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The Bug Buzz would cause the Raticate to squeal in pain and the Body Slam would send the other one scurrying to flee out from underneath monster. Fortunately the one physically hit didn't seem infected, at least not yet. "Rat, Scary Face on the Butterfree! Slow it down for Cate. And you, hit it with a Thunder!" The kid ordered. Rat would jump up and produce the scariest face it could to startle the Butterfree, hopefully to distract it long enough to be hit by the large bolt of electricity Cate sent towards it.

The battle seemed to be going fine, everything pretty normal. The crowd was roaring and all was right. However, Connor's SNAG would go off and GRAY would speak to him.

"Someone in the stadium is Channeling and obviously it's none of you." He alerted him. "Look alive and turn your head to the right, second story balcony towards the entrance. It's someone over there I'm pretty sure. Might be your girl, provided you actually get lucky and manage to do something useful for once."

Should Connor look over in that direction he would see a bunch of people cheering and going wild. That balcony seemed to be packed with mostly older people but they were still lively when it came to battles. That said, one person stood out. A girl with red hair. She didn't seem too enthused by the battle but she was very close to the rail and her stare was fixated on the Pokemon. After awhile of staring, but never diverting her sight, she took out a P*DA and typed a message into it, then pocketing it and walking off rather quickly, making her way for the stairs which would lead her out of the coliseum. Convenient that she picked the balcony closest to the exit. Might that be her? She was acting funny.

Connor was watching the battle closely when his SNAG began to ring. Fishing the device out of his pocket, his eyes still glued to the battle, he would receive GRAY's message. Parting his view from the field, he would see a redhead that didn't seem as into the battle as everyone else. He would watch her for moment until she made her way to the stairs. Seeing Beau jump down to give chase, he headed for the stairs to cut her off. She seemed likely to be their girl and this way it would lessen the odds of losing her.

Beau would blink a few times at the girl attempting to play it cool in front of him. "Sweetheart, if I bought a single line of that Tauros dung, I'd ask my friend behind you to kick me in the head. " Calmly placing a hand on her shoulder, Beau would give a small nod. "Now then, we are going to calmly and carefully ask you some questions about your boyfriend. And we are doing that before anyone else shows up who might want to do so less gently than us."

"Boyfriend? Ha, you must have me confused." She said, nervously but a little more confident. She kept darting her eyes around as if looking for something, or someone. Didn't she send a message to someone earlier? Maybe Connor had the right idea, they should move.

"I'm actually more worried about more of those goons showing up" he would voice his concern, still remaining ever vigilant. Course they would stick out like a sore thumb, granted they remained in get up. "As long as we have her as leverage, getting the Snatcher will be easy." To that end, Connor was going to make sure Rui didn't get away or taken from their hold.

The Snagems in Phenac might find themselves caught by surprise when a certain blue-skinned tentacle boy made a sudden appearance. Riding in on his Luxray, he made his appearance in a flash of lightning, illuminating the area.

Releasing another of his Pokemon, he called for a counterattack. "Cordelia, Rock Tomb!" He called to his Relicanth as she appeared from her ball. The Longevity Pokemon let out an ancient, growling cry as stones erupted from the arena floor around the Ariados. "Whoever decided it was fair to attack in the dark needs to take a few lessons in fair play." The Jellicent hybrid called to the stadium at large, trying to pick out whoever might have caused this, releasing his Castform at the same time. "Sunny Day. Turn the lights back on, please." He requested, the Weather Pokemon releasing an orb of pure light into the sky with a cheerful nod.

Where had he come from? Ironically enough, he had been in the area to watch the battles going on for some ideas to train his own Pokemon later.

The last Butterfree would see before total darkness was an intimidating face from Rat, and though he was more hesitant than before, it didn't matter much when it couldn't see at all and suddenly felt the Thunder attack crash down on him. He'd end up on the ground, struggling to get up and reduce his assailant to tatters. That is, before the Spider Web snared him, causing him to struggle all the more to no avail.

Tropius would, surprisingly, back off. Even in his desire to go on a rampage, the darkness proved to be an issue. In fact, he was attacking wildly in all directions, swinging his head and tail around. Though all he'd hit was thin air as no one was close enough to be caught up in it, it was still an element of danger that couldn't be afforded at a time like this. Amaranth would've recalled him, but the inability to see or tell where anything was without hearing it meant it wasn't an option.

"What...? Who's there!?" She yelled, unable to make out much more than her rampaging Pokemon, some voice that she couldn't really recognize, and something skittering near.

The infamous Steel Snatcher had finally revealed himself, attacking the field with an Ariados. However, his attention went from the shadow pokemon to Rui, the man leaping from the closed balcony and swinging from a thread provided by his Ariados. His spider was sent to attack Beau, Connor brandishing a pokeball to fight back. As he called on his Meditite, the Snatcher would approach and swing at him. Not one to back down from a challenge, he intercepted his swing with an open palm strike to his arm and redirect the attack. With his free hand, Connor would follow through with another palm strike to his assailant's jaw. "Asura! Don't let her get away!" "Medi!" the Meditate pokemon would acknowledge her trainer's command, taking off after Rui.