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"Do you honest to god have any other better ideas? Because CLEARLY chasing this thing half-way across the region thus far is working spectacularly." Freth said, calling Odd out.

"Walllll." Freth's Walrien then spoke. Freth took notice to the core and before she knew it, the treats were virtually taken en-mass. "Wallllllll..." The Walrien then mourned. All those treats, missing and now sacrificed futility to the Legendary Pokemon.

"...either this thing has one hell of an appetite together, or it lacks manners. Perhaps both." Freth then said. Another reason to perhaps have gave attention to the Zygarde while they still had the chance. "Well, I'm out of ideas. And...wait, isn't that way Lumiose? That...is not good."

"Waaaaalllll."

"Enough about the treats. Back in the ball."

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"The hell where she's shooting at?" I asked, looking up towards the arrow, ready to step aside to make sure it wasn't going to fall on me or Tristen. But then, what caught me off-guard is the massive flash that came from it. "GAAAH!"

"BLIZZ!!!" The two of us ended up having to turn away, trying to minimize being blinded as short as possible. Still caught a hard eye-full regardless.

"Blast it. Ok, regretting what I just said a minute ago." I said.

"You don't say!" Tristen chided in.

"Not now, Tristen!" When the two of us looked back up, Aile got distance on us, though still being able to be sensed for the time being. "Blast it..." I rubbed my eyes again for another few seconds, trying whatever I could to get my vision back, then back to the path ahead of me. "Tristen you better?"

"Blizz, hold on..." Tristen then spoke up. "Something worries me."

"What?"

"What Aile said a minute ago." He said. "Why would Aile betray us for a group she didn't like?"

She did say that just now. But then...It made me realize that she never before mentioned it until now. "...Tristen we might have some investigating to do." I said.

"Huh?"

"We're leaving Zygarde and Aile to the others. Let's go. We got work to do." I said, taking out my SNAG and calling Freth.

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Back at the Zygarde induced chaos, Freth gets a ring on her SNAG.

"Blizzard, we got problems here, where are you?" Freth then asked.

"We were about to catch up, but had a run in with Aile. Tristen and I actually had a bit of insight on something to, something that Aile may not have meant to have lead on. Tristen and I are pulling out of this. We're about to try to bust this thing wide open."

"Oh. Great. Just what we needed."

"Freth, sorry, I know. But sometimes its best to get the long term victories where you can get them. I'll see you soon."

The transmission ended, leaving Freth sighing with frustration. "Of all the timing." She said, rushing off towards Zygarde.

Aile might be surprised to see that Cera didn't try to chase her. She didn't even respond to what was said. Instead, the Mew was stunned, Aile's words providing a verbal slap to the face that, if only for a brief moment, actually gave a bit of clarity. At the very least, she had to admit that Aile was right; she didn't know anything about the situation at hand, and even now, she wasn't about to read minds unless it became a necessity. For that brief moment, she could tell that maybe she was a shade wrong about what she had assumed the whole time, along with an inkling that maybe she really had lost it on some level.

She wouldn't have the time for everything to fully sink in, her stunned pause allowing the flashbang arrow to blind her and snap her out of her thoughts. She screamed as she covered her eyes, and while she'd recover after a bit, she couldn't bring herself to keep after Aile. Something about it didn't feel right, even though she didn't trust her one bit. The idea of going through with killing her where she stood had immediately become so horrifyingly wrong that it disgusted her, making her resist an urge to just throw up at her own thoughts.

Floating there for another moment, she'd finally get her bearings back as everything became less bright. She could see the others, let alone the green mass that had been chased this whole time. Then, she saw Clara and became hesitant all over again. Was her decision to go turncoat of her own volition or not? Or was there some other reason for it? She knew that she couldn't answer the questions on her mind now, not at a time like this. Still, they looked to be heading towards Lumiose City...

A light groan could be heard as she reluctantly went to reunite with the others on the chase, taking off for the city.



Seeing that not even a bag of treats was enough to keep a Zygarde still, Amaranth found herself rushing over to Breeze as soon as she could move again. Hopping onto the Togekiss' back, she prepared to have her fly off after the cells and into Lumiose, glancing at Clara for a second beforehand. "Um... sorry!" She said before taking off, unsure if there was a good reason to have had Breeze attack her and her Tyrantrum in the first place. Or to apologize for attacking, for that matter. It was best to cover all bases, just in case.

Keiko kept her eyes shut when the flashbang hit, but she was able to catch most of Blizz and Tristen was saying. She also caught Rein's monologue, which left her a bit torn about what to do.

Eventually, she picked up her SNAG as well. "Terashi, I need your help!"

Fortunately, Rala was able to keep her senses about her. "I'm well aware. Chase after Rein. I'll help Blizz as best I can." Just as well, I couldn't help but feel that Zygarde was dragging us along, and I wasn't sure I wanted to know why.

"Right," Keiko agreed, putting away her SNAG before chasing after Rein. I had Rala teleport myself to her so we could both chase after the Articuno hybrid.

