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Post by Robot on Jan 26, 2021 22:25:41 GMT
He visibly relaxes a little and backs down, chuckling softly as he opened his book again. "You picked an awful time to come home. Nothing but trouble in Johto these days. Waiting on someone with the oomph and the swing to do anything about it.". He shook his head and sighed. "Giant pain in the ass."
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Jan 26, 2021 23:58:20 GMT
At this, the guard could hear a loud frustrated sigh of agreement. "You can say that again. Bunch of stupid people. Need to be returned the favor," Terra vocalizes her shared annoyance. "They're part of why I'm back here. Wouldn't mind teaching them a lesson or two myself." A slow crack left her knuckles as she flexed her hands into fists.
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Post by Robot on Jan 27, 2021 0:14:07 GMT
He gives her a sideways glance at the slowly scaling aggressiveness. "You'll have to get in line. Lot of people want a piece of that. The bikers and rockers that used to hang out in the underground are probably the most pissed over the lockdown. Can't oust them, there are too many, but they know if they go to leave we will pick them off. It's turned into a siege. Not sure how they have lasted this long really."
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Jan 27, 2021 2:38:03 GMT
There was restraint in the young trainer's body. She didn't want to press her luck too far, yet. So the underground had been those he listed territory in a way she processed. "That right? What about you? Do you want a piece of them too?" Terra asks. "Would mean you wouldn't be stuck here." Sure he was guarding the area, however it was clear that he too was bothered by the situation.
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Post by Robot on Jan 27, 2021 18:31:53 GMT
"I guess. Having work is nice, other then chasing people away from the odd bit of graffiti.". He gestures to the rain. "It's too much at once. Things start going bad and the criminal elements come out in force. Just glad Goldenrod isn't getting it as bad as Cianwood is, and Olivine will. No real beachfront and a solid seawall."
He sighs and turns a page. "Even if you knew where to find whoever is doing whatever, you would need pretty good proof to be acting within the law, beating down everyone in sight."
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Jan 28, 2021 0:24:49 GMT
Hearing that Goldenrod would be getting the least extreme of weather, made her give a slight grimace. The thought was not a comforting one. Though that also brought a slow flex of her fists.
"Proof? I feel confident the folks that are the reason for this, had their big stupid fish kidnap me in its mouth from here before." Terra stated crossing arms as she did so. Human laws were pretty silly at times. "Took me to the middle of the ocean and I almost drowned," she complained about her last experience with Team Aqua.
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Post by Robot on Jan 28, 2021 0:42:26 GMT
"...I heard about that. There was a BOLO for you and the people that took you. Terra is it?". He puts his book down and sits straighter. "What did Aqua want with you so badly that they kidnapped you from a policed port city?". The guard squints at her more closely as though trying to sort through the report by memory. Missing persons weren't all that common.
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Jan 28, 2021 1:27:45 GMT
His information about having heard about the event, it made sense. From what she remembered hearing, that it ended up being quite a spectacle considering where they were.
"Heck if I know, most Archie said was that since someone else wanted me that was enough to do that," Terra huffed. Which was true, but not all of the information.
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Post by Robot on Jan 28, 2021 1:59:18 GMT
"Well, take on it was it was the same Team Aqua that put Hoenn in danger some years ago, but their leader Archie is still in jail. Could be a poser maybe. Magma was their counterpart, lead by a Maxie, but he hasn't been seen for years."
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Jan 28, 2021 2:37:59 GMT
A small silence came between them as Terra thought back on her interaction with Archie, that did seem to line up with what the large man had said about this was a new chance. However this seemed just like what he said Maxie had done. How idiotic! "Well either case, it sounds like it matches their goals from then. Yeah?" Terra asks. "Poser or not, its still something to take serious right?"
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Post by Robot on Jan 28, 2021 2:45:44 GMT
"Yeah, I'd agree with you there.". He eyes Terra warily. "It feels like you are going somewhere with this that I am not particularly going to like.". He heaved a sigh and rocked up out of his chair and into a standing position. It wasn't an aggressive posture, more a tiredly resigned one.
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Jan 28, 2021 4:53:52 GMT
"I hear that a lot. Ideas that involve me." Terra states at his comment. Her own posture still had the frustration showing, however she wasn't running off immediately.
