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The cavern within was even darker than the one before. Emily could barely see her paws in front of her face. But she quickly realized that she wasn't the only one in there. The sound of bellies sliding across stone just seemed to get closer and closer.

All of the sudden, the light of several torches appeared, and she was cornered by a small host of barboaches. "Gentlemen, it seems that one of the intruders has finally found their way into our midst," Said the haughty one that seemed to be in charge. He looked at his companions, "What should we do to our new guest?"

Emily looked around and stuttered, "Well, you could maybe just let me turn around and go back the way I came, perhaps?"

It shook its head, "I'm afraid not, since our lord has asked us to detain or eliminate whomever we come across." It sneered, "Since you are the first we have found how about you come along like a good little rodent?"

"Aye, everything alright in 'ere?" The silhouette of a zweilous peered through the opening door, followed by the rest of the party. Upon seeing the current scene they all struck a violent pose.

Emily called out as they approached, "Fritz, I may have to sing......"

This caused the pancham to shake with obvious fear, quickly taking off his hat and pulling out two medium sized balls of cotton. He rammed it into his ears saying, "Ladies and gentleman, if you value your ability to hear, please do not listen...."

The others, looking puzzled, proceeded to cover their ears. Lennon and McCartney however, simply asked, "What on earth do you mean?"

Emily took a deep breath, "Turn around...." the rest turned into what seemed to be a series of sonic shrieks from her hyper voice. It reached a decibel so great that the room began to shake with each new word.

"....Nothing I can say a total eclipse of the heart." she finished within a minute, her voice becoming normal.

The barboach all quickly fled further into the shadows, deafened by the experience.

Nick shook himself violently, even with his ears covered he was obviously deafened. He shouted, "Waaat de 'ell wus dat?"

Despite not having covered his ears in time, Lennon remarked, "What a lovely voice!" McCartney, who was taken aback by the loud noise, gave Lennon a backwards look. Violet shuddered and made the hand gesture that she couldn’t hear what anyone was saying.

Rozz lowered her arms and shouted, "Well, at least it scared those goons away!"

Emily took the ends of her lab coat and did a formal bow, "You were a lovely audience, don't worry, your hearing should be back soon." She waved to Fritz, who immediately yanked the cotton out of his ears and placed them back in his hat.  Emily then marched off shouting as best as she could, "Onward!"

The rest of the group wandered into the shadows. Fumbling in the dark nick pulled out a lighter, giving them a small light. Violet gave him a withering glance, Nick gave a big grin, "Waaat? oi'm borrowin' it from Max."

At the back of the group fritz was somehow carrying the notebook and attempting to write in it at the same time.

After a while Rozz slowed down to match the pancham’s speed. the clefairy gently tapped Fritz on the shoulder. "Excuse me, sir? The rest of the gang would like to know what you're doing?"

Fritz looked up and gave his usual broken grin, "Our guild has asked that we write about all foreseeable details about each of the rooms. Since the doctor is currently distracted I shall attempt to pick up the slack, as any good assistant would." He looked around and sighed, "Have you noticed that this room gives off a slight unease?"

Rozz looked around the room, "Now that you mention it, it kinda does."

Fritz turned back to his writing, “Oh, good, it’s not just only me.”

After awhile of just wandering, Nick called out, " Everyone, oi tink oi foun' somethin' important." The group wandered over to find a patch of odd mushrooms just growing out of the ground. They looked more like chicken legs than plants.

Emily sauntered over, "Caprinus Comatus, the common fleshcap." She gave a puzzled look and picked one up for inspection, "Has someone been eating this?"

Rozz picked up her own and examined it. "Most of it looks intact. I'm sure we can bring these back for the stock."

While everyone stopped to collect them. Nick shouted, "Yer guys mind al' dohs worms from before? oi tink oi foun' wha they went!" They all turned to see many lights in the distance, a fortified hovel had been built in the southern corner of the cavern.

Emily began to laugh sinisterly, "Shall vee pay those fiends another visit?"

Violet’s brow furrowed as she tried to speak up, but in the end she just waved her arms frantically. Rozz looked over at the kirlia "Eh? What's up?"

