Margaret ended up hiding behind Aleron when she felt the skin on her face starting to get a bit tight and hot. When the flames died down, she peeked around her friend.

"Is the door gone?" she asked.

"Yea pretty much." Aleron peered at the bits of door left. "Just be careful not to touch anything."

Ho-oh settled down on her shoulder again, distinctly smug.

Margaret blinked at the glowing, red-hot drips of metal.

"Yeah, no, not touching that," she said. "I'm sure there are fire-types who would have issues touching that."

"Oh I'm sure." Aleron snuck out into the hallway, keeping away from the overheated metal, and then looked around.

"Which way now?"

Margaret carefully slipped past the doorway as well and looked around.

"This way," she said, starting down a hallway. "I remember it being this way."

Aleron nodded and hurried after her, starting to feel unnerved. She was just expecting them to get caught and thrown back in a new cell. But damn it she wanted her pokemon back.

Margaret went as fast as she dared, glancing around corners when she had to, until she came upon the rooms from before. Luckily, her pokemon hadn't been moved yet, and she went to the window. She could tell her pokemon were making noise, but she couldn't hear them, and that meant they couldn't hear her.

"We need to get through this glass," she said to Aleron.

"Out of the way." Aleron got Ho-oh to partially melt the glass, above the pokemon so none of them would get hurt, before she went to go get her own pokemon out. She figured that way Margaret could talk to hers at least while Aleron got Vulpix. The little Ho-oh wasn't quite tiring out yet, but she knew it wouldn't be long now.

Margaret moved out of the way, and could almost immediately hear the sounds of her group as the glass was melted away.

"Metagross!" she called. The big steel-type rumbled in answer. "Hammer Arm!" She watched her other pokemon get out of the way and she moved off to the side as Metagross pulled back one of his arms and sent it smashing through the weakened glass, sending chunks of ruined safety glass everywhere. Almost immediately, she was jumped on by the other members of her team. "Come on, guys, return for now, we have to get out of here," she said. They all obeyed her and went into their pokeballs, which were in the room. She picked her way around the glass on the floor and retrieved her trainer belt, and put it on. Then she went to find Aleron.

Aleron had managed to tell Vulpix to melt the glass, and the pokemon had obeyed, literally cutting out a large door in the glass with her flames.

"Okay. I've got all mine again." Aleron sighed as she touched each pokeball briefly. "Now what? Escape for the moment and see what other plan we can come up with?"

"What about the eggs?" Margaret asked. "We know they're here. I bet we can find them."

"Yeah, but again, how are we going to get them all out? And how far can we run with a bunch of eggs and no idea where we're going?" Because as much as Aleron hated leaving any of the eggs there, she knew it would be the safer thing to do, at least until they could find a safe place to put the eggs.

"How will we get back in to get them once we escape?" Margaret asked in return. "You know that as soon as they realize we're gone they'll tighten security like a Cloyster."

Aleron sighed. Margaret had a point. "Okay. Well, we'll see how many we can grab," she said, going to the room in the center with the two eggs after she'd resettled her pack. "Ho-oh, if you would?"

Ho-oh huffed but melted that glass too, letting them in.

As soon as the glass was out of the way, Margaret blinked. Given the colors, she had assumed the eggs were fire- and water-types. But now that there was nothing between her and them, she could tell that wasn't the case.

"Hey," she said to Aleron, gesturing to the eggs. "What do you make of them?"

Aleron shrugged. "Nothing, really. They're legendary eggs. Why?" She moved over to the blue one, picking it up. "Okay, they're heavy legendary eggs."

"There's just something about them..." Margaret trailed off and picked up the red one. As soon as her hands touched it, she felt a sort of jolt up the skin of her arms; not an electric jolt, but something more mental. She shuddered slightly. "Okay, that felt weird."

"What?" Aleron frowned. Her egg was heavy, yeah, but not weird. "You okay?" Because things were going to be a lot harder if Margaret wasn't okay.

"I think I'm okay," Margaret replied. "It was just weird, it felt like something was on my skin, but not." She shifted the egg in her arms, and managed to get it into her bag. "I don't know, maybe it was in my head. I don't feel anything now."

Aleron nodded after a moment and started walking again, shifting the egg to under one arm so she could take one more.

"Now we just have to find the rest of the eggs."

"May as well start looking, then," Margaret replied, glancing around the hall before leaving the room. "This place can't be all that big."

Aleron nodded and started walking, looking around as they walked.

It didn't take long for them to run into trouble, though. Half a dozen scientists ran over to them, cornering them and pulling out their pokeballs.

"That's not good..." Aleron could see more headed their way.

"I think we might be the least bit screwed," Margaret agreed, one hand hovering at her belt.

"Just a little." Aleron eyed the scientists carefully. She didn't have a chance to do anything more, though. Something small and purple zoomed down the hallway towards Margaret, sending a few of the scientists scattering, and Mewtwo popped in front of both girls a moment later.

Margaret yelped in surprise as the little purple thing tackled her and clung to her, and she jumped when Mewtwo appeared.

"What the--?" she started, looking from Mew to Mewtwo and back.