Here's the next chapter guys! Now we can get a little battle action and exploration! Hope you enjoy!
M.E.W. and Speedy were now trekking through the caves of the Ragged Mountain, trying to find the source of the cry for help they heard earlier. The interior was partly grass and had a few springs of water in various spots on the floor.
The two traveled through a narrow corridor until they reached a small, empty room. There no signs of Pokemon anywhere and was completely vacant.
"Hmm... No one's here." M.E.W. said.
"I guess we have go a little further. Come on, let's keep going." Speedy suggested.
However, before the two could keep going, a small grey Pokemon from a path across of the room and stood before them. It was a chinchilla-like Pokemon with large ears and a large, brush-like tail. It was a Minccino, the Chinchilla Pokemon. It stayed in front of M.E.W. and Speedy and glared at them.
"Uh oh! I think we have a problem here!" M.E.W. alarmed, getting in a defensive position.
"Calm down dude! It's just a Minccino. The little guy's pratically harmless." Speedy relieved, "Maybe it knows the way to the other side of the cave."
Speedy approached the Minccino as it continued to glare at him.
"Hey buddy. Could you help us out? We need to get to the other end of the cave." Speedy said, showing no fear at all.
Minccinno said nothing but instead lunged at Speedy and lashed his tail at him, using Pound.
"Whoa!" Speedy barely ducked and dodged the attack, "Now that's just not cool!"
"I was afraid this would happen. Looks like the Pokemon in this caves are naturally aggressive." M.E.W. pointed out.
Just then, Minccino tried to attack Speedy again with another Pound, but Speedy dodged it again.
"Alright. You've asked for it!" Speedy growled.
He leaped into the air and made his tail glow with a light green aura. He then spun in the air, building momentum for his attack, and slashed the Minccino with his glowing tail, using Leaf Blade. It slamed the Minccino right in the face with a critical hit and the Minccino was sent flying to a one of the room's walls, where he layed there unconcious.
"That's what you get for messing with the Speedster!" Speedy smirked.
"Hey! That was an impressive Leaf Blade!" M.E.W. praised.
"Thanks bro. Now let's keep going." Speedy replied.
They were about to head into the path across the room, but more Pokemon came from another path in the room, from the east, and stopped them. Some were Mincinnos, like the one Speedy fought earlier, and some were small, purple, humanoid Pokemon with black bodies, bows on their chests, and two more bows on their heads. They were Pokemon known as Gothita, the Fixation Pokemon. The armada of Pokemon stood in the heroes' way and it appear that they wouldn't let them go without a fight.
"Now's there's more of them?!" M.E.W. alerted.
"Pfft. No problem bro. I got this one." Speedy assured as he got into a battle position.
He jumped in the air again, but this time he twirled in the air a few times, as a bunch of glowing leaves surrounded him. The collection of glowing leaves grew bigger and bigger and formed a mass vortex of glowing leaves.
"Take this! Leaf Storm!" Speedy fired a blast of leaves at the enemy Pokemon which hit most of the army of Pokemon and knocked them out. Speedy then straightened out and landed back to the ground.
"Ha! Guess the Speedster is too much for yo- AHH!" Speedy got interrupted when a pale red aura surrounded him and took control of him. A nearby Gothita was using Confusion on him when Speedy let his guard down as its eyes were glowing pale red as well. The Gothita raised her arms and lifted Speedy up into the air, leaving him helpless.
"Argh... I can't move!" Speedy groaned, straining from the Confusion.
"Hold on! I'll save you!" M.E.W. said.
He faced the Gothita, who was keeping its eye on Speedy as it torture him, and formed a ball of purple and black energy from his hands.
"Dark Pulse!" M.E.W. fired a beam of purple and black circles at the Gothita and landed a super effective hit, which made the it faint instantly and let go of its telekinetic grip on Speedy.
"Alright! I'm free!" Speedy cheered once he got back to ground level again, "Thanks M.E.W.!"
"Can't go wrong with a little dark type move just in case. It was my pleasure!" M.E.W. replied, "Now if there's no more interruptions, let's keep going. "
With all of the wild Pokemon taken care of, M.E.W. and Speedy continued down the path that was straight foward. They traveled down another narrow corridor and headed west at an intersection of corridors.
"Hey Speedy?" M.E.W. started up a conversation.
"Yeah bro?" Speedy replied.
"This is just a hunch, but I think this cave is a Mystery Dungeon." M.E.W. reported.
"A Mystery Dungeon? You mean those wacked out places where the layouts change and hostile Pokemon are?" Speedy asked.
"Yes. That's exactly what I mean," M.E.W. confirmed, "If my guess is right, then it would be no surprise that someone's in trouble here. These places get pretty dangerous."
"Hmph. That's not enough to stop the speedster! I take all of those Pokemon on if I have to!" Speedy declared, full of confidence.
Later after walking through the corridor, the two see a patch of light from the end of the path.
"Hey! Look over there! I think that's the way out!" M.E.W. said, pointing to the light.
Speedy and M.E.W. walked closer to the light and it lead to an exit, leading them back outside. The two were now at the top of a small hill-like area, next to a waterfall, but there was no path forward. There was also a huge gap to the west of the hill with another hill past it. Either way, the two reached an impasse, with no where else to go.
"Gah! Now what? There's no where to go and no one's here!" Speedy groaned.
M.E.W. eyed the neighboring hill and thought to himself for a moment.
"Hmm... Wait a minute! I think I got an idea!" M.E.W. exclaimed.
"Really? Well lay it on me bro!" Speedy said, crossing his arms.
"Wait right there!" M.E.W. requested as he flew over to the other side.
Once M.E.W. arrived at the other side of the hill he turned to face Speedy, who was waiting impatiently as he crossed his arms.
"Okay, hold still! Psychic!". M.E.W. brought both of his hands in front of him, as his began to glow blue, and shrouded Speedy with a blue light.
"Whoa! Dude, what are you doing?!" Speedy exclaimed in shock.
"Relax, I'm just going to use my Psychic to levitate you over here. I'll be extra careful not to hurt you." M.E.W. assured and proceeded to lift Speedy to his side of the mountain with his telepathic power. After a few seconds, Speedy made it across the gap safely and M.E.W. released him from the Psychic.
"Thanks bro! That was some quick thinkin' there!" Speedy praised.
"My pleasure! It's really handy to have a Psychic type around sometimes!" M.E.W. replied.
"Heh, good to know," Speedy said, "Let's keep going. I think we should be nearly there now.
The two head inside the cave, that was on their side of the mountain, en route to find whoever made the call for help. As they head down another narrow corridor, they went south into another corridor and after walking down the path for a while, the twosome saw a faint image of a group of figures in an incoming room ahead of them.
"Look over there! I think I see someone in that room!" M.E.W. reported.
"I think whoever needed our help is in there. Let's go bro!" Speedy ordered.
"Roger!" M.E.W. replied.
With that, the two dash into the occupied room.