[centre] [h3][color=f7941d]~Avery Grant~[/color][/h3] Huh…? The air got a whole lot more...soft. And green. With little bugs squir- Oh. Silly Avery. That’s grass, not air. It was hard to differentiate between the two at times. One moment he was soaring through the air, the next? Sleeping on a grassy mattress. He pushed the ground away and returned to his feet. He looked around. … It was quiet. And lonely. Where did everybody go? Huh. Avery collapsed back, sitting on the ground. What had just happened. He had been…[i]fighting running stopping[/i] Oh. He was fighting off a uh [i] gyrados, aridos, zapdos, on[/i] Onix! It was an Onix. Cool dudes, those. Probably. Avery hadn’t ever actually touched an Onix before. They seemed rather rocky. Rocks were cold. So Onix would be cold. Cold is cool. … And mean. Avery looked around again. Why’d everybody leave? That’s a bummer. Who would he talk to now? Brain was never around when he needed him. He could talk to himself, but that wasn’t fun. All he ever did was talk. Avery would never let Avery get a word in edgewise. Kind of another bummer. He got back to his feet. Again. This time Avery walked, rather than fall. He had to find his buddies. But he avoided the rough, normal grass. Some kind bit of nature urged this odd path to lay flat off from the main road. Avery didn’t know much, but he did know that one doesn’t mess with destiny. Or was it Destiny Bond? ...maybe Sevipers? Sevipers were nasty. Not that Avery had ever seen one. Or two. Or...well he read about them from time to time in stories. They would sometimes come out of baskets and eat children. … He wouldn’t eat a child. Oh. The ground was movi- Avery was looking at the back of an Onix...err, does an Onix have a back? Does it have a front? Maybe he would ask it. He almost did, be he noticed something disturbing. There were two things on the ground beyond i- Wait… Avery picked up speed and circled around the Onix. Not getting in it's vision, but- Oh. Oh no. Oh no no no… Nonononononononono… Pleasenonono… No… A tear crawled out of Avery’s eye. On the ground before him lay Melody and Quietbro. Lifeless. Dead. Nothing. And Onix was just looking at them. Did it...did it really.... Everything went red. Avery bent down and scooped up a rock. [color=f7941d]“NO! Give them back! GIVE THEM BACK!”[/color] He launched the rock towards the Onix who had turned to look at the cause of the sudden outcry. The stone missile struck the Onix below its eye. Right on a scar. Onix was pissed. It started smashing and thrashing. Avery stumbled back a couple steps. Not out of fear, mind you. It was move back or fall. Avery was ready to do this. This Onix had robbed him of his friends, had robbed his friends of their lives. He would get even. Somehow. Avery pulled both Pokeballs out and loosed his partners. Green and Blue both seemed a little on the tired side, but the former was still ripe with passionate rage, the later beyond ravenous. Both looked back at him, awaiting some sort of orders. [color=f7941d]“That’s a big one, huh...Let’s be careful. Protect yourselves. Focus on defense.”[/color] Whatever that meant. Avery planned on running forwards and hitting it with...oh he didn’t have a stick. Maybe rocks? Rocks rule. He bent down and scooped up another rock. He looked up and… Green was sailing through the air towards the Onix. Looks like Blue threw him. Maybe he was trying to play catch with himself. It looked like it anyway. Blue was charging the Onix, following underneath Gree- Oh no. Onix was thrashing about now. It launched forward with it’s head to strike Green. Surely that would crush the poo- OH! Something surrounded the Pineco. Onix’s head bounced off, slightly dazed. Phanpy slammed into the rock snake at a lower section, closer to the ground. But no dice. This was a tough beastie. It took the hit like nothing happened. It turned its gaze back at the trio. Crush the Pineco, crush the Phanpy, crush the Man. Easy enough. Avery launched another rock. Onix opened its mouth and devoured the rock before it hit him. ...Mistakes were made. The guy looked over to his deceased friends once more, then back to the monster. Avery stood looking up at the angry dude. He had no plans. He had rocks but uh...well apparently rock snakes liked eating rocks. Who could have known? Blue and Green stood, eyeing the Onix. It was a standoff...at least until that thing moved. Please don’t move. [/centre]