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Post by Trixander on Oct 28, 2016 21:38:53 GMT
"Medical attention now, explanations later." Jace placed Ace's Pokeball on the counter. "This one needs healing, this one needs healing and handcuffs, and this one-" Jace indicated toward Mightyena. "-Needs a body bag."
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Post by kurohagane on Oct 29, 2016 1:02:38 GMT
Marietta is sitting at some corner of a ledge, looking at the generator. Nothing spectacular happened so far, other than Gurner's assassination, and having an earful for something she does not understand even now. "So peaceful..." She looks around, and starts thinking, the time before she enters Nexus - Death was common as breakfast in her region. Raphael, her father, has huge plans of decreasing the war with his circus, bringing fun to people and to realize war is not everything. Yet, in one excursion, Marietta does remember her father having a huge argument with a random thug, later, she found her father - throwing black bags over bags into the vast unknown of the desert.
"What were they doing in Nexus?" With her party having miscommunication over a dead Pokemon, this question drums her mind. Until she can get answers for her parents' absence, she feels like she can't move on. Marietta scans the area, looking for some possible customer or someone to talk to. Meanwhile, besides Marietta, Jane starts practicing some ball juggling with Marietta's Pokeball.
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Post by getsuga on Oct 29, 2016 17:11:35 GMT
"What are you sulking for, girlie? Where's the fanfare to your victory?" The man Marietta talked to before calls to her as he finishes climbing down the ladder getting ready to leave. "I saw most of the fight and I just want to say thanks, both sides put their heart and soul in that deathmatch, I picked up some very valuable information."
At the pokemon center... Wigglytuff takes Mightyena's body and goes into a room. Chansey does work on Ace and Otto. Nurse Joy and Audino carry Gurner to a operation room somewhere downstairs... "I don't understand, but I'll see if I need to restrain him or not. I'll put him under sedation."
In the Nexus region, Pokemon centers have three floors. The main lobby is where pokemon health appointments are made, a Nurse Joy is always in present in the main lobby. Upstairs is where humans and pokemon are in recovery from serious issues, other nurses are present upstairs and Nurse Joy oversees all of them. Downstairs is the ER, where the nurses provide inital treatment of illnesses and injuries.
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Post by kurohagane on Oct 29, 2016 17:29:22 GMT
"Oh, I'm surprised you still remember me." Marietta hangs her head and sees the green haired man. Normally Marietta will go fanfare and starts doing what Jane is currently doing, but at the moment she just wants to talk. "I would say thank you. Our odds are even now, but the battle did not end the way my two friends... probably former now, wants. I'm more worried for them, both of them don't understand what they had gotten themselves into. What's going to happen to us?"
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Post by getsuga on Oct 30, 2016 19:44:17 GMT
The stranger gives a confused look, "I don't think we've ever met before, but you're playing this off spectacularly. You stopped the big bad serial killer from coming after you. Awful place to keep him though. For a second there, I thought you three were going to kill my associate. Him living or dying makes no difference to us, we still got a mission to carry out. Now if you'll excuse me." He folds in the ladder and waves goodbye to Marietta. On the ground, he sees the broken teacup He gave to her. "WHAT! How did I drop it over here? *ahem* You and your friends will be fine, if you don't get our way."
Later at the pokemon center...
Nurse Joy comes back with Ace and Otto's pokemballs. "Did that man do all this to your pokemon? Any further harm and they would be in serious condition! Also... we've taken care of... Mightyena. I'll contact Officer Jenny to see if he can be picked up for animal cruelty in a trainer battle. I would ask you to stay here for the night and rest, but the professor called and he urgently wants to meet with someone matching your descriptions. I suppose I can't hold you right; good luck out there!"
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Post by Trixander on Oct 31, 2016 21:23:36 GMT
"Thank you for understanding." Jace turned to go. "I just wish things could have gone... better."
Jace released Ace from his Pokeball. Double dipping in the Pokemon Center took its toll and they had to use standard bandages for whatever the machine couldn't get. "Don't you look just pathetic." Jace teased. He scooped Ace up and put him up on his back. He'd done enough work for one day. "What'd I tell you about getting hit? No more of that, you hear?"
"Come on Tully, let's get this over with."
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Post by madandy on Oct 31, 2016 23:19:32 GMT
Tully releases Otto, seeing him still hurt slightly from the attack. Tully looks perturbed by this before smiling slightly as Otto raises himself up, baring his claws and looking around for anyone else who might pick a fight with him. "Yeah, let's get outta here." Tully says, leaving through the front door and rendezvousing with Cassie. Since she'd been relatively uninjured and took very little time to treat, Tully had, against his better judgement, allowed her to wander a bit. Now she returned to him, talons holding some loose change she'd been able to scavenge. Cassie uses the Fortune capability to collect $133
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Post by getsuga on Oct 31, 2016 23:25:39 GMT
The two exit the pokemon center and head out of town to the professor's laboratory. They pass the generator where Marietta stationed herself.
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Post by kurohagane on Oct 31, 2016 23:34:24 GMT
"Doesn't matter, makes no difference." Marietta exercises her nonchalant right, giving the stranger a shrug. Their relationship remains the same whether he really remembered or not. "It'll bring trouble for both of us if Gurner gets killed, and I'm surrounded by pacifists." Marietta just lets the stranger walk off after hearing his advice. "Sure, I hope the day our interest clash won't come." Marietta curiously looks on at the stranger before he disappears from her sight.
Marietta quickly switches her interest onto the surroundings. Did the mechanics threw off any excess electric parts she can use? Any nice items she can find and use? She plans to pick them up, and quickly sprint to the professor to surprise the guys.
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Post by getsuga on Nov 1, 2016 1:54:07 GMT
The time is around 1:30am on the new moon, Jace and Tully arrive near the long awaited laboratory of Professor Spruce. What will the wheel of fate bring them? Jace knocks on the mechanical door and Spruce's assistant, Gerard, opens up to let them in. In there, they are greeted by a middle aged man in a labcoat, sleeping cozily in a rocking chair. A woman whose long jet black hair flows gently in the midnight breeze as soon as the door opened, though the current of air was hardly noticeable. She is wearing a long green dress that goes with her emerald eyes. She looks at both of you with a sharp stare. Rodrick is also alongside this woman on a couch.
"WHAT THE HELL!!! You guys took your sweet ass time to get here. Who are you to just flake on the professor huh? Neither of you look sorry about it too, if our situation wasn't so serious I'll have you as my test subject!"
Roderick's racket wakes the professor up, "*Chokes on drool* wahhh? Are our guests here? Thanks for waking me BEFORE they arrive Gerard. Really earning that paycheck..."
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Post by madandy on Nov 1, 2016 2:53:24 GMT
Tully jumps, initially startled by the woman's anger, before hearing why she's so angry and getting a bit annoyed himself.
"Oh, sure, yeah, terrible 'fus, really, makin' you wait. I mean, sure, we got attacked by some mook wit' a knife wantin' us dead fer some reason, nearly died and had to rush our 'mon to the centre afterwards but, yeah, you bein' made to wait a few hours is totally worse."
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Post by kurohagane on Nov 2, 2016 14:45:13 GMT
Marietta, hiding behind a tree nearby the laboratory, hears Roderick's whining and lets out a stifled hyena laugh at her friends' plight. She observes the whole situation from behind the tree, scans the area for the nearest window that will lead to the main building where she visited the first time. Entering through the front like a normal girl is boring, Marietta plans to enter from the window and spook them for a good peek-a-boo.
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Post by Trixander on Nov 2, 2016 16:11:06 GMT
"Yeah yeah, we're real sorry and all that." It had been a long day, and Jace was starting to nod off. Ace was already sound asleep on his shoulder, his bottom half tucked into Jace's backpack. It's not that Jace was mad, he was just too tired for patience. "And I'm sure that you have my payment, what with you being so concerned with punctuality and keeping up on promises."
Roderick aside, Jace had a genuine interest in the professor. No one really stands a shot at being the Pokemon master without being on a professor's good side. But still, the professor looked just as sleepy as Jace felt.
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Post by getsuga on Nov 2, 2016 17:29:33 GMT
Roderick grits his teeth. "The only thing you'll be getting is a participation medal!" The woman puts her hand in front of Roderick to silence his bickering. Out comes a gentle voice, "It's fine Roderick, as long as they all made it in once piece. We must settle our end of the deal before asking for more. You said there were three right? Where is the girl?"
Roderick embraces his child-like manners by crossing his feet on the foot table across the couch."Yeah, she must be out somewhere. These two don't seem to be worried. The one you want is the guy with the Eevee. For the stone."
The woman pulls out a large bag, rustling through it to bring out a octahedron shaped stone with a pinkish hue. "Is this the stone you sought after for so long?". She holds her hand out with the stone in her palm for Jace to see.
Moments later she breaks into a small grin and reels the stone back. The woman begins squeezing the stone with all her might. Breaking the rock into pieces and dropping the shards mixed with her blood on the table. "It's too bad because that was was a fake, there are phonies like that across all regions. It cost me a pretty penny as well. They're a bit harder to break than sidewalk chalk and they do nothing for your pokemon. It's also suicide to argue with the black market so there are no such things as refunds, scamming 101. But don't worry my team and I are still on the lookout for the true Evolite even during business, you will get your stone soon enough."
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Post by Trixander on Nov 2, 2016 20:23:15 GMT
Somehow that seemed much more reassuring coming from this woman than it did from Roderick. She seemed to respect him. If there's one thing that Jace could appreciate, it was respect. He held out his hand. "I'm sure you already know this, but I'm Jace Synod." Jace's sudden arm movement did nothing to wake Ace, who simply rolled closer to Jace's head.
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Post by getsuga on Nov 2, 2016 21:33:17 GMT
"You can call me Tatsumaki, just like Roderick I am also in Paradiso." She dips her left hand into Jace's palm as if she were a Queen; she lifts up her right hand and smiles to show the wound from breaking the stone. "That's not all you earned though, the professor wanted to have a word with you." Stands up from the couch and starts walking towards the door, "I don't have any information on any of you, at the moment. And if this girl is hiding as you say Roderick, it will not take long for me to retrieve her. I'm going to step outside and get some air." She swings the door open and her hair once again becomes one with the wind.
"I guess it's my turn to talk!" the professor jumps from his chair and pops the vertabre in his back. "I want to say thanks for helping me bring back my research trainers. I heard a while ago that you beat Ika, I hope she wasn't much trouble for you. She's a nice girl who plays a lot. If you don't have a pokedex I can give you one if you two wish."
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Post by kurohagane on Nov 2, 2016 23:14:38 GMT
Marietta makes her move, she feels that everyone has entered the door and locates the nearest window.
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Post by getsuga on Nov 2, 2016 23:52:22 GMT
Tatsumaki immediately notices the shifting of branches in a nearby tree. She chuckles a bit at the attempt. "The wind is telling me that someone is up there. Is it you, girl? They're talking important business. You may find it interesting." She puts her hands in her hips and waits.
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Post by kurohagane on Nov 3, 2016 1:11:22 GMT
Marietta gasps and almost tumbles. She quickly balances herself and sees Tatsumaki. She knows her gig is out, raises her arm and flails, flying into a whining complain that sounds similar to a child having her toy taken away. "Why can't a normal girl have the fun of her day? I've been in a very stressful day! Fine, I'll go in, through the windows."
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Post by getsuga on Nov 3, 2016 14:40:05 GMT
Tatsumaki leans on a nearby tree, "I'm aware you three have been through alot today, a gym battle with Ika and a quarrel with someone. But it looks like everyone is fine. There will be much more time for fun later, but eventually we must all set aside room for work. Us adults can have fun at times too. Go in through the window if you wish"
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