The SAFFRON Team

Silph Co. Lobby|Afternoon (5)

With an angry clicking Angel raises her head towards the roof and tries to focus her strength through the clouds.
The moving corpse is coming closer and closer, the smell of burning flesh roiling off it's flanks.
Angel can feel the power building, welling up inside her.
Lightening strikes and the rumble of Thunder can be heard echoing through the empty building.
"All I want to do is cry..." Angel whimpers quietly as the bolt of power strikes another part of the devastated city.
Flames lash around her and, in the blaze, the bug type screams high and shrill.
Smack!
She falls hard against the wall from the force of the attack and one of her legs splits open, spilling foul scented black goo across the stones.

The snivy winced in pain when Tesla shook her hand. "Um. Hello Tesla...I'm Yue." Tesla let go when she realized she was hurting Yue. "Sorry, I'm just so excited to see another survivor." She noticed that Jirachi was leaving and waved goodbye to her. When she left, there was a moment of silence.

"Okay, Tesla, so what do you know about here? By any chance have you seen reports on the infection?" Tesla replied "These reports contain experiments conducted on Cinnabar Island. They have a lab there. I grew up there. I remember them mentioning something about the infection, but the paperwork is gone." Tesla looked through the papers. "It's mostly about pokeballs and TM's."

Tesla looked at the wall. "TmeHEr" is what it said. "Tesla, prepare yourself." Yue said. "Earlier a Sceptile went down and its buddies ain't gonna be happy." Tesla was stunned by this as she continued to look through the papers. "So what you're saying is that even though the Sceptile is down, it's still not..."

She stopped. She was looking at one folder that had one name.
"Professor Jacob Clarke"
Her previous trainer. He was now gone forever. She began to cry as she read through, crying the hardest when she came across a picture of him. In her whole life, Tesla never felt this depressed.

"S-Subje-ect Hacky-rus. P-Please Ident-tify yourself. I me-mean no ha-arm." The two undead blinked, before looks to themselves and back at the Porygon. "What do you want, duck." Rose seethed, bristling. "I'm Jin. She's Rose." The Arcanine introduced.

Jin stared at the Porygon. Perhaps he shouldn't attack? This was a fellow infected afterall, perhaps they could team up and fight together?

[OOC: Short posttt.]

He succeeded, the Arcanine and the Ninetales had replied...He was trying to decide what to do...Eventually the only thing he could do was either helping these two or get them to help him.

Ident-tify yo-our c-curren-t mis-sion. In ca-se y-you have n-none...I req-uest y-your aid in a mis-sion o-of our own. Th-e Lux-ray is wit-with me. W-we ne-eed t-to f-fi-nd a-an it-em in here na-amed "Upgrade". Ai-id us i-in find-ing it...And an-ny prey w-e fin-d is yours...Take no hos-tages nor p-prisoners.

He hoped that the temptation of all the prey they could find be delivered to the couple would be enough to have them joining his side. He moved close to the Luxray and started checking her vital signs as he kept an eye on the two fire types and waiting for their answer.

"Huh? No, it's dead, a Luxray downstairs fried it. It mentioned a master, that's what I'm afraid of..."
Tesla was filing through the folders and papers, then suddenly stopped. Yue looked over. She couldn't read, but she could make a good guess on what it was. Tesla began to cry, picking out a photo from the folder. "Oh... He was important to you, wasn't he?" An airy hissing noise started. Yue turned around. A water cooler, covered with dots of water from inside, began to leak. It was brownish, ugly, slow water... it was muddy. "Hey, Tesla...? Do you know any grass-type moves?" Yue moaned nervously. "It would be nice to have that advantage of..." She paused for a second. Climbing up from a hole near the water cooler was another group of Pokemon, all Infected: Ten Mudkip, five Marshtomp, and their leader, a Swampert.
(OoC: If you haven't figured it out yet, these are the starters Steven gives you in Silph Co. But better.)

