A Walking Chestnut (Pokemon x MLP) (Cross post from Fimfiction)

Chapter 26: Digging a Tunnel.

Digging a tunnel is hard, you need to make the tunnel itself big enough to make room for the digging equipment while still keeping it stable enough so the tunnel won't collapse on itself, burying everything inside under tons and tons of rocks and stones.

Digging using the Pokemon move Dig is way easier.

It's tiring, sure, Digging upwards in an incline that will make it possible for someone else to crawl up is still hard.
You need to make sure the tunnel has enough room for the person behind you, make sure you won't get stuck and need a rescue mission, and overall you need to keep digging in the same direction.

One of the worse things that can happen when you're lost is to walk in a circle without realizing it.

Take being lost in the desert for example. You spend hours looking for some indication of where you are, you spot a landmark in the distance, let's say a large rock of some kind, you approach it only to find that you already approached that same rock from a different direction and you have just been walking around the desert for hours, no closer to a rescue than you were when you started.

That might not be the greatest example of walking in circles, I know that being lost in the desert has bigger problems than walking towards nothing, but It's the example I came up with so It's the one I'm using.

Where was I? Oh yes, The Pokemon move Dig.

Dig in the games was a ground type move that allowed the user to dig underground, making them avoid a large number of attacks, and a turn later pop up and deal a fairly high amount of damage.
In the Television series, the Move Dig is shown to allow the pokemon using it to burrow into the ground and move under it at normal walking or running speeds, depending on the pokemon using Dig at the time, of course.

Right now, I am digging at a slow pace of two meters per ten minute. For a walking speed, that is very slow and you might need to see a doctor. For a rodent, I Have no idea the average digging speed is for a creature like a mole, But I'm sure two meters every 600 seconds is extremely fast.

I could be going faster, I could simply dig upwards at a higher incline and reach the surface sooner, saving myself.
I know I could be digging farther every ten minutes. I simply haven't used Dig in almost a month, neglecting it in order to improve Vine Whip and Rollout instead.

Another reason for the slow process is that I'm digging through the same area three times, I need to make the tunnel big enough for not only myself, but also Princess Moonbeam Twinkletail to fit through.

I also am making slight turns when I reach really tough rocks, digging around them is faster than through them.

It's a slow and steady pace, I've been digging for a while now, Don't know how long, but the tunnel is looking good so far.
Sure, Moonbeam will need to crawl on all fours to get through it, but at least she won't be pressed between the ceiling and floor.

35 meters of tunnel down. Depending on how deep we are, I might need to spend an entire day digging.
A day that we don't exactly have, as Lycanroc proclaimed he will execute Moonbeam come sunset.

Hopefully Blueblood and Cadance will find a way to salvage this mess of a situation.

Crawling back to the cave where Moonbeam and the Stone Turtle are, I lean on the wall, obscuring my tunnel behind me in case somebody walks in and spots it.

It's been a long day, A Very long day.

And the Adrenaline is finally starting to run out, I really need to sleep.