Rock Collecting || Wallace & Cynthia
Let it be heard that Wallace very strongly disliked rocks.
Maybe it was some traumatic forgotten event from his childhood come back to haunt him, or maybe rocks were just stupid and uninteresting, or… maybe it was some latent jealousy towards rocks for stealing all of Steven’s time when it would better be spent with Wallace… but whichever it was, it wasn’t as if he didn’t try! Anyways, there were plenty of trainers who fancied rocks—Byron, Roark, Clay… Steven. It couldn’t hurt to get on some common ground.
So he headed to Sinnoh because he heard it was the thing to do, if you were to, you know, fancy rocks. Apparently they had a stellar Underground system—though he had excused himself an hour into his friendly chat and Oreburg museum visit with Roark.
So he was here. In Mount Coronet. Training and trying to figure this thing out.
It wasn’t as if it really mattered, Wallace reflected, as his prize Luvdisc Elizabeth took down the third Probopass in a row, but he did tend to get stuck on things, and because his friendship with Steven was concerned, this rock matter was Very Serious Business indeed.
…And he didn’t notice the small portion of the wall collapsing until it was too late to be alarmed by it. Elizabeth, however, who apparently had caused the event due to prodding the rock there with her tail, made an alarmed cooing sound and skirted around behind Wallace, who watched in some confusion as instead of the wall completely collapsing… a small dust cloud rained down to the cave floor, and sitting there in the middle of it, was a small blue stone.
He inched closer, curious, a tentative hand out to pick the gem up. It was small and deep sapphire blue, cut like a stereotypical diamond, and nothing like any precious gem Wallace had ever encountered. If anything, it looked like a tiny Water Stone, the type you might evolve your Pokemon with, which might explain why it had simply showed up in a dust cloud fully formed and spotless.
“Pretty. But I wonder what it is,” Wallace mused out loud, though Elizabeth just cooed in response, nudging the gem with her nose. Wallace only took a few steps back to take in the bigger picture of the cave wall the dust cloud had come from—when the heel of one of his white boots got caught in the cave floor, sending him toppling backwards with a yell into one of the many shallow pools that populated Mount Coronet.
…Just as he could hear footsteps from around the bend.
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