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And that's when it appeared. A real, Shiny Eevee. It was the deal. She had to catch it. Veronica reached into the bag as Cherry launched forward a Dark Pulse to catch the Eevee off guard. Did it literally just come from the outside? "Well... I won't risk it. Come on Eevee!" She begged and threw her Ultraball at it. Her eyes sparkled as she watched carefully at how the Ultraball ticked.

Jezebel gets a notice on her snag device while in the kitchen. "Oh what's this?" Looking down and reads the message. "Oh a safari contest? This sounds fun." She get things cleaned up, than goes about packing some snacks. "Alright, Cayenne, i think we could use some exercise. Mint, we'll be back shortly. Here, enjoy these special treats i made." Jezebel places some frozen Occa berry.

Jezebel calls for a life to the Safari contest, Claydol shows up to teleport them.

"Oh, this must be the main area. We'll i hope we can find a new friend." Not even a second after finishing her statement, a pokemon appeared from the shadow.

Coming to a stop at the end of the corridor, Jezebel stops to catch her breath. "Gah! I dont mind bugs; but when they sneak up on me-." She said with a shiver. She regains her wits, getting a look at her surroundings, click and static could be faintly heard. "What's that sound?" Cayenne starts growling at Jezebel, "What's wrong? Is there-?" She stops, and slowly inspects her clothes.

Looking at her shoulder, a Joltik is standing there, staring at her. Trying to keep her composure and staring down the pokemon she was about to let out another scream; until the Joltik lifted up on of it's limbs with what looked like a wave "Huh?" She reaches up her hand toward the Joltik, the pokemon graciously crawled onto her hand.

Looking around, Jezebel noticed some webbing in the upper corners of the area. She reaches up and the pokemon jumps onto the webbing and out of sight.

"There you go, Now behave yourself, and please don't go jumping onto peoples heads." Jezebel said with a smile. Her and Cayenne went farther into the facility.

Wren arrived at the Safari contest area with some help from Snagem's resident Claydol l, holding a Nest Ball in one hand and a Lucky Egg in the other. "Not sure how I'm gonna make this work but I'll figure it out..." He told himself before heading in and registering himself and his partner, Anemone, for the contest. Once registered he headed off for the area he chose to investigate, the ruined testing dome.

As Undine and Ryan wander through the Reactor, they come across quite the sight: A Piplup, standing there in plain sight. The pair look at one another. This was the pokemon Ryan was looking for, but why was it just standing there? Trainer and Pokemon would then sneak closer to find out.

"And as Queen of this noble realm, I will treat all my subjects fairly, no matter type or size. You are all equal in my eyes and all contribute to the prosperity of our watery kingdom. A Queen is nothing without her subjects, and I know that all of you support me..." The little penguin rambles on and on, to no one in particular. looks like they have been played the fool. "this is...sad." Undine whispers to Ryan. The channeler nods and moves closer with his Popplio.

"I hate to interrupt your speech, Your Majesty, but it seems your fellow pokemon do not feel the same way about you as you do them or is leaving a Queen to speak alone a common thing?" Ryan says to the Piplup. The Penguin pokemon opens her eyes as she spins around. She goes to chastise the intruders but sees what the one has said is true. "S-ss-so what? I hated that speech anyway! always so stuffy! And who are you anyway? Have you come to challenge me for control of my realm? Well, I will have you know I am no pushover! En Garde!" the Piplup declares towards Ryan and Undine, stamping her foot at them.

Ryan just sighs and looks up at the ceiling. He was on a streak of these special ones. First Raphael, now this one. Add in Rin JIn and he would be at half a party of high attitude if he was successful here. "Undine, let's make this a quick one, yeah? Aqua Jet to get things going." The channeler commands. Undine nods and in a flash, barrels headlong into the Piplup, sending her tumbling through the shallow waters of where they were in the reactor.

The Piplup pulls herself up and glares at the duo. "How Rude! Royalty always go first! But if that is how you are going to play, I will not hold back!" she squwaks before using Bubble...in her own way. Instead of making it a fast, rapid attack, she took her time to slowly blow each bubble, making them very spaced out and slow moving. Undine looks back at Ryan and he just shrugs. " Go by them and use Disarming Voice. See if rattling her a bit will get her to actually fight," he tells his pokemon. Undine easily avoids the bubbles and then blasts the Piplup with her now water version of Disarming Voice, causing the Piplup to stumble back.

"Ohh! Stop it! No need to shout like that!" The Piplup cries out before swinging at Undine with pound...but closes her eyes as she does. So while the attack did hit Undine, it was more of a slight graze than any substantial damage. Ryan was starting to question why it was he wanted this pokemon so badly. But he wasn't going to say no to another water starter. Infact, this one would put him one away from having all the water starters, which to him was no small feat. "Undine, Aqua Jet again. Time to put an end to this." Ryan says in an exsaperated tone. Undine nods slowly, in full appreciation of her trainer's frustration. Undine barrels into the Piplup once more, sending to head over tail once more. This time, the Piplup was struggling mightly to get back up.

Ryan pulls out one of the Safari Balls that he was alotted and tosses it at the Piplup, ensaring it within. Now, would our dear Queen quietly surrender or go down swinging?

Wren had barely stepped into the research dome when he tripped over something small and hard, like a stone of some kind. Stumbling to the ground, he dropped both Nest Ball and Lucky Egg, the two items coming to rest at about the same location, whereupon, the Ball burst open and released Anemone. The Combee buzzed in place for a moment before coming to rest atop the Egg, looking at the rock her trainer had tripped curiously for a moment. After that moment was up, however, her buzzing intensified into a full-on Bug Buzz.

"Diiiiig!" The rock exclaimed, a few small strands of metallic thread popping out of the ground and wiggling around for a moment.

"That's..."

"Diglet's Alolan form." GRAY informed, the mechanical eyes on the middle aged channeler's SNAG focusing on it for a moment as he pulled it out. "Ground- and Steel-type. If you battle it. There's a very good chance your little Bug is going to get squished."

"Thanks for that." Wren responded as Diglett's wiry hairs hardened I to a hooked shape and began to glow with silver energy. "That's Metal Claw!" He yelped, looking over to where Anemone was resting well within range of the Earth-bound Pokemon's attack.

"String Shot!" Wren ordered, hoping the bee could bind her for in place. He wasn't sure how but he had to try. Anemone nodded and spit a stream of sticky silk at Diglett, who slashed it to pieces and just right on coming.

"Gah! Swift!" Wren exclaimed, trying to cover the distance between himself as his Pokemon now. Anemone produced a small meteor shower from the star-shaped beams but even that didn't slow Diglett down, it's tiny head glowing silver all over as it prepared to use Iron Head and ram the resting bee.

Nothing was going to stop the metal mole so, as Wren reach Anemone just ahead of it, he scooped up her ball, returned her to it as he snapped up the Lucky Egg and with a flash of green, his Brambleguard erupted from his bracelet, a thorny thicket of wild vines blocking Diglett's path both above and below the soil.

"We should avoid those if they're living in here..." he told himself as he made his escape, trying to ignore the sounds of the mole's yelping as those thorny barbs dug into it's flesh.


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Taking a left and walking a little ways, Jezebel hears a murmuring sound. "I wonder what that sound it." Curiosity got the best of her, and went to investigate. She finds Whismur.

The pokemon turns to see Jezebel and starts using uproar, and than runs away. Covering her ears Jezebel and Cayenne run back down the hallway.