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A short while later, at the entrance to the main room, the door opened, revealing Fritz clearing the way for Emily and Rozz. The Cinccino and the Clefairy were deep in conversation. Emily asked as they passed through, "So how was the flight?"

"Well it was quite a thrill, that's for sure," Rozz replied. "Looking back on it, I guess it was a little fun, flying through the air like that."

Emily gave a curious grin, "Doesn’t your species Flarius Clefus have wings of their own?"

The clefairy looked over her shoulder at the pink, pointed wings sticking out from under her vest. She answered, "Kind of? I can't use them to fly though. At least, not that I'm aware of."

Emily replied, "How odd.” She then turned to her assistant, “Fritz what are you doing?"

The pancham's face appeared amongst the burnt rubble, "Just seeing if anything else survived the fire Doctor." He then ducked back in and continued rifling through whatever was left.

Emily straightened out her lab coat, trying to suppress a proud grin, "He does have such a good worth ethic doesn’t he?"

"Yeah. Must be great to have him as a partner, eh?" Rozz mildly smirked.

Emily looked at her peg leg, "I wouldn't be here without him."

All of the sudden a flash of light appeared far above them, and Violet and Nick fell out of it. They hit the ground with a loud thud. "Yer still nade ter kip a bit." Nick grunted, dusting himself off.

Violet stood up sluggishly, tired from the overuse of her powers. She looked around with glazed eyes, and then she looked at Rozz and raised her hands and did a mimed motion of two heads talking.

"You mean they're not with you?" the clefairy responded. Now that she thought of it, her partner was nowhere to be seen.

Nick gave violet a stern look, "We thought he was with you all..."

"Hey, heard you talkin' about us" The group spun around to see Lennon and McCartney walk out the room they were in earlier. On their backs were several pieces of what looked like meat on a bone.

Emily jumped, "Oh, you went and collected the fleshcap?" She did a double take between them and Nick, "We didn't know why you stayed behind..."

The zweilous shook the fleshcap off their back. "Yup. Figured we'd stay behind, make sure nothing bad went down, y'know?"

Before Nick could answer Fritz walked up, "It seems that your non-flammable pillow truly lives up to its name doctor. Well done."

Emily did a fist pump, "Huzzah! Quickly everyone, let us make our way back to the camp." Grabbing the pillow away from her assistant, she then ran off back the way the others have arrived from.

Violet raised an eyebrow, "She ..oes tha... a lot...."

Rozz shrugged, "Yeah, we should try and keep up with her this time." They ran after her as quickly as they could.

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Two hours later they finally found themselves back at the camp. The area west seemed to be finally cleared, and what workers that could be seen seemed to be all sitting around a campfire eating.

Cassidy, a Floatzel who was also in charge of the Explorers Guild, was among them. He looked up to see the group approaching him. "Hey there! How's the dungeoneering comin' along?"

He was answered by Emily, who skipped up and shook his hand in her usual brisk fashion. She said, "Quite well good sir, we have cleared out a den of scoundrels from one of the further rooms and have collected many resources!"

"Good job! You've done well!" Cassidy returned the handshake and grinned.

Suddenly the foreman walked up, "Nice to see you kids," He then turned to the leader, "Cassidy, it seems we have a problem."

Everyone followed the foreman to the edge of camp, where they found what looked like several fortified spikes lining the archway. The Machamp growled, "Seems the fish decided to do a little work of their own while we were working on the other end."

Rozz walked up carefully, "Hmm...you think they used spikes, or maybe even toxic spikes?"

Fritz extended a single claw and scratched one of the spikes causing sparks to fly off. Checking his paws he grumbled, "Miss Rozz, they are simply steel spikes. If they were toxic there would be a residue."

The Foreman also nodded to something in the distance, "Seems that we're being watched as well."

Lennon frowned as he listened to the air. "I don't hear anything. They mustn't be moving."

