Yours Truly

Alan turned slightly to get a better look at the doctor before he said, "Well if XCOM's robotics division is halfway competent I can get you a working medical drone before you can figure out the proper way to pronounce antidisestablishmentarianism. Although I must say that I would need quite a bit of time to brush up before I even try and kludge something together, especially if you want me to make one that is precise and sophisticated enough to perform anything other than simple aesthetics and first aid...especially since I'm not a trained surgeon."

Alan straightened out his sleeves a little as he listened to what Database had to say about the mysterious substance the doctor had managed to acquire, and he slowly took off the clown themed ballistic mask he usually had on his face as he visibly started to relax, his eyes blinked a couple of times as they adjusted to the dimmer lighting, "As long as they don't frag the whole damned thing trying to put humpty dumpty back together again because someone hosed it at the last moment. I mean no offense to Dr. Tygan, but I almost got de-rezzed trying to blow code into the damned thing, before I finished blowing code into the whole damn thing, wouldn't want it all to go to waste for a scan." He then placed his mask down on his lap and leaned back to tidy up his more than a little sweaty hair, "But anyway how quickly can XCOM produce their Drones and Psionic blockers anyway? I have grand plans for the MEC frame and Codex Brain I've got, and I don't want any Gibson to be able to get in the know or get in my head alright?."

Ahmed did what any reasonable person would do when faced with two projectiles being thrown at his direction, as in he almost immediately tried to jump to the side to dodge the knife before he would charge ahead once more as part of a desperate attempt to somehow jump over Sir Kay and bear hug Asuka's EVA.

Loadout It was at this point that Jun shot Leo a slightly accusatory 'Are you serious?' look...somewhere underneath her helmet before she proceeded to instinctively activate her suit of armor's mobility enhancements and fly up to meet the threat and ask it, "Why are you trying to kill us again?" before she stabbed it with her rapier. Move 1: Jun uses A.G.I.L.E. system Move 2: Jun flies up to meet the threat and stabs it with her rapier, dealing 4d6+Dex Dark damage to the target and dealing 1/4 of the damage dealt in stacks of "Agony" Passive effects: R.O.L.L.Defense System +1 Dexterity, Cybernetic Enhancements +2 Dexterity, Weirdness Censor Dexterity*2 Dodge chance

((3)) While Frostbite did manage to reach the location his trainer's attacker was apparently located in pretty quickly, he just as quickly realized that not only was his target no longer there, but that the 'attacker' he was throwing an ice shard at was nothing more than a particularly oddly grown branches covered by green leaves and ample shading. A disheartening cracking sound reverbated throughout the air as the ice shard caused several branches to break under the strain. Barely a moment passed before (10) a rather large and distinctively spidery shape tackles the Sneasel in mid air as he vainly tried to move back towards a more concealed position, and the damned thing almost took a chunk out of what could only be called its prey as it bit down hard. (2) Meanwhile Aster rather simply fails to fetch his pocket knife for he was too tightly bound, and just as he started to think about the horrors he would possibly inflict on his attackers if they had broken his nose, his nose was actually broken when a young woman jumped down to punch the back of his head, (7) causing his then slightly raised head to hit the door in all of the wrong ways.

"I do... or at least I think I used to, but I think I am just...going to chalk all of this up as nothing more than bad luck and a lack of practice for now," he let out a sigh as he leaned back into a quickly forming throne of books once more and said, "But either way I can't really fault you for trying to help...especially since most of the problems were caused by my fuck ups anyway."

"And I am pleased to meet you Capten-General Commanda Commisa Centurion Warlock Nob Warboss Azgrurk Da Third of Da 423rd Brigade, and do you mind if I refer to you as Azzie from now on outside of a formal setting? As I can already imagine a few situations where referring to you by your full name might cause me to embarrass myself." she shifted slightly in place a bit as the red dots visible on her visor seemed to scan every inch of the newcomer before she took a confident step forwards and offered the man a handshake, "Especially since I wouldn't want to mispronounce any of them, the name's Ambassador Jun by the way." She quickly motioned at the Weatherlight right after she had turned to shoot a glance at the corpse's direction, "And would it be fine if we move this conversation somewhere less...morbid? We do have someplace else to be now don't we?"

Radovan continued to smile warmly at miss Jenny as his left hand naturally moved to brush and stroke Emma's hair when the young boy tugged at his arm as his right hand adjusted his collar a bit, "Well miss Jenny, I was actually a bit afraid to ask yesterday as I assumed that I had correctly inferred what your age was successfully from your youthful appearance and demeanor, but as it seems increasingly unlikely for you to be no older than 20 I just have to ask...how old are you miss Jenny?." After he has heard her answer he would finally let himself be tugged away by Emma, but not before he made a parting remark or offered the young woman his A-COMM number...or both.

He is not the hero the world wants, but he is the hero the world deserves. Obviously this is still a work in progress.

Rhees honestly didn't have to tell Irene to return to the ship twice, as she had already made the motions required to turn her entire Striker around and move back towards the hangar bay the moment she heard the lieutenant exclaim the word 'fuck'. "Well I don't know about the rest of you, but I am not looking forward to finding out what weaponry or tactics they used to capture the Southern Cross and bring it back here so damn quickly. Why didn't the scout take note of this anyway?."

