Chapter 38

After Yang mercilessly beats up all the Garbodors (not to mention that Harold will need some therapy afterwords), Garbodors look down in shame with many bruises and the Trubbish cowering in the half-eaten structure. Yang is looking angry with her arms cross and eyes closed.

"Now then." she begins. "Is there a reason why you guys been forcing them out of there homes."

The Garbodors just look at her nervously with no answer.

"Well!" Yang blared out loud in an angry tone. Causing the Garbodors to cringe.

One of the Garbodors try to explain, but they have no idea what is it saying. So the Garbodor have them follow it to their original home.

After a few minutes of walking, they made their way towards the site. The site is desolate and barren. The place is void of plant life next to a closed up sewer pipe. As a matter of fact, there are no signs of trash in the area for the Garbodor to feed on or any other source of food. Nothing rotten at the site either. There is a sign that says, 'Area under clean-up! By order of the Environmental Protection Agency, the site is closed off!' Although the sign is partially covered in sand and a bit rusty.

"Dude, I have no idea about an area like this existed on the island." Harold has been on the island for a year and didn't know anything about the Garbodors' and Trubbishes' home. "I only thought they existed along side with each other. But I guess the Garbodors and Alolan Muks don't get along here as they do back in Alola."

"Oh yeah!" Ruby remembers something from the megadex. "I think the megadex says something about Garbodors disappearing since they got Grimers and Muks from Kanto."

"Guess so." Yang stated. "But you know what I think."

"What is it?" Ruby and Harold ask in unison.

"I think the EPA is just using these pokemon to clean-up the island of all the garbage. Once that is done, they stop the sewage pipe and clean up what is left."

"But if they do that, how would they have a home?" Ruby asks. The Garbodor would like to know as well.

"That is totally not radical, brah'."

"My guess is that they would try to get the other pokemon to migrate to clean-up more waste dumps. But that is highly unlikely. Since they are busy fighting each other and clearly have no owners."

"But what about those moves they did, little dudette? They must've had some trainers or something. Right?" He looked at the Garbodor and the Garbodor has no idea what Harold is talking about.

"Maybe they ate some TM's and didn't realize it." Ruby pointed out.

"Yeah." Harold went. "Yeah, that's it! But why would someone throw TM's away? I mean that stuff is-"

"FOCUS!" the girls screamed at him.

"Okay, okay, dudettes! Maybe we can try to settle things between-"

BOOM! A large explosion came from nowhere that shook everyone down to the ground.

"What was that!?" Harold yells as he shields himself from all the dust and dirt.

A large sandy, Muk-like creature appeared from the ground. It looks similar to a Muk but it is a ground-type with a swirl on its head.

"What is that thing?!" Yang yelled out.

Ruby pulls up her megadex to see what it is. "Monstune. The quicksand pokemon and the evolve form of Sandster. Monstune like to scare people. They are nocturnal, like Cacturne and attack from behind. Unlike Sandster, they don't like to flee. Monstunes like to approach its foes and 'swallow' them up." (This pokemon is from Pokemon Solar Light & Lunar Dark. One of the fan-made pokemon games I mentioned earlier.)

The Monstune gives off a vicious roar as everyone cover their ears.

"Now I get it!" Ruby shouts when she realizes something. She notices some signs sticking out of it. "This thing must be destroying their homes and make its own."

The Monstune then uses its Sand Stream ability and a sandstorm covers the area. The Garbodors and Muks huddle together to shield each other from the sandstorm.

"Not only that, Ruby-Dudette! Monstunes are ground-types! Poison-types are weak against ground-types!"

One of the Muks gets blown away. Ruby rushes in as fast as she could (even using her semblance) to save the Alolan Muk and protected it.

Yang then gets sand in her hair and...well...you can guess what happens. PUNCH! Monstune has been punch high in the air by Yang follow up by Yang's relentless attacks and comes crashing down. Yang then throws a great ball at it and captures it.

"Duuuuuuuddddeeee~! Once was bad enough!"

Muk shows his appreciation...by getting captured in Ruby's great ball by touching it willingly.

"Are you kidding me?!" Ruby says in disbelief. Despite that, congratulations! "Don't congratulate me!" But to make matters worse, the smell is still emitting from Ruby's great ball.

"Hey, uh..." Harold wishes to discuss something. "Do we even know why the Monstune wanted to do all this?"

Yang and Ruby look at each other then look back at Harold. "Nah."

"We just solve a problem. Job is done." Yang says with pride.

"The Monstune must have hated the Muks and Garbodors because of the stench so it decided to get rid of them." Ruby shrugs as she explains. While she continues, the Garbodors and Trubbish started digging and found their food and try to open the sewage pipe. "Basically, the Monstune is a ground-type and they are stronger than poison-types because of type advantage."

"Not only that, it was a wild Monstune. So everything is okay. Plus the thing not only ruin the home of another pokemon, it also ruined my hair so I had to punish it by capturing it."

"Iiiii...gueeeeessss?" Harold tries to process it, but decides to go along with it. Because this gym leader has a low IQ score. XD
Yes, I insulted my own gym leader about his IQ. Hey! It is my character so why not have a little fun.

With that, everyone met up, and explain what they found. With that; the Onsen Lake gets cleaned up, the poison-types are now thriving and cleaning up the trash and sewage, the resort is back in business, and Ruby and Yang got two new pokemon. Everyone wins except for Monstune who is now Yang's pokemon. With the resort back in business, the receptionist told the manager who has granted them not just a free night, but free passes for a year.

In the resort, Weiss and Ruby are wearing identical once piece swimsuits with frills on the top. But one is white and one is red for obvious reasons.

Weiss look at her suit and Ruby's and goes, "Seriously? Why are we wearing identical swimsuits?"

Ruby just giggle. "Because you and I are besties!"

"...No." Weiss just gave a deadpan answer.

Blake is wearing a black two piece and Yang is wearing a yellow bikini. The four enjoy their time in the resort while being in a hot spring.

"Ahhhhh~~~." The four say in unison. They are totally relax in the waters of the hot spring.

"This is the life." Yang says in a rather joyful tone.

"I have to agree." Weiss usually reluctant to agree with anything with Yang, but she really has to.

"I forgotten how good hot springs feel." Blake says in a more lax manner.

"Having annual passes is the best!" Ruby says it in a cheery but not exactly relax mood as she stands up.

Yang pull her down. "Now calm down, little sis. You need to relax. We get to come here for free, but we have to pay for room service."

Ruby gives a deep exhale. "Guess your right. But tomorrow, we get to go the Aqua City Gym." Ruby then gets excited again. "Then I can win-"

"Relax, Ruby!" the three say in unison while trying to relax themselves.

"Sorry." Ruby then tries to relax. "Then I can win a badge. But right now, lets enjoy our night."

Tune in next time for the gym battle between Harold and Ruby!