"Things are pointing towards Aqua doing things, and there's been activity around all the places that aren't from those that were in the Underground before things went bad. That sounds like reason enough to start doing some work, at least if you ask me. Its better than hiding and drowning," she reasons with a thumb over her shoulder towards the entrance out to the rain.
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Post by Robot on Jan 28, 2021 5:14:45 GMT
"Yeah alright... I was thinking of getting done with this outfit anyway, so if it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. Name's Jeremiah. Been with this outfit for... probably three years. It isn't real police work. Not really what I signed up for. Let's go do some good." Releasing a large quadrupedal water type with several pieces of shell armor and a fancy moustache, he clicks his flashlight on and heads down the flight of stairs. His Pokemon awkwardly follows along after him. A thin layer of water has already settled in the underground, deep enough now to start to threaten normal sneakers with a wet sock day.
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Jan 28, 2021 5:29:13 GMT
"Good to know who I'm working with then," Terra states with an eyebrow raising at the comment of things not working out with the outfit. "Sometimes things just need to be taken care of even though there are 'rules'."
A short pause comes when she hears their feet meeting the water, a grimace coming at the sensation. Great. Wet shoes, again. Why did the universe enjoy annoying her by soaking her? This helps her making her own choice of releasing a pokemon. The mostly green bipedal coming forth. Splash taking a glance around before looking up to Terra with a certain expression. After all the experiences they've been through. This wasn't necessarily a 'surprise' to him, one could tell.
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Post by Robot on Jan 28, 2021 18:39:36 GMT
(Splash may treat it as Raining for the purposes of his abilities.)
With the lights out, the underground is much more like a frustratingly wet cave, Jer's flashlight sweeping too and fro along closed shopfronts. Sound carries impressively well down here. It is only a matter of time before other things start snagging the senses. Down the path she recalls leads to the underground ring, voices. Further along, towards a T-Branch the swish of water.
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Jan 28, 2021 23:26:23 GMT
Ugh, this was not Terra's preferred place since it was all wet around her feet. However she kept her cool, now was not the time to get distracted. She did reach behind her to hold onto the stone sword that she owned. Eyes scanned the walls of the tunnel and slowed her steps some as they approached the branch off of the Underground. On alert, senses listening to try and distinguish their own movements from any others. Muscles wound up ready to spring into a fight if need be.
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Post by Robot on Jan 29, 2021 2:53:51 GMT
"... Been sightings of other... Someone is moving to deal with Aqua.". Terra hears as her as her cohort slip deeper through the winding, darkened tunnels. "That doesn't mean we shouldn't continue as planned. Should Lugia fail, Johto's other great bird may yet surface. While it is no match for Primal Kyogre, it would be a great ally for our Primal Groudon. See that the lab is kept closed in my absence. The city has been crawling with nosy rats trying not to get drowned out."
A shuttering sound, around the next bend, and a long, confident stride through the wet, growing distant.
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Feb 1, 2021 5:49:25 GMT
Aqua being mentioned definitely caught her attention. Slowly shifting through the wet tunnel. The girl listened carefully. Lugia, Kyogre, that checked out with what Whitney and her mother had told her. Then came the lab, this had to be some of Magma members, right?
Terra moved towards the corner, before glancing around it once the sloshing footsteps faded more. Eyes scanning for whoever the second person was in that discussion. Someone they could corner and drag in and get information. Or if nothing else, someone that she can take some frustration out on.
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Post by Robot on Feb 1, 2021 18:08:11 GMT
Moving into the space where she presumed the conversation had come from, nothing immediately stood out to Terra. There didn't look to be anything more than a few shops and empty stretches of wall. Though, the sign above one of the metal gated shops, Mount-Tech, a sporting goods store, the M seemed oddly distinct. Aqua's uniforms had a very stylistic waterdrop bone A. Maybe it was a clue?
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Feb 2, 2021 21:18:40 GMT
No one around, this did allow her time to look over the different shop signs. Eyes narrowing as she observed them, then it was there. An 'M' in such an interesting manner, it reminded her of Aqua's letter in their motif. Not that subtle at all. "This one," she states in a hushed voice to Jeremiah, pointing up at the sign. "Let's go in here," she adds. A hand moving to slowly turn the doorknob experimentally. To see if it was locked or would open for her.
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