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Once More Into the Breach; Lex is on the move again
Topic Started: Jun 13 2012, 10:08 AM (1,090 Views)
DarthEevee
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(Don't feel like making a separate thread for this in Misthenge, so just saying I'm leaving the NC co-op with Eggy, claiming the mysterious yellow egg from adoption, and putting it into an egg slot here. Team remains Porygon, Rotom, Joltik, Snivy, Linoone, Aerodactyl. APL is 26.)

Yellow Egg: 1/20




"You even look at a puddle crosseyed and I'm going to recall you, Zig. Let's just get going." Lex frowned as she inched cautiously across the ice, trying to squint through the fog. Her linoone contrived to look completely innocent as he bounded off ahead, nose working busily. "And we are definitely going to have to do something about this bleeding fog..." she grumbled after a moment. "NAVI, Blue, let's see if that program we got from Giftmas works, hey?"

"Item Scanner has been activated." The artificial intelligence's dulcet voice chimed smoothly as a faint grid of sorts seemed to overlay reality as Lex pulled her glasses down over her eyes. "It seems to be working fine, within the limitations, anyhow. This location is wreaking havoc on all the directional sensors still."

"Well, it's field test time anyhow. Let's get to Mayriver, anyhow. See what's out there." Lex kept moving north cautiously, trying to keep her bearings and not slip and fall on her face while she was at it.




Travel Plan: Foggy Frozen Swamp, Frozen Valley, Sinklands 1, Soggy Hillside, Mayriver
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There was no initial sound from the Itemfinder, not did Ziggy find the scent of any items hidden in the ice, but it wasn't long after Lex had ventured into the fog that there was a sound of some sort, indicating that the human, Linoone, and AI were not alone.

Crying.

It was soft sniffling and sobbing rather than loud wails, but it was definitely crying, and it steadily drew closer until a vague, shadowy shape was visible through the thick fog. Eventually, the shape became more distinct as a jet-black pokemon floated toward Lex, hands to its face as it cried. A golden mask hung below its face; the mask was clearly of a woman's face, with a neutral, serious-looking expression.

The yamask didn't even seem to see Lex and company, still drifting toward them and sobbing. It would be easy enough to simply move out of her way and keep going if so desired.




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Edited by Vulpix Windchimes, Jun 19 2012, 02:05 PM.
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"You're sure it's on, right?"

"Yes, I am certain that it is set to one and not zero. Just because there is nothing to be found is not the fault of the program. It is also possible that this fog that you complain about so could be interfering with the readings." Lex glowered at the air, once more mildly frustrated at the lack of a target to glare at when the AI got snippy. "But if it were just that, I am guessing your fuzzy kleptomaniac would have found something to prove it wrong. Provided the puddles aren't interfering with his readings."

"Ziggy..." Lex groaned as she heard a few distant, distinct splashes. "I told you, no puddles..." Some trainer she was, couldn't even get a large furry maraca to listen to her. "I just wish this place would..." she trailed off, frowning a little, as another sound became audible through the fog. "...Ziggy please tell me that's you..." she said after a pause, and another, more distinct sob.

"Nooone..." The linoone suddenly shot out of the mist ahead and wrapped around her ankles, staring back the way he came, dispelling the mostly vain hope it had been him, and providing another momentary distraction.

"Hey! Get off my shoes when you're dripping, you're soaking my socks and I'm not walking..." she trailed off as the shape resolved itself out of the fog and drifted toward her slowly. Ziggy cowered behind her, watching with wide eyes.

Lex stared at the mask, as the sobbing thing carrying it drifted closer. "Whatinth'ell..."

"Yamask, the spirit pokemon. They're formed when someone dies, that mask being a depiction of their living face. They remember, too, being alive..." Navi called up the pokedex information in an instant, as it had already scanned the thing and recorded it.

"Wait, you mean that thing...used to be..." Lex stared at the feminine face. "It's..." She felt a bit flabbergasted as she studied the thing. A dead woman...dead, why?

"Probably once a human, yes. The war caused a great deal of death and pain around here, you know." Well, that was probably true, but...

"..." Lex frowned at the little thing, and backed up a few paces as it kept toward them, apparently not even noticing them. Ziggy chirped a little sadly, watching the ghost with a very uncertain expression. It had suddenly come straight at him, out of nowhere, crying like mad.

Still, that mask was kind of shiny...but she was obviously in possession of it. But crying over it. Maybe she didn't like it? The linoone crept a little closer. "Zig...don't." Lex caught him by the scruff of his neck and drug him back, still watching the ghost uncertainly. "'Scuse me, ma'am...something the matter?" If it hadn't been a lady ghost, she wouldn't have worried about it, but she wondered...

If it ignored her, though, so be it...she had places to go.




Trying to talk, I guess, but if it ignores me, we'll move on.

Travel Plan: Foggy Frozen Swamp, Frozen Valley, Sinklands 1, Soggy Hillside, Mayriver
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Edited by DarthEevee, Jun 26 2012, 08:12 AM.
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The inquiry in her direction seemed to break through the haze of misery, the ghost suddenly stopped in her tracks, metaphorically speaking, and pulled her hands down away from her face, revealing the red markings around little black eyes that weren't much more than dots. The ghost's long arms dropped to her sides in disbelief at the confirmation that there was someone here, and there was a silence that stretched for a few moment, broken by only a couple of sniffles.

"I..." Her voice came out in a squeak, and she made a sound like a throat clearing. "I-I'm not dreaming again, am I? You're...real?" She drifted forward hesitantly, reaching out an arm as if intending to touch Lex to confirm it, but catching sight of the ghostly limb seemed to sap the hope out of her and her arm dropped again. The yamask sank slightly in the air, staring down at her golden mask she carried.

"You...you have to listen...I'm not..." She looked back up at Lex. "I'm Private First Class Bethany Haskell of the OME Army division. I don't know how long I've been out here...like this..." Her voice quivered a little on the words 'like this,' her ethereal body rippling slightly as well. "You can't tell day from night here...or see the way out. This valley is Hell."

The ghost's words next came out in a whisper, and she wasn't looking at Lex anymore. It was debatable whether she was aiming the words at anyone at all, but they came out all the same. "I just want to go home..."
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Oh.

Oh, dear.

Lex chewed on her lip as the ghost's sad little story tumbled out, staring at the thing with a tiny little frown. "I'm as real..." Well, she didn't want to say 'as you are.' here, that would be like salt in a wound, really. "...well, as anyone is, I guess," Lex finished after the momentary hesitation. She shrugged a little helplessly, mentally flailing for something, anything to do that might help. Ziggy slipped over to the ghost, sitting back on his haunches and chirruping at her uncertainly, with a very obvious 'please don't cry' expression on his face.

"You're not dreaming, I don't think..." she hesitantly offered, again, then flinched at the word home. Right. Some people had those. But...that probably wasn't possible. Not now. This...lady, she supposed, probably didn't have a home any more. Mister Alien had probably already sent letters and everything. But...

"I...I could try to help, though..." she hesitated. It was...kind of her job to try, now. They'd both been in the Military. One of them still was. "I...can see what I can do, really. Corporal...Lex, OME Security Division. I'm headed for Mayriver. Come with me, at least that far. We'll see what we can do from there..?"

