The Evil Within.

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Azeral walked into the large cave system, she looked around a bit trying to see something, the light from the entrance was enough so she could still see in front of herself but she knew the cave would be dark. "We should hurry up Joey, i want to find that Pokemon soon, it must be scared in the dark cave." Azeral said in a worried tone of voice, she wanted to know why this happened and how this outlaw was involved, she hoped she didn't see him, she might end up knocking him out just from the rage of him doing something like that.

Azeral checked her bag, she didn't have any blast seeds on her, the main reason was so she wouldn't blow the cave up if she tripped or something, that would be very bad if they ended up doing that, Az just grabbed a sitrus berry and ate it, she was feeling slightly tired from training lately, she ate it in secret so Joey wouldn't worry about her though.

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Joey looked towards Azeral with a look of worry when he heard the possibilities. He then looked forwards as they walked. After a moment, it seemed Azeral went to relieve some of the tension with a joke about falling through any other of the walls. Even so much to throw him to test every wall. Stating it would be fun. Joey chuckled lightly after the joke. "Maaaybe we don't need to throw me." he said with a slight smile. "Lets hurry and find Azurill."

"Suite yourself." Azeral said walking down the path, Azeral felt something down this way, she couldn't tell well because of the distance, Az shook her head. "I think we're are on to something, come on lets get going." Azeral said starting to run over to where the Pokemon was, she wanted to be in and out right now, not because it was dark, not because she was scared. It was because what if they found the outlaw who caused this, how would they deal with it, and could Az let him go without knocking him out.

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[quote="coaster3000"]Joey started running alongside Azeral along the pathway. The darkness surrounding them grew larger as the space eventually got wider. Joey then began to emit small sparks as it grew darker to light up the area a little more. Not so much as to alert others. Just a dim light to allow the outlines to be shown once more.

Joey froze when he saw the pokemon tied up and against the far corner of the wall. However that wasn't the only thing that he saw. He saw the fletchinder next to it. It spun around as one of the specks of light grew brighter briefly. "What are you doing here!" the pokemon shouted at the duo.

"Azeral... Don't attack him... We are only here for Azurill..." he said softly as he didn't want the outlaw to realize that they aren't there to take him in.

The other pokemon that was allied to the outlaw lurked nearby waiting in the darkness after hearing sounds coming from the hallway nearby. Seeming to be prepared to attack anything that came through the hall. Joey didn't quite see the pokemon as it hid in the shadow. "Let Azurill go!!" the pikachu shouted towards the outlaw.

Azeral stopped in her tracks, there he was the Pokemon that was responsible for this, this just proved that Pokemon was the outlaw. Azeral clenched her fist, the reason she was so mad was she remembered she'd have to let this Pokemon go. "Don't worry Joey i know, Sheesh you gotta learn to trust me more." Azeral said with a smile, her rage subsided and she looked at the Outlaw.

"We are not here for you, let that Pokemon go." Azeral said calmly knowing that most likely wasn't going to work, hard to reason with Pokemon like this. "It's two on one and my partner is a Electric type, if you fight us you won't win just let the Azurill go now." Azeral said firmly waiting for the Pokemon to respond.

"Is that so... Alright, I give up" the flying fire type said rather calmly as it lifted its wings into the air. This seemed to confuse the pikachu for a brief moment. That... can't be right the electric type thought as he watched the outlaw start moving to the side. As Joey slowly started to approach Azurill he saw a very faint glimmer to his side. A pokemon with razor sharp claws came rushing towards him at a very high rate of speed. The pikachu quickly started to fire a bolt of electricity towards the incoming hostile, but it quickly changed directions towards Azeral as its claws glowed a slightly darker color as it went to slash at the psychic type. "AZ!" Joey shouted as he saw the pokemon race towards her.

As this all went down the flying fire type lifted itself into the air as its wings started to glow a shiny metallic color. It flew towards the now distracted Pikachu.


