Well despite her reaction thankfully the girl was alright, when she asks "why?" he doesn't have much of an answer. He doesn't even know if he needs one, but he decides to stay silent in favor of making the situation more awkward... as if that were possible. Once she gets her bearings that attitude of the girl's returns almost immediately the woman making note to shove the man off of her Azad himself offering no resistance. Why he'd had that momentary lapse in judgement or failed to come up with even a response for his actions the man couldn't say, but now with his personal space having been returned to him the researcher had too many words for the reckless and cruel girl settling with, "Yeah, you're welcome." While the girl had managed to stave off injury for now it was apparent he hadn't himself. attempting to push himself up a fiery pain shot up the man's leg the researcher's eyes widened in pain. Pushing too hard on the foot prior had finally come back and bitten him as anyone could have guessed. He wouldn't be getting up for a minute at least not until he'd treated the injury appropriately. He'd pull himself to a wall Metang floating low now to help the man up. While he didn't appreciate how weak he looked there was no alternative, and so the man would give the steel pokemon an order resigned to the pokemon's help now, "Psychic." and so a blue aura would lift the trainer carefully setting him atop the Metang using the golem pokemon as a sort of seat since the man could no longer walk.

It was as the man finally settled himself that he was able to view the situation fully spiritomb remaining on standby defending the trainer and the steel type from any mud shots that came their way. Eyes would flit to the stampeding rhyhorn whose steps continued to shake the offshoot of the mountain before moving toward the kabuto who played a support role and the Larvitar barely hanging on to the bucking ground type. Just as bossy as she usually was the woman would order the researcher to do his part the man himself would swear under his breath at simply how chaotic the situation had become and the woman's continued recklessness. If they'd come up with a plan the battle would be over by this point, or at least it would be closer and more controlled. Even so there'd be time to argue and scream later (hopefully) for now he'd deal with the situation in front of him.

"Feint attack. The man offered a classic start for the ghost type pokemon the spiritomb appearing directly behind the kabuto slamming into it at least momentarily stopping the mud shot. While he'd definitely handle his side of the battle with the continuous shaking of the cavern thanks to the rampage his partner was trying to settle the researcher was becoming increasingly worried about what was happening and what would happen to the cavern.

The Kabuto in response to a focused enemy would now attempt to drain the wisp's health green bubbles appearing from it's mouth sucking bits and pieces of energy from the ghost type pokemon dealing slight damage to fairly healthy keystone. Another stomp from the ground pokemon once again draws his attention to the secondary battle before his eyes flit back to the kabuto. "...Feint attack again." And so the ghost type becoming a little more hesitant itself would slam into the fossil pokemon a second time dealing a more than fair amount of damage. As the battle continued tho something odd would begin to happen around the ghost type an aura of black energy had begun to form around the wisp pokemon as the battle progressed.

The kabuto now severely weakened would fire a final mud shot blinding the dark type saving itself for a moment longer, or at least so it thought the dark aura that seemed to be surrounding the spiritomb would expand and discharge in a circular radius the energy striking the fossil pokemon down leaving it unconscious. Amidst the chaos Azad would pull his pokedex scanning his own pokemon attempting to understand what happened the pokedex revealing the ghost type over the course of the journey had learned dark pulse. With the rumbling continuing the man would reveal an empty pokeball tossing it over the unconscious rock type if only to protect it if or at this point when the cave crumbled. As the ball rang the Metang would use psychic to retrieve the pokeball while Azad turned to watch the ongoing battle between the Larvitar and the rhyhorn.

"Varsus, Aros I don't trust this. Both of you serve as a wall to keep us safe if the cave collapses. Watch the ceiling for falling rocks." Despite the ghost's weariness the pokemon would watch the ceiling as Aros placed the his trainer carefully against the side of a wall behind the battling trainer. "Stay calm, and win." The man would attempt to be at least slightly supportive with situation worsening. Despite the chaos he wouldn't interfere with the girl's battle far too injured to deal with a third fight not to mention his pokemon were currently busy with the many other issues.

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Attempting to catch Kabuto.

Vivian Valestein // Notes: sorry for the wait!