Pokemon RP: The Spiral of Shadows, BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BE THE VERY BEST. Options

[Angelic-Fairy]

Myra sat on the chair with Jelli in her lap. The doors busted open and Myra fell out of her char. "OW...." Myra looked up at the two goons standing there and noticed the music
" okay really? What kind of shi-" before she could finish the sentence Jelli was already getting aggressive towards them once she saw the Pokemon getting in their stances.

"Okay Jelli you know what to do, Charge your hyper beam"
Jelli looked back at Myra and squeaked in response and started charging it

[Xamusel]

(OOC: I was originally going to post this earlier... oh, well, can't be helped. This is from Mao's perspective.)

"How did I get myself in this mess," Mao thought, "when there should be others to worry about it?" He was really starting to get on the last of his nerves here, and Hei wasn't helping it one bit. To make matters worse, it was raining and the prize money was ruined by those damn Ludicolos!!

Deciding to risk ruining his true nature, he yelled out, "HEI!! GET TO THE AFRO MAN!!"

(OOC: Now it's in Hei's PoV.)

Hei facepalmed himself for Mao's stupidity, but he knew he had no other choice in the matter. Knowing that his opponent was down for the count, he ran over to aid Howard, and pulled out his Pokeball for Saito.

"Hey, you need help?" Hei asked, and before receiving an answer, he threw his Pokeball and yelled, "GO!! SAITO!!"

A Bulbasaur had come out of the Pokeball, and immediately used Vine Whip to whip the Ludicolos to submission.

(OOC: I'm not sure if that's possible at all... let me know.)

[Omnial]

(OoC: THE MONEY! NOOOOOO!! D=< )

At first Lloyd didn't mind the inturruption caused my the strange men, as a matter of fact, he was very tempted to break out into dance himself, but after the grabbed the cash, and topped it off by ruining it all, Lloyd was pretty pissed.

"What the hell...you uys seemed good enough, I mean with your intro music and all, but now? its pissing down rain, now! the money is gone! NOW! YOU PICK A FIGHT! NOWWW! I'm mad." With a complete change of expression, and the abnormal seriousness overwhelming Lloyd, we grabbed all his pokeballs and threw them in the air, releasing all his companions at once. "Guys, these men just ruined our vacation, and crashed the party. Go Nuts."

Raven and Zilla grinned sadistically, as Dancer was more or less just plain angry that they had made Lloyd unhappy.

"Don't just stop with there pokemon, make the trainers pay for their mistakes! Go!" With that order, Lloyd pointed at a group of Minor B's minions.

Zilla let out a fierce roar as it started to charge at a grunt, he ws no longer just a croconaw, he was a meat tank now, and nothing was going to stop him.

"Dancer, Protect Zilla using psychic, stop anything from getting in his way, Raven, Take the Zubats down." Lloy stood, quite impressivly, arms crossed, Dancer standing beside him, protecting the two of them, and now giving cover to Zilla.

Zilla was running full speed, mouth open baring his sharp teeth, the grunts tried to get a few of their Zigazagoons in the way, but they where either knocked assied by the shear brute force, or pushed aside by Dancer's skill. THe Grunt stood paralyzed in fear till he was sent flying to the wall by Zilla, he fell unconscience, or at least thats what Lloyd was hoping since the body stopped moving.

One of the other grunts saw the brutality of the attack, then noticed his other partners falling in there cause against the other trainers, he made a wise choice, he ran, abandoning his pokemon and allies.

Raven took out a zubat right before it could use a supersonic on him, using his beack, he ripped its wing, sending it falling to the ground.

"Maybe they would of won if they used the rocket on us and not the open door... Lloyd thought sarcastically, "I got my share of the grunts, whats left?" Heshot a glance at Minor B, and his Ludicolos. THat when he noticed something being...off...It shocked him a little, but it seemed like there was almost a dark purple fire about his pokemon, something Lloyd had never seen in all of his travels, "Uhm..." He started to speak after he had started to come down, "Is anyone else seeing that?" As he had started to calm down, his pokemon slowly got out of their frenzies.

(OoC: I decided that Lloyd can detect shadow pokemon, we don't have enough natural detectors. Hope that is not a problem. Also it does make sense we take the minions out overly easily right? I mean, in every game a 10 year old can take down team whatever so XP)

[Kratour]

(In their defense, ten is a magical number full of untapped power that contains within it the potential to be the true Pokemon Master.)

Atlas dodged forward, darting under the Ludicolo's water gun and bypassing the larger pokemon altogether. Then, he spun on his heels and threw a Shadow Ball his enemie's back, sending it sprawling into the ground. Their fight was over- the Ludicolo was strong, but it never had a chance at keeping up with the Umbreon's speed. Unfortunately, speed is only an issue when you actually see your opponent, and another Ludicolo managed to sneak up behind Atlas and throw him a few feet with a fairly powerful Zen Headbutt. "Geh..." the Umbreon mumbled as he pulled himself up off the ground, then shook a layer of rain water from his coat, "I hate these guys." He thew a shadow ball, which tore through the creature's water gun only to be batted aside with a fairly powerful Fire Punch. ... "Oh come on- how the hell did you... Agh- whatever!" Atlas shouted, attempting to call BS on the Grass / Water type pokemon throwing out a fire based attack, but it was inconsequential really. Instead, he just threw up a glowing green field, which protected him from a Hydro Pump launced by the Ludicolo- "Ugh, I hope Snow's doing alright here..."
~~~

Snow? Oh, right, yea. At the moment, the Ninetails was fighting an apparently downhill battle. Aya's Pokemon were handling the more intimidating threats, but Snow was holding off a small army of Zubats. And while the creatures were basically useless on their own, fighting a dozen of them was starting to take it's toll on the fire fox. Then one screeched out her- a sound that finally grated her last nerve into nonexistence. With a vicious snarl, she braced herself- and then poured on the power. Within moments, the water pooled at her feet was beginning to sizzle- then a wave of fire reached out in ever direction, evaporating the rain entirely and tearing through what few defenses the Zubats had, causing the whole lot of them to fall to the ground in a blanket of black wings and white teeth. Snow, faltered, the recoil from the attack sever enough to reduce her ability to produce flame- but ultimately, she didn't regret loosing Overheat. Not at all. It was still raining, sure, but at least the annoying squeaking had stopped.

[RPGmakerperson]

(OoC: I decided that Andrew could see the dark aura)
What the heck! Andrew saw a ludicolo with a dark aura behind it. Andrew watched as the other trainers fought. Can't stand here watching Andrew screamed to Absol "Use Shadow Ball"
Time to shine
The Absol charged a shadow ball at a minion's zubat and knocked it to the ground
I don't know if Andrew would approve this
The Absol jumped on the zubat and used a shadow claw knocking it out
" Absol's gonna need back up, Charmeleon come out"
An Charmeleon came out from it's pokeball
This seems insane
"Use Flame Thrower"
Charmeleon used it on a ghastly knocking it out.
I hope this helps out
"Charmeleon use Fireblast on ludicolo"
"Absol jump and use shadow claw on ludicolo"
The attacks were both successful but seemed like no damage was done

[Ryuga]

OOC: Nicsp, will Cipher's crew attempt to snag pokemon?

IC: Grey sat on the same bench he was on when this all first started. He had no idea how he managed to get into this situation.

*Flashback*

It was the last round of the tournament. Despite the initial loss against Hearth, Grey had been winning through his other matches. Scyther, and Prinplup were playing their roles perfectly. This time, it was his Sneasle against trainer Gregory's Torterra, a favorable matchup. If he won this match, there was a probably chance he would make top 10.
Grey released Sneasle from his Pokeball as his opponent did the same with his pokemon. "Let's make this a good match," commented Gregory.
"Indeed," replied Grey as the ref initiated the match.
"We'll just play this the way we always do Sneasle. Just wait to see what he does, and we counterattack," thought Grey, but to his suprise, Sneasle did the exact opposite of what he wanted.
Sneasle charged forward, already setting up for an Ice Punch.
