"Bagon!" screeched a Pokemon somewhere near Roxie. She swam up through the water, though she had no idea how she became emerged in it to begin with. Instead of being greeted by a rare dragon Pokemon in the cave Roxie found herself in, she saw a large bagel with legs. "Bagel!" it shouted while she realized the water was warmer and dirtier than she had originally thought… or was it just coffee?

Roxie shook her head and took a sip of the cup of java in her right hand and held her left hand close to her shoulder so that Florina could nibble from the bagel held there. Roxie realized that she was daydreaming and just a few minutes ago Adrian sent an urgent message to her PDA, but it was quite lacking in detail. Starsteel hovered raced around the door to Adrian's room as Roxie walked up to it. There was a note that read:

"Sorry Roxie,

Starsteel work up early got into the coffee. I was going to ask you to take care of him later because I have a meeting with our tactician, but I guess you get to start your job a bit early.

Once again, sincerest apologies,

Adrian"

Attached to it by tape was Adrian's Millennium Fragment necklace.

"Oh, so he gets to sleep while I baby sit?" Roxie muttered as she ripped the note of the door and tossed the necklace on. When she thought about it though, it was more important for him to get sleep considering that he was the leader and he was going to make a large strategic decision later in the day. With a yawn she motioned for Starsteel to tag along and he happily sipped over her head and promptly sat in it. It was quite annoying to have the little bungle of energy jittering with caffeine and rattling her brain, so it was a welcome change when he flew off of her head after she stepped outside of her team's base.

Much to Roxie's surprise there was a thick forest and mountains clustered all around in the distance, she was not expecting the exercise to be in western Orre. She was even more surprised to see two Pokemon exiting the forest. One was short, stumpy, and blue with a skinny little neck and arms. It had the beginnings of a gray shell that it would complete after evolution on its head, but it looked oddly like a mullet. The other Pokemon Roxie mistook for a mountain in the forest… it was a giant lump of brown fur for crying out loud! Upon closer inspection, Roxie found a pig snout and slightly chipped white tusks though. The Bagon and a Piloswine were staring up at Starsteel who was going summersaults in the air. Those Pokemon were more common to caves… like the types that were most likely in the nearby mountain range. Seeing a chance to purify S: 001, get rid of a bit of Starsteel's extra energy, and catch two new useful Pokemon, Roxie tossed out the Shadow Electabuzz's Pokeball and yelled to Starsteel, "Psychic on the Bagon!"

Starsteel effortlessly hurled the Bagon into a tree and with the flick of his finger. Bagon winces through the pain, but the tree, amazingly, stayed in tact. It was just that moment when S: 001 appeared and with his fist glowing purple and yellow smashes his fist right into the Bagon… then the tree toppled. The Bagon would not go down without a fight, however. It hopped up into S: 001's stomach as hard as it could. Though it didn't do much damage, it did distract S: 001 before he could jump away from the Piloswine's Earthquake attack. Because Starsteel had tired of flying and landed on a tree, he too felt the effects of the earthquake. The tree Starsteel was in toppled down, leaving Starsteel, the Bagon, and S: 001 under it. Starsteel was quick to recover, however, and shrugged the tree off to the side wit this telekinesis.

Great, now Roxie had to extremely damaged Pokemon to deal with in battle. If that wasn't enough, Roxie's Shadow Visor flashed a waning message and the shadow aura around S: 001 grew larger and red. S: 001 had entered Hyper Mode. Roxie had quite a few choices on this turn and she would have to make them before the wild Pokemon struck again. The Bagon was most likely damaged enough now for capture and Roxie planned to throw some sort of Pokeball at it, but if she also chose to call back S: 001 and help its purification, she would be left with no time to instruct her Pokemon to attack…

Quickly Roxie made up her mind and called " S: 001!" to calm his blind rage and tossed an Ultra Ball at the dazed Bagon. S: 001 went back to its normal sate of what looked like absolutely no feeling while the Ultra Ball beamed the beaten Bagon square in the head. The Ball quickly scooped up he Bagon in a swift yellow light, fell to the ground, wobbled for a second, then disappeared into Roxie's and Eric's shared Pokemon account. Roxie did not remember about that last part for quite a few moments and was disturbed by the disappearance of the ball.