It was the best she could think of. There was no way the Private - former Private, even - could go home, she was sure of that. It would be too hard on the family. "I don't know if I can help you get home just yet...but at least you wouldn't be alone? And...you'd get out of this...Hell..." It hardly even seemed odd at this point that they were conversing perfectly ordinarily, but the whole thing seemed sort of surreal.

Very surreal.




Offering to at least try to help her get to Mayriver. Or something.

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"Mayriver," the ghost repeated quietly, in an odd, far-off voice, still not looking at Lex. "I've been to Mayriver..."

Bethany blinked suddenly, shifting slightly in the air so that she was looking down past her mask rather than at it. She looked a little surprised, only now realizing that there was more than her and Lex here, then seemed to give a small, sad smile. "Oh, hello..." She sank down in the air a bit, gingerly reaching a ghostly hand to offer Ziggy a gentle scratch behind the ear. "I didn't see you there."

After a moment, she rose up again so her face was level with Lex's. "Thank you...Corporal. This place...I'll try not to slow you down...sir." There was a slight hesitance on both 'Corporal' and 'sir,' as if she wasn't quite sure if she should be using them anymore, and another small ripple ran through her body when she finished speaking.

Once the group started moving again, Bethany floated along not far behind. Despite the hope that she'd been given, she looked distinctly fatigued, as much as a floating ghost could; she couldn't seem to maintain an altitude easily while levitating, swaying side to side a bit and occasionally dipping in the air only make herself rise again. Still, she managed to keep up for the time being, though she kept quiet for the most part and appeared lost in thought.

However, they wouldn't get too far before the itemfinder went off, directing Lex toward a Hyper Potion sitting in a nearby shallow puddle.
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Ziggy chirruped happily as he was greeted. "It's okay. I'm easily overlooked. I don't mind too much since I can get them to when I want attention anyway." Probably not going to help the poor ghost lady that there's ten-to-one odds she can understand him since all pokemon seem able to do that automatically. Though I don't know for sure, here. She might be subconsiously fighting that somehow for all I know or the being a human turning into a pokemon might make it a not-so-automatic sorta thing, as well. Who knows. He nuzzled her hand a moment, before bounding off again, sniffing around busily. Lex would sort it out. She was good at that.

Lex was never certain about the linoone's uwavering belief that she could fix anything as the badger was, but there wasn't much for it but to continue. So they did, a bit slower than before. Lex kept glancing over her shoulder, with a slightly worried frown, as the ghost bobbed about erratically, as if she was fighting with her own motor controls whenever she actually thought about it. Her lower lip got chewed on as she mulled it over. Probably, no longer having feet, but not wanting to admit such and thus further admit her own death caused some of that. Trying to walk without feet was kinda a problem, after all.

But it was about then that her itemfinder went off at last, and she looked up sharply as a small grid overlaid the world, with a blinking light off to her left appeared upon said grid. "Whoa."

"I thought you might appreciate the upgrade to utilize your systems properly. Most of the rest of the world may have to suffer with their inferior version, but I saw no need for you to have your own be held back to their level and all."

"Thanks, NAVI." Lex chuckled softly as she scrambled over to the dot, slipping a few times on the ice, before frowning down at a half-frozen bottle. "Welp, finders, keepers..." She hesitated, then glanced back toward her follower again, biting her lip again. And it was entirely possible the old owner no longer needed it, as well, after all...

With those not so pleasant thoughts to buoy her acquisition, she worked it out of the ice and pocketed it. She frowned a little. It might be easier for the poor ghost to head back to Misthenge, but she'd already had to retreat once and that ended in a rather spectacular fiasco she didn't really want to repeat so soon, so she was a little wary of that.

And it seemed inherently wrong to go about catching the non-human. Because she used to be human. "Lugia's bloody tailfeathers..." It wasn't quite a sigh, and very, very soft, almost to being inaudible. Stupid, useless compassion. Every time she thought she'd worked out how to get around the damn thing, it reared its ugly little head. "So...you wanna talk about it?" She eyed the ghost a moment. No need to specify what 'it' was, and really, she didn't care what the ghost chose to interpret 'it' as meaning.

She could just tell that Bethany needed to talk to someone eventually or she was going to tear herself apart internally. Came with the territory. Not that she needed to talk to anyone herself, no sir. She was just fine.

Really.




Yay potions!

Travel Plan: Foggy Frozen Swamp, Frozen Valley, Sinklands 1, Soggy Hillside, Mayriver
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Traveling companion:
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~ OME(?) Ghost
Edited by DarthEevee, Jul 16 2012, 10:01 AM.
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Bethany didn't reply to what Ziggy said, though whether that indicated understanding or not was up to opinion. However, when Lex spoke to her, the yamask rippled slightly. "I..." She made a sound that was similar to someone taking a deep breath, even though she didn't need to. "I wouldn't know where to start...Everything's still there. Who I am...It's...it's like I just fell asleep and woke up again, like always...but..."

She rippled again, particularly violently this time, and had to scramble with her hands to catch her mask and steady it on its perch before it fell. "My sister told me not to be a hero..." Her voice trembled, like she was going to burst into tears again. Metaphorically, since there was no sign from her earlier crying that she had any tears anymore.

However, she froze in place after that, save for a bit of swaying, and a moment later Lex may notice a noise coming from deep in the fog. The end to the frozen swamp was very close, and there was a sound of claws scratching on ice in the direction the group was headed. Bethany was staring out in that direction with an unreadable expression, but she'd follow if Lex started moving again.



Scratching noises. You can move into the Frozen Valley landmark immediately, but you'll run into whatever is making them.
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Lex reached out, as if to pat the ghost, hesitated, and thought better of it. If her hand went through Bethany, it wasn't going to help. "Lucky you, I was an only child," she said quietly, frowning a little. If she'd had siblings...really, actually, probably best she hadn't. That way only one person got fucked up.

"And really, I don't agree. The world needs heroes and someone has to do it. If it was what you felt you had to do, then you did what was right." Sure, her sister was out a sibling, sorta, and her family probably actually mourned her death. "And at least they cared about you."

It was out before she could censor it and she flushed slightly. What was it about pokemon (or mostly pokemon) that got her to lose control of her tongue like that? Really, it was stupid as hell, but there was no taking it back and Lex shoved her hands into her pockets and continued forward. No need to inflict more on the poor ghost and all. It wasn't like she had any idea how to help the thing cope. She couldn't even hardly cope with her own fucked up existence.

But she couldn't just leave Bethany here, either.

So lost was she in these thoughts that it took her several moments to register the sounds coming from up ahead, and that Bethany had halted. She blinked over her shoulder, then froze herself at the sound of claws on ice ahead. There was a moment of silence, as she stood there, trying to catch a glimpse of whatever it was, to no avail. The damn fog was too bloody thick.

The hacker looked back at the ghost as she hovered there, then down at Ziggy as he wrapped himself around her ankles, looking up at her questioningly. "Well, they do say face your fears..." Lex reached up to straighten out her hat and shrugged. "No time like the present, hey?"

She wasn't about to go around detouring further at this point, if she didn't have to. And whatever it was seemed important somehow. Probably not in a good way, but she wasn't going to let that stop her either. A glance over her shoulder confirmed that the yamask was following as well.

The only way to get answers was to seek them, in the end, so she would.




Yeah, I'm gonna die. Investigating the scratchy-sounds. Into the Frozen Valley I go!

