Kamina

Wait...what? "He's corrupted!? I thought he was just an asshole! This changes everything! Now all we have to do is violently beat him up into submission...wait...maybe not that much is different after all. Alright everyone, just keep on beating him up!" Kamina charged Reshiram once again, passing by a very oddly behaving Anthony 'weird. Did he hit his head or something? No, that can't be it. After all, that's what his hat is for. Bah, he'll be fine. I'll check on him after the fight is over'

---
Tini

Tini wasn't done yet. His current victim patient was still suffering from the crazies. However, his team wanted to leave, so he didn't have a choice. After all, he would never consider just ignoring their wishes like that. So with a reluctant heart, he leaped off onto the ground and followed after the others 'oh...that's right; we were just here to reunite two star crossed lovers. Well, mission accomplished...but I still felt we could have done more.' Making sure to keep pace with the others, he asked "is it safe to leave him like that?"

[Josh]
One of the pillars was knocked over after Spruce knocked Reshiram into it. A large chunk of it hit Anthony on the head, which made him start talking like some kind of general, and also made all of their attacks hit more than once. Josh remembered something similar happening before, when they found the first orb of balance. Anthony clearly had no control over it, but there had to be something that triggers it. If they could just figure that out, they could use it to their advantage.

Oh, right. The battle. Josh was lost in thought for a moment, and completely forgot they had bigger problems than that right now. He lobbed yet another Sludge Bomb at the rampaging legendary, which, as expected, hit three times. Reshiram was tough, but at this point, there was no way that he could take much more punishment than he already has. Just a few more hits, and this battle would be over. Probably.

---

[Dexter]
Just as they were about to leave, another team ran up, snagged their client, and teleported away. Now they had no way of completing the mission, and went all the way up to the top of the mountain for nothing. There was really nothing they could do now besides teleport back to the guild. Dexter followed the rest of the team up to their room,

"I can't fucking believe this shit." He said. "We spend an entire day climbing up that friggin' mountain, and what do we get? Fuck all, that's what. All because a bunch of assholes decided that they didn't want to do their own damn mission." He then pointed at the envelope in the middle of the room. "What's in there? It better be our payment for chasing that monolith or I'm gonna fucking flip."

Rebecca didn’t really know how to respond to her team’s mission being taken. She didn’t know why they would climb up a mountain just to steal a mission, or how they managed to outpace them, or how there wasn’t anything to present this issue. She liked to think of herself as someone who always assumed the best than others, but she didn’t plan on letting this one slide. No one messed with her team like that.

“Yeah,” Rebecca said, nodding when Nina asked if she remembered them, “I’m pretty sure they planned this out. If they ever try this again we can hopefully catch them in the act.” Her words didn’t hold a lot of weight behind them, however. She sighed as she walked into her team’s room, carelessly opening the envelope with her psychic powers and examining its contents with them at the same time.

“A TM for Dazzling Gleam.” Rebecca noted, looking at the strange disc’s label. It was definitely an improvement over her current set of tricks, but it felt like table scraps compared to the reward they missed out on, especially considering she was the only one who could get much use out of it. Dexter’s complaint gave her an idea, though.

“So I don’t think either of you guys can use this,” Rebecca said thoughtfully, “And I don’t really need a slightly better move that badly. Do you wanna go see if we can sell this in town later and split the money between the two of you? I don’t really need the money all that much, and you guys worked really hard today. I’d say you’d earned it if I didn’t think you deserved more.”

A cascade of attacks finally knocked Reshiram into a sense of vulnerability. He was dazed and confused, if not bewildered as he stumbled back and forth. Spruce took the Fusion Flare like a gust of wind, wadding through the attack and whipping at Reshiram. He almost seemed to exaggerate the force of it, to the point where he started mumbling and monologuing towards Anthony. It was deadly familiar, but I didn't say anything about it; it wasn't as if anyone else here knew. Hell, Davis would've went nuts if he was there.

