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"Where will we be sleeping?" Cabot asked quietly.

After the machine was destroyed Cabot tried to calm himself down, his scales eventually turning back to normal. He looked around the group and sighed, carefully avoiding eye contact with Nip, Celeste, or anyone else. They'd managed to win another fight... but that was the only positive thing...

Cabot briefly paused. Did Nip seem genuinely upset over what he said...? No. Of course he wasn't! He's obviously just pretending to try and trick him and save his own hide! "Don't give me that garbage! You never saw me as a friend! You just thought I was some naive idiot you could use to try...

Cabot uses Strike III on the machine.

Cabot's eyes widened as the machine fired the beam at him. With no time to dodge, he reflexively threw up his arms in an attempt to shield himself. "Agh!" Cabot fell to his knees and clutched his head after the beam struck him. Shadowy haze began to rise up from the Cranidos as his scales...

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Cabot shifted his gaze from the giant sphere to the horde of Pokémon on the top of the hill, his eyes widening as he began to realize just how many there were. "Those... Those are a lot of infected Pokémon..."

"Where... is everyone?" Cabot asked, cautiously approaching one of the buildings to try and peer inside.

"Yeah, when we found out you guys aren't actually named after different types of food. I asked why Diyem translated your names like that and he got mad over it and just started yelling at me out of the blue," Cabot explained. "I know it was all said telepathically, but I thought you had picked...

"I mean, I don't have any issues with Diyem. He's my friend!" Cabot insisted. "Yeah, there was that moment at the square when you first gave us our badges, but he apologized for that and we talked it out, so it's all good now."

"Uh... I think so?" Cabot replied, scratching his cheek as he gave Dialga a wary look. "But we're safe with you guys around, so that shouldn't be that big of a deal, right?"

Cabot's face fell. "Wait, does that mean we came here for nothing?"

Cabot tilted his head curiously. "What do you need us to do exactly?"

"Er... well it's nice to meet you," Cabot said as he stepped forward, giving the two Legendaries a small wave. "I'm Cabot, and we're with Diyem like Maple said."

"Should... someone stop them?" Cabot hesitantly asked.

"Hey there!" Cabot greeted, waving at Icetales. "I'm doing pretty good! We're about to head out some place called 'The Hidden Land'." The Cranidos paused as Maple seemed to be unable to open up a portal to the Hidden Land, tilting his head a little when she finally succeeded and mentioned it...

"Ah, well it sounds like a pretty interesting place and I certainly wouldn't mind meeting Dialga!" Cabot cheered. "I'm ready to go if everyone else is."

"The Hidden Land?" Cabot asked. "What sort of place is that exactly? ... Aside from it being hidden, I mean."

Cabot wagged his tail. Small victories. That works for me! I promise I'll keep in mind what you said as well then. With that, the Cranidos turned back around and started making his way back to town. <><><>

... If I say 'okay', will you be cautiously optimistic that we can stop that from happening? Cabot gave a disarming smile, even though he didn't expect Diyem would be able to sense that.