The rest of the journey was painfully silent.
We continued to descend down the ruins. Throughout the entire journey Skye made a point to stay and observe me from the back, not willing to come any closer. I don't blame her. It's the smart thing to do when you come face-to-face with a murderer, the dumb thing to do would be to show your back to an experienced killer.
It got progressively darker as we progressed downwards, so much that I had to release Grumpy and have him light up the way for us with Flash. Grumpy became our personal flashlight as he perched himself on top of my helmet, allowing us to be able to move around with relative ease. Skye's flying types cleared the stale air and dispersed any poisonous gases with their wings, allowing us to progress without breathing in any harmful substances that had been trapped here for thousands of years.
A look at the HUD display on my visor told me that we had already been here for about three hours. Skye and I had not encountered anybody else in those three hours nor did we come across any corpses belonging to either those from Team Plasma or the civilians. It's both a good and bad sign, because this probably meant that the civilians are still alive but at the same time, also suggested that they have somehow managed to progress to the depths of this ruin where the real danger lurks.
We were about another hour into the search when Skye's crobat let out a low clicking sound that got us to pause and look at it. Skye turned to her crobat, who proceeded to talk to her in which only she can understand.
"We found the missing people," she informed me, her face stone cold and untrusting. "Eleven people in total huddling in a corner in a super large room ahead, which matches the Rangers' description of seven Plasmas and four civvies."
I frowned a little and gave this a little more thought. Something doesn't add up.
"If it's a large room, why are they huddling up together in a corner?"
Skye also had a frown on her face after she heard my question. She asked her crobat once more but the answer was still the same. The crobat simply answered that all it sensed with its echolocation were eleven people huddled in a corner of a large room ahead. Further clarifications revealed that the room was probably large enough to release the bigger members of our team, which was something good that turned out from this.
"Something's not right. For now, we try to sneak in and find out just what is going on. Prioritise stealth but be prepared for anything. If anything goes FUBAR, you try to grab the civvies and run."
"I will do that. No worries."
We stealthily proceeded ahead, keeping our bodies low and only releasing pokemon that were small enough to stay silent and unseen. Grumpy ceased using Flash altogether, not wanting to attract unneeded attention from whatever unknown threat was causing the Plasmas to huddle together in fright.
"I don't see anything," Skye told me in a very low whisper, just enough for me to hear her.
"Me neither," I replied as I tapped weavile on his back where he was crouching low in front of me, who also tapped back a reply to convey a negative response. It's too dark in here, to the point that if I were to stretch out my hand forward I couldn't possibly see my fingers if it wasn't for the nightvision my HUD display provides. Even with the nightvision I could still barely make out anything in this room.
From what little I can make out, Skye's crobat wasn't wrong in saying that this was a super big room. It was large, the width impossibly wide and the ceilings at least two to three stories high by my estimate. It probably made a very grand sight back in whatever era it was built in and I can only try to guess the reason this room was built for. My personal guess? This was probably a grand hall of sorts used by people from an era long gone. A part of it had crumbled and if I had indeed managed to catch a proper glimpse in this darkness, it seems that a section of the large room was charred and burnt, so maybe this ruin had become what it is today due to a large fire.
I felt spiritomb shift and I spotted him trying to silently gesture to us to look at our right, which we did. We spotted an oddly coloured gengar trying to silently wave at us from a far end of the room, signalling for us to come closer.
"Vel," Skye whispered, telling me enough that this gengar is Velda's. Somehow, none of our pokemon had managed to sense the gengar until it revealed itself. I slowly and silently signalled for our team to slowly proceed towards the gengar, prioritising stealth above all, because if Velda had clearly reached here before we did and found our targets but yet chose to not do anything and hide her presence entirely, then something must be wrong. Velda may be physically young and thus, do not have as much experience in being a trainer like Skye and I did since she started out much later, but she is solidly Elite level in strength and is able to command an armada of ghosts even if most of these ghosts are young ones. She must have a very good reason to decide that hiding herself entirely was the best course of action until we arrived.
