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"Sub! Catch!" Isaac called out, as he tossed him a package of Vivid Scent. Retrieving his Magnemite's Pokeball, Isaac hesitated to send Ferrus into battle just yet, opting to wait for Sub to get the Immunize function of his SNAG running first. Although, as he glanced over at Ryan's menagerie of Pokemon, it seemed likely that there would soon be a lot more infected Pokemon on the field.

The woman would see the field pop up before long, only to see that she was out of range what with being in the woods. She'd have to move closer before trying to act, pressing the button on the Pokeball in her hand once she was safely in rage of the Immunizer's effects. An arm would still be over her chest as a Togekiss came out, who took one good look at the woman nearby and made a confused chirp.

"What's wrong?" She'd ask at once, seeing the Pokemon's apprehension. "Don't you know who I am?"

This seemed to only confuse the Togekiss even more. The voice might've been familiar, but the rest surely wasn't. Especially not someone who was all of five seconds away from a public indecency charge being filed against her.

"Please, you have to trust me!"

It didn't seem to be working, the Togekiss moving further back, unaware that they were moving ever closer to the others and the battle at hand as a desperate cry was heard, as if they were saying to get away and bring them back to their real trainer. The only thing that seemed to stop the moment was the Togekiss' discovery of the viral chi in the area, prompting a quick turn to see the Hitmontop before trying to attack it with Air Slash.

At first, I was worried. I'd never heard of whatever a Shadow Pokemon was before. To make matters worse, my headache surged whenever the thing got near me, so whatever infected it is attacking the chi in my head. I could only imagine what it would do to one of my Pokemon. And yet people were releasing their friends to fight it. It seemed that whatever Sub activated created some kind of bubble that protected the recently released Pokemon from that creature. After taking a deep breath, I released Rala, making sure the beam from her Pokeball put her safely inside the Immunizer bubble.

Rala looked panicked, as though she could sense whatever was wrong with the Hitmontop. "I need you to stay still," I told her. "As long as you stay in this circle of energy-"

I was interrupted as the Hitmontop's Shadow Wave covered the area, my head erupting in pain as a result. Fortunately, it died down quickly, just enough that I could think straight again. "Urgh. This circle of energy will protect you from being infected, so make sure to stay inside. In the meantime, that Hitmontop should still, hopefully, be weak to Psychic-type attacks, so try using Confusion on it. Give it everything you've got."

Rala looked very much afraid by what was going on, but she seemed to take my words to heart. After making sure she was in the very center of the Immunizer bubble, she closed her eyes for a moment before opening them and emiting a warped, twisted ray of Celestial Chi at the Hitmontop.

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Keiko, meanwhile, was hanging at the back of the pack, letting the other Snagems do the talking. Something about this mission hasn't sat well with her since she got here, and she was playing it safe for the moment. Waiting and seeing. Wasn't her usual way of doing things, but then she'd been away from the team for over a year.

While the others were dealing with the Shadow Pokemon in the forest, Kaya was looking for House 8. From what he could tell now, he had found the place but he didn't want to go in without anyone else. So he pulled out his SNAG and sent a message to Aile. She had been the de facto leader of split groups for a while so odds were she was in charge of the others anyway.




With that, his message contained an attachment with his current location marked.

The onslaught of Super Effective attacks proved to be too much for the Shadow Hitmontop, and if not for that the Pokemon appeared noticeably sluggish as if it was already worn down before its rampage. Either way the Snagems were able to put it down quickly enough, leaving them to figure out what just happened.

"Phew, that could have been much worse...not that your Remoraid getting infected isn't bad, Ryan." Sub said, his Snag Machine's immunizer puttering out. "Don't worry, it can't infect your Pokemon if it can't attack them." He reassured Terashi. "So, who are you and why was that Shadow Pokemon attacking you?" He asked the woman. "Also, will someone snag this thing?" He said, kicking the knocked out Hitmontop.

Leslie would look between the Togekiss and the blond woman before simply saying, "Sub. Its a person, with a Togekiss, who knows about Snagem enough not to freak out. I don't think that's a long list." Glancing down at Greesix, the Mawile hybrid took a seat next to the tied up man before waiting to see who exactly this was.

"That won't be fun...at all. And in a way, I kind of know what she will be going through. Only, her purification process won't come anywhere close to lethal as mine." Ryan says with a bit of pain in his heart as he recalls Dewdrop.