A Mantis's Meal(Bad End)

Vargus grumbled as he tries to open his mouth in order to blast his Water Gun, his mouth leaking from the water within. He can only get trickles of water out of his mouth as the Armaldo was leaking more fluids than what is capable of the rock/bug type. The infected Pokémon then opened his mouth wide, showing his deep mouth and appendages from within. With the way they are retracting the fronts of it towards his mouth, it's meant to pull its prey in and down. The resolve that Vargus had was washed away from the sight. "R-Rai!" he cried out trying to look at you.

Your body winces in pain from the Armaldo's ground attack. You tried to use your arms and legs in an attempt to pick yourself up, but you once again are unable to bear the pain. You heard Vargus's voice and look to see that the mantis is preparing for his Croconaw meal, and no doubt you'll be the dessert. Seeing this, you tried to generate an electric attack in a **** attempt to save him, but the pain you're feeling is preventing your concentration.

'I need to recover a little strength...' you thought to yourself as you look and saw your bag was at quite the distance away from you. 'I need an Oran or Sitrus berry. That'll give me enough strength to save Vargus.' you thought to yourself and started to slowly crawl your way towards your stuff. 'Or if all else fails, escape.' he worriedly thought as he can hear the Armaldo slurping around the Croconaw whose head was already starting to slide into his predator's mouth. Vargus muffled from the mouth muffling his cries.

You whimpered as you strive to push yourself faster against the ground to get to the bag. 'Just hang on Vargus. I'm getting there.' You grunt and whimper in pain as pushing your body against the ground makes the pain more intense than before. You take a moment to look back and your eyes widen at the sight of the Croconaw's body slowly being dragged into the Armaldo's mouth, the appendages slowly bringing the water type inside, with the croc using his paws to slow it.

You gritted your teeth as you push harder, arms quivering from the strain as you **** yourself closer and closer to your bag. The sounds of slurping and slobbering noises filled your ears as you were nearing your bag. You brought one of your arms forward, pressing it near the bag as you strain your arm forward. 'Almost there! Just... About...!" You made one more lunge and was able to grab one of the straps.

You let out a sigh of relief as you went to the entrance of it and opened it. You found various berries within from some you saved when you fell from the ledge yesterday. You started digging through it, hoping to find one of the berries you needed. Eventually you caught a glimpse of a blue, round berry and took it out. 'I got it!' you thought, eyes sparkling with triumph as you brought the berry close to your lips as they opened and was about to eat it in one bite.

Your mouth was only able to slice a bit of skin off of it as you felt your body being dragged back and away from your pack. The sudden movement made the berry slip from your paws and fall and roll along the ground. You struggled and tried to get back the berry you dropped, but you can't. "Hey, let me go you-" you cried out as you turned your head to look back at whoever it was, but your annoyance was replaced with fear as you saw the Armaldo from before holding you by your hind paws and keeping you from escaping.

You look around and can't find Vargus anywhere. You can hear light thumping and mumbling of a voice somewhere. Then your eyes are drawn down to its belly where you can hear thumping and muffled cries from within. It doesn't take long before you realized what just happened, not just the fact that its belly is wider despite the plated shell over it. "N-No..." Your eyes start to shake and tremble in terror as you start to feel something warm and wet dripping onto your body. You unknowingly turned your body on your side to see that the Armaldo was drooling down at you, clearly having enough room in his belly for a Raichu like you to get in him.

Before you can even react, you felt the mantis lets go of your hind paws and grabbing your shoulders and lifting you up. You yelped from the pain that still goes through you from his previous dig attack. You try to gather some electricity within your body, but whenever you felt electricity run through the sore parts of your body, the pain throbs and cuts off your concentration. The Armaldo grinned as you see the infected Pokémon opens his mouth, showing you his moist, damp cavern. Your body starts to shiver from the sight as you see his tongue going out and licking at your neck and face. Your body quivers from disgust and fear just as you felt him place his mouth over your head.

You, being in a weaken state, can only make light shakes and squirms as you feel his hot breath and saliva clinging around your face as you feel the pair of appendages lining around his mouth gripping your face as it slowly and surely drags your form deeper and deeper into his mouth. Your face starts to form tears in your eyes as your start to go down his throat. This is where your life will end. A meal to an infected. A victim to another victim to the one who caused all this. You don't know who or why they did this, and now you will never know.

Your body starts to become drenched in saliva as more of your body starts to go down the bug's throat. At this point the Armaldo doesn't need his appendages to bring you down as it can now just use the weight of gravity to send you down into its belly. Soon your butt, waist and hind paws slide down. Your long tail crawls up the Armaldo's body until it slips into the infected's mouth to enter the throat and join you down into its stomach.

You fell down and soon were **** to curl into the cramp, small belly. You feel the liquid splashing underneath you as you look to your left and saw an **** Grovyle pressed against the wall. He looked battered like he been in a tough fight. 'So that's what the Armaldo ate...' You thought sorrowfully as you felt the movement around shifted downward and shook a bit as the Armaldo sat down to rest with its large meal. You were about to close your eyes as you felt another figure pressed against you. You turn and saw Vargus pressing his paw against you. Through the dim lighting, you saw that his normally optimistic and cheerful Amber eyes of his were filled with despair and hopelessness.

"Rai..." he muttered softly, eyes trembling. "I lasted as long as I could... I hoped that you could've escaped..."

You couldn't help but smile at that. Despite knowing it would lead to this, he fought hard hoping you could've escaped. "I hoped I could've saved you..." Your eyes trembled as tears formed. "I also wanted to see my sister again..."

Vargus couldn't bear to see you like that, so he went and embraced you with his arms surrounding your body. You were touched by this action as you sported a smile at him as you hugged back. "I'm sorry..."

"It's okay... It's okay..." he spoke softly just as the two of you accepted your fates and passed out mercifully before the acids can work on you three.

And that's how my story ends. Bad luck revealed our presence to an infected. While we put up a fierce resistance, it overwhelmed us and claimed our bodies as meals. I had hope to see my sister again when I joined back with her, but that has been squandered due to the Armaldo's power. Vargus's attempt to comfort me despite the dark fate thrusted to him was admirable as I've ended up another victim to this malevolent pandemic with my last thought for hoping Kate ends up back at camp.