The Ghost Bear pack would make their way back to the Oracle Sea, flying to the coordinates of where their mission is. As they got closer the sky got darker and visibility started lowering as the weather began getting stormy but there is no rain falling, it's like their destination is shrouded by a heavy monsoon that is not moving from where it is. Now the question would be how would the Ghost Bears approach this?
"Should we just fly over and get down there?" Shia asked the moon piloting the ship.
Spark however, feels like that is not a good call. "I don't think so, Shia. signals about to break up, there might be jamming in place on whatever that is. Not to mention the chance of Anti-air weapons. Don't think we can just go flying blind into this one."
After thinking a little bit, Veera thinks she might see an option. "Perhaps, we could try to get in there by going underwater?"

"Ugh. swimming." Eilumi groans, and even Khaun cringes a little bit. Avali normally hate water, and in fact, without their nanites, it's quite deadly to them.  While Eilumi and his crew had, like most of his kind, overcome this deadly obstacle, swimming was still not something that he as an avali ever enjoyed having to do.
Sitting in a shallow pool of healing water on an Eden world was one thing, this was another.

Veera more or less expected that this would have been the reaction of her Avali packmates. She doesn't really blame them for it though, she is knowledgeable on why Avali would not want to be submerged in bodies of water. "Other ideas are welcome too."
"Fog's too thick to go in any further without possible risk, and jamming is preventing scan and radar from working." Spark says to his packmates as he makes their ship stop going forward and just hover in place for now. "So...what's the plan?"

Eilumi gives a frustrated sigh.
"I guess we do the swimming thing after all." He says with a heavy groan.

Spark would fly their ship closer to the water and leave it hovering there. "Alright, you guys can get down now. Just...be careful out there, okay?"
"It goes without saying but we should be careful in the water, Shia. You know, keep our electricity in check." The Jolteon says to her fellow electric-type packmate.
He nods to her. "Yeah, don't worry about it. Let's just keep close to each other, okay? If we won't have comms in there we don't want to be separated."
It would appear that it is now time for the Ghost Bear Pack to get their mission started, to go and investigate that mysterious island. Of course, first they will have to go swimming there, so they take a dive into the water to start making their way there.

The ghost bear pack checks their equipment, and equips their breath EPPS, those big heavy back items. While swimming is not something they like to do, it looks like they'll have no choice here but to do it.
"Okay, everyone ready?" Eilumi asks.

After getting ready they would swing towards the island, while getting through the windy sea would be a challenge their EPPS allowed them to avoid having to go through the stormy surface by simply diving under it. As they approach the island and surface once more, they would immediately see something on the beach, it looks like a sort of metallic barricade stretching from one side of the beach to the other, with visible machine gun emplacements in place facing the sea. It is possible to make out some figures moving back there too.
Seeing this prompts Shia to lower himself a little deeper into the water to try and avoid being seem, while motioning to his packmates to be careful raising their heads out of the water too far up. "We got company, straight ahead..."

Not good, but to be expected.
"Seems like these guys are a little better armed than the last bunch." Eilumi notes. "We'll have to find some way around, or some weak spot in the defenses."

Taking advantage of the fact that they could remain underwater to get closer to the beach undetected. Slightly poking their heads out of the water again they could have a better look at who seems to be patroling that post on the beach. Those individuals...don't seem to look like pokémon but they don't seem to be any species they know Either. They look like humans at first glance but they are practically white as snow. They seem to have firearms similar to that of the pirates the Ghost Bear Pack have encountered earlier and are dressed with flimsy armor.
Shia observes them, seeing possible gabs in their defense that they can probably exploit. "They don't look like they have eyes looking to the sea, if we remain low i think we could crawl over to their barrier so we can prepare to take them out."

"Pos that." Eilumi sends over PM. Shia's plan seems as good a plan as any right now. Khaun and Eilumi wonder what exactly these creatures are, but they certainly won't find out anything from here.

The Ghost Bears were able to crawl on the sand until they could get to the barrier, where they could hide more reliably by pressing themselves against it and remaining low. This also means they don't need to worry about machine gun emplacements anymore as they are too close for them to pose a threat now.
"...Haven't seem us yet somehow. These guards must be very lax." Shia communicates with PM before, carefully listening to what's going on the other side. While he did considered using his X-ray vision to get a visual he noticed that this barrier is made of thick metal, and the smell and looks of it, even copper. So he would have to carefully look up to get an accurate count of how many of these guys are there on this guard post. Question is though...could these be Pokémon and they just don't know it yet? It seems like the perfect moment for that new app they got to come in handy, so he uses it. When he did so though, it didn't reacted to these human-looking beings...but it did reacted to some things that were amongst them that he didn't noticed at first glance.
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Name: Pawniard#0624
Gender: 50%/50%
Type: Dark/Steel
Egg Group: Human-like
Weak to: FIGHTING, Ground, Fire
Immune to: Poison, psychic
Resistant to: Normal, Flying, Rock, Ghost, Steel, Grass, Ice, Dragon, Dark.
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He was able to count up to 5 of them until the app told him of the presence of those other ones, but when Shia went to count for those too he found out that he might have overstayed his welcome by spying over the barrier as he unfortunately gets spotted. "HEATHEN SCUM!" One of them shouts before the gunshots begin ringing out and the bullets begin flying Shia's way.
The Luxray was able to lower his head back into cover quickly, keeping himself cool and steady as the projectiles began flying over him and his pack. He prepares his gauss pistol and turns to the others. "Six at least, but I don't think there are more than ten!"
Veera grimaces slightly when the shooting starts and prepares her gauss rifle. "I guess that's much we can approach without a fight...we should take them out quickly, we don't know if there are more out there that might hear what's going on here!"

"Yes, let's take them out quickly." Eilumi agrees with Veera on this. He and the rest of the crew take aim with their gauss rifle, and return fire.

The ones that end up getting hit by gauss fire descent holes punched into them, easily killing them, the resulting holes the projectiles make when going out spraying out spores. The ones that are still alive visibly flinch seeing their comrades die but it doesn't stop them from shooting back.
However these armed foes aren't the only thing they need to worry about dealing with, the Pawniards made their move soon enough. Being around one foot tall at most, the small pokémon were able to remain below the Ghost Bear Pack's weapons fire before throwing themselves over the barrier and at them with no hesitation, taking full advantage of the fact that their bodies are almost like racks of rusted dagger to try to cut their enemies with.
Shia yelps in surprise and falls back as the pokémon gets in his face, out of reflex he uses his free hand to try to push it back...but his hand inadvertently ends up meeting one of the blades of the Pawniard's body, causing him to wince in pain. That wince became a pained yell when the Pokémon stabbed its two knife-hands into the Luxray's arm. "Get off of me!" He shouts angrily before whipping the Pawniard in the head with his Gauss pistol.
"Shia!" Veera couldn't help but take away her focus from the enemy in front of her when Shia got rushed like that, which gave another Pawniard the chance to come and throw themselves right at her. But she was able to see it coming and used her gauss rifle to guard against the incoming blades and easily pushed the much smaller pokémon off, knocking him to the ground before shooting him dead.
Another one of these Pawniard jump the barrier and also try to lunge at Khaun and Eilumi...
They have shooters trying to take shots at them while they are being rushed by knife-armed creatures hellbent on stabbing them, things might get a little complicated...And their enemies don't seem to care much about friendly fire as yet another Pawniard that was about to jump at them had the misfortune of being shot in the back.

