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"And now that the damage is done.... what do I do?" Darts asks. "What did you do? I feel. I feel incredible, like I could rip the doors off of infinity. And at the same time, I feel like trying to do so would be to tear myself apart."

"There was no rush?" Darts asks her, flexing his hand as he looks at it pensievely winking grey in the light. "No rush of feeling stronger than you were?"

"Maybe that's what I need. A good fight?" He looks up at her. "Get the stuffing knocked out of me?"

Aluette rested in the main room of HQ, playing with his newly captured Foongus, Dryad. He was tossing the tiny mushroom Pokemon up into the air, where either Tweety or Nameless would catch him and carry him around he room before dropping him into Al's arms again. The small Grass-type was beyond thrilled by the play. It seemed to be quite young in comparison to his other Pokemon.

Lykas was standing outside in the cave with Lux, Chinami and Le Faye out of their Pokeballs. The trio were staring each other down with obviously focused glares. "Alright, guys, it's time we helped Le Faye learn the last of our trio of special moves." The teen told them as Lux and Chinami looked at him. "Lux, Fire Pledge! Chinami, Water Pledge!" The Quilava nodded and slammed one of his fore paws into the ground, summoning massive towers of excessively hot flames. Chinami followed suit by slamming one of her fists into the ground, pillars of rushing water erupting from the nearby lake and rushing forward to mix and mingle with Lux's Fire Pledge. The result was a soggy field beneath a shimmering rainbow as the mingling elements produced a sparkling light from within before they canceled each other out.

"Think you can manage that, Le Faye? I want you to do the same thing, but you'll be using your own, native element for it." Le Faye nodded and looked at the area the other two had targeted. Nothing of particular interest so she wasn't likely to destroy anything -disappointing-. She wound her tail up and snapped it out like a whip to slam into the ground. Upon contact, the ground shuddered and shook for a moment, causing Lykas to cross his fingers. This was looking promising. Unfortunately what came next was most certainly not Grass Pledge. It was a Frenzy Plant attack, massive, thorn-coated vines erupting from the earth and lashing out at everything in sight. "Gah! Stop! End it!" Lykas commanded, only for Le Faye to turn up her nose at him and turn away. "Fine...." He growled as he recalled her to her ball, the vines slowly halting as their sovereign left the vicinity.

"Lux, if you wouldn't mind getting rid of these for me." He asked of his Fire-type, who nodded and used his Flame Wheel to raze the vines and burned them away easily enough. That taken care of, the teen headed inside to check up on Sphynx, who was still recovering from the effects of Le Faye's poison.

While all this went down, Odd was in the training room with Narcissa, Paleao and Cascade, the Palpitoad and Mantine of Lykas' helping him to teach the small Frillish how to use her moves. On top of that, he also had Cadenza at his side to help with Ghost-type training and A'Capella to train with her.

"Alright Narcissa, I want you to try using Shadow Ball again." The channeler told the Frillish, before turning to his Purrloin. "A'Capella, use your Faint Attack to try dodging it but do not attack yet." Both Pokemon nodded and went into action.

"OI VEY!" Odd cried in surprise as he nearly jumped out of his skin when Sub appeared. "Why do you insist on doing that?" He asked of the Dark Channeler. After his heart slowed back to normal beating speed, he spoke again. "I'm working with Narcissa to teach her how to use her Ghost-type abilities a bit better. She's still relying on her Water-type moves too much. She needs to have a bit of variety if Lykas is going to keep using her in his training." He explained as he glanced over his shoulder just in time to see Narcissa release a weak -and very unstable- Shadow Ball at A'Capella. The Purrloin didn't even dodge like she'd been asked. She just pounced over it and kicked a bit of dust back at the impact point.

"I'm also kind of hoping Amaya might contact me again soon. I think I finally have a handle on my intangibility. I'm not having any serious issues with phasing through things anymore but that alone is only just so useful. Hopefully she'll think I'm ready to learn something offensive soon but I'm not going to question her wisdom, regardless of what she decides to teach me." This was stated without any hints of overeagerness nor any sort of animosity towards the defensive arts his teacher may have in store for him.

"What was this about corrupting Tails?" An Ice beam glow started to fill the room. No discharge yet, but trust me when I say it was oh so tempting.

"Yes, I do believe we've had plenty just from Night corrupting Cera before I was around here." Sol spoke up, suddenly beside Blizzard. "Though at last check, Night hasn't been around for quite some time, so I suppose someone has to maintain the wanton acts."