Flare, use Flamethrower!" The Charmander shot a steady stream of fire that collided with a rock. When the fire died down, the boulder was melted. "That was good, Flare!" Now Honey, Hidden Power!" His Burmy created balls of energy around it and fired them off, one accidentally hitting Kicker, the Hitmonlee who retaliated with a Rolling Kick, knocking Honey into the air. "Honey, Use Hidden Power again!" Honey unleashed the attack hitting Kicker and knocking him back. Honey landed safely on the ground. Kaitlyn's Hitmonlee had gotten her attention and she was ready to battle.
"Kicker, use Focus Punch!"
"Dodge, and use Hidden Power!" Honey sidestepped out of the way and unleashed a Hidden Power into the side of the Kicking Pokémon. Kicker, not wanting to look bad in front of Kaitlyn, slipped underneath the attack and Rolling Kick'ed Honey. Unfortunately, the Hidden Power hit all the other trainers' pokémon, including Madison's newly caught Rapidash known as Smoke and Selena's newly evolved Wartortle, Squirt. They looked over menacingly and they all attacked Honey. The attacks threw Honey back into the rock from earlier. That's when Honey began to glow. It rose up from the ground.
"Honey's evolving!" Everybody rushed over to see. Finally the glow died down and instead of a Burmy, there flew a Mothim, that spread it's wings in joy. "Okay let's test you out! Confusion!" The psychic attack lifted the pokémon of the ground and threw them back. They didn't get up so fast this time. Selena ran over to her pokémon and checked to make sure they were okay before returning them. Madison, who had been out looking for firewood, immediately did the same, followed by Kaitlyn . Baby Pom laughed at them from the top of Krestner's head. It jumped up into a tree and ate a Oran Berry it found hidden among the leaves. "Enough training guys! Time to eat!" Krestner set up the blanket and within a few minutes had set up bowls for the pok mon with food and was placing donuts on everybody's plates. Nobody could ever really guess how Krestner moved so fast yet so silently. After everybody had eaten they broke down camp and started down the road. Baby Pom rode on Honey's back high above their heads. Madison pulled out a map of Sinnoh.
"We're here. And this is the Oreburgh Gate here" As she talked she traced her hand along the route. "It should be just be just down the road, and after that the Oreburgh Mine and finally Oreburgh City." She got very excited. "And our first Gym Badge!" Nobody else shared her excitement.
"Madison, calm down. Nobody else cares about their grades that much." Krestner said.
"But there will be lots of battles." she said in a sing-song voice. Krestner's mood changed fast.
"Full speed ahead to the Gate!" He started running ahead of everybody and Honey sped up in the sky to keep up.
"You think he would just leave us behind?" Kaitlyn asked.
"He already did!" Selena yelled to Madison and Kaitlyn as the moment Madison said "battle" knew that Krestner would be gone and they'd have to catch up. Madison released her Pidgeot, Whirlwind and Smoke, her Rapidash.
"Hop on Whirlwind, let's go!" Madison hopped on Smoke's back and the two pokémon took off after Krestner and Selena.
Several Minutes Later...
Kaitlyn and Madison appeared in front of the Gate and saw Selena's Wartortle, Squirt and Flare, the Charmander double battling a girl with a Psyduck and a Budew.
"Flare, Flamethrower!"
"Squirt, Water Pulse!" The Flamethrower hit Budew and knocked it back while the Water Pulse was blocked by a Psychic attack from Psyduck, who redirected it at Flare.
"Flare, use Dig!" Flare dug underground.
"That's what I wanted! Psyduck, use Water Gun into the hole!" Psy!" The Psyduck shot water into the hole after Flare.
"Flare, Come up and use Slash." Flare burst from the ground, and the Water Gun followed after him. He jumped out of the way and used Slash to knock the Water Gun at Psyduck. The attack hit, knocking Psyduck into the ground.
"Squirt, Skull Bash that Psyduck!"
"Flare, Fire Fang on Budew!" Both pokémon found their mark and were victorious. The girl returned her pokémon and ran off.
"Okay, Krestner we can go now." Selena said. She turned around and noticed Madison riding Smoke and Kaitlyn standing next to Whirlwind. "When did you two catch up?"
"Several seconds ago. And for the record you two shouldn't be that fast."