Nine gets in front of the pair, using his metal clad body as a shield to stop the Pawinard's charge. Once blocked, he swats it out of the way with a large swipe of his arm.
"Shia!" Eilumi likewise makes a dash for Shia to check on him. Only Khaun Nine and Loona are continuing the fight, the former and latter carefully taking aim at targets while Nine lays down suppressing fire.

With the pawniard currently pinning him down and about to stab him again, Shia shoves the barrel of his gauss pistol against his face and shots. With a groan he throws the dead pokémon aside and looks at his arm for a moment...yup, that's some bleeding but it could be worse. "It's just a flesh wound, i will be okay!" He tells to his packmate before taking aim at his their enemies with his gun.
With their advantage of surprise all but gone, it was easy for the Pawniard to be gunned down in quick succession by the Ghost Bear Pack. Now all that's left are four more of those armed enemies, then three of them, then two of them... "CALL REINFORCEMENTS NOW!" One of the last two of them shouts to the other before he too is gunned down by the pack's weapons fire. And just like that there is just one of them standing now, and his gun clicks, a sign that it is empty of ammunition...but he hastily begins reaching for something he has strapped to his hip, something that looks like a pistol.
Whatever the plan is, it doesn't quite come to pass as Veera takes action, managing to shoot the enemy's arm off with a gauss rifle shot to the shoulder. The Jolteon considers running off to go check her packmate's wounds, but the enemy - injured as he may be after what she did to him - is still holding a gun so she keeps her gauss rifle trained on him.
What will the Ghost Bear Pack decide to do with this one?

With a sigh, Khaun takes aim at the disabled Pawniard with his own rifle, and fires, putting a bullet hole cleanly through his head.
Nine gives him an accusatory look, to which he simply looks at him and says,
"Look, it's clear he wasn't going to make it, and we don't have the time nor the means to patch him up. Besides, taking him along with us was out of the question anyway. Too high a risk of him running off or pulling a fast one on us. Better to just put him down quickly than to let him bleed out, right?"

With the area secured with no more hostiles standing, Veera runs over to help Shia with his wounds...only to notice how despite how he had blades stabbed into his arm, the cuts are at most superficial. "H-huh? You are not...bleeding?"
Shia looks at his arm, also just as surprised, he could have sworn those stabs hurt quite a bit but they didn't leave behind any lasting damage for apparently no reason. He tries to think about how this could be possible. He remembers some details from long ago. "How could this...be? They stabbed me in the arm, it hurt like hell." He flexes his arm and lets out a pained hiss. "Still kind of does..."
"Hmmm...if can hazard a guess, it's because they didn't used an actual iron weapon." The Jolteon tries to theorize here.
"I guess you are right..." He keeps moving arm, flexing it slightly to try to get the pain to go numb.
Well, her packmate isn't in any immediate danger like she once expected, but she rubs a thin layer of medical paste over his arm to make the pain stop. "I have been so used to things like resulting in severe wounds that it is slightly surreal to see it not being the case all of the sudden...never quite understood why Iron or things of that nature were the only sure-fire lethal weapon Pokémon have against each other."
With the pain in his arm soothed, Shia sighs and nods to her. "Yeah...come to think of it, we have barely used a lot of our moves, have we? Putting a bullet on someone feels somewhat faster and practical than just throwing lightning at them..."
With her packmate all but healed, Veera went to join the others in checking out this checkpoint they just cleared out. There is nothing much of note, perhaps some boxes of ammo, but most importantly there are fungus growing around the corners.
When she went to examine their fallen foes though, it was then that things began to start getting a little strange. The Pawniard all look familiar, and it goes without saying that those other strange beings with snow-white skin are not something she has even seen before. So, to know for sure what is up with them, Veera decides to take blood samples from the slain enemies so she can run some quick analysis with her pad just to be sure. As it turns out the Pawniards all look familiar because they are clones, the degeneration in their DNA implying that they are cloned quite a bit too. And these other ones that were shooting at them are essentially ambulatory fungal organisms, they have a 'triple helix' DNA pattern, with the third helix being that of a fungus symbiotically intertwined with them on a cellular level. "I'm...pretty sure these are not native to this world."

"Hmmm... Disturbing." Eilumi scratches his chin.
"Yeah. creepy." Loona chimes in. Khaun just nods.
"Well, not much to do here other than press forward I guess. Before they regroup we have to do all this again." Loona comments while looking onward.

As the ghost bear pack makes their way into the island, it quickly becomes apparent that there is something strange about this island. So far, the islands of this archipelago have consistently proven to have tropical forests, despite their changing nature they do match with what one would expect...This island however, seems to be a moorland. Instead of a landscape of trees, it's a hilly plain covered by scarce vegetation with some fungi. It is almost as if this is from another climate all together.
Their path remains clear however, as in the distance they can see what looks like a tornado that stretches up into the sky and spreads out, blocking the sky. There is no doubt that what's causing this unusual weather that is shielding the island from sight, might be the source of the jamming signal too.
Eventually they would see something to their right, it looks like an outpost, with more of those 'fungus-humans' and Pawniards milling about. There is a small bunker there, it's spilling spores into the air out of two vents in the front.
Shia gestures to it to let his packmates know to get down so they won't be so easily spotted by the enemies in that outpost. "There's more of those...gah, what we gonna call these 'fungus people' walking over there?"
Veera crouches next to the Luxray as she looks at the outpost, pondering. "Well...it stands to reason that our 'human allies' would probably know something about it."
"Yeah, true that...too bad we don't go here right now to shed some light on what exactly we are up against." If communications weren't jammed they probably could contact the Black Isle about this, but alas...

Loona sees the spores pouring out of the vents. "Should we put on some breath protection while we're here? I'm pretty sure that... whatever it is... isn't safe for us to breathe."

Veera looks to Loona and nod. "I would say that would be prudent, i'm not exactly sure what these spores are but they seem to have intent of spreading it, if the mushrooms we see around here are anything to go by." She says. "I will try to pick up some samples along the way." The area around them has mushrooms wherever they turn to look, so she won't have any difficulty getting something to analyze to discover something about these fungus.
Overall, this outpost isn't on their way, nor do they have much reason to engage it's defenders. So the Ghost Bear Pack can keep their heads down to avoid been seem by it's occupants and just continue on their way to the source of weather interference and jamming.
Along the way Veera analyzes the fungus in their surroundings. Most of them are either white or brown, are slightly toxic if ingested but nothing their nanites wouldn't be able to handle if it got in their system, but they aren't appetizing or filling. The silence would be disrupted by a scream from Veera as just as she was about to stick her paw in a bundle of fungus, a hand suddenly energy from it and gripped her wrist tightly.

