Lumiose, Abandoned Warehouse

World's Oyster: -grows noticeably flustered- L-like mabye switching up w-who's the distraction and who's the theif...

Lumiose, Near Shutter

CS Employee: Well first off we got you replacement equipment.

Tagg's Office

Aphrodite: This is a nice facility, yes. You did well repurposing it from those Pokefutures creeps. But there's something we need to talk to you about. Mainly a certain someone under your employ.

Rod: You called her Echo, right?

Laura: -just looks nervous-

PEFE HQ

-Archer may be near Channah-

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Tagg's Office

I think I see where this is going...

-To Aphrodite-

Well she's part of the group but she doesn't really work for me, the J-Team's purely a volunteer outfit.

PEFE HQ

-PEFE!Every blinks at Daydre and Vi a few times, looking uncomfortable-

PEFE!Every: ...Well, I can always repair them if they want.

Lumiose

Guillaume's Apartment

-Ever is here, being healed by Breeze-

Guillaume: So, wait. Those guys in the Badlands were from another universe? And...you went to their universe?

Ever: "Went" is a little generous. But yes.

Guillaume: That's...peculiar.

Ever: I lead a peculiar life. As I recall you once said you wanted no part of it.

Guillaume: Maybe I've changed my mind a little?

Ever: Good to know.

PEFE HQ

Channah: -notices Archer- Uh, hi there.

-The slightest flash of worry crosses Kai's face before being masked. Whether Alice picks up on it is yet to be seen.-

Kai: ...Yeah. You can do that. I'll be fine.

Holly: <There you are, Brie. Your friend is uncomfortably poisonous and I have important things I need to do so let's make this quick, yes?>

PEFE HQ, Kai and Alice's Module

-If Alice does pick up on the flash, she seems to dismiss it as a product of Kai's generally anxious attitude this morning.-

Alice: Thank you. I'll be back soon, I promise.

-She gives Kai another kiss - this one on the lips, and for a good while longer - before smiling again and walking out.-

Lumiose City, Abandoned Warehouse

-Whiptail seems to pick up on World's Oyster's stammering, as she gives her a squeeze, the tail of her costume curling up to pat her on the back.-

Whiptail: Ah, maybe someday. I'd love to see your quick fingers in action, after all~ For now, though, I've got my eye on something in particular. You guys will get free pickings afterwards, just so long as I get what I want. Sound good~?

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Lumiose City Streets

Lowell: Indeed. Opportunity knocks even in the midst of a city in ruin. It is too bad the city's wonders can't stay as resilient as our own ancestral manors. Rebuild this street out of Lowecrete and its beauty will last forever. A city as resilient as the people who live in it.

Lumiose

Brie: Uh, yeah, let's go!

Amanita: -thumbs-up-

-I mean, she's not wrong, it certainly is a product of their generally anxious attitude this morning.-

-The problem is that there's a reason for it.-

-They just sorta... accept the kiss.-

-And as Alice leaves, they return to eating.-

-They arrive in the landing bay, by the airships.-

Holly: <There we go.>

-And she leaves.-

PEFE HQ

Amanita: Way too many teleports for one day...

Brie: Yeah, uh...not my favorite thing.

Amanita: Kai?

Brie: Yeah.

Hey, don't we know you?

Brie: Gah!

Avery: Facade, you can't just—

...

-...-

Avery: ...I do know you, though. What are you doing here?

Brie: What are you doing here?

Amanita: Who are you?

Piplup: <Welcome to the club. We're basically just on one huge training camp... mines the camp.>

Rowlet: <We have been sent by the gods to partake in altering thines own body, so as to become more suitable vestals for the unholy powers which flow through our bodies.>

Torchic, going deeper into the box: <I'm going to bed!>

-"Homer is walking down the street with a cup of coffee in one hand and a plastic bag full of smart phones in the other. Anubis walks beside him, making it appear that he's just a guy out, giving his Umbreon a walk."-

Homer, sipping his drink: Well that was... long.

Anubis: <We didn't help much, did we?>

Homer: No, but I got some stuff out of it. Think they'll finally pay me?

Anubis: <Doubt it.>

Lumiose

Ludovic: -nods at the older man's words of wisdom- That would be wonderful. -looks skeptically at the pedestrians walking by on the other side of the street- One gets the unpleasant feeling, however, that the commoners would inevitably be prejudiced against a Macraul invention, no matter how ingenious. But I certainly hope for your continued success, Lowell.

Idris: <This would not be a problem if those idiotic "J-Team" trainers were not forever making trouble in Kalos.>

Ludovic: There's that, too. And whoever they're fighting against at any given moment. -looks at Lowell- They didn't catch you in their violent squabbling either, right? What with their recent dealings with our family...

Tagg's Office

Aphrodite: Hmmm. Well the problem is she has a history with my husband that... contributed to his current mental state.

Rod: ...Before you ask, not a romantic history.

Laura: ...Ew.

PEFE HQ

Archer: Yo! Not a bad-looking babe.

Lumiose Warehouse

World's Oyster: S-sure.

Fey Feind:    As I said, it's a deal.   

Edited by Umbramatic on Aug 30th 2018 at 8:22:41 AM

Holly: <You've been blocking out your mind again.>

-Kai tenses up as Holly appears.-

Kai: ...