Travel Plan: Foggy Frozen Swamp, Frozen Valley, Sinklands 1, Soggy Hillside, Mayriver
Itemfinder is ON!
Ziggy is ON! (Linoone, Pickup Ability)

Traveling companion:
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:yamask :fl Lv. 26
~ OME(?) Ghost
Edited by DarthEevee, Jul 22 2012, 10:25 AM.
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Bethany didn't give any response to Lex's reply, but the lapses of silence were probably staring to seem like par for the course with her, weren't they? What they actually meant were the mystery, but for now there were the scratching noises to pay attention to. They, naturally, got louder the closer Lex got to them, and soon it was clear that there were enough of the noises happening simultaneously that they couldn't belong to a single creature. Eventually, dark shapes started to appear in the fog; they looked maybe roughly twice Ziggy's size, but they were clustered too close together to tell how many there were. Soft hisses mixed in with the scratching as whatever they were communicated amongst themselves in hushed tones that Ziggy would not be able to pick up anything understandable from.

Then, finally, Lex and company drew close enough to see what they were. And, the moment they did, Lex's Itemfinder went off.

A group of sneasel--a quick count would put the number at eight-- were darting around and scratching at the hard ice of the valley. Shavings surrounded them, and they had formed a distinct dip in the layer of ice that made up the ground. A dip on the exact spot that Lex's Itemfinder was indicating.

Of course, being able to see the ice weasels meant that they could also see these newcomers, and they seemed to all react in unison, their fur bristling as they bared sharp little teeth and hissed loudly at Lex and company. It was a 'go away now' display and not a 'we're going to kill you and eat you' one, which was the bright side, but that was still a lot of angry little clawed things.

However, one of them rose up onto his hind legs a moment later, red eyes locking right on Bethany. "You. Mask-ghost. Get over here," he demanded in his native tongue, pointing a clawed paw at her. The yamask backed up and lowered in the air slightly, clearly frightened.



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Lex frowned as they neared the scraping sounds, glancing toward Beth a few times uncertainly as she fell silent again. Must suck, being a ghost, she decided. But there wasn't much she could really do about it, unfortunately. Which sucked even more. She hated not being able to do something.

When she actually cared about doing it, that was. A lot of the time she didn't. Which was probably why it irritated the hacker more when she did actually want to help somehow and couldn't.

Still, her thoughts didn't last too long as several shapes began to resolve themselves out of the murk ahead. Her frown deepened as the itemfinder pinged abruptly, a little dot appearing on the virtual grid being displayed over the landscape. Right in the middle of all the shadowy figures. "Figures..." she grumbled to herself.

She was quite inclined to go and follow the 'go away now' vibes, item or no item, if one of them hadn't pointed at Bethany peremptorily, causing the ghost to cower, or at least give every impression of it. "Hey now..." Lex moved quickly between the felines and the ghost. "No need to give orders around here to anyone. She's not your slave, leave her alone. You want help, maybe we could do something if you ask nice."

There was a slight problem with trying to negotiate, though. Lex had a way to fix it, but it was probably not going to go over well, but there wasn't any choice, really. A flash of light formed quickly into a shimmering snivy, who shuddered and swarmed up to her trainer's shoulder in the blink of an eye. "It's still bloody cold, you know that, right?"

"Yeah, I do. Sorry, but I don't speak pokemon. Could you translate?" Lex pointed at the sneasels as she watched them warily, ready to go for some other pokeballs if she had to.

"So..." Virus didn't get any further.

"Noooone~!" Out of nowhere, there suddenly was a Ziggy, bounding straight into the middle of the pile of cats, scrabbling away at the point that her itemfinder was indicating.

"...." Lex facepalmed. "Sweet mother of Moltres, shoot me now. Zig..." Blue exported himself to beside her a second later, eyes glowing faintly as he studied the pokemon carefully, ready to dive to Ziggy's aid.

So much for diplomacy. Virus still had a go, at least. "We'll help you get that out if you want, provided you don't tear us to pieces first." It was unlikely they'd listen, and she was prepared to hurl a storm of leaves into their faces at the first opportunity, for all the good it might do.




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Itemfinder is ON!
Ziggy is ON! (Linoone, Pickup Ability)

Traveling companion:
Bethany
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~ OME(?) Ghost
~ Clearly less than comfortable with the situation

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~ SHINY~!! (trying to dig the shiny up)
~ Will Thunderbolt first attacker if he is attacked

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150/150 :hp
Ability: Perversity
~ Trying to diffuse the situation
~ Leaf Storm if that fails at the Lv. 30 sneasel

Posted Image :gl Lv. 25
100/100 :hp
Ability: Download (translates to +1 ATK against sneasel IIRC)
~ Readying a Signal Beam at lvl. 30 sneasel if things go violent

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sneasel :ml Lv. 30
90/90 :hp
~ Ordering Bethany to come over

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~ Trying to dig something up
Edited by DarthEevee, Sep 10 2012, 07:53 AM.
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The lead sneasel glared at Lex as he was chastised, his red eyes glowing slightly in the foggy gloom as his ears flattened; it was a wonder that there weren't a couple of holes burned through the human's body. A noise of pure disgust erupted from his throat at the words 'ask nice.' Damned condescending human daring to talk to him like that...He silently bared a set of sharp little teeth at Virus' appearance, looking like it was only a great deal of self-control keeping him from ripping everyone's collective faces off.

And then Lex got to see what happened when an unknown pokemon dove into the centre of a nate of sneasels. Which was the entire group, save their leader, instantly descending on Ziggy like a school of hissing, starved piranha with claws.

"NO!" Bethany's voice shrieked as she tore past Lex, Blue, and Virus with speed she likely didn't know she had and hurled herself toward Ziggy. Ghostly arms wrapped protectively around the linoone as a shimmering barrier formed around them both, repelling the numerous slashing claws.

Encased in a Protect--and Bethany did indeed somehow manage to surround the other pokemon completely--didn't leave much ability to launch any bolts of judgement on his attackers, however, and the lead sneasel ensured targeting of him would not be necessary as he let out a bellowing screech of, "ENOUGH!" The other dark types obeyed and simultaneously scurried back away from Ziggy, but they fidgeted and hissed from their new positions, clearly still prone to snapping into violence again at the drop of a hat.

The leader, however, took in and out a slow, calming breath and looked at Virus. "We don't want what's down there. We want to get rid of it."

Behind him, Bethany's shield flickered out of existence and she slowly let go and hovered above Ziggy, silently pivoting in the air to take in all the sneasel around them with a fiercely protective gleam in her dark eyes.
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Ziggy blinked, sparking as a spate of snarling and impacts surrounded him, looking around in bemusement at all the sneasels rebounding off Bethany's protections. The linoone chattered to himself, and gave his best otter smile up at Bethany. "That's awesome,thanks!" he told her cheerfully, before going right back to digging at the ground. There was something down there, he could tell and he was going to get it out. He couldn't care less if things weren't trying to kill him whether they'd care at him trying to do something about it.

Virus was the fastest to recover, the nonplused expression at Bethany's actions vanishing even before the sneasels had finished their attack. It was replaced by her best poker face as she didn't miss a beat in her negotiations. "So, we'll get it out of here, then. If you'll let us, with no ordering anyone around."

Lex stared at the lizard, trying to figure out what that was supposed to mean. After a moment or two, she looked back over to the crowd of feline creatures and her own industrially digging badger. The momentarily irreverent thought that perhaps she should get him dig flitted through her head. "Wait, what? They want to get rid of it? What is it? Why?"

