BANG! BA- BAN- BANG! BANG- BANG!
The sound of dozens of Graveler impacting the wall his mother had raised sounded out and she raised and stamped one of her feet down on the floor. The ground under her foot began to crack, spiderwebbing out and towards the wall, before the cracks ran into the ceiling, up and above the mass of Geodude and Graveler.
His mother watched with an evil glint and a vicious grin as the entire ceiling caved in, burying the mass of Rock Pokemon in a shower of boulders. Larry covered his head in panic, but as the mass of dust finally flowed past them, stray pieces of gravel plinking off of his mother's hardened exterior like the remnants of an explosion off of a blast shield.
Before Larry could begin to chastise his mother for her extreme methods, destroying the only walkway up the mountains inside, the rubble began to move.
Geodude and Graveler began to claw their way out of the pile of rocks in droves, complaining to themselves and the two of them in simple caveman-speak, muttering about the apparent disturbance.
“No Stop! Why stop?!” One cried out as it clawed its way past small boulders.
“Enemy make stop!” A large Graveler cried out, garnering the attention of all the Geodude and Graveler, “Let’s call Boss! Where Boss?!”
The others cried out in agreement, a noise like tumbling rocks sounding out from their mouths. Before they could go on to search for their apparent boss, they made an entrance for themselves.
BOOOOM!
The sheer wall of rock burst apart, throwing even a few Geodude to the side as the lizard-faced Megaton Pokemon Golem burst out of the wall of debris like the Cool-Aid Man. It skidded to a stop in front of its compatriots, turning around to face them.
“You lot! What the hell is going on?! Why did we stop!” It spoke, far more articulated than its kin.
All the Geodude and Graveler pointed back behind him and one spoke up, “Enemy make stop! Enemy is evil!”
The Golem turned, its body needing several steps to simply turn around and its head barely swiveling at all. Its brow furrowed when it saw who had stopped them. It bared its teeth in a snarl and spoke heavily, “Looks like it's a Tyranitar, folks! Aww and it's with its young!”
The group of Rock-Type rose in noise at his assessment and Larry had to think, ‘Do they even know what a Tyranitar is?’
“Whats Tyrankneetor?” One Graveler spoke up, completely messing up the name.
“Tyranitar,” His mother corrected with hate in her eyes as she bared her teeth in anger, “The strongest Pokemon this mountain has to offer.”
“OH! AHAHA!” The Golem broke out into a burst of haughty laughter, making its Gravler and Geodude kin follow him until the entire group of dozen or more Geodude and Graveler were all howling in uproarious laughter.
When the laughter finally died down the Golem spoke up, “You think you’re the strongest the mountain has to offer?!” It smacked its feet into the ground like a sumo wrestler as his troupe of hype men yelled out in celebration.
“I think you’re forgetting someone here!” The Golem charged forward with reckless abandon, propelling itself forward in a roll, it charged straight at the two of them. Larry was just about to shield himself protectively when another mass of stone shot out of the ground and launched the Golem back to its compatriots whose cheers of encouragement died in their throats.
Golem righted himself in the air and landed back on its two feet protectively, “Hmm, I see, I see…” It scratched at its chin cheekily with its clawed hand as it evaluated the situation. Finally, its eyebrows rose in apparent understanding and it spoke up again, with its troupe watching on carefully, “You’re one of those defensive types, ain’t’cha! Couldn’t hurt another Pokemon even if you tried! Ha!”
His mom's eye twitched, clearly more annoyed at the prospect of having to share the same general area with the troupe of this Golem for any longer than insulted at its wrongful observation. “I could rip you and your entire posse to shreds,” she growled out.
By now even Larry was beginning to become antsy, the situation wasn’t de-escalating and it looked to be turning into a fight, and he wasn’t in any shape to be fighting. The Golem’s group of lackeys seemed content with whatever outcome their leader was looking to make a reality and his mother looked far more aggravated than he had ever seen her. ‘Gotta calm this down, maybe I can convince Mom to calm down.’ Larry thought anxiously.