Skye and I carefully made our way forward, making entirely sure to not make a sound. The journey was slow and arduous, but we finally found a crack in the wall and behind that, a small room or sorts with enough space to hide a few people. Velda suddenly appeared out of thin air teh moment we entered that small room, slightly gasping for breath as her banette gently patted on her back to try and soothe her breathing. It took Skye and I a lot of self-control to not jump at her sudden presence.
Was she hiding herself and then reappearing with Phantom Force? That's actually possible?
Velda put a finger on her lips in a shushing motion as soon as she appeared. Once she was sure that none of us were going to make a sound, carefully took out her phone and hid the glow of the phone's screen by angling it away from the crack that connects to the large room outside. She typed something into her phone before showing it to us.
Volcarona. Super strong. Ceiling. Now sleeping. DON'T wake it up.
Skye and I exchanged a brief glance before cautiously poking our head outwards and looked up, trying to spot the volcarona Velda was referring to.
"Holy shit."
Yes, I totally agree with Skye's whisper. It really is holy shit level of trouble that we are in.
Volcaronas are extremely rare, to the point that even Team Rocket had only managed to get their hands on around three of those creatures throughout its history. A large reason could be attributed to the fact that volcaronas are not native to Indigo, but that is not the point. I had seen volcaronas before, rare as it is, and this one here is the biggest volcarona I had ever seen, and I will bet that the one resting up on the ceiling here might as well be the largest documented volcarona in the world's history.
It's just that huge, easily many times the size of an average volcarona and is definitely over one or two centuries old at the very least. I could see why Skye's crobat had not sensed its presence at all, because it was remaining absolutely still in its sleep and had somehow blended itself very well into the ceiling thanks to the patterns painted on the ceiling matching very well with the patterns of its large wings. Even if we had somehow spotted it in the darkness, we would have thought that we were staring at some sort of statue if we only took a passing glance.
Not only that, the rarity of the volcarona species is only rivalled by how well-known they are for their strength and firepower. Champion Alder has one himself and it is an absolute powerhouse that cemented his position as Champion of Unova. I dread to even imagine the kind of destruction a volcarona as big as this one can bring about when provoked. Even our pokemon who were not privy to the conversation between us and Velda shuddered and finally realised the shit we were in upon spotting such a powerful and huge creature resting just right above our heads without us realising until now.
What happened, I typed back to Velda, who quickly gave me her response.
Chase Plasmas here. Woke volcarona up. Nearly died. Volcarona went back to sleep. Volcarona very likely have poor eyesight but hyper sensitive to light and sound, lesser the pokemon the better or it will sense us.
Very descriptive of her journey here, but it does tell us what we need to know. I typed a few more questions.
Tried escape options? Shadow Sneak? Teleport?
Volcarona can sense and disrupt Shadow Sneak right away before we can shift positions, don't know how. Teleport not working, this place has too much ghostly energy lingering. Plan?
I can sense everyone's gaze falling onto me. Oh great, ask me to murder or beat the shit out of someone I can immediately come up with ten different plans with a snap of my fingers. Rescuing though? That's really not my forte when a possibly Champion level wild pokemon is now involved.
Thankfully, there's a more qualified expert here.
Ideas? I typed and showed Skye my question. She took a look at my question and fell into thought before typing a long chunk of words into Velda's phone.
Plan A: Stay very silent and get to the civvies and Plasmas, then silently pull out of here. I won't count on it. When people are extremely afraid they won't think and act rationally, like how a drowning man might accidentally pull you down underwater in his fear when you are trying to save him because he's too scared. I also don't know if the Plasmas will cooperate.
Plan B: Stay very silent and get to the civvies and Plasmas, then just book out of here without caring about stealth, prioritising escape above all and hope the volcarona won't chase us for too far.
