Sausage note: I don't know if I mentioned this before, but this chapter was originally going to be part of the previous one, until it got too long! So instead, here it is, much bigger than I originally envisioned it. XD

On another note, remember to check your PMs and all your favourite fics! FFN has decided that notifying people about updates to things is for losers, so it's stopped doing it since last month, or so! I don't want you to miss out on things, like your friends trying to talk to you, or an update to your favourite PMD fic! Like this one!

Last time: Buneary joined the Foresters after entering a crack-filled cave, and fought against Amos of the Blind Luck. Something like that, anyway!


Chapter Twenty-Five: The Surprise Game


Having captured Gligar in one of those magical spheres and shoving him into a bag, the gang had escaped the dungeon using Buneary's escape orb. After that, they'd caught a ride on Crash Dash Rapidash's carriage and were now on their way home.

Buneary felt herself giddy with excitement at the prospect of having completed her first mission with such flying colors. She was so happy, in fact, that she didn't even mind the speedy carriage ride!

As the carriage went down a slope into a rocky tunnel - leaving the smoky, volcano-filled wasteland behind them - Buneary ran all the events of the day through her mind. She faltered when she realized something about all the day's shenanigans.

Had... she really helped at all, during most of the fights? Or the exploring?

She stared at her looplet, which now had a clear, inert emera inside of it, since leaving the dungeon. Sure, she'd landed a few hits, and been lucky enough to find a few things... but it didn't really feel like her presence had been much of a contribution to the team. Not enough, anyway...

Before her thoughts could fill with more self-doubt, Grumpig spoke up. "Y'know, that was a good day's work, Buneary," she said with a smile.

"Thanks, but... I didn't really do anything..." Buneary replied, offering back a sad smile.

Grumpig rubbed the rabbit's head, between her ears. "That's not true. You did some great work!"

"Yeah! And, well, either way, you're still learning the ropes, right?" Maractus said. "You'll be a real valuable member of the team in no time!"

Grumpig gave a thumbs up. "After today, I'll believe it."

Buneary gave a small, more genuine smile. "Thanks. Yeah, I guess it... wasn't so bad!"

"That's the spirit!"

Buneary's smile grew. Yeah... maybe she was just being silly. Sure, some things had gone a bit pear-shaped... but all in all, their missions had been a success! She just had to believe in herself more!

Her eyes lit up when she noticed their surroundings. The tunnel they were going through wasn't an ordinary one! It travelled onwards for an endlessly long distance, with only the occasional entrances to different, smaller tunnels providing any divergence.

That wasn't all, though. The most striking feature of the cave was that the walls, floor and ceiling had stopped being rocky, and were now all glassy. She could easily see the deep, blue, shimmering ocean on the other side of them. She saw all sorts of sea-faring pokémon, such as sharpedo, goldeens, remoraids, and all kinds of other things.

Buneary stared at the scenery in absolute wonder. Had she really missed all of this the first time they'd come here? It was almost fantastical in how wondrous it was! "Wow... where on Earth are we?" she asked. "Is this a dungeon?"

"You got it~! We're in Deep Ocean Tunnel!" Rapidash sang back, having apparently heard them over the tippy-tappy sounds of her hooves against the glassy floor. "I always come down here to get to this island! Thankfully, this whole road is the easy part of the dungeon, so it's a smooth ride!"

"Oh, cool~!"

"This place is soooo beautiful, huh?" Maractus chimed. She blinked. "... Oh, darn it! We shoulda grabbed a mission or two for this place, too!"

"I'm sort of glad we didn't, to be honest. I'm pooped..." Buneary muttered.

"Yeah, I'm with ya there," Grumpig agreed.

"Aww, you two are no fun," Maractus giggled. She made a sound of surprise when she noticed the button on her badge flashing rapidly. Its flashing grew more rapid by the second.

"Huh, looks like we found a mission, anyway," Grumpig muttered. "No clue what it is, though."

"Oh, is that an excuse to stop?" Rapidash asked. "Because I'm always up for an official, business-related break if-"

A figure swooped in from nowhere, all of a sudden. Rapidash was startled into stumbling backwards, crashing her large bum into the front of the carriage and making it jolt and swerve harshly.

Buneary screamed at the chaos. Oh, legends, she was suddenly reminded of why she hated riding this thing!

Thankfully, Rapidash managed to regain herself and grind her heels into the floor, screeching the carriage to a halt. She sat down and tenderly shook her hooves. "Ow, ow, ow...! These were made for running, not for abusing...!" she grumbled.

Grumpig stood up in her seat and looked back. "Hey, what's the big idea?" she called out.

Trying to calm her raging heart, Buneary hopped onto her seat to get a better look at what was behind them, followed by Maractus, who also sat up to look.

A noivern flew behind the carriage. He had an apologetic smile on his face.

"Oh, I'm sorry, ladies! I just thought you were here for the mission~" he said.

"Aha, you're the mission guy, huh?" Maractus asked excitedly. "What did'ja want us to do?"

"I believe I phrased it as 'let's go to my secret base and have fun'! Of course, it's entirely up to you!" He flew away, into one of the many pristine tunnels leading out of the main one. "I hope you'll make it!"

The girls stared after him.

"Um... what should we do?" Buneary asked.

Grumpig shrugged. "Free mission for nothing, so why not?" She turned to Rapidash. "Hey, think you could take us down that tunnel? We'll tip ya!"

"Ohhh, you bet I could!" Rapidash chimed, immediately dashing off in the bat's direction.

Buneary's heart threatened to jump out of her chest again as they jolted forwards. No, no, she could handle this...! Rapidash wasn't going to crash again...!

... Hopefully.

Gulping, the rabbit decided to calm herself by glancing around at the beautiful scenery right outside the cave, through the glassy surfaces.

Above, she saw a gyarados having a biting contest with a huntail, as a party of magikarps and clamperls cheered them on, the latter of which were sitting on the top of the cave.

To the side, she saw an alomomola handing a stunfisk a pretty scarf as they both giggled together. By their chests, buneary could tell they were girls, but the sight surprised her. Fish had breasts!? Octillery hadn't been kidding yesterday, then, when he'd made a comment about magikarps having them...

How had she never noticed, though? She didn't have any fish friends, she guessed, but still! She'd made plenty of trips down to Tempest Beach, before, so she should've seen them, anyway! So strange...

Shaking her head in bemusement, she looked to her other side and saw a slowpoke lazily swimming though the water, minding his own business. She didn't even know they usually swam so low down!

It reminded her of Elder Slowking. She wondered how he was doing, along with everyone else back home...

Well, with her brother around, there was no doubt they were doing just dandy, so there was nothing to fear!

Reassured by the thought, she started to glance about again. Below them, she could see an inky darkness, as the sea continued down to unknown depths. Though the water's ripples and the murky darkness down below made it hard to make out details that far away, she could just about see tunnels stretching downwards, many with colored shapes which could only be pokémon milling about.

She turned her attention to Maractus when she heard her straining hard. Looking, Buneary saw her gritting her teeth as she tried to tear the surskit-shaped weight that was still on her chest off with difficulty.

"C'mooon...! Geddoff...!" she strained out, pushing it away for dear life.

"Oof, that thing is really stuck tight, huh?" Buneary said. She tentatively tested her head, where hers used to be before the reviver seed had been used on her. "What's it sticking on with?"

"Some bug energy, probably," Grumpig said. "It's a pity she's a grass-type. That's probably not helping."

"Ughh, no kiddiiiing!" Maractus groaned. "I'm gonna... tear my covers off at this rate...!"

"I'm sure the ocean would love you very much for it," Grumpig joked, making Buneary giggle.

"Heehee, maybe!" Maractus turned to Rapidash. "Hey, Rapidash! D'you have any fire moves?"

"Err... I don't do any fighting, so I dunno," Rapidash replied. "Sorry! You can hold it close to my mane, if you'd like!"

"No, don't do that. Not unless you wanna go up in flames, anyway," Grumpig interjected. "Here, I'll just do this." She grunted as she pulled something from her bag that looked like a hard, rounded pink rod.

After glancing at it for long enough, Buneary suddenly realized what it was. "Hey... that's Corsola's stump, isn't it?" she asked, remembering it from the, er... incident. "I... uh... saw her drop that yesterday morning."

"Huh, yeah, I figured that belonged to Corsola," Grumpig said, shrugging. "Glad I picked it up. Corsola twigs make for great throwing weapons!" She held it out for Buneary to grab.

Expecting it to be light, Buneary reached up for it. As Grumpig dropped it, the rabbit nearly dropped to the floor, herself. "Eeep!" she squealed. "It's so heavy!"

"Heh, yeah. When a branch falls off a corsola, it goes hard as a rock."

"It's soft and light when you get it wet~!" Maractus chimed.

"What, the twig, or the corsola?" Grumpig chuckled out, making Buneary giggle again.

"More naughty comments from Grumpig! Tut, tut!" Maractus laughed.

"Hehe, you know me." Grumpig patted Buneary on the shoulder. "Now, Buneary... try throwing it at a window. Uh... wall, or floor. You know what I mean."

"Uh, okay..." Buneary replied, not exactly sure why. She tried to hoist it above her head and prepared to throw it.

"Ah, try grabbing the end of it and throwing it like this," Grumpig interrupted her. She held her arm behind her before doing a flinging motion forwards. "The leverage makes it a bit easier."

"Oh, um, okay!" Buneary tried to imitate Grumpig's motion, holding the end of the 'twig' and flinging it with all her might, to the side of the carriage.

It flew a few meters, even emitting a rocky brown glow as it went. It crashed against the wall, making a loud crack noise as the glass splintered lightly. Water started to thickly spray in through a hole in the wall, right in front of Rapidash's path. The air was immediately filled with the smell of salty sea as water pooled on the floor.