Anthony seemed to take a few pages out of history, taking the scenario too seriously. In fact, I had only just noticed the flaking helmet he was wearing, branded with a few stars. That said, he was motivating everyone to beat down Reshiram, going out of his way to actually break convention and burst fire from his mouth several times. Which admittedly looked strange on a slug, but he did it about FIVE times, enough to make Reshiram recoil just from shock.

Everyone was doing their finest against Reshiram, and that was after taking a ridiculously painful attack earlier. He became a large stumbling punch-bag for everyone in fact, while Celes and Kamina ended up shouting over each other on his morality and everything else. It was almost too much for me to bear (because I couldn't even see half the damned battle), with Reshiram turning into every colour of the spectrum from every single attack hitting him at odd angles.

I wasn't going to be left out of it though. I clamped my magnets together and let out a small spark, readying it towards Reshiram's centre of mass. I was some distance away considering I dashed through him, though my attack (like many others) reached Reshiram within a second, a pulse of light erupting from my magnets and blinding the likes of Reshiram. I was growing quite unsettled and brooding, likely from the unknown move I had performed earlier.

[Spruce]

I smiled as Reshiram seemed to already almost be finished, and, better yet, he tried to attack someone... but, thanks to paralysis, he couldn't. Reshiram growled at this, as if he was more annoyed than angry, and I let loose with another void whip, as he took serious damage from everyone's attacks. He then finally addressed Celes' shouting with "I am NOT corrupted! I AM IMMUNE TO IT! You should know, YOU TRESPASSERS TRIED THAT!" he roared, again... and tried attacking, but, again, couldn't do anything... of course, at this point, Miles used another lightning attack, or three. Anthony then used dragonbreath four times against him, dealing some serious damage, and Kamina came up with a plan... beat him up... of course, we were already doing that, so the plan was completely unnecessary. I then felt a strange, yet familiar power growing... I started forming my void energy into an attack I've only ever used once, before... the void bomb. As soon as it was ready, I threw the thing at Reshiram, finishing him off, or, at least, making him pass out. "We did it every...o...n...e..." as I said that, I felt my own consciousness fading, and, soon enough, I passed out, as well. I could faintly hear a familiar voice after a while... my own brother, who at one point made me join his team, and at another fought me underwater for some sort of void crystal thing... wait, weren't we supposed to be collecting those, or something? It's been a while since we've found one, and that orb that Reshiram was guarding kinda looked like one.

---

[Anthony]

More attacks were thrown, and all of them hit more than once. Reshiram tried his best to retaliate, but, thanks to his paralysis, he couldn't do a single thing as we just continued with what had quickly become a beat-down. Eventually, Spruce did something weird... he formed a giant, grey orb out of nothing, and threw said orb at Reshiram... the orb exploded, and then both of them fainted... Spruce probably due to exhaustion, and Reshiram just from damage. "We did it every...o...n..e..." Spruce managed to mutter before he passed out, and, honestly, I couldn't blame him. I felt like I was barely awake, myself, and I would have just fallen asleep, but, Static decided to poke his head out of my bag, and say "Anthony! The orb's unguarded! Let's get that thing while Reshiram's taking his nap!" I nodded at this, and made my way over to the orb, taking it, and putting the grey, possibly 'void' orb in my bag... and then I noticed a vine whip attached to one of the windows. I looked over the edge to see a blue snivy... oh, wait, no, that was just Vine... but what the heck would a famous explorer like him be doing in this place? He climbed up his own vine whip, skipping the tower we had to tortuously climb, and once he got up here, he ran right to Spruce. "Spruce, are you alright!? Spruce? Answer me!" He then pulled out a reviver seed from his bag, and fed it to Spruce... who didn't wake up. He fed one to Reshiram, as well, who seemed much calmer, now, for some reason. "What... happened? Who are you pokemon?" that was just about the time that Reshiram looked down to see a knocked-out, or possibly worse, Spruce. "WHAT HAVE I DONE!?" he shouted, as Vine continued trying to wake up Spruce... why was Vine so obsessed with Spruce, anyways?

