diglett dig~ diglett dig~ trio trio trio

[Kat]

It was a glorious day in Viridian City. Well, actually it was kind of cloudy. So it was just as well John was planning to go explore a cave today! After a night of rest in Viridian City, he had headed out with Jade in tow, in the direction of Digletts’ Cave. Sure, they could have headed through the forest to Pewter, but what even was there in Pewter City besides a boring old museum? Laaaaaaame. Vermillion City was where it was AT.

As they approached the mouth of the cave, John let dear, sweet Casey out of her ball for some exercise. Annnnnnd maybe to use as a flashlight.

“All right, Casey! I have a foolproof plan for this tunnel. You light the way, we will follow?”

“Char.” If Casey was annoyed the the request she didn’t show it, holding her tail in front of her to illuminate the cave. Not that it was that dark to begin with, but it helped.

“Oh man, Digletts’ Cave, huh? I wonder what we could possibly encounter here?????” John joked, stepping in after the Charmander.

[Jade Harley]

To be honest Jade was just the tiniest bit bummed about not going straight to Pewter City, after all they had a museum! The science! The interesting Pokémon artifacts! But, visiting a cave is really cool too so she doesn't really mind. Besides diglett sure are cute and tiny!

Becquerel was full of energy as usual as he walked alongside Jade as she followed John to Digletts' Cave. He was happy to see his lil' Charmander friend let out of her pokéball and let out a little hello bark.

"John that was the lamest joke to ever be spoken. Ever." Jade said, adding on an eye-roll and a sigh for emphasis.

[Kat]

Casey greeted the Growlithe back, hesitantly giving him a wave with her free hand. Bec towered over Casey, and she was obviously still intimidated by the sheer size of the Pokémon, but was clearly warming up to him regardless.

“Your FACE is the worst joke to ever be spok- er, seen!” John retorted, picking up the pace. Honestly, his insults were generally about as childish and ridiculous as they came, but when he was with Jade it honestly did not concern him so much. Childish and silly was just sort of how he usually was around her!

He peered around the cave, looking for signs of life. Honestly, he had sort of expected the place to be SWARMING with Diglett, but it was actually sort of quiet! Though he could see a few holes in the ground where they pop out, and when him and Jade were quiet he could hear the cries of a few in the distance. Jeez, how long WAS this tunnel?

[coolkidapocalypse]

"Good, Gri'thb. Next time, knock it out instead of scaring it away," a young female trainer criticized, deeper in the cave. It was a bit dark, but light poured in from one end of the cave, which was just enough for this trainer and her Tirtouga to see. Tirtouga slid up to the girl as she kneeled down and reached out to pat the fossil Pokemon, but it recoiled as she did. Her face contorted in confusion and dejection. "Still don't want my congratulations, huh?" She paused and scanned the cave for any more Diglett holes. "Come, there's another group of them over here. I think I see a Dugtrio as well." Her Tirtouga moaned in fear, but still it followed her further in.

This daring trainer was none other than Rose Lalonde, and she feared no Pokemon in this cave. At least, not when her dear water-type Tirtouga was around. Apparently she had already slipped into Diglett cave, though it was hard to tell how long she had been there. With determination, she marched onward.

[Jade Harley]

Becquerel wagged his tail in response to the wave. It is very hard to wave when you are quadrupedal, so a fluffy butt wag works just fine.

"John stop you are killing me with your lameness," Jade lamented, adding in a fake cough for emphasis, "tell Bec that I love him!" Bec looked over to his partner with a curious tilt of his head, but knowing that she was just being silly and playing he just went back to what he was doing.

After her theatrics she peeked into the cave next to John. "It looks like they are all underground or something." She pointed out. Bec walked forward and listened, then started running in circles barking. "Oh, I think he hears someone!"

[Kat]

“What, you don’t want to tell ME you love me before you die? Rude, Jade!” John laughed, putting a hand on his heart in a show of being greatly hurt. “If you are going to die on me, you could at least give me some kind words before you go! Maybe leave me some cool stuff in your will.”

John couldn’t really hear anything, but he was willing to trust Bec’s judgement. Growlithe were said to have a pretty good sense of hearing! “Come on, let’s go check it out!” he called, dashing ahead into the cave. Well, dashing ahead until he realised he couldn’t see very well, and then waiting for Casey to catch up. Oops.

Now that they were further in, he was pretty certain he COULD hear something! A girl’s voice, and a bunch of much-louder Digletts’ cries. Probably another trainer!