Loona and the rest immediately drop what they are doing the minute Veera's scream fills the air.
"Veera!" Loona wastes no time, they rush over to her to see what's going on, their weapons drawn.

Veera wasn't far from the others, which is good as they found her simply by turning their attention to her the moment she screamed. The Jolteon tries to pull back her arm as she feels the hand around her wrist trying to pull her down, however it quickly becomes apparent that Veera's arm is being used as leverage for something to pull itself out of the ground. She watches in surprise and fear as another one of those 'fungal-humans' frees himself from the dirt, completely nude and showcasing it's completely featureless below the waist as it lacks a genitalia altogether.
The pale-skinned, bald humanoid covered in dirt looked up at the perplexed pokémon right in front of them before his expression became one of aggression. "HEATHEN SCUM!" He shouted before trying to use his own body to push Veera against the floor, intending to start attacking her there and then.
"VEERA!" Worried, Shia started running to assist her before she got hurt, he can't try to take a shot because Veera is right between him and this foe. He gets even more worried when he sees that the guy just managed to knock Veera down...
As surprised as she was by all of this, the Jolteon did manage to take some measures to defend herself, as she was going down she placed one of her feet paws on his chest and the moment her back hit the ground she stretched her leg forward with all her might. This results in the Jolteon turning his forward momentum he's trying to use to pin her down against him as her legs simultaneously pushing him up causes him to get thrown right off of her with one swift motion. Veera learned a thing or two about defending herself up close...her attacker not being exactly heavy helped this spur-of-the-moment maneuver of her's too.

Loona is almost on top of them when Veera manages to throw her attacker off. Her first action is to grab Veera's hand and help her to her feet. "Veera, you alright?!" She says in concern as she helps her packmate up.
The boys waste no time themselves. Following in the footsteps of Loona, the two avali turn their attention to her attacker once they see that Loona is taking care of Veera. They aim their rifles upon the offending not-floran and open fire, hoping to put it down before it gets another chance to retaliate.
What neither of them see is that another creature is watching them from cover, a small camera and headset attached to its head, as it acts as the eyes and ears of someone, somewhere. A little noise enters its earpiece, and the creature gives a confirmatory 'reeow' in return, abandoning its post and heading in a direction that is assumable back towards the base as fast as its two legs can take it, seemingly unnoticed by the Ghost Bears...

Veera whips out her gauss pistol as she is helped back up on her feet by Loona, she points to that 'not-floran', who she sees is already dealt with so she lowers her weapon. She dusts herself before looking at Loona and nodding. "Yeah, I'm fine. Don't worry."
"That was a pretty nice move you pulled there Veera." Shia says to her before sneering at the fallen enemy that attacked her. "What was up with that though? Did he just come out of the ground...?"
Veera ponders for a moment, trying to come up with a hypothesis to what just happened. "...Yes, he did, him being in the nude also seems to imply that he was just born." She says. "My guess is, this is why they are spreading these spores around."
"Hhmmm...yeah that would make sense. He seemingly came out of the ground already being able to speak and know who to attack though...He called us 'heathens' just like those ones on the beach." Shia finds all of that pretty weird, but he has seem weird stuff in his time as part of the Ghost Bears.
"Yeah I know...it's quite unusual but it did come out of the ground with enough knowledge to speak and recognize us as its enemy. That's probably as far as i can look into it as is, we probably need someone with the scientific know-how to have a look at these to tell us for certain."

"Something we most certainly can't do out here in the field." Khaun notes. "Still..."
He takes out a small vial, and scoops some of the 'blood' from the fungal-person into it.
"Least we can do is get a few samples to bring back." He adds.
"It almost looks like someone's going to have to firebomb the place after we're done." Eilumi remarks.

Their destination is just within sight, the source of the jamming and the obstructive weather seems to be that metal tower that looks like a giant turbine that is generating a tornado that stretches up to the sky and funnels the nearby clouds into covering the sky completely, it's also generating that strong jamming pulse that is preventing long range communications and shorting whatever Black Isle robots that got send to scout the island. At its base looks like there are some defenses set up, barricades, a few more of those bunkers. But there is the sound of gunfire coming from there already, it's very distant but it looks like someone's already engaging the enemy in the jamming/weather apparatus. But who could that be?
Shia pondered on how they would deal with this huge apparatus, their weapons probably wouldn't be able to do much at all...but then he remembers their ship. Spark had it get a fresh load of anti-armor rockets at the Black Isle. However, there is also the issue that the enemy has anti-air batteries on a small base some distance away to protect the apparatus from such an attack. If they just flew in here in their ship they probably would have gotten shot at by those AA guns, but if Spark knew he probably could do some maneuvers to avoid getting their ship damaged.
As it stands the Ghost Bears have two choices. They could deal with the AA guns to make sure their ship will be under no threat when it flies over to destroy the weather/jamming apparatus and pick them up. Or they could head straight for the apparatus to see if they could shut off its jamming so they can inform Spark that they need air support and let him know about the AA guns so he can prepare accordingly. Either way they will be going for that tower one way or another.

Eilumi, and the rest of the pack, quickly come to the agreement that there's no sense in putting Spark in unncessary danger.  So they decide to go for the AA guns first.
As they approach however, they quickly find that might not have been the best of ideas, as it seems the enemy has prepared accordingly for just such a move. Not only are there more of the usual Pawinards and Fungus-People, but also by something else. There are about two seperate machine gun nests on either side. Not very well set up ones, they just appear to be a regular 50 cal machine gun behind some sandbags. But what's really puzzling is the cat like creatures 'manning' the machine guns. On the surface it looks like some sort of mon. A cat like thing that has pink with a yellow belly. And had they not have had mons in their group that knew better, one might even think they were just regular mons.
But Loona, and the other mons in the group know better. This isn't a mon they've seen before by any stretch of the imagination.
"That ain't any sort of 'mon i've ever seen before.' Loona comments softly from their hiding spot amongst the bushes.
"Well, let's see what our pokedex says about it." Eilumi whispers. He targets the strange mon with the paldex and-
"W... What the hell?"
The Pokedex doesn't seem to be able to identify it either. And if Eilumi didn't know any better, he'd say the thing was broken.
First, it identifies it as such:
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Name: Mew#0151

Gender: 87@%/P*$%
Type: N01kP84@1
Egg Group: H@AM*$@^
Weak to: D458K
Immune to: $*4fgk7435
Resistant to: $&*!#&%&% *#*! (jfds 84 %* 818 # 48417hj
Description: *$!8371387frhsr8324y*4578 *85hjsdj* <ERROR> <ERROR> <ERROR>
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Then, without warning, it switches to another entry:
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Name:Zor#0570

G3n@p: *$*!4
T*3P: D*#!
W*!148 813jdks 547:
84kka: ak$9K83
R*#$dkan 03: JAN4384 @48%^ma
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Then before he can even process it, it switches to another one
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N2n4:#!81din0#0531

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It only stays there for a few seconds before it cycles back to the mew entry, then to the zorua entry, then to the audino entry, the other stats and info disappearing in a jungle of garbage character,. all while for the constantly cycling pictures and names, which cycles constantly between "MEW", "ZOR", and "DIN" As if trying desperately to figure out just what the flying fuck it's even looking at.

