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I struggled to get up to my feet. The pain coursing through my body due to the electricity doing the same made it hard to do anything, but I knew I couldn't stay put. As soon as I was on my feet, I recalled Sparrow before trying to help Ulla on her feet. "C-c'mon, we g-gotta go," I grunted, trying to make it so we could bail as soon as possible. As soon as she saw it, Keiko rushed up to us, and made it to us as I was helping Ulla up. She began rummaging through my bag and pulled out not only my Hoverboard, but an old, somewhat frayed rope that I honestly didn't recognize, though I was too busy to consider where it might have come from. She thrusted one of the rope at me and yelled "Hold on!" Forcing it into my hands, she started tying the other end around her waist. I didn't really like her plan, but I didn't really have time to argue. I hoised Ulla upon my shoulders, but before we could leave, we were set upon by an Arcanine.

I instinctually reached out for one of my Pokeballs, but the one I was reaching for opened on its own, revealing Samurai in his fully evolved state. The Samurott wasted no time lashing out at Arcanine with Razor Shell, aiming the attack at the Arcanine's neck. It was then that I noticed Samurai's emotional state and yeah, he was still absolutely livid about evolving against his will, even though the pokemon responsible was long gone. It seemed like he decided to take his anger out on the Arcanine, and while that wasn't exactly fair, I really had no room to complain. The Arcanine responded with a Crunch, but Samurai took the blow and responded with Revenge, aiming to crush the Fire-type underneath. He followed up with Aqua Jet, not giving the Arcanine a moment's breath to retaliate and knocking its fainted body far enough away to be out of our way. A Luxray jumped into the fight to avenge its Fire-type comrade, but by that time that happened we were set up. I recalled Samurai, hopped on my Hoverboard, and held tightly to the rope as Keiko took off with Agility, dragging Ulla and myself with her.

Deo was second fastest after Keiko zoomed past him. She turned and with hairs raising on Deo’s neck as well, he turned his head real quick to see Ter and his bird falling down, due to thunder, falling down, not so fairly. Moving quickly on his Cyclizar to avoid incoming fried chicken with roasted Ter and… oh dear, scorched Ulla. He quickly moved outta the way and straight into a houndour.

The Houndour roared and nearly scared Deo but spooked the Cyclizar. As Deo would be knocked off, the cyclizar rolled out onto the houndour and knocked him unconscious with a nasty tire track. Wasting no time, pokeball out, click….click…..BLAST. The houndour got loose and was not unconscious, but stunned, well was stunned. With the houndour out and mad, it would make a flamethrower attack on the Cyclizar. Only for the cyclizar to counter it as the flamethrower passed it, the cyclizar quickly attacked. Both were not as good as they should be, but as the bite of the houndour hit the cyclizar, Deo noticed his Psyduck got loose and used water gun straight into the houndour. As much as this confused Deo, the houndour started whining as Deo used a second pokeball, and with a click, click, snatch, Deo caught himself a Houndour. He also returned his psyduck.

Getting the pokeball and the cyclizar mounted once more, away they went and fast at it. Suffering not the random SWIPE member that found themself in Deo’s path as he played chicken with them. Internally he was mad at SWIPE. ‘Get out of my way, or get gone!’ He also was ticked at ter ‘I have respect for you Ter, but Sub said no flying and you found out, the hard way.’ His fur was being pushed back and his eyes were blinded by the amount of lights. So putting on his sunglasses, he said to commodore “gun it”

The race was on.

Suddenly, the streets of Rustboro that people had lined in awe and wonder were instead a battlefield. SWIPE was throwing more of its considerable resources at trying to capture every Snagem possible.

Among them was an unassuming-looking young woman, at the back of the pack with Crystal and Brian, one of the most ordinary-looking people in the menagerie of "criminals" that was trying to make its way out of town. She hadn't run this much in years, but she wasn't exactly thinking about that. They were running down the road, cars having madly pulled over when chaos erupted ahead of them, a veritable freight train of noise and activity that would certainly be the talk of the day, if not the week, on KlinkTot. The boulevard was a mess out of a movie.

