Jubilife

Des is snoozing up in a tree.

Kabuki is prowling around.

Merry: (feeding her Pokemon.)

Nope sorry, edited out, I noticed that I'm waay to tired to properly do this now, sorry.

Jubilife City

Sergey rode on Mistral way above the city, looking down on it

Sergey: "See, you're doing great."

Mistral: <T-Thanks.>

edited 11th Mar '16 3:39:24 PM by Sergey_Smirnov

Jubilife

Kabuki sniffs the air and smells food. He sneaks around and from a hiding spot sees Merry. A mischievous smiles curls up on his face.

Merry should see a very handsome guy around her age strolling up to her.

Black City, a fair bit later

-Team Mia and Jacob is walking the streets of the city, looking around warily, with Ilya having assumed human form and sticking close to the others-

-Sickle and Mia, however, are off to the side a bit with Sickle gazing more disinterestedly at her surroundings as Mia gazes far more intently at her until...-

Mia: <...What's that?>

Sickle: -blinks- <Eh?>

-looks down at a strange stone hanging from her neck Mia's staring straight at-

<Oh! That's a Scizorite! It's a Mega Stone!>

Mia: <What does it do?>

Sickle: <Well, if a Pokemon is holding the right Mega Stone and the Trainer's holding a Key Stone, and they're super-awesome best friends, the trainer can get the Pokemon to turn into a super-version of themselves called a Mega Evolution and open up a can of whoopass!>

Mia: <That sounds nice.>

-furrows her brow slightly-

<...Does that mean you have a super-awesome best friend?>

Sickle: ...

-scowls and droops her claws and wings-

<I did. Except she got rid of the super and awesome and best and friend parts.>

Mia: <Why would she do that?>

Sickle: -smiles again- <Well, her name's Ammy. She caught me when I was a Scyther like you... sort of are, nearly four years ago in Johto, and we were together ever since! She and I did all sorts of fun stuff in Johto and Kanto and Unova and Orre and Kalos - Kalos is where I first got to Mega Evolve, and she and I used that to beat the Fairy gym and go pincer-to-pincer with the Kalos Elite 4! I remember going Mega to get Diantha's Mega Gardevior down to its last legs - damn thing zapped me before I could finish her off, but Nyuki cleaned things up right quick! Heh, on that note I made friends with the rest of her team too!>

-frowns-

<But then come Hoenn, I make a bet with this creep Ditto named Dooplis I can nab something valuable from the Lilycove Department Store just because he had the nerve to suggest he could do it better, and when I succeed she throws all that away and grounds me to PEFE! I mean, granted, I caused a ton of property damage she had to pay for, but I'm her starter! One of her best friends on the team! Stabbed in the back, I'll tell ya!>

-she glances over to Umbra and grumbles-

<And I bet she secretly did it because Spoop Lord and her are getting married and she wants to be all wuvy-duvy with him and doesn't give a shit about me anymore.>

Mia: <Why would she? That doesn't make sense. Just because she cares about him doesn't mean she doesn't care about you too.>

Sickle: -dismissive claw wave- <Yeah, yeah, heard it all before; listen, with how quickly Dave here ditched you I doubt he'll ever be your friend again.>

Mia: <I'll try. I like him.>

Sickle: <Good luck with that.>

-Umbra seems to be glancing aside at them untill-

Robin: Here's the address!

-Everyone stops to stare at a dingy house amidst the other buildings and stares a bit before...-

Human!Ilya: ...Who knocks first? I'm bored.

edited 11th Mar '16 11:48:58 PM by Umbramatic

Black City

Jacob: -Looking around as the group chats- It's been... so long. This was my first real adventure with the group. Chasing Melinda here... and... everything. The dreamworld, the conflict, Pokestars OH ARCEUS NO repressing that memory. Repressing...

... the League... Titan, Deimos...

-He catches Sickle's comments about Umbra and Ammy- ... This is where I met Hikari too. So. Thanks Unova. You don't suck.

Jacob: -Leers at Sickle- "You know, you are incredibly pessimistic about interpersonal relationships. Lighten up. He may have had other reasons for leaving so quick."