---

[Bonnie]

As soon as everyone was away from Rayquaza, I took out one of the fermented, possibly rotten seeds, and threw it at the legendary. Somehow, once the thing made contact with Rayquaza, he started flying around randomly, attacking the air instead of us... giving us the perfect opportunity to finally escape! I ran over to the nidorino, and teleported everyone back to the guild. "Whew... that was close. Could you imagine having to actually FIGHT that thing?" the client seemed to agree with me with a nod. She added "Yes... that would have been a disaster, but... what, exactly did you throw at it?" I responded with "An X-eye seed... kinda? It was an edible, and sweet-tasting seed at one point, but I kinda left it in my bag for too long, and... that was the result," the nidorina seemed a little disgusted by that, but, she handed me an oran berry as a reward... Oh... right, now I remember. The mission with the better reward was taken by a bunch of psychic types... I thought as I took the berry, I tried to hide my disappointment, and apparently did a good enough job that I didn't offend her, or her boyfriend, both of whom headed out into the town. "Well... that's done, I guess. I still feel like we should have gotten more, but... well, what can ya do, huh?" I shrugged, and headed to the team's room, where Tini and Eralion would likely follow... it was oddly early for us having completed a mission, but, I still felt exhausted. I can't believe I almost fought a legendary for an Oran berry... well, I guess when you don't have anything in your bag, you'll end up doing some crazy things. I thought as I sat down on the uncomfortable, straw bed that, at one point, was an absolute dream to sleep in.

---

[Nina]

Inside the envelope was a letter that fell to the floor, and a TM for dazzling gleam... well, it wasn't really the BEST reward, but, if it was a second-gen TM, the kind that doesn't break, then it would be worth a LOT of money, which we could easily divide between us for some supplies... or whatever Dexter wanted. "Yeah, that sounds like a plan, Rebecca. Let's do that," I then decided to actually read the letter...
'To Team Crescendo,
I've discovered something horrible about the group of
pokemon that I've been working with for a while... I
need you and your team to use that TM, and find me at
the cafe... it's of the utmost importance... at least,
it is if you wish to stop that block monster from...
doing whatever it is that thing wants to do with us.
~A familiar bronzor'
"Guys... before we sell this thing, well, just take a look..." I then showed them the letter, making sure that they've read the whole thing before showing to the next one, and then I looked down. "Maybe this TM was all he could do to help us, but... to be honest, a couple reviver seeds might be more helpful... I guess I'll leave it up to you, I just don't know what we should do about this," I didn't know what to expect, either... what 'horrible thing' did that bronzor discover about his group? What would be so horrible that he had to contact us, and send us to deal with? Why the TM? Did it involve dragon-types? There were too many questions, all of which would only be answered once we found that bronzor, again.

When Celes saw that Reshiram was down, she let out a sight of relief... that is until Spruce was down.
"SPRUCE!" She yells before rushing to him, as Vine arrive. She looked worried as Vine gave a reviver seed to reshiram and Spruce.. but the seed did not work on Spruce.
"No... it... it can't be... SPRUCE! It's... " she looks at Reshiram.
"It's all your fault! We were trying to make you see reason and you did this!" she says, clearly crying.
"We need to get him back ASAP to the guild! We need to have him with medical help quickly! We need to save him! Please!" she says, scared right now. She didn't want to lose Spruce at all. She was really scared now.

---

When the group arrived back at the guild after Bonnie got the reward, Eralion was a bit tired.
"At least we are back here...even if the reward was... just an oran berry." he says, looking down.
"I seriously wish we would have gotten more from all this. Something to help us. Lets just go rest for now... we had enough that happen for today." he says before going to the rooms and heading to sleep, tired of this day and just wanting it to be over with. God... he hoped this kind of day would not happen again.

