"i used to collect bugs like these when i was younger," he suddenly blurts out as he enters the scene, a cup of coffee on his hand. a houndoom follows him from behind. he takes a sip before speaking again. "but they kept losing to my friend's numel so i had to release them back to the wild."

he looks at them from outside. the big, scary variety -- ones that get kyle's fancy when it comes to bugs -- had taken the place as their dominion. the estimated amount of work required to get rid of them just from looking at them makes kyle activate his defeatist ability and want to give up even before they started. they can do it, sure, but it'll take time.

"we can just burn the place down and say the bugs contributed to the decay of the structure. we'll make some story up for the burn marks."

the remark is made casually and in a deadpan tone, followed by another sip of his coffee. he didn't really mean it, but he wouldn't be opposed to following that route. he's not good at making stories, so adam can be the one to do it. mateo can be their sacrificial lamb to bring the news to their client. the charm that's comparable to a child coyly confessing his sins would be useful here.

a smile forms on his lips. it seemed that a good plan worked its way in his head without him even trying.

Adam released his Lucario; there was something on his mind that he wanted to check. He directed the Pokémon to use his aura abilities to check the building for any sign of human life. The only issue with this order is that the pure amount of bugs might make it hard for the Lucario to pinpoint anything else.

”We are the professional exterminators.” Adam replied, sighing as he did so. Oh boy Mateo was definitely going to love today’s job, whatever issues he had with bugs they were definitely going to get worse. Luckily Adam had to issues with this particular type of Pokémon.

”Oh there you are…wait a minute. Why in the world would even bother using a bug type against a numel? Sounds like you just set them up for failure.” As soon as these words left his mouth the man paused, shook his head and waved a hand dismissively. ”Forget I said anything.”

Soul had finished his search, reporting back to Adam with a rather worried look on his face. And it wasn’t particularly great news; there was a complication they were going to have to deal with. ”As much as I’d love to burn the place down we’ve got a bit of a problem.” He said, turning to the other males.

”Soul picked up some human life signs in there, they were hard to pick up but so far he picked up on at least two people.” Adam explained, rubbing his neck as he did so. ”Alright boys looks like we’ll have to go on a search and rescue!” This whole scene felt like a movie, Adam was pretty jazzed about it when he thought of this situation like that. ”We've got to Dive right into the heart of the hive and find the source of these bugs and take it out! Unless the big bad Dwagon Master is afraid of some creepy crawlies. It’ll be okay you can sit this one out if that’s the case.”

a frown appears on his face as his idea gets rejected quickly. he takes a long sip of coffee to fill in the time as both of them discuss the situation. the mission only got worse as more words came out of adam's mouth.

"hello," he interrupts adam as he holds a hand up. "i'm scared of creepy crawlies. can i sit this one out?"

he knows the answer and doesn't bother waiting for a confirmation from any of them. he follows as they move toward the building, watching his houndoom interact with the eevee. it touches its nose to the eevee's, huffing a puff of smoke at the eevee's face before smiling triumphantly. kyle tugs one of its horns to stop it, forcing a yelp out of it as it behaves itself.

"i can do the search and rescue part," kyle says as he releases two other fire-types. it shows that he was really prepared to burn the house down. a hand reaches for the earpiece from mateo, fitting it on his ear with a single hand. "you can concentrate on the extermination part, i guess, unless you want to switch roles or you want us to hold hands while we do this."

most of his dogs were trained for tracking and can easily able to differentiate the scent of human to pokemon. they held the advantage against bug-types. adam's lucario did too. he stares at mateo, noticing that he only has his eevee out. "you have another pokemon besides that right?" normally, he wouldn't judge a pokemon based on its species and appearance alone, but mateo already credited its inexperience. "want to borrow my flareon or something?"

Adam only smiled at Mateo’s response to his taunting but he did make a good point. Adam didn’t know Mateo to be the delicate and gentle type, no, there was actually a good chance the guy might blow the fuck up out of the building.

His smile disappeared as he actually entertained the thought. Nah, there was no way things would get that out of hand right? Right! So Adam threw that worry away and moved onto the next thing.

He took the earpiece offered to him and put it on, waving to the Eevee as he did so. Thought he was bit concerned about Mateo bringing a baby to a job like this but given who he was talking about Adam had a feeling Mateo didn’t exactly think this was going to happen.

”Each take a floor huh?” Adam looked over to the building, taking count of all the bugs he could already see and just thinking about the hundreds more that were a problem inside.

”Hmm those odds don’t seem that bad.” He joked, releasing two more of his Pokémon. His Infernape and Arcanine would be perfect for this job along with Soul. They’d be able to tear through the hordes of bugs.

”Think Kyle might have a bit of point there.” Last thing they needed was for the Eevee to get devoured or something. ”Might want to pull out the bigger guns for this. No offense to the little guy or anything but Don’t you got a dragon for this? And as long as you don't completely destroy the building who cares? Besides, we can just blame it on a bug.” That’s what he was going to do at least.

Anyway, they were burning daylight and there were people to save and bugs to squash. ”Alright gentlemen! I’ll be taking point, head for the top floor and clear you two a path through the front!” Adam exclaimed stretching a bit and then cracking his neck as he headed towards the apartment building. Any words at this point would fall on deaf ears, he was going in.

”Good luck and stay in touch!” He’d wave before turning his focus completely to the building. One last look at the exterior before he kicked the door open revealing the horrors inside. Adam was greeted to a dimly lit lobby that looked like a hurricane and blown through it.

Furniture and debris littered the floor as all sorts of different bug types crawled all about. Whatever they were up to was much too important as they didn’t even flinch at the appearance of Adam and his Pokémon.

”Soul say hi to them will ya.” The Lucario fired off an Aura Sphere into the swarm knocking some of them into the air. And that caught their attention, which meant they were now in attack mode.

”Pro you’re up.” The Arcanine stepped forward and let out a booming roar scaring off many of the bugs. Those that remained were going to be dealt with the fun way.

Adam and his Pokémon charged further into the building, tearing a path through the bugs and into the stairwell, fighting their way towards the top.

"dog-for-brains?" he repeats. the insult was... not a conventional one, but it was an insult nonetheless, he supposed.

he lets adam deal with the front line, while kyle follows after him at the back. hands on his pockets, he'd simply walk through the carnage whilst everyone else deals with the bugs. mateo flies off to who knows where, and was promptly ignored by kyle, until he hears a sharp noise coming from his earpiece.

"shut up!" he shouts back to the communicator. "what does team d-3 even supposed to stand for?"

his houndoom barks before turning his head up. his flareon follows it with her own noise. "they're on a floor above us," he tells adam, fingers blocking the microphone of the earpiece. he can go destroy things on his own if he wants.

”Knowing Mateo it probably has something to do with dragons.” Adam responded, spending more time than he should thinking about it. ”Well there are three of us so many it stands for three dragons? I dunno.” He shrugged and laughed it off.

With the so-called Dragon Master at the top causing all sorts of mayhem they’d give the bugs no-where to run in the whole complex without running into a moving wrecking ball. Great, this should clear them out a hell of a lot faster. But damn were there still more bugs than Adam expected to be infesting this place.

No matter how many they took out more just kept showing up. And their lack of self-preservation was alarming; at least most of them were like this some of the bug type Pokémon had the sense to run away. While Adam’s fire types continued their onslaught his Lucario was busy searching through the sea of auras to locate the one belonging to their hostages they were trying to find.

Shortly after Kyle’s update was told to them and their objective was simple. ”Alright, great! We’ll get moving.” A Flame Wheel from Arcanine cleared the way as the moved.

Soul directed Adam’s group to where the bugs were holding their prisoner captive. And much to Adam’s surprise they were actually holding the person captive in their own apartment. The place was filled with Ariados and the poor lady who lived here was all tangled up in webbing.

Sun and Prometheus fended off the spiders as Soul and Adam charged for the cocoon the woman was trapped in. ”Don’t worry your dashing knight has come to save you from this horrible insect nightmare!” Adam would say once they freed her of the webs though one look at adam and she was having second thoughts about being free.

”Alright boys, one hostage free! There’s one more left and we can start really cutting loose.” Adam spoke into the earpiece, alerting the other two of his progress.

he turns to his ninetales. "disable." and then to his houndoom. "flamethrower."

the vespiquen's minions all stop moving in a controlled manner, and is obliterated with the next move, all burned into crisps the next second. the small bugs from the attack order fuel the intensity of the attack, acting as fuel as the flames hit the vespiquen.

he moves to his earpiece, offering one message before he tells his flareon to attack. "i'm taking the last hit, thanks."

the flareon charges onto the vespiquen, two of his pokemon clearing the way for it. flare blitz hits the vespiquen, absorbing the flames that linger from the burning bees with flash fire to power up its move. the flaming tackle takes it to the ground until both of them turn to one big bonfire.

Adam left the apartment, helping the civilian along, only to be greeted with a giant hole in the wall and everything being on fire. The man examined the beautiful mess in front of him before calling his two fire Pokémon to his side.

”Alright, Ma’am. My Arcanine and Infernape here will escort you out of the building and somewhere else.” He said as he helped the woman get on top of Prometheus’ back.

”Take good care of her boys.” Adam would add, giving the two Pokémon a nod as they then escorted their charge out of the building.

With them out of the way the only thing to deal with now was the last person held up in here and the flaming pile of bugs. ”Damn dude, you really want to burn this place down huh?” It was all jokes and games but it was a bit concerning how big that fire was.

That aside it seemed the Vespiquen was the key as it looked like many of the bug types was dispersing. Adam figured if anything else came up that Kyle and Mateo could handle it so he went with his Lucario to find the last person.

They were hiding out in their apartment, reasonably terrified for their life but were eventually calmed down by Adam.

”Alright gang, that’s everyone and the bugs seem to be clearing out so job well done!” The building was in shambles but it could’ve been worse.