Dante looked at the woman talking and said "Ya, I'm Dante and I'm looking to find anything that I can know about this place. If I'm going to train here I might as well know more about it." A poke'ball falls from his belt activating unleashing his Tyhplosion. Tyhplosion stood on both it's back legs looking around the lab as Dante pets it's back.

Travis gave a small smile and said "Appreciate it." he said. He slung his backpack over his shoulder and headed for the spare room. Gill followed close at his heels. Travis smiled and closed his eyes as he went. Flannery was indeed a good friend through his career so far as a trainer. She was now a professor here. Travis chuckled at that thought. Travis couldn't imagine. She was happy. Travis was happy as he was. A wanderer.

Travis had started his days as a trainer to be as he was. He just wanted to get away, and he was now away. Sure he kept in contact with his grandmother. Bless her soul. Shew as getting older. She was his last living relative. Travis left a few pokemon with her to help her around the house. And she appreciated it. But even she still had a lot of energy for a person her age. And Travis loved it.

Travis entered the room. He set his pack down. He then gave a long sigh. Gill looked up. "Squirtle?"
"Just a long day. Looking forward to a little rest."

Travis sat on the bed in the room and lay back, and began thinking about the day...

All the while the professor was talking, Linda was staring at herself in the window, making sure her hair was perfect. Hey, she cared more about her hair than what this woman had to say. But she knew she'd have to go through all this if she wanted to catch more pretty pokemon, and doll them up for everyone to see! Linda looked away from the mirror, and found herself one of the last trainrs to enter the lab. "Oh, like, right.. the lab thingy." She snorted softly to herself, entering.


And she had to admit, the lab was impressive. Many strange gadgets and high-tech machines flooded the room. "Hmmm. Like, what does all this do?" She peered at the machines, and presed her pointy nose to the screen of one of the machines. She stood back, apparantely not taking anything in. She shrugged, turning, seeing a door slightly open, reveaing beds and rooms. She decided to head there, getting bored easily of the machiney. Blissey and Jigglypuff followed behind her, bouncing around as they did so.

Michella turned around to answer the professor, but one of the other trainers was faster. She looked at him as his Typhlosion was released.
"Wow, your Typhlosion looks pretty strong! Mind if I introduce him to Cindy, my cindaquil?" she already released Cindy from her pokebal. Cindy looked around, quite scared by the new envoirment. Michella picked her up.
"No need to be scared, Cindy, they won't hurt you." She then turned to the professor.
"Hello, professor, my name is Michella. I'm here to sign up for the league and get my pokedex updated. Also, I want to say you have a very beautiful Dragonite." She smiled.

Flannery frowned as the boy, introducing himself as Dante, more or less demanded to know more about Betou. A Tyhplosion appeared, and Blaze sized it up straight away,giving a low growl. Both trainer and pokémon seemed to agree on the fact that this kid didn't look 100 percent ready to tackle the island.
"Well, I'm sure you know by now this is Betou. The first gym starts at level thirty, and increase roughly at five to ten levels. We--" Flannery froze as she caught the 'trainer' in a towel, peering right into a very delicate piece of machinery. Her heart almost stopped for a second. A very delicate and very expensive piece of equipment.
"Careful!" Flannery gasped, sprinting across the room just in time for the female to walk away. Blaze's reflex's were sharper, and with what could be described as an unnecessary flip, landed right in front of them, shutting the door with one claw. His growl said everything. Off-limits.
"Don't you know where you are?!" Flannery snapped, "Some of my assistants aren't qualified to use these machines! Do. Not. Touch."
Beon kept eying Dante and his pokémon with her trademark curiosity, and a faint laughing sound filled the minds of all who were in the lab. Combat popped her head out again, watching Blaze, Linda, and her pokémon with a bemused look. Flannery glared at her again, but the Lucario brushed it off, cracking into peals of laughter again.
"PROFESSOR!"
The aide nearly made Flannery break the machine this time. The stunned professor, now on the ground, glared at the girl standing above her, holding a metallic pad in her hands.
"What?!"
"BMH here. League reported it as being UF. We've got about half-an hour."
Flannery understood the code, the color draining quickly from her face. It wasn't good news.
"How about we get you guys to a center? I'm kinda busy right at the moment, but come back in about an hour, and everything will be fine--I mean okay for me to see you." Flannery said hurriedly. "Something real important has come up."

