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"I haven't got any idea who took your blasted mask." Odd retorted to the strange mask-obsessed man before turning to Keiko. "What are you doing here, Keiko? You get lost or something? You're not dead, right?" He asked the girl, unsure if he was still in the Otherworld or if he'd made it back to the Land Above already. Keiko's presence made him wonder even more now.

"Wait a second..." Looking at the odd flower further and poking at it, Cera looked back to Darts. "Wonder if you can use this. I mean, it's a plant, and you're kinda small and plant-like now..."

She saw the letters appear before her too, but before she could try to sort it out, she saw that they had swirled around to unscramble itself before disappearing. Inner Focus...? She really wasn't sure what it meant.

Reno would yelp as he soon found himself high in the air, only able to desperately swim through the air towards the platform they had been looking towards. He hoped he could make it, and then hopefully end up on one of the switches.

Cera's tackle would actually prove useful as it moved Reno just enough to cause him to land on the next platform, however very close to the edge. He might have a heart attack but he was safe.

What the crap?! Before Odd could even get an answer out of Keiko, he was shoved into a portal alongside her and, what was that guy's name again? Allen? Where had he even come from?

On the other side of the portal, his first view of the world around him was a bright red glow coming from....well...everywhere. Blinking a few times to clear his vision from the sudden onslaught of light on this side of the empty void, he slowly began to make out his surroundings. Lava. Lava everywhere! "Oh dear Gods...." He groaned as he saw the molten stone around him, followed by the floating island with the fire-encircled chest. "I get the feeling we need to get over to that....." He said to himself more than anyone else.

It was at this point that he took notice of Keiko and Allen. He hadn't realized it at first but Allen was definitely not himself. "I thought you were a channeler? When did you become a hybrid?" He asked plainly. And Keiko was suddenly tiny. And winged. What the hell?

"Ok....So..." And now he noticed himself. "I don't like red....it clashes with my eyes. And my hair...." He said as he pulled at the strange crimson tunic he seemed to have been stuffed into without his consent. Of course he was lying, given that his usual sleeveless trench coat was bright red. "Anyway,....Um....Maybe we should try and get to that ch-" Cue the screeching. The flaming Zubats most definitely qualified as strange in his book but that meant very little at the moment since they were attacking. "OK....I've had enough of this." He said as he called out Entr'Acte once more. "Night Slash!" He'd shout as he swung his sword masterfully, cutting a black swathe through the air with the Darkness-imbued Pokemon.

"Yeah, dude I'm a Poison channeler. Did Rein put something, uh, ya know. In the coffee?" Allen asked, too dazed from not being human to notice the change in scenery, before the flaming Zubats swarmed them. Target them! The boy curled up in a ball to avoid being bit and began to literally roll on instinct, for now in a circle to beat off the Zubats in him. What was happening? Were they on some trip! Why did the creepy man look like he was about to say that he was going to make Kanto great again? Once the Fire Zubats learned their lesson Allen stopped rolling. A tasty rock was in front of him.

Naturally he started eating it.

Keiko didn't realize that she knew these things yet as she was a bit preoccupied with floating around and learning how her new tiny body worked. She even saw the chest and tried to fly over the boulders to open it, but couldn't get close due to the ring of fire. Too much heat.

It was when she floated black to Odd and Allen and started to ask them what they though they should do when she caught Allen shoving thick chunks of rock in his mouth that inspiration found Her target.

"Hey, Allen. If you roll up into a ball, you should be able to destroy all these rocks easily!" Keiko told him, although the crunch of the rocks might've made it hard for him to hear her.