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24th Spell: [Video]

Why is there no map for this place... You know, I think that's a project that really needs to be undertaken. Maps of all the various caaaaaaaaa- oof!

[Stepping onto one of the ice-covered floors that covers the ice path, Twilight is interrupted by suddenly slipping and sliding all the way over to the wall on the opposite side, which she crashes headlong into.]

Urgh... that was unpleasant. Alright, just need to pay a bit more attention, let's tryyyyyyy- argh!

[Another step has her legs slipping straight out from under her, and she slides across to another corner of the room on her knees, face first. After a highly unpleasant sounding crash, she lets out a low groan and slides down the wall until she's face down, making highly unhappy noises.]

I. Hate. This. Cave.

[As if to add insult to injury, the Pokemon who's been holding the gear this whole time proceeds to step out onto the ice and easily slide its way over to its hapless trainer, holding out the gear.]

What? Oh just... just shut it off, Champ. I don't even want to worry about that map idea until I'm out of this place, now. Oh, my head...

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Never have I been more glad for the multiple fire types in our group. Now, to get our bearings...

[She looks around a bit, trying to figure out the best path, then points down and to the left towards a slope leading upwards.]

There. I think that's the route we want to take. Do you have the compass, Rainbow?

(Finally - some good luck! She takes a moment to look in her backpack's compartments before finding it...in her back pocket.)

Ha, right here, Twi! It should be a breeze getting outta this place now.

(As long as she doesn't drop the compass mid-trek.)

Alright. Now let's see...

[She takes a quick glance at it to figure out which way is southeast, since that's the way they'll need to head to get out above Blackthorn. She's pleased to see that it's more or less the way she'd been heading for already.]

Excellent. Looks like we'll want to head east for a while more, then south when the wall in that direction opens up. As long as we keep doing that we should be able to find the way out without getting truly lost, at least.

(Rainbow heard everything that Twilight said, but one piece of information kept gnawing at her until she tilted her head curiously and just had to ask.)

...The walls in the cave open up? I thought that only happened a few times after you got inside! And that could've really helped us out back in the mountains before we hit Mahogany.

(Ironically, that's also where Rainbow brought up the idea of the girls just flying over said mountain to begin with.)

Ah, no, I didn't mean it opened up to the outside, I meant that after a certain point we'll come to a spot where the cave kind of... turns, for lack of a better word. So the wall we'll be following until then will kind of look like it's opening. At least if the directions I got are any good.

[Which, she realizes but won't say out loud, they might not be.]

(Rainbow's eyes narrow in suspicion. She's trusted Twilight ever since this journey began and especially back home in Ponyville; she has no reason to doubt her. The person who gave her friend the directions? She's unsure about that.)

Really? Who gave you the directions, anyway?

The Nurse Joy at the Mahogany Pokemon Center. I figured if I was going to rely on a native she was probably a good bet.

...Yeah, guess if we can rely on any natives who aren't Gym Leaders a Nurse Joy's gotta know some interesting stuff.

(A beat.) You think she knows what Pokemon made the Ice Cave like this in the first place?

I kind of thought it was the other way around, that the Pokemon came here because the cave was icy.

Although... if say, Suicune, or Articuno, stayed here once, that would explain it, given the power of the legendaries. Granted, Articuno is native to Kanto, but it's not that far to fly.

Really? I guess that'd make much more sense.

Haha, seriously? Articuno making a trip to Johto? That would be awesome! It'd be like taking a vacation to another region.

I imagine it wouldn't happen unless there was a pressing need for it. The legendaries seem to stay in their own regions most of the time.

Yeah...they do seem to like sticking around their own regions...

(Ooh, look Twi; the path that starts to curve finally pops up!)

So, we'll have to go visit them! Hehe, sure we never actually ran into Johto's Legendary Pokemon but we know about 'em, right?

I don't think finding them will be all that easy, but I'm more than happy to take the challenge if we find a place where it looks like they should be.

[She pauses at the curve and gives Rainbow a questioning glance.] This does go south, right? According to the compass?

Ha, of course! You think we could...actually catch one if we find it?

(Rainbow practically breathes her comment, only going silent long enough to look at the compass and answer Twilight's question with a nod. No doubt about it; it pointed at the S.) Sure! That's exactly what it says, so we must be on the right track.

That's... going a bit overboard, isn't it? Honestly, even if we could, I'm not so sure we should. They seem to be in control of some very important parts of the world, to try to capture them seems like an act of incredible hubris.

Though it would really help in taking on Team Rocket.

[She ponders the idea as they make the turn, unable to figure out if it would be truly worth it.]

Well...you have a point there. We could take pictures of 'em, right? Just so we could say we saw them!

Hehe, Team Rocket against even one of those Legendary Pokemon? They'd be begging us to arrest 'em!

(She's trying to figure out what 'hubris' means while keeping up with Twilight during the turn.)

Now that we can definitely do.

Yeah... it would be one hay of an assist, that's true. Of course, we'd still have to track down their base, but we'd have a much better chance of breaching it with a powerhouse like that on our side.

[Pride, Rainbow. It means pride.]

Ha, sweet~!

They'd never know what happened when we come knocking down their door with a Legendary Pokemon having our flanks! And it wouldn't even matter which one it is; it could be Articuno, Moltres, Zapdos, Lugia, Ho-oh or even Entei, Suicune and Raikou!

(Ohhh...! She knows the word, but 'hubris cometh before a fall' makes no sense in that context.)

See, now I'm imagining all of them charging in alongside us to bring the Rockets down. I think that'd be overkill, but in this situation I can't really argue against it.

Hehehe, that'd be awesome to see! Definitely something cool to tell the Princess about, how we made friends with Legendary Pokemon and all.

Yeah... probably just a pipe dream though. I can't really see them all joining up with us.

Heh, maybe...still doesn't mean it'd be really cool if we could join up with one of them!

We'd have to prove ourselves to them first, somehow. And I don't even know how we'd do that.

Hmm...proving ourselves to Legendary Pokemon shouldn't be too hard! We've faced much worse than weird tests.

(Rainbow faced the test of 'knocking books she hasn't tried to read first.' And she's still being tested, in a way.)

That's true. But we'd still have to know what exactly would impress them in order to pull it off. I mean, I've heard Ho-Oh is attracted to "those of pure heart" but what does that even mean?

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