Plan C: Someone be a decoy while the rest of us grab the civvies out of here and hope the decoy doesn't end up as barbeque moth food. Last resort.
Note: We need to finalise an escape route before enacting any plan. Any other routes we know of? Vel, how did you come here?
The end of the room opposite of where you came from. Path had collapsed, not viable. Vel typed her reply before taking a pause as if trying to remember something. I THINK I saw another route while the volcarona was chasing us, should not be far from our position, nearer to the right side of the room. I can try to scout?
Skye and I both nodded as Velda whispered her instructions to her gengar, who then silently passed through the wall in that direction to try and scout a possible way to bring the targets out of here. We waited in silence for what seemed to be a tortuously long time until the gengar returned.
Route big enough. Can use. Velda typed before showing us the results her gengar had conveyed to her. Using her phone as a medium of communication, we quickly finalised on a plan, which was not really much of a plan.
We will try to enact the plans Skye proposed in alphabetical order. If Plan A doesn't work, then we go to Plan B, then C, and cross our fingers and hope it will never get to that point. If the Plasmas or the civvies are about to make any sound that might alert the volcarona in their state of irrational fright I will Hypnosis them right away. If we ever get to Plan C, which we all hope we won't, I will be the decoy while Velda and Skye get the Plasmas and civvies to safety.
Velda mentioned that the volcarona was extremely sensitive to light and sound, and I think she did the right thing by minimising the number of pokemon she released out of their pokeballs because the lesser people and pokemon outside, the lower the chance of us accidentally waking the enormous volcarona up. Skye and I adopted the same approach, only releasing the pokemon that we really need and recalling the rest.
My team is highly suited to stealth, so I released greninja, zoroark and spiritomb. Skye only had her sigilyph and crobat out while Velda had her absol released alongside her ghosts. With me at the front and leading the way, we stuck close to the wall and circled away from the centre of the room where the volcarona was resting high above, trying our best to keep our distance away from it and slowly made our way to get closer to the eleven people we needed to reach.
I raised a finger and held it up to where my lips would be underneath my helmet, doing the universal gesture for remaining silent the moment we were close enough to those eleven people. They were all scared out of their wits, uncaring if they were terrorists and hostages previously as they huddled together for safety while trembling in fear as one. Fortunately, they were still able to think rationally and remained silent for the entire duration until we made our way there.
"Be, very, quiet," I whispered to the eleven people the moment we reached them. I slowly pointed to the escape route Velda's gengar had scouted out for us, silently use my index and middle finger to do a walking motion and then gestured the planned path that we will take to reach that escape route, which was sticking close to the walls and circling round the perimeter of the large room until we reached the route that hopefully will bring us out of here. So far, it seemed that they were able to understand what we were trying to convey.
"Move."
Skye led the way this time, with the eleven people following after her one after the other, followed by Velda, and then me. We proceeded in a single file. All was well, and we were so close to reaching that exit until one of the Plasma goons accidentally kicked a small pebble, the sound of the pebble bouncing across the silent room painfully loud and clear.
Everyone froze. I'm sure that I wasn't the only one slowly angling my head up towards the ceiling at the centre of the room. The tips of volcarona's wings twitched and we held our breaths, fearing that any careless movements on our part might just wake this monster up.
After what seemed like forever, the volcarona went still.
Go, I signalled with my hand from where I am at the back of the file and Skye quickly resumed in leading the way forward. We were almost there when the same Plasma goon kicked another pebble, the sound of it bouncing around a lot more audible than before and this time, the volcarona's wings flapped.
That motherfucking Plasma
"Run RUN RUN!" I shouted when I knew that the volcarona had definitely woken up and had sensed us, so there was no need for stealth anymore. Everyone broke out into a sprint as we made a mad dash for the exit. Fortunately, the route that Velda's gengar scouted for us was spacious enough, big enough for Skye to immediately decide to release her dragonite out. The dragonite easily scooped up all eleven people in its arms as she climbed up onto its back with one single leap.
