Blog assist protocol re-engaged.

DESCRAMBLING OF DATA COMPLETE. ALL USEABLE DATA NOW RECOVERED. ESTIMATE OF SCRAMBLED DATA RECOVERED: 36%. AVAILABLE DATA SHOWS CAUSE OF SCRAMBLE 94% LIKELY A CONFLICT OF OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE ENERGY RESULTING IN PARTIAL DESTRUCTION OF DATA.
READY TO COMPLETE REPORT.


CONVERTING AUDIO DATA:
'Ragnarok! What's going on!?'
'How the HELL should I know!? Get me down!'
'Ok, ok, we're thinking!'
'Urgh, you people are clearly idiots. See the blue energy surrounding him? That's psychic energy. You need Dark, Ghost, or Bug energy to stop it. Morons. Now how did you get here first, and have you stolen my treasure?!'

'Show off. And no we haven't. Right, which moves the best?'
'Who IS that guy?'
'I am Blackmage, treasurehunter and all round Awesome trainer. Who are you?'
'I'm Doom, and I can tell we aren't going to get on at all. Bulbasaaaaur!'
'Ok, ready Rag? I'm afraid our best bet is probably Bite.'
'Whatever it takes, this feels awful!'
'Here we go then. Rattata, use Bite! But try to be gentle?'
'Ratta!'
'Ow!'

PSYCHIC ENERGY NEGATED. FRIEND UNIT RAGNAROK RESTORED TO GROUND.

CONVERTING AUDIO DATA:


'Owww! Again!'
'Sorry! Let me help you up.'

'Ta'
'Unleash Hell!'
'Where's Jonny?'
'Looking for a quick way out. Onix is going to help us leave through a hole they think they've found in the roof. He'd only been gone a couple of minutes, and then up I went!'
'Scyther! Attack!'

PROGRESS OF TUNNEL ENTRANCE 2 CLEARANCE BY FRIEND UNITS DON AND POCKET.MONSTER.HITMONCHAN REACHES100%. ATTENTION OF ALL UNITS IS DRAWN TO RAISED AREA OF FLOOR BY INCREASE IN PSYCHIC ENERGY. ALL DATA ON AREA MEASUREMENTS LOST.
CONVERTING AUDIO DATA:

'What's over there? Rag, can you see something in the shadows?'
'Yeah, and it's getting closer. I knew there was something weird going on in here.'
'Oh yeah, that reminds me, amongst all the stuff my DSDex keeps giving us, have you noticed any bells, or silver feathers?'
'No, why?'
'.....It doesn't matter.'
'Vine Whip!'
'Aerial Ace!'
'Oh, you mean like for L'
'Stop the battle.'
'Who said that? No I will not! Want us to unleash Hell on you too? we'll do it!'
'Oh shut up! I think a greater treasure than I could possibly have imagined may be about to reveal itself!'
'Hey guys! The rocks out of the way, Sammy's just making sure all the clefairy are ok, then she- oh.'
'Halt. You are all disturbing the plan.'

'Oh god, I knew it. I know who that is. And we are in deep trouble.'
'T, what are on about?'
'Don't you see? The remote cave, the raised area in the middle? That's like the game. And from the film we have strangely strong versions of the three starters, with weird markings on them...'
'Of course, this is a lot like-'
'Right, Onix has found us a nice back exit, he's set himself in position so when when you're-Oh, hi everybody. Who's the guy in the hat? And what on earth is going on over there?'
'Ok, and march! Hey everybody, who's that? Oi! You, shadowy monster! Stop right there! I've got a very angry group of fairies here, and they want a word or two with y- Oh hell!'

ENEMY UNIT TAGGED AS 'Shadowy monster' ADVANCES. PSYCHIC ENERGY OF LEVEL GROUP 50+ RELEASED FROM ENEMY UNIT. ALL FRIEND UNITS AND ENEMY UNIT BLACKMAGE HELD BY ENERGY.