A bright flash off to the side of where the Zygarde swarm was overrunning Clara drew Isaac's attention. Grateful for his vantage point from atop his Noivern, directed Konrad to change directions. "The rest of the group can handle Clara, let's check out what that was." As the pair soared over the area in question the confrontation between Aile and Rein unveiled itself. Isaac was just about to intervene in the fight when two things caught his attention. First and foremost were Blizzard and Tristen, who seemed to be leaving the fight and headed off to somewhere else. The second was Rein's shouted comment about broken machines, which irritated Isaac's pride as an engineer and scientist. Raising an eyebrow, he shook his head at the pair beneath him. "A hard smack," he murmured to himself, "You don't realize how far outclassed you are, do you?" With a grunted chuckle, he withdrew his SNAG, sparing a glance at the purple Master Ball stashed within his lab coat, before typing out a quick message for the retreating hybrid pair.

Aile turned around and blinked rapidly when she noticed Cera returning to the main group and Blizz and Tristan going off their own way, not even rejoining the other Snagems. “What di- Merde. I need to watch my tongue. That’s one thing I really need right now, more people involved in my personal life,” she muttered before noticing Rein coming in with his Murkrow and Golbat, once more feeling the effects of Quash. “Okay, this is getting old. Honestly, the Chateau? You lot made out quite well actually, I should be getting revenge on you all for taking Regirock. All I managed to get was the cell holder. And you’ve heard my entire story? Doubtful. Don’t take me for a one Pokemon trainer, either.” Two more Pokeballs came out, revealing her Excadrill and Nidoking. “Let’s deal with this whole Quash situation once and for all. Voort, Smack Down! Eisley, Rock Throw!”

The Excadrill would laugh as he began to dig up small boulders from the ground, throwing them at the two flying types. The Nidoking snorted at Eisley’s show of force as he stomped on the ground, using rock energy to bring up a flattened boulder of his own. He then threw it up in a high arc, letting both gravity and the Quash field Murkrow was emanating to bring the stone down hard onto the crow.

“Now, I’ll give you both a chance to go catch back up with the Snagems,” Aile offered, noting Keiko following after Rein. “I have no personal qualms with either of you, though it’s wearing thin with one. Zygarde’s heading to Lumiose, so they’ll probably need as much help as they can get.” The woman turned to the direction of Lumiose, pressing a button on the side of her goggles again that allowed the transparency to go back to normal, the woman’s eyes becoming visible once again through her goggles. One interesting thing of note would be that there were a few what appeared to be small boxes riddling the lenses momentarily, though they disappeared quickly as she turned back to the small group of Snagems congregating in front of her. And above, apparently. Her gaze would turn upwards as she saw a Noivern above, with what appeared to be Isaac as the rider. What got her now is why he didn’t attack yet, while Rein was more than willing to go in recklessly, with little thought or insight to his opponent. She shook her head though as her sight locked back onto Rein. “However, do not make the mistake of thinking I’m an easy target. I haven’t been coddled by my growing up as nobility most of my life.” An arrow would be pulled from her quiver once again, though not nocked onto the string yet.

Isaac's message would get responded, though it would take a few minutes.



It was a message hopefully Isaac would be happy with, leave the situation alone, and focus on dealing with Zygarde.

In the meantime, Freth was still rushing after the Zygarde. They made it into the city, much to her dismay. The last thing she needed was Abbot and Costello up ahead trying to stop her. A light screen wasn't going to stop what she had in mind. "Mamoswine!" Freth called out, tossing the Pokeball forward, releasing the massive beast. "Full speed ahead! Take Down!"

The Mamoswine then charged straight for the blockade. Who feels like a game of chicken?

"Keiko we can't teleport, go help the others this...Thing has become a thorn in my side I simply refuse to go down without a fight, Murkrow get ready with a heatwave in which i know your strong enough to take a rock to the throat, Golbat steady yourself and dodge that rock if you can that is, and bring out the sun with sunny day then fallow it up with mean look on excadrill." A bright light begun to form in The chipped winged golbats mouth raising its head up to the sun the bring it out to make it hotter around the area, powering up fire type moves whilist draining water type attacks fallowing that a pair of gaping eyes appeared before excadrill hopefully in time to not let it escape. "Deino, Litwick why dont you both come out and play too Deino dark pulse on excadrill, litwick use your own on the nidoking."



As the pokeballs opened and flashed both the fire and dragon type started gathering necrotic chi one from the flame and another from the mouth blasting the two beams towards both pokemon as the injured dark type "k.." it couldnt speak but still the murkrow executed its heatwave soon after . " If it was just me, I'd blow lumiose city to smithereens but i have a reputation to keep, I've been waiting for this." He turned his eyes toward isaac giving him a grunt then back toward the battle at hand.

Keiko screamed as she fell, but it was only five feet so it didn't hurt THAT much. However, Rein seemed to have ignored her completely. He did respond to her request, but had no intention of leaving Aile alone.

"Rein, you have a pokemon that evolved once and an unevolved pokemon. Those two pokemon are fully evolved - you don't really stand a chance. Come on, the others need help, and there's not much I can do to help them by myself." Keiko begged, trying desperately to get Rein to back off.

Meanwhile, Rala teleported to me just fine, but her attempt to teleport me to Blizz and Tristan failed miserably. I tried to get her to sense where they were at so we could travel there by hoverboard, but that failed, also. With no other course of action, I rejoined the Snagems tracking down the green Zac cells.

((I imagine sensing Pokemon energy is something all Pokemon can do. There are instances of this happening in the anime, although I try not to use that as a source most of the time...))