[Bonnie]

William somehow made it to the top of the building, and came down here just to call my father pathetic... which he was. He then explained everything about what he's seen in the basement, including our now-rescued captive bidoof, but, from the sound of things, there was more than one pokemon being held in the basement. "Well, we can't just leave them there to rot, can we? They're probably just as important to their families as the bidoof was... and I'd rather not leave any more victims for my father," I say with an unusually high amount of confidence. I ran down into the dark basement, and somehow keep my head clear, already knowing just from the stench alone that there were dead pokemon down here, as well as rotten food. Of course, I couldn't see a single thing, but I could hear someone off in some other room shouting something about this and that, about how he let a lampent get away with the bidoof he captured, or something. I wasn't about to let that pokemon, probably the gallade that William told me about, do whatever it was he did around here, but... it would be stupid to do this alone, so I shout back at my team "Hey, are we doing this, or what? Come on, we're wasting time!" I then wait for whomever wanted to join me down here, most likely Tini, and possibly William and Eralion. I then get an idea on how we can escape... "William... I think I've got an idea. The quick seeds, we'll feed these to the prisoners, and ourselves, and we'll make a break for the entrance. We'll teleport everyone out of this place as soon as we can," I explain to William, excited about this, which was a little strange for me.
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[Nina]

Most of the rest of my team came into help, with Rebecca using her psychic powers to throw the shroomish at the other nidoran, and Chip using leech life on the abra. The nidoran accidentally poisoned the shroomish that was thrown at him, and the shroomish accidentally put him to sleep with some sort of weird spores. "Look, let me explain-" I start to say, only to get cut off by the aron, given that the other nidoran was currently asleep "SAVE your words, minion, they'll do you no good against us!" it seemed as though the aron's head was about as thick as the rest of his team's... but who was this 'Desia', and why was she so important? What could she have possibly done to provoke such feelings of anger in these random explorers? The aron then headbutted me, breaking my thought process, and making me flinch, which the rhydon saw as an opportunity to use tackle on me. I was already nearly finished, and this was only round two. "Agh... why'd they... have to focus on me?" I ask the rest of the team, who could probably guess just from my speech patterns that I was having trouble breathing. I dug around in my bag, searching for an oran berry, however, I couldn't find a single one... I was certain that it was in there, I just couldn't find it due to panic. The abra tried another hidden power ((Fire, but it's in the rain)), this time on Chip, thankfully. The shroomish then used leech seed, aiming for Rebecca, and, he seemed to smile as he did so, as if he enjoyed the thought of draining her life. [i]Come on... I need that berry, now![/i] I think as I continue digging around in my bag in some vain attempt at trying to find the oran berry, despite the fact that my vision was too blurry at the moment to even make it out among the other berries in the bag.
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[Spruce]

I notice Celes getting close to me, and she asks me what's wrong. I answer with "Well... I mean... look, I don't believe this whole 'psychic SOS message' thing... I think he's just trying to drag us into some mission with him that he can't pull off on his own," I then continue walking along the path with not much else happening until a familiar trio consisting of a koffing, a zubat, and a sneasel appeared right in front of us. "AHA! We've got you now! Team Zan is going to destroy you, and we're going to take EVERYTHING you've got!" I facepalm right then and there, and ask "So, you couldn't take four of us down, but you think you can take down..." I then count everyone else who's here, including the silent murkrow, and the hitmonlee who suddenly seems to have calmed down continuing with "...nine of us? Do you three have any brains left, or did we accidentally beat that out of you the last time you challenged us?" they then start talking amongst themselves, and the koffing shouts "Yeah! This time we've got a... er... what'd you call it boss?" the sneasel then answers "An ace up our sleeve," the koffing then asks "What's that mean?" of course, I didn't waste any more time on their speech, and just vine whip the sneasel, which seemed to hurt him quite a bit... however... either my eyes were playing tricks on me, or there was a second sneasel for a moment. I was then attacked by an ice shard from behind. "Gah! What the!? How did you even?" I frantically ask the duplicate, who disappeared mere seconds after I turned around to face the mysterious backstabber.
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[Anthony]

Kamina looks up and almost seems to threaten me, and Josh has Matt float him up to my level so he could talk to me about the whole situation. I end up responding with "Sorry, I just don't think he's actually serious about this whole thing. I mean, he laughed when I told him about the SOS message... look, I'll try to get along, but no guarantees," the walk become just that much more silent after that, with Celes apparently confronting Spruce about the exact same problem. Well, okay, the walk WAS silent, until a group of thugs appeared out of nowhere, called themselves 'Team Zan', and stupidly challenged us, even though we outnumbered them three to one. "Well, I guess something could be said about their bravery..." I mumble to myself as I watch Spruce try to attack the sneasel who was in the middle of it all. A second sneasel appeared from behind the first one, and quickly darted behind Spruce to attack him with Ice Shard... as well as some confusion, I'm guessing, as Spruce couldn't make heads or tails of it all. I jumped off of Kamina and onto the zubat, weighing it down enough for it to drop, and, after I get off, I look squarely at the sneasel, and challenge "Come on, attack me, go for it, I'm weak, and I'm slow, what are you waiting for?" he... didn't seem to take the bait, however, I still prepared to counter attack. The zubat then used wing attack on me, which I countered immediately afterwards, commenting "Well, this wasn't exactly the attack I was hoping for, but I'll take it!" oddly enough, the same thing happened to me that happened to Spruce... after I attacked, I got attacked from behind... by another zubat. Unfortunately, I wasn't prepared to counter the other zubat's attack, so it was just extra damage.