That freight train's caboose was quiet until she felt a surge of heat off to her right and a flash of flame in her peripheral vision. She jumped left to get away from whatever it was, almost hitting a car that had pulled onto the left shoulder, catching the slightest glimpse of its occupant, phone pressed up against the driver's side door capturing the moment. A horse Pokémon, its mane flaming, zoomed past, galloping with such force and velocity that it could not slow down when she shifted toward the curb. Rapidash. Fire. The Fire Horse Pokémon. It gallops at nearly 240 kilometers an hour. With its mane blazing ferociously, it races as if it were an arrow.

She regained her balance, mane swinging like a pendulum behind (not that they could see that) from the lateral motion as she returned to a straight bearing. Next came a second rider, this one on a Stantler but accompanied by a short and stocky bull Pokémon. The man moved ahead, parking his Pokémon sideways.

"Hypnosis!" he called out. It had no effect: the woman was still awake and moving toward him. "Hypnosis!" he cried, louder. The bull Pokémon was the one that instead seemed affected, the movement of its two tails slowing to a soft droop.

Monique stopped. He looks flustered. Seeing an opportunity, the agent rode Stantler a couple of paces closer. "Hypnosis!" Of course, it didn't work again, but she closed her eyes and relaxed her muscles. She was glad to have a respite of some kind, and an idea was forming in the sheriff's brain anyway.

"Gotcha!" the agent cried out with some relief. He approached carrying restraints, intending to handcuff the fugitive, but just as he did so, Monique let loose a burst of darkness, a wave of shadow that blew the agent back, knocking him to the ground. It also connected with the Stantler, wincing as the Night Daze was super-effective, dazing it for a moment and frightening it for a moment longer.

With the agent on the ground, Monique ran away from him. She didn't want the Stantler; after all, she had a Wyrdeer at home. She wanted the bull. She ran to it and climbed on, gripping its horns tight in case it tried to shake her off.

"Forward!" she called out to the Pokémon. Tauros, Paldean, Aqua Breed. Fighting/Water, her SNAG reported, making use of the updated data it had received in the year she'd spent at Uva-Naranja. This Pokémon blasts water from holes on the tips of its horns—the high-pressure jets pierce right through Tauros’s enemies.

Now she had a ride tricked out with a water cannon. As long as she could hold on. And maybe as long as the others in her group could hold on too.

Crystal would stare as the Thunder came down on Ter while he and Ulla were in the air, higher than anything else. Welp, this would be the primary reason why they were told not to be in the air. Kess was a Zapdos hybrid, of course she would be able to snipe someone out of the sky with lightning. However, she wouldn’t be able to worry about the bird’s riders at this point, as the Thunder had acted like an early alert for everyone else that the Snagems were on the run. And she was one of the slowest, understandably, being on foot without any speed boosting abilities. So, the mounted SWIPE members wouldn’t take too long to catch up to her little part of the group. “Of course… Thanks for this,” she muttered under her breath, shaking her head. Crystal would turn her head back slightly to see the incoming Rapidash, Espathra, and Stantler. She’d look away as soon as she saw the different Hypnosis attacks come in, not wanting to somehow get a repeat of the volcano and become mentally compromised. However… she could take a little bit of inspiration from her travels. There was a dome wall in that underwater reality, right? What if…? Bringing her hands up in front of her, she would conjure a small panel of light between them, her combination Reflect and Light Screen. The hybrid would spin around as she willed it to grow, the panel sizing up rapidly until it was as tall as her and about twice as wide, before shoving it in the direction of the SWIPE agents and their mounts quickly. “Catch!” If nothing else, she was hoping that would stall them somewhat, to try and give them more room. She wouldn't watch to see if it worked, though, instead twisting back around and-

Apparently, she missed a Rapidash rider, as a Flamethrower crossed her path in the front, causing her to skid to a stop to avoid the flames. Another one wouldn’t be that far behind, capitalizing on the pause Crystal had to make and catching her in a Flame Wheel. Crap… Not where I wanted to be… She had half a mind to burst through it somehow, but that was going to hurt even more than if she just waited it out. But by that time, she might as well have just surrendered to SWIPE in the beginning. And as well, she’d probably lose… She glanced at her clothes and backpack real quick, then shook her head. They’d just have to be sacrificed to the flames, as she went to try and charge through them and make her way out.
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Aile would see the Thunder come down and shake her head. Should have heeded the warning. She doubted her and Tati would feel great if they got hit with that, and Tati was a ground and dragon type. Oh well, this wound up giving her other problems to deal with. That they were going to have to deal with anyways, but a little bit more time would have been nice. Aile would cling close to Dagobah as the first round of Flash Cannon attacks hit around them, and in a couple instances, actually hit their mark. “s**t! Okay… Dega, keep up the path. It might get a little hard to hear, though. Trust me on what we’re doing, please.” She’d reach forward and pet the bear’s head with her left arm, some of the sand of her arm leaving and entering each ear, creating ear plugs for her. At the same time, more sand would go up her own neck and enter the woman’s ears, doing the same.

Once that was done, she would readjust herself on the Ursaluna’s back, turning to face their assailants. “Poggle, come on out! Bug Buzz!” Aile would hold out her left arm for the Nincada to land on, supporting it with her right arm to hold it steady. While she was busy being a mounting platform, Poggle began buzzing his wings faster and faster, producing a horrendous screeching noise in the direction of all the vehicles, growing higher and higher in pitch. Good thing she gave herself and Dagobah those ear plugs.

Splash! Fwoom! There's a loud set of two impacts near Crystal as Darts and Ogerpon burst onto the scene, decidedly running in the opposite direction as everyone else. The Giratina hybrid's wings had flexed, utilizing an expertly timed Aerial Ace to snuff out some of the fire and Ogerpon's aquatic club had doused the rest, the gemstone teardrops glittering in the face of its Wellspring Mask as the duo springs into action covering the rest of Snagem's retreating rear flank. Anyone Dragon-sensitive would sense a massive burst of Outrage coursing through Darts' entire body, his jacket writhing with the change as the muscles in it undulate and flex as the naturally-produced steroid courses through the living fiber and the rest of him.

Despite his and Crystal's ongoing feud he doesn't look twice at her as he reaches the pursuing SWIPE members first of the pair, his leg arcing up above and over her head as his momentum carries him forward in a perfectly executed midair front snap kick into the closest Rapidash rider, azure flames wreathing his leg as he arcs into a backflip. The kick shatters the riot helmet of the SWIPE member, a loud crack and splintering filling the air as it not only sends the rider airborne but also completely stops and changes the Rapidash's momentum, sending it airborne right alongside its trainer with a resounding thud of impact, both bodies flying directly into the path of the nearby Espathra riders. The birds keen unhappily as the impromptu projectile sends a few of them sprawling while forcing the others to change their path.

As Darts arcs into the second half of his backflip, the Stantler riders press on him with a barrage of Zen Headbutts, intending to try and catch him in midair and skewer him with psychic energy and horns while his back is to them, defenseless. Unfortunately for them, he had eighty-seven pounds of angry defense making up for that blindspot.

Ogerpon intercepts the attacks with a Spiky Shield, flowing elegantly in the way much like the tide crashes against the shore. Moans of pain burst out of the Stantler as they crash headlong into the spined barricade, followed by more as the Masked Pokemon launches her counterattack, pirouetting and letting her vines spread wide on either side of herself as she spirals, her Power Whip cutting the legs out from underneath all of the pursuing Big Horn Pokemon and some of the on-foot SWIPE officers that had finally caught up with the mounted platoon.

Collars begin flying towards Darts, once again projected from the launchers the team had seen in the volcano, and the former Ogre of Kitakami is having none of it as she continues her momentum into midair, a blue baton of energy curling into existence in her hand to serve as an effective dismantling tool. Effortlessly, she glides from moment to moment as she swats each and every one down, smashing and splintering the devices before they can so much as attempt to fasten around her trainer again.

"Why you..." An Espathra rider who made it through the flying chaos from the start of the fight pulls up on Ogerpon alongside a full contingent of on-foot officers, batons at the ready to put a hurting on her. The Espathra's head glows menacingly as it charges a Lumina Crash, intending to drop it on the little Pokemon at the bottom of her descent near the ground where she was helpless.

There's another blindingly powerful burst of Outrage as Darts cocks his arms back and then takes what looks like one instantaneous step through the entirety of them, his arms wreathed again in azure flames. The Espathra stops its charge, mouth open in a silent scream for just a moment before it and the rest of the group collapses in a heap, deep slash wounds criss-crossing their bodies and splintering their armor as the gambler hews through all of them in a single blinding moment with Dragon Claw.

