[POST-RAID ORP] Pranksters in the Light

[Gwennythe]

[Infirmary]

".. Could have let a... pokémon do it..." She said, stifling a yawn. The drugs given were kind of relaxing, or didn't help with tiredness at any rate. "Besides," She gestured, loosely, in the direction of her foot "I's got a cast and stuff... Going to heal fine." She looked tired and rather scratched up, clearly she had been in pain and she was still aware of aches and twinges despite the influence of the medication but she seemed fine, although she was still talking as he moved to talk to the one who she'd just been looking at.
She nodded, a little delayed, "'s fine" , as he accosted the man with Aulus.

Jerome's arrival was noted and she waved hello to him. Good, he looked fine. She'd kind of lost track of all who had been injured or not and had felt glad to see so little of it.  

[TRHQ Harvard]

((Picking up from Reporting In.))

[Infirmary]

Right about then, the door swung open, and Harvard walked in at a somewhat less clipped pace than normal. Spotting the small gathering, she spoke to the lab worker with the clipboard. "Thank you for waiting. Do the labs have anything to report?"

The poor man jumped in surprise at suddenly being talked to by someone new. "O-oh, right. Um, well, not much per se. It all looks pretty much as to be expected." He checked his clipboard again. Maybe if he looked enough times, he'd figure out what the fuss was all about.  

[Loreven]

Lore followed Harvard in, whimsicotts close behind him. He quirked an eyebrow and smirked at the familiar gathering of Rockets, but stayed quiet while the lab worker spoke.  

[TawnyAngel]

It had been really very tempting to smash the little nerd when he refused to speak but the trip back had at least given Aulus time enough to recover some of his common sense. He was probably already in trouble for cheek, no need to add to his list of sins. What was it with him and pissing off women in authority? Last time that had happened he had ended up responsible for the localized disaster that was Discord.

Instead of hitting the man or even spitting anything acidic Aulus stood rigid with his fists knotted tightly.

After what seemed like far too long even if it had only been moments Harvard reappeared and gleaned the lab tech's report which was... not helpful really.

"Hold on there," Aulus cut in, "what do you mean 'as to be expected'? What about that legend about Mesprit touching you?"  

[TRHQ Harvard]

The lab worker just gave Aulus an odd look. "Mesprit's touch?" He pondered a few seconds and glanced again at the clipboard before shaking his head. "Can't exactly help you with that. Sorry."

Harvard took a step closer and held out her hand. "May I?" Probably for the best to put the poor man in the lab coat out of his confused misery. All too happily, he passed her the clipboard.

The Elite's face shifted from disinterested to serious curiosity to flat and unamused. "Is this a joke? I wanted the report on the Mesprit we caught."

The lab worker made a face and nodded at the report. "But that is what you brought back. You only gave us one Pokeball to study." He looked around at everyone uncertainly. "Didn't you?"

Still reading as he spoke, Harvard at last tucked the report under an arm to address those around her. "It would appear... that we have been taken for fools." She was having difficulty keeping her face neutral as she finished, "What we caught... was not Mesprit... but a Ditto."

((New shop lines! It's... MESPRIT DITTO! ))  

[BlackFireKitsune]

((I HAD TO DO IT I'M SORRY

trololo))

 

[LexThetaSigma]

Rory listened closely as Harvard appeared and got a better response out of the lab technician. The fear he had felt earlier before they left the cave returned when he mentioned that he couldn't help them with any information regarding the legendary they had gone after. They were going to be forced to wait it out until it happened or it didn't. Would it happen quickly, if it did, or would he and the other guys have time to say what they needed to before hand.

He was pulled back from his thoughts when he heard Harvard ask if the report on the clipboard was a joke. When she revealed what the lab had found out, Rory let out a breath he didn't know he was holding. Nothing was going to happen to them.

"A Ditto?" the grunt commented after a moment as flashbacks to the end of the battle and his fellow Rockets came to mind, "So we were nearly killed in a cave because of a Ditto?"  

[TawnyAngel]

Aulus stared in silence for a few moments.

He then burst into hysterical relieved laughter and had to lean on a wall for support.

"A Ditto?" he managed. "I have never been so," more laughter, "happy to look like a complete prat!" More laughing, some struggling to breathe. "We nearly died!"  

[Gwennythe]

Tambrey frowned and was thankful she was only listening. She didn't know whether to laugh or cry, at a loss for words from the information she could hear.
They'd caught a Ditto. Just a Ditto.
She leaned back, almost seeming to deflate.
A /Ditto/ had given her a broken leg.  

[TRHQ Harvard]

[Infirmary]

Harvard wasn't nearly as amused as Aulus, though she could sympathize with his relief at that particular bit of news. Not that she'd admit it, of course. The Elite moved the chart from under her arm to read over it one more time. "Explains why it was taken out so easily. Those Zubat did most of the fighting." It also hadn't fired any attacks directly at the team. Harvard had assumed it simply had horrible aim at the time. "It was giving us the runaround," she added, passing the chart back to the lab worker.

The lab worker read the chart again as well. "Well now..." he mused. That would explain why the guys were acting so nervous when they shoved this off at me..."

Harvard ignored him and turned her attention back to Aulus, Jerome, and any other nearby members of the team. "There is a party downstairs to celebrate the catch," she continued, back to business. "The only change is the target was not what we originally thought. You all did well in completing the mission regardless."

That said, she was ready to go retrieve some snacks and hunt down a strong drink if there weren't any questions. Her normal stern expression flattened a hardly noticeable notch again as she realized something. Right... the boss' brother had just heard all of this, hadn't he. This was turning into one report she really wasn't looking forward to amending.  

[LexThetaSigma]

When Rory heard the laughter leave the agent's mouth, he couldn't help but let out a chuckle himself. It was ridiculous; they had been bested by a Ditto of all things, in more ways than one.

At the mention of the party downstairs, he debated and cast a look over his shoulder to the room Tambrey was in. "I might check in for a little while, but I've got something I gotta do first."

A yawn escaped his lips; okay maybe sleep would come after instead of the party. With a nod to Harvard and a clasp to Aulus' shoulder, Rory headed back into the room.  

[Gwennythe]

As Rory entered, Tambrey was still looking past him to where the laughter and other reactions had been happening.
She focused back on him as he came through the door and offered a wary, slightly stunned-looking expression that hovered somewhere between a smile, tiredness evident, and concern.
"Um. I heard the word... 'Ditto'?" She had to check that this wasn't some kind of odd pain med' hallucination; that she wasn't worse off than she thought she was.

Her head was swimming and stuffy with tiredness now. Long day and medication, it had to be; surely a Ditto hadn't been the cause of so much trouble?