Pokemon Adventures: Soul Ch02 Cave Crisis!

Chapter 2: Cave Crisis!

I woke up early the next morning. It was still dark outside, but the orange rays of the sun were creeping up in the horizon. I finished up my last bit of packing, a few potions, my map (just in case), a compass, a rope, all the basic traveler needs. After washing up in the bathroom, I threw on my favorite black hoodie. I walked back into my room where Emperor was still sleeping.

"Hey, wake up, It's time to move out" I said coolly. Emperor woke up slowly, yawning, and rubbing its eye. It hopped out of bed, and we quickly left my room. As we walked down the steps, Prof. Rowan was waiting for me. I attempted to walk past him without saying anything, but he stopped me.

"Soul, are you forgetting anything?" he asked. I shook my head no in response. Prof. Rowan sighed, placing a hand on his forehead.

"I don't need to say good bye, we will be keeping in touch. If I need information I'll call," I said, as I opened the door and took one step out.

"The pokemon by the cave? Don't you think she'd want to go with you?" Prof. Rowan asked.

I paused again, and turned back to face him. "I haven't forgotten about her…" I replied, and I left.

Emperor began to pull on the hem of my pants as we were walking out of Sandgem Town. I looked down at him. He seemed to want to know what cave the professor was talking about.

"This cave between Sandgem town and Jubilife harbors a ghost type pokemon. Prof. Rowan and I have studied its activity for quite some time. She's pretty strong, and I'd like to make her a part of this team,"

Emperor nodded with understanding, chirping a bit loudly. I nodded at him, and we continued walking.

It was still dark outside, since the sun has yet to fully arise. Emperor and I walked further into route 202. Emperor kept running all over the place, excited to be leaving Sandgem town after quite some time. It kept running into random pokemon nesting areas and causing problems with the wild pokemon, making all sorts of noise. Eventually, he and a wild bidoof were chasing each other in circles. I eventually got fed up.

"HEY!" I barked.

The wild bidoof chasing Emperor fled at the sound of my voice. Emperor stood still, staring at me as I crouched to his level so I could whisper to him.

"I want to travel discreetly. I do not want to attract any unwanted attention. We happen to be in a very docile habitat right now, so we are lucky. All the noise you are making could get us killed! Shut up, and stay close to me!" I growled as I stared him in the eyes.

Emperor saluted, chirping in agreement. I shook my head, and stood up.

"We have to be silent. No one should know when you arrive or leave, like a whisper" I said as I turned around to resume walking. Emperor followed close behind, not making any more sounds.

As we neared the cave, I could hear the clanking of heavy machinery. I looked around, and saw some men in masks walking our way. I signaled Emperor to take refuge in some nearby bushes.

"Emperor Look…there are some men over there wearing masks. What are they doing…?" I asked myself.

Emperor shrugged and chirped. We stood watch for a while, watching the men put large crate after large crate into the cave with their fork lifts. Each one of the men wore the same black uniforms, which looked like ninja suits. They also had purple "S" letters on their shoulders. The masks they wore were rather bland, with two black holes on them for eyes.

"Alright men! We moved enough of the cargo into the cave! We'll seal it up so no one can get in!" said one of the men. He was different than the rest. He was heavily built, but slim and wore a jet black lycra and spandex body suit, with the sides lined in grey. The collar was lined with a large amount of red fur, and his mask was white and red. He wore the same "S" on his shoulder, but his was red, and he had a bigger red "S" on his chest.

"Crap…we have to get in there and find Sableye. She's alone in there," I said to Emperor.

Emperor nodded.

"Use your mist attack to give us some cover, we'll sneak in behind the machinery undetected," I commanded.

Emperor chirped happily, holding his wings out. Suddenly, a thick fog began to set in.

"OI! Boss! There is a fog setting in, what ya' want us to do?" said one of the workers.

"Ferget the fog, this makes things better! We'll use the fog as our cover, so continue yer working! Mornin' dew won't stop our progress," The boss retorted.

Emperor and I maneuvered around the machinery, bypassing the men in silence. When we got close enough, Emperor and I into bolted into the cave.

"Follow me closely, don't wonder off" I whispered.

Emperor nodded, and followed me not making a sound.

The further we ventured into the darkness of the cave, we found more and more of these large crates. Something told me that these men were hiding something huge in this cave.

"Hold up…Emperor, use Peck, and open up one of these boxes," I commanded.

Emperor began to open them up, and I grabbed a flash light out of my bag. Inside the boxes were bombs, guns and thousands of other weaponry. Something touched my shoulder, so I immediately grabbed the whatever it was that touched me, and flashed my light over my shoulder.

