where they were previously. Twice. But their determination and luck paid off and reached the desired place.
"This is the place!" Mario said, victorious. "Now we have to find it. But where was him?"
Mario looked around. He didn't remember much where he found Mew, but it wasn't a problem. The laboratory is not big. Although he was worried that an Ingobernable would come and notify others of their current location. So to avoid that possible situation, They were looking for it quickly.
He remembered that before he met Mew he kept the thing that transformed him to a Pokémon. So he went there and then almost immediately remembered where he went previously. It didn't take two minutes and he found Mew, who was still asleep.
"Here it is." He said.
Deino ran to the human immediately. The Pokémon was surprised to see Mew. He never doubted Mario's word, but he couldn't help feeling great joy when he saw him with his own eyes.
"Chanfle! It's really is Mew! This is incredible!"
"I guess so." Mario said. "We have to free him."
"All right."
"There must be something here to help us-."
Suddenly, Deino attacked the sphere with dragon fury. The attack made the sphere fly strongly, which ended up bouncing in many parts of the laboratory.
When everything stopped, Mew was awake and very shocked. He looked around desperately until he saw Mario and Deino. His expression of concern has changed to one of anger.
"Can I know what you are doing ?" Mew asked angrily.
"Sorry!" Mario said, guilty. "We try to free you!"
"Of course you tried! But let me tell you, I TRY IT ALREADY!" He yelled, very angry. "Did you think that an attack was going to free me!?"
There was a little silence until Deino replied. "Yes."
Again the silence returns. Mew was no longer angry, but he was confused. "Are you an... fool?"
"Yes." Deino replied, almost immediately.
Mew was speechless. He was confused and surprised. He knew that the words of the dragon-type Pokémon were 100 percent honest and that he looked like a fool.
Then he look at the human, waiting for him to say something. Mario said nothing. He was also like Mew. He didn't want to sound rude, but it was the truth and Deino admitted it.
So Mew had to focus on another matter. The last time he saw him, it was when he heard tremendous noise and saw that Ingobernables entered a room. Moments later they had the rescue team and the two humans in their hands.
Then he ended up falling asleep until now. He asked what happened and who was that dragon-type Pokémon. Mario answered everything that happened (skipping about Sneasel) and why Deino had separated. He believed perfectly, especially about how Deino ended up getting lost.
After answering the questions. Mario asked Mew. "Did you know about Salazar and la Cruz Negra?"
"Not until now." Mew replied, without a doubt. "I was asleep because of the sphere for a long time without realizing that. The only time I was awake was to hear their insults or to hurt me."
Mario believed in Mew's words. They were sincere. But he couldn't help wondered what kind of damage he received. It was very bad to be mock, but to be tortured was worse.
"What did they do to you?" Mario asked.
"I don't know exactly. But they stab me something."
"Something?"
"Yes. Something pointed and thin. But it hurt." Mew said, but a few seconds changed the subject. "But what will you do to help them?"
"We will free you and then we will think of a plan to free them."
Mew supposed that apart from doing the favor of releasing him, he also assumed that in order to help others, they would need the strength of the mythical Pokémon to do so. He would be willing to help them, but he didn't think it was a true idea.
Okay, it was very powerful. But that does not mean that it will depend on the mythical Pokémon. Los Ingobernables had already caught him and that was a fact that any group of Pokémon did not achieve. They would need a better plan than that.
"I don't like that plan."
"I never make plans so far ahead." Mario admitted. "What will make you free?"
Mario began to investigate throughout the laboratory. He didn't know what object would work. Or that there was at least such an object.
"Do you even know if that object is here?" Mew asked.
The human thought briefly. He did not know. It could be anywhere in the castle. Looking for it would be like finding a stick in a haystack.
"No. But you are our best option."
The mythical Pokémon said nothing more. That human was more than willing to take him there. But he did not avoid admitting that the deepest of his heart, he wanted to leave the sphere as soon as possible and if the two manage to get him out, he would be very happy.
Mario entered the room where they met Salazar. He was hoping that that bad guy wasn't there. Th only reason to enter there was to find anything to free Mew and that there was his backpack and his sister's. If they were able to free him or not, the objects in both backpacks could be crucial for the development of the plan.
Los Ingobernables did not bother to take them. It must have been because they didn't think they would get it back. Soon, he found them.
"Deino, come."
The dragon-type Pokémon headed towards him. While checking the contents of the backpack, he accidentally saw a small, red tube-shaped object. He took it and examined it. He saw that he had a wick on the top. If he was not mistaken, he knew exactly what it was.