Kamina

They did it...they won. "Ha...well that was a tough fight. Even Spruce wore himself out to the bone with that last attack" Moving over to where his fallen teammate was, he scooped him up with his tail, and gently placed him on his head. "Calm down Celes" he said to his panicking teammate "considering the fact that he only fell unconscious after his own attack, I'd say he's just exhausted. All he needs is some rest, and he should be just fine." He then turned to Reshiram "and as for you; I'm glad to see that our efforts to violently beat the insanity out of you worked. The reason we came here was to ask you to thaw out a village that's completely coated in ice, even the people living there. I think it was your brother?" Kamina made a mental note to thank the blue Snivy later. Right now, he had to convince Reshiram to help them before he had a relapse.

---
Tini

"Ahhh...today was a great day. We got to uncrazy some people, explore a cave, Eralion evolved, and even reunite two long lost lovers. They even gave us a berry for it. I still can't believe we get paid to do this. I love my life, but sometimes I love it even more then normal" Tini monologued as he settled in for the night "I hope that tomorrow is just as great as today was" And as he slowly drifted off to sleep, he once more entered the world of dreams...

---
When Tini came too, he found himself on a crowded street corner. The whole place was filled with medical personnel, as well as members of law enforcement. At the center of it all, was a ring of yellow tape, and in the middle of that, was two young children on the ground. Pie covering their bodies as they lay down twitching

"A double Pieing" Said a Throh to his side

"Not only that, but both them had a entire can of whipped cream unloaded into their mouths" added a Sawk who was standing besides the Throh

"What kind of sick nut job does this to a couple of kids?"

"You and I know the answer to that all to well, old friend"

"Yeah...we do. Fudge! We've fought for so long to clean this kind of filth from the streets, and it's still not gone! Will Magical Sparkle Rainbow Valley City ever be free of this curse!?"

"Who knows. But I do know this; if it wasn't for the work of us and others like us, these streets would be a heck of a lot darker"

"I suppose that's true. Anyway, this creep's not going to catch himself, let's get a closer look at the crime scene. You coming Special Best Friend Prosecutor?"

"Right behind you" Tini answered

[Josh]
After a long battle, Reshiram was finally taken down. The attack that Spruce used to finish Reshiram off took a toll on him, though. Whatever that move was it seemed to take a lot of energy, since he passed out shortly after using it. Understandably, Celes was concerned, as was a blue Snivy that had just arrived. "Uh...who are you??" Josh asked. "Are you somehow related to Spruce?" Since they were both the same species, and both oddly coloured, this seemed to be the case. Why else would he have followed Spruce all the way to the top of this tower?

Kamina put Spruce back on top of his head, claiming that he was simply exhausted. "That may be true, but I don't think he should stay here for much longer. The extreme temperatures in this place won't exactly help him." Josh pointed out. "Someone should take him back to the guild for now, so he can get some rest. The rest of us will head back after the situation in that village is taken care of."

---

[Dexter]
"I'm not complaining, as long as we're getting something out of it. Besides, this guy says it's important." Dexter said, skimming over the letter. It seemed like this Bronzor wanted to meet at the cafe, but for some reason, didn't tell them when. "Of course he doesn't tell us when we're supposed to meet him. The fuck does he expect us to do? Guess?"

Needless to say, Dexter was still in a bad mood from when their mission was stolen. He took a deep breath to try to calm himself down. "I don't know. Maybe he's waiting there for us now. Might as well go there, just to check. I'm not gonna be able to sleep when I'm pissed off like this." He started making his way towards the door. "You guys coming?"

Rebecca read the note carefully, taking a moment to think about how to proceed.

“Well,” she decided, “I already know Disarming Voice, so if it turns out that I really need a slightly better version of a move I already know, I guess we can use it. I’ve been hoping we could get our hands on something like a Safeguard disc, personally, with all of this poison and weird corruption going around out there.” She listened to what Dexter had to say, smiling at his complaints about the vagueness of the whole ordeal.

“Sounds good to me,” she said. “It’ll be a nice excuse to get something to drink, if nothing else.”