"Wah! You mean the water can get in!?" the horse shrieked, backing up in shock. Her body wriggled in fright. "That'll fizzle out my mane and hurt like ten bitches, y'know!"

"M-Man... does that mean this whole place could col-" Buneary started nervously, stopping herself as she heard Rapidash let out another scared wail. Whoops.

"Nah, we've been here before. Takes a lot of force to make that happen," Grumpig explained. She turned to Maractus. "Anyway, make like the thirsty desert plant you are and do your thing, Maractus."

Buneary flinched at the phrase 'thirsty desert'. Ugh... honestly, she might prefer being here to that cruddy place.

"Oh boy, you bet'cha!" Maractus chimed, shaking her flower-tipped ears and making them rattle.

The spraying water suddenly redirected itself out of nowhere. It flew over Rapidash, making her shriek a third time and duck for cover.

The water flew directly towards Maractus, swirled around her ears and was absorbed into her flowers as she sighed in relief.

Buneary stared in wonderment. "Wow, is that a move, or an ability, or something?" she asked.

"Yep. An ability called Storm Drain," Grumpig replied. "Doesn't even matter that it's sea water, either."

"Yup~ And when I suck in some water, I can add it to my attacks, too!" the cactus chimed.

"Huh, I can sorta do that, but with fire!" Rapidash said in surprise. She pulled a face. "Why couldn't the ocean be made of fire, instead...?"

Grumpig laughed. "I'm sure the fish would appreciate it," she joked.

"I'd appreciate it more..." Rapidash replied in a pouty voice.

Maractus splashed some water onto the surskit weight on her chest and started pulling again. "Does the fire heal you, too? Like my... Water Absorb... does...? Aha!" The weight finally came off her chest with a wet, sloppy sound. "Oh, thank Arceus!"

Buneary's eyes widened. Oh, flipping heck, she was starting to wish she'd thought of yanking it off after making it wet. She'd been so focused on healing her burns that she hadn't even thought about it.

"Uh... not really, no," Rapidash replied to Maractus, walking forwards again. She tentatively walked on her tippy toes as she crossed the large, wet puddle in her way. "Oh, no, no, don't get me, don't get me...!"

Buneary huffed in bemusement. The fire-types in the grass continent could be so quirky, sometimes.

Remembering the corsola twig, she hopped out of the carriage and went to grab it. She shivered lightly at the cold sensation of the glass, made even worse by the colder water spread across it. Yeesh... how did pokémon cope with staying in the ocean all the time when it was this chilly? She was glad she wasn't a fish pokémon.

... Not anymore, anyway...


The four girls travelled some more, with Rapidash pulling the carriage. Through the transparent walls, Buneary could barely make out the blurry figure of the noivern by himself in a different room a fair distance away. Looked like they were almost there!

In about a minute, they turned a couple of corners to go through some tunnels until they ended up in the same room. The noivern beamed brightly as they arrived.

"Oh! You made it! Let's play together in my secret base!" he announced, happily waving his wings.

As the carriage rolled up to him, the girls got out and strolled over to him. Rapidash even took her harness off with a cheerful sigh of content.

"What were ya wanting to play?" Maractus asked cheerfully.

"Yeah, what gives?" Grumpig asked.

"Aha, that's the thing!" the noivern replied. His features darkened menacingly. "... I was lying! Heh, what a shame!"

Buneary's eyes widened. What?

The noivern inhaled deeply and let loose a horrible, ear grating Screech that seemed to come from his large, circular ears.

Buneary squealed and rolled both her ears up. The other girls clamped their hands over their ears, though Rapidash had to settle for collapsing to the floor to wrap her arms around her head.

Buneary's head rattled. Owww...! Her whole body felt like it was shaky after that...!

As the bat stopped, pokémon began pouring into the room from all angles. An ivysaur, an amoonguss, a haunter, an exeggutor, a skiploom, a wingull and a delibird. They quickly surrounded the girls on all sides.

"... Nice game," Grumpig muttered, glaring. "Everyone, run for it!"

"Yep! Nope! Nope! Don't have to tell me twice!" Rapidash said, immediately scrambling for the exit. She squealed when she nearly tumbled into the amoonguss who had gotten in the way of the tunnel they'd come from.

"Where do ya think you're going?" he sneered, aiming his shield-like hands her way. He fired a large, glowing seed from each tip.

Squealing, Rapidash quickly doubled back, barely avoiding the seeds. They exploded when they landed, cracking the glassy floor underneath. Water worryingly started to dribble in from the outside.

The girls huddled into the middle of the room, back to back. Buneary felt panic start to build in her heart. Ohhh sugar.

"Well, boys! I can't believe it, but our plan worked!" the noivern called out. Was he the leader?

The gang - all boys, it seemed like - cheered loudly.

"Y'know, I think I've played much better games, before," Maractus said sheepishly.

"I think so," Grumpig muttered. She spoke up. "Alright, guys, save us the cocky nonsense and state your terms."

"Cutting right to the chase, eh?" the noivern asked.

"Aww, but I wanna gloat!" the wingull complained. "I've rehearsed for this moment!"

"Ignore her, just cut loose!" the haunter said.

"Yay!" the wingull cleared his throat and grinned smugly. "You wanted to play a game? Well, we guys have a great game for you! The game's called hand us all your belongings!"

"Never played that one..." Maractus said, pulling a face.

"D-Do we have to?" Buneary murmured, scared out of her mind. Th-This situation didn't look very good, did it?

"Yeah, sadly," Grumpig said. She reached into her bag and threw them a tiny apple. "Aw, but look at that. We've been reduced to our last apple. Guess you're outta luck."

"Very, very clever, missy!" the noivern retorted. "But, I know some bull when I see it! My ability lets me see what items you're packing. We want all of 'em."

Grumpig sighed and gave a large shrug. "Well, I tried."

"Hey, Grumpig, we should just kick their butts," Maractus said quietly, so the gang wouldn't hear her. "I'll bet the real mission was about these guys being criminals."

"We will, don't worry. I'm just lowering their guard to make things easier." The pig gestured towards the large glowing red X on her back. "Still can't use Psybeam because of this." She angled herself towards Maractus and patted the glowing green mark left on her belly. "And this thing's gonna make my Drain Punch less effective, too."

"Ah, right. Well, you know what you're doing. You're the smart one, after all~"

Buneary eased up slightly. So there was a plan? She really hoped so, anyway! She didn't know what criminals did when they didn't get to steal things!

"Alright! Fine! I crack!" Rapidash suddenly said in a panic. Had she even heard Grumpig? "I'll give you whatever you want! I mean, all I have is the carriage, but it's yours! No kicking my head in, please!"

"Tsk. Nerves of steel, this one," Grumpig said, shaking her head while putting her hands on her sides.

"Oh, oh, can I make a request?" the ivysaur suddenly said, hopping up and down on his back legs while waving his arms.

"Go ahead, bro," the noivern said, circling his wrist in a motion to let him continue.

The ivysaur sat back down on his fours. "Right, right, well... I'm a huge pervert, so can we ask them to do a strip dance?" He began to visibly salivate. "I'd love that more than whatever garbage they have!"

Buneary frowned in complete disbelief. Oh, heck no!

"Haha, sounds fun! Alright, I'll allow it!" the noivern said, looking excited by the idea, himself. "Sure! Either give us your stuff, your goods or your butts, so we can kick 'em!"

The other guys in the gang cheered along. Especially the ivysaur.

"Jeez, they strike a weird bargain!" Maractus said, laughing despite the situation.

Grumpig huffed. "Man, Swadloon told me those water-rock guys she'd captured said something similar, too," she mused quietly. "Some outlaws really only think downstairs, don't they?"

"No kidding..." Buneary muttered, too anxious to giggle, unlike Maractus. Now she really hoped Grumpig had a plan!

"Gee, I-I dunno..." the skiploom said, twiddling his green paws as he flew in place on his spinning flower. "This seems sorta... sleazy, and stuff."

"Hey, it's not that bad..." the noivern replied. "We're giving 'em a choice of three 'games' to play! A stripping game, a bandit game, or a knock out game, followed by game two!"

Rapidash giggled anxiously. "Welp, they'll dock my pay if I lose this carriage, and I don't like going unconscious for whole days on end, so deal! Deal!" she announced, quickly reaching for her bosom and lightly unraveling it. Two individual lumps came out, though still covered enough to not show anything more. "Doot, doot, doo...! Sexy, sexy, yeah...!" she hummed nervously, while awkwardly swaying her hips.

"H-Hey, wait...!" Buneary called out, stopping her before she showed off anything else. "That's... Uh...!"

"Yeah, don't. Gimmie a sec," Grumpig said quietly.

"Aww, what's the hold up?" the ivysaur whined.

Looking around at the boys, they were very anxiously waiting. Some of them, uh... their usual male bulges seemed bigger than before, Buneary couldn't help but notice. The situation made her equal parts awkward, nervous, and... er...

Grumpig spoke up again. "Hey, don't worry, you can see her in a moment. I'm just going to throw you my belongings, first! I quite prefer keeping my dignity intact, thank you very much!"

"Tsk, well, fine, fair enough," the noivern replied, sounding disappointed. "Throw us your stuff, and you can go!"

"Cool. Here," Grumpig reached into her bag and brought out a black and orange wonder orb. Inside it was some sort of floating circle, patterned with numbers and two stuttering lines. "All yours!"

The orb shimmered, sending out a wave that spread out as quick as a flash, draining the color from the environment. It shattered after, except... the glass stayed suspended in midair.

Buneary yelped and looked around, wondering if the outlaws would be mad at what she'd done.

Their eyes were widened... but they weren't mad. In fact, they weren't even moving. They just stood, frozen in place, all the color drained from them.

