"Rrr~!"
Boom!
"Rrr~!"
Boom!
Deafening blasts echoed through the valley. Great clouds of dust billowed skyward now and then, sweeping over the quiet forest.
Was someone blasting a mine?
No.
A group of Steelix was tunneling through the mountain.
Their queen, the Giant Steelix who had lost a battle not long ago, led them in their tireless work.
"They're really putting their backs into it."
Baimu rode the curious-looking Miraidon above the spreading dust. Through it, he could just make out a few figures dressed in red.
They were Team Magma's construction crew, building a high-speed railway between Realgar Town and Pyrite Town.
Once it was finished, people traveling to Realgar Town would no longer need to drive themselves or transfer in Silicon Beryllium City.
But most of Team Magma's members had been sent to Citadark Isle to transform the island and build the academy, leaving the crew shorthanded more often than not.
Baimu's Steelix had joined the project thanks to its exceptional tunneling ability.
The reason it was spending its precious time and energy on this, of course, had to do with the team's recent battles against one another.
Milotic's astonishing growth last time had made Steelix deeply envious.
It desperately wanted to make the same kind of progress.
But when its chance finally came, Dragapult defeated it with Water Z.
If it remembered right, it had lost to Milotic's Water Z the time before, too.
Steelix found that hard to swallow. Too dispirited to train, it had taken to ramming mountains to let off steam.
But every collision brought a tremendous rumble and a sustained earthquake.
Unable to bear the disturbance, many Wild Pokémon had Alolan Meowth complain to Baimu and Aggron on their behalf. After careful thought, Aggron sent Steelix to the construction crew for a change