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Cera would snap out of her thoughts for a moment, seeing the Flare Grunts at the edge of the city. Her second thoughts didn't apply to them, a difference that would quickly show itself when she flew and slammed herself into one of the grunts. Her back would turn to protect the egg that she was still clutching, rolling off the grunt on impact to get herself into the city and hopefully get some distance. She wasn't going to hide, but she wasn't about to be stupid about it either.

Amaranth, oddly enough, wouldn't really hear what Clara had said due to having taken off so quickly. She and Breeze would end up within Lumiose City in short order, screaming past the grunts. The Light Screen would prove to be a valiant effort, but their entrance being more of a physical endeavor meant it was going to have a harder time stopping them so easily.

Aile looked a bit confused at Rein’s words, tilting her head. “Pardon, but I barely even know of you? I mean, you might look a bit familiar, but I’ve only gone against you twice. How am I a thorn in your side when I can barely-” Her would would be stopped short when Keiko’s Teleport would fail utterly, going to check an imaginary watch on her wrist. “You know, I told them about this how long ago, and they’re only now putting that up? Oi…. Imbeciles.” She shook her head, watching Rein’s Pokemon ready their attacks. All four of them now. “Really now? You think you’re going to try the Snagem Special on me? Both of you, Protect!”

Golbat’s Mean Look would manage to activate before Eisley would put up his shield, but both barriers would come up in time for both of the Dark Pulse attacks, remaining up for Murkrow’s Heatwave. Then Rein said something that would just piss her off.

“Wait, wait, what?! Non! You can’t truly be Kalosian, not a respectable one, at least! I can understand not liking the government, either one. But you don’t go simply advocating the annihilation of the capital simply because of that! I don’t care if you don’t go through with it for one reason or another, but you don’t go saying that you’d go blow up ANY city to smithereens!” The woman would bring out a third Pokemon now, the Pokeball opening in the air to reveal her Flygon. Two things would be notable about her. First, around her neck would be a cord with an oddly smooth, well worn stone around her neck. Secondly, and more importantly, would be that the Flygon would show no signs of the Shadow Virus at all.

“Gyooon! Fly.” The Flygon would come out and yell, appearing quite pleased momentarily, only to fly right up next to her trainer and poke her “Fwy? Flyyyy...”

“Tati, it’s just this guy has said the wrong things. Talking about being willing to blow up Lumiose if he didn’t have some sort of reputation to keep. Now, what do you think about trying to get some sense into this guy’s head?”

“Gon gon!”

“Good, I thought so. Tati, let’s get a Sandstorm going, then. Eisley after the Sandstorm starts, round two with Rock Slide. Voort, Stone Edge on Golbat!”

Tatooine would fly forward and flap her wings rapidly, roaring out as she summoned a powerful Sandstorm. Amidst the hum of the Flygon’s wings and the buffeting sands brought up, Eisley’s ability would kick in, Sand Force, causing the Rock Slide he created this time to attack all of Rein’s Pokemon become even more powerful. Voort, after all of this, would once again, stomp his foot on the ground, summoning up a group of sharp rocks underneath the wide mouthed bat to stab it. During all this, Aile would do one more thing. While her Pokemon were performing their attacks, she would bring out one more Pokemon, her Greninja. The frog would barely be standing when he appeared, letting himself slump onto the ground after about a minute. His trainer would present him with two things: a pair of Safety Goggles and a small diamond shaped piece of medicine. “Kayvaan, take this, then put these on. You’re going to go for a fly when you’re feeling up to it.”

Kayvaan would look first at the items, then shifted his gaze to Tatooine, who waved eagerly back at him. One could almost see a smile on his face as he noted the status of the Flygon, grabbing the Revive and stuffing it underneath his tongue scarf. The archer nodded with a smile before returning her attention to Rein, now nocking an arrow and pulling it back halfway. With the way this guy was going, she didn’t trust him to not pull anything himself. The woman was only trying to cover her own a** by this point.

Keiko sighed when Rein ran off to help the Snagems at Lumiose. She ran off, too, so as not to acquire Aile's wrath. Instead, she made her way to an unoccupied alleyway and fired up her SNAG.

"Rein is safe, for now," Keiko said with a sigh of relief after contacting me.

"Good to hear. Be careful on your way to Lumiose. Flare's run rampant and are attacking us on sight. I've had to take some creative measures to avoid being seen by them - I'd rather not be seen as a criminal by any government."

"I know how you feel," Keiko nodded. "Although with the bad guys being in so good with the government..."

"Yeah," I sighed, remembering the Flare Admin with the plan to take over the entire region. "Sorry. I'd offer to have Rala teleport me, but judging by the state of things, I'd say they've already got teleportation scramblers active."

"They do," Keiko frowned, rubbing her butt due to the five-foot fall from earlier. "Don't worry, I'll find my way there. Just be careful."

"You, too," I said before closing the connection. Thankfully, the alleyway I was in was secluded enough that I was able to change into my Sir Dynamite costume. Relying on this meant that I had to put my Hoverboard away - didn't want anything connecting me to Snagem. At least my identity safe.

With the costume in place, I continued wandering the streets of Lumiose City. I tried to keep out of sight of Team Flare Grunts as well as residents of the city, but my primary directive was to follow Zygarde and try to contain it.

Lykas was a bit distracted driving his magnetized feline when Aria began looking for her Pokeballs but he'd realize it quick enough. "~/~." He swore calmly, directing Sphynx to turn around and take them back. He'd loop though Clara's crater once more in an attempt to find them for his passenger and afterward, whether they were found or not, he 'd send out a new Pokeball of his own once they got back to the city gates. "Chinami, Brick Break!" He'd call out, watching as his Dewott charged one of her Scalchops with Fighting energy before making an impressively large leap into the air and bringing the glowing shell forward in a punch that could shatter light. And that was precisely what she aimed to do, breaking a hole open in the Light Screen as long as she wasn't stopped, which Lykas recalling her as Sphynx leaped through the hard-light shield.