"When you got it, flaunt it. Besides we made it to the Gate, let's go." They all walked inside the cave. The farther they got from the entrance the darker it got.
"Fortune, Flash!" The area lit up as Kyle, Tyler, Ricard, and Fortune, the Absol came out of the darkness. Fortune's oval on the top of head glowed brightly. "You can't walk through this place without light. Hey, Krestner why is your bag shaking?"
"Oh, Pom, it's okay you can come out." Slowly the baby Long Tail Pokémon creeped out of Krestner's bag and hid in his jacket. " Baby Pom is a little afraid of the dark. "
"So the egg hatched into an Aipom?"
"Yup"
"So how's the pokémon journey goin'? Anybody caught any new pokémon?" Tyler said, trying to at least stay part of the conversation.
"Heck yea!" Kaitlyn threw a couple pokéballs and out came Kicker, her Trash Cloak Burmy; Stellar, and her Torchic, Torch. Krestner released Ghost, Honey, and Flare. Selena did the same with Artik, Squirt; her Wartortle, and Flora her Plant Cloak Burmy. And finally Madison sent out Smoke, Whirlwind, her Piplup, Bubble, and her Sandy Cloak Burmy, named Sandy.
"Nice collection." Somebody cleared their throat. Everybody turned towards Ricard who now was accompanied by an Alakazam. Krestner whispered to Kyle.
"When did he get an Alakazam?"
"You know, we don't even know. He just came back to camp one day with it trailing him. " Ricard began to speak.
"Alakazam has found the way out if anybody was wondering." They turned and walked off into the darkness.
"That is a strange little kid."
"You're telling me. Imagine having to live with him." They all laughed as they walked off after him. Ricard walked down a winding road that swerved around lots of stalagmites. Finally a light could be seen at the end of a tunnel. Everybody walked out of the cave and into...the mine. Good thing they had lights. Krestner stepped forward and tripped over something half buried in the sand. Ricard and his Alakazam began to laugh. This time they were the only ones laughing. Selena ran over and helped Krestner up off the ground. Then she began to dig out what was in the ground. Out came an odd shaped rock that had an oval-shaped sign on it. She put the rock into her bag without anybody noticing.
"What did I trip over?" Krestner asked as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Nothing important." Ricard and Alakazam were still laughing at Krestner and walked into a stalactite in the process. Artik(who had recently jumped out of her Pokéball) quickly froze their faces to it. Baby Pom(upon hearing the laughing) Focus Punched the two, breaking the ice and the stalactite. Before Ricard could retaliate, a young man came over wearing a red construction helmet with a light on it. He wore glasses on his face, a gray jacket and pants with yellow rings on it, black boots and a black shirt. White gloves adorned his hands.
"What are you kids doing in here? The mines are closed right now." he asked.
Funny story. See we were walking through the Oreburgh Gate and ended up in the mines and have no clue of how to get out. Ghost replied casually. He expected a calm response. Too bad only a few people had heard him speak before. This guy wasn't one of them.
"WHO SAID THAT!? No reply came. "Oh well then. I'll escort you out.."
Much obliged.
"WHO IS TALKING!?" the man yelled again, but the only reply was his own echo. It reverberated inside the cave. Everybody had one thought on their minds: THIS GUY IS INSANE! They reached the outside of the mine having only to stop once to find Baby Pom, who'd disappeared only to be found hiding in Krestner's backpack. Other than that nothing. "Okay guys now Welcome to Oreburgh City! I now pronounce myself your tour guide. Where to?"
"First to the Pokémon Center. Next we go to the Oreburgh Mining Museum and finally the Oreburgh Gym." Madison said before anybody could stop her. Krestner shot her a look. "What? Baby Pom and Selena found fossils in the mine and I want to see what they are."
'How did you...Never mind." The man walked to the front of the group and said:
"Well you are all in luck because it just so happens that I'm the Oreburgh Gym Leader, Roark and I run this mine. I also work at the museum. Follow me!" Roark walked down the road and they all ended up at the Pokémon Center. They handed their pokémon over to the Nurse Joy then headed over to the museum. They walked in through the back door. From there, they entered a big room with two large machines in the room. One of the machines was being fixed.
"What happened to that one?" Tyler asked inquiringly.