"Here you are!" Deino said, appearing suddenly.
That's why Mario got scared and dropped the object. Desperately he try to catch it without it falling to the ground. Luckily he succeeded and calmed down. Deino did not understand what just happened and looked at the human, confused.
"Uff... Good thing I caught it." Mario said.
"Why?" Deino asked.
"Do you know what is it?"
Clearly Deino did not know and neither did Mario expect him to answer it correctly.
"Nop."
"This is dynamite." Mario said.
"And?"
"Well they explode."
"Ah, explo- Ausorro! Soquilio!" Deino shouted as he jumped to the ground.
With the word explosion, he reminded the Electrode a lot. Pokémon that have a reputation for exploding. His mother told him that if he saw them, to be very careful with them or anything that explodes.
Then Mario explained to Deino the operation of the dynamite. "Don't worry. These things do not explode like that out of nowhere."
"No...?" Deino asked, still worried.
"Of course not. The only way it explodes is by lighting the match." At that moment, Deino looked at the human, a little relaxed. "It also takes a little time for it to explode, so it is enough to throw it as far as possible."
At the end of the explanation, Deino calmed down completely. He was glad it wasn't going to explode at that moment.
The Pokémon got up and looked at Mario. "But what is it made of?"
"It is made of gunpowder, which on contact with fire, explodes. Much more, the greater the explosion. "
"Chanfle. I think I know how the Electrodes are made." Deino said and Mario looked at him curiously.
"Electrode?"
"Yes, they are Pokémon that destroy themselves."
"They destroy themselves?!" Mario asked, very surprised.
"Yes, those for some reason can do it. Any Pokémon that were with them at the time they do that, are fainted, even themselves."
Hearing that, Mario went from shocked to confused. If someone explodes, (What the human has a hard time understanding if it really happens) Stop living. It's that simple.
"Wait? They don't… die?"
"No. They only fainted. But only that."
That was not an answer that could convince the human one hundred percent. He was still very confused.
"So they do explode?"
"Yes."
"But they don't die?"
"Nop."
There was a brief silence. "I will never understand this world." Mario said, but changing the subject soon after. "You keep another 9 of these in my sister bacj. I will keep looking for more human objects.
This was a good opportunity to get items for the plan. Besides being human, he could recognize almost everything and choose the one that was appropriate.
He saw the objects, not knowing what to choose. He was surprised by the amount of objects. It was very difficult for him to choose.
He was surprised that there were no human weapons, although being honest. Do they really need it? But what exactly did they want with this?
Then he found a compass. He always wanted to have one of these. He dreamed of going on adventures when he was little, along with his older sister. Exploring places, discovering mysteries, overcoming evil and saving the day.
He never thought it would end like this. This was real life and what he never thought happened what seemed impossible.
He took the compass and continued his search. It was not clear why he grabbed it, even he himself did not know.
He kept going until he found an object on the ground, he bent down to see it. He couldn't identify it, it was rectangle. Apparently it was electronic, that was the only thing Mario was sure.
While examining the object, a Pokémon grabbed him from behind. That Pokémon was Grapploct, a fighting type. He had a tight grip on Mario that hurt the human. He could not free, no matter if he was doing his best.
In the middle of despair, he bit his tentacles. The Pokémon released Mario involuntarily.
He quickly got up from the ground and ran away from him. Grapploct pursued him immediately. But the difference between the persecutor and the persecuted is that the persecutor is the fastest. Mario noticed that and knew that he would lose in this race if he continued like this.
Then, in the middle of despair, he pass through the shelves, taking advantage of his small heights, which is why Grapploct could not pass. The Pokémon tried to grab him, but he couldn't, he was inches out of reach.
So he circled the shelf to catch him. He knew it wouldn't take long, so he climbed the shelf as fast as he could.
After circling it without a problem, he also climbed to catch it. After Mario reached the top, he started throwing random objects. He managed to delay it, although not enough. He almost catch him until the shelf began to fall by the weight of the Pokémon, it collided with the other shelf, which ended up falling too.
Mario ended up falling through the space of the other shelf and with several objects on top of it. The shelf did not fall to the floor, but inclined by the wall. But Grapploct found himself trapped between the two shelves. Despite his attempts, he could not free himself.
He saw how he tried, but he thought it would not take long for him to be free. So he crawled as fast as he could to escape that Pokémon. He have a chance, he couldn't miss it. With the objects out there it was difficult to get out there. Thanks for his efforts, he could leave.
He saw that even Grapploct was still trapped and trying to break free for a few moments until he left the room.
"Deino, we have to go!"
To his surprise, he saw that Deino was putting up a barricade with various furniture. He didn't understand why until he heard several knocks on the doors.
"Not there!" Deino said, very worried.
There was also a voice that demanded that they open the door. He recognized that it was Skuntank. She had found them somehow. He didn't understand how they knew their locations, but that didn't matter. They had to escape.
"I agree! We will go through the secret entrance! Carry Mew!" Mario said and the mythical Pokémon had fallen asleep since a short time.
Then Deino speak. "With what hands?"
The human did not respond later. Deino was right about it, he couldn't carry him up. Although Mario has no hands either, but the fins were more than enough to carry him. The problem was that the sphere looked heavy and Mario is not considered strong. He could also be rolling, but the point was that they had to go down some stairs and there it was necessary to carry him. An idea that Mario didn't like.
They heard other blows. Time is running out and Mario knew he had no choice. "Run, I follow you!" Mario shouted.
As he had thought, he rolled Mew toward the stairs. Upon arrival, he closed the secret entrance and began pushing the sphere up. With the weight and lack of strength, Mario have difficult to climb him by step.
Luckily, Deino went down where he was and helped him push him. Mario thanked him for his help, while also doing the same. The efforts of both worked and rose faster than Mario thought.
Then they heard how los Ingobernable destroyed the barricade door and entered the laboratory.
"Chanfle!" Deino exclaimed, worried.
"Calm down." Mario said, although he was also worried. "They don't know we're here."
"They are not anywhere in the laboratory."
"They must be at the secret entrance. Look for them! "Skuntank ordered. Causing immense concern to our heroes.
Chanfle! I talk too soon! Mario thought.
Then they heard how they opened the entrance. It would be a matter of seconds to get caught.
"There must be something in the backpack that will be useful to us." Mario said, looking for objects quickly.
"Let's see." Deino said, while he went to see the objects inside the backpack.
The detail was that when he saw it, he drop the sphere and ended up rolling down. Mew woken up immediately and shouted "ah" for every step he went down, while the two were watching him closely. When they lost their sight, they kept listening to the pounding and screaming of the Pokémon until they heard a great impact.
Mario and Deino looked at each other very confused and then went down to see what happened. It turned out that the sphere in which Mew was trapped hit all los Ingobernables. Like a bowling ball crashing into bowling pins.
All the bad guys were scattered and on the ground. Mew was very dizzy. Mario commented that los Ingobernables fell like bowling pins, surprised.
Then one of los Ingobernable, raised his head, with pain in his head and trying to regain consciousness. Mario immediately noticed and told Deino to leave.
Deino listened to him and ran to the entrance to the lab, but ran over an Ingobernable that hurt his back. Mario took the sphere, rolling once more. The Mythical Pokémon ended up being a victim and ended up spinning even more.
The two ran until they reached a room and closed the door. They would soon realize that they entered a room without any other exit. They tried to get out of here, but when they opened the door, they saw that Skuntank and the other Ingobernables were running straight towards them.
Mario, scared, closed the door and Deino blocked the door. "What are we going to do?" Deino asked, worried.
"Let's see, let's see, let's see..."
It was very difficult for him to come up with a plan in this moment of despair. Deino could not face them alone and could not provide much help, except throwing explosive seeds with his spring. That it could only hurt a Pokémon, it wasn't powerful like the...
There he immediately found the solution! He quickly checked his backpack until he found what he was looking for.
"We're going to use dynamite." Mario said, showing dynamite.
"For what?" Deino asked.
"Very simple: those Ingobernables are at the door and surely all together. So let's blow this up and take down the Ingobernables. "
"That is a very good idea." Mew said, no longer dizzy. .Even if you fail to faint them all, they will surely be very hurt and you two would defeat them without problems."
"What a good idea!" Deino said, very impressed.
"Right?" Mario said. "Now it's just a matter of turning it on."
As he looked around, he saw a candle. He took it and lit the wick of the dynamite. Slowly the fire was going down, the moment it reached the other end, it would explode.
"Put it on the door!" Mew ordered.
"Oh yeah!"
Mario ran with the dynamite in his hand towards the door, left it at the door and ran back towards a distance.
