The two thugs commenced their attack, Croagunk headed for M.E.W. and Meditite closed in on Speedy. Meditite proceeded with a Drain Punch but Speedy used his speed and dodged it, appearing behind her.
"Heh. You're too slow dudette!" Speedy taunted.
"Grr! You dare to mock me?!" Meditite growled as turned around and aimed a Brick Break at Speedy's face, but Speedy ducked and dodged again. He then countered with a Leaf Blade at Meditite's stomach,which knocked her down, and leaped back to put some distance between the two. She sprang back up and dashed at Speedy. Speedy quickly summoned two green vines, from the yellow collar on his neck, and began to lash them at his approaching opponent, using Vine Whip. Meditite moved out of the way of Speedy's strikes and continued to close in on him. Before she could get too close to him however, Speedy used Vine Whip one more time and entangled her legs together, making her trip and fall on her face. He then picked her up and and threw her against one of the room's walls.
"Ugh!" Meditite cried out before falling to the floor. "Why you insolent..."
Before Meditite could get back up, Speedy leaped into the air and fired a Leaf Storm attack, his second one so far, at her. She quickly rolled out of the way and avoided the attack and then tried to approach Speedy again. Speedy used his earlier tactic and used Vine Whip to intercept her. However, Meditite thought fast and grabbed one of the vines. She then yanked on the vine, knocking Speedy off his feet, and spun him around a few times before throwing him against the wall this time. Speedy grunted at the impact against the rough edge of the cave wall as he landed facefirst onto the ground.
"Ow... This girl doesn't play around!". Speedy groaned to himself.
With M.E.W., Croagunk lunged forward, with his fingertips surrounded with purple aura, and tried to punch him, using Poison Jab. M.E.W. dodged by flying over him and countered with a Dark Pulse attack at his back, slamming him into the ground. Croagunk got up to see M.E.W.'s eyes starting to glow blue, indicating that he was about to use Psychic. Right before M.E.W. could execute his attack, he dashed up to him and slugged him in the stomach with an abrupt punch, using Sucker Punch. M.E.W. held his stomach from the pain of the super effective hit and left himself open for several more punches to the face. Croagunk finished the combo by slamming M.E.W. with a Brick Break, that knocked him to ground. M.E.W. levitated back up and rubbed the where Croagunk hit him.
"Heh heh heh! Don't think ya gonna use those Psychic powers of yers and take me down that easily. I float like a butterfly n' sting like a bee! You can't deal with someone as brutal as me!" Croagunk bragged.
"Hmph! We'll see about that! I won't lose to a bully like you!" M.E.W. said, standing his ground.
"Now yer sounding like that Buneary wimp! Guess it's time to mop the floor with you like we did her!". Croagunk threatened as he lunged at M.E.W. with another Brick Break.
M.E.W. dodged the attack and flew a considerable distance away from his opponent.
"Time to give this move a try!" M.E.W. said with a smile before closing his eyes and waggled his index finger, on both hands, rythmically and repetitively. He was using Metronome.
"Man, what in the world are ya doin'?" Croagunk questioned, eyeing M.E.W. like he was an idiot.
"You'll see!" M.E.W. smirked, still waggling his fingers.
"Now ya startin' to tick me off! Stop messin' around and fight!" Croagunk yelled as he leaped at M.E.W. with a Poison Jab.
When Croagunk was halfway from striking him, M.E.W. fingers flashed with white light and M.E.W.'s eyes opened sharply. His arm glowed with a white light and he suddenly dashed at Croagunk and slammed Croagunk with a high speed punch to the face, using Mach Punch, before his attack could hit. Croagunk was sent flying it into the air from the sudden attack he just took before falling back the ground.
"Yeah! Metronome rocks!" M.E.W. cheered.
Croagunk slowly rose up with a angry scowl painted on his face.
"Okay... Yer dead meat now!" Croagunk growled.
