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Hunger was totally a different beast in the swamp.
Alex sat on a protruding root of a cypress-like tree, his boots dangling inches above the black water.
It had been twelve hours since the Ursaring incident, twelve hours since he threw away a week's worth of delicious meat to save his life.
"I guess mistakes have interest rates," Alex muttered, his stomach giving a wet, angry growl.
He scraped the last bit of moss from a rock with his knife. It was Wiki Berry moss...bitter, dry, but edible.
He chewed it slowly, trying to trick his brain into thinking it was a hotdog.
Below him, Nidorino was digging in the mud. It wasn't looking for the Skorupi; it was looking for tubers. Every few minutes, it would pull up a gnarly, brown root, sniff it, and crunch it down.
"At least you can eat dirt," Alex sighed.
He looked at his shadow.
"Duskull.... Report."
The shadow elongated and the single red eye drifted to the surface of the darkness.
It blinked slowly.....nothing.
The swamp was quiet, too quiet.....Skorupi he had seen yesterday hadn't returned and the tunnel under the log was empty.
"We can't wait here forever," Alex said, sliding off the root. His boots made a disgusting sucking sound as they hit the muck.
"If the bug won't come to us, we find its living room."
Tracking in a swamp was nightmare mode.
Footprints didn't exist here; the water filled them in seconds. Scent was masked by the overwhelming odor of decay so Alex had to rely on whatever he could find.
He moved slowly, checking every log, every hole, every patch of the swamp.
"Look for molts buddy," Alex instructed.
" I remember that Arthropods grow by shedding their skin and If there's a population here, there has to be the trash."
They spent the morning wading through thigh deep sludge, Nidorino hated it.
The water was cold, and leeches kept trying to attach to its underbelly.
The Black Sludge collar pulsed constantly, fighting off the minor infections from the dirty water.
Around the noon, they found something.
It wasn't a Skorupi, It was a structure.
Jutting out of a mud bank, half-swallowed by the earth, was the corner of a metal crate. It was rusted, covered in green algae, but the rivets were industrial.
"That's not natural," Alex whispered.
He waded over, the crate was reinforced steel, the kind used for heavy cargo shipping. On the side, barely visible through the rust, was a faded logo: A stylized 'G' painted in red.
Team Galactic? No, the font was wrong.
Alex wiped the mud away.
[ SILPH CO. - BIOLOGICAL CONTAINMENT ]
[ DESTINATION: SINNOH REGION ]
"Silph Co.," Alex noted. "Kanto's tech giant."
The crate had been breached,a massive hole had been torn in the side, not from the outside, but from the inside. The metal was bent outward, as if something incredibly strong had panicked and ripped its way out.
"This is how they got here," Alex realized. "This crate didn't fall off a truck. It fell off a plane, or a ship crashed nearby years ago. This was a shipment of specimens."
He shone his flashlight into the dark interior of the crate. It was filled with mud and debris. But amidst the silt, something glittered.
"Nidorino, guard the entrance."
Alex crawled inside, air was stale and had a very disturbing smell. He dug through the muck with his gloved hands.
He pulled out a shard of purple shell, It was hard as diamond.
[ Item: Skorupi Carapace (Fragment) ]
"Confirmed," Alex nodded. "This was the nest, they hatched here, or broke out here."
He dug deeper, his fingers brushed against something smooth and circular.
A disc, he pulled it out. It was a plastic case, cracked and waterlogged, but the data disc inside looked intact.
[ Item: TM84 ]
[ Move: Poison Jab ]
[ Type: Poison (Physical) ]
Alex stared at the disc with excitement.
Poison Jab.....
In the game, it was a staple move with 80 Base Power and 30% chance to poison. High reliability and for a physical attacker like Nidorino, it was the Holy Grail as It was vastly superior to Poison Sting (15 Power) or peck.
"This is it," Alex breathed.
But he wasn't done as buried next to the TM was a small, strangely shaped object. It looked like a fossilized barb, black and hooked.
[ Item: Poison Barb ]
[ Effect: Boosts power of Poison-type moves by 20%. ]
"The rich get richer," Alex grinned with a maniac look which could even make Joker cry.
He crawled out of the crate, clutching his treasures. He felt like a grave robber who had just hit the jackpot.
"Look at this," Alex showed his Nidorino.
He held up the TM. "This teaches you how to stab things properly so no more needles. We're talking about spears, hehehe..... "
And the Barb...