The other two did the same, although Deino was the one who moved it. They only wished that the distance was enough to avoid of the radio explosion. Deino noticed that both Mario and Mew had their ears covered and their eyes closed. He didn't understand why, but he thought it was important and he did the same with his front paws. Although that caused him to lose his balance and fall on his back.
The human looked at him briefly and saw that he still had his eyes closed and his ears covered. He decided not to give it importance and remain in the same position.
And in a matter of moments, the dynamite exploded. What there was a door, now there was smoke and the entrance of the room, totally destroyed. Mario and Deino were surprised how powerful dynamite was.
But suddenly, Skuntank entered the room, completely covered with dust and hurt. She looked at the three with an angry expression.
"I hate you." She said, just before she fainted out.
They looked at each other and left the room. When they left, they saw that the other Ingobernables were on the ground and totally fainted.
They were still surprised by the destruction of a single cork of dynamite.
"Well, at least it's true in one thing." Mario said.
"And what is it?" Deino asked.
"That the dynamite solves anything."
Deino said nothing. But he seemed to agree with what his friend said, while he was still looking around.
Mario took a few steps and then addressed the two. "We have to go back to the lab."
"Again?" Deino asked.
"Yes, we have to free him. He is our only way to rescue them- "
"Excuse me." Mew interrupted. "Do you forget that I still exist?"
"What's up, I offend you?"
"Is nothing. But I don't think it's the best decision."
"Why not? We have to free you. "
"There will be Ingobernables in the laboratory at this point and it would be very risky."
"Maybe." Mario said, now thinking better. "But the danger would be less when we compared to the risk that others are."
"That's true, but-" Mew said nothing more at that moment, as he surprised. "Behind you!"
"Mario immediately looked back and saw that it was grapploct. The same Pokémon that had got stuck by Mario in the la. Now he was free and willing to end what he started.
"Chanfle!" Mario exclaimed, while he backed away and Deino advanced in front of him.
The dragon-type Pokémon prepared to defend his friend. Mario was happy that his friend was going to protect him. But at the same time he felt useless because he couldn't help. Again.
Grapploct ran straight towards them. The two backed away to avoid being attacked. The fighting-type Pokémon stopped and looked slowly to hid left side, which Mew was.
His face showed that he had bad intentions with the mythical Pokémon that was looking and unable to defend itself.
"Typical!" Mew said, just before he punched the orb and flew very easily.
Mario was paralyzed when he saw the strength of the Grapploct. He could knock him out without a problem. But he came back to reality when he saw that Deino attacked directly the Pokémon. But Grapploct knocked him down without any problem against the wall, knocking him out.
"No! Deino!" Mario exclaimed, worried.
But his concern changed when Grapploct noticed his first victim. Mario. The human backed away with fear. He knew very well that if he tried to face him, he would lose, not if he could think a good plan. Plan that was very difficult to think. He was not his sister who could have a good idea in the middle of the chaos and that he was not in a place he could take advantage of as Maria did with that Pokémon.
What he could do?
His thoughts were interrupted the moment Grapploct attacked with his tentacle. Mario dodged it past the right side of the attacker. Then he quickly went to his backpack and grabbed his spring and kept running without looking back.
He had to do. Or else he would be food for octopus. At that moment he was hit from behind and the impact caused him to be thrown forward.
The attack hurt him a lot, he didn't know if it would have been worse if it were in his human body. But it did hurt. He looked back and saw that Grapploct approached the human very slowly. He crawled back while still looking at him in fear.
He grabbed a rubble and used his spring to throw that same rubble at the Pokémon. When he hit Grapploct, he didn't hurt him and kept moving forward. Mario desperately continued to throw debris until he threw one at the head of the Pokémon.
He exclaimed in pain, held his head for a few seconds. Mario did not move from his place for some strange reason. Then Grapploct looked at the human with a lot of hate, so he made Mario worry too much.
"Oh oh."
Grapploct catched Mario and he made that bear hug again, but this time more stronger. He couldn't help screaming in pain. He tried to bite him like the previous occasion, but he gave him a strong head butt .
He felt very disoriented, as his world had turned gray for a moment. Would this be his end here? Unable to save his friends? His sister? He had failed. The last hope is over.
I am sorry sister. I'm sorry.
But suddenly, a smoke suddenly appears. When the smoke dispersed, Mario had become human again.
The Pokémon looked at him very confuse. Mario wasn't sure of Grapploct's sudden change of mood, but he looked at his shoulders and nose in confusion. Only until he realized that he returned to normal.