I had a roller-coaster of emotions as Reshiram flailed and struggled. I backed off from the limbo state he was in, between defeat and some ultimate attack, while everyone else threw pretty much everything at the legendary. At that point, the arena was flooded with lights and noise, which could've been mistaken for some rave. Unfortunately, all raves end; when the sparks and fires cleared away (with one last tower-rattling implosion), Reshiram had fallen and slammed into the ground, instantly incapacitated and letting the air settle at last. He could've been mistaken for Zekrom based on the blackened skin, and I felt obliged to check if he was really defeated. Before I had a chance to inspect Reshiram, I heard another thud behind ourselves, which was bad on its own.

"That's not good..." I had forgotten Spruce took a battering, and so did everyone else. As the adrenaline wore off, many things set in; I felt aches and twists all around my body, and my vision was briefly unfocused as I floated over towards the commotion. A bit of echoing set in from voices all around me, but I could at least clearly see Spruce sprawled on the charred floor. He was swooped up by Kamina while Celes cried and begged for help. My face was numb and I was more or less glad we were just still around, instead of meeting up in Arceus' domain. More echoes and ringing in my air followed Reshiram's voice, notably more regal and less paranoid as he slowly crawled towards us. I looked behind myself towards Vine and the legendary, and planned to say something. "..." I just sighed really, and I couldn't get any proper words out. Well, aside from "Just listen to what we have to say soon, considering what you've done."

[Anthony]

Static hid himself again once Reshiram woke up, as if trying to make sure he isn't seen by the legendary pokemon, and orb guardian, apparently, and he seemed to be thinking about where that place might be. I decided to respond with "Well, we just passed it to get here. It's near the frozen forest, as well, if that helps at all," thankfully, that DID seem to help him figure things out, and, before I could answer Josh's question, Vine answered for him "I'm Vine, the leader of the Wildvines, Spruce's old team... and yes, I'm also his brother. I'd tell you more, but... I'd rather just teleport back to the guild with my little bro," Vine then walked over to Kamina, and jumped onto his head before using his own diamond-rank badge to teleport the two away. "Well, Reshiram, can we count on your help in unfreezing the town? I heard you were the only one who could put a stop to your brother's rampage... or something like that," I asked Reshiram, who eventually answered with "My brother!? Which one? The cold one, or the electric one?" of course, that question just implies that he wasn't listening to what I said about the town being frozen, but I decided to answer, anyways "The cold one. I didn't know you had another brother," Reshiram sighed at that, and responded with "Yes, I assume you wouldn't... and I guess it was stupid of me to think that my long-lost brother from centuries ago would be here, in this world," that... did nothing more than confuse me, and he must have noticed that, as he added "Sorry about that... but, yes, now I know where we need to go, and I will help you with this," Reshiram then picked up as many of us as he could, making sure to include Kamina in this, and flew over to the frozen town, with the charizard and the salamence following him, with whomever he didn't pick up on their backs.

---

[Nina]

"Well, I am feeling a little tired, but... er... sure..." I said to try to convince them to do this tomorrow, but, I guess they were right. This guy might not even be there tomorrow, and he might just expect us to run over there as soon as we got the letter, and indeed, as soon as we made our way to the cafe, we saw the same bronzor, with the same coat and the same hat as last time... he was really horrible at blending in, it seems. I took a seat next to him, and he looked around for the rest of my teammates before finally talking "Those other guys... they've been trying to SPREAD mystery dungeons to towns! Thankfully, they haven't done TOO much to do that, yet, but if we don't stop them, soon... there might not be a safe place from... whatever it is that controls the dungeons. I... I had no idea of this, I really thought we were just a research group, I thought we were just trying to find out what's doing it... and I'm too weak to stop them on my own. Can I count on your assistance in this matter?" to that, I simply remarked "I'm guessing we don't have much of a choice," and he nodded in confirmation of that. On one hand, it's one mission that can't be stolen, but... on the other, it's also probably just a bit over our skill level. After all, none of us have even evolved yet, and he's tasking us with taking down an entire organization... an organization which only WE really know about, unfortunately. Who knew a mission involving papers would lead to this? Us, stopping some organization we know almost nothing about, that may or may not be trying to turn towns and cities into mystery dungeons. I thought as I waited for the rest of my team to respond to this bronzor's proposal.

