Mount Silver

"If that's what he's asking for, then he' gonna get it," Sue thought to herself. Red's Charizard stood in stance at the bottom of the valley ready for anything the opponent can throw at it. Sue has seen this Charizard at work and fighting and this things never backs down. Nor does it ever stop, it works like a machines only to the point when it is actually defeated. Other than that this is going to one challenging battle for her Pokemon.

Sue took a Poke Ball and threw it and out came her Poliwrath. Already there's a problem. Being a Water type it is clear that who's going to win but Charizard's secondary type (Flying) has the advantage over Poliwrath's Fighting type so one could say it could go either way. But knowing the level of brutality from this Fire Pokemon, Susan knew Poliwrath had barely any hope.

But she guessed there's no harm in trying. "Start with Surf!" Sue commanded. Poliwrath lifted its arms to summon a 5 meter high tsunami behind itself, and then Poliwrath extended its arms forward to push the wave towards its opponent. As soon as the water was an inch from making contact on Charizard, it flew straight up vertically into the air.

Poliwrath's Surf attack missed and vaporized when it settled on the rocky ground. A few second later the Charizard landed 10 meters behind Poliwrath with a loud thud shotting pebbles of rock and debris.

"Again Poliwrath!" The Water-Fighting Pokemon lifted its arms to perform its Surf attack but before it could do anything, Charizard fired one Air Slash. The attack moved thought air at lighting speed and hit Poliwrath in the torso with a spectacular blue eruption.

Already, Poliwrath was out. Susan decided not to give up and sent out her next Pokemon, Ninetales. Unfortunately, she didn't last very long either and so didn't Alakazam and weirdly Kabutops as well. Last is her Aerodactyl. Using very basic knowledge, Susan quickly jumped to the conclusion that Aerodactyl will at least take down Charizard because of its ability to resist Fire attacks and Charizard 4 times weakness against Rock Type attack.

Charizard like most other Fire Types are notoriously known for their low Defence Stats so starting off with Rock Slide would be a good choice. But Red's Charizard seemed to have everything under control and seemed to have developed an ability to counter it weaknesses. It was very fast and the Rock Slide move missed. Aerodactyl was then hit with Charizard's Dragon Pulse.

The Fossil Pokemon went into fatigue and had trouble standing on its own two feet. Charizard finished it off with Flare Blitz. Sue has one Pokemon left but because it's just a Ditto she thought there's no point continuing a losing battle. She lost in just about seven minutes and wasn't so shocked either even though a battle isn't what she came here for.

The Dragon Pokemon returned into its Poke Ball and all the boy in the cap did was walked back into the snow without a word. Sue didn't like the way he left her all alone so she follow he back into the cave.

"Red," she called out to him who was only a few meters ahead. She jogged a little to grab his wrist. "Hey, Red, can't you hear me?" she snarled at him. Red looked at her dead in the eyes with his devil-like Crimson eyes. They were so emotionless unlike the time a few years back when he used to smiled, joke and laugh. And she saw it in his eyes when he did. They would seem to glow a little brighter to show that he was happy. But now they're a darker sort of red which wasn't like before.

He brushed off her hand and continued walking deeper into the cave.

"If that's how you're going to act then so be it," Susan hissed. "Why should I bother with you anyway? As far as I can tell you're just a sore loser,"

He stopped in his tracks and froze. Susan's heart skipped a beat kinda wishing that she didn't say that. To her relief he went off again. And that's it. He's off. All that climbing and preparation for nothing. But it's worse since she has only one Pokemon left to help her get back down and she's ran out of all medicine because they were all used during the battle.

Susan didn't care anymore so went off in the other direction to find her way back. But the problem was that cave seemed active as if it moves around to change paths. Obviously it doesn't do that but it does look like it though. Everything look different. After an hour of what seemed like walking in circles Susan gave up and frustratingly threw a rock into the wall.

She dropped and sat herself on an amazingly shiny, silver boulder. But the girl was too angry and tired to worry about the strange rock and cursed at her stupidity. Why come all the way here? Why go to all this trouble? Susan didn't even plan on what to do once she found him or what to say.

