Pokemon In The City-Role Play

Kori and Leo made their way through the city quickly, then slowed down considerably as they neared Thorn Gang territory. Kori, recognizing a house down a sidestreet, motioned the Sandslash over and helped him climb in a window.

"There's a Raticate that lives here, and she lets me stay when I need to. So, how are we gonna investigate these guys?"

Leo looked thoughtful for a moment, then answered, "I suppose we should scout out the area for a bit, then try to slip inside without being noticed and look for any of the drugs."

Kori shrugged. "Sounds good to me."

Stretching, Striker replied "Well, I do have another job later today. No rest for the weary, I suppose. Then again, those berries and other delicacies don't exactly pay for themselves, so I shouldn't really complain. If you want, you can tag along and help out; another pair of strong arms always comes in handy."

A dark night in a city that knows how to keep it's secrets. Still one Haunter tries to find the answers to life's persisting questions.

This was not that Haunter.

Nightsly was essentially floating through the day and night, a lively loner who seemed to be alive at night, but then was alive at all hours. He was drifting through the city with a huge grin on his face, per usual, especially stalking dark alley ways and corners, scaring anyone he happened to pass by.

"“Indisposed”, yeah, figure what she's been eating," answered Eltenios with a completely straight tone as he motioned around his place, probing to see if the Scyther were keeping a straight face. "You can tell her," he continued, following the game, "that the Flame Gang leader sent his thanks."

The Arcanine lowered his body somewhat and approached one or two steps, leaning to the side to present his bag again. "Now with that out of the way, I guess she has authorized you to pay me..." he inquired, thinking that it would be a good idea to prep his Agility just in case the bugs missed a beat. He decided to tease the matter just a bit. "Although I'd actually like to tell her personmonally, I'd gladly keep doing business with the Thorn Gang," he announced, a smile in his muzzle as he stressed the next to last word.

Jet nodded. "Sure. I'll come along. Who's the delivery for?"

Katan raised one eyebrow. "She was rather mum on your payment. What was it?"

"Do they have to ask back?" Eltenios mused, realizing he couldn't keep the charade much longer. "Whatever it is going on here, I better get myself out of here, asap!" He examined his choices quickly — finding the elevator shaft to be the most likely exit, however difficult.

He decided to play his made-up story to the end with whatever he remembered from the Thorns. "Roserade said she grew a good amount of Shuca Berries in a terrace — somewhere around the building." He flipped his bag, closing it and hanging it to his side. "Can one of you follow me while I collect them?" he offered, thinking about how to dispose of a single bug (and finding the Thorns) if he was somehow left alone with one.

Katan looked at a nearby Bulbasaur, who blanched as the Steel-type turned his gaze on it. "Is this true?"

Shaking, the Bulbasaur shook his head. Katan's smirk became a fully fledged grin. He looked at the Blades. "Get rid of him."

Almost immediately, one Scyther's foot shot towards Eltenios's belly.

Tatsu came across a box and cart.

"What in the world are these things doing down here? I can't fathom why, but it's not importan-." Tatsu froze. "No....It is important. The only thing above this location is the Water Treatment Plant. There's no reason why these objects would be here." Tatsu looked upwards. "This is my guess!" He fired a Hyper Beam upwards to reach above ground. Then, he flew straight out. "They've got to be here. My intuition is basically screaming it."

edited 1st Apr '11 5:38:50 PM by Pikaninja7

"Curses!" As soon as the order was given, Eltenios let out a growl and shook his body as he readied for whatever attack was to come. He was thinking blades to his neck, of course, so he was taken by surprise when his left ear picked a Scyther coming towards his belly.

Eltenios quickly sprung off the ground only for a Scyther to appear out of nowhere and land a kick right in his stomach, which hit him open; thanks to the leap the kick didn't do much damage but still pushed and forced him to curl in mid-air, his sides entirely unprotected.

Unfortunately, between the momentum and the enclosed space, the Arcanine would have no more choice but to land about where he started. "Great... gonna gain some room!" Muzzle lowered, he fiercely swung a paw at the attacking Scyther as he readied himself to Agility up towards any of the walls.

"Swarm," Katan ordered in a bored voice from his chair. The Blades all began to use Double Team in unison, filling the room with buzzing green and red bodies and blocking off any avenue of escape. All of them then flew at Eltenios, blades forming a silver, epileptic fit-inducing light show.

Striker replied "It's another food delivery, this time for the Thorns. Ever heard of 'em? Apparently, they're some gang of Grass and Bugs. The contact's a Heracross, I believe."

He put his sunglasses and cloak back on, relieved to find that the cape had been undamaged by his earlier fall.

Jet nodded as he popped the last bit of food into his mouth. "Okay. Lead on."

Striker led Jet back up through the tunnel and out into the alley. From there, he headed towards the location his contact had provided him with.

"It's always interesting working freelance, seems like I've done at least one job for all the major gangs in this city. You ever cross paths with them much?"

edited 1st Apr '11 9:26:56 PM by Firebert

"Not often, but lately yeah. At least four different ones."

The Mienshao nodded. "Yup, it's hard not to interact with at least a few, even if you don't realize it at first. To top it all off, it seems like new gangs crop up every day."

"Ah, here we are." The two had arrived at a large warehouse, the pickup location given to Striker by his contact.

Looking around, he shouted "You here, Mr. Escavalier? It's me, Striker. I brought a Buizel, Jet, to help out, if you don't mind."

The Emolga landed at the abandoned house, he walked inside and flew upstairs, entering the Ampharos's room...