He turns back as Ogerpon lands at his feet with a satisfied nod, shouldering her club as they pivot back towards Crystal, Monique, and Brian, the decimated remains of the pursuing rear guard of SWIPE littering the ground around them as they had, between the two of them, completely ran off or eliminated this entire SWIPE contingent.

Under normal circumstances he would have probably dropped a Shadow Force into the fight and save some Outrage usage, but he heeded Sub's warning. Only bad things were bound to happen to those who ignored such a prompt. "C'mon, let's get out of here." He says to Ogerpon and Crystal as they now have free reign to catch up with rest of the pack - Monique and Brian having a bit of a head start. Outrage burns in his leg muscles he begins to pick up the pace, his strides speeding up faster and faster. Being a Psychic-type Crystal would be able to see the telltale signs of Calm Mind being used around his glittering skull, Darts' most recent acquisition allowing him to push the boundaries of his powers further and further without losing control. "Before someone who can actually fight shows up." The masked Pokemon hops on his shoulder, involuntarily switching to the Cornerstone visage with joy as the gambler can easily handle her weight now, and the pair rocket off to try and meet up with the rest of the team moving into the next Route.

Crystal had gotten close to the fire and had brought her arm up when some of the fire had suddenly dissipated on one side with the Aerial Ace, the rest of it ceasing to exist soon after with Ogerpon's attack. She had skidded to another stop again in surprise, briefly expecting it to be more SWIPE until she saw the ones who cleared it all. The hybrid would spin around as they went past her, mildly confused until she started to witness the absolute beating the pair were giving. It wasn't even close for the rank and file agents. And it was all well coordinated, too, the pair working great and all in sync. Looking down at one of her own hands for a moment, she considered what she was witnessing, her ears practically wilting as Crystal realized that while yes, she already assumed Darts would win any potential fight they might have had, she didn't realize just how one sided it would be. Light, she would have been a punching bag at that point. How did she even think-



"Ah, r-right." Darts speaking to her and his ward snapped Crystal out of her thoughts, the woman shaking her head and following after the duo. She did notice the amount of Outrage he was using, was still using, but also she could pick up on the Calm Mind that was being channeled as well. That was how he was keeping it all up. She also noticed that she was beginning to lag behind again. Well, if she could use it for punches, she could probably use it for other things, too. Her eyes would begin to glow brighter as she drew on her own psychic capabilities, putting extra force into her legs running capabilities.

Kess darted her gaze towards Tristen atop his Zebstrika as her Thunderbolt bent towards the boy and became absorbed by his mount. The mercenary was quick in realizing what this meant as she spun around on her heel to see who else would be in tow and was glad she did as she immediately spotted the three avian hybrids. Her eyes going wide as the attacks charged, the woman originally intending to charge electricity in her right hand to zap them all where they stood however her hybrid senses would trip as she could feel the Psychic energies of Freth well up. Quickly she brought instead her left arm up in front of chest and manifested in front of her forearm a flat disc of pink Psychic energy, in that moment succumbing to Freth’s psychic restraint. The woman would mentally brace herself as the Ice Beam and Flamethrower combo closed in on her, Kess having placed her Light Screen in front of them. The two attacks would prove to be volatile on impact resulting in an explosion of hot steam, a white cloud of vapor quickly engulfing Kess. A good hit it looked like, even if she mitigated some damage with Light Screen it had to hurt.

The three avian Snagems wasted no time and ran past the cloud of lingering vapor which Kess dwelled within, the Zapdos hybrid reeling from their assault.

The other Snagems, one by one, would cross the city limits of Rustboro city, finding the paved road giving way to the dirt one of Route 116. The local Pokemon would flee from the sudden ruckus, Taillow taking to the skies while packs of Poochyena fled yelping. Even the few trainers on the route would be startled by the flight of the Snagems with a Youngster hiding behind a tree and a Bug Catcher jumping into some tall grass, their battle interrupted. The Snagems furthest ahead would make it as far as the Tunnelers Rest House before trouble reared its head again as SWIPE agents on the backs of Braviary came swooping down at them, ordering several Sigilyph to halt their advance by generating nearly invisible walls of Reflect in their path while the Braviary themselves whipped up gusts Whirlwinds with the intention of tripping them up to guarantee a quick meeting with said walls. These walls were very difficult to see, the faintest of shimmers signifying their presence, however the growing darkness of the coming night helped hide even that. They were placed in front of Keiko, Deo, Amaranth and Lykas as these four took the lead, those Snagems at risk of running head first into the mostly invisible walls. Tristen would be not far behind them, just back enough to see any of them hit the walls, if they did, and avoid them himself.

