"Feel free to thank me later," What was that supposed to mean? Thank her for what exactly? Shawn stared at the girl for a good few moments, more like glared, trying to work out if she was pulling his chain or not when the excitable boy from earlier chimed in. “Huh? Of course it didn’t come off on its own. That sleepy-eyed girl from Borya Town used her psychic powers to knock it down.” "Oh is THAT all?" Shawn said. "Just your casual every day occurrence right?" Shawn said then muttered under her breath, "this place is loony." “She isn’t reading our minds though. At least as far as I can tell. She didn’t react when I thought about my underwear.” "Wha...why're you trying to get her to react to your underwear in the first place?" Shawn couldn't believe what he was hearing. Was this kind of thing normal for people of this region? He supposed it could make sense. After all they didn't really have contact with the outside world so there was no telling what kind of strange behaviors are normal here. ...Which made him even more leery about going into the warehouse. Who knew what kind of mad things they might find inside it. As more of the remaining people began to make their way inside Shawn found himself at an impasse. Sure he didn't know what was in the warehouse, he wasn't afraid of the dark or anything of course just logically it made sense to be worried about something so unknown, but realistically he also didn't know much about the city itself. For all he knew there could be people who roamed these parts and kidnapped people in the middle of storms. Ultimately he decided to follow the majority and went into the darkness and for the first time in hours out of the rain. Which of course only made him more aware of how wet he was. "Bloody cold innit..." He groaned. He paused as the girl who had crash landed on him began to talk to the darkness. What....exactly did she expect to respond? Was this place haunted? Or maybe they had just stumbled into the hideout of some Rocket-like gang? The moment passed pretty quickly but it was enough to make Shawn feel even more nervous about standing around there. "That's not important right now, though. It's time for introductions! I'll go first. My name is Anna, and I'm Professor Appel's assistant. I volunteered to substitute for him today to meet you all and ask you for a favor on his behalf. He's been pretty busy at the lab, so it worked out okay, I think. Weeded out some of the less worthy."  Shawn groaned again and rolled his eyes. "Yeah I can really feel the worthiness of this group." It sounded like they were expected to introduce themselves. Which, okay, sure, if they were going to be stuck in this place it'd be good to have names he supposed. That Nikolaos guy started to brag about his flashlight and Shawn held himself back from telling him a lantern would have helped a lot better if they wanted to actually see what was in the warehouse more than a straight line. The only reason he didn't was....he might need Nikolaos and that flashlight later. Still it didn't really make him any more comfortable standing around in the dark surrounded by strangers. "I'm Shawn." He said simply. "And don't think just cause little miss assistant got the drop on me that I'm some pushover, got it?" A thought came to mind and he decided to let out his Pokemon. Chomper came out and seemed quite confused at having been let out in such a dark place. "This is Chomper, toughest Totodile around....I'm just letting him out because it's been a while, not cause I think I'll need him or anything." Even though his thought process was in fact "If something's gonna attack me I better have someone I can trust ready." Though as Chomper's first action was to sit down and nod off between his feet perhaps he wasn't much better off anyway. "He, uh, likes to conserve his energy for when he's battling."

What the heck was THAT? Sabrina was still reeling from Gene having asked her for advice. And not only did he ask her for it he accepted her answer so readily. She didn't even remember what she told him just seconds ago! She supposed as long as it worked it didn't matter but what would she do if he came to her asking for even more? "...t-trusting you to have my back..." "Huh? Oh. Yeah! Expert back haver that's me ahaha....ha!" Sabrina was thrust back into reality as Gene moved through the door with an evidentially inspired by her newfound confidence. She couldn't be thinking about a potential future conversation right now there was something more important to take care of first. The first thing she noticed...well the first thing was actually Gene running off to one side to take on an entire group. Which probably would be fine right? The second thing was the group of three enemies to the right that would surely notice soon enough. She had to act fast and so she tossed away any semblance of thinking and just went by instinct. The three of them were spread apart in a triangle formation. Which made Sabrina instinctively want to try to hit them all at once. She remembered a skill that she had used before and without pausing to consider it farther flung her scythe at the left-most Drengr with the intent for it to continue going in an arc to hit all three before returning. It didn't go...exactly to plan. When she saw it slice into the neck of the one on the left she thought that it was going to work perfectly. But then its course got a bit more wobbly and its strength less...strong as it struck the middle in the arm and then merely grazed the armor of the third. Still at least the scythe came back. Which was good as she didn't have much time before they would be able to ready themselves. She charged forward towards the one on the right. She wasn't sure why but it just felt like it was ever so slightly different. When she got near enough she swung her scythe around in an arc aiming to cut through the beastman's neck. Unfortunately she wasn't fast enough and it managed to draw its sword and block in time. Sabrina jumped back to get some distance and decided to fire off a ball of flame towards them instead. This, too, the enemy tried to block but the magic still manged to strike it in the chest for evidentially a large amount of pain if the howl was any indication. "That's right, there's more where that came from! Don't think you'll get off easy when you challenge the chosen hero Dracona!" She said, despite clearly have been the one to instigate this fight.

That sure is a jungle jape, 7/10