[RAID] Final Frontier

[Rocket Agent Tambrey]

Tambrey smiled, reassuringly, at Paul, then frowned at Daniel...

"And... please, what made this 'David' 'flip his lid'?"  

[[X]Natty-Chan[X]]

Room T

Tama carefully pushed the door fully open, Tiamat prepared to protect him if something jumped out. Shining his flashlight out, he carefully stepped into the room, especially as the other grunts and agent joined him  

[caffeinecraving]

[t]

Kailee caught up with Tama and glanced back seeing Aulus and lex. Oh thank god... she didnt want to go exploring with just the two of them. Knowing her luck they would find this Tethys and Andre all by their lonesome.

She peeked into the room behind Tama. So far it was just a darkened lobby. That was good. So she had a ghost that was armed with a very small stick. Thinking about that she let out Brimstone again and nodded. "Lets check it out." She headed in Brimstone walking in in front of her.

 

[TawnyAngel]

[T]

Firmly resolved to give Tama the bollocking of a lifetime later on Aulus joined the Grunt, relying on the light from fire types and other people's torches so that he had both hands for his staff.

A quick glance around revealed that Lex had come along too which might be no bad thing. Overkill was better than underkill... though of course there wasn't to be any actual killing, Claire would be really upset and he didn't want to upset his superior officer/ex/friend.

Char as ever dogged his heels, the flame of his tail burning brightly with agitation and anticipation.  

[Rocket Agent Hayes]

[Room S >> Room T]

Catching that familiar look from Aulus, Hayes winced; it was the 'give me strength' look, which was either 'strength to keep exploring this dead ship full of dead people' or 'strength not to punch wandering grunts when I find them.' In deference to the possibly of the latter he followed after his former partner, putting a brief hand on Faleen's shoulder in a silent 'going somewhere.'

"Tama. Hold up," he told the grunt, a certain amount of directive in his tone.  

[Shaddaling]

[Room T]

Glit slithered along after her trainer, displeasure radiating her length. She hissed, keeping in the halo of Char's light.

Lex glanced about, flash light focused ahead of him as he entered the room carefully. Why was Tama just running around with out any plans with a crazy guy in the vents.  

[BlackFireKitsune]

Training lobby

As the Rockets passed through, the door abruptly and heavily slammed shut and locked behind them, closing them in a fairly normal looking lobby. A directory on the far wall showed the locations of a pool, track, shooting range, weight room, battle arenas, and other facilities that could be used to train both pokemon and the self. The way to advance further in, however, was blocked by a collection of weightlifting equipment that looked as though it had slid and wedged itself in the opening. A glimpse past the blockade revealed nothing of particular interest; the first room through the doorway looked likely to be a weight room, and past that a pool was visible, though it had evidently been damaged by the impact - the floor of it had partially crumbled.

The lobby to which the Rockets were confined offered little of intrigue. A pair of benches stood against the wall to one side, a stray hand weight that had rolled away from the rest of the equipment sitting on the floor beneath them. A vent cover, its screws removed to release it from the wall, leaned across the open ventilation duct.

A harsh, mindless laugh started abruptly, its strange tones barely human as the source continued to laugh somewhere unseen, full and loud and sounding rather not too sane.  

[BlackFireKitsune]

Claire to Aulus

Yeah; try not to kill anyone until after though, please  

[Shaddaling]

[Room T]

Aww s**t. Just what they didn’t need. To be trapped in a room, with a lot of dangerous stuff, by a guy scooting about in the vents. Lex face palmed, dragging his hand down before releasing his Crobat.

Howlback shook herself wings flaring open and sent a pulse of locating clicks out, finding out the size of the room.

“You know, I am really going to hurt his David fellow. I’m going to give him a paper cut for every page in this mission binder.” He muttered and shown the flash light about the room. “I really didn’t want to go about playing vent hide and seek or tag with an off his rocker galactic.”  

[[X]Natty-Chan[X]]

[Room T]

Well, Tama found out why some of the other Rockets didn't want to go in here. Oh well... too late. He'll deal with the consequences afterwards, right now, they needed to figure out how to get out.

Tiamat growled when the laugh echoed through the room, moving close to Tama.

He shone the light to the area before them, but the weights would make it impossible to pass. His fire types could try to melt it, but that would take some time, even with the amount of fire types in the room. When he caught sight of the open vents, he quirked a brow, cautiously making his way toward one.  

[TawnyAngel]

[Room T]

Oh f-

Aulus' heart-rate picked up again as a fresh surge of adrenaline ran through his body. Grabbing his dex again he texted the whole party and Claire; 'Locked in training lobby. Crazy laughing guy somewhere. Nobody hurt yet.'

Message sent Aulus put his dex away again and turned in a circle, staff in hand and eyes scanning from ceiling to floor all around the lobby. So was the guy in the vents? "Ready pokemon with shielding moves," Aulus called to the others as the sudden mental image of bullets hailing out of the vent sprang to mind. Hell, might as well let most of them out; a quick movement of his hand released Discord and Phaethon and... yeah he wasn't letting Asgard out in here. Tortie was still on the stairs, Paul was with Tam.

He was really, really starting to regret the urge to rush to Tama's aid.  

[Suudonym]

"Uhhh..." He didn't seem to mind Faleen's insistence but struggled to pinpoint the words to begin. "Well. There was a guy, his name is Fenrir. Was Fenrir. He decided to become the next boss of Galactic, but, uh, he was terrible at it, mostly due to the whole 'kill the people who are supposed to be working for you' thing. People got fed up with him, and things got, uh, messy. Messier. At some point I woke up and the place was, you know, like this. Things toppled and twisted. I didn't see what happened, but Fenrir was killed."

He lifted a hand uncomfortably and waved a little at Lex as he went. "That's the thing about Tethys," he said, as if remembering something. "Fenrir, we know he's dead, we can go downstairs and look - good plan for when you're running low on food and, uh, need to conserve. But Tethys, we just don't know. She could be next door and I wouldn't even be surprised. Not happy, but not surprised."

He blinked at Tambrey, wetting his lips. "Well. You know. Living with a bunch of folks who aren't living."  

[BlackFireKitsune]

Claire, to Aulus

You sent that to the rest of the team, right

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Training lobby

Upon hearing the growl, the laugh suddenly ended abruptly, almost as if it was cut off. A few silent moments passed before Tethys's cool, clipped, monotone tones echoed through the room, "Stop that."  

[caffeinecraving]

Room T

BAM! Door shut... Kailee screamed... Brimstone spun and Kailee did to to see the door shut tight. Yep... That was not good. "Break it down Brimstone!" The emboar complied using his power-up punch to hammer away at the door. It didn't budge.

And then there was laughter. She was terrified. Nope crazy people... dark places... locked doors...dead bodies... not what she had expect of her first raid at all. There werent supposed to be any life signs of pokemon or people. An image of Zombies popped into her mind and her bottom lip trembled just a bit. Nope... she couldnt break down yet... There was still hope... There had to still be hope.

She saw others letting pokemon out so she did too. out came every one of her pokemon. She heard the laughing stop and her heart nearly stopped. "God help us...." She knew it could only be one other person.

 

[Rocket Agent Hayes]

[Room T - ...]

Hayes had gone still and silent, Tama - and breathing - forgotten.

Alphard poked his head out of his jacket and, after looking around, patted his trainer worriedly.