Dante picked up his poke'ball and said "Alright, um....What way is the poke'center by the way?" In the meen time the Tyhplosion walked over to the Cyndaquil and looked at it with a blank face that showed saying "I'm borde." Danted patted the head of Tyhplosion and said "Hi, I'm dante, and this is Inferno. What's your name? If you need, I'll be willing to help you train your pokemon. I'll be like sparring friend."

[I moved up my pokemon levels (except for cindy)+ my age a little, since I was way lower than the others :S So Michella is now 17]

Michella listened as the professor explained the other trainer some things about the region and the gyms.
Then a person called her away about some emergency and Michella was left with the other trainers.
"Alright, um....What way is the poke'center by the way?" the boys said to himself.
The Typhlosion looked at Cindy. Cindy looked up at him, then hid away in Michella's arms. Michella petted her.
"Hi, I'm dante, and this is Inferno. What's your name? If you need, I'll be willing to help you train your pokemon. I'll be like sparring friend."
"My name's Michella and this little shy thing here is Cindy." Sue popped her head up, now from Michella's bag.
"And that's Sue. And that would be really great." She smiled.
"Aslo, I know where the pokécenter is."

[[Please post in CORNOD TOWN, and run through your posts with a Spell Check. Just to iron out any typos or that. I can't make a reply right now, but I'll make on as soon as I can.]]

"Alright, good. Now would you mind showing me to the way to the poke'center?" Dante's pokemon weren't that damaged or anything, but it's better to take good care of them. Rather leaving them to pain when people can help them in anyway. He then looked at the woman looking at the machines and thought to him self "That girl doesn't look like the smartes one of the bunch. A sack of hammers could out smart her if I'm right. Some one I'm not going to be a total fan of"

Dante looked back to Michella and said "So off we go to the poke'center. Right?"

"It's just a short walk down the--"
An earth-shattering roar ripped through the air above Cornod Town, stopping the professor in her tracks. Combat came flying out of the side room, and Flannery suddenly found herself surrounded by her team. "Get back from the door, and get inside here!" She barked, Blaze pushing the trainers and their pokémon inside while Flannery sprinted outdoors.
Another deafening roar forced the woman to stop, slowly gazing upwards. Beon and Combat almost crashed into each other, tensing up for a moment, as if to fight, before they too paused and looked skywards.
Rayquaza was twisting and writhing in the sky, snapping its jaws with a nasty look in its eyes. Its long body, usually a bright emerald, was now a dull green, and covered in long, jagged scars. It's anger had turned the clear blue sky into a steely grey, and flashes of lightening and snaps of thunder rolled around the sky.
Flannery froze as the legendary pokémon turned its head towards her.

(this post contains a reference to an early RP Travis was in)
Travis was about to shut his eyes, when a muffled roar came outside. The windows rattled, and even cracked. Travis immediately got up. He knew that roar well. That roar was that of the Sky pokemon, Rayquaza. Travis grabbed his belt and flung it over his back.
"Gill let's go!"

He ran down the hall. Rayquaza was here! The last time Travis had faced Rayquaza, a crazy small group who called themselves the Purifists, had taken control of Rayquaza, Kyogre, and Groundon and had set across the world in a mad rage. They were religious paranoid people who wished to cleanse the world of sin. They were put down, but their control of Rayquaza and the other legendary pokemon was tight. They were not easy foes.

Travis hoped never to face them again, but if they had to fight Rayquaza, they had to.

Travis burst into the main room. Rayquaza looked rather battle-scared. Something wasn't right. Travis held two pokeballs in his hand. "Anyone care to tell me why Rayquaza is here?"

