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 Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:48 am
"Aaron, I'm going out to see some friends. I'll be home later~!" The happy voice of his trainer called from near the door, where Aaron sensed his trainer was fumbling with her keys and unlocking the front door. She paused for a minute with a slight gasp, then ran back into the room Aaron was in and kissed him on the head. "Almost forgot to say goodbye. That was so silly of me! You know I'd take you with, but... she has those nasty dogs..." There was a shudder from the girl, then she smiled and said before darting out the door again, "Alright, bye Aaron~!"
Aaron could sense her leave, but then his three-dimensional map of her house and the surrounding area was cut off as she closed and locked her front door. Aaron scowled and stood, stretching out his fluff and fabric. Now he'd have to find another opening to he could keep track of what was going on around the house. The Lucario jumped down from the table he'd been placed on, catching a dresser door-handle and used it to leap to the nearby chair that was next to the window. For a plush, Aaron was extremely acrobatic. Clinging to the side of the chair, he sensed and found that the window was open a bit.
Jumping from the chair to the sill, he managed to open it a bit more, just enough to wriggle through. The Lucario squeezed through the opening and sensed around him. Ahh, yes. Now his mental map was back, if only to the side yard. If only it connected to the front, he'd be set... and even if he went inside, he'd still have it. Mission nearly accomplished. The lucario was about to backtrack and slide himself back in when he sensed two kids come running toward the house. Almost in a panic, he let himself go motionless. The kids had come from around the house, where his map hadn't reached yet (he'd yet to connect it back with his current map, aura-sensing-wise) and they were now playing in the side area, near the Lucario's window. Shoooot, how was he supposed to get back inside? But then, unfortunately, the children spotted him. One ran over and picked him up.
"Look at ittt~ It's so cute!" The children looked between themselves, then back at their now captive plush. Aaron could sense that they were a bit negative for kids, and that only meant one thing. The thing that they then backed up by saying, "Let's take it! It's not like anyone's around~"
And with that, the very angry lucario was kidnapped. The children happily made their way back into a crowded city-like area, then seemed to think it would be better in the abandoned parts, and made their way to what looked like an abandoned warehouse. Of course. Aaron probably would have thought it interesting if he hadn't been concerned with the fact that he'd been stolen.
It seemed that they were going to meet up with more children their age. "The old abandoned warehouse must be like their playground." The Lucario thought silently to himself. "Well, this is just fabulous. I hope those other kids don't steal any other plushes."
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:50 pm
Tsukiya's trainer had taken him outside to play with her at a nearby park. The sun was shining brightly in the sky, and all the Umbreon plush could do was bop around lifelessly against her arms as his trainer carried him. He strongly wished she would realize that he's a dark pokemon, and do not belong in the sun! She doesn't even know that he can move on his own. She just think he's a normal plushie.
The girl ran right up to the swings, and hopped on, pulling Tsukiya along with her. She tucked the plush under her arm, held onto the metal chains of the swing with her free hands, and pushed off. Tsukiya got a dizzying view of the ground, the sky, and then the ground, over and over again. He was starting to get used to the sensation, when he felt himself slip from his trainer's arms. The next thing he knew, he got a face full of sand.
"Oh no! Are you okay, Tsuki?!" His trainer exclaimed in horror at her clumsiness. He felt himself being picked up, and dusted off, a little too roughly. She then squished him close to her body for a hug.
"I'll leave you on a bench, so you won't get all dirty. You can watch me swing!" She placed him on a bench close by, and returned to her swinging.
Tsukiya was relieved, but a voice behind him made him stiffen up. "There's another!" It said.
Another, what-- Before Tsukiya could even wrap his mind around the situation, he was being carried off again. It was definitely not by his trainer. How he wished he could call out. Hey! I'm being stolen! He was dangling too closely to the ground, as if the person that was holding him is a lot shorter. He watched the ground breeze by as the kid ran.
A distance later, Tsukiya was brought into a dark building of some kind. "Did you guys find any more? I got this black one here. I wonder how many there are." The kid raised Umbreon above his head, for more of his kind to see. Are they stealing all the Pokemon plush?!
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 1:12 pm
Aaron was very unhappily being clutched my some child when he sensed more of the thieving children coming. He wasn't quite sure, but he thought he sensed another life-form in one's arm. It was too far for him to be sure, though. Well, until he heard them calling out to his captors. The one holding the lucario responded, "We snagged one, too! Look, it's all blue and black and stuff!" Aaron's captors held him up so people could look at him in awe. It was then that the Lucario spotted the other plushie, and his immediate thought was, "Of all the plushies available, they had to steal him. Of course." In the hands of another child was the rather negative umbreon Aaron had met once before.
