"So..." Skitty began, starting another conversation in the midst of silence. "Team Magma and Aqua are the bad guys... right?"
"Yes! Yes they are!" Swablu shrieked, fluttering above them frantically. It then dove down and began pecking at Skitty in anger of not understanding.
"Then why are we still following them?" Cyndaquil wondered, looking at Skitty.
"Well, duh, isn't it obvious!" She replied, using her tail to shoo Swablu away. "We're going to sneak into their base and foil their plans, obviously!"
Cyndaquil stopped in his tracks as fear swept over him. "You mean..." He managed to say. "We're going into their base...?" Being the timid Pokemon he is, he didn't want to do something so drastic.
Skitty sighed. "I just said that, didn't I?" She aggressively growled. She was getting impatient with him and his scaredy-meowth attitude and walked off. Cyndaquil wanted to turn back, but he slowly followed anyway, not wanting do disappoint his friends so early on the journey. After following the trail left by the Teams for a while, Skitty soon slowed to a stop and eventually fell to the ground in exhaustion, and was soon followed by Swablu.
"Hoooootttt..." She moaned, rolling over.
"You said it..." Swablu moaned back. Cyndaquil just looked down at them in confusion, as the heat didn't affect him because of his type.
"This heat..." Skitty said, attempting to get up. "It's not natural..."
"What do you mean?" Cyndaquil asked, watching her fall back to the ground.
"This heat... it's like... ahhhh why is it so hoooottttt" Skitty replied, looking up at the Fire-type. She then moaned and lied her head down, letting the heat devour her. Cyndaquil glanced down at his two heat-exhausted friends, then he looked ahead and saw something unusual. A huge cave gaped on the side of a rocky ledge, an very large cave in this sort of area seemed strange. He took one last look at his pals, saying "Meet me in that cave once you get up, I'm going to check it out." and curiously made his way to the unusual cave.
The heat was outrageous in that cave, and Cyndaquil figured it was the cause of the drought outside. He slowly walked in, a bit unsure that he should be in there. He kept going further, and the temperature rose the farther he went. But near the end of the cave, he saw an enormous, ruby-red Pokemon in the middle of a pool of lava. Cyndaquil froze at the sight of the unusual Pokemon, thinking it was a bad idea to go in the cave after all. After a few minutes of staring in fear, he quickly dashed out of the cave before anything could happen.
"What is with this heat wave?" Skitty asked, using the little bit of strength she had to push herself up.
"Like I'd know!" Swablu replied, trying to do the same. "I'm just a Pokemon!"
Cyndaquil ran up to them, out of breath and scared to death. "Th... there was.. a Pokemon... or something..." He gasped, falling over and out of breath.
"...Well hello to you too," Skitty suspiciously replied.
He sighed, then began to speak once more as he began to get back up. "This giant Pokemon... it's the cause of this drought." Skitty and Swablu stared at each other, not quite sure to believe him or not.
Cyndaquil could see that they didn't trust his answer to the drought, but instead of arguing back he just sighed and let them go along with it, hoping that they'd regret it later. "Well," He started, trying to change the subject. "How about we get going now? You know, before you two pass out again?"
Skitty glanced at him and replied "Well, I guess you're right. Lets go." And began to walk off into the distance. The other two followed her off into the horizon. Cyndaquil looked back at the cave, knowing there was something up with it.