In Spikemuth

Blackout

Marnie found herself in a blackout. She was surrounded by suffocating darkness and held her hand out in front of her, one hand on the sharp cavern wall next to her. She stumbled around and fell to the dusty ground, her mum's bangle almost slipping off of her wrist. Marnie bit her lip and forced back tears of fear as she crawled across the dust with one hand stuck out in front of her. 

She felt her tights rip on a sharp rock and the pain of bleeding surged through her leg and she cursed under her breath. She pulled a tissue out of her pocket and held it against her knee, which just made it harder to shuffle against the dirt and sharp stones. Tears escaped her eyes and dripped onto her cut-up hands, making the dirt beneath her fingers turn to sticky mud. 

Marnie found herself dragging through the dirt until she couldn't crawl any more. She collapsed onto the ground. With a weak arm, she reached for a random Pokeball on her belt and released it before all her energy slipped out of her and she felt herself go blank in the mind and feel her head hit the ground with a thud against a sharp rock. 

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Morpeko woke up in complete darkness. He rubbed his cheeks and created a thunderbolt, illuminating the gemstones once dull on the cavern's ceiling. He squeaked in alarm when he saw Marnie laying on the ground, her head bleeding a stream of scarlet onto the sandy ground at the point of a sharp rock. 

"Marnie!" it shouted and ran up to her, hugging her head, although to a human his cry would come out as a squeak. He spotted a tissue in her hand preventing a cut of her knee peeking through her ripped tights and pulled it out of her hand, then plugged the cut in her head using the tissue to stop more blood escaping. 

Panicking, Morpeko looked around in search of something to wake his trainer up. He cared so much about Marnie and wanted her to be safe. An idea spring to his head and he moved her head off of the rock and into a recovery position, the bleeding side of her head pressed firmly against the sandy ground, the tissue still plugging the bleeding. 

Morpeko started making as much noise as possible as to attract someone to come and help, all while sitting on Marnie's head to put pressure on her wound. 

"Did you hear that, boy?" Morpeko heard an echoey voice from down the tunnel. Morpeko started screaming louder. 

He heard desperate footsteps getting louder and louder until eventually, he saw a tall lady with brown boots arrive in front of her and gasp in shock. 

"Sweet Arceus!" she yelled and drop to her knees to examine the unconscious Marnie, "you did a good job making sure no more blood got out of her, I'll have to take her to a Pokemon Centre. Quickly!" 

Morpeko watched as the girl with the flashlight hoisted Marnie onto her back and carried her out of the tunnel with a working flashlight until she found a stronger worker that could carry Marnie and drive them to the nearest Pokemon Centre in Turffield. 

Morpeko couldn't take her eyes off of Marnie, constantly checking she was breathing, that her head wound was properly plugged. He refused to leave the sleek, white room in the pokemon centre where Marnie was laying on a cold, white bed. A second tall lady with bright pink hair tended to Marnie and checked in with the girl that saved Marnie in the first place. 

"We had to shave some of her hair off in order to tend to the wound properly. It most likely won't grow back as the chemical we used to ease the pain kills growth hormones," the pink nurse explained. Morpeko felt himself cry a little, he really hoped Marnie wouldn't be upset after that. He hated to see Marnie sad. 

Once the pink lady had left, Morpeko climbed up onto Marnie's bed and saw that they had shaved a spikey pattern into the side of her head and a plastered on cast where Marnie's wound was. He placed a paw onto his best friend's cold cheek and pulled half a pokepuff out of his pockets and laid it next to Marnie for her to eat when she woke up. 

He yawned slightly and snuggled up to Marnie's neck to keep her warm while she was asleep. 

"Make sure you wake up soon," he squeaked.