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     The team woke up the next morning on the beach where they reached the main land, and then continued their journey eastward, toward Southern Cavern. When they reached the entrance of the cavern, Keahi spotted a pink berry and an apple on the ground and ran up to it. "Hey, look!" he cheered happily, picking them up. "I found--" But then, suddenly the ground began to rumble, and the rumbling quickly became more violent. Then suddenly, the ground began to tear open underneath Keahi's feet. He yelped and grabbed on to the ledge before he could fall in, the food dropping into the trench. "Dad! Dad!" he screamed as he struggled to climb back up.

     "Hang on!" Plamen shouted as he grabbed his hand an pulled him up into his arms.

     "Watch out!" Nina swiftly leapt up and forcefully kicked away a large boulder that nearly crashed down onto them. But when she landed, they all heard a painful roar. Their eyes all darted to where the boulder had landed, and they saw a Rhyhorn half-buried under the rubble. Trying to keep balance as the ground shook, they ran over to help. "Oh, my! I'm sorry! I didn't see you there!" Nina apologized as they pushed the large rocks off of him.

     But as soon as he was freed enough, the Rhyhorn flailed around, jabbing at them with his horn, nailing Baraq in the shoulder. "Ow! Hey!" he growled, sparking up. "Cut that out!"

     Nina continued to dodge his thrashing. "We're only trying to help, Rhyhorn!"

     "Yeah, say that after hitting him with a rock, Nina!"

     "It was an accident, okay?!"

     "Try telling him that!"

     The Rhyhorn roared again and shot a Rock Blast at Nina as she lost her footing on the shaking ground, and she was flung into the wall.

     "Nina!" Keahi cried out.

     "That's enough!" Plamen charged at the Rhyhorn with Quick Attack and sent him sprawling out onto the floor. He went up to him as he shakily stood back up and said gently, "Now, if you would only calm down, we could--"

     "You monsters!" Rhyhorn screamed at them before quickly turning around and speeding off into the cavern, as fast as the earthquake would let him.

     Plamen stared after him, and the earthquake finally calmed to a stop. He turned and went back to where Baraq and Keahi were helping Nina up. "You alright, Nina?"

     "Yeah, yeah," she answered, rubbing her head. "Dang it, that hurt."

     He took an Oran Berry out of his bag and handed it to her. "Here."

     She took it. "Thanks…"

     "Hey, Dad?" Keahi asked, looking back where Rhyhorn ran to. "Why would he call us monsters? We were the ones trying to help…"

     Baraq grunted. "If I was suddenly impaled by a random boulder because of some careless idiot, I'd be mad, too."

     "Oh, shut up, Baraq!" Nina shouted. "I said it was an accident! Just let it go, already!"

     As the two continued to argue, Plamen looked down at his son. "He was enraged, Keahi, and probably scared, too. And when someone's like that, it's hard for them to think straight. It's no wonder how he acted…" He turned back to Baraq and Nina, who were angrily looking away from each other. "But I'm afraid we might not have seen the worst of it." They returned his look with worry. "As we make our way through this cave, we must be on our guard…and be very careful."

***

     A Rhydon pushed himself off the ground. "That was a big one…" He turned to a Donphan and Marowak behind him, who were looking down into a new deep trench. "We didn't lose anything, did we?"

     "Well…" Donphan began sadly. "I couldn't grab most of it before it fell… I'm sorry…"

     "And I could only save two berries…" Marowak said morosely.

     Rhydon stomped a foot angrily. "Dang it! It was hard enough getting even that much food…" His stomach growled, and he rubbed it soothingly to try and ease the hunger pains.

     "Papa! Papa!" The three turned to see Rhyhorn come stumbling in. "Monsters! It's terrible!"

     "What happened?!" Rhydon bellowed as he ran up to his son, who collapsed on the floor. "Are you all right?! And what do you mean 'monsters'?!"

     He sniffed. "They… They just came walking up, and then tried to take the food I had just found! And then… And then, the ground just started shaking real bad out of nowhere, almost like it was angry at them for taking our food! And then, you know what they did? You know what they did, Papa? They kicked a boulder at me!"

     "They what?!"

     "Yeah, and when I tried to defend myself, they just tackled me to the ground, Papa! They were gonna gang up on me and beat me up! And I didn't even do anything to them!"

     Rhydon roared loudly. "Who do those trespassers think they are?!"

     "Seriously?!" Donphan spat. "What gives them the right to just invade our home, steal our food, and then just attack an innocent child like that?! They sure've got a lot of nerve, those fools!"

     Marowak slapped his bone club into his hand. "Even the ground is angry at their insolence! And look what happened because of that! We lost even more food!"