His captor looked around and said rather snootily, "Looks like we're the only ones who found toys to play with. Come on, lets go play up there!" the child gestured at one of the tall stacks of old machinery and, to Aaron's dismay, quickly started scaling it with the Lucario tucked under his arm. The kid waved at the other plushie-holder, as if to say that only kids with plushies got the best play-area.
The children who'd stolen Aaron grinned and stood at the top of the broken machinery, waiting for the other plush captors to come up so they could play. Aaron took the opportunity to sense around him, feeling the swelling negative aura coming off the children. No wonder Aaron hadn't been able to tell what plush it was from a distance. The negativity that Aaron associated with the umbreon had been overcast by the aura of the children.
The kids were still grinning at their luck when the one who wasn't holding Aaron suddenly looked surprised. About a half-second later, they screamed, "RATS!" The one holding Aaron dropped the plush, then quickly scrambled away, the other children following. Aaron could sense the rats, small life-forms that were creeping out of the shadows in the broken-down warehouse. And now, he was stuck there with only Tsukiya. Great.
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 2:37 pm
Blue and black, and stuff? Tsukiya remembered seeing a plush of those colors recently, and he hoped what he thought wasn't true. The plush that the kid held up confirmed Tsukiya's worst suspicions. I'm not only kidnapped, I'm kidnapped with my worst enemy. The Umbreon's mood darkened dramatically upon seeing the Lucario plush, if that was even possible.
The kids ran up to some rusty equipment, gripping both Tsukiya and Aaron. As the child holding the Umbreon plush waited his turn to climb, Tsukiya couldn't help, but wonder what kind of doom they would both encounter with these kids. They didn't seem to have any regard over danger.
Tsukiya's captor barely reached the top, before another kid's voice shouted, "RATS!" He was thrown away in the kid's frenzy to escape. He hit something soft and knew there was only one thing it could have been in this entire building. The children ran so fast that Tsukiya pondered whether they were child-devouring rats.
When the last of them had slammed the door-- and their only escape-- closed, Tsukiya quickly bounded to life, and got up, away from the Lucario's reach.
"You, again!" He couldn't hold in his anger any longer, and he didn't have to. He knew that they both knew there wasn't anything friendly between them. Now that the others were gone, he didn't have to hide it.
He spotted glaring beady eyes out of the corner of his eye. It was not one pair, but two. Then, four, and they kept multiplying. The plushies were outnumbered with what seemed like a hundred to two within seconds.
Tsukiya was not yet ready to be anyone's snack. He gazed around for a high place to keep the rats from simply trampling him. That cardboard box will do. He ran for the box and leapt on top. The rats followed like he was a big juicy steak.
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 5:16 pm
Aaron's immediate reaction to being dropped was something along the lines of plotting his escape, and then having an umbreon thrown onto him. The Lucario felt his non-existant organs squish as the umbreon's weight fell on him. Luckily, the humans quickly vacated the area, and Aaron found the umbreon bounding off of him and a good distance away. Aaron was rather happy about the amount of distance between them.
When the umbreon exclaimed angrily in his direction, Aaron wasn't sure exactly how to reply. He gave a slight snort in response and thought aloud, "Don't think I'm excited to see you either, Tsukiya." The negative energy off of the umbreon was definitely anger, although Aaron didn't need his senses to tell that.
Of course, then the Lucario's senses kicked his attention toward the growing rat numbers. The aura they gave off was like a huge, smothering ball of angry, savage energy. Aaron was surprised he hadn't noticed it eariler. Of course, it hadn't been the threat then. Now, on the other hand, they was coming toward him with malice feeding their aura.
Height. That's what the Lucario needed. Apparently the umbreon had thought similarly, and had scaled onto a cardboard box. Aaron would have scoffed a bit in any other circumstance. Cardboard wouldn't hold up against angry and hungry rat teeth.
Why were the rats trying to eat them though? They were made of fabric and fluff for goodness sake!
But apparently, that didn't deter the rats one bit. They were heading toward the Umbreon when some of the others noticed the Lucario. They started toward him, and Aaron looked around him, searching for something more stable than a cardboard box. There was a cable, but he'd need height to get to it. And it seemed that the cardboard box would be just the right boost.