It wasn't just them, either. The pokémon in the ocean outside had gone completely still, too. Heck, even the water wasn't rippling anymore, and the water spewing in from the crack on the floor had gone rock solid.

Buneary blinked. "... Wuh...?" she murmured.

"Ugh, I wanted to avoid using such an expensive solution," Grumpig said. Oddly, she was still fully in color, along with Buneary, Maractus and Rapidash.

The pig moved closer to the delibird, her head gems shimmering. "But whatever. Let's spread out and beat some of them up, before they start moving again," she said, firing a Power Gem beam from her head gems at the bird. Once the glimmering lasers left her gem, however, the color left them and they stayed suspended in midair, unmoving.

"W-What did you do?" Buneary asked, bewildered.

"She stopped tiiime~" Maractus replied, hopping towards the skiploom while powering a Poison Jab with a watery aura, thanks to her ability. The poison and water leaked from her arm, becoming suspended in midair as it dribbled away from her. She giggled. "I thought you'd know all about time stopping, thanks to Team Destiny's book!"

Ohh, so that was what was going on!

On realizing she was being teased, Buneary pouted lightly. "W-Well... I didn't know you could do it without messing with the time gears..." she muttered.

"Huh, me neither!" Rapidash said in amazement. "Man, I have got to get me one of those for travelling!" She blinked. "Wait, does this mean no stripping?"

"Not in a million years," Grumpig said dryly, firing several lasers at the wingull. They, too, stayed in place.

Rapidash let out a long breath. "Oh, thank my legends! I wouldn't mind so much if it was for a muscular guy, but...!"

"Er, uh huh. Anyway, help us out, won't'cha?"

"Uh, sure thing!" Rapidash replied, running towards the closest pokémon, which was the amoonguss. Her partially uncovered breasts flailed heavily as she ran, reminding Buneary that she had yet to fix herself up properly. "I mean, I have no decent moves, but...!"

She slipped on the puddle of water left behind by the crack in the floor. Squealing, she crashed into the amoonguss, unbalancing him. Still stumbling, she kept going and rammed into the wall. Her horn penetrated the glass, going through to the other side.

"... Whoops," she muttered, quickly removing herself.

Buneary pulled a face. She hoped that wouldn't be a problem, later...

Well, whatever. She had to help out! She hopped over to the exeggutor and, using Bounce, jumped into the air. She slammed into him with her flying-type powered feet. Not stopping, she hopped into the air and stomped onto him again and again.

She wasn't sure when to stop, but his body lurched downwards more and more with each strike, still not succumbing to gravity, no matter how much he was hit. This was sure to make him faint... right?

A flash of color startled her, though everything went monotone again as soon as she'd noticed it. Another second passed before another brief flash of color appeared. This time, she was able to notice that it had been the whole room that had regained its color.

"Oops! It's wearing off!" Maractus called out, stopping her pummeling of the haunter.

"Right. Get ready to fight anyone left standing!" Grumpig called out, firing one more Power Gem at the noivern before backing off.

"Got'cha!" Buneary called out, hopping away from the exeggutor and readying herself to fight.

"Uh, yeah, sure! Totally! I can do that!" Rapidash said somewhat worriedly, stepping back from the amoonguss she'd been stomping on.

The color kept returning in flashes that grew more and more frequent and rapid as the seconds went by. Not too long after, the grayed out colors faded for good, and a familiar mix of blues and other colors flooded Buneary's vision.

At once, screaming filled the air as a huge load of lasers struck several pokémon simultaneously, and others were blown away as if they'd been hit by loads of attacks at once.

The exeggutor Buneary had been stomping on crashed against the floor, leaving a sizable, cracked dent into the glassy floor. Water leaked out, leaving the unconscious palmtree soaked.

A pressurized blast of water shot out from the hole Rapidash had accidentally left behind, stabbing into the already injured amoonguss and pushing him away. The horse yelped as water droplets splashed off him and hit her, making the flames trailing her back let off a light amount of steam.

"Ow, ow, ow! More water's getting in!" Rapidash shrieked. "Ohhh, no, no, no...!"

"Forget the water!" the bruised and banged up noivern shouted, picking himself off the ground. "What did you do to my gang!?"

Buneary looked around. Most of the gang were lying in crumpled heaps, some of which had also hit the glass in ways that had left leaking water.

"Messed 'em up," Grumpig replied to the noivern somewhat smugly. "What does it look like?"

The noivern growled. He leapt into the air to take flight, even though he looked shaky on his wings. "You won't stop me! I'm the king of darkness! I'm invincible in the dark!" he exclaimed.

"Huh? It's pretty bright here, though!" Rapidash replied, looking around in confusion.

"Yeah, genius, you should've taken us lower if you wanted darkness," Grumpig sassed.

"You weren't supposed to be this tough!" the noivern retorted. "That doesn't matter, though! I don't need darkness, 'cos I'm still gonna win! Here I come!" He let out a loud Screech from his ears that made the air ripple.

Everyone groaned in pain and covered their ears. Rolling up both of her own ears, Buneary gritted her teeth and hopped towards him. With a leap, she went at him, feet first with a Bounce ready.

The noivern stopped Screeching and flew back in surprise. Buneary was close to hitting him when a pink, sparkling wind hit her from the side, knocking her away and to the floor. It prickled at her in a weird way she couldn't describe, and she felt a little airy headed, like she was experiencing a light headrush.

Shaking her head to clear the feeling, she looked at her attacker. It was the skiploom, who was flying in the air, albeit with a bit of a stutter. Had he been poisoned, or was he just injured? Both, maybe?

Either way, he took on an offensive pose. "I... I'll stop you!" he announced, though with a nervous grimace.

"Ugh, I guess some of them didn't faint," Grumpig said in annoyance. She started towards the noivern. "Hey, Buneary, you deal with that guy, and we'll take on the big cheese!"

"We can handle him!" Maractus said eagerly, bounding towards the noivern, who flew higher into the air to avoid her.

"Yeah, sure!" Buneary called back, sizing up the skiploom.

"Er, I'll help, I guess!" Rapidash added, running next to her. "With my one, mostly ineffective move, we'll turn this around!"

"That's... great?" Buneary replied, confidence draining as the horse went on. Well... it was better than nothing?

"No! Y-You won't beat us!" the skiploom shouted, rushing towards them while coated in a glowing blue energy that looked like Aerial Ace. "I've finally made friends, so I won't let you!"

Buneary tracked his movements, getting ready to block with her arms and ears. Rapidash shrieked and, while flailing about, spat out a load of flaming balls of Ember.

The fiery balls flew in mostly random directions, making them easy to dodge for the skiploom, who zigzagged around them.

"Aghhh! Stop! Dodging!" Rapidash shrieked, firing even more Ember balls in annoyance. "Only cheaters dodge, you cheater!"

Ignoring her, the skiploom continued slaloming towards Buneary. When close enough to her, his energy converted to his foot and he performed a backflip, slicing Buneary with a kick that left a blue streak of light.

Yelping, Buneary quickly recovered and fired a load of stars at him. He used Aerial Ace again to dodge around, managing to avoid most of them and only being clipped by others. He yelled out in pain when he smacked into one of the balls of Ember that still burned against the ground despite the wet floor. Thrown off, he tumbled and crashed.

Seizing the opportunity, Buneary hopped towards him and got in several hits with her ears, using Dizzy Punch. He was quick to spin his yellow flower, sending pink, sparkling winds that sent her sliding backwards across the wet, slippery floor before she could make him dizzy.

While she tried to fight off the weird head rush it caused, she saw the skiploom standing in place, panting and nursing his various bruises.

In the distance, she could see Grumpig and Maractus dodging soundwaves that bounced off the walls and floor, fired from the noivern's ears as he flew away from them. They didn't seem to be having too much difficulty, but were staying cautious, anyway.

"Oh, aha! This is my chance~!" Rapidash sang, eyeing up the injured skiploom. She puffed out her cheeks as she presumably prepared an Ember to spit.

"Woohoo~!" someone cried from behind her. Buneary looked to see the ivysaur leaping through the air. He landed on Rapidash's back and wrapped some vines from his bulb around the horse's neck.

Rapidash coughed and spluttered, spewing out molten flames onto the floor. Screaming, she started running around the room like a woman possessed. "Holy moly, get off, get off, get offffff!" she exclaimed.

"Hahaaaa!" the ivysaur sang with a very wide grin. "You can't beat me! My perversion gives me poweeerrr~!" He twisted around on the spot and tore open Rapidash's coverings to reveal her very large bum.

Rapidash began to buck about in an attempt to throw off the ivysaur. "Oh, legends! Off my back, you non-muscular pervert! Off!"

He began playing on Rapidash's bum cheeks like they were a set of drums, making them bounce. "Neverrrrr!" he proclaimed, clearly enjoying himself too much.

Buneary stared in surprise. Oh, jeez, what was he doing!? That was so naughty! And... how the heck was he not being burnt!?

... Actually, judging from the smoke he was letting off, maybe he was. Maybe his perversions were giving him power.

"Hey, Ivysaur, s-stop that!" the skiploom called out, looking a bit horrified, himself. "That's really bad! Y-You'll go to jail, y'know!"

Buneary blinked. Biting on her lip, she swallowed down a guilty feeling and pounced towards the skiploom while he was distracted, ears extended for a Dizzy Punch.

Yelling in surprise, he barely managed to reach out and grab her by an ear and an arm, tumbling backwards in the process. Unable to reach him with both ears, she settled for hitting him with an ear and her paws as she rolled with him. He retaliated with lots of kicks as they tumbled along the floor.

He finally landed a good kick against her belly, sending her sailing a short distance away. Wheezing, she picked herself off the ground and eyed him up, wondering what to do next.

