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Post by birdy51 on Mar 1, 2020 14:02:04 GMT
Muku slips into her new shirt with no issue. It was her shirt now. That’s how this worked. It was a little itchy, but the feeling of slipping into something clean was a divine experience. Which, was odd for someone who had only been wearing clothes for, what? Five days? Three? It was hard to count days like that. Thinking caused her anxiety. Less thinking, more claiming a new pair of pants that didn’t smell like seawater.
She frowned. Pants. She preferred shorts because they were comfy and easy to wear.
Instruction now easing her mind, she turns back to the rat with a clearer head. “Hrmm. That might not fit your head come to think of it. Maybe if we tie it around your neck?”
She kneels down and pulls the bandanna gently from the rat’s had to stretch it wide before frowning. Did... Did the rat even have a neck?
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Mar 1, 2020 14:51:13 GMT
Yes, this was better she decided as Muku finished dressing herself and now moved to taking care of Rat's new accesory.
Attention now going from watching for the return of the man, to the attempt to put the fabric on Rat, Terra watches for a moment. "If not the neck. Maybe around his paw, or tail?" she suggested. Motioning to her wrist, both seemed like possible easier places to put the marker on.
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Post by Robot on Mar 1, 2020 15:17:53 GMT
Thel slept soundly after Serenity settled, the warmth and quiet easing him off into a dreamless sleep. A dull click at the edge of his senses preceded the sensation of being stung by something, which brought full awareness. Something fluffy brushed his arm, a lump moving to the edge of the bed and over the side. Serenity roused to full alertness, glanced about, groggy and addled.
Rat had a neck, in fact it was the thickest of necks. He tilted his head back to present the gloriousness that was his powerful sculpted jaw and incredible musculature. Around this time, the door swung open again. "BROUGHT YOUR FOOD!" From down the hall; "REALLY MATT?!" He visibly winced. "SORRY BRO, THEY WANTED FOOD!" Wheeling a cart of hors d'ouvres, he raised a thick finger to his lips. "Quiet now. Eat, and sleep. Nothing else." His voice was -almost- a normal speaking tone.
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Post by DataNinja on Mar 1, 2020 17:38:53 GMT
"Courtney?" he asks, panicking a little. "Is that you? Who's there?" He reaches for a light to try and see better. Since he doesn't like whatever is happening. Not one bit. He very much wanted to sleep.
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Mar 1, 2020 21:37:40 GMT
That was quite a girthy neck, Terra doubted that Muku could go through with her initial plan of donning it there. The sound of the loud voice made her jolt some in place. Eyes focusing on him. Until she heard another voice yelling at him. So he was usually this loud?
Not entirely sure what to say in response to the less intense dialogue, she settled for a nod. It would do for now. And it wasn't an agreement to all he said, just an understanding for the time being.
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Post by Robot on Mar 1, 2020 23:38:06 GMT
"Success" Answers a monotone voice, as a tiny shadow bolts from the room through the nightlight in the hallway, Serenity hot on its heels. The fox, unused to scampering on tiled floor slides into the far wall in the hallway and yips after the shape.
Matt leaving Muku and Terra to their own devices, the snacks seem to be a quicker, easier version of the previous fare. Fish cakes, bread, cheese, and an assortment of salty meats. No eggs, sadly.
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Post by DataNinja on Mar 1, 2020 23:42:27 GMT
"Courtney!" Thel cries, as he instinctively chases after the shape. "There's something after me in here!" Maybe he can stop it, figure out what was happening, figure out what it was…
...as long as it remains in the confines of the house, at least.
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Post by birdy51 on Mar 2, 2020 2:59:24 GMT
Muku turns around to the food with a clear look of relief on her face. "Ok. Ok. So. I haven't been tossed overboard so... Good?" She says quietly.
Not so quietly, she fluffs out the bandanna roughly affixing it to the rat's forehead. The food was too delicious to be ignored as she raced across the room with a smile. "Food! Ooh, I haven't had food in such a long time. This all looks so good!"