Aaron took off sprinting toward the box, and jumped, flying over many a rat. He landed right at the edge of the box, continued running, and quickly vaulted again, catching the side of a twisted metal spire for a moment, then then leaping again onto the horizontal, somewhat loose cable. He caught it, glad he was a lucario that could do such acrobatics, and then turned, calling down at the Umbreon. "You should probably get higher! That cardboard won't last long!" Using his senses, he spotted that the rats were already starting to knaw at the sides of the box. Even though he didn't like the Umbreon, Aaron couldn't help but offer him some assistance. Tsukiya only had to ask for it.
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:20 pm
The rats ate everything. It was as if they were the piranhas of the warehouse. They started gnawing on the bottoms of the box that Tsukiya landed on. Maybe it was because they were small and moved, that the rats thought they would make a nice meal. He was sinking closer to their disease ridden teeth, the longer he stood there doing nothing.
The Lucario had positioned himself uncomfortably upon a high wire, looking as if he was being hung out to dry. Well, I'm not going to hang around like you. He thought, smugly.
And yet, he stood there doing nothing a bit longer, as he looked around the warehouse for some sort of high ledge. There was heavy metal machinery everywhere, but they all have been long abandoned, and probably weren't working.
Tsukiya leapt again, with the poise of a cat, and landed on a different box nearby. He went from box to box, until he was near the machinery against the wall. One last leap, onto a conveyer belt. He flopped against the edge, gripping tightly onto it. It was now that he wished he had actual claws to pull himself up. He dangled pathetically, with the bottom half of his body over the side.
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:02 pm
Aaron watched as the boxes the umbreon had been standing on where devoured by the practically rabid rats. What kind of city had rats like that, rats that would try eating anything that moved, or anything that got in their way? Well, apparently this city did.
It seemed that the umbreon was managing rather well on his own, jumping about from box to devoured box. Aaron was glad he'd taken the high-road, so to speak. There was no chance the rats could get to him up on the cable.
He swung himself up, so he could get a better grip and managed to stand on the cable, balancing himself on the loose cord. Again, he was thankful he was a Lucario.
The Lucario closed his eyes and sensed the warehouse, and noticed that the umbreon was making a jump he couldn't hope to completely make. And Aaron was right; half of the umbreon was hanging off a conveyer belt, his paws trying to grip the belt. Aaron felt a pang of worry for the plush. Sure, they were practically nemeses, at least from the negative one's point of view, but Aaron didn't like seeing creatures need help and not get it. And, the conveyer belt was practically under the cord the Lucario was suspended on...
Quickly, the lucario ran to the loosest edge of the cable, smiling at his luck. It was barely fastened on and, after many years of use, very loose. This was way the entire cable was loose. Looking back, the lucario calculated the distance and, gripping hard to the rope with the rest of his limbs, used a hand to harshly smack at the last fiber of the frayed cord. And, half to his surprise, it snapped.
The lucario and cable plummeted, arcing across the warehouse. Luckily the path to the conveyer belt was unblocked, or Aaron would have slammed into something. Then, about a foot higher than where the lucario was holding, the rope thudded into the conveyer belt, about only a half a foot from where the umbreon was. Quickly, Aaron climbed the rope and got onto the top of the conveyer belt. He reached over and pulled the umbreon up via the fabric scruff of his neck. "I know you didn't want my help, but you're getting it anyway." He looked back at the cord, now that the umbreon was safe. "Can you climb? If you can't, I'll try carrying you...If we can just get up that cable, then we'll be able to get on that metal beam, and make it to that broken window and get out of this rats' nest." Aaron pointed out each thing as he said it, then looked back at the ground, where more rats were trying to scale the metal to get at them. "Decide if you can climb or not quickly, since those rats aren't waiting. And they even have a more negative aura than you do."
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:11 pm
Tsukiya was contemplating on how to get out of this predicament, when he heard cracking and groaning sounds from the wires above him. He couldn't look upwards, as he was using all his concentration trying not to fall. Something landed hard on the conveyer belt to his left. Oh great, now I'm going to be crushed to a pulp from falling objects. Much to his surprise, which quickly turned into dismay, he was being lifted off the ledge, by whom other than the Lucario. Always needing to save the day... I could have done it, eventually. He was even more annoyed at being saved, than being tethered on the belt. It wasn't because it was by the Lucario, it was being saved in general.
