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Cody kept close to Banette, following cautiously while still leading the way. He quickly used his TADS device to pop onto Devon Corp's unsecured wifi network. That was the company's first mistake. Regardless of the fact that it was for guests to the company and limited access and restricted permissions to sites, it still ran through the same router and modem as the company's main network, and therefore provided a gateway to what hackers would call 'the other world.'

Very shortly, Cody had pulled up an interactive map based upon GPS satellites that located their position inside the ventilation in comparison to the room with the fossil machine. The group crawled as quietly as possible for several minutes until finally reaching the vent that was directly overhead the lab they needed. Cody raised his finger to his lips, motioning for silence in his group and pulled a pokeball off his belt. The boy counted down from three and busted through the vent, sticking the landing as the group fell into the room.

Cody stepped forward, guarding his team from any harm. "Help us, or face the consequences," the boy called out, and was answered by a pokeball erupting in front of him.
"Magnemite!" the scientist called. "Let's show these guys who's boss!"
Cody grabbed a ball of his own and tossed it. Out popped Darumaka who proceeded to dance in a circle. "Darumaka, Fire Fang!" the boy called. The small red pokemon launched itself at Magnemite, its teeth engulfed in flames, but came up short with its leap and fell to the ground. "I blame this on your ability," Cody said, shaking his head.
"Magnemite, Thundershock!" the scientist called, watching the magnets on the end of his pokemon's body spark a few times before shooting bolts of electricity at Darumaka. The attack hit directly for moderate damage. Cody flinched as the attack hit, illuminating his pokemon's body momentarily. As the electric current died down, the fire type started to dance again, launching itself at Magnemite once more for another Fire Fang, this time sinking its teeth through the steel type's hard body for extra damage.
Magnemite wobbled in the air, barely hanging on to consciousness. It shot a bolt of electricity once more at its foe, but missed by a long shot - its vision obviously blurred by lack of HP. Darumaka danced up to the uneven Magnemite and blasted it up close with a burst of fire, completely engulfing the poor pokemon's body in flames. The scientist panicked, returning the steel type, and shot another pokeball in the direction of his opponent.

Cody returned Darumaka quickly as the new foe came onto the field. A Nosepass - obviously the wrong opponent for a Fire Type. Cody thought hard before grabbing a ball from his belt. He tossed the ball underhand onto the field, and out popped Celeste. The Feebas proceeded to flop around the cold, metal floor helplessly as it took the first attack from Nosepass - a Tackle attack. Celeste shook off the damage and fired back with a Water Pulse, conjuring a burst of water from the atmosphere and firing it at the Ground Type for good damage.
Nosepass groaned in pain as the water struck it hard, but came back with a Thunder Wave, pulling static from the air to slow down the Feebas. Celeste tried to move, but it was no use. The static had her stuck to the floor.
Nosepass came at her again with another Tackle, hitting her just as hard the second time. The fish pokemon struggled to hang on, but utilized the power of her held item, the Mystic Water, to fire off a scalding hot burst of water that ate at Nosepass's HP severely. The pokemon wobbled on its stumpy legs after the attack, finally falling over. Cody returned his pokemon, praising her for a job well done.

Reaper shook his head. 'What happened to silence?' He thought before hopping down and landing beside his two comrades. He listened as Al tried reasoning with them, and then he laughed as one said they had to battle them. "Seriously? You guys got no clue what you're dealing with here." He chuckled before pulling out his Pokeball, only for Snorunt to come out instead and start dancing. "Alright, you're up first." He laughed and put away Poochyena's Pokeball as the Scientist sent out a Horsea.

~Battle Start~

Scientist's Horsea started off the battle by summoning a ball of condensed water energy and launched it at Snorunt in a Water Pulse attack, striking Snorunt and dealing moderate damage while staggering her. "Alright Snorunt, attack with Shadow Ball!" He said as Snorunt hopped in the air, summoned an glob of shadowy energy and shot it at Horsea, striking it hard and knocking it off balance, dealing moderate damage.

Scientist's Horsea then attacked with Swift, shooting multiple homing stars at Snorunt and damaging her slightly, keeping her ground firmly though. "Snorunt, attack again with Shadow Ball." He said as Snorunt repeated her attack by summoning a ghostly glob of energy and hurled it at Horsea, striking hard, but leaving it still able to battle.

