"–AAAAAAAAA– ack?!"
Choking on my own spit after screaming my throat out, I finally drop to the ground in utter exhaustion. Screaming is hard, you know! Wait, why was I even screaming abou– ah. My hands. My very non-human hands, seen by my very non-human eyes as well, judging by the fact I can see at all in a pitch dark cave. How come I'm suddenly able to see anyw–?
The shiny stone I dropped in my sheer panic from seeing my purple hands lured my interest in it again, this time… Wait, did I smell this rock? As food? While this brings a lot of uncomfortable questions to the front of my mind, my thinly suppressed panic bleeding out of the edges, I pick up the damned tasty rock and use it as a makeshift mirror–
To see a Sableye looking back.
I threw the rock. It flew. It smashed against one of the many stone walls and shattered into a million pieces.
I sat down where I stood a moment ago, and tried very hard to not break down, suppressing my panic by trying to rationalize my situation.
Why? I thought first. Why would something like this happen? Maybe one of the legendaries? Probably the Creation Trio. They control space-time after all… But why send me, a random human going about his business, into a dark cave as a Pokémon? Heck, why did Pokémon even exist? Maybe Arceus gives the Pokémon company all the ideas? Or maybe he… (She? It? What am I even questioning about at this point. Let's just say that damned llama's name.) Arceus took the inspiration from humans? And isn't that last question a bit off-topic?
Continuing my silently, slowly increasing panic, I began to actually think about why I would be here. A) it was an accident. Unlikely, but not out of possibility. B) Someone sent me here on purpose. What purpose though? Why me specifically? And why as a Sableye? Surely there could have been way better choices, as there are humans way better than me, and couldn't whoever sent me here choose a different Pokémon? There were around nine hundred species, including evolutions, last I checked. I mean, I am glad I didn't get here as a rattata or a zubat–
"SCREEEECH!"
I could feel the exact moment my panic eruptued, when I saw several hundreds of bats comingright at me.
Screaming wasn't a good idea, huh?
Turning around faster than I have ever in my whole life, I run like my life depends on it. It probably does. Alas, when you are half a meter tall, you tend to be slow.
And let me tell you, Absorb by a hundred or so bats is not fun.
I wake up in a not so dark place, and my whole body feels like… I don't know, terrible? I was never hurt this much. And drained. I doubt I could lift my hand. The closest I remember to feeling like this was when I lifted way too much or something along those lines. At the very least, I'm alive. I don't really know why, but I'm glad I'm not dead. Apparently you need more than… however many zubat attacked me to send me off.
Or maybe they were as panicked as I was and were just flying and attacking blindly. Which means I survived by sheer luck. I will take it over being dead anyday.
And so, after that train of thought stopped, I just laid there, unmoving, trying to not think about how I was a Sableye now. That went as bad as anyone could expect. Okay, so I became a Sableye and this isn't a dream (I'm still hoping it is). Alright, what do I do then? Stay in the cave or go outside? I don't even have to think about it, to be honest.
Finally finding enough strength to lift my body up, I once again set out to find the exit. But this time, I can actually see (I still need to figure that one out) and instead of a headache, I have anything but a headache. Greaat.
On another note, I don't even know which possible iteration of Pokémon I'm in! Am I in the game-verse, and can only know four moves and how much of the game mechanics are applied to this real-life scenario? Or am I in the anime-verse, and Ash just goes around and saves the world on a (probably) yearly basis? Or one of the mangas, of which I simply have no clue. I never read them. Or maybe my own universe, an idea quickly thrown out because of the damn zubat. No matter the universe, they are always–!
"Yo dude, watch out. Tryin' to sleep here."
Tripping over an exposed stone and almost falling over face-first, I turn around to face a living boulder with a face. Also known as a geodude by many, and something else I don't remember by others (and then there are all the different names other countries change it into and I'm getting terribly off-topic here–).