"Ugh! This thing is USELESS!" Eilumi shouts in frustration. Unfortunately, in the heat of the moment, he has quickly forgotten where exactly he is at. The... 'MewZorDins' quickly let out a feline 'reeow!' before they grab their machine guns and turn them towards where Eliumi and crew are hiding. The Ghost Bears barely get time to duck and cover before a flurry of machine gun bullets fly overhead. "Good going, stupid!" Khaun grumbles at Eliumi for giving their position away..
"Good going, stupid!" Khaun grumbles at Eliumi for giving their position away..

Shia dives behind cover with the others, it's a rock that is high enough to reasonably duck behind and thick enough to be largely impenetrable while it lasts against the incoming shots. "Whatever those things are, they sure know how to operate weaponry!"
"We might have to do something, we can't just let them suppress us here!" Veera says as she takes cover with her packmates.
As expected, as soon as the shooting started the 'Fungus-people' joined in on shooting at the Ghost Bears too, remaining in their advantageous position behind cover of their own. The Pawniards on the other hand...rush right out of the AA base and towards the Ghost Bears with the clear intend to stab them, their small size does help them not get hit by the crossfire but even then some of these suicidal stabbers are liable to go down to friendly fire.
The Luxray already figured the Pawniard clones might have tried to another suicidal charge that caught them off guard that one time, but since he was prepared this time Shia had his aerogel sword at the ready and simply skewered the first living knife rack that was lucky enough to not get hit by 50. cal bullets and submachine gun fire to try to jump over the Ghost Bear pack's cover.
Meanwhile, Eilumi get a bit of a intrusive massage covering his vision as the pokedex fails to get a read on those 'MewZorDins' and crashes.
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[About error report]
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Unfortunately, that message blocks part of his view, causing even more frustration in the already battle-panicked avali.
"Oh fucking great, I SO do not need this shit right now!!" He curses as he ducks further down in his cover. After some quick fumbling, he quickly selects 'Don't Report'.
He'll have to talk to the base humans later once he gets out of this. For now, he's got bigger problems to deal with. As soon as the box disappears, he narrowly avoids being stabbed by one of the Pawniards!
"ACK!" He screeches as he dodges just in time, the blade mere inches from his face. As the pawniard gets ready for another attack, a shot rings out and a bullet hole appears in between the eyes. He looks over to see Khaun with a drawn pistol still aimed at the pawninard, who now begins to slump over on Eilumi, avoided only by the latter kicking it in the chest to the left to force it to fall to the side.

Another Pawniard comes around the side to try to flank them, but Veera had her Gauss rifle at the ready and simply put a hole in the Pawniard's chest for trying. "That's another down! We need to do something about those heavy machine guns!"
"Hopefully that is the last of these suicidal flankers. Come on, we gotta shoot back before this cover gives out!" Shia braces himself and takes a breath before sticking his head out of cover to begin shooting back at the enemies that are bunkering down in the AA base.

Eilumi nod's as Shia's loud plea, and holds his rifle close. Luckily, a break presents itself, as one of the guns stops firing. It seems it's jammed, or the strange creature is reloading it, or changing out the barrels, or something. Not that it matters, a break is a break.
The avali quickly pops his head up out of cover, quickly takes aim at the strange... 'MewZorDin', and opens fire. A few shots miss their mark, and the strange feline not-mon reels in pain. Unfortunately, despite 4 shots going into it, it's not enough to put it down.
"Oh you gotta be KIDDING ME!" Eilumi shouts in anger and fires off a few more shots, two of them hitting their mark and finally causing the creature to reel back with a loud cry before its movements stop entirely. Before Eilumi can assess the situation further, the other gun opens fire upon him, forcing the avali to seek cover once more.

In that break Shia and Veera take the opportunity to shoot at the 'fungus people', taking some more of them out and further decreasing the number of guns being fired in their pack's direction. They had to duck quickly when the remaining 'MewZorDin' started opening fire with their heavy machine gun again though.
"How many are there left?!" Shia asks.
"Including that HMG, I think at the very least four of them, perhaps five!" Veera communicates to her fellow electric type packmate.

Nine meanwhile has had enough of this. While the heavy MG is more than enough to cause damage to his exo, his current armament is more than enough to deal with it.
"Eilumi, Loona, draw that HMG off of me for a few seconds. If you can do that, I can get in a shot and take it out, and hopefully the operator too."
Loona shoots him a thumbs up, and Eilumi shouts "Pos that!" Loona gets ready to break cover, as does Loona. The pair count up.
"One."
"Two."
"THREE!"
At that moment, Loona breaks cover, dashing with all of her speed over to a nearby rock. The HMG operator changes tact and tries to hit her as she runs. However, the Linoone is simply too fast, and she reaches the rock just a mere second before the MG fire would have caught up with her.
Eilumi then pops out of cover, spraying the area with his gun. The 'MewZorDin' pink and yellow cat creature takes cover from the suppressing fire, clearly caught off guard by this. It doesn't last long however, as it quickly regains its bravery and climbs back on the gun, turning it around back towards the now exposed Eilumi...
... Only to be completely oblivious to the real threat: Nine, whom, thanks to this action, has had ample time to likewise pop out of cover with his Anti-Tank railgun and take aim.  Before the cat can fire off another shot, Nine lets loose with it, the round leaving the railgun with a howl and screaming towards the gun encampment, hitting the next with a small blast. The gun next is completely destroyed, and its operator is thrown clear from it.
Before the pack can get a bead on the operator however, the fungus people have initiated their attack as the cat creature rises to its pudgy feet. For a moment it looks like it too will rush to attack, but a noise in its earpiece tells it otherwise. With a 'reeow', it quickly turns tail and its little legs carry it away from the scene to parts unknown, leaving the fungi to deal with the pack.

