Nuzlocke Rules Apply

	For some, a nice day out in the forest is something nice; an outing that could help clear the mind from all the distractions and disgusting bits of everyday life. For others, it’s simply a means to an end, or a stop along the way to one’s destination. For a certain Glaceon, though, it was anything but that at the moment. After making her way through a particularly rough patch of ivy, she lets out a small sneeze.
	“Ah...Ah… Achoo!!” She spasms and sputters for a moment before sniffing her nose and sneezing again… Ugh, she had been lost for the past hour now. Where in the world was her trainer, even? “Oooh… If I ever find my way back to him, he is going to gather such a walloping from me…!” She shakes her head, causing her tapered fuzz near her face to sway from the momentum. “Oh, Jessie… where in Arceus’ name are you…?” WIth barely another word, she makes her way through the underbrush as best she can, snapping twig after tiny twig underfoot.
	She winces a bit at the feeling, though… Being the kind of Pokémon she was, she was more used to the cushioned floor in her carrier, not the packed earth under her paws. Of course she wouldn’t get used to something like this… She was a Master Rank Contest Champion! Not one of those lowly battle-bred ilk that most people tended to group her into… She didn’t even have the build for it, let alone the move set!
	Her ears perk up. Something had snapped close by, and it certainly wasn’t underneath her… After a brief look around, she lets out a small sigh before straightening up. After all, she was trained to stay confident in the face of fear. Let’s see… Head held high, chest fluff out, ears pulled back… She turns her head towards another snapping sound. That certainly sounded a bit closer than it was the first time…
	“Oh, lookie here, boys! Looks like we got something new to play with!” The Glaceon looks around her, eyes wide… Where were they…?
	“Yeah, boss! Lookit how she’s so shiny! Can I Hijack her? Please?”
	“No, dunderhead, just take it nice and slow for now. After all, we gotta have some fun with her before we get to the meat of things, yeah…?” At the sound of that, the Glaceon’s eyes widen as a pair of pearlescent blue flames wick themselves into existence… Ghost Types… Oh, why did it have to be something like that at a time like this…?
	“S-Stay back, you ruffians! Don’t you dare touch my coat! It was just washed this morning, and the shampoo I use is worth far more than you could even dream to think of!” The Glaceon stands there, shivering in her stance… Was it fear? Anticipation? With barely another sound, the sources of those blue flames fizzle themselves into existence: Two Haunter and a rather rotund-looking Gengar. The three of them let out a trio of bone-chilling chuckles, causing the Glaceon to jump from the sound!
	“Oh, what’s wrong little Snowflake? Got lost on your way back to the Refrigerator? HAAAHAHAHA!” The Gengar chortles at his own joke, while the two Haunter join in a moment later. “Hehehe… well, hope you don’t mind if we play with you, huh?” And like the trio slowly make their way closer to the Icy Eeveelution… One step back, keep your head held high… Easy now…
	“OOGITY BOOGITY BOO!!”
	“WAAAAAAAH!!!” And like that, the Glaceon turns tail, and starts to bound away from those Ghost Types… She closes her eyes and runs through the brush, bumping her sides along what feels like every branch, bush, and patch of rock that she could find. Before long, she slows to a light jog, and soon to a slow trot… She certainly was getting her workout in today, if nothing else. Before long, she takes a look around, and plants her rump underneath a rather large tree… Panting like she had just run a marathon, she takes another cautious look around…
	“Oh, Jessie… I wish I had just gotten in the Carrier like you had asked… If I could just get a sip of some Pinap Berry Soda, I could just close my eyes and forget about any of this…” She rubs her face with her paw for a moment, in a vain attempt to brush away a bit of dirt on her nose… Oh, why didn’t Jessie know where she was? She lets out a sigh before letting herself plop to the ground in marginal defeat… There, at least she could rest for the time being… She could just close her eyes for the moment, right? A nap sounds absolutely grand right about now, anyway…
	Her eyes flutter open a moment or two later at a new sound… Was that… hissing…? She blinks them open fully, and lets out a yawn… No sooner than she opened her mouth did that sound from before show up once again… It wasn’t like hissing… More like… a rattle…? Her eyes widen before a pair of long lines of sickly-looking purple came into her vision… One was small, the other being the largest thing she’s seen today.
	“Hehehe… Ssssssee? I thought I sssmelled sssomething nearby!”
	“Very good bubby, you’ve certainly got ssssome nose on you… Now, do momma a favor and get ussss sssome breakfassst, would you?”
	Ekans and Arbok. Snakes that were certainly larger than her. Larger by a mile, at the least. She gets to her feet, turns, and bolts towards the opposite direction. She certainly didn’t want to get eaten by those things! Didn’t Jessie say that they eat whole Ratata in one bite? Oh, where was he!? Before long, though, she patters her way towards a rather large cliff face… If she could make it there, she had to pick a direction: left or right. After a moment to figure out which way each path could take her, she braces herself for what could be there…
	“A...Cavern…? Oh, what a find…! I could use this to wait out for Jessie! I’m sure that he must be absolutely worried sick at the moment…”
	And like that, the Glaceon makes her way inside, the darkness that those rock faces held turning her vision pitch black. Well… at least she could wait out for a rescue in a cooler place… After bumping into the cool rock walls that lined that entrance, she suddenly plops her rump against the stone floor…
	“There… no… now those ruffians won’t know where to find me… And I can simply wait out this absolutely dreadful situation in peace…” She rubs her face for a moment with her paw, each of them as sore as ever from running all over creation… Certainly, she wasn’t built for this. She wasn’t built for this at all. For now, though, she could probably try and catch up on that nap that she was taking… She closes her eyes for a moment, plops the rest of her body down onto that pleasantly chilled stone floor, and starts to drift off…
	“HEY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!” The sound of that voice jolts her awake with a start. The Glaceon looks around, eyes frantically wide for that source…
	“W-Wha…? Hello?”
	“I SAAAAID, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE, MAGGOT?!” There it was again… She looks behind her as best she can, trying to squint through the darkness… Was that an… orb? She blinks for a moment to try and get her vision straight… Darkness was rather hard to see through… If only she had a torch with her, or a flashlight…
	“Er… resting…? C...Can I help you or…?”
	“YEAH! WHY IN ARCEUS’ NAME ARE YOU ON OUR TURF!?”
	“Turf? What do you mean turf? D...Do you know where that artificial grass that all the Contest Organisers comes from or-”
	“HUH?! IS THAT A THREAT?! NO ONE MAKES A THREAT AGAINST THE ROTO-SPIRE ELECTRODE GANG!”
	Wait, Electrode gang? As in… “get them too angry and they explode” Electrodes…!?
	“W-W-Wait, wait wait please hang on! I don’t think it would be good for us to come to rather hasty conclusions… I-I believe that if my Coordinator we’re here, we could come to settle thi-”
	“OOOOH, DON’T YOU EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THOSE DARN HUMANS! ALL THEY DO IS JUST ENCROACH ON OUR TURF AND FORCE US OUT TO TRY AND GET AT THOSE SHINY ROCKS AT THE END OF THE CAVE! OOOOOOH, JUST THINKING ABOUT THEM MAKES US SO MAD!!”
	All at once, bright lights filled that cavern… Five, ten, fifteen of them, all ready to detonate…! The Glaceon squints her eyes from all that light…
	“P-Please, wait, wait, hold on!! JESSIE!! PLEASE!! HELP ME!!!”


The forest was rather quaint at the moment… Flying Types were tweeting about their latest catch to their friends… All was rather nice and peaceful…

KRA-KOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

The sound of a dense dull thud wakes the forest up once more… Huh, some of those Electrode in the Roto-Spire Cave must be at it again with a turf war or something along those lines… Nevertheless, things quickly return to normal once again...