The Foreman scratched his chin, "Me and the boys can get to work on clearing the way on these, but it will take even more time than we have. Also, now that we know they're keeping watch, we have to be ready for an attack."

Nick grumbled, "Well we don't 'av time ter wait for dat anymore, we al' got business ter attend ter."

Emily suddenly enthusiastically raised her hand, "Well then, I may have something that may solve all of our problems this fine evening! Gather everyone!" She skipped off, while fritz did his best to usher everyone back towards the centre.

"So, what's the plan, luv?" McCartney asked aloud.

Emily had her back to everyone as she shouted, "Gentlemen! We stand at a threshold of our fine work, only to find an even greater obstacle waiting for us. It is time that we turn to the ways of science for a way to fight back!" She turned around holding aloft the vial from before, "BEHOLD!"

Everyone in attendance looked at each other, confused. A Hitmonchan near the back raised his fist, "Uh, what is that, exactly?"

She took her free hand and slapped herself, "Oh right, may I have a volunteer please?"

Fritz walked forward, and Emily opened the bottle and took a dropper out of her lab coat, taking a single drop of the clear liquid inside. She shouted as she applied the drop "Now, behold!" The room suddenly filled with one of the foulest smelling odours imaginable. It seemingly radiated off of Fritz, the doctor covering her face in the collar of her lab coat.

Nick covered his beak with his scarf, tears in his eyes. Violet closed her hood as tightly around her head as possible. Rozz tucked her face in her vest while her partner hid their snouts under their paws. The dragons shouted in unison, "What the hell? It smells like the moss stuff from before!"

Emily smiled, "After experimentation on phenomenon in this area I have found a way to enhance its natural aroma by ten times its natural effectiveness.” She thrust the bottle up dramatically “I give you my latest invention - Pokemon repellent!"

A Geodude raised its hand, "Question." It managed to wheeze, "How is this supposed to help us?"

Emily pointed to the crowd, “If you would all take ten paces back, please?" Everyone followed the order, realizing the stench became more bearable the further away they got. She crossed her arms confidently, "I would like to see those worms get close enough to do any real damage."

Cassidy led a round of applause, "That's something we could definitely use!” The construction crew let out a cheer. But then he asked the doctor, “But is there enough for everyone?"

Emily nodded smugly, "One drop should be effective for one hour. Apply it sparingly to those working on the gate."

Nick stepped forward, “While yer al' chucker dat, were gonna scoyt on a noggin an' 'opefully gie dohs things a call ter stop attackin'!"

Another voice then called out, "YOU ARE NOT LEAVING ME BEHIND THIS TIME!" Reuben Hetterich shoved his way through the crowd.

Nick chuckled, "'be sure not sir, we were jist waitin' for yer ter spake up. "

Rozz shrugged, "As long as you don't slow us down, we're fine with you tagging along."

Fritz chimed in, "Upon further inspection it seems that we can move through the spikes. Let us be off before it's too late"

After handing Cassidy the repellent bottle, Emily skipped towards the spikes and shouted, "YOO HOO, I have a gift for you all." Three glowing green orbs appeared in her paws. She chucked them over the spikes with all the force that she could. There were the sounds of explosions heard in the distance. Using the chaos as a distraction, the groups leaned in through the spikes.

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The room everyone entered was lit up by an incandescent fungus. Nick and the Zweilous took the lead with Fritz right behind them, still scrawling notes on whatever he could see. Though they seemed alone, there seemed to be hushed voices all around.

Off in the distance, there seemed to be a large rock formation just sitting in the centre of the room, a large pile of Spoolstone. “Oh hey, look at that!" Rozz darted over to the resource. "We should take some back!"

Emily scoffed at the idea, clearly not interested. "I shall see what lies over there, you all do that," She said as walked off along the pathway north while the others collected, Hetterich standing about with a bored malaise.

Nick ended up working next to the Zweilous, "Quite de trip 'uh?"

