Since Quartz arrived at the campsite at 2:00 AM last night. He and Lapis decided to wake up at 9:00 and then continue on. Unfortunately the area had a lot of rain that morning and it was still continuing when they started to go on the road again. It was almost 12:00 pm and it was still raining.
"Oh of course it had to rain today." said Quartz as he walked through the rain with his clothes getting soaked. Unfortunately tiny umbrellas that could be expanded into a regular sized one didn't exist so trainers didn't bother weighing themselves down with one.
"It would've a rained no matter what. My Pokégear's weather app predicted it, with a one hundred percent chance of rain for a big part of the morning on route four." said Lapis.
"Oh weh," began Quartz, although he didn't get a chance to finish. The ground was wet and they were on a hill at the plain/forest joining point of the route. So they both slipped and fell. They grabbed onto each other as they slid down into a big pond at the bottom. It was actually deep for a puddle in a plain and a second later they both sprang out laughing. Lapis looked into Quartz's beautiful purple eyes and her brain got lost in a trance as she began to speak without thinking.
"Quartz, listen, there's something I need to tell you," she said.
"Yeah what is it?" asked Quartz.
However before Lapis began a yelp from a pokémon came out of nowhere, Lapis turned around and Quartz looked ahead and saw a Squirtle hurrying along a bunch of other Squirtle.
"That's a lot of Squirtles." said Lapis, now snapping back to full consciousness.
"Oh, we're near Squirtle Grove!" said Quartz.
"Oh yeah, I forgot that Squirtle Grove was on route four." said Lapis.
The two decided to follow them and see what they were up to because the leading Squirtle looked very worried about something. When the Squirtles halted a sight greeted Quartz and Lapis that paralyzed them for a moment, a giant ship was hovering over Squirtle Grove occasionally sending out robotic claws to pick up Squirtles and pull them into the ship. Some Squirtles were using water guns to disable the claws but it took too long and by then they normally got grabbed. After they got their senses back, Quartz noticed that many Squirtles were falling back into the grove.
"I guess the ship is too much for them to handle, no surprise there." said Lapis, staring at the retreating Squirtles.
"Why don't we follow them into the grove?" asked Quartz.
"Well, why not." said Lapis.
She and Quartz sprang from their bush and ran into the grove before the ship turned its attention on them. They ran into the grove and eventually saw the Squirtles run into a whole; the whole was big enough for the two so they went in. Once they got inside they saw it was a miniature cave with some deep looking ponds for swimming in, Quartz and Lapis saw that the Squirtles were gathered around a strange sight. A pink Squirtle with a yellow tail and shell!
"What the hell?" Quartz said, surprised at the pokémon he was seeing.
"That doesn't even look like a shiny Squirtle… shiny Squirtles only have a slight color change on their skin and a green shell," said Lapis, just as surprised as Quartz was.
At that point the Squirtles turned around, two Squirtles blasted water at Quartz and Lapis, Quartz still stunned by the pink Squirtle was hit and toppled over into a pond. Lapis, however, regained her senses at the last second and dodged the Squirtle's water guns.
"Wait, we're not here to harm you!" said Lapis.
Even though the water gun attacks wouldn't really harm them it would be irritating seen clearly as Quartz emerged.
"Why you little…!" said Quartz as he climbed out of the pond.
"Wait Quartz, I'm trying to sort out this with…" continued Lapis, only to get cut off by a water blast to the face, causing her to fall into a pond.
Lapis emerged a few seconds later and was pulled out by Quartz. They turned around to see a Squirtle was preparing to "strike" again when it was cut off from a blow to the face by the pink Squirtle, with an annoyed look on her face.
"Thanks," said Quartz.
It was at this moment that he got to take a closer look at the Squirtle, it actually had small eyelashes, only a few other Squirtles had these eyelashes so Quartz took a random guess that this pink Squirtle was a female. Lapis decided to speak again since Quartz was in thought.
"We could help you get rid of that ship, normally we would see both sides of the spectrum but I'm pretty sure we're not going to like whoever's in that ship." said Lapis.
The pink Squirtle smiled at them and ran to the entrance of the small cave, she made a sound and most of the Squirtles followed, and Quartz guessed the others would guard the cave. The pink Squirtle turned around and pointed to the surface.
"Alright then, let's go!" said Lapis as she pulled Quartz, hard, out of the cave.
"You know you could of let me just walk." said Quartz as he rushed along, his left arm firmly gripped in Lapis' hand.
"Oh come on, lighten up!" grinned Lapis as they raced off toward the area where they had found the ship.