"I'm just as confused as you are." Mario said, sincerely.
He did not understand, not until he remembered that Maria told him that the effect was going to end. But he admitted that he didn't think it would end so soon. Although he was not happy about that. He really waited a lot to return to normal, but not in the middle of this situation. Being a human, he would be more vulnerable and that Pokémon could break his back. Literally speaking.
What could he do now? It wasn't that he was strong. He was simply taller, he was even standing on the ground, still trapped by the tentacles of the Pokémon.
Then he came up with an idea to free himself. He step on the Pokémon paw, heavily. Grapploct scream in pain, freeing the human involuntarily.
Mario grabbed the spring of the ground and started running away from him. Regardless of the pain in the leg, he followed, but limping. Mario grabbed his backpack again and began to search quickly, it would not take long to reach him. Mario grabbed several seeds, without knowing which would be the ideal. The Pokémon was almost there, so Mario chose a random one and with his spring launched it directly.
El Ingobernable fell from the ground. Asleep. Mario saw it, did not believe it. He could not believe that a Pokémon fell asleep just having received an impact from a seed. Snivy told them those seeds were special, but that works at first shot? That was too much.
He advanced very slowly, very worried that this Ingobernable suddenly wakes up and attacks him. But he had to check that he was really asleep.
Upon arrival, he touched it briefly and avoided it abruptly. Only Grapploct snored loudly. It was annoying, but other than that, there were no signs to wake up in a short time.
He calmed down that he was already out of danger, just for now. He take a deep breath, looking for a way to relax. He couldn't believe he had defeated him. He alone. Without the help of his sister, his friends.
Just a moment! He had just remembered that Deino had been attacked while trying to protect him. He ran around where he is and knelt.
"Deino wake up!" Mario said, very worried. "Deino!"
Deino was starting to wake up, still stunned by the blow. When he looked at Mario, he was quite surprised and got up almost immediately. The thing is that Deino used a defense position.
"Who are you!? What did you do with Mario?!"
Obviously Deino did not know that he had become human again and Mario knew that. But now he was worried that he was hurt by this confusion, especially knowing that Deino is very strong and with a single attack, is able to send him to the hospital.
"Wait! Wait! Wait! It's me Mario! I became human again!"
The Pokémon did not seem entirely convinced. "Oh yeah? Tell me something I don't know!"
Before speaking, Mario reflected on the demands of his friend. Wouldn't it make more sense to tell him something that only he and Deino knew? It wasn't that they knew their darkest secret, but at least something the two had knowledge of.
But in order not to risk of being attacked, he obeyed his demands. "Square root formula?" Mario said, confused.
Hearing the answer, Deino ran to his friend, very happy. 0Mario, it's you!"
Mario was surprised and confused. He believed it that simple, but he didn't give it much importance either.
"What happened to el Ingobernable?" Deino asked.
"I defeated him."
"Did you beat him?!"
"Yes. I threw him a seed and he fell asleep." Mario said and pointed to Grapploct that he was still sleeping.
"Chanfle, Mario! You are great!" With those words, he felt. "Sure, literally."
Mario's smile was gone, but he decided to focus on another matter by remembering about Mew.
"Mew. Where did he go?" Mario asked, looking around.
"There!" Deino said while pointing.
The two went to the sphere that was the mystical Pokémon. At some point in the dispute between Mario and Grapploct, he had gone back to sleep.
"Again." Mario said
"Now what?"
"Well, that would only be a matter of waking him up."
"I'll do it!"
Deino with his two paws grabbed the sphere and began to shake it like crazy. Mario did not expect it.
"Enough, enough!" Mew shouted and Deino stopped. "Do you want me to puke or what?!"
"We're sorry." Mario said. "Are you okay?"
Mew understood that he was referring to the blow that Grapploct gave, although he could not help but be angry with Deino. He was dreaming of something very nice.
"I'm fine, not thanks to him. But what happened to el Ingobernable?"
"Somehow I made him fall asleep. But what is that Pokémon?"
"I don't know. When you thought you know all the Pokémon, new ones appear suddenly in the least you expect."
Now that it seemed that everyone was there and the place was clear. That meant they could continue with their main goal: rescue their friends and get out of here. To archive, they would have to trick and/or defeat each of those Ingobernables. Especially Mienshao.
"Very good. Let's get out of here." Mario said, while she was going to pick up her sister's backpack.
"Do you still plan to free me?"
"Yes, we have to free you-."
"Mario-"
"I know it's dangerous, but we have to-"
"Mario!"
On this occasion, Mario did not speak and paid attention to Mew, who was in a very serious way. "I don't think they can free me. Not now."
Mario didn't like that. Not at all. But he needed to know exactly why they couldn't help him.
"What do you mean? We can free you."
"I don't think that the thing that could set me free is in the laboratory. But anywhere in the castle. Or even in that witch's room." Mew explained. "They will take a long time to find it. At that point they would end up trapped or others would stop living."
Mew was right and Mario couldn't discuss it. It would take a long time to find what they need to free him and by the time that happens, the next times the mythical Pokémon mentioned will happen. But still...
"If we need your help."
"And I will, but not the way you think."
"Well..." Mario said, barely accepting his words. "Then what should we do?"
"That also depends on you." Mew said and Mario was surprised.
"Me?!"
"Yes, you decide what we should do to rescue them."
The idea of what takes care of the plan and be the leader did not like it. He felt that Mew should be in charge. He may be trapped, but he could still think and point where to go.
"What about you? You are a mythical Pokémon, it would be better that you-."
"Being a mythical Pokémon does not mean that I 'm better or more important than any Pokémon or human. I guarantee that. In addition, humans are famous for many things and intelligence is one of them."
Mario tried to think of a good answer, but hardly thought of one. Especially being so worried. Besides, if Mew were so good, he wouldn't be caught in the first place.
"Are you afraid?" Mew asked, noticing the human's expression of concern.
He did not respond immediately. Not until he sat and looking aside. "Yes. I'm scared. Afraid that they, my sister, die because of me. I can not think of an idea. I remain blank, paralyzed, petrified." Mario explained with much fear in his expression. "I can't. There must be someone else."
"There is no one else!" Mew said, in a serious and demanding tone. "Someone must do it! I'm trapped and he obviously isn't!" Deino didn't feel offended, but he agreed with him. "Whether you like it or not, you have to save them!"
"I'm going to fail if I do!" Mario said, looking at Mew. "Simply… yes I want to help them, really. But..." He was starting to drop tears between his eyes. "I tend to make a lot of mistake... that's why I end up getting caught. How my sister came here. To help me. I'm not like her, not like Snivy and not like the rest. And I just don't want them to die because of me. They do not deserve it. They do not deserve it. I love each one of them. And if- and if- Uh, they die... because of me... I- I... I'm a failure! I-!"
He stopped talking the moment Deino gave him a hug. Mario in tears, looked at Deino, confused.
"You are not a failure! You are not!"
Upon hearing his friend's words, he notice more than an attempt to cheer up. He heard that his voice was shaking and difficult to understand. Why? What happens Was he... crying?
Mario did not understand. Why he cried? He shouldn't. He didn't do anything wrong and he didn't sound like the guy who cared much, either, for his silly and optimistic nature.
"You are a better person than me! You are an intelligent and I am the idiot! "
The boy was surprised by the words of the Pokémon. "Deino! You-!"
"It's okay! This is how I was born and accept what I am! When I was very young, I used to make a lot of mistakes because of my great dumbness. People yelled at me and that bothered me and that hurt. Every day I didn't change no matter what I tried to fix or avoid my clumsiness. One day I could not stand and I ran to my house to cry."
He did not know what to say. It must have been very difficult for Deino to live this way because of being distracted, silly and careless. Handle the insults, be annoyed. He reminds some children that he saw that he suffered the same as him. Luckily he had good friends and that his sister protected him. So it was hard to imagine in his shoes, but he imagined it was very difficult for Deino.
"That same day, my mother told me that all that doesn't matter. That no matter what happens, the mistakes I causes, that I be happy and move on. After that, everything improved. I got friends who loved me no matter who I am. That's why I joined the rescue team, to be with my friends and have a good time. I'm also scared that I made a mistake, but I believe in myself and especially you. No matter what idea you have, I will follow you and we will rescue them."
Mario was very thoughtful after hearing those words. He never thought he heard anyone say he was better than him. That words meant a lot to him. He was afraid, but he felt that the courage in his body, not much. But with the help of him and Mew, now he believed he could do anything. Now he thought he could save them, his sister.
She did a lot for him, just like the rest. It's time to get up and return the favor
Deino's words had worked. Now Mario could move on. Then he returned the hug and the two stopped crying.
Mew couldn't help and smile for both of them.
Suddenly a door opened and the three looked. Mario opened his eyes wide open, with an expression of immense surprise.
"It can't be."