Sableye panicked and let go of me, and began to run away. "Wait! Sableye! I'm here to help! It's me, Soul!" I called out to her.

Sableye slowly drifted back, recognizing who I was again.

"It's ok, I promise…I won't…hurt you" but it was too late for that. Sableye appeared to have been brutally attacked. My face grew grim with anger. Emperor consoled Sableye, rubbing her wounds with his wings, and speaking to her calmly to settle her nerves.

"I didn't care that they harbored these weapons here, it's really not my concern how they make their money. But when they hurt my pokemon like this, I simply can't stand for it. Sableye I was gonna offer you a spot on my team anyway, so under these circumstances, I want you to help me destroy these crates, and take care of these thugs…" I asked.

Sableye nodded in agreement, her face expressing extreme rage. "Good…it's payback time…"

I pulled out a few of the potions I brought with me, and nursed Sableye's wounds. We waited a few minutes for her to get a little better.

"Ok! Sableye are there any other pokemon or people in this cave?" I asked her. She shook her head no and began to float around me.

"If memory serves me right, your moves were will-o-wisp, night shade and foul play…ability prankster…hmm I have an idea, use will-o-wisp on all the boxes behind us," I ordered Sableye,

"Emperor get in your pokeball! This is gonna get rough."

Sableye ignited a few nearby boxes as I flipped my hood on. Then suddenly, BOOM! One box exploded, BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! A chain reaction started to follow. "Let's move! Quickly, run for the exit Sableye!" I yelled.

I sprinted back the way we came, as sableye continued to ignite every box we ran past with her will-o-wisp.

"What ther HELL was that!" said the Boss. All the men stopped working, and they stared into the cave. I ran right threw them, one of them turned their head to try and get a look at me, but I was holding my hoodie over my face. I came to a sliding stop, and sableye circled around me.

"YOU! What wer ya doin in ther' yer lil brat!?" cried the leader.

I stood up straight and smirked, "Giving you a dose of your own medicine..." I said in a cool voice.

I held my hand up and began to countdown with my fingers, "5..4..3..2.." I said.

BOOOOOMM, BOOM, BOOOOOOOM, BOOM BOOOM! The cave exploded, and went up in flames! Rock and magma flew everywhere, along with most of the men who were standing near the entrance.

"The weapons! The boss is gonna kill me! Yer lil!…today you die!" said the boss, as he began walking toward me.

I dusted off my shoulder, "You guys? Beat me? Heh I'd like to see that happen" I threw Emperor's ball onto the ground, and in a puff of smoke, he appeared out of his pokeball and by my side.

The grunts brought out there pokemon too. Sableye, Emperor and I were completely surrounded by a bunch of zubat, ryhorn and grimer along with the gang members.

"Just one kid. huh? No way you can beat all of us on your own!" snickered one of the grunts.

"And if those are your only pokemon, you're in real deep!" yelled another.

"Hmph…" I grunted.

He was absolutely right. I had an out however, most of these pokemon were frail attackers, and the ryhorn could be taken out by Emperor easily. The few grimers are easy targets too…just gotta think…

"Emperor! We need cover! NOW!" I yelled.

Emperor chirped and let loose a mist even thicker than the one before.

"The mist! Boss I told you it wasn't natural!" cried a grunt.

"Whatever! Just 'cause we can't see yer doesn't mean yer can get away! Get 'im..." the Boss growled in a dark voice.

They all roared and charged forward like idiots. Emperor, Saybleye and I were in the trees, dashing around looking for easy targets to prey on. I opened up the pokedex to check out the levels of all the pokemon. The majority were low leveled, in the 10-15's range with pretty low hp.

"These pokemon weren't very well trained…" I muttered.

I checked Sableye's level, which was 23, and Emperor's which was 12.

"This is good enough, Sableye! Hover over the crowds and use night shade and will-o-wisps on all the stragglers! Don't let up! Emperor, we'll be hoping around to make it seem as though we are attacking from everywhere, spam those bubble beams!" I commanded them.

We did just as planned; group by group we took out the pokemon and their trainers. As they were attacked by piplup, they ran into the constant night shades. Since the zubats and raticate have lower hp stats they fell easily, it took a while longer to get the grimer. The Ryhorn were severely weakened but that didn't matter since the trainers got knocked out as well. The chaos and confusion was a great cover to our stealth, as we silently took every man and their pokemon down with ease.