The two heads chuckled, "Yeah, it's been very eventful so far!"

Nick gave a hesitant laugh, "True so 'tis, luk oi'm sorry if oi 'enny been a proper gent ter yer an' de others." He stretched, "oi 'av trouble raun new people if yer git me meanin?"

McCartney replied, "I can understand that. Some of us are just like that, y'know?" Lennon then added, "Yeh, I was kinda the same when I was a deino, being blind an' all."

Nick held out one of his wings, "Let's try bein' mates from now on then?"

The Zweilous took his wing, "It's a pleasure, lad!"

All of the sudden, the ground began to shake as the sound of screaming filled the air. Fritz jumped to attention, "....Doctor?"

"It came from over there!" Lennon and McCartney turned towards the north end of the room.

As the group ran north, Fritz quickly broke away and took the lead eventually ending up at another archway. They came upon an odd sight within, Emily was being dragged by a rather large Barboach. The big lug muttered with its jaw clenched on a piece of her hair, "Come on peaches, I swear I'll show you a good time."

The usually calm Pancham’s demeanour darkened, “You dare to touch her like that!" It ran at the two with everything it could, letting loose a barrage of comet punches at the Barboach's girth. The fish let go and turned tail, trying to get away from the assault. But Fritz refused to let it get away, giving chase further into the cavern. Eventually they came upon a large plant, sinisterly glowing red.

The Barboach muttered out of breath, "Come on man, it gets so lonely in here... If I had known she was taken I would have left her be."

Fritz eyes seemed to have fire flashing out them, "My master is not some strumpet that you can drag off to have your way with!" He extended his shadow claws to their fullest length and charged at the Barboach with everything he had. The two scuffled for the next few minutes, before the Barboach suddenly looked like it was focusing greatly, and the ground began to shake with magnitude. With one last charge Fritz ducked in and karate chopped its throat, finally knocking it unconscious.

The group stared in awe. "Well, I guess she didn't need our assistance" said Rozz.

Fritz turned to all of them, the rage still in his eyes. Emily suddenly ran up, "Shh, It's alright Fritz, it’s over." She placed a paw carefully on his arm, "I'm fine, but you need to calm down."

Fritz managed to straighten out his hat and bowed, "I apologize for that, my rage got the better of me."

The rest of the group walked in, "It's good to see you're both alright, though!"

Violet looked towards the large plant, "Umm, guys are those plants supposed to get brighter?"

Emily began to shudder with fear, "That's not a plant, that's a Bustershoot!"

The Bustershoot's light almost reached blinding levels. Nick shouted, "RUN!" The group turned tail and ran for the exit, just missing the explosion. With no other paths to be found they walked south ending up at another large wood door.

"I hope the Barboach will be alright?" McCartney wondered aloud, with a hint of concern in his slightly wavering voice.

Nick answered, " Oi tart oi saw somethin' rollin' away whaen dat sproyt went boom. oi'm sure 'tis gran'."

McCartney wiped his brow, "Ah, that's good to hear!"

Rozz changed the subject, "So, this door doesn't seem to have any locks on it." She had wandered off to the south side of the room, staring at a wooden door.

Hetterich took out a handkerchief from within his collar, "Allow me." He gave the knob a quick wipe down before pushing the door open, revealing a room which seemed to be a quite different from all the others, the stones seemed perfectly level, almost featureless.

Immediately nearby they noticed what looked like a few purple-coloured roots jutting out from the ground. Hetterich picked up one of the sprouts, and sniffed it, "Ah the common meatroot, perfect when you have need to avoid proper meat when you train."

"Sounds tasty!" Lennon remarked, his mouth starting to water.

Nick shook his head, "Boyo, That's for de guilds."

McCartney laughed, "I'm sure we'll get the chance to eat sometime later."

"Anyway," Rozz scanned the room. After confirming there were no hidden traps, she looked over the two doors that now stood in their way. "Door number one, or door number two?"