[OOC-I don't want to post something rushed, so Ayumi is still unconscious and breathing but she is hurt.]

Silph Co. Lobby|Afternoon (6)


"Your tears may mean nothing to me now" Angel says sadly and tries to slink away. The fire didn't hurt but the hairs on her legs are smoking stubble and the smell is irritating.
She crawls back up the wall into the safety of the air duct.
What was that noise?

Yue looked over Tesla's shoulder to see her crying over the photo "He was important to you, wasn't he?" Tesla nodded. "He's my original trainer. I miss him so much." Tesla wiped away her tears, but still had sadness in her eyes as she asked Yue, "Did you ever lose someone important to you to the infection?"

Just as Yue was about to answer, water came into the floor. It was brown and slow moving. "Hey Tesla, do you know any grass type moves?"

"You're kidding right? You're the grass type!" As she said that, several Mudkip, Marshtomp, and a Swampert came in. All infected. "I'm gonna take a guess that the Swampert is the leader. Let me make this easier for you Yue!" Tesla used Telekinesis to levitate the Swampert. It was now under her control, and it couldn't attack.

"Yue! Now's your chance! You fight the Mudkip and Marshtomp. I'll take care of this son of a bitch." She tossed the Swampert aside, turned to it, and launched a Shadow Ball attack.

"Ident-tify yo-our c-curren-t mis-sion. In ca-se y-you have n-none...I req-uest y-your aid in a mis-sion o-of our own. Th-e Lux-ray is wit-with me. W-we ne-eed t-to f-fi-nd a-an it-em in here na-amed "Upgrade". Ai-id us i-in find-ing it...And an-ny prey w-e fin-d is yours...Take no hos-tages nor p-prisoners."

The two canines stare at each other, considering the offer, before the Arcanine turns back to the Porygon and nods. "Offer accepted. We will escort you and help you with your search with this 'Upgrade', however, if you or the Luxray make any move against us, all ties will be lost and we will attack whether it is an accident or not." Jin garbles in his language. The Nintales nods. "Give us a good descrition of what you're looking for."

Hackyrus was pleased that they accepted his offer and their condictions seemed to be pretty fair. One of them requested for a description of the item, Hackyrus checked his database for it.

T-The i-tem is a s-silv-er bo-x with a d-dv-d inside. It-'s imp-possi-ble t-to mis-take. Unl-less y-you f-fin-d th-he D-dubi-ous Di-sc. An-oth-her i-te-m for m-my e-evol-uti-on.

The Porygon tilted his head as his tail swayed like a monetrone. He looked towards the elevator, their only possibility of traveling but it didn't seemed to be safe. He moved towards Ayumi and used a considerably weak Discharge attack to wake her up, it would eventually be enough.

M-od-e of tran-spor-tation: St-airs. Eleva-tor t-too Uns-ta-bl-le.

(Please skip me, I can't think, so Yue is just beating down Mudkip and Marshtomp.)

Silph Co. Lobby|Afternoon (6)


"Your tears may mean nothing to me now" Angel says sadly and tries to slink away. The fire didn't hurt but the hairs on her legs are smoking stubble and the smell is irritating.
She crawls back up the wall into the safety of the air duct.
What was that noise?

Tesla fired a Shadow Ball at the Swampert, who blocked it with his arms. It fired a Mud Shot attack right into her face. Tes knew that she couldn't attack from a distance. That's too risky. She needed to take him out quickly. She made a risky move and went up-close to create a Dizzy Punch. When the hit connected, she wiped the mud from her face. She fired another Shadow Ball while the Swampert was disoriented. Somehow, he was still able to dodge the attack.

"How the--" She turned back to see that Yue wasn't having a problem with the Mudkip and Marshtomp. Tes kept firing Shadow Ball attacks at the Swampert, who dodged most of them in his confusion, but was still hit by some. It weakened him. He was unable to move. As Tesla got closer to the Swampert, she saw something in his eyes. A look of innocence. It was calling to her, "Set me free."