Scientist's Horsea attacked once more with a Scald attack, shooting steaming hot water out of it's mouth and making contact with Snorunt, damaging it moderately and burning it in the process. "Hang in there Snorunt and attack with Frost Breath!" He said and Snorunt inhaled deeply and exhaled a strong and very chilly breath, and managing to hit Horsea critically, fainting it. Snorunt took slight burn damage afterwards. The Scientist called back his Horsea and sent out a Kecleon.

"This isn't good, Snorunt attack with Frost Breath again!" He called out as Snorunttook a big deep breath and exhaled a powerful gust of icy wind from itself, striking Kecleon critically but still not dealing very much damage to it and changing the color of itself, symbolizing it's now an Ice Type. The Scientist's Kecleon attacked with a powerful Fire Punch, scorching it's fist and getting close to strike Snorunt, and successfully knocking her unconscious. "It's alright Snorunt you were great. Rest up." He said and returned her to her Pokeball and pulled out a Pokeball and sent out Corphish, who was very eager for battle.

Scientist's Kecleon(Ice) began to move around dizzily, as if it had Amnesia or something, gaining a boost in resisting Special Attacks. "Corphish attack him with Rock Slide!" He said as Corphish punched the ceiling above Kecleon(Ice) and caused it to collapse on the Pokemon, damaging it badly due to being weak to Rock Type attacks, but also changing it to a Rock Type by changing it's color.

Kecleon(Rock) then counter attacked with Dizzy Punch by dancing around in an odd manner and punching Corphish multiple times, inflicting moderate damage to him. "Corphish, let's give him a taste of your Crabhammer attack!" He yelled as Corphish smilled happily and ran over and once his pincer was glowing, he slugged the Kecleon critically and knocking it out from the sheer force of the attack. the Scientist growled and returned his Kecleon and stepped back where the rest of the Scientists were.

~Battle End~

Cody stepped up to the metaphorical plate and handed over the fossil. Watching Allen's fossil from a distance was insane, but he wanted a close-up of the action. To watch all this transpire would blow his mind all over again. The scientist took the fossil and stuck it into the machine. As the piece of metal started to groan and whir, the fossil illuminated and started to change shape, as if it were evolving. The light grew blinding, especially from such a short distance, and Cody had to squint. Through his eyelids, however, he watched what was once a simple rock morph into a full-blown pokemon. Not long after it had reached its pinnacle, the light began to die down. The fossil finished taking its shape, and before Cody stood a brand new pokemon. The boy was speechless, but incredibly excited to test the potential of his new partner. He brought out a pokeball and recalled Lileep for the first time, and returned to his group.

Allen chuckled and nodded to Reaper, "Thanks." He pulled the Pokemon into it's Pokeball.
"Now... G-Get out of here."
"Thank you for your cooperation. they left the room and Allen locked the door, it was the only way to keep them from alerting the guards before they had a chance to escape. Back into the vent, and safely outside and on their way down the street.



Back at base, Allen sighed. at least it was over. He pulled up the Pokeball containing his new Kabuto.

Rewards: Cody received Lileep; Allen received Kabuto; and Reaper received 1200PD for compensation.

Allen entered the main room and took a seat on the couch. He let Seviper out of his ball. "Hey, buddy." The trainer slipped into the floor next to the large snake. "Lemme check you bandages." The pokemon silently rolled to the side and lifted his center slightly, holding his head up off the ground to watch the trainer. "Looks like it's coming along well enough. We'll stop by a center or something in a while." To this the Pokemon nodded, and nudged his trainer. Allen did a double take, Seviper wasn't quite known for his affection, every since Allen had caught him. The Officer smiled and petted the Pokemon a little. "Alright, come on." He returned the Pokemon to his ball for more rest. "Hmm, maybe we could had out on a route and do some training, and on the way back I can stop by the Pokemon Center." Not that the station in Aqua wasn't adequate, he'd just like a nurse to take a look for safety reasons.

"Mm?" Allen hadn't even heard Cody enter the room, "Oh, hey, man!" He grinned, so how about that Lileep?" He grinned, pulling the ball for his Kabuto and letting it out to scuttle around the floor. The curious little thing moved over to a trashcan and knocked it over. "ACK!" The boy ran over to clean up the mess. While he cleaned he spoke up, "So, I was thinking about going out and doing some training with some wild Pokemon, Kabuto needs it and it wouldn't hurt some of my other Pokemon either."