[FIN] Call To Aid

[TawnyAngel]

Tunnel group

It was with mild trepidation that Dith watched the quartet vanish, he didn't like splitting up but on the other hand he appreciated the value of a good pincer like movement. "We'll be fine," he concurred with Rosie, nodding to Nicolette. Hopefully. Hopefully nothing exploded this time, or fell on them or... well it was a bit late to worry about any of that now.

"When they come Luna will open with Flash first of all and then Teazer and Viktor will try to disable one - make it flinch and then send it to sleep," he went on quietly to the group, sharing strategy being smart and all. "Zla will use toxic, so if anyone has something like Hex that's powered up by status effects keep an eye on him?"

[edit:] While they waited Viktor gave a nod to the Houndoom. he observed to the other pokemon.

Teazer drawled.

Bowing her head slightly the Espeon complied, and Teazer used it to launch a powered up Pay Day at the paralysed pokemon, which was soon followed up by a Venoshock from Zla. Other than the slight 'clink clink!' of coins that went wide of their target the attacks were completely silent.  

[BlackFireKitsune]

Luke, Rosie, Dith

All of their words managed to give her some comfort, as did Vahy'n's presence at her feet, and she nodded with a soft, "Okay." It was still very scary, and of course she was afraid, but there were still the four of them and their pokemon, so they would be fine, right?

On the subject of pokemon, Nicolette hesitated a little before calling out Pascal and Agnes. While the pair still had quite a long, long way to go in their training, they were her two strongest. The Buneary and Swablu both seemed confused at their surroundings, but their trainer knelt down to give them a quiet explanation of what was going on and what they were expected to do. With the promise of an imminent battle, Pascal eagerly hopped up to join Mieu and Kiss, while Agnes swooped over to land atop the Raichu's head with a pleased, "swaaa!"

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Tenebrae

The appearance of the group of Houndoom with their gaping maws dripping with the threat of fire gave Giselle a good reason to pause in great hesitation, and at the call from their owners, the ghost disappeared with a frightened cry to avoid the attacks. Yes, they had come this way to scout and possibly to debilitate or slow them, not to get into battle - and she knew quite well her own limits. she agreed readily with Tenebrae, her voice floating down from somewhere as the ghost remained invisible.  

[Akira Midoriyama]

Ray, Lin, & Sera

Akira stopped as a voice called out behind them, but he was astounded to hear the Jirachi's voice instead of Ray's. Jeeves was already going on ahead, but as Akira stood there uncertainly, he saw the mud and raised his brows. "What in the world...?" He wanted to go to them, but was the mudslide all the Legendary had been warning them about?

"What's over there?" he asked the little Jirachi. Silly was feeling particularly impatient as he tapped his tail against the dirty ground. He would have dove after Lin himself to keep them all on track if there hadn't been so much nasty mud to get him dirty.  

[BlackFireKitsune]

Ray, Lin, Akira, Jirachi

The presence of the Jirachi surprised her, but she didn't bother to question it. Instead, she frowned at the light as well as the mud that assaulted Lin - she was quite glad she hadn't gone that way, and she was rather disinclined to go there anyway, instead opting to stay near Ray. "What's in there?"  

[Blood_Goddess]

Giselle and Tenebrae

When the explosion of attacks was drawn back by the four pokemon, they would fin the two that they had been attacking now fleeing.
Or one at least, since the Ghost was invisible again.

"Go go!" one of the men with light hair burst out, charging forward and pointing out a pipe toward the pokemon "Get after them!"

Howls from the dark types echoed viciously through the caves like woken demons from the pits of hell. giving chase to the two pokemon.

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Lin Sera and Akira

"I don't know" the Jirachi said when Akira asked her what was in there, pausing in her progress as Lin and his Igglybuff were slapped with mud. "Its not happy, and everyone else is scared of it."

Lin was taken down by a Mud Shop, Ray didn't waist any time in darting forward barking out a command to her Partners as she went.
"Thats a Quagsire- Breeze Off," the Pikachu jumped off, landing on the ground and standing by where Akira and Sera had lingered.

"Leaf Blade." Ray said, and as Double Stripe burst into the room, there was an explisive clattering noise of metal, a cry of pain from the Quagsire, and a burst of cried from various pokemon.

Ray had reached Lin, reaching down to grab the boy up with his pokemon
"Mud hey? A natural camouflage, you okay?"

With the doorway not clear, anyone who steps over would see the first room they've come to since entering the mines.
Freshly carvled, and looking as it it had various cages and boxes stacked un organized along the walls, as if there had just been a recent relocation.

Pokemon filled the room, along wide crates some with eggs packed away in nesting, while others held all different kinds of pokeballs. and even more so of some of the strangest pokemon that they would ever see. Colors, Deformities, and Legendary.
Few were in pokeballs, though the cages and restrains many of the pokemon were kept in didn't look like ordinary cages, and most pokemon within them seemed somber and compliant.

If this wasn't a surprise, a pleasant one in Ray's case, as she had no idea that they had relocated the pokemon. The team would be met again with a surprise, this one from the bone chilling howls of a pack of Houndoom.
"Everyone in the room! Get this pokemon quiet of we'll be caught!"  

[Akira Midoriyama]

Ray, Lin, Jirachi, & Sera

Well, at least the Jirachi had given him a clue - whatever it was, it was a living creature with feelings. Akira began to wonder who 'everyone else' was, but from the sounds they'd heard, he began to have a guess.

Perhaps the tunnel led to where the men had kept the pokemon - the place they had been waiting to be led to before the Mew was put in danger and Luke jumped to its rescue. The mud and the creature the Jirachi was referring to must have been the pokemon kept to guard and watch the ones that were being held captive. But just one pokemon...? That didn't make sense.

Silly, on the other hand, was tired of waiting. He'd reached his limit and began to slither forward. Some damn water pokemon had tried to get him dirty?! He'd show it a thing or two.

But no, Double Stripe got the glory first when Ray commanded him to use Leaf Blade. Supercilious found himself feeling uncharacteristically frustrated at being denied revenge. Normally he would have been glad to let others handle the work. Oh well...perhaps there would be more pokemon to suffer his wrath.

Akira didn't seem to notice his pokemon's mood. While Ray went to check on Lin, he hurried over to the doorway to make sure there were no other attacking pokemon to guard it. All the pokemon he could see, though, were the ones in cages and restraints. Well, at least he could try to help with that. His hunch had been right after all.

"Silly, start Wrapping the bars of those cages; see if you can warp them to make holes big enough for the pokemon to get out. Or try attacking the locks," he suggested. "Happa, you start slashing at the restraints with Razor Leaf. The ones that are free can help free others. Listen everyone," he told the pokemon in a hushed voice, holding up his hands. "We're going to try to get you out, but we have to keep quiet, alright? At least until the pack is gone."

Happa immediately got to work on the nearest pokemon, hoping that his attack would be sufficient. Silly, meanwhile, started wrestling with the restraints and prying at locks as if taking out all his anger and frustration on them, coiling around cages with his body of muscle.  

[TawnyAngel]

Lin Sera Akira & Ray

It was the howls that awoke her. At first she thought they were just a part of the dream but no, this time their cries were real. Intruders?

The Mewtwo jerked awake chained to the wall. Her forearms and hands throbbed, she could only assumed that this was because the heavy metal restraints that covered them were sapping her energy. On the other hand that property might be incidental, it might merely be that they were too tight and-

More humans!

So much for her hope of a rescue. Staggering to her feet the battered Mewtwo glared at the little group of trainers, her teeth bared in a snarl. "Oh this I must see!" she crowed, her voice reaching pokemon and human alike. Regardless of which faction was torn apart she got to witness the destruction of an enemy. If it was the humans who were defeated she hoped their captive pokemon escaped, if they were not so far gone as the brainwashed servants of her captors and had the wits to do so.  

[Blood_Goddess]

"Woh! Sonofa-" Ray made a start as she half dragged who she needed to in the room, then turned to the pokemon to try and encourage them into silence, while Double stripe struggled with his coils around the slippery Quagsire.

The voice in her head, though she was used to the Jirachi was not used to another voice.
Her eyes fell on a Mewtwo, standing amongst the prisoners.
Her mouth fell open slightly before a wide grin spread over her lips noted Mewtwo were talkers too!
"Sticking around here you won't see much, we're taking the battle out there if you all let them pass without drawing their attention." Ray looked around the room, then once again settling her eyes on the talking Legendary "Any one you up for some revenge?"

The Jirachi had sunk to the ground once she was in the room, holding her head but keeping her amber eyes open, looking around at the pokemon inside. some of them were not even conscious, as if kept in a state of stasis.  

[Gwennythe]

Gregson was busily trying to tell the Quagsire off, shouting at it with irritation, even as Double Stripe was taking care of it.

Lin groaned as he was helped up.
"Yeah... Usually I don't put it on that forcefully though..."

He looked around, even as he heard the howls.
"Should we just... let them all out?"
And then he saw the Mewtwo, and heard it...
"Or... not... What is that?" He wasn't sure he was so keen on that one being out...

Jeeves, meanwhile, seeing that Lin was okay, had gone over to Gregson, trying to check the tiny pokémon over and sighing with relief, and exasperation, as it seemed the Igglybuff was okay, but then he was taking off again... Fast for a tiny round thing...
Jeeves followed him as he approached one of the packings of eggs.  

[TawnyAngel]

Bargain? With a human? Yet what choice did she have? If these ones freed her and she aided them in defeating their enemies (what was their squabble with their kin anyway?) then perhaps she could make a break for freedom before they in turn tried to imprison her. Expression cooling the Mewtwo tutted and rattled her chains. "Very well, human, release me and allow me my satisfaction. Don't imagine for a moment that this means you own me. When this is done I will be leaving, and taking as many of my fellow captives with me as I may." Would the humans' captive pokemon come too? It seemed doubtful somehow.  

[Blood_Goddess]

"That, would be a Mewtwo" Ray said in reply to Lin "And yeah, we're letting them all out,"

Ray just grinned at the Mewtwo "Wow, I guess you guys are bred with a sense of self importance. I wonder if you get that from the originals." The women smirked. "A simple 'yes, and thank you for bothering to risk your life to come down here to help me' would have been enough." A half lidded eyes winked at the Legendary before approaching it, "DS, if you would."
A Leaf blade struck down on the chains that were holding the Mewtwo. there was a crackling noise as the energy suffering the pokemon's offensive powers were broken.

With that ray moved on to help the others free more pokemon.
The trainers had a couple of minutes to set free as many of the pokemon as they could before the sound of footsteps could be heard.

Ray, who had been searching through the stacked containers jerked up, and with a swift movement dove for the light in the room, and dimmed it down.
"SHH! everyone!"  

[Blood_Goddess]

Dith Luke Nicolette

The silence would be broken by the distant howling of something terrible.
Trainer and her pokemon jerked their head around, before the blond moved to kneel next to Kiss and Vahy'n, speaking to them quietly while keeping her eyes on the darkness down the hall.

It wouldn't be long before the Houndooms came into sight, mostly from the flames in their mouth.
What they saw however drove them to a hard stop, eyes wide in surprise at the group that they were now standing in front of. Clearly not expecting this many pokemon.  

[Suudonym]

Tenebrae reappeared from the tunnel's shadows, slowing to a trot as he looped around behind Luke and then returned to the frontline alongside Mieu, nodding his greeting to his fellow eeveelution. Mieu blinked in reply, mildly surprised, especially by the sudden howling that penetrated the depths of the rocky walls, but suspended his curiosity about what the Umbreon had been doing. They had more important things to deal with, obviously.

The enemy pokemon's pause was answered with a Confuse Ray from the Umbreon and a Toxic from the Flareon, neither needing nor waiting for a command from their trainer to know how to respond to the threat.  

[Blood_Goddess]

The Confuse Ray hit right on to a Houndoom caught off guard. staggering him to the side and causing the Pokemon to stumble and crash his chin on some rocks
The Toxic hit another Houndoom, who screamed and tried to shake it off before the poison could sink in. With no luck however. In retaliation a Flamethrower was thrown out at Mieu.

It was very clear that these men were not expecting a turn out of trainers, attacking them.
It was rough enough being in the depleted condition they were in already, Then to be caught completely off guard.
As a number of their forces started to drop to the ground in shock, some in sleep and other being blown away with a powerful force of water against their chest.
They began to panic.

"STOP STOP!" Screamed the dark haired man, throwing his hands up as he pulled himself from the ground, dripping wet, the pipe he was holding dropping to the ground as he reached a hand to his chest where he had been blown away.
"JUST STOP!"  

[TawnyAngel]

Ray et al.

The Mewtwo hissed as the backlash from the broken equipment surged through her body, it was like a static shock but tenfold and everywhere at once. The moment of pain soon passed however and she felt power surging back through her body and a flick of her mind tore the remains of the restraints from her body. By this time however the grinning human had dived for the lights and shushed everyone. Rubbing her wrists the psychic type obeyed and sank back down to sit on the floor, the element of surprise was always desirable.

"I was bred with a desire for self determination," she replied privately to Ray, disgust ringing in her mental voice. "Whatever you do here I will not be your slave. Oh and my name is Miss Lovelace. Kindly use it."


With the Houndoom

Luna, as instructed, launched a blinding Flash from the jewel on her forehead, directed at the pack of dark and fire types. A moment later Teazer picked a target and charged at it with a stunning Fake Out which Viktor followed with a Yawn, hoping to send the Houndoom to sleep before it could recover and attack. Zla meanwhile aimed a Toxic at another enemy, noting with approval that one of Luke's pokemon had used the same technique on another one - his Hex and Venoshock would be powered up on that one too if the move came off right.... Or maybe it wouldn't be needed, it seemed their enemies were already begging for mercy. Holding off on further attacks for now Zla glanced back at Dith to see whether or not they were going to play nice.

Hanging back behind his pokemon Dith tensed; dark types were bad, bad news for his team. He really needed to get hold of something that could deal with them better. For now though, perhaps disaster was averted.

Flexing his wide shoulders Dith took a couple of paces towards the man who had been crying at them to stop. "You want us to stop? You behave. Toss the Houndooms' pokeballs over here and then put your hands up."