The sounds of pebbles snapped her out of her day dream, assuming it was day. The sound of the pebbles became stronger and then the boulder underneath began to move. Susan jumped off it in fright slowly walked away. The silver boulder was connected to a bunch of other silver ones just like it. Also, three of the silver rocks had a spikes that protruded out of both sides evenly.

Then the head of Pokemon emerged from the bits of debris and rocks. Immediately Susan recognised the Pokemon. The Steelix growled as its silver rocks began to rotate and move closer to her. Susan walked back into the rocky wall behind her in fright. With no actual Pokemon to battle it she has nothing to protect herself with. This was a situation she wasn't ready and felt she failed in the attempt to bring back her friend.

The Steel Type Pokemon inched closer to her while continuing to growl, quite obvious that it is angry from being disturbed. The Pokemon opened its very large jaw and roared at her only a few meters away from her face. And then it swung its tail downward to attack her. Susan jumped out of the way in the nick of time but the Steelix persisted in its attack and continued.

She ran where she thought was a good place to hide from the monstrous Pokemon until she came to what was quite literally, a cliff. The drop seemed bottomless because the darkness like before, limited the vision to only seventy-five meters. Only ten meters ahead was another part of the cave. This would have been a great place to implement a bridge but unfortunately there wasn't.

Sue turned to look where the Steelix is. It kept up with her and was right there. She had trouble catching her breath due to the lack of energy she has and how high above ground level she was. The Pokemon neared itself towards her slowly as if it was mocking her at her attempt to flee and hide. But then in an instant it stopped in its tracks and wailed in pain as it was dragged back by a large, blue tortoise like Pokemon with canons protruding from its shoulders. Sue caught sight of the familiar Pokemon and knew who it belonged to.

Then the Steelix was thrown over the Blastoise's shoulder. The Water Pokemon jogged towards its opponent to engage it in battle. But in anger the Steelix used its Iron Tail attack to push Blastoise out of the way and send it flying sideward. Immediately after that it open it large jaw, charging up its Flash Canon attack. The white orb of light that was created from its mouth grew and grew larger in size until it was then fired flying at incredible speed.

"PIKA!" screamed a small, yellow, electric Pokemon. The Pikachu came in time to push Sue out of the way of the attack. She fell hard on her shoulder and immediately looked up to see the little, mouse Pokemon hit with the attack instead. Once making contact with Pikachu, the white orb exploded spectacularly shooting out red coloured orbs with a big bang. The mouse Pokemon was sent flying over the bottomless cliff and to the other platform.

Sue watched in horror as Pikachu collapse hard onto the cold hard ground. The Steelix came back to attack her but was T-boned by Blastoise. The growl of Charizard echoed through the cave and landed next to Pikachu. It picked it by it arms and flew over to Susan. It motioned her to get on its back and escape. She did so without hesitation and they flew over Blastoise and Steelix, leaving them to fight.

The Charizard took them safely to higher ground.

Blastoise had some trouble with Steelix though because this Pokemon turned out be a lot stronger than any other Pokemon in here. But despite this, Blastoise is putting up a better fight. Soon enough the Steelix began to tire itself out and Blastoise was able to take the advantage. Nearing the climax of the fight, Blastoise clapped its hands together to form a bright, sparling yellow orb of energy and shot it at Steelix.

Steelix, now weak, Blastoise decided to finish it. The tortoise Pokemon planted its hands and feet into the rocky floor and point both canons at the Steel Pokemon. Then there was a loud whirring noise coming from them and it continued to grow higher in pitch and sound until both of them shot two large balls of glowing water with a loud PEW! Once making contact the Steelix was sent soaring though the air and landed into rocks and water.

The Blastoise grinned and grunted in victory while retracting the canons.

Susan was amazed at the sort of power these Pokemon possessed, clearly Red has been training really hard. Speaking of which, appeared from the darkness behind. Charizard handed Red the knocked out Pikachu. The Master carried Pikachu in his arms like baby. For such a cold hearted fighter is was nice to see that he actually cared for his Pokemon.

Red then turned his head in a particular motion to invite Sue to follow him.

This has been one interesting turn of events.

I know I said fortnightly but it's amazing to find out how busy life is. Hope you enjoyed this exhilarating chapter and big thanks to all who stayed.