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s**t s**t s**t s**t s**t!

Nikki quickly fumbled with her Pokeballs and recalled Yuushi quickly. She would be of little use here. Instead she tossed another pokeball, which held her strongest Pokemon.

A large Pidgeot then emerged, spreading his wings and screaming a challenge at Ho-oh as he stepped protectively in front of his trainer.

"DARKFEATHER HYPER BEAM!" the blonde agent screamed.

He didn't need to be told twice. His feathers rose as a ball of energy grew in his parted beak. A couple moments later a powerful beam of energy lanced out at Ho-oh with all the ferocity the Pidgeot could muster.

Ok, it seems like everyone was throwing rocks and firing their lasers and what now. And there was no way in hell that he was going to run while the others were fighting.

"Seance! Shadow Claw! Brick! Body Slam! Tiamat! Surf!" Leonard released the other two Pokemon from their Pokeballs while the Banette charged forward to attack. He should know better than to tell his Feraligatr to Surf, especially since what happened in the tunnel. But it was either getting wet or getting burned to a crisp.

The rather sudden appearance of a Pidgeot right in front of Damon caused him to abruptly throw himself backwards. He'd met one Pokemon of that particular evolutionary line in his life, and the meeting with Pidge had virtually cemented a deep-rooted terror for the line in his mind. Pidgey were obviously crazed Pokemon just waiting to attack you at the turn of a hat, their evolutions had to be worse.

The fact that the bird Pokemon had just used an exceptionally powerful Hyper Beam right in front of him did nothing to soothe his fear of it.

It was times like these where he felt distinctly useless. With no Pokemon that could attack from a distance, the only thing he could do was try to salvage their work on the net. And hope the Ho-Oh didn't spot him and dive to attack him. That would certainly be unpleasant...

Nyx pulled two pokeballs off of her belt and aimed them to be released on the edge. The two balls opened and the flashes of white light materialized on and over the ledge with the nest, one forming the Raichu from earlier and the other the blue mew. "Darwin, Metronome, Tesla, Thunderbolt!"

The Mew blinked at the giant bird and then at his trainer, and then floated upside down for a moment before righting himself and waving his paws back and forth as they started to glow. After a moment, his tail dripped some sort of purple goo, and he darted at the Ho-Oh, intent on attacking it with the metronome fueled Poison Tail.

Tesla looked at Nyx, who was further away and still riding with Hayes on his Pidgeot, like she was crazy. What? Attack that? Did she want him to die? Why did she ask him to do terrible scary things? "Chuuu..." Tesla complained and looked for someplace to run, but finding no way off of the ledge, whined again, louder, and launched a bolt of electricity at the flying legendary.

The blonde agent glanced at Faleen and blinked, then nodded. "Go for it!" That was pure genius!

Nikki then watched the Ho-oh, for she knew better than to assume it was fleeing. She caught sight of the glow in the smoke, and her eyes widened. She knew that attack.

"LOOK OUT!" She shouted to the others before hitting the dirt, ignoring the scrapes she earned in the process. This was going to be something fierce.

The cry from Ho-oh summoned two other Pokemon from the lava. The two Charizards from before rising back into the air. Their eyes burning with the same intensity as their tails, which were now twice as bright as before. The lava having rejuvenated them. The pair roared ferociously. They would protect the legendary to the end!

The cry from Nikki was the first thing to break Damon's attention away from the net he was trying to salvage, and as he turned to find out what had caught her attention what remaining color was in his face abruptly disappeared. It couldn't possibly be... But there were very few attacks that started like that one... Oh dear Arceus they hadn't just pissed off any Ho-Oh; they'd pissed of a very high-leveled one.

His work on the net was abandoned faster than he'd thought was possible, and he quickly threw himself to the ground. The lava rock tore through the front of his shirt, earning him a good number of scrapes to his chest and the underside of his arms. He could already feel the blood welling up, but he ignored it in favor of making himself as small a target as was physically possible.