Meditite advanced on Speedy with punches and kicks, with several Brick Breaks thrown in then and there, executed at high power but Speedy kept dodging at high speed. When he saw an opening, he spun around and lashed out a Leaf Blade at her stomach but Meditite saw this coming and grabbed his tail. She then countered with a Low Sweep attack at Speedy's legs, punched him in the gut and High Jump Kick'd him in face, sending into the wall again. Speedy got up and shook off the damage before firing another Leaf Storm, his third one, to push back. Meditite just narrowly avoided the attack and aimed a Drain Punch at Speedy's stomach. He couldn't get away in time, due to speed loss from the Low Sweep, so he took a direct hit
"Gah!" Speedy exclaimed in pain.
Meditite followed it up by grabbing Speedy and throwing him over her shoulder but what she didn't notice was that Speedy used Vine Whip to grab her by the stomach, as soon as she grabbed him, so when Meditite threw him, Speedy straighten himself out, landed on his feet and threw her into the air instead. Speedy took this chance to jump after her and slam her down with another Leaf Blade. Meditite slammed into the ground and got back up a few seconds later, snapping back to her martial arts stance. She was covered with a decent amount of bruises all over, same with Speedy, and she was not happy about it.
"You actually were able to put a decent fight with me," Meditite started, "but this is where you meet your defeat!"
"I gotta admit, you're a killer fighter dudette! Looks like I gotta pull off my secret move!" Speedy said.
"Secret move? Hmm, I'm actually curious. Bring it big boy!" Meditite taunted, motioning her hand at Speedy to come here.
It was then that Speedy crossed his arms, stood up straight and winked his left eye as bunch of pink hearts came out of it. With a sly smirk on his face, he fired the hearts at Meditite. When the hearts reached her, they circled around her continuously as Meditite eyed them in confusion. After a few seconds they stopped circling and piled onto her, making her glow pink. Before you knew it, Meditite's eyes turned into big, anime hearts as she gave Speedy an infatuated look. In her point of view, Speedy was the image of the most handsome boy on the planet. Her aggressive attitude simmered down and her posture went gentle and her mind was clouded with a lovey-dovey attitude, so she couldn't attack. Speedy's secret move turned out to be Attract and since he was male and Meditite was female, it worked perfectly.
"Wow... I never knew you were so handsome..." Meditite dreamily sighed.
"People always said I was quite the charmer," Speedy joked, "Now to wrap this up!"
Without hesitating, Speedy pulled his vines and began to use Vine Whip over and over, whipping Meditite in the face many times, and she was too lovey-dovey to do anything about it. He then jumped into the air, spun into the air and slammed Meditite in the head with a Leaf Blade, knocking her down. Meditite sluggishly got back up, still infatuated, and stared at Speedy with her heart-filled eyes.
"You want more? Okay, you've asked for it!" Speedy proclaimed.
With a swift movement, Speedy spun into the air and fired another Leaf Storm, number four, and landed a super powerful hit, swallowing Meditite in the mass vortex of leaves. Speedy had the secret ability, Contrary, so instead of his Special Attack going down two stages with each Leaf Storm, it goes up two stages. His Special Attack was now up eight stages, since he used Leaf Storm four times total, so the last Leaf Storm he used knocked Meditite out instantly. Her heart-shaped eyes were replaced with swirls, indicating that she fainted, and Speedy stood tall in victory.
"Aw yeah! Ya don't mess with the speedster!"
M.E.W. was getting carried away, with his fight with Croagunk, and went on a Metronome frenzy. As he dodged each of Croagunk's Brick Breaks and Poison Jabs, he countered with a random move, summoned by his Metronome, and Croagunk couldn't Sucker Punch him because the move made him totally unpredictable. First he used it to summon an avalanche of large rocks on Croagunk out of thin air, using Rock Slide. Next time he countered, he used Metronome to shroud himself in fire and tried to tackle his opponent at high speed, using Flame Charge, which Croagunk dodged. Croagunk tried to Poison Jab M.E.W. again but he dodged and used Metronome again, which tweaked his brain into making him let a loud roar like a lion, using Noble Roar. The noise made Croagunk tremble as he felt some of his strength diminish and while he was distracted, M.E.W. used Metronome again, this time it made him spew sticky, white string from his mouth, using String Shot, and entrapped Croagunk with it. Croagunk was getting extremely annoyed, since M.E.W. was having a little too much fun with his Metronome, and used all of his strength to break out of the sticky string trap, sending treads of string everywhere.