     Rhydon cracked his knuckles and marched ahead. "Show me where they are, son! I'll make those home-wreckers regret ever coming here! I'll kill 'em! I'll kill 'em!"

***

     "Phew…" Nina sighed, taking an Oran Berry out of her bag, a Pupitar laying unconscious on the floor. "Why does this place have to be filled with nothing but Ground and Rock types?"

     "It is rather unfortunate…" Plamen agreed, wiping his head.

     "And of course, I have to be the only one with an effective enough attack to defeat them more easily."

     "Well, excuse us for having such type disadvantages against everyone in this cave," Baraq sneered.

     "Hey, I'm not blaming anyone. I'm just saying." She opened her mouth to take a bite out of the berry, but then a blur of white whipped around and swiped it from her hand. "What the?!" Her eyes followed the white blur as it, as well as the berry it held, flew into the hands of an angry-looking Marowak in a passageway. "Oh, come on! Can't I have at least taken one bite?"

     "And let any more of our food be wasted on you pig-faced trespassers?" Marowak growled. "Not a chance."

     "Pig-faced?!"

     Donphan stepped in from another passageway. "What gives you fools the gall to invade our home?"

     Plamen stepped up. "Please, hear us out. We only intend on passing through to reach the other side of these mountains. We don't want to cause trouble."

     "Liars!" The team whipped their heads to see that Rhyhorn had showed up, too, coming in from the only other passageway left. "What about what you guys did to me?! And just look at what you did to that Pupitar there!"

     Rhydon stepped up intimidating from behind him. "So, these are the sorry pieces of trash who beat on my innocent son earlier, huh?"

     "Beat up?" Baraq questioned. "We didn't beat him up! He was the one attacking us!"

     "Oh?! And I supposed he dropped a boulder on himself, too, didn't he?!"

     He flinched, and Nina looked up at him apologetically. "I'm sorry, that was my fault! I was just trying to save--"

     "Silence!" he roared. "I don't wanna hear your pathetic excuses! You're all gonna pay for all you've done! I'll bury every last one of you alive!" And with that, he charged at Plamen with a Horn Drill as Marowak threw a Bonemerang at Nina and Donphan sped toward Baraq with Rollout.

     Nina shot a Poison Sting to deflect the Bonemerang, and Baraq rammed into Donphan head-on with a Quick Attack. Plamen, grabbing hold of Keahi, dodged the deadly Horn Drill and sent an Ember at him. Rhydon stumbled to the ground.

     "Dad!" Keahi shouted. "Can't we convince them that they misunderstood us?"

     "I don't think we can, Keahi. We have no choice but to fight them."

     "But you're outnumbered! And look how strong they--ah!" A Bonemerang narrowly missed Keahi's face, and Rhydon was about to charge at them again.

     "Stay back, Keahi!" his dad warned. And as Rhydon came at him with a Take Down, he engulfed him with a Smokescreen. When Rhydon emerged from the smoke, he crashed into the wall and fell to the ground again. Then, noticing his comrades struggling to fend off their opponents, Plamen rushed to their aid.

     "Go, guys! You can beat them!" Keahi cheered as they continued fighting. Then suddenly, a tank seemed to just slam into him, and he was flung into the wall.

     "Think you can just come in and take our precious food, huh?" Rhyhorn taunted. "Well, think again!"

     Keahi weakly tried to push himself off the floor, but then was firmly lifted up from the back of his neck by Rhydon. "So, you're that overgrown fire rat's son, are you? You must be no better than he is!"

     "Keahi!"

     When Rhydon turned his head, he was met with a full-blown Flame Wheel to the face and was yet again knocked to floor. Plamen pinned him down as Keahi scrambled away.

     "Don't you dare lay a hand on my son!" he shouted. "He's just a young boy!"

     "Oh, is he now?! And who's to say he won't grow up to be a tyrant like you?!" Rhyhorn tackled Plamen off of his dad, and then Rhydon, standing back up, prepared for another Horn Drill attack, his horn starting to spin rapidly.

     "You jerk!" Keahi shouted as he Tackled his leg. But with Rhydon's hard armor. Keahi only managed to make himself topple to the ground. He got up again as Rhydon looked down at him and started to repeatedly pound his leg. "My dad's not a tyrant! He's gonna be a great leader of our rescue team soon! If anyone's a tyrant, it's you! You're the one who attacked us without even letting us explain ourselves first!"

     He kicked the little Cyndaquil to the ground and turned on him with a Scary Face. "You don't need to explain anything, you rotten brat! I already have everything I need to know!" And he lunged forward, aiming his horn at him… But then, he was furiously knocked back and held against the wall by Plamen.

     Fighting Rhydon's resistance, he was quickly losing his energy. His comrades, too, were on the brink of collapse, fighting with every ounce of strength they had left against their still-lively opponents. And his son was in grave danger… He could think of no other option. "Baraq! Nina! Take Keahi and get out of here! Now!"

     "What?!" Keahi screeched in shock.

     Nina narrowly dodged a powerful blow from a Bone Club. "But what about you?!"

     Plamen faltered under Rhydon's strength. "I'll hold them back as long as I can! You three go!"

     "What?! No!" Baraq barked. "We're not leaving you behind!"

     The pressure under Rhydon's push increased. "We can't win this way! And I want you three safe, so just go!"

     "But dad! We can't--"

     "GO!" He managed to throw Rhydon onto the ground and pin him down again.

     Baraq and Nina both stared at him in disbelief, until Baraq was impaled with Fury Attack. Nina, barely dodging another Bonemerang, jumped at Donphan with Double Kick and knocked her back. "Come on!" she shouted, helping Baraq up.

     "But Plamen!"

     "We need to save Keahi for him!"

     Keahi, on the other hand, was trying in vain to help defeat Rhydon with his weak Tackles. "I'm not leaving you, Dad!" he was crying out. "We just need to fight them off just a little more! We'll win, you'll see!"

     "Dang it, Keahi, GET OUT OF HERE!"

     Rhydon threw him off, then faced Keahi, raising his claws to him. "You little pest!" But Plamen quickly pinned him again.

     Nina grabbed Keahi and pulled him back. "Let's go, Keahi! We need to get you out of here!"

     "No!" he screamed, tears streaming down his face as he tried to fight against her restrain to reach his dad. "He needs us! He needs us!"

     Baraq blocked a Bonemerang from impaling them with a Spark and lifted them onto his back. "Come on!" And then, he sped off toward the end of the tunnel with all the remaining energy he could muster up.

     Nina kept trying to hold Keahi back as he desperately kept trying to reach out for Plamen, who was then being surrounded by the rest of the enemy Pokémon. "NO, STOP! DAD! DAD!" Then, the whole scene disappeared as they fled down their final flight of stairs out of the cavern. "DAAAADDYYYYYY!!!"

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     The team woke up the next morning on the beach where they reached the main land, and then continued their journey eastward, toward Southern Cavern. When they reached the entrance of the cavern, Keahi spotted a pink berry and an apple on the ground and ran up to it. "Hey, look!" he cheered happily, picking them up. "I found--" But then, suddenly the ground began to rumble, and the rumbling quickly became more violent. Then suddenly, the ground began to tear open underneath Keahi's feet. He yelped and grabbed on to the ledge before he could fall in, the food dropping into the trench. "Dad! Dad!" he screamed as he struggled to climb back up.

     "Hang on!" Plamen shouted as he grabbed his hand an pulled him up into his arms.

     "Watch out!" Nina swiftly leapt up and forcefully kicked away a large boulder that nearly crashed down onto them. But when she landed, they all heard a painful roar. Their eyes all darted to where the boulder had landed, and they saw a Rhyhorn half-buried under the rubble. Trying to keep balance as the ground shook, they ran over to help. "Oh, my! I'm sorry! I didn't see you there!" Nina apologized as they pushed the large rocks off of him.

     But as soon as he was freed enough, the Rhyhorn flailed around, jabbing at them with his horn, nailing Baraq in the shoulder. "Ow! Hey!" he growled, sparking up. "Cut that out!"

     Nina continued to dodge his thrashing. "We're only trying to help, Rhyhorn!"

     "Yeah, say that after hitting him with a rock, Nina!"

     "It was an accident, okay?!"

     "Try telling him that!"

     The Rhyhorn roared again and shot a Rock Blast at Nina as she lost her footing on the shaking ground, and she was flung into the wall.

     "Nina!" Keahi cried out.

     "That's enough!" Plamen charged at the Rhyhorn with Quick Attack and sent him sprawling out onto the floor. He went up to him as he shakily stood back up and said gently, "Now, if you would only calm down, we could--"

     "You monsters!" Rhyhorn screamed at them before quickly turning around and speeding off into the cavern, as fast as the earthquake would let him.

     Plamen stared after him, and the earthquake finally calmed to a stop. He turned and went back to where Baraq and Keahi were helping Nina up. "You alright, Nina?"

     "Yeah, yeah," she answered, rubbing her head. "Dang it, that hurt."

     He took an Oran Berry out of his bag and handed it to her. "Here."

     She took it. "Thanks…"

     "Hey, Dad?" Keahi asked, looking back where Rhyhorn ran to. "Why would he call us monsters? We were the ones trying to help…"

     Baraq grunted. "If I was suddenly impaled by a random boulder because of some careless idiot, I'd be mad, too."

     "Oh, shut up, Baraq!" Nina shouted. "I said it was an accident! Just let it go, already!"

     As the two continued to argue, Plamen looked down at his son. "He was enraged, Keahi, and probably scared, too. And when someone's like that, it's hard for them to think straight. It's no wonder how he acted…" He turned back to Baraq and Nina, who were angrily looking away from each other. "But I'm afraid we might not have seen the worst of it." They returned his look with worry. "As we make our way through this cave, we must be on our guard…and be very careful."

***

     A Rhydon pushed himself off the ground. "That was a big one…" He turned to a Donphan and Marowak behind him, who were looking down into a new deep trench. "We didn't lose anything, did we?"

     "Well…" Donphan began sadly. "I couldn't grab most of it before it fell… I'm sorry…"

     "And I could only save two berries…" Marowak said morosely.

     Rhydon stomped a foot angrily. "Dang it! It was hard enough getting even that much food…" His stomach growled, and he rubbed it soothingly to try and ease the hunger pains.

     "Papa! Papa!" The three turned to see Rhyhorn come stumbling in. "Monsters! It's terrible!"

     "What happened?!" Rhydon bellowed as he ran up to his son, who collapsed on the floor. "Are you all right?! And what do you mean 'monsters'?!"

     He sniffed. "They… They just came walking up, and then tried to take the food I had just found! And then… And then, the ground just started shaking real bad out of nowhere, almost like it was angry at them for taking our food! And then, you know what they did? You know what they did, Papa? They kicked a boulder at me!"

     "They what?!"

     "Yeah, and when I tried to defend myself, they just tackled me to the ground, Papa! They were gonna gang up on me and beat me up! And I didn't even do anything to them!"

     Rhydon roared loudly. "Who do those trespassers think they are?!"

     "Seriously?!" Donphan spat. "What gives them the right to just invade our home, steal our food, and then just attack an innocent child like that?! They sure've got a lot of nerve, those fools!"

     Marowak slapped his bone club into his hand. "Even the ground is angry at their insolence! And look what happened because of that! We lost even more food!"

     Rhydon cracked his knuckles and marched ahead. "Show me where they are, son! I'll make those home-wreckers regret ever coming here! I'll kill 'em! I'll kill 'em!"

***

     "Phew…" Nina sighed, taking an Oran Berry out of her bag, a Pupitar laying unconscious on the floor. "Why does this place have to be filled with nothing but Ground and Rock types?"

     "It is rather unfortunate…" Plamen agreed, wiping his head.

     "And of course, I have to be the only one with an effective enough attack to defeat them more easily."

     "Well, excuse us for having such type disadvantages against everyone in this cave," Baraq sneered.

     "Hey, I'm not blaming anyone. I'm just saying." She opened her mouth to take a bite out of the berry, but then a blur of white whipped around and swiped it from her hand. "What the?!" Her eyes followed the white blur as it, as well as the berry it held, flew into the hands of an angry-looking Marowak in a passageway. "Oh, come on! Can't I have at least taken one bite?"

     "And let any more of our food be wasted on you pig-faced trespassers?" Marowak growled. "Not a chance."

     "Pig-faced?!"

     Donphan stepped in from another passageway. "What gives you fools the gall to invade our home?"

     Plamen stepped up. "Please, hear us out. We only intend on passing through to reach the other side of these mountains. We don't want to cause trouble."

     "Liars!" The team whipped their heads to see that Rhyhorn had showed up, too, coming in from the only other passageway left. "What about what you guys did to me?! And just look at what you did to that Pupitar there!"

     Rhydon stepped up intimidating from behind him. "So, these are the sorry pieces of trash who beat on my innocent son earlier, huh?"

     "Beat up?" Baraq questioned. "We didn't beat him up! He was the one attacking us!"

     "Oh?! And I supposed he dropped a boulder on himself, too, didn't he?!"

     He flinched, and Nina looked up at him apologetically. "I'm sorry, that was my fault! I was just trying to save--"

     "Silence!" he roared. "I don't wanna hear your pathetic excuses! You're all gonna pay for all you've done! I'll bury every last one of you alive!" And with that, he charged at Plamen with a Horn Drill as Marowak threw a Bonemerang at Nina and Donphan sped toward Baraq with Rollout.