"We can attach this to your collar," Alex planned. "Or weave it into a harness, 20% more damage and stacked with the Black Sludge healing.....you become a raid boss."
Nidorino sniffed the TM, It didn't smell like food, so it lost interest. It nudged Alex's pocket, where the empty jerky bag used to be.....I'm hungry.
"I know," Alex said, his mood dampening. "I know."
The treasures were great, but they couldn't be eaten.
"Let's get out of this hole. We need to find dry land to cook."
They moved further east, following the slope of the land upward. The swamp began to thin out, replaced by a dense thicket of thorny vines.
Alex stopped as he saw something.
Not a Pokémon but a fruit.
Hanging from a twisted, thorny branch about ten feet up was a cluster of large, yellow berries.
[ Plant: Sitrus Berry ]
[ Status: Ripe ]
Sitrus Berries....they restored health, but more importantly, they were dense, fleshy fruits. A single Sitrus Berry was like a meal.
"Food," Alex croaked.
But the tree was surrounded by a carpet of thick, purple moss.
[ Hazard: Toxic Spores ]
"Of course," Alex muttered. "Nothing is free in the World"
He looked at Nidorino. "You're immune to poison so.....go climb that tree and knock them down."
Nidorino looked at the tree, It looked at the thorns and It looked at Alex.
It sighed....a very human sound of exasperation and walked into the moss.
It ignored the toxic fumes rising from the ground. It reared up on its hind legs, slamming its front paws against the trunk.
Shake...
A berry fell.
It hit the moss.
"Don't let them hit the ground!" Alex yelled. "The moss is poisonous! Catch them!"
He grabbed his survival tarp from his pack. He ran to the edge of the moss patch.
"Shake it harder!"
Nidorino rammed the tree....Horn Attack.
Thud.....
Three berries fell, more fell with it.
Alex lunged, spreading the tarp and the berries landed with a soft thud on the canvas.
"Yes!"
He dragged the tarp back and picked up one of the yellow berries. It was the size of a grapefruit, he wiped it on his shirt, and took a bite.
It was sour.... fuck.....Incredibly sour but it was juicy and filling.
"Eat," Alex tossed one to Nidorino.
They sat there for twenty minutes, devouring the fruit. It wasn't steak or his favourite biriyani but the vitamins rushed into Alex's system, clearing the fog of hunger.
"Okay," Alex said, wiping juice from his chin. "We're fed...atleast for now."
He pulled out the TM case.
"Let's learn this move...."
He placed the disc against Nidorino's forehead. In the game, it vanished and in this world, the tech was different.
The disc hummed, projecting a neural learning sequence....a series of lights and impulses that transferred the muscle memory directly into the Pokémon's brain.
Nidorino's eyes glazed over for a second. Its muscles twitched and It shook its head, sneezing.
Then, it looked at a nearby tree.
It didn't peck.....It didn't kick.
It pulled its arm back, its claws glowing with a dense, purple shroud of energy....much thicker than the Poison Sting needles.....
It jabbed the tree trunk.The force punched a hole straight through the bark, leaving a bubbling, sizzling cavity where the wood had instantly rotted.
[ Move Learned: Poison Jab ]
"That's lethal," Alex whispered.
He stood up, renewed.
He looked back toward the swamp hollow.
"Now we go back and find that tunnel again. And this time, if the Skorupi tries to run....."
Alex tapped the Pokéball on his belt.
"....we nail it to the wall."
[ STATUS WINDOW ]
Trainer: Ares (Alex Hales)
Inventory:
* Knife
* TM84 (Poison Jab) - Used/Empty
* Poison Barb (To be equipped)
* Skorupi Carapace Fragment
* Sitrus Berries (x2 left)
[ POKĂMON TEAM ]
1. Nidorino (Male)
* Level: 17
* Moves: Poison Jab (New!), Sucker Punch, Double Kick, Focus Energy, Horn Attack
* Equipment: Black Sludge Collar
2. Duskull (Male)
* Level: 14
* Status: Resting in Shadow
3. Feebas (Stasis)
He put on his MP3 player and relaxed.....
His dick smaller than my toes
Yeah, yes, smaller than my toes
His dick smaller than my toes
I'd rather ride Squidward nose
My eyelash flew off
When I saw that dick was too soft (What the fuck?)
Need a dick like Rick Ross
Or Dora the Explorer get lost
:- CupcakKe
Definitely not this.....why the fuck does it have so many of these...
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