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"Interesting," Fennrir commented, his eyes looking the lady up and down. He couldn't tell whether her skin had just changed colors or that a small amount of fur just grew out of her skin. Her hair and eyes were the same kind of beautiful pale purple and the braids of her hair were pretty gorgeous themselves. Her slim frame complimented by the curves of her body and clothes that she wore even if they looked loose and relaxed had its own kind of appeal. Dang, are all the women of the snag em group just flat out gorgeous? He asked himself quietly only to mentally kick himself because Crystal could of heard him and he didn't know how that might turn out.

"So Mr.Lum, you have informed us that there is a good chance that team rocket might be an issue for us all to deal with? Has their been any sighting or anything else that we should be made aware of before we continue on with the task at hand?" he asked his tone becoming more business like then playful like.

"Oh, cool!" Keiko cheered, impressed with Crystal's knowledge of the area.

"I haven't seen any of those fools running around her for a while, bi," Lum huffed. "But you never know, with their lot! Bi, bi!"

"I don't doubt that," I sighed, remembering the Rocket grunt I beat down in Route 1 a while ago.

"Gross!" Keiko whined. "I think I stepped in something."

"More like 'on someone'," I corrected her, looking at the Goomy bits on her shoe and the Pokemon they belonged to.

Keiko screamed when she saw the Pokemon at her feet, and lost her footing, falling to the jungle floor. "Goomy!" it called to her, worried about her.

"G-get it away!" she shouted, throwing a Pokeball at it, only for Cutie to pop out of the ball. "Cutie, Dazzlinggleam!"

The Goomy tried to dodge, but it just wasn't fast enough,and got a back full of Fairy-type energy. I scooped the Goomy up and sat beside Keiko. "I'm surprised you're not trying to catch this little guy. He's kinda cute."

Keiko looked at the pained Goomy in my hands, and relented a little. "It looks like a Grimer," she whined.

"Well, it won't always look that way," I said, pulling out my SNAG. After a quick scan, I looked through Goomy's Pokedex page and those of its evolved forms, eventually showing Keiko what a Goodra looks like.

"Aww," Keiko said, won over by Goodra's looks. "I'm sorry, Goomy," Keiko cooed, petting the injured Goomy before tapping it with a Heal Ball.

This got my attention. "When did you start using Heal Balls?"

"Just now," she admitted. "Sold some stuff we didn't need to pay for them. Don't worry, I didn't touch any of your immunizer ingredients."

"Alright," I smirked at her. With Goomy caught, we continued on the path.

Before long, we made it to the Topo tree, and boy, did we have a sight waiting for us, at the base of the tree, the Totem Lurantis lay down. It wasn't sleeping, but it clearly wasn't in good condition, either. A person wearing a Team Rocket uniform was sitting on the injured Totem Pokemon, and shot a sadistic glare at Lum when he was in sight. "I was wondering when you'd come back 'ere. Offer's still on the table if you're up for it."

"You... YOU! How DARE you hurt such a gentle creature, bi!" Lum blurted out, enraged by what he saw.

"Wasn't so gentle when I got here, but whateva," the Rocket grunt smirked. "But, hey, I figured that's what you'd say. That just means I get to have fun with you, next."

"Aww, I thought it was my turn to play!" a female grunt whined, walking out from behind the tree to reveal herself. "I didn't get to have any fun with the whelp guarding the stupid tree."

"That's enough, the both of you," a stern voice growled, Drash walked up from behind the second grunt, glaring daggers at Lum. "The 'sprout' was given several opportunities to play ball, but our leader has grown impatient."

"So now, we take what we want, and burn anybody who gets in our way!" the male grunt grinned.

"Because that's what you people do best," I grunted, feeling a good bit of anger, myself.

"You're one to talk," Drashi scoffed. "You fools always put up a righteous front, but are oh, so willing to stick a knife in the back of your closes allies."

'You're about to see how righteous I can get, fetcher," I spat, letting Angeal out of his ball. ...yeah, I did not take that accusation well.

Drash only smirked, letting out his Beedrill. The male grunt let out an Arbok, while the female let out a Wheezing. Keiko, meanwhile, let Castiel out of his ball.

Crystal chuckled when the whole scene with the Goomy happened, a small amused smile on her face.

When the group managed to get to the tree and wound up meeting with the Rockets, the hybrid would pull out a Pokéball of her own and toss it out, a small Bronzor forming from the light. "Donne, hang back for now. We'll see what they do."

"Insignificant?" Fenrir said under his breath, his eye twitched a little bit as the battle played before them. Reaching down, Fenrir clicked the button and gibble came into the open only to look around with a puzzled look on his face just he started spinning trying to find the enemy. Letting out a sigh, Fenrir grabbed Chomp by his head and turned him towards the enemies and the rest of the group. "See that Arbok?" Fenrir said pointing down at the giant cobra like pokemon "I want you to use dig and take him by his surprise then burry him with rock tomb and then dig again to hide, This is a covert kay?" He said with a smile on his face only to earn one from an even bigger one from the giant spazz.

Digging down into the ground with dirt flying up and out of the way as Chomp disappeared and after a quick moment, appeared from underneath Arbok just to use the move rock tomb and then make an attempt to escape back into the ground. They would see in a moment weather either of the attacks made point or caused the Pokemons health to drop even if its only a little... just enough to given the team a edge in this fight.

Chomp would be successful in digging up to Arbok, taking it by surprise and dealing significant damage to it due to its weakness to Ground-type energy. Unfortunately, Arbok would react with Wrap, preventing the Gible from using Rock Tomb or from Digging to safety by holding it in place.

Meanwhile, the female grunt would only growl at how poorly her Weezing was doing. Crystal's use of Psychic, while also dealing a large amount of damage due to its weakness to Psychic-type energy, gave her an idea, however. "Really? I doubt a Steel-type would be able to learn a Psychic-type move unless it had a certain other typing. Use Dark Pulse, Weezing!"

The Weezing gathered Dark-type energy into itself, grinning sadistically before launching the energy out as a pulsating orb aimed at Donne.

Meanwhile, I had my own problems with a Beedrill that knew a Flying-type move - that Angeal was weak to, as well. "Go for long range, Angeal. Flamethrower," I told him.

"Finish this fool with Drill Run, Beedril," Drash spat, already growing impatient by having his task interrupted.

"Help Terashi out, Castiel! Use Ember on Beedril from a distance!" Keiko shouted, a combination of the urgency of protecting Lum and the enjoyment she normally got from a Pokemon battle.

Beedril focused on Angeal and made a bee-line at him, digging at the ground as he drew closer due to Drill Run. Angeal was faster than him, however, and maintained distance from the Bug-type. "Yol toor shul!" He roared, spewing fire from his beak after the fact via Flamethrower. Beedril tried to dodge, but Castiel's Ember knocked him back into the flames of Angeal's flamethrower, dealing massive damage from the two super-effective moves.

While the battle raged, Fenrir sneaked around behind the group with Sass just a few steps behind and when he came into position Fenrir started his assault. "Chomp use Roar and Sass use Bulldoze," Fenrir commanded with a smirk on his face, thinking he'd know how the grunts would react.

"Even with that mega pokemon, You're vastly out numbered by well trained pokemon that faithfully follow thier trainers commands," Fenrir commented taking a step or two closer to the criminal and his pokemon. "Axew, Run rampant" Fenrir said his eye's once again changing as proof of the link/bond that they shared "Help out rala and crush that bedrill with all the pride of a dragon pokemon!"