Topic: RPM POKEMON ADVENTURE THING

[White-Jet]

Again Kojiro clears his throat, unsure of how to put this so as not to imply that Mewtwo may have been in the wrong with what little evidence he got so far.

"I believe that was Mewtwo's doing, but apparently it was because of some split personality problem living within the body of an old man who keeps calling him his son, and claims that an Alakazam was the reason for his split personality.  I was going to send a separate set of evidence concerning this old man and his connection with Mewtwo and that Alakazam I believe may be an accomplice to his shenanigans."

[Quickman]

Again, there was some grumbling on the other end before Domino came back. "Must have been Dr. Wily II.  He was one of the scientists on the team."  There was another pause. "What's the status on Mewtwo?  Did you find its slave?"

"Awwwww," Pyro whined. He was hanging upside down from the curtains, "I'm gonna miss ya."

Quickie looked into the room where Pyro was.  "Nurse Joy's orders."  She shrugged.  "At least until he's gotten a bit more rest."

In the room, laying on the bottom bunk, Mewtwo looked over to Pyro, only for the ice pack to slide off his forehead and hit the floor with a wet slap.  He started to sit up in order to reach it, but decided against it. "It had all but melted." 

"I'll get you another one," Quickie said as she bent to pick the ice pack off the floor, "and get you some water."  She looked to Pyro.  "I'm surprised you missed the explosion out there.  Mewtwo's completely spent, so we're not going anywhere.  At least not tonight."

[Pyro]

Pyro gave Quickie a confused look, "Explosion? I thought I was flying like Shazam!"

Another lightning bolt struck Kojiro with the same results as the last time. Pyro let go of the curtain rod and landed on floor. He pulled out a helium-filled balloon shaped like Mewtwo's hand and a vase full of flowers.

"Get well soon."

(...anddddddd that is enough of the Shazam joke.)

[White-Jet]

Again, there was some grumbling on the other end before Domino came back. "Must have been Dr. Wily II.  He was one of the scientists on the team."  There was another pause. "What's the status on Mewtwo?  Did you find its slave?"

Kojiro attempts to answer, but another lightning bolt strikes him, traveling into the comlink and screwing up the frequency.

[Quickman]

On the other end, Domino cringed as the speaker erupted in a loud burst of static. "Unh!"  She tried the connection again, still getting bursts of static.  "What in hell is going on over there?!"  Giving up, she handed the radio to another agent.  "Keep working at it until you get him back on line.  I'll try his phone later."

With a grumble, Domino sat back in her chair and checked the news.  No updates on the mysterious explosion outside of the Fuchsia City Pokemon Center, but reports of damage and witness accounts continued to pour in.  The Center itself had received the bulk of the damage, though other buildings in the blast radius reported broken windows, vehicles had been damaged by the shockwave and flying debris, and a number of people reported a tingling sensation and objects floating in the air just before the explosion.

Objects floating in the air.

Domino narrowed her eyes.  One of the hallmarks of a massive psychic discharge was the presence of objects floating in the air.  And with how the damage encompassed an area almost the size of a city block, then the discharge was truly something powerful.

And a defining characteristic of Mewtwo's psychic-powered temper tantrums.

Domino leaned her head against her hand.  That damage was definitely Mewtwo's doing.  Fuchsia City has a bomb hiding in their Pokemon Center.

She sneered.  Perhaps she could make use of this and turn the community against the clone.

[White-Jet]

Kojiro remains stiff as the walkie-talkie falls out of his handle, barely fried to a crisp as his hair goes through another unwanted transformation due to the bolt of lightning that struck him.

"Over...and...out...." he mutters before falling back into his bed in a momentary daze.


Merrick heard the lightning crash and zips over to the source, stopping at the entrance of the hallway upon seeing Mime Jr. holding a smartphone towards Mewtwo and Quickie's room, though it began swaying about, seeming enthralled by the picture moving on the screen.

The camera eventually settles on Merrick, causing Mime Jr. to giggle at the smaller appearance on the phone while attempting to move closer to the card, causing him to cringe slightly while trying to keep distance from the oncoming Pokemon, quickly leading to a chase around the Pokemon Center as Merrick knew any footage caught on the phone would be sent to Team Rocket for observation.

