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Ariel engaged in battle with two of the grunts. It meant that this will be a double battle. However, this is Ariel's first time doing so. The grunt then said, "We are fighting a little kid? This is going to be easy!" They then send out a Tentacool and a Wingull. Ariel then send out her Magikarp and Zubat. There was a brief moment of silence and then the grunts laughed loud. "Look at that kid's pokemon. Ha, using a Magikarp! That's a weak pokemon." The Magikarp was offended by the insult and gave an austere stare at the grunts. However, they ignored it. "Don't worry guys," she said to her pokémon. "We will win!" The Zubat and Magikarp cheered. Ariel quickly scanned the area. It seems that Magikarp will be facing Tentacool and Zubat will fight against Wingull, she thought.

One of the grunts then said, "Go Tentacool, destroy that wimpy Magikarp using Poison Sting." The other grunt then said, "Wingull, use Growl!" The Tentacool aimed at the Magikarp but it missed. However, the growl from the grunt's Wingull affected Zuzu, the Zubat, and Lia, the Magikarp. Ariel ordered to her pokemon, "Zuzu, use Super sonic on Wingull and Lia, use tackle on Tentacool." Zuzu sucessfully used Super sonic on the Wingull and it was confused. Lia damaged the Tentacool. The grunt ordered the Tentacool to constrict the Magikarp. It did so and the Magikarp was constricted. "Zuzu use Wing attack and Magikarp use tackle." The zubat and Magikarp did so and both of the enemies pokemon fainted. Both returned their pokemon and started to flee away.

As soon as she returned her pokemon, she notice the rain was getting thicker. What could possibly happen right now?

Ina flash of thunder touching the ground, Archie appears at the mouth of the hole the grunt was digging. Obviously was a higher rank than the other grunts because there was no sign of him wetting himself upon the boss' arrival. "Excellent work slave." Archie said as he stretched his hand out to receive the item.

"Archie!" Ginji yelled as he and Dragonite launched an arc of energy in the form of a Hyper Beam. With a flick of his wrist, the man sent the beam flying off into the sky where it dissipated into the atmosphere.

"Well well well, if it isn't Brian's lackeys and 'friends.' " he mocked as the grunt finally gave the parcel to Archie. "You're about to experience a fate so horrible, it has been forbidden to humans." he laughed crazily as the parcel unwrapped itself to reveal the Splash Plate, glowing madly in his hands.

Ginji's eyes widened as he yelled to everyone else. "Get down!" as Archie charged and fired a blue beam of energy wildly around the route. As the smoke cleared, Archie's laughter could still be heard, but he was no where to be found.

The rain still poured, and the team had once again failed to stop the progression of Archie's plan.

"Archie now has the Splash Plate, and whatever he obtained from Cinnibar. There's no way to know what he's planning, and his plan must be somewhere near complete." Ginji muttered under his breath, depressed. In the rain, wildlife was starting to reappear after NeoRocket had invaded their territory. The teen through his fist onto the ground as the rain fell off of him onto the grass beneath him.

"I'm going home, feel free to catch a Pokemon here and come back. This requires a change of strategy." he sulked as he started walking in the general direction of HQ.

Ariel nodded to Ginji and them scouts for a pokemon.
Edit: After searching for a pokemon but found no luck, she decided to go back to the HQ.

Richy heard what was going on. "ARCHIES BACK!??!?!?" He yelled looking at everyone.

Memo skipped in after Brian and did a handstand.
"Heyyy!"