RETRIEVABLE DATA STOPS HERE FOR PERIODS OF 2.7 HOURS. REMAINING SCRAMBLED DATA INSUFFICIENT FOR TIME PERIOD LOST. ESTIMATE SCRAMBLED DATA ACCOUNTS FOR 36% OF LOST TIME PERIOD. SEARCHING MEMORY BACK UP FOR DATA ON REMAINING 64% OF MISSING TIME...................................

ERROR 404: MEMORY NOT FOUND

ATTEMPTING RECOVERY........

MOVE.RECOVER FAILED TO RESTORE MISSING MEMORY FILES. WILL BEGIN FULL REBOOT IN ATTEMPT TO RECOVER DATA SHORTLY. RETURNING TO DATA REPORT.

ALL UNITS AWAKE WITHIN CHAMBER. ALL ANOMALY UNITS NOW ABSENT.

Thanks Porygon, I think I can take it from here. Thank you for doing your best to fill in the gap.

UNDERSTOOD. GRATITUDE ACKNOWLEDGED. RETURNING TO DICTATION CONVERSION.

Cool thanks. Well, there you go, now we have some idea what went on in the middle. This is really long now, so I'll post the little bit that happened afterwards separately.

Blog assist protocol engaged.

I'm having to rely on Porygon on some of this, so I'm dictating it so he can fill in the gaps. A lot of what happened in the cave is fairly hazy, but I'll do my best...

Right, where did I leave it? Oh yeah, the Wall of Snorunt.
I decided to just take the Ash approach to it, and ran straight at. In response, every single version of Snorunt used Icy wind. It slammed into me, throwing me backwards, sending me crashing into Don.

'Oowwwwwwwww........you ok?'
'....I'm cold.......really, really, cold....'
'You NEVER get cold.'
'....there's a lot of Ice.....'
'Fair point'

We got up to have another go. Hitmonchan charged forwards, striking a Snorunt, causing it to flicker and disappear. The rest of the wall launched another Icy wind, but Glaceon got in the way, absorbing most of the blast with only minor damage. Rattata started tackling fake Snorunts, destroying them, searching for the real one.
Scyther was getting to it's feet, but Butterfree was holding it off while we assaulted the wall. Don was edging round the side of the cave, trying to sneak up without being attacked. It didn't work.




'Right, that does it!'




I released Dratini, who trembled at the sight of so many Ice types, but I pointed out that only one of them was real. 'Help us clear the path would you? Use twister!'




'Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!'




The twister tore into the wall, sending Snorunts flying everywhere, flickering out of existence as they went. Soon, there was just one left, spinning madly in the center of the attack. It was dumped on the cave floor, and stumbled around looking dazed.




'It's dizzy! Quick!'




Everyone sprang forwards, but with a cry of 'eeeeeeeeeeeeeee' Butterfree soared over my head, before tumbling to earth. I ran to catch it, and saw Scyther shoot past, rescue Snorunt from Rattata, Glaceon and Hitmonchan, and speed off into the depths of the tunnel.




I gave Butterfree some berries, and we set off in pursuit. The tunnel wasn't anything very special, but I remember looking into the waterfall chamber before we followed Scyther.




The only entrance to the inner part of the cave to have existed before all this, it's a medium sized chamber with glittering walls, a massive waterfall, and a waterway leading deeper into the cave. We stood there, listening to the rushing water, and it felt as if, underneath, music was playing, like the cave was working to somesort of rythm. Glaceon tugged my shirt, pulling my away towards the tunnels.




'yeah yeah, I know, we're going.'




That cave felt...magical, like there was more to it, if only we knew how to find it. I'll never forget that place. It was beautiful.




Anyway, plot. The tunnel was fairly uneventful, or at least I don't remember anything really happening, but this is where it starts to get a bit hazy. I do remember coming to a crossroads, and seeing a trail of leaves on the floor for as far as I could see to left and right. One was embedded in the cave wall, and somebody had written: 'Passages twisty. We went left. Doom and Sammy.' but with an arrow for the left. Later, we came to another crossroads, again with a trail of leaves, this time telling us they'd been going the other way.