Meanwhile, the Piloswine slammed its feet into the ground once more and created a second Earthquake. The tree that Starsteel had attempted to move rolled down the earth and mauled over Starsteel and S: 001… again. It was evident that Starsteel was still up because the tree started to float again, right over Starsteel's head. S: 001 didn't look so got though, he was bleeding on his right limbs and at his sides and he was obviously knocked out. Wincing, Roxie recalled S: 001 and sent Florina into battle. Whit just a point of Roxie's finger, Florina hopped off Roxie's shoulder and ran to Starsteel's side.

Roxie had yet another taught choice to make this round. She had taught Florina a perfect attack for this situation with the aid of a Delta TM… but they had never actually used it in battle. It was awfully strong to use in the confined areas that they had found themselves in and Floirna may have nearly forgotten how to use it by then. But another chance she would have to take. "Florina… Meteor Mash!" she hollered cautiously; she didn't even bother to give Starsteel instructions.

Florina froze for a moment and looked back at Roxie for confirmation. Roxie merely shooed her on with her hands. Florina slowly nodded back at her; then ran right up into a tree. She jumped down and made her forepaws into fists. Those fists glowed an odd silver color, then flamed up as Florina fell nearer and nearer toward her target. The Piloswine was too intrigued to move; he had no idea what was coming to him when Florina smashed right into his side. There was a loud bang, a cloud of dirt flew up, and then everything went still. Florina quickly hopped out of the cloud that her impact made and scurried back to Starsteel's side. When the dust finally settled, there was an enormous crater in the ground with at least ten fallen trees. Under one tree there could be seen the wiggling leg of a Piloswine. Roxie tossed a Great Ball into the pit. Eventually it rolled down to the squirming leg, captured the Piloswine without much of a fight, and disappeared.

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Roxie had a heck of a time explaining the giant blast that woke everyone up when she got back into the base. It turned out that she was not at all the only one with an early start that morning. Because of Roxie's 'disturbance' she got the most annoying job of all that day, cafeteria clean up. Because Adrian was having his strategy meeting, the second in command had doled out this task to her. After about an hour on mindless sweeping, moping, and trashing banana peels and plastic packaging with Florina's help, Roxie was finally finished.

She ran off to the self-service Pokecenter the minute she was finished. After switching out Buzz for her newly captured Bagon, then named Godzuki, and healing her Pokemon and Starsteel she figured she would stop by Adrian's room and see of he was done figuring out a strategy yet. In the hallway, however, she ran into two girls who started to drag her in the opposite direction. Both were dressed in denim skirts and plain black tees. It was easy to tell them apart, however, because one had a much longer nose than the other, her brown hair done up in a bun, and thick-rimmed black glasses while the other had long-flowing red hair and an odd black headband.

"What?! Are you… the blue team?" asked Roxie, staring up at the redhead. "Look, I don't know any of the letters to the password!"

"Ha… your mind is till in this stupid little game," answered the brunette. "We have no interest in that pitiful little code."

"All we want is revenge! Revenge for stealing Adrian from us and waking us up way the frick too early."

Roxie sighed and let the girls drag her on. "Look, Adrian and I just met… I don't have anything going on with him, I just want to see if we can win this thing."

"Whatever, he still likes you… and you have no reason to use a Meteor Mash attack so early in the morning," leered the bun lady.

"We'll give you a chance to fight back anyway. We'll see if that stupid little Meteor Mash of yours can stand up to our attacks."

Then Roxie saw where they were taking her. It was the base gym, not the one for trainers, but for Pokemon battles, and it looked that there were four courts and enough room to use whatever attack one want without brining down the whole building. Roxie could already tell she was going to have fun with this, finally she could feel free to let her attacks loose. There was still the question of her opponents though… could they take down a Shadow Pokemon and Florina… and what if she actually had to throw that poor Bagon into battle. Yes, she was excited, but also cautious and calculating.

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After a bit of trash talk, the girls released their first two Pokemon, a Walrein released by Roxanne (Roxie chose to call her that because she did not like to think of that girl and herself sharing the same nick name), the brunette and a Charizard from the redhead, Ash. The Walrein was an odd sight to Roixe, especially on land. Its head was large and white, its tusks long and pointed, its nose similar to that of a pig's in size, but a deep sky-blue in color. Its body was the same color, except for two light blue rings around the chest. Aside from the flippers, the body reminded Roxie much of a dog; maybe it was just the way the Walrein was sitting. Its tail had a rather odd shape, similar to that of a Weavile, an evolution of Sneasal that she heard about on a TV special about the Shinou region. The Charizard, meanwhile, was just plain menacing. The body was just as large as the Walrein's, but everything else seemed longer, leaner, skinnier, and overall more powerful. Its tail lashed about like a whip with a flame at the end while the head snarled and glared, angered, at Roxie. She got a good picture of its flared nostrils and the two ears (Or were they horns?) that stuck out of the back of its head.