Lex, naturally, was more suspicious of just agreeing, but she wasn't necessarily going to outright argue. Deuce couldn't exactly breathe fire, but flaming fangs would probably be almost as good for melting ice. If they actually wanted to get any nearer to this business. "If this is some sort of voodoo curse or something..."

Virus sniggered. "Voodoo, really?" The snivy studied her trainer with a decidedly dubious, as well as amused expression. Lex tapped the lizard's snout, frowning at the grass type irritably.

"What? I'm just saying. I don't want to be cursed or some shit like that. So yeah. Why?" She eyed the sneasels a bit uneasily. There was also the concern that the damn things would try to force them to help, wasn't there? That was not something she wanted to deal with.




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Bethany blinked slowly, snapping out of guardian mode, then looked down at her ghostly hands. "You're welcome..."

The group of other sneasel managed to convey an emotion other than 'vicious' as they all looked at each other and started to sicker amongst themselves. "Human believes in voodoo," murmured one of the females, leading to another of the dark types to let out a loud guffaw.

The leader's ear twitched, and he briefly shot the others a disapproving glare. Not because he had a problem with them making fun of the human, but because, to him, this was no laughing matter. "It isn't cursed. It is a curse. A mask-ghost rose up from the ice and told us that what was down there would make a sneasel infinitely more powerful. Enough of our kind have killed each other over it. We plan to finally dig it up and throw it in the ocean."

He looked back at Ziggy and Bethany distastefully, and it was clear that their continued presence, or perhaps something else, was putting the nate of them on edge again despite the moment of humour. "If you want to take it away, fine. Otherwise, get out. And take him--" He jabbed a claw at Ziggy. "--And that--" He jabbed the same claw at Bethany. "With you. We're taking enough risks without distractions."

"My name is Bethany." The sudden forceful tone surprised even the yamask herself, and she floated back slightly when the lead sneasel turned to face her. She didn't stop, however. "Don't blame me for..."

"I don't." The reply was sharp, no less harsh in tone than anything else he said, but its content still made Bethany fall silent. He ignored the ghost's continued staring as he returned his attention back to Virus. "I just want this over."
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"You're being laughed at for the voodoo comment. And they say whatever it is is a curse that something like Beth there said would superpower a sneasel so people have been going to war over it." Virus rubbed her nose, eyes sparkling in amusement. "We wouldn't be leaving them behind anyhow, no worries."

"Well, they believe in curses too, then, so who the hell cares what it's called? There's a reason I called it shit, too." Lex shrugged a little, not particularly caring what the hell they called it. She just picked a random thing that was known for curses to say aloud, really. Unperturbed, she shoved her hands into her pockets, digging another pokeball out and releasing her aerodactyl in a flash of light.

Deuce screeched unhappily at them all, hunching his wings up a bit as he gave the fog an evil eye. "Deuce, relax. We're not flying anywhere right now. Can you just flame on where Zig is digging? There's something down there in the ice. Zig, get your furry butt back over here unless you want to be barbecue." Lex shrugged at the sneasels a bit. Ziggy bounded a bit reluctantly over to wrap around her ankles as Virus chuckled.

Virus looked over at the leader sneasel. "If that's satisfactory to you lot, works for me, anyhow." Deuce approached the sneasels rather warily, ready to retreat if they decided to attack, fire flickering around his jaws. If they let him, he'd bury his muzzle in the ice and chew away, as it were.

"Voodoo or hex or curse or whatever the hell you want to call it, I'm not fussed. I'm not a sneasel so probably doesn't affect me none. Don't care what it's called." Lex shrugged a bit. "You want to get rid of it after he melts the ice out yourself, no skin off my nose. Or I can take it when I take him and -her- out of here with me." Lex watched the feline things with a slight frown and her hands folded across her chest.

"If they jump Deuce to fight over that stupid thing, I'll recall him and we'll get the hell out of here and leave them to kill each other over it," she muttered in a very soft undertone to the porygon-z and snivy.

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The lead sneasel narrowed his eyes. "Clearly, metaphors get easily lost in translation..." On both sides, it would seem. He looked at Deuce warily, quiety sizing him up; Lex wasn't the only one who was thinking about what kind of violent end this could lead to, but he eventually stood aside and gestured for the beast with the fiery jaws to go ahead.

Bethany followed Ziggy in vacating the area, but the yamask's gaze was focused on a single thing: Virus. She hovered half-behind Lex, what bravery she'd mustered in acting the protector and standing up to the leader sneasel seeming to have faded, but her eyes never left the sparkling grass serpent.

The lead sneasel gestured to a few of the others as Deuce started to gnaw at the ice. "You lot, patrol the perimeter. Keep your ears open. We've made enough noise to draw something's attention..." They nodded and scurried out in different directions until they were barely-visible shapes in the fog. He nodded to the rest, who moved over to stand nearby him instead, ears upright and alert.

Melting the ice was indeed quicker than just plain digging, and soon much of Duece's face was buried in the ice. Whatever it was was down deep, however, and the irritated shuffling of the nearby sneasel and the shifting shapes of the patrolling ones continued as time drew on.

Bethany, eventually, broke the silence, albeit with a very soft voice. "Corporal...How did you get a pokemon from Jgsei?"
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"Usually are, I fear. And this isn't my native tongue either. My apologies." Virus spoke in pure pokemon that time. She bobbed her head politely, staying wrapped around Lex's neck to steal all the warmth she could, pretending not to notice Bethany's gaze.

Deuce pulled back for a moment, sneezing ice out his nose, not looking too perturbed at the cold on his muzzle. Ice Fang was another thing he could to, so cold lips weren't anything new. Still, this was getting a little frustrating, that he hadn't found whatever yet. He hissed softly, as Ziggy danced in place on Lex's shoe, watching avidly as the aerodactyl dove back into the deepening hole with an irritable screech.

"What?" Lex blinked over to Bethany after a moment or two, then looked at Virus. The snivy looked back, all innocence. "Oh...eh. She's not the only one I have, actually. Gremlin's also Jgseian. Caught that little bugger trying to destabilize the base with power surges with an army of buddies. We cleaned the rest of 'em out, but I kinda took a liking to the little bastard." She didn't release the electrical bug to show him off, though. Enough tension in the air already. "As for Virus..." She frowned again. "How'n the hell did you end up in the adoption center anyhow?"

"That's for me to know and you to not find out." The snivy rubbed her nose with one small paw, smirking slightly. "But there were a lot of pokemon from my homeland that ended up there, really."

"Right..." Lex looked back over to Beth and shrugged helplessly. "Well, Virus was up for adoption in the Digital Center and I decided to adopt him. He and I...have a lot in common." She decided to leave it at that. No clue if any of the pokemon had even noticed the snivy's gender, but better safe than sorry. And they'd agreed upon that. "I'm pretty sure Virus was hatched or whatever in Jgsei, so I couldn't tell you how he ended up for adoption. My guess is..."

Lex broke off abruptly, suddenly completely not sure how to be in any way tactful about the possibility that Virus' ball had been prized off one of the Jgseians that had bought the farm in the area. "Probably a prisoner of war sorta thing." The snivy was listening thoughtfully, head turned to watch Deuce's attempts to dig the thing out. She didn't add anything to the conversation, though, keeping mum on the topic.
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The lead sneasel nodded at the apology, seeming to understand. There seemed to be nothing that would budge that severe look on his face, however.

