Chapter 3: The Instinct Base

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Raichu, Pichu, Bell, Shelly, Ravisu, Quinci, and Rudia flew to the Instinct Base on Croissant. Shelly narrowed her eyes against the howling wind. The Instinct Base was rapidly coming closer and closer in the distance on top of a mountain.

"So what exactly did you program the robots to do?" Ravisu asked Bell.

"I programed them to do what the teacher says to do. Oh and when they run out of battery, they do the happy water dance and drown themselves in a river," Bell answered.

"WHAT???" Shelly gasped.

"What's the happy water dance?" Raichu asked.

Rudia giggled. Ravisu snickered. Quinci laughed. "It's the dance you do when you REALLY gotta go pee," Quinci answered, giggling.

"Stop using the word 'pee'!" Shelly said.

"NEVER!!!" Quinci replied.

Quinci and Shelly glared angrily at each other as Ravisu asked, "How long do the batteries last?"

"Anywhere from 5.174937 days to 5.235283 days," Bell replied.

"Five days to find the cure," Raichu muttered under his breath.

"We're here!" Ravisu exclaimed. Croissant landed bumpily on the side of the mountain. Everyone jumped off on him and put him back inside the pokeball.

The friends walked up to the peak of the mountain. A huge doorway stood on the top.

"This looks different from when we last saw it," Shelly commented.

"That's because we entered from the other side of the mountain," Raichu explained. He took off the rubber gloves and zapped the entryway. The door grew lightning yellow and opened.

"Woah!" Shelly peered inside, holding onto the doorway

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"Woah!" Shelly peered inside, holding onto the doorway. Quinci suddenly remembered that time when they had entered the Mystic base through Shelly's ice tunnel. Quinci had tried to push Rudia in, but Rudia had dodged and she had fallen in first.

Looking at Shelly right now, Quinci instinctively thrust her hand out forward to push her in. Shelly, of course, instinctively dodged.

"AW COME ON!" Quinci yelled, as she plunged into the darkness. It turned out that it was in fact a direct vertical fall. Her screams of delight echoed through the tunnel. Her hair whipped at her face... though it didn't matter since she couldn't see in the dark anyways. There was a little light at the end of the slide.

"Wheee!!!!" Bell cried.

At the top, Bell, Ravisu, Pichu, and Rudia had all already jumped in. Shell was the only one still there besides Raichu. She gulped, and her knuckles whitened as she gripped the doorway. She was scared of heights, and therefor scared of rollercoasters, hot air balloons, falls, skydiving, etc. She wasn't scared of, however, public speaking, snakes, spiders, etc.

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