The Brute Bonnet wasn't expecting its criticism to be taken so seriously but the sight of the charging Wigglytuff certainly changed its mind. After getting slapped around by its rough play the mushroom staggered around in a daze. It wasn't until the flames of its fellow paradox's breath reached it thanks to a ghostly dog's antics. The flames lightly landed on its top but erupted into a blaze that engulfed the top of the Bonnett's head as it let out a scream and did its best to pat the fire out with its hands. Unfortunately that only made the flames spread to the rest of its body and engulf its entire form.

The beast only screamed as it ran around in circles before tripping over its own feet and falling to the ground where it stopped moving as the flames ate away at it. Kaz just grimaced. "Well, that's one down." Only one other one to go. If only it was that easy as from the mist came another Paradox, this one looking like a Jigglypuff with an outrageous ponytail swinging it around to pound Nikita from behind. "Shit!"

Kaz was nearly jumping through the air as his legs pushed him forward and managed to put himself between Nikita and the Scream Tail and caught its ponytail in his hands as it slapped against his shoulder. "Looks like you were right. They just keep swarming us. Kou-z! Let's blow them away!"

The Iron Hands raised its hands and aimed them at the two Paradox Pokemon and started to rotate them. With each turn their speed increased till one could feel the wind being blown from them as they started a pair of mini hurricanes. The Iron Jugulus tried to swoop down to strike down the Sumo-bot but found himself pushed backwards and back into the mist while the Scream Tail screeched as Kaz swung it around into the air and watched as it was blown away. Once the two were gone the mist both started to retreat and be blown away from the winds. "Alright...I think...we'll be safe if we push back the mist. Got anything to help with that?"

Bye the handful the chamber starts to fill up with more and more people. Half of them are in the same situation as he is trapped by tentacles and being held hostage. The other half were gathered around the bear that was previously charging them but now wasn't. Instead it almost looked like it had finally calmed down and was willing to let people around it. He wasn't sure if that was a relief or not, at the very least if they could sick the bear on these Megalopolans and their jellyfish it'd turn the tables for them.

What would turn the tables more was if he could break himself or someone else free of their binds. Looking down at the tentacles he noticed one of them look way off than the others. It had to be a weak point right? Just like in a video game the obvious weak point always looked different on a boss. He watched as it got closer enough to touch him and as it did he could already feel his stomach ready to throw up before he could even put his plan into action, which was to open wide and bite down on the flesh chain to try and pry it off of him. HIs stomach was already starting to churn as his teeth sank into it. His mouth was probably never going to wash out this feeling anytime soon.

Domon never really got out much from his Pokeball or training spot back home so when Kaz let him have some sort of freedom he got a bit bored easily. Or perhaps it was easier to say that he was directionless after a while. With nothing really interesting him the Urshifu was pointed towards some jobs he could do by his Trainer. It was something to occupy his time so he figured he might as well do one. He didn't quite imagine that it would entail helping old people.
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With his body bulking up he managed to pop the lid off the jam jar and it earned him a bit of applause from the elders that were watching him. They had never seen a Pokemon like him before and the attention was a new experience to the fighter. It almost made him blush but luckily he managed to head back into the pantry to help some more but to also escape the crowd.

"What your doing is insane." The words of Thomas Benoit stop him as he turns around before stepping into the Ultra Wormhole to face him. "C'mon you know they need someone to help them. They're whole place is in ruins."

Behind him the gaze of other Megalopolans looked over his shoulder, further behind them were the ruins of a city that they had all once called home. Now they needed to rebuild but the terrors of Ultra Space still haunted them. It left them vulnerable and the more Kaz watched them slowly cross the portal to go back to such lives the more it pulled at his heart. It pulled so hard it nearly sent it drowning.

So he volunteered himself to go and help them rebuild. No one else seemed to really offer. "Yeah but Hoenn needs you, it needs Pokkenger." For a second Kaz's heart climbed its way back up to his chest at those words. Yet it never really reached the top it once sat at. "Yeah and so do these guys."

He puts a hand on Thomas' shoulder. "That's why I'm counting on ya to pick up the slack." Not just him either; Navy's a damn good sheriff with a heart of gold, John Sullivan isn't gonna let anyone suffer through pain, even as deranged as he could be MATIAS SILPH was going to a wall hardly anyone could break down. The region was in some good hands. "But once you go through there there may not be a way for you to come back.

This was true, even with his own Ultra Beasts with im it was a miracle to get this portal open in the first place. Looking back at the Megalopolans looking back at him he patted Thomas' shoulder again before giving him a smile as he walked away. "Hey I found a way out before, I can do it again when I'm done." As one foot was placed after another over the threshold of the portal he looked back and gave a thumbs up as the portal slowly shrunk down till it disappeared.

For a second Yuina looked like she was going to have the tail ran through her until something steel cut off the Seviper's attack. With one mighty slash it knocked the snake away managing to keep its trainer safe and giving Kaz a bit of relief before looking at his ghostly knight. "Let's bring out the muscle."

The Ceruledge nodded and with an ally switch swapped itself with one of Kaz's heaviest hitters. A large red muscular bug known as Buzzwole. As the Seviper regained itself it hissed at Yuina and slithered to pounce at her before getting its entire body grabbed by one hand and thrown back at the pursuing Rockets.

"You ok? Looks like ya got a cut down there." Kaz rushed over to Yuina's side and looked her over. When he saw the cut down her thigh he pulled at his shirt to rip off a chunk of it and wrap it around the wound to stop any bleeding. "Might be a bit tight, but better safe than sorry." He gave her a smile before snapping back at his Buzzwole, "Send them packing! Darkest Lariat!"

As the large bug started to spin it rushed forward and knocked out the two goons with a tornado of a lariat and continued to do so to make sure that the deed was done. "Think you can walk? Lean on me if you can't." Maybe he was being a bit too doting but it was a close call they just had. Blood was probably running high all around.

"Dog boy two? Hey wait I ain't even a dog person!"

His lycanroc manages to find their target, a little steel box that was half built into the side of a cliff with a pair of guards blocking the front entrance. "There's our target. Alright let's hit them fast and hard!" His enthusiasm matches Kyle's, which feels a bit refreshing to have someone match his energy lately. He could have sworn the guy was more lackadaisically according to the stuff he's heard from other people. That wasn't important right now though, right now they were on a mission.

His Lycanroc surges forward with accelrock and manages to sweep the legs of one of them to throw him onto his butt. It just happily barked at the other Rocket before running back to Kyle and Kaz leading them towards the two men. "Your up dog boy uno."

"Alright...got till sundown before we set up camp. Let's rock and roll boys." Those were the only words needed to be shared by Kazimir to his Pokemon as all of them ran through the Wild Area in Galar. Today was a day that was meant for some good fun times and in the case of Kaz and his group of particular Pokemon that meant sweating their butts off like crazy.

First it started with something simple; free rock climbing. Already Domon the Urshifu was way ahead of them as he practically leaped from spot to spot. Kaz was right behind him doing his best to hug the wall as best as he could as he tried to find good footing each step he took. Damn him and his genetics giving him big feet. Below them was a Joltik climbing and being pushed by the long nose of a Buzzwole who made sure its little bug friend didn't fall off.

After tiring themselves up from climbing the next best thing was a good spar. While an Urshifu and Buzzwole went at it with all of their muscles shining with sunlight and sweat Kaz was busy jumping out of the way of his Feraligatr's snapping jaws. "Damn it Kaiju we're supposed to throw hands not take a snack break! No stay back stay back-ack!"

At the end of the day what better way to let one rest was to just go for a nice swim. Well the ones who weren't suffering from aching muscles were enjoying a nice swim. The likes of Kazimir and his Urshifu just floated on their backs letting the current take them away while his Blastoise was just drifting along with them showering them with Life Dew to ease their muscles in the form of a healing spritz.

The wigglytuff sang its song and the mushroom beast could care less for it. The screeching sound it was hearing in its ears made the creature stagger backwards shaking its head as it tried to plug its ears with its hands to block out the song. With each shake of its head pollen was flying off of its pores. A stun spore unknowingly let loose to shut the pink blob up and quiet the commotion.

On the other side the robotic tri headed dragon wasn't letting up as it's thing wings spread and let out a pair of cutting buzzsaw air cutters at the cyborg sumo. With a thrust the Iron Hands caught the cutting blades albeit leaving scars on its hands as it did. "Don't worry, just a scratch. Let's show them a real attack!" On command the sumo whirred as its fist was balled up again into a Thunder Punch, this one more powered up thanks to its earlier charging. This one seemed to be the blow that overwhelmed the dragon as it started to reel back and twitched uncontrollably before it started to roar, the sound of it becoming distorted as it began to fire off random bursts of dragon breath every which way from all three of its mouths.

"And that's sad ain't it? We can't just put aside things like ideals for a better world." Its probably nothing more than a dream especially now. Could he even imagine living with the type of people who make up Rocket? Could he really make peace with them himself? For the sake of a better world though...

He'd still like to fight for it.

"I won't argue my side has their share of bad people. Every garden has some rotten berries and maybe you do need to cut them out or they'll spread everywhere." The large fossil Pokemon manages to get in close and clamps its teeth down onto Kaiju's shoulder. The croc roars as blood seeps through the holes made by the large teeth digging past his scales. Even as he thrashed he could feel the teeth just peel at his skin opening up the wound even more.

"But you can nurse them back to health before that, or even take better care to prevent that. That's what I am to do. At the very least I can make sure that the good ones last and ripen. Even the ones that come from you guys!" Kaiju wasn't going to give up without a damn fight. He was a monster! A beast! A true terror to his foes!

Swinging his head he reached down to take his own chunk of his opponent as his teeth chilled into icy fangs to bite down on the fossil Pokemon. It should just return back to the ice age it was born in and Kaiju would help send it there. "Because I bet even the good ones aren't safe from the bad ones in your group, am I wrong?"

As the bear faces off with a whole group on the other side of the swamp the bodies all around them suddenly start to stir. Its not until one of them rises up from the water and nearly jumps on Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki that Kazimir throws himself on top of her to shield her from the teeth that dig into his shoulder. Then more start to pile on top of him that he nearly falls over from the weight if not for his natural strength keeping him upright. It couldn't save him from several hands and more biting hooked onto him and pulled him back first into the water but not without a struggle. As he got a closer look at them his eyes went wide at the sight of a hint of blue on their skin. This blue didn't belong to a corpse that was decomposing, it belonged to a corpse that was out of this world.

"Thomas! You were right! You were fuc-"

His voice disappears along with him as he disappears under the water as he calls out to Thomas Benoit. His Ninetails jumps at each hand that reaches out towards it until it finally bites down on one belonging to the blue zombies. Several clamp down on her mouth like a muzzle and pull her down with her trainer. As the pair are dragged into the water and see the shadows of others taken along for the ride Kaz does his best to hold his breath as he is pulled under. The deeper they went the brighter the bottom suddenly seemed as he managed to turn and see that they were pulling them towards strange tunnels emitting a bright light.

As Kaz was pulled through them he could see the form of tera crystals suddenly whizzing past them the deeper and deeper they went. It wasn't until Kaz and his Ninetails were thrown onto solid ground that the two of them were breathing heavily. Kaz suddenly pushed himself back onto his feet to try and fight off the corpses until his surroundings gave him pause. Looking around it seemed like some kind of camp or whatever filled with familiar Megalopolan equipment. "Wha?"

The sight of jellyfish that he's fought before caught Kaz's attention and as he aimed to punch one of the tentacles that came at them he hit one of their strange purple tentacles as it wrapped around his hand. Suddenly his stomach was churning around and the world was spinning around as he was held up by the Nihilego. His Ninetails wasn't fairing any better as the fox was just as quickly taken captive by the strange Ultra Beasts as soon as they were dropped into the cave. The fox growled furiously and did its best to make eye(?) contact with one of them and their eyes flashed as they looked to disable their hold on the fox.

As the Mimikyu recieved a sweet kiss from his beloved his waving got even more intense. Waving around his arms as his night claws started to swipe at the air between them as if he was trying to reach her. Then he slapped himself in confusion and fell off the railing and flat onto his back on the deck. Stars and hearts now in his eyes as his arms continued their flailing as he started to see the Milcrey's face in the clouds above them.

While one of them was feeling much more giddy about their time Kazimir was quick to side step out of the way of the charging Charcadet. While he did have the size advantage between him and the little knight he knew those flames were no joke. His Tangela knew as well but was ready to risk itself to try and slow it down as it met the Charcadet head on, taking the brunt of the flame charge as it shook its body trying to push it back with small steps. Pollen poured out of its body as a sleep powder spread all around both it and the Charcadet and waited for it to get a little bit drowsy from this thrilling battle.

Above Kaz's breviary felt a surge of pride as he felt his talons claw through the owl's side. That feeling was just as fleeting as the owl swooped back in and with a leaf blade struck across his wing. The larger bird let out a screech of pain as he felt his wing slashed through as with each flap specks of red were flung every which way. And he was going down but he wasn't going down alone. With a single strong flap as his wings were giving out he let loose an air slash to try and red the owl from the sky with him.

"Doesn't matter who's innocent, just that no more lives are lost!" He didn't need to be reminded that innocence was the first thing to be lost in a war. He's had his fair share of fights with both Rockets and other beings waging war against them. It was a sad fact that he knew all too well. While Nikita's hand was red Kazimir's was black, grime and dirt covered it as he had been shuffling through the wreckage of these battles for survivors.

As his Iron Hands was busy eyeing the mechanical dragon it charged its energy gathering it up for another attack. Such preparations would not see them through fully as the ground underneath them erupted from a dark pulse. As Kaz was thrown to the ground he heard heavy footsteps and a shape within the mist approach them. Out walked what looked like an Amoogus on legs with grassy growths around the ridge of its large mushroom and let out a screech as it released a seed bomb at Kazimir who rolled out of the way. "We got more company!"