Two hours later, Dent had decided to go check on Nova to see her recovery progress. However, when he had entered the infirmary, his lover was nowhere to be found. Panicking, Dent searched the whole room for Nova, but she wasn't anywhere in the building. Then, Corn entered the room. Dent asked him if he knew why Nova was gone, but did not like the answer that Corn had given.
"YOU WHAT?" shrieked Dent.
"Look, Nova was obviously not going to heal anytime soon, so I thought that I could help her a little bit," explained Corn. "So, I simply had my Audino use Heal Pulse, and her problems were solved."
"You could have at least told me about this first!" yelled Dent. "Where is she now?"
"Well, if I had to guess, I'd say that she's on her way to the battlefield as we speak," responded Corn.
"I have to catch up with her," thought Dent, "Even with a full recovery, she's still not strong enough to take down Cyrus and Ghetsis on her own!"
Knowing the direction that Nova was heading in, Dent bolted off with Simisage at his side. The last thing he wanted to happen was for Nova to get hurt again.
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Running through the forest, Nova had hopes that she could finally resolve the feud that had prevented her and Dent from being together. However, her thoughts were cut short when she was suddenly trapped in a cage of boulders. She struggled to get free of the boulders, but couldn't succeed. Fraxure tried to claw his way into one of the rocks, but couldn't break it either.
"Gaaagh!" groaned Nova. "A Rock Tomb attack? How could this have happened?"
"Now, where do you think you're going?" asked a familiar voice.
Knowing who that voice was, Nova jerked her head around to see where Dent was. When her head had faced forward again, Dent was suddenly in front of her, thanking his Crustle.
"Dent, why did you do that?" asked Nova.
"I had to stop you from getting yourself killed one way or another," said Dent. "You and I both know that you aren't strong enough to stop the battle."
"That's why I have my Pokémon with me!" insisted Nova.
"Even with your team, you'd still have no chance alone!" retorted Dent. "Ghetsis is too powerful, he'll destroy you!"
"If you want to end this feud once and for all, then why did you stop me?" questioned Nova.
"Because, I wasn't going to let you do this without me," said Dent. "If I did, you would most likely get killed, and I'd hate myself for letting that happen."
Realizing that Dent was right, she decided to let him help her with their ultimate goal. However, Nova was still struggling to escape the Rock Tomb caused by Dent's Crustle.
"You can't get out, can you?" sighed Dent.
"Don't worry, I can get out by myself!" assured Nova.
Unfortunately, no matter how hard she struggled, Nova found herself unable to budge herself free.
"Crustle, use Rock Smash," ordered Dent.
Crustle pounded one of its claws into each of the large boulders constricting Nova, and all of the boulders shattered into pieces. Brushing herself off, Nova got up and continued on the forest trail. After returning Crustle to its Pokéball, Dent followed after her.
"I could have done that myself, even with my hands sealed in!" boasted Nova.
"Yeah, right," sighed Dent.
As they bolted down the forest trail, the sun was rising to make way for morning. Dent and Nova knew that they were running out of time.