"I say we fight them."
Tsukiya couldn't take all of the rats at once, but maybe if the both of them, together. That idea would involve them helping one another, and he quickly dismissed the idea, as soon as he said it, but he didn't take back what he said.
Tsukiya doesn't have thumbs, nor fingers, for that matter. How the heck was the Lucario expecting him to climb that vertical death trap? If there were ledges, sure, he could jump them.
There was no way he was going to be carried out of there. Especially by the Lucario. He rattles his mind, trying to think of any other way through this. No way.
"That's outrageous. There's no way I'd do that." He said, regarding the impracticality of being strewn onto the Lucario's back like a rag doll.
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 12:23 am
Aaron had expected the umbreon to be unhappy about being rescued, but he hadn't really expect the waves of annoyance in the multitude that it was rolling off the umbreon.
Aaron almost laughed when the umbreon suggested fighting the rats. Luckily, he managed to keep the laughter inside his head. He responded with, "Fight them? You realize that we're made out fo fabric. How would we actually do any damage? Unless you have confidence that you could punch one hard enough to snap it's spine." Aaron wasn't even sure if he could take on too many of those monsters. They were ravenous, and apparently drive by a lot of something like rage.
The lucario looked at the lack of other ways out when the umbreon said he wouldn't climb, or be carried. He looked at the end of the rope, then back at the umbreon. "How about we tie this around you like a harness, and then I pull you up to the beam? I think I could manage that...Either that or I'll carry you." Aaron said, then turned as his senses gave him a warning. A few rats had found a path closer, and one was attempting to jump over. The lucario gave it a hefty kick, sending the rodent flying into the wasteland around them. "Choose soon, or we will be fighting them."
Another of the rats jumped, and the Lucario did the same to the second as the first. He could handle them as long as they were only coming by one. He pulled another box to where he'd been standing, so the rats couldn't jump there. But more would find a way...
Aaron grabbed onto the rope, prepared to climb or tie at a moment's notice. He looked at the other plush and said, "Make a choice, Tsukiya."
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 11:45 am
"We can get weapons." Tsukiya had no idea why he was still sticking to this failure of an idea that required working alongside the Lucario. He doesn't even have the strength to pick up anything heavy, as he was a plush.
The Lucario suggested he would pull Tsukiya up using a rope. The idea of being helped by his enemy enraged the Umbreon more than anything. He hesitated.
The rats were finding ways up to the landing they were on. Freakishly smart rodents. Tsukiya didn't want to stay here any longer than they already have, but he didn't want to be helped out by the Lucario, either. He stared at the rats below, the rats that were so numberous, he couldn't keep track of where they all were. There was no other way out.
The Lucario had grabbed onto the end of the rope, and was preparing to escape. He was momentarily distracted, when he asked Tsukiya to make a choice. The Lucario did not notice the rat that had climbed dangerously close from behind, but Tsukiya did. In one fluid motion, he pounced over and slapped the rat back down with a flick of his tail. It was only afterwards, that he wondered if the Lucario would have thought he was attacking him. And, it was only after that that Tsukiya wondered why he saved his sworn enemy. He had acted without thinking, for it was the rats who were the opponents at this point. Any rat he saw getting too close, he hit.
"Fine. Pull me up." He finally decided dejectedly. The rats were even coming towards him now, and Tsukiya got a close look of their gnawing jaws before smacking them back to where they belonged; on the ground.
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 5:04 pm
"Weapons? When you couldn't even grip this belt enough to pull yourself up?" The lucario responded critically, wondering why the umbreon was so set on fighting the rats. Ah well, if anything, his aura suggested he was just being stubborn. It's not like plushies could hold weapons anyway. That was one of the downsides to being made of fluff and fabric. How could Aaron protect anyone when he was only a plush?
Aaron felt a wave of rage from the umbreon's life-force, and looked back at the other plush. Apparently he thought the idea of being pulled up was ridiculous and appalling, but Aaron didn't see him coming up with a better plan.
Aaron's senses were almost overwhelmed by the raw malice of rat aura. He shook his head and looked over the belt, seeing so many of the evil little monsters.
While the cord was in his paw, he sensed a life form approach from behind, but then just as swiftly sensed the umbreon attacking it. Surprised, he looked at the umbreon batting the rat off the belt with his thick tail. Aaron wondered why the umbreon had helped him, although he had only felt the umbreon's anger toward the rodents, not toward the lucario. Strange. Perhaps these rodents were forcing them to help one another?
