Once the sounds of the escaping grunts finally faded out, Nov first walked over to his his fainted Growlithe and gently treated it with the sole revive he was carrying in his bag. After a brief moment of recovery and petting, the fire dog regained conscious, but Nov decided to let both of his Pokemon rest for the time being so he returned them to their pokeballs. With his buddies taken care of, Nov turned back to the group of wild Pokemon. The three of them watched him carefully, clearly suspicious of another trainer. A few of them were huddling behind the Yamask, who looked as if he was protecting the others. Nov glared at it for a short while, noting the stash of fire stones behind them, but only gave a huff of air before walking over to the control panel for the machine. He was still pissed about the thievery, but after seeing it protecting its friends when the ruins were being attacked, Nov couldn't justify being
too mad at it anymore.
The machine was much more important than some firestones anyway, so Nov scanned the control board for anything that could stop it. Unfortunately, he was no tech wizard, and the lit-up panel was just full of cryptic graphs and unlabeled buttons. He tried tapping random things on it for a minute, but all that really accomplished was some concerning sounds coming out of the machine's engines. He also tried just hitting it a bit after thinking didn't work, but all
that did was hurt his hand. It was then a Natu came up beside him and the Yamask pushed Nov back a bit. He was about to tell them off, when they suddenly conjured some kind of darkness and tore the machine apart with physic power. The panel was eviscerated into shards, and with the controls busted, the entire machine started to shut down as a safety measure.
"Woah, cool stuff... I guess that's one way to do it." Nov muttered. Sparks jumped out from the disconnected wires left in the control's place, hissing harshly. With that done, the whole conflict in the ruins seemed to be at an end for the moment. Hopefully the scientists and police would be able to completely disable the machine and contain any damage that had already been done by it...
The Pokemon all looked at Nov again now that they felt they were finally safe again, but there was little time to do anything before an officer appeared in the doorway behind them, completely out of breath as she walked in. She seemed confused about the whole situation, at first accusing Nov of being one of them before realizing the machine had been shut down and the wild Pokemon were standing by him. He smirked to himself, shaking his head.
"Don't worry, I'm not one of those guys. My Pokemon and these guys," Nov gestured to the group of three standing cautiously to his side,
"We managed to scare those thugs out of here, then we shut down that drill thing by busting the controls." "You're with the police?" Nov said as the officer informed them that they were going to need to make a statement about what had happened. It was only natural, of course, seeing as this was probably a major crime they had stopped.
"I'm happy to get out of here at this point, but some of my friends helped take this thing down, so we gotta find 'em first before we leave." That said, they started off in the direction they came from, and for some reason so did the wild Pokemon, bringing the firestones they had taken from Nov's group with them. Once they were back in the first cross-road, Nov first checked out the path Roxy had gone down, which of course lead to the second floor of the machine room. Nov looked around curiously, finally realizing the lay-out of the place (but not the differences between them, though).
"Huh. The machine goes up three floors? But where's Roxy...?" Nov rubbed his chin, a bit concerned, but he dismissed the thought. She had probably just went back and rendezvous'd with Aiden already, so he lead the group back to the cross-road and took the left path. That took them, after a few convoluted turns, to where another officer and Aiden were. Just Aiden. Nov's heart sank immediately at the realization. Was there another path he hadn't seen, or did something happen? Aiden seemed fine at least, so Nov left his group of five and ran over to him.
"Aiden, have you seen Roxy anywhere? I checked the path she went down, but there was nobody there... Think she already went back to the entrance?" Nov said, running a hand through his messy, sand-blown blue hair. He hadn't dyed again before leaving, so the roots were starting to show the true brown color beneath.
"Man, this isn't the kind of thing we were expecting to do today, huh? This is some serious shit, dude, I'm worried about Roxy. These aren't just local teens or anything, so who knows what they'll willing to do..." After talking with Aiden a bit, though, Nov turned back to the police.
"Both of you sure you didn't see a girl our age when you were coming in?"