We occasionally dashed around in the midst of the crowd, causing pokemon and thugs to attack each other, unaware of who was who in the midst of the fog. The fog finally cleared and we ceased our attacks. The field was loitered with fainted pokemon, and injured gangsters.

"Heheheh, yer pretty good fer a brat!" called out a voice from the darkness

I quickly turned around and saw the leader walking out of the mist and headed toward me.

"Your men are beaten, and you have no more pokemon, You've lost this game, so get lost…" I said calmly.

I was bluffing. Emperor and Sableye were completely worn out by their constant attacking. I signaled to them to stay hidden so he couldn't see that I was at a disadvantage.

"So yer managed to take out meh henchmen! But do yer have what it takes to fight me?!" he roared in anger,

"Oho and don't go thinking that "mist" trick will work fer ya again! I see threw that nonsense, as I am still clearly here and un-phased!"

The man chuckled. I stepped back a little to gain some distance. Crap…this isn't good I thought. The enemy threw out a pokeball, and with a puff of smoke, an Aggron appeared!

"Welcome to tha big bois runt!" he laughed maniacally, "Aggron! Head Smash 'im! Get this trash outta mah site!"

The Aggron roared and charged after me. I dodge rolled to the side, and pointed at the beast,

"Emperor, Bubble beam!" I yelled.

Emperor hoped out of the shadows, firing off his bubble beam attack. It connected with Aggron from behind at close range.

"Emperor! Stick and move!" I yelled, as I quickly got up and ran in the opposite direction.

Emperor followed me hastily, firing off another bubble beam at Aggron. The boss and Aggron began to pursue us. He doesn't know I still have sableye! It is too dark to notice a ghost type floating around, so I can use her to surprise attack them with will-o-wisp, and cut this things strength! I thought. We returned to the wreckage in front of the cave again, with nowhere to run. Come on, get closer, just a little closer…I thought. I turned to Emperor to see his expression, and too my amazement he had no fear in his eyes, ready to fight back with all his strength. I looked around and saw Sableye waiting for my signal ready to strike.

They have absolute faith in me…I got myself together, with new found confidence in myself from the faith of my team, and faced the masked man. Stall 'im, figure out their plan! I thought, they may be confident, but they need a little more time to recover!

"So what's your game? Why were you stockpiling weapons here?" I demanded.

The perp slowed down, and so did Aggron. "Fer money! Of course! We were gonna sell them to make some coin, but yer interfered with that plan, and we don't take kindly to that, kid!" The masked man inched closer and closer, cornering me.

"So now we gonna take care of you and take yer piplup. Oh yes we'll take that differently colored chap and sell 'im fer a pretty dollar. That's seems like a fair trade…hmm it's pretty powerful, too, dealing some critical damage to meh Aggron. But meh, Aggron, KILL!"

The Aggron charged at us again. "Now!" I screamed. Sableye zipped in with blazing speed and used will-o-wisp before Aggron's attack could make an impact, and severely burned it. "RAWR?!" the Aggron screamed as it tripped over and skidded next to me.

Emperor and I jumped back, "Emperor bubble beam!" I said quickly.

Emperor doused him in a montage of bubbles, "Aggron!" the man growled.

Sirens could be heard in the distance, and the sky was starting brighten up with an orange like glow. Perfect timing, I can taunt him now, he'll take the bait and take off!

"The cops are on their way, your bandits and this cave will be found, and your schemes completely stopped. Nowhere to hide now…" I said coolly.

The man laughed, "You think yer so smart, I have to take the bait, but killing you would be my pleasure. Yer took down one of mah pokemon, but I have an entire team ready ter trounce ya! Yer lucky…"

The masked man leaped into the shadows of the trees, and completely disappeared.

I could still here his voice, as he departed, "I will report this to the big boss…yer will be found…and yer will be killed…HAHAHAHA!"

I turned to the Aggron. It steadily rose to its feet. I started walking toward it, but a bright light shined around it, and in an instant it disappeared as well.

I Grimaced at the thought of him having more pokemon in his arsenal. I was out gunned, and made it out of that situation thanks to the police sirens.

I looked down at my pokemon, who eagerly stared back at me. "It's ok Soul, we could have taken him! We are elite!" said Emperor.

"Yea! Did you see how we beat them? It was way too easy! I couldn't have done it without you Soul!" giggled sableye

:| "What…what? How? When!?" I said in a surprised tone.

Emperor and Sableye looked as though nothing happened, "What? What did we do!?" they said in unison.

The sirens grew louder, "No time to talk, we have to leave before the cops find me…I hate cops" I said as the cops got nearer.

We took off into the darkness of the forest, and headed to Jubalife City.