Alex sat cross-legged on the stone shelf, a makeshift chemistry set arranged before him. It wasn't high-tech lab equipment but was a collection of empty tin cans, a crushed soda bottle, his knife, and a small Bunsen burner he had bought from the Quartermaster intended for cooking but currently being used for science.
"Careful," Alex murmured to himself.
He wore thick rubber gloves scavenged from the maintenance shed back at base as he handled the translucent blue sac of a dead Tentacool.
The creature was dead, but the toxins were very much alive. He made a precise incision and a clear, viscous jelly oozed out.
"Neurotoxins," Alex noted. "Potent enough to paralyze a grown man for six hours or kill a Ratatta instantly."
He scraped the jelly into a boiling tin can mixed with a dash of vinegar to stabilize the proteins, the mixture hissed releasing a pungent blue steam.
Nidoking, sitting ten feet away, wrinkled his nose and shuffled backward. He liked poison as he was a Poison type but this smelled gross.
"Don't look at me like that," Alex said without looking up. "This sludge is worth lot of points a vial and we have thirty bodies and these will be good weapons to use."
He poured the stabilized liquid into small glass vials he had saved from his potion usage. He corked them and sealed the tops with wax dripped from a candle.
[ Item Created: Concentrated Jelly (Raw) ]
[ Quality: B ]
[ Market Value:High ]
It took three hours to process the harvest and by the time he was done, Alex had 30 vials of blue death lined up in his pack.
"Alchemy or simply chemistry," Alex wiped the sweat from his forehead. "The lazy man's way to riches."
He stood up and stretched, his shoulder, where the Tentacool had stung him yesterday, was a mottled purple bruise, but the stiffness was gone.
"Tide is coming in," Alex observed. "We need to move before the lagoon gets too choppy."
He looked at Feebas who was swimming in circles in a small rock pool, looking bored.
"Ready for Round Two dear?" Alex asked.
Feebas blew a bubble..... Bloop
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They moved half a mile north along the coastline where the mangroves thinned out, replaced by sharp volcanic cliffs that dropped straight into the deep ocean.
Alex checked the map.
"Here," he pointed to a spot where the water turned a vibrant, lighter colour amidst the deep blue..... The Coral Tower as it was named.
It wasn't a man-made tower but was a massive, vertical pillar of rock and living coral that rose from the seafloor, topping out just ten feet below the surface.
"Nidoking, hold the cliff," Alex ordered. "You're too heavy for this swim so keep an eye on the horizon and if you see a fin larger than usual, roar."
Nidoking grunted, settling down on a flat rock like a statue 🗽.
"Let's go."
He slipped into the water but this time, the drop was steeper and the moment he submerged, the bottom fell away into darkness and the Tower loomed ahead.
It was teeming with Horsea and Seadra darting between the fans of coral, their tiny fins buzzing like hummingbird wings but Alex wasn't here for them as horsea were fast and hard to catch without a net.
He was here for the pink Pokemon clinging to the sides of the tower as clusters.
[ Pokémon: Corsola ]
[ Level: 15 - 22 ]
[ Type: Water / Rock ]
[ Ability: Natural Cure / Regenerator ]
Corsola were cute, pink, coral-like creatures whose coral branches on their backs, specifically the Corsola Twigs shed naturally over time were goldmines. These twigs were the primary ingredient for Herbal Medicine and high-grade Revives.
Alex eyed a drift of broken pink branches settled on a ledge about twenty feet down.
He took a deep breath through the snorkel, filled his lungs, and dove equalizing the pressure in his ears and kicked down.
Feebas followed, her Swift Swim allowing her to keep pace easily.
They reached the ledge and Alex hovered, grabbing the rock wall with one hand while he started scooping the fallen twigs into his mesh bag.
One... Two. ... Ten...
It was easy looting as the Corsola ignored him, too busy grazing on algae but then the water pressure changed.
A shockwave thumped against Alex's chest as he froze and looked down into the abyss at the base of the tower.
Something was climbing up, it was red and was armored with constant click sounds.
[ Pokémon: Kingler ]
[ Level: 28 ]
[ Status: Enraged ]
A massive one at that whose left claw was normal-sized but it's right claw was the size of a motorcycle engine.
The Kingler wasn't hunting Alex but was hunting the Corsola as it scrambled up the vertical wall with terrifying speed. It reached a slow-moving Corsola, snatched it with its small claw, and....
SNAP.....
The giant claw closed as Corsola's rocky defense shattered instantly and it fainted, and the Kingler tossed it into its mouth like popcorn.
The colony panicked as corsola detached from the wall, floating away or burrowing into holes.
Alex pressed himself flat against the coral. He was small and his body was soft, If that claw grabbed him, he would be cut in half but the Kingler was too greedy as it saw the mesh bag attached to Alex's waist, the bag full of Corsola twigs.
Kingler turned its stalk eyes toward Alex and chattered its claws.... Food?
It lunged.
Alex kicked off the wall, abandoning stealth.
"Feebas! Distract!" Alex screamed into his mouthpiece which came out as a garbled bubble-shout.
Feebas saw the giant red monster and she froze, her instinct was to play dead.
Move! Alex glared at her as he backpedaled, dodging a snip that severed a piece of fan coral right where his head had been.
Feebas looked at Alex and at the Kingler.
She was tired of being bait, she was tired of being the victim, she was not ugly, she was a princess.
A strange energy bubbled in her gut, she opened her mouth but didn't Splash.
A ring of chaotic water pressure formed in front of her lips. It pulsed, distorting the light..... Water Pulse.
WUB-WUB.....
The pulse hit the Kingler right in the eye stalk but it didn't do much damage as Feebas had terrible Special Attack stats and also level was low but the confusion effect triggered as the sudden sonic vibration disoriented the crab and Kingler flinched, snapping its giant claw blindly.
SNAP...
It caught its own leg as the Kingler screeched and fell backward, tumbling down the side of the Coral Tower, wrestling with its own limb.
Alex didn't watch it fall as he grabbed Feebas who looked shocked by her own competence and kicked for the surface with everything he had.
They broke the water, gasping as Alex dragged himself onto the rocks at the base of the cliff, hauling the mesh bag of loot with him.
"You..." Alex coughed, spitting out saltwater. "You actually did it."
Feebas flopped on the rock as she looked proud. She blew a bubble that was slightly larger than usual.
[ Feebas learned Water Pulse ]
"You will grow in no time now." Alex critiqued, wiping his goggles.
He looked at the mesh bag which was half-full of pink coral twigs.
[ Item: Corsola Twig x15 ]
He looked up at Nidoking, who was peering over the cliff edge, looking disappointed that he didn't get to Thunderbolt anything.
"Don't worry, big guy," Alex shouted up. "You will get to play soon."
He looked at the deep ocean as he picked up Feebas and placed her gently in a rock pool.
"Good job, princess," he said softly.
Feebas splashed him.... Bloop.
Alex put on his MP3 player and relaxed.....
Flashing red light
(Baby, baby, baby)
Baby, you're a star
Fuck me all night
(Show me, show me, show me)
Show me who you are
Pornst-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ar
Pornst-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ar
Show me who you a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-are
Pornst-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ar
:- Nessa Barrett
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