Violet walked towards the closest door, finding it to be locked. But she noticed that someone had written in big crude letters, "You want to go through, pass my challenge!" There was an arrow pointing toward the door to the door to they had not touched. A strange scraping noise seemed to be coming from it. Violet turned to everyone, "Well I guess we have to go that way."

"We'll scout it out first, if ye like!" Lennon and McCartney stepped forward and approached the door. Everyone followed just behind them. The Zweilous put a paw on the knob and turned it. Inside they found an even more robust Barboach sitting in the middle of a small wrestling ring. The scraping sound they all had heard was it whittling a small statue with the blade it currently had in its mouth.

It noticed everyone and spat the blade out, sending it flying and eventually hitting one of the corners. "Ladies and gentleman, we have a new challenger!" A strange chanting seemed to fill the air as he said that. The Barboach rolled forward onto the ropes and sneered, "So which of you little morsels thinks they got what it takes?!"

McCartney raised his paw and exclaimed, "Ooh, ooh! Pick us! Pick us!"

The fish laughed, "Very well, if you win I'll hand over the key, but if I win, I get to eat you!"

"Sounds fair enough," the Zweilous climbed clumsily up onto the stage and stood at one corner. "Let's do this!"

The two made their way to their corners, the chanting getting even louder. All of the sudden the sound of a bell went off and the Barboach lunged forward with bulldoze. "Straight ahead!!" McCartney, seeing it come into focus, ordered his other head to charge. They galloped towards the Barboach, glowing purple as they went into a dragon rush.

The two made contact, knocking each other back. The Barboach spun on its girth and its tail began to turn blue. It tried to aqua tail McCartney. Lennon attempted to stop it with a dragon pulse but missed, and the Barboach crashed into them, soaking their heads with his round, stubby tail.

The Barboach opened its jaws wide, and steam began to billow from its mouth as tried following up with scald.

"Oh it's on," Lennon readied himself, and immediately started singing. "You can talk to me, you can talk to me..." the heads then sang in harmony, amplifying their round attack. "If you're lonely you can talk to me!!"

The Barboach was knocked back by the sound. After a second its face began to turn red, and the rage could easily be seen, it charged with frustration. "Dodge!" the Zweilous leaped to one side, causing the Barboach to run into the ropes surrounding the ring. Using its momentum it tried to slide in for another aqua tail.

"Ready?" Lennon asked his other head, who replied, "Ready!" Both heads faced the oncoming Barboach and opened their mouths. Suddenly McCartney fired a bright bluish-purple beam of dragon pulse, while Lennon fired a purple spiral of dark pulse. Both beams collided and surged forward with much more power.

From the sheer force of the combined blasts the Barboach was flung from the ring entirely, the sound of a bell rang out again and the chanting voices seemed to cheer, before finally falling silent.

Violet climbed the ropes, silently trying to cheer but barely was able to make a sound.

Hetterich gave a light applause, "How droll.”

Emily tried her best to dance about with joy, while Fritz clapped politely. Nick jumped and glided into the ring, "Nicely done boys!"

The Zweilous turned towards the group and bowed their heads in unison. They then walked up to the round Barboach lying on the ground. "Good game, ol' chum! Now how about that key?"

The Barboach rolled on its belly, and began to cough. Suddenly the key flew out and landed at the Zweilous' feet. It gave a dark grin, "You may have defeated me, but my Lord Wussy is a thousand times stronger than me. He'll mash you all into paste!"

The Zweilous simply smiled, "Thanks!" We'll keep that in mind." They picked up the key and tossed it over to Nick, who then caught it.

The Delibird marched over to it after, and knocked it out with an ice punch, "Well yer 'av a nice nap." He turned to everyone and cried out, "Cum on everyone, oi tink 'tis time we 'av a sit down wi' de big wan!"
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With the time for hesetation long since passed, the teams begin the final push forwards.