     Nina shot a Poison Sting to deflect the Bonemerang, and Baraq rammed into Donphan head-on with a Quick Attack. Plamen, grabbing hold of Keahi, dodged the deadly Horn Drill and sent an Ember at him. Rhydon stumbled to the ground.

     "Dad!" Keahi shouted. "Can't we convince them that they misunderstood us?"

     "I don't think we can, Keahi. We have no choice but to fight them."

     "But you're outnumbered! And look how strong they--ah!" A Bonemerang narrowly missed Keahi's face, and Rhydon was about to charge at them again.

     "Stay back, Keahi!" his dad warned. And as Rhydon came at him with a Take Down, he engulfed him with a Smokescreen. When Rhydon emerged from the smoke, he crashed into the wall and fell to the ground again. Then, noticing his comrades struggling to fend off their opponents, Plamen rushed to their aid.

     "Go, guys! You can beat them!" Keahi cheered as they continued fighting. Then suddenly, a tank seemed to just slam into him, and he was flung into the wall.

     "Think you can just come in and take our precious food, huh?" Rhyhorn taunted. "Well, think again!"

     Keahi weakly tried to push himself off the floor, but then was firmly lifted up from the back of his neck by Rhydon. "So, you're that overgrown fire rat's son, are you? You must be no better than he is!"

     "Keahi!"

     When Rhydon turned his head, he was met with a full-blown Flame Wheel to the face and was yet again knocked to floor. Plamen pinned him down as Keahi scrambled away.

     "Don't you dare lay a hand on my son!" he shouted. "He's just a young boy!"

     "Oh, is he now?! And who's to say he won't grow up to be a tyrant like you?!" Rhyhorn tackled Plamen off of his dad, and then Rhydon, standing back up, prepared for another Horn Drill attack, his horn starting to spin rapidly.

     "You jerk!" Keahi shouted as he Tackled his leg. But with Rhydon's hard armor. Keahi only managed to make himself topple to the ground. He got up again as Rhydon looked down at him and started to repeatedly pound his leg. "My dad's not a tyrant! He's gonna be a great leader of our rescue team soon! If anyone's a tyrant, it's you! You're the one who attacked us without even letting us explain ourselves first!"

     He kicked the little Cyndaquil to the ground and turned on him with a Scary Face. "You don't need to explain anything, you rotten brat! I already have everything I need to know!" And he lunged forward, aiming his horn at him… But then, he was furiously knocked back and held against the wall by Plamen.

     Fighting Rhydon's resistance, he was quickly losing his energy. His comrades, too, were on the brink of collapse, fighting with every ounce of strength they had left against their still-lively opponents. And his son was in grave danger… He could think of no other option. "Baraq! Nina! Take Keahi and get out of here! Now!"

     "What?!" Keahi screeched in shock.

     Nina narrowly dodged a powerful blow from a Bone Club. "But what about you?!"

     Plamen faltered under Rhydon's strength. "I'll hold them back as long as I can! You three go!"

     "What?! No!" Baraq barked. "We're not leaving you behind!"

     The pressure under Rhydon's push increased. "We can't win this way! And I want you three safe, so just go!"

     "But dad! We can't--"

     "GO!" He managed to throw Rhydon onto the ground and pin him down again.

     Baraq and Nina both stared at him in disbelief, until Baraq was impaled with Fury Attack. Nina, barely dodging another Bonemerang, jumped at Donphan with Double Kick and knocked her back. "Come on!" she shouted, helping Baraq up.

     "But Plamen!"

     "We need to save Keahi for him!"

     Keahi, on the other hand, was trying in vain to help defeat Rhydon with his weak Tackles. "I'm not leaving you, Dad!" he was crying out. "We just need to fight them off just a little more! We'll win, you'll see!"

     "Dang it, Keahi, GET OUT OF HERE!"

     Rhydon threw him off, then faced Keahi, raising his claws to him. "You little pest!" But Plamen quickly pinned him again.

     Nina grabbed Keahi and pulled him back. "Let's go, Keahi! We need to get you out of here!"

     "No!" he screamed, tears streaming down his face as he tried to fight against her restrain to reach his dad. "He needs us! He needs us!"

     Baraq blocked a Bonemerang from impaling them with a Spark and lifted them onto his back. "Come on!" And then, he sped off toward the end of the tunnel with all the remaining energy he could muster up.

     Nina kept trying to hold Keahi back as he desperately kept trying to reach out for Plamen, who was then being surrounded by the rest of the enemy Pokémon. "NO, STOP! DAD! DAD!" Then, the whole scene disappeared as they fled down their final flight of stairs out of the cavern. "DAAAADDYYYYYY!!!"