‘What the hell is going on?!’ Alarms blared in Larry's mind.

He thrashed around wildly in something's grasp, he couldn’t see, his eyes were covered in some way and his mouth was covered. He had screamed in panic the second he’d been grasped but no noise left his body, his body also felt like it had begun floating off of the ground the second he’d been grabbed.

There was a pull on his body, but not in the same way a person would grab him. He was floating, something had made him float and Larry couldn’t handle it. Even without being able to see, he could feel himself float around completely uncontrollably, it was like he was in space.

‘How do I get out?! WHAT IS HAPPENING?! MOM!’ Larry's panic only rose as the seconds kept going, his mom must’ve been furious when she realized he had been stolen away. He was sure of it, he’d just have to wait and stay calm and his mom would burst through the wall and smash whoever it was who had kidnapped him's face in.

Another few seconds and Larry had spun upside down in his weightlessness, his anxious mind spun and before long the curtain was finally drawn and he finally regained sight. His eyes fell on a purple ghost-type Pokemon and he immediately panicked, its giggles resounded in his ears and he immediately felt an ear-splitting headache.

“MMPPHHM” Unfortunately his mouth was still covered.

“Hehehe!” A Mismagius grinned back at him, she looked absolutely ecstatic, manic even as she held back a giggle, an ethereal quality in her voice tingled in his ears. “Finally got you!” Its grin grew even more frantic before it finally breathed out with a hearty laugh, “Hahaha! You wouldn’t believe just how much I’ve been looking for you!” Her voice hurt to hear, every time the Mismagius opened her mouth, Larry felt an ethereal tone in the back of her voice cut at his spirit.

He floated in the air right in front of the Ghost-Type and it spun Larry around wildly in its grasp like an excited kid, holding him up using nothing but some sort of Psychic powers.

Larry's heart sank and realized who this might’ve been and who he was reuniting with. This must’ve been connected to the Misdreavus that had ambushed him and who he’d barely beaten the last time he went through here.

Was this some sort of grudge, was this the same Misdreavus he’d beaten last time or was it one of its friends? Family? Did ghosts even have family? Larry couldn’t remember what the prerequisite for Misdreavus evolution was. He was a fan but not a fanatic for the Pokemon franchise. Was this an entirely different Pokemon? He couldn’t be sure, but the fact of the matter was that this Mismagius was out for blood.

Squirming around bore absolutely no results, it actually seemed to fill the Mismagius with glee, simply looking at Larry trying to squirm his way out of its grasp.

“Hohoho, don’t worry your pretty little head,” It floated closer, inspecting every aspect of Larry's body until the two of them almost touched, “I’ll make things reeaal comfortable for you veerry soon!” Its voice resonated in his ear and he could feel every single word bite into his entire body.

Somehow, Larry doubted the Ghost-Types assessment, with silence finally reigning once more, he could clear his thoughts and stop panicking, so he assessed his situation, ‘Alright, I need to leave right now. I don’t think whatever it has planned is something I should be here to experience.’

He weighed his options, ‘First I need to get out of its grasp, what the hell is this anyway?!’ With his head unable to move he used his eyes to search around, pointedly ignoring the Mismagius who was still looking at him with a manic expression. The cavern around him was especially dark and Larry could barely see even with his Pokemon eyesight.

They were shuffled into the corner of a long and windy cavern on the side of the walkway, it was a tiny outcropping, hiding Larry and his assailant away in darkness and from the safety of the walkway.

It seemed to take offense at being ignored, it giggled right next to his ear, forcing him to hold back a wince at the noise, “Heheh, ignoring me, I see. We’ll be best friends soon!”

Larry almost scoffed at the Mismagius confidence, but he didn’t feel confident that he’d be able to escape. ‘What are my options?’ He thought to himself.

It was impossible to move and his entire body was bound so rigidly that he could barely heave his chest up and down. The Misdreavius seemed able to float him in the air, through what was probably some sort of Type-Energy-powered move, but which was it?

Psychic?

He couldn’t be sure, since he had never actually felt Psychic-TE and he didn’t even know if Mismagius learned Psychic. But the only type that had these kinds of moves was Psychic, wasn’t it? There were no other Pokemon types who could use only their mind to move things.

A stomp in the distance resonated around the cavern and the Mismagius hid itself away further into their outcropping in a panic, its manic grin never left its face though as it muttered to itself in a hushed tone, “...can’t get caught, can’t get caught…”

With its grating voice cutting into his mind he realized who the footsteps in the distance belonged to as they slowly approached his position, ‘That must be Mom! I remember those hulking footsteps you can hear from far away!’ No other Pokemon would be powerful enough to just waltz around this loudly.

An idea came to Larry's mind, he knew what he had to do to break out, ‘If my instincts are correct and this is some kind of Psychic move, I think I can get out of this.’ Larry thought to himself. Psychic was weak to Dark-Moves, so with a thought he pulled on at his core once, drawing out Dark-TE and charging up a Bite. His jaw empowered itself with the Dark-type energy and large, dark fangs grew on the edges of his mouth.

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The next moment the Mismagius suddenly hissed out a silent curse which assailed Larry's mind while it backed away in pain. “Oof!” Larry was unceremoniously dropped onto the ground, finally freed from the Mismagius’ psychic grasp.

Immediately, he knew what to do and Normal-TE coated the back of his throat as the fangs in his mouth receded to normal length, “MOOOOOOOM!!”

