Hoenn Desert

-Silent hums as Louie explains his situation, looks around-

"So you ended up here 'somehow'..."

Dintel :<He probably walked from somewhere!>

-Ichtacya stares at Dintel for a long while. Silent only glares for a moment, then returns his attention to Louie-

"Eh, sorry for the lack of translation, it's..." -- shifty eyes -- "something science is still working on. Anyway..."

-walks closer, followed by Ichtacya-

"I'm Silent, this Leafeon here is Ichtacya and you already met Dintel." -- points to the Sandshrew.

-Ichtacya meanwhile walks up to Occult-

Ichtacya♀: <...So, hey there. What are you and your trainer doing here in the desert?>

Copahue♂ -from the birdcluster: <Uhm... does anyone have water?>

-to Louie-

"So, are you alone or in any trouble? Perhps we can help..."

Slateport  Center, A Certain Friday in January

-Shahinne stops for a moment, can he heard pacing around for a moment-

Shahinne: <Oooh, would "action" include giving me my food?> ^.^

-Python rolls his eyes and glares a very characteristic "told you so" at Molly. He still won't move from Maggie's bed tho.-

Hoenn Desert

Occult: ~Zombies up and grabbed us and carried us all the way out here!~

Louie: Yeah, tactile. I'm blind, so the best I have is interpreting and remembering patterns on walls and rocks and stuff. I ended up just following the rocks north from the Regirock ruins.

Hoenn Desert

"Hmmm, your Pokémon must do a good job then." -- looks at the Lunatone, then to Dintel -- "Those ruins... they were close to Dintel's home I think. Not a trivial distance."

Ichtacya♀: <...Zombies? Somehow we missed that. Good.> -- gulps.

-Harriet and Copahue looks around-

Harriet♀: <So... where did they go?>

-Silent also looks around, though for other reasons, and then starts scanning info on his Pokégear-

"Hmmm okay then getting you out of here. Where were you headed to originally?"

Hoenn Desert

"Sounds like Lavaridge or... Fallarbor."

-Copahue and Harriet chirp, the male noticeably uncomfortable about the matter-

Ichtacya♀ -looks around: <Well, we just got here from that direction more or less...>

Harriet♀: <You guys are still talking about an escort mission then...> -- nuzzles Shahinne.

Copahue♂: <Don't count with me...>

Ichtacya♀ -hopping around: <I want! I want!>

-Silent looks around for a moment then turns to his Pokémon-

"Plan is still going to check Dintel's place but there is no reason why he can't go ahead by himself and a couple of willing others..."

-Copahue raises a wing; Silent turns to Louie-

"...So I guess Ichtacya and I can guide you right to the ashen route. Is that okay?"

PEFE HQ

-Firuz picks his reports and documents and points to his Lairon-

Firuz: By all means let's do it before he gets any unfun ideas about the boss's furniture.

Lairon: <This security elevator, tell me where it is!>

Mawile♀: <Like you had one of these...> -- smugly flashes an ID card. It's... not hers.

PEFE HQ

-Mawile blinks, then looks at the ID-

Mawile♀: <B-b-but it's the best I could get for a pack of Salac Berries...> -- to Evangeline -- <Your human is perceptive...>

Firux: ...Hey, where did you get THAT from? -- crosses arms.

Mawile♀ -looks down: <Uh-uh... well I got it from look there Lairon's getting away!>

-She points to the door where the last of Lairon's tail can be seen as the Pokémon rushes away following Evangeline's instructions. Mawile, with faked eagerness, attempts to walk away following too-

PEFE HQ - ZOOM

-Lairon is now at the door of the security elevator, scratching and trying to reach the call button-

-Mawile is heading towards there as well, glacing in various directions, trying to avoid directly interacting with Polly or Firuz-

Firuz - reaches the elevator: Okay to the cavern floor we go then...

-presses the call button-

PEFE HQ, Descending Elevator

-Lairon nods and keeps his eyes well open-

-The elevator goes down to the cavern floors.-

Mawile♀ -in the corner: <I'm going to have a talk with that Zigzagoon...>

-The elevator may or may not make a stop during its trip to the bottom floors-

PEFE HQ, Descending Elevator

-The elevator door opens...-

-In effect the shaft is exclusive... to the personnel of the main PEFE offices...-

-A [Breloom] gets into the elevator, followed by a couple of grunt mons carrying boxes with books. He takes a look at the assorted mons, and stands at the corner-

Lairon♂: <...Sup.>

Grunt Machop: <...Sup.> -- waves.

????!Breloom♂ -to the elevator console: <Archives.>

-~ding~-

-The elevator closes, and it continues on its way...-

-One of the Machop shies at the gesture of Polly taking the book, and eyes the Breloom carefully. The  grass-type walks up to the stack of books and, keeping an eye on Polly, pulls it away with him back to the corner-

Mawile♀: <...What's with that?>

Bibliotecarian Breloom: <... We had asked for those books.> -- points to Polly -- <Not that one.>

-The Machop from before whistles, and the elevator continues its way until it reaches one of the lower floors, where the Breloom and his team prepare to get off-

-The Breloom team waves a goodbye until the next cameo, then they get off-

-After that the elevator moves on, continuing its way to the bottom facilities, this time with some refreshing, accompanying music-

-Finally, the elevator arrives to...-

The Bottom Floor

-(yes, I'm using a header at the end. Strike a dramatic chord now)-