Oscar looked up from the tooth as he heard the sound of--bones snapping? No, it was the bamboo. Oscar turned his head, just in time to spot a hoard of completely unfamiliar pokemon leap out of hiding to attack his comrades. Oscar sneered, "Nothing can be fucking simple can it!? Navitas, Magnet Rise! Save who you can and move up!"

Navitas began to glow, slightly warming Oscar's boney buns. It let go of the bamboo, now floating freely through the air. As he pulled away from Chu-e Choi , who seemed content to stand his ground and fight the creatures one on one, Oscar would shout out to him. "I'll be right back, don't die Choi or I'm gonna have to drag your ass back from Hell to kick it!" Navitas flew forward, making several attempts to grab the most unfortunate souls in the most obvious of danger with its claws. (prince garrido , Kano Iyona , two others who rolled low up to Shiv's descretion)

Whether Navitas succeeded or not, it would be forced to forge forward at top speed. Gravities were being popped like edibles at a music festival, forcing Navitas to be rather creative to avoid being pulled back to the ground. Oscar hung on tight, cringing with every evasive twist.

"See, this is why I use Genesect to get around now."

tl;dr
--Xurkitree used Magnet Rise in order to start floating through the air.
--Xurkitree moves forward to avoid danger, attempting to pick up prince garrido , Kano Iyona , and any other friends in danger (low rollers) as it flies by.

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The puzzle was solved, and at last it was time to move forward. It seemed as if the path ahead was a tad cramped, so Rocket would have to get real cozy with each other to proceed. Oscar hung back, waiting until he spotted someone he was comfortable getting squeezed through a tube with. The only person who seemed to have room was Chu-e Choi , which was fine by him. Oscar took a single step forward before a realization nearly caused him to shit himself.

Oscar whipped around, holding Genesect's red ball out toward it. He opened the ball just in time, as the cybernetic assassin was about to turn its head and spot Chu-e. Genesect disappeared into its pokeball, narrowly avoiding the conga line of Rockets receiving a Techno Blast up the ass. That would have been embarrassing. Oscar exchanged Genesect's ball with a different ball on his belt, opening it to release Navitas the Xurkitree. Navitas lowered itself, allowing Oscar to hop onto its spikey head. Oscar pointed forward, "Keep up and above that weird hat. Double time."

The eccentric ultra beast sped off like a demonic spider, latching onto the bamboo to raise itself several feet above the marching Rockets. Using its wiry tendrils, Navitas followed its master's orders and stayed above Chu-e's wide brimmed hat. It moved from stalk to stalk, like an eldritch monkey with four tails. Eventually they too reached the strange Growlithe shrines, and Oscar raised an eyebrow as he watched others grab small trinkets from their mouths. Oscar pointed to the nearest shrine, "Grab me one of those." Navitas whipped a tendril toward the mouth, delicately clasping a fortune with its claws before lifting it to its master. 

Oscar grabbed the tooth and read it to himself.

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So this was it. The culmination of their struggles in Sootopolis, a chance to finally see what hid beyond the tree. Oscar had not actively participated in the studies conducted on this bizarre plant, but now that it was time to move forward he was more than willing to help pave the way for future discoveries. 

He had but one pokemon out as the charge began, his increasingly prominent partner: Genesect. The cyborg wonder, now painted in hotrod flames at the behest of priam conrad , was more than ready for its first real mission at Oscar's side. The question was, was Oscar ready to command it? It was time to find out.

Oscar gave Genesect a simple command, "Flight form, evasive and defensive maneuvers preferred. Get us into the tree!" Genesect complied, transforming into its compact form designed for high speed flight.

Oscar leapt aboard, Genesect's magnetic body latching onto the steel on the bottom of his boots. Bending over to maintain balance, Oscar braced himself as Genesect shot off like a bullet toward the tree's entrance. It bobbed and weaved past whipping vines, and Oscar grimaced as his eyes were nearly forced shut by the g-force. Why did he keep forgetting to wear his fucking goggles? Oscar's upper body strained as he tried to keep himself straight and not look like a fool while Genesect dashed its way into the inner tree.

As they reached the black void, Genesect slowed to a stop. Oscar pulled himself off, shuddering as he shook off his adrenaline. "Note to self..." he grumbled as he brushed himself off, "Practice different riding stances. Genesect, combat form." Genesect returned to its true form, scanning the void for possible dangers. Oscar stepped forward, overhearing Rowan Wrynn mention the Unknown device. Oscar pulled out his phone to open the Unknown Report app and began looking through the words.

"If these blanks are meant to hold letters, the diagonal tiles can hold five letters. We should start there and count up the five letter words."

After a moment, Oscar would list them off.

"Event, Inter, Joule, Umbra, Xenic, Hisui, am I missing any?"

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They had arrived indeed.

The shabby boats somehow survived their treacherous voyage, and had followed the angel to some sort of underground black mountain. No, not a mountain, a pyramid of black glass. Oscar raised an eyebrow, his mouth fixed into a most likely permanent frown. He grumbled with distaste as the boats neared a dock connected to the pyramid.

"Oh yeah this is what I needed. A fuckin' exit would be far too easy, gotta go through the evil underground pyramid first. Gonna kill Bill after this."

Oscar hopped out onto the dock, and he was pleasantly surprised when Alice jumped to his side shortly after. He looked down at his now sole companion, "Good work, stay sharp shit's only gonna get worse." Oscar stepped toward the pyramid to join the others, but Alice stood back to stare upward. 'Seismo' was staring down at them from high above, now a cloud of black ink with countless blinking eyes. Alice flashed her claws, rage boiling through her as she grit her teeth. She was about to jump up and Beat Up the fucker that stole her comrade, but she would be quickly stopped by Oscar.

Her master kept her feet grounded, pressing her down by her shoulders. He leaned in for a whisper, "Not now. We don't know if we can take that thing. Let's just let it be for now." Oscar got up and once again headed toward the pyramid, and this time Alice reluctantly followed. Inside the pyramid was some sort of abandoned laboratory, still full of odd supplies and filled beakers. The first thing Oscar noticed and walked over to was a body clawing at a nearby wall. Its skeletal fingers were pressed into bloody indents, probably the only thing keeping them up. Oscar grimaced before walking away, while Alice lingered and Pickpocketed the body. The body was covered in some sort of string, which of course Alice got caught in--delaying her theft. She quickly cut through it however and caught up to Oscar, showing him what she had found.

The skeleton had a wallet, as luck would have it. Oscar looked to the skeleton, and while he was fairly sure graverobbing was illegal he felt rather entitled to this find after what he has been through so far. He gave Alice a pat before taking the wallet and opening it. The id was too faded to read, the picture being too old to even recognize a face. There wasn't any money in the wallet unfortunately, but there was a gift card for the poke super mart in Lilycove. Better than nothing. Oscar took the card and gave the wallet to Alice to play with while he continued to explore.

Oscar came upon a table full of old test tubes and baubles. His eye was first drawn to a glass bowl full of candy. Not just any candy either, the blue wrapping indicated that it was all Rare Candies. He grabbed a hand full, stuffing them in his pockets before looking toward the test tubes. He was surprised to find that they were still full of liquid. He lifted one up, gazing at it with his arm outstretched. Its purple color was so odd, what could this have been?

"I-i-i-i-si tttttaht uoy rehtaffff?"

A voice penetrated Oscar's mind, shocking him into dropping the test tube. The glass tube shattered, spilling into another tube and causing a thick gas cloud to burst forth and envelope Oscar. He yelped, swiftly spinning around to escape the gas. As he turned, Oscar was stopped in his tracks by a wall of frantic eyes.

Oscar froze, shivering as the eyes rapidly searched every direction. The voice spoke again.

"IIIIIII es-e-e-e osssss hcum, yyy-e-t ereht si onnnn il-il-il-thgil. Errrrrehw si-s-s-s eht THGIL?"

Oscar couldn't understand what the voice was saying, it was loud and seemed to be in some sort of other language. Or at least it sounded like another language. He recognized bits that could be mistaken for some sort of broken English but he still couldn't tell what 'seismo' was trying to say. All he could see were the eyes spinning around looking desperately for--something. It looked rather perscuffled, was it panicking?

Feeling as if his life was currently being held by a thread, Oscar slowly inched backward toward the table as he spoke gently to 'Seismo'. "Hey hey hey big fella, you're alright. Everything's fine. Look at me come on." The cloud seemed to understand him, as all of its eyes were now squarely aimed at Oscar. Oscar hoped that it was because it understood him, because the alternative was too terrifying to consider. Sweat rolled down Oscar's forehead as he struggled to look calm. "You're not in any danger. I'm not gonna hurt you. In fact I think we can help each other."

The cloud's eyes twitched. "Vvvvvviled-re emmmm, eht eht eht eht THGIL sah GG-GG-ENOG! ENOG!"

Oscar raised his hands as his back bumped into the table. "It's cool, we're cool. Whatever you'll need we'll find it." The smoke was begining to clear, and he hoped someone would scare the cloud away before it killed him. Or worse.

tl;dr
--Oscar stopped Alice from attacking the thing that was Seismo.
--Oscar and Alice explored the lab, robbed a dead guy's wallet, grabbed some candy, and looked at a tube.
--Seismo has cornered Oscar, trying to communicate him as a chemically induced cloud of smoke surrounds them both.

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Find the remains of a lab worker (+20)
Mix alchemical reagents and set off a reaction (+30)
Commit a crime (+10)
Get stuck in string (+20)
Loot Rare Candies (+10)
Use a move and ability of the same color (+10)
Seismo Speaks (+20)
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