[i]"You had your chance to run."[/i]

The Peon in red grinned under his mask. "I never run from a fight. Not like this idiot here." He said pointed at the nearby blue Peon.

He watched as the ground around them began to heave and shake and he pointed at his Alakazam. "Use Reflect! Then Psychic!" He ordered the Pokemon who swiftly formed a barrier around itself and then unleashed waves of Psychic energy at the Garchomp. The Peon didn't seem to care that his Shadow Pokemon was pretty much left undefended. He pointed at the Metang and uttered a simple command. "Hydro pump!" He shouted. The Shadow Pokemon seemed to hesitate for a moment as it saw the quaking earth rolling towards it.

"Do it! Make yourself useful and do it!" The Cipher Peon shouted angrily as he threw a rock at the Pokemon's head who growled in response and glared hatefully at the Peon but turned back to Metang and fired a stream of water from it's mouth at the levitating Pokemon.

Ross looked uneasily at the Bayleef. It was giving him the same uneasy feeling as the Marshtomp. Could it be another Shadow Pokemon? He wondered to himself.

"Larvitar! Use Crunch on the Ryhorn!" The Peon shouted. Ross watched in horror as the Larvitar charged at Ryhorn. "Dodge it buddy! Then use horn attack!" Ryhorn barely managed to get out of the way but managed to turn around before the Larvitar could regain it's footing and charged it with it's horn and slammed into it. The Larvitar hit the ground with a thud and didn't get back up.

"Useless!" The Peon shouted angrily as it turned to the Bayleef. "You! Use Shadow Rush on the Machoke and knock it out!" The Bayleef let out an angry roar and launched it self at Machoke who looked at Ross for directions. Ross smiled despite the situation. "Use Cross Chop...Now!" He shouted just as the bayleef got in range. Machoke raised both of it's hands and brought them down on the Bayleef's head, knocking it out cold.

The Peon slammed his feet down on the ground angrily as he ran over to his Shadow Pokemon and kicked it angrily in the side. "Useless Pokemon!" He shouted. "What the hell are you doing?" Ross shouted angrily as he and his two Pokemon ran over as the unknowing Peon continued raining down blows on the Shadow Bayleef who whimpered in pain as it regained consciousness.

Ross's Machoke caught the Peon's hand and pulled the Peon away from the Bayleef. Ross ran over and checked out the wounded Shadow Pokemon. There were bruises on it of course...but there were older ones. Older ones and more recent ones. Ross turned to look at the Peon who was struggling to get away from Machoke. "What did you do to that Pokemon?" He asked in a soft but very dangerous voice.

"That weakling?" The peon muttered. "I gave it what it deserved. It's weak. It's so weak i can't believe it was made into a Shadow Pokemon to be honest." Ross's hand turned into a fist and he punched the Peon straight in the face, hard enough that his fist went through the visor and impacted with the Peon's face. "You don't deserve these two." Ross snarled. "That's why I'm going to take them from you. I'll find that Larvitar a good home, It's not a bad Pokemon, you just force it to do bad things...but Bayleef...I stole one of your organization's shadow Pokemon before, I've seen what you do to them. I'm going to return that Pokemon to it's normal state and I'm going to give it the love and care it deserves." 

The Peon looked up at Ross and he could see the fear in his eyes. "Y-You can't! If I go back to the Boss without my Shadow Pokemon they'll beat me to a pulp!" Ross looked down at him with eyes devoid of pity. "Too bad." He said simply as he knocked the Peon out with a blow to the top of the head.

Ross rolled back the sleeve of his jacket to reveal an older model snag machine. He placed a Pokeball in it and the ball glowed slightly as it was converted. "It's okay sweetie." he said soothingly to the Bayleef that was looking up at him. "You'll be safe with me." He said as the Snag ball enveloped the Shadow Pokemon in a bright red light. The ball shook slightly before it stopped shaking. He swiftly walked over to the Larvitar and gently picked up the Pokemon and cradled it in his arms as he looked over at Tinder and her Pokemon and watched as her battle continued.

"I finished off the one over here!" he called. "How are you doing?"