Suddenly, his eyes widened as if he realized something. He quickly hobbled towards one of his fainted friends and hid behind his body.

Buneary wondered why. An extremely loud shockwave washing over her and blasting her away made her realize. Gahhh!

She smacked against a wall and slid down it, her ears absolutely ringing. She felt cold water leak from many cracks that had formed, splashing her and making her shiver. Oh, man...! How had that skiploom known that had been coming!?

She looked and saw Grumpig and Maractus had been blown across the room, themselves. However, they were already picking themselves up and heading straight for the gloating bat.

Rapidash had been blown onto her back, squashing the ivysaur into a burnt pancake. As she quickly and dizzily scrambled to her feet to panickingly run around the room, the guy was left in an unconscious heap, a very obvious tent having formed in his crotch coverings.

Unharmed thanks to his body shield, the skiploom's flower was glowing a bright green as he held his paws high, clearly channeling a move. He flung his arms to his side as a green, grassy aura appeared below him, rapidly growing in seconds. Any area the aura touched began to grow a thick layer of sparkling grass and small, colorful plants, despite the glassy floor underneath.

As pretty as the sight was, Buneary wondered what he was doing. She accidentally let the growing grassy field touch her foot, and was surprised when it felt soothing to the touch. The light bruises on her feet faded away.

She gasped in delight. It was some kind of healing move! She quickly hopped over to stand on the grassy field properly. It was so relaxing and soothing~ She felt all of her injuries melt away!

The skiploom looked at her in surprise before frowning. "H-Hey! That's not for you!" he shouted. He inhaled and spat out loads of large seeds at once. They brightly glowed the same color as the grassy aura under them.

They smacked against her harshly, making her cry out in pain. "Ahh...! Gck, no! I've already... been hit by enough bullets, today!" she cried out, using Bounce to launch herself high into the air. On approaching the glass ceiling, she flipped around and used Bounce to propel herself downwards, flipping again to aim her feet towards him.

He yelped and dodged to the side. She hit the grassy floor and tore through it to the sound of shattering glass. The next thing she knew, she was in the extremely cold ocean, inhaling salty water. She flailed around in a panic as she realized she'd somehow ended up outside the tunnel, and was now deep in the ocean!

HOLY SHIII- S-SUGAAAR!

Before she could start drowning, she felt a current drag her upwards. She shot through the water, eventually meeting oxygen a second later. She tumbled through the air and crashed on a wet, slippery floor.

Heart beating out of control, she quickly glanced around. She saw that she was back in the room, the hole she'd accidentally crashed through pouring water out like a geyser, which was likely what had dragged her back in.

Getting to her feet, she tried to calm her heart. She tried to control her breathing. She clasped her paws over her face. No, no, no, she was done! She couldn't handle it! She couldn't handle it!

Giving a stressed out cry, she threw loads and loads of Dizzy Punches with her ears in random directions while flailing about. She barely registered yellow, holographic birds being sent out of her ears all around her. She frantically hopped away in a random direction down a hall, not caring where she ended up.


Grumpig swiped at the dumbass noivern with a glowing fist. He dodged by flying higher into the air before turning to fire a wave of Supersonic from his ears.

She retaliated by conjuring a Power Gem laser from her head gems. It flew though the Supersonic, disintegrating the sound wave, but missed the bat as he swerved out of the way. Thankfully, the laser phased through the glassy ceiling instead of breaking it, thanks to being energy-based.

She clicked her tongue. Ughh, this would be a lot easier if she could summon some proper gems, but to do that, she needed to be near some solid ground. She supposed she could convert the glass into gems, but the room was already filling up with enough water as it was. It was starting to pool up to her feet.

Maractus must've been having similar thoughts on breaking the glass, because she was avoiding using her Pin Missile, instead relying on Energy Ball. Without any natural earth or plantation to draw energy from, however, her projectiles were puny, at best.

Grumpig sighed. She was starting to think they should've just stuck to missions in Beach Cave, or Drenched Bluff. Still, it was fun watching Buneary's reaction to seeing new places, so maybe it wasn't all bad.

Speaking of... she glanced around, looking for Buneary. Her eyes widened when she saw a big yellow bird-shaped projectile flying her way.

She barely dodged, allowing the projectile to sail through the air. It hit the wall, cracking it and letting in yet more water.

Grumpig glanced back and noticed that Buneary was going ape shit. She was flailing about, punching at nothing while crying out in a panic. Each punch sent out another Dizzy Punch projectile in a random direction.

The pig wondered what was wrong, until it hit her. Run Away, right? Oh, joy.

Maractus yelped as she dodged a Dizzy Punch projectile, herself. It kept going onwards, hitting the noivern in the chest as he tried to dodge another. He was knocked to the floor, quickly picking himself up, after.

"Argh... I'm taking damage. It's just not dark enough here!" he shouted in irritation.

"No one to blame but yourself, buddy!" Grumpig called out, preparing another Power Gem.

While doing so, she noticed Buneary bounding down a tunnel with reckless abandon. One opposite the main road they'd been travelling down, earlier.

Grumpig shook her head. Ugh... she hoped the rabbit didn't go too far. She didn't feel like having another grand adventure just to rescue the girl from herself.

"Oh! Grassy Terrain!" Maractus called out, looking to the side. She held her hands together and prepared a large Energy Ball in them, which drew energy from the large, grassy field that had grown out of nowhere across the room.

The skiploom who was resting in it looked at the energy being drawn to her in surprise before frowning. "Hey! Why do you guys keep trying to steal my terrain!?" he shouted. He aimed his yellow flower at the cactus rabbit. It spun, stirring up a sparkling, pink wind that looked like Fairy Wind.

Tsk, that was bad. Fairy-type attacks could induce lightheadedness. To avoid that, Grumpig got ready to turn her Power Gem on him, instead. Something flying out of the geyser surprised her out of it. Whoa!

The blue object didn't fall to the ground, and instead, flew through the air. Getting a good look, it seemed to be a female mantyke with a moderately-sized chest, who was utterly bewildered.

"Wah! Where the flip am I!?" she shouted. She looked around and glared at the first thing she saw, which was the skiploom. "You! You don't look like a flipping wild pokémon! I'll bet you flipping did this!"

The skiploom was startled out of aiming his Fairy Wind by the sudden accusation. "What? Why me?" he retorted.

The mantyke responded by gathering wind in her 'wing' and flinging it as a sharp blade of air. Frowning, the skiploom redirected the wind coming from his flower to intercept it.

The blade of air was thrown off course. It sailed toward Rapidash, who was still running around in a panic. She barely noticed it coming towards her in time to shriek and leap over it. It cleanly sliced through the glass, leaving a large obvious cut.

Rapidash sighed and said, "Oh, wow, that was-" A large jet of water shot out of the hole with enough force to launch her in the air. She shrieked as her flames flickered and steam poured off her back. "Ohhhhhh Loooooooooord!"

Grumpig cringed. That had to hurt.

She glanced back at the skiploom. He was fully preoccupied with fighting off the mantyke now, so she turned her attention back to the noivern. Back on his feet, he was gathering air in his lungs, meaning another Hyper Voice was on the way.

As his ears began to vibrate to produce sound, two large, blobby Energy Balls were thrown into them, completely plugging them with green goo. He cried out in shock and tugged on it to try and pull it off his ears.

"Ughhh! Whatever! I still have a mouth!" he shouted. He opened his mouth wide to take in a deep breath of air.

Maractus responded by twirling and flinging another Energy Ball, which went right into his open mouth. He coughed, spluttered and gagged as it became lodged fast.

"Heehee! How's it taste?" Maractus taunted. "No Hyper Voice for you~!"

"Nice one!" Grumpig praised, finally firing the Power Gem laser she'd been storing in her head pearls.

Eyes widening, the noivern took to the air to avoid it. However, the goo left behind by the Energy Balls contained three glowing cores he'd failed to account for, one for each projectile. The cores brightened significantly and made the goo explode violently, sending him tumbling backwards through the air.

"What the-!?" he shouted, cut off as the sparkling Power Gem laser hit him in one of his legs. He spiraled back to the floor with another loud cry.

His face and fluffy white collar now completely black with soot, he shakily picked himself up, growling. "No! This isn't how it ends!" he exclaimed. He took an extremely deep breath, bigger than the others that had come before.

"Hey! He's using Boomburst!" Maractus warned.

Grumpig nodded and prepared herself. Yeah, she remembered that move. The last time she'd fought a palafin with that, it had caused a sound explosion that had been strong enough to crumble the caves around them.

She mapped out the area, trying to get an idea of how they could minimalize potential injury caused by collateral damage. Because the goo had evaporated after the explosion, he was free to us it at max strength, so it was going to be big.

Seeing all the cracked glass leaking water around them, she suddenly got a horrid idea of exactly what the collateral damage would be. "Ohh, shit, stop him!" she cried out.

Maractus yelped in surprise and flung a small, uncharged Energy Ball at the bat. He easily batted it away with a wing, not caring for the light green, harmless gloop left behind.

Grumpig frowned and fired another beam of Power Gem at him from her head gems. This would do it!

Despite his injuries, he dodged out of the way, so she redirected her ongoing beam to hit him. Just as it connected with him, launching him backwards, a humongous ball made up of pure sound escaped his mouth, flying towards Maractus at a slow but steady pace.

She dodged to the side easily, but it didn't stop. It kept flying, threatening to hit one of the walls at any second.

... Fuck.

Cutting off her Power Gem beam, Grumpig called out to her partner, "Maractus, unless you wanna get wet, we've gotta run!"

"Huh? His fighting isn't that sexy, is it?" the cactus asked, confused.

