"I never did scouts. Always wanted to. Seems like a real way to get a leg up in life. Lots of useful info and everything? I never really even went camping as a kid, but you know how it is with single parent households," he shrugged. "I found other ways to have fun down at the beach as a kid. Especially once Mum got me a secondhand surfboard for my tenth birthday."

"I met dudes out there that were wild. Maybe not the best company for a kid, but it was a great way to get into some cool shit. That's where I learned about fire breathing. Man, the beach gang was weird. We had this dude, Damian, who would like hide little bottles of the fuel around the place, and he'd just take sneaky swigs and shoot little fire balls at you to 'keep you on your toes'." Big Bee laughed, and his horse walked a little faster. "Whoa! Slow down there. Sorry." He patted the Ponyta's side, calming it back down.

"I reckon there's got to be some metal guys out there," he said, shading his eyes from the sun as he tried again to look up at the peak of the massive steel pillar. "Maybe a Magnemite would make sense right? They're supposed to be attracted to metal I think."

Big Bee was halfway off the horse when the buzzing hit a crescendo and the Yamna took down his homie Orion.

"NOO!" Bee shouted, as his bandannanito's Tall Grass HP, one foot still stuck to the metal of the pillar. "More damn bugs! Is that all there is out here?" he snapped, pointing at the flying menace. "Oricorio! Aldrin! Take 'em down!"

The pair flew towards their prey, colliding in a flash of fire and a whirr of furious wings.

"We've gotta get you to a shrine," Big Bee said, bringing up his map. "Uh, here! Not too far away. The Giant Shrine. Let's get you there and all healed up."

Big Bee ran for his horse, and sent out TKO. "Help me up!" he said, frantic, and the little octopus pushed up on his foot, boosting him up and onto the horse. "Thanks bud," he said, returning TKO before he could get too excited about the scenery.

Up above, his Yanma and Oricorio did fiery sky battle with the Yanma. They kept it at bay as he grabbed the reins of Orion's horse, leading them away from the fight.

"Not too far, my dude," he said, as the Ponyta broke into a canter. "It's that one over there." He pointed to another of the huge iron spikes. It was the granddaddy of them all, much larger than the already outrageous one they'd been fighting next to. Blue static swarmed over its surface and the air sweetened as they approached.

"I got it from the raid," Big Bee explained. "Dropped right at the end, as you punched Codie and Kyogre swam away."

"I've been keeping it around my fire Pokemon, but as for danger." He hesitated. "I mean...it's an /egg. Does it really need danger to hatch?"

As if to punctuate his worry, thunder cracked overhead, and he held the egg tight. "I think I found the source of the magnetism," he said, pointing up into the storm clouds that obscured the tip of the iron spire.

Another bolt cracked against the tower, and blue electricity ran down the length, spreading and rejoining like split-second rivers.

"I'd sure love to find something else but Yanma," Big Bee agreed. "Two is...fine. A good start. But yeah a Magnemite wouldn't go astray. Maybe a Steelix? That would be some cool shit."