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Leslie would peer around the room, climbing on top of Kain in an effort to find a way out. As she did, she saw the Durant pierce the top of the room and Kaya fall into place next to them. Doing her best to focus on tracking down a door, she would discover one at the end of the room that laid through the throng of people. Pointing it out to Kain, she hoped he would try and open the door for an obvious escape route. As she sat on his shoulders, she found a collection of pokeballs simply sitting where no one could normally see or feel them. It appeared Kain still possessed his Pokemon, with the Rockets being too lazy to take them away and save themselves an issue.

Chaos, Toren and anyone else who nominated to wait outside the Game Corner would soon find themselves on a new route as a few random shoves sent the lot of them stumbling towards the hole the Durant had tunneled. If they fell in, they would be left with only one good option to save the people: open the main door and venture through to a normal entrance.

As Allen ventured through the complex, a few snickers could be heard from a side room. Inside of that room, a few of the Rockets would be sitting around a table and laughing over a view screen. "Looks like we have those odd assailants as part of our delivery of people. Guess it shouldn't surprise me they stumbled in so easily, they aren't exactly the most creatively minded." The leader of the rowdy bunch bellowed, laughing loudly after his statement. If Allen followed the hallway after this oddity of a boast, he would find a long winding path that would eventually lead to a door, the door that just so happened to be the entrance to the warehouse holding the people.

It would take more than some random stranger's shoving to get Chaos to even lose his balance, but when Toren fell in and called out for him, Chaos reached back and presented a certain finger to whoever might be present before jumping into the tunnel of his own volition.

Chaos would land a few inches away from Toren and dust himself off.

"Rocket? What kind of ~/~ name is THAT for an organization!? What are you, a bunch of ~/~ pirates from space or some ~/~!?"

Chaos's attempts to make sense of the home team's chosen name fell on deaf, zombified ears as the puppets called out their Pokemon and a Gloom faced Chaos, ready to feast upon the Chi of whichever Pokemon he called out.

He was only amused by his opponent, however. He brought out his Charmeleon, Ragebearer, who immediately gave his master a sour look.

"Don't give me that ~/~," Chaos retorted. "After that ~/~ you pulled in Goldie, you got some shaping up to do. Now, light this ~/~ up so we can get a better look at these 'Rocket' ~/~."

Rage's objection was halted due to the tiniest sap on his chi, due to Gloom's Mega Drain. Upon realizing the source of his lost energy, Rage put his quarrel with his master aside and did as he was told, launching a Flamethrower at his enemy.

The fire engulfing Gloom's body lit up the room, allowing Chaos and Toren to see what they were facing. Chaos didn't actually care, however, as the real reason for the light show was to help him see the battle better, even though Ragebearer's tail produced enough light for him.

Gloom was quick to respond with a Sludge Bomb, but Rage wasn't having that. He kept the Flamethrower going, changing his focus from the Gloom to the sludge so as to burn it away. This gave Gloom the opportunity to snuff out the flames on its body and prepare its next attack, Petal Dance. It was denied this attack as as spinning vortex of fire engulfed it, via Rage's Fire Spin. The Gloom was recalled shortly after, replaced with an undamaged Marowak.

Chaos reached for Rage's Pokeball but didn't grasp it just yet. "What do you think?" he asked, eliciting a roar from his Charmeleon. He relaxed and brought his hand forward. Before he could issue an attack, however, Ragebearer lunnged into the fray with Metal Claw, only to receive a Bonemerang to the face.

Rage hit the ground and slid, stopping inches away from his master. "This is what I'm talking about," Chaos said as he helped Rage to his feet. "I know I let you do your own thing sometimes, but that's when I know you can handle it. But there's some fights you and I got to work together to get through, else this ~/~ happens. If you feel me, then show this ~/~ we mean business."

The move Chaos requested though the innuendo he uses at times with his Pokemon was one that Rage never used of his own volition, and though Chaos drilled him with its use, Chaos rarely asked him to use it either. So when Rage shot his Scary Face at the Marowak, the Charmeleon was unsure how effective it would be,

Nevertheless, Chaos had drilled Rage in its use enough that the technique proved effective against Marowak, shaking the Ground-type and reducing its speed. It's because of this that Rage was able to see Marowak readying its bone weapon for another attack and bellow out a counter with Smokescreen.

Chaos didn't have time to comment on the sweet counter, however, as Marowak's attack wasn't aimed at Rage, but rather the ground itself. Marowak's Earthquake shook the entire room, and Rage was on his back before the shaking stopped, his tailfire reduced significantly.

"Good comeback with that Smokescreen. You still got some fight in ya?" Chaos asked before Rage rose to his feet. "Good. You should be able to get him with Metal Claw now, but if he counters, show him why I named you Ragebearer."

