(Primary)<br/><br/>For a moment, Naomi stood outside the Pokemon lab with no response from the anyone inside. The note taped on the door fluttered slightly in a light breeze that danced through the street. As it became clear that no one was there, a voice spoke up from behind her.<br/><br/><span style="color: green">Hi, is there something I can do for you?</span>Professor Pine asked, looking down at her quizzically. Professor Pine was a tall man, somewhat thin and lanky and coming along in years. He looked in his mid 40s, though the long sideburns and cool cut hair gave the impression of a man willingly stuck in his youth, refusing to accept that he was getting older. He wore a long white lab coat, stitched into the left breast of which was "Professor Pine." In his hand was a half eaten sandwich which he held onto through a mangled wrapper.<br/><br/>Before Naomi had a chance to answer, both she and Professor Pine's attention was redirected toward the encroaching Suicune. The professor stood idly in the street, watching the Suicune attack with a dumbstruck expression on his face.  He finally seemed to snap out of his shock after the Suicune bounded into the street and began attacking everything around it. He quickly opened the lab and ran inside.<br/><br/><span style="color: green">That's not a Suicune,</span>He said, running to an array of equipment and yanking open a drawer. Things were falling from shelves and off of tables as the tremors of the attacks wracked the lab.<span style="color: green">Its too big.</span>He pulled out a recorder and flipped open the view screen, checking to make sure it was functioning.<br/><br/>He ran back outside and began recording, hardly seeming to give a thought to where he was, out in the open. He kept the recorder focused on the Suicune. He kept the vi feed rolling as the Suicune saw the child, hesitated, then screamed. The Professor's lips parted in wonderment as he saw the black mass pulsate like a living thing, a hundred thoughts running through his mind as he considered what it was, and whether it was likely the cause of the Suicune's extreme hostility.<br/><br/><br/>***<br/><br/><br/>Inside the prison, before the attack began, Pedro had been busy attempting to free his Gastly. Once the officer had left, he tied his scarf to his sandal, using the footwear as a weight in an effort to knock the ball from the desk. He met with success after his third attempt, the sandal landing on the other side of the ball. He gave his scarf several careful tugs, the sandal hooking and starting the Pokeball rolling toward the edge of the desk and then falling to the ground.<br/><br/>The ball didn't land on its nose, and remained closed, but after a few quick adjustments and tosses, Pedro once again had his sandal behind the ball, ready to tug it slowly into reach. As he gave the first tug, the tremors hit, quickly sending the ball rolling away. When the impacts from the battle outside became so powerful that the buildings began to break, Pedro retreated into a corner to stay clear.<br/><br/>When the door to his cell broke and jarred out of position, Pedro took his opportunity and escaped, quickly grabbing the keys to his cuffs. He unlocked one, then closed it around his other hand so that the cuffs were now secure around one wrist. He tucked the key away and, after a moment, found Cain's Prison ball, crawling and reaching beneath the fallen slap of roof to grab it. Once it was in hand, Pedro made for the door, stumbling and dodging collapsed pieces of walls and ceiling.<br/><br/>The lobby of the Station was in shambles. There were no officers in sight. A quick glance revealed Audree huddling with her Pachirisu. Pedro quickly grabbed her arm and wrenched her to her feet, pulling her behind him as he made for the door, yelling for her to follow him. He didn't bothering looking to find out what was causing the chaos. The sound behind him was enough for him to ignore the reasons, and simply escape the town, yelling and waving for Audree to follow. As he bolted for the nearest edge of town, to the west near where the Rampardos and Arcanine battled earlier.<br/><br/><br/>***<br/><br/><br/>Eleyna felt the breath in her throat, her heart pounding in her chest, but more than anything, she felt the earth beneath her feet every time her foot fell. She was running, running as hard as she could like so many others in the town. All she could think, all she could feel, was the compulsion to escape.<br/><br/>She didn't know how long it had taken, didn't know far she had gone, but when she saw people at the crest of a hill, looking behind her, mouths covered shouting for loved ones, she allowed herself a reprieve. She gasped for air and fell onto the hill side on her hands and knees. Her legs ached, she hadn't realized it before. She allowed herself to look back, to see how far she had come. She couldn't guess the distance, but she could see the whole of the town and the Suicune within, rampaging. She looked at the people that were beginning to amass, watching from what they judged a safe distance.<br/><br/>One older woman, was frantically looking between people, yelling a name, looking for someone. A boy that couldn't have been much younger than Elisha was sitting on the hill, his face in his hands, sobbing while a woman kneeled next to him, comforting him. Still looking back on her hands and knees, Eleyna panted, watching the Suicune, hearing its screams and the thundering blasts it unleashed echoing across the valley.<br/><br/>She stared, and from within the bewilderment, confusion, and terror, a single thought come to her. A question.<i>Why?Why was it attacking them?</i>She stared, and felt her chest heave, and she suppressed a sob, looking away from the town. She dropped her head on the grassy hillside and squeezed her eyes to stop the tears forming. It didn't.<br/><br/>She stood up slowly, trembling, and started up the last few steps to the crest of the hill. She felt a wave of sensation hit her, an ache in her side along with her legs, the sweat that had soaked into her clothing, darkening it, and the dryness in her throat. She reached into her bag with trembling hands to grab a water bottle. Her fingers felt something round, and she pulled it out. It wasn't a bottle of water, it was a Pokeball. Suddenly it slipped in her trembling fingers. She surged trying to catch it, reaching and grabbing. Her fingers caught it, pressed in to grip, pressed the trigger and the ball slipped and spiraled out of her hands, landing on the green hillside. It popped open, and from the energy transfer came Growlithe.<br/><br/>He looked around and spotted Elisha. His usual foul tempered response to her presence was broken mid sneer as he noticed her fatigued, shambled state. He looked at her confused, then a pop and boom sounded down in the town and the Growlithe looked, brow raised. Eleyna heaved a sob and tried to grab the Pokeball to return him before he took off, overwhelmed as she already was, she didn't have the emotional fortitude to deal with him right now as well.<br/><br/>But Growlithe didn't move. He just stood there, staring at the town. Eleyna paused as she reached for the Pokeball. He was different here, now, different than she had ever seen him. There was a focus in his eyes as he surveyed, a taut ready spring in his body as he leaned forward, ears perked. He looked back at the crowd of people then back at the town where the Suicune raged.<br/><br/>Then he ran. He ran straight for the town. Eleyna watched for a moment, not knowing how to react, what to do. Then suddenly she screamed,<span style="color: blue">No! Stop!</span>And grabbed the Pokeball. She fumbled it, then hit the return, but he was out of range.<span style="color: blue">Stop! Stop!</span>She screamed after him, panicking. Before she knew what she was doing, she was running back down the hill after him, straight for the town.<br/><br/><br/>***<br/><br/><br/>In Jay, Jake, and Aisha's path of retreat from the town was a half collapsed building. Rubble and broken slaps of concrete block the doorway, but from within came cries for help. A woman reached her arm through a breach in the rubble, waving for anyone, desperate to get help for her and the others trapped inside. Between the three of them, Jake, Jay, and Aisha could free the exit of rubble at least enough for the people within to squeeze by, but it would take time, and every second they spent on the street was a second the Suicune could find them and attack.<br/><br/>Along another street a block away, a Machamp furious pulled and heaved pieces of broken stone and concrete from a collapsed segment of wall to help another group of trapped survivors. His trainer did what she could, but the size of debris in the way hindered her effectiveness.<br/><br/>As they worked to get a breach clear, the Suicune bounded into the nearby intersection. The trainer yelled in panic to hurry, but they were out of time the moment they were spotted. The Suicune, took a breath, then opened its mouth, launching a jet of water straight at them with incredible force. The Machamp, grabbed a large slab of concrete with broken and twisted rebar jutting from it and heaved it over between them and the Hydro Pump attack like a shield. The jet hit and shoved the Machamp back a few inches, but he dug in his feet and three his shoulder against the makeshift defense, gripping tightly with all four muscle bound arms.<br/><br/>As he help the attack at bay, his trainer managed to get an opening large enough for people to begin escaping free. As they squeezed through the gap, they ran, all the while the Machamp winced and grimaced, keeping them clear. He could feel the slab of concrete giving way, breaking down beneath the power of the water torrent. The moment the people were clear, the Machamp dove for cover.<br/><br/><br/>***<br/><br/><br/>The officer bit down on one end of the tourniquet and pulled the other, tightening the knot around her right arm. She growled in pain through the length of cloth in her teeth, but the pain meant little. She needed to slow the blood flow from the gash on her arm. It was a miracle that the Hyperbeam hadn't vaporized her along with the other Pokemon that tried to stop the Suicune, so settling for several serious injuries was alright for the woman. She knew her leg was at least broken and she could only guess as the number of internal injuries, but she was alive.<br/><br/>She could still hear the Suicune behind her, somewhere in the town center beyond the half destroyed building she was leaning against. She was surprised when a trainer suddenly hopped over a broken segment of wall to her left. Any other day of her life, the 12 badges on his red hat would have impressed her. Not today. He gave a quick scan of the area and saw her, then quickly skidded to the ground beside her.<br/><br/><span style="color: red">You Jenny?</span>He asked, crossing to her other side and checking around the corner to make sure the Suicune wasn't about to come rampaging back in their direction any time soon.<br/><br/><span style="color: teal">Yeah. Who are you?</span>She was aware now of her damaged clothing, particularly of how very little her skirt covered as the tourniquet she had fashioned had been torn from it.<br/><br/><span style="color: red">Don't worry about who I am. Can you walk?</span>She shook her head, indicating her broken leg. He looked down at her for a moment, considering his options, then looked back around the corner toward the center of town.<span style="color: red">Its not going to stop.</span>He leaned back behind the wall and looked down.<span style="color: red">We've got to do something or its going to rip the town apart.</span><br/><br/>Jenny skipped the usual questions, the why's and the how could this happen. She knew that those answers wouldn't matter until they were no longer under attack.<span style="color: teal">Yeah, so what's the plan?</span><br/><br/>He looked at her, then out at the surrounding hills.<span style="color: red">The plan... is to get you out of here.</span>He reached under his red jacket, and Jenny saw the line of Pokeballs mounted to his belt. He pulled one free and opened it, releasing the Machamp inside.<br/><br/><span style="color: red">Champ, we're in trouble.</span>The trainer said to the Pokemon who was already looking around at the damage in surprise.<span style="color: red">She can't walk, so I need you to get her out of here. Alright?</span><br/><br/>The Machamp looked over Jenny then gave a short nod. He marched forward then picked up the officer in his four arms. She wrapped her arm around his hard head with her good arm, cradling her other against her belly. When he leg was disturbed she winced slightly.<br/><br/>The trainer turned, looking back around the corner for an opening to move across the street.<span style="color: teal">Wait!</span>Officer Jenny called from the Machamps arms, prompting the Pokemon to pause in his escape with her. The trainer looked at her expectantly.<span style="color: teal">What are you going to do?</span><br/><br/>He looked at her for a moment then a confident half grin crossed his face. He tapped his hat with the twelves badges on it.<span style="color: red">The only thing I'm good at.</span><br/><br/><br/>***<br/><br/><br/><span style="color: blue">Stop! Stop!</span>Eleyna yelled over and over, bu the Growlithe wouldn't stop. He was rapidly putting distance between she and him, and Eleyna kept chasing. When they reached the edge of the town, Growlithe vanished into the rubble. Eleyna kept running, darting between buildings, yelling for him. She couldn't let him get away,<i>she couldn't!</i><br/><br/>The all too close sounds of the Suicune were a distant thought in her panicked state. She crossed an alley, and looked left. Across the street she saw a fluff of tail disappearing inside a building. She knew it was Growlithe,<i>it had to be</i>. She ran down the alley, yelling,<span style="color: blue">Growlithe stop! Growlithe!</span><br/><br/>She come out from between the buildings, leaving the alley and running into the street. She was nearly half way across When the Suicune emerged down the road, stepping backwards, firing an attack at something she couldn't see. Suddenly the shock was gone, the panic that drove her to chase the Growlithe evaporated. She slid to a stop, falling as she did. She stared, wide eye'd in terror at the massive Pokemon looming ahead of her. She couldn't run, couldn't move. She was scared, too scared.<br/><br/>Before she knew what was happening she was moving again, being hauled to her feet by some unseen pair of hands. For a moment she was limp, but instinct took over as she was lifted and her feet began running again with whoever had grabbed her. She followed, darting between buildings to a spot between several alleys where a group of trainers had gathered. She collapsed at their edge as whoever it was that helped her joined their ranks. At the center of them was the boy in the red hat with all the badges. He was talking to them, looking around like some kind of army leader. Several of the trainers had Pokemon with them, and all of them looked worse for wear.<span style="color: blue"><i>Did he gather them all here?</i></span>Eleyna wondered as she looked on.<br/><br/><span style="color: red">... and we keep moving. If we get hit, its over. So stay mobile.</span>He looked around at them.<span style="color: red">We've got one shot at this, folks. One chance. We hit it with everything we've got, but we do it smart.</span>He looked at them seriously.<span style="color: red">If we get hit, if we lose the edge and it looks like we won't be able to pull this off... then get out of here. Just run. Its not worth us dying over.</span>He looked at the Pokemon.<span style="color: red">Any of us.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: red">I'll make the first attack, then we move. Any questions?</span>He looked at them.<br/><br/>Eleyna thought she recognized other faces in the group, but she wasn't sure. She was still in a state of shock.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>