He cried out using Screech, he felt the cave around him reverberate the scream far into the distance as the sheer volume of his Screech vibrated through his own body. After his scream stopped, he looked over to his captor, the Mismagius unfortunately seemed unaffected due to its typing, but the manic and crazed grin on its face was gone, it looked furious.

The steps nearby stopped for a moment, “Y-You little…” the Mismagius bit back an insult as the steps nearby started up again, this time more frantic, “...You win this one, I’ll be back!”

“Oh no you don’t!” Larry pulled on more Dark-TE and as the Mismagius floated out of the cavern, Larry followed with Pursuit. His legs suddenly felt like springs as he took a running leap onto the Mismagius’ back, hitting her in the back of the head with a Dark-TE-infused punch. He charged another Bite as the two of them floated out of the outcropping the Mismagius had hidden them in and he bit down on the back of the Mismagius's neck.

With his weight on its back, the Mismagius quickly dropped onto the ground with his fangs still stuck in its neck, “Argh! Let go!” It thrashed around wildly and its pained scream once more bit into Larry's mind, he was forced to release his Bite.

Once they hit the ground he jumped off and immediately used Dig and disappeared into the ground, but the Mismagius had a quick reaction, it yanked on his feet before they disappeared into the ground and pulled him back out like a root vegetable. Larry could move this time around, the Mismagiuse's control over Psychic seemingly waning with her panicked state of mind.

As his body was pulled up, he grabbed at the walls of the hole he’d dug and grabbed a small, loose rock into his small arms, he let go of the Ground-TE in his body, dispersing it into the air around him and pulled Rock-TE into his arms and the rock he was holding.

As he appeared outside of the hole he reeled back for a throw, while floating upside down in the air, and threw the stone at the Mismagius. “Woah!” It cried out and released its grasp on him, dropping him onto the ground. Larry's throw missed her entirely as his head crashed into the cavern floor again.

The steps in the distance were by now sprinting closer and quickly approaching, Larry was confident he could survive until his mother arrived. Mismagius seemed content to fight now instead of trying to flee again, and as its eyes lit up, a small purple sphere conjured up in front of it and was released with a flash of its eyes.

Larry dodged to the side, and the Shadow Ball exploded on the ground next to the hole with far more malicious and malaligned Ghost Type-Energy than expected, the blast of TE from the attack burned at his legs and Larry stumbled back down onto all fours awkwardly when he tried to get up from his dodge.

In his pain he forgot to charge a Payback like he’d trained in his spars, instead falling back onto a Bite, as he was still hoping for the very effective hit. He lunged at the Ghost-Type face first and it simply floated up and out of the way.

‘Damn, it's far stronger than expected!’ Larry had hoped that the Mismagius was slightly stronger than the Misdreavus, but this thing knew really powerful moves and clearly had experience fighting. ‘I’ll probably be forced to tough this out until my mom gets here, but that should be any second now!’

THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!

The distant footsteps from before could be felt in the ground now, and Larry was sure that if he could hold out just a moment longer, his mother would sprint around the corner and save him from the Mismagius.

‘This is it…’ He stood up on his trembling legs defiantly, fighting against the pain by gritting his teeth and pulling on even more Rock-TE. He coursed it around and through his hurt legs slowly, rocks rose behind him seemingly telepathically, as they began absorbing the Rock-TE he’d released. The Mismagius matched him, its eyes began to glow an ethereal pink as TE coalesced in her mouth.

For a short second, a standoff between the two of them happened, as they both looked at each other while charging their attacks. ‘I’m putting everything into this attack!’ Larry assured himself. He finally eased off of charging his attack and fought against the exhaustion from charging an attack with this much Type-Energy at once.

The Mismagius released her beam first and a colorful, bright pink beam of energy shot out from its mouth, aimed straight at Larry.

Larry responded in kind and heaved his arms forward, but the rocks behind him stayed. In the split-second, before the beam of Psychic energy hit Larry, Mismagius’s face warped to confusion before it was suddenly impacted by half a dozen boulders from above.

Larry had summoned two small boulders behind himself as a diversion, before pushing most of his Rock-TE above the Mismagius to create a Rock Slide straight above her.

Its attack grazed Larry's side, as it was pushed down onto the ground from its floating position. The beam of Psychic energy shot down and bore a long groove into the cavern floor as it was forced onto the ground by the slew of boulders falling on top of it.

With its entire body suddenly being crushed by the weight of half a dozen small boulders falling on top of it, it smashed onto the ground and was crushed by the boulders with a loud screech. Larry covered his ears in the hopes of cutting off the sound, but it seemed the Ghost-Types cursed screams just went straight through.

Silence reigned for a second again, before the mound of rocks began to move.

“Damn it!” Larry heaved in exhaustion, he stumbled and fell in pain as his legs and entire body finally gave out to the damage and exhaustion. Laying out on the cavern floor, Larry could only watch as the Mismagius pushed the boulders off of itself with ease, the attack Larry had put his entire being behind somehow only seemed to anger it as it floated out and up in the air again.

THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!

Yet, it had been enough. Before the fight could escalate anymore, his mother finally rounded the corner and rushed up to Larry's lying form protectively. Her face twisted into an outraged scowl when she saw the state he was in.

With his mother in front of him, Larry's racing heart calmed and he slowly felt his vision go faint as he heard his mother growl out a sentence in white-hot anger. His mother's voice reverberated loudly through the entire cavern, “I AM NOT LOSING YOU AGAIN!”

Larry finally lost consciousness as the walls, floors, and ceiling began to shake and quiver with Type-Energy.