A/N: This would've been up sooner, but I forgot to get it back from a beta until a few minutes ago. So anyways, yeah. Have fun with Johnny's PoV most of this chapter. Short A/N, but whatever. Also: Johnny has a smart moment.

Disclaimer: I wish I owned Pokemon. But since I don't, anyone who thinks I do gets to let Erika teeth on them. And trust me, you don't want that.

Chapter 10: Escape Plans

Johnny frowned and mumbled something about letting him sleep. Unfortunately, the screeching got louder, and the floor decided to make itself known. Not exactly ideal for sleeping on, what with the cold, hard, wet, and rocky qualities it had. Wondering how he ended up on such a floor, he opened one of his eyes, wincing as the meager amount of light still managed to flood it with too much light. He spent a few seconds taking a look at the cell itself.

It was obviously built for humans, judging from the metal bars and the various ledges that he supposed were meant to serve as beds. There weren't any windows in the cell, but it wasn't exactly a five star hotel room, was it? The rock walls testified to that. But even without windows a slight breeze seemed to carry in the smell of the ocean. An island, then? He'd have to ask the other scent-inclined pokemon in the cell about that, always good to double check. Besides, he'd spent his whole life on Cinnabar, how was he supposed to know if it smelled like the ocean further inland or not?

But speaking of the other pokemon, there were quite a few of them, and a good variety at that. There were the usual suspects in a group of pokemon from Team Magma (confirming his belief that the pokemon were all Team Magma pokemon that had been taken prisoner): Numel, Zubats and Golbats, the occasional Camerupt, even Poochyenas and Mightyenas. That was were usual ended. Sure, there were Geodudes and Gravellers, but that was just sort of 'oh, that was unexpected'. The weirdest things were so unexpected Johnny almost did a double take upon seeing them. There were a few Gabites and a Garchomp off in one corner. A Larvitar was whimpering behind a group of Hippopotas. A few Houndours were discussing roasted versus raw Rattata, and Houndoom was simply observing everything around the Houndours. And then, strangely enough, a Flareon and an Umbreon were sitting in the corner whispering to each other. That was pretty much everything in the cell, aside from a Crobat that seemed to be ordering the various other bats around.

Johnny made his way to Erika, who happened to be walking back into the cell at the moment. Aside from the Zubats, she was the only one that could fit through the bars. "Did you see a way out?" He asked her.

"Yeah. Can't tell which one it is though, I need the pokemon that can smell things out there smelling for fresh air. Which means we need to cause a good old-fashioned jailbreak. Ideas?" She asked Johnny, obviously annoyed by the continuous screeching the bat pokemon were making. Johnny sympathized. Couldn't the damn things shut up and just be totally blind for a few minutes?

"If the stupid bats would just shut up, maybe I could think about it." He said as he glared at them all.

Erika nodded and walked over to one of them. "Shee, could you please get yourself and all the other bats to shut up? We're trying to get everyone out of this damn cell, and we need to be able to think." She asked exasperatedly.

The Zubat turned around and seemed to glare at her. "Why should we shut up for you to get out, slave? We can get out just fine." He retorted.

"If you leave without the Golbats and Crobat, I guarantee they'll hunt you down and beat you up." Erika replied, letting the threat she wasn't even sure would be true linger in the air like a Scyther's blade.

"As if they'd find ussss." Shee replied, defiant.

"I'll Roar." Johnny threatened, already sucking in air.

"You wouldn't dare." The bat gasped.

"He will." Erika said.

Instantly the bats shut up, as did everything else in the cell. No one wanted to hear a Growlithe Roar in a cave like this, the echoes alone would be deafening.

"Lemme think." Johnny said as he let out all the air he had just sucked in. He looked around the cell again, at all the other pokemon. A few seconds later, he shot fireballs at The Houndours, the Houndoom, and the Flareon. All of which glowed red briefly, and then went back to normal. The others blinked for a few seconds, and then shot fire back at Johnny, who proceeded to glow red, and then go back to normal. "Flash Fire is a wonderful thing," he said before shooting a more powerful than usual fireball at the bars on the cell. The bars glowed red before reverting to normal. But it was evident to the other pokemon what Johnny had been doing. Testing for Flash Fire had been the first fireballs. The last one was to prove what he intended to do. He wanted to melt down the bars.

"Ground pokemon, start digging a tunnel. Pokemon I just shot fireballs at, line up in front of the bars and open fire with Embers and Flamethrowers. Other fire types, shoot Embers and Flamethrowers at us." Johnny said before going back to shooting fireballs at the bars. He hardly paid attention as Erika organized the ground types and digging began in one of the corners. Nor did he pay attention as she got the Poochyenas and Mightyenas howling the heads off and the bats started to screech again, or even as a Camerupt stood behind him and shot a constant flamethrower at him. He only paid attention to the bars in front of him, which didn't stop glowing now and were getting white hot in places.

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Erika sighed. Now that everything in the plan was in swing, and the wolves were howling, she had nothing much to do. The Umbreon seemed to be ordering the Numels and Camerupts on their fire shooting, and Garchomp was coordinating the digging. Which left her with nothing to do. So she sat there as the bats circled around and didn't do much. Then she heard the telepathy from a Latiat. She wasn't sure which one. It was relatively simple though. When you guys get out of the cell, Entei wants us to lead you to a room holding a powerful pokemon. He says you can get the security around the pokemon taken out, and that pokemon can help you and the other pokemon in the cell with you guys escape the Seafoam Islands, it said.

Oh joy. A powerful pokemon. That probably meant one that would go on a rampage once she let it loose. Oh well, they could use the distraction.

Erika made her way to the tunnel and followed it down. They already seemed to be on the uphill portion of it. She left the tunnel and checked on the bars. All of them were white hot now. Pretty soon they would be melted through and they could get out that way. She sighed. Pretty soon they'd be out of the cell. Next step: freeing the powerful pokemon and then running through the tunnels until they got out of the caves, to a dock, and onto a boat so they could leave the island behind them.

The bars in front of Johnny suddenly collapsed. The other bars soon followed. As melted metal hit the floor, the ground in front of the cell began to heave up. The tunnel was finished too. As pokemon fled the cell left and right, Erika walked over to Johnny. "We've got a detour to make before we get Jack and Jessica. Some guy named Entei told the Latiats to lead me to a powerful pokemon for us to free. I'm assuming this pokemon will go on a rampage and provide us with a distraction." She said before dashing through the tunnel to the main portion of the cave. She had no intention of stepping on molten metal and being burned and getting metal stuck on her at the same time. "Stupid Johnny and his messes."