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Misery hops on a small Rhyhorn. The Pokemon grunts cheerily as Misery pats its head. "[Hope you don't mind giving me a lift.]"
The Pokemon growls again with a smile as it begins walking.
"[...Wow you guys are actually pretty slow..."] She sighs. This these to irk the Rhyhorn a bit but due to the footing it can't really go much faster. "Rhy! Rhyhorn!" It roars.
"[Oh... Well how about...]" She shifts around on the Rhyhorn, sitting comfortably but also grabs a back spike with each hand. Her eyes begins glowing, then the Rhyhorn does too, before they lift off into the air. The Rhyhorn grumbles a laugh and holds its legs out like superman as they begin flying through the air!

As they moves in close to the ground, a Sandile pops up. It yells at them, trying to spoil their fun.
"[Move in closer Rhyhorn!]" She shouts, taking one hand off the Pokemon and holding it out like a gun.
The Rhyhorn turns in the air, suddenly able to control it's own movement telepathically. They zoom in close as a small ball of light forms on the tip of Misery's gun finger.
"[Moonblast!]" Miseyr shouts in her native tongue as a beam of light shoots from her finger tip. It blasts the Sandile, who then runs away. They swoop by and back into the sky as a Hippopotas emerged from the dirt. Apparently that Sandile was it's friend.
It opens it's mouth wide and fires a Water Pulse at the flying duo.
"[Hard left!]" Misery cries. The Rhyhorn banks left, narrowly avoiding the attack.
Misery reaches into her dress as the Rhyhorn dives in for the counter attack. Once they get close, she pulls her hand out, which has magically turned into a vine. She whips it around and trips the attacks Pokemon with it. The Hippopotas watches them fly off again and gives up. It dives back under the ground and a Helioptile takes it's place. Misery's hand returns to normal as they circle the new Pokemon from the sky.
She holds her hands together, almost like she was praying, as Rhyhorn flies off to prepare for the next attack.
The Thunderbolt attack from the Helioptile is absorbed by Rhyhorn as they turn to come in for the final attack. As they grow close, Misery opens up her hands and shoots a ball of concentrated energy. It collides with the Helioptile and explodes, KOing the poor thing.

The Rhyhorn then settles down and hovers a few inches off the ground as they rejoin the rest of the group

Allen moved up to a Rhyhorn, petting it's side for a moment before climbing on. "Sorry for the extra weight." He pet the Pokemon's back as it followed only with the rest of them, Allen actually watched as Maddy's Rhyhorn actually stepped down on the other Pokemon and started to cry out to tell her to stop, but was too late. After the cry, a couple Pokemon erupted from the ground beneath Allen's ride and cried at him. A Sandile and a Hippopotas stood to face him, "Ecralys, Aqua Jet to the Sandile!" He called as he tossed the ball into the air. A moment later, the Kabutops shot through the air, covered by a stream of water that projected him at the little Ground type. The bounced around from the attack, and nearly fainted, but was able to whip around to bite only Ecrelys' arm with a Crunch. "Mega Drain." Allen called and the fossil Pokemon drained the life from the foe. the little croc ran away quickly.

The Hippopotas, roared at Ecrelys from the side, "Waterfall!" He called. Another jet of water propelled the Pokemon forward, only this time with more force and not as fast. Ecrelys slashed across the little Pokemon with much of the water flowing behind to crash into it, KOing the Pokemon.

Maddy smiled as everyone finished up their battles.
"Moving on, I suppose."
She urged her Rhyhorn onward once more and soon enough, they arrived at the entrance to Glittering Cave. Maddy dismounted her Rhyhorn, taking note that there were several Rhyhorn already here.
"Wow, it seems there's a lot of people visiting today." She said, tying her Rhyhorn on to a nearby rock so there was no chance of it running off.
"Let's go!"
With that, everyone entered the cave. It was very narrow and they had to walk in single file.
"Hmmmm... Maybe this wasn't such a good idea... I can see why it's called Glittering Cave, though."
Every now and then, they would pass by a deposit of shining crystals embedded into the wall. The sight was quite pretty.

Michael and his little motly crew rode through the rest of the cave before dismounting and entering another cave. The sight was beautiful. "Wow this is nothing like back home is it Squirt and Spike?"

Allen looked around, astonished by the amount of crystals filling the cave, "How have I never been here before." and gave a wonder filled sigh. He ran hand hand along the left wall feeling the smooth rock, "I wonder how this cave formed..." There was no sign of an underground river or anything of the sort running through. The thought to himself as they walked along.

Eventually the cave opened up into a much wider room, branching off with much wider tunnels. All of the tunnels were blocked off with large mine carts, except for one.
"Someone sure has been busy here..." Maddy noted as they walked onward, down the tunnel that wasn't blocked off. She stopped dead in her tracks as she spotted a group of people up ahead though.
The group of people were extracting what looked like regular rocks from the cavern walls and piling them into wheelbarrows. What concerned Maddy the most was the color of the suits the group was wearing; orange.
"Lysandre's lackeys..."
Just their luck, one of Lysandre's men looked over and spotted them. They mumbled amongst themselves and quickly drew some Pokeballs from their belts.
Maddy frowned.
"I guess it's time to battle. Let's get 'em!"

[Everyone fight one Team Flare grunt with 1-3 Pokemon. Reserve your post.]

Maddy sent out her Sliggoo as a Numel was sent out onto the field by an approaching Team Flare grunt.
"Rain Dance!" She called to her Pokemon.
The little dragon did a cute dance and water began to drip madly from the cave ceiling, mimicking rain fall. Numel headbutted Maddy's Pokemon. The attack didn't hit very hard, but Sliggoo flinched. Numel took advantage of the opportunity and used a Double-Edge this time, dealing a slightly more powerful blow but taking some damage itself.
"Muddy Water!"
A wave of dirty water crashed over the field, sweeping away Numel ad KO'ing it. Sent out next was a Furfrou. Maddy decided to keep Sliggoo out for this one too.
Furfrou began round two with a Charge Beam, the beam of electricity glancing off of Sliggoo's gooey hide. Furfrou's Special Attack was boosted with the charge left over from the attack.
"Body Slam!"
Sliggoo rammed it's body into the silly-looking dog Pokemon, dealing a decent blow. Furfrou tried a Surf attack this time, a wave of water rushing over the field. The attack hardly fazed Sliggoo, but she seemed to be getting tired.
"Finish it with Dragon Pulse!"
Sure enough, Furfrou fell. Maddy's opponent was defeated and she waited for the others to finish up their own battles.