Jun let out a slight sigh wyen she saw the rather large humanoid approach what she presumed would be the sniper's killzone. It only took a few moments of deliberation before she decided that it would actually be a bad idea to wait to see if the sniper exists/would take a shot/would take a warning shot/would actually manage to kill the newcomer with her shot, and decided to slowly but surely approach them with her hands hidden firmly where the newcomer couldn't see them as she outright declared, "I would advise you to not take another step forward, as I'm afraid that I have it on good authority that the area you are approaching is currently under the protection of someone who both knows their way around a very big gun and are extremely willing to use said weapon to clear an area of potential hostiles... such as the rather large potential hostile who just crash landed here and started to walk towards their ship. So why don't you stay here for a moment and introduce yourselves and maybe, just maybe we can talk about letting you get on board," her visor approximates a smile for a moment as she continued with, "Unless of course if you wanted to try your luck with the sniper, I mean who knows...she just might miss."

In the real world a man was smiling, Vlastimir had already done a fist bump started to blare out a certain tune on his PET's speakers, promising a long and slightly uncomfortable ride for everyone around him who had a marked distaste for loud accordion accompanied music. Although Vlastimir himself personally couldn't think of anyone who would fit the bill, for after all who wouldn't love to hear the sweet sweet sounds of music an instrument would play in the hands kf an expert musician?, he thought abiut this as he turned around slightly to face Hina, and he had an obviously joking tone to his voice when he said, "If it is any consolation friend, the reason you lost was simple. Your opponent was me, after all." In the virtual world a gunslinger was ignoring people, Orenucu had quickly snagged the OILKEY when it first made its presence known, and it was too preoccupied with writing and sending a message to their tour guide to acknowledge the presence of the guard units with anything more than the tip of an invisible hat and a slight bow....before it quickly disappeared in a stream of 1s and 0s. [FROM: Vlastimir] [SUBJECT: Ride OK] The NetNavi that shut down the ride is now all burned up. The announcement system just told us that the ride will be fully operational in two minutes. While I personally have no real need for refreshments... I fear that the rest do not have my fortitude and would presumably appreciate a cold drink and something to munch on to try and take their minds off of the recent events. It was fun though. Back in the real world a man quietly jacked his PET out of the system, and he sat back down on his seat with a satisfied smile on his face. He secretly knew however that his victory over what must have been the easiest keyholder was nothing to celebrate, as at best he had done nothing but take the first step in a journey of a thousand, and that at worst all he had done was paint a rather large target on his own back, but for now he was simply content to lean back and metaphorically rest on his laurels, for after all he was relatively sure that he could beat anyone here in a straight up fight... or at least in meatspace anyway. Vlastimir turned his head slightly towards Hina once more as he redid all of the straps that were presumably keeping him in his seat, "But for now let us just enjoy ride yes? Still have long day ahead."

James seemed to have really enjoyed hearing Horace's statement if the fact that he had chuckled the whole time was any indication, and Horace could have sworn that he heard a slightly muffled, "Wouldn't want to be ya," said in response just before he could close his Xtransceiver and end the call. Just after you turned around to converse with the two suspects you were bringing in (10) and managed to convince the only concious criminal that cooperation was in fact the way to go; you noticed that a crowd had done its best to surreptiously gather around you and the rest of the group, and after a few moments have passed a a particularly brave young woman steps out and threatens to call the police on all of you, a statement that was soon followed by several other men and women stating that they would do the same...for some reason.

(3) James let out a slight sigh as the clickety clack of a cheap keyboard's keys being hammered could be heard in the background, "Whorace seems relatively sane when you compare it to Steel Hammerhands, who is a woman who actually works in this agency, she is a nice woman, but anyway-," a slight beeping sound could be heard in the distance before he sighs once more and says, "Well mister Horace, I am sorry to say but all of our vehicles are occu-," another ding sound could be heard in the background, and James smiled and chuckled a little upon seeing the six word message that suddenly appeared on his screen, "You know what on second thought we do have a car ready for you actually, you just stay put...he'll be right with you in a moment."

Prediction Long Sword L 2x [Use: Long Sword L] 2 hs [Use Long Sword L] 2 hs [Buster] 1 hs [Move Left] 1 hs [Move Right, Down] 2 hs [Buster] 2 hs [Move Left Left] 2 hs [Move Up Up] 2 hs [Buster] 2 hs [Move: Down, Down] 2 hs [Buster] 2 hs

"Well I don't know about the two of you but I am not exactly planning on staying up there in the night, and also my other sword's blade is made out of plasma, which should suffice to light my way back to the Weatherlight. Although I personally think that everyone in this expedition should prepare for the eventuality of us becoming separated by some sort of trap or deadly enemy by bringing your own light sources. It wouldn't be wise to travel alone in the dark after all...especially when none of us here know of what horrors might lurk there." Jun said just before she stood by and waited for Toshiro to follow.

(3) A few moments of silence passes over the whole group as everyