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Knux nearly jumped himself when Sub sprang up, clinging to his towel and rock-polish like a child with a safety blanket and teddy bear, before laughing a bit nervously. Fine? Riiiiight ... Well, might as well allow him to change the subject, if he'd rather not talk about whatever had happened for now./ Forcing the issue wouldn't get him anywhere. "Yeah; I've been settling in mostly. Exploring the base and making my pokemon and myself at home. I was just going to give Elvis a polishing ... want to join me?" Knux was pretty sure polishing a rock pokemon may not be the funnest prospect--particularly with the larger ones--but he also knew the repetitive 'wax on, wax off' could be calming.

"Yeah; I call him Elvis," Knux said with a companionable smile, gesturing Sub to follow him. The Rhyhorn was still grinding down on some hay, eating slowly, but grunted when Knux appeared, looking happy at the sight of the polish. Rock pokemon--though without fur--still liked getting polished down, and the attention too. "Here--" Knux tore the towel in two--the cloth had been old and raggy anyway--and gave half to Sub. Then, opened up the jar of polish. "Just dip the towel in and rub it on." Knux said, then began doing so, marveling at the smooth, graty plating of the Rhyhorn, while Elvis looked to enjoy the rubbing that kept his hard, plated skin hard and without weaknesses.

Sub took the towel from Knux and did exactly as instructed, dipped it in the jar of polish and then proceeded to rub it on the Pokemon's body, waxing away. He did this for a few minutes until his concentration was broke by Dan, he then turned to him, while still waxing, and waved. "Hey there, and Poe? Oh yeah, I exchanged him for my Drapion before I left, he doesn't like it when I leave him behind, sensitive thing he is." Sub said with a laugh.

Throughout the days following the team's trip to Mount Chimney, care for the Larvesta had been ensured. And defense as well, though things had, for the time, remained relatively quiet. Or rather, they had been until a little while ago.

Sol had seen this coming the whole time, especially as the chi Larvesta gave off grew with it. But with any sort of handling ultimately minimal, something needed to be done. It was fortunate that he was able to get himself back to that cave with Larvesta long enough to start contact with Sub.

Mia had bee n watching the boys wax the rhyhorn. The girl was brushing her growlithe, haing put the restg of her pokemon awy. Next to her were two eggs, the Riolu one she had brought with her, and another mystery one she had gained in a mission. She was pretty sure one of the two was close t o hatching it was a matter of tie.So that is Sub the leader around here? At least he isnt afraid of getting his hands dirty.

"I would make a remark about how everything's fine and I decided to stay in the magma, but now isn't the time for such quips. I was right on my hunch that Cipher would come back. They managed an ambush... I was able to get Larvesta out of their reach for the moment despite this." Sol spoke up.

"At last check, Night and my Charizard are trying to keep them at bay, but time's likely limited on those efforts. The short version is, I think a hothead and his cronies need to be ousted now, and some help would prove more useful than even GRAY might be able to calculate. I'm still around that cave, out of their sight. But come quickly."

As if to punctuate the point, there were sounds of fighting, however faint.

"Cipher? Ugh, knew that would happen, Dakim promised he would return." Sub said with a grunt and glanced at the others briefly before speaking into his SNAG again. "We'll be right there Sol, try your best to hang in there." He said pocketing his SNAG. "Alright guys, we're leaving, Sol has been ambushed by Team Cipher on Mt. Chimney." As soon as he said that a Claydol teleported into the room, by his side. "Claydol prepared for teleportation to Mt. Chimney." GRAY spoke up from his SNAG. Before the trainer would leave however he rushed up to his office, opening his backpack along the way, when he returned his backpack was closed again and he approached the Claydol in the room. "One teleport please." Sub said to the Claydol who spun around once and Sub was whisked away to the Hoenn region.

Sub soon reappeared back in the main area of HQ thanks to Sol's Xatu. They had finally put an end to Dakim and protected the Larvesta, even allowed it to evolve, it was a good day to say the least, despite almost be crushed and buried in a cave. "I am so glad to be back, safe and sound."