Though amused, Grumpig clicked her tongue. "Just follow me!" She began towards the tunnel Buneary had gone down while Maractus hopped after her. Glancing at the Boomburst, she saw that it had mercifully travelled down a tunnel instead of hitting a wall, buying them some time.

Turning back, she noticed Rapidash catching her breath in their path, miserably shaking off water as her flames slowly reignited.

Suddenly getting an idea, Grumpig called out to the horse. "Rapidash! Oi! Let us on your back!"

"Oh, you'd better not be planning on... doing what that jerk ivysaur did," the horse replied.

"Nope, now c'mon!" Grumpig replied, not really sure what she was getting at. She hadn't been keeping an eye on her earlier fight with the skiploom, so she had no idea. "And don't burn us, either!"

"Okay? Sure?"

Grumpig placed a hand on Rapidash's neck and swung her way up to rest on her back. The horse's flames licked at the pig harmlessly, though with a refreshing warmth.

Maractus leapt onto Rapidash's back behind Grumpig and rested her leg on the horse's side. Thankfully, and amazingly, she'd remembered to withdraw her damn needles. Something she didn't often do, because she got too excited to remember them whenever she geared herself up to hug someone.

An extremely noisy explosion suddenly rocked the entire area, the resulting shockwave making Rapidash stumble forwards while shrieking. All the glass in the area immediately began to crack heavily, and the sound of a huge torrent of water filled the room.

Ears aching from the sound, Grumpig kicked Rapidash's sides with her heels. "Hear that? It's your cue to run!" she shouted.

"Yep! Running!" Rapidash squeaked out, immediately breaking into a sprint.

Steadying herself as they sped through the tunnel, Grumpig chanced a glance back. She saw a tidal wave of ocean water rushing after them, filling the entire glassy hall. Most of the noivern's gang were nowhere to be seen, but their brave and valiant leader was barely keeping ahead of the wave with silly, frantic flaps.

"Alright, so you meant that liiiterally, right?" Maractus asked, giving her a sheepish, if not cheeky grin.

Grumpig huffed. "Maybe. Just maybe," she sassed.

"Fuuuuuuuuck fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck!" Rapidash screamed, tears streaming down her face. "Keep that shitty wet stuff away from meeeee!"

Grumpig huffed again. She suddenly spotted Buneary, who had stopped to scream at the approaching tidal wave, her paws held to her face in sheer horror.

Grumpig held a hand out and pictured herself grabbing Buneary with her mind. A psychic energy appeared around Buneary's side, allowing Grumpig to yank her towards them with a yelp from the rabbit as they sped by.

She wrapped an arm around Buneary when she was close enough, then settled her down to rest on Rapidash's neck. The rabbit was stammering out some sort of sentence, but her coherency was failing her.

"Don't worry, Buneary!" Maractus chimed, as chipper as ever. "Everything's under control~!"

"How is any of this 'under control'!? We're dead!" Buneary screeched.

"She's right! We're dead! Dead!" Rapidash screeched along.

Grumpig shook her head in bemusement. All they needed here was Runaway Salandit and Ta-Da Vivillon, and then they could complete the whole quartet of screamers.

Even imagining the three of them screaming together was enough to give Grumpig a headache, so instead, she focused on how they were going to get out of this predicament. The tunnel continued onwards in this direction, so for the time being, they could keep outrunning the water.

"Hey!" a familiar man's voice called out. They turned their heads to the side to see the noivern barely keeping up with them. "We're not... through, yet! You'll know why I'm... the king of darkness!"

Grumpig rolled her eyes. For crying out loud...

"Oh my legends, how is he still going?" Maractus asked in disbelief. "Energy Ball isn't that bad against flying-types, right?"

"Dunno. Must have a second type I forgot about," Grumpig replied. She looked down at Buneary. "Hey, you still have that corsola twig?" she asked.

"Y-Y-Yeah?" Buneary replied, looking back at her.

"Let's have it."

Buneary nodded shakily and reached into her bag. Her paw seemed to wrap around something and she began to pull it out.

Rapidash suddenly leapt over a hole in the floor that led to a tunnel lower down in the dungeon. The jolt made Buneary yank the branch out more harshly than intended, and she gasped as she accidentally brought another item out with it. The small prison ball containing Gligar, who was yelling out in shock as he fell out of the bag.

"What the helllll!?" he yelled, his screams fading as the ball fell into the hole in the floor, which quickly became engulfed by the pursuing tidal wave.

"... Whoops," Maractus said blankly, imitating Grumpig's thoughts. Oh, great.

"Oh no..." Buneary mumbled remorsefully. "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to...!"

"Eh, it's fine," Grumpig said, giving her a friendly smile to help her feel better. "The mission only told us to beat the guy up and stop him from being a pest, so it'll be fine, trust me."

Buneary let out a deep sigh and handed the branch to her. Thankfully, it was still relatively soggy, so it felt lighter than before, thanks to whatever water-type energy was contained within.

"Well, I guess..." the rabbit relented, though not seeming entirely reassured.

Grumpig let out a breath. Arceus, she was so sensitive... It was endearing, but it was hard not to worry about the girl, sometimes.

Oh well. Gripping the branch, the pig took aim. She saw the noivern gearing up to use one of his sound-based moves as he flew closer and closer to the group, so she quickly flung the branch. It glowed with a brown and blue energy as it smacked the bat in the head.

"Grahhhh!" the noivern yelled as he crashed to the floor. "Nooo! I'm the king of dark-!"

He was quickly caught by the tidal wave, and dragged into its rushing waters. He disappeared from view quickly afterwards.

"Woo, thank Palkia for that!" Maractus chimed. "Great shot, Grumpig!"

"Thanks," Grumpig replied with a light smirk. Clearly, she should've kept those revolvers for herself. Sadly, though, they'd emptied them and left them inside the prison ball with Gligar, so meh.

As the tunnel split off into different ones, a tyrogue suddenly leapt out from around a corner. "Aha! Get ready, explorer scu- Wahhhhhhhghhhhh!" he started, screaming wildly as he noticed the tidal wave.

"Sorry-no-time-to-chat-bye!" Rapidash rambled out quickly, leaping over the fighting-type to continue down the straight path.

The tyrogue quickly started to run away before getting swept up in seconds.

Grumpig snorted while Maractus giggled heartily. Well, as harrowing as this was, that had been worth it.

"Oh!" Buneary suddenly piped up. "If you see another turn like that, you should go down it, Rapidash! The water won't travel down it, if it splits right!"

"Smart plan," Grumpig praised. The girl had brains where it counted, she had to admit.

"Huh? Well, if it saves me from the water, I'll do whatever you say!" the horse replied.

She kept running, not slowing down one bit as the rushing water behind them was in hot pursuit. The group kept an eye out for any turns they could take, as Buneary had suggested, though the tunnel was going through a dry spell it seemed. No pun intended.

After a short while, Rapidash gasped loudly in shock. "Ohhh no!" she cried. "Dead end!"

Grumpig frowned and focused. It was hard to tell, because of the glassy walls, but sure enough, the tunnel seemed to end somewhere in the distance. "Well, that's just fabulous," she griped. She was starting to think she should have bought more escape orbs when she'd last had the chance.

"Could you, uh... suck it all up, Maractus?" Buneary asked hopefully.

"Gee, I can only store so much, y'know!" Maractus replied, chuckling sheepishly.

Grumpig was tempted to make a sassy comment about how the woman could probably just store it all in her tits, but she had to focus on a way to escape. Her eyes widened when she saw that there was a long, vertical tunnel connected to the dead end. Almost like some sort of large pipe going upwards. "Hey, Rapidash!" she called out.

The horse stopped her high-pitched squeal to turn and look her way. "Uh-huh?"

"Rapidashes can learn Bounce, right? Do you have that? If you do, we can escape!"

"Eh? What's 'Bounce'?"

Grumpig slapped a palm to her face. Great... they were fucked, then. Sure, Buneary had it, but there was no way she'd be carrying all of them along with her. Grumpig and Maractus could learn it, too, but the only chance they had of that working out was if they learned it in the next ten seconds...

Buneary gasped. "Bounce! Yeah, you can use Bounce!" she announced. "Maractus, hop on Grumpig!"

"... Huh?" Grumpig muttered. Before she could question her, Maractus had already leapt up and grabbed the pig around the neck with both hands. Thankfully, her needles were still retracted, but it was still uncomfortable.

"Any opportunity for a hug's a good one~!" Maractus chimed.

"Thanks!" Buneary said. She leapt over Grumpig, presumably to rest on Maractus' head. "I started a pokémon tower! Rapidash, use my Bou-! Uh... I mean, feel my move in your feet and, uh... use it!"

"... What?" Rapidash asked incredulously. For once, Grumpig was on the same wavelength. "Well, I've got nothing else to lose, so sure!"

Grumpig could only stare at the rapidly approaching dead end, feeling purely flummoxed. What in the...?

Well... if the rabbit had lost her mind, at least she was being confident about it.

Rapidash sped up her sprint to arrive at the dead end, giving them an extra few seconds before the water caught up. The girls looked up, and sure enough, there was a tunnel leading straight up.

"Rapidash, now's the time!" Buneary called out, a slight air of desperation to her voice. "Leap with Bounce!"

"Unless you wanna get us all soaked," Grumpig sassed, still fairly sure that was their main option.

"Y-Yeah! Right!" Rapidash called back, seeming like she was preparing a move. "Bouncing now!"

She let out a cry and, surprising everyone, leapt high into the air. The sound of sloshing water behind them told Grumpig that they'd barely avoided a drenching, though it still sounded close behind. Was it following them up the tunnel? It was hard to tell with Maractus hanging onto her neck.

Gck, on that note, Grumpig felt like she was asphyxiating with the weight of Maractus on her neck, with gravity pulling her down. Tightly gripping onto Rapidash, she wheezed. Legends, have mercy...!

