Taki POV

"Gotcha!" Doll yelled after her huge laughing fit. The Chandelure that scared us have to death was laughing with her.

"Are you fucking kidding me?! That's not funny!" I yelled back as Sylvee gasped at the profanity. Shine was curled into a ball in the corner, didn't know she was that much of a wuss. Sylvee asked a question with a confused look.

"When did you have time to set this up?" She asked, Doll just shrugged.

"It wasn't that complicated. I just called Chandelure after Marshadow told me about it." She answered. We heard the front door being banged open and saw the boys. Rush looked around.

"Why did you scream?" He asked. I pointed to Chandelure.

"It was a prank by that guy and Doll." I said while walking out the front door.

"And I'm just gonna go home." My team followed as I left.

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Doll POV

After Taki and her team left, Cream went out to the backyard to get some fresh air. Frost came up to me.

"Why would you think this was a good idea? You probably scarred Shine." He said while glancing to Shine, who was basically hyperventilating at this point.

"I dunno. I guess it was a tiny bit fun." I replied while Spec floated over.

"...we're just gonna take her home..." he said as Judo and Sylvee were already carrying Shine out. We nodded and he joined them. Frost turned to the last of us still here.

"We'll leave too I guess, but where's Cream?" He asked, looking around.

"She's getting some fresh air out back. You can leave, I'll get her and catch up." I answered as Marshadow and Rush were already leaving.

"Alright. See ya." He waved as they left. I walked out the back door to find Cream standing in the middle of the small field. I walked up next to her.

"Everybody left already, we should go too." I said as she stared into the nearby woods. I looked in the same direction and saw nothing.

"What is it?" I asked, genuinely confused. She shook her head and turned to me.

"Sorry, I thought I heard something." She said and we turned around to leave, but we stopped in our tracks when we heard bushes violently rustling. Cream turned slowly, I just whipped around as quickly as possible. A figure limped out of the bushes, it was a Sableye. He had pretty bad injuries too. He opened his mouth to say something.

"Help..." Was all he could say before he was pulled into the forest by an Escavalier. They disappeared into the woods, leaving me and Cream to process what just happened.

"Guess we'll be a bit late." I muttered before we ran after the two.

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That Escavalier is fast, but we managed to follow him all the way to the abandoned storage building outside of town. We hid in some of the many bushes surrounding the place. The Escavalier opened the door and threw the Sableye inside, then turned around and started guarding the entrance.

"We have to take that guy out first, but if there's anybody inside the building, they'll definitely come out to help." I whispered over to Cream, who turned to look at me.

"I'll hold him in place with Psychic, then you can beat him easily!" She whispered slightly loudly. I nodded and left to get his attention. He noticed and asked what I was doing here. I threw a Shadow Ball at him, making him charge at me. He stopped in front of me.

"What the hell is this?!" He yelled as he struggled to break free. Cream walked out while I readied some Shadow Claws. I was about to start slashing when Escavalier started shaking. He was using Agility multiple times, and really fast too! He disappeared, then I felt something hit me really fucking hard and I was thrown away.

"...ow..." I said as I pulled myself out of the tree I just collided with. I turned around and shot a Confuse Ray at him while he tried to attack Cream, who dodged his attack just in time. Escavalier got confused and stumbled around a bit before turning to me. He upped his attack with Swords Dance and flew towards me, I used Destiny Bond before I was hit with Iron Head. I staggered back, but so did he.

"Agh! What was that?!" He yelled, looking around.

"Destiny Bond, any damage I take is shared with you." I said while he got pissed.

"Quit it with your tricks and man up!" He yelled as Cream walked up behind me.

"Does Destiny Bond work both ways?" She asked. I smiled.

"Nope. We can beat him easily." Escavalier backed up after hearing what I said. I whipped around and shot a Thunderbolt at him. Cream started charging a Solar Beam, and I quickly flew to Escavalier and bombarded him with Shadow Claws. He dodged some, but got hit by most of them. I looked at Cream to see she was done charging, so I made sure it'd hit by using Telekinesis on Escavalier. She shot him with it, which did a ton of damage. He was almost down, but before I could knock him out, he used Reversal. We both fell to the ground, I could barely keep consciousness.

"Doll!" Cream ran up to heal me.

"The... Sableye..." Were the only words I got out as I shakily pointed to the storage building. She picked me up and set me beside the front door.

"I'll heal you when I get him, I'll be right back." She said, then went inside.

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Cream POV

I opened the door and walked in, but it was so dark that I couldn't see anything. A light came on as soon as I stepped forward, I saw the Sableye against the far right wall. I saw a Bisharp sitting on a crate not far from him.

"Well, the more the merrier I suppose." He said as he motioned for a Tyranitar to come over.

"You'll make a nice bargaining chip."