You are entering the realm of survival horror-er-the beginning of Mt. Moon.

There is almost no way out.

"Charmy, Metal Claw!" With that command, Charmy swung his glowing hand along the other trainer's Geodude, causing it to cry out as it collapsed. The hiker groaned as his last Pokemon fainted, before congratulating you on your victory and walking off.

You give Charmy a quick once over, looking for any injures before you nod in satisfaction and lead him forward with your spirits high. Spirits that crash to the ground when you see ANOTHER ladder downward. You know that they wanted to disturb the native Pokemon as little as possible, but would it be too hard you put in a fucking stairwell? It was as if whoever was in charge of putting them in was thinking, 'I'm going to give anybody at the bottom of these ladders the possibility of free panty shots.' Arceus damn it all.

As you have done before, you start down the hole before stopping briefly to allow Charmy to jump on your back. And like the others, it was a tight fit for you both. Still, you wouldn't have it any other way. But once on the ground, something changes.

It all looks the same. The non-intrusive lighting system, the boulders, the rock walls. Everything looks the same. But it feels wrong. The hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Something is watching you, and you don't think it's friendly. You take a few tentative steps forward, Charmy following you with a confused look on its' face.

"GEO!" The loud cry gives you both enough warning to dive to the side, though you both get separated by the attacking Geodude. What worries you most is that you are sure this Geodude is the source of the growing feeling of dread in this chamber. And it's looking right at you.

Charmy charges at it with a Metal Claw ready, but the Geodude pushes its way to safety. You feel a bit better that he's now standing in its way to you. "Metal Claw!" Charmy charges again, though this time the Geodude does nothing, seemingly content for Charmy to wreck it. The instant Charmy was in range, though, proved it to be false. Geodude, surprisingly fast for its species, grabbed Charmy's glowing right hand with its left before its right closed into a fist and began to glow. You know that technique. "Metal Claw the arm that's holding you!" Charmy held out his left arm to begin charging the attack when the Geodude tightened the grip it had around his captured hand, causing him to cry out in pain and lose focus. That also gave Geodude enough time to finish its attack, and jerked Charmy up a bit before slamming the Mega Punch right in his face. It let go at that moment, and Charmy flew into a large stalagmite, breaking it into pieces as he bounced off before falling limply to the ground. He soon vanished from sight as the rock formation buried him.

Seeing how easily the Geodude dealt with Charmy caused to fall into a minor panic, which was why you fumbled a bit at grabbing Pidgey's Poke'ball. It was a brief stumble, but long enough. The moment you pulled her Poke'ball free, a sharp pain in your wrist caused you to drop it. As you noticed that, you also spot the small rock falling away from you, even as you watched the Poke'ball fly out of your grasp. Your eyes followed it as soared for a short distance before thankfully landing undamaged. Behind the Geodude.

Out of options, you watch almost helplessly as the Geodude began hopping towards you, causing you to back up step by step. You are so focused on watching the approaching Pokemon, you completely miss the rock that had hit you earlier as you step on it, the rock moving underneath your foot and causing you to fall backwards.

You barely have enough time to register that you've fallen when the breath you still have is **** from your body. Geodude took the moment you were distracted to hop on your chest, all 44 pounds hitting you at once. It doesn't give any mercy as it quickly wraps both of its hands around your neck and begins to squeeze. Your hands immediately go to its, trying to loosen them even a little, but they're too strong. And you can't get up, it's too heavy. You feebly try anything you can to breathe, to live, but nothing works. Your limbs begin to feel heavy as darkness fills your vision. Soon, all you see is that angry expression. And the light, before the darkness covers even that. You try for that last gasp...

Which fills your lungs with blessed, blessed air! Air!

You realize that you can breathe again after a few moments, and begin coughing violently as well. You spend a moment trying to stop as your vision and hearing come back into focus. And what you see makes you smile. Charmy in a rage over your near ****, a tight grip on Geodude's arm as he smashes the rock type through stalagmite after stalagmite, before unleashing a torrent of flames at it then smashing it against the ground. Geodude manages to grab with its free hand a handful of dirt and throws it at him, directly into Charmy's face. But it just makes him angrier, his free hand glowing faster than you can blink as he literally bitchslaps the rock type with Metal Claw. When he gets tired of that (which takes a while), you watch as he almost calmly tosses the heavily beaten Pokemon right beside you. You blink, then look back at Charmy, who is now in front of you with Pidgey's Poke'ball as he holds it out for you. You take it, and finally realize what has been wrong the entire time. Charmy... he's different. Your eyes widen, he evolved!

He's taller now, and his hands now have actual claws now. He's lost the cute orange color he had for more reddish color, as well as losing the wide-eyed innocent face he had before for a more aggressive look. And yet, there is no anger in his face. Nothing that terrifies you. You only see concern and...is that love?

You smile, before wrapping your arms around his neck, a soft 'thank you' murmured into his shoulder. He responds in kind, before carefully pushing you back just far enough so that he can place a soulful kiss upon your lips, of which you joyfully return.

You spend a few moments together before you reluctantly **** yourselves to separate. It's way to public to do what you both want to do. The smile on your face turns to a frown as you look to your right, the Geodude still laying **** beside you. You bite your lip before reaching into your bag for a empty Poke'ball and tap it against the beaten Pokemon. It gets sucked inside and 'dings' right away as you sort of expected.

You know what you did is for the best. If you hadn't, anyone coming after you could face it. And if they died, it would be your fault.

