Sorry not updating forever. As many may know, I'm really don't actually have a plan for this story, other than the very, very frame of it, so every plot twist is gonna surprise me as much as you.

Also, this story now has 10 chapters and over 11,000 words. Enjoy!

Rae released her little troop of Pokemon and had Amarill fill up the bowls and cups of water which has very useful. What wasn't so useful was Cleffa and Igglybuff rearranging the sticks that would make the campfire and puffing up at each other. Pretty soon, we had a nice campfire going and Sam and Rae were having a conversation so I decided to do the same on my part too.

"Gold!" I hissed in his ear.

"Eh? Huh...Rusty? What was that for?" Mumbled Gold still closing one eye. I ignored him and pushed him up to his feet. Or rather tried. He was a foot taller than me which meant he was twice my height and weight.

"We are going to start up a conversation."

I lead the poor sandshrew over to the three new Pokemon figuring that we might as well get to know our new teammates. Cleffa and Azurill were giggling together and Igglybuff was trying to perfect cartwheels that were really just her rolling around the floor. Cleffa stood up, shaking her head and performed an almost flawless cartwheel. Azurill and Igglybuff cheered and Cleffa blushed even though it was almost impossible to tell, as Cleffa cheeks were permanently colored.

I was completely thrown off by having to look downwards at another Pokemon. Gold was twice as tall as me but these three were much shorter.

"Hi, I'm Nova. It's nice to meet you."

I was the first to wake up. So I took my time to leisurely stretch and look around. Suddenly, my ear involuntarily twitch. A noise of some kind. I pressed her ear to the ground to search for vibrations. Tiny, unnatural tremors shuddered from the ground so feeble, even my incredibly soft, sensitive paw pads could barely sense them. I looked around. Sam and Rae were sleeping soundly due to apparently, humans having less acute hearing and tiny strange ears. Azurill's tiny ears were vibrating every couple of seconds, otherwise did not stir from her slumber.

Sighing, I decided to check out the mysterious sound. As I tip-toed past Gold as quietly as I could. I guess I've become more agile these last couple days, I thought, smiling.

I started moving toward the edge of the clearing and the vibrations increased slightly. After a couple of minutes, I started feeling a little nervous. I wasn't strong yet, I'd do what I had to, but I was also starting to leave Sam in the middle of the night like this, no matter how short of a time she planned on being gone. But, he did have Gold so he would be safe. There was nothing to worry about.

"So you decide to take a midnight stroll then zone out. You're kinda a oddball, ya know that, Rusty?" Gold said from right behind me.

"Iieyh!" I screeched, jumping into the air. "I-it's Nova!"

Gold looked amused. "You really didn't notice me following you?"

"Uh?"

"No answer, huh?" Gold snickered pompously. I was about to reply when another tremor almost strong enough to knock me off her feet shook the ground. The fight dissolved immediately.

"Let's get back before anyone notices you made me come out here," Gold told me.

I didn't take the bait and shook my head at the idiot Sandshrew.

"I'll meet you at the camp in a couple minutes. I've gotta find out what that is." I started to walk towards it again, expecting Gold to go back and get me in trouble but Gold started to follow me instead.

"So ya finally got yourself a backbone, huh Rusty?" He laughed.

We continued towards the tremors for almost five more minutes.

"Where is this place anyway?" I asked, half in frustration, half in anxiety.

"Hell if-" Gold began but a giant tremor cut him off. I lay on the ground, digging my claws into the ground and as my brain rattled in my skull. As it started to recede I noticed Gold was still standing up, looking at me vaguely confused. I pulled myself up and remembered that the mini quakes were not as effective to Gold who was twice as big and twice as heavy. Not only that, but he was a ground-type so an earthquake wouldn't be nearly as jarring for him.

"I'm fine, lets go." I said, continuing towards the shaking ground, wondering for not the first time in the last few minutes if I was sane or not.

Another short but much more powerful tremor hit, causing me to fly through the air "Ee!"

I fell into a tree and lay in a heap at the base.

"Rusty? Come on get up, the trees all bark and no bite." He laughed at his own dumb joke while I pulled myself up again and started to walk with heavy footsteps to make sure I wouldn't get tossed around.

"Let's go."

We finally reached the edge of the trees where we saw a huge excavation site decimated by dozens of forceful figures spread out within half a mile.

"What's that?" I whispered.

"I think they're digging." He replied breathily. "But I don't think they're up to any good."

"I think you're right." I told me as I snuck a little closer. My paw snapped a twig under then froze when I heard a snap from a twig under my paw.

The two nearest humans who spun around.

"Paras! Stun spore! " The lady screamed. Seconds later a Paras behind us started to spew powder forcing us out of the foliage and into plain sight twenty feet away from them. The lady was Japanese with her black hair in a tight bun with chopsticks sticking out. She had straight bangs in front of her face with a slightly off center red streak. She had red eyeshadow and purple eyes. I had never seen a human like her and it was intimidating. Her eyes looked calculating and angry.

The man had aqua bowl-cut with a small piece of hair awkwardly sticking up. He had blue eyes and a dark smirk.

"Maylin, look what we found, a shiny Eevee! The boss will promote us of we bring it to him!"

A look of determination came over the woman. "Let's do it, Gill! Machop, attack them! For Team Magna!"

"Let's give them some of our Magna attitude!" He agreed loudly. A Machop who a minute earlier was digging with a shovel that lay abandoned on the uneven, shaking ground, ran over and aimed a punch almost too fast to react. But Gold did. Gold held open his paw and once the Machop's punch connected (sending a tremor through Gold himself) Gold did his best to wrap his tiny paws around the mini-fist and held their hands away to deliver a powerful punch to the Machop's stomach. The Machop flinched and jumped back to pull itself together. Maylin and Gill looked completely shocked.

"Let's go!" Gold shouted as we turned tail and ran back into the forest and back to the campsite as fast as possible (after making sure they were far enough behind to not find where our campsite was).

Finally, exhausted we saw Sam who has looking for us a couple minutes away from the campsite. When he saw us his face brightened and he ran up and hugged us. I nuzzled Sam affectionately and Gold even let Sam hug him.

Through charades and a lot of attempted communication, we managed to explain to Sam that bad Pokémon were digging and noticed us. We didn't know how or if we should tell me about the mysterious people. Sam decided to recall us into our Pokéballs instead of have us walk for hours on tired feet.

I relaxed in a ten by ten foot round meadow with a waterfall roughly the same size as me that came from nowhere. It led into a tiny stream that flowed cleanly across the side of my habitat. I slept in a particularly tall patch of grass near the middle. 'So tired...' was my last thought.

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