[coolkidapocalypse]

Echos of loud and rowdy trainers caught Rose's attention. They were faint, but she knew they were coming closer. "Halt, Gri'thb," she commanded, and her Tirtouga paused and turned to face the source of the sounds.
Behind Rose.
Where it was safe.

Rose hummed and scooted the little turtle out from behind her as she prepared for potential battle.

[Jade Harley]

"You don't give kind words to the person who is killing you, duh!" Jade said, as if it were the most obvious thing. "Like, who even does that? 'Oh you caused my death what a swell guy!'"

Becquerel happily dashed ahead with John, and ahead of him. Unlike John who decided to slow down for the light of his Charmander, Bec just kept going. He knew those kids would be right behind him anyway, and if Jade was in trouble he could dash back in a flash. Bec found Rose quickly enough and began running around in circles and barking, stopping occasionally, panting and tail wagging, to look back at the trainers who were catching up. One Jade reached them, he walked back over to be by her side.

"Not everyone can be a crazy fast Growlithe, Bec." Jade said, playfully scolding Bec. She looked up at Rose and smiled wide. "Hey Rose! I figured there was a friend nearby from how Bec was acting!"

[coolkidapocalypse]

An almost familiar voice relaxed Rose. Her lavender eyes lit up as Growlithe and Jade stepped into view, with an orange light not far behind. "Hello, Jade," she said, almost nonchalantly, as her Tirtouga peered suspiciously at Bec. "This is quite the pleasant surprise. I thought only John was heading this way."
Rose peered behind Jade then, bending her body to look behind her. "Speaking of, where is John? Is that him?" The light illuminating the cave was offsetting her eyes, which had already become accustomed to the dark.

[Kat]

John gave Jade an exaggerated scowl, before realising he did not really have a comeback to that. “Fine, I GUESS that makes sense.”

He lagged a little behind as they reached Rose, looking at her with surprise. Woah, this was kind of great! He had not really expected to just bump into her like this. “Yeah, that is me. Hi Rose!” John gave a wave, before pointing to himself as if to emphasize that it was, in fact, him.

“It is really good to see you! I WAS going to just be me, but then Jade realized going to a dumb old science museum was obviously a crappy idea and decided to do the right thing and follow me. Is that your turtle? That is a nice turtle Pokémon... thing.” Okay, so John had not always paid attention in Pokémon School. He had pretty much no clue what it was.

[Jade Harley]

Jade rolled her eyes. "I still want to go to the museum, I just didn't want to go by myself, and I was already traveling with you, so yeah." She said with a huff. "And, it's not dumb its super interesting you just don't understand!"She turned to Rose, "you understand me right? Isn't science like super awesome amazing?" She figured Rose would have her back, after all she's all scholarly and stuff, right?

[myballsareadesert]

Christ. He hates this place. You hate this place. And I'm not referring to Dave I'm breaking the fourth wall to display his distaste with this horrible place. Because why not design a place with only two fucking pokemon that constantly use magnitude or dig or pop up anywhere they desire all the while leaving an intricate spiderweb of holes across the cavern floor. Because it makes sense to deem this a safe place for people who are just traveling through the area without any regard for I don't know? Torches or such.

Luckily Staryu worked pretty well in ILLUMINATing the place and making for safer travel. Strider occasionally skittish about the little vermin that chose to pop up in his wallway or beneath his foot. Having tripped about three times on the way here only to be rescued by his trusty aquatic pokemon. "You know what Dave Strider does not get fucked with. Time to counter troll these Groundhog day rejects." Out came the boombox. They wanted to sing their little chant throughout the place. Well two people could play this game.

The trusty boombox had been through some hard times but that wouldn't keep it from showing off it's old reliable nature. Dave trying to pick the correct C.D to show off the nature of his beef. "Bout to lay down some phat beats. Phat with a ph." And now he was talking to holes in the ground. His sanity was assured. There were pokemon in there. That made it totally legit. Glowing pokemon floating ahead of it's trainer in order to avoid the inevitable all out feud between fly trainer and ground pokemon.

im a real fly dude and youre nothing but rude
popping up everywhere like pimples on prom night
man better back on down before you get tangled with fright
youre all down masters of the ground
but im up high near limitless in fly
we can work this out you can attack all you want
but ground cant touch fly so ill just sit and taunt



Dave was later arrested for Pokemon abuse and arson. Because he BURNT those moles.