Rage ran into the smoke, waiting to run into Marowak before swinging at it to ensure accuracy with Metal Claw. The attack struck true, but Chaos had guessed it right - there was a reversal waiting, and Rage felt it when Marowak grabbed his arm and tossed him up into the air with Fling.

Much of the smoke cleared out when Rage began his descent, this due to his Dragon Rage being used to both cushion his landing as well as further damaging Marowak. There was little smoke when the Charmeleon landed feet first on his fallen enemy's stomach.

Ragebearer's body began to shine and emit a bright light, but this was halted when Chaos recalled his Charmeleon. "Sorry, Rage, but we're going to work out the kinks in our little morale issue while I'm still bigger than you."

The backlash from the downed zombies, combined with a few casualties from the attacks that swung wide, lead to a screech echoing over the intercom system. This sudden noise would down the Rocket approaching Allan due to a slightly sensitive hearing aid. The screech would die off from the electronic systems but a slight echo came from the Game Corner drop down. "You stupid brats had to just try and actually fight back against the innocents I brainwashed for free recruits and labor. Why the hell did you do that anyways? I thought you stupid hero types had this code against harming the innocent?" A distinctly female voice now echoed out, cutting off abruptly after finishing her part sentence that she had almost spewed out in anger. "What the hell happened to the voice changer that should be assisting me, Smarts?" The voice now coldly echoed out with a cold rage to replace the heated passion of before.

"That was me. Thank you for leaving the access wide open to me from your own little psychic control. If the little girl you so carelessly decided to brainwash hadn't had her Pokeballs to try and club the strange top hat wearing ape, I wouldn't have my insider to connect to your system." A familiarly snide voice echoed out over the intercom, taunting the strange woman who remained I identified for the moment. Looking over to where Leslie was, one would find an open Pokeball in her hand, poised to continue clubbing Kain without abandon. A slight electronic screech would sound off to identify the insider in the system as Church. "I believe not identifying yourself was a goal, Church. But thanks to the slight disruption in the Psychic field, I managed to get a friend inside. Time to get to work, Teleport slave." Materializing in the middle of the room was the Claydol with a new passenger on top, characterized by the red hair on his head. Looking around with wide eyes and none of his usual equipment, Reno slowly raised his hand before asking, with all of his skillful charisma, "Why tha hell am I now in 'ere instead of trying to figure out that weird field surrounding the place?"

There would be no time for questioning his own odd appearance before Reno and everyone contained within the room teleported away from the ruined plot of the group in Celadon....by appearing in front of the Game Corner. Scratching his head in confusion over why the blocker had returned on such a small scale, a more accurate answer blasted the doors off of the Game Corner and stared down the group. It would appear the obvious plant up in the counter had been slightly higher up the food chain than was first seen. "Now then, it's time to for you all to die like the rats you are." The mysterious cashier lady roared out, a psychic shockwave erupting to flip a few people onto their feet. Well, she was also a Psychic chi channeler too, just freakin' perfect. Hopefully her channeling Pokemon was able to be located swiftly or there might be major issues.

Feeling her reserves draining almost to bare minimum from her sudden outburst, the woman looked to the knocked over men and women around her before beginning to sprint out of the area, showing off a much more physically able person than the average channeler. "Glad to see you people decided to rush toy our feet and pursue here, I mean it's not like we might want information from her." The snarkier tone in GRAY's voice would ring out of the SNAGs in the area, the AI likely just giving up on any of the members getting up to pursue. Reno would have nominated himself as the first man to chase after, if he hadn't gotten his ride now jammed on top of him and unmoving. Leslie was still slumped over, unable to do anything beyond snore and recover from the mental control.

Barreling straight through the ghostly woman she could not really see until the last minute. Continuing with her mad sprint without even missing a step, the woman found her next obstacle to be a hybrid with a Gardevoir walking along close to them. Taking the quickest method past, the woman quickly went into a feet first dive, lashing out with a kick at the Hybrid's crotch before sliding through the pair of legs attached to where the kick was aimed. Quickly boosting herself back onto her feet, the mystery woman simply continued running towards the swarm of people in front of her. Finding no way to slip past the last group, the woman ground to a halt before looking to her pockets. Throwing out a Pokeball and dissipating without a single word, the woman appeared a few feet behind Odd and Kaya before continuing her sprint out of town with a Pokemon hidden in her arms. If they had been expecting her to violently respond, the group might have had a chance but luck and a few low blows would allow her to do this series of ducks and weaves. Performing one final teleport, the Psychic channeler would disappear from the area and the Snagem's reach.