He turned up the cuteness factor and turned his best attempt at puppy-dog eyes up to his mom, “Mom? Can we leave these bad guys alone? They’re not being nice.”
His mom looked down at him and immediately calmed as she realized that she still had her kid in her arms and that any fighting would be done hands-free. She quickly turned back to the Golems group and then back to her kid, evaluating her choices, before shaking her head in understanding and sighing, “You’re right, we need to keep going.”
She turned back to the leader Golem, still quite annoyed but willing to let bygones be bygones, “I have places to be.” She turned and took a step, but before she could get far, Golem spoke up.
“Oh? You’re running away?!” It began in a goading voice and his mother stopped dead in her tracks, “Cowardly little Tyranitar, running away with its tail between its legs? HAHA!” When it laughed its entire group broke out in laughter as well and it quickly continued goading his mom, urging its group to follow suit.
“Haha! Tyrankneetor can no beat little Geodude!” One cried out.
“She weak, little weak Pokemon!” A little Geodude yelled out and all the others broke out into another bout of laughter.
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His mother was gnashing her teeth and fighting to control herself, she looked ready to explode into violence as she practically shook in anger. Larry attempted to get through to his mother, by telling her how she was being goaded, but she wasn’t listening.
She set him down carefully on the cavern floor and bit out the words in a whisper, “Wait here, I’ll make this quick.” Larry was about to protest, but the uproarious laughter of the group of Graveler and Geodude behind them would overwhelm any attempts.
Stomping over with sheer hate in her eyes, his mother quickly made another standoff with the Golem who bared his teeth in a one-sided grin, like he’d just won the argument they were having. He turned a hand to his posse and they instantly quieted, then turned back to Larry’s mom, “Well, at least I won’t call you a coward after I wipe the floor with you! Ha!”
The atmosphere immediately changed and Larry felt it, he was still sitting in the middle of the walkway, simply left behind by his mother. He couldn’t move much still even if he wanted to and he knew he was far too close to the battle to live through it, so he discreetly dragged himself to the side of the walkway using his arms.
‘I don’t know how strong Golem are,’ He thought in panic as Type-Energies roiled to life behind him, ‘but my money is on mom winning this.’
Larry winced with every single pull of his arms as his legs dragged across the hard stone floor, he turned to his side in alarm as the battlefield erupted into noise. The Golem had materialized a giant rock out of the ground and launched it at his mom.
The stone flew like it had been launched using a catapult and in the short second it took to impact his mom Larry put up his arms to shield himself. She didn’t make any moves to dodge and the giant rock exploded against her entire body. The rock cracked, splitting into multiple pieces which continued to roll and skip along the floor, one piece was unfortunately heading straight for Larry.
“-Oh CRA-”
Panicking, Larry redoubled his efforts and grabbed at the ground frantically before suddenly finding his footing and launching himself forward using one of his feet. The rock skidded dangerously close past him as he smashed head-first into the wall of the walkway.
Immediately his foot burned in extreme pain, he nursed his foot as he looked back at the fight in anger. His mother didn’t seem to have noticed but retaliated against the Golem regardless. The pebbles on the ground around them began being pulled inwards, towards his mother.
‘Woah…’ Larry was so mesmerized he almost forgot about the pain. Unlike when using his Sandstorm, which seemed to only pick up stray dust and sand particles, his mother's Sandstream ability seemed to pick up and orbit almost every rock or stray pebble in her vicinity right now. Giant pieces of rock, which were almost half as tall as Larry himself began to float toward his mom and orbit around her violently.
Before the Sandstorm completely swallowed the battlefield, Larry began to see a few stray Geodude and Graveler get smashed in the side of their bodies with giant pieces of rocks. Even Golem was hit by a basketball-sized boulder, but simply shrugged off the damage as the sandstorm finally completely swallowed the conflict.
The noise of the sandstorm was overwhelming, Larry fought to get some kind of view of the fight over the amount of dust and stones that orbited his mother.
RRROOOOOAAAAAR
He heard an ear-shattering roar, and suddenly the bright white light of Normal-TE began to shine through the Sandstorm like the sunrise through a foggy morning.
A loud crash was heard and the entire cave shook, even cartoonishly lifting Larry off the ground, and as quickly as the Sandstorm lit up, it suddenly darkened again. Larry squinted through the Sandstorm, hoping to make out something, anything that was going on in there.
Just as he was about to catch a peek at what was going on inside the Sandstorm, it darkened. Dark-TE coalesced inside the storm, a single point began to darken. It looked like a dark spot in his vision, like when you looked at the sun too long and had to blink away spots in your vision. Larry wanted to rub his eyes to clear the spot away, but before he could, the darkness exploded outwards.
The two-dimensional wave of complete darkness expanded outwards, it smashed into the rock wall just above Larry and he flinched back on instinct as the wall seemed to absorb and darken in response before cracking and falling dramatically. “OH C’MO-” Larry rolled out of the way again and the rocks landed where he had laid down for cover.
‘I know that probably wouldn’t have hurt much with my Rock-typing,’ Larry thought with a grimace at the pain in his leg, ‘BUT CAN’T THESE DAMN MEATHEADS WATCH FOR COLLATERAL DAMAGE?!’
He turned around quickly, checking for another attack that he’d have to dodge, but nothing came. Still, over the next fifteen nerve-wracking seconds, the Sandstorm slowly lost momentum until the giant rocks hurtling through it began to crash into the ground and slow to a halt. After another fifteen seconds, it became clear enough to see why that was, as his mom stood over the Golem triumphantly, resting one leg on top of his rolled-over form.
The Golems troupe of Geodude and Graveler seemed either almost completely knocked out or far too injured with a variety of stray boulders having piled up around most of them. His mother though looked none worse for wear, except for the angry snarl on her face.
“Do you submit?” She said as she looked down at her opponent with an angry snarl on her face, but the Golem looked back up with only humor and a cheeky grin on its face.
It broke out in a burst of haughty laughter again as the final stray pieces of sand and dust settled on the floor, “Ha! Me? Submit? Who do you think you’re talking to?! HAHA!” It struggled to roll itself back onto its feet, before giving up with a grunt.
His mother grunted back in anger, before speaking up again, “You’re stuck, I’ll kill you if you don’t submit and leave.”
The Golem's eyes quickly darted back to the few members of its group who were still standing, they nodded in some sort of understanding before it turned its eyes back onto his mother, “You think I’m stuck?” Its reptilian face quirked up again into another grin, “WELL YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE LAST OF US!”
The Golem screamed out at the top of its lungs, “EVERYONE! IN 5, 4, 3…”
Golem and all the Graveler began to emanate a harsh glow out of the breaks in their rocky and round carapace and Larry was reminded of images from the Pokemon Anime.
The Golem had used Explosion as a final passing move.
‘Oh no!’ Larry covered his head again with his arms.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
BOOM!
BOOOOM!
“OOF!” Larry was impacted by the shockwaves of multiple explosions, he didn’t open his eyes, but he felt multiple things impact him as he was propelled backward into the wall he’d just jumped away from previously. He fought to catch his breath, but the ringing in his ears had him panicking.
He finally managed to crack an eye open, only to be met with a wall of dust and rubble that was about to crush him. He jumped to the side, feeling a throb of pain shoot up his nervous system from the leg used.
CRACK!
BOOM!
The rubble that he’d expected to impact him was suddenly swallowed down and into the floor, which had cracked under the pressure of the explosions and Larry saw the floor fall under his feet leaving his view dramatically.
“OH! NO NO NO-!” Larry cried out as more and more of the floor was swallowed by the crack in the ground. He felt himself tilt and slowly slide down the crack as he was swallowed by the sinkhole.
“NOOO-!” Darkness swallowed him as he felt the weightlessness of falling take him over.