Holly: <You haven't done that for a long time, especially not for such long amounts of time, and especially not from your teammates.>

Kai: ...I know.

Holly: <Furthermore, you've been avoiding most of us.>

-Holly sighs-

Holly: <What's going on?>

Kai: ...I'll only tell you if you guarantee it won't spread outside the team. And that means being careful who on the team you do tell, because I know some of them have looser lips, literally or figuratively.

Holly: <...I promise to be careful.>

-Kai breathes in, and breathes out.-

Kai: I'm stuck in a deal with a horrible vampire woman who will personally eat my soul if I don't serve her.

-...-

Holly: <...Ah.>

Kai: And it's a deal. The terms of which specified that I could tell my team about it, but we collectively cannot tell anyone outside the team, presumably with exceptions relevant to specific jobs Carmilla puts me through.

Holly: <"Carmilla.">

Kai: Yes, I know, same name. She might be that Carmilla, too, it's entirely possible.

Holly: <...We need to work out exactly which teammates we tell, then. Rather than just hiding it.>

Kai: I know. I'm just... I'm scared.

-Kai sighs-

Kai: Brie's expecting me. We'll work that out when we don't have so much hanging over our heads. Thankfully I'm between jobs for Carm right now.

Holly: <Very well.>

-Kai checks their texts, and... pauses.-

-Holly facepalms.-

PEFE HQ

Channah: You uh, don't look like a scientist.

PEFE HQ, by the Stormchaser

Brie: Why were you on the Stormchaser?

Avery: Um, because there were monsters attacking the city and I had to be somewhere, and the blimp going out of the city seemed like a good choice?

Brie: ...That's fair, I guess.

Amanita: No, seriously, do you two know each other?

Tagg's Office, PEFE HQ

How much should I let on that I know...

-At Rod's statement-

...Either way that's not a concept I want to visualize again.

-To Aphrodite-

She said she used to be part of Mobius before leaving because she had disagreements with the management's ideals.

-It's really too bad Brie isn't around to hear it, because Kai stifles an utterly adorable laugh upon reading Brie's text.-

Holly: <How about I just lead you.>

Kai: That sounds like a good idea!

-And thus they go.-

PEFE HQ

Brie: This is...uh, Avery. I don't know anything about her except she's from Celadon.

Avery: You don't even know that that's true.

Brie: ...Are you from Celadon?

Avery: ...Yes.

Amanita: Oh, cool, Brie's from Celadon too.

Avery: I sort of figured.

PEFE HQ

-Pent has decided to go get some food-

-Some navigation later, Kai finally arrives.-

Kai: Hey, Brie. Hey, Amanita. Hey, Avery.

-Kai still definitely looks somewhat tired and stressed.-

Lumiose City Streets

Lowell: Indeed, cousin, the masses are so easily swayed by rumors backed by alleged tales of derring-do. I haven't personally gotten into any recent conflict with those addlepated ruffians, but I grit my teeth each time Paul has to deal with them and their slanderous allegations about our family name. _{And don't get me started on my son's parking tickets.} Meanwhile these sordid J-Teamers and their think-tank backers draw the attention of terrorists, escalate a lover's quarrel, and left our city in abject ruin.

Lowell pauses for a moment. Mrs. Clavis and her husband's ridiculous quarrel over the City of Love seems almost too dramatic.

Lowell: They certainly seem to have a thing for the poetically dramatic.
Primus: Sir, we mustn't be late for the mayor's meeting.
Lowell: Oh, would you excuse us. Punctuality beckons. Let's see if they can spare one minute to hear the good news of Macraul-brand Lowecrete. You must simply come by our countryside estate one time. Helena and I would love nothing more than reconnect. We've yet to send you the anniversary gift we promised, but all the more reason to make it spectacular.

Edited by MasterJayAM on Sep 5th 2018 at 8:36:35 PM

[Downtown LA - Gym]

-The door opens to show...-

-An L-shaped platform that wraps arouns the square room.-

-Guess the maze isn't really a thing.-

-This is a Flying-type gym, after all.-

-Alright, so the real gym puzzle.-

-Harold and Co. stand in a large, warehouse-like room. A platform lines the oppposite wall, a single door there.-

-The path there is obvious - a single tightrope, slick with grease.-

-Another tightrope is on the western side of the room, as the whole of it is mirrored right down the middle.-

-A container of balancing pools lies on Harold's platform.-

-Oh, right, one should note the floor of the room is about, oh, three stories below the tightrope.-

-That's...probably a safety net hanging down there?-

-Oh, and giant fans are built into the walls.-

-Piece of cake, right?-

PEFE HQ

-Kaiiseii's making pancakes and bacon.-

-And of course he's wearing his yoga pants and an apron that says "Kiss the Cook".-

Kaiiseii: "Oh hai Pent."

Edited by SwiftSeraph on Aug 30th 2018 at 8:30:56 AM

PEFE HQ

Brie: Hi!

Amanita: Heya.

-neither of them looks too great either. Amanita has a bandage around her forehead, and Brie looks somewhat ashen-

-Avery looks fine, if shaken-

Avery: Uh, hi. Don't I know you? You've got a rainbow Flygon.

You'll have to teach me the trick, incidentally.

PEFE HQ Staff Kitchen

-Pent waves and finds somewhere to sit-

Morning...