Vincent walked through the rest of Pinwheel Forest before finally breaking through from under the trees and stepping out into Nacrene City. He let out a relieved sigh before continuing in to the town, making sure to keep both eyes out. "Okay Vincent, just gotta get through and then I'm in Route 3. I can hide out in Wellspring Cave for a few days and then finally head to that Ranger Station." He nodded to himself before looking around. "Proooobably shouldn't say my plan out loud."

The abandoner kept on, not wanting to stop in fear of running into… Oh no. Vincent completely forgot there was going to be an investigation in Wellspring Cave, which they have to go right through Nacrene to get to and back. Vincent thinks quickly before realizing something. They don't know he's abandoned, so he can just play it off. He reached into his pack and pulled out his still grass covered Vision jacket and threw it on quickly. Good thing this counts as in uniform when on public missions. Now to act cool. For safe measures he pulls out a Net Ball and lets out his Skorupi, Pincer. Vision members always have their partner by their sides.

The wall past them was horrible, seeming as though it last a forever and a half, before finally, with absolutely no problems, Vincent passed with only the smallest of glances. He sighed very relieved and looked down to the small bug. "Well, I'd say that went on pretty good, yeah?" This is met with a small hissing noise before Vincent just chuckled as he came to the edge of Route 3, slipping off his jacket into his bag again. "Alright, now… to Wellspring Cave."

"Alright," I exclaim as my smaller group had finally made our way to a large opening to a cave, "anybody know anything about this place?" I look down to Blue and Scrap. Still can't believe I actually brought this guy with me.

Blue takes a moment before his collar starts flickering again. "Bianca talk about it some. Plasma do things in there occasionally before disbandment."

"Alright, very good! Now, I got a good bit of time to train, look around, maybe catch a new Pokemon or two. Y'all wanna do anything while we're here?"

Scrap tapped Blue on the shoulder and looked up to him. 'Kyuu! Mimik!'

Blue looked back up to me. "Ghost says he want go swimming in pool in cave."

"I… no. Not just because he's a Ghost-type and I hate those, but mostly due to cave swimming is ridiculously dangerous and Candice will murder me if something happened." I just sigh and start stepping into the cave opening. "Let's just… cave around some." Cave around some? Okay, now that is close to the dumbest thing I've ever said.

The insides of the cave was actually surprisingly well lit, at least enough for me to see around a bit. Seemed to be multi-floored, but all in the same room and not separated by ceilings or floors, just raised up with staircases. I decide I might as well try and get a bearing on the location, going towards the stairs and heading towards the second floor of the cave and looking down. There was the large pool thing up here like Scrap said, and it went into a small sorta waterfall thing into another pool behind this leveled up portion. I also look up and now see what was making the place so lit up. There we small skylights! Very small, so no one would fall in, and also sort of… heart shaped? Wait a second… Oh no. The worse version of Zubat.

I look around as I am quickly swarmed by a group of five weird green-blue fuzzballs with heart noses and wings. Woobats! "Gah! Get away from me, ya freaking chew toys! Blue, Scrap! Assistance please?"

Quickly, the shiny Zangoose jumped up into the air and pulled out Fury Cutter, slashing at two of the five flying Pokemon repeatedly. Meanwhile, Scrap seemed to have completely disappear, until I noticed something. The shadows on the walls were now slinking on across the floor before coming right behind the rest of the Woobats before seeming to open giant fanged mouths and causing damage to them. Shadow Sneak. That little devil.

"Hell yeah! Blue, knock 'em down with another Fury Cutter!" I turn to the Ghost-type that had reappeared, "Scrap! Uh… You're a Ghost-type so maybe Astonish!"

Blue kept on with his repetitive attack, soon making the two Woobat he was focusing on fly off further into the cave, taking care of half the problem. Before Scrap could get his Astonish in, one of the three Woobats flapped his wings hard and causing a Gust around the ragdoll. One of the other Woobats went down and pressed it's nose thing against Scrap. That's Heart Stamp I think! But wait… where'd the fifth one go?

I turn around just as a sudden Woobat started coming towards me, it's nose glowing that annoying bright pink of a Heart Stamp. I bring up my arms to try and block it before, "Pincer! Pin Missile!" It suddenly just… gets knocked out of the sky! I look around before spotting a shadowed out silhouette of a person with a much smaller one of the Pokemon Skorupi. The figure shouts up, "You alright up there?"

I give a thumbs up as I look to the Woobats. The one hit with the Pin Needle was now just laying on the ground with the fainted swirly eyes, meanwhile the other two that Scrap was dealing with were now retreating. I sigh and glance back down, seeing the person come up the stairs. A guy, maybe just a little taller than me, with a tiny scar on his face. "Hey, thanks man. I hate those things," I look back to the fainted one, "If you got any extras balls, there's one right there."

The guy nodded and reached into his pack pulling out a Pokeball. He pressed the tiny button, made it grow, and tossed it to the unconscious Woobat. It goes in, wobbles around a few times, before finally stopping with a click. He picked it up and smiled some, looking up to me. "Thanks. I've been needing to get a bigger team." He held out his hand. "I'm, Vincent. And this right here is my partner, Pincer." The small bug looked up and let out a 'Scruuuuup!'

I chuckle a little and nod. "Cool, cool. I'm Walter," I shake his hand and nod down to Blue and Scrap, "And these two are Blue, my partner Pokemon, and Scrap, a tiny demon I am babysitting for a friend."

Blue looked up and purred, giving a small nod. "Nice to meet!"

This Vincent guy jumped a little and looked down to the Zangoose. "Oh, wow! A talking Pokemon! Now that is something pretty cool! Did you make that thing around his neck that's doing that?"

"Oh, no, that my friend Dallas. Dude's a little professor in training. I call him-"

I am cut off by Vincent finishing with, "PiT?"

"Uh… Yeah! Exactly that!" Weird how he knew that. He actually seems like a pretty good guy. "So, Vince, is it cool I call you Vince? What's your story here?"

Vincent seem a little uneasy for a second before just shrugging. "Eh, not really sure. At the moment I'm kinda just a Dwebble, goin' from place to place." He leaned down and patted Pincer on the head, "Maybe getting a little bit of battling in. Actually, in all honesty… I kinda wanna try my hand at the Pokestar Studios. After I do… some things, first, of course."

'Some things'? Y'know what, not gonna touch on that. "Well, me and some friends of mine are going all around the region. We could always use another nomad I suppose if you're interested?"

Vincent pauses for a second and looked like he's thinking pretty damn hard, before finally giving a nod. "Well, might as well. Nothing else happening, and I'll be able to get my personal work done. Sure!"

"Nice! So, I'mma train a little if you're gonna stick around, need something for the Gym in Striation City."

"Oh, yeah, totally! Need to clear my head actually, that's why I came here. I like caves. Caves are cool." Caves are indeed cool.