"COME ON! HURRY!"
Velda and I were far behind and Velda was obviously not an athletic type given how she was struggling just to run and keep up. Her shadow swirled as her ghosts prepared to Shadow Sneak us there but it was then the volcarona decided to finally come and greet us. I had to quickly pull Velda aside before a sharp blade of wind could tear her apart. I could easily tell that her ghosts wouldn't be quick enough to Shadow Sneak her before volcarona's attacks reached us. Velda was right when she told us that the volcarona have the means to sense and disrupt any usage of Shadow Sneak before the move could take effect.
The entire place was shaking from volcarona's wrath and it did look like it would collapse soon. The priority now is to get as many people as possible alive and out of here and so, I made my decision.
"SKYE! JUST GO! GO! WE WILL FIND ANOTHER WAY OUT! GO!"
I could see Skye hesitating as she struggled with the inner conflict she was experiencing, but her hesitation didn't last long. I heard her giving her dragonite orders and it took off, flying off into the darkness towards the other end of this spacious corridor which should be long enough for the dragonite to quickly pull the distance before they reached a point in the ruin where the dragonite isn't able to fit in anymore but by then, they should already be far away from here and safe.
The corridor being spacious enough was really the only saving grace we had because I am able to release my entire team. I don't think I will ever forget the sight of how the volcarona practically melted the wall down to come face-to-face with us. Even hydreigon didn't seem so confident now that he is facing this monstrosity. I spotted Velda's ghosts briefly attempting to bring it down by force through Destiny Bond but for some reason that neither of us could comprehend, Destiny Bond just didn't take effect.
"Plan C. I will be decoy, you make a run for it, find another way out," I quickly relayed my decision to my fellow reincarnator, who instead released her own team out for battle as well.
"Shadow Sneak doesn't work on this overgrown moth. Trust me, I tried. It either disrupts the move before it can take effect, or somehow is able to predict our next position. Our chances of survival are higher if we band together," Velda informed me before asking me a question. "So, what's our grand plan? You were the Exterminator, right? Your job scope included pest extermination, I hope?"
"Unfortunately, I didn't bring any insecticide along this time."
"That's actually really funny, but I can't find it within myself to laugh right now. Watch out, it's coming. Bigblue!"
Velda's swampert gave a loud groan before casting a sturdy wall of Protect, blocking the white hot flames that the volcarona unleashed in a torrential wave. We could all feel the scorching heat even from behind the barrier.
"This motherfucking moth, it is even more powerful than Giovanni's monsters."
"That bad? Yikes."
"I'm skinning that Plasma bastard alive if we get out of here, you want in?"
"Gladly. I want a piece of him too."
"Velda, hold onto my arm and don't let go. From here onwards, don't trust your eyes, only trust what you touch. Zoroark! NOW!"
I felt Velda holding onto my arm in a tight grip as zoroark immediately casted a wide illusion over us, fooling the volcarona to direct its attacks elsewhere at our illusory clones that were trying to run around in the other direction.
Velda had mentioned that volcarona has very poor eyesight so I really wasn't banking on zoroark's illusions having the desired effect that it usually did. Curiously, it was also noted by Velda that volcarona is extremely sensitive to bright flashes of light despite its underdeveloped sense of sight, so zoroark could capitalise on this by creating illusions that generate erratic motes of bright lights to mess around with its sense of direction and also to fool it into directing its attacks at anywhere but at ourselves. Theoretically, this should be a viable strategy against the volcarona.
In actuality, the pessimist in me still felt that this would not fool the volcarona for long. From what I had observed thus far this giant moth doesn't really seem to rely on its sense of sight and if it really is as perceptive as Velda told me, it is going to realise that what it is seeing is an illusion very soon. Zoroark's illusions would not serve any other further purpose other than being a temporary stop gap measure to buy us some much needed time to hurry and come up with a better plan to escape its pursuit.