What a nice strategy, Roxie thought. Charizard would cover Walrein's Steel weakness perfectly and Roxie suspected that the Walrein knew Earthquake to compensate for Charizard's Thunder weakness… and Charizard would not take a lick of damage from it. Florina and S: 001 were vulnerable to that Earthquake, but if they could take the Walrein out before hand… and they would not know that Florina was a Delta Pokemon an S: 001 a Shadow Pokemon for at least a turn. Plus Godzuki would be even more vulnerable to some ice attack from Walrein… So she tossed out S: 001's Pokeball and whispered over her shoulder, "You're up, Florina." Roxie noticed that they were an odd pair, Florina prancing around and itching to battle while 001 stood absolutely still and awaited commands.

Swiftly those commands came, Charizard and Walrein were to use Flamethrower and Ice Beam respectively on Florina while Florina lent a Helping Hand to S: 001's Shadow Bolt on Walrein. The Charizard swooped a bit closer to Florina and simply snorted… The effect was a jet of flames that threw Florina into a wall. She quickly recovered, however, and hopped up onto S: 001's head. The Electabuzz lowered its head a bit and out of its antennae shadow energy and electricity gathered around Florina, strangely not harming her. Without warning, Florina was flung off of S: 001'a head and within the blink of in eye she was ramming into the Walrein's stomach. She bounced right back to her place on the battlefield sans shadow energy or electricity. The Walrein, however, had been thrown a couple yards back and nearly hit a wall. It made no movements within a reasonable amount of time, so sighing, Roxanne said, "Shadow Pokemon… no fair," and recalled her Walrein.

Next to appear from Roxanne was a Steel Pokemon of her own. It was another heavyweight, with an armored skull, a long pointed nose, steel horns pointing foreword, shining steel claws, and a clumsy wagging tail. The Aggron took two steps foreword as its trainer strapped its Pokeball back to her belt. Roxie could have sworn that the whole base shook at that moment… it was probably worse than Florina's earlier disturbance.

Roxie figured that Charizard wold be much more of a hazard if she just let it sit out there… but could she leave herself open to a possible Ground attack from Aggron? Yes, she thought, the Walrein probably knew Earthquake, so why bother teaching it to another Pokemon? The orders came flying once more, S: 001 was to stop Charizard in its tracks with a Thunder Wave, Florina to use Surf, Aggron to smash Electabuzz's head in with Focus Punch, and Charizard to keep the flames coming on Florina. Luckily for Roxie, her big fuzzy yellow got the first shot that round and flicked a weak spark of static electricity from its hand at Charizard. Charizard seem to rock back and fourth a bit, but it couldn't move. Aggron held up its fist and readied itself for a good shot at S: 001. Unfortunately for Roxanne and Ash, Florina seemingly conjured up a wave from nowhere and rode it right into the opposing pair. Aggron lost its focus and both Pokemon were slightly buffed. Florina jumped onto the wall and quickly jumped from the wall back to her position by Roxie's side.

Ash checked up on her Charizard's health and noticed that it took much more damage from that attack then she expected. "What the heck! There's no way that that Furret is at a high enough level to do that… It must be water type! … Somehow." Great, now they had already discovered two out of three of Roxie's big tricks… the last one being Meteor Mash. She was not even sure if she would need to unleash thought one though… While Roxie mulled over how to keep her last surprise up her sleeves, Ash made a substitution. The paralyzed Charizard disappeared in a rosy haze and in similar color appeared what seemed to be a bipedal sheep. It was quite short, about four and a half feet tall, but it had a long black and yellow-stripped neck. It had a similar pattern on its ear-horns (What was it with these girls and horns?) and tail, which ended in a shining red orb. There was a similar orb on its upside-down teardrop shaped head. Great, Roxie had to deal with an Ampharos, a Pokemon she'd rather have on her side because of its cuddleability and power rather than fighting against it.

The battle cries flew a third time.

"Aggy, lets test Ash's theory with a Thunder Punch!"

"Ack! We need to stop that attack! One more Helping Hand- Shadow Bolt!"

