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Conrad narrowed his eyes as he missed but was happy to see the Starmie go down anyway. Happiness didn't last long sine it started to recover and with a snarl the Eevee used Quick Attack to try and cut it off before it could heal too much.

Deimos gave a yelp as he was hauled upright and shoved in the middle of the Rockets. He was surprisingly light and weak. It was like overpowering a child. "No!! No I was looking for the L Deck let go of me!!" He tried to flail free, little arms writhing until Paul started to bind him.

"SHAY SHAY!!!" Andre barred his teeth and charged the group, only to be knocked back by by Sonata's flamewheel. Angel, Eclipse, Bro, Boss, Cappuccino and Espresso joined the pokémon between him and his master. "SHAY SHAYMIN!!!!" He shrieked, green fur bristling with fury. But he didn't attack. It became clear very quickly, Andre had no other attacks. Separated from Deimos and unable to use Seed Flare, there was nothing he could do.

Beady eyes darted between the pokémon and Rockets. He could hear Deimos struggling somewhere in the group but he couldn't see him. "SHAYMIN!!" He shouted, looking desperate.

"Stop you can't do this!!" Deimos shouted uselessly, "This isn't allowed, let go of me!! Tethys!!"

"Alright we can't just stand here! Just blast it down the hall and run! It won't be able to keep up!"

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Meanwhile the fight downstairs raged on. Pinkie successfully crushed the assaulting vaporeon with a stomp attack, while Oriana's Hypnosis attack put it and its master to sleep. Several feet away an enemy feraligatr was frozen by Absol's ice beam and a Galactic was bowled off his feet by Faleen's renegade Sharpedo. The Rockets were striking good blows but the fact remained that there were too many Galactics and too few of them. For every Galactic pokémon they floored two more seemed to appear. Tethys was in here element here, playing on the home field. They'd been at this for a while now and had yet to make any progress down the hall. All they'd done was make a mess.

TRP dodged an ice beam as two of her pokémon countered the attack. She was still gripping her wounded side, breathing heavily. She scanned the scene, brow furrowed. They weren't winning. She hoped the other group was having better luck. Cringing, she abandoned the front line to join her teammates. "We have to fall back.."

Star failed to hide a look of surprise as Alba and Inigo came to his aid. Wheezing, he accepted the help and held Alba's arm for support. At Inigo's question he tensed, "Of course I'm not okay, I've been shot!!" More shots rang in their direction and he shrieked, hiding behind the other men.

Bonnie and Clyde both looked at each other before nodding in agreement. The pair bounced over to land next to the Starmie and launched another double Megadrain at it.

A muted grunt was the only response Acier had to the Gallade's attack before he fainted completely. Inigo just so happened to glance at the right moment to witness it, and he uttered a curse in Spanish before returning the Aggron to his ball just as two gunshots rang out.

He was aware of hearing the gunshots at almost the same time he felt a strange sensation shoot through his right shoulder blade, and the pokeball he had been holding dropped from his fingers. That couldn't be good. The shock of the injury started to fade, leaving the grunt to kneel on the floor and abandon helping the panicking Star in favor of holding his throbbing shoulder. A string of Spanish curses flowed from his mouth, green eyes shut tight against the dull pain that he was sure would get worse after the shock and adrenaline wore off.

Oriana turned to look for her trainer to issue more orders, but found him hunched over and a red patch slowly spreading over his dark uniform. There was a great deal of concern in her expression and the tones of her chiming as she hovered to his side in an instant, unsure of what she could do to help him besides scoop up Acier's fallen pokeball before it was forgotten or worse.

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Sonata snorted at the little legendary, shooting a few Embers at Andre's feet. It was less of an attack to hurt him as it was a warning not to get too close. As soon as Deimos was on top of Koios, the shiny Ponyta would follow with her charge and try to keep herself between the little Galactic and the little legend. Somebody had to, and it might as well be her.

Zack switched targets again, this time going for the Gallade with a vicious Bite attack.

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Angel and Eclipse shared a look before the Umbreon used Tackle on Andre while the Liepard used Assist to boost the attack.

Xander moved back over to check on Jerome's pulse as Bro moved Deimos, sending a quick glare to the Galactic leader.