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A short while later, at the entrance to the main room, the door opened, revealing Fritz clearing the way for Emily and Rozz. The Cinccino and the Clefairy were deep in conversation. Emily asked as they passed through, "So how was the flight?"

"Well it was quite a thrill, that's for sure," Rozz replied. "Looking back on it, I guess it was a little fun, flying through the air like that."

Emily gave a curious grin, "Doesn’t your species Flarius Clefus have wings of their own?"

The clefairy looked over her shoulder at the pink, pointed wings sticking out from under her vest. She answered, "Kind of? I can't use them to fly though. At least, not that I'm aware of."

Emily replied, "How odd.” She then turned to her assistant, “Fritz what are you doing?"

The pancham's face appeared amongst the burnt rubble, "Just seeing if anything else survived the fire Doctor." He then ducked back in and continued rifling through whatever was left.

Emily straightened out her lab coat, trying to suppress a proud grin, "He does have such a good worth ethic doesn’t he?"

"Yeah. Must be great to have him as a partner, eh?" Rozz mildly smirked.

Emily looked at her peg leg, "I wouldn't be here without him."

All of the sudden a flash of light appeared far above them, and Violet and Nick fell out of it. They hit the ground with a loud thud. "Yer still nade ter kip a bit." Nick grunted, dusting himself off.

Violet stood up sluggishly, tired from the overuse of her powers. She looked around with glazed eyes, and then she looked at Rozz and raised her hands and did a mimed motion of two heads talking.

"You mean they're not with you?" the clefairy responded. Now that she thought of it, her partner was nowhere to be seen.

Nick gave violet a stern look, "We thought he was with you all..."

"Hey, heard you talkin' about us" The group spun around to see Lennon and McCartney walk out the room they were in earlier. On their backs were several pieces of what looked like meat on a bone.

Emily jumped, "Oh, you went and collected the fleshcap?" She did a double take between them and Nick, "We didn't know why you stayed behind..."

The zweilous shook the fleshcap off their back. "Yup. Figured we'd stay behind, make sure nothing bad went down, y'know?"

Before Nick could answer Fritz walked up, "It seems that your non-flammable pillow truly lives up to its name doctor. Well done."

Emily did a fist pump, "Huzzah! Quickly everyone, let us make our way back to the camp." Grabbing the pillow away from her assistant, she then ran off back the way the others have arrived from.

Violet raised an eyebrow, "She ..oes tha... a lot...."

Rozz shrugged, "Yeah, we should try and keep up with her this time." They ran after her as quickly as they could.

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Two hours later they finally found themselves back at the camp. The area west seemed to be finally cleared, and what workers that could be seen seemed to be all sitting around a campfire eating.

Cassidy, a Floatzel who was also in charge of the Explorers Guild, was among them. He looked up to see the group approaching him. "Hey there! How's the dungeoneering comin' along?"

He was answered by Emily, who skipped up and shook his hand in her usual brisk fashion. She said, "Quite well good sir, we have cleared out a den of scoundrels from one of the further rooms and have collected many resources!"

"Good job! You've done well!" Cassidy returned the handshake and grinned.

Suddenly the foreman walked up, "Nice to see you kids," He then turned to the leader, "Cassidy, it seems we have a problem."

Everyone followed the foreman to the edge of camp, where they found what looked like several fortified spikes lining the archway. The Machamp growled, "Seems the fish decided to do a little work of their own while we were working on the other end."

Rozz walked up carefully, "Hmm...you think they used spikes, or maybe even toxic spikes?"

Fritz extended a single claw and scratched one of the spikes causing sparks to fly off. Checking his paws he grumbled, "Miss Rozz, they are simply steel spikes. If they were toxic there would be a residue."

The Foreman also nodded to something in the distance, "Seems that we're being watched as well."

Lennon frowned as he listened to the air. "I don't hear anything. They mustn't be moving."