"Tell your espeon to pass down the message to move, tell it to use its psychic abilities to get an accurate lock on your location and get your pokemon to follow after you," I hissed quietly as I grabbed and pulled Velda along, easily lifting her up and then quickly slinging her over my shoulder in a shoulder carry before she could protest. Every second counts in the face of such a monster that could easily reap our lives with a flap of its wings and one misstep might possibly spell certain doom. We need to extract the greatest worth out of every single second we spend here.
I quickly made a run for it with our pokemon quickly following my lead. Velda's cradily and tyranitar wasted no time in raising rocks and walls of earth to blockade the route behind us, hopefully that it might stall and buy us some much needed time should the volcarona turn back and decide to pursue. Smart move.
'On our right!'
Exeggutor's warning was the only thing that saved our lives as the volcarona caught up to us somehow and made its reappearance by crashing itself through the walls on our right. I barely managed to avoid it myself as the heat the volcarona was emitting rose to unbearable levels. I don't even know how it had sensed us with zoroark's illusions constantly interfering with its senses, there's very little knowledge known to the public about this particular species because it is just that rare. None of us have any idea on how to properly fight a volcarona which is at least a Champion level pokemon in strength. We are not prepared for this.
"Hydreigon!"
"Kratos!"
Velda and I commanded our powerhouses to take action at almost the same time, my hydreigon and her tyranitar immediately slamming into the volcarona with the strongest attacks they could muster as everyone else assisted them. I signalled to ninetales to try and see if she could put the volcarona to sleep but the wall of flames that were in the way was making things difficult for any of my pokemon to make direct eye contact. The heat of the flames was too hot for anyone else to realistically get close to the volcarona other than hydreigon and tyranitar.
Those flames need to disappear or we are all going to be barbecued.
"Flash Fire, suck it up!"
Ninetales sucked up the flames with her ability, causing the flames to vanish in an instant. Grumpy capitalised on that window of opportunity to ride on honchkrow's back as they reappeared right in front of volcarona's face before that little murderous rat released a blinding flash of light just a few metres away from its eyes with Flash, causing the volcarona to screech in pain and thrashed about blindly.
Genius, my little murder rat is a genius.
A collective Stone Edge was unleashed by Velda's pokemon, punching it at the volcarona's abdomen as my team followed it up with a barrage of Dark Pulse. I can hear Velda commanding her nidoqueen to dig another way out from where she was slung on my shoulder and the ground type pokemon immediately got to work. I immediately caught on to her plan, signalling zoroark to hide nidoqueen's attempt with an illusion. That nidoqueen may be our only ticket out of here.
If there is one weakness me and my pokemon have, it's that whatever plans we might cook up will fail in front of absolute strength, just like how it turned out in the fight I had with Giovanni. My team is powerful enough that this usually isn't a concern, but that weakness is pretty much laid bare for all to see when this absurdly powerful overgrown bug is now our opponent. The only pokemon that I know can easily defeat it is mewtwo and that annoying baby isn't here with me right now.
In fact, if it wasn't for the fact that this ancient ruin had only been recently discovered I would be convinced that this volcarona belonged to an ex-Champion. This overgrown moth can easily give another Champion-level pokemon a run for their money and I wouldn't be surprised if it could take on a few of such pokemon at the same time and still win. It will require a Champion to use their entire team to be able to take it down safely without resulting in any casualties on either side and even then, I would still put a huge question mark at the end of that sentence. If the aim is to defeat the volcarona with the intention to kill, then yes, a Champion team will definitely be more than sufficient. If the aim is to capture the volcarona without inflicting any permanent harm to it, then this would be a very tricky business. To do so without resulting in a casualty on the capturer's end might prove to be a problem even for a Champion team, depending on the matchup.
