[color=ed1c24]Aruba stops traversing the ant tunnel-like passageways in the Revolutioneer base when she gets to a certain door. She looks through the grated window to see if anyone else is inside, but the coast is clear. She slips into the room, lined with rusty cages with different insignias on them, some broken, others warped and rusted as well. They're all recognizable team symbols from the past, Team Rocket, Team Galactic, ect. The Revolutioneers stole them for jailing purposes, but as of now, only two Pokemon are jailed within the cages. No humans now. The last one left just yesterday, and the large bloody handprint on the floor near a cage with its door ajar is evidence.
Aruba moves to the second cage from the left side. The creature inside stirs.
"Tatakumei..." Aruba whispers. She produces a ball of glowing blue aura in one of her paws to light up a small surrounding area, like a candle. From the cage, a frail-looking Riolu steps forward, clutching at her dirtied, slightly torn red scarf. Despite her shabby appearance, her face is graced with a hopeful smile.
"Mom?" The female Riolu grips a rusty metal bar at the from of the cage. 
"Tatakumei, I have a bit of time now, so I'm going to try again." Aruba steps back a bit, and holds her aura sphere with two paws. She starts charging it up.
"Mom, w-wait, you hurt yourself last time!" Tatakumei reminds her mother, looking at the wound on her shoulder.
"It'll be fine. I can dodge this time, if my aura isn't strong enough." Aruba insists. She uses almost all the energy she can muster, creating a huge aura blast, and fires it at Tatakumei's cage. the aura attack is blocked just an inch from the cage's bars by a suddenly-visible purple magic barrier. The sphere stretches the barrier, looking as if it might actually break through and destroy the bars this time, but it is then sent back at Aruba with a slingshot effect. She dives out of the way, and it hits the thick stone wall behind her hard enough to leave cracks.
"Damn it...!" Aruba growls furiously. "That stupid Mismagius's power...!"
"Mom, it's okay..." Tatakumei tries to assure her mother. "I'll be fine for now. Just don't hurt yourself, please."
"....Well....at least you have a friend here, right? That little Growlithe-" Aruba starts, looking at the other cage with something inside.
"-He's gone." Tatakumei cuts her mother off with a murmur. "...He hasn't moved since last evening...at least, that's what time I think it was..."
Aruba is hit in the stomach with a wave of despair and dread. She gets back up to the bars of her daughter's prison and squeezes her paw in to hold her daughter's paw. "Tatakumei, I'm not going to let that happen to you. No mater what I do, I'm not going to leave you here and let you disappear."
"I know..." Tatakumei grins softly. "Just keep going, Mom. Remember that you're the best to me, no matter what happens!"[/color]
[color=bc8dbf]Sephie and her Pokemon turn to observe the presence of the strange boy walking around with a tiny Shadow Lugia. Euphoria is the first one to have much of a reaction, suddenly sporting a large, almost frightening grin.
"Ooh, new people to play with! Are you a dark type...?" Euphoria takes a step towards Lucas, staring at Zarkju. "Fairies just [i]LOVE[/i] dark types~!"
"Euphoria, no. Not yet, at least." Sephie scolds, then turns her attention back to Lucas. "Hello there, Lucas. I'm Sephie. This is Pipley, Raven, Sachiko, Euphoria, and Ai-yu." She points to each Pokemon respectively as she says their names.
"Team ShadowSnow..." Pipley narrows his eyes at Lucas. "...Sounds almost like Team Flare, or one of those groups. If you're here to try and steal Pokemon, then I suggest you go somewhere else. Preferably 100 miles away or more. Depends."
"If he turns out to be bad, can I play then? Huh?!" Euphoria begs Sephie, hopping around with excitement.
"Tch, c'mon guys, give this one a chance." Sephie chuckles a bit. "I mean, if he really was here to try and steal a Pokemon, why wouldn't he just do it? Why would someone introduce themselves as part of a criminal team, and [i]then[/i] try to steal a Pokemon? That's illogical."
"Good point..." Sachiko nods slowly.
The trainer girl and her Pokemon are suddenly hit with the sound of a pokeflute from just a little ways away.
"Sounds like someone else is in the forest...you think it's a Pokemon?" Raven asks Sephie.
"I'm not sure. It's someone, but maybe not a Pokemon. Not sure where a Pokemon would get a pokeflute, or where they'd learn to play it, either..." Sephie shrugs, standing up from her tree stump and stretching. "Wanna check it out, then?"
"Wouldn't hurt." Pipley agrees with a faint smile.
"Or would it~?" Euphoria giggles, still eyeing Zarkju in an intimidating way...[/color]
[color=8dc73f]Mystarii and Electricia are still arguing, when suddenly, a berry is snagged from Electricia's paws with a fishing rod. Both pokemon pause for a moment, shocked. They're even more so when another one is suddenly stolen the same way. They both wwhip around to spot the culprit and his Bisharp.
"OI! WHY IS THIS FOREST FILLED WITH THIEVES THAT AREN'T ME?!" Mystarii cries aloud.
"WHY DO YOU WANT TO BE THE ONLY THEIF?!" Electricia shouts at her friend.
"Ugh...I swear, they'd both die if I wasn't here..." Rythian shakes his head at the two squabbling pokemon, then perks up his hears at the sound of a pokeflute nearby. Mystarii and Electricia seem to stop and listen as well.
"Someone nearby?" Mystarii purrs curiously. "I wonder if they've got any loot on 'em..."
"You should be ashamed! Someone out there is making this beautiful music, and your first thought is to steal from them..." Rythian turns to scold the Meowth.
"I'm soooorrrrryyyy, Ry! It's just in my nature!" Mystarii whines.
"Same old excuse..." Electricia snickers, earning a glare from Mystarii.[/color]