Chapter 26
Back on Remnant, some of the scientists started to examine some of the statues Velvet mentioned. But none of them have the button that she pressed until they found one under the Palkia statue. "Over here!" the scientist shouted to the others. They all gathered at the statue and press the button. However, nothing happened. "Nothing happened? Surely this is the right button." "But that's the only button." one of the scientists pointed out, "There must be another factor that caused them to teleport." "I'll contact General Ironwood about this."
"Yes...I see...I'll let them know." Back at Ironwood's tent, he turn to Team CFVY and tell them something. "What is it?" Coco asks impatiently. "They found the statue with the button and it is under the pink monster statue." Velvet's face turned red out of embarrassment about not remembering the right statue. "Annnddd?" Ironwood clears his throat, "Nothing happened I'm afraid." Coco tightens her fists very tight and is about ready to punch something while grinding her teeth. "Hold on, hold on, Ms. Adel!" Ironwood tries to calm Coco down. Yatsuhashi and Fox are just sitting there while drinking some water. "They say that there maybe some other factors that came into play during Team RWBY's disappearance. I'll go with Oobleck and check on things."
Ironwood left the dent while Velvet is still feeling guilty about everything. Her ears are down and looks like she is about to cry. "Don't worry Velvet." Coco places her hand on Velvet's shoulder and tries to comfort her. "They might be alright." "Yeah." Fox says, "They could be having the time of their lives."
"THIS IS INSANE!" Weiss blared out in the jeep. The jeep Acacia is driving is close to the Stormwall Mountains, but the sandstorm shifted towards the east against it. The jeep is caught in the storm which thankfully they did cover it up, but are blinded by gusts of sand. "I know but this is the fastest way to get there!" Acacia says with confidence, "After all, nothing venture nothing gain. Right?" He turns his head only to find Blake, Weiss and Ruby angrily glaring at him so he turn his head back and focuses on the driving. "I agree." Yang says with confidence. "We should be doing this stuff all the time!"
The car hit a rock which was a big bump. After the bump, Weiss muttered, "Assuming we can get out of this alive." "How can you see in the sandstorm?" Blake asks nervously. "I've been here many times and I remember every rock and boulder that comes along our path. Like the boulder that is four feet in front of us." And he was right, there is one. Acacia steer right and manage to avoid collision with the boulder then gets back on track. Everyone manage to see the boulder through the side windows behind the windy veil of sand. "Okay, that is impressive." Weiss praises Acacia's photographic memory.
"We're not out of the woods yet." Acacia continues to stay focus and tries to remember everything along the path. However, the storm is starting to end. "How do you like that?" Acacia glances at the dissipation of the storm, "Storm's clearing." After the storm fades, the sun shines down on the desert once again with clear blue skies and the return of hot temperatures. When things seem calm, Acacia stopped the jeep. "What is it?" Ruby asks, wondering why he stopped. "Shh." Acacia went, "Listen and watch."
After a moment of silence, Weiss says, "I don't hear any-" BASH! Something came smashing through the rocks of the mountain walls that caused the girls to freak out as it lets out a mighty roar. "WHAT IS THAT?!" Weiss screams in panic. Yang pulled up her megadex to see what is behind the dust cloud.
"Onix. The rock snake pokemon. It burrows through the ground at a speed of 50 mph while feeding on large boulders. Opening its large mouth, it ingests massive amounts of soil and creates long tunnels. Onix has a magnet in its brain. It acts as a compass so that this Pokémon does not lose direction while it is tunneling. As it grows older, its body becomes increasingly rounder and smoother."
The dust cloud clears to reveal the huge pokemon as it slowly turns its head right at their jeep. "Um..." Ruby has a look of horror on her face and wonders what is gonna happen next, "Why is it staring at us?" Onix raises its tail and about ready to hit them. Weiss immediately uses one of her glyphs to protect the jeep which cause Onix's tail to slam right back at it. "DRIVE!" Blake yells and Acacia puts the pedal to the medal and go around the large pokemon. The Onix went back in the mountains as they drove off as fast as they can. "That was close." Ruby pants in relief. "You better get use to seeing them." Acacia comment, "There are a lot of ground-types hiding in the sands that will ambush you."