Our current situation is much worse. Our combined strength is not yet at Champion level and we are barely managing to stay alive, so defeating or capturing the volcorona to remove the threat to our lives is not going to be an option. I understood right from the very beginning that we cannot win this fight. We can only try to escape, which is why we have to do all we can to ensure that Velda's nidoqueen remain undetected for as long as possible while it embarked on its attempt to dig an escape route out of here.
To put it simply, our current plan is simply having the nidoqueen dig an escape route while the rest of our pokemon keeps the volcarona at bay. We don't have any better ideas at the moment.
"Digging a way out will take some time. We need to hold this moth off for as long as we can, I can go mega."
"Not now, only when absolutely necessary," I warned Velda, knowing firsthand the effects that Mega Evolution can have on the trainer's body. Our pokemon were somehow managing to get the volcarona to backpedal from their relentless onslaught but it was just a matter of time before the volcarona overwhelms us with those incredibly hot flames once more. This volcarona is so powerful that Ninetales can only suck in flames of such volume and intensity a couple more times. Any more than that and she will risk overloading herself and doing so could potentially be fatal to her body. We have to do this very carefully.
Volcarona unleashed another wall of fiery flames combined with a powerful screech of Bug Buzz. Exeggutor was able to deflect the worst of it but things had still gone very badly for us, very quickly. Bug Buzz is super-effective on my team of dark types and especially on exeggutor due to his psychic-grass typing. Factor in the volcarona's immense strength into the picture, that one Bug Buzz became a potentially one-hit-KO move that affected almost my entire team. Exeggutor was knocked out immediately in just that one move despite his best defences along with several of my other pokemon. I had to immediately recall them to make sure that they could stay alive. The only pokemon I had left that could still fight at full power is hydreigon and that was probably thanks to whatever artificial enhancements Team Rocket had done to it that caused it to go insane. A good number of Velda's pokemon had fainted too and like me, she was forced to recall them before volcarona could deal the finishing blow.
"We are so fucked."
"I agree. We are fucked. Is your nidoqueen done?"
"Soon."
"I can't remember the last time I was pushed this far by a wild pokemon. I think I need to go on a training trip soon after this and devise an anti-volcarona battle plan."
"Oh, is this your cliche anime training trip time skip arc?"
"You are an anime fan?"
"Kinda. You?"
"No, not really, but enough to know the memes when I saw them."
"Damn, and here I thought we could share some inside jokes. Anyway, are you going to continue to sling me like this like a sack of potatoes? The only thing I can see is your ass even if it's a fine one."
"Do you think you can run faster than the volcarona?"
"No."
"Do you have any other pokemon other than your rapidash that you can ride on?"
"No."
"Then suck it up and deal with it. With your abysmal fitness and your rapidash knocked out, how else am I going to carry you out of here while keeping at least one hand free to command my pokemon?"
"Um, power of friendship?"
"Screw that shit."
Between my hydreigon and her tyranitar dishing out serious firepower to try and beat the volcarona back, zoroark constantly fooling its senses every now and then, and our remaining pokemon running interference to try and assist our powerhouses, Velda's nidoqueen was finally done in burrowing a way out and was signalling to us to hurry and jump right into the hole it dug.
"You see that?" Velda pointed to her nidoqueen the moment it poked its head out to beckon to us to follow it.
"Yeah, but first, we need to make sure that the volcarona cannot follow after us or we are screwed. Tell your nidoqueen to close up the hole right after we enter, zoroark's illusions can only last for so long once he relishes control over it. My team will push it back, so can I count on you to lock it in place once that happens? Your pokemon seems proficient enough with rock type moves to do so."
"Let's do this."
"Right. Once complete, prepare to recall your pokemon, anytime now," I replied as I signalled for my team to enact one last plan. Grumpy, who had managed to avoid being knocked out by some stroke of extremely good luck, immediately jumped and perched himself on the top of my helmet.
Hydreigon unleashed the most powerful Dragon Pulse he could muster, pushing the volcarona back as Velda's tyranitar rose countless pillars of rock to create an elaborate prison of stone to trap it within. Like this, even the volcarona will need some time to break out of its temporary prison.
