[ Marowak's POV ]

Screams of suffering, sorrow, confusion, agony…

She shuddered to think of what was happening outside.

The gravestones broke apart as corpses of deceased pokemon shot up possessed by the pokemon ghastly haunters of Lavender Tower who desecrated the corpses of the Dead to defend themselves against Team Rocket.

It truly seemed like a scene from hell.

She was torn from her thoughts as another scream pierced the air.

She instantly recognized it as her son's wailing cry.

To the right, she could see him.

Her son was sprinting as he had done before. Due to their docile nature, the ghosts of the lavender Tower didn't bother them hence they lived in peace.

But the joy from before had been replaced by fear and panic.

She could see her son shaking, eyes wide as he scrambled away.

But the men were gaining on him, their own eyes narrowed and cold.

She moved before she could even think.

The screams were joined by those of the men as she slammed into the intruders.

A deafening crash resounded through the area as the men and pokemon were knocked back and to the ground.

As the slamming sounds ebbed, she was aware of her son whimpering and shaking.

He still stood behind her, but she knew that couldn't be for long.

If he was going to survive, then she had to make the message clear.

So she barked out an order, telling her son to run.

She knew that humans couldn't understand her words, but to her son, the message was obvious.

Her son took a few shaky steps before the steps turned into a sprint and he bolted away.

However, she did not watch him leave.

She could see the men getting up from the ground, despite being battered and bruised. She narrowed her eyes as she stared straight at them, weapon at the ready.

She wouldn't let them harm her son!

She couldn't let them harm her son!

Yet her gaze was met by the men's own cold fury, not even close to being diminished.

Suddenly, she could hear one of the men speaking. She couldn't understand human language but could tell from the snarling tone that the words sounded angry.

And then…

The man who had spoken ran up, fury blazing in his eyes. He held something in his hand, although she wasn't sure what. It looked like a square with a handle, but there was some long part in front, and around the area at the end.

He pointed the object at her, and she still narrowed her eyes.

No matter what, she would fight to the end!

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Austin meanwhile on the lower floors was rushing in with Munna and Pikachu beside him.

In his hands was a talisman that Brady and Grady had given him.

They said they would get help as the duo had run away towards a weird mansion in the distance.

Austin couldn't help but scream in his head.

' Fuck, why was the attack on Lavender Tower happening so early ?'

" Pika! " Pikachu shot a thunderbolt toward a figure running toward them.

The white bolt of lightning blasted toward the figure causing a smoke cloud to form.

From within the smoke cloud, something shot out towards Pikachu who had used Brick Break to deflect the object.

" Pika !"

Pikachu shot forward into the smoke with a quick attack.

" Cubone !"

The cry of the pokemon caused Austin to stop dead in his tracks as he immediately turned towards Munna who read the mind of her trainer as her eyes glowed with an ethereal red as a large light blue rectangle with light blue transparent walls appeared around the halls of Lavender. Then, the light blue glow fades, and the walls and ceiling become invisible.

Munna seemed to disappear as Austin took a deep breath while walking towards Pikachu who held up Cubone against the wall.

" Pikachu, Can you please let Cubone down ?"

" Pika ?"

While a little confused, Pikachu obliged as he let the lonely pokemon down.

Austin went on one knee as he looked at Cubone who had closed his eyes and was shaking.

Placing a hand on Cubone's head, Austin asked in an extremely warm tone," You are quite the brave one aren't you, facing the big bad Pikachu."

" Pika !" Pikachu looked at his trainer in surprise.

How am I the bad guy?

Cubone opened his eyes as he looked into Austin's eyes who were trying to ignore Pikachu's heated glare.

" Cubone, can I ask you a few questions ?"

While a little hesitant at first, Cubone nodded vigorously as he smelled a poke block that Austin handed him.

" Cubone, did the people attacking this place have a big red R on their clothing ?"

( ~ BANG ~ )

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Marowak registered a deafening, banging, sound.

She was alerted to a sudden, burning, pain in her shoulder, and felt as though something had penetrated there. She could feel a sticky substance dripping down.

Even though she didn't have to see it to figure out what it was it could have been a lot worse if the mysterious pokemon in front of her hadn't stepped in.

The team rocket grunt who fired the shot looked at Munna with intense curiosity.

Just what was this pokemon?

Munna's eyes glowed with blue light as the gun in the grunt's hand was crushed with the use of a Psychic.

( ~ Boom ~ )

The grunt howled in pain as his hand or what was left of it bled like crazy.

The scream of the grunt alerted everyone of Munna's presence as one of the team rocket's Umbreon charged towards Munna with Shadow Claw.

Munna disappeared and appeared above Umbreon with an orb of fairy aura in her mouth.

( ~ Boom ~ )

Umbreon crashed into the groundbreaking another tombstone.

The burning pain was rapidly overwhelming her, as her vision began to fade.

Executive Butch gritted his teeth.

First, he had to deal with these reanimated corpses that the Ghost pokemon were using the corpses of the deceased as marionettes and now there was that pink mysterious pokemon.

Could things get any worse?

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[ Lavender Tower - Sealed Room ]

At the bottom of Lavender Tower was a hidden room covered in hundreds of thousands of talismans.

One could see three distinct stone statues.

These stone masks were of three distinct pokemon from Unova.

All three statues showed simian Pokémons with oval, black eyes, large ears, and a tiny, black nose. Two of the statues had a broccoli-like sprout and one had a whorled tuft atop its head.

These three statues were of Pansage, Panpour, and Pansear.

These three pokemon represented the idea of speaking no evil, hearing no evil, and seeing no evil but these statues showed something completely different.

The Pansage statue had its mouth ripped out showing off its tongue as if it represented a different idea " speak of evil."

Pansear's ears showed a crimson lining as if it was bleeding blood. Pansear's statue showed the idea of hearing evil.

Panpour's statue's eyes looked horrifying as the Pokemon's eyelids were gone while its eyes popped out as if it was representing the idea of seeing evil.

Between these three cursed statues lay a dismembered sickly pale hand held by thousands of red strings.

Suddenly an ethereal aura began to exude out of this hand that held onto an old extremely old Pokeball that looked like it had been from the Hisuian region.

The Pokeball radiated a purplish-black aura.