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[Meanwhile, on the Sky Arrow Bridge...]

With the sun out and a nice ocean breeze blowing by, the weather on the Sky Arrow Bridge could not have been more perfect to Jump. The Interpol Agent had opted to remove some layers. He was laying on a towel placed atop the hood of his car, wearing nothing but a pair of sunglasses and his blue jeans rolled up to the knees. His bare upper body showed off defined yet lean muscle, and he made sure that it was in plain view for every trainer to see.

"Yo, Hexum, you wanna have a race?"

Jump's Lucario popped up from the backseat of the car, raising an eyebrow at his trainer from behind his red blindfold. "I already told you no."
"C'mon man, we're not doing anything else here."

There had been very few trainers to pass by the Interpol roadblock. Even his boss had admitted that the set up wasn't an efficient use of time, since Team Plasma had only been known to be a very overt organization so far and the local police could deal with the roadblock instead.

So the time spent on the bridge was spent mostly being bored.

[You guys should race,] Kiedis growled from the backseat. The Teddiursa laid with his head on the seat and his little feet in the air, looking bored and restless. [It's better than watching clouds go by.]

Jump looked up at the sky. "Does that cloud look like a lady to you?"
[Which one?]
His mouth melted into a sappy smile as he sighed. "All of them."
[You're hopeless.]
"You guys just don't get it cause you're pokemon."
[We just don't get it because we're not as horny as you are.]

Hexum bowed his head down and buried his face into the crook of his elbow to try and disguise his stifled laugh as a sneeze. Jump bolted upright as Kiedis snickered. "I'm not horny, I'm lovelorn! Huge difference, man! I could be picking up so many chicks right now, if I felt like it!"

The outburst caused Kiedis to explode into full blown laughter, and Hexum began to giggle. As Jump turned red in the face and attempted to explain himself, his xtransceiver chimed.

The Interpol Agent looked down at the screen, and as his eyes scanned the message he began to grin. "********. Yes. We’re gone.”
[Say what?]

Jump rolled off of the hood of his car onto the ground, and then jumped into the driver’s seat. He tossed all of his previously discarded clothing into the backseat as Kiedis jumped into the shotgun position. “Tackey just gave me the word. The local precinct is taking over this operation. Let’s bounce.”

[YES!] Kiedis roared triumphantly. Hexum sighed in relief as Jump revved up the engine. Pushing the pedal to the floor, the convertible sped off of the bridge and towards Castelia City. The laughter and cheers of the now happy trio buzzed in the air as they drove.

Lenora looked up at Luka, surprised by his intensity. Averting her eyes she replayed the incident in her mind, started talking slowly.

"They destroyed a lot of things; cases, statues, fossils... even the meteorites." She breathed out a heavy sigh, taking her hand from her wound and inspecting the print of blood networked on her skin. "My museum is gone." Her fingers curled into a blood-soaked fist and she matched Luka's fury with her own, "Plasma stole the skull from the dragon exhibit. You remember it, don't you, Luka? God knows what those maniacs want. But they are going to pay."

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"Whoa-- wait, what? No no no no! She is not my girlfriend, okay?" Wayne waved his arms about as they ran, or skated in Takamaru's case, "I mean, I'm not saying I wouldn't, cause I so totally--"

He slowed down verbally, but didn't quite stop. "Well actually, I probably wouldn't-- but that's not the point!"

They reached the forest, tall trees reaching overhead like a lush green archway, tree branches laced together, longer fingers that formed a tunnel where sunlight failed to pass. The ground was muddy and stomped, covered in heavy footprints; the depressions in the earth were deep enough to suggest that they were on the right path - Plasma wore suits of armour after all.

"TK, dude, you can't just go around assuming stuff, like-like that!"

(("Hey I'm just looking. It's not like I'm buying anything."

I will wait for TK or someone else to post))

And then a shadow cast overhead of the crew. It was ******** giant, like, this should would be a challenge to break.

Because it was the challenge rock. Hurled. At Wayne specifically.

Leonarda stood in the distance, Scraggy moving toward the crew. Her arms were crossed and, in uniform, she'd done her best to appear less Asian with the help of cosmetics. Why? Because ginger headed Asians was a pretty silly thing.

Scraggy was sprinting as the rock came down and soon he jumped, entering the air, hidden behind the giant boulder.

Scraggy came down from the rock, having jumped onto it with his leap. With Hitmonlee's position, it had basically opened him up for an attack. Said attack? Headbutt.

He felt a little guilty about leaving Henrietta and Eunmi behind, but he presumed those two and Luka would be fine. So he followed the other group. Boy, were those guys fast. Or maybe Avan was just slow. Either way, Wayne, Salieri, and TK had left Avan in their dust.

And by the time he caught up, the battles had seemingly already started. And there was a giant rock. What happened? He wondered. But he didn't think too much of it as he went ahead.

"TK, dude, you can't just go around assuming stuff, like-like that!"

"Sorry sorry, its just that you two look, i dunno, like a couple i guess" Tk went on. by this time they had entered the forest, here he had to retract his skates. This made keeping up with the group a whole hell of a lot harder for the lad.

"Aww man, i got mud in between the blades!" the boy cried as he ran. before he could go on into a full blown tantrum the challange rock appeared over head. Takamaru's Full intention was to release Iron Hide to intercept the after mentioned Challenge rock. but he was slow on the Draw and wayne had beat him to it.

"Show off" he mumbled as he ran around Wayne towards Salieri.

"Ne ne, will you be ok by yourself?" the silver headed child asked, Running in place a few paces ahead of the suspended Challenge rock, and well out of its crushing embrace's Range.

Salieri furrowed her brow, and skidded to a halt when Wayne got knocked down. He told her to go. She knew that she needed to. If she didn't hurry the skull would be gone. But when he got knocked down, she felt the sudden urge to stay.

And then another urge that told her to keep moving.

The Battle Girl grit her teeth and flicked her nose with her thumb. Wayne was trusting her to go ahead. She would trust him to stay behind. "I won't let you live it down if you get beat by these clowns, cowboy!" she hollered to him as she spun on her heel and released Wukong. Now recharged, the fire monkey ran low to the ground alongside his trainer with the primal sense of revenge in his eyes.

Salieri bolted towards the entrance of the forest. "Don't stop now, rollerblade boy," she grunted to TK as she ran past him. Her eyes darted around as she ran for any sign of Plasma. As soon as she got into the actual forest, the sunny sky from before was blocked by the thick canopy. The shade made it a little cooler, and the trees off of the main path were all grown very close together.

Just need to find the one with the skull, and then we've got what we need to flush them all out. If you want the sheep to panic, strike the shepherd.