They were not getting anywhere, there was no way they could win this!
Charizard went down again, and this time he wasn't getting up!
Faleen was forced to return yet another pokemon, and as she watched, while Sharpedo was going strong, the number of attack shitting him were quickly taking their toll.

She felt a wave of relief when TRP said they had to retreat, but it was short lived. and go where? follow the other group, but how much longer before the Galactic team fell on them again.

"BACK TO ME!" She called to her Pokemon, the only one out there was Sharpedo, and upon hearing her command he started to jet his way back, biting, and aqua jetting what he could along the way.

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Hirss was barely on her feet, not having much fight felt in her, she was quickly being forced back by the numbers of pokemon advancing on them.
Before she knew it she found herself staggering back with the group of rockets and their pokemon.

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As Faleen rejoined the others, turning, and noticing one of the grunt, Inigo hunched over with a good amount of blood on his uniform.
She made a jump of surprise, but was over at his side, reaching out to help support him up.
"Don't look at it, just keep moving, you need to keep moving." She told him, knowing that this was going to take its toll on him, but they NEEDED to stay focused, and to get back.

She looked to Alba "Are you okay helping Star?" She asked.

Alba flinches at the sound of more gunfire, but willed himself to keep focused and keep moving. Panic time could come later, there was a job to do now. Speaking of, the space on the other side of Star was suddenly suspiciously void of a certain fan of plants, and Alba was supporting the full weight again. Looking back a step, he spotted Inigo kneeling. His eyes were also drawn to the obvious red that did not belong.

"Oh no... Either walk or wait a sec," Alba ordered Star, lowering him down. Even if Star stopped where he was, there was hopefully enough cover from the other Pokemon to keep him fairly shielded. Hazel was there to help keep the ex-Galactic off the floor and would be able to offer some support, but that was about all she'd be able to do.

Without looking to see if anyone else had come forward, Alba returned to Inigo on the ground, glad to see that Faleen had already reached him. Are you okay helping Star? "Not really," he answered honestly. There wasn't even a point in keeping and eye on the Galactics, there was nowhere to dodge to if Tethys decided to fire again. Doing much like he had for Star, Alba started hoisting Inigo up from under the left arm. "Hold on, Kid. We gotcha."

With the legendary grass type knocked back for now Frost nodded to his companions. "Time to move then, I shall remain at the back with Koios and thus Deimos. If he is in the rear the Shaymin can't shoot after us, and if I'm with him if he tries anything stupid I can shoot him somewhere non-fatal but painful."

Great. Running. Aulus glanced over at his partner, only setting off again when the blond did. It couldn't be too far he just keep going for now surely.... No don't even think about how far it might be, just think about the next stride and keeping an eye on Alex.

Well. Alright then.
Tambrey found herself offering a slight... smirk at Frost's words about 'luck'.
She felt a little guilty about finding it amusing given the situation, but maybe it was just... that amusing after all the electrified beatings and all the doom and gloom of the cell for the past few weeks.
She also found herself raising her brows with mild surprise when the pony kept up her offensive on the little hedgehog... that hadn't blown them all up yet.
That was good.
She really had to compliment whoever had trained this horse... and maybe look into getting one.

"Karma. Right." She was still wary but... "I like karma."
Hopefully things stayed like this for them...
The grunt had no reason to speak up or object to the Deimos transport plan and, tired, started to lean a little more than she wanted on Sonata.
Poor pony. Wasn't even hers and yet it was doing such a good job.
The grunt reached to offer another little petting to her mane.

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Neph acquired air support. Or rather, Palu was suddenly rather surprised to find herself with a spider passenger as Neph dropped onto her after climbing to the ceiling.
A rather irritated and disappointed spider.
The bird attempted to coo a scolding at her team mate but received very little back-chat. That was oddly disturbing.
They looked to the battle and saw Rockets and pokemon falling back.
Well... With Neph firing off a poison sting where she could and Palu attempting to send out some sand-attack, the pair hoped to aid in covering the retreat in whatever little way they could, aiming at the Galactics/pokemon that got close.
Even Neph was putting in a little half-hearted effort.
Retreat... Why not? The day was such a disappointment.