"Wooo, you did iiiiit~!" Maractus cheered, none the wiser.

"Yeah!" Buneary cheered along. "You did it! And... oh, legends, it's high up, wahhh!" She started squealing in fright.

"I did! I did! WoooOOOO!" Rapidash cheered, ignoring her screams. "I..." She paused. "Oh, it's running out."

Sure enough, their momentum had started to slow as gravity took hold.

Screaming, the horse flailed her legs as fast as she could. By some miracle, the motion kept her running up the vertical glass tube, though the water still sounded like it was slowly advancing.

Grumpig frowned. Ugh, they were getting pretty close to the end of the tunnel, too! A little more, and they would make it!

"Here, I'll lend a hand~" Maractus chimed. "Buneary, hold this up!"

Straining to glance back, Grumpig saw Maractus produce a huge needle from her arm with Pin Missile.

Buneary stopped squealing to shakily look at it in confusion. "O-O-Okay?" she replied, plucking it. A jet of energy suddenly poured out of the back of the needle, making her squeal twice as loudly as she rocketed up, off the cactus's head.

Grumpig quickly grabbed the rabbit by the legs and held on. The force from the Pin Missile was enough to propel Rapidash up through the air as she ran.

A few seconds later, they launched out the top of the tunnel, finding themselves in a large room. Buneary let go of the Pin Missile before they could hit the high ceiling, allowing Rapidash to tumble towards the glassy ground with a clumsy, yet successful landing.

Not even a second later, it was like witnessing a geyser as water poured out of the hole they'd just come from to gush high into the air. It came out in a large, yet steady stream that sprayed water everywhere as it hit the ceiling.

Grumpig wheezed as Maractus finally let go of her neck to drop to the floor. Coughing and taking a deep breath, the pig let herself off Rapidash's back and gently placed Buneary on the ground.

Rapidash cried out in alarm as water droplets fell from the geyser onto them like rain, splashing her. "Oh, legends, there's rain, now!" she squealed as her mane let off some light steam.

"Don't'cha worry! I've got it~!" Maractus replied, absorbing the stray drops towards her. They swirled around her ears and got absorbed into the pink flowers on the tips.

Rapidash relaxed with a loud sigh. "Oh, okay, okay..." Her demeanor immediately shifted as she struck a girly pose on two hooves. "Ha! Haha~! Easy peasy! Never doubted us for a moment~!" she sang.

Giggling away at her, Maractus did some twirling hops to pose right next to her. "Yeahhh, sing it, sister~!" she cheered.

Grumpig let out a long, exasperated huff. "Pull the other one," she muttered. She looked down towards Buneary, beaming. "Hey, great job, kid! I dunno what you did, but... uh..."

Buneary was lying on the floor, shuddering with her legs held to her chest. "Wooo... Scary...!" she whimpered out.

Grumpig shook her head with a hand on her hip. Oh, that was just like her. If she'd known how scary the ride up the tunnel had been, would she have suggested her plan? Likely not.

Grumpig was startled when some large shapes shot through the water jet. They were launched in various directions to crash against the floor all over the room.

All of them were unconscious pokémon, all drenched from head to toe. Even from a quick glance, it was easy to tell that all of them, save for the tyrogue, were from the noivern's gang.

In fact, as if on cue, an especially large shape flew out of the geyser, smashing against the ceiling and falling to the ground. The bat in question groaned loudly.

Huffing in satisfaction, Grumpig strolled over to him. He was spluttering out water, and hardly in a state to fight, anymore.

"Ughh... ouch..." the noivern muttered. He tried to push himself up, but collapsed again.

"So, finally give up?" Grumpig asked.

The bat grimaced. "Okay, yeah, I lost... I just thought it might be fun to trick you... Sorry..."

Buneary walked up to Grumpig's side. She seemed to have recovered, albeit still on the shaky side. "Well... he said sorry, so I guess it's okay!" she said eagerly. "Right?"

Grumpig snorted out a laugh. "Yeah, it was just a little trick, where he wanted to steal our stuff and get us naked. And hell, maybe even alter their 'mischievous deal' so that we have to blow them, too. Yeah, apology accepted, definitely," she sassed.

Buneary faltered. "W-Well... I guess, but..."

"Nope! He and his boys are off to jail~!" Maractus chimed, wringing water out of her detect band and absorbing it.

"Aww..." Noivern whinged. "The Happy Go-Luckies let me go, after I tricked 'em in Cape of Wonders..."

"And yet you did it again. For shame," Grumpig said, tutting.

"... Whoops."

Huffing in amusement, Grumpig detached her badge from her chest and held it towards the noivern. A light emanated from it, forming a translucent orb around the bat as he cried out in protest. A second later, it shrank to a micro size, allowing Grumpig to pick it up and shove it into her bag.

"Guess I'd better do the same!" Maractus said, hopping over to the delibird of the group while unfastening her badge from her bag.

"Right," Grumpig replied, starting towards the wingull gang member. She stopped when she saw Buneary sadly watching the scene, her extended ear drooping slightly. "Oh, you alright there, kid?" she asked the rabbit.

Buneary turned to face her, seeming surprised at being addressed. "O-Oh, it's nothing! I just..." she said. She rubbed her arm, "... it's sort of sad, seeing pokémon turn to such villainy. Stealing, and trying to make us embarrass ourselves."

Grumpig let out a breath through her nose. It was like Swadloon had said at dinner, yesterday. Buneary was awfully innocent and naive when it came to matters of outlaws, it seemed. Grumpig didn't really know if she could truly be called a 'wallflower', but she was certainly delicate enough to be some sort of flower.

"Well..." Grumpig replied, "it's not like all pokémon are like that. Just the odd vagabond here and there causing a ruckus for the sake of it. None of them are truly evil, though, right? Just... misguided, I guess."

Buneary's face lit up a little at that. "Oh... not even the, um... r-renegades?" she asked with some clear hesitancy.

Grumpig clicked her tongue. "Well... they barely count as pokémon, so they don't go by normal rules. Actually, they can all go straight to Hell." She smiled. "Hey, but don't worry about them. Renegade cases are rare enough for most pokémon to have never met one. You'll be the same, I'm sure."

"... Okay," Buneary replied, offering her a small smile back. She stalled as it faded. "... Either way... I guess I should learn to get harder with bad guys, too. Even if it's a bit sad..."

Grumpig nodded and turned to look at Maractus, who was halfway through capturing another outlaw. "It gets easier, trust me."

A loud slam suddenly shook them out of their discussion. Head snapping in its direction, Grumpig saw the now soggy carriage, cracks formed across the ground where it had seemingly landed.

"Oh, thank you, legends! Thank you, thank you!" Rapidash cheered, merrily strolling up to it with a spring in her step. "Now I won't have to explain where it went while groveling~!"

Grumpig would've commented, but she was too distracted by the horse's visible ass crack. As she moved around, her large cheeks bounced while brightly lit up by her flaming tail, and all the embarrassing lady secrets between them became far more prominent by the second, much to Grumpig's chagrin.

Buneary seemed to notice it, too, because her face went red, and her eyes went wide. "... Uh..." she muttered, "I nearly forgot. I think the ivysaur, uh..."

"Hah... figures," Grumpig mumbled, shaking her head in displeasure. Actually, Rapidash had mentioned something about the ivysaur earlier, hadn't she? Well, it looked like the mystery was solved...

She called out to the horse. "Hey, Rapidash! Are you planning on showing off your backside to everyone we pass as we leave for home?"

Rapidash stopped in place. She twisted her head back to face them. "Wait... that better not be hinting at- Oh, my legends, it is!" she shrieked as she caught site of her posterior. Face going bright red, she sprinted behind her carriage while ranting in extreme irritation. "Ohhh, that bastard frog, dinosaur... thing! He's lucky I don't have many moves, or I'd- Actually, I'm going to go train and learn more moves, so this fiasco never happens again! And if I ever see that ivysaur, ohhh, he's fucked beyond words! I-" She continued rambling, so Grumpig mentally tuned her out.

She sighed heavily. She suddenly noticed a barraskewda staring through the glass from the sea, outside. He was staring at Rapidash in extreme interest, mouth hanging open.

Grumpig rolled her eyes and made an attempt to shoo him off with her hands. He didn't notice or care, so she just shrugged and dropped it. Well, as long as Rapidash didn't notice...

"Uh... what happened?" Maractus asked, hopping closer.

Grumpig snorted. "... Y'know what, I'll tell ya later," she replied. "For now, did you get everyone?"

"Yuuup! Didn't find Gligar or the skiploom, though. "

"Darn it..." Buneary muttered, clearly in response to Gligar's absence.

"Hey, it's alright, this should do it," Grumpig replied reassuringly. "Now, once Rapidash is done, uh... 'freshening up', let's get outta here."

"Yeah~!" Maractus replied jubilantly. "Sounds like a-"

"Ta-daaaaah~!" a shrill, feminine voice cried out all of a sudden.

From out of nowhere, a small yellow lizard appeared before the team, a mass amount of sparks flying from her body as she posed grandly.

"... Huh?" Buneary muttered, staring.

"Oh joy, more shenanigans..." Grumpig muttered.

"Fear not, citizens!" the obviously female, if not flat-chested, helioptile proclaimed with a flashy pose, ignoring her sassy remark. The gold ribbon tied around her neck glimmered brightly in the diluted sunlight. "Thy hero is here to save the day in a most classy and glamorous way!"

Another figure clumsily strolled up next to her. From its wobbly, uncoordinated steps, Grumpig assumed it was a spinda... but it was actually an audino. A girl, too, judging by her, er... large, uncovered tits, with only a small plaster poorly slapped over each nipple, leaving an obvious pink areola in view. Also, to complete the image, her lower half was covered in a generous amount of messily applied bandages, barely covering everything that was down there.

