Chapter 21: Captured queen and war
Dune ducked immediately as the ball of fire flew over his head and hit the cave's rocky walls.
"How insolent to avoid my wrath! Salandits! Dispose of him immediately!" the Salazzle snapped her fingers, and some dust flew from her back; as the Salandits inhaled this dust, they began shaking and fuming a white foam from their mouths, recognizing Dune as a threat to their queen; some Salandits rushed at Dune intending to bite him while others were preparing [Ember]s and [Incinarete]s.
"Wait!" Dune screamed, slamming the ground with his foot, making a portion of the ground flip over and throwing multiple Salandits away, simultaneously blocking [Ember]s. "I'm not here to fight. I need to get to the top of the mountain fast, or else the whole region will blow up."
"Silence! My useless harem dicks can't do anything by themselves; no one is worthy of such a strong queen as myself!" The Salazzle screamed as the Salandits backed away in fear of the wrath of their queen.
'Oh lord, Arceous, how I hate egomaniacal girls like her.' "What are you crazy! You are 4 times weak to the ground and fighting one in a cave? Just let me go."
But now that the Salazzle was just next to Dune, he noticed something, the Salazzle's patterns, which should be red and purple, were navy blue, and her scales were a much darker tone of purple.
Salazzle's breathing became much heavier, and on the top of her head was a crown that seemed made of diamonds. 'System, scan her'
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Salazzle #758
Lvl: 45
Nature: Rash
Ability: Corrosion
Stats:
HP: 130
Attack:70
Defense:69
Sp. Attack:129
Sp. Defense:62
Speed:124
Held item: Never Melt Ice
More information?
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The air inside the cave became freezing cold, and some Salandits were screaming as if something terrible was about to happen, but Dune was sure, even in the worst-case scenario, this was a trick; how crazy would it be for a Salazzle to learn an ice type move?. 'Yes, more information'
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IVS/EVS Stats:
HP: 31/0
Attack:17/0
Defense:23/0
Sp. Attack:31/0
Sp. Defense:24/0
Speed:31/0
Shiny: No
Radiant: Yes (Awoken strong spark)
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Dune finally realized the gravity of his situation; as he looked up from the panel of his system, he saw how many snowflakes were revolving around Salazzle's snout.
'Shit'
Dune threw himself to the nearest wall, hoping to dodge the blast coming at him, and fortunately, he did; a powerful laser beam with snowflakes orbiting around it flew past him, instantly forcing some poor Salandits that were on its way and heavily burning the scales of those nearby.
Dune turned around and saw how multiple of his scales on the right side of his body were scorched in a silver color; the damage of the burns was so severe he didn't feel any pain.
"Hmm~ Such a mighty dragon that succumbed in fear? The other dragon that ruled this mountain wasn't as smart as you..." The Salazzle began charging up again.
'System, what the hell is that attack!
[Host, it appears that this move is [Freeze dry], but due to the strength of this Pokemon, it resembles the signature move of the legendary Pokemon "Kyurem"]
Dune thought and used bulldoze to create a wall of stone while he recovered from the pain, but his sense told him to evade once again; Dune climbed up the walls of the cave and mimetized with the environment as another beam of pure ice tore a hole through his makeshift cover.
"Hey! Don't run away, you damned Dragon!" Salazzle screamed as the screams and grunts of pain from her minion Salandits echoed through the passage.
Dune held still as he silently made his way, clawing into the ceiling, slowly crawling in Salazzle's direction, eventually reaching her back and descending slowly from the ceiling.
"Useless Salandits! Go look for him! Or else I'll feed you to Crobats and have Muks eat what's left behind of your friends!" Salazzle ordered as she turned around, face to face with Dune.
"Boo"
Dune then [Slashed] through Salazzle as if she was butter, but Dune had to hold back; he was so pissed with this Pokemon that he decided to capture her and teach her a lesson once he came back to Helena.
The Salandits, still recovering from Salazzle [Freeze dry], just stared as a random Pokemon, not fully evolved, took away their queen and ran up into the mountains, where Thunder and quakes made it seem like the end of the world.
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On the surface, Helena and her party saw how war was going on between Team Aqua and Team Magma.
Pelippers were flying through the air, puking water into the active volcano in the middle of this warzone, as Magneton rained [Thunder] onto them.
"What the hell is going on!" May told Helena as she freed the rest of her team, a Swellow and a Breloom. "I don't know, dive!" Helena grabbed May by her breast and threw themselves at the grounds, barely dodging an incoming [Fire blast] a Pyroar had used against a Vileplume.
"Tha.. thank you, Helena! let's go find out what is going on!" May said that finding out what was happening was beating all the hundreds of trainers fighting each other as heavy rain fell.
Helena freed Gardevoir and Lopunny from their Pokeballs, and the party immediately started to fight; Lopunny first set herself up with [Power up punch], beating any dark types Gardevoir couldn't attack.
Meanwhile, Gardevoir was constantly using [Life Dew] on May's Pokemon and Lopunny, occasionally using [Psyquic] on stary Pokemon that tried to flee.
"Lop! Lopunny!" (How great this feels, take this, [Fire punch]!) After Lopunny finished boosting her attack six times, she was ready; even in this heavy rain and against water-type Pokemon, no Pokemon survived a [Fire punch] to the gut.
'Lopunny! Don't get too excited. We still have to find out what is going on!' Gardevoir said as she put to sleep two teams Magma grunts.'
Making their way through the sea of fights, May and Helena eventually met a familiar face.
"Hey, May... isn't that the guy you were chasing in Slateport?" Helena asked as a tall brown man was fighting hand to hand with a Machamp, just to throw it over his shoulder and go after the trainer next.
"Yes! That's Archie! He's the boss of team Aqua," May said, pointing at him, so her Pokemon approached him.
"Hold it right there, Team Magma! You're badly mistaken if you think you can have your way with the world!" Screamed Archie as he kicked away an unconscious trainer; in a blur of light, a Mega-Sharkpedo appeared behind him; Archie took a Full restore from his pocket, just to disappear as quickly as it had arrived.
Turning back, Archie recognized May from the Slateport Museum robbery. "Didn't I see you before? At Slateport's Museum? Ah, so your name is May. I thought you were one of Team Magma's goons at the time. Humph... You're one odd girl. Team Magma is a dangerous group of total fanatics. They engage in destruction, claiming to expand the land mass. They are rivals to us, the sea-loving Team Aqua!" Archie said as he flexed his muscles, a blue afterimage passed behind him.
"You already told me that! What's going on! Why are you two fighting over Mount Chimney! There is nothing to do here. The volcano went inactive two years ago!"
"Yes, It went inactive, but those land-loving bastards stole a meteorite with a special alloy; it seems it's capable of fueling a machine that will activate the volcano once again!" As Archie explained, 5 grunts of Team Magma came running towards them. "We've got to hurry. May you and your friend keep an eye out for Team Magma, too. Farewell!"
The blue blur appeared again; it was Archie Mega-Sharkpedo. Archie climbed on it like a surfboard and disappeared as fast as he had arrived.
"Phuf~ May, let's go and see what is going on, Gardi pointed at me. There was some machinery down the crater of the volcano."