"They didn't exactly make this easy, did they?" Gwen asked, huffing alongside Ameena while the two had somehow made their way across the area and slowly walked towards the tower. What they would find in there was up in the air, though Gwendolyn was adamant about finding something that could help her understanding of Ultra Space out! There had to be something of note in there for them to get! She hurried forward past a few stray feral Megaopolans before they would become caught up in the crowd once more.

The risk was huge and it was possible they could very well get seriously injured in this place, but what was a great reward if it didn't involve a little risk?

Suddenly, a terrifying crash came from one of the areas beside them. One of the derelict buildings had just up and fall over on a couple of other smaller buildings, or at least would have. It suddenly shot straight back up before sinking into the skyline,m alongside a huge, bulbous body stomping through the streets of the city. "Wh-What is that?!" Gwen gasped at the towering Ultra Beast who was nearby the tower, yet busy chomping down on some other less than noteworthy buildings.

They hadn't gained its ire just yet, but sitting across from them, directly in the path of the Guzzlord was an opening into the base of the tower. A small hole that could fit Ameen, her and Gishath. "Quick! We can get in through there instead of fighting our way through the front!" She dashed out to go before they were noticed, with the Gabite tailing behind her.

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28. encounter gargantuan guzzlord who devour anything or anyone without discrimination. occasionally intriguing items, or disturbing remnants from their meals can be found on or between their teeth.

Gishath spotted Navy signaling over to him as the Garchomp swam over to the waving male. The Zacian standing behind him had cut the previous shockwave in two and protected them both somewhat from the forces at work. With a sudden jerk of its back, Gwen's body flopped onto the raft with an unceremonious thud, the fallen ranger remaining still for a moment. There was very little to go off of that the Garchomp hadn't dumped a corpse onto the raft. Even his eyes watched her with concern. But after a few seconds of nothing happening, a wet, gurgling noise could be heard.

Gwen weakly rolled onto her side with a pained ground and retched up enough salt water to fill an aquarium, just expelling everything that had entered her system. It went on and on, the sounds of her choking on another mouthful of water lasting for what seemed like an eternity, before collapsing back onto the raft in an unresponsive mess. Gishath would have shown his support, until yet another Origin Pulse would rock through the area, yet again. He wasn't immune to it, feeling the energy slam across his body as everything nearby rocked from the force of the attack.

He held onto the raft to steady it in case of over tipping and allowed Navy to slowly make his way back over towards the League ships where Gwen could hopefully receive treatment. The girl was still out like a light and possessed serious looking wounds alongside a missing arm.

---

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Location: E3

TL;DR:
• Gwen lives!

A flash, something parting the waves beside her. Gwendolyn couldn't make sense of what had been responsible for that, having clutched her eyes so far tight that the world may have not even existed. A figure aboard a Kingdra sped through the water towards her as the recruit looked on to see the shape of the woman from before that had gone to attempt to save her.

Relief flooded into her system as she reached out with her hand. "Thanks for the-" It was still not enough as something had been pulling her back. Gwen swam further to try and grab it, yet no matter how hard she paddled, the woman had always remained so far away. Her focus slowed the world around her as for some unknown amount of time, it was all she could do. Just swimming to reach a person that kept being pulled apart. Maybe it had been minutes, maybe hours, but after some time, the tips of fingers graced the other woman's.

Fully out of breath, Gwen let out a stern nod and allowed the other Ranger to fire off towards the surface. Behind them, the sound of rocks crashing down behind them. The adrenaline inside of her was beginning to lessen, though the battle remained above them. Lights and colors shined down across them while the sky turned dark. There was still work to do, and Gwen knew full well what awaited her. As they neared the surface, she readied herself to fill her lungs with precious air. The feeling of being drenched in water parted and she opened her mouth to-

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"ARGH!" Gwen rose with a start, at least, as best she could, brought to life by the sheer pain in her right arm. Her heart beat faster than any land Pokémon that she could think of to name. Something warm and wet slathered against her head, and thinking just didn't work. Her vision was faint, though it beat the alternative of what could have happened. "I'm...alive?" Her throat tasted of blood and it was effort to even hold her head up, though she fought through it all.

An immense weight was on top of her, pressing against her legs as large rubble and fragments of rock pinned her against the wall. But through somehow coming out alive, her right arm remained trapped in the miscellaneous rubble she was pinned against.

And it fucking HURT.

It was an unbelievable amount of pain, as her fingers couldn't even ball themselves into a fist. Any attempt to do so brought with it a great deal of pain as well as something sharp digging into her palm. Her pink didn't even respond to her command as she feared the worst. She grunted and began to try and tug her arm free from the rock but was unable to. Pulling on it cause a severe amount of pain as something on top was preventing anything from coming loose. Just min numbing sensation that made her chest rise and fall in rapid succession.

"Shit, not good." Her eyes whipped around beside her at what laid around. The arena they were in was cramped. Had she not been stuck here, there was maybe enough room for three Gwens to stand beside one another. Her backpack lay just out of reach on the other side, as if taunting her. With her waist unusable and only one arm's length to work with, she groaned while trying to stretch out for the bag in an exercise of futility. "Fuck, fuck, FUCK!" Gwen huffed and looked down at the surroundings as her lagging, pained mind would begin to process things. She beat on the wall in anger, her palm slapping the rock face. "You're such an idiot! Who jumps recklessly like that?! This isn't far! I can't just stay here!" Her visible tantrum was constrained only by the rocks holding her down.

"You've figured your way out of worse things. You can do this Gwen." She had to stay positive, just continuing to look on the bright side of things! This was an activate war zone, so people were around. And she was certain her scream had been loud enough to catch somebody's attention. No doubt that woman from before would come looking for her down here! "Just have to wait for help to come." No doubt that it would be coming shortly! Any minute now, she'd hear some person yelling out for her, or the rocks coming tumbling down as somebody would save her. Minutes of silence came, with Gwendolyn sitting and waiting. Nothing but the sound of muted noises coming above her.

And here she lay...

Her head came to lean on a rock while she couldn't help but feel so lightheaded all of a sudden. A great exhaustion took over her, no doubt the effect of being on edge for the entire better portion of a day and a half. Gwen still willed herself awake in this precarious position. If she fell asleep here, it would mean the end. Although trapped like this and without anybody seeming to come to her, a part of her wondered what the point of delaying the inevitable was.

Nobody's coming, are they? Gwen slapped herself at the idea of such, reinforcing her beliefs that at least one person would have noticed her absence.

But then, the world around them shook. Something above them had left out a series of attacks so great that the earth would shake again. Their little rock tomb around them would let out an audible noise as chunks of hardened earth rattled against one another. For a moment, Gwen felt terrified. A death by being crushed sounded like the most painful way to go. Yet she cloud only close her eyes and pray.

"I'MSORRYFOREVERYTHINGIDIDANDIPROMISEILLBEABETTERRANGERIFYOULETMELIVE,PLEASEDONTLETMEDIEIWANTTOLIVEPLEASE-"

PSSSSHHHHH

A leak.

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Water began to flow into the pocket of air that Gwen had landed in. It was a trickle at first but the rocks moved enough for a healthy stream to begin to pour inside of them. The floor was the first thing to become submerged in water, as Gwen's heart sank at the fate that awaited her. "N-No! No, stop! C'mon, please!" Her eyes went to the bag across from her and futility reached out again as tears blinded her vision. Without a way to call her Pokemon out, there wasn't a way she would be able to clog the hole.

That was it then. No more thinking into it.

She was going to die down here.

"Pl-Pleeeease..." Gwen said through undecipherable sobs and cries. She lashed out against the rock pinning her down. The pain didn't matter anymore to her. It could hurt her down to her core and she wouldn't care as long as she got out of here. "FREYA!" she called out, pounding on the rock with a free hand. There came no response, no gentle reminder from somebody more experienced. "R-ROBIN!" No more trademark chuckles or teasing from the most important person in the world to her. "PLEASE! I DON'T WANT TO DIE! PLEASE!"

Just the sound of water pouring into her earthen prison.

In no time at all past her wails, the water level had flooded up to her chest, though her position of laying on the floor made her have a first look at her water gravestone. The waters pushing into her nostrils, muting the dreadful cries. She choked on salty water and weakly raised her head to inhale as much air as she could. But she continued to struggle against it, all the way into the bitter end. She didn't know how long she had, nor why she didn't shove her head under and end it all. Gwen had to last for as long as she could.

---

Her head rose above halfway at the water, vomiting up what felt like a gallon of water from her stomach. She sniffed, wiping her mouth with her free hand weakly as possible. But from the other side of the wall, there was somebody standing there, watching. Her eyes flickered over to see the torso of freya morningstar watching her. Gwen coughed up another lungful of water and yet, the other woman strode over as if nothing was wrong. With hopeful eyes, Gwen felt joy seep into her heart at the woman she admired the most.

"Freya, you-"

"Some assistant you turned out to be." Her voice flooded with as much venom and vitriol as one could manage. Gwen silenced herself with confusion as she knelt down at her with an unamused expression. "I put so much trust into you, gave you a seat under me, gave you something to aspire to, even gave you one of my own brood. And yet, this is how you end up. A pathetic mess of an assistant without any purpose."

The waves crashed Gwen's head underwater again, forcing her underneath the water, but from above, she could feel the cold, hateful grasp of Freya on top of her head, preventing her from raising it up. She struggled to breath, feeling water forced itself through her orifice.

"You deserve to rot down here like every other useless body in this sea."

After some time, Gwen forced her head above water again, coughing up more water below. Her waist was fully submergedm but the difference in water alongside the lubrication had worked in her favor. She slowly used her strength to slide her aching feet out of the rocks pinning them down. It wouldn't free her, but it bought her time. "I tried! I really did. I took everything you did for granted..." The Ranger groaned in pain, inhaling as much defiance as she could while her arm screamed in pain at her rising. Her vision faltered while almost slipping and plummeting back into the waters below. That's when something hit her head.

Looking across from her, Gwen gasped.

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Carlisle, Compton, and Hendroff stood above the kneeling Ranger, their eyes cast down upon her. They openly carried the wounds that had had been the killing blow for each. Carlisle's front half was seared, a charred red with her eyes in tact and her chest open with nothing inside, Hendroff's chest cavity was cleanly pierced through, and Compton looked deathly skeletal and pale. The sight of them alone made her trembled in a mixture of fear and remorse.

"You were to weak to save us, Gwen." Carlisle began putting her fried boot on Gwen's leg as the water level neared her head once more. The waves lapped at her chin while she remained frozen in place. Her mouth hung agape, struggling to find the words. "The other two were out doing something useful, and where were you? Struggling to work on a breaker box while we died for you." Compton's foot was next, striking her chest and holding her down. "You let her kill me and never intervened. A monster like her doesn't deserve your love, but you still persist. So what does that make you?" Hendroff silently rose his knee and with a forceful curb-stomp, Gwen was back underwater.

She struggled to free herself while the voices continued to mock her.

"You're not a real Ranger and never will be. Everyone despises your weakness."
"What sort of League official lets their comrades die for nothing? You'll get what you deserve, an unmarked grave and nobody knowing what became of you."
"..."

With a sudden burst of energy, Gwen slowly forced herself back up. She now stood with her stomach plunged underwater, and a searing pain across her arm. She was sobbing again, her head feeling as if it was being torn open. "IT'S MY FAULT, ALRIGHT! YOU'RE RIGHT, I'M NOT A RANGER, BUT I"LL TRY HARDER IF YOU JUST LET ME LEAVE!" She was hyperventilating, the exhaustion continuing further as she leaned against the wall for stability. The pocket area around her was hazy and her vision teetered on the edge of darkness. All until she rose her head and saw who she wanted to see since arriving in Sootopolis.

robin coello

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She smiled in that same pleasant tone that she always had, but something was off. Her voice held contempt for her as she walked closer. A hand was put on Gwen's dirt caked cheek. It felt so real, b-but she couldn't have entered here, could she? It felt so real... "Aw, Gwennie, I know you better than you do! Always playing the hero and wanting to put on a brave face for me and everyone else."

The hand slid off as Robin raised her index finger to playfully boop the tip of Gwen's nose. "Nobody buys your talk about playing the hero like Noah or Freya. You pretend to be somebody important when you have nothing. Deep down, you're that same scared little girl who only came because I did. There's no interest in you making the world a better place. You're so terrified of being seen as useless that you signed up to the League because you were scared. You're not even brave enough to tell me that you love me."

Gwen held her lone ear in some vain attempt to block out the voice of Robin as the other shoved itself against the rock. But it persisted.

"You owe everything to me. Your work, your accomplishments, your life, it's because of me. Your existence belongs to me, Gwennie. And you'll die for it."

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"SHUT UP!" Gwen screamed, shaking her head back and forth as she spat out more water. "SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP! NONE OF IT'S TRUE! I-I WANTED TO HELP YOU BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW HOW!" She closed her eyes and slowly felt Robin's presence leave her alone in this rocky hell. All of the words in her mind continued to play on repeat while Gwen felt the water brush against her neck still.

It was true, all of it. She didn't want to admit it, but she knew deep down it was what stayed locked away, in the back of her mind. SHe may not have much longer left, but she could try and make peace with them before she went.

"Ah-I'm sorry, Freya." Gwen said, closing her eyes. "I've been a horrible person and never got to thank you for everything you've done for me. I hope your next assistant isn't as awful as I was. A-And I'm sorry I didn't get to save you three. Carlisle, Hendorff, Compton. Ah-I saved what I could to bring back to your families. I would have visited every week if I did survive. And I'm sorry for being a fuck up, Robin. Before we got the notice, I wanted to take you out on a date and then just confess and tell you-" She choked on her words for a minute, then finally saying it.

"I love you. I love the way you're always motivated and never seem to let any small thing break your mindset. I treasured every single moment we spent together, but I can only pray you'll forget about me. Be happy and enjoy life."

The bag floated on top of the water would rumble for a second. As Gwen continued rambling on, a pokeball opened as Gishath's form appeared in the water. While not as buoyant as anything else, he could still float and move to his hysterical trainer. At the sight of him, Gwen was far too weak to bother fighting back. The Gabite felt her warm an arm around his dry hide, casting an eye down into the water to see she was stuck. Even as their air pocket was slowly receding, Gwen continued to sulk.

"A-And Gishath, I'm sorry. You trusted me with everything, and I failed you. I-I don't know if you're r-real, but please, just take my bag and the rest fo the team and go through that crack. You can fit through, a-and find a better trainer than me to serve."

The Gabite huffed and looked back at the opening into the sea, shielding by the rocks as the water continued to flow inside, as if he were debating it. The bag floating on the water would turn over, revealing the contents inside. Some waterlogged books with pages ruined now, a map of the region, Gwen's belt. All of it didn't matter to him, not one bit.

Until that familiar shine was barely visible inside. It was the emerald Gwen had kept for so long since they had met.

He dove underneath the water as Gwen watched from above. The Gabite began to attack the wall with her hand stuck inside, but he was far too weak. The moves only proved to hurt him without a scratch to the wall. She watched him, ignoring the searing pain in her arm at every attack. He resurfaced for air and tried again for a few seconds again and again.

"G-Gishath, please. You don't have long..."

He dove under and tried again, resurfacing again.

"I-I don't want you to die because of me. Just listen..."

He dove under and tried again, resurfacing again. It continued again and again until, she exploded with what little air she had left.

"WHY WON'T YOU SAVE YOURSELF, YOU FUCKING IDIOT?!"

"Because I won't leave you behind!"

The air was gone, as water had filled the chamber. Gwen wasn't sure if what she heard was real. A talking Pokemon? Was it another thing she was imagining, or a divine miracle that would save her? Not like it mattered now. Without any more air to breath, Gwen's body went limp as water flooded inside of her. There was no way to hold her breath any longer, and she welcomed it at this point. Gwen felt her heartbeat slow, a sudden chill take her while her eyes slowly closed.

So that's it then, huh? she thought weakly, watching Gishath's form again until a blinding light took her. Sensation in her body would cease. She didn't feel cold, or warm, or really anything at all. Just numb to everything. I wanted to do more...but I hope I did enough. The body of Gwendolyn Conway floated in the wreckage in free fall. Her head tilted back and...just thought about the fleeting things she knew herself as.



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Location: E3

TL;DR:
• Gwen wakes up pinned against a rock and a hard place (huehuehue)
• Panics about her inevitable fate
• Hallucinates people she knows telling her things she didn't want to face
• Begs Gishath to leave and find a new owner, but he refuses
• Dies(?)
• Cont. in Next post

The water level was rising once more as more and more of Sootopolis was going to end up as one of the aquarium decorations for bigger fish at this rate. "This isn't good. The water level is rising fast. We gotta get to higher ground." The Kyogre had its sights set on something as Gwendolyn looked at it just in time for its beached body to suddenly surge forwards. The walls leading outside of the city had fully come unblocked, allowing the rising water level to overtake much more than it had before. Not only that, but it had dislodged several large rock formations that had been been stopped from falling upon them. One of which was growing larger.

"Ethernet, above you!" The Xurkitree raised its head at the incoming boulder hurtling towards them. It recoiled its extended wire arms off of the ledge it was hooked into and then blasted the falling obstacle with a THUNDERBOLT. While mildly successful, the action had not caused enough of the boulder to break due to the speed at which it was used. The downslides crashed into the Xurkitree, slamming it out of its Ingrain and knocking it out. "Shit! No, no, no..." She took off in a dead sprint to the edge, holding up its pokeball. Its dead body in the water would no doubt spell the death of countless people still in the water here. She couldn't live with that on her mind and did what came naturally.

"This is going to suck...but I'm not letting anybody else get left behind."

Gwen jumped from the cliff-side and dove to catch up with the Ultra Beast as the winds were howling across. The falling debris was behind her, falling at a faster speed than she had been. The ranger held a pokeball up to try and get Xurkitree inside of the pokeball before its body could hit the water and electrocute everything nearby. With the endless blues fast approaching she forced herself down even faster and tapped the button once she had a clear shot at the Ultra Beast. To her relief, the Xurkitree's form disappeared back into the ball which she quickly set back into her belt.

Her eyes took her to the debris above, coming down on her from above. It was still pretty large to break down, and the sheer amount of rocks coming down on her meant that this wasn't going to be a fun time. Gwen braced herself for the impact and closed her eyes tight. This could be it. Her final act. Gwen's heart was racing, the dreadful feeling that she wouldn't be able to return home came across her mind. The worries and fear that took hold of her very soul. Her mouth opened loud and gave every last bit of energy into her (hopefully not) final words.

"ROBIN!" Gwen called out. "I LOVE-"

An explosion of water of rubble came from E2 and E3, as the remaining boulders crashed into the water, alongside Gwen's form vanishing into the water.

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Location: E2 => E3

TL;DR:
• Notes the rising water level as the wall breaks down
• Her Xurkitree is KO'd from the resulting landslide and falls down the cliffside
• Gwen jumps after the Xurkitree and dives in with the falling debris to recall her Pokemon back into the ball before it electrocutes everybody in the water
• Gets the Xurkitree back in the ball and fears for her life
• Shouts to tell Robin her feelings before her form disappears into the water

"I'll take your word for it~" Gwen said, happy to try something new for a while. "You're the one with the culinary palette, after all. I'm still reeling after a decade of instant ramen and soda." It was just what every growing adolescent in the world needed. Caffeine and copious amounts of artificial flavoring. Once inside of the cavern, Gwen quickly moved to collect as many samples as she could gather. There was a whole lot here to stuff inside of the sack. The energies inside of here were always a bit disconcerting, and it made her feel somewhat queasy. After ten minutes or so, the two collected their haul and made a break outside.

At Robin's flirt, Gwen could feel some color come to her cheeks. "Y-Yeah! I, uh, I hope you're....Um." Shit, she needed a good pun! But what was something rock related? The ginger looked frazzled at the pun as the other girl would do her best to think of something. Eventually, she thought of something! "We, uh, shouldn't take tonight for...granite? Eheheh..."

[Escape w/ loot]

"Unagi what now?" Gwendolyn asked Robin, having never heard of the food that she had just answered about getting. It sounded Kanton, or maybe she was just stereotyping super hard right now. But at the very least, it was an in! Some girl time and getting to hang out with the friend she loved the most. noah faber's little pep talk with her crossed her mind, thinking about the advice that he had given her. The head ranger had been one of the few people who knew about her feelings for the other girl. Maybe it would be a good way to show her feelings then and there? "I'd love to try that with you."

She readied herself for what would lie inside of the power spot here, but came face to face with a fearsome looking...skowovet? It looked at the both of them for a minute before bounding away. Gwen let her guard down a little, snickering to herself as she walked in further. "C'mon, let's finish up and get some dinner. I'm starving."

[Hallucination]

Ethernet and the Gothitelle continued to enable people to get to higher ground away from the site of battle and more. How effective it would be is up in the air, considering that the water level continued to rise more and more the longer everybody appeared to be staying in Sootopolis. The Kyogre across from them was still focused on the tree deeper within the heart of the city. Gwen worried about the civilians here, but would force herself to continue, for lack of any of better plan.

The other woman, Phoebe Myst , would acknowledge her presence and seem to toy with the idea of fighting her, although their priorities were busy on their current objective. The Ranger did tense up at the mention of a date. And yeah, she was cute. Would Gwen look that nice when she would be her age? Why did all of these women have to be so beautiful?! "Wh-Whatever. Let's focus on helping these people for now. I won't cheap shot if you don't." Their efforts continued as Gwen did her best to ignore the damage happening behind her.

But as the attack continued, rubble from above came down upon them, and with both Pokemon being unable to defend against it due to carrying people, everything looked to be going south. But in the nick of time, a Flygon came down to shield the lot of them with BOOM BURST. The stress clouding the recruit's mind made her breath a sigh of relief as Elaine dropped down by her.

"Thanks for the save." Gwen shot her a thankful look as the last of the other people were shuttled to safety as they had a chance to breathe for a moment. Her eyes went to the Lugia attacking the mass of trainers nearby, with Gwen looking shocked at the display. "Is that...Lugia? But why is it all weird looking?" Despite the answer she gave, Gwen couldn't help but have to wonder what could be wrong with it. Another question for freya morningstar , one of many.

Her eyes went to the rocket by them, huffing to herself as she worries about robin coello , knowing full well their last interaction had been troublesome, to say the absolute least. How she just struck down a comrade so freely, all for the crime of trying to stop her from killing. Her brows were troubled, but she still was worried like hell. I don't know where you are, Robin. But with this stupid war, the weird man stalking us, please be safe. I can't lose you to this. She exhaled and readied herself, turning back to the other two. "I'm going to look for more civilians. If you two want to tag along, feel free to."

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JKwN_CnU

Location: E2

TL;DR:
• Finishes up getting people to higher ground while watching the
• Is saved by Elaine and thanks her, then discovers Cillian's Shadow Lugia
• Worries about Robin and prays that she's safe, really wants to smooch
• Readying herself to go search for more civilians to help instead of rushing to the tree

"The "almost dying" part kind of loses its edge after a few times, but it's been a wild ride." Gwendolyn laughed again, letting out a cute sort of snort while the two continued to walk further into the caverns here. The report about what was to lie in wait here wasn't all read and memorized to Gwen, so this would be all new territory for her. They could handle it though, as Gwen was confident in Robin's abilities.

Their journey took them across a fork in the road, forcing them to choose between two paths. Before she could even speak, RObin already had a plan in mind. As questionable as it was, they didn't really have a better option. "Left it is, bestie." Gwendolyn took place up front, leading them into the great unknown, in case anything came for her friend.

"So, uh, do you have plans after this? Like, uh, food?"

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Like the many League members that had floored into Sotopolis, Gwendolyn had been washing into the crater as the rampaging waters brushed against the raft that had held other members. Still suffering from the bad headspace that had been forced on her by watching other members of her team space perish, Gwendolyn had been fully ready to seek some kind of vengeance against Rocket for their crimes. The other people in the raft shared these sentiments and sailed through the entrance.

The waters were dangerous as their vessel floored through the impromptu entrance, thought not as much as the Rockets firing upon their position. "Hold on!" Gwen shouted out, pushing herself to the front of the raft as she tried to steer it away from the incoming attacks. An Electrode began to glow a bright color, its trainer throwing it in the water in front of the water as the ranger's eyes looked at what awaited in front of them.

"G-Get! Down Explo-"

A thundering boom. Gwen felt her body be forced back from the explosion and be submerged into the waters behind her. She couldn't see or feel, though water entered her opened nose and throat as she floundered to catch onto something, anything to save her. The other people with her, were they alright? She could only hope so, desperate for them to jump off somewhere safe. Her downfall continued, despserate to keep her head above water. It bounced up and down until, mercifully...

Gwen tumbled onto dry land, landing a short distance away from the main slide. "Ugh..." she groaned, feeling her vision returned and coughing up a decent amount of water from her lungs. The rampage close by could be heard for miles. Brief shapes and people shot attacks out at one another, though Gwen heard something nearby that made some panic flow through her veins once more. She pushed herself up and looked around the corner nearby to see a woman and her Pokemon.

A Gothitelle was telepathically lifting people to safety as its owner watched. For a brief moment, Gwen wanted to attack with her back turned. It was an easy time to cut this Rocket down here. All she had to do was to bide her time and wait until the people the Gothitelle was done lifting people and then strike then. All it would take was Ethernet coiling around her neck and ordering Ethernet to tighten until it popped.

It would be what she deserved, Rockets and all to the end. But she hesitated, watching her save the innocents. Wasn't Rocket supposed to be stopping them, no matter the cost? It made her confused more than anything, just unable to comprehend such a thing. It wasn't until the sound of Melody sounded off about where their priorities were. A tree instead of the people here. That Gothitelle would

She...couldn't do this. Not while other people were in danger. Her priorities needed rechecking.

Gwen tossed out her Xurkitree, the Ultra Beast letting out a crackling sound while it would wander over towards the crowd. She looked up at where the civilians were being led off and pointed in the general location. "Now power Whip up there and make a bridge!" The Xurkitree shot out its tendrils at the cliff face, one by one, until a wire trail leading up to the cliff more easy would be accessible for the people present. While shaky, it was a way to get more civilians up to safety than the other woman.

Speaking of which.

"You're trying to get people to safety, right?" Gwendolyn asked the other woman, her expression one of confliction. "So am I. That tree can go fuck itself, I joined to save people and that's what I'm doing. So we can fight and waste time to get these people to safety, or we can help each other out. Your choice." Gwen said to the woman, looking at the small row of people starting to make thei way up the makeshift bridge created by her Xurkitree.

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XK7YdC4C

Location: E2,

TL;DR:
• Comes out of the raft by the entrances Kyogre made and almost drowns
• Washes up near Phoebe Myst and begins preparations to strike, but backs out due to people needing help
• She comes forward and makes a bridge leading to safety alongside the Rocket
• Offers her a truce to focus on getting civilians out as soon as possible