With those HMGs no longer spewing thick lead at a rapid rate at them, they could breath a little easier to deal with the remaining enemies. Without support from heavier guns the 'fungus people' weren't hard to mop up.
"I'm going in!" When enough of them were getting their focus set on Nines, Shia thought it was a good chance to advance on them. He ran out of cover and towards the AA base, jumping over the perimeter barricade with his aerogel sword held high before he brought it down to cut one of the enemies down, then he aimed his pistol at another one and shot it dead before it could react to the death of it's comrade.
There was another one that was Shia might have missed, he is to the side of the Luxray and has a clear shot of the Pokémon just standing there after slaying two of them. It would be simple to assume that Shia would be under threat here but he was sure that his pack had his back...and sure enough Veera was keeping watch from the back and covered her fellow pokémon packmate by gunning down the enemy that was about to shot him.

The two avali carefully poke their heads out from cover, to check and see if that was the last of them. Seeing that there wasn't any more of them in the immediate area, Loona and Eilumi quickly rejoin their pack.
"That could have gone smoother." Khaun grumbles.
"Eh... sorry?" Eilumi laughs nervously.  Khaun just shoots him a look.
"Well at any rate, we should move on-"
"-Just a moment." Nine's attempt to get them to move on is interrupted by Eilumi. "I want to take a look at that weird... 'MewZorDin'... thing."
"Hmm... I must admit, I'm rather curious myself." Loona adds. "Was just going to say the same." Khaun also agrees.
It seems the rest of the pack is also in agreement as they together saunter over cautiously to the downed creature, quickly reaching it.
Upon closer inspection, they can see why the pokedex kept cycling between those three mons in particular: It seems to have the basic body shape of a Zoura, right down to the head to body to leg ratios, yet its head shape indicates it's clearly a feline and not a canine, much like a mew. The coloration of its body also matches a mew, all pink, save for its stomach, which is the same dull yellow as that of an audino.
However, it also has some features that the aforementioned mons do not. On either side of its face, it sports two very large oversize whiskers. On the top of its head, it has a very large cowlick-like hair feature. Its tail also does not resemble any of the three mons, being large and curled. Loona swears she's seen that kind of a tail before, but is having trouble remembering what kind of mon had one like it.
Strangely, despite having been hit multiple times, there is no visible damage, and the creature's eyes are, instead of closed as one might expect, very large swirls. They make a quick scan of the creature to confirm it is indeed deceased, but the result is:
Status: Deceased? 
As if it's not quite sure if the creature is actually dead or just knocked out.

Had they not had the pokédex, Shia and Veera would have thought that this is just a pokémon they don't know but given how the Pokédex was advertise as a very thorough database on information regarding Pokémon, and every time they used it it never really failed to give them information with the exception of this time...so they can chalk it up to it being faulty software just like that.
Veera assesses this creature and the scan data of it. "It...it looks like a pokémon but it's really small. And the scan says that its DNA shows no signs of deterioration so unlike the Pawniard this one is not a clone." She says.
Is this feline alive or dead? This has Shia confused. "I saw it getting more than once and somehow it kept going...and even now I'm not quite sure it's dead." He then looks around for the other one, but it looks like there is only one cat lying on the floor here with the other one nowhere to be seen.
This mysterious creature aside...they still have the AA base to deal with. The batteries look to be automated as it doesn't look like they were made to be operated, but it is easy to see the glowing, orange mechanical parts on their rear that seem to be radiators, they are probably their most vulnerable part. Shoving a grenade there or having Nines shoot there with his anti-armor weapon should put these AA batteries out of commision for sure, there are three in total here.

Eilumi and the crew decide there's no need for Nine to waste his AA ammo on targets that they can just walk right up to however, as they might still need those for actual combat targets. So they simply pick the former option. Each one of them picks an AA gun, shoves a grenade near the vulnerable part, and runs away before the big explosion happens.

Three loud and big explosions later the AA base has been rendered useless and now Spark will have nothing to fear when he flies over here once they call him. With their business here done, it was time to make their way for their main objective...that machine generating the jamming pulse and keeping the weather locked.
Around it's base was more barricades and mounted machines gun but...no enemies to actually make use of them. When they got close they could see just why. There are more of those 'fungus people' and Pawniards lying dead on the floor, each and every one of them got a big hole through their faces that goes out the back of their heads. But there is also...something else, bigger bipedal figures covered in metal with a rotatory cannon for a arm and a huge shield for another. Though it's also lying on the floor with it's face shot off. A quick scan reveals that these aren't exactly just machines...but cyborgs, further investigation with the Pokedex has it reveal some information without glitching out.
Name: Ursaring##0217
Gender: 50%/50%
Type: Normal
Egg Group: Field
Weak to: Fighting
Immune to: Ghost
[WARNING: DNA DEGRADATION DETECTED]
[WARNING: UNSANCTIONED CYBERNETICS DETECTED]

This raises even more questions.
"Who did this?" Loona wonders to herself.
Khaun, taking a moment from his surveying from the scene, asks her:
"You mean the fact that they're dead, the cloning, the fungus people, or the cybernetics on this bear-thing?"
Loona, pauses for just a moment before simply answering:
"... Yes."
Khaun would make a comment, but he has to admit, it is a valid point.

They would certainly get their answer sooner than they realize. As they ventured towards their may objective and pass more dead would-be opposition. When they arrive at the base of the jamming tower proper they saw a figure sitting on top of another dead cybernetic 'bear thing'. This person stands out with that brown trench coat and cowboy hat, and just looking at their mostly-uncovered head it is possible to tell that they are some sort of glowing yellow energy being. This is a Novakid, and there is no mistaking that fact. He seems busy looking at what appears to be the control terminal of the jamming tower, but judging by how he is just sitting there with his arms crossed it looks more like he is watching TV on it.
Seeing this, Shia raises a brow and looks to his packmates. He is not the only one seeing this, right? "A Novakid? Here?" Doesn't look like they were noticed, so he is keeping his voice low right now.

"That is rather strange. Really strange." Eilumi whispers back.
"You think he's with the Reborn Illuminate? Mercenary maybe?" Khaun whispers.
"Unlikely." Eilumi returns. "Otherwise we would have been briefed on this."
"Well, what do we do?" Loona asks.