The Foreman scratched his chin, "Me and the boys can get to work on clearing the way on these, but it will take even more time than we have. Also, now that we know they're keeping watch, we have to be ready for an attack."

Nick grumbled, "Well we don't 'av time ter wait for dat anymore, we al' got business ter attend ter."

Emily suddenly enthusiastically raised her hand, "Well then, I may have something that may solve all of our problems this fine evening! Gather everyone!" She skipped off, while fritz did his best to usher everyone back towards the centre.

"So, what's the plan, luv?" McCartney asked aloud.

Emily had her back to everyone as she shouted, "Gentlemen! We stand at a threshold of our fine work, only to find an even greater obstacle waiting for us. It is time that we turn to the ways of science for a way to fight back!" She turned around holding aloft the vial from before, "BEHOLD!"

Everyone in attendance looked at each other, confused. A Hitmonchan near the back raised his fist, "Uh, what is that, exactly?"

She took her free hand and slapped herself, "Oh right, may I have a volunteer please?"

Fritz walked forward, and Emily opened the bottle and took a dropper out of her lab coat, taking a single drop of the clear liquid inside. She shouted as she applied the drop "Now, behold!" The room suddenly filled with one of the foulest smelling odours imaginable. It seemingly radiated off of Fritz, the doctor covering her face in the collar of her lab coat.

Nick covered his beak with his scarf, tears in his eyes. Violet closed her hood as tightly around her head as possible. Rozz tucked her face in her vest while her partner hid their snouts under their paws. The dragons shouted in unison, "What the hell? It smells like the moss stuff from before!"

Emily smiled, "After experimentation on phenomenon in this area I have found a way to enhance its natural aroma by ten times its natural effectiveness.” She thrust the bottle up dramatically “I give you my latest invention - Pokemon repellent!"

A Geodude raised its hand, "Question." It managed to wheeze, "How is this supposed to help us?"

Emily pointed to the crowd, “If you would all take ten paces back, please?" Everyone followed the order, realizing the stench became more bearable the further away they got. She crossed her arms confidently, "I would like to see those worms get close enough to do any real damage."

Cassidy led a round of applause, "That's something we could definitely use!” The construction crew let out a cheer. But then he asked the doctor, “But is there enough for everyone?"

Emily nodded smugly, "One drop should be effective for one hour. Apply it sparingly to those working on the gate."

Nick stepped forward, “While yer al' chucker dat, were gonna scoyt on a noggin an' 'opefully gie dohs things a call ter stop attackin'!"

Another voice then called out, "YOU ARE NOT LEAVING ME BEHIND THIS TIME!" Reuben Hetterich shoved his way through the crowd.

Nick chuckled, "'be sure not sir, we were jist waitin' for yer ter spake up. "

Rozz shrugged, "As long as you don't slow us down, we're fine with you tagging along."

Fritz chimed in, "Upon further inspection it seems that we can move through the spikes. Let us be off before it's too late"

After handing Cassidy the repellent bottle, Emily skipped towards the spikes and shouted, "YOO HOO, I have a gift for you all." Three glowing green orbs appeared in her paws. She chucked them over the spikes with all the force that she could. There were the sounds of explosions heard in the distance. Using the chaos as a distraction, the groups leaned in through the spikes.

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The room everyone entered was lit up by an incandescent fungus. Nick and the Zweilous took the lead with Fritz right behind them, still scrawling notes on whatever he could see. Though they seemed alone, there seemed to be hushed voices all around.

Off in the distance, there seemed to be a large rock formation just sitting in the centre of the room, a large pile of Spoolstone. “Oh hey, look at that!" Rozz darted over to the resource. "We should take some back!"

Emily scoffed at the idea, clearly not interested. "I shall see what lies over there, you all do that," She said as walked off along the pathway north while the others collected, Hetterich standing about with a bored malaise.

Nick ended up working next to the Zweilous, "Quite de trip 'uh?"