"What are you doing Sneasle?!" Grey shouted, but Sneasle didn't listen. By the time it was in range, the Torterra had withdrawn into it's shell, negating the punch. "Sneasle, stop!" Sneasle continued to attack the shell, punching at it repeatedly, despite it's masters orders.

Gregory seemed dissapointed by the turn of events. But ordered an Earthquake from Torterra. The Torterra emerged from it's shell and stomped the ground simultaneously, knocking Sneasle back.

"What's wrong with you Sneasle? This isn't what I trained you to do!" Sneasle ignored Grey, dashing forward again, and attempted and jumping Ice Punch. "Damnit Sneasle!"
The Torterra countered with a Giga Drain. Green tendrils of energy emerged from the plants on it's back and entangled Sneasle, sapping it's energy.
Sneasle struggled to break free, but strength was leaving him.
"Damnit Sneasle..." sighed Grey as he wiped out his Pokeball returning Sneasle.
---

"What were you thinking Sneasle?!" vented Grey . After the match he had taken Sneasle outside to lecture him. "Do you understand what you did?! Because of your actions, you lost us the match, and got us kicked out of top 10! All you have to do is follow my orders! That' the only way you're going to get anywhere!"
To Grey's suprise, Sneasle reacted, instead of staying silent like he usually did. Sneasle stepped forward shouting his name back at him.
"What did you just say!" raged Grey as he also stepped forward, threateningly pulling out his pokeball. "You need a time out Sneasle."
Sneasle jumped forward, swiping the Pokeball out of Grey's hand before punching him in the stomach.
"SNEASLE!" he cried out again before running off.
"Sneasle!" yelled Grey as he attempted to pursue Sneasle, but the wind was knocked out of him.

*present*

Grey sighed. What could have spurred Sneasle to leave him, he wandered. Then again, compared to trainer's like Hearth, the two of them never really had a connection. Maybe Sneasle just didn't like him, and finally grew tired of putting up with him.
Grey sighed again, getting up from the bench. He should go look for Sneasle before he got himself into trouble, despite the fallout. However, he was confronted by a group of suspicious looking individuals.
"Can I help you?"

[Nicsp]

(OOC: No, luckily for us, only we will have the technology to snag the Pokemon, if Cipher were to try and steal our pokemon, they'd have to steal the actual pokeballs.)

V stared as the Ludicolo once again charged in her direction, her legs shaking slightly. Howard yelled out. "V! Double team and then quick attack!" V did as ordered, she used her Double team ability and luckily, Ludicolo went for one of the fake images. Once V was behind the Ludicolo, she became enveloped in a white energy and started charging toward the Ludicolo.

Howard was confused. "What is she doing? I told her to use Quick Attack..." Professor Krane popped out seemingly out of nowhere right beside Howard. "Ah, it seems your Eevee has learned the Take Down move." Howard gasped and jumped away from Krane. "Gah! Don't sneak up on me like that!"

As the Ludicolo turned around to face V, he was met with a headbutt to the face. The impact caused nearby water drops to be fly all around. Ludicolo staggered back a bit before tripping and falling on the ground, unconscious. V seemed dizzy from having landed that attack but shook her head and disregarded the pain, feeling proud for having finally defeated the Ludicolo. Miror B grunted and returned the defeated Ludicolos to their pokeballs. "That's enough! All of you! Regroup and retreat, we alredy lost what we wanted, anyw-" Before Miror B could finish his sentence, he quickly had to duck to dodge Jelli's Hyper beam. As he got up he yelled out at them. "HEY! WATCH WHERE YOU AIM THAT THING YOU NEARLY...No...NO! NOOOOOOOOOOO!"

The Hyper Beam made it's way through the stadium, knocking V out on it's way, who was alredy seriously hurt, but what took the most damage from the beam wasn't any pokemon or person, rather it had been Miror B's pokeball afro. The beam hit the top of the afro and burned part of it, making a small indentation on the mass of hair. Miror B looked shocked. "My...Haircut..." One of his goons grabbed him by the arm and dragged him away. "Hurry Boss we have to get out of here!" Miror B followed slowly, keeping his head down and tears streaming down his face. "My afro..."

Professor Krane yelled out. "Hurry! Don't let them get away!" Professor Krane ran off after Miror B and his goons, (Gonna have to bunny everyone a little bit here, sorry) all of the others following him. Howard ran over to V and grabbed her in his arms. "V! Are you all right?" V answered simply with a confused moan. Howard grunted and gave a quick stare towards Myra and Jelli's direction, but this wasn't the time nor place for this and he rushed after Miror B with the others. They eventually arrived at Mt. Battle's Heliport, supposing they had finally caught Miror B. Professor Krane, after recovering his breath, yelled out. "All right Miror B! You're surrounded! Now tell us where are all the stolen Pokemon!"

Miror B, who seemed to have recovered slightly from the loss of his afro, grinned, he then looked at Professor Krane and the others and started laughing, not an usual laugh, however, a sinister, diabolical laugh, wich echoed through the helipad. "Do you really think me, the great Miror B, would end just like this? Trapped like a mouse? NO! A true genious always has a plan B...Or in this case...A plan R!" Just then, everyone noticed the enormous baloon that was making a shadow over them, a baloon that was shaped like...A Meowth?

"To protect the world from devastation!"

"To unite all people within our nation!"

"To denounce the evil of truth and love!"

"To extend our reach to the stars above!"

"Jessie!" "And James!"

"Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light!"

"Surrender now, or prepare to fight!"

"Meowth! That's right!"

"Wobbufet!"

"Now with Cipher patronage!" Added Miror B.

Howard stared at the whole scene, his left eye twitching slightly, he had alredy had enough weirdoes for one day. "Who the hell are THOSE creeps?" Jesse and James facepalmed. "But we just introduced ourselves!" "Kids these days just don't pay attention." "She just sounded like an old lady now." "Yep." "WHAT DID YOU TWO SAY?! "Nothing!" "Not a single word!" Miror B yelled out at them. "Enough of this! We have to get out of here you idiots!" James started controlling the baloon and it quickly flew away. "Hey, no need to yell."

As the baloon was lifting, however, Meowth, who was standing on the tip of the basket, slipped out of it and stayed behind, Jessie and James barely noticed it. "Wait! Wait, you idiots! You forgot me!" Before he could say another word, Meowth had been picked up by Professor Krane, who was now staring at the Meowth confusedly. "Fascinating...I've never heard of a talking Meowth before..." Meowth flailed it's claws around, trying to free himself. "Let me go you creepy laboratory rat!"

Howard looked at the baloon as it flew away, he turned to Krane. "They're going to run away..." Professor Krane still had his eyes fixated on the Meowth, but he answered. "Let them...I'm sure our little feline friend can tell us where their hideout is...With the proper encouragement." A glint of light shined through Krane's glasses, Meowth's eyes widened with worry. "Meowth..."

[Ryuga]

OOC: Cool. Just needed to know that.
The following post will help explain Grey going MIA.

IC:
"Grey Richardson," replied a man wearing unusual clothing and a helmet that covered his eyes. "We're here for your Pokemon. Surrender them now, and no one has to get hurt."
Grey was taken aback by the comment stepping back and drawing out a pokeball.
"Like hell I will! Just who do you think you guys are?! Thinking you have the right to just take people's pokemon like that?!"
The man chuckled. "Don't misunderstand us Mr. Richardson. New Cipher is just taking back what's their's." The man and his associates pulled out Pokeballs releasing a couple Zubats, Zigzagoons, and Ghastlys.
"Cipher?!" thought Grey, sweating bullets. Why would Cipher want someone like him?
"If you want my Pokemon you're going to have to get it!" declared Grey as he sent out Prinplup from the pokeball. "Hit em with a hydro-pump!"
Prinplup inhaled, water building up in it's beak before it shot a torrent of water. The blast knocking down Zubat's and Zigzagoon's alike, but there were too many to take down. Using this opening, a Zigzagoon used Take down to knock Prinplup back. Zubat's and Ghastly's began shooting projectiles in the form of shadow ball and air cutter.
Prinplup did it's best to avoid the attacks, but found itself soon found himself on the ground as Zigzagoons piled up trying to pin him down.
Grey had to think of a plan fast, otherwise Prinplup would be ripe for the picking.
"Prinplup, take this!" he shouted, reaching into his pocket and pulling out what looked to be a candy drop and throwing it in Prinplup's direction. Prinplup managed to stick it's head out and catch the candy in it's beak, biting down.
Instantly Prinplup was envloped in a white light. The figure stood up, knocking aside the Zigzagoons as it grew in size. The light faded to reveal an Empoleon.
"Alright Empoleon, let''s finish this quickly. Grass knot the Zigzagoons!"
Empoleon did as it was told, summoning vines from the ground which immobalized the Zigzagoons. All the while the attacks from Zubats and Ghastly were shrugged off Empoleon's new metallic armor.
"Ice beam!"
Empoleon inhaled again, particles of ice gathering before unleasing a ray of ice that froze all the arial attackers. By the end, not one pokemon was left.
"What's that about getting my pokemon?" Grey snarkily commented before his face of triumph turned into an expression of shock. The grunts were pointing a rocket-launcher looking device at Empoleon.
"Fire!"
Before Empoleon could react, he found himself covered in a net. Before he could attempt to break free, the net induced an electric current, immobilizing him. Empoleon screamed in pain as he collapsed, the electricity wouldn't let up.
"Bastards!" yelled Grey as he reached into his bagto grab Scyther, but only to be captured in a net himself. The electric current prevented him from releasing his pokeball. The electric current felt much more painful for Grey then it did for Empoleon, and he couldn't even let out a scream as the current began to burn his flesh. Before any permenant damage could be done, the current stopped. But by then, Grey was in no condition to move.

"I'll be taking that," said the masked man as he grabbed Grey's pouch of pokeballs. Grey could only turn his head to the side to see his Empoleon get dragged away by the Cipher grunts.
"Damnit," he thought gritting his teeth and using the last of his strength to try and release Scyther from his pokeball.
"Oh no, we can't have that," he heard as the man stepped on his hand. This time Grey did cry out in pain, the pokeball falling out of his hand, only for the masked man to pick it up. "You just had to make this harder on yourself," the man remarked before giving Grey a final kick to the face. "Let's move it men! We're pulling out!"
Grey reached out, almost as if he could do something. His vision went black as he watched the the grunts walk away.

[Nicsp]

(OOC: Right then...Time for another time skip.)

The team now found themselves in the Professor Krane's Laboratory, Krane invited everyone over after the whole attack issue had been dealt with. They were now on the Laboratory's meeting room, a few chairs were randomly assorted around. Krane grabbed one of them, sat and looked around. He decided he'd prefer to stand so he got up again and started pacing around the room.

"Well uhm...I'm not very good with giving speeches but...That...Group, that attacked us at the Stadium. I take it you know them? They're called Cipher, and they're know for peforming...Certain experiments on Pokemon. To make them stronger, faster and follows orders more efficiently. However, these...Experiments, also hurt the Pokemons, and with time, kill them."

Krane scratched the back of his head, thinking of how he would say the next sentence. "These experiments turn them into, what we refer to, as "Shadow" Pokemon. Such as that Ludicolo that Miror B fellow had with him, you must have noticed it was considerably stronger than a normal pokemon, and it also attacked the guards without hesitation..."

Krane sighed. "I asked Edgar to organize that tournament, honestly, and, more honestly yet, the real objective of the tournament was to find people to...Assemble a team." Krane looked around at all of the finalists, at least the ones who had shown up. "And well, this i what i called you here for. I ask you, will you help us fight Cipher? The police don't have the skill, or the drive to go on a full investigation after Cipher just yet, most of the people there still believe Cipher is alredy done for good. Some are saying even that attack at Mt. Battle didn't mean nothing."

Krane then went and grabbed a small briefcase out of a closet in the room, he set on a table and opened it, revealing several gloves and some kind of visors. "I...I'm not realy good at speeches but...I hope i was able to at least convince some of you to join our cause. If you're interested, grab one of these gloves and a scouter. I'll tell you more details then."

[RPGmakerperson]

Well, I made it this far who knows maybe I can use this to help train myself and the pokemon
I hope he takes this opportunity!
Andrew's charmeleon thought Please take this!
After, seeing his pokemon Andrew knew what to do.
"I'm in" Andrew then proceeded and grabbed a glove and visor.

[Xamusel]

Hei decided that the time was right to reveal his status in the Orre Region and join this conflict... if he knew which side was really right, anyway, he'd go with the correct one... Oh, well, he still has faith here.

"Alright, special government agent Contractor Hei reporting for duty, SIR!!" Hei said while saluting, and then grabbing the glove and visor, and then getting the necessary stuff ready to get completely ready for the mission.

(OOC: I'm not having Contractors be supernatural people here, but rather special agents, thus why October calling Hei a Contractor.)

[Kratour]

Hearth looked down at the suit case, considering his options for a minute. Then he shrugged and reached down, picking up one of the gloves, shifting it in his palm to get a feel for it. Evidently, he didn't mind the device, because he then grabbed one of the visors and turned to regard the professor. "Yea, alright." he said finally, giving one of his famous grins, "Cipher won't know what hit 'em. Right guys?" Simultaneously, all three of the young trainer's pokemon- save for Atlas- called out, agreeing without the slightest hesitation. Atlas however, looked slightly nervous. "Umbre..?" he said, lowly, intending for only Hearth to hear him. The trainer shrugged, "Nah, don't worry about it Atlas. They're long gone- we'll probably never see 'em again. Now lighten up, or I'll let Steel ride you!" The Umbreon look mortified, especially with Steel pepped up and peeked out over Hearth's head, smiling widely at the shadow dog. "Umbre!" he shouted, throwing Hearth a mean look, though the trainer just laughed.

[Naridar]

(OOC: Did snag-em machines exist before and was it possible for a character to have access to them at some point in the past?)
"Count me in."

Igor walked to the briefcase, took out a glove and a visor. He looked at them closely, as if trying to memorize even their smallest details. He had a strange sense of deja vu.

His pokemon, released from their pokeballs, watched their master with curiosity, wondering what would happen next.

[Nicsp]

(OOC: Yes, the original snag-em machine was used by a criminal team with the same name, that team only had a prototype, however, wich is then stolen by the Main Character in Pokemon Colosseum. Team Snag-em disappears after that, and it's unknow where they go from there, so, in theory, it would be possible for a character to have acess to them before if he was somehow connected with Team Snag-em.)

Krane couldn't help but smile as more and more people agreed to help him. Howard approached as well. "May be because i spent most of my time with pokemon instead of people, but i think the way Cipher is treating pokemon is unforgivable, and it's about time they had what was coming for them." Howard grabbed one of the gloves and slipped it in his hand. As he looked back to the briefcase, V was on top of it, holding the scouter on her mouth, ready to hand it over to Howard. "Erm...Thanks V." Howard grabbed the scouter and looked around it, to see if V had drooled in it.

[Ryuga]

OOC: And now I'm back. Expected much more to happen in my absence.

IC:
Grey managed to get himself to his feet. He was still weak from the beeting earlier, and he could barely stand. Painfully, me managed to make it back to the collosium entrance, collapse only as he made it through the entrance. By now, the place was deserted. The tournament was over, so there was no need for anymore people to be here. Fortunately, the nurse of the Pokemon center walked by while making her rounds.
"Oh my gosh!" she exclaimed, kneeling down to Grey's limp body. She frantically looked around for help. The only people who she knew of who were still around, was Krane and his chose trainers. While she felt bad for having to disturb the meeting, she needed some help, and thus ran off to where Krane was, temporarily leaving Grey all by his lonesome.

[Xamusel]

After Hei had managed to reveal his true identity, he decided to contact Mao, just to see how he was doing. With an "excuse me for a minute", he walked over to the door, only to see that it opened up for him, revealing Nurse Joy in all her glory... only she was in a panic.

"What happ-"

"There's a man, a man that is heavily injured, and he needs help!!"

That had raised many eyebrows from the rest of the group, but Hei had a feeling that something sinister was going on, and he wanted to ensure that it was fixed.

"Professor Krane? What do you want me to do?" Hei asked. In all honesty, he wanted to go and take care of his call to Mao, but this was taking top priority here.

(OOC: I guess that this can tie in Ryuga's post and mine... what do you think?)

[Omnial]

Lloyd sat still in silencem, thoughts racing through his mind. Shadow pokemon? could that have been what that aura around those pokemon meant? He opened one eye slightly, staring at Professor Krane, And what about him? Setting up a tourny just to find and hope for trainers to help him out, thats kinda a dirty trick...And what are we supposed to do about the enemy using shadow pokemon? take them away from them? but that would be stealing...even if the pokemon was stolen before...ugh...this all sucks.. Such thoughts bogged down Lloyds mind, he was having a hard time deciding wiether he should or should not join. HE sat on the edge of his seat and scrambled his hair, messing it up, with both his hands, "Hey Professor, How can we tell if a pokemon is a shadow pokemon? And what good do those gloves do anyway? They look a little...tacky to say the least." He let out a sigh, I'm going to need more convincing and insentive if I am going to use my time doing something productive

[Nicsp]

Professor Krane put his hand on his chin, thinking. "Hei, go with Nurse Joy and see if you can bring this man here, i'll try to wrap this up." The Professor then turned to Lloyd, he fixed his glasses in place and then started explaining. "Well, right, Shadow Pokemon have this aura around them. That's where the scouters come in, aside from a few gifted subjects, humans cannot see this aura. And the gloves...Well...When Cipher showed up for the first time, they were defeated by an ex-member of a team called Snag-em. And the people of that team had developed the first prototype of these gloves. Basically...Pokeballs thrown while using this glove can capture Pokemon that are alredy owned by other trainers. You all will have to re-capture as many Pokemon as possible and...Have then open their hearts to you. After that, you bring them here and i can finish the process, making them normal Pokemon again."

Howard rose an eyebrow. "So...We'll be stealing the Pokemon back from the thieves, huh?" Said howard as he fixed his glove in place. Krane sighed. "You could put it that way."

[Omnial]

"So we have to srteal stolen pokemon...Well...that makes things a little more interesting." Lloyd shrugged, "Might as well lend you boys a hand then." He got up and grabbed a glove, which he quickly decided to put on. After he had put it on though, he noticed it was a little bigger then what he thought of when he heard the word "glove", seeing as it pretty much covered his whole arm. "So...those who are uhm..as you said, 'Gifted' and can see them naturally...Won't need a scouter?" Well I know what I saw, and it was kinda weird...no one else seemed to react...could I be special?, he chuckled aloud, Maybe I should take one just in case. HE turned back to the container and grabbed a scouter, "Well I'll take one...you know...just in case then." He put it on too, feeling like a total fool, but knowing he looked rather awesome, "So after we stea-snag...Snag the shadows, then what?" He spoke to Krane without looking, swinging his arm around getting used to the feel of the machine, "And why do you need so many of us? If a single ex member before could do it, why not have a single person go again?"

[Nicsp]

Professor Krane sighed. "Like i said...You'll need to have those Pokemon open their hearts to you. These Shadow Pokemon have their emotions locked away artificially, forcing them out, however, weakens that lock. As a Pokemon goes unlocking it's emotions, it's aura will weaken. When it's aura is gone, just bring him over to my lab and we'll put them in the old Purifier machine to finish the process. I'd explain the details to you, but if i were to do that, we wouldn't leave this room until at least 6:00 AM."

Krane then looked down and then back at Lloyd. "And the reason why we have a bigger team this time is because Cipher is more organized than before. Never before had they so succesfully attempted and performed an attack in my lab like the most recent one. Also, no offense, but the last two people who defeated Cipher were amazing trainers, i'm sure you're all pretty good but uhh...Better safe than sorry." The first guy, the Ex-Team Snag-em member, Wes, his score here on the Mt. Battle is still at the top to this day. Can you believe he beat one hundred trainers here in Mt. Battle? All in one day and in one go?"