Veera looks on unsure of what to do...but someone will have to do something.
Shia slowly points his pistol to the Novakid and begins approaching carefully from behind. From this angle the Luxray can't quite see if this stranger's hands are anywhere near a weapon and turning on X-ray vision wouldn't be fast enough so he will try to hold him at gun point. "Don't move, Novakid! Put your hands where i can see them! No sudden movements now..."
He definitively heard that. "...Huh." He slowly raised his hands just as Shia asked. He then looked back and saw who it is that just snuck up on him, revealing he has an 'Omega' symbol on his otherwise featureless face. "...Well, the first thing out of yer mouth wasn't denouncing me as a 'heathen' like the fine people of this here place seem to enjoy doing, soooo it's a slight bit refreshing!"
As long as those hands are not reaching for any handguns or the sort Shia will relax a little bit and get closer. "What are you doing here?"
"Oh ya know...just hang around, what about ya?" He watches as the Luxray is thoroughly unamused by him blatantly dodging the question. "Look I was just watching some quality drama here...ya missed the best part, the uglies were shouting at each other like for quite a bit but now it looks like we are getting to another interesting part..." He said as he pointed at the terminal screen, where there is imagery of what appears to be a security camera's point of view somewhere.
On the screen they see what looks like some sort of meeting room, big impressive black metalic table in the middle, room almost dark save for the center...and there is a familiar-looking Samurott pirate sitting at one of the chairs, the other pokémon present are a Passimian and a Nidoking.
And then someone else enters the meeting, first coming out of the darkness and into the light appears to be a Arbok with eyes that have a golden glow to them, but then the rest of its 'body' steps out, revealing that the instead of it's body ending at a tail, instead it looks like the serpent got attached to headless human body, and it's held together by a thick, metallic color-like contraption around the neck with a red crystal keeping the two different bodies together like nail going through them judging by how it was each end poking out through the front and back respectively. Everyone present is understandably unnerved by the humanoid body with an entire snake for a head. "Well then, i am glad you all could make it." He speaks with smug confidence as he looks at everyone's presence.
"Wait...that voice..." Shia was quick to pick up on it, the audio coming through the terminal speaker making it sounds very familiar to a voice he heard before..."This is the guy who was taunting us through that freaky lab's intercom yesterday!"

"Wait, wha?" Eilumi can harldy believe it. The freaky science guy that was shouting at them... was a Mon of all things? The rest of the pack is similarly in disbelief.

If he can even be considered a 'pokémon' with a body like that to begin with.
"Judging by what yer saying i reckon' you know this one?" The Novakid asks them.
It looks like this...person talking with the supposedly three pirate captains present in the meeting must be one of the Novel leadership, he sure looks the part with that outfit that wouldn't be too out of place on an Miniknog military officer. "Now, i am aware that you all must be wondering why i called you here...but you must know that our little plan to help you is running into a few complications."
The Samurott pirate slams his fists on the table, looks like he is going to vent some displeasure at the Novel. "You say that after giving us those poor excuses for weapons?! My crew went up against a few of those 'illuminate' and they had similar 'guns' that were far better than ours! I lost some good pokémon back there because of this!"
The snake-headed Novel doesn't seem amused by this complaint. "Let me assure you, you were up against more than 'a few' of those illuminate, and the weaponry that was provided for should have more than have gotten the job done if you were making smarter use of them...At least you brought us more than one ship, including yours. If you think the guns we gave you are 'weak', wait until you see what can be mounted on ships. You will have enough firepower to bring that so called 'Anchor' to its knees without setting foot on Amber~"

At that moment, another creature, one the group cannot identify, comes on screen. At first glance, one might be forgiven for thinking it's a shinx were it a long enough distance away, its basic body shape and color scheme seem close enough for it to pass for one, even down to the black 'cuff' around its neck.  However, there are very notable differences that immediately give it away as another one of those ... 'not-mons', like the 'mewzordin' from earlier. Its ears, instead of the large mouse-like ears that a shinx would have, it instead sports short, floppy ears with purple tips at the end of them. While it too sports the 'hair spike' of a shinx, it's likewise purpled colored, both in contrast to the rest of its body. It also seems to lack the 'pants' of a shinx. Finally, its tail is very much unlike a shinx, it's black colored like one, but that's where the similarities end, as its shape is far more bushy. It also lacks the 'star' at the end of it, or any of a shinx's 'rings'.
Its face is a perpetual angry frown, and it's clear that this thing does not want to be here. Or anywhere else for that matter.

In its paw it holds a large tray of assorted refreshments and food items. It shuffles to the table very slowly, as if trying to delay its arrival as much as it can, or it's simply unmotivated to move any faster.
"Ugh, no wonder why the refreshments are late." One of the mons at the table complains. "Is this some sort of joke? Having a friggin' depresso of all things as a waiter?"
In response to this insult, the 'depresso', as it was called, slowly looks over to the mon, and complains in an unintelligible garble in protest, all while retaining its grouchy expression.
"Ah shaddap and give me my drinks already ya little shit." The mon fires back. The depresso says nothing and as it reaches the table, it unenthusiastically serves up its master's drinks, placing each one in front of the guests and putting the food basket in the middle of the table.
"That's better. Now git outta here." The gruff mon orders. In response, the 'depresso' turns to leave, slowly shuffling on its two feet and looking at the floor in what seems like a perpetual depression, like a toddler that has just been sent to its room. Apparently this is not fast enough for the samurott, who turns in his chair, and kicks the little creature as hard as he can in its rear, sending the poor thing flying off camera as it yells in its wordless cry, the action getting a few chuckles from the pirate's fellows at the table.

Shia and Veera feel very sorry for the treatment that 'Depresso' is being subjected to, they are unsure if the name 'Depresso' is supposed to be it's actual name or some demeaning term, but who wouldn't be depressed if they were made to work for such abussive people? Shia in particular feels more sympathetic towards the poor thing as it reminds him of the time when Rai had an iron grip on him and would have been all too happy to use his abuse to try and mold Shia into a 'mon that as vile as he was.
The Novel boss does not seem to care much about what happened to the Depresso, he just seems slightly displeased that the pokémon he is having a meeting with have gone slightly off-topic.
"These Pokémon you have around look cute, i do admire your Pokémon of Iron but they don't look like they have any soft holes..." The Nidoking pirate speaks, making it clear what he is most interested in. Though judging by what he is saying he must be oblivious to the fact that the Depresso is not a 'mon "I would like to have it for my own pleasure...hehe~"
"No, you can't have any of them." The snake head said, trying to sound like he is not annoyed. "But i understand you are mon of 'desire', so listen to me and we will work something out, yes?~"
He seems to ponder for a moment and then nods. "If mean you gonna give me some attractive mons to play with, i'm listening then!~"
"Gooood...goood. Now, allow me to explain the situation. Your way of life is in jeopardy, the Illuminate have been hunting you pirates down in preparation for their own takeover of the island of Anchor, and you fine pokémon are the ones that heard our call and saved yourselves for a grisly fate of being made examples by those invading monsters."
As the Ghost Bears might probably pick up on, this explanation might sound a little iffy given what they know. The Reborn Illuminate probably wouldn't be taking such a direct approach at hunting down pirates unless they absolutely have, nor are they planning to take over Amber.
The Novel continues. "So, I am afraid we must consider any other pirate captain you knew dead as of now...but we saved most of their crews."
"So what the fuck do we do now then?!" The monkey pirate exclaimed. "If the seas are becoming THAT dangerous for us pirates, is there anything we can even do...?"
It was like he was expecting a question like this, with the desperation he was looking for so he could tell them words they want to hear. "Oh I will tell you can do...you all turned into pirates to survive, right? Well it's time you do more than survive...you are going to thrive. With our help Ember will be yours to do whatever you want...you will have the chance to be truly free to make the seas of this world your own. Sure you must understand that Anchor is the center of commerce where many ships pass through, when that becomes yours...the Lands of Snow, Sand and Grove will have to bend the knee to your new management. Doesn't that sound grand?~"
"...I suppose it does, but...are you sure this will work? The town of Amber has walls, big ones..." The Samurott says, sounding a bit skeptical about this huge plan the snake head is going on about...
"True...that's why you will be able to do what the Wall Breakers could not, you will tear down their wall! Your ships will be equipped with large weapons capable of punching huge holes in such walls easily, all you need to do is shoot it enough~"

"They're going to attack Amber, directly?!" Khaun says in disbelief. "I mean I probably should have seen that coming, but still..."
Nine notices Shia and Veera's discontent concerning the 'depresso' from earlier, he plans to talk to them about it later. But for now, there's more pressing matters.
"Uh, hey, novakid guy, this thing isn't two-way, is it?" Eilumi feels the need to ask.

