<u>Altered Bonds Extras</u>


    Omake X — Strike


    (Best read after Chapter 17)


    (Canon? — No)


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    Exhilaration flooded through Donphan''s bones. In the cavern a distance from the rocky outcropping he had been traversing, a trio of Dugtrio had formed a triangular position, protecting a young Diglett amongst them. Ten heads, all arranged in an all-too-perfect pattern.


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    One big triangle of heads. The dopamine rush instantly consumed Donphan, seeing an opportunity of a lifetime. There was a game rumored to have been invented by humans, which had supposedly found its way to the archipelago through Fallers. A game where usually, players would have a straight path with pins at the end, arranged much like the Dugtrio were.


    There was also a ball involved. Donphan lacked one.


    He improvised.


    “BOWLING!”


    The Dugtrios'' and Diglett''s eyes grew large enough to block the entire cavern entrance. Not that overly exaggerated hyperbole could stop a Donphan''s Rollout. Their souls left their bodies as the elephant Pokemon hurtled down the slope leading to their home, picking up deadly momentum.


    They had more than enough time to burrow to safety. Unfortunately, fear was good at making idiots out of sapient creatures. Donphan screamed with delight as he blurred toward his crowning moment in life, savoring every second of it.


    Two miles in every direction, Pokemon stopped with a start, befuddled at where the obnoxiously loud noise of bowling pins crashing down had come from.