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"That was easy!" Keiko cheered.

"A little too easy," I warned her. I didn't quite know what it was, but had a bad feeling about this mission from the start. The same bad feeling I had about the last one. Did this sense of foreboding have something to do with the black and green dog? Or the... whatever they are that're tearing through this cave?

I had know way of knowing. "Keep your guard up. No telling what we're gonna find in there." I added with a sigh.

Aile would trip forwards and land on all fours, losing her grip on Clara's arm. "Gah! Anyone tell you that you have the shrillest voice, you- Wait, huh?!" She turned to where she left Clara to see a tyrannosaurus digging a hole somehow with his tiny arms, causing the woman to tilt her head. "I.... How on Arceus' green earth is that even-? Never mind, not important. Though, that throws my initial idea out the window," she muttered to herself, picking herself up and dusting herself off with her free hand, also making sure the bow hadn't suffered any damage in the fall. Thankfully, it hadn't. "No, I hadn't forgotten. Just figured you lot would be more concerned about the Zygarde group. Also, does it help any that I was planning to enjoy a more relaxing day in Lumiose before I noticed something on the news about a group of floating lights around Terminus Cave. And then I had to talk to a crotchety old man who happened to notice the main lot of you trample through his yard. You all know that this is the day and age of mobile electronic devices, right? You all didn't get away scot free from the Chateau, no bad consequences." All the while, she was sending small hand signals to Kayvaan with her free hand.

"Now then, something happened for you lot to be chasing quite the large group of cells and cores back out here. That was enough to at least make the dog form, am I correct?" The traitor shrugged as she brought the goggles down over her eyes and pressed a button on frame of the left lens, both lenses becoming much less transparent. "Though, I honestly don't expect an answer from the angriest little pink fluffball Snagem has to offer." This would be Kayvaan's que to jump into Aile's shadow, popping out of Cera's and attacking with Snadow Sneak. Aile, in the mean time, would turn to the direction that Blizz and Tristan were heading from, pulling an arrow from the quiver and firing in their direction, this one meant as a warning shot. Another arrow would be pulled out and nocked, ready to take better aim if they still came closer.

"This is getting old fast," Isaac grumbled as he recalled his Aron and Beldum before trudging out of the cave after the felling wave of Zygarde cells. Sending out his Noivern once again, he climbed onto its back, before having it take to the skies once again. Hopefully this chase would be done soon, or they could run into something exciting, like Aile or other members of Team Flare.

Clara would erupt from the whole as her and her Pokemon gasp finally taking in fresh air again. However Gabriel would cease coughing before his trainer as the beast ponders the oddity of green moving towards him. The beast would look at the grass around its large feet then back at the wave of green confusing it more. The tyrantrum would shake his trainer around trying to get her attention, gesturing with his Considerably big head.

Clara rubbing the dirt off her glasses would squint at the energetic blur, "Wha- What is it Gabe, some sort of anomaly?" Replacing her spectacles Clara's eye's would spike in intensity as a large patch of slimes and Snagems all charging straight for her.

Think Clara damn it think. Then she had an idea. Time to get those slimes in one place. Whispering in Gabriels ear to keep him calm, the beast nodded. As the T-rex would lift its leg and slam it downwards with a traumatic bulldoze. Blasting a crater beneath her, but it wasn't deep enough. Again! A second bulldoze making the crater deeper and deeper. Until it was a large enough bowl to be a viable trap for these slimes... and hopefully not any snagems.

Allen could almost feel the earth shake, but he cast the thought aside. It was probably Zac and the rest of him trying to drill into the cave. "Soooo..." he wished he had a Pokemon with Dig. For now he was as useless as ever. He chased after the Zygarde wave which seemed to be dragged Aria at this point. He got a dumb idea. "Hey Zest, go see if you can talk to one of the cores. Cera can translate later. Hey girl! Catch!" He said, throwing the Magby like a football at Aria.