((Zangoose was using quick attack to close in fast while preparing to use Night Slash))

Nothing is ever this easy Azeral thought to herself as the outlaw came closer to them. Azeral saw the Pokemon try and go for Joey, she held out her arm and tried to shoot a psychic wave at him but he seemed to change directions and go right for her, unable to change her move she shot the attack at the Pokemon while also taking a hit herself. The attack forced Azeral back, she managed to stay on her feet but saw Joey getting attacked. "Joey, the fletchinder Is attacking you." Azeral called out hoping Joey'd see him in time.

Joey quickly turned towards the direction he last saw the flying type. Just before the pokemon was about to hit him, he almost panicked as he released a large amount of energy in an attempt to blast the bird down before it reached him. However, due to his panic. It instead surrounded him and shot towards the sky. As the bird hit him, it was electrified. It let out a small shriek as the energy coursed through it. Joey quickly cut the energy before the pokemon got too injured... Knowing that they would be in trouble if the outlaw was knocked out early.

As the energy stopped, the bird fell to the ground glaring at the Pikachu. "Never!" it shouted as a large flamed formed in its beak. Joey's eyes widened as he quickly jumped out of the way as the torrent of flame suddenly went straight towards him. Singeing his tail he grabbed it as he rolled as he blew on it. This probably looked a bit silly but it stung really badly!

The bird then came rushing towards him again with another steel wing attack. Joey quickly charged up a more controlled amount of energy and fired it at the bird. He was attempting to hit it with enough energy to paralyze it so they can rescue Azuril and get out of there.

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As the wave of psychic energy struck the pokemon, it managed to land a blow on Azeral at the same time. The zangoose was sent backwards several feet as it was hit. "Fancy seeing you two again. hehe" the zangoose stated with a slight grin. The zangoose then rushed towards the psychic type once more. This time jumping wall to wall as it sped towards the psychic as it attempted to avoid anything it would send at it.

Azeral looked at the Zangoose. "Knew there was something off, won't ask why you're working for a Outlaw though." Azeral said as she teleported above the Pokemon, once it crossed where Azeral was originally she'd fire a Confusion attack at him in hopes to get him confused, Azeral then landed on the ground and looked at Joey. "Joey, we aren't here for them, lets stun these guys and get out of here with the Azuril." Azeral said unaware that he was already trying to do that, Azeral looked around the area ready to teleport away from an attack if the Zangoose choose to attack again.

Joey fired the bolt at the bird. Making sure to keep it on target despite it's movement. It struck it dead on after its attempt to avoid it. Falling to the ground it wasn't able to move. Glaring at the pikachu, it was not very happy with what it had done.

"Heh, as if you'd understand." it said as it closed in, only to have the ralts vanish from its sight. It quickly looked around before a wave of psychic energy struck it. The effect quickly fell upon him as the world seemed to spin. The zangoose eventually fell down.

As this had occurred, Azeral called out to Joey stating that they were out here for Azuril. He knew this fairly well, but figured she wasn't aware that he was only paralyzing the bird. "Quick, lets get em out of here!" Joey stated as he rushed towards the little blue pokemon remained in it's spot tied up with tears in its eyes. It seemed to flinch as it saw Joey approach, Quickly noticing this the pikachu stopped and took out its badge to show the pokemon it was good.

It seemed to understand that it was going to be alright now as the pikachu rushed in to get the rope off the pokemon. He started putting his tail in between a loose spot in the rope as he attempted to untie it. Eventually he bit the one spot he was holding up and broke the rope. "Azeral! Lets get out of here! Can you teleport both of us?" he asked as he noticed the bird starting to get up again.

"No you don't! You won't get away!" the bird shouted as it attempted to jump into the air, only to have its wings fail it.

Azeral smiled and looked over to Joey, he seemed to of stunned the other Pokemon. "Alright lets get moving." Azeral said rushing over to the two of them, Azeral grabbed on to Joey and the Azuril and focused, she decided to use it quickly which resulted in them instead being teleported back to the fake wall for whatever reason. "Shoot messed up the teleport." Azeral said yet they were far enough away from the Pokemon that they'd be fine.

