The SHADOW Team

I stood there in wait. For what? I don't know. I heard a slight noise and turned around. Nothing... I scowled and shot a Magical Leaf attack. I couldn't see it but I was able to hit it, Magical Leaf hones in on the target. I then refocused on the matter at hand. Staying or going. Outside was pure desert... Inside was probably a herd of infected... I stepped out of the lab. I had no idea what to do. I took a deep breath and screamed. "HELLOOOOOO??? IS ANYONE THERE???"

A dim light cast onto the walls of the building as I trudged through the dirt and around the dark, dirty building. The blades of sparce grass pricked at my scaled pads as the dirt went up in puffs around my feet. I looked up and into the barely lighted darkness, and nothing was clearly visible besides the few feet in front of me. I could have leaped out of my skin from the roar of the new, suddenly harsh voice.

"HELLOOOOOO??? IS ANYONE THERE???"

It sounded so very close! I wrenched my eyes shut, and cowered before turning on a foot to run silently away. This obviously wasn't a nice pokemon.... I felt my feet slightly sink into the soft sand as I padded quickly away. Blast my shyness! But then again, this pokemon didn't sound too friendly. My orange toes sunk in lighter as I stopped running, and came to a rock. There was a small hollow under a rock that was just deep enough to let air through and enough to keep my fire from suffocating. Afraid of being seen, I put the tip of my crackling flame-tail into the cavern, dimming the light even more around my body. I wanted to be devoid of detection.

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(OoC: First person post. ^^ I don't plan to make this too big of a habit. >w> I'm mostly a third person kind of writer. And FIRST POST IN SHADOW!! :D Glad to be here, guys. <3)

((OOC: So.. I'm not sure where my turn is now, but I'll just say McChu just went after Picard's fluffy tail, thinking it was a girl's. Bye guys, it was fun!))

Outside Shadow Lab | Night(1)

Alex walked slowly. He was tired form walking, and his arm was burning from his injuries. He was in pain. He looked around. There was no one, Just a building. Could anyone be inside of it? Alex thought to himself. He thoughts were starting to be more vague.

"What is happening to me!" He roared in anger and pain. "Brother, why did you do this to me?!" He was enraged. He walked up to the building and punched it. His metal fists were driving large dents into the walls. He roared again.

Could anyone be inside of this building? He couldn't really think clearly, especially after his brother attacked him. He clawed the side of his own head in frustration. He roared again, and readied his steel tail to attack. He swung it into the side of the building, ripping through the steel and brick like it was only wood.

He walked through the recently torn hole in the building. He looked around. There was no one. Even if they were, they probably would have been frightened off by the banging sound of steel crushing door. Pain started burning wildly in the side of its arm. He yelled in pain, and fell over forwards. He grabbed the side of his arm and dug his steel claws into it. He felt no pain from them only the burning feeling...the infection.

"Somebody help me!"

Gluttony stood across the hall from the tropius, it then turned and shot magical leaves at him. They homed in and began cutting him up, already weakened by the stone edge it easily sliced through his leg. He turned a light blue color and began crawling through to the tropius.

(it's gonna take a bit for gluttony to get to you)

A dim light glowed in the distance. Oh! A fire Pokémon. Cav thought. The light quickly diminished. A shy fire Pokémon. Well, there's no need to be shy, I'm not harmful! He turned, seeing a light-blue shape, probably the lizard the rat was talking about, then decided to fly over to the glow. It wasn't very easy to see in this pitch-black darkness. He stopped when he heard a loud thumping noise coming from the lab. An infected Aggron had been tearing up the wall. There was also a Crobat standing at the door. He resumed his flight until finding the Charmeleon. She looked pretty young, surprising to see a Pokémon so young-looking in a wasteland like this. "Hey, kid. It's OK, I won't hurt you..." He looked over his shoulder. "... But they might. There's a crazy Aggron, a color-changing lizard, and an enourmous Crobat at the lab. It's not somewhere you'd want to be alone."

Vortex looked around in the darkness. She then heard flapping as something large hit the ground. She nearly fell of the rock she was sitting on in pure surprise and from the shaking ground. But she caught herself, and her flame came out of the rock she hid it in. She then was visible in the dim light of her fire, and she looked up to the Tropius. She stood completely still. This was a grass type but it was so much bigger than her.... She stood completely still, then it spoke to her softly.


"Hey, kid. It's OK, I won't hurt you... ... But they might. There's a crazy Aggron, a color-changing lizard, and an enormous Crobat at the lab. It's not somewhere you'd want to be alone."

Vortex looked up at the Tropius with huge eyes, then to the ground. Her face just covered with surprise and fear, she didn't even know how to react. "Infected? I can handle that but..." she seemed to look around the Tropius and to the invisible Crobat. It muttered just loud enough for her to hear.