Once again Florina hopped up on her partner's head, waited for him to finish charging and… bang! Florina torpedoed right into the poor Aggron's head, sending it spinning. Roxanne did not even bother to see if her Aggron was knocked out, she knew it would be after a hit like that. Aggron's stand-in came out of a timer ball, and there was a faint ticking noise when it appeared. Roxie could understand why it might take a while to capture this Pokemon. It had large green wings with a red outline and a light grassy green tail that ended in three spikes with the same pattern as the wings. It had a lithe body, small, grabby hands, and a large head with what looked like red goggles covering its eyes… or were they eyes. Another odd feature was the Pokemon's dark green horns that bent back similarly to Charizard… but they were flimsier; perhaps a better word would have been antennae. In any case, Roxie knew exactly which Pokemon this was, a Flygon. While more often thought of for its Dragon capabilities, Roxie knew that it would be even more powerful against her as a ground foe.

Roxie had a few moments to thing as Ash swapped back in her Charizard, most likely for the Flying immunity to Ground type attacks because Flygon was about to let lose an Earthquake… Roxie could take a great shot at doing massive amounts of damage to the Flygon while Ash took her chances with Chaizard's attack and Roxie was fairly sure how Flygon was going to act… Or she could sacrifice Starsteel, who was whizzing about above the battle, or Godzuki, or even both of them to keep Florina and S: 001 in play… Bur she knew that Starsteel was possibly her most powerful asset and she had a strong feeling that her little Bagon buddy would do something amazing during this battle.

"Blast Burn on the Furret!" yelped Ash with a sinister grin.

"You know what to do here, Gon," Roxanne encouraged her Flygon.

Roxie sighed and played with her hair for a moment. "Ack… well, it has been working for us… Helping Hand – Shadow Bolt on the Flygon!"

Flygon was up first… and it dived right into the floor of the stadium, creating an enormous rumbling sensation. Soon bits of splintered wood and earth from the stadium and flew toward Charizard, S: 001, and Florina. Charizard was able to break out if its paralysis long enough to flutter above the wreck and fall back down before getting damaged. Florina and S: 001 were nowhere near as lucky. Both were buried under a pile of wreckage by the time everything settled down, but they were able to burrow out. Florina was sweating and panting, but S: 001 was still his stiff old self. Another Helping Hand and Shadow Bolt combo went off, sending Florina spiraling square into the now fluttering Flygon. Flygon flew dangerously close to the ceiling, but broke the attack before that and swooped back down to its trainer. Charizard once again immobilized by S: 001's Thunder Wave.

Again Roxie's Shadow Visor popped out before her eyes and revealed a swarming nexus or flaming shadow energy around S: 001; he had once again entered Hyper Mode. Using her PDA, Roixe checked up on the Elecatubuzz's status… it was close to complete purification and calling it back could be thing to push it over the edge. Besides, Roxie had Godzuki and Starsteel still waiting on the bench if Electabuzz or Florina were knocked out. Roxie whistled, waved, and yelled "S: 001!" Roixe saw the Shadow Aura dim down to its normal purple flicker as the Shadow Visor flipped back.

"Florina, another Surf!"

"Gon, take care of them with another Earthquake!"

"Try one more time with your Blast Burn!"

Florina rode another waving into the opposing pair. Flygon started to topple over, but Roxanne returned it before it could hit the ground again, she wasn't sure if Charizard would be able to pick itself up again if there was another Earthquake. Charizard spit out a few small embers around Florina, who tried to cautiously back away, but before she could gain enough distance, the embers flared into pillars of flame, constantly prickling and burning Florina. It was plan to see that by the time the attack ended the Florina was down for the count.

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Roxie could not make herself look and choked back tears while she recalled Florina. Not wanting to leave Starsteel open to a devastating attack like that, Roxie tossed out Godzuki's Pokeball. He stretched a bit, then looked up at his opponents and gawked. In the end, Godzuki was hiding behind S: 001.

"Um… Ash… I'm all out, can I borrow one of yours?" Roxanne muttered to her partner as Roxie checked up on Godzuki's attacks.

"Ug, you're so wasteful!"
"It's not my fault! My Pokemon have been more of a threat so she's been targeting me."

"Oh, whatever, here you go." Ash rolled her eyes and tossed a Pokeball, not the Ampharos's, to Roxanne.

