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The Force Palm to the jaw would cause Aerodactyl's head to reel back into the air and the dinosaur to stumble off and away from Lu. The beast would attempt to reorient itself after taking the powerful blow but it was too late, its defeat was rapidly closing in on it in the form of the early Aura Sphere. "Look out!" The grunt cried out in vain right before the Aura Sphere slammed into the Pokemon's back, the Aerodactyl letting out a pained cry to the heavens for but a second and then suddenly went silently as it fell to the ground motionlessly. Aerodactyl was knocked out.

"N-no! Darn it!" The grunt protested as he recalled his Pokemon, snarling at Brian. "This isn't over! He who controls the past controls the future! You'll regret getting on Eolith's downside!" The man said before a Baltoy teleported in and teleported them both away to who knows where. Didn't matter where he went, as long as he was off the island.

With that grunt taken care of Brian no doubt got the idea to first check up on the Chimchar, seeing they were all fine as some of them began to pop their heads out of the trees now that the fighting was over, the one on Brian removing its head from underneath his shirt and cooing, shivering slightly. They all were okay, but what about Riley? He just went into the mines to check out that explosion, who knows what he was dealing with down there.

Brian would venture into the mines and as made his way through he would find the people who were there on their first pass through were now gone. Brian would make it a good ways in before he heard another explosion go off, the entire mine shaking, small pieces of rock raining down on him. This wasn't good, he needed to see what the source of these explosions were and put a stop to it. The first step in doing in that was to find Riley, which if these explosions were still going off that meant he had yet to succeed in stopping whoever was causing them. That said, where was Riley? Brian couldn't see which way they went, the explosions had covered up any unlikely footprints and this mine was big. Was there any way he could discern which way Riley went?

The aura traces, however barely noticeable to Brian and disappearing at points, would lead Brian across the mine and down a flight of stairs before he finally came up to some sort of evidence as to where Riley was as he came upon an opening in a cave wall being guarded by a Team Eolith grunt and their Bastiodon. "Stop right there!" The lady grunt called out. "I have strict orders that no one is suppose to go inside! That means you. No go, the dig site is to not be disturbed." The grunt said, her Bastiodon snorting as it stood in the entrance to whatever was behind her. Whether Riley was in there or not was irrelevant, there was something in there these thugs wanted and whatever it was Brian couldn't let them get their hands on it.

The grunt's eye went wide as the Lucario began to charge up its Aura Sphere, instantly recognizing the attack but there was no time to do anything to avoid it, however there was time to make it pay for what it was about to do. "Use Metal Burst!" The grunt cried out.

In that same moment as the Aura Sphere was fired off and slammed into the Bastiodon for massive damage, the dinosaur letting out a pained roar as it stumbled back a step, its head would also begin to glow silver. It was when Lu came charging in to get close with Quick Attack, preparing for a Bone Rush assault, did Bastiodon unleash a massive burst of silvery energy, fueled by the incredible damage it suffered from the Aura Sphere, sending that same damage back at Lu at twice the severity and putting to bed any idea of hitting it with Bone Rush in that moment as no doubt Lu took a heavy hit. Like Counter and Mirror Coat Metal Burst bypassed any resistances.

"Ha! How do you like that!? Don't underestimate your Pokemon elders!" The woman said, getting cocky after getting a hit in even though her Bastiodon was looking like it would just take a single punch to put it down for the count, that Aura Sphere did a big number on it. "I suggest you leave before you too become history."

Down went Bastiodon, much to the disappointment of the Eolith grunt. With a grinding of her teeth the woman would recall her Pokemon, tucking the ball away as a Baltoy appeared beside her. "Bah! Whatever! You won't beat the boss anyways! This place will become your grave and a future escalation site of your bones! Let's get out of here, Baltoy!" The woman taunted Brian before the Baltoy teleported themselves away. With the grunt and Bastiodon gone the entrance was free and clear for Brian to pass through and get into the area of the cave system she was guarding.

"Tch...I can't believe this..." Riley grunted, looking worse for wear as he was down on one knee besides his knocked out Lucario, the man trying to help the Pokemon up but it was no good. Surrounding the man were three grunts, two with a Claydol and one with a Cofagrigus, the trio apparently having gained up on Riley. Beyond the trio on the other side of the cave was a man that wore an outfit similar to the grunts but was more sleek and suit-like with the Eolith symbol being small and off the side of the chest. Was this some sort of Eolith admin?

"It's over, mister Riley. We don't wish to harm you nor your Pokemon any further so please tell us where the ruins lie. Otherwise we'll be forced to keep...excavating...the island until we found them ourselves." The man said to Riley as he polished his round spectacles before putting them back on.

"Excavating!? You're just blasting holes everywhere! If you keep this up the entire island will collapse in on itself!" Riley shouted at him. "Besides, I'll never tell you where the ruins are, not if this is how you treat history."

"Tch...what a difficult man." The admin said with a sigh. "Very well then. Time to teach you another lesson...do it." He said to the Cofagrigus wielding grunt who nodded before turning to his Pokemon, commanding the Pokemon to lash out with its four arms, the ghostly appendages wrapping around Riley quickly as its coffin body began to open, no doubt intending to pull inside while he was helpless to stop it.