Sabrina's arrival was imminent, Grimsley and Colress both knew it. They knew what she was capable of doing with her powers. They knew just how evil Zinzolin truly was, and what he would do to them if they gave him the chance; he would not stop until their bodies were unrecognizable, and he would take his time.

They were standing firm at the entrance of the hospital ready to fight for the remnants, all of whom, at one point or another, had been under the command of one of them. Both Grimsley and Colress were afraid, but they were resolute. They had spent a long time running away from their past, and now their past was basically running over to them, to finish them. At some point they realized that it would be just as painful to keep running and hiding from it as it would be to face it, and, if they were to continue running, they'd never stop. At least if they decided to face it there would be an outcome, either positive or negative, but an outcome nonetheless.

"You know what?" Colress said, "over the past few days I had to endure some pretty heavy stuff, no one was there to see it, no one will ever know...I have to admit that a part of me had always wanted people to recognize my genius, and that partially moved me during my research, but now I know, if I respect my own efforts to survive, no other recognition matters,"

"It's a good thing you learned that right now cause you're probably about to die,"

"I know,"

"you do have my respect however,"

"and you have mine..."

The guards had left them. They had sheltered themselves, along with everyone else inside, on the most secluded wing of the hospital at the far back, leaving the two men standing outside of the hospital, only aided by Grimsley's numerous pokemon, to fend off the attack. Many dark pokemon stood by either side of them, a group of mightyena, a group of absol, a pair of tyrannitar, a lone hydreigon, a crawdaunt, as well as a few purrloin, all ready to fight. The absol suddenly grunted, all at the same time in an ominous manner, with a dangerous look on their eyes. They turned to the mightyena which in turn started howling loudly, as drops of sweats rolled from Colress' forehead.

The ground beneath them started trembling, and from the horizon loud growls and cries could be heard forthcoming. The two men and the pokemon could sense Zinzolin's hate in the air, a hate that he forced upon his army of mind-controlled trainers and their pokemon. Finally, the heavenly radiance emitted by the psychic pokemon, the emissaries of Zinzolin's message, appeared before their eyes, and their opponents arrived soon after.

A myriad of them, way more than Grimsley's pokemon, there was no need to count. Regular trainers dressed in flashy cool clothes, still carrying their backpacks, with their competitive pokemon by their side. Mainly charizard and dragonite as well as a few garchomp, lopunny and kingdra, all of them commanded by Sabrina, who approached the hospital standing on top of her luminous metagross. She was wearing a modified version of the mind-controlling red mask, with three antennas at the top of it resembling long, insect like horns.

Sabrina made her pokemon stop a good distance away from the two brave men, who didn't back away one inch, and all of the trainers stayed behind her. They could see each other clearly, it was useless to run away. Sabrina moved her hand toward Grimsley and quickly pulled it toward her, but Grimsley didn't move, instead he gave Sabrina a wicked smile. He knew her psychic powers wouldn't work on him. His stare was so affecting that Sabrina, commanded by Zinzolin, had to look away.

His insolence was infuriating, there was nothing he could do against Zinzolin and yet Grimsley chose to mock him, he had to be annihilated. Sabrina then moved her hand toward Colress and tried to pull him toward her but, before she could do it, a group of purrloin climbed on him and nullified her efforts.

On his secret lair, away from the battlefield, Zinzolin raged and cursed until his throat hurt. Even after he had obtained all of that power there were people he couldn't control. Because of this Sabrina, and everyone around her, raged too. They growled and shouted filled with Zinzolin's rage. They were ready to kill.

Sabrina opted to take only Colress' glasses from his face, and transported them all the way to her right hand, with which she quickly crushed them, cutting her hand in many places and instantly producing blood for which Sabrina didn't care at all.

She opened her bloodied hand and released the shards of Colress' glasses on the ground, then shouted with fury, ordering her metagross to attack. And like clockwork her pokemon charged at Grimsley, with everyone following behind her like mindless warriors thirsty for blood. Sabrina teared up the piece of ground right in front of Grimsley and lifted it to the sky, she couldn't affect him directly but she could still kill him with her powers, so she dropped the big boulder on top of him, giving Grimsley mere seconds to push Colress away from him before jumping out of the way himself.

And the hopeless battle started. The charizard wasted no time to breathe out powerful fire blasts at their enemies, filling the improvised battlefield with flames that hurt the dark pokemon deeply. The dragonite's enormous paws shone with a green burst, they hit the absol with outrages before the tyrannitar stepped in. The powerful green beasts teared up pieces of the ground and threw them at the dragonite's heads.

Meanwhile, outside victory road, the remnants assembled and hid behind every bush and tree they could find, while the numerous purrloins rested pleasurably and tightly on top of their heads. The remnants and their few pokemon knew better than to make a sound or move an inch more than was strictly necessary, as any simple noise, no matter how low or insignificant, would alert the many trainers and their overpowered pokemon guarding the only entrance to the cave,

"there are more people here than anywhere else," Lucia silently lamented, as she and Bianca slowly crouched down behind some bushes, "of course they are all here, he's a coward, it will be impossible to get in,"

"I have a plan, just leave it to me," Helma said as she got next to them,

"what are you gonna do, distract them?" Bianca asked, "we've tried that a few times before and it hasn't quite worked out for us,"

"I must do this, just wait until I am inside, then get in and follow my lead."

