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Post by DataNinja on Mar 5, 2020 17:32:19 GMT
Even in a serious, worrying situation like this, Hope seems to never fail to make him smile and cheer him up. The realization surprises him, given that it hasn't really been that long. A lot of the things that he's done, and who he's met... it really has changed him.
"No?" Thel asks. "I don't understand, I'm sorry. Well, I mean, I understand you a lot better than a lot of others I've met, frankly, but I don't know what you're trying to get at..."
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Post by birdy51 on Mar 5, 2020 17:45:49 GMT
Muku snaps to attention briefly. “It’s heavy. I don’t know how heavy, but it would maybe take at least two or more to get it over the boatside and in the water. Hornise could probably do it alone if she had to.”
She flinches, then corrects herself. “Hornise could have.”
At once, Muku gets up and slaps her face twice to keep herself awake. “Ok, ok. If we want to try it, we can try it. Worst thing that could happen is that we get caught, right? And we’re already caught, so, we may as well just do it, right?”
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Mar 5, 2020 19:01:53 GMT
As Muku mentions Hornsie and then corrects herself. "We will get our pokemon back, either way. Sooner or later," Terra tells her calmly. Even if they didn't manage to get off the boat tonight. She wouldn't give up on getting her team members back, and refused to let that sort of thought to creep in on her.
"You have a point," she admits about them already being caught. They certainly weren't going to throw the two of them overboard, right? Cause Archie doesn't want this Maxie to have them. "Okay, lets do it," she agrees, standing up herself.
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Post by birdy51 on Mar 5, 2020 19:27:38 GMT
A grin of impetuous moxie crosses Muku's face in an instant. "Ok, ok! Blackbird tactics, go!"
She crosses the room to the door and puts her hand on the handle to open. Nothing could stop them now!
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Mar 5, 2020 20:21:28 GMT
Terra takes her bag from the floor and slings it over her shoulders "Okay. Let's go."
She joins Muku's side. A moment to take a breath to get herself in the right mindset. "What about Rat?" she asks with a motion of her head towards the now sleeping pokemon, uncertain if Muku was taking it under her care or not. The bigger guy had said it was sleep time, maybe that'd make things better for their chances of getting away.
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Post by Robot on Mar 6, 2020 2:27:40 GMT
"No." It repeats again, staring at hope, scuttling backwards with two legs, using the other two to herd the food along with it. When it has managed about three feet from the fairy (which takes a moment because she does follow it for awhile, curious at the reaction), the Joltik settles and begins to eat voraciously until the offered food was gone. Courtney returns with a small rectangle with some buttons, a square piece that is a different color.
(Thel may make a Perception check.)
Rat continues to sleep soundly. There are no interruptions beyond the soft whistling snores against his teeth.
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Post by DataNinja on Mar 6, 2020 5:23:33 GMT
"Do you want some more?" Thel asks, looking curiously at the bug. He'd definitely rather be asleep and comfy right now, but this is just so peculiar that he's wide awake. ...okay, the pain and adrenaline might also have something to do with that. And some fear. Perception: 10
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Post by Robot on Mar 6, 2020 10:34:33 GMT
Thel hears a faint crackling, and static ridden bits of a female's voice. "... Eject sample... Safety... Tomorrow." Any remaining pieces of the message were overridden by another electric pop from the Bug's mouth against its speech-tube. "Yes." Firing a thread against the cabinets, it hauls itself onto the counter and watches Thel expectantly, surprisingly animate despite all the added weight in its little body.
Courtney pauses, holding the Nav and watching the boy interact with the Pokemon. "Thel, they'll... The authorities will want to take it for examination. We should tell them what is going on, and I can assure you it will be well cared for, but I don't know if you will get to see it again after that..." Courtney bit her lip, watching the boy with concern.
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Post by birdy51 on Mar 6, 2020 11:47:29 GMT
Muku shrugs. She didn't really know what to do with the rat. But she also couldn't leave him here.
Now, at this part of the story, it is kind to reflect that a normal person would likely wake up the rat and ask whether they would like to come with them. Muku is a borderline feral beast, and not a normal person. She chooses the quickest resolution to the conflict and immediately pulls out an empty Pokéball from her bag.
"It's not a problem if I can capture him now." She says with a smirk. After all, she could always ask if he was ok with this later. With a not-so-gentle-but-also-not-beaming-the-rat-in-the-shiner *hork*, she whips the Pokéball at the snoozing rat!
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Post by DataNinja on Mar 6, 2020 17:35:41 GMT
"Did you hear that?" he asks, turning to Courtney. "That voice. She was saying 'Eject sample', whatever that means. And safety tomorrow. At least I know those. That sounds good..."
Thel puts a little more food on the counter for it, before moving backwards, to give it space. "AS long as it's cared for, that's what matters," he says. "It doesn't seem to be too comfortable around me or my friends, so, it's probably better that it doesn't see me again, really. I just want it to be able to be happy. I don't know if it is now..." Granted, that might be a little projection, because of the whole stabbing, and recent attempted kidnap, and all that fun stuff.
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Mar 6, 2020 19:22:24 GMT
Muku's method didn't really bother Terra, it was a quick solution to the situation about Rat. So instead she waited for the capture to take place. Ready for them to take on this attempt to get on this smaller boat that she spoken about.
If things went well. That meant she'd have her feet back on solid ground soon. Couldn't argue with that idea.
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Post by Robot on Mar 7, 2020 1:09:27 GMT
"She? Thel... I haven't heard the Joltik say anything that didn't sound like a prerecorded computerized message." "Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes." The Pokemon sparks repeatedly as it gobbles up the food Thel offers it. "If I had to guess though, that needle mounted on one of its little forelegs took a bit out of you, and has it stored in the little backpack." Tapping a few buttons on her device, Courtney held it to her ear and turned away to excuse herself. The little Pokemon watched Thel quietly after scarfing down the second offering of food.
Rat disappears into Muku's Pokeball, captured without even the remotest of fights before the girls make for the little boat. Several times, they need to take a different route as they move through the cabins, and find themselves on the what might be the wrong side of the ship, but there is also a small boat here. As before, it is covered by a tarp, hanging from round things by a chain. The crash of the waves against the bow, and the chilly night wind ripping across the water are the only sounds.
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Post by DataNinja on Mar 7, 2020 1:18:56 GMT
"No... no, I know I heard it," Thel insists. "It's the kind of thing that, well... I'm kind of attuned to."
"What would it want with a piece of me?" He wonders. "I guess... if they can't have it all, they want just a part?"
He gives the bug another bit of food. It's so small, it really doesn't need much... but apparently it can eat a lot.
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Post by birdy51 on Mar 7, 2020 1:47:06 GMT
Muku shivers in the night air, staring up at the suspended boat. That was probably a problem. Not for her, but it was a problem for someone. She quickly moves to identify the quickest route up; if she could get into the boat, then maybe she could get the boat where she needed to be. Logic? Logic!
Unfortunately for her however, the easiest way was a step. Progress. She steps onto the tarp and bends down to inspect the chains. She didn't know much about chains... Were they like bike chains or? Maybe she could unlatch them?
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Mar 7, 2020 3:10:49 GMT
Ugh, another negative to being human or being on the water. Maybe both? But its cold! And also wet! Wet-Cold! Her arms wrapping about herself as she and Muku traverse the boat until they end up at one end with a smaller boat-ish shape.
"This it?" she asked quietly before watching the other start to climb atop it. While the other looks at one of the chains, Terra looks at the other. If she were still a Larvitar, she could have probably just bitten through them. That thought made her wonder what they would have tasted like. Not now, gotta focus on getting out of here.
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Post by Robot on Mar 7, 2020 3:56:02 GMT
"Yes." The Joltik answers Thel, though the last few times it used that word it seemed excited about the food. This time, it simply sits atop what it was given and watches the boy. Wrapping up her phonecall, Courtney rubs her tired eyes. "An officer will be over shortly to take the Pokemon into custody. It seems they want to take you in for questioning as well, for a statement about the earlier kidnappings at the very least."
The tarp is quite sturdy and flexible, bouncing gently as Muku moved along the taught surface. The chain itself has a claw looking thing hooked in it. It looks like if the claw comes out and you pull on part of the delicious looking metal, the little boat will go down.
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Post by DataNinja on Mar 7, 2020 4:07:02 GMT
For some reason, being out at night causes him to shiver now. Probably because he's more cognizant of there actually being someone out there willing to do things to get at him. "...will I have to be out there alone at all?" Thel asks, hesitantly. "There's obviously someone else out there now..." He sighs. "I'm sorry for all of the trouble I've caused for being here tonight."
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Post by birdy51 on Mar 7, 2020 11:27:01 GMT
"Yeah. I think you just pull on the chains *here* and it will go. But this tarp thing is a problem. We'd probably bounce right off of it if we dropped now."
She stop to think. Bad thing needed taken off. What better way to take off bad things than a bigger knife? With a flash, she releases Talon the Sword Pokémon to her side and clings to the chain. The friendly sword clings to her arm a bit with the sash, which made Muku feel tingly. She tried not to worry about that too much. They were on a mission. "Ok, Talon. Can you do the knife thing on this tarp here? Just like... Cut it off. Cut it off!"
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Mar 7, 2020 19:46:12 GMT
Nodding as she listened to Muku comment about the tarp, Terra would watch her as she released a pokemon to help them with the situation.
She hadn't climbed on yet due to the covering, so she waited, it'd be easier to get on after that. A hand holding onto the edge however to keep her balance with the rocking of the boat. "Hope it can cut through easy." Her eyes looking out towards the opposite direction in which they were heading.
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Post by Robot on Mar 7, 2020 21:24:43 GMT
"Thel, I'll come along with Samson." Courtney soothed gently, pulling the wiry boy into a warm, maternal embrace. She gently stroked his bangs for a moment. "It will be okay, I promise, and really Whitney has given me more Sleepless nights then I can count. At least this time I can do something worthwhile."
Not long after, there is a knock at the door, a GPD officer in a pressed blue uniform, flashlight in hand, and a growlithe at his hip at Courtney's door. He picks a small carrier up off the stoop. "Where's this Pokemon at that caused the disturbance?"
Talon's scarf snaps tightly around Muku's arm to nearly her shoulder, the grip forcing itself into her palm. Yanking itself roughly, the sword pulls her arm along for two noisy strokes which rrrrrrrrrrr along the tarp, leaving shallow marks behind. A moment later, it thrusts itself triumphantly skyward, before the covering splitd under the girl, dumping her haphazardly inside. Lights begin to flare on along the outside of the ship.
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