Adventures in the Insane: A Pokemon Story

No Trips Until Next Fall

        It stayed dark. 
      "Kris, you can open your eyes now." Sam helped me peel my hands from my eyes, not that there was much to see anyway, but the feeling of the walls closing in on me had dissipated; the cave must be huge. "Now getting back to my question: How did Alan catch up with us?" 

Vaporeon
         My guess is he hitched a ride with Jay on Swellow. 

         "Gah! Vaporeon! When did you get out?!" Mind you, my eyes had still not adjusted to the darkness, sudden Pokemon voices giving out valid guesses was a bit startling. 

Charizard
          When we found out the cave was big enough to move in. I'm pretty sure he climbed on Blaziken's back and they sprinted here. 

          "Charizard!" He spoke right into my ear, so naturally I had to turn around to see him. In the dark. Where I can't see. Needless to say, I ended up ramming my head into his with a hollow echo bouncing off the walls of the cave, maybe giving my Pokemon with echo location inclined senses a judgment of the width of the cave. "OUCH!" 

Charizard
              Ouch, what?
Mew
             Well that looked like it hurt...
Pidgeot
             Look how big the bump is!
Mew
            I want to poke it! 

       "Alright! That's it! Everyone back in your pokeballs!" In reluctant succession, I heard my Pokemon return in the little gasps pokeballs made when drawing a Pokemon into its unfathomable depths. What was it like in a Pokeball.....? 
              "Whoa. Pidgeot was right. It's friggin' giant," I could feel Sam's finger hovering over the spot I knocked into Charizard with and I made a horrible attempt to bat her hand away which made her laugh. 
              "How can you even see?" I grumbled. 

Kai
             Unlike you, Sam kept her eyes open-
Keiko
             -So she adjusted quicker.

            "I thought I only heard four returns." Kai and Keiko were either in front of Sam on Dragonair's back or they went for a dip in the water close to Dragonair's snout. "Could we maybe get a little light?" 
            "Cleffa. Flash." Sam spoke softly to a pokeball in her hand, a soft pink flash of light orbiting onto Dragonair's back and producing a little strawberry and cream colored fluff ball. It chirped as a signal to cover our eyes as the entire room went white with the move. "Return." 
             Blinking back the spots, a cave of massive proportions unfolded before my eyes, a river snaking around a corner where a huge reservoir glittered in the new addition of light; however, a dark cloud seemed to be moving across the surface of the hidden spring. Did clouds form in caves?  Certainly smoke or mist could fill the space of cave, that was the nature of a gas- filling the space it was contained within. Yet, buzzing, not a nature of a gas, and if recalled correctly, clouds didn't generally buzz or make any other noises. 
                Zubats. Lots of Zubats. 
               "Duck!" I shouted. A literal swarm of Zubat rushed past us, nicking us with their wings and spinning off into some other part of the cave, other Zubats took the liberty of dive bombing us and rushing out of the cave before Sam or I could get out the name of a move set to our Pokemon. When I said lots, I had been telling a lie. There was all of them; that's the best I could describe the number of winged Rattata that got caught in my hair, made the twins squeal and repetitively dive down under the surface of the water. 

Dragonair
               Miss Sam, there is a small path to our immediate left where the Zubat are not populating. 

              "Well then let's go that way!" Sam tried to look up, arms flailing as far as I could tell because her left one ended up whipping back into my face nearly knocking me off the blue dragon type.