The Kirlia grabbed Emily’s notebook out of fritz's hand and wrote, "This really seems like a bad idea, they know that we are here and will be expecting us."

"I guess she has a point" the zweilous nodded in unison.

Nick looked around the general area, "Oi nu Vi, but de guild did gie us dat other task. We won't git it done 'til we 'av a wee blather wi' wan av dohs worms." He then spotted something, "Say Doc does dat rock over dare luk a bit fierce strange ter yer?"

They noticed a large dark blue rock, sitting apart from the rest of the area. Emily carefully scratched the boulder before placing paw on her chin in contemplation. "Well it should, that rock there seems to be a larger version of the trap that got the construction crew."

Rozz studied the slightly concealed trap. Suddenly her eyes lit up. "What if...we lure the guy out?"

Nick shook his head, "Dat may work, but oi tink oi nu a much more direct approach. 'ow durable wud yer say yer are missy?"

Rozz shrugged, "Well, I can run pretty fast. Does that count?"

Nick raised an eyebrow, and turned to the pancham. He asked with a grin, "Kind av, and what about you Fritz?"

Fritz cracked his neck, "I am quite accustomed to pain sir."

His grin grew bigger, "Good." He gave Violet a quick nod, and she quickly turned and started running away attempting to drag the zwelious and cinccino with her.

Nick walked in front of the trap, and his wings spread wide. He took on a serious tone, "Gran' so den yer two grab onto me sides, an' whatever yer chucker, don't let go."

Rozz and Fritz did as they were told, and held onto Nick. Without warning, he jumped up and kicked off on the rock, causing it to explode into a torrent of bubbles flying all the way to the top of the cavern. Using the force of the blast Nick and his passengers soared forward. They whizzed across the cavern and straight through the front door of the building.

The three soared past the barboaches and made impact on a couch in the room they were hiding in. The wormy goons cried out, startled by their entrance, "INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT!"

Nick shook himself off and stood up, "Evenin' gents, can we have a word?"

Rozz jumped out from behind the couch and raised a finger high in the air, "Take this!"  The rocky floor nearby crumbled upward and formed a large ball of stone. Rozz then grasped it and flung it at the barboach mob, knocking all of them in every direction.

Fritz stood up and unsheathed his shadow claws. "I would suggest you follow their demands." The moment the goons could stand, most of them bolted for the door.

"Hold it right there!" the clefairy called out, making a following notion with her hand. The barboach that hadn't made it to the exit turned around to look at her.

Nick did a double take between the two, "huh."

Fritz lurched forward placing the claws dangerously close to the goon's face, "As we said earlier could we have a brief conversation?"

The barboach stammered, "Y-Y-YES! I'LL DO ANYTHING YOU ASK!"

Fritz's claws retracted "Good, Miss Rozz can you have him come with us, we need to gather the rest of our companions."

"Alrighty. You, come with us!" Rozz ushered the crony out the door, Fritz following suit.  Nick took his time to snuff out all the lights before joining the rest.

The four came back to find two particularly soggy pokémon waiting for them next to the crater. "You coulda warned us before doin' that..." Lennon and McCartney growled, looking in their direction, their fur flattened down by water - they didn't look very happy.

Emily parted her wet hair revealing a manic smile, "That was awesome!"

Nick laughed, " Me brutal, kind av a spur av de moment tin'." He looked around, "Have you guys seen Vi anywhere?"

All of the sudden an off sound rang out in everyone’s heads, "..elo.... safe... to come out?"

Nick laughed, "It's safe Vi, good to hear you again."

The kirlia slowly walked up, "Are you guys alright?"

"Yeah, we managed to get a hold of one of the goons," Rozz gestured towards the still cowering barboach.

Violet turned to nick and sent a private message, "Are we going to use him?" Nick confirmed by winking.

Nick did a kind of salute, "alright everyone, vi an' oi are gonna 'av a queck ward wi' our mucker 'ere, guild business yer nu? why don't yer start makin' our way back towards de dure. we'll catch up."

The others nodded, and proceeded to exit the room, leaving the Lionhearts alone with the barboach. But unknown to the Lionhearts a certain dragon decided to hide behind a rock and listen in.

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Nick placed a wing on the barboach’s back. He said with a smile, “So kid, you got a name?”