Celes saw that Vine brought Spruce back at the guild, and was very worried as she looked at Reshiram and heard what he said about another brother. She just.. didn't listen too much. She was too worried about Spruce right now... too worried about what happen to him... She looks at the group.
"Please take care of this... I... I have to check on Spruce.... I have to go see him and make sure he is ok... I can't just leave his side." she says as she goes and get her badge out and use it, going to teleport back to the guild and go find Spruce. She didn't want to leave his side... she didn't want him to die at all... she wanted to help as much as she could for this. At least his brother arrived... but she was still worried sick about him.

Kamina

Poor Celes, for her to have so much fear in her heart over Spruce's condition that she would leave the mission early. It was clear that Spruce just wore himself out. Kamina was no stranger to working oneself into a state of unconsciousness, and while it wasn't pleasant, it also wasn't dangerous to your health (at least he assumed, since his health seemed to be fine). Before she teleported away, Kamina gave her a simple nod of acknowledgement. In the seconds that proceeded Celes' departure, a thought occurred to him 'wait a second... I'm riding on someone. Huh, I can see why people like using me as transportation now.'

[Josh]
Josh's assumption about Spruce and Vine being related turned out to be correct. Vine ended up bringing Spruce back to the guild to get some rest, while everyone else prepared to head back to the frozen village. Or, everyone except Celes did, at least. She was worried about Spruce, and instead decided to head back to the guild so she could check on him. Honestly, Josh didn't blame her. It was very clear how she felt about him.

They all got off of Reshiram's back, and headed back to the frozen village. Josh couldn't help but start to worry about Keira. What if they were wrong, and Reshiram really couldn't thaw out the village? What if something had happened to her while they were gone? He tried his best to force those thoughts out of his mind. He couldn't start thinking like that, especially not now, when they were so close. Everything was going to be fine.

---

[Dexter]
They all went to the cafe, and sure enough, this Bronzor they were supposed to meet was sitting there, waiting for them. The first thing Dexter noticed is that he looked incredibly shady. Maybe he was just being paranoid, but he definitely didn't trust this guy. He didn't know Nina or Rebecca that well yet, but he hoped that they weren't naive enough to believe everything the Bronzor tells them.

Apparently, the organization that this guy used to work for was trying to spread the mystery dungeons to towns and cities. He ended up finding out, and now he's trying to put a stop to it, but he needs their help to do so.
"You barely told us anything about these people we're supposed to be trying to stop." Dexter said. "If you want us to help you, quit being so goddamn vague."

Rebecca climbed up onto a nearby chair so she could be more visible, somewhat lamenting her current lack of height. That Bronzor would probably blend in better if he wasn’t wearing a giant coat and hat. At least, that was the way Rebecca saw it. Only the most important people tended to accessorize in her experience. She listened to what he had to say, though she was left feeling that she only had a vague understanding of the current situation at best.

“Dexter’s right,” she decided. “Slow down for a moment: Who are these “other guys” specifically? What’s the story with this organization? What are we up against? Why is this TM you gave us so important? If this is going to be such a big job, we’re really going to need some good intel if you want us to have any chance of succeeding.” She admittedly hadn’t absorbed as much of her father’s advice about strategy as her brother did, but she still got the feeling that charging in knowing so little wouldn’t turn out too well for them.

Everyone lingered around, either at rest or walking towards Reshiram as they spoke. It was wasn't long ago that we had a brutal fight against the confused legendary, the heat beginning to set in and sap whatever remained of our energy. Vine almost seemed out of nowhere to medevac Spruce, his badge glinting whatever God rays that made it through the shifty clouds, saying a few words before departing. I thought nothing much of it, other than reassurance that Spruce wasn't going to end up disabled for the rest of the journey or something. I looked at Kamina as Vine returned to Arnold's with both Spruce and Celes, relieved that the hard part was over for now.