[Quickman]

Back at the base, Domino conferred via video feed with several field agents within the Fuchsia City borough limits, including Butch and Cassidy. "Today's explosion has been all over the news, and I know the source of it.  Several witness accounts have described a large, purple, bipedal Pokemon in the epicenter of the blast radius, and I have more accounts that it was hiding out in the Fuchsia City Pokemon Center.  As far as I am aware, it's still there."

She began to pace back and forth as she talked. "This Pokemon, as many of you already know, is one of ours.  It was an experiment gone wrong, and it is extremely dangerous.  Do not, under any circumstances, directly engage this Pokemon!  It has the ability to brainwash humans, and using those abilities, it has acquired a posse of trainers who would willingly protect it.  The link with one trainer, Lexi Shank, is so strong that it can affect her strength.  We have had to use physical force on this woman, and she finally went down with a stun blast that was calibrated for this fugitive Pokemon!  That Pokemon could summon its posse in a heartbeat, and likewise for its slave to summon its master!"

Domino stopped pacing and turned to face the cameras.  "That Pokemon has caused considerable property damage, and it can do it again.  What I want you all to do is to turn the community against that Pokemon.  Make them aware of what caused today's explosion, and where that Pokemon is hiding.  We will force it out into the open, and we can secure the community's help in capturing it!  Once the community is made aware of that ticking time bomb, they will stop at nothing to remove it!"

[Dr. Wily II]

Quickie greeted Wily at the door. "Hey, I was just about to come over to get that."  She nodded into the room. "Mewtwo's awake, but he's exhausted, so we're not going to go gallivanting after Steiner any time soon.  Nurse Joy's orders," she bowed her head, "sorry."

Dr. Wily II nodded as he handed the computer over to Quickie. Stealing a peek inside, he asked...

"Mind if I helped with taking care of Mewtwo?"

Joe had been looking at all the gathered information with regards to the explosion at Fuschia City. All the reports indeed were pointing at Mewtwo as the culprit. Still, unleashing its powers in the open? Mewtwo must be getting desparate, Joe thought to himself.

After Domino's orders seemingly stopped, Joe stepped forward, and suggested...

"Madam... How about I go to Fuschia City undercover as well? I doubt any one of Mewtwo's slaves would know me, so I can easily inflirate their ranks."

[Quickman]

Domino gave a curt nod.  "If you think you can get close enough to flush it out into the open, by my guest.  Just do not attempt to engage it in combat.  And don't let it get into your head.  Whatever it tells you, ignore it."

Dr. Wily II nodded as he handed the computer over to Quickie. Stealing a peek inside, he asked...

"Mind if I helped with taking care of Mewtwo?"

Quickie nodded and invited him inside.  "Sure.  He's just got a fever, and the main challenge is just getting him to actually rest."  She shrugged.  "I was out cleaning up, and when I came back, he was out of bed, pacing."  She walked over to the small, closet-sized bathroom and dumped the melted contents of the ice pack down the sink, then busied herself with refilling it with crushed ice from the ice bucket.  Walking back to the bunk, she handed the ice pack to Mewtwo.

"Tomorrow, perhaps we can resume the search," Mewtwo settled back into the bunk and swished his tail. "Particularly since the ship had left behind a rather large tunnel.  It should be simple to follow."

"We'll worry about it when we get to it," Quickie nodded. "Right now, though, you need to rebuild your strength."  She gestured to the door. "I'm going to go down to the cafeteria, bring up something to eat.  You want anything?"

[Mirby]

Taylor's Pokémon appeared back in her room, and she wasted no time in releasing them from their balls. "Sorry y'all had to be cooped up in there, but hey, y'all are healed, right?" Kovu tackled her unexpectedly and looked her right in the eyes. "Okay okay, no need for that..." she said. He grunted and leapt off to go clean himself in the corner of the room. Darunia glared at her for a second before joining Kovu in the corner, and Bobert just hopped around without a care in the world. Taylor sighed. "What am I ever going to do with you guys..." she mused aloud.

[White-Jet]

After running around the Center for a while, trying to outrun the gleefully childish Mime Jr., Merrick notices Kojiro's door was left open a crack and rushes inside, pinning his back to the wall and waiting for the baby Pokemon to flounder in while looking around, confused.  At this, he quickly slips around the door and flips over, using his tangible strength to push the door closed.

