Well ... damn. Smack-dab in the middle of the fight, Woe went completely apeshit. The Lampent screamed so loudly that Buck had to shield his ears. Something about someone being killed ... he couldn't quite make out the screams while they were muffled but the next minute the cobra had dissolved into a pile of dust. Obviously having over-exerted himself, Woe fainted and was placed upon Panthera's back. Buck sighed; he knew that he would be safe there.
"Buck, are you alright?" the Liepard asked him. He nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine, are you?" Looking over at Woe lying unconscious on her back he felt a new sense of respect for the Lampent. "Didn't know he had that in him."
Just as he thought that all was calm again, the undead Absol came charging back into the room and fired a massive Hyper Beam at Unique, knocking him backwards. The monster had one of its eyes missing thanks to Buck's sharp claws and a few bruises from the fall out of a first-story building window, so it looked as though it was weakening. Buck no longer felt afraid as he zoomed forward with another Quick Attack, knocking the Absol back and, with an almighty screech, it impaled itself on a piece of rubble from the partially-collapsed ceiling. It twitched a few times and gurgled its hatred before lying limp.
"Lucky..." Buck said as he caught his breath. Now that he knew he could fight the undead he no longer felt so afraid. But the thought that one day he might meet again with Norma Jean and have to battle her still weighed on his mind. He put it aside, however, when he noticed a strange pink blob lying where Unique had landed. "Huh? A Ditto..." That explained the weird mark on the Absol's back.
A shadow from the next room startled him. He extended his claws and ran towards it, but stopped when he noticed that it was Jacque. "Oh ... it's you," he said flatly, lowering his hands. He still wasn't too keen on this guy. "What are you doing here?"