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As Wren walked the empty hallways, he caught sight of something strange. A peculiar humanoid, short in stature but fairly quick. It's proportions seems off, though. Like it's legs and torso were l ge than it's arms and it's head seemed to be larger than it ought to be. "Is that... a person?" He asked Anemone, a sudden spike in his anxiety causing him to fear for their safety all of the sudden. As if the countless unseen Pokemon around them didn't pose enough threat before? The possibility of a human with unknown motives freaked him out.

"Geeeeyem..."

"That's not a human..." Wren decided as the strange voice emanated from the darkness. His every cell told him to avoid it but something pushed him to investigate. Maybe it was a Pokemon nobody had seen before?

"Eeeeeelgeeeeyeeeem..."

Creeping after the spooky figure, Wren would be forced to follow it's silhouette around the building for a bit before he finally cornered
It in an office. When he entered the room, however, he found an open window and nothing inside. Walking over to the window and looking outside, he found nothing to see. "Gyem?!"

Looking up at the sound of the voice, Wren jumped and slammed his head into the window pane above him, knocking himself for a loop and she fell backwards clutching at his aching head. There in the window floated an Elgyem, a Pokemon he had only ever heard stories about. It held it's hand out and the lights and it's fingers flashed in an unusual pattern but to him, they were just pretty lights on an otherwise creepy Pokemon.

"BUG BUZZ!" He finally shouted, pushing himself away with his feet as he did. Something about that Pokemon made him feel uneasy and the in reading pain in his head wasn't helping.

Anemone nodes to her trainer and unleashed a powerful buzzing sound that, while it aggravates Wren's aching brain, dealt a lot more damage to Elgyem. The Cerebral Pokemon clutched it's head and whined for a moment before looking confused that it's Synchronoise had been ineffective. Assuming it's stalkers to somehow be immune to it's Psychic power, the Pokemon turned and fled, floated away before they could pursue it further.

"Make sure it doesn't come back after us, Anemone. Use Swift!" The Combee didn't hesitate to attack, just as creeped out by the Elgyem as her trainer was. Elgyem sensed the attack coming and Teleported away, leaving the beams to strike the Earth on the other side of it.


[Experience Gained: IIIIIIIII---------------- 9.4]

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An Alolan Diglett came up, looking around curiously. Cosmo instantly jumped back to shoot a Shadow Ball without hesitation. "Hehe, see, see. I'm awesome." he said, driving the diglett away.
Veronica petted him, "Yea, there will be more to come." they continued into the dome and entered through the space where the door used to be. "Careful with the glass." Cosmo cared to watch where he stepped.
There was no running electricity but there were a lot of technology items around: countless panels, shattered tvs and pharmaceutical objects. In its days, it would definitely be the kind of place that Veronica would run from. She breathed deeply, trying to push the anxiety away, and smelled how nature had taken over.

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They started to hear a buzzing. A Cutiefly passed by and landed on a nearby tree. Cosmo watched it like a cat and readied himself to pounce on it. Veronica had never seen anything liked it and checked on its pokedex as quietly as she could. "Dark moves won't be very effective." she told Cosmo. He simply jumped scared the Cutiefly however, then used Shadow Ball as the Cutiefly tried to flee but failed.
Then Cosmo used his Roar. "Yea, you better run!" he roared again.
"Let's keep going then. It looks like we can go in a circle and return back to the front door." She determined from a half pieced map kiosk on the floor.
"Oh..." Cosmo looked at the map, wondering how Veronica figured that out. It hurt his head to think about it but he kept staring at the map trying to make sense of it. "Ok, yea." he finally said at last and caught up with Veronica.

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Veronica tripped over something. "Ow, what was that?" she thought it had moved. And it had. It was another Alolan Diglett. "These things are everywhere." she complained and got back up.
"I got this! Runts!" he said and started shooting Shadow Balls, taking on a few ground hits himself.
"You all right?" Veronica asked.
"Yea, I'm fine, it didn't hurt a lot." Cosmo continued to lead the way.
"You would think we're half way around this place by now." Veronica spoke up.
"How do you know?" Cosmo was really curious about how she just knew things.
"After you experience so many thing, you get a second sense for that sort of things." She tried to explain.
"I lived in the White Forest all my life, it was nothing like these... buildings you people make."
"I see... how do you feel about that?" Veronica asked.
"About what?"
"Do you want to go back to your home?" She asked.
"...No. I'm having fun with you!" he said. "It felt like forever when I got caught. But now I can talk!" he seemed to jump through a lot of points at once.

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Ahead, there was another pokemon Veronica had never seen: Morelull. It didn't look particularly strong. "It's another grass and fairy type. You know what to do."
"Right... No dark moves!" He used Shadow Ball instead. Even though he had gone through a few battles, he was still fairly strong and holding his own, and very hyper.
"Good, you're getting the hang of it." Veronica and Cosmo kept walking.
In this area, the dome was open, the sunlight was shining directly on them. A few Ledybas hummed by, there were noises of other pokemon in the distance and the wind was howling. "I guess the sun is starting to set."
"Yea, it'll be dinner time soon!" he snickered.
"You know," Veronica spoke up, "Maybe we can pull a few pranks here and there together." she smirked. "Well, I bet you know how to use your Illusion ability better than I do. Can you talk in your illusion now?" she wanted to confirm.
"Oh, I think so." he used it to make a clone of Veronica for a moment. "See? Eh? That sounds funny." His voice was a mix of his own and hers.
"Well, I guess it has its drawbacks." Veronica laughed at him. "It's really weird seeing... myself though..." she said.
"It's not weird to me, I see you all the time." Cosmo said, making Veronica want to facepalm.

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A Hoothoot flew by and targetted Cosmo right away. "You again?" he said.
I wonder how he knows that. Veronica hoped to one day have such pokemon abilities as a hybrid. Cosmo kept trying to shoot out Shadow Balls but missed several as the Hoothoot flew around.
He whined. "V! It won't leave!" He used Night Daze to hit a critical hit. "...Nevermind."
Veronica kept following. "Why V?" she asked.
"Because..." his head dropped in thought. "Veronica is too long!" he announced.
"Right... Aren't you tired?" Surely, his health was at least down by half now.
"Not yet!!" he ran forward. Noouu... don't make me run! Veronica sighed.

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Cosmo ran straight into a Lunatone. "Watch out, that one might be stronger!" Veronica shouted from far behind. The Lunatone first responded with an attack that had no effect on the Zorua. Maybe it wasn't used to seeing dark types around. Cosmo used his Shadow Balls as he jumped back. The Lunatone tried to use Magic Room but Cosmo was the master of illusions and it didn't slow him down. He used Night Daze twice as he took on a Tackle in between his attacks.
"See, I did it." he said, taking heavy breaths.
"We can take a short break. We should be out soon anyways, and then it's the track walk back." she said. They sat on the floor, Veronica was thankful Cosmo would agree to rest. To say the least, her stamina Had increased since her change into a hybrid.
"How did you become an animal?" Cosmo asked. Veronica crunched up her face in slight confusion and smirked at his question.
"If you ask me that, I'd have a very different answer than if you'd ask how I became part pokemon..." Her smirk turned into a smile. "So which is it?"
"What's the difference?" he asked.
"An animal can almost mean uncivilized or wild... or crazy." she answered.