"Hello?"

"Hello?" Vortex called in her usual, quiet but projecting voice. Her voice was surprisingly deep and smooth for what she seemed to look like; young. She looked up to the Tropius and nodded.
"I.... I will stay with you for the time being...." Vortex said, then motioned with her spiked head, "Let's go find whoever said that.... That wasn't an undead as far as I could tell...." Vortex started to slightly run ahead to where the voice came from, her tail bouncing like a ghost light.

(Alucard is in the safe house, so i suppose its my turn)


Shadow lab | night(2)

When the pain started to fade away, Alex got up and stepped through the hole that he made in the building wall. It was dark and quite and such. There appeared to be no one here at the moment. He walked around blindly for a bit, and then stumbled into a wall, or at least his non-functional mind thought it was a wall. It was some sort of shelf, and when he crashed into it, it fell over on besides him.
"Stupid wall..." He growled as he stepped on the shelf and crushed it. Some random papers flew out of the way from the force of the impact. He looked at them and picked some up. They were full of human writing, or something else that couldn't be read. He stared at it blankly, and then shredded it between his metal claws. Another paper was stained with blood. Nothing else. He shredded this one as well. The last page happened to be a photo, or some sort of sketch of a pokemon. Just as the other, it was bloody. It appeared to be something of a dinosaur-like origin. It looked much like himself. And it appeared to be fighting some other unrecognizable thing.
It frustrated him. Could it be the thing that attacked his family-or even worse-could it be himself? He dug his claws into the floor. Was this what he was meant to do? To fight? To kill?
He sighed. It couldn't be. He hadn't done anything like that. He tossed the picture on the floor.
Something scuttled around on the floor. Some bug pokemon.
He felt a sudden urge to kill it. He couldn't resist. It was as if something was controlling him, as he stepped on it, crushing its tiny, helpless body, as its fresh blood washed over his foot claws.
He then became somewhat conscious of what he had done.
"I was really meant to do this..."
He walked around sadly, and then he sat down on the floor, facing an empty corner, and he was determined to think about what he had done...

((Gluttony crawl, I do nothing))

(Skip- I wrote something but it got deleted and now I don't feel like rewriting it. Cav trails after Vortex.)

Vortex continued to run forward, feeling the sand between her toes. She still wondered about how Rowan was doing. "I hated to leave him like that, now that I'm over my sudden fear...." she thought. She finally hit the edge of the lab and looked around in her dim tail fire. She looked around for the Crobat, then finally spotting it.
"Hello...?" she tried to talk with it. It didn't look like one of those infected. She glanced around and looked for the Tropius, making sure it was around before she stepped into the open.

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(OoC: Sorry for the short post. I'm having a bit of writers block with this. ;_;)

Shadow Lab | Night (3)

Alex woke up, and rolled over. Somehow, he must have fell asleep, he couldn't remember. He stood up and looked about. It was still dark-nighttime. There was no one around. He stumbled around the building's rooms and halls, looking for anyone who could be around, any living, or his older brother. He hated him so much for everything he done to him.
He took his rage out on a wall, punching it. Some of the material that made up that wall broke off. What was the point of this? There was no one here. He turned around, and saw a flicker of light, a small fire. That must have been caused by someone else. There were others here. The small fire glowed in the darkness, and then faded into the distance. It moved away from him until he could no longer see it.
He followed it instinctively.

Gluttony crawled his way forward towards the tropius, who joined with a charmeleon. He couldn't go quickly enough. He began shadow clawing his way forward, but he couldn't catch up. He began doing whatever to try to catch up, his shadow extended backwards. He began letting out roars of sorts going after it.

He trudged, feet plodding across the smooth sand, not far behind the Charmeleon. He heard slashing noises, even roaring, and, sure enough, was the same lizard. Annoyed, once again he used Magical Leaf. "You again? I don't have time, go gorge yourself somewhere else!" His eyes turned a yellow-amber color as leaves with the same glittering color hovered around. This phenomenon continued for a little while until the leaves began moving, shooting out like rockets. The leaves whirled around in the air, making loops and whirls in the darkness until making their fizzy, psychedelic impact with the Kecleon. He growled. "You're not hurting anyone here."

(OoC: Writer's block, so I describe Magical Leaf this time.)

"Hello there little lizard. I am Alucard. What exactly are you doing here?"

Vortex, looking brave in front of all the pokemon, stepped forward to talk to Alucard. "I'm here with a friend.... I just came from Unova and--" She was cut off by sudden horrendous sounds. The Tropius then stepped forward.

"You again? I don't have time, go gorge yourself somewhere else!"

Vortex shirked as the Tropius launched Magical Leaf. "I hope he's not attacking a living...." Vortex scowled in her mind. The orange fire lizard looked to the Crobat, hoping the fellow was alright to be around. She looked towards whatever the Tropius was attacking, but then saw something on the other corner of the building. Its shadow looked large and... bloody. Vortex shuddered. This is something that she may try to handle, but she waited to attack something just yet, but instead looked to Alucard for help on this. She clicked her claws together with anticipation of what would be going on soon enough. Vortex wouldn't attack anything unless it was undead.

(OoC-While I did not ask permission for the attack to land, I am asking that Ava let the attack hit not enough to make his character fall asleep but simply put him into a more docile state. I understand however if you decline said request. I am simply trying to make things, interesting and be creative.)

Gluttony was still crawling toward the tropius, then it again shot magical leaves at him. More scratches were cut all over him. Then suddenly he heard something, he attempted to turn to it but his energy felt shot. He collapsed on the ground, lost in sleep.

(OOC: hm...I wonder if infected have dreams...)

(OOc: HEY you skipped me!)



Shadow lab | night (4)

After following the moving flame for a while, it eventually stopped moving. He continued to walk towards it. Closer, when he looked into the fire's light, he saw more living characters. It was too dark to tell what they were exactly. They appeared to be fighting another thing, that Alex couldn't see.
Suddenly, there were flying leaves floating in midair, rushing towards him. He looked at them blankly, not thinking to move out of the way. How was that possible? A couple had hit him, but it wasn't really enough for him to be called damage. Somewhere near him, he heard something smaller than him yell in pain from the attack. Another attack hit him, this time, making hims stop for a moment and he fell asleep. He didn't quite know what had just happened, or why. He turned to face the group of living characters that he saw earlier.

Cav huffed. The Kecleon was getting annoying. "MmMmmmh..."He moaned, frustrated. He turned to Alucard. "Hello there, sir. Alucard, right? I'm Cav. It's short for Cavendish." He looked at the rectangular building in front of him, Cipher's little shop of horrors. "There's something inside there, but a white Mightyena that came earlier and destroyed half the elevators. It'll be a challenge getting around."With that, his stomach growled. "Ohh, I'm so hungry, I could eat a Rapidash..." He looked around before picking up a small plant from the desert scrub variety and ate the small plant, whatever water it held squishing between his herbivorous teeth.

After eating the small plant, he saw the Aggron. It was Infected, as plain as could be, but it wasn't doing anything other than looking at them. No sudden attack, no roar, nothing. It just stood there, staring emptily. He blinked, unsettled. What... What was it trying to do? If he wanted to unsettle him, it was working. But all else, nothing. He just stared. Cav whispered to his allies. "Hey, keep your guard up. This Aggron... It's, uh, Infected, and it's staring at me..."

(OoC: WOOT! Two paragraph post! You won't see these often.)

Vortex watched as the Tropius slashed out into the night again with its Magical Leaves. It then turned to look at them.

"MmMmmmh... Hello there, sir. Alucard, right? I'm Cav. It's short for Cavendish. There's something inside there, but a white Mightyena that came earlier and destroyed half the elevators. It'll be a challenge getting around."

"Hi.... I'm Vortex...." she muttered to Alucard and Cav before the Crobat flew off. She watching him leave, feeling a bit of abandonment before she realized she had sedated the Kecleon going to attack them. When she looked around, she saw Cav who was going somewhere. He then looked up from the ground, from where he was eating, and looked to the others.

"Hey, keep your guard up. This Aggron... It's, uh, Infected, and it's staring at me..."

Vortex blinked. She watched for a second, then turned her head to see the Aggron. Vortex just stood completely still; the only thing on her moving was her tail flame.

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(OoC: Sorry for a long delay. I'm having writers block. ;w;)

(OOC-Permission was given to move Vortex)

Shadow Lab | Night (5)

He stared at the smaller pokemon. They stared back at him. They did not run away in fear-or even attack him. Was there something wrong? He looked at them. Some seemed to talk amongst themselves, though too quiet for him to hear clearly. None of them seemed to be his brother. They had no value to him. They didn't matter to him.
He turned around, quite angered that he wasn't there. That he had to wait longer before he could have his revenge. Even longer. He would never give up, Never. His brother gave him this disease, he was the one who turned him into the monster that he was now.
He turned around, to face them once again. Maybe there was something to be done here. He could take his anger out on them. He slammed his tail on the ground hard enough so that the earth felt like it shook beneath their feet, as if it was alive.
He was preparing an attack.

((Gluttony's going to be sleeping now and my next turn, skip both.))