Those a little slower would be presented by another threat as numerous Electrode came violently rolling onto the route from the surrounding forest, Magneton flying shortly behind. The Electrode would attempt to use their speed to rush towards the Snagems, giving off a crackle of electricity as they did, the Snagems no doubt thinking they were going to close in and self-destruct. While it did look that way the Electrode did not have such a command, instead they would get as close as they could to the Snagems, even if it was just passing by, and unleash waves of Eerie Impulses on them. The immediate effect of the impulse was largely felt on Pokemon and hybrids, feeling their ‘fighting spirit’ sapped from them as their Special Attack was dropped, however there was another effect. The Magneton would swoop in as close as they could next and attempt to reach out with their magnetism, the Snagems finding themselves now magnetic and being pulled towards the Magneton as they attempted to apprehend the Snagems. It had a greater effect on anything already magnetic. Those targeted by this ambush included Reno, Brian, Rachel, Aile, and Odd.

The slowest were presented with the gravest of threats however. While they could still hear the sirens and uproar from the city that was the least of their concerns in that moment as a SWIPE vehicle came suddenly flying at the Onix carrying three Snagems on its back, Crystal, Tsuki, Monique, Amber, Cera, Sol, Freth, and Blizzard all in visual range of seeing the flying vehicle, and hopefully one could stop it. The thrower would be made apparent before they themselves became visible as Type: Null came running onto the scene not far behind, the Pokemon leaping into the air and sending three different colored beams flying towards Cera as it executed a Tri Attack. The savage beast of the Pokemon positioned and timed its leap and attack so perfectly that it came down directly upon Tsuki’s Coffee, attempting to slash its ghostly appendages out from underneath it with a Shadow Claw.

Sol, Freth and Blizzard wouldn’t have much time to consider this new arrival as Kess made herself known again, rushing angrily towards them with a burst of Agility. Wielding a former stop sign she chucked it at Blizzard like a spear, the metal object imbued with electricity, the thing crackling fiercely. The intention of course was to hit Blizzard with it but she was not likely to get a clean hit, the best bet was it passed by him close enough to deliver a shock from the contained electricity. Regardless, the stop sign would end its journey by stabbing into the soil between the other two avian Snagems. A small bolt of electricity would crash into the stop sign and now Kess was standing right next to them, the Zapdos hybrid attempting to punch Freth in the stomach and kick Sol in the side. Kess used Volt Switch.

Finally the true threat showed its form casually walking onto Route 116, about a minute or two after the vehicle was thrown, and observed the fighting. Agent WHITE was here. He would glance towards Monique for a moment, the woman having difficulty in deducing if he was staring at her or not thanks in part to his lack of visible eyes; however she could physically feel his gaze upon her, as if he was visually dissecting her. Deciding he was uninterested in Monique he turned his focus to Crystal instead WHITE would extend his hand towards Crystal, giving off a faint pink glow which quickly surrounded Crystal too. Immediately Crystal would feel similar to how she felt with the collar on, though not to the same degree. She felt spiritually ‘grounded’ and dulled, WHITE having somehow disconnected her from Ultra Space, earthbound her with a simple wave of his hand. If she tried to open a wormhole or any kind she would find she could not. Startling as it was, it didn't actively harm her, instead that would come next as WHITE bent down to pick up a Pokeball sized rock and beamed it at Crystal with the speed of a bullet, aiming for her right leg. Good thing she was a Steel type? Maybe?

Amber would find herself near Agent WHITE, still invisible, Monique near as well. The girls could keep running or help out their feminine friend being attacked. Darts and Cera would be the last to show up on Route 116 to see the chaos unfolding, however the sound of a column of SWIPE vehicles, ground and air, was getting louder and louder behind them. The enemy’s cavalry were coming and quick, soon this route would be swarming with SWIPE agents. This was not the time and place for drawn out fights, in fact that’s exactly what SWIPE wanted.

As Freth and I rushed forward, bolting down the path with our respective Agility abilities to blaze a trail through the city and start making our way onto route 116. The two of us in particular was hell bent to make it out of the city and start getting out into Route 116 where we could find our ways into more ‘reliable’ cover like underbrush and the likes. However, getting there was not going to be any extent easy as SWIPE would quickly show its recklessness in trying to apprehend the likes of all of us by broadsiding a Onix with one of their vehicles. “Blast it! The hell are they trying to do!?” I shouted to no one in particular.