"Now!"
The moment zoroark's illusions took hold to cover our escape for those crucial few seconds, Velda swiftly recalled her pokemon except for her banette and nidoqueen and I did the same, recalling everyone except for Grumpy and spiritomb. I jumped into the hole her nidoqueen had dug and I felt the entrance rapidly closing up. Grumpy immediately let out a faint glow, lighting up the dark tunnel that was frankly, a little cramped but I'm not complaining as long as we get out of here alive.
"I can walk by myself now."
"You mean crawl," I pointed out and Velda did an exasperated roll of her eyes when she realised that the tunnel her nidoqueen had dug was only big enough for us to crawl on our hands and feet, not walk. Still, we do not want to dally here for long. I let her down as she had requested and soon, her nidoqueen was leading the way at the front, followed by me, then Velda.
We eventually emerged in another empty room, one that was much smaller than the grand hall which we found that volcarona in. I offered a hand to pull Velda up when she finally popped her head out from the hole, which she accepted and allowed me to pull her out as she finally stepped into this unknown room with her own two feet while dusting herself off.
"Where on earth are we now?"
"How would I know? Ask your nidoqueen."
There was only one visible route ahead and thankfully, it was one that led upwards instead of downwards. The both of us continued walking forward and released a couple more pokemon that had not fainted from our earlier battle. Grumpy continued in his duty of being our portable flashlight, constantly emitting a faint glow from his body with a lowly powered Flash.
"Do you think the Plasmas were here because they knew about the volcarona?" Velda asked while we were walking ahead, her nidoqueen, cradily, and banette visibly by her side.
"Unlikely. If they knew, they would send someone much more capable instead of those stupid goons."
"Maybe they knew a volcarona is here, just not expecting it to be that powerful? There were a few among those seven that are somewhat capable, enough to give me some trouble, just that their pokemon easily got their ass whipped the moment they accidentally woke the volcarona up."
"Is that so?" I hummed in thought when Velda revealed that tidbit of information. "Then it's not impossible. For all we know they may be expecting to come across a larvesta nest instead of a huge ass moth and if that is tru, that is something to be concerned about. Will Skye be okay on her own?"
"She will be fine, all of the Plasmas' pokemon were already defeated by the volcarona and Skye is no pushover. I'm just surprised that those Plasmas weren't killed by that volcarona. Maybe they woke up on the right side of the bed today."
"I don't know about them, but I definitely woke up on the wrong side."
"Make that two, friend, make that two."
Name: Jayce Dandolos
Age: 22
Pokemon Team:
1. Ninetales, female
2. Exeggutor, male
3. Weavile, male
4. Honchkrow, female
5. Umbreon, male
6. Hydreigon, male
7. Drapion, female
8. Zoroark, male
9. Bisharp, male
10. Shiftry, male
11. Porygon-Z, (Nosy), genderless
12. Greninja, male
13. Spiritomb, male
14. Pikachu, (Grumpy), male
Name: Megan Lawrence
Age: 35
Pokemon Team:
1. Excadrill
2. Durant
3. Steelix
4. Klinklang
5. Escavalier
6. Aggron
Name: Miguel Page
Age: 28
Pokemon Team:
1. Audino
2. Cinccino
3. Braviary
4. Castform
5. Lopunny
6. Zangoose
Name: Patricia Lowe
Age: 24
Pokemon Team:
1. Simipour
2. Floatzel
3. Swanna
4. Starmie
5. Dewgong
6. Samurott
Name: Zoe Vinson
Age: 18
Pokemon Team:
1. Emboar
2. Conkeldurr
3. Mienshao
4. Throh
5. Sawk
6. Toxicroak
Name:Reed Brady
Age: 15
Pokemon Team:
1. Leavanny
2. Galvantula
3. Durant
4. Yanmega
5. Pinsir
6. Vespiqueen