The barboach stuck out its tongue, “You can call me Peter if you wish. But, why should I even to be talking to you, you and your people are the ones who are trespassing on the lands of my lord and master!”

Violet walked over and knelt down until she was eye level with peter. Her purple eyes began to glow as she tried to enter his mind using psychic, “Well Peter, I’m Violet and this is Nick. Your lord and master Wussy, has caused a lot of problems for the people just trying to get their homes repaired.”

Nick took hold of the scruff of his neck, “Dare are a few people we represent who wud loike ter 'av a ward wi' 'imself. We are not 'ear ter scrap, we jist want ter set things straight. No one wants carnage here.”

Peter wheezed, “Well you certainly could have fooled us!”

Violet smiled, her eyes becoming even brighter, “We have a favour to ask, could you please go to where Wussy is and tell him that we are coming?”

Peter’s eyes seemed to glaze over slightly, “Whatever you say.”

Nick patted his head, “Be queck aboyt it an' yer jist might git a reward oyt av dis.” He lifted the fish up, and dusted him off. Nothing else was said as the barboach slithered off out of sight. Nick placed one of his wings on Vi’s shoulder, “Well, dat went much better than expected.” He looked around, “Do yer tink yer got enoof juice lef ter 'elp us catch up?

Violet smiled as she furrowed her brow, and the two vanished in one last flash of light. Off in the distance, the zweilous in the distance smiled.  "Well then, looks like they could handle themselves after all, eh?"

The other head replied, "indeed." They glanced over at the remaining Fleshcap the group had left behind. "We'd best take some of this while we're here."  They gathered up as much of the Fleshcap as they could carry on their back, and ran off towards the entrance.

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Part 4
Ignore the fact that Nick looks bigger than he really is (darn perspective shots U_U)
Anyways, time to kick ass!

Collab w/ Count-of-Dublin
The Teams:

Team Quarry
The Lionhearts
Mad Science!

The Dungeon: pmdunity.org/dungeon/view/2/12…

Description

PREVIOUS: Basalt Halls Collab: Band On The Run Part 3 || NEXT: Basalt Halls Collab: Band On The Run Part 5

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The cavern within was even darker than the one before. Emily could barely see her paws in front of her face. But she quickly realized that she wasn't the only one in there. The sound of bellies sliding across stone just seemed to get closer and closer.

All of the sudden, the light of several torches appeared, and she was cornered by a small host of barboaches. "Gentlemen, it seems that one of the intruders has finally found their way into our midst," Said the haughty one that seemed to be in charge. He looked at his companions, "What should we do to our new guest?"

Emily looked around and stuttered, "Well, you could maybe just let me turn around and go back the way I came, perhaps?"

It shook its head, "I'm afraid not, since our lord has asked us to detain or eliminate whomever we come across." It sneered, "Since you are the first we have found how about you come along like a good little rodent?"

"Aye, everything alright in 'ere?" The silhouette of a zweilous peered through the opening door, followed by the rest of the party. Upon seeing the current scene they all struck a violent pose.

Emily called out as they approached, "Fritz, I may have to sing......"

This caused the pancham to shake with obvious fear, quickly taking off his hat and pulling out two medium sized balls of cotton. He rammed it into his ears saying, "Ladies and gentleman, if you value your ability to hear, please do not listen...."

The others, looking puzzled, proceeded to cover their ears. Lennon and McCartney however, simply asked, "What on earth do you mean?"

Emily took a deep breath, "Turn around...." the rest turned into what seemed to be a series of sonic shrieks from her hyper voice. It reached a decibel so great that the room began to shake with each new word.

"....Nothing I can say a total eclipse of the heart." she finished within a minute, her voice becoming normal.

The barboach all quickly fled further into the shadows, deafened by the experience.

Nick shook himself violently, even with his ears covered he was obviously deafened. He shouted, "Waaat de 'ell wus dat?"

Despite not having covered his ears in time, Lennon remarked, "What a lovely voice!" McCartney, who was taken aback by the loud noise, gave Lennon a backwards look. Violet shuddered and made the hand gesture that she couldn’t hear what anyone was saying.