The two heads chuckled, "Yeah, it's been very eventful so far!"

Nick gave a hesitant laugh, "True so 'tis, luk oi'm sorry if oi 'enny been a proper gent ter yer an' de others." He stretched, "oi 'av trouble raun new people if yer git me meanin?"

McCartney replied, "I can understand that. Some of us are just like that, y'know?" Lennon then added, "Yeh, I was kinda the same when I was a deino, being blind an' all."

Nick held out one of his wings, "Let's try bein' mates from now on then?"

The Zweilous took his wing, "It's a pleasure, lad!"

All of the sudden, the ground began to shake as the sound of screaming filled the air. Fritz jumped to attention, "....Doctor?"

"It came from over there!" Lennon and McCartney turned towards the north end of the room.

As the group ran north, Fritz quickly broke away and took the lead eventually ending up at another archway. They came upon an odd sight within, Emily was being dragged by a rather large Barboach. The big lug muttered with its jaw clenched on a piece of her hair, "Come on peaches, I swear I'll show you a good time."

The usually calm Pancham’s demeanour darkened, “You dare to touch her like that!" It ran at the two with everything it could, letting loose a barrage of comet punches at the Barboach's girth. The fish let go and turned tail, trying to get away from the assault. But Fritz refused to let it get away, giving chase further into the cavern. Eventually they came upon a large plant, sinisterly glowing red.

The Barboach muttered out of breath, "Come on man, it gets so lonely in here... If I had known she was taken I would have left her be."

Fritz eyes seemed to have fire flashing out them, "My master is not some strumpet that you can drag off to have your way with!" He extended his shadow claws to their fullest length and charged at the Barboach with everything he had. The two scuffled for the next few minutes, before the Barboach suddenly looked like it was focusing greatly, and the ground began to shake with magnitude. With one last charge Fritz ducked in and karate chopped its throat, finally knocking it unconscious.

The group stared in awe. "Well, I guess she didn't need our assistance" said Rozz.

Fritz turned to all of them, the rage still in his eyes. Emily suddenly ran up, "Shh, It's alright Fritz, it’s over." She placed a paw carefully on his arm, "I'm fine, but you need to calm down."

Fritz managed to straighten out his hat and bowed, "I apologize for that, my rage got the better of me."

The rest of the group walked in, "It's good to see you're both alright, though!"

Violet looked towards the large plant, "Umm, guys are those plants supposed to get brighter?"

Emily began to shudder with fear, "That's not a plant, that's a Bustershoot!"

The Bustershoot's light almost reached blinding levels. Nick shouted, "RUN!" The group turned tail and ran for the exit, just missing the explosion. With no other paths to be found they walked south ending up at another large wood door.

"I hope the Barboach will be alright?" McCartney wondered aloud, with a hint of concern in his slightly wavering voice.

Nick answered, " Oi tart oi saw somethin' rollin' away whaen dat sproyt went boom. oi'm sure 'tis gran'."

McCartney wiped his brow, "Ah, that's good to hear!"

Rozz changed the subject, "So, this door doesn't seem to have any locks on it." She had wandered off to the south side of the room, staring at a wooden door.

Hetterich took out a handkerchief from within his collar, "Allow me." He gave the knob a quick wipe down before pushing the door open, revealing a room which seemed to be a quite different from all the others, the stones seemed perfectly level, almost featureless.

Immediately nearby they noticed what looked like a few purple-coloured roots jutting out from the ground. Hetterich picked up one of the sprouts, and sniffed it, "Ah the common meatroot, perfect when you have need to avoid proper meat when you train."

"Sounds tasty!" Lennon remarked, his mouth starting to water.

Nick shook his head, "Boyo, That's for de guilds."

McCartney laughed, "I'm sure we'll get the chance to eat sometime later."

"Anyway," Rozz scanned the room. After confirming there were no hidden traps, she looked over the two doors that now stood in their way. "Door number one, or door number two?"