“Blizzard!” Freth shouted, perking up and feeling something coming full speed right at me. The two of us would split apart, but the electrical sparks would manage to sear me a fair bit and stagger me for a second. In that instant, as the sign plants into the ground, Freth tried to look back to get ready to fight Kess in order to run away only for the Zapdos hybrid to have disappeared…and reappear right next to her. She’d quickly try to get her guard up, but it wasn’t enough to cushion the blow that went right into her. She’d gasp out, staggering back herself, enough to jar her out of her mental concentration to stay hovered and her feet touched ground. We didn’t have time to think. She was well on our case in spite of trying to put her out of the running immediately.

I would quickly rush in with my own Agility to smash a kick into her in retaliation. Freth would kick back, floating back some then reached out with her psychic power to pull the stop sign out of the ground while I would try to keep Kess off the others’ case for at least a couple of second. She’d separate the sign itself and the pole it was attached on, the screws snap off the pole from the psychic stress that it underwent. Out the corner of my eye, I’d see what Freth was planning and quickly instead of firing an Ice beam right at center mass, I would quickly fire it towards Kess’s feet to perhaps freeze her down in place. I had to admit it was a hasty shot because then quickly disappeared with Agility, not wanting to get caught up in Freth’s attempt in subduing Kess by first tossing the sign as a fast-spinning octagon frisbee towards the Zapdos hybrid. And following that, she would give the rail a hard toss, but instead of impaling the Zapdos hybrid, it would be out to restrain her, wrapping the metal pole around her and constrict her as if a Ekans.

“Sorry, Kess, but we got stuff to figure out that you guys apparently refuse to and you’re in the way.” Freth said.

“Freth, lets go!” I shouted. Regardless if Freth succeeded or not, she would quickly turn around and dart off, quickly speeding off with her own Agility, fueled by her psychic power.

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Meanwhile, further up on the massive race to the cavern, Tristen and Zebstrika managed to stay relatively clear of the other SWIPE operatives with the sheer speed the Zebstrika had, but then took notice to the SWIPE operatives making their way through the skies. He went completely wide-eyed, unbelieving that they managed to catch up as they did as fast as they were going. And the Sigilyph that was putting up obstructions in the way was not going to end well either. “Zebstrika! Hold it!” Zebstrika would try to make the emergency stop, his hooves skidding in the dirt hard, electrical sparks flying all over the place, and hard ruts started to dig in the ground a short ways before the Zebstrika would finally managed to stop. Zebstrika winced a bit and ‘briefly’ danced from the harsh stop. Tristen looked forward, and around, staring in confusion. If he didn’t know better, SWIPE members were actually ready here. Did they actually predict that they’d run off in this direction? How? Sub literally just gave the command out of the blue and communications to the outside was cut off. The only way they would know to do this was if someone knew that Sub had a panic bunker in that of Trainer Hill. Because otherwise, the Snagems didn’t find out until just before they darted out of Devon’s door they were to head off to Trainer Hill.

Tristen shook his head then looked over. “Zebstrika! That way!” Tristen said. Zebstrika would quickly veer off, needing to get into cover now before he too would get caught up in the onslaught of Reflects and Whirlwind attacks the SWIPE members had. He needed to get the SWIPE operatives off the others’s case while he still could. As Zebstrika ran about, Tristen was looking for his attack of opportunity. He needed to get in the middle of all of that, if only for a second. “Zebstrika! Go!” Zebstrika would then break off then start darting for the chaos of Sigilyph’s reflects and whirlwinds. “Zebstrika! Discharge!” Tristen shouted.

With a hard neigh, Zebstrika unleashed a harsh electrical onslaught to try to catch and effectively fry SWIPE’s Pokémon in its wake, Tristen himself unharmed himself as some of the electricity managed to become apart of Tristen as well thanks to his Lightning Rod. It was a classic hit and run for Tristen, and now, it was tine to run. “GO!” The Zebstrika would then veer off once more and continued darting down the path. If nothing else, as far as Tristen figured, they needed to keep SWIPE separated and in disarray lest they manage to catch everyone.