Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity

Chapter 18

Chapter 18: Battles Galore!

I glance upwards. Was that..? A sharp, cold stab through my mind brings me back to reality and I cringe in agony. If only I could do something! Although I know it's all over when the pastel colored pig creeps closer to me, the psychic energy gaining in power until the pressure is almost unbearable. Lady Munaah floats right in front of my pointed face, a sly smirk plastered on top. "How nice," She whispers ominously. "You and Cheeka; a twofer. My friends will surely be pleased," Her chubby pink face turns around, checking to make sure that the little moles murmur in acquiesce. The drilbur obviously agree with their leader. Cheeka sighs from the left of me, and I can tell that she too is pinned into position like a statue. Then the frozen features around me break apart in one -no, there's another too!- shattering movements, disturbing the surroundings.

A blast of orange fire explodes from above, coating two of the young drilbur in the fire and pushing them into their crafted holes. From underground, a large veil of water splashes into a third dark blue mole, pushing him into the final one and knocking out the henchmen almost effortlessly. From the sky a red monkey jumps down, probably from a tree branch or something while a white, furry head pops up from inside a mole hole. "Zoey!" I scream happily while a quiet squeak erupts from beside me. "Ugh," Lady Munaah growls.

Then Zoey puffs out her cheeks and spurts a water gun in the pig's face. As her pink face twists up in annoyance I feel some pain lift up from my head. This must mean that Zoey's little incident had distracted her enough to- I swivel my head to the side and watch Ember quickly grab his girl, Cheeka's face lighting up in embarrassment. Then Zoey catapults into Lady Munaah's flowery hide, knocking her into the empty space beside me. "Stomach tackle prevails!" My best friend squeals, getting up and forcing me into a literally breath-taking hug. "I missed you too," I mutter. "Backup, report!"

Zoey slips off me and turns around to reveal a furious munna, glaring daggers at me. Then two medium-sized , dark blue boulders crawl out of the small drilbur holes, breaking particles of dirt and sending the pieces everywhere. The two boulder creatures stiffly move their two, giant boulder-like feet towards the scuffle. I stare into one's inky black eyes and realize: these are the pathetic roggenrola! Well, I guess right now they aren't very pathetic. The cute little pebble-like Pokemon have evolved into boldore, which is still pretty easy, but less pathetic.

Lady Munaah's sly grin widens when she sees this. "So you were able to evolve after the loss," She murmurs. "Now we have two lampent, the two of you, Purrple, Toxic, and the four drilbur, but they're down as you can tell," She sighs in disgrace, staring at the sandy, snowy holes where the adorable little moles had fallen in. "Oh well. Now kill Llana!"

The giant boulder-like Pokemon slowly lift up their clunky feet, and start to crawl towards me. I smirk, immediately using my nature powers to absorb, absorb, absorb. I focus, and soon large, light green spheres of energy fly from the nearest boldore and over to me. I sigh with relief when my throbbing headache dies down, then send out my vines. I'm not giving you any time to fight back! I think furiously, rapping the boldore's hard, rocky skin with a leafy green vine.

While I'm keeping the rock monsters at bay, to my left Ember and Zoey are working together to hold back Lady Munaah while a screech echoes from behind me, the wind of an attack rustling around me. Must be a release of Cheeka's excess power. I realize with a jolt. Ouch, that had to hurt. But while my mind addled with me the boldore had had a chance to get nearer, and nearer, until a solid block of dark blue whams into my head, crushing me over and squeezing out all of the breath in my lungs with one big whosh. "C...Heeka," I wheeze, coughing up air.

A splash of steaming hot water pushes the rock off me, and I hurriedly struggle back onto my feet. Turning around I watch Ember and Zoey slowly backing away. Lady Munaah quickly floats towards the duo, and the Pokemon take off, brushing past me. "We're gonna lose!" Ember hisses in my ear, pointing at Lady Munaah and her boldore followers in the clearing behind us. I look up, seeing Cheeka scaling the treetops, and bolt towards Zoey.