"Gwahaheehee...! Rightt you - hic - arre, nephew~!" the girl next to her added, her pretty, delicate voice ruined by a drunken slur, as if she was completely plastered on alcohol. "Let me at the, uh... villains~!"

"Yes! Their days are most certainly numbered!" the helioptile agreed.

Grumpig shook her head. She saw Buneary looking just as incredulous, and Maractus was giggling at the sight, as if she found the whole thing silly. Rapidash was peeking her head around the corner of her carriage with raised, confused eyebrows.

Grumpig blinked. Wait. Nephew?

She gave the small yellow lizard another glance. There was no way that... Actually, his crotch coverings were absolutely bulging! He most definitely had a titanic schlong. Alright, she believed it, now.

She smirked lightly when she saw that Buneary had noticed, too. Her eyes were as wide as dinner plates, and locked firmly onto the lizard's crotch. Okay, Grumpig was absolutely sure, now. That rabbit wasn't as innocent as anyone would expect.

"Now, then, where dost the villains lay?" the helioptile proclaimed. He patted the badge on his chest. Its shiny, chrome front and its green button telling the pig that they were a bronze rank team, while the gold wings implied they were independent from any guilds. "Our flashing badges tell us that they lie in waiting around here! Hiding, presumably!"

"Yeah, we kinda kicked their tooshies, already!" Maractus said cheerfully. "See? Your badges aren't flashing anymore!"

The lizard stared. He glanced at his badge and seemed to realize that she was right. He blinked a few times before beaming. "Aha! Splendid! My remarkable exploits have no doubt caused the villains to surrender of their own accord!" He leapt into the air with a flip and landed on one hand to pose grandly again. "Truly, this further cements my status as the greatest explorer of them allllll~!"

"Yaaaaa - hic - aaaaaay!" the audino cheered, nearly toppling over as she reached into her white treasure bag patterned with an oran berry. She brought out a bottle filled with a yellowy-brown liquid that didn't award any points to people who could guess what it was. "That'ss worth a drinkk~" she said, pulling off the top and taking a swig, nearly tumbling as she did.

Grumpig had both paws on her hips as she gave them an incredulous look. Great, the circus was in town, apparently. They must've been, because Maractus was giggling up a storm.

The pig suddenly noticed the barraskewda from before looking twice as excited at the sight of the pink rabbit, his crotch bulge bigger. Ugh...

"Uh... congrats...?" Buneary said, giving a light, awkward applause to the helioptile.

"Umm..." Rapidash quietly said from behind Grumpig, surprising her from the suddenness. Thankfully, her boobs were properly tucked away, and presumably, her ass wasn't in a state which would give boys boners anymore. "Are these wacky guys friends of yours?"

"I frigging hope not," Grumpig muttered back.

"Great, so we're done, right?" a somewhat scratchy voice from above started, giving the pig a second shock. She looked up in time to see a blue crawfish drop down from the ceiling to land in the middle of everyone. He was wearing a blue and yellow striped mobile scarf adorned with a footprint, and had a dry look on his face. "Outlaws taken care of, friends made and all that lovely crap. Great. When're we getting paid?" he asked.

Grumpig huffed incredulously. "Never, with that attitude."

"Now, now, Clauncher!" the helioptile scolded. "It is not about the payment! It is about delivering justice, promoting acts of heroism and improving my heroic reputation~!"

The clauncher rolled his eyes. "Ugh, right. Yeah," he retorted. "Glad you reminded me."

"Splendifferous! Do not mention it!" the helioptile happily replied, the sarcasm apparently flying right over his head. He turned his attention to Grumpig. "... So about our money? When shall we expect it?"

The clauncher slapped a pincer against his face while Grumpig pinched the bridge of her nose. Maractus was howling in laughter. Buneary and Rapidash were cringing, and the pig didn't blame them.

"Ssilly nephew~" the audino said with some loud giggling. "The client iss the one that pays us~ Not the... uh... these people!" She loudly giggled again, making her tits wobble distractingly.

The helioptile held his head up high. "We delivered our services with such splendor that I am sure they will gladly pay us, too!"

"Yeah, about that..." Grumpig started, readjusting her crooked stamina band, "we captured them. So if you don't mind, we'll be taking home the winnings."

"Um... sorry," Buneary mumbled sheepishly.

The helioptile stared blankly. The clauncher didn't even wait a second before flailing his pincers in extreme exasperation.

"Faaaantastic," the water-type announced irritably. "I guess this whole trek was a grand waste of time, then!"

"I dare say that Clauncher is right!" the helioptile agreed. He frowned, but it was so dainty that it looked more cute than anything else. "This is an outrage! Thine problem was merely solved by me being in the area, was it not?"

"... Not," Grumpig remarked, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeahhh, I didn't even know who you guys were, until a minute ago," Rapidash added. "These friends of mine should definitely get it!" She beamed and wiggled around in delight. "Especially since they're tipping me! Ohh hoo hoo~!"

"Lookss like they've gott us there, nepphew~" the audino slurred, the bubbly cheer in her voice not leaving, "They beat uss to it, sso we should, um... leave 'em be, and let by-... bygo-..." She stared blankly at nothing in particular, her smile unwavering. She shrugged heartily. "... I forgot~! Gwahaheehee~!"

The helioptile utterly seethed in anger. He somehow composed himself with a huff. "Yes, I suppose we should let thy bygones be bygones!" He pointed directly at Grumpig and the others. "But doth heed me, rival team! The next time our paths shall cross, I, Wondrous Helioptile, will reign victorious!"

"Ohh, I hope so..." Maractus said, wiping tears from her eyes. "You guys are great!"

"Something like that..." Grumpig said dryly. Something inside told her that not many called him 'Wondrous'.

The helioptile gasped in delight and proudly stuck his chest out. "Thy reckoning shall be less ruinous, big bosomed one!" He cutely glared at the others. "Not so for you, however, fiends!" He ran down a tunnel, his legs flailing in a way that got an amused snort out of Grumpig. "Come, Liquor Nurse Audino and Stealth Sniper Clauncher! More adventures await for Thou Grandest And Most Glorious!"

"Rightt you are, nephew!" Audino called back, stumbling after him.

"I fuckin' hate my life..." Clauncher muttered, scampering after him. He clambered up the walls as he reached them, likely with the help of his mobile scarf.

Grumpig shook her head. Ughh...

Audino halted with a light gasp. "Oh... I guesss I'd better do my job as a... y'know, a..." She clicked her fingers several times as she tried to recollect, "... nurse!"

Grumpig huffed in amusement. Well, she seemed just a little less out of it than Magilope's kid, so it could be worse.

"Oh?" Buneary asked, looking curious.

Audino brought her paws together and formed a sparkling ball of water between them. It grew large fairly quickly until she flung it at the group.

Grumpig yelped and blocked, not expecting the sudden attack. However, the messy ball of water missed her and the rest of the girls by a wide margin. Er...?

Tracking it, she was surprised when it let loose a watery explosion on hitting the floor, spraying sparkling water over everyone. Gah!

Rapidash squealed loudly as it washed over her. "Oh, legeeeeends! The water's...!" She stopped to blink. She smiled. "Ooh, that's really soothing me up, actually~!"

Grumpig huffed in agreement. As the water flowed down her, she could feel her aches and pains fading away on contact. Looking at the expressions on the others, Grumpig could tell she wasn't alone.

"Wow, that 'Life Dew's real neat~" Maractus praised, letting out a deep sigh as the water dribbled down through her various needles.

"Yeah. Thanks!" Grumpig said, smiling. She huffed. "Coulda told us you were healing us, though. Give us a less of a fright, 'n' all."

"Ssorry! I forgot!" Audino replied, giggling as she stumbled towards Grumpig. The pig flinched at the sudden, powerful stench of sweetened alcohol emanating from her. Anybody who tried to argue that she wasn't currently inebriated was full of it.

When the pink rabbit staggered behind Grumpig, the pig craned her head around to see what she was up to, murmuring in curiosity. She jumped lightly as Audino tenderly rubbed her paws over Grumpig's back. She felt the mental block that had been preventing her from using Psybeam fade away not long after.

Not pausing, Audino drunkenly weaved around the pig, and gently traced her paws over the glowing green mark on Grumpig's belly that Lunge had caused earlier in the day. The mark slowly faded into nothing, and Grumpig gradually felt her strength return.

"There we - hic - gooo~!" the audino announced, posing on one foot and nearly falling over. "All healed up and ready for, uh... doing your thing! Gwahahahee~!"

"That was so kind of you~!" Buneary said, beaming brightly.

"Yeah, thanks," Grumpig said, smiling again. "You're the highlight of your team, no matter what your nephew thinks about herse- Whoops, uh, himself." She turned to Maractus. "Hey, think we should throw her some money?"

"For sure!" Maractus said, fishing into her bag for some poké. "Laughs, and some healing? Couldn't ask for better~!"

"Naww, don't mention it~" Audino replied, waving her off. She took out a bottle of her ambiguous alcohol and gave it a swig. Her already flushed face grew even redder as she put it back. "I'm a nursse! That's what we do~" She stumbled away, in the direction of where her compatriots had stormed off to. "Byeee~! Iff we - hic - meet again, let's go drinkking!"

Everyone gave her their farewells as she tottered away. Grumpig wondered for a second if she should call after her to let her know that her bandages weren't really covering her ass crack anymore, but she had a feeling she probably didn't care much. Maybe. She was due for a hell of a hangover, either way.

Grumpig noticed that the barraskewda from before was fervently following the pink rabbit. She considered Power Geming the guy, but decided she was done with shenanigans for the day.