Finally, the umbreon responded, and Aaron quickly looped the frayed end of the cord under and around the other plush, improvising a knot at the end. It seemed strong enough to carry up the plush. Aaron nodded at the umbreon and thought, "Alright, I'll pull you up once I get to that crossbeam." And with that, the lucario grapped the cord and began climbing it with driven speed. The faster he got up and pulled the umbreon, the less time they were in danger of the rats. Coming to the end of the cable, which was suspended from the metal beam, Aaron quickly climbed onto the wide bar.
Taking the cord in his hands, he began to pull the umbreon up, trying to make sure the umbreon didn't bump into anything. As long as the umbreon didn't do anything ridiculous or get pounced by a flying rat, the lucario would have him up on the metal beam momentarily.
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 6:03 pm
Upon his signal, the Lucario wrapped the rope around the Umbreon. Tsukiya was glad he was made with black fabric, otherwise, the Lucario would see he was blushing hard. His long rabbit-like ears were lowered miserably. It was embarrassing, putting his life in someone else's hands.
The Lucario then climbed up the rope, leaving the Umbreon to fend off any other rats that might attack. Tsukiya's senses were heightened immediately, concentrating on fighting off the rodents long enough for the other plush to get up to the beam and pull him up. Left, right, behind! He used both his tail and paws to flick the rats away, but more would just replace the ones he swatted. It was a never ending cycle. There were many rats, but there was only one of him. He would get tired before any of them would.
After what seemed like forever, Tsukiya finally felt the tug he was longing for. Up, he went, inch by inch, away from the rats. They didn't just give up, however. It seemed like they were determined not to let either of the plush escape the warehouse. Tsukiya felt like they were more like hungry rabid dogs, than rats.
As the Umbreon plush started escaping their grasps, one of the rats pounced at his tail. Am I really seeing this? He was so amazed that the rats were able to jump so high, that he momentarily thought he was dreaming. Maybe he really was asleep, under the safety of his trainer's bed. Nothing fazed the plush more than these rats had.
He was forced to snap out of his daydream, when more rats leapt at him. They were really like piranhas, now, and he-- the bait. Tsukiya continued to swat the rats away, though it was more difficult now, being unable to move anything other than his front paws and tail. He started to spin a bit from the momentum of the swing.
Just before he was out of the jumping range of the rats, one caught onto his tail, digging its tiny teeth into the cloth. At least it wouldn't be able to chew, otherwise, it would fall. Tsukiya hoped the Lucario wouldn't lose his grip on the rope because of the added weight. He swung his tail in a circlular fashion, trying to make the rat dizzy, and let go.
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 7:07 pm
Aaron had thought it slightly amusing that the umbreon had sent off embarrassed energy when he'd been tied to the rope, but hadn't let it show on his face. He'd just tried to look determined to survive, which wasn't that hard considering there was practically a lake of rats around them.
"How...could there be...so many rats in one building?" Aaron thought aloud, to no one in particular. After all, the only one he could talk to was Tsukiya, and it's not like they really had anything to say to each other.
Pulling up the umbreon hadn't been hard, but the lucario noticed when the added weight of rat piled on. Gritting his teeth a bit, Aaron continued hauling in the slightly-swinging cord, it's plush and rat anchor weighing it down. If Aaron'd been made of anything that could show his muscles, it was clear he'd have been a very buff creature, considering what he was pulling in was a being his size, some rats, and a metal cable.
It seemed there was unwanted company attached to the tail of the umbreon. While the dark-type was trying to make it dizzy via tail-spinning, the rat didn't seem to fall for the ploy. Eventually, the umbreon was just under the metal beam, and the lucario managed to feed the rope out behind him, freeing one paw. Slowly, he reached over the edge and once again grabbed the umbreon and pulled him up. "You seem to have a stowaway on your tail."
Aaron snagged the rat right as it was about to bite, his paw around the creature's head, and slowly started to pry it off. He didn't want the umbreon's fabric to get ripped. "I'll untie you once I get this pest off. It seems very...attached to you." Finally, the lucario got it off the umbreon, and dropped the rat down into the wriggling masses of it's companion, sensing that it didn't even die from the fall. "These things just don't die..." He looked at the umbreon and began undoing the knot of frayed cord, thinking about how the broken window was probably the best bet out of their death-pit. Just as he finished, he looked up, his eyes wide as he looked toward the ceiling. "You've got to be kidding..." He mentally whispered.
