[Wild Encounter]: Mind The Mines.

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Greta continued deeper into the mines, shuffling her flip-flops across the ground as she walked. The way that she shuffled instead of stepped could be interpreted as a strategic way to conceal any footprints she might make, but this was simply how she walked anyway. The mines appeared to get narrower as she progressed downward, descending into tight hallways which branched off in different directions depending on which corners you went down.

Several of these passageways were either boarded up with wooden planks or wrapped up in caution tape and the lighting down here was much darker than the higher levels of the mine, just barely lit by the electric lamps which looked a lot less modern than those at the entrance. Greta carefully trailed her hand across the walls of the halls, her eyes carefully analysing the details of them to determine how she'd plan her route. She finally found herself in-front of a passageway which was both boarded up with wood and covered in caution tape. Greta took one last cautionary glance behind her before carelessly tearing the tape down with one hand. "Nuts, could you?" she quietly muttered. Her Geodude nodded and floated up to the planks of wood in-front of her, using his brute strength to tear them from the wall. "Thank you, sweetie." she said, praising him with a warm smile before continuing down into the depths.

Greta finally found herself in a large, spacious room, completely unlike the tight, narrow hallways she'd been traversing up until now. The room's lighting was even worse than the hallways up to this point, with some of the lamps even flickering on and off at random intervals. If the boarded up entrances and caution tape wasn't a dead give away, it was now clear that these parts of the mines hadn't been worked on for several years now, possibly over a decade. Greta's eyes lit up as she looked around the room. "Aahh.. this is it, I wonder if it's around here..." Greta muttered, a whimsical delight in her voice as she shuffled forward into the large room, her Geodudes carefully floating by her sides. There was a small bell by one of the walls, one you could pick up and shake manually with your hand. Greta shuffled over and picked it up. "Oh I remember you." she said, as if talking to an old friend.


She turned to her Geodude. "We didn't have any of these fancy automatic bells back in the day. Instead, the gaffer would shake this above his head and shout at the lot of us. 'Get 'yer lunch!!', he'd say. Ooh-hoh-hoh..." Greta said, fondly retelling a moment of her past to her Geodude, including an impersonation where she shifted her voice to sound more gruff, chuckling as she finished. Sighing deeply, she looked around the room. "I wonder if he's still here..." she pondered, her two Geodude seeming confused by this statement. She then raised the bell above her head and began rapidly shakin it back and forth, it's loud rings echoed through the large room several times over before she finally stopped. The echoes continued for a second or two before dead silence followed. "Hm... I suppose n-" she began to say, before a light tremble developed in the room. "Oh!" she huffed, and the trembling became more intense, as if something was growing closer. 

Suddenly, the ground began to shift and crack in two different spaces near Greta, creating mounds which gradually grew and grew and grew until "PWHOOSHH!". Two Onix suddenly burst from beneath the mounds of dirt, each twisting their bodies as their long, stone tails followed them out of the ground. Their necks both curled to look towards Greta before each released a terrifying screech. Greta's Geodude instantly shifted in-front of her, putting themselves before the Onix. "Oh it's alright! This must be...oh..." she began to say with an expression of delight, before her eyes locked onto the large horn atop the Onix's head. She then turned to look to the other one. "Oh, they're both in tact - these aren't him..." her voice drooped with disappointment. Neither her Geodude nor the Onix knew what the woman was muttering about, and it seemed that nobody but her cared, either. The two Onix roared once again and each slammed their tails into the ground aggressively, prompting the earth to shatter beneath their weight and send a flurry of rocks flying towards Greta and her Pokémon. 

"Honestly now, calm yourself, would you?! Tch - Defense Curl!" Greta shouted, scolding the Onix before ordering her Geodude. Nuts and Bolts positioned themselves vertically atop one another so that their bodies completely shielded Greta's from the earthy onslaught. Both raised their arms in a cross-formation over their faces and tensed up, glowing a little as they increased their defenses. The flurry of rocks crashed into the Geodude, shattering upon impact of bouncing off of them as they used their bodies to protect Greta to their fullest abilities. 

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