"Victor and Gloria continue their trek through the Wild Area, when they come across Hop as he loses a battle with Bede. With the assistance of a Breeder, our heroes tried to cheer up Hop. Now continuing through the Wild Area, their adventure continues.."
"Dig it Good"
Victor and Gloria are walking through the Wild Area, with Gloria looking at her Rotom Phone.
"Look like we are entering the Dusty Bowl," Gloria scrolls down her Rotom Phone's screen. "Oh, and there's a warning about the area known to experience sandstorms."
"Maybe we should hurry through the Dusty Bowl," Victor suggests, slightly nervous.
"We should be okay," Gloria continues to look at her Rotom Phone, before she looks over to her friend. "And it also appeared to be a favorite spot for diggers."
"Diggers? I wonder if we would see anything," Victor says.
Suddenly a large burst of dirt explodes from the ground, several feet in front of them, causing Victor to fall back, as he and Gloria screams. As the dust and dirt falls back down, they see a Cufant next to a man dressed in digging gear and holding a shovel.
"I'm sorry if we startle you," the man says.
"T-That's okay, we're fine," Victor says, with a sweat drop.
Victor's Rotom Phone flies up, "Cufant, the Copperderm Pokémon, It digs up the ground with its trunk. It's also very strong, being able to carry loads of over five tons without any problem at all."
The man rubs the back of his head, "My name is Doug, and again, I'm sorry for startling you."
"I'm Gloria, and this is Victor, and it's really fine, you just surprised us," Gloria says, as Victor gets back up. "But what are you doing… underground?"
Doug holds up his shovel, "I was digging deep for treasure, and I might've dug a little too deep." Doug starts laughing. "Sometimes I get carried away."
"Fant, Fant," Cufant shakes its head in agreement.
Later on, Victor, Gloria, all their Pokémon, Doug, and Cufant all sit at a large table or around it, ready to eat.
"Alright, time to eat," Doug slaps his hands together, before grabbing his spoon and quickly starts eating the curry seated in front of him.
"Fant…" Cufant sweat drops, as it looks at its Trainer.
"Hum… thanks for inviting us to have lunch with you…" Victor says, as Pikachu tilts its head slightly.
"Don't… mention it… besides… food always… tastes better… with others… and after… some hard… work…" Doug answers, between bites.
Shortly later, everyone had finished eating.
"Alright!" Doug slaps his hands together. "Let's all get back to work."
Gloria starts to get up with her plate, "Wait, what do you mean 'all'?"
"You surely don't mean us, working with you," Victor says, as he leans over.
Doug smiles, "Remember, food always tastes better after some hard work, besides…" He places a hand on Victor and Gloria's shoulders. "You do earn me for the free food."
"Right…" Gloria sweat drops.
"We'll help…" Victor sweat drops.
Shortly later, Victor, Gloria, and their Pokémon are digging; Scorbunny, Pikachu, Toxel, and Sobble are using their hands, Rookidee using its feet and beak, Sirfetch'd using its leek, and Dottler using Psychic.
Gloria stabs the ground with a shovel, and sighs, "How did we get into this mess?"
Some dirt hits Gloria's feet, when she notices Sirfetch'd quickly digging up dirt with its leek, "Sir! Fetch! Sir! Fetch!"
"Sirfetch'd, this isn't a battle, you don't have to go all out," Gloria says, with a sweat drop.
"Dee, Dee,"Rookidee tries to dig with its foot, before start pecking the ground, but stops and starts spitting out dirt. "Dee! Dee!"
Scorbunny and Pikachu start laughing, with Rookidee looks over to them, angrily, "Dee…"
Scorbunny and Pikachu look embarrassed, as Pikachu rubs the back of its head, and Scorbunny brings its hands together and bows.
"Pika, pika."
"Scor…"
"Sobbl," Sobble shoots a gentle stream of water at Rookidee, cleaning off the dirt.
"Dee, Dee," Rookidee happily says.
"Sobbl," Sobble smiles.
Victor's shovel hits something solid, "I think I hit something."
Gloria's shovel hits something solid, "Me too."
Both Victor and Gloria pick up what they hit, large pieces of rock with skeletal imprints.
Doug immediately rushes over from his digging spot, holds up both pieces of rock and takes close looks at them, "These appeared to be fossils… this one is Fossilized Fish… and if I'm not mistaken, this is Fossilized Dino… fascinating…"
"If you said so," Gloria says.
Cufant looks away from the others and off into the distance, "Fant…"
Later, next to a large, rock formation, Victor and Gloria are putting up their tents next to Doug's, as Rookidee and Dottler hold up their Trainers' tents, while Scorbunny jumps onto the stakes for Victor's tent and Sirfetch'd uses its leek to pound in the stakes for Gloria's tent.
Doug is seated on a small foldable chair in front of his tent, examining a Normal Gem, while having a Rare Bone, Metal Coat, and Ice Stone on his lap.
"Fant, Fant," Cufant comes over to its Trainer, who continues to examine the Normal Gem. "Fant, Fant… Fant!"
Gloria walks away from her tent, "Hum, Doug, I think Cufant is trying to get your attention."
Doug looks over to Cufant, as it points its trunk to over his shoulder, "Oh, Cufant, just act like that whenever it senses a sandstorm incoming."
