[Spruce]

Another tackle from the tyrogue, and another vine whip from me were all that was needed after the support that my other teammates gave. "Whew..." I said to the rest of my team as I turn towards Gregory, who seemed to be looking off in some direction, for some reason. I went a little bit ahead of him, and could just barely make out the shape of a circular pokemon several feet ahead of me. I needed to find out what this pokemon was, as it seemed hostile. [i]Another enemy already? Also, where the heck is M!?[/i] I think as I look back and say "Uh... you three stay there, alright? I'm going to go check out this mystery pokemon." I then hurry towards it, the fact that I only had short-distance moves made sure that I had to get close to anything that I wanted to fight. Eventually, I got to the magnemite... wait... that was just M, wasn't it? I put away the vine whip I had summoned, and say "Oh, it's just you, M... sorry." At least I found him, but I still had no idea what he was doing here. I could have asked, but it didn't seem as important as guarding Gregory, which is why I ended up saying "Alright, let's go, M. We've got a gible to guard." I then started heading back to Gregory, who will only have two pokemon guarding him for a little bit.

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[Anthony]

I braced myself for another attack, as these mawile seemed to like using bite on me, however, the one that attacked me next used something else... an odd, pink mist found its way to me, and at first I thought it was safe, but some sort of strange material in the mist started slicing away at my skin, leaving me with almost no energy left, and no way to effectively heal. "Agh... this was a mistake... I might not make it." I tried to say to my team as I desperately looked through my bag in hopes of finding at least an oran berry, or something to heal myself with. Unfortunately, no such luck happened, and I had to try plan b. I faked my own fainting. It wouldn't have been as believable if I didn't have my helmet and the mawile could see my (still open) eyes. I simply made myself look like an inanimate pile of sludge to make it seem as though I've fainted, which had the mawile start focusing its attention on someone else in my party. If the normal enemies were going to be like this, then I'm not sure if we stand a chance against the boss of this area... but, we had to try, we had to at least give it a shot, we needed to help these pokemon... we just needed to train a little more than your average pokemon would have, as these mawile apparently have some sort of way of effectively attacking dragons, and were steel types, something none of us could actually hit with decent damage. I watched as the mawile made its way towards Matt, who was still working away with his reflect and light screen... if it weren't for those, I would have fainted by now. I'll have to remember to thank him when my life's not in danger.