His senses flaring, he was amazed he hadn't felt them eariler. The height must have made their aura dismissable, but now...
Sleeping from the highest ceiling beams were bats. At least they were asleep, as long as no loud noise woke them.
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:34 pm
Tsukiya had reached the top of the rope, and the unwelcome passenger still hadn't swung loose. He cursed it's steel grip on his tail. He felt himself being picked up again, and couldn't help feeling like a trapped, needy kitten.
"Way to state the obvious." Tsukiya replied, when the Lucario mentioned the rat on his tail. He half-expected the other plush to comment about having to save him, or about his embarrassment, which was so strong that if there was anyone else here, they would have felt. Instead, the Lucario proceeded to actually help get the rat off. It wasn't merely to get the rat off, he was being careful not to hurt the Umbreon.
Tsukiya didn't know what to think. His sworn enemy was being nice to him. Were they only enemies in his head? He had thought types that were strong against him would never be anything other than his enemy.
He was brought back to reality when the rat was finally pried off his tail, and the Lucario began to untie him. What does he mean they don't die? Everything that's living dies. He knew the rats were odd, but he didn't expect them to be machines. Then it clicked. The rats in the warehouse were machines. The machinery in there had been used by some crazed maniac to create mechanic rats bent on destroying everything.
"They're machines." He shared this newfound insight to the Lucario, as if it will somehow get them a better understanding of their opposition. Tsukiya doesn't know if the other plush heard him. The Lucario was looking upwards, and Tsukiya followed his gaze. He shouldn't have. What he saw was tens, no, hundreds of creatures that looked like zubats.
They began to stir, and awaken. Tsukiya had spoken aloud, without realizing there was any other dangers. The Lucario plush could speak telepathically, but the Umbreon couldn't. Each creature unfurled their wings, shrieked, and left their nesting post. There were hundreds of them. That created a lot of shrieking. That wasn't the worst part. As the bats flew, they dipped towards the two plushies. Tsukiya crouched low, to avoid being knocked off, and into the clutches of the rats once again. This was becoming a never ending nightmare.
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 10:14 pm
Aaron had expected the umbreon to snap at him when he was removing the little monster rat from the dark-types tail, but as he looked back at Tsukiya, he felt only confusion and surprise in the usually negative aura.
Did he think that perhaps, Aaron wouldn't have helped him? Simply because the umbreon hadn't been too nice to him in the past? Of course Aaron would help. He'd already said that eariler, and when it was clear the umbreon didn't like asking, Aaron had taken it that he could help when his companion needed it. Wait...when had the umbreon gone from potential threat to a companion? The lucario wasn't really sure, but he had more to worry about right now.
Like the fact that the umbreon thought the rats were machines. Which the lucario knew was impossible, but he did play with the idea for a moment. "Perhaps not machines...they have aura, which only living things have. They might be genetically enhanced though, or cyborgs? Perhaps..." Aaron's telepathic words trailed off as he saw the swarms of bats wake up.
And worse, it seemed these bats literally backed up the term 'rats with wings'. They dive-bombed the plushes and, just like the rats, tried to attack them. The umbreon was smart to drop, and Aaron followed his lead. Unfortunately, it seemed that these things realized that in any dimension, fighting-types were less resistant to flying-types than dark-types. A few practically bulldozed into the Lucario from the beam's height, sending Aaron slipping almost completely over the edge of the beam.
Luckily, he caught the cable and edge, and managed to dodge a few of the bats as they flew for him. His aura-sight was quite useful at times like this, and it allowed the lucario to often only get batted with a wing, instead of the bat's body. Unfortunately for the lucario, since he was hanging, it also made him a better target, and most of their attention was diverted to him instead of what was on top of the beam. Aaron was so close though, he could almost pull himself back up. His progress was slowed by the bats attempting to grab him though. If he could just get back up, he'd be able to fight them better, but he couldn't quite do it by himself while the bats were trying to eat him.
He called out with his mind, shocking a few of the bats nearby, "Tsukiya, I think I may be in need of assistance! Could you pull me up a bit? I can make it back up by myself if you get me up about an inch, just enough for me to get a foothold." The bats hadn't liked the telepathy. It appeared to throw off their sonar for a moment. If the umbreon was going to help, now would be the ideal time to do so.
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