-He looks at the door when they all get there-

"..."

"..."

There is only one solution.

Jacob don't do it-

YOU CAN'T STOP ME REGINA

-He kicks the door down with a yell- "GOOD AFTERNOON"

Black City, dingy house

-Everyone has varying reactions to Jacob's antics-

Sickle: <What with how he left I do->

-Doorbarge-

<...Then again, 10/10 dynamic entry.>

Robin: JACOB THAT'S NOT HOW YOU ENTER THE HOME OF A SUSPICIOUS INDIVIDUAL

Umbra: ...Ilya, be careful what you wish for.

Human!Ilya: That was great Jacob!

Umbra: ...Jacob, be a better role model to the little White Kyurem girl.

-What is most notable of all is the reaction from inside-

???: WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK?!

Mia: <Dave likes that word,>

-A somewhat disheveled and scrawny yet kinda handsome middle-aged man with black hair and blue eyes rushes to the doorway-

??? Oh come on, we all know it's Dave: -stares aghast at the group- Who are you creeps and what do you wa-

-sees Mia and his eyes widen as he backs up-

...Oh no, it's one of those things! You bastards are from Angela, aren't you?!

Robin:' -frowns- We are not, and that "thing" is named Mia, and she came here to find you, and we want to peacefully ask what's going on with her and those other Scythermen?

Human!Ilya: -somehow picks Mia up and holds her up to Dave- Look at her face! She's scared and confused and needs your help!

Mia: -as outwardly impassive as ever- <Hi Dave.>

Dave: -scowls- I'm not one to believe you when the damn thing jut snarled at me.

-Robin blinks at his reaction before something clicks and he turns to Umbra-

Robin: Oh crap, Dave's essentially a normal civilian. Nothing's happened to him that lets him understand Monese, how's Mia going to talk to him? I doubt he'll believe us translating.

Umbra: ...We're going to have to deal with that, definitely, but we're gonna need the guy to be on speaking terms with us first.

-To David-

Sir? We're from a research establishment that took over a major Pokefutures base where the Scythermen were located, and something odd is going on with them recently we're going to need your help with.

Dave: You researcher bastards aren't much better, I'll just be slamming my door and-

-blinks, looks to his caved-in-door, and then glowers at Jacob-

...Fuck you, kid.

edited 17th May '16 4:22:57 PM by Umbramatic

Black City

-Was totally here the whole time-

Psychic translation might be considered dubious as well.

-Calmly-

Dr. Ambrose, we have no desire to cause any problems for you, merely to reunite you with an old friend. I am however surprised that someone who worked as closely with Scyther as you wouldn't be able to tell when they're not being aggressive.

Black City - Dave's House

Regina: -Bows- <I believe I can assist with the translation.>

-Then Tagg pipes up- <... Oh. Or perhaps not. This will be an interesting challenge. Perhaps an interpretive dance?>

Jacob: -Pokes Dave's chest- "No, you know what? You have to earn the right to be upset over this door. Fix it, and then if it's broken down ten minutes later, you can say that again."

-He backs up, straightens his coat- "Okay, now that I have that out of my system. Heya Dave! Yeah I kinda have to echo Dr. Tagg on this one. This is one you worked with. She likes you. Or at least remembers you bringing her sausage?"

Outside Dave's House

Dave: -to Tagg- Oh, sure, a normal Scyther I could tell. But these things make normal Scyther look like Lilipup!

-to Jacob-

This one remembers me? Bah. I don't even know if we ever gave 'em sausages specifically, we just gave 'em enough meat to not eat us.

Umbra: Since you seem to know so much... Please, Dr. Ambrose. We just need to know what's really going on.

Dave: ...

...Alright, you know what? Fine. You little bunch of misfits can come in and interrogate me, but if you try anything beyon-

-pauses, looks at them all, then back to his house, then back out, and sighs-

...Fuck it, just come in.

