>>12057364With the last pokemon fainted the base was silent and empty but for the smoldering of the flames.. the place dead and deserted... leaving Holt to realize that wherever Zera was it had to be quite a ways away for him to be out of ear shot, after all this place was pretty flat.
>>12057366The Explosion stopped the advance hard, the front truck smacking into the grenade before blowing out it's engine, the guards in the back gunning for him as he passed, the snow chains on the tires allowing the other trucks to lose the same fate... but it was something else that drove them to not chase after him... the source of the sound appearing on the horizon ahead of them, heading towards the base.