[RAID] Final Frontier

[Rocket Agent Tama]

[Room E]

Tama reeled back as the smell wafted out in full strength, falling onto his a** when he tripped over Jezzebelle who hurriedly ran out of the room. He gagged, doing his best to hold it as he crawled away from the door. "Ge -hack- geez man... It -gag- it said do not open!"

Unfortunately, as much as he tried, he couldn't hold it. Reaching the corner, it seems what contents that were in his stomach was now a goopy mess on the floor.  

[Shaddaling]

[Room I - Browsing the book shelves/ what in this binder?]

It was musty and dim. Lex peered over Faleen’s shoulder, taking in the empty and disused room. Electronic equipment. “I’m guessing nothing in here works.” He said, quietly. They weren’t able to get the comp tower to work. There was wall to wall of binders though. Likely earlier data, but perhaps it might shine some useful. He trailed along the wall and picked a binder down at random, looking over the label.  

[TawnyAngel]

[Room E: WHRY?]

The stink was a thousand times stronger than it had been around the single body and- bodies.

A lot of bodies.

Piles.

Human, pokemon, dead, rotting.

Aulus backed up hastily, retching hard, half choking as he forced himself to swallow vomit back down. Wiping his hands on his trousers he fumbled for his dex and took a picture.

...What the hell would he need a picture of that s**t for other than a reminder if the image ever managed to leave his mind? In case he needed a refresher for nightmares? He then read the message from Alex that flashed up on screen and abruptly wished he hadn't read it just then. 'All dead', indeed. He threw up.

Char looked around at the assembled humans, advanced on the sickening scene and with his usual dignified aplomb he pushed the door closed.

The door had been closed but the stench was still all around; Aulus gagged again, fumbling for a pokeball on his belt and releasing his Serperior. "Discord. Aromatherapy. Now!"

For once the weirdly mutated grass snake did as he was told but possibly only because the smell offended his nostrils too; giving himself a shake he sent a cloud of fresh pleasant smelling air wafting around the room.

After taking a few deep breaths of the now less foul air Aulus straightened up and turned to address Tama, only to notice that Tam and Kailee were here now too. "So. Nothing we need in there," he managed after a moment.

Into his dex he added; "Don't go into the room that had tape around it and has the sign saying do not open on the door. It's... kind of full of dead things. Very." Okay. Right. s**t. Now what?

"...So you coming with us Tam, Kailee? The only way forward is down that corridor, through that door." That white door. White halls. s**t. He didn't want to. One body, then many, and what next? Nothing he wanted to see he was sure of that.  

[BlackFireKitsune]

Records room

Upon closer inspection, the papers in the open binder apparently covered some of the details of an incomplete mission. A printed label, presumably intended to be affixed to the binder once the file was complete, was printed with information: 2014-02-01, Kodo, Tethys. Copies of various Galactics' files were gathered as well, including the familiar name of Commander Tethys.

Peaking out from underneath the papers was what seemed to be a PDA.

The binder Lex pulled read simply, 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31. If opened, it detailed various mission reports Galactic had undertaken that year.

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Office

The computer tower looked none the worse for wear, besides the dust, and all of its components were present and accounted for, as well as undamaged - except, perhaps, by some dust.  

[Rocket Agent Faleen]

(Room I)

"Not unless we have our own power sourse" Faleen paused, glancing over at Switch as he came in. "Ah- though we do." she said with light grin.
"Take a look and see if you can't figure out what kind of records they kept here."
She asked Lex.

Patting the Pikachu up onto the counter. Faleen got to work quickly taking off the casing, and with the Pikachu's help, managed to supply enough power onto the computers to get them turned on.

Porygon wouldn't be able to hear her instructions, but he had been told what his job would be for this mission.
plugging the USB with Porygon on, she let him work while she returned her attention to the binder on the desk.

Her brow furrowed, as she read over the first couple of notes, though her eyes found the PDA very quickly.
picking it up, she tried to turn it on.  

[caffeinecraving]

[room e]

Kailee tried to get herself under control. She had broken out in a cold sweat as she was fighting the bile that was rising up. She heard Tama Retching and she couldnt let the grunts all be that weak stomached. They would never be invited on raids again. She stood up and looked over the pile of bodies. "What do we do?" Her eyes were watering from the smell and she wanted nothing more then to leave the room. And she had no prior issues with it. Brimstone tapped his ball on Kailee's hip and went back. No wonder there were no pokemon here... The smell was horrid.