Violet walked towards the closest door, finding it to be locked. But she noticed that someone had written in big crude letters, "You want to go through, pass my challenge!" There was an arrow pointing toward the door to the door to they had not touched. A strange scraping noise seemed to be coming from it. Violet turned to everyone, "Well I guess we have to go that way."

"We'll scout it out first, if ye like!" Lennon and McCartney stepped forward and approached the door. Everyone followed just behind them. The Zweilous put a paw on the knob and turned it. Inside they found an even more robust Barboach sitting in the middle of a small wrestling ring. The scraping sound they all had heard was it whittling a small statue with the blade it currently had in its mouth.

It noticed everyone and spat the blade out, sending it flying and eventually hitting one of the corners. "Ladies and gentleman, we have a new challenger!" A strange chanting seemed to fill the air as he said that. The Barboach rolled forward onto the ropes and sneered, "So which of you little morsels thinks they got what it takes?!"

McCartney raised his paw and exclaimed, "Ooh, ooh! Pick us! Pick us!"

The fish laughed, "Very well, if you win I'll hand over the key, but if I win, I get to eat you!"

"Sounds fair enough," the Zweilous climbed clumsily up onto the stage and stood at one corner. "Let's do this!"

The two made their way to their corners, the chanting getting even louder. All of the sudden the sound of a bell went off and the Barboach lunged forward with bulldoze. "Straight ahead!!" McCartney, seeing it come into focus, ordered his other head to charge. They galloped towards the Barboach, glowing purple as they went into a dragon rush.

The two made contact, knocking each other back. The Barboach spun on its girth and its tail began to turn blue. It tried to aqua tail McCartney. Lennon attempted to stop it with a dragon pulse but missed, and the Barboach crashed into them, soaking their heads with his round, stubby tail.

The Barboach opened its jaws wide, and steam began to billow from its mouth as tried following up with scald.

"Oh it's on," Lennon readied himself, and immediately started singing. "You can talk to me, you can talk to me..." the heads then sang in harmony, amplifying their round attack. "If you're lonely you can talk to me!!"

The Barboach was knocked back by the sound. After a second its face began to turn red, and the rage could easily be seen, it charged with frustration. "Dodge!" the Zweilous leaped to one side, causing the Barboach to run into the ropes surrounding the ring. Using its momentum it tried to slide in for another aqua tail.

"Ready?" Lennon asked his other head, who replied, "Ready!" Both heads faced the oncoming Barboach and opened their mouths. Suddenly McCartney fired a bright bluish-purple beam of dragon pulse, while Lennon fired a purple spiral of dark pulse. Both beams collided and surged forward with much more power.

From the sheer force of the combined blasts the Barboach was flung from the ring entirely, the sound of a bell rang out again and the chanting voices seemed to cheer, before finally falling silent.

Violet climbed the ropes, silently trying to cheer but barely was able to make a sound.

Hetterich gave a light applause, "How droll.”

Emily tried her best to dance about with joy, while Fritz clapped politely. Nick jumped and glided into the ring, "Nicely done boys!"

The Zweilous turned towards the group and bowed their heads in unison. They then walked up to the round Barboach lying on the ground. "Good game, ol' chum! Now how about that key?"

The Barboach rolled on its belly, and began to cough. Suddenly the key flew out and landed at the Zweilous' feet. It gave a dark grin, "You may have defeated me, but my Lord Wussy is a thousand times stronger than me. He'll mash you all into paste!"

The Zweilous simply smiled, "Thanks!" We'll keep that in mind." They picked up the key and tossed it over to Nick, who then caught it.

The Delibird marched over to it after, and knocked it out with an ice punch, "Well yer 'av a nice nap." He turned to everyone and cried out, "Cum on everyone, oi tink 'tis time we 'av a sit down wi' de big wan!"
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With the time for hesetation long since passed, the teams begin the final push forwards.

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