As for Bethany, she bobbed a little in the air as Lex explained, almost seeming a bit curious at the mention of Gremlin but remaining largely focused on Virus. "I...I hadn't realized that there were more outside of the valley..." She looked like she wasn't entirely sure what to make of this information at first, but she decided quickly. "It's good that...I'm glad they weren't trapped here, too..." There was a slight change to her eyes, as if she were smiling with them very slightly, but it was a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment. "It's good to meet you, Virus..."

Bethany then added, very quietly, mostly to herself, "My Zangoose could speak, too..."

That was when Deuce would finally reach the prize that the ice was hiding, and he'd pull his head back to find a chain wrapped around on of his large teeth. From it dangled a hooked, extremely sharp claw that gleamed slightly with what little light the valley had. The lead sneasel and those around him instantly tensed at the sight of it, eyes locked on the object, confirming that that was indeed what they sought.

And then, from out in the fog, there was a scream, and one of the patrolling sneasel skidded across the ice into their midst in a heap, bleeding from a massive gash in her side. With a loud whirring, a cryogonal followed, spinning through the air and hovering in front of them in emotionless silence.

The lead sneasel scampered over to the wounded scout, hissing. "Damn my brother. Damn him straight to Darkrai's gate."

More whirling sounds were audible in the fog, the occasional fast-moving shape visible, as more shrieks rung out.

The one right in front of Lex, however, was glowing. And pointed itself straight at Deuce.

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"So...other pokemon out there can talk too?" Lex looked over at Bethany with some momentary surprise, then frowned a little, wondering what had happened to such pokemon. She knew better than to ask, though. She'd seen Brightopolis go under, and they were standing on the aftermath of what happened here...it wasn't too hard to guess. And no need to bring up bad memories.

Not that there really was a chance to do so. Deuce reared back abruptly with a hiss of steam and shook the water off his muzzle, the wickedly sharp-looking claw dangling from some cord wrapped up in his teeth glittering slightly as she looked over at that. "What is that..."

And then, demons. Or close enough. "Fffff..." Lex snapped up Deuce's pokeball and slammed her thumb on the recall, hopefully taking both him and the odd object out of sight and mind to safety. Double weakness to ice was more than enough reason to get the stone bird the heck out of dodge.

Granted, that was a Solarbeam it was charging, but poor Deuce wasn't really all that tough and Lex had no good way of knowing what the glow was charging up. "Grems, Blue, knock it down, hurry!" She tapped the gauntlet on her hand with her other hand, growling. "You do what you do best to the rest Fubs. As best you can..."

"We are so fucked..." Lex hurriedly tried to bring up what information she could on the cryogonal and Bethany's new species. The computer crackled and abruptly the yamask wasn't the only ghost on the field, as a rotom let out a blast of energies full of confusing colored lights flung into the foggy shadows. "If you can try to burn the things maybe, I don't know..." the hacker added to Beth as she tried to figure out how to keep them all from dying horribly. "Leaves, Virus, not that they'll do shit against ice..."

The snivy hissed softly and flung a veritable tornado of grass and leaves with her tail into the dense fog, glowing slightly as it charged her up to do so. The blue porygon appeared in a flash of energy as he exported, letting out a trill, little limbs reaching skyward as if trying to call the heavens down, gravity increasing in the area as he did so, before firing a beam of sickly green energies at the ice creature. Gremlin let out a painful, earsplitting screechy sound as he scuttled over the terrain to sink his little fangs into the odd ice sculpture that Blue was in the process of grounding.

Ziggy hissed and crackled wildly, but held back, hovering protectively under Bethany, ready to rip up anything that came after her. FUBAR let out an unhappy sound as Blue's antics grounded her as well, sparking on the ground as she kept up the light show.




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Posted Image :gl "Blue"
Lv. 25
100/100 :hp
Download (should give +1 attack, uselessly)
~ Gravity, Signal Beam @ visible cryogonal

:joltik :ml "Gremlin"
Lv. 25
75/75 :hp
Compoundeyes
~ Screech, Bug Bite @ visible cryogonal

vs.

:cryogonal :gl
Lv. 33
99/99 :hp
~Charging Solarbeam @ Deuce




:rotom :gl "FUBAR"
Lv. 20
60/60 :hp
Levitate (disabled by Gravity)
~ Confuse Ray x2 @ the darkness the fog at the other shapes

Posted Image :fl "Virus"
Lv. 50
150/150 :hp
Contrary
~ Leaf Storm x2 @ the darkness the fog at the other shapes
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Bethany sighed quietly as the question, and didn't look at Lex as she replied. "Yes...It's not common...but all them technically have the potential..." She wasn't really inclined to elaborate, and wouldn't have gotten the chance with all hell breaking loose not long after, anyway.

Deuce was recalled, along with his prize, without any trouble, and, lacking a target, the cryogonal swirled around in search of a new one. The lead sneasel looked from Lex rallying her pokemon to the sneasel he had with him, to the fog. "Help the scouts!" he ordered the group with him, pointing a claw into the fog where FUBAR and Virus were aiming their attacks. They nodded and took off running.

The leader, however, remained, focusing on the visible ice type as he swiftly sharpened his claws. They were not retreating and leaving his nate to face the threat alone, so he would return the favour. Besides, he knew these things, had clashed with them before in this world of ice. And he knew what they were capable of...

The cryogonal found its most suitable target with rapid analysis and fired its beam of light straight at Blue, knocking him backward and leaving him somewhat scorched, before the great feeling of weight pressed down on it, pushing downward until its bottom scraped the icy ground. It still managed to pivot in Gremlin's direction as the high-pitched sound rattled it, and if it was possible for the snowflake's expression to look any more severe, it did in that moment.

A bit of shimmering, pink energy started to form around the ice type, and it was then that the sneasel lunged forward, eyes glowing red, and closed the distance between himself in the other ice pokemon. He plunged his claws into the forming Reflect barrier, and it rippled before vanishing from around the cryogonal and swirling around the sneasel instead...as well as all of Lex's pokemon. And Bethany, who looked stunned as it sprung up in front of her.

The sneasel darted back out of the way as Blue's Signal Beam stuck true, a faint scraping sound audible as the cryogonal skidded back slightly, but it didn't look too strong affected by the move. Gremlin skittering over to chomp on it with its little insect fangs was much harder to shake off, but still the snowflake stood.

Bethany looked down at her ghostly arms. "Burn..." Her eyes narrowed in concetration, and after a moment a little blue fireball flickered to life in her jet black palm. She locked her eyes straight on the cryogonal, then pulled her arm back and pitched the ball of flame right at it.

There was a hiss on impact, and a few wisps of steam emerged from the visible mark left on its icy skin, but Bethany wasn't done yet; she held out her other hand, her eyes starting to glow red as she recited words of some sort of strange tongue, and a blast of ghostly energy shot from her palm to strike the burn.

The Hex, or the lingering pain of the burn, wasn't quite enough to make the cryogonal pass out, however, though it was distinctly wobbly.

As for FUBAR and Virus' attacks, it was difficult to tell if they had helped, as sound of combat still raged from outside of their vision, though the frenzied screeches of the sneasel and sounds of claws whipping through air could be taken as an indicator that they were winning, or at least still in the fight.

