[Spruce] I hear what both of my teammates have to say, and decide to knock out the numel with one last vine whip, and continue onwards, or, was it upwards? Well, I continue on in some direction until I run out of tower. I then look 'down', and notice nothing more than the endless abyss, looking forwards, however, I can see the altar where the void crystal supposedly is... and the void crystal, itself. [i]Were those fiends, those horrible pokemon, actually telling the truth?[/i] I ask myself as I try to figure out some way of getting to the altar. I notice a bunch of crates floating, and somehow making a path to said altar. [i]Hm... this kind of thing reminds of Vine... he used to talk about this 'Mario' game all the time, and this looks like the kind of thing that would be in it.[/i] I think as I look back at my team, sort of wondering what to do next. That jump was kind of far, and way too easy to miss. I then look for any other possible path, but, failing that, I start to ask M something, but then remember that I'm probably too heavy for him, let alone everyone else. I take a deep breath, take a few steps closer to the edge before backing away, and then, when I think I have enough distance, I start running, eventually breaking into a sprint, up until the last possible step when I jump, and... I miss. Thankfully, however, I had a vine whip ready, and I managed to loop that around the crate before I fell to my doom. I simply climbed up the vine whip, and try to balance on the crate. "Well... looks like this is the only way across..." I say more to myself than the rest of my team, who probably heard me as well. I then look for the next crate, which was thankfully much closer, and jump to that one without nearly as much difficulty. I nearly fall off the thing twice, but, if it was the only way... --- [Anthony] I continue walking along, trying my hardest to take the longest possible path there, though, I accidentally misstep press the wrong switch. The switches somehow flip ninety degrees, and, due to their slickness, I fall right into the lower level. The net also deploys, apparently just in case some flying-types, or psychic-types were trying to cheat the system, and just fly until the switches flipped back. Speaking of, once they did, the room got really dark, as, apparently, the only source of light down here was those switches. I look forwards, or, at least, where I think is forwards, and see several glowing eyes, which made me a bit uneasy. "Uh... guys?" I ask, wondering how to even attack these things... whatever they were. I try Absorb on one of them, and somehow manage to hit it, though, it doesn't seem to do much, as the thing laughed at the attack. [i]Why can't I ever fight in a well-lit room?[/i] I ask myself as I try bubble, missing the mystery pokemon, this time. A few attacks, two licks, and one hypnosis are all launched at me, and, while the licks both hit, the hypnosis just flew over my head. I then prepare to counter, however, they all decide to attack Matt, instead, all three of them using lick on him, though, Daniel managed to get in the way of one of the attacks, and obviously didn't take much damage from it. Daniel then retaliated with a Shadow Rush, though, it missed, and he ran right into the wall. He tried a second time, and a shout of pain indicated that he actually hit one of them. The pair of eyes that went with the pokemon Daniel hit dropped to the floor, and the pokemon in question was probably knocked out. "Well, that's odd... maybe they're just not very tough, whatever they are," I comment, noticing the one-hit-KO that just happened. --- [Bonnie] Apparently, my kitchen-based hideout was found by William, but, thankfully, it was just William, and not that other THING... I shudder at the thought of that thing finding its way down here, and read the mission that William got... somehow. "Hm... a Sableye, huh? Well, I think we, as a team, can take that thing," I say to William. I then notice Samuel on the other side of the door, and start to ask "Why isn't he...?" I then remember that Samuel can sometimes be as dumb as a bag of rocks, and say "Oh, right, never mind, he still doesn't think you're really you... try the Transform trick on him... show him your old form first, and tell him how this whole... thing happened," Tini then came in with a frying pan, and said something about William going crazy. I shout "NO! Don't! He's cured!" I then add "But... keep the pan, we might need it in the future," I'm sure Tini would understand, besides, he doesn't look like someone who would just throw away a frying pan if there might be some sort of use for it. I then notice one odd detail... the mission statement didn't say where the thief is! I was going to start heading out in the direction towards wherever that was, but, well, I can't do that if I don't know where this thief might be. I decide to head over to Samuel, and ask "So... do you really think William's just missing, and the William we have with us, right now, is some sort of imposter?" I kinda knew the answer would be 'yes', but, I was really just asking it to keep him in the guild longer, so we can possibly pull this whole Transform to convince thing off. [i]Here's hoping he'll at least trust the real William...[/i] I think as I stand there, waiting for his response, and secretly looking out for that hideous monster that chased me back into the guild.