Stuck in a Cave

The one who intervened was Roshan. He came forward and called out his Pokemon, Crawdaunt. It was also a pseudo-king rank Pokemon.

Both of them started to battle and to Axel and Roshan's surprise, Poliwrath was actually winning this battle. Crawdaunt was doing everything to keep up the pace but this Poliwrath was like an experienced battler.

Seeing no option for catching this Pokemon, Roshan called out Ampharos. This was his ace. It was a king-rank Pokemon. Both of them attacked Poliwrath at the same time and they won easily.

Poliwrath was already injured after fighting against Crawdaunt. It could not possibly win this battle. It was easily caught by Roshan.

Axel didn't like what Roshan had done. A respectable trainer would not use a higher rank Pokemon and even use 2 Pokemons to catch a wild one.

There were many reasons for it. How was he going to control it, when he caught it? Poliwarth knew that it was already powerful to win against Crawdaunt. So, it would never respect Roshan.

As Axel was thinking of giving Roshan a lecture, the air around them changed instantly. Axel could feel a suppressing feeling all around his body. It was as if they were being watched by a powerful predator.

Within a few seconds, a group of Blastoise, Lapras, and Poliwrath came rushing towards them to attack.

There must have been at least 50 of them and Axel could feel that some of them were even in king rank. They were tide battle specialist but the sudden attack was something that they had not prepared.

"Run towards the cave. At full speed!!!", shouted Axel and called out his Gogoat and sat on it and he rushed towards the cave.

Axel also called out Slamamence to disturb the group of these frenzied Pokemons as he and his team rushed towards the cave.

"ROSHAN!! I am going to kill you!!!!", shouted Makunda, one of the captains that was in this mission. He really wanted to kill this fellow. Due to him, they didn't even know if they were going to live. But as he turned back, he was horrified to see that the number of Pokemons chasing them had almost doubled and it was increasing.

All of them rushed towards the battle and Axel called out Venusaur.

ROOOARR

He could see that they might not be able to make it to the cave and they were about to be rushed down by these wild Pokemons.

"Venusaur, use 'Sunny day' and'Solar beam'. Then use 'Deep forest emergence', with 'Wood thrones' and 'Multi flowers'.", shouted Axel.

One of the things that Venusaur had been training after it reached tier 2 king rank recently was to use its moves at a fast pace. It was a control-type Pokemon and using its moves faster would change the battle.

This came in handy as it executed all of those moves under 5 seconds. It was quite a feat. Axel could clearly tell that it had massively improved but he didn't have the time to be impressed right now.

Venusaur gave a loud roar as 2 balls of molten fireball went up to the sky. The temperature immediately changed. Even the cyclones at the edge of the island started to react to such intense heat.

After that it immediately used 'Solar beam' at took down 2 Blastoise and Poliwrath that they were quite a head on the run.

Then it used the move 'Deep forest emergence'.

Thick branches and trees came from the ground as it rushed towards the enemy. The wild Pokemons had to stop their charge and some of them were even pierced by 'Wood thrones'.

After that, it used 'Multi flowers' and focused on using sleep powder.

Axel called out Venusaur on its master ball and ran towards the cave. He didn't even have the time to see the impact of these moves.

When they saw the cave, all of them went inside and took long breaths. Axel turned and saw that those water-type Pokemons were still charging toward the cave.

"Guys, call out all of your Pokemons. We will battle here.", shouted Axel but he was surprised that even though all of them were angry for catching that Poliwrath, none of them even came close to the cave. They just gave angry roars and after 10 minutes, all of them left.

Finally, Axel and the team took their breaths.

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All of them were angry at this guy who wanted to catch Poliwrath. They wanted to crush him into pieces. Krishna knew that such a thing should not happen. The morale was all low and if they did something to Roshan, then it would be even lower.

Even though those Pokemons retreated, they were still near the outskirts of the cave. They were waiting for them to come out. So, they could not possibly come out of the cave now.

Axel had to do something.

"All of you. Take rest for 20 minute and then we will plan on what to do."

Axel called Krishna and said, "So, what do you think that we should do?"

He could tell that Krishna was the calmest around here. Even Axel was nervous and filled with anger after Roshan's fiasco.

"Sir, the details of this island don't match with what we are facing. I cannot understand why these Pokemons are so scared of the cave. If they are that scared, then there must be some powerful force inside. I suggest that we don't continue to the cave and get out of this island.", said Krishna.

"But we don't have any choice. The Pokemons outside are in 100s and we don't have what it takes to take all of them down. Let's just think first about why such a thing happened.

The details that Steven provided did say to not fight with the Pokemons outside and to only fight with these Pokemons, if they attack.

But the details didn't mention what would happen if we were to break this rule."

"Maybe they also felt that those Pokemons were creepy and those that messed with these Pokemons, never returned alive? So, there was nothing to report.", added Krishna.

"You might be right. But what should we do now? I am regretting on not bringing Light in this mission.", sighed Axel.

Since they were going on a week's worth trip, he didn't think to bring all of his powerful Pokemons. He only brought, Salamence, Slowemperor, Gogoat, Gyarados, Venusaur, Nidoking, and Absol.

He didn't even want to bring Nidoking and Absol but since John and Toxtricity were coming, they could not train properly.

Just as they were discussing, something amazing happened, not in a good way.

There seems to be some sort of a door in the cave that suddenly shut down. Some of the team members told their Pokemons to break that door but they could not do it even after using 'Hyper beam' repeatedly.

"So, we are trapped, huh.", sighed Axel.

Axel could see that the team members had started to panic. Makunda was very bold and he started to beat Roshan senseless.

"YOU FUCKING!! GREEDY!!! ASHOLE!!..."

Krishna had to intervene to save his life.

"All of you!! Listen up. I know that we are trapped inside this unknown cave and we don't know what is going to happen. Even I don't know what is going to happen but if we panic, then I am sure that we will not be returning alive.

So, try to calm down, take deep breaths, and think of a way to solve this problem. Beating Roshan is not going to solve the problem.", said Axel.

Finally, the team members started to calm down. Kate and John also did a good job calming them down. They were quite experienced and things like this would not scare them shitless.

Krishna came forward to speak, "Sir, from what I can tell, there are actually 2 reasons why the door closed on the cave.

First, we antagonized the wild Pokemons outside. If that is true, then we are in a very bad situation now. This means that there is a powerful Pokemon controlling this island and it didn't like us misbehaving on the island. There is also a very high chance that this Pokemon is living inside this cave."

"What is the second reason?", asked Axel.

"The second reason might be due to the cyclones. We know that the teams that have come back alive till now from the island never went to the island when the cyclones were erupting.

So, I feel that during this time, the cave would automatically close when someone goes inside the cave."

"But even if we believe that second reason is true, this must not be natural, right?", asked Axel.

"Yes, there is an extremely low chance of it being natural. Either way, we might be facing a powerful Pokemon inside the cave.", said Krishna with a wary smile.

He did love adventures but Krishna didn't want to die. They were very reckless on this mission and now they were paying for it.

"The cyclones would settle down after 3 months. Does that mean that we will have to live here for 3 months? Because I surely don't want to fight that Pokemon who lives at the end of the cave.", said Axel.

"Yes, that Pokemon might be a powerful master-rank Pokemon. Even a god rank Pokemon."

"Hmm, let's brief the team about it. If we are going to live here for 3 months, we need food. We only have food for 3 weeks and we need to be very careful. The cave is filled with a lot of traps.", said Axel.

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Reporting the team of their findings was one of the hardest things that Axel had to do. He was basically saying that they might not live very long. But he had to do it.

Surprisingly, none of the team members complained. All of them purely hated Roshan for his greed but they looked ready for what was to come.

After they digested the news, Axel started to make plans on how to further go down the cave. They had to do it to gather food.

Axel had specifically chosen these 10 trainers for this mission because most of them had Pokemons that could detect traps inside the cave.

The names of all the team members for this mission were:

Axel Krishna Suresh Rajiv Rajesh Roshan Makunda Sampada Sanjeev Mandira

"We will first use our Pokemons to track the way and also track any traps. The teleportation team will be there to rescue if something happens. Let's do it.", shouted Axel to increase their enthusiasm.

All of them got ready for the mission. This was what they had come here for. They wanted to get some good quality shiny stones but now they were looking for survival.

All of them told their Pokemons to look for any traps. There were some ground type Pokemons that dug a whole using 'Dig'. Axel wanted to see if they could come out of the island using 'Dig'. But that would take a lot of time. But he had all the time in the world right now.

After an hour, the tracking team came back. Most of them were injured but it was nothing too serious. Axel came to realize that this cave was filled with traps and they were very deadly. They only went 1 km inside the cave but didn't find any Pokemons.

This was going to be a problem. Axel had to find out a food source.

Most of them were nearly killed but they were saved by their friends.

Axel suddenly realized that he had a Pokemon that could help in this situation.

"Come out!! Absol!!", shouted Axel and threw the ball outside.

ROOARRR!!!

Axel quickly brought Absol to the current situation at hand.

Absol started to look around the cave and after 10 minutes, it spoke,

"Axel, I have some good news and some bad news. Which do you want to hear first?"

"Let's start with good news. I have faced a lot today."

"Ok, the good news is that the cave will not run out of oxygen. There were numerous small holes in the wall of the cave that would gather oxygen. So, if your theory is correct, then we can survive in this cave with enough luck.", said Absol.

Axel had not even thought about the oxygen issue. Since Absol had been living inside the cave for more than a year now, it had a lot of knowledge on how to survive inside a cave.