Topic: RPM POKEMON ADVENTURE THING

[Quickman]

Quickie took a few steps forward, ready to remove a detonator when she stopped.  "I'm not touching those.  If we're to remove them, we need to do it safely, and not touch the things.  Just by removing them, we could set them off!"  She folded her arms. "I've seen enough action movies, I know the tropes."

[Dr. Wily II]

As the group raced to the engine room, Dr. Wily II began to have delusional thoughts again. Perhaps he will get to punch Steiner in the gut after all...

[Ahrzayl]

"Aaaarg! Crap! What's...going...on?" Steiner Tried saying, trying to move.

He looked to see the girl and the new guy talking about detonators. There was only one detonator and that was his glasses which he apparently did NOT have. All of this was frustrating. Do these people know what they're dealing with? A specimen that belonged to Team Rocket, to him! Steiner moved with all of his might and finally made progress. All that talk gave him an idea. There weren't any other detonators but maybe there didn't have to be any. Ever so slowly, he moved toward one of the bombs.

"I don't need to survive! Neither do any of you! The only one that will survive will be the reports of your demise at the base!" He struggled as he reached.

Just then the door opened, light piercing the tension in the engine chamber. Ahrzayl, Julia, the Froslass, the other girl, and the doctor were on their way in. Steiner made his way faster.



At the engine room...

"Julia, hurry up!" Ahrzayl yelled.

"I'm trying! There are complicated locks on this door." Julia said, typing on a console at the door with everyone crowding around her. There was no other choice.

We need to get even, settle this score. Undo these locks and open this door. Julia whispered, making it look like she was still tinkering around.

The once shut door swung open with great force, jamming the door open. What they saw made them both gasp and Froslynn put her hands up to her mouth. There was Steiner and a room lit up by pack bombs. He looked over at them and still went for one of them. Ahrzayl ran in screaming.

"Steiner, you idiot! What are you doing?! What is this?!" She yelled to him.

The trainers were right, he was...wait or maybe it was the trainers inside who planted these bombs while they were sleep and Steiner was trying to stop them.

"WAIT! Ahrzayl, Steiner's trying to save us! These trainer's could've planted the bombs!" Julia ran inside away from the doctor and Sakura.

Ahrzayl stopped and thought about it. Would they really do that? Had she caused them so much trouble that they were trying to kill her now? No...no! But...where was Mewtwo? Was he behind the scenes manipulating them all? And if Steiner really had planted these bombs...could it still have been Mewtwo's doing?

"So...many..." Ahrzayl struggled to keep her footing.

Then her mother's voice played in her mind. My dear sweet flower. Please, keep your faith in these people. You true enemy is ahead of you. You must live on with trust for these people in your heart. The voice faded but by that time Ahrzayl was already dashing at Steiner to grab at him. Julia felt something in the air then disappear, noticing Froslynn mysteriously by the spot where Ahrzayl just leapt from. She rose an eyebrow and followed. There was still an amount of time before she could use another spell. They needed to deactivate those bombs and apprehend Steiner quickly.

[Sakura Leic]

"Dude most of us were sleeping when he told us to come here and try to blow us up!" Sakura shouted.  "And why the [tornado fang] would we blow up an airship while we were still on it!?"

[Quickman]

Quickie glanced over her shoulder toward the corridor.  "Honestly, I'm surprised Mewtwo isn't up yet.  He must've been really exhausted..."  She decided to use the distraction as a cover and make her way back to their compartment.  Mewtwo could disarm the bombs safely, but he needs to be awake.  Pausing just inside the engine room, Quickie concentrated, trying to send a message.

In the compartment, Mewtwo's eyes snapped open.  He got up and hurried to engineering.

[White-Jet]

Hierophant grit his teeth as the other owners of the ship busted in, one of them trying to reverse the situation to make it seem like the insane doctor was the one causing the problems.  Could she also be on his side, trying to off or take Mewtwo back to Team Rocket at the cost of their own lives?

There was a glaring amount of confusion drifting from their energy, indicating that something Team Rocket had said is boggling them into thinking it was all Mewtwo's fault simply because he harbors stronger psychic powers than every other Pokemon in existence.  If that was the case, there was nothing he would say that won't immediately be rebutted as another manipulative attempt at the poor, misunderstood Pokemon.

But then he started to notice Ahrzayl somehow unaffected by any confused claims or lies her own companions were drilling into her brain and continued to charge towards Steiner, intent on apprehending him and deactivating the bombs.  He had to say something to get their attention back to the situation at hand.