Victor, Scorbunny, and Pikachu look away from his tent, "Hum, did you just say…"
"A sandstorm is coming?!" Gloria asks, as Victor stands up.
"You have nothing to worry about," Doug says, as Cufant turns to stand next to him. "We have plenty of time, and I know exactly what to do."
"Fant…"
"First, we put in stakes, next to a strong nature formation that could shield us from the storm and tied ropes around us," Doug ties one end of a rope around his waist.
Gloria ties one of a rope around her waist, with the other around a stake sticking out of the ground.
"Fant, Fant," Cufant walks over to Doug and looks over to the tents.
"Oh, I forgot to put up the tents," Doug realizes.
"Aren't you supposed to be the expert?" Gloria asks.
"Let's just recall our Pokémon," Victor says, as he holds up two Poké Balls, both shooting out red beams.
Toxel and Pikachu turn into red energy and enter their Poké Balls, before Sirfetch'd and Dottler turn into red energy, followed by Sobble.
Victor holds up two more Poké Balls, before a massive wind starts to blow through the air, before his Poké Balls are pulled out of his hands and fly through the air.
"No!" Victor starts to give chase after the two Poké Balls.
"Victor!" Gloria calls out.
Doug looks at the distance, "The sandstorm arrives faster than I thought."
Gloria looks over to Doug, annoyed.
Victor manages to catch up to the Poké Balls and grabs them.
The wind, sandstorm, starts to get worse, before one of the tents gets loose and blows through the air. Victor turns around, when the tent blows onto him, stopping him, as the tent continues to blow around with the tent's ropes tangle around him, and pulls him along through the air, screaming.
"Scor! Scor!" Scorbunny starts to scream.
Gloria grabs Scorbunny while on her knees and keeping her head down, "Victor!"
The top portion of the rock formation cracks up before finally falling down.
"Fant!" Cufrant raises its head and trunk, stopping the portion of the rock formation and keeping it up, as Doug and Gloria are on their knees and their heads down, with her holding onto Scrobunny.
"Dee! Dee!" Rookidee tries to fly through the sandstorm toward Victor, who continues to be pulled by the tent through the air, but starts to be knocked about by the winds. "Dee! Dee!'
Rookidee is knocked down onto the ground.
Victor screams as he is pulled further through the air.
"Dee! Dee!" Rookiedee tries to pick itself up as the sandstorm beats down on it, before managing to raise its head with tears in its eyes. "Dee!"
Rookidee's body starts to glow, as it gets up and gets bigger. It spreads its wings, as the glow finally ends, "Squir!"
Corvisquire flaps its wings and takes off, through the sandstorm, motioning left and right as it approaches its Trainer, "Squir!"
One of the stakes attached to the tent quickly flew off.
"Squir!" Corvisquire flies to the side, pluck the stake out of the air and straight to Victor. "Squir! Squir!"
Corvisquire's beak, with the stake in it, glows before it strikes ahead a couple times, cutting the tent free of the rope, with one piece of rope still wrapped around Victor.
"Squir! Squir!" Corvisquire spins around, as Victor grabs onto it, before it drifts back to the ground. "Squir!" Corvisquire stabs the stake down into the ground, with one end of the rope between the stake and ground, before pounding the stake with its beak.
Victor and Corvisquire then hold themselves down with a wing or an arm wrapped around each other, as the sandstorm continues to blow over them.
Eventually the sandstorm subsides, with Cufant successfully pushing the piece of the rock formation off, "Fant!"
"Scor!"
Gloria releases Scorbunny, who runs ahead, as she undoes the rope around her waist and then runs ahead, with Doug and Cufant right behind them.
The four reach Victor and Corvisquire, who are coughing as they are on the ground.
"Victor, are you okay?" Gloria asks.
"Yes, thanks to Corvisquire," Victor says, before smiling at his Pokémon.
"Squir."
"Is that Rookidee…?" Gloria realizes.
Victor's Rotom Phone flies up, "Corvisquire, the Raven Pokémon, Smart enough to use tools in battle, these Pokémon have been seen picking up rocks and flinging them or using ropes to wrap enemies."
"Scor, Scor…" Scorbunny says, with a slight blush.
Victor hugs Corvisquire, "Thank you, Corvisquire."
"Squir," Corviesquire smiles.
Later on, Doug and Cufant stand in front of Victor and Gloria.
"Thanks for all the help you provided today," Doug says.
"Thank you for the new tent," Victor says.
"It's the least I can do, since I didn't watch out for sandstorm warnings," Doug says with a sweat drop.
"And almost got all of us blown all the way to Sinnoh," Gloria looks to the side, annoyed, and whispers.
"Fant…" Cufant sighs.
"Also to show my thanks for your help during the dig," Doug says, before he holds out the Fossilized Fish and Fossilized Dino. "Here, take the fossils you had found."
"Hum, thanks," Victor takes his fossil.
"You shouldn't have…" Gloria takes her fossil.
Doug turns away with Cufant and waves at them, "Now, I'm off, take care of yourself."
Victor and Gloria wave, as Doug and Cufant walk away.
"Our heroes managed to avert a tragedy and Rookidee came out stronger. Now continuing onward to Hammerlocke, what adventure will our heroes come across next?"
"Find out, as the journey continues…"