"Like, what that's ugly no--" Before Linda could complete the sentence, she was knocked into the sleeping quarters, along with everybody else by what seemed to be one of the professor's pokemon. "Hey! What's the big idea! And what's that TOTALLY annoying sound?" She looked around at the other trainers, attempting to press her ear against the door to hear what the professor was saying, or to hear anything that happened to happen outside.

Jigglypuff pulled at Linda's towel, but the blonde simply shooed the pink pokemon away. It sighed sadly, puffing itself up, and then deflating to the ground in sadness. Blissey meanwhile, as happily bouncing around the room.

It's not thinking right. It's too mad, too angry. Combat took a step backwards, wincing in pain as she tried to read the Legendary's thoughts.
Flannery tensed up, also simultaneously with Blaze, who adopted an offensive stance. Rayquaza roared again, and Combat snapped her head around.
People. Something about people. It recognizes your necklace Flannery, and it's not a good thing.
Flannery tore the emerald scale from her neck, taking another step backwards.
"Travis? Your help would be really appreciated right now!" Flannery yelled, jumping backwards as a lightening bolt hit the ground in front of Rayquaza.

Cyrus laughed as he saw the footage of Flannery call for help and jump backwards, her pokémon likewise frightened. The girl had helped put a stop to his plans, and so he was glad to see her failing, but we wondered why Archie and Maxie had failed to locate the woman. It was a gamble though, that had paid off.

Flannery was in trouble for some reason. The Rayquaza was not looking happy. Travis wasn't sure if Rayquaza would remember Travis or not, but he'd rather not find out the hard way. Travis would not allow Flannery to come to harm from an outraged legendary. At Flannery's command, Travis almost smiled, and said, "You don't need to ask twice."

Travis threw out one pokeball. A pokeball containing one of his most powerful pokemon, and probably one of the only pokemon on his team who could last a while against pokemon as strong as legendary or even stronger. "Damageplan! Use ice beam!"

Damageplan, his Tyranitaur, larger than most, appeared in a flash of light. Tyranitaur obeyed as soon as it appeared, looking at the enraged pokemon in the sky. Damageplan also seemed to remember the beast, it's eyes glowed white, as it unleashed a powerful ice beam attack.

Travis in the mean time leapt down, from the stair well and ran to Flannery. "Come on, Damageplan can hopefully hold it off! Let's get you out of here." Another lightning bolt struck nearby.

"This thing has an attitude since we last met." he muttered under his breath.

SORRY IGNORE THIS POST. It double posted for some reason

Flannery shrugged off Travis, looking straight at Rayquaza as it roared again. It found itself under attack by three pokémon, one in particular, Damageplan, hitting hard. "Beon and Combat couldn't hold off Rayquaza on their own."
Combat was knocked backwards by Rayquaza's tail, grunting loudly as her body painfully ht the ground. Beon was keeping up a good pace, throwing large volumes of water and the occasional Shadow Ball at the large legendary.
"I haven't seen anything this mad before." Flannery said, feeling her stomach knot. "Rayquaza keeps the balance between Kyogre and Groudon, it shouldn't get mad."
Flannery shrieked and jumped backwards into Travis as a lightening bolt hit a few feet away from her. Blaze called and came running from within the lab, and Combat looked backwards at her trainer.
Are you okay? Blaze is taking over for me, I'm not strong enough. I can hear it's thoughts, it's too distracting.
Flannery shakily recalled her Lucario, just as Blaze jumped into the fray, working in time with Beon."Maybe it would be safer inside." Flannery muttered, not daring to look up at Travis.

Travis escorted Flannery to the refuge. Before he himself entered he too a few more seconds to watch the battle. "Damageplan, do your best to make sure Rayquaza does not damage the building. Do whatever you can to drive Rayquaza off!"

Damageplan acknowledged with his usual nod, and increased his attack. Travis then entered the refuge and shut the door behind him He then gave a sigh of small relief before saying, "Well, that was weird. Wonder why he's out here?"