Rigel fired a Psycho Cut at the creatures as they ran towards him, but the blade of psychic energy passed through them without even slowing them down. "Meissa, go to Gauss and stay with him!" he yelled. "Hey Gauss, can you fight?"

"Affirmative. Combat systems activated. Targets identified as Sableye. Firing Flash Cannon." As Gauss said this, a beam of bright silver light shot from it's eye and struck some of the creatures, causing them to scatter and shriek in pain as they were blinded and burned. "Warning. This unit cannot function in battle for long. Extra illumination, internal weaponry usage, and normal functions are rapidly draining power supplies."

"Well then I guess we'll have to do without you!" yelled Aludra as she struck one of the creatures with a flaming kick. "Need any help Rigel?"

"No, I'm fine!" Rigel yelled back while dodging Shadow Claws from the creatures and biting them whenever he got an opening. He then felt something hit him from above. It didn't hurt much, but it surprised him enough to cause him to be grazed by one of the creature's claws. Rigel looked up to see some more Sableye on a ledge throwing rocks down on him. After biting another creature, Rigel sent a Psycho Cut up towards them, but rather than aiming for them directly, he aimed for the stalactites hanging above them. The creatures screamed as large hunks of stone fell down onto them, causing them to fall and destroying their ledge. They layed on the ground, killed or injured by the falling rock, as other Sableye ran over and devoured the crystalline formations on their eyes and bodies. "What is with these thing?" said Rigel, sickened by the sight of the creatures cannibalizing each other, before jumping out of the way of another Shadow Claw.

Aludra hit more Sableye with her Blaze Kicks before closing her eyes and looking for the one holding the Aura Stone. She could not feel the stone's energy, but she could see the dark energy of the Sableye moving around her and used that to identify the location of the creatures and strike them with powerful kicks and uppercuts, sending them flying into the cave walls.

"Warning. Power supplies exhausted." said Gauss after striking a creature with a bolt of electricity. "This unit can maintain extra illumination, but must enter sleep mode." It then floated down to the ground, the light in it's eye staying on, but all movement ceasing.

"No Gauss, not now!" said Meissa, now with nothing to protect her from the creatures. "Please, not now!"

Seeing that she was alone, the large Sableye wearing the cloth broke off from the group attacking Rigel and ran straight for her. She tried biting the creature, but she was no match for it, and she could do nothing but lie on the ground as it struck her repeatedly while laughing with sadistic glee.

Hearing the Sableye's laughter, Rigel turned to see it savagely beating Meissa, and ran to try and save her, but was taken down when three Sableye jumped on top of him, biting and clawing. Seeing his sister lying motionless caused Rigel to feel a crushing sadness, which combined with the pain of the his wounds and quickly turned into intense anger and hatred towards the Sableye attacking. All he could think about was how much he wanted to hurt the Sableye, to make them suffer. Unable to contain his rage, Rigel gave out a roar as a pitch black burst of malevolent energy exploded from his body, throwing the creatures left and right. The Sableye attacking Meissa turned to look at the cause of the commotion, and shrieked as it saw Rigel running towards it, his eyes glowing with a silver light even more intense than the light of Gauss's Flash Cannon, and his bared teeth covered in a haze of darkness. It was the last thing the Sableye ever saw as Rigel pounced on it and sunk his teeth into it's throat. After witnessing Rigel's fury, another Sableye nearby began running towards the shadows, but didn't get far before Rigel snuffed out it's life as well. With their leader dead and many of them injured by Rigel and Aludra, the Sableye began retreating through tunnels in the cave wall.

Aludra saw the one carrying the Aura Stone trying to get to a tunnel, and ran up behind it and kicked it in the back of the head, causing it to drop the stone. It then got up and fled at full speed into the darkness, leaving Rigel and friends alone in the cave chamber. "Alright!" Aludra said before walking up to the gem lying on the ground. "Finally, an Aura Stone!"

"Aludra, this is no time to worry about that!" yelled Rigel, ignoring his own wounds as he ran to his sister, who was still on the floor. "Meissa, are you alright? Please answer me!" Meissa was still breathing, but she didn't respond, and she had a deep gash on her leg that was bleeding badly. "Oh no, oh no." said Rigel as tears formed in his eyes. "I need to find something to put on this." He then remembered the cloth around the neck of the dead Sableye leader, and tore it off before getting Aludra to tie it around Meissa's leg. "We have to get her out of here. When will Gauss come out of sleep mode?"

"I don't know." said Aludra, picking up the Aura Stone and being enveloped in light. "But if I evolve I can carry her out." When the light faded, the stone had lost it's blue color, and Aludra stood at least a foot taller, with conical spikes on her chest and hands and four black appendages growing from the back of her head.

"Alright congratulations, now let's see if we can get Gauss up." said Rigel as he approached the inactive Magnezone. "Gauss! We need to get out of here, wake up!" He could hear sounds coming from within Gauss's body as it rose up from the ground and moved it's eye around.

"Sleep mode interrupted. Query, what is required of me?"

"Gauss, we need you to guide us out of here." Aludra said while picking up Meissa, careful to not move the cloth. "Your operator is hurt and we have to leave."

"Affirmative." said Gauss before it began floating away. "Retracing route into the cavern. Follow me."