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Chapter 4: Thunder Cannon Cave

I woke up in a strange environment, I wondered how I got there then I remembered the events of the previous day. "Oh yeah, I promised to become a rescue team with Karly..." I looked over at a pool of water near the entrance to the hut and saw I looked the same as I did yesterday. "Yep, still a Pawniard." I yawned and thought 'I should go back to bed, I'm still really tired.' I turned around and fell back onto my bed, I fell asleep almost as soon as I closed my eyes.

I woke up as sunlight streamed in through an open window, I found a basket of apples across the room from where the pool of water was. I wondered how I could eat with unchanging metal for skin and no mouth, when a small part of my armor opened near my mouth, it was just wide enough that if I cut one of the apples into flat slices, I could put it through. I cut the apple up quickly and popped the slices into the opening of my armor, I felt them touch my tongue and I chewed, enjoying the sweet taste of the apples as I had my first meal as a pokèmon.

I opened the door, and saw Karly lying on the ground asleep. "Um... Karly, what are you doing in front of the house?"

"Huh?" She woke up suddenly, "What am I... oh yeah." She got up and dusted herself off, she turned to me with an embarrassed look on her face. "I uh.. kind of got up really early 'cause I was so excited to become part of a rescue team."

"Okay, so what do we do now? I just arrived in this world yesterday, so I kind of need you to explain things to me."

"Well, first we should check the mailbox." Karly turned to a small mailbox in front of the hut.

I sighed and went to the mailbox, when I opened it there was a basket that was just small enough to fit inside the mailbox, I took it out and Karly squealed in delight.

"Ooh, that's the rescue team starter kit. Every team gets one when the start."

Inside the box was a pinkish scarf and a whitish grey scarf. Karly grabbed the whitish grey scarf telling me it was a "silk scarf" and tied it onto her neck. She then tied the ink scarf on my neck. Next we saw two badges in the shape of an egg with wings; Karly pinned them on her scarf and mine. At the bottom of the basket were two groups of paper; the explained how to do certain things and what you do as a Rescue Team.

"Okay, let's check the mailbox to see if we got any job requests." Karly walked to the mailbox and looked inside, her face fell and she walked back to me slowly. "We don't have any requests..." She forced a smile on her face, "But we're a new Rescue Team, so no one know about us yet; I guess that this is expected."

We heard a loud flapping noise from above, "Delivery for Team Psi-Blades!" A Pelipper landed on the mailbox, he opened the mailbox's front slot and put a letter into it. He then closed the Slot and flapped away.

"Who would send us a letter at this time of day?" Karly asked as she went to check the mailbox. "A Job Request!" She started jumping up and down in joy.

"Well, read it." I said after waiting for what seemed to be a full minute of Karly jumping and running around the yard of the hut, squealing in delight.

"Okay!" Karly suddenly stopped and pulled the letter out.
"'Please help us, Weedle told us about you guys; our friends Magnemite and Magnemite were exploring a cave when a strong electro-magnetic pulse stuck them together in the back of the cave. They can't form a Magneton with only two Magnemite, please help save them. We are at a dungeon called Thunder Cannon Cave, the directions are on a map we included in the envelope. Please get here ASAP.'"

"We should go help them." I stated.

"Agreed, let's go" Karly nodded and we both headed in the direction the map that the Magnemite provided said the cave was in.

Thunder Cannon Cave: Entrance

We arrived and saw a small metal sphere with two magnets attached to the sides of it's body waiting. "BZZT- YOU CAME!" It said as it turned around reaveling a relatively large eye in the center of the sphere. "BZZT- MY FRIENDS ARE IN THE SEVENTH SECTION OF THE CAVE- BZZT. IT'S FILLED WITH ELECTRIC TYPES AND A FEW GROUND TYPES, PLEASE BE CAREFUL."

Karly smiled, "It won't be a problem for us, just be ready to see your friends back here safe and sound."

"Let's go, the dungeon won't clear itself," I smirked.

"Well then we'll just have to clear it ourselves." Karly responded, we ran in.

"BZZT- WAIT, I DIDN'T TELL YOU ABOUT THE STANT...*sighs* NEVER MIND, THEY'LL SEE FOR THEMSELVES WHEN THE REACH IT." Magnemite sighed and floated away from the entrance to wait on a comfortable rock.

Thunder Cannon Cave: S.1

As we entered the cavern we saw a small green dog with stripes of yellow on its large mane, It's eyes were misty as though he couldn't really see what was happening; it began to growl at us when we started walking towards the tunnel. "What is that?" I asked.

"It's an Electrike, they're mean electric type dog pokèmon that usually hunt in packs." Karly replied

"Elec!" It howled as it charged towards us. We jumped out of the way.

"How about a Growl!" Karly yelled as she ran up to the Electrike and emitted a growl that sounded as though it came from the boogeyman himself. "Your turn Rick." She yelled back at me.

"Gladly." I said in a cold voice as I ran up to the recovering Electrike, "Scratch!" I screamed as I swung my blade down, cutting the flank of the Electrike.

It's eyes flew open, but instead of being a misty grey like before, the were clear and black. "Ow... where am I?" It asked as it rubbed his flank with his paw.

Karly's eyes grew wide in excitement. "Oh. My. Arceus. You're the Electrike from the village that went missing a few months ago that no one could find!"

"Wait, a few months, but I only went out to hunt yester..." The Electrike broke off when he noticed me. He started looking around and noticed we were in a cave. "Okay... a few months, but why couldn't anyone find me?"

"I have an idea," I said. Karly looked at me questioningly, but I just continued. "Karly, you told me that a mystery dungeon has a weird spatial distortion in it, as such my theory is that you were still conscious when this place was searched, and because of it, the search party didn't find you because the spatial distortion creates different dimensions of the same space. When one pokèmon enters by him/herself, and another pokèmon enters the same dungeon, it switches which dimension you will end up in." I said. Karly looked at me with a look of disbelief.

"Even Elder Whiscash couldn't figure out why pokèmon weren't able to flow others into dungeons; but that sounds like a completely legitimate reason." Karly then began to laugh. "And why are you talking like that? It makes you sound like a NERD!" She fell on the floor and kept laughing for at least two minutes. Eventually she got up, still giggling but a lot more calm than before.

"If you're done, we still need to find the Magnemite." I said coldly; I don't know what a 'nerd' was, but I knew that I didn't like being called one. A blurry memory of me being in a small room where a larger person was hitting me and calling me a nerd flew through my mind. Yep, I Definitely didn't want to be called a nerd.

"Rick, what's wrong?" Karly asked softly, I realized she had been talking for a little bit and noticed that I had a pained look in my eyes. "Did I trigger a memory? Was it good or bad?"

"I don't want to talk about it." I said as I turned away; I noticed the Electrike walking around impatiantly.

"I'm Evan, and you two could use a pokèmon with the thunder rod ability in this place. I'll stick with you until you find this Magnemite, then we'll go our seperate ways to the village." The Electrike said.

"Okay." I said as I led us into the tunnel.

On that floor we met a few Mareep and even one Flaffy, but they didn't pose any threat because their only attacks were thundershock and thunderwave; both of which flew into Evan's fur and seemed to heal him. In the next few sections we saw a few Elekid and Voltorb but defeated them with ease. When we ran into Stantler is when we had trouble.

Thunder Cannon Cave: Section 6

"Who is this guy?" I asked.

"This Stantler is infamous for being the boss of this cave, he's said to be the source of the cave's curse, but we know that the spatial distortion is to blame." Karly answered. "Confusion!" Karly yelled as her eyes glowed, the Stantler's body began to glow with the same light, Karly lifted him and smashed him into a wall. Stantler stood up and didn't even look like the attack phased him.

"My turn," I ran up to him, but his horns glowed and I could feel my feet leave the ground. I just glared at him with all my will; as that was all I could do. The Stantler looked surprised and dropped both his guard and me. "Alright, Scratch!" I yelled, the Stantler seemed to cower in fear a little and it began to run away before I could hit him. "Huh, what happened, why did he just run away?" I asked Karly.

"You learned Leer, and a mighty powerful one at that." Evan answered before Karly had even opened her mouth.

"Leer?" I asked.

"It's a move that lowers the defence of a pokèmon through intimidation, but yours didn't just intimidate it, it ran away in fear." Karly answered this time.

"Cool, but I think we should get to Magnemite now." I said.

Thunder Cannon Cave: Section 7

"BZZT- I HOPE OUR FRIEND FINDS US SOON." A Magnemite was stuck to another and tried to cheer up his worried friend.

"BZZZ- DON'T WORRY, HE'S SMART, HE'LL FIND US SOON" All of the sudden the two Magnemite could hear voices coming closer.

"Do you think we'll keep walking in this tunnel forever? You did say that the spatial distortion was unpredictable." I said.

"No, for the last time, we heard voices coming from even closer this time."

Karly Evan and I emerged in a fairly spacious room, in the center were two that were stuck together.

"Hey," I yelled to them. "Your friend sent us to rescue you."

"BZZT- OUR FRIEND? OH JOY, PLEASE HELP US LEAVE THIS DUNGEON." Said one of the Magnemite.

"Okay, come with us." I replied and the two Magnemite followed me Evan and Karly to the exit.

Thunder Cannon Cave: Entrance

"BZZZT- I HOPE MY FRIENDS ARE..." A Magnemite floated as though it was pacing in front of the entrance to the cave.

"HEY MAGNEMITE!" Another Magnemite flew out of the cave and tackled the first to the ground. A third Magnemite came out rolling his eye(s?).

Karly and I emerge from the cave. "OH, HOW CAN I POSSIBLY THANK YOU?!" Exclaimed the first Magnemite.

"A simple thanks is enough, don't worry about it." I said.

"We were just doing our job as a Rescue Team, besides, you sending us a job request on our first day of being an official rescue team is enough of a reward." Karly finished.

"BZZZ- THANK YOU FOR RESCUING US THEN." Said the third Magnemite.

"We need to get home, that was a tough job." I said, "Stay safe guys, you don't want to have us rescuing you too much, do you?" I said with a smirk as Karly and I left and headed back to the hut.

Dojo

"Okay Rick, your first lesson begins today. Karly, if you want to stay to watch you can stay, otherwise I would suggest turning in and calling it a day." Aeruthael said.

"Okay Grandpa Aeru. See you tomorrow for another great day of Rescues Rick!" Karly walked up the stairs and left.

"Okay Sensei, I'm ready to begin."

A/N: I hope you liked this chapter, it was a bit of a pain in the butt to write, I also updated the moves that Rick and Karly know to reflect what they would have if they actually existed in the game, including the moves in Ch. 2. I just want to let you know that the reason that I'm leaving off at a cliff hanger is because I really just want to get this chapter out as soon as possible. To kyokotheeevee, Ace 5niper 117, HiCrazyCow, and Defender31415, thank you for following and reviewing, I'm glad that my fic is turning as good as it is, I was expecting a lot of flamers to look for a new author to vilify, but the majority of people who read my fic so far have either been really nice people, or they've read it and not reviewed or followed and just lost interest(possibly), or will check in every once in a while to see if I have a new chapter out. I originally started this fic just to get all of these ideas out of my head; I hoped some people would like it and review, but the first time I saw my fic had a review, I immediately looked at it, and now I know why authors like to get reviews, it makes you feel good to know that you are making someone's day (hopefully) happier.