At this point all I can really remember is a yell, and us running, but it's really blurry. Don can't remember this at all, so I hope Porygon can fill in some gaps for us:





ACCESSING BACK UP OF DATA RETRIEVED WHILE EXPLORING SMOO.CAVE. THE PHONE OF FRIEND UNIT TEMPEST WAS USED AS TEMPORARY HOST AREA OF POCKET.MONSTER.PORYGON DURING PERIOD OF DATA RETRIEVAL.


REPLAYING FILE FROM MOST NEAREST RELEVANT SAVE.


CURRENT DISTANCE INTO TUNNEL:1783.4M. FRIEND UNITS TEMPEST AND DON PROGRESS IS HALTED BY WILD ENEMY UNITS POCKET.MONSTER.GEODUDE AND POCKET.MONSTER.ZUBAT. RESULT OF BATTLE IS 2-0 TO FRIEND UNITS. 3.2 SECONDS AFTER BATTLE FRIEND UNITS AND MYSELF HEAR A FRIEND UNIT CALLING OUT. VOICE PATTERN MATCHES THAT OF RAGNAROK AND OSCILLATION SUGGESTS THE EMOTION KNOWN AS FEAR. OUR SPEED OF PROGRESS INCREASES BY 47% AS WE SEEK OUT FRIEND UNIT RAGNAROK. 43.9M ON WE ARE JOINED BY FRIEND UNIT DOOM. FRIEND UNIT TEMPEST REQUESTS KNOWLEDGE OF FRIEND UNIT SAMMY. CONVERTING AUDIO DATA:

'Doom! What's going on? Where's Sammy?'
'Tempest! Don! Sammy's fine, we found this chamber with a big lump of rock in it, looked like a Meteor or something, and loads of Clefairy were dancing round it, except one was off at the side injured. Sammy's healing and caring for it, but we found out it got hurt going down this one passage they're all scared of. We wanted to help, but there's a massive boulder in the way now. Bulbasaur and Oddish hardly even dent it, so it'll take too long. We think it's one of those rocks you have to use strength on, so I came to find Happiny or Hitmonchan.'
'Oh yeah, Black and white have HUGE rocks. Grass might have trouble with those.'
'Well we'd be happy to help, wouldn't we?'
'Chan!'
'Aaaahhh!'
'Oh yeah! Did you see Rag anywhere on your way?'
'No, but he sounds close. Let's go!'

WE RESUME OUR INCREASED SPEED PROGRESS. AFTER 32.3M TUNNEL ENDS. A CAVERN APPROX 37X46X68M ALLOWING FOR UNEVEN SURFACE OF WALLS. 8.6M LEFT A TUNNEL ENTRANCE IS BLOCKED BY AN APPROX 2X2X2M BOULDER. FRIEND UNITS DON AND POCKET.MONSTER.HITMONCHAN ADVANCE TO MOVE BOULDER. 10.7M AHEAD FRIEND UNIT RAGNAROK IS FLOATING 2.3M IN THE AIR IN A BLUE AURA. FRIEND UNITS POCKET.MONSTER.CHARMELEON .SNOVER AND .PICHU AND BEING HELD CAPTIVE BY ENEMY UNITS. SCANS DETECT MARKINGS AND GENETIC MAKE UP DIFFERENT FROM THE NORMAL OF THE SPECIES IN QUESTION. FILED AS ANOMALY.SPECIES. ENEMY UNITS ANOMALY.IVYSAUR ANOMALY.CHARMELEON AND ANOMALY.WARTORTLE NOTICE US. ANOMALY.IVYSAUR RELEASES FRIEND UNIT POCKET.MONSTER.PICHU AND ADVANCES ON US. SOUND DATA RECIEVED FROM 3.4M RIGHT. ENEMY UNIT BLACKMAGE AND ENEMY UNIT POCKET.MONSTER.METANG ENTER FROM TUNNEL ENTRANCE 5. CONVERTING AUDIO DATA:
'What?! How did you get here before me! Damn those Zubat!'
DATA BECOMES SCRAMBLED FROM THIS POINT. DESCRAMBLING IN PROGRESS. POSTING CURRENT DATA INCASE OF MEMORY FAILURE.