"Sorry about that, sir." I respond as politely as possible, and guess them to be male solely based on their voices. Shit, what if I guessed wrong that set off Geodude badly? I don't want a Rock Throw, Tackle or anything of sorts thrown at me, especially when I feel like shit. What if they know Self-Destruct–?!
"Ah, don't worry bro, I was ab't to wake up an'way."
Haah, I was just worrying over nothing, it seems. I really hope all geodudes are as chill as this one, but I really doubt it. Anyway, I should go back to trying to find an exit–
Oh frick me I am an absolute idiot.
"Sorry to bother, but do you know how to get out of this cave?"
I'm a Pokémon who doesn't know how to get out. Surrounded by a lot of other Pokémon who probably do. Simple logic.
Ask your way out.
"Oh? You wanna get out?" He laughed, "Good luck with that, kiddo. We're deep underground."
W…W-what…?
"D-deep underground? How deep?!"
Geodude shrugs. "I nev'r saw da sun, but my great-great-great-gramps said to reach da surf'ce."
Oh, fricking awesome.
"So, you do know, by theory, how to get out, right?"
Geodude gets an unexpected thoughtful look in his eyes, and I have no idea what that means. Hopefully not a Self-Destruct.
"Yeah, I do, dude."
Perking up at that, I ask: "Can you show me the way?"
Geodude closes his eyes. "Nope. It's complicated."
Well, there goes my hope and everything attached to it. "Thanks for your help anyway, sir, but I should be going then." I walk past Geodude, and proceed to where the tunnel ahead of me leads me to. I guess I can ask some zubat or other Pokémon I happen to come acro–
"But as impossible as it may be, I will help you."
–and I just turn around for the uptheenth time that day, and look at Geodude with hope that doesn't have any right to be there at this point.
"Don't tell anyone, but let me tell ya," Geodude says, as he levitates off the ground for the first time and hovers over to me, looping a rocky arm over my small shoulders.
"I dream to see da lig't o' sun one day."
Eh? Wait wait wait, did I just…
Geodude slowly hovers over to a tunnel in the opposite direction I was heading towards, and then turns around, "Are ya comin' or what?"
I have no idea how I managed to, but somehow, I gained a guide out of here (and maybe a friend.)
A/N: Hello, ladies and gentlemen! Here is the second chapter! But I guess you already noticed that detail, woops. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it! Btw, I forgot to write an author note at all in the first chapter, my bad. I first posted this on AO3, and because they have a built-in system for that, when I posted this on FFN, I forgot to include the author notes. This story is inspired by A Backwards Grin and Hyphen, both of which are awesome fics in my opinion.
Geodude was a tad bit hard to write to be honest, especially since I'm not a native English speaker, so if anyone notices something is terribly or slightly off, I'm happy to adjust his dialogues. Also, the ending was a bit awkward to write, but I hope it isn't too bad.
Also, 10 followers and 4 favorites?! I love you guys and gals. I just do. I don't think any of my stories had this much of a popularity at day two (these last two days didn't see much increase, obviously.) Maybe it's because of the Sableye tag?
On another note, I got two reviews! And both of them were criticisms! The best type of reviews in my opinion.
manaman78: Yeah, I have a bad habit of cutting chapters short, especially the first ones. I hope this 1.3k, which is 45% longer than 900, didn't feel that short. About the clothes and not noticing anything, a bad headache is pretty distracting. Really really distracting. And I can not notice the most obvious things sometimes. Also yeah, Sableye is a really interesting 'mon and I have (since a day ago) interesting plans for our protag here.
Jikkeboy: I agree! Sableye is a great Pokémon and my only disappointment is that its base stats in the games are pretty bad. At least it has a Mega, unlike a lot of others. Yeah, sorry about the short first chapter. And I don't think I will 'rapid fire' them, but is "once a week" enough? I hope it is. While I like writing, it can be difficult. Plans? The plans I make a day or two before posting the next chapter? Jokes aside, I'm not even sure what world Sableye should be in. My plans will be more clear before chapter 4 though.
This A/N is way too long, so I bid you guys and gals goodbye.
–Batzel out.
