[Spruce] I was about ready to attack again, and Celes' hidden power did more than I expected, however, after M explained how he wanted a gummi, the nidoqueen asked "You... you really just want a gummi, then?" Both John and I nod, and she continues, asking "You don't even want this orb that I'm guarding?" I then say "No, ma'am," and she asks "Okay, what kind of gu-" she, however, was cut off by John shouting "I want the famous, amazing, magical, wonderful wonder gummi!" The nidoqueen laughs, and says "Oh, you just want one of those things. I guess someone heard about me getting a wonder gummi once a week," John mutters something to himself, and the nidoqueen leaves using that same platform that she used to get here. I then heard some more voices from below, though, since they were much more quiet than the yelling that occurred earlier, I couldn't quite figure out what was being said. John then asks "B-but isn't... isn't the gummi her greatest treasure?" I shrug, and finally decide to answer Kamina with "No, it's not normal, and I honestly don't know why he was so critical of us earlier," a few moments earlier, the nidoqueen comes back, this time with the wonder gummi, whose color seemed to change depending on how you looked at it. "Honestly, I've gotten sick of their flavor. Here, you can have this one, for free," she then hands me the gummi, and I give it directly to John, who looks a little confused for some reason. He eats the gummi, but nothing obviously magical or strange happened to him afterwards. "Can we call this a completed mission?" I then ask John, who nods. Just before I hit the button, however, I hear the platform being lowered and risen again, and I could almost faintly make out the words "WAIT FOR ME!" Though, upon teleporting, there was only my team, and John with us. [hr] [Anthony] Another absorb, and Martin was just about to heal with an Oran berry when Josh came from nowhere, and hit him with a thunderbolt, not only burning his berry, but greatly damaging him, as well, in the process. I then decided to tackle him, given that I didn't need to heal anything, and I managed to send him back a couple of feet. He tackled me back, and I countered his tackle, knocking him out, and confusing his teammates, all of whom either flew/ran off, or were just running around this place for some stupid reason. Troy, the purrloin who helped us out earlier, then returns with the carbink, and says "Wow... I guess he never really did beat you, did he?" I respond with "Of course not. If he did, do you think he'd be hiding out in a place like this?" Troy shrugs, and the carbink says "Th-thanks, by the way. I was going to send an SOS letter, but I couldn't find a piece of paper. This 'Martin' fellow apparently doesn't like keeping that stuff around," I then look back at the rest of my team, and say "You know, a fight like this... it kinda reminds me of why and when I joined you guys in the first place. Thanks. I really couldn't have done it without any of you," I then teleport the team, carbink included, back to the guild, and for some odd reason, Troy came with us. "I suppose I should repay you for what you've done. Here, it isn't much, but, you can have it," the carbink then hands us an odd, golden berry, and a blue gummi while Troy heads down the ladder for some unknown reason. Officer bisharp, who never gives anyone his real name, then appeared, with Martin between himself, and several deputies. "Here's the bounty that was on this guy's head," he then says to us, handing Josh 2000 pokedollars, and running off to wherever they head off to after they've caught a criminal. [hr] [Bonnie] I head past 'Team Awesome', feeling unusually happy as I do so, and actually hopping like the rest of my kind usually does, instead of walking like I usually used to do. They don't say anything else, simply settling on a glare that was supposed to be intimidating or something, but obviously failed. [i]I wonder if we'll ever see them again. Meh, we probably will, they DID say we were their enemies, after all.[/i] I think as I approach the team rooms, with mine being the second one on the left. The rest of the team was there, and Tini, thankfully, slept in his own bed rather than on our new teammate. I would have offered the new teammate my bed, but, well, he was already asleep, and I didn't want to wake him up, at all. I then jump (literally) into my bed, and fall asleep almost in an instant. Things were kinda looking up, even if William was going a little nuts, trying to get us to go on two missions in one day. Yeah, the desert heat was harsh, but, I did finally get confirmation that, despite all of what I've done to these guys, they will help me, as friends. This thought on its own was comforting enough to me for this to be considered a good day in my book. I started dreaming, this time about the entire team helping me finally beat down my father, who obviously deserved it after what he's done. Interestingly, in the dream, my father kept shouting about how this isn't possible, about how this shouldn't be happening, and about the fact that I can't do this, that I'm out of my level range, or something stupid like that. I, or rather, my dream self, didn't listen and kept attacking, eventually getting a victory over my father, which would have brought a smile to my face if I was still awake, somehow.