"She was really nice~" Buneary chimed. "But, uh... a bit strange."

"That's what a good drink will do to ya, I guess," Grumpig said with a shrug. "... Or a few dozen, looking at her."

Buneary tilted her head. "Er... I guess so...?"

"Honestly, after today, I think I need what she's drinking," Rapidash said.

"I wouldn't mind, either~" Maractus said. She suddenly looked unsure about something. "Man, that wasn't too mean of us, was it? I mean, we could've given the whole team something." She giggled. "Especially since they were so funny!"

"If they'd been less annoying, then maybe," Grumpig replied. "Ego and an attitude. What a team."

"Wellll, I guess so!"

"Yeah. That Clauncher was pretty mean," Buneary replied, pouting.

Grumpig nodded. "You can say that again. Anyway, let's get riding home, shall we?" she suggested.

"Oh, thank you!" Rapidash said, quickly running over to strap herself into the harness. "Every second I spend here is another second surrounded by water, which I could do without! I'm about to lose my mind!"

Like she hadn't already... "Right, exactly."

The girls quickly climbed into the carriage. Once they were secured, Rapidash started down a tunnel. Thanks to the transparent walls, they could generally make out the path needed to make their way towards the main tunnel that connected the two islands of the Grass Continent.

Grumpig deliberated on whether or not she should bring out her book, Trying Again. Before she could decide, however, she saw Buneary glancing at nothing in particular, displeasure written all over her face.

"Hey, what's wrong, kid? Everything worked out, didn't it?" Grumpig asked.

"Oh, well... I still can't believe I messed up and dropped Gligar," Buneary muttered with a sigh. "Maybe it was a bad idea for me to carry him."

"Aww, it could've happened to any of us!" Maractus reassured. She beamed, shaking her ears to let out a small rattle. "So turn that frown upside down, yeah?"

"Right," Grumpig agreed, giving the small rabbit a thumbs up. "Besides, he wasn't a proper outlaw, anyway. We only needed to get him to stop causing a ruckus in Hidden Cave, and, well... when he gets his strength back and breaks out of that prison ball, he'll keep his nose clean if he knows what's good for him. So whatever, we did it, right?"

"Well... if you say so. Thanks," Buneary said, smiling in appreciation. She let out a breath through her nostrils. "Wherever he is, though, I hope he's alright..."

"Probably," Grumpig replied, shrugging as she pulled her book out. He was a dick, so honestly, she didn't care, as long as he wasn't dead or anything.


TO BE CONTINUED!


Finished: 13/11/2023

Word count: 13,079

VGS2's sausage notes: Use a sea-dwelling pokémon that doesn't come from Hoenn challenge: Impossible! (Alright, more like unlikely, but still. There's so many, compared to other regions!)

In other news, in Deep Ocean Tunnel from Super Mystery Dungeon, apparently everyone's levels automatically get set to five, until they leave the dungeon. I'll, er... ignore that. XD I'm sure I might use that logic for a dungeon one of these days, though...

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Author: ChristianDragon

Universe: Original Pokémonverse with trainers!

Main species: A shiny umbreon, a charmander, a skitty, a teddiursa, and some humans

Summary: An adventurous Umbreon named Zack has always had a knack for adventure. See what adventures await him when he gets captured along with the not so normal team he's on.

Editor's note: To elaborate, because the summary's a bit basic, he finds himself having to go against all sorts of evil teams and groups, and all while remembering his old life with his friends! One of which was very special, indeed!

Romance: It's been promised!

Wackiness: Plenty! The main character is a silly sausage!

Lewdness: Not really!

Action: Lots! Both with trainer battles and fights for their lives!

Grittiness: Not too much, but dramatic moments happen!

Length: Already pretty long, and there's no end in sight just yet!

This one's a classic that, unfortunately, many people may have missed! It's a fic ravengal and I have been enjoying for about half a decade now, if not longer!

With all of the wacky shenanigans that go on in this fic, I can't recommend it enough! XD I was sad to learn that it had been quietly cancelled, at some point... but miraculously, the author has decided to come back and work on it again! Great news indeed! :D

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Fun mistakes of the day:

#1: 'Buneary at the scenery stared in absolute wonder.'

(Say this in a grand, pompous voice, and you're set!)

#2: 'It crashed against the floor, making a loud crack noise as the wall splintered lightly.'

(I guess the reverberations made the wall crack instead of the floor. What an amazing trick shot!)

#3: 'through the glass walls and ceiling. She saw a guy'

(Imagine going to an aquarium, and there's just a guy there, instead of any fish. Then again, I guess that's what an aquarium is to a fish, huh?)

#4: 'She saw a slopwpoke lazily swimming though the water,'

(Sloppy Slowpoke is not a good person to aspire to be!)

#5: 'It flew a few meters, even a rocky brown glowing as it went.'

(It feels like I accidentally quoted high quality literature.)

#6: "The watter spreaying"

(Note the quotation marks. Someone decided to quote the narration, but really badly.)

#7: "Yup~ Makes me shoot stronger stuff stronger, too~!" the cactus chimed.

(Stronger than strong!? Whatever this 'stuff' is mustn't be underestimated!)

#8: '"Gee, I-I dunno..." Skiploon said,'

(Sounds like a minion creature's name, to be fair.)

#9: "Still can't use Psywave because of this."

(Naww, Grumps. The main reason is because you haven't learnt that anyway, you plonker!)

#10: 'Their eyes were widened... but they weren't made.'

(How can you widen your eyes if they haven't been made yet?)

#11: 'Her breasts flailed heavily as she ran, remind Buneary that she was yet to fix herself up properly.'

(I dunno... I might just forget...! :D )

#12: 'she crashed into the amongus'

(Aww shit, I knew I'd slip up, eventually! Now I've created a very SUS pokémon!)

#13: 'Rolling up both airs, Buneary gritted her teeth'

(Air Bender Buneary strikes again...)

#14: "We can handle him!" Maractus said eagerly, bounding towards the noivern, her flew higher into the air to'

(I believe I can fly...!)

#15: 'It hit the wall, cracking it and letting it yet more water.'

(Don't let it water, no matter what you do!)

#16: 'She accidentally let the growing grassy field touch her footy'

(What a terrible idea! Never touch a Brit's football game, or things will get bloody violent!)

#17: 'She tumbled through the air and crashed on a wet, slipper floor.'

(Is the floor coated in soggy slippers? Imagine the nasty damp smell...)

#18: 'She redirected her ongoing beam to hit him, but but ass'

(When she hit him, it smacked his huge asscheeks and got negated, it seems.)

#19: 'The mantyke responded by gathering wind in her 'wing' and flinging it as a blade of air. The skiploom It cut cleanly through'

(Oh dear, that's what I get for fixing the sentence! I guess mantyke just became a renegade!)

#20: *Every single time I made Noivern fire a sound-based move from his mouth*

(For fuck's sake, he has giant speakers on his head! They're right there! I really need to start staring at these pokémon until I stop being a doofus. XD)

#21: 'Frowning, he inhaled again and opened his mouth, still looking to use the move.'

(He inhaled before opening his mouth? Is he practicing proper breathing techniques by breathing through his nostrils first?)

#22: 'imitating Grumpig thoughts'.

(I wonder what the average grumpig thinks of, every day...)

#23: 'Grumpig placed a hand on Rapidash's neck and swung her way up to rest on her back, her flames licking at the pig harmlessly,'

(Whose flames? Grumpig's? Is she cooking herself? Is it bacon time?)

#24: "Yes! Their names are most certainly numbered!"

(I must've gotten distracted while writing, because this is factually incorrect. What are they, clones?)

#25: "Are these friends of tours?"

(Helioptile's team is a team of tour guides, it turns out! Or maybe they just enjoy Mario Kart on the phone!)

-One In A Million bonus mistakes!-

#26: 'Chancing a glance back up, he saw a frown of pure shock and horror on Raichu's face. Pichu had dropped him'

(I'm not surprised, honestly! They have a fair bit of a size difference, don't they?)

#27: 'Diana unfolded her arms to pint'

(I wish female pikachus offered me a pint when I go down t' pub.)

#28: 'Diana's eyebrows froze, though she still looked furious.'

(I'd be annoyed, too, to be fair! Damn it, Buneary, there was no need to Ice Beam her!)

-PikaBun One-shot Wonders, Chapter 4: Girl Troubles (lol) bonus mistake!-

#29: 'Once Dawn was finished brushing Buneary, the rabbit Pokemon hopped over to Pikachu, still completely smitten over well he'd done in the last gym match.'

(Why is she impressed over him fucking a well during a battle? I guess that's not something everyone can say they've done...!)

-PikaBun One-shot Wonders, Chapter 5: Come Dancing bonus mistake!-

#30: 'It was the mansion playroom, which consisted of many stuffed Pokemon'

(Pikachu and Buneary accidentally stumbled into a dodgy taxidermy room. They should get out while they still can!)


-ravengal's usual shenanigans! .gif-

She hit the grassy floor and tore through it to the sound of shattering glass. The next thing she knew, she was in the extremely cold ocean, inhaling salty water. She flailed around in a panic as she realized she'd somehow ended up outside the tunnel!

"Blub blub blub...!" she cried out. Translation: 'Oh, goodness gracious me, I seem to be drowning! Oh my! Oh dear! Oh sugar!'

Then she drowned.

"She's dead too, Jim," Grumpig said.


Thanks for reading, mate! You're the best! :P

Now, I must share a shameful secret... this chapter was split into two. Which means that the next one will likely be posted sometime this week! :D

Hope you're looking forward to it! In the meantime, I hope you fave/follow/review/comment/bookmark/subscribe/click the bell/drink some water you dehydrated plonker, and until next time... tata for now! c: