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"... argriet! Margriet!"

Her vision warped and rippled like a calm pond in the wind. She emitted a wordless groan as she brought a hand to her face. With a bare knuckle, she rubbed a temple lightly.

"Margriet!"

"Crobat?" Margriet slurred.

"Everyone's knocked out! The cave's collapsing!"

Margriet took a moment to register what was said. The Crobat swooped down and lightly bit his fangs into her shoulder. The sharp pain caused her to leap to her feet. "GYAH!" Her vision focused. "What was-" She was interrupted when a large stone slammed against the cavern floor in front of her.

After emitting a wordless shriek, her heart rapidly increased in a sudden panic. No, control it! Margriet grit her teeth as she produced the four pokeballs from her belt. Crobat returned the other two that had been carrying Raikou and Poliwrath.

"Keep me covered!" Margriet barked as she began recalling each and every one of her fighters in quick succession. The Crobat hovered close to Margriet and began launching air cutters to deflect rocks poised to smite the young lady. "Where's Logan?" She called over the sound of cracks and dull rocky thuds.

"Over here!" Logan stumbled into the cavern with a pained howl. With his left, he recalled the Heatran and the Absol, and sent out his Pidgeot. "Peregrine.. Urrgh..." He clenched his right, which hung limp on his side. He couldn't finish the command through the sharp pain.

"Find Touko and Titania. Get them out of there!" Margriet barked with the Reginald voice. "Use a Peck if you have to- just make sure they can move on their own!

"Yes ma'am!" The Pidgeot swooped swiftly between the increasingly thick rain of rocks, before vanishing to where Touko and Titania were. Logan leaned against the wall as he clenched at his currently useless arm. Pained tears flowed down his cheeks and stung the many cuts he had received from the Krookodile's desperate attack. The bodyguard only remained conscious by virtue of distance from ground zero.

"Fuck," Logan hissed, trying to dull the pain by cursing aloud. "Clever bastar-"

"Save your breath, Logan! C'mon!" Margriet grabbed Logan, and the two of them hobbled back through the cavern. Crobat, meanwhile, kept an eye on the ceiling, and launched Air Cutter at any rocks that threatened to strike the two wounded trainers.

But even Crobat was getting tired from so much flapping of his wings.

"Hang in there, Crobat!" Margriet called between clenched teeth. The bite had pumped in some adrenaline, but the girl had taken damage from that attack. She could feel pain, but couldn't quite identify exactly what happened yet.

Soon enough, however, they just cleared the threshold before Magmatron's chewed-out tunnel collapsed along with the rest. Margriet dropped to her knees and collapsed onto the ground.

"Margriet!" Logan called, still pained from his dislocated arm. "Fuck! Fuck fuck fu-u-u-u-uck!"

Some trainers on the path ran up. "Get help!" Logan barked, "Quick! Two more in the caves! I dunno if they got out or not! Please!" The trainers rushed North. Logan took the time to sit down on a rock and get to work relocating his arm. He was clearly not used to such a thing, and any attempt stung him to numbness. "I'm sorry... I'm not... str..."

Laying in the thick grasses of Poni Island, her vision faded as her eyes followed the leaving trainers, and then she saw the Battle Tree looming close by. Margriet's adrenaline surge faded as she lost consciousness.