I had three new reviewers! Cool! Kawaii Kitsune Cub, thanks for the review... and, that's not a ghost Leaf saw. Here's a hint, she's a game character. As for what she's doing here, you'll see...
TopazSoarhire: Erm... the dropping Pokeball is from a cliff. It's pretty high up, so it would take a little time to reach Leaf. And the other stuff is pretty much explained in other posted chapters, so you probably know that by now.
Act: Thanks for the review! It's rushed for those chapters because they were written between hurricane evacuations (I live in Florida). Sometimes I'd forget what I was trying to do with the characters. And, why I said that on your review... I modeled Leaf's mom after any normal worrying mom. Pair that with the fact that Leaf's eleven, and... yeah.
VS Geodude
Mount Moon was a stereotypical cave: dank and creepy, with Zubats everywhere and only torches mounted on the walls to ward them off. Luckily, it was supposedly pretty short, so Lass didn't have to worry about the bad air and Leaf didn't have to worry about the distressing thought of being in the same slightly smelly cave as a 'ghost dressed like it's from The Matrix', as Lass had called what the other girl had seen.. but she'd seemed pretty solid for a ghost, and Leaf was still uncertain about her.
A few minutes passed, and they'd managed to get lost, making Leaf force herself to get the enigma out of her mind...
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One hour later, Leaf and Lass had managed to get themselves on the right track, or so they thought, and find their way into a small, pitch-black cavern...
"Lass, are you sure we're going the right way?"
"Do you want the truth, or the- oh, never mind. Peach, Flash!" The cavern lit up with a blinding light emanating from the Pichu...
...awakening every Zubat on the ceiling. Screeching loudly, the bloodsucking Pokemon chased the two and their light source out of the tunnel and back into the larger area of Mount Moon. The two were still feeling lost and a bit frightened, so they went over to a portly hiker to ask for directions.
The hiker held up his hand, either telling them to stop where they were or making a lousy pose. "Oh, no, I'm not just any hiker! I am..."- he paused for a drumroll, which never came- "The Moon Stone Hiker of Mount Moon!"
"Wha..."
The hiker ignored their looks of disbelief. "Geodude, go!" The Rock Pokemon flexed its nonexistant muscles and banged its completely smooth head against the wall, causing no damage to either rocky surface.
Leaf groaned. There are way too many trainers like this... "Okay... Hiker. Bulbasaur!" She threw the Pokeball into the middle of the field, where it released Bulbasaur. It looked its opponent over and yawned. The Geodude stared at it in disbelief, not believing that anything could be stronger than it was, and continued with its muscleman poses.
"Razor Leaf!" The sharp leaves flew from Bulbasaur's bulb faster than Geodude could comprehend. It gasped as the leaves slammed into it and wordlessly fell down, unconcious, while Bulbasaur's projectiles fluttered down around it. Hiker recalled his Pokemon.
"Fine. See this ladder behind me? It leads to a lower floor. Follow the tunnel to another ladder, go down it, go to the inclined area, get out on the other side, and follow that raised part until you reach the exit." After giving the information, Hiker left in a huff. Lass and Leaf shrugged and carefully climbed down the ladder.
And two pairs of eyes watched them...
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The journey along the tunnel was uneventful, and the two girls weren't planning on having to deal with anything on their way out of Mount Moon. However, this was not to be, as Lass hadn't gone down more than four rungs on the ladder down when she came back up as fast as she could, three Rocket Grunts trying to get up the ladder at the same time after her.
"Peach, Thunderbolt!" Newly released from its Pokeball, Lass's Pichu unleashed one hundred thousand volts of electricity on the trio of Rockets, and they fell down, unconcious. The blue-skirted girl thought for a moment. Her mind made up, she finally said, "I think you should take Peach for a little bit."
"But... why?"
"Peach is the weakest of my team, and you have more Pokemon than I do if she isn't taken into account," she explained, recalling it. "Your Pokemon can keep her safe against those nasty Team Rocket members!"
Leaf stared at her like she had just swallowed a Kakuna whole. "Since when are we going in there with Team Rocket?"
Lass sighed. "Just do it while you- I mean, we- have the nerve, okay?" She shoved the other girl down the hole first, Peach's Pokeball following Leaf in a short plummet...
...right into a sea of Rockets.
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Well, I've looked it over many times, and... it's better, but it still isn't that good. Hurrah for a real chapter, though. I think that between this chapter and the next one, you can see a bit of a difference in writing length and quality. See you next chapter!
