Wes hummed as he watched Ron skate off.
Yuki said "So how are we going to do this Wes?"
Wes said "we'll take it one step at a time and be prepared for anything." He clicked open his snag machine and popped a deactivated pokeball into it. He charged the ball and a few seconds later it popped out ready for snagging. He pocketed the snag ball then waited a few moments then loaded a second deactivated pokéball into the machine charged it then and created another snag ball.
Yuki hummed in confusion as she watched then gasped as she realized what Wes was doing "oh I see what your doing, you're charging the snag balls before you go into the cave so that you don't have to waste time charging one and wait for the machine to cool down to charge another one in between snags."
"yep." Wes said as he charged his third one "I don't know how many shadow pokemon we could run into but I'm pretty sure after this I will have to make a stop back at Clip's to get more pokéballs."
Yuki hummed as she nodded "so how many have we captured so far."
Wes pulled out his PDA, "here, can you work it while I continue to charge up snag balls"
Yuki nodded "I think so." She took it and worked with it "let's see. I think I want Shadow Monitor" She activated the shadow monitor program and saw that they had twelve shadow pokemon, The Mantine and Remoraid that Reath and Ferma gave them were indeed Shadow Pokemon. She hummed "looks like we've seen fourteen but only captured twelve which considering that the two we missed we weren't prepared for is pretty good."
Wes said "yeah," He looked at Yuki "Yuki do you want to try and capture and use Shadow Pokemon with me."
Yuki hummed in depressed thought, "while I do want to help Wes, I'm not sure I can handle a shadow pokemon," She pulled out the Shadow Furret that she had caught with a snag ball Wes had given her and said "I tried using Furret but it was too wild for me." She looked at Espeon "if Espeon wasn't backing me up and stopped it in place with confusion, I don't think I could have regained control."
Espeon said "She's got a point Wes, but you know having her around gives the team the ability to hold up to twelve pokemon on hand. We can stick with her while you work with the Shadow Pokemon."
"Yeah!" Umbreon barked in agreement, "She can hang onto us and we can be available to battle when we're needed along with any other pokemon that we purified. It will be handy to have a couple aces up your sleeves in case the peons cheat to try and get the best of us.
Wes hummed as he nodded then looked at Yuki "what do you think Yuki you like that plan."
"mm-hmm!" Yuki hummed in agreement "now let's go snag some pokemon."
Wes popped his final snag ball out "ten snag balls ready to capture, time to go into the cave."
The four headed to the cave and entered into it only to find themselves blocked by two trainers, a female street performer and a hunter.
The hunter grinned "well well looks like someone trying to get to the boss, Sims"
"yes indeed. Too bad the show stops here for them, Doken" The performer replied "we'll knock them right off stage."
Wes said "and would that change if I said your Boss is expecting us for a trade off?"
"not in your lifetime punk." Doken replied, "don't think I can't see that thief's glint in your eyes. You're not going to trade anything for nothing, you're just going to take everything you can and give nothing back. You're after Duking's plusle and you're going to get it no matter who gets in your way."
Yuki hummed "and you're going to get in his way."
"You better believe it ain't no one going to get past me or Sims." Doken replied
Yuki hummed then got a smirk to her face "oh I think I know someone who can." She smiled at Wes "and it's not going to be who you think it is." She stepped up "Espeon, Umbreon would you please convince these two peons to move aside."
"With Pleasure." Umbreon growled with vicious pleasure
"Convincing in progress" Espeon growled
"Go Linoone!" Doken called out.
"Lotad go!" Sims shouted
Linoone appeared with a growl it was the evolved form of Zigzagoon, followed by Lotad.
Yuki hummed as she studied the pokemon and neither of them had a Shadow Aura. "Maybe they're saving their shadow pokemon for last." She thought to herself "Alright Espeon Umbreon, you know how to do things go!"
"Right!" Both eons replied
"Fury Swipes on the Espeon Linoone!" Doken called out
"Astonish on Espeon Lotad."
Linoone howled and rushed at Espeon and Lotad followed suit.
Espeon used Confusion on Linoone and threw it at Lotad like a missile
Linoone nailed Lotad and both went into the wall and crashed and were stunned
Umbreon grinned and used secret power and the ground underneath the two pokemon shook and exploded with an explosion of dirt and sending the two flying and KOing them
Doken grunted and recalled his pokemon
Sims also recalled her pokemon "I heard rumors the pokemon the snag master has are tough but I didn't think they would listen to the seer girl and give the same amount of effort."
