[Spruce]

We finally make it to the swamp, and meet up with John, a jolteon who seemed really excited that someone finally decided to help him out on this. "Okay, okay, so, this gummi is apparently being guarded by, er... the guardian of this place! Yeah... so, let's go!" He quickly explains to us as he runs off on his own, with me running just so I could catch up. "WAIT! SLOW DOWN!" I shout at John to try to keep him from running too far away from the group, and thankfully, he seems to listen. "Sorry... it's just, well... I mean, I spent my entire life researching the location of this mythical gummi," he then explains to me as I look back just to make sure that I didn't lose my team. He then whispers to me "Hey... what's with ugly over there?" He points at Celes with his paw, and I try to forget that he said anything, not giving him an answer. A ditto and a grimer then appear, and the grimer uses sludge bomb on John almost instantly. I try to attack the ditto, but it decides to transform into me before I could do anything. It then uses void whip on me, though, I barely even felt it. I then think about what I should do, or what I could do to actually hurt, well, me, but unfortunately none of my moves, apparently, would do much. I then just use void whip on the grimer, who takes some damage, but is obviously still conscious. John then uses quick attack on my duplicate who, after taking damage, tries to hide behind me, apparently trying to make it impossible to tell who's who. That... didn't work as far as I could tell, 'cause it would still be pretty obvious.
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[Anthony]

The cat pokemon, now surrounded looks around at my team, scared, that is, until it tries to use sucker punch on Matt. Thankfully, the move seemed to miss, and he wasn't any closer to escaping. I then make my way over there and say "Give my money back, and lead us to Martin and we'll let you free," he shakes his head, and says "I'd rather die than flee as a traitor!" He then adds "Besides, what can you possibly even do to me, jelly?" He laughs, and uses quick attack on me, however, I used counter just after that, and sent him back towards Matt. "Look, you're not going to escape. There's too many of us, and only one of you. Just show us how to get there, and return my money, and I will let you go," he then tries to sucker punch me, but Daniel gets in the way and uses shadow rush on him, knocking him back again. "Where did HE come from!?" The catlike pokemon shouts back at me, his tone suggesting that he thinks I've cheated at some game. "So... will you cooperate?" I ask again. He tries to attack Josh with another quick attack, telling me that no, he wasn't going to cooperate, unfortunately. [i]Why won't he listen? Doesn't he know what Martin's doing? I remember when I first figured it all out... I was furious... and yet, this guy would rather stay with him. Why, though?[/i] I think as I try, and obviously fail to get in the way of the purrloin's quick attack.
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[Bonnie]

"Go for it, Tini!" I say with that same, almost alien enthusiasm that I had ever since waking up from that horrible nightmare. [i]Is it still a nightmare if it had this kind of effect on me?[/i] I ask myself as I finish off a helioptile with frustration. A sandslash then used slash on me, dealing much less damage than I thought it would somehow. I then notice a pancham actually helping us... at least someone from the village was on our side. I walk up to him, and ask "So... who are you, and why are you helping us?" He seemed like he could be a potential new recruit, and it was always good to have more friends, right? I then use jump kick on an unsuspecting scraggy who was trying to use bite on the latios who I assumed was William after some sort of odd transformation. The scrafty, given that he didn't even see my attack coming took the attack right in the face, leaving the sandslash, a heliolisk, and a scrafty, all of which were more focused on William than they were on me for... obvious reasons. "You know... I have a feeling that a fairy wind might just end this... Tini, mind ending this for us?" I then ask Tini who seemed confused for some reason. I then see the heliolisk and the scrafty try to use crunch and facade respectively, however, I get in the way, remembering that he's a psychic type, and would take more damage from a crunch than I would. I manage to stop William from getting hit by the attacks, and notice that for some odd reason, the facade hurt much more than the crunch. What in the would could make crunch hurt that much less than facade?