"Let's settle the dispute later!" he calls out as he goes back to using his Staff to identify the location of the bombs and means of deactivating them, "Right now, we need to figure out how to turn these bombs off before they do us all in!"


Back in the sleeping quarters, Merrick starts to sense some commotion down in the engine room and begins waking up the other Pokemon.

"Hierophant and the others need help," he coaxed, "Hurry and wake up!"

While Posu and Nega were slow to wake up, Synthis and Genbu sprang to their paws at the mention of Hierophant's predicament and rushes out of the room, using their own noses to pinpoint his scent and locate the engine room where he is supposedly in."

[Ahrzayl]

"Ahrzayl, he's right! These bombs come first. They're 4a.m.'s so they can't be physically tampered with once activated! We need to get them off another way!" Julia yelled to her while a force revealed the bombs.

Ahrzayl kept to the madman and grabbed him by his collar, undoing the spell over him. Enraged, she lifted him above her head.

"How do you get rid of these things?!" Ahrzayl yelled at him.

Steiner grunted but wasn't given the time too before he was thrown to the grown, almost being knocked out. Ahrzayl stepped on his body and looked intently at one of the bombs on the cylinder.

"Quickie, any ideas? I'm not trusting to give these things time." She looked over to her.

Julia and Froslynn were looking over the schematics of the bombs on her notebook. There really wasn't a way to release the bombs by hand.

[Sakura Leic]

"Ugh if only we can teleport these bombs away!" Sakura shouted.

[Quickman]

Quickie glanced out into the hall. "My idea is on his way..."

After a moment or two, Mewtwo entered the engine room.  "Get away from those!"  With a swipe of his arm, he channeled a Psywave between the bombs and the group, moving Julia, Froslynn, and anyone near the bombs backward a few feet.  He got up close to one of the bombs and examined it, then looked to Julia.  "I require a basic description of the trigger mechanism.  I may be able to remove these.  If not, however," he backed up and projected a Barrier around the bombs, "I can at least contain the explosion and minimize the damage... though the engines would be lost."

[Pyro]

"I wonder if Mr. Spook's Disable would do anything," Pyro idly mused. Mr. Spook could only roll his eyes though waved a finger at one bomb to humor his trainer.

[Sakura Leic]

"It wouldn't hurt." Sakura shrugged.

[White-Jet]

Hierophant found himself being moved towards the entrance to the engine room, looking outside in time to see Synthis and Genbu show up.  Unsure of whether a fight might ensue during everyone's attempts to deactivate the bombs, he rushes out towards them.

"Don't come any closer to the engine room," he calls out to the two grass Eevee and the miniature Continent Pokemon as he runs towards them and kneels before them placing a hand on their shoulder as a means to stop their advance, "The engine room's wired to detonate and we don't need any more casualties of their attempts fail.  We should wait out here until their turned off before heading inside and dealing with the scientist that created them."

Synthis and Genbu's eyebrows furrow in concern as they look past Hierophant and towards the entrance to the engine room, unsure of his decision, but knowing enough about explosives to know when to keep their distance until further noted.

Back in the engine room, Ryo watches Mr. Spook attempt to use Disable to halt the mechanics of the bomb.  Though he believes the idea wouldn't work, he still kept the concept in mind so he could use his Copycat abilities on the other detonators should the idea somehow hold merit.

[Ahrzayl]

"That's what I'm afraid of." Julia said closing a few documents and rearranging new ones on her notebook.

"Mewtwo, the trigger could be anything. It doesn't take much to build one into an object for every day use and could be almost any size" She said with despair in her voice.

Steiner was off in a corner, muttering to himself. Something about something not being free like it should. Paying no mind to him, Ahrzayl pondered to herself. Julia knew that doing a shipwide scan for the bomb's trigger would take too long.

"It had to have been a small device Steiner kept on his person at all times." Julia said, offering her pitiful last piece of advice.

[Pyro]

Oddly enough, Mr. Spook's Disable actually detonated one bomb, but it was a fizzle that packed the explosive power of a firecracker. The Gengar looked in astonishment.

"Gar?"

[Quickman]

Mewtwo nodded slowly and studied the bombs for a moment longer.  "Well, I can teleport these.  I can also destroy them.  And to avoid casualties, I will teleport these into the airspace outside, a considerable distance away, and detonate them myself."  He yawned and rubbed his eyes.  "Since I had finally gotten some much-needed rest..."

Quickie backed toward the door, giving Mewtwo some room. "Good luck."

