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4. Escape Orb
Marowak smiled underneath his skull as Kevin and Bolt walked into the dojo. "Come to do some training, have you?" he asked happily.
"Not so much for us as for Chaos here," Kevin replied, beckoning towards the Riolu entering behind. "We just recruited him, and we thought that we should get used to fighting together in one of your training mazes before we went out on an actual mission."
"So which one should we do?" Bolt wondered, looking into the odd hallway that went to the mazes. "I say we do the Fire/Dark one. We can see how Chaos fights while you guys both have some decent type advantages."
"Is that okay with you?" Kevin asked Chaos. The new recruit nodded nervously. "Good. Let's go."
Marowak watched as the team headed into the maze. "Well," he muttered as he shook his head, "I suppose it's a good thing they didn't try to do some quick training in Final Maze again... why on Earth did my grandfather put that place in here anyway?..."
The Houndour growled at Chaos and charged. Chaos shuddered in terror, but stood his ground. Just as the Houndour got within range, Chaos used Quick Attack and hit the Houndour for decent damage. Angered, the Houndour leaped over the remaining distance and attacked Chaos with an Ember. Chaos winced, but he retaliated with a Force Palm across the snout. That proved to be enough; the Houndour groaned and fainted, defeated.
"He seems pretty decent," Kevin whispered to Bolt. "Still, he needs to get stronger before we can send him into some of the harder dungeons."
"How about smarter with his moves?" Bolt whispered back. "I think that the Force Palm alone would have easily caused a knock out; he didn't need to use up a Quick Attack."
"Maybe. Maybe not. If so, he's stronger than he's letting on."
"Why the hell would he pretend to be weaker than he really is? You're reading too much into it. It could just be that he doesn't know any better."
"Uh, a little help here?" squeaked Chaos. Kevin turned and watched as a Magby let her own Ember loose onto the Riolu. Chaos attempted another Force Palm, but the Magby dodged and sprayed a foul-smelling Smog. "PLEASE? Help me!"
Bolt poked Kevin. "Don't help him. We need to see how he handles this. It might be funny."
"Would you want me to see how you handled it if you were having trouble against a Rhydon or something in a new dungeon?" Kevin asked dryly.
"That's different."
"HELP ME!" Chaos screamed. Kevin obliged and easily obliterated the Magby with a half-powered Water Gun.
Bolt sighed. "You suck, Kevin. That could've great!"
"Bolt!" snapped Kevin. "Honestly, sometimes you remind me of Team Skull."
"Whoa! That was low, Kevin. Really low."
"Guys?' Chaos said weakly. "I think I've been poisoned."
Kevin smacked his forehead. "Well, isn't this great? We haven't found the stairs yet in a dungeon that doesn't have Pecha Berries with a weakened and poisoned team member. And we can't stall this out with Oran Berries because we haven't found any yet!"
"Looks like you're screwed, Chaos," Bolt said lightly. "We'll meet you outside."
Chaos glared at Bolt. "Oh, yeah, just leave the team member behind. That's really nice."
"Hey, just because you're about to get kicked out of here doesn't mean we are."
"Quit arguing!" Kevin ordered. "Chaos, there's nothing we can do about this, so the inevitable result will be for you to faint. Bolt, you could at least try to be less direct and uncaring about the situation!"
Bolt's ears stood straight up. "Less uncaring? Isn't that a double negative?"
"Why not just use one of the Escape Orbs we found?" Chaos suggested. "I mean, the only reason we're in here is me, right? You've got nothing to gain by finishing the dungeon without me, so why not?"
"An Escape Orb?" Kevin frowned. "Huh. I don't think we've ever even used one before. We thought it seemed like wimping out or something."
"Aw, do we have to?" Bolt complained. "I don't like orbs. They're alive, I swear! They're gonna get you in the night and take over the world!"
"... Plus Bolt doesn't like orbs," sighed Kevin. "Guess it wouldn't hurt to use one this time, though." He pulled out an Escape Orb. "Okay, here we go!"
"No! Don't!" shrieked Bolt. There was a dark blue flash as Kevin held up the orb, and then... "Wait, where did Kevin go?"
Chaos frowned. "I thought Escape Orbs were supposed to take the whole team out of the dungeon."
"Guess not." Bolt suddenly started laughing. "Hah! I knew it! The orbs lie! They're evil! Hahaha! They thought I was crazy, but I was right! I was right the whole time!... Chaos?" Chaos collapsed from the poison damage and disappeared from the dungeon. "Huh. Looks like it's just me." Bolt wandered back the way they had been going. "I wonder if I should have mentioned that we passed the stairs in the last room."
Next up: Probably X-Ray Specs, by request. It isn't something that I've got an idea for yet, but since it's the first suggestion I've gotten I would like to do it. Hey, now that I'm thinking about it I have a few possibilities in mind already.