And then She could have kissed Discord. "Oh thank you!" She looked away. "Yeah... Tambrey thought we would go with you for a bit... unless you want to go alone..."

 

[BlackFireKitsune]

Records room

The computers turned on easily and didn't need a password or anything to access, giving Porygon free reign throughout the data stored within. The only data they contained, however, were digital copies of mission records - likely the very same that had been stored in binders like the one Lex was looking in.

The PDA powered on to a screen that welcomed Commander Eris and accurately displayed the current date and time, as well as a low battery indicator that blinked red occasionally.  

[Shaddaling]

[Room I / Taking binder]

Lex opened the binder, looking through the papers and recalling some of them. “I have reports for missions from two years ago.” He flicked through the pages, somewhat nostalgic. He paused, debating, and shoved the folder into his jacket, zipping it up. There might be some useful information in there. “There are so many of them.” He wander over to the computers. “Do you need extra space?” He asked, motioning to Flatline as the Porygon-Z hovered around his head.

(Things Lex has gathered
- Piece of paper -
2012 mission binder )  

[Rocket Agent Tambrey]

Room E

Well, that helped.
That and the fact that the door was closed now.
Tambrey was rather glad, and then nodded to agree with Kailee.

"It makes sense; we've more or less got the rest of the place explored, right? No harm in keeping together for a bit, right? Especially if we're going to start running into traps and bodies and... Well, it's starting to feel like an Indiana Jones movie."  

[Rocket Agent Tama]

[Room E]

Seriously... Tama never expected so many dead bodies in one day. Hell, he didn't even expect one... well maybe, it was a crash after all. But... looking back to the door, wiping his mouth, this seemed like it happened over days and they were place there... that... that wasn't right.

Finally regaining himself, though his stomach was still doing flips, he waited for the answer of the other two that joined them.  

[Rocket Agent Faleen]

(Room I)

Porygon wasted no time in gathering as many of the files as he could and put them back into the thumb drive he had come out of.
As soon as he is finished collecting anything he could, he would return into the thumb drive and wait for Faleen to eject him.

Faleen however, was momentarily working with the PDA she had found. "This belonged to one Commander Eris." She said, trying to access any further information in it. "Its almost out of battery, do you see a charger around here?"  

[Rocket Agent Hayes]

[Room I]

Hayes reached down to his belt, jostling Alphard slightly in the process. Unzipping his pouch, he drew out a plastic bag and slipped the hard drive inside, pressing the air out before sealing the top and slipping it into his jacket. "Hold on to this for me, Al." 'Okay,' the Jirachi agreed, taking it in its little white hands.

"There's a computer tower in the office," he spoke into his dex. "Got the hard drive." And.. well, hadn't those texts been horribly ill-timed. He tapped out a 'sorry.'

There'd be time to analyze the contents later; for now, Hayes headed for the records room, just as Switch hopped up on the counter and, with a look for him and Faleen that might have said 'I'm doing this because the human who feeds me told me to, and in this cold he had better feed me very well,' sent a gentle, steady current of electricity into the first machine's power supply.

Meanwhile, Hayes shone his flashlight over the binders, scanning their labels for some common theme.  

[Rocket Agent Faleen]

Faleen glanced To Lex at his question, then at his Porygon Z
"If you want to. Porygon's trained for this though so it should be able to handle it." her brow furrowed however. "Do you have a way to get him in if we find other computers? It the more Porygon the better"  

[TawnyAngel]

[Room E, heading down that hallway to the other door + trying to open it]

Wiping his mouth and then his hands again Aulus nodded to Kailee and Tam; there was no time to hang around, keep going, find things, get out. "Right, fine, if you've checked out what you were on we might as well join up again, makes sense." He then replied to the text; 'Dn't worry.'

Right. Hands flexing restively Aulus recalled Discord and headed down the short hallway to the other door - the one without an ominous message taped to it - muscles tensed for action and heart hammering like he was running a marathon.

"I'm going to open this door now," he said with a glance to the others. "Keep to the sides of the corridor, flashlights ready, okay?" With this said, and dreading what else he might be about to find, Aulus tried the next door.  

[BlackFireKitsune]

Records room

The rest of the binders, like the one Lex had pulled, had dated labels that read varying spans of time - some a full year, others several years, and others just a couple of months. Besides the dates, the labels held no other useful information.