ツワブキ・ダイゴ

Sapphire momentarily choked up her concern for Steven, equally as distressed as her friend was about the missing Pokemon. Whipping her head around, she surveyed the premises. The whirling winds of sand veiled much of the scene before them. With a bitter taste in her mouth, she squinted, desperate to make out the Pokemon’s silhouette from within the never-ending sandstorm.

It wasn’t long before her eyes honed in on a peculiar sight from afar. At first, she attributed it to fatigue, but after blinking a few times and focusing on the spot for a moment more, she noticed it to be… something, skidding through the sands and headed straight in their direction.

Knowing his goofy little pokemon, Steven believed that it may have been searching for something in the sands and got separated from the group as the sand sharks started to attack aggron. It must be lost out there in the sands, searching for where they were. 

Steven chocked back some tears as his worry started to manifest in guilt, thinking that if he had just kept excadrill in his pokeball that they would not have been separated like they were right now. Even feeling guilty for aggron, as it had been injured due to Steven's  use of it to protect them from the sands. His reckless use of his pokemon had cause quite the mess, and his pokemon paid for his choices. 

As a tear streamed down his cheek, he clenched his eyes and wiped his face clean. But when he opened his eyes again, he was able to make out what Sapphire was staring at. At first he thought it might have been excadrill, as whatever it was was jumping in and out of the sands in much the same way that his little pokemon did, but as this figure was getting closer it became apparent that it was much too large to have been his pokemon. In fact, it was rather huge; kicking up large amounts of sand in its wake towards them.

A panic struck through his body.

"I’m Jacqueline, just here to mine some dark stones. They’re pretty normal to find here, though I found one that looked pretty odd."

It finally hit her.

Oh yeah, Steven Stone. The Champion. That was cool, she heard he knew a lot about fossils and such. So maybe he would be able to help her with it. She  bent over and picked up the stone and held it out for him to examine.

"Thank you very much", Steven said to Jacqueline, "I wasn't expecting to find anyone down here, let alone such an interesting rock sample." 

As he put the stone into his bag, he noticed that the large pokemon that was accompanying Jacqueline was from the Kalos region. He had only been there to study for a short period of time and never really investigated much of Kalos' natural wildlife. 

Only, the Pokemon was no where to be found.

Steven let out a yelp as he was tackled by one of the Pokemon; immediately, a sense of dread overcame Sapphire, who all but froze in her position, as she watched Steven lay in the sand. Flygon, up above, seemed to notice the current struggle and swooped in to closer inspect the situation. Looking for a shot, Sapphire shouted toward her Pokemon, her voice cracking in the gales. “Dragon Pulse, now!”

Steven tried to stand up.

He was a little sore from the pokemon attack, and it seemed as though one of them had bite into his shoulder.

"Ugh", he groaned as he looked back up towards Sapphire and cupped the wound. It did not appear to be bleeding too much, which was a luck break after the bad luck of being attacked by all the Gibles. 

A panic came across Steven's face though, and he rapidly glanced around where they were. 

"—What are you going on about?" Wallace grinned, teasingly, pretending to pay no mind to what Steven was saying as he slipped back into his clothing. Whatever parasites there had been lurking the sands and waters, nothing kept him from the sea.

Straightening his tie, Steven said, "It is nice to see you, too. Though I didn't expect to see you here in Lilycove."

"I was planning on surprising you in Ever Grande, but happened to find you here on the beach as I was making my way to the docks. You see, I was called back from Kalos by Lilycove's officials to help them asses the soil contamination issue they had been having."

Worryingly looking over Wallace, Steven continued, "Patrons of the beaches were experiencing large, full-bodied rashes while lounging in the sands. After a I took a sample from the beach though, that there was a large amount of endoparasites and their eggs present."