Most of us seemed worried for both Spruce (Celes especially, I don't really need to inquire why), although Kamina was a lot less serious than everyone else. The nonchalant attitude was needed though, as we all flew through the skies with Reshiram below us. The air quickly shifted from steaming heat to a chilly blizzard, touching down back at the town relatively quickly. I swore we were melting the ice already, just from the retained heat from the dungeon. "Thanks Reshiram. Mind giving life back to this region?"

[Spruce]

Somehow, I found myself back in the void world, Giratina's realm, and I somehow ended up in a fight with him. I tried to attack Giratina with my trusty void whip, but that didn't seem to do anything to him, at all. He shook his head, and said, rather confidently, "You have betrayed us, and now you will pay the price. You cannot escape from this. Your friends cannot help you, and so, I will carry out your punishment," Giratina then attacked me, and, somehow, I felt the pain from it. Some sort of stinging pain in my left 'arm'. No... this can't be... it has to be a dream, it just HAS to be! I basically shouted in my head. Even if I somehow felt pain, this still couldn't be real. Just a few moments ago, I was fighting Reshiram, far away from anywhere that might have been effected by the void leak, and I KNOW my friends wouldn't bring me here if I ever passed out. It just didn't add up, at all. "Do you not see, and feel the evidence before you? You are here, in my realm, and you are helpless. Why can't you just accept this?" Giratina asked me. Did he read my mind? I knew Giratina was a legendary, but didn't only psychic type pokemon read minds? From what I read about him, Giratina was NOT a psychic type, at all.

---

[Vine]

After the teleport back, Celes decided to join me, and my brother, back in the guild. I wanted to say something, but, decided against it, as I looked back at my brother, who needed some sort of medical attention, desperately. Thankfully, all guilds have some sort of medical professional, just to make sure every member's in tip-top shape... of course, whether or not that works depends on whether or not the pokemon in question was willing to GO to a doctor, in the first place. I rushed Spruce over to the healer's room, thinking Oh, yeah, that's right, they still call themselves 'healers' in this world... how did I mix that up? as I waited for my turn. Assuming Celes followed, I said "You know... I'm probably hiding it, but... I'm actually kind of panicking right now. I don't want this to take too long, and... well, you know..." of course, if she didn't follow for some reason, I probably just made myself look like a complete idiot, not that it mattered, as most of the pokemon in this guild were huge fans of mine that would say that I'm perfect, even if they caught me talking to an inanimate rock. The healer finally called me in, and I didn't waste a single moment explaining what happened to her, and putting Spruce on a bed. "Ah... I see... so... your friend here..." I then cut her off to correct her with "brother," to which she simply continued on "has... been so... badly damaged that... reviver seeds... won't work...? That is... an issue..." she spoke so slowly that I really thought she wouldn't get to him in time, and that only served to annoy me, and make me panic even more. She applied some sort of weird salve on some of his burns, and that seemed to cause Spruce to flinch. Normally, that would be horrible, but, right now, that just meant he was alive.

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[Anthony]

Reshiram seemed to actually consider M's plan, but he shook his head, and responded with "No, I'm afraid if I do this without first knocking some sense into my brother, he'll just freeze it over, again. We'll have to find, and possibly defeat him, first, I'm afraid," I nodded, and looked over to Josh, whose friend was trapped in the ice here, and I tried to give him a comforting pat on the back... but I was too short, so, I settled with saying "Just one more dungeon, buddy, we're almost there," of course, I, personally, was sick of dungeons at this point, but, I didn't want to just ditch my team. At least Celes and Spruce had a reason to do that, right? I had no excuse, and I wanted to see this mission through to the end, so I took my first step, if you can call it that, into the icy cave that Reshiram landed in front of. I was immediately greeted with freezing temperatures, a wild sligoo, and ice all over the walls and floors, which made me slip, and slide over to a nearby wall, unfortunately. The wild sligoo then used dragon pulse on me, probably expecting to hit a weak point, but my helmet actually lessened the move's effects. I then reformed myself, and used dragon breath on the sligoo, who took some serious damage from that, and, of course, Daniel finished it off with a shadow tackle. Reshiram then made it in, somehow, and shook his head. "A place like this, defiled by the wild pokemon thanks to the town forgetting about it... it's no wonder Kyurem became enraged... I just wish he didn't lash out on the innocent townsfolk," I then tried to look through the ice, and I could see a path that seemed to lead downwards... perhaps if we could convince Reshiram to melt the ice, we could get to Kyurem faster.