Well, the Magby flew into the wave one way or another. Once she slammed into the other Snagem, she'd start squeaking out questions to any of the cores she could see! Mainly, what were they doing? She started going on about how the humans were wetting their human pants worrying. That, she'd admit, was very funny.

Could they even hear or speak? Zest didn't know, but she had to try!

"It was still a legendary Pokemon when it looked and acted like a dog," I told Odd, trying not to chide him. "If it still works, then go with it."

But before I could jump into the Zygarde chase, Rala spoke into my mind. "Master! One of your friends is in trouble!"

"Which one?" I asked, keeping my eyes on the Zygarde cells.

"I... um... I'm not sure? It's definitely a legendary Pokemon, but it's a girl, too, which is weird." Rala tried to explain. "She might be able to take care of herself with all that power but-"

"But better safe than sorry," I agreed. "We should have plenty of people working on the Zygarde problem, besides."

I let Rala out of her ball and looked to Keiko. "Rala wants you to help one of our teammates. She'll stick with you to help you fight, while I'll help the rest of the team with our current problem."

"Okay, but," Keiko said, looking a bit apprehensive at the idea. "Will you be okay without your starter?"

I smirked at this. "I've got three other Pokemon," I told her. "I'll be fine."

Keiko nodded just before Rala took her away with teleport. Once they were gone, I put my right hand on Sauron's ball. It was about time the baby Bulbasaur got some exercise.

~*~

Keiko appeared beside Cera, Blizzard, and Tristen, Rala being somewhat shocked by the other legendary in the area. "Huh? Another gendered legendary!?"

"That's a hybrid, Rala," Keiko corrected her.

"Oh, okay," Rala sighed, feeling somewhat less shocked.

"What I want to know is who that person is," Keiko asked, pointing to Aile.

"Oh! I think that's the 'Aile' person someone told Master about." Rala shouted telepathically.

"The traitor?" Keiko asked, keeping her eyes on the Ex-Snagem.

Aile kept herself cool and collected as Blizz commented on her choice of weapon, even staring down the charged Ice Beam without so much as flinching. Cera’s words, on the other hand, would get under her skin oh so easily. While the nocked arrow never wavered in its aim, both of Aile’s hands would grip their respective items much more tightly. Her face would form a scowl as she heard the words, soon contorting into a grimace as she heard Kayvaan slam into a tree after the six Aura Spheres. “So… You honestly believe I enjoy my position right now? Being forced to ‘suck them off’ as you so elegantly put it,” Aile questioned back, her voice quivering with rage. “You know nothing of my situation. I have no plans of remaining with this lot, but I’m forced to for the time being.

“As for my choice of weapon, I’ve practiced with this since I was a young child, for sport. Don’t try and chide me on my aiming when all you would do is cheat and use your psychic abilities to guide it to where you want it at the speed you want it. And besides,” she commented, taking a deep breath to attempt to calm herself, “if I’ve lost it, then so has Miss Murderous Furball over there. At least if I use this as a weapon, or even my knives, I’m not out for anyone’s head. I aim to cripple at most, never kill.” The woman took another deep breath as she considered her options. As much as she didn’t want to admit it, especially to Cera now, Blizzard was right. Even against just Blizz, she was horribly outgunned, much less Tristan and a volatile Cera. Kayvaan was probably down for at least a good while from that barrage of Aura Spheres, probably until she went to get him healed up. Considering she was already down to four, after two leaving her in some way, and being unable to access her PC Pokémon otherwise, going down one this early hurt her horribly. One final breath, and one flick of her thumb on the back of the arrow later, and she finally had some sort of plan, as much as she didn’t like it. Though, she would find it justified as Keiko and Rala showed up suddenly, talking about her being Snagem’s traitor. “That would be me, yes,” the woman would state matter-of-factly. “Now then, my plan for this…” She’d quickly aim her bow upwards and let loose the arrow into the air, recalling the fallen frog soon after. Potential confusion would be alleviated quickly, as the arrow head exploded as a flashbang would, blinding all the unprotected eyes watching it. The archer would use the opportunity to take off, hoping to reset the playing field to her advantage.