Roxanne tossed out the Pokeball and out of it appeared a frog-like Pokemon. It had a wide grin with two large pink cheeks at the end of either side. On its head were two large, expressional brown eyes and one curly little hair that dangled in front of its forehead. The Pokemon's body was mostly green, but on its stomach and feet and hand pads there was a golden yellow color. Only one part of its stomach was not yellow, a little area of green in a swirl. It began to hop around giggling, "Politoed, Politoed!" while clapping its hands. Everyone but Ash just stared at it for a few moments. The Politoed smiled politely back at everyone.

"What! Ash, you took Politoed? I can't believe you didn't take-" Roxanne exclaimed, but Ash butted in.

"Sush! I already had Ampharos for that and … she doesn't need to know about him anyway," Ash whispered to her partner dismissively.

"Oh, fine, whatever. What kind of attacks does this thing have anyhow?" Roxanne pulled out some electronic device and Roxie assumed that she was checking out the attacks. "Oh! Politoed, Metronome!"

Charizard could not attack this turn, so Ash did not even bother, but Roxie was able to blurt out, "Godzuki, Protect!" before it happened. The Politoed started jumping around again and instead of clapping it waved a particular finger. Roxie noticed that if the Politoed was human than that would have been considered a major offense rather than an attack. Soon the odd dance was done and the Politoed looked around curiously. Without warning, a white light appeared that blinded all the trainers. When they finally regained sight, they saw that all the Pokemon on the field but a Shelgon were knocked out.

"What the…" Ash began.

"…It was an Explosion… and Godzuki gained so much experience from both of your Pokemon fainting that he evolved!"

Ash glared at Roxanne and said, "Oh, I'm so tired of you, you…. You freaking screw up! First you get all of your Pokemon knocked out and then you knock out two of our own!"

"Hey, I knocked out one of her Pokemon! Plus how was I supposed to know it would be an Explosion? It's a random attack for crying out loud. Whatever, I'm going to heal my Pokemon and see what's up with the training mission." And after she returned Politoed and its Pokeball that was exactly what she did.

"Fine, I guess I'll be fighting you alone!"

Starsteel attempted to fly into the battlefield, but Roxie stopped him short. "I want to do a one-on-one, Starsteel."

"Pfft, you just got rid of your biggest advantage, idiot!"

"I just want to show that I can beat you all on my own," said Roxie with a shrug.

"Whatever, let's just finish this! Amp, Charge!"

Roxie looked at Godzuki's stats on the PDA. It had forgotten Headbutt and learned two new attacks. "Godzuki, Focus Energy!"

It was an odd strategy, but Roxie admitted that the results were still up in the air. On one hand, Roxie had just given herself a great shot at a critical hit. On the other, Ash had just charged up an attack, even though Godzuki was resistant to it. Thunder attacks were also known for paralyzation, which could put a wrench into Roxie's plan. Either way, Godzuki hunched down and readied himself to pounce. It looked as if the Ampharos was completely yellow now with the energy it had gathered around its body.

"Thunder!"

"Double-Edge!"

The Ampharos discharged all of the energy it had saved up and it made a stunning jolt toward the ceiling. After a quick bounce it raced toward Godzuki, who was already jumping toward Ampharos. Just as Godzuki pinned the overgrown sheep down, he flew back from the force of his own attack. After a millisecond to recover from the attack, the Thunder hit him. It was plain to see that both Pokemon were not able to battle. One knocked out by sheer force and the other horribly burnt even through its resistant dragon skin.

"I guess it's a tie"

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What an ordeal! Roxie thought as she healed her Pokemon in the machine for the second time that day. That was a full out fully evolved Pokemon party that she defeated with one Pokemon tat had evolved once, a basic Pokemon, and a Pokemon that was lucky enough to evolve in the middle of a battle. There were also Godzuki's odd attacks… it knew Protect and Toxic, attacks it could normally learn under a trainer's guidance with a technical machine. There were three obvious answers Roxie came up with however, Godzuki was trained and abandoned, it had known the attacks since birth because its father had been released and TM attacks pass through generations, or a combination of both. Its parent had known it and it was abandoned after it was born or as an egg. Whatever the reasons may have been, it had made a great difference in that battle and there was no doubt of it.

Curious, however, Roxie let the dragon out of its Pokeball. It instantly smiled and took Roxie down with a weak tackle. It must have enjoyed battle by her side. Now that she was closer to him, Roxie noticed just how different he had become. It was more like a cannon ball than anything in its little dragon cocoon. All that could bee seen other than the cocoon were blue, scaly legs with red stripes and glowing yellow eyes bushed back somewhere inside. It was a little odd, but irresistibly cute, so Roxie allowed him to lick her face for a few moments before playfully pushing him off.