Sparks was sweating heavily in the heat of the room, he'd already used spark more than enough times to charge the machine, but it still wouldn't power up. He breathed heavily, knowing what Lux would ask again.

edited 2nd Apr '11 3:17:13 AM by bamack1

The city had a chill about it, Gaske thought. It wasn't the air he was sure of that; in fact it was positively balmy. But the eyes of the Pokemon he passed, the way they avoided his eyes and kept their heads down made him uneasy.

Gaske noticed these things, it was his business to notice things after all, especially other peoples. He'd be the first to admit he didn't have the instant-absorb abilities some detectives had, but he was thorough, and patient. Few Pokemon understand the term 'patient' as much as a Banette.

At the moment, he had been employed to track down a missing diamond. Normally, he would have dismissed the job out of hand; it would have changed four times and be halfway across the country by now, but his client had assured him it had... unique properties and would likely only be known, and coveted, by a few individuals. Gaske had his doubts, but times were tough and he'd been paid a small retainer already.

To his surprise, he'd got a solid lead, and had learned where the thieves were meeting to hand over another ill-gotten gain. He'd got to the alleyway early and had hidden under a few cardboard boxes left to rot. Suddenly, he heard a scraping, as if someone had brushed against a wall...

"This is gonna hurt," smirked Eltenios as he landed, all the blades surrounding and approaching him. Deciding that staying closer to the walls was safer, he picked the side where most light blades were coming from and Agility-slid across the floor past them, trying to slow them by forcing them to change direction; then he prepared his lungs and legs to leap to the wall.

Faster than a blink Katan was out of his chair and in front of Eltenios, smashing a claw into the Arcanine's gut and crushing Eltenios against the wall. "Going somewhere?" he asked with a smirk.

Eltenios lost his breath and curled in pain, eyes closed as he was suddenly taken down to the floor. It took him a while to open his eyes as he carefully checked the pain in his back. "Figures, at least I'm closer to the wall now!" he thought desperately, rolling back up to his feet. And then he realized... he had lost notion of where the elevator shaft was.

Ears and eyes shifting left and right, he realized he wasn't to leave the place in one piece. "They won't either, then" he growled. He stood up decisively as the bug leader spoke. "Actually, not goin' far," he answered. "Just enough to look all your bugs to the face!" he barked as he arched his body, summoning all his power to swirl around and unleash a Heat Wave over the enclosed space.

"Thanks for the race, Lilligant," he thought as he reminded himself of the Thorn who had sent him on a run across the city.

edited 3rd Apr '11 9:58:35 AM by SilentReverence

Sparks stood there, sweating, he couldn't do it anymore, he could only use his moves so many times. Yet the Luxray had continued to ask him, he'd complained, but he'd still done it. Sparks couldn't do it anymore, he leaned against the wall. The Luxray looked over to Sparks.

"Your done for today...leave." Lux appeared to have a glum demeanor, his eyes glaring out evil-like from the black fur of his face.

The Luxray lead Sparks out of the building, where they proceeded to walk along the street, at quite a slow pace...

Slowly, as fitting his species, Striker's contact emerged from the warehouse. "Ah there you are, Mr. Striker. It's a large shipment today anyways, so I figure you could use the assistance of-"

The businessman paused, allowing Striker to identify his Buizel companion as Jet.

"Yes, you and Mr. Jet will be transporting these crates to Thorn HQ. As usual, they're mostly filled with berries, and that's all you need to know about the contents. Got it?"

Nodding, Striker picked up a couple of stacked crates and told Jet to do the same. With that, they headed towards the base of the Thorn Gang.

Leo and Kori left the old building and stood in an alleyway on the edge of Thorn Gang territory.

"Okay. Get in, look for drugs, get out. And don't get seen," Kori muttered to herself. Leo patted her on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, we'll be fine." He offered her a quick smile, then flexed his claws. "Let's go."

Kori nodded and followed him down the alley. The two crossed into Thorn territory silently, keeping to the shadows. Leo led the way, with Kori trailing him and looking out for any gang members that might see them. She was all too aware of the disadvantage Leo was at here, but was all of a sudden distracted by a flash of light coming from a tall building.

Reflexively, she grabbed Leo and darted for an open window, pulling him inside.

The Heat Wave flared uselessly into the air around Katan and Eltenios, some of the fire going out the windows as the Scizor blocked it with a Protect. Katan smirked and then tossed Eltenios to the other Blades. "Do what you want with him."

Eltenios's body flew into the waiting Blades and they met him in midair, smacking the Arcanine around and juggling him into the air for a few minutes while Katan went back to his chair and watched. After a while the Blades got bored and Eltenios hit the floor with a loud thud. The Blades gathered around him, looking at Katan. The Scizor shrugged. "Well, he was planning to get out by the elevator shaft. Let him go that way."

The group smiled and dragged Eltenios over to the elevator, tossing him into it. Fortunately there was a very large container of insulation that broke the Arcanine's fall.

Jet picked up a few boxes of berries and followed Striker, looking up at the building that the Thorn Gang owned. He spotted the fire coming out of the windows and nudged Striker with an elbow. "What do you think that is?"

edited 3rd Apr '11 1:24:26 PM by theLibrarian

Striker looked up at the burning windows, his eyes narrowing. "Well well, it seems someone picked a fight with the Thorns."

As the fire died down, he added "And, from the looks of things, predictably fell to them. I wonder who that could have been. Think it was a member of some other Gang?"