He laughed a little sheepishly. "Heh. Sort of? I kinda brought myself into it. He was just upset enough that I didn't want to let him wander off alone..."

He trailed off as he remembered how good that idea had sounded weeks ago. Speaking of which, someone should probably free Sho before he suffocated, and it looked like that someone might as well be him. He sighed and trudged over.

Would the Caterpie be nice and come off or was someone going to have to do something drastic? Not any of the fire pokemon. Someone else. Anyone else.