Helma didn't wait for anyone to answer her and called both of her pokemon out. She carefully grabbed her small cranidos and placed it on pangoro's left shoulder with the help of pangoro itself, as it was much taller than both of them. Then she took out a small pencil case containing her newly acquired eight badges, and showed them to pangoro before hopping on his right shoulder herself with the help of her cane.

Then, Helma ordered Pangoro to walk through the trees and bushes, leaving behind the rest of the remnants, the purrloins, a few of their scraggy and vullaby, their only pokemon, while they could only marvel at her bravery. She came out of hiding and walked over to the entrance, and stopped right in front of the mind-controlled trainers with hateful frowns on their faces,

"get the hell out of my house!" Helma cried before she ordered pangoro to attack. The many mooks ganged up on them and Pangoro quickly responded by throwing punches left and right; ice punches for a dragonite's jaw and garchomp's stomach, thunder punches for charizard's throat and kingdra's face, and drain punches for excadrill's nose and greninja's chest, which not only took them down with one hit each but also revitalized Pangoro after withstanding all of the hateful attacks that the dragons threw at it; water, fire, dirt, punches and teeth only angered Helma, Pangoro, and Cranidos more as they rampaged through the multitude, and punished them for what they did to her friends back at the giant chasm. Helma and cranidos helped their holder by dishing out hits of their own and deflecting attacks directed at pangoro, they made their way into the cave like an enraged three headed beast, punches flew out for all directions, Helma used her cane and cranidos used its head, they were unstoppable.

Back at the hospital, two arcanine suddenly appeared and went directly for Grimsley, who recognized them as the same ones he fought and defeated at the police station days before, as one of them still sported a visible injury under its jaw. They swiftly ran toward him with fatal intent but an absol intercepted one of them with a sucker punch, then crawdaunt appeared glowing blue and smacked it right on the jaw, knocking it down. The second arcanine moved for the two pokemon but crawdaunt stood in its way and smacked hammered down the arcanine's nose with its claw before absol finished it, slashing the arcanine with its paws covered in darkness. Sabrina's metagross intervened in the fight and mashed absol to the ground, then threw it far and away, before being struck directly by crawdaunt's claw. Sabrina didn't move after the water attack, she instead smiled at his attempt, closed her eyes, and metagross responded to her gesture by stomping his front limbs hard on the ground, producing an earthquake, then followed that attack by mashing crawdaunt out of the way.

Sabrina set her eyes on Grimsley, who shouted at Colress to move out of the way before running inside of the empty hospital, and Sabrina alone charged after him, destroying the edges of the doors so that metagross could pass in the process.

Grimsley quickly found a staircase and went up as Sabrina grew closer. He arrived at the second floor and started running through an empty, darkened hallway which seemed pretty narrow for his pursuers. Tragically, neither Sabrina nor metagross backed down, and the steel pokemon plowed through the walls of the hallway without minding the structure in the least. Grimsley could only sprint faster to try and avoid the wave of destruction that made its way to him. During his attempt to escape, he noticed a more narrow set of stairs ahead of him and decided that it was his best chance to escape, as the metagross wouldn't be able to fit there, but metagross didn't care. Once Grimsley started going up the stairs as fast as he could, metagross followed him, destroying anything it found on its way, climbing up however it could, even using the walls as if it were an ariados; its limbs stuck uncannily to the walls the same way Sabrina stuck to her pokemon.

But as Grimsley kept going up floor after floor it seemed like all he had to do was keep going, as the metagross would inevitably destroy the staircase and fall deep down from its own weight. However, soon after, the sound of a window breaking was heard, and this made the sounds of the one sided battle outside more evident. More specifically, the sounds of the dark pokemon running away from the trainers; there were just too many. A dragonite entered the staircase from above, it was obvious it was the one which broke the window. It proceeded to set the whole place on fire, with flames that it breathed out of its mouth even better than a fire pokemon. Suddenly Grimsley felt like he was burning.

That was it. The dragon above him stopped its attack because it knew the flames would finish the job in a more effective way, and below him Sabrina and metagross slowly approached Grimsley as he stood on the corner of the staircase, between the third and fourth floor. The metagross started mashing the walls around it, weakening the foundations of the whole structure with every hit. Suddenly the floor right below Grimsley crumbled whole and he had to jump to reach the edge of the stairs right above him with the mere tip of his fingers.

Right then Zinzolin knew it was all over for his victim. He paused to take a deep breath and to savor the moment. He moved his tongue inside his mouth and swallowed abundant saliva, it was as if he could taste the victory that he had waited to achieve for so long. Grimsley's fingers suddenly slipped as he was trying very hard to hold onto the stairs above him, and he fell all the way to the ground.