As for Odd, he'd been a bit on the distracted side, trying to get the cells to respond to him when they entered the city, not even realizing he was cutting through the middle of a battlefield. He only just barely managed to avoid getting mashed into a human paste by the colliding forces of a Mamoswine and a Pangoro. Once through the entrance to the city, he'd be looking a bit paler than usual upon realizing how close to a true and proper death he'd been only a moment ago though he would recover from that upon seeing the state of the city. "Oi vey..." He groaned, shaking his head at the sight of things. "What in the hell?" He asked at last. This place looked worse off than the Otherworld he'd become so familiar with by now.

Regardless of what the city looked like, he had to try something. "So what do we have here?" He asked as he headed towards a cluster of Cells in an effort to try and collect them together. Generally, it couldn't stop physical entities but if they weren't being directed by something in the know, maybe he could trap them with Guardian Halo? Worth a shot, right? With those thoughts egging him on, he released his Shedinja and conjured the silver ring of light around the small cluster of Cells he'd found. What's the worst that could happen?

Fight as Mamoswine might against the force of the Pangoro, the massive beast would be lifted off the ground and tossed away from its target. "MAMMOO!" It roared out before landing on the ground with a loud thud.

"Mamoswine!" Freth shouted, rushing towards her Pokemon's side. "Son of a...ok, then. Fine. Mamoswine, are you alright?" Freth said.

"Mammooo." The Mamoswine struggled to get back on his feet, stumbling a bit as it tries to right itself back up right. She looked back towards the gate, staring at the opposition. The Pangoro really messes things up a bit. Most of her Pokemon on hand would be taken out by that thing in one respect or another, and if well trained enough, probably could take out the entire party. She didn't have that many options.

"Alright then. Icicle Crash!" Freth shouted.

"MAAMOOOOO!!" The prehistoric beast shouted, calling forth a hard chill and forming a large chunk of ice to drop upon the blockade. Let's see if that will get them out of the way.

Aile shook her head at Isaac's question, then looked down before her to make sure hopefully no one was paying the two much mind. "Well... There's something about that. I need your help with something. Was going to have Clara try to give you a note once she made it back to HQ, but plans went sideways very fast." She looked ahead, biting her lower lip slightly. "Honestly, you're the best person I could think of for this. Please."

Tatooine, on the other hand, was looking curiously at Konrad. The last time she had seen him, he was just a wee little Noibat, so she was honestly curious if this was the same creature Isaac had before. Enough so that she began to fly around to different angles to look at the Noivern. Sometimes at sharp turns and odd angles for Aile. "Wah! Tati, relax! This is the same creature he's had, his Noibat just evolved is all! It's like when you finally evolved to your current form and was able to carry me finally, remember?"

"Gongon!" The Flygon nodded happily, trilling quite contentedly. Her trainer hung her own head, sighing exasperatedly.

"I forgot how much of a handful you could be normally...."

Aile let out a small sigh of relief as Isaac told her to continue. "Right- Tati, stay still, please!"

"Gyoooon...."

"Yes, I understand, you're excited to see someone you know from Snagem, but calm down!" She rubbed the Flygon on her back as she continued. "I want you to meet me in the Lumiose Badlands later." The woman would grab a Great Ball from her belt and hold it out for Isaac, indicating with her other hand for Tatooine to fly closer to Konrad. "This is Arkana's Pokéball, if you can go back and pick her up. She'll know where I'm talking about in the Badlands, and she needs to be there as well for this. I'll explain everything to you there, I promise." She took a deep breath after that before nodding once. "I give you my word, as the head of the Wyndra family, that I will not have any sort of reinforcements there. And I know that might not mean much to you, but among the nobility, you don't put your family name on the line and renege on your word. Plus, I want to at least attempt to keep what little honor I might have left." A slow release of breath would punctuate that, looking down before returning her gaze to Isaac and biting her lower lip. "Please, I honestly hope to see you there."

"Gon?"

"Oh, and, um... Please don't tell anyone about this. This is my issue, not Snagem's, so I would like to have as few Snagems as possible involved." The woman looked a bit awkward as she asked all of this of Isaac. She could only hope that he would be willing to go forward with all of this.

The pair of Grunts would quietly look from Darts had dragged them to to the cavalcade of attacks streaming towards their shoddy defense. Glancing to each other before nodding, the pair would dive out of the way into the nearby brush before returning their Pokemon. "We're out! Who needs this Flare and Kalos are the best stuff?" The larger grunt shouted. "Not us. Maybe someone else is hiring?" The lanky one replied with, both figures disappearing within their respective piles of brush.

As they walked inside through the now utterly decimated gate, they would see the city in a state of emergency as small Earthquakes rocked across the place. And while Odd had captured a few of teh cells near where he was, a Core with a much larger troop of Cells would stream onto the scene before directing his cells to tackle and attempt to dig under the Guardian Circle. If successful, the collective would begin to dash away towards what appeared to be one of the gates.

They were not the only ones to notice though, as the Flare grunts who had been chasing the small batch Odd had caught would draw Pokeballs. "Nope. No getting by. We have the thing this time." One of them growled out, a Greninja and a Pyroar popping into existence next to them. The Pokemon would take no time at all to launch a Water Shuriken and a Flamethrower respectively that aimed to cut down and char-broil the Snagems. There also seemed to be voices coming closer to where they were, so they were going to take the Grunts, they needed to do it fast.