The Togekiss recoils at the rancid smell, a pitiful cry leaving his mouth. Being that Leon Vercetti is the only one left in the room now, he pushes himself closer to the blond man as if looking for comfort; he was one of Chu-e's more cuddly pokemon. It was unsure of both Lulu Flint and Darkrai but, seeing the hole made, did relax a bit.

A machine would crash through the ceiling when the hole was opened. Just not the one that Lulu might expect. The shattered pieces of some sort of animatronic robot, vaguely shaped like a human, would clatter to the ground in sparking pieces. The robot smiled, a warped voice speaking some unintelligible before the sparking stopped, eyes powering down. The 'hands' looked split open like a crab's claw, a corkscrew drills on one hand and some type of knife on the other. The fuck?

Togekiss fluttered out of the cage and landed on the ground, looking back at his companions. He would listen for now, allow them to command him until his Trainer was back.

Meanwhile, @sumi would have a feline drop, literally, into her arms.

The shiny Kantonian Meowth would blink, dazed, panting, eyes wide. She had a pink bow wrapped around her neck, a jingling bell attached with a name tag that read 'Sugar' in swirling letters. 'Ji-Hoon' was written on the back with a phone number. Call if lost.

After realizing that... something wasn't around, the cat would relax in the girl's hold. Looks like Katsumi had found a new friend, for the time being. However, she still let out a yowl, upset and twitchy.

Kazimir Wynter, meanwhile, would find that the area above was indeed the maze. There was evidence this area was once brightly lit yet now it fell to shadows as well. Most of the lights had been broken up here, too, yet still enough were intact, if flickering, to allow those to see ahead. The metal clicking was louder, still coming from above, like dozens of pairs of feet or what-have-you was just above him.

Not too far ahead of him was a half dozen people, cast in shadow and hard to see, heads moving side to side as if searching. A sudden flash would show something unnatural about them, metal bodies with silicon smiles painted on their faces. They clicked as they moved. Their hands were open, like the animatronic that Lulu had found, revealing blades and drills and hammers or any number of things to use to hurt.

Before Kazimir could out himself, a hand shot out from behind him, slapping over his mouth and trying to make sure he would keep quiet.

"Don't let them see you." Was whispered in his ear, shaky and rough. Chu-e was shorter and weaker than Kazimir but he tried to pull and guide him back into the shadows of the hidey hole he had been staying in. He was panting, tired, a large but shallow gash on his arm that seeped red in thick drips on the grassy ground.

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- WE GOT A LOT HAPPENING HERE FOLKS
- Lulu makes a hole and finds a weird, dead robot
- Togekiss is ready to take Leon and Lulu upstairs into the TREE MAZE
- Meowth is teleported into Sumi's arms and will stick with the COPPER TEAM for now
- Kazimir sees the evil robots still alive
- Kazimir also finds Chu-e, who is mildly wounded and tries to keep him quiet/from doing anything stupid so the robots don't find them
- Something is wrong with this place. big horror movie vibes

Yui nodded as zac mentioned keeping things moving. Yui analyzed the gun, why the hell did the trick master have this? Were things this violent in hoenn? Times were different now so maybe he armed himself..this made no sense.. Yui kept close to zac, hiding behind the towering man again as she was still afraid of things going awry and hung onto the avatar for a sense of safety in this horror movie gone wrong.

However it wasn't long before a roadblock presented itself in the new maze, where zac cut down an obstacle a new one presented itself. In the form of a robot with a gun. She had considered using the gun she had on her but the robot was already pointing it at them and she wasn't exactly ready to try and find out how good of a quick shot she was. However it presented her with something she could handle, a simple question! nice! Yui was great at puzzles! However the question it asked it was one that was kind of silly, in all of her knowledge on pokemon...Yui didn't ever hear anything about magikarp's scales. Was this a trick? He simple said to answer the question, not that she had to get it right.

Yui immediately went into deep though, placing her knuckle underneath her bottom lip as her cherrim looked at her confused yet with a derpy stare at her happy to just be here. "The side with the most scales is the side with the most scales." She answered hoping maybe this machine would glitch out from her answer or she was right. If not! Yui would be ready to fire a solar beam and blast this thing to the next floor.

BANG! A loud noise was all that Yui's hears heard as Cherrim fired off a solar beam and the flame charged incinerated the robot and smashed it to pieces. Yui didn't really notice at first what had happen, then a sudden sharp pain erupted from her foot as she looked down and saw a bullet wound. Yui immediately screamed as she fell backwards, the only thing stopping her from colliding with the floor was zac catching her thankfully.

Tears started to flow from the girl's eyes as she realized what happen and was freaking out "I got shot-sho- FUCKkkk" she cried out as she began to go hysterical, this was a situation where she'd actually curse for once. She looked at the area around them and saw the foliage begin to die as zac was using his avatar powers. She sat there crying as her Cherrim tried to console her trainer and wondering what she should do as her trainer was inconsolable right now.

She took a couple breaths, cherrim would be useless without her guidance. She looked to her foot and tried to compose herself for a bit as she needed to stop the bleeding. "C-Cherry, growth and rip off a part of my skirt." she answered as the cherrim obeyed and grew to a larger size and ripped off part of her skirt's cloth on the side with a panic. She didn't have much medical experience but wrapping the foot would help the blood clot and stop the bleeding, the bullet could be handled later. "Zac I dont know the full extent of your abilities...but can you help stop the bleeding at least..?" she groaned.

"We-we need to keep g-going before more of those things show up.." she said as she looked over to zac and kazimir "I cant walk...can one of you carry me?" she asked now with the foliage around them dead the exit to the next floor was now in sight as she pointed over to it.

The clicking gets louder, and to move the plot along, everyone and all their pokemon get teleported into one heap on the top floor. The quiz floor, which is where they were supposed to end up! But then we all got busy or lost in the sauce.

A whole army of those crazy murder bots was revving up and ready.

The trick master is tied up in a corner, in distress, next to a strange machine that is sparking and seems to be having some trouble. A murderbot wearing a Team Rocket shirt wheels out. It looks like this was maybe a set up and part of a joke, but it shoots the Trick Master and Murderizes him in the whole head. Which was probably not supposed to happen.

Surrounded, our gaggle of heroes will need to fight long and hard for their freedom to not be killed....

Sugar, wanting to protect her new owner and also friend, reacts quick! Chu-e feels the pulse of her mega evolution, the once normal-sized Meowth pulsing with energy before growing long and beautiful as she was meant to be. She Slashed at a group of murderbots that were closing in, cutting them in two with her superior long body.

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- Forcefully moves the plot along where EVERYONE GETS TELEPORTED INTO A HEAP ON THE LAST FLOOR
- The Trick Master is shot and killed by a member of 'Team Rocket'
- Sugar Mega Evolves!
- They're being surrounded by Murderbots and the machine causing this mess is shorting out

Suddenly they were all teleported to the next floor. What the actual heck was going on!? Thankfully Zac Ramsay was still carrying her so she didn't fall on her foot or anything but the sight she saw in front of her was one she wished she hadn't seen. The trick master was tied up in the corner and then brutally killed.

She looked away and stifled her scream when she heard it happen. She turned back purposefully looking away and during the middle of her looking away. She spotted a strange machine, was that the source of what was causing everything to go crazy?! She had to go and check it out, maybe she could get it to stop! "Someone get me over there! I can probably stop this madness!" she says slapping zac's arm like a dog sled shouting mush." she said eagerly trying to end all of this chaos, it was go time now so she sent out her other two remaining pokemon.

"Ditto transform into eevee and stay together! cherrim! sunny day!" as her pokemon followed their orders and went to town smashing the robots using various moves, everyone who cherrim perceives as a friend receives a boost in strength from flower gift.