"Noooope, it's one way, so they can't hear us if that's what yer asking." The Novakid says before getting from his seat to just...try to walk away. "Oh well, i have seem enough personally, so if you folk wanna keep watching that that's fiiine by me..." He stops in his tracks when he heard the sound of a gun cocking, courtesy of Shia aiming his gun on him again.
Did this guy had the audacity to think that they would let him walk away just like that? The Luxray ain't gonna have any of that. "You still owe us question, don't go trying to squeeze your way out of this, Novakid." He tells him.
On the terminal's screen the meeting continues to play out.
"So, now that we are getting somewhere, how about we talk about how we can reward for accepting to work with me to give the Oracle Sea the...revolution it deserves yes? We can provide you with more than just weaponry you know? Just name anything~" The Novel says to the three pirates present.
"I want to become a Mon of Iron like these other ones you have, would that be possible...?" The Samurrot asks him.
"Yessssss, of course!~ It IS more than possible if you are willing to part with your...flesh~" He stares into the pirates eyes with those glowing golden orbs he has in each of his eye sockets as he lets out a sinister chuckle.
The pokémon looks...a little unsure now with the response he got. "...Will it make me stronger? Will i become as strong and everlasting as Iron itself if i go through with this?"
"But of course, you just need to be brave enough to go through it...Iron is mighty, it shaped your world after all. So it's only logical that becoming iron means having ultimate might. Will you grasp at this opportunity?~"
"...Yes."
"Goood! goood!" The Novel then turns his attention to the Nidoking, looking at him expectantly. "Now what about you? What would you want? What is it that you...desire?~"
"I suppose I would like to be stronger too, but I also want holes to fill, I don't care if they are male or female~" The poison type responded to him.
He looks like he is sort of struggling not to look disappointed with that very basic, simply carnal desire that this pokémon has. Such a lack of ambition..."Of course of course...Perhaps i can even interest you in another interesting 'job' down the line, yes?~" Now his attention goes to the Passimian, who is hoping has a more exciting desire.
The simian pirate however, doesn't seem very enthusiastic about any of this despite all of the promise. "I...i don't think this is going to work, i'm just gonna...back away from this."
This...was not the response he was expecting, at all. The Snake-head looks very displeased, the other two pirates are giving him very judgmental looks too. "What...?"

"Yeah, I'd have to say your presence here is a little but sus." Eilumi comments on the Novakid, adding onto what Shia just said.
Nine moves to block the Novakid's exit. At this point, the group is paying very little attention to what's going on the screen. Especially since they just had it confirmed that they don't need to worry about the other side picking up on what's going on over here.

The Nova kid shakes his head dismissively and sighs. "Yer lot are really makin' me work, y'all know?" He said that, sounding very annoyed as he watched Nine move up in front of him. His hand reaches in a pocket in his coat.
At this point Shia is getting more than a little annoyed with him brazenly reaching for his pockets like that. "Stop!" He holds his gun higher, making absolutely sure he is pointing at his center of mass so he doesn't get away with making any sudden movements. "Hand out of the pocket...NOW damn it! You are testing my goddamn patience, tell me who you are already!" Even Veera seems to be feeling quite tense about what might happen next...
"...Alright, i get it, you don't have to throw a hissy fit like that, geesh...my name's Staedus" His hand slowly raises comes out of his pocket...and he is holding strange seeds between his fingers. "I'm just getting a bite to eat. Y'all have a problem with that or...?"
So that's his name, Staedus...Shia acknowledges it but it doesn't look like he is going to take any more crap from this guy now. "Staedus, huh?"
On the meeting room, an argument begins. "What do you mean you are 'backing' away! I am giving you the opportunity of a lifetime here!" The Novel boss protests, sounding like he is holding back quite a bit anger at the 'mon who is suddenly having second thoughts about this. "Think this over...be rational. If you win, you will be on top of the world with your three fellow captains!"
"I...don't think we will be able to take Amber. Even with all we have, who can say if those 'Illuminate' won't surprise us and kill us while we are doing it?!" The primate pirate argues for the snake-headed abomination of human and mon and his fellow. "The safest thing to do here is to back away..."
The other two captains don't seem all that happy about this.
"Of all the times to be a coward, you choose now? Are you really going to just walk away from such a good opportunity?" The Samurott admonishes him.
Meanwhile the Nidoking gives a simpler and vulgar response to add to what the water type just say. "Yeah, don't be a fucking pussy!"
"This doesn't smell right at all, I can't take this risk...I don't care if I need to give up everything and sail to the Lands of Snow with my crew to escape from this 'Illuminate' that is hunting us down..." He would then get up to leave...
But the Novel will have none of it. His golden eyes proceed to glow even brighter, generating a menacing hum before two beams of yellow light shoot from his eyes straight into the pokémon, hitting him in the chest. This turns the Passimian into a stone statue in a matter of seconds, his facial expression locked into that of surprise at being attacked...he probably did not have time to tell what was happening. The two other pirate captains are shocked from having witnessed this; they watch as the Novel maintains his 'petrifying gaze' on the primate for a few more moments before stopping.
Back with the Ghost Bears, Shia and Veera were focused on Staedus, but as soon as they heard that sound coming from what's being displayed on the terminal they turned their attention to it to see one the pirates being turned to stoned...they were not expecting that...

So... what exactly is your deal here?" Eilumi questions before the petrification.
"Yeah, it's obvious you're not with these assholes." Loona adds in.
"Am... I the only one still paying attention to the screens?" Khaun asks himself.
"Pretty much." Eilumi answers back, while still not breaking his concentration on Staedus.
---
On the screen, as the other pirates stare in shock, the 'depresso' from before returns, rushing in faster than it did when it was serving drinks. It looks at it's 'boss' expectantly, as if awaiting commands on what to do with this statue he'd just created.