However, soon one of the unseen ice types came into view. Being unable to float, the cryogonal rolled along the ground to its thoroughly-battered comrade instead. Many marks were visible on it, but it was still in better shape than the other.



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:lvl 20
Levitate (disabled)
60/60 :hp
-2 Eva
Virus
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:lvl 50
Contrary
150/150 :hp
-2 Eva
Bethany
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:lvl 26
Mummy
52/52 :hp
-2 Eva

:sneasel :ml
:lvl 30
Inner Focus
90/90 :hp
+1 Atk, +1 Acc, -2 Eva
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:lvl 33
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Virus, unlike all the other pokemon seemed to revel in the adverse conditions, skittering off Lex's shoulder with unbelievable speed, ramming the first of the cryogonals that had appeared. As she bullrushed past that, she kept right on going after the other sneasels, resisting an urge to cackle as she skidded over the ice, hurling another blast of leafy doom into the murk where the others were fighting.

"I'll never understand that lizard..." Lex mumbled as she watched this. But she had her own situation to deal with. Apparently, from what she could see of the attacks, these things were tanks in terms of taking all the beams and other blasts thrown at it. Gremlin sure knew what the hell he was doing, at least. Since they were both Jgsei mons and she was pretty sure her spider had been trained as an infiltration unit by someone at one point in Jgsei, not a surprise. "Blue, rest and recalibrate. Fubs, just keep at it. Burning is a good idea, I think, Beth, keep it up."

The hacker decided to leave the spider to his own devices, as Ziggy kept hovering protectively by Bethany, ready to protect her if he could. Blue rested in a tripod sort of state on the ground, having grounded himself in the process, recovering some health. FUBAR fizzled irritably from her own location flattened on the ground, before hurling a paralytic bolt of power toward the newest danger, before a shadowy wind whipped up, whirling past the latest beast.

Blue continued to hang back, eyes glowing as he began calculating and plotting how to deal with all this. Gremlin hissed softly before letting out an ear-shattering shriek at the newest one and pouncing on it, burying his fangs into it's crazed exterior. Lex kept her eyes peeled for whatever else might be out there as she scrambled for the bloody, wounded heap of sneasel that had tumbled into thier midst. She had a revive if the thing wasn't dead that might come in handy...



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:lvl 25
Download
44/100 :hp
+1 Atk, -2 Eva
~Recover, Nasty Plot
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:lvl 25
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~ Screech, Bug Bite @ Cryogonal2
FUBAR
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:lvl 20
Levitate (disabled)
60/60 :hp
-2 Eva
~ Tunderwave, Ominous Wind @ Cryogonal2
Virus
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:lvl 50
Contrary
150/150 :hp
+2 Eva
+4 SpAtk
~ Slam @ Cryogonal1, Leaf Storm @ another target in the mist
Bethany
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:lvl 26
Mummy
52/52 :hp
-2 Eva
~ Being guarded by Ziggy (Lv. 20 Zigzagoon, 60/60 HP)
~ Asked to keep burning the ones we see

:sneasel :ml
:lvl 30
Inner Focus
90/90 :hp
+1 Atk, +1 Acc, -2 Eva
VS
:cryogonal :gl (#1)
:lvl 33
Levitate (disabled)
8/99 :hp
:burned
-2 Def, -2 Eva
:cryogonal :gl (#2)
:lvl 33
Levitate (disabled)
50/99 :hp
-2 Eva
?????


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The lead sneasel continued to watch the pair of snowflakes. If he was right, they still had some tricks up their sleeves, and those tricks weren't going to work if he had any say in the matter.

The heavily-damaged cryogonal took one look at the snivy charging at it and did the only logical thing, which was firing off a beam of icy death straight at the grass type. Virus was left cold, with bits of ice clinging to her, but still very much able to unleash hell on both her attacker and the shapes in the fog. Meanwhile, the other started to glow with a healing light, which sent the dark weasel racing over the ice to, again, sink his claws into the attempted move and steal it for himself; the healing move did nothing for him, but it prevented the enemy pokemon from regenerating all the same.

The sneasel Lex scrambled for was indeed still breathing, and snapped awake as soon as the medicine from the revive started to sink in. She hissed and looked around wildly, taking in the battlefield, then looked up at the human who had healed her. She looked...confused? Expectant, maybe? Definitely a little disoriented, but hopefully that would wear off fast.

FUBAR's attack struck true, and the cryogonal wobbled in place as Gremlin's screeching followed. Another scream joined it, from the male sneasel, and the snowflake jerkily whirled left and right, calculating a target as FUBAR's ghostly winds tore at it to little effect.

It seemed to decide on Gremlin, glaring severely at the insect, but little electric mite was faster, and its fangs sunk into the crygonal's weakened hide. It fell over, like its partner, and lay still.

Bethany blinked, the fireball she'd prepared in her hand still flickering faintly. There were still sounds of fighting from the edges, but it had lessened significantly, likely in no small part due to the Leaf Storms from Virus. She drifted left, then right, looking like she was just beginning to dare that they'd get to take a breather.

Nope.

An even larger cryogonal came rolling straight for them, and Bethany reacted in a flash, instinctively hurling the ghost fire and a little blast of energy almost simultaneously. The snowflake's response was to stop and pivot to directly face the yamask.



Gravity 2/5
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Team Lex
Blue
Posted Image :gl
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94/100 :hp
+1 Atk, +2 Sp. Atk, -2 Eva
+ 0.3 :exp
Gremlin
:joltik :ml
:lvl 25
Compoundeyes
75/75 :hp
-2 Eva
+1.0 :exp
FUBAR
:rotom :gl
:lvl 20
Levitate (disabled)
60/60 :hp
-2 Eva
+0.7 :exp
Virus
Posted Image :fl
:lvl 50
Contrary
52/150 :hp
+2 Eva, +6 Sp. Atk
+0.3 :exp
Bethany
:yamask :fl
:lvl 26
Mummy
52/52 :hp
-2 Eva

:sneasel :ml
:lvl 30
Inner Focus
90/90 :hp
+1 Atk, +1 Acc, -2 Eva

:sneaself :fl
:lvl 26
Keen Eye
39/78 :hp
-2 Eva
VS
:cryogonal :gl
:lvl 40
Levitate (disabled)
95/120
-2 Eva
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Virus laughed wildly, eyes sparkling. "That snivy has some issues, I think..." Lex muttered as she held a potion up. "Should make you feel a little better, anyhow," she said to the female sneasel, spraying it on her to heal up some of the remaining damage if she didn't protest. "It's quite the clusterfuck, though..."

Ziggy snarled warningly, bristling and ready to charge if the thing attacked Beth. Virus started to glow, attempting to siphon health of whatever was nearest that wasn't an ally, grinning as she skittered about, presenting a difficult target. "I don't know how she's moving like that, either, ugh..." Lex grumbled as she stared after the lizard. Blue's Gravity was making her bones ache slightly as she moved around.

Gremlin wasn't about to break a winning strategy, letting out another earsplitting screech at the latest thing to appear before skittering over to dig his little fangs in provided he survived long enough to. Blue rose back up, a pyramid forming as he gathered energies to fire off a tri-colored bolt of energy to try to cover the bug.

"Fubs, mayhem!" Lex shouted abruptly, at the disgruntled rotom. The ghost fizzled irritably and fired off a paralytic bolt toward the large ice beast, before following it up with some confusion. Lex, for her part, fumbled fro a ball, just in case it survived all this.