Mewtwo nodded and motioned for everyone to back away while he focused the Barrier around the bombs themselves.  He took a quick count of the bombs that he could see, and concentrated on their placement.  He lifted his arms and held his palms outward, his eyes flashing blue, and the bombs themselves began to take on a blue glow.  "I suggest that everyone leave this area.  I am capable of withstanding any errant explosion, however most of you are not.  Take your comrade and vacate this area.  Quickly."

[Sakura Leic]

"Quickie it has to be his glasses." Sakura stated for looking at what Mr. Spook did.  "Wait a minute Mr. Spook I think you're on to something."

[Quickman]

"It could be a dud, for all we know," Quickie also noticed.  "Though... it might still be best to play it safe.  We don't know how many are duds.  And even firecrackers have force, and we don't want those going off in a freakin' engine room!"

[Sakura Leic]

"Right, anyway give Mewtwo the glasses, I'm sure that's the detonator." Sakura urged Quickie.

[Quickman]

Quickie handed Mewtwo the glasses.  "Here."

Mewtwo blinked at them and handed them back.  "Hold on to them.  I will remove the bombs now..."  He swiped his hand and one by one, the bombs flashed blue and winked out of the room.  After a moment, he held up his hand, palm towards himself.  "They are being held in the airspace outside, a safe distance away.  I can destroy them now, if you wish."

"Go for it," Quickie nodded, not wanting to actually use the detonator.  "I don't know how many more are hidden, so if you can get rid of those without us having to set them off, then go for it."

"As you wish," Mewtwo closed his hand into a tight fist.  Immediately after, the craft was buffeted by sharp turbulence.

[Sakura Leic]

"Oof!" Sakura blurted as she fell on her butt.

[White-Jet]

Ryo looks between the two trainers talking about the glasses, then the glasses themselves, and finally the detonators strewn throughout the engine room, pondering if his Mind Reader abilities could pinpoint any other bombs laying hidden within the ship, and which of them are duds.

Keeping near the entrance to avoid being a distraction to Mewtwo, he closes his eyes and focuses on the entire structure of the ship, sending mental ripples through the entire structure and seeing which one hits something similar to what was seen in the schematics brought up by Julia and Froslynn, transmitting visual images of the area they might be located in.  Despite the turbulence caused possibly by the explosion outside the ship, he continues to keep his ground.

The same couldn't be said for what happened outside the engine room, as Hierophant, Genbu and Synthis almost fell to the ground from the shaking foundation.

Back in Hierophant's quarters, the jostle finally woke Posu and Nega from their deep sleep, the Plusle jumping to her feet and whipping her head around in frantic confusion while the Minun moans and rubs his tear-crusted eyes.  Merrick, unaffected by the shaking due to his floating card state, looks outside the nearby window to see a faint fiery glow fading from the distance, suggesting someone had found the detonators and threw them outside before its plethora of triggering mechanisms went off.

[Ahrzayl]

Ahrzayl caught Julia and Froslynn before the could fall over. Snuggled in her embrace, Julia scanned the immidiate area for any other bombs. Luckily, there weren't any left. Suddenly, a red light blinked right on her position, even worse, it was somewhere on Ahrzayl! She dug around in Ahrzayl's shirt and jacket, searching for whatever it was. After a few seconds of patting down her insides, she felt a small lighter-sized device. Much to both of their surprises when she pulled it out, the devices counter was in the seconds. Julia looked into Ahrzayl's eyes and wrenched herself free. She took off down the hallway.

"Wait! Juliaaa!" Ahrzayl screamed to hear as she tried getting out the door.

The cobalt haired girl dove in a corner and tucked herself in as the timer reached zero. A few more seconds went by but there was nothing. Julia unbraced herself and looked at the green forcefield around her. This wasn't a bomb...it was a Protect barrier device. She looked down the hall at Ahrzayl in surprise. The stress however made her faint.

[Sakura Leic]

"What the hell was that?" Sakura asked.

[Quickman]

Mewtwo blinked, then concentrated for a moment, scanning the ship for any trace of similar explosive devices.

Quickie, however, cast a suspicious sidelong glance to Steiner, wondering if he has any other tricks up his sleeve, particularly now that Mewtwo was in the same room.

[White-Jet]

Hierophant saw Julia rush out of the engine room with what looked like the last detonator, but before he, Genbu and Synthis coudl react, the device burst into a bright light that quickly fades to a green forcefield.  He didn't have time to sigh with relief when the female scientist topples to the ground in a faint.

Gritting his teeth, he runs over to Julia and drops to his knees, placing Julia's head upon it as he holds his staff over her forehead.

"Cure...." he spoke softly.

The orb glows white as sparkles surround Julia, relieving some of the stress she had suffered since being woken up and sent down here to help with the evacuation of the detonators.