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“You. Have got. To be kidding me.”

Salieri just with her mouth agape, looking at the smoldering wreckage that had been the Striaton City hospital. Chen Zhen observed in a similiar fashion. Police and fire department officials were gathered around trying to make sense of things. She sighed in exasperation and facepalmed. “Unbelievable. Chen Zhen, let’s just…”

A jolt of pain ran down her legs. Her thighs still held the bruises from before, and she had attacked Bill primarily with kicks. She was worn out. A nap sounded great right about now. “Let’s just go to the pokemon center.”

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“Oh my!”

The nurse at the pokemon center’s desk covered her mouth as an exhausted Salieri stumbled into the center. “My goodness, are you okay miss? We have emergency facilities for human care set up now that the hospital-“

“I’m fine,” Salieri interrupted, holding out two pokeballs. “Can you please look after my pokemon? They’re worse off than I am, trust me.”
“Of course, right away miss,” the nurse said with a smile and a nod as she went to the counter to summon her Audino, who would take Salieri’s pokemon to the back to get healed.

The Battle Girl walked past her Pansage and over to the couch in the lobby, taking a seat near the bookshelves. “Mmm, this couch sure is comfy,” she said with a yawn. Chen Zhen got to the other end as Salieri began to lay down, her head resting at her Pansage’s side. “I feel a little bad that we couldn’t do anything else, but I’m so tired now. Team Plasma is up to no good.” She squirmed to get more comfortable as she stared straight ahead into space. “Do you think Wayne is okay?”

“Pa-pan,” Chen Zhen reassured. Salieri smiled sleepily, and then yawned again. Her eyelids began to flutter.
That’s good to know…Chen Zhen…don’t let me fall…”

The words never finished coming out of her mouth. She had dozed off mid sentence. Chen Zhen smiled wearily and lightly patted his sleeping trainer’s back.

The fist was dodged this time, missing the side of his head by inches. the boy went into a full fall headbutt not caring if his enemy was wearing a helmet, the move would stumble the Grunt away from him but in return he was now suffering from a newer gash across his brow, this one how ever was leaking blood over his left eye.

"what you say and what you know are compleatly different, how can you be so sure of this 'Stockholm' or what ever the hell it is? you continue to say that MY beliefs are questionable along with my reasoning. and yet here you and your little group of misfits are harassing these Pokemon" he said refereeing to the munna and musharna "im not much of a detective but im pretty damn sure that your using this Stockholm as a fancy cover up for waked out ideals and atrocious acts." at this point in the fight Tk was beyond irritated.he was done defending his belifes against this person, from hence forth he would attack her's full-force. while he was speaking his hand were shaking and his adrenalin pumping full force.

"and...i may be bad with people, there feelings, misunderstanding them or whatever, but i never...not even once, made my Pokemon do something they dident want to do or were uncomfortable doing. so how can you have the ordacity to say that i cant understand my Pokemon, my partners, my friends?" he said, his irritation increesing with each word.

Tk reached down, plucking up a jagged rock. taking a few moments too look over Olesya's armor in the process. once he was satisfied with his plan of attack, he charged. using his small stature to evade her blows, his speed boosted with the adrenaline coursing through his veins. once he was close enough he would attempt to jab the jagged rock into the un-armored arm pit / under arm area of his opponent.

Roast looked up from the pokemon that had apparently been beaten by her water. It... didn't explode? A part of her knew that finding it ridiculous that the water and poison didn't blow up was itself ridiculous. And yet, after last time... The Ducklet looked to the trainer of the Trubbish, and unleashed a water pulse.

Robby could see the fear in the man's eyes, and took two steps forwards. "Boo!" He would yell, and then the opponent would be hit by this plulsing stream of water. Robby didn't know what that meant, really, he hadn't watched Roast fight. A part of him thought that Issei had just jumped at him really fast. A manga in his memory told him what to do...

Robby punched down once more, with all his weight, to smash Issei into the ground.

((Trop said I can.))

The McFly household sat silently in the living room for a while. Luka's desire to prove that Nacrene was where he wanted to stay had been largely brought about by something that had happened about five years ago. It was that event that usually always led to the silence of the household as his parents sat lost in thought.

Five years ago, the McFly household had consisted of Luka, his father, Gregory, his mother, Zelda, his little brother, Scott and his younger sister, Kim. Life had been wonderful. Luka, Kim and Scott would always play together and go out into Nacrene to discover what delights had appeared that day.

One breezy night in December, the three children were on their way home when they came across a man in a suit of armour. He stood like a statue in the middle of the street and as they passed him, it was clear that his glare had focused on Kim and his beady eyes followed them down the street. They had taken a corner and saw the man again. Then they got home and were frightened when they found the man standing outside their home. They had hurried inside and told their parents of the man. When their parents had looked outside they couldn't see the man and dismissed the children's worries as tired hallucinations.

If only that had been the case. That night, someone broke into the house and stole Kim away. She was only ten. That was the killer. That man in the suit of armour had broken in to their sanctuary and stolen the purity of the family.

Kim's body was found five days later. The post mortem had found that she had been assaulted, raped and strangled on the night of her disappearence. Her body had been lying in a warehouse just outside of Striaton. She was buried in the Nacrene City cemetary and every year on the day of her murder, the family visited her grave. It had only been five years and his parents were still tormented by the event. Scott was too young at the time to understand what had happened and Luka always felt somewhat guilty for what had happened even though there was nothing he could have done.

As they sat there in silence, they thought of poor, sweet, innocent Kim. At times, it felt as if Luka was the only one that was willing to move on from the pain and the guilt and to make a success of the rest of his life for his younger sister. That was why he had to prove that he wanted to live in Nacrene. He had to know whether he could find a career that would be worthy of two lives and not just his own.

The attack was ignored by the Liepard. How? It didn't occur to Avan that Psychic didn't affect Dark in the least.

But that was a problem that'd have to be solved later.

Snarl was used. The sound resounded and shook both Avan and Baku to the core. It actually hurt. Avan, a bit late, covered his ear as best as he could. Baku, having no hands, couldn't afford the same liberty the boy could. Still a bit wavery, Avan called the next attack, "Yawn!"

Baku opened his mouth wide and released a load of noxious gas, that upon (breathing/inhaling/sniffing/etc?) would inflict sleep on the opponent in a moment or two.

Once again the opponent used the dark-type attack. Baku, being close by, was in range for Avan to help his pokemon. He noticed that covering his own ears before help 'pad' the effect of Snarl. So this time...

Avan grabbed Baku from the air and placed his hands where the "ears" might be, pulling Baku in close, and turning his back to the sound. The attack could still be heard; Avan taking the full effect and dropping to his knees.

Psychic types were not useless! Just in this particular battle...
However, despite that fact, this situation was particularly unavoidable. From Avan's hold, which had been loosened by the Snarl weakening the boy, Baku had managed to slip out and poked his head/body behind the boy just in time to see the Liepard attack. One last attack. Baku's eyes glowed and from his mouth released a murriad of stars at the enemy. Baku took the hit of Night Slash, getting slammed down into the ground. For Baku, this fight was over.