Rozz lowered her arms and shouted, "Well, at least it scared those goons away!"

Emily took the ends of her lab coat and did a formal bow, "You were a lovely audience, don't worry, your hearing should be back soon." She waved to Fritz, who immediately yanked the cotton out of his ears and placed them back in his hat.  Emily then marched off shouting as best as she could, "Onward!"

The rest of the group wandered into the shadows. Fumbling in the dark nick pulled out a lighter, giving them a small light. Violet gave him a withering glance, Nick gave a big grin, "Waaat? oi'm borrowin' it from Max."

At the back of the group fritz was somehow carrying the notebook and attempting to write in it at the same time.

After a while Rozz slowed down to match the pancham’s speed. the clefairy gently tapped Fritz on the shoulder. "Excuse me, sir? The rest of the gang would like to know what you're doing?"

Fritz looked up and gave his usual broken grin, "Our guild has asked that we write about all foreseeable details about each of the rooms. Since the doctor is currently distracted I shall attempt to pick up the slack, as any good assistant would." He looked around and sighed, "Have you noticed that this room gives off a slight unease?"

Rozz looked around the room, "Now that you mention it, it kinda does."

Fritz turned back to his writing, “Oh, good, it’s not just only me.”

After awhile of just wandering, Nick called out, " Everyone, oi tink oi foun' somethin' important." The group wandered over to find a patch of odd mushrooms just growing out of the ground. They looked more like chicken legs than plants.

Emily sauntered over, "Caprinus Comatus, the common fleshcap." She gave a puzzled look and picked one up for inspection, "Has someone been eating this?"

Rozz picked up her own and examined it. "Most of it looks intact. I'm sure we can bring these back for the stock."

While everyone stopped to collect them. Nick shouted, "Yer guys mind al' dohs worms from before? oi tink oi foun' wha they went!" They all turned to see many lights in the distance, a fortified hovel had been built in the southern corner of the cavern.

Emily began to laugh sinisterly, "Shall vee pay those fiends another visit?"

Violet’s brow furrowed as she tried to speak up, but in the end she just waved her arms frantically. Rozz looked over at the kirlia "Eh? What's up?"

The Kirlia grabbed Emily’s notebook out of fritz's hand and wrote, "This really seems like a bad idea, they know that we are here and will be expecting us."

"I guess she has a point" the zweilous nodded in unison.

Nick looked around the general area, "Oi nu Vi, but de guild did gie us dat other task. We won't git it done 'til we 'av a wee blather wi' wan av dohs worms." He then spotted something, "Say Doc does dat rock over dare luk a bit fierce strange ter yer?"

They noticed a large dark blue rock, sitting apart from the rest of the area. Emily carefully scratched the boulder before placing paw on her chin in contemplation. "Well it should, that rock there seems to be a larger version of the trap that got the construction crew."

Rozz studied the slightly concealed trap. Suddenly her eyes lit up. "What if...we lure the guy out?"

Nick shook his head, "Dat may work, but oi tink oi nu a much more direct approach. 'ow durable wud yer say yer are missy?"

Rozz shrugged, "Well, I can run pretty fast. Does that count?"

Nick raised an eyebrow, and turned to the pancham. He asked with a grin, "Kind av, and what about you Fritz?"

Fritz cracked his neck, "I am quite accustomed to pain sir."

His grin grew bigger, "Good." He gave Violet a quick nod, and she quickly turned and started running away attempting to drag the zwelious and cinccino with her.

Nick walked in front of the trap, and his wings spread wide. He took on a serious tone, "Gran' so den yer two grab onto me sides, an' whatever yer chucker, don't let go."

Rozz and Fritz did as they were told, and held onto Nick. Without warning, he jumped up and kicked off on the rock, causing it to explode into a torrent of bubbles flying all the way to the top of the cavern. Using the force of the blast Nick and his passengers soared forward. They whizzed across the cavern and straight through the front door of the building.

The three soared past the barboaches and made impact on a couch in the room they were hiding in. The wormy goons cried out, startled by their entrance, "INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT!"

Nick shook himself off and stood up, "Evenin' gents, can we have a word?"