The noise snapped Kojiro back to his senses as he sits up.

"Wah!  I wasn't sleeping!"

He then sees Mime Jr. giggling before him while waving the camera around, enjoying the streaks it was making.  Irritated, he snatches the phone back.

"We have important Team Rocket business to take care of!" he grumbles, "Domino will have our ranks if we don't do as she says!"

He then pushes the door back open and peaks outside, completely unaware that Merrick was on the other side, picture facing outward as he sensed him look around for anyone else near Mewtwo's room.

[Dr. Wily II]

Domino gave a curt nod.  "If you think you can get close enough to flush it out into the open, by my guest.  Just do not attempt to engage it in combat.  And don't let it get into your head.  Whatever it tells you, ignore it."

Joe saluted. "I will not disappoint you Madam! I will prove myself with this missio!" With that, he marched out. His first field mission... What the hell was he thinking!?

Quickie nodded and invited him inside.  "Sure.  He's just got a fever, and the main challenge is just getting him to actually rest."  She shrugged.  "I was out cleaning up, and when I came back, he was out of bed, pacing."  She walked over to the small, closet-sized bathroom and dumped the melted contents of the ice pack down the sink, then busied herself with refilling it with crushed ice from the ice bucket.  Walking back to the bunk, she handed the ice pack to Mewtwo.

"Tomorrow, perhaps we can resume the search," Mewtwo settled back into the bunk and swished his tail. "Particularly since the ship had left behind a rather large tunnel.  It should be simple to follow."

"We'll worry about it when we get to it," Quickie nodded. "Right now, though, you need to rebuild your strength."  She gestured to the door. "I'm going to go down to the cafeteria, bring up something to eat.  You want anything?"

Dr. Wily II pulled up a chair and set it beside the bunk bed. He sat down into it, and lightly smacked Mewtwo on the arm. "You need your rest. You overexerted yourself while still recovering. We all do not want to see you collapse due to overexertion again. I believe the others are already on the case, so don't worry. Just rest."

[Ahrzayl]

Ahrzayl sat outside the pokemon center, curled up. She didn't budge to anything that happened inside, she had her mind on other things. As she looked up into the night sky, sne wandered what Julia might be going through but hopefully she escaped. Hopefully. She shook her head as bad thoughts started to creep in and watched the stars. They needed to do something about Steiner and she knew he was up to something. The same person she thought she knew, who she thought was her friend was really out to get her from the beginning. Team Rocket was never obsessed with her, it was all Steiner's doing. Ahrzayl shook her head again, throwing away all of their memories and looked to the moon. For all the things that had happened lately, it was at least  a nice night. Her eyes were focused on the big full moon and couldn't seem to turn away. She remembered Steiner's talk about who she really was and became even more entranced. Suddenly, her heart skipped a beat. There was no way she was about to turn into a giant monkey like those guys in that Dargon Orb X anime. The feeling subsided and she blinked, trailing her eyes back toward the ground. What she saw before her she couldn't believe: A Clefairy! It stood there and looked at her for a good while before smiling. Ahrzayl couldn't help but feel somehow attached to this pokemon. The pokemon rose its hand and as if in sync, Ahrzayl's hand rose as well. At this time, her mind was gone, seemingly under the control of the pokemon. In perfect motion, the Clefairy waggled it's finger and as did Ahrzayl. Her hair and eyes glew to a bright pink, her finger glowing to white. Everyone's vision near the center would slowly dim to a pitch black then in a few moments later would return to normal. Once the effects wore off, Ahrzayl fell to the side and passed out. Trying not to, she kept trying to keep her eyes open, which each close the Clefairy would fade away even more. Ahrzayl caught one more glimpse of the pokemon before she blacked out. What just happened?

[Dr. Wily II]

(A GIANT GOLDEN PRIMEAPE)

[White-Jet]

Merrick soon noticed everyone in the Center stopping in their tracks, looking like they had zoned out for a few moments.  He quickly sensed it was coming from outside and flew towards the source, barely missing the sliding doors as another trainer was coming in, to find Ahrzyal passed out nearby.