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Blue
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+1 Atk, +2 Sp. Atk, -2 Eva
+ 0.3 :exp
~ Tri Attack
Gremlin
:joltik :ml
:lvl 25
Compoundeyes
75/75 :hp
-2 Eva
+1.0 :exp
~ Screech, Bug Bite
FUBAR
:rotom :gl
:lvl 20
Levitate (disabled)
60/60 :hp
-2 Eva
+0.7 :exp
~ Thunder Wave, Confuse Ray
Virus
Posted Image :fl
:lvl 50
Contrary
52/150 :hp
+2 Eva, +6 Sp. Atk
+0.3 :exp
~ Giga Drain x2
Ziggy
:linoone :ml
:lvl 22
Pickup
66/66 :hp
-2 Eva
~ Headbutt if it attacks Beth
Bethany
:yamask :fl
:lvl 26
Mummy
52/52 :hp
-2 Eva

:sneasel :ml
:lvl 30
Inner Focus
90/90 :hp
+1 Atk, +1 Acc, -2 Eva

:sneaself :fl
:lvl 26
Keen Eye
39/78 :hp
-2 Eva
VS
:cryogonal :gl
:lvl 40
Levitate (disabled)
95/120
-2 Eva
:burned


Lex is using a potion on the injured sneasel if she's okay with it, and going to hock an ultraball at the cryogonal if it survives the round.
Edited by DarthEevee, Feb 17 2013, 11:20 AM.
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The Cryogonal was pissed. Royal pissed, in fact. Not only was it fighting against more foes than it could handle, but it didn't like that grass-type. Nope, not one bit. Something about the Snivy's face made the ice-type angry. So the creature singled her out. It reared up slightly, then let out a powerful beam of frozen might. Needless to say, it hit Virus hard. Hard enough to knock the Snivy out of the fight.

Then the Cryogonal was plagued with status problems. The ice-type was still suffering from its burn. It took a nasty jolt of electricity that slowed its movements. A flashy ball of light hovered above its eyes, sending the creature into a chaotic confusion. All that was left to do was poison and freeze it and you would have put the Cryogonal through a world of torture.

The female Sneasel accepted the potion and flashed you a grateful glance. She rolled her shoulders as if stretching her sore muscles and tensed, preparing to leap back into the action. But for whatever reason, she decided to hang back. The ice-type glanced at Lex hesitantly. The male Sneasel hung back as well. The two creatures of the night exchanged a glance. There was something unspoken between the two, but they both decided to retract their claws. Huh. Perhaps they had decided that Lex's remaining Pokemon had the upper hand.

If that was the case, the two Sneasels were correct. Gremlin and Blue attacked as one. The Porygon Z stayed back while the electric tick rushed in. Just as the electric bug bit down on the much larger Pokemon, Blue attacked with a perfectly blended Tri Attack.

The Cryogonal let out a roar and bucked from the attack. After an obvious effort, the ice-type managed to float back up and zoomed towards Gremlin. Well, the creature zoomed toward what it thought was Gremlin. The ice-type managed to smack a protruding rock instead.

And it was then that Lex chucked the yellow and black capsule. The sphere smacked against the ice-type and sucked the creature into its depths. The Ultra Ball fell to the ground and rolled once.

Rolled twice.

Rolled three times.

And then a click! The bastard had been captured! With only a 42 percent chance to boot!

And there you have it. One pissed off Cryogonal was now in Lex's name. As for the Sneasels, they exchanged a triumphant look. The danger had passed!

(I'm actually not sure how the exp would work for this... :/ )


Team Lex
Blue
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:lvl 25
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94/100 :hp
+1 Atk, +2 Sp. Atk, -2 Eva
~ Tri Attack
Gremlin
:joltik :ml
:lvl 25
Compoundeyes
75/75 :hp
-2 Eva
~ Screech, Bug Bite
FUBAR
:rotom :gl
:lvl 20
Levitate (disabled)
60/60 :hp
-2 Eva
~ Thunder Wave, Confuse Ray
Virus
Posted Image :fl
:lvl 50
Contrary
0/150 :hp :ko
+2 Eva, +6 Sp. Atk
~ Giga Drain x2
Ziggy
:linoone :ml
:lvl 22
Pickup
66/66 :hp
-2 Eva
~ Headbutt if it attacks Beth
Bethany
:yamask :fl
:lvl 26
Mummy
52/52 :hp
-2 Eva

:sneasel :ml
:lvl 30
Inner Focus
90/90 :hp
+1 Atk, +1 Acc, -2 Eva

:sneaself :fl
:lvl 26
Keen Eye
59/78 :hp
-2 Eva
VS
:cryogonal :gl
:lvl 40
Levitate (disabled)
7/120
-2 Eva
-2 DEF
:burned :paralyzed :confused
Used: Ice Beam on Virus


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4 :lp (My general math gets me (assuming Virus' fainting takes her level and all out of the calculation to boot) .2 XP for all 7 pokemon that didn't get fainted, so unless otherwise clarified, I'll go with that, myself.)

Lex kind of stared at the ball warily after it went still for several seconds, only relaxing some the moment it flickered and vanished with whatever magic made an additional pokeball registered to a trainer with a full party get sucked away. Teleportation maaaagic...

Aaanywho. "Bloody hell, I knew she was going down, warned her, didn't I..." Lex recalled Virus' still self for the moment, as Ziggy reared up to try to high-five Bethy with a happy chirp, looking surprised when he passed right through her again.

Hopefully the sneasels would be a little less edgy with Deuce and whatever he'd dug up safely stored away in a pokeball in her pocket, but there was no telling for sure, so she kept a careful eye on them all. "You doing okay there?" she asked the one that had come crashing onto the scene and she'd patched up, as she glanced around, trying to find her other pokemon.

Gremlin scuttled over and clambered up her leg to perch atop her hat in a hurry, grumbling in Jgseian about the stupidity of the other pokemon and their actions, and Blue drifted over to check the hole in the ice Deuce had made curiously, chirping once or twice. As the gravity began to return to normal, FUBAR shot back up and repossessed the computer with an angry fizzle, quite put out at her grounding, and sulking.

"You too, Beth...you're okay, right?" Lex looked over to the former officer, a bit worriedly, as well. It might be easiest to 'catch' her and ship her over to the new Genesis base, but...it just didn't feel right, somehow. But she didn't want to leave her here, either. "You did good, Private, too. Thanks for the assist."
Edited by DarthEevee, Jun 28 2013, 10:47 AM.
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The fight was over. The sneasel seemed much more concerned in making sure their fellows were all right than the object they'd been fighting for. The female at Lex's feet twitched an ear and looked up her like she wasn't sure what to say, but gave a small nod and an affirmative hissing sound. She felt...decent, right now. Maybe still a little dizzy, but nothing a few deep breaths wouldn't solve.

Bethany was looking at the hand that Ziggy's paw had just passed through. "Sorry," she murmured quietly, at a volume solely for the linoone's ears. "I'm still having trouble...shifting to solid and back..." She'd just held out her hand, which would now be solid, for a low-five, when Lex's voice made her start and look up.

The mask-holding ghost blinked her tiny, black eyes once, and she mimicked the sound of a slow inhale and exhale. "I...y-yes, I'm fine...Corporal." A bit more quietly, but audible, she added, "I didn't know I could do that..."

She looked to the sneasel tending to one another, sharing weak smiles at the fact that they'd not only survived the battle, but had rid themselves of the item that had been plaguing them. The item Lex now had. She then floated over to Lex and the rest of the pokemon and hovered there. "I suppose...we're off, then?" she asked, a faint note of tentative hope in her ghostly voice.

It didn't seem like the nate of sneasel were interested in stopping them if that was their decision. In fact, there was a faint twitch of a smile from their leader and a respectful nod, before his attention went back to his own kind.

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Ziggy chirped happily. "'S'all good! Pretty awesome to not be touchable when you don't wanna be!" The badger didn't really let too much get him down and he was mostly just happy his new friend was all right...though he gave Lex a look that she ignored when Beth's startled reaction caused him to miss the now solid hand. He hopped over and actually patted her hand with his paw after a moment, just to have it done properly and then settled down right by the ghost.

Lex nodded, still hesitating over the notion of actually 'capturing' the private to get her out of this hellish wasteland (at least as far as the ghost was concerned). "Yeah, we should get going..." Lex waved to the weasels, making the executive decision to leave Deuce in his pokeball and not try to revive Virus either, even if she had some stuff for that. Gremlin and Blue could probably handle anything they might run into.

So, she headed away from the small pack of pokemon, leaving them to pick themselves up. One less worry for them, she supposed. But she couldn't get off the thought of Beth and one easy way to get out of here. "So...Beth. I...kinda don't like suggesting this and all, but there is a way I could get you out of here and back to base that much faster, Private..." She fiddled with Virus' pokeball with a slight frown.

"Being...y'know...that and all now, one've these probably would work. I'd break it once we got things handled and you out of here if you wanted, but...it would get you home that much sooner. But ONLY if you're okay with it. Otherwise, we can just get to Brightopolis and talk some more there about what we can do from that point on. I don't want to make you uncomfortable, Private, after all."

Lex looked over at the yamask a moment or two, gaze studying the mask she carried a moment or three, memorizing it, before she shrugged and shoved her hands in a pocket. "Just something to think about. I promise to figure out what to do next with things once we get to Brightopolis either way, Beth." Ziggy ranged right beside the ghost, protectively, smiling up at her encouragingly.
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Bethany didn't deny Ziggy's claim that her ghostly ability was 'awesome,' nor did she agree with it. Just seemed to ponder it a bit, silently, as they started to move away from the nate of sneasel and off into the fog again. A notable change, however, was that Bethany didn't seem be struggling with her floating anymore, able to maintain her human-eye-level height much more easily than before. Ghost equivalent of adrenaline still lingering in her system, perhaps?

Then she stopped right in her tracks and stared at Lex at the suggestion, just hanging in the air as the words and the full understanding of them washed over her. Her form started to ripple, making it look like she was trembling. "I...I-I..." The ripples stilled, but Bethany's voice didn't stop shaking. "I can't. I just...just c-can't...I...It...It w-would..." She turned away, not even really seeming to notice Ziggy's close presence. "It'd be like giving up that last little bit of me that's still...I'm sorry, I just can't."

She sighed deeply, still facing away from Lex. "...Is home even still really an option for me, Corporal?" she asked quietly. "Does anyone other than you even care? Or am I just going to be another military pokemon to them?" There was no anger in her voice. She just sounded tired, and like she may start crying, like she'd been when Lex first found her.
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Lex shrugged equitably. She hadn't even gotten a ball out for a reason. "Can understand that. no harm in asking, though, I figured. We can walk or the like."

Her comment about 'just another military pokemon,' on the other hand, caused Ziggy to stop dead in surprise, looking at Beth for several moments in shock. "Is there something wrong with being just a pokemon?" he asked abruptly, drooping. "People always complain about my family and how awful and common and useless we are..."

Lex stopped dead as her pokrmon wilted a little. "Zig? It's all right, really, calm down..." She was a little lost as to what the linoone was so upset about, but she wasn't about to ignore him.

Or what Beth had said, either. "Gotta be honest, I'm pretty sure 'home' in the sense of family is...probably not possible. Probably would hurt 'em worse to have you pop up like this." And she should appreciate said family if they hadn't been like her own...

Lex firmly wrenched her thoughts off that path, though. "But as far as the Military is concerned...I'll break the jaw of anyone that tries to treat you as 'just another pokemon...up to and including Mr. Alien General. Might take a few tries to figure out how to target that jaw, though..." Lex looked contmplative a moment, then shook her head. "Either way, I'll get you as far as Brightopolis myself here, and we can go from there. But I'll NEVER consider you 'just a pokemon. Any more'n I consider Zig or Blue or any of my other friends 'just' anything."

There was a fiercely protective tone to her voice that was unmistakable. "They're my family." Lex huffed a bit, then tossed a lopsided grin at the ghost. "Better'n my real one at any rate...we actually care about each other. You're welcome to stick with us as long as you like...until you find a new home, or something maybe."
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Bethany froze and looked down at Ziggy when he spoke, and she floated down to him to gently pet his head with one of her hands. "No, of course there isn't. Pokemon are wonderful. You're wonderful." For the first time, she didn't speak in english, but instead uttered ghostly tones of what was her new form's natural tongue. And she did so perfectly, seemingly without giving it any thought. "But pokemon don't have the same rights in society that humans do, rights I had and can't get back. That's all I meant..."

As for what Lex said, Bethany turned around at the word 'honest' and drooped at the mention of family and the very correct statement that she shouldn't see them again. "It's not fair...I'm still...I still..." she whispered, clearly more to herself than anyone else present.

As for the rest, Bethany actually wore a tiny smile, nearly invisible on her inhuman face, when Lex was finished. It was a sad smile, perhaps, but a smile nonetheless. "Thank you. I...This, the battle...It made me really realize what this made me into. I thought for a second that I was just going to be...trapped...again when I got back to the base." She sighed. "I was prepared to die, but not..."

Bethany floated closer a little closer, and tentatively reached a hand forward, but she just pulled it back again without trying to make any contact. "It's nice to know my options...That I have them...so, thank you, Cor...Thank you, Lex." She floated backward again and looked down at her golden mask, that little sad smile slipping away. "...You'd really let me stay if I wanted?" she asked, softly, a wavering in her voice as she seemed to struggle a little to say the words.
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Lex looked mildly sympathetic as Beth drooped. "Just best to be honest there, sorry. Life isn't fair, though...kinda sucks that way sometimes." She tilted her head upwards as they moved. "At least yours isn't all sorts of fucked up..." The mumble almost certainly wasn't meant to be said aloud, given her abstract introspection.

"I guess...I really don't get the difference, I guess." Ziggy managed to perk up as Beth explained, then grinned that otter grin of his at her when she asked about staying. Easily forgiven.

"I'd really like it if you stayed!" the linoone barked hopefully. Lex shook her head at his antics. She might not be able to understand him exactly, but he was awfully transparent on occasion.

She considered the question seriously, then shrugged. "For as long as you want to, yeah. I don't mind and I travel a fair bit, I admit..." she said and grinned. "And whenever you wanted to leave, I wouldn't stop you or need an explanation if you didn't want to give one."

Lex moved on, slowly, looking contemplative. "And I'd be glad to see you if we met up again. But, yeah. Let me know what you want to do and I'll do everything I can to help you get there."
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