"I can't teleport again, lets get out of here." Azeral said first looking at the Azuril for a moment. "Are you ok?" Azeral questioned before moving, they had some time until the other two Pokemon got freed, even then they'd have no idea Az and Joey were back here.

(Ya messing up teleports to extend threads to the max)

Joey looked around for a moment and saw the paper wall once more. After the teleport he was on the ground once more, yet he was quickly up as they were in a hurry to get out of this place. The little blue pokemon seemed to nod slowly in response the ralt's question. "Here, hop on." Joey said towards the small blue pokemon. It looked at him for a brief second and then back towards the tunnel where the outlaws were located. It quickly nodded and jumped on.

"Lets hurry Az, I don't think I got the bird good enough to last long." he said in an urgent tone as he started to move through the opening in the wall.

Unfortunately, the Pikachu's thought about him not shocking the bird with enough energy was correct... It was now rushing towards the entrance as it knew the only other way out of that small cavern was in that direction. The other way was a dead end. The zangoose went towards the opposite direction to check if they had ended up at the dead end before starting back towards the same "hidden" entrance the duo came from.

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Azeral gave a nod then started moving, she contemplated using a attack to slow the Pokemon down but that'd give away their position, in this darkness she doubted the bird would be able to see them. "If only we could knock them out, running from an outlaw, ugh." Azeral said slightly disgused by the fact they were running, she hated it but she knew, they'd get them it was only a matter of time.

As they moved Az thought she heard something, similar to the flapping of wings. Is he already on us?" Azeral thought but her fears where slightly put to rest when another flying Pokemon attacked, Az spun to the left to avoid the wing attack that came at her. "Darn, a feral, now?" Azeral questioned while moving

Joey felt bad for Azeral as he heard her complain about having to run from the outlaws. He really wanted to whoop them too for what they did to this poor pokemon."They will regret... Don't worry." he said with assurance.

Joey was about to start moving once more until he heard a flapping sound. Azeral had already turned around to face the flying target. Awww, it seems a noibat wanted to play.... It wanted to play, attack the rescuers game.

The pikachu didn't think they had time for this as he was sure the outlaws would be there soon. He glanced towards Azurill for a second and said softly to get down and stay behind him. The pokemon nodded as it followed his instructions. He then prepared to charge up his energy to strike the flying type.

Azeral stared at the Pokemon, Azeral then put both her arms out and shot a confusion attack at him, Azeral then teleported behind the Pokemon and shot an attack at its back, sadly she wouldn't of been able to teleport once more and landed on the ground hard. "That was smart." Azeral muttered out standing up.

Azeral looked up and saw the Pokemon get hit by both attacks, yet he wasn't confused by the attacks, it did leave him momentarily stunned though, Azeral didn't say anything and instead went to launch her own attack, she decided to use disarming voice, she aimed it at the slightly stunned Pokemon hoping Joey'd launch an attack also.

After charging enough energy and Azeral landing her attacks. He noticed her sending an additional attack after her previous attempt failed to confuse the pokemon. Along with her attack, Joey fired a powerful bolt of energy towards the pokemon that should be strong enough to incapacitate it for a bit of time. Although, it won't be paralyzed... It was just a powerful shock that was going to strike the pokemon.

The little blue pokemon watched as the battle unfolded. It seemed to cower slightly behind Joey as the battle unfolded. The poor thing must of seen a lot due to that outlaw. It stayed enough distance away from the electric mouse so that it didn't get shocked itself.

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Meanwhile, the outlaw that had committed this atrocious crime was in hot pursuit of the duo that took his hostage. He was not about to let them leave this cave. Rushing towards the paper wall. He was about halfway between where he had left and where the group was now. Joey and Azeral needs to get a move on now!