Unsure of what to make of the situation, he flies closer to her passed out figure trying to get a better gauge of her emotional energy to see just how out of it she was.

[Quickman]

After a while, Quickie returned to her room with an armload of food from the cafeteria.  "Okay, sandwiches and soda for us, soup and crackers for Mewtwo, and sorry it took me so long, I had trouble deciding what to get."  She put the food on a bench and dragged it over to the bunk. 

Mewtwo sat up and motioned toward the food, the covered styrofoam bowl lifting off the bench and moving through the air before Quickie grabbed it.

"No using your powers, either," she handed the bowl and a spoon to Mewtwo. "You need to rebuild your strength and you can't do that if you expend energy on niggly things."  Quickie helped herself to a sandwich, then made her way to an empty chair, turning on the TV while she was at it. "We need some distraction in here."

"--authorities are still looking for the cause of this morning's explosion outside of the Pokemon Center," the program was obviously an in-progress news report. "Several trainers within the vicinity suffered minor injuries from flying debris, and it's assumed that there are many more, though they have yet to come forward.  Police are questioning eyewitnesses in regards to what caused the explosion, and several trainers have stated that it may have been psychic in nature..."

Quickie rolled her eyes. "This has been Plot Convenience News."

[Dr. Wily II]

"... Let's change the channel, shall we?" Dr. Wily II grabbed the remote, and changed the channel. The new channel also had a breaking news segment.

"-large hole in Route 14. No one knows who made it, but there were reports of seismic activity in the vincity. Could this hole be related to what happened in Fuschia City?"

Dr. Wily II facepalmed.

[Quickman]

"As long as no one finds out who did it, we should be in the clear," Quickie looked to Mewtwo. "Were you seen?"

"Undoubtedly," Mewtwo nodded, "however, I doubt many would be able to identify me."

Quickie nodded and took a bite of her sandwich. "I think if we stay here for a while, then head out when you're well enough, no one should be able to connect us to either incident."

[Dr. Wily II]

"I hope so too... But you can never be too sure sometimes..." Dr. Wily II rubbed his chin.

In a stealth helicopter over Fuschia City, Joe was doing some final preparations before disembarking. His first mission in the field, and it was to get close to Mewtwo... Hovering over Route 14, near the giant hole, Joe parachuted down, and landed into some bushes, out if sight from any pesky reporters. When he emerged, he was sporting a blue cap, a yellow singlet, and blue bermudas. Adjusting his cap, he slowly made his way towards the gate connecting Route 14 and Fuschia City.

[Quickman]

Unfortunately for Joe, just as he reached the gate, a group of reporters had spotted him and came jogging over.  The team consisted of a cameraman and a journalist, and their station logo marked them as being from an affiliate located in a different city. 

"Sir!  Sir!  Excuse me, sir!" the woman jogged over, "could I have a word with you regarding today's incidents?  Were you present for the early-morning tremors?  Did you know about the sinkhole on Route 14?  Do you believe that it may have been related to the explosion that happened afterward?  What are your thoughts on the situation?  Are you aware of the extent of damage?  Have you heard anything about what may have caused this?"  After her rapid-fire questions, she shoved the microphone under Joe's nose while the cameraman focused on him.

[Dr. Wily II]

Joe panicked as he was caught unawares by the female reporter. Frantically trying to escape from the two, he unbuckled a PokeBall from his belt, and thrusted it right into the camera. "My name is Joey! Want to see my top percentile Rattata!?"

[Quickman]

The woman seemed puzzled.  She put down her microphone and motioned to her cameraman. "Let's go.  He's not local."  With that, the reporters zeroed in on another hapless trainer, bombarding him with questions.

[Pyro]

Meanwhile, Pyro had disappeared from the Pokecenter with everyone's eyes on the TV. He had decided to go check out what big deal over Route 14 was about, I mean, how much trouble could he get into? That is when he ran afoul of the reporter and her cameraman. The only answer he would give her was, "I like Squirtles!"

[Quickman]

The woman's shoulders slumped in irritation.  "Let's go, Carlos.  See if we can't find anything at the Center."  She headed for their news van, Carlos the cameraman following close behind.

[Pyro]

(Heh, I wonder if anyone noticed if Pyro is missing. I do not think the world is safe with him running around unsupervised. )