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Seeing that everyone was about as safe as they could be in the current situation, Bazza wandered over to his dear ponyta Aubergine. Fatigue hit him like a ton of bricks; he hadn't slept a full night, and may have barely slept at all, and he'd just done a whole hell of a lot of moving. Instead of waking her, Bazza decided to lay down and nap, too. He assumed someone would wake him if anything interesting happened.

Well it seem the Joltik have been caught. The excitement of another caught his attention. It must be her pokemon he thought to himself. I wish I had one almost at his wish, it came true, as the flap of wings in the distance and then the bat pokemon flapped its wings before him. "Well hello to you to," he murmured softly to the Zubat. "Are you lost too? want to team up together on this odd little adventure?" The Zubat was silent, yet it suddenly attached itself to his face. "i guess that is a yes," he murmured through the bat pokemon's body.

Somehow or other events had led to a basement full of sleeping pokémon. If this was all a montage by some twisted organization, she could not discern the purpose of it; but the androgynous trainer had an itch to discuss their predicament.

From the looks of things every trainer had pokémon in the room, so Lore had reason to suspect that Potatobi and Donut would also be present. She peered at the resting figures on the ground and with a pang of worry, zeroed in on her Breloom. A careful run between the other slumbering creatures brought her to the grass type's side; she first examined her for injury, and then shook her shoulders urgently. "Hey. Potatobi. Are you ok?"

Potatobi blinked sleepily, but was awake within moments. LORE! "BRELOOM!" she called, overjoyed. Her usually serious façade was broken momentarily as she leapt at her trainer, taking the gray-haired traveler down.

"-Oof! Hehehehe!" The human chuckled, patting her pokémon reassuringly. She would ask what had happened, but really, only psychics could effectively communicate with people about things like that. Or vice versa, if the human was a psychic. "-All right, that's enough for now. We've got to find Donut."

The breloom gave a scrawk of disappointment. "Brel breloom." She muttered disinterestedly. Who cares about that shifty ghost that really did not even take looking for his trainer seriously! She has NO idea how terrible being stuck with him ALONE was. All those pranks when she was in the pits of despair... Thank goodness Lore was back. Seeing her trainer do the same, the grass dinosaur began to look around the room despite her feelings toward her silvery teammate.

Katie felt Oyumi's nudge and jumped up. It didn't do any good to try and look around in this darkness, so she gave up on that idea quickly and followed after her. The scenery beyond the door wasn't particularly interesting to her, as there was nothing here that she recognized. She did, however, spot some wild pokémon - or at least she thought they were wild.

The redhead gave a little jump as the projected thought reached her, but she shook it off. It was Oyumi's business, not hers - she had a goal of her own for the moment. She had no intention of catching a rattata or a zubat - neither were types she was interested in raising - but befriending one seemed like a good idea when trapped somewhere with minimal resources at hand.

Even a temporary pokémon ally was better than nothing.

Flint Harven
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flint had been following on in a relative daze till then, but hearing that people were finding their Pokemon, he immediately scanned the room,looking for his Tauros. A huge bull with one broken horn couldn't be that hard to find. Flint smiled as his eyes fell on the Tauros who seemed to be just waking up. He hurried over and knelt beside the Pokemon, running a hand over his neck. " Rush! its great to see you! i missed you." Rush looked at Flint with indifference, but he obviously cared for Flint if he came here to search.

After waiting for the others in the confused group to go first, Leo followed them up the ladder. Most of them seemed to find their pokemon - or find wild ones, it looked like - but his mind was still foggy. Much too foggy and confused, but it didn't take long for him to spot a familiar-looking black and white lump of fur in the corner that turned out to be his Mightyena, Anjali. But an Umbreon right next to them - a blind one, at that - also caught his attention. It wasn't his, but it didn't seem to belong to anyone else there... was it his too? Suddenly a name popped into his head - a memory that wasn't his - and he frowned slightly. "Ryou," he said, and the blind dark-type responded immediately. Well, that certainly was enough for him, so he stood and signaled to both. "Guess we'd better figure out how to get out of here, huh?" But which way was out? Definitely not in the basement, where they were standing, that was for sure...

The whole trek across rainbow bridges and through stormy winds took its toll on Nyla and she laid down next to her Pokemon to rest for a bit. She might've even taking a micronap, although she didn't want to fall asleep completely. Bad things seem to happen when people go to sleep and she didn't want to chance anything, as ridiculous as it may sound.

But she was as rested as she could ever be and noticed that other people were exploring parts of the manor. Most of the ones that came back had cuts and bruises for their troubles but that didn't deter Nyla from wanting to check things out.

"Come on you two. You can't sleep forever." She shook her Pokemon awake. Daybreak was the first to wake up, stretching herself and yawning like a cat while Era gave a sleepy chirp and ruffled her feathers.

When Angie found her Pokemon in the midst of everybody else, Aero was just waking up while Kale was still snoring softly. She bit her lip, too happy for words, and rubbed Kale's head. Aero opened his eyes and chirped at Angie in confusion and surprise.

"Hi guys. I'm back." She told her Pokemon, and gave Aero a large hug. He stumbled back a bit, but returned the hug clumsily. They were back together, after so long, so to him it was alright if he acted a bit sappy.