Greetings! This short is a bit different, because it looks at different smiles.

* This short contains spoilers Rating is K. Adventure theme.

~IG

(PS:I'd love it if you'd review, so I know what I could improve upon.)

Leo

"Swoobat! Air Slash!" My bat complied happily, wings twirling in dance-like motions to knock out the opposing Lurantis. Finally, it looked like we had reached the end of the Employee-Guards who threw themselves at us. Hau was finishing the Guards on my left, and Teresa had finished her group with ease. Tsuki and Gladion were dealing with Faba's pokémon. The Guard that accompanied Faba had gone down at the start of their battle.

"Need help, Hau?" Teresa called, while checking her ribombee for injuries.

"I got it! Kanalei!" The Water-Fairy let out a high-pitched giggle, bubbles exploding on-target and finishing her opponent. "Tsuki!"

Good! Kuro! Bind!" The incineroar snarled, dark flames lashing out like a lasso to bind Faba's Hypno.

"Null! X-Scissor!" Type:Null lunged forward, a bit of anger in it's actions. All determination and no hesitation. The super effective attack was more than enough to knock out the Psychic type.

"Eeek!" Faba screeched, recalling his pokémon. Hau stepped next to Tsuki, Teresa moved next to Gladion, and I stepped to the front, Swoobat resting on my upraised fist.

"Hmph. I guess helping one another isn't so bad." The sound of contact, and Gladion muttered, "ow!"

"Disobedient children!" Faba screeched, shaking his fist at us. "How dare you force entry to this place!"

"Annoying." Tsuki muttered. Hau snickered.

"So, uh, Mr. Faba, do you have the key to wherever Lillie is?"

"Of course I do!" The scientist spat, not pausing to think.

"That's great!" Hau said, tucking his hands behind his neck. "If you'd just stayed hidden, we would've been stuck here!"

"Gah!" He backed away, clutching his coat tightly around him. Honestly, how did a man like this rise to a position of power with incompetency like this? The answer came immediately: with backhanded deals and other methods.

"Faba, you can give us the key, the easy way or the hard way." Said Teresa, before she added, a thoughtful smile on her face, "Or I could have Zygarde blow through that important looking door." Two of the hounds at her side growled, fangs exposed. The man cowered, eyes flickering to each of us, and I glanced over my shoulder. Gladion was glaring, holding the one-hand-over-his-eye pose that he usually did, no trace of a smile on his face. Teresa's mouth was set in a hard line, a contrast to the laugh lines on her cheeks. One hand was held down in a fist, a command of the hounds that stood behind us. Hau was grinning, appearing unworried as his hands were tucked behind his head, though his eyebrows were knit together. Tsuki's eyes were leveled on Faba, the same smile on her face that had been there when I met her this morning; slightly disturbing, although in a way the two of us were not so different.

Hau. Gladion. Tsuki. Teresa. Me. We were so very different, each with our own stories. Yet not so different, as we were all here, all wanting to move forward.

The scientist must have seen that there was no other way out of this because he pulled a flat rectangle out from his inner pocket and flung it at us. I easily caught it and passed it to Gladion. He had known the layout so far; he should probably know how to move onward.

"Thanks for the key, Mr. Faba!" Hau called cheerfully.

"Thank you for cooperating, Faba." Teresa said calmly, two fingers beckoning. Two of the black-green hounds stepped forward, circling him. "These two will see you to the front. Hold him there." The hounds snapped at the edge of Faba's coat, moving him forward. The scientist looked terrified that the Day Walker would sic them on him, and moved without any complaints.

"Now, let's go." Gladion stepped forward, card in hand. I fell into step beside him, towards the large steel door. We were one step closer to finding our friend and her Pokémon. A smile of my own crossed over my lips, and I promised,

I won't let you down, Lillie. I'll make sure I don't break my promise, Aya-la...