Chapter 17- A Random Cave

"Ok, what is with that whole 'everything explodes' thing at the end of the last chapter?"

Well, the end of the chapter needed something… flashy.

"So you lied to the readers?"

'Lied' is a strong word. Knowing you, something will blow up eventually. I'm just… a little early.

"Missingno, stop talking to yourself and get back to work." Cassandra crosses her arms as she glares down his back.

"Weedy, double round pick." Weedy hands him a small tool from the kit. He puts it into the lock and jiggles it around.

"Snake pick." Another one goes in.

"Half diamond."

"Scalpel." The lock is starting to get crowded.

"Spear." He jabs a seven foot weapon at the lock a couple of times.

"Mace." Weedy hands him a small spray bottle. "No, the other mace."

He holds up a missile. Missingno laughs. "You can't confuse me by holding up a MGM-13 Mace missile."

He holds up a model of a store. Missingno tilts his head. "Ok, that one I don't know."

Mace is the name of a convenience store chain in England and Ireland.

He turns to Cassandra. "Wow. You learn something new everyday."

She is not pleased.

"Okay, Weedy. I need the mace."

Weedy hands him a giant, 9 foot mace. Missingno picks it up, and with a 'umph', he smashes the Dorr in.

"There, I picked the lock."

"Sure, 'picked'."

"Hey-yo!" Missingno leads the way as they walk through the Dorr, past a large number 2, and over the four knocked out people. They are wearing matching uniforms with a big RL labeled on them. "Man, who would knock out all these guys."

"That was you."

"No… pretty sure I would remember something like that."

Wow, Missingno. Is your attention span so short you can't even remember last chapter.

"Ooh, look, an item." Missingno runs over to a pokeball-looking object, about the height of a human. He pops it open and pulls out a disk.

Cassandra perks up. "Is that a TM? Cause I have wanted one for a whi-"

Missingno eats the disk and looks at her. "What was that?"

"H-how? Why?"

"I was wondering if I could gain a third copy of the move, but no go." His posture droops.

Cassandra has moved on and is now fighting with another Bug Catcher.

"Hey! No having fun without me!"

An hour later, Missingno drops down a hole on his face. Cassandra drops down after him, bouncing on his back safely. Weedy follows after, and lands on Cassandra's shoulder.

"OH, that really hurt."

"Says the person with a javelin through his hand."

He looks at his hand. Sticking through it is a 2 foot weapon. "Huh, that's weird. Kinda hurts, too."

"Then next time, don't aggravate the large Hiker with a backpack full of assorted sharp objects."

"He looked big and fluffy at the time."

"That's what you told him, and that is why he stabbed you." She kicks a rock out of her way. "What is with all these rocks?" Piles of rocks are littered all across the floor, making it hard to move. She stoops down to pick one up. She turns it over, and finds a swirl pattern on the other side.

"SHE FOUND THE HELIX FOSSIL!" A Super Nerd pops up over a pile of stones. He points at Cassandra as he shouts.

"What?" Cassandra backs up a step. Behind her, Missingno picks up some other rocks.

"Seems that all the others are Dome Fossils. That's the only Helix one."

"AAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGG-!" The Super Nerd tries to run down the pile, but is stopped by a swift throw from Missingno. He goes facedown into the stones and doesn't get up.

"Was that the glitch?"

A jarring tremor nearly knocks them over. With the shaking comes a rasping cry. It causes the stalactites to waver, the walls to suggest they would collapse. Cassandra, Missingno and Weedy clutch their heads in pain. And in a moment, it was over.

Missingno stumbles with shaking legs. "I'm gonna go with… no."