Rozz jumped out from behind the couch and raised a finger high in the air, "Take this!"  The rocky floor nearby crumbled upward and formed a large ball of stone. Rozz then grasped it and flung it at the barboach mob, knocking all of them in every direction.

Fritz stood up and unsheathed his shadow claws. "I would suggest you follow their demands." The moment the goons could stand, most of them bolted for the door.

"Hold it right there!" the clefairy called out, making a following notion with her hand. The barboach that hadn't made it to the exit turned around to look at her.

Nick did a double take between the two, "huh."

Fritz lurched forward placing the claws dangerously close to the goon's face, "As we said earlier could we have a brief conversation?"

The barboach stammered, "Y-Y-YES! I'LL DO ANYTHING YOU ASK!"

Fritz's claws retracted "Good, Miss Rozz can you have him come with us, we need to gather the rest of our companions."

"Alrighty. You, come with us!" Rozz ushered the crony out the door, Fritz following suit.  Nick took his time to snuff out all the lights before joining the rest.

The four came back to find two particularly soggy pokémon waiting for them next to the crater. "You coulda warned us before doin' that..." Lennon and McCartney growled, looking in their direction, their fur flattened down by water - they didn't look very happy.

Emily parted her wet hair revealing a manic smile, "That was awesome!"

Nick laughed, " Me brutal, kind av a spur av de moment tin'." He looked around, "Have you guys seen Vi anywhere?"

All of the sudden an off sound rang out in everyone’s heads, "..elo.... safe... to come out?"

Nick laughed, "It's safe Vi, good to hear you again."

The kirlia slowly walked up, "Are you guys alright?"

"Yeah, we managed to get a hold of one of the goons," Rozz gestured towards the still cowering barboach.

Violet turned to nick and sent a private message, "Are we going to use him?" Nick confirmed by winking.

Nick did a kind of salute, "alright everyone, vi an' oi are gonna 'av a queck ward wi' our mucker 'ere, guild business yer nu? why don't yer start makin' our way back towards de dure. we'll catch up."

The others nodded, and proceeded to exit the room, leaving the Lionhearts alone with the barboach. But unknown to the Lionhearts a certain dragon decided to hide behind a rock and listen in.

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Nick placed a wing on the barboach’s back. He said with a smile, “So kid, you got a name?”

The barboach stuck out its tongue, “You can call me Peter if you wish. But, why should I even to be talking to you, you and your people are the ones who are trespassing on the lands of my lord and master!”

Violet walked over and knelt down until she was eye level with peter. Her purple eyes began to glow as she tried to enter his mind using psychic, “Well Peter, I’m Violet and this is Nick. Your lord and master Wussy, has caused a lot of problems for the people just trying to get their homes repaired.”

Nick took hold of the scruff of his neck, “Dare are a few people we represent who wud loike ter 'av a ward wi' 'imself. We are not 'ear ter scrap, we jist want ter set things straight. No one wants carnage here.”

Peter wheezed, “Well you certainly could have fooled us!”

Violet smiled, her eyes becoming even brighter, “We have a favour to ask, could you please go to where Wussy is and tell him that we are coming?”

Peter’s eyes seemed to glaze over slightly, “Whatever you say.”

Nick patted his head, “Be queck aboyt it an' yer jist might git a reward oyt av dis.” He lifted the fish up, and dusted him off. Nothing else was said as the barboach slithered off out of sight. Nick placed one of his wings on Vi’s shoulder, “Well, dat went much better than expected.” He looked around, “Do yer tink yer got enoof juice lef ter 'elp us catch up?

Violet smiled as she furrowed her brow, and the two vanished in one last flash of light. Off in the distance, the zweilous in the distance smiled.  "Well then, looks like they could handle themselves after all, eh?"

The other head replied, "indeed." They glanced over at the remaining Fleshcap the group had left behind. "We'd best take some of this while we're here."  They gathered up as much of the Fleshcap as they could carry on their back, and ran off towards the entrance.

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Part 4
Ignore the fact that Nick looks bigger than he really is (darn perspective shots U_U)
Anyways, time to kick ass!

Collab w/ Count-of-Dublin
The Teams:

Team Quarry
The Lionhearts
Mad Science!

The Dungeon: pmdunity.org/dungeon/view/2/12…