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Mar 2, 2020 15:44:06 GMT
The different type of food that was brought got a glance over from Terra, taking one of the fish cakes. However she left the rest for Muku and Rat. "All yours," Terra states as she sits on the side of the bed and begins to munch on the cake. She was still pretty full from the feast she had previously.
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Post by Robot on Mar 3, 2020 4:11:56 GMT
"I'm coming!" Courtney calls back as Thel pursues Serenity into the dining area. The boy doesn't spot anything out of the ordinary, but Serenity has taken to growling at a particular spot along the wall under the kitchen window. Courtney arrives a moment later, followed by a rather large, shaggy looking dog that is graying at the edges.
"I don't see anything Thel... Oh, goodness you're bleeding!" She points out a rivulet of crimson leaking down his forearm.
"Scared." Comes the monotone voice from where Serenity's attention was fixated. "Scared. Abort. Scared. Abort."
On looking extremely closely, with patterning that is shockingly striking to the linoleum, a small fuzzy insect with a series of similarly colored attachments. Some look to be wired directly and cruelly to its small body.
Rat is in heaven. Maybe double heaven. Three meals in one night and two of them weren't stale lifeboat crackers. He eats until no more will fit, then lies back contentedly rubbing his belly.
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Post by DataNinja on Mar 3, 2020 5:12:36 GMT
"Oh. Oh..." Thel says, as he registers the puncture on his arm. "Ohhhh…. that does not look good." He's beginning to feel it now, too, with the adrenaline receding slightly.
Taking a deep breath, and trying to calm down away from either adrenaline or pain, he addresses the bug. "Look... don't be scared, okay?" The fact that he can understand it is rather weird, he registers. "If you don't try and attack anyone again, and don't try to escape, I promise that we won't hurt you." Despite the fact that it hurt him... he can't help but feel bad for the thing. "Oh... look what's been done to you..."
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Post by birdy51 on Mar 4, 2020 14:14:25 GMT
Ecstasy and agreement find Muku at last as she eats her fill of salami and cheese. Maybe bread. But she mostly ate salami, the most forbidden of birb treats. After filling herself like a feral hog, she turns back to her companion and smiles. "They... He actually fed us! Real food!"
Lowering herself cross legged to the floor in front of the door, Muku leans back and rests herself for a moment as she stares at Terra and the rat. "This, maybe they aren't as bad as Team Magma. If they haven't hurt you yet, and they haven't done anything bad, we could wait until later. Cause, cause, if we did want to go, then we'd have to make it now because we're probably not going to have a big ocean light like this again. But even if we didn't go, would it be so bad?"
She bites her tongue. Yes. It would still be bad. She forgot her bike at the shoreside by the ocean. Maybe if Muku was lucky, the nurse would put two and two together, but the nurse was also very busy at the time taking care of that woman that Thel evidently clonked out. Not to mention, the other problem in the room. Muku opens her mouth to speak again, a hushed tone returning to her voice. "Do you have any Pokémon left at the center? I had to leave Hornise behind to come here. I hope Hornise is doing O.K..."
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Mar 5, 2020 0:09:38 GMT
Terra waited for Muku to have her satisfaction from the meal. Her weight leaned back on her hands. "I told you, they had tasty food," she states with a nod at the others words.
"It would be bad if we didn't go. But, I don't want to drown," Terra replies about them making a break for it. Again, she didn't really like being on the boat. It had her uneasy about all the motions underneath her feet and body that she had no control over.
At the mention of her pokemon being left behind, a harder expression coming to Terra's face as she glances towards the wall, sitting up straighter now. "Yeah." A pause before continuing with an answer while crossing her arms in a firm manner at the thought. "Queen and Snips." So Muku had her sympathy on that note. However she knew that her two pokemon could handle their own, even if she wasn't there to help them.
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Post by birdy51 on Mar 5, 2020 0:28:02 GMT
Muku folds her arms uncomfortably. She wasn't sure how she was going to function without Hornise; her strongest, most reliable partner on her team so far. But she was going to have to. The alternative was thinking about it, and frankly that was a terrible thing. So for now, she rests her butt on the bed and closes her eyes for a moment.
"I'm not going to make you go onto the small boat if you don't want to boat. Big boat has to stop boating at some point, right? If we can hold out until the big boat stops being an ocean boat, we might be able to find a way out of this net."
Her head bobs. It was rather late wasn't it? Night was bad. So bad. "I'm more of a morning bird anyways." She mutters.
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Post by Robot on Mar 5, 2020 1:44:37 GMT
Leaning closer, Thel hears a faint electric snap, and catches sight of an arc of white against a barrel shaped tube with three slats in it, resting underneath the insect's mouthparts. "Scared." It the box repeats, but gradually, with Thel's assurances of safety, and it scooting further from the fox and into a corner of the kitchen, its color shifts towards brilliant yellow, with four striking blue eyes. With full view of it, the Pokemon itself could easily fit in the palm of the boy's hand. The extra gear equipped to it, however, nearly doubles its size. It is hard to make sense of it all. Glossy hexagonal panels line the upper surfaces of a rounded, box like mount that fits over the back end of the pokemon. Attached to one of its forelegs is a cylinder with a hole at the bottom, a needle barely visible there. An antennae juts directly from the fur lining the back of its head.
Having curled up against the headboard, Rat has opted to live as a pillow for the remainder of the night, and sleeps soundly.
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Post by DataNinja on Mar 5, 2020 1:55:16 GMT
"Alright," he says. "Now that that's all settled, I'll- Ah!" His arm flares up a little bit, and he sucks air in through his teeth. "I'll go get you some food. I still have some left over. That always helps me calm down." ...well, 'always' as in 'since he's actually been able to eat decently.' "I don't want to hurt you, little guy. I just want to figure out what's going on."
He looks to Courtney. "I'm... just going to grab a snack for it, and Hope, too. Maybe having another bug around will help it calm down. What... is it? It doesn't look natural..."
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Post by Robot on Mar 5, 2020 2:18:12 GMT
"Well... the parts that I recognize are a Joltik, which is a small electric bug that likes to nibble wiring. There's a camera, a speaker, a small collections needle, and a radio receiver." Courtney replies slowly, the dog she'd entered the room with laying down on the floor not far from the intruder and watching it with droopy eyes. "I don't think it is natural..."
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Post by DataNinja on Mar 5, 2020 2:35:10 GMT
Ah..." Thel says. "Those are... words," he admits. He doesn't really know what any of it means. Did he hear the word 'radio' sometime earlier? No idea what it could be, though.
He hurries to his bag to rummage through and get some of the leftovers from Whitney's Gym, as well as Hope's ball. Upon returning to the kitchen, he gently pushes the food towards the Joltik, and then releases Hope. "Sorry to wake you," he says, "but there's this scared bug here. I don't know if you can comfort it, try and help. I don't know exactly what it wants, but I feel like it has something to do with earlier..."
...he should probably also wash off this collecting blood at some point.
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Post by Robot on Mar 5, 2020 10:57:33 GMT
Hope rubs her large glossy eyes with her tiny hands and gives a squeaky yawn. Blinking a few times, she flutters down and lands a short distance from the other insect. Despite not having touched the morsel of food yet, it latched onto it with those forelegs and drags it up under its body. "No." Announces the speaker.
"We should probably call the authorities..." Courtney hummed softly and picked up the phone. A pause. Several taps of a button under the receiver. She hung up again, looking concerned. "I'll need to get my Nav from the other room Thel, I'll be right back."
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Mar 5, 2020 15:50:49 GMT
At the mention of the smaller boat, Terra seems to think it over some. "How big, heavy, do you think the small one is?" she asks. A boat would certainly be much better than trying to swim back in the dark.
Noting the the bobbing of Muku's head there was a slight smirk, a very bird behavior indeed. She wasn't quite as tired as the other due to the short naps that she had taken after eating before.
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