And she did. One Shadow Ball at point blank range did just that. She saw one of the Marshtomp try sneaking behind Yue for a sneak attack. "Oh no you don't!" She fired a Psyshock attack at the Marshtomp. When the Marshtomp was down and out, she heard something in the air duct. "What the heck?" she said to herself. She shook it off and called out, "Hey Yue! They look pretty tough! Need help?"

[OOC: Skip. Let's just say the Arcanine and Ninetales begin to climb the stairs after they've found 'em.]

Hackyrus floated above Ayumi's head standing right above her 2 or 3 inches of distance from her head. He looked around and than slowly rised his head. And tilted it, as they were moving up he could hear some sort of fight.

Lo-ud st-RRRYEEEH-ra-nge no-is-es c-om-mi-i-i-ng f-ro-m t-he up-per fl-oor-SSzzzshhh-s...Re-que-st f-or a pos-sib-le st-op ju-st i-n ca-se f-or supl-ies? I-f y-es i-nfo-rm wh-at fl-o-or to st-op.

For all that noise it was better to attempt find suplies like healing potions or something similar since they would eventually need to find means to fight. He didn't know about the couple but Ayumi seemed weak.

There was no end to the Mudkip and Marshtomp, unlike the previous encounter. They just got back up and continued to fight. Some decided to just stand there and spray water at her.
"Oh no you don't!"
Yue turned to Tesla to see what was going on- a Marshtomp was going to attack her from the behind. She fired a pinkish attack of psychic origin at it. Yue continued to keep them back with Razor leaf. There was some rumbling in the air duct. "Oh, great... More Infected." She continued to keep the Mudkip and Marshtomp back with several Razor leaf attacks.
(ooc: Short post... school)

"The wind howling at the window..." Angel hums under her breath as she scrambles through the ducts and vents that twined through the building like veins of some great beast.
"Lullaby...eyes..." She croons as she feels the metal walls vibrate under her feet.
Movement.
She catches a glimpse of blue rubbery flesh through the grate.
"The love you never gave..."
Angel shoots an Energy Ball at it.

(Nothing really going on here, just Tesla killing infected. Go ahead and skip me.)

"Lo-ud st-RRRYEEEH-ra-nge no-is-es c-om-mi-i-i-ng f-ro-m t-he up-per fl-oor-SSzzzshhh-s...Re-que-st f-or a pos-sib-le st-op ju-st i-n ca-se f-or supl-ies? I-f y-es i-nfo-rm wh-at fl-o-or to st-op." The duo flicked their ears, hearing the commotion upstairs. Then Rose heard Ayumi speak.

"Do any of you have a Sitrus berry?" Rose gave a grunt, smelling one. Immediately she began to run towards the scent, revealing a jar of berries that were there for any trainers who wanted to give a treat to their Pokemon. She nudged a Sitrus Berry out, giving it to Ayumi with a whine.

Hackyrus looked at them act and awaited while Rose suddenly had ran off to somewhere and returned with a Sitrus Berry giving it to Ayumi. The Porygon tilted his head slightly and than floated closer to the Luxray trying to not touch her with the infectious liquid that poured from his cracks.

He sitted on the ground and tried to analyze her condiction to see how she was feeling. If she wasn't feeling well they would've to either take her with them somehow or wait untill she got better.

(Worst case of writer's block EVER. Please skip.)

"I give to you...You really don't deserve it." Angel tells the water type as the super effective grass type energy ball smacks into the rubbery rotting flesh.
The water type makes an angry hissing sound through it's mangled mouth and attempts to hit her with a Water Gun.
Angel leaps out of the way.
"Lullaby..." She mutters under her breath as she notices the two other pokemon.
Such poor little scared and wounded things. Mother would fix them. Walter said so.