"...i ain't gettin' paid enough for this." The Novakid groans in utter annoyance, finally relenting on giving them some answers if nothing else. "I came here to see what them 'Novels' are all about. I take it y'all here for the same reason?"
---
He looks at the statue with utter disdain. "Depresso, destroy this. He's not even good for decor..." He sounds like he doesn't really care what happens to the petrified mon, really.
The Samurott looks at the snake-headed being who is still very much annoyed, so he will be a little careful here. "...What about his crew? They aren't going to be happy about this."
"Worry not, worry not...We shall still have their help." He said as he got up from his chair. "That will be all, you will be making a move on Amber later today so go tell your crews about it..." And with that he walks off screen into the darkness, his footsteps being less and less audible.
The Samurott and Nidoking look at each other before looking at the Passimian who has turned to stone.
---
"Right then...so you are here because of these assholes too." Shia will then ask another question, this one being more direct. "Tell me who you work for."
"Now that's just making it difficult for me, isn't it? I mean i'm supposed to keep that hush-hush and you're wanting me to tell you." Staedus says as he holds one of the seeds close to his own face.
"Just. Answer. The Question." If the Luxray has to keep getting serious to get what he wants, he will...
The seed disappears when pressed against the Novakid's face, around where a 'mouth' should be, and he is making sounds like he is chewing it. "You can probably take a guess and hit the mark. Anyways.......see ya." Right after he said those last two words he vanished in a white flash, as if he teleported...but it doesn't look like he beamed up to a ship as the effects of the jamming would have made that impossible.
Still...Shia is surprised and quite angry that he got away, and he's not even sure how! "What?! Where did he...?!"

On the screen, the depresso wordlessly grabs the statue's leg. The statue topples over as it pulls it away, breaking its arm. The depresso doesn't even care about the fact that it's sliding along the floor and breaking off tiny bits of rocks and pebbles.
---
"Shit, he teleported out!" Loona shouts
"How'd he do that inside of a building?!" Eilumi asks no one in particular.
"I don't know, that shouldn't even be possible." Nine adds in.
Meanwhile, Khaun, who wasn't even paying that much attention to the Novakid in the first place, says nothing.
"I wonder if we can use this to see other parts of the building?" He utters to himself, since it looks like the meeting depicted on them is about to conclude anyway.

One has to wonder if it must have been whatever the Novakid ate that allowed him to teleport...but they won't get their answers now.
With a frustrated sigh at the fact Staedus got away, Shia goes to check the terminal. Seems Veera is trying to finick with it already though.
The Jolteon is slightly confused on how to operate this...it doesn't have a keyboard, and it sure as hell doesn't have connection to nanites, but she discovered that it's touch screen when she pokes at it.
The screen seems to change to the point of view of other cameras, but it doesn't show anything particularly interesting. There are metalic hallways, some Depressos and 'MewZorDins' walking by. One of the cameras show some sort of dry dock where the pirates' ships seem to be getting 'upgraded' by having big weapons like cannons on the broadsides and armor attached to th hulls.
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Somewhere else...
There is a brief flash a familiar Novakid reappears somewhere else far away from where he previously was. "Phew...that was close, these local seeds come in handy. If only these 'Novels' had not wasted most of my ammo..."
Before he can make a move though, he notices that he was left right infront of an outpost, and the 'fungus people' in there can very much see him. "HEATHEN SCUM!!" Doesn't take long for the bullets to start flying his way.
"...Dagnabbit!"

"Anything else on this thing?" Eilumi wonders Veera shifts through the television screens. "Like, files or something?"

"I'm trying but i'm not sure how to close up this window with the cameras." The Jolteon is eventually able to do so by clicking a small 'x' in the upper right corner, this immediately reveals another window, with another smaller window in front of it.
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[Download Complete]

Perhaps the Novakid must have downloaded something while he was here, but what was it? Well...closing this window lets them fully see another window.
Sands Region: Failed to establish proper foothold due to considerable resistance.
PENANCE FOR FAILURE: 100 LIVE SACRIFICES TO THE ARCHONS

Sea Region: Corruptor crystal experiment laboratory established successfully, but Xeno interference caused experimentation to be insufficient. Calculating possible new laboratory location to continue corruptor crystals experiments...
Contact established with Sea outlaws, allegiance secured, preparing to launch an assault against Xeno island base in tandem with sea outlaws' attack against Island known as Anchor.

Snow Region: Establishing a facility to test promising mind control methods on locals for possible mass production.

Grove Region: Establishing Breeding facility to bolster number of Pals and create viable Pokémon test subjects for Pokémon essence condensing. Promising Pal splicing and Pokémon splicing potential.
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Looking at the info on the screen, Shia hazards a guess that they found some information worth keeping in mind to share with those in the Black Isle. "I guess we got something here..."

"Definitely. Let's see what else if anything else we got on here..."

Veera pokes and swipes at the screen, but it doesn't look like this goes anywhere else, it shows less relevant information like supply lines around this island and patrol routes, things that wouldn't be useful to them now or later. "Nope...i guess that's all."

"Huh. Well, let's call in Sparks to finish up here now that the AA is down, and hopefully get back to Black Isle before these... 'Novel' guys, or whatever, try to hit it and Amber." Eilumi commands.

"Hopefully this terminal shuts it off." Veera finds finnicks with it a little more and finds an option to cause it to reboot, there seems to be no option to shut it down outright. But...this isn't exactly a big obstacle. "I can make it reboot, might make the jamming stop enough for us to have a good window to contact Spark. And....there."
The Jamming indeed does stop and comms are restored, Shia wastes no time in telling Spark the situation. _"Hey Spark, kept you waiting huh? I don't know how long we have until the jammer reboots, so I want you to fly to our position and take it out with the ship's weaponry, you had a fresh supply of rockets loaded in, yeah? Just shoot some of them at a tower and then pick us up."_
The Raichu would respond quickly, he must have been waiting anxiously for them. _"Pos that, will fly over as fast i can, make sure you guys are nowhere near this 'tower' that i'm gonna demolish."_

"Well, we better get outta here before the fireworks start." Eilumi notes. He gets nods from the rest of the pack, who quickly vacate the area to a safe distance before Sparks brings down the hammer on this base and everything in it.

The Ghost Bear pack makes sure to step a good distance away from there, outside the perimeter barricade around the tower even. They would just need to sit down and wait for a moment before their dropship does a fly by and fires some rockets at a critical part of the tower, causing a section of it to explode and it all comes falling down spectacularly. The weather will fully normalize in due time and the jamming has been completely stopped, there is no way the Novel will be able to keep this island hidden anymore so the Ghost Bear Pack's job here is done. With the AA guns down Spark just had to fly back to beam them back up unto the ship, they were gone before the enemy figured out what actually just had happened to their asset.
"Alright, that's our mission complete, we should report to the Black Isle as soon as possible." Shia says.

"Yeah. We've got a lot of things to talk about there."
Questions mount in the pack's collective mind. What was up with those fungus people? Who was that Novakid person? What was up with those 'Not-Mons' like the 'MewZorDin' or the 'Depresso' they saw on screen? Where did those come from? And who or what is 'The Novel'?