RP

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Rodney struggled to his feet again. "...What's wrong?" He asked weakly. "Had enough?" Despite his tough talk, he was swaying, only keeping balance with the help of his tail.

Joey ran to the charmeleon despite the battle, getting the lizard to sit down. "Stop it!" He said to the Pokémon, who was still keeping up a sense of bravado. He desperately looked through his bag for an antidote or anything.

The charmeleon rested his head on the trainers shoulder, lacking the energy to do otherwise.

Dr. Cherri paid no mind to this portion of the battle, her eyes and ears searching for a signal from her marowak, and a hand on Sherman's wrist, feeling a steady pulse.

Marowak grabbed the bone and attacked in one motion. The aerial ace attack's speed making it impossible to dodge.

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Denetello took a step back as the trainer rushed into the battlefield. He looked up at Note, but the trainer was not going to give an order when Joey could be hurt.

Halloween fell back with a pained hiss and did not move. His head was spinning and he could not go on for long. But he forced himself up and pulled himself out of the hole, slithering back to his side of the battlefield.

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The sound that the bone created when marowak struck the snake made Cherri smile. Her part of the battle was back in business. "Another blizzard, Marowak! Make it count!" She yelled extra loud so she could be heard through the tunnels. There was a slight whoosh through the underground, then snow errupted from nearly every hole on the field.

Joey clung to his bag as the cold wind almost blew everything he had away. His eyes widened, and he snatched at the pecha berry that had fallen out just before it could be swept away. He gave it to his charmeleon, who cringed at the flavor. Definately his least favorite, but atleast he was feeling better.

Marowak emerged from the ground, shaking off a layer of snow.

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Tunes cried out in surprise and gripped Note as she felt like she would be blown away. She narrowed her eyes through the blizzard, searching for her Pokémon.

Halloween had distanced himself enough from the holes that he missed the worst of the attack. He curled into a ball to shield his face and as it subsided he heard Tunes call out an order.

"Poison Fang!"

The Seviper was not sure he could survive the attack but he went to the edge of one hole- far enough away that he was not susceptible to any sudden attacks -and prepared for the attack.

"Don," Note called, and as the Houndoom looked up he nodded descreetly. Donetello nodded, turned down one of the holes, and disappeared underground.

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It was an icy mess down there. The marowak had only gotten out through a hole that hadn't recieved the frozen attack.

When Joey was sure he was okay, he helped the charmeleon to its feet. Rodney wasn't in the best shape, but he could still battle.

The lizard looked for an opponent, but was more relieved that no one was immediantly after him. "I didn't think anyone would wanna mess with me!"

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Donetello burst from the ground near Marowak and slammed it to the ground on its stomach, pinning it there as he bit into it with a Fire Fang.

As he did Halloween turned around and slammed his poisonous tail into the Marowak's back.

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The marowk cried out. The combo attack was too much for it. If it weren't pinned between the two, it would have toppled to the ground, but it was upright and somehow still awake. It blew cold air, but another blizzard attack just wasn't going to happen. Even though it was awake, the poison assure that it wouldn't be long.

"Enough!" Dr. Cherri commanded. "It can't fight anymore. Enough!"

Joey looked up at the scientist, who seemed concerned, but something was also different.

"Joey, use you charmeleon. Get them!"

"I can't do this anymore." He sniffeled, holding back tears. "They're all getting hurt, anyway, no matter what I do! I give up! They win! You can have my Pokémon, but please don't hurt them!"

Cherri looked at him' jumping down from the ledge. "Stop crying." She dropped Vivi to the ground and the Pokémon quickly ran to Note. "I know I'm beat." She returned cubone and held Whimsy out to Joey.

He took the Pokémon gratefully, checking to see if she was okay. As he had expected, she had fainted, but she wasn't in danger anymore. He looked up at the woman. "Really?"

"I guess I have a soft spot for kids."

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Note knelt as Vivian ran to him and he stroked her head comfortingly.

Halloween slumped to the ground and Tunes ran to him. "You did a really good job," she murmured to the Seviper before returning him to his Pokéball.

Donetello slowly trotted to Note and he looked down at Vivi. "Are you okay?"

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"Yeah... I am." Vivi smiled. "She let me go! Can you believe that."

"Now, maybe some humane testing? Letting you all go is costing me alot, you know." Dr. Cherri said as she returned her marowak. She sounded all business. "I can heal the Pokémon, as well."

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Donetello smiled at her a bit. "Yeah... That's really something."

Note and Tunes looked up at her warily. "What do you mean humane testing?" Note asked slowly.

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"Well if you are going to take the subjects, I want all the information I can get from them. It won't hurt them." She opened the door to the lab. "Afterall, Team Magma might be able to use these sometime."

Joey returned Rodney to his Pokéball and followed the scientist, holding onto Whimsy.

Vivian looked from the group and back at Don. "Should we really...?"

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"I don't think so," the Houndoom muttered, narrowing his eyes at the scientist. He looked up at Note and whimpered warily, and the blonde looked back at him.

"Yeah, I don't like this either, Don. But..." He sighed and looked back at the lab room. "Protect her, okay?" he gestured to Vivian.

The Houndoom nodded and he looked at Vivian. "Don't worry. We won't let anything happen to you."

Tunes looked warily at her brother, but she followed him as he started toward the lab.

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Samuel stayed close to Joey, as Joe was the one holding Whimsy.

Vivian nodded to the houndoom, looking back into the room. Pokeballs were lying on the ground, ones with Charlie and the others. She looked back to Don urgentl for a moment and went to pick them up. "...Where's Margot?" She climbed up to the ledge and scrabbled uncertainly up the ladder. The jolteon, as well as Sherman were gone.

"I know some of the Pokémon are injured..." Dr. Cherri said, sounding as if she had nothing to do with it. She went to the corner of the room, where a machine like those found at the Pokémon center was. "I want the most injured treated here first. The flareon mutant, for one." To assure thier confidence, she put her marowak's Pokéball on the machine as well.

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Note uneasily pulled out his Vivian's Pokéball, and Tunes produced Halloween's. They reluctantly handed them over to the scientist.

Donetello, who had followed Vivi, looked around with a frown. He hoped this wouldn't lead down another dangerous path.

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Joey place Rodney's Pokéball in the machine. "What about that onix."

"If its magnet can't reset itself, it's probably beyond help." Cherri tapped her finger on the machine after it had been filled and began healing the Pokémon. "Where is the other mutant now? Did it run off? I need to study that one as well."

Joey looked around, startled momentarily by the serperior's proximity to him. He quickly recovered."Did she go back to that battle room?"