"Stop foolin' around wimp and fight me for real!" Croagunk yelled at M.E.W.
M.E.W. just sighed and closed his eyes.
"Fine. I'll only do it one more time and that's it." M.E.W. said, a little disappointed.
"Pfft, whatever. Get it over with so I can clobber ya." Croagunk groaned as he prepared himself.
With that, M.E.W. used Metronome one more time and when his fingers flashed, and the move tweaked M.E.W.'s brain, M.E.W. had a mischievous smile on his face.
"Oh this is gonna be good..." M.E.W. chuckled to himself.
M.E.W. cleared his throat, closed his eyes and suddenly started singing.
"La, la la la, la la la..."
As M.E.W. sang, multicolored sound waves were being emited from his mouth and approached Croagunk, who had a look of confusion on his face.
"What the heck are ya doin' now?!" Croagunk asked, annoyed.
A few moments later, Croagunk's eyes started getting heavy as he let a yawn.
"La, la la la, la la la..."
M.E.W.'s soothing song was slowly putting Croagunk to sleep.
"Oooooh... That song... It's so... Relaxing..." Croagunk sighed as he struggled to stay awake.
Soon Croagunk flopped down to his stomach and drifted off to sleep, snoring loudly. When M.E.W. finished singing, he noticed that Croagunk was sleeping on the job.
"Alright! Now to finish this fight!" M.E.W. cheered before snapping back to his battle position.
His glowed blue again and M.E.W. finally got to strike Croagunk with a Psychic, lifting him off the ground with his telepathic power and hurling him against the wall. The super hit knocked Croagunk out as his eyes turned into swirls.
"Picking on someone doesn't make strong at all. It only made you into a brute." M.E.W. said to his defeated opponent.
The thugs were now defeated as M.E.W. and Speedy approached each other.
"Alright! Way to go bro!" Speedy congratulated his partner.
"Thanks! You did great too! I'm glad you were alongside me!" M.E.W. replied.
"No problem bro!" Speedy said with a grin on his face, "Now let's check on that Buneary kid!"
"Right."
The victorious duo rushed over to the the injured Buneary, who was currently unconcious. Speedy kneeled beside her and tried to gently shake her awake.
"Yo dudette? Are you okay? Speak to me." Speedy called out to her.
The Buneary slowly opened her eyes, moaning a little, and saw her two heroes looking at her with concerned eyes.
"Mmm... Ugh. What happened?" Buneary asked.
"Those bullies you confronted were beating you up but not to worry! We took care of them." M.E.W. reported as he pointed to the defeated team of crooks.
"Oh... You did?" Buneary questioned.
"Yep! Those fools won't be bothering you for a while." Speedy assured, "Can ya stand up?"
"I think so..." Buneary slowly tried to push herself back up as Speedy and M.E.W. helped her. She got back to her feet and looked at her two helpers.
"Thank you so much for saving me! I really owe you!" Buneary said.
"It was truly our pleasure miss." M.E.W. replied, trying to be polite.
"Yeah no prob!" Speedy added in, "Are you okay? You look pretty roughed up."
"I'll be fine." Buneary responded, "Could you do me a favor and bring me my bag?"
"Certainly!" M.E.W. volunteered before he flew over to where the brown bag full of food was, grabbed it and brought to Buneary.
When he gave her the bag, Buneary reached in and grabbed a round, plump, blue berry out of it, an Oran Berry. She then took a small bite of the berry and suddenly felt her strength return to her. Buneary was back to optimal heath.
"Ahh! That's better!" Buneary sighed.
"Could you tell us your name?" M.E.W. requested.
"Yes. My name is Fluff. Fluff the Buneary."
"Nice to meet ya Fluff!" Speedy said, "I'm Speedy the Snivy and this is my pal M.E.W. the Mew."
"Speedy and M.E.W., thank you again for saving me!" Buneary praised as she bowed at the duo.
"Don't you worry about it Fluff. We're happy to help!" Speedy replied, "Now let's get you out of here!"
"Okay!" Buneary said.
With that, the three exited the cave.