After an half-hour-
Yang: *bored* "Are we there yet?"
Acacia: "No."
After an hour, they made it to one of the ruins of Extinction Desert. What is in front of them is a tower sticking out of the sands with one of the large windows being use as an entrance for it. "What is that?" Yang questions after getting out of the jeep. "This is one of the ruins." Acacia answers, "The Sunken Library." Everyone is impress as they are about to enter the tower to follow the stairs down into the library.
They now enter deep down into the Sunken Library that has massive shelves that almost go as high as the ceiling, paintings of pokemon and people in certain events, and a stain glass ceiling in the form of Arceus with a universe background high above. But the glass is covered in sand with some of it coming down as specks. "Wo-ow!" the girls went as they take in the incredible atmosphere. There are floodlights in certain areas that light up most of the room left by the archaeologist that are working on the site.
"This place is gigantic!" Yang says while looking at the size and scope of the place. "Is there anyone else here?" Weiss asks as she notices the floodlights. "There are some archaeologist here that are trying to get into chambers that have been sealed off for a long time. Which is why I need your help. Whatever knowledge there is in them may contain knowledge about how to get you girls home."
They later head towards a set of stairs where the archaeologists are trying to breach one of the chambers of this ancient library. On the way down, Ruby then ask a question after taking a gulp and work up the nerve to ask. "Can we take our pokemon with us? I mean back to Remnant?" Acacia turn his head towards Ruby to answer. Before he has a chance to say anything, there was a loud booming sound coming from the bottom of the stairs. "What was that?!" Yang yelled out. "Something must have happened to the archaeologists!" Blake immediately answers as she starts running down the stairs ahead of everyone.
They rush down the stairs, but Ruby uses her semblance to get ahead in order to help out anyone that is hurt or is in danger while leaving behind rose petals. When she is close to the bottom, there is a lot of dust and smoke that obscure her vision but can hear coughing. "Hello?!" she called out, "Anyone okay?!" There is still some coughing till someone answered, "Yeah, *cough, cough* we're okay!" Everyone else has arrived as the dust settles to reveal some of the archaeologists and some Machokes in front of some giant steel door.
"What is that?" Blake pointed at something near the door, "A giant pokeball?" Weiss pulled out her megadex to see what it is. "Voltorb. The ball pokemon. Voltorb was first sighted at a company that manufactures Poké Balls. The link between that sighting and the fact that this Pokémon looks very similar to a Poké Ball remains a mystery. Voltorb is extremely sensitive - it explodes at the slightest of shocks. It is rumored that it was first created when a Poké Ball was exposed to a powerful pulse of energy. It rolls to move. If the ground is uneven, a sudden jolt from hitting a bump can cause it to explode." "So now there is a pokemon that looks like a pokeball." Yang says as Weiss puts her megadex away, "Anything can be a pokemon."
"What happened, Dr. Ricardo?" Acacia tries to help up an archaeologist dressed in a jean jacket, tan cargo pants, and dark brown boots who has red short hair and yellow eyes. "We nearly exhaust every possibility on getting past that door. So we had to use some extreme measures to break it down." One of the archaeologist carries Voltorb while saying, "I'll get some revives." Dr. Ricardo looked at the door and there isn't a single scratch on it. "OH COME ON!" he yells in anger. In his frustration, he takes a giant sledgehammer and bashes against the metal door. "BREAK, DARN IT!" As he continues to bashes, the head of the hammer came off and landed on his head that causes him to pass out. One of the other archaeologists shout, "WE NEED A MEDIC!"
"Who was that?" Ruby asks as she help some Machokes back on their feet. "I'll explain later."