After collecting yourself, the two of you continue through the chambers of Mt. Moon, hoping that nothing else will be as bad as what you just faced. The next ladder, unfortunately, proves one of the downsides of evolution, as Charmy is now far too big to fit down the ladder's hole. Reluctantly, you recall him and climb down as fast as you can so you can let him out.

As you continue along, you take a glace at Geodude's move set and whistle. Either his parents were absolutely amazing, or someone let him go for some unthinkable reason. He's damn strong. Even Charmy would have trouble in a straight battle with him.

You hear it long before you see it, a strange heavy panting that makes you uneasy. You both are on edge as you turn the corner ahead of you and spot the source of the noise. Ahead of you is a woman in black, with a ridiculous puffy hat. She seems to realize your presence and turns to look at you. When she does, you grimace. The giant red R on her top isn't something hard to identify. It makes the woman a member of Team Rocket. But she didn't really look like one. Well, maybe if Team Rocket was the name of a stripper group or something.

Her hat was really the only thing that looked normal on her. She was maybe a size smaller than you, and her top was so short it showed off a generous amount of underboob. In fact, if she breathed deeply enough, you were sure the rest of her breasts would easily pop out. Her bare midriff exposed a tattoo that was covered just enough by her skirt that you couldn't read it completely, but you're pretty sure it read something along the lines of 'A free ride' or something. And speaking of her skirt. You have to admit, your miniskirt wasn't exactly ideal, and you've heard of microskirts, but the one this Rocket member was wearing was a micro-microskirt. Every step she took showed off her bare snatch, even if she wasn't sashaying her hips like a hooker as she walked to you. As she got closer, you realized something was wrong with her. She looked about a year or two older than you, and she seemed terrible. She had an unnerving grin on her face, and her 'uniform' was covered in dried stains. And the worst thing you saw was she looked maybe four or five months pregnant.

"Hey. I'm SO sorry, but I can't let you by." She said in a tone that clearly said that she wasn't sorry at all. "They're doing...something up ahead. I wasn't listening. But, maybe we can do something fun to pass the time." She finishes by lifting up the front of her skirt and taking a deep breath, which proved your earlier point.

You look at Charmy, who looks back at you. As one mind, you state in a deadpan voice, "Hell No."

She looks disappointed at that. "Aw. Now I have to do the not fun thing." She whines, before pulling out a Poke'ball and letting loose the creature inside.

A Zubat appears, and immediately tries to Bite Charmy. He responds with an Ember to the face. The Zubat falls, earning a light swear from the Rocket member as she recalls it and sends another Zubat out, this one letting out the loud screech of an Astonish attack. It hits, and your hand almost instantly reaches for and grabs a Potion. As you are about to pull it out, you register that your hand didn't hit any of the other medicine and you look down. Somehow, you've managed to grab the one canister in the completely different pocket that you not-quite-never wanted to touch again. You look up to check the battle, and immediately jump back as the Rocket is right in your face!

"GIMME THAT!" She screams at you as she yanks it from your unsecured grasp, hopping back a bit before almost ripping off the dispenser and chugging the contents. Once empty, she sort of freezes, the bottle falling to the ground. She begins to shiver almost uncontrollably as she takes a long gasping breath. Her head suddenly snaps down, allowing you to see that the iris and pupils of her eyes have shrunken to near pinpricks. "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUCK ME NOW!" She cries as she pulls out another Poke'ball, and brings out a Machoke. You're surprised that she didn't bring it out to start with, then realize why as the Pokemon moves aside its spandex briefs, grabs the Rocket and slams its admittedly impressive dick into her cunt in a single stroke before shoving her to the ground and beginning to relentlessly pound her into said ground.

You and Charmy watch this for a bit then look at the still out Zubat, who has now settled into a hole in the wall. It gives you a 'What can you do?' shrug. You shrug back, before motioning to Charmy to follow you around the rutting pair.

As you reach the next ladder, you find a most horrific sight. Someone's fat ass is clogging up the hole down. The fuck? You look around for an alternate path, and spot a small cavern. It is sadly barely big enough for you to squeeze through, and once again you recall Charmy. It is even tighter than you thought, but you manage to pop out the other side.

What you find is odd. The chamber has several Cleffas, Clefairys, and Clefables all chanting at something you can't see. The chanting stops immediately as one of the Cleffas spots you. They begin murmuring as they take turns looking at each other and looking at you. Just when you decide to say fuck it, one of the Clefables approaches you with a gleeful expression on its face before pressing something into your hands. Once it is firmly in your grasp, every present member of the Clefa-line charges you, touching you almost reverently while pushing you back to the hole you just came out of. And you are helpless to resist the tide.

Once back in the main path, you hear a rumble behind you and see that the hole has been closed by something. You also notice that the fat ass is gone, though he left something around the ladder hole 's edge. You also look at the item that was thrust into your hands. When you do, your eyebrows rise. Just where did those Pokemon find a Water Stone, and why did they give it to you? You shrug as you tuck the stone into your bag, and approach the hole. As you do, you catch a whiff of something. Is that..butter?

The rest of the way is easy, with only a scientist of some kind hissing at you as he clutches something as you pass. You are fairly sure he started muttering something about his precious, but you aren't sure.

Now outside in the setting sun, you are eager to make it to Cerulean City. You want to earn your next badge, but more importantly, you want to 'congratulate' Charmy on evolving. Nice and loud.

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Party

Charmy, the male Charmander -> Charmeleon!