"Well, a couple weeks ago a bunch of troublemakers by the name of...um...Team Rocket, yea that's it! Anyway they stole that machine and revived an Aerodactyl that nearly took out the entire town. Luckily some traveling trainers helped us along with my new Rampardos. And that's the story." Roark walked them all over to the machine and Selena stepped forward pulling her fossil from her bag. A scientist walked over to her.
"Okay, just place the fossil in the machine and wait a couple minutes. We've advance the technology to the point where we can revive two Fossil Pokémon at once. Krestner walked forward and placed his fossil inside and Selena did the same. The doors closed and after a couple minutes the machine began to beep. "They're done! Now, young lady you had an Armor Fossil and young man you had a Skull Fossil so you should get Shieldon and Cranidos respectively." The doors opened and instead of fossils stood living breathing pokémon. Cranidos and Shieldon walked out of the machine slightly confused as they saw all the people around them. Krestner walked up to Cranidos and rubbed its head slowly. Cranidos calmed down and began to growl slightly. Selena went over and picked up Shieldon and stroked its head, cooing softly to it. Soon it went to sleep.
"Boulder, you want to travel with me?" Krestner said to Cranidos. It nodded its head up and down and Krestner tapped it with a Pokéball and captured it.
"You already gave it a name?" Ricard asked.
"No, that was its name already." Krestner said as he walked out of the museum. Selena looked down at her sleeping Shieldon.
"What does it evolve into?"
"Shieldon evolves in Bastiodon." The scientist went back to work, obviously annoyed that they were still here.
"I will name you Bastion then." Selena said as she walked out of the museum. The rest followed suit with Ricard knocking over several large stacks of papers on his way out. He never could resist watching others suffer. They got outside and Krestner came running up to them. He had a look of complete anger.
"All of our Pokéballs were stolen!"
"What do you mean 'stolen'?" Ricard demanded.
"As in someone took them all. Did you notice I used bold and underlines on that one? We've got to go find them!" He ran off and everybody followed. "Kyle, go ask Nurse Joy for a description of the robbers. The rest of you come with me!"
"What am I supposed to do?" Ricard was standing in the road, looking at everybody else pitifully.
"You stay here."
"Why?
" 'Cause, frankly you annoy me." And with that they left him standing in the middle of the road. Kyle ran out of the Center and ran off after the rest of them. Ricard pulled a cellphone out of his pocket and dialed a number.
"Uh sir...I think we have a small problem."
DOWN THE ROAD
Krestner and Selena were speeding down the road towards the mine while Kyle(who amazingly could keep up with the two) filled them in.
"One of the kidnappers had blonde,spiky hair and was really big. The other had long, whitish hair and was shorter and somewhat feminine, but definitely male."
"Let me guess they both had a big red "R" on their shirts."
"Yea, they did." Krestner amazingly sped up and was now leaving everybody in his dust, including Selena. Suddenly a voice in his mind told him exactly what he wanted to hear.
They're hidden in the largest cave in the mine. Attila and Hun think they were smart by cloaking the area with lots of dirt , but they made it very obvious where they were. Krestner's angry face got angrier as he sped up even more. Several miles behind everybody else was struggling to keep up with him. Nobody had any clue Krestner had that kind of speed. Krestner entered the mine and immediately saw what the voice was talking about. He walked up to the mound of dirt. A bunch of small bluish-white flames appeared around his hand. He sent them towards the dirt, causing it to change into glass. He looked through and saw a huge Steelix sleeping in a corner, while Attila and Hun sat counting the amount of Pokéballs they'd stolen. Krestner got even madder(if that's even possible) and sent out Boulder.
"Heat Wave!" he screamed. Boulder unleashed the Fire attack changing the entire wall of dirt into glass. Attila and Hun looked up. Krestner's arm began to glow reddish-orange. He slammed the wall into pieces. "Hey, remember me?" Boulder smiled. "It's gonna be a long day for you guys."
SEVERAL HOURS LATER...
An Onix burst through the wall of the cavern. It saw two dangling figures hanging from the ceiling. It tunneled over two see Attila and Hun were the ones hanging from the ceiling. Signs hung from their necks. They read:
"This is what happens to those that mess with my pokémon.
Signed, Nexus