[Spruce]

I woke up to find myself in some sort of weird cart, and some dragonite was pulling it. "Huh...? What happened? Who are you?" I ask the dragonite, who has thankfully landed by now, yet, for some reason, hasn't taken us out of the cart yet. She then answers with "I just saved all of you from the void... oh, and my name's Denise, I'm the guildmaster over at Scale City." I haven't heard of this 'Scale City' yet, but she seemed to be telling the truth. "So... what's with the cart?" I then ask, with her saying in response "Oh, I got a bunch of timburr to build it." She said that as though it was completely normal for someone to just randomly command three, possibly four wild pokemon to build something for them. I then get out of the cart, and look around Allure, only to see that nothing much seems to have changed. I then look down at myself and notice that quite a bit has changed for me... oddly enough, I was now a grey color, and yet Denise didn't seem to care one bit. [i]Why didn't she freak out? I mean, it's not every day that you see someone this badly discolored.[/i] I think as I look at Denise's seemingly unchanging smile. I also notice a pecha berry on her horn, though, she doesn't seem to notice the fruit on her head, which was proven when she finally dropped the cart and said "Well, I've got to go. I lost my pecha berry a long time ago, and I'd like to find it before dinner." I was about to say something, but she flew off before I could tell her. Of course, there was something much worse than a missing pecha berry to worry about, I mean, if that evil absol has that supposedly all-powerful void crystal... then we probably don't have much time left on this world.

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[Anthony]

"Th...thanks." I manage to say to Matt, who somehow ended up with my helmet, and thankfully gave the thing back to me. I wasn't sure just how much good the thing would do in this situation, but I was glad to have it back. [i]I can't believe that I mistook a rock for my helmet...[/i] I think as I get put my helmet back on, and get up with almost renewed strength. I then use absorb on the tyranitar, who didn't even seem to notice beyond making me his target again. "Uh-oh..." I say as I take a stone-edge attack right to my face, cutting it up as if it were made of butter. That would have been the end of me, were it not for the reviver seeds that I picked up from that camp earlier, as well as their amazing ability to somehow use themselves whenever their owner's in danger. "Ugh... guys... this guy's seriously tough..." I point out, probably to the dismay of everyone else on my team. Of course, it seems like everyone else already knew that, making me feel like a complete idiot again. I try using bubble on the thing, only to fail at damaging him, somehow. The tyranitar seems to have stopped using regular attacks at that point, and decides to throw me at the stone wall that he created by caving in the area nearby. It felt just about as good as you'd expect, and I noticed my badge fly off of my helmet once I hit the rock, and look around for it only to see the mawile holding it. She looks at it, and then at the tyranitar. I would have said something, but I got smashed by the tyranitar's tail, prompting another reviver seed to use itself, and making me forget what I was going to say.