-He stalks off into the house. Everyone cautiously follows-

edited 11th Mar '16 6:41:19 PM by Umbramatic

Black City - Dave's Place

Jacob: -Whispering- "I think we overestimated his friendliness. Or at least I did." -Following along-

edited 11th Mar '16 6:49:09 PM by Verax

Thorne Daycare - the 7th

-While the others are chatting and eating cake or other such small birthday party type things, Derek has pulled his son aside to the living room for a little help with the family business-

Blitz: "So what's up?"

Derek: "...So, you've been going by 'Shinobi' for a while, huh?"

Blitz: "Oh... Uh"

-He rubs the back of his neck awkwardly-

Derek: "...And your eyes were like that last time"

Blitz: "Um... No, they weren't..."

Aaaah, what was that thing Tori said she'd say?

"It's, uh, a side effect. You know,of the Greninja thing"

Derek: "No luck finding a cure then?"

-There's an awkward pause as Blitz debates how to respond, then sighs-

Blitz: "To be honest, Dad, I haven't been looking for a cure... I don't want a cure, really"

-Derek just raises an eyebrow, but Blitz continues before her can comment-

"Don't get me wrong, it's not like I'm gonna go being a pokemon full time or anything. It's just, I'm fairly comfortable where I'm at. And... Being able to change lets me do things not many other people can do, so... Yeah"

-He sticks his hands in his pockets0

Derek: "So... You plan on staying like that, permanently?"

Blitz: "Well... All my new friends are cool with it. But I haven't really thought that far ahead"

-Beat-

Derek: "Hm... that girl of yours certainly didn't seem to mind last time..."

-He smirks-

"Does that mean your kids would get it too?"

-Blitz quickly blushes and tries to look anywhere that isn't at his father-

Blitz: "Dad! I'm no where near ready to think about kids! Geeze"

-Derek chuckles and puts an arm around his bashful son-

Derek: "Well if you plan on having a girl that's anything more than arm candy, you're gonna have to talk that out eventually"

edited 11th Mar '16 6:45:06 PM by BlitzTrain

Black City

-To Jacob-

Yeah well, he's obviously paranoid from hiding for nearly nine years, and I don't think you could make something like Scythermen without being at least a little bit of a dick.

Thorne Daycare, the 7th

-Gogie passed by and overheard a bit of the conversation between Derek and Blitz, but doesn't know whether to talk to them or go elsewhere, so just stands where he is awkwardly-

Dave's House

-Everyone's gathered around a table in an utter mess of a house, with the table itself being an utter mess of beer bottles.-

-Robin notices a picture of a younger, much happier Dave with a woman and a small girl holding a Vulpix amid the clutter, but is silent on it for now-

Dave: -sitting at the end of the table- OK, so I suppose you all want me to spill the beans on the Scythermen project.

-he gestures to the open doorway further out into the house- Which, you, know, is hard when a whole fucking city of sleazy bastards can hear.

Sickle:

-to Regina-

<Fix his door? And mabye lock it if he tries anything.>

HOUSE OF DAVE

Regina: <I mean->

-And a Tyranitar roars, picks up the door from the outside, and shoves it back into place-

-He is also now wearing a blue hard hat and carrying a tiny hammer- <I FEEX>

-Discord hops to repairing stuff as Argentum lifts and places things-

Regina: <... They usually do the repairs.>

Jacob: "Okay. Door fixed."

Dave's House

-To Dave-

Well, yeah.

HOUSE OF DAVE

-Everyone just stares at Discord and Argentum aghast for a while-

Mia: <Watch out for Argentum. He sucks.>

Dave: ...Did I have that fucking much to drink today?

Umbra: Dr. Ambrose, I just suggest we pretend that never happened and you get on with your lovely tale of Scyther-human gene splicing.

Dave: ...Fair enough.

-groans and places his head in his hands-

...And to start the gene-splicing bit was accidental.

Robin: -blinks- How'd you accidentally create human-Scyther hybrids?

Dave: Well, it started with the Pokefutures execs actually giving the genetics section of the R&D department a raise. Now that's rarer than finding a whole herd of shiny Sawsbuck, so as the head of that bit I threw a party and everyone got crazy drunk. Next morning we wake up with massive hangovers and several cloning chambers with fused-together human and Scyther zygotes. They were unstable as hell and probably would have turned into fucking cancerblobs on their own so we were going to destroy them after the hangovers passed, but guess which bastards showed up before then?

