[Anthony] Miles brought up a pretty good point while Kamina uncoiled himself, and coiled himself around Josh, who desperately needed the warmth, given that he just gave up his water typing to evolve. "Miles... do you think you could lead us for a while? I mean, I don't have any idea where this might be, even though I'm looking right at this river, but you apparently know," I asked him, as I slid, quite literally, behind him, almost losing whatever balance I had in the process of just moving. I then looked around this place, Reshiram seemed to be busy eating something, hopefully, it was a pecha berry, and Kamina, who was helping someone warm up, still had a chunk of flesh just missing from where that insane arcanine bit him... I would have pointed that out, but I didn't feel like it would be a good idea to just tell him. I then looked down at the frozen water, and noticed the weird... purple veins in them. How didn't I notice that before? They were clearly visible, right? I shivered again, as another chill ran down my body, and I was reminded how my water moves literally turned to ice here... they've never done that before, have they? While I was looking around, I noticed a few apples just lying around on the ground, probably frozen, as well. [i]I am hungry, but... should I really do this? Just... eat an apple off of a dungeon floor? Maybe we're close enough to the end of this, and it won't matter... or... maybe we'll just starve before we get there...[/i] I thought to myself, weighing my options involving the red fruit. [hr] [Bonnie] I kept running down the path, but the only thing I found was another throh... wait, no, it was the same one. I muttered a swear under my breath and tried to find some way out of this... I then remembered something, these fighting types were usually male, right? The throh took a few steps towards me, and assumed some sort of fighting stance, probably expecting me to do the same, but I just used attract, instead, distracting him, and giving me just enough time to get away from him. [i]Whew... that was close, and, at least this time, if I get a letter from some random throh, I'll know why.[/i] I thought as I made my way onward, only to find a chasm, with a path that continued on the other side... and with walls that had hearts etched into them for some reason. I stopped to try to figure out what they might want me to do... and then I heard someone approach. The lovestruck throh was still chasing after me for some reason, and before I could say anything, he picked me up, and just threw me across the chasm. I screamed the entire way there, and my mind raced with thoughts like [i]Wait, what? WHY!?[/i] and [i]Why did he do that?[/i] until I made it to the other side... only to hit my head on the opposite wall. I groaned as I got up, and I started limping along the only path available, right now. [hr] [Nina] I was completely taken by surprise with this... just... evolution, from nowhere. Of course, Rebecca pointed it out, and she seemed to evolve, too. I would have said something about that, but she seems to have gotten it. Dexter then teased us about no longer being smaller than him, and I chuckled at that as we moved ahead. "Huh... this place looks like one of those 'lab' things I heard about... apparently, humans used to them to understand the world, or something," Spruce chimed in as we moved along the narrow hallway that was in front of us, and our client responded with "Yes, yes... our group was simply fascinated with the humans... apparently, they found a way to never become wild, if that makes sense. We actually built this place based off of a lab we saw in some jungle, somewhere," I was going to point out that nobody's ever seen a human, before, but I didn't want to burst anyone's bubble, so I just grumbled to myself about it. I then looked at the door... made of that same kind of white metal that was everywhere, and I tried to open it the same way I would any door, but it just didn't budge. I then looked towards the client, who knew this place, and he still seemed to be chatting to Spruce about labs, and humans. I had to clear my throat just to get his attention, and once I did, he asked "Hm?" I then looked at the door, and he said "Ah, I see..." He then took a weird-looking card, and fed it to a complex-looking machine, which gave his card back, and opened the door. "The... humans loved doors like this, I promise," he said when he noted my annoyance with the door... his promise didn't change anything, so I just went through the door, annoyed. [hr] [Spruce] Things were going great in this weird, dark lab. We defeated a huge group of enemy pokemon, and two of our teammates evolved. "Congrats, you two!" I said to them, but... I wasn't sure if either of them actually heard me. I then took a close look, and remembered what Vine used to tell me about human buildings... that odd device on the wall to my left looked like how he described a 'computer', except for the fact that it was giant, and there seemed to be graphs and numbers on the wall opposite to it... of course, the graphs and numbers were almost completely burned thanks to our strategy. Once we moved on, it only started to look more and more like how Vine told me a lab looked. "Huh... this place looks like one of those 'lab' things I heard about... apparently, humans used to them to understand the world, or something," I pointed out to the group, with the bronzor responding with "Yes, yes... our group was simply fascinated with the humans... apparently, they found a way to never become wild, if that makes sense. We actually built this place based off of a lab we saw in some jungle, somewhere," that second part, about humans never becoming wild, caught my attention, and I asked "Why do you think that is?" the bronzor did his best imitation of a shrug, and said "We were about to find out, but well... you know... I quit, and found out what they were REALLY up to, here," I simply had to ask what he meant by that, but we were interrupted by Nina clearing her throat... apparently, she couldn't get through the door, which prompted the bronzor to use what Vine told me was a 'card key' to open it. We then found ourselves in another dark room, except, this time, there seemed to be a table with chemicals on it... not something I want fire anywhere NEAR, all things considered.