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[Nina]

"Uh... right. Sorry about that, it's just an old habit. I will tell you more, now that I'm not among their ranks," the bronzor said to us, in response to both Rebecca and Dexter's complaining. He then continued with "They are a group of pokemon who might be as many as three hundred strong, and they, at least, to everyone who asks, are researching a way to stop the spread of mystery dungeons... however, they have, instead, been helping the mysterious entity, which you know as the rectangle monster in spreading them..." he continued on, and I decided to say "Let me get to the point. We need an address. We need a location for their base. We can't just run around, blindly, and expect to find a SECRET organization, can we?" this seemed to finally focus the bronzor, as he responded with "Oh, right... I actually have a map to get to their base... for further reference, this map SHOULD make the dungeon 'Crystal Chasm' look like this..." he then handed us the map, and continued "Which will force it to, quote, place the square the base is on, end quote, right at the map's 'X'... as for the TM, and why it's important, I thought you might appreciate having a fairy-type move that's twice as powerful as what you've got against a group consisting mainly of dragon, and or dark types... of course, there are other types in there, but, that's what most of them are," I took the map, and showed it to the rest of my team, and, when I turned it around, I noticed a button, of all things on the back of it.

Celes looked at Spruce as he twitch, and looked panicked also, and listen to what Vine said.
"I don't want him to die... I don't want to lose him..." she says, shivering as she looks at Spruce. She didn't know what to do... she hoped the people here could actually save him... that the people here could go and save him from dying and everything. She knew that things were bad here... and him twitching like that.... at least he was alive but what if something else was happening.. She just stood there and prayed, prayed that Spruce would be ok.
"Please.. Spruce... wake up... please..." she says.

Kamina

'Looks like this will take longer then I thought. Normally I'd be excited about the adventure getting extended...except, there are people suffering right now' Kamina turned his head to the village as he thought that last part. "I really hope your brother isn't under the same insanity as you. Fighting him might take too long, and I don't want to leave these poor people like this any longer then we have to. Unless this ice puts them all to sleep, then that makes me feel better. Because that way, it's less like a prison, and more like an unwanted nap. I've never been frozen alive before, so I don't have any idea which it would be. Does anyone else know?"

[Josh]
Josh smiled at Anthony's words of encouragement. It definitely helped him calm down a little. "Just one more. Yeah." He said, looking down into the cave Reshiram brought them to. If it was like every other dungeon they'd been to, Kyurem's lair would most likely be at the deepest point. It would be a long way down, but he had to do it, for Kiera.

After the wild Sliggoo near the entrance was taken care of, Josh took a look at the inside of the cave. A thick layer of ice completely covered all of the floors and walls. For Josh, as well as everyone else who could fly or float, this wasn't much of a problem. For those who couldn't, though, it was difficult to move around without sliding all around the room. If any of the rooms later on had pits or other hazards, this could really be a problem.

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[Dexter]
The Bronzor gave them a map that would apparently force Crystal Chasm to bring them to this group's base. Dexter still didn't trust him that much. For all they knew, this guy could be trying to lure them into a trap. And even if this wasn't a trap, this organization didn't seem like it would be easy to take down. If they did end up going to Crystal Chasm, it was best to be cautious.

Dexter couldn't help but notice the button on the back of the map. "What's that do?" He asked. If he had to guess, it was probably some kind of self-destruct button. Since the map belonged to a secret organization, it would make sense for them to have an easy way to destroy it, in case they were captured or something.