"You call that effort." Umbreon muttered "please. That's nothing"
Yuki smiled "have you had enough."
Doken grunted "just wait till I pull out this one. Go Qwilfish."
"get under Anorith." Sims called out
A blue and purple pufferfish like pokemon appeared on top of a rock colored shrimp like pokemon.
Yuki gasped as she saw the aura around Qwilfish."
Umbreon scoffed "please this just makes it easier." He focused to use Secret Power again
"Protect Anorith!" Sims called out
Anorith let out a cry and a barrier surrounded the two pokemon. The earth shook and exploded but the two pokemon were protected from it.
Umbreon gave a sunken glance "you got to be kidding me…" He grumbled
Espeon said "That's protect for you Umbreon, it block everything that does damage and because Qwilfish is in range of the barrier it's gets the boost as well"
Doken chuckled "and check out the combo Qwilfish poison sting rapid fire."
Qwilfish charged up and started shooting needles at a rapid rate at both eons.
"Dodge it!" Yuki commanded
Espeon and Umbreon both took off with speed avoiding the attack.
Qwilfish continued to use poison sting in a rapid fire and was tracking the eons to get them
"We can't attack them as long as the anorith is using protect." Espeon called out "but we can't just stand still either."
"this is not helping my side." Umbreon growled
"would you get over that, you're completely healed." Espeon retorted "it was only a bruise."
"It still hurt…" Umbreon grumbled
Yuki looked at Wes "Wes, what can we do?"
Wes hummed "they've got a nasty defense combo, but protect only lasts so long before it wears off and sometimes it fails to activate if they try to use it again."
Sim grinned "but I have another move that works just as well. Anorith Harden
The protect shield was lowered but Anorith hardened it's body
"Espeon Psybeam on the Qwilfish Now!"
Espeon turned sharply to aim "Psybeam!" He fired the rainbow colored beam and blasted the Qwilfish and sent it rolling. It recovered charged up and fired a spray of needles at Espeon."
Espeon took the hit but managed to endure it.
Yuki said "Umbreon use Secret Power on the Quilfish."
Umbreon charged up and used secret power causing the ground to explode under Quilfish and send it flying.
Yuki said "Wes, Snag it it's a Shadow Pokemon."
Doken grunted "oh no you don't, He pulled out the pokeball "Qwilfish…
Wes turned focused and quickly pulled out a Snag Ball. "Snag Ball fire!" He threw it
"Return!"
The snag ball caught the Quilfish before the laser could and it fell to the ground and shook.
"No no! You can't take my Shadow Pokemon." Doken shouted
The ball exploded with purple energy and the ball shot back to Wes "can and I did."
Doken growled "when I get a hold of you I'll…" He took a step but then all of a sudden the ground gave way underneath him and collapsed causing him to fall through with a yell
"Doken!" Sims called out
A crash was heard
"Doken are you alright." Sims called out
"uh…" Doken groaned. "of all the things to happen."
Sims said "hang on I'll get you out of there!" She recalled Anorith then looked at Wes "if you're going to continue you better hurry," She stated "this place is already unstable enough without your Umbreon shaking everything."
Umbreon snickered
Wes grinned "maybe I should shake this place up and see what falls out in escaping as I'm sure you guys aren't stupid enough to hang around during an earthquake"
Sims made a shocked face "You wouldn't."
Wes grinned "Espeon Umbreon?"
Both eons grinned and a light shaking occurred
Sims gasped "you would!" She pulled out a rope and threw it down the hole "Doken get out of here, the snag master gonna bring this entire cave down."
"That bastard, Escape Rope!" He shouted
Sims pulled out another rope and then looked at Yuki. "he's dangerous." She stated then vanished into a teleport as she used her own escape rope.
Wes snickered then flinched as the room shook again "okay you two that enough. I wasn't going to bring the place down for real"
"that's not us Wes." Espeon stated "I'm detecting both the ground and roof is becoming unstable in an increasing rate. This whole section is going to go within the next hour or so."
Yuki gasped "where do we go?"
Espeon looked ahead "deeper in." He stated "It's not as unstable but if this goes, it will follow suit especially if any damage is done to it. We have to get to Duking's plusle before it all goes. There is one last chance to escape out the top and it's now."
Wes looked at Yuki "Yuki," He muttered "last chance to escape, I'm not leaving without Plusie but you can escape now if you want."
Yuki hummed "I'm not leaving you Wes. We can't let Miror. B win."
"Right," Wes muttered "let's go."
All continued down the mine tunnel and a timer of an hour appeared on Wes's PDA and started counting down as if they were being timed.