It was then that Starteel zipped to the door of the mini Pokecenter because Adrian had appeared at the door. "Hey Roxie… you up for a trip?" he asked as her offered his hand to help her up. Roxie did not see the hand because she was too busy continuing her analyzation of Godzuki and got up on her own. Adrian quietly recalled the hand before she really did see it.

"A trip? To where?" Roxie looked down as Godzuki went to check out Adrian. As Godzuki sniffed around Adrian's feet she saw that they were no longer clothed in sandals. Instead there were beat up brown leather boots. "Some place that might require some more durable clothes?" Roxie said while looking back up at Adrian and smiling.

"For sure. Half of us are going out and we're going to try to invade the other team's base. We'll try to be more careful and stealthy than when they tried to sneak in on us though. The strategist and I thought it over and there just seemed no other way to end this without a tie." Adrian put his hands in his pockets and looked at Roxie nervously while Starsteel landed on his head.

"Just let me get some stuff packed up and I'll be right along with you," Roxie said while releasing Florina onto her shoulder.

"We're not in a rush, I'm giving everyone an hour's lunch while some of the people who aren't traveling and I are going to pack up the supplies we'll need to travel with."

Roxie said goodbye to Adrian, gave him his necklace, and rushed up the steps to her room. After grabbing her backpack and putting all her things back in it, she rushed toward the dining hall. It was then that she remembered she had never checked S: 001's Shadow Gauge after calling for it. "He Florina, could you grab my PDA?" Florina unzipped the front most pocket of Roxie's backpack, got the PDA out, and tossed it over Roxie's shoulder. Roxie grabbed it and looked over S: 001's status information. It was ready to be completely purified.

Sighing, she went to the nearest PC. There was one more thing to take care of before she could take a lunch break. Roxie knew that when she put Pokemon into "storage" they really went to a lab-tech somewhere on Wes's estate. That Lab-tech released the Pokemon into an enormous fenced in area around the house where all the Pokemon were kept. He used an Alakazam to teleport them back and forth when a trainer either stored Pokemon or took them back. Roxie slipped in a note about putting S: 001 in a Purification Chamber before it was released; she knew Wes had them somewhere though he probably had little use of them. She looked at the Pokemon left in the box and decided to take out the Delta Pidgeot, she liked having a Thunder Pokemon on her team and had always thought highly of Flying Pokemon. She decided to rename it Wakinyan or Waki for short.

At lunch she sat to a table all to herself and Florina. She was not the most popular girl in the group after needlessly waking everyone up and tying two of Adrian's fan-girls in a battle. She was so bored that she did not even recognize that she was eating and stuffed it into her mouth. Eventually a horn sounded, and everyone cleaned up. Those who were on the offense mission followed a couple feet behind Roxie as she walked to the storage hangar. Everyone with a backpack was given an extra package of potions and food and anyone not carrying a backpack carried a full bag of rations and other healing items.

As Roxie walked along in the forest she wondered what happened to her curiosity about bug Pokemon. Now she was just afraid that one would jump out and poison her for invading its territory. There were plenty of trainers carrying antidotes, but the thought was still frightening. As a consequence of her fear, she inched closer to Adrian as the night came nearer and nearer. She was not quite sure if it was because she thought he would defend her somehow or because she thought she could use him as a shield.

Eventually everyone was ready to give it a break so they set up for the night. They ate hotdogs; Roxie never was quite sure what Pokemon they were made of and didn't particularly need to know. The only bug Pokemon to wander around were Caterpie and Wurmple and most everyone just fed some trail mix to them. Roxie was used to missions without Pokemon or vehicular transportation, so she knew how to set up a tent if she needed to rest for a night. She unrolled a sleeping bag that came with the extra package she had to carry and picked up the small pillow that came with it. Roxie scooted into the bag, put the pillow down, and laid her head on it. There was just enough extra room for Florina on the pillow, so she slept next to Roxie's head as she normally did. Roxie did not fall to sleep as fast as her furry little friend did. Partly she was worrying about Eric, if he would suspect something about her not sending him a message that night. Mostly she just felt something ominous; not any trouble that night, but that something would go disastrously wrong the next day. Eventually she was able to but her worries and herself to rest.