The Monster Inside the Cave

Every now and then there is the sound of dripping water coming from the cave.

And the sound of gurgling water.

There are natural caves here...

[This is not scientific!]

Rope cursed in his own mind.

There have never been any underground caves around Cerulean City. You're telling me there's an underground cavern here that's never been discovered?

Rope frowned, then said, "Rotom, give me a location of where we are now."

Rotom flew out of his backpack, then bitterly pointed to the loading on his screen that kept spinning in circles.

"I can't seem to link to the internet here, and the satellite signal isn't working. Loto."

It could be heard that Rotom Pokédex, while not panicking, sensed that the situation was already slightly worse now.

Rope's frown deepened, such a situation was something he hadn't considered. Carefully recalling, when he had just slid downwards, there seemed to be a slight feeling of traveling through space. But although he, the person himself, was now able to merge into the spatial nodes of this world and perform instantaneous movements and whatnot, Rope was still well aware that his ability to perceive space was far lower than that of a normal person.

So this kind of spatial fluctuation that didn't move too much was in itself very difficult to catch his attention.

And the person who did the tampering seemed to be quite stealthy.

It was just that he didn't know, what exactly was going on in this current situation. Judging from the fluctuations of this spatial teleportation, the distance shouldn't be too far.

Rope calmed himself down as much as possible, then organized his thoughts, then came to three conclusions.

First, this time the spatial fluctuations teleported him to a place not far from the pit. But this did not match his current basic situation in the cave. Rope also recognized that the landform features here were similar to those in the Sinnoh region.

Second, this teleportation was done by an extremely powerful Pokémon. And if Rope wanted to be sent from Cerulean City in Kanto to somewhere in Sinnoh without alerting Rope, the only person Rope could think of was... Arceus...

Of course, that unscrupulous game company could do it too, but either one in between, Rope could just lay back and let it be mocked.

No shame...

Third, it's some kind of space of a small world nature. Though it's rarely heard of, similar spatial situations still happen. And something here leaked its scent due to a spatial disorder, which then attracted a large number of Muk and killed them all.

Not surprisingly, both items and Pokémon have this ability. And there were both naturally occurring and crafted small spaces like this, only Rope couldn't tell which one this was for a moment.

But Rope, being a traveler and his love for himself. He decided...to go back first to see if the exit was still there...

He was a current traveler...current travelers generally lacked the courage to face life and death head on, because what they had was too good to part with.

What's more, avoiding danger is the instinctive reaction of every human being, and Rope was a standard human being, so he chose to avoid danger.

So Rope turned around and prepared to walk back.

However, he stopped before taking two steps.

The corner of his mouth twitched and he closed his eyes and said powerlessly, "No way, I haven't heard of that boss being able to take the initiative! Do you have any self-awareness of being a boss?"

Rope was also helpless...

And the moment his words fell, a purple liquid shot towards him.

Rope didn't dare to be careless and quickly avoided it with a back roll.

At the same time, the flame on Rope's hand also went out.

The entire cave was once again plunged into darkness.

The sound of Rope's breathing disappeared in the silent darkness.

He had elementalized all of his organs. By this time Rope simply loved this little trick of fine localization that he had developed back when his powers had reached their upper limit.

Hiding one's tracks was also quite a useful skill.

And at that moment, the sound of something squirming on the ground came to Rope's ears.

While minimizing his presence, Rope focused all of his attention on his ears, carefully distinguishing where the sound was coming from and what kind of sound it was.

After listening for about 10 seconds, the expression on Rope's face became quite ugly.

[Is this a damn Muk? A Muk with a body size of over 12 meters? Are you sure it's not ten Muks stacked on top of each other?]

Of course, Rope was just spitting, in fact, he had already come to the conclusion that it was indeed an oversized Muk. this would also explain why the most of the above were still Muks, after all, the attraction between the same clan was often the greatest.

The Muk was still moving, and Rope could hear that this one was basically directly in front of him.

Rope was going to ambush it handily, after all it was Muk who was approaching now.

With the slightest of movements, Rope removes Charmander's Pokéball from his waist, Charmander is one step away from evolving, what he lacks now is a big fight, and with Entei's ability to autoball, Entei certainly isn't going to stand idly by if there's any danger to Charmander or Rope.

Er, wait, Entei in Pokéball thought of this, and suddenly remembered a question.

Could he really beat Rope?

Rope's ability was known when he became Rope's partner. So according to the nature of Rope's ability, after he joins the team, while it's true that Entei himself will become stronger, Rope will also become stronger.

So who is stronger, Entei or Rope?

[Let's have a fight when this incident is over.]

Entei thought so.

Rope doesn't have time to think about it now. Knowing that Charmander's strength is probably still quite different from this Muk, and after Rope's enhancement, Charmander, which was originally a warrior template, will become an assassin template with high attack and low imitation. Although there has always been the technology of flame armor, but... it doesn't absorb shock...

Rope was also helpless, having been able to cross over himself and actually having to abide by physical guidelines...

Let's just say Newton had absolutely no need to sit up in shock from his own coffin...

Rope is definitely the most respectful crossover of all the sages that came before him. (Claims to be.)

Muk is slowly approaching.

5 meters, 4 meters, 3 meters...

It's now!

"Charmander, right in front, Ember!"

Rope threw the ball and Charmander leapt out of it in a flash. It then spat out Ember of maximum intensity in the direction Rope indicated.

A huge column of fire shot out of Charmander's mouth, lighting up the entire cavern and Muk's terrified face.

Muk was greeted with a face full of flames. Rope showed Charmander a pretty good spot, startling Muk while sending it tumbling to the ground, then howling and rolling around a few times.

Rope's hand flared up again and he looked at the giant Muk with a stern look in his eyes.

Charmander also stared at the enemy in front of him, many times more massive than himself, with steely, stern eyes. There was no fear in his eyes, only the will to fight.

A Pokémon battle that was jammed with honor started just like that!