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The others were relieved to have their pokemon back, Rhyme especially. Her poor pokemon....she got up all her gear, then remembered; the blob! She had to get back to it to get her SNAG! Hans and Gretel follow the pink squirrel, visible in the dim light, out towards the halls...until the Grunt shows up, noticeably concerned. Rhyme decides to go ask him for help, but he darts and her instinct kicks in.

Theres no way she's becoming a lab rat.

The girl takes off running with Hans telling her to slow down, but she's pounced the grunt with a rather ironic flying squirrel leap! Arms around his neck and clinging onto him, the guy promptly panics and takes off with his rather light burden on his back. Hans and Gretel follow, just to keep an eye on Rhyme!

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"ZAC". Huh. What a nice name for a blob. It chirrups in approval that it likes the name, and yes, it understood pokespeak. It seemed to be listening in rapt attention, though, at least until they got to the exit, where...where...

It makes a high pitched noise and hides itself behind the one whose defending it, deciding to trust her because she looks nice. "Zac" makes a questioning chirp her way and spins around with the SNAG still carried as if asking if it should entrust the special thing to her.

The grunt panicked as Rhyme jumped on his back, flailing around a bit before, just taking off in a direction. While traveling in seemingly random direction, he eventually made his way towards the exit, rapidly pressing the button to open the door as the it slowly opened. “Come on, come on!” He’d continue to flail about until the door opened to a dark room with windows and a glass door, letting what little light from outside there was, which wasn’t much. He’d continue to run after that, and Rhyme would see what would kind of look like chairs and tables before he ran outside, looking around to try and find the rest of his group. What he found were lights driving away at one end of the road, and then the glint of light coming from Darts’ crest at the other end with the outlines of Aile and Amaranth next to him, and a Nidoking thumping over. “.... I hate my life.”

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Aile raised an eyebrow as the group allowed Celosia and her group to get away and leave. “Right… So, in the meantime, she’s heading to Terminus Cave, and we can’t find out where Rhyme is from her….” Aile hung her head and blew some hair away from her face for a moment, staring at where the vehicles left. “Well... Voort, what are you doing?”

Voort would look around from where he was standing, trying to move the pole and broken power line out of the way of people’s paths and anything flammable. He’d grunt as he slowly trudged over to Aile and the others, taking a final glance back over at the broken power lines and pole. At least he tried to clean up his mess.

As Voort trudged over, Aile turned over to Amaranth as the egg was cracking in her backpack, raising an eyebrow. “What’s that- huh?” As the egg was hatching, the grunt with Rhyme on his back darted out, followed somewhat closely by Hans and Gretel, and Aile facepalmed. “Well, there’s our one problem solved…”

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Around Terminus Cave, the lead grunt would jump as Reno put his arm around him, dropping the containment unit and then running around, trying to catch it after numerous fumbles that knocked it forward. “What the? Aw merde…. Oi, you- Oh, come on!” The grunt would now look a bit pissed as his accompanying grunts took off once Reno appeared, taking away what he would consider a bit of a shield. “They honestly probably have the right idea… Reptincel! Smokescreen!” The released Charmeleon would belch out a quick thing of smoke from his mouth before following his trainer away. Might want to try and follow him soon, though Zac could probably still follow the smaller blobs energy signatures.

Reno would stand in front of the smoke cloud for a moment, tapping his foot while watching for something to come out of the smoke at him. Satisfied that the grunts had made their decision and that they had gained enough distance to make the chase fun, Reno would bellow, "Option two it is! Let loose the Houndooms of war, guys! We got ourselves a Vulpix hunt!" As if to emphasis his point, he would release his own Houndoom and watch as Ezekiel erupted with a gout of flame that punched through the smokescreen to reveal the grunt's escape route. Carefully placing Zac and Harleen onto the hound-like Pokemon, Reno would give a quick telepathic command to Harleen to explain that they wanted Zac to aid in leading Ezekiel after its lost cells and the men who had them. Taking a step back from his Houndoom, Reno would begin his own run towards the grunts while he waited for his little tracking pack to catch up and lead him straight to his prey.

Kain with his signature leaps and bounds would jump through the whrilwind using it to blast him through the smoke and air. As he slammed on the ground releasing his trevenant, Hex, "Forests curse!" The ghostly tree would pull its hands in the air as bulky trees began to shoot out of the ground thickening their route, and if Kain was lucky even take out a few of them along the way.

Rhyme holds on as best as she can, the squirrel pokemon currently being the bright thing that lets Hans and Gretel follow the grunt through the dimly lit place. She's vaguely aware of chairs and tables, her first thought being if that was a cafe or some sort of restaurant before the outside is revealed...as well as more Snagems!

"Hello everyone. Its good to see you...." Rhyme chirps in relief, finally letting go and sliding down the grunts back just as the scientists catch up. Aside from a few bumps and bruises everyone seems to be fairly okay.

She needs to get back to Terminus Cave, though. She just...has to.
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Zac chirps like a missing-item radar, settled carefully on the Houndoom, still clutching its SNAG. The Core shifts itself left or right as if to guide its mighty steed on where to find the grunt. It wants its cells back, and it wants them now, and it isn't letting up until they can stop the bad two-leg from taking them away.

Reno would continue his charge after his chosen prey, a smirk creeping across his face as Ezekiel caught up and began to overtake him. "There we are. Lets see where they end up, eh guys?" Reno told the Dark type, teleporting ahead of the hound to give him the advantage again and placing him firmly within meters of the trailing grunt. "Where ya running to? Got buddies at the other side? So will we! Be ready to meet them!"

"You can come with me..." Amaranth said, trying her hardest not to tell Darts that the puns from "Eggy" weren't all they were cracked up to be. Instead, she'd let out her Togekiss once she felt that doing so wouldn't have resulted in another infected Pokemon. "I'm sure Breeze won't mind, will you?" She asked, noticing that despite her Pokemon's compliance, she didn't seem terribly thrilled at having to carry someone else.

She'd climb onto Breeze's back as soon as the Togekiss had lowered herself, waiting for Aile to do the same and turning towards her whenever she did. "Oh, you might want to hold on. She likes to-"

There'd also be little warning soon after, Amaranth's attempt being cut short. Breeze didn't feel like waiting for any banter between them, so whenever Aile climbs on, she'd hurry off to Terminus Cave. By means of Extreme Speed. Holding on might be fairly important.

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"...Yanno what, Kain? Remind me to never get on your bad side. I don't wanna get lost in those woods," Cera commented, her mental tone sounding a bit impressed... and utterly terrified at what Kain and his Pokemon might be capable of. Luckily for her, she'd have an easier time of trying to keep up and hopefully catch up to the somewhat-lost grunt thanks to the mental signature. Then again, it wasn't hard to follow such a strong sense of fear or someone screaming like they were.

As Reno teleported himself after the Flare members, Isaac beckoned to Konrad, who fluttered down and settled himself upon his trainer's shoulder. The pair then set off after the fleeing grunts, surprisingly at an unhurried walking pace. He wouldn't need to try and hurry himself to catch up with the Flares; Reno, with his teleporting shenanigans, could do that for him. Besides, if a battle started, he could easily reinforce Reno when he arrived.