The Zubat Leader

"Just as I thought, the Piercing Ability."

This ability was actually quite useful, allowing its user to ignore all sorts of energy barriers set up by an opponent.

Zubat had no eyes, so Dian could not tell whether the two were pretending to sleep or genuinely unconscious.

Misdreavus, however, knew. Changes in their emotions could not escape her perception.

Misdreavus kept watching the two Zubat, with two tendrils of shadow binding them almost constantly.

After some thought, Dian decided not to gag them. He would have needed to be careful if they were Golbat, whose Supersonic was stronger and could easily cause confusion.

By comparison, Zubat's Supersonic was much gentler. It was even widely used in medical research and treatment.

"Scree!"

Suddenly, one of the Zubat twitched its wings and tried to take flight, only for Misdreavus to yank it down halfway up.

A cloud of yellow paralyzing powder immediately drifted over it.

"Scree..."

The Zubat convulsed, then began struggling on the ground.

Dian glanced over. Sure enough, it was the Zubat with the Piercing Ability.

He signaled to Misdreavus to have a nice little heart-to-heart with the adorable Zubat and ask whether it knew Mean Look and Confuse Ray while she was at it.

Just as Dian was about to clear away the ashes at the cave entrance.

A dazzling ray suddenly shot out of the cave, followed by an eerie black gaze that fixed itself on him.

Dian had been about to drop flat, but suddenly found himself barely able to move under that black gaze, as though he had lost control of his body.

"Misdreavus!"

Horrified, Misdreavus hurriedly extended a tendril of shadow, but she was still too late.

At that moment, Beedrill reacted with lightning speed, using Agility to intercept it. A white glow flashed across