Umbra: ...The Pokefutures execs.

Dave: Bingo. And when they saw what we did they got the sort of idea only a Pokefutures exec would find not batshit insane:

Brand-name human-spliced Scyther supersoldiers.

The House of Dave

Jacob: "... So the Scythermen were created because of a drunken one-night stand with science?"

House of Dave

-Folding arms-

It would appear so.

Thorne Daycare, the 7th

Blitz: "Y-yeah, well, it's a little early for that talk"

Derek: "For now maybe... But you know, when a boy and a girl-"

Blitz: "Daaad! I know how that works!"

-Derek chuckles as his son tries to hide behind a hand, and pats him on the back-

Derek: "Seriously though. If the whole Shinobi thing is why you weren't coming around... I think we can live with it, especially after having a talking Charazard for an employee"

-He looks over to Gogie-

"Right?"

Blitz: "Yeah, I suppose- ... "

-The boy awkwardly coughs as he tries not to think about how much of that Gogie might have overheard-

edited 11th Mar '16 9:15:32 PM by BlitzTrain

Thorne Daycare, the 7th

Kaisei: "Uh, huh, yeah..."

"But... yeah, do whatever you're comfortable with."

"For... any of of those things you've been talking about..."

HOUSE OF DAVE

Dave: ...Admittedly, kid, that pretty much sums it up.

Mia: <Jacob has a way with words.>

Umbra: So how'd Pokefutures have you turn those drunken creations into living weapons?

Dave: Make them into something they could sell to whatever organization or government would be unscrupulous enough to buy them, of course. Somehow they had the right ideas with their physical attributes - humanlike endurance and persistence, Scyther speed and abilities, that part would've gotten the bastards what they wanted if they weren't dumbasses about one important bit.

Human!Ilya: -thinks-

...Oh! You made them too mean!

Dave: Thanks for the G-Rated version, kid. They asked to bring out the worst of both species psychologically - I scarily enough am not sure which species was easier to work with in that regard - expecting all you needed for a good soldier was an urge to kill. Obviously, that backfired - the initial run of Scythermen were utterly mindless and savage - literally all they knew how to do was kill, eat, and fuck - not infrequently all three at once. You know that bullshit myth about Scyther eating each other after mating? That became a reality with the first run of the Scythermen.

Robin: ...

-gulps-

Sickle: <...That's just all kinds of wrong.>

Dave: Eventually we actually convinced the executives that "kill everything" wasn't the best idea for these things, put the first batch out of their misery, and started engineering a second, modifying their mirror neurons and dopamine receptors and whatnot so they wouldn't turn on each other and seemed to have some basic grasp of teaming up with other beings... They were still vicious as hell, but we were getting somewhere toward something that just might work...

-glances over at Tagg with a mixed look-

Then the dirty secrets of the Pokefutures head honchos got spilled, they got locked up like they should've been years ago, but those researchers that took 'em down were forced to clean up the mess so the Angelan economy didn't implode. Us geneticists were forced to hightail it out of there and leave the Scythermen behind... They were still always meant to be weapons, we didn't think they'd survive on their own...

-looks to Mia with a more genuinely disgruntled expression-

...And of course we were wrong. And apparently there's more where she came from?

Umbra: Whole colony in the caverns beneath the facility. And something's drawing them further to the surface, which is how we found Mia here. And what we need your help dealing with.

Dave: ...Figured.

-groans and puts a hand to his forehead-

...At least you guys want to clean up the mess. Not like that ass Reggie.

Robin: ...Reggie?

edited 11th Mar '16 9:47:29 PM by Umbramatic

House of Dave

A willingness to kill makes nothing but cannon fodder if it isn't tempered with discipline. Especially if it's just as much a danger to your side as your enemies.

-Eyebrow raise at the "Reggie" mention-

Please explain.

edited 11th Mar '16 9:54:07 PM by rmctagg09

''Thorne Daycare - the 7th

Blitz: "Right... Thanks Gogie"

Derek: "So, all ready to head back then?"