“The nearest town? Well it would be Cerulean city,” the pink haired nurse smiled “so if you go through Mt. Moon you should arrive at the city with in a few days!”
“Mt. Moon?!” Brass gasped, he picked up his Clefairy and hugged it. “Hey little buddy! We are going to Mt. Moon!” the pokemon seemed to sparkle, literally, over the news. His home? They were going to his original home?
“Clefa!!!” the start shaped pokemon leapt onto its master’s face and hugged him; Brass removed his beloved pokemon from his face and embraced it. He burst out the doors of the PokeCenter, getting the head start. This was exciting! He had heard stories from his father of the Clefairies, how they were believed to come from space bearing a special stone that could trigger evolution in their species and many other pokemon.
If he got a stone he could evolve Clefa Star when he was ready to evolve. Brass grinned at the thought of that.
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Steel looked around, she could not put her finger on it but something was surely off about this mountain range, there was not a single pokemon in sight. Suddenly something grabbed her b her wrist, she blinked and looked for whoever it was.
“Pay attention bone-head.” Galvin sighed. “Nearly walked into a wall.” She looked up; indeed, there was a wall right in front. How silly it would have looked if she walked right into it!
“Sorry Galvin, I was thinking!” he shook his head. Some times that girl could be so dumb… he let go of her wrist and kept on walking, occasionally glancing at her out of the corner of his eye. She was looking for something… he looked back in front of him where Brass and his Clefairy danced around looking for pokemon and stones. Their search was not going well.
The boy frowned.
“Guys! I can’t find any pokemon or stones!”
“Maybe you’re just scaring them off!” Steel teased
“No. YOU ARE.” he shouted back
“Don’t even start.” Galvin grumbled. They stuck toughs out at each other and followed the elder boy. Not a single one spoke and suddenly a light shined in Galvin’s face. He winced.
“What the?!”
“It’s those kids again!”
“Get them!”
“Rune!” Brass hollered, the two of the three friends shrieked and ran away. Rune chased after them, yelling threats of death. Brass reeled around a corner; he quickly whipped his head around his surrounding. A ladder! Yes, this was perfect!
“Guys! This way!” as fast as they could the three climbed down the ladder, Steel flushed.
“Don’t look up my skirt!!!”
“No one is loo-” suddenly Steel’s foot slipped, she waved arms trying to maintain balance but that failed utterly and she slammed into Galvin who landed on Brass, who just got off the ladder. The trio all groaned in pain.
“WHEN WE GET DOWN THERE YOU BRATS ARE DEAD!!!” The grunt shouted down at the kids, he and his accomplice scrambled down the ladder. He stopped mid step to crane his neck and bellow once more at the kids. “YOU HEAR?! DEAD!!!”
With this head start the pre-teens made a run to safety as fast as their legs could carry them but Brass skid to a halt, there was a hole in the ground, so big that he could not maneuver around it. Galvin came to a stop behind him; the sandy haired boy looked over his friends shoulder.
If they fell, it would be some fa-
To their surprise, Steel slammed right into them sending them all over the edge and falling into darkness. They all shrieked until they could be heard no longer. The Runes arrived on scene chuckling.
“Hahaha! With a fall like that they are sure to be dead!”
“Let’s report to boss, she’ll probably be pissed that we didn’t get fossils but learning that some intruders got killed off due to their reckless behavior will please her.” the two grunts walked off chuckling to themselves.
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Galvin opened his eyes and winced. His arm hurt but he could tell nothing was broken, his back hurt and someone was on his arm. Turning to face whatever it was he discovered is we Steel… with a Helix fossil on her face. He removed the fossil from her face, which was bruised with a thin trail of dried blood crawling down the left side; careful to place the fossil down Galvin shook her.
“Steel wake up,” she did not stir. He sighed and picked up the fossil once more with his free arm. His eyes glanced it over, it was a Helix fossil just as Steel always wanted and it was in perfect condition. Lucky for her.
He managed to wiggle his arm from under her body, now able to sit up properly, the light was little to none but he could tell there was no sign of Brass. With a sigh, he placed the fossil in Steel’s backpack, one arm slid under her leg and the other supported her backside. Steel’s head rolled to the side, resting upon his chest.
“Idiot…” he muttered entering the darker parts of the cavern. He shuffled his feet with each step looking out for holes in the ground not wanting to fall once more. In front of him was a light, a fire? “Brass? Brass is that you?”
“Galvin?” something shuffled and the light followed the moving object. The two of them met and they grinned, glad knowing that they both were safe. Brass look at Steel baffled.
“What happened to her?”
“Fossil fell on her face, it knocked her out.”
“Ouch…” he winced.
“She’ll probably be fine with in an hour or so.”
“If you say so…” Now with the flaming tail of Flamin Billy Galvin could see his surrounds a little bit better, the walls were lined with black moon stones and fossils, even old amber.
“Wow… where are we Brass?”
“A lower section of the mountain, I think…”
“Maybe this is why the Runes were here?”
“The fossils?”
“Yeah, think about it, there must be hundreds here and what if they had the technology to bring fossilized pokemon back?” Brass paled
“Oh no. No, that would be just a nightmare! Millions of fossilized pokemon back to life and they would destroy cities!”
“Millions might be a stretch but that is a pretty basic idea of what they would do…” he glanced over at Brass and squinted his eyes. “Brass what the hell are you doing?”
“Prying a fossil from the wall, duh. I sure hope it’s a Kabuto!”
“I hope you know the difference between a Helix and a Dome fossil then…”
“Yeah….” Brass pulled the fossil out of the wall leaving a matching hole in the wall. He smirked. “Perfect!” he slid it into his bag and looked around for Clefa Star. “You haven’t seen Clefa Star have you?”
“Clefa Star? No, I haven’t seen him and I just woke up.”
“That’s interesting, I saw him run off with other Clefairies I think they are making some sort of plan to get rid of Runes.”
“Right, well we need to destroy these fossils before Rune can use them.” Galvin placed Steel down on the floor and looked around. It was not hard to find a heavy stone. He heaved and lifted it up to bring it down and smash it against the nearest fossil, shattering it to pieces. Brass got the idea, even thought it was cruel; this was the only way to prevent the fossils from being abused. The both let their pokemon out to assist in the destruction, neither of them knew how long they were at it but the deed was finally done and Steel still had not awakened.
“C’mon,” this time Brass lifted her up “We have to get out of here.”
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On a floor above was an army ready to enter battle, it was a made of both Clefairies and Clefablies. “Clefairy!!” Brass’s declared, cheering its comrades then the pokemon rambled onto the subject of pie. He made a note to find his master as soon as possible as he was rather hungry. The star pokemon saluted, Clefa Star jumped off his podium, which was a rock, and marched into battle. The stars marched right into enemy territory, in seconds they were surrounded by greedy Runes.
“Aw man! Clefairies!”
“These guys would make a killer in the markets! Little kids and girls just love Clefairies and Jigglypuffs.”
“Get them!” In harmony, the pokemon waggled their fingers, they all stared. What the-
“Back away! It’s Metronome!” However, it was too late, the pokemon glowed together and attacks flew left and right. Ember, Hyper Beam, Vine Whip, Explosion and more than any Rune could register.
“Fall back! I repeat! Fall back!” the evil organization fled, they found not a fossil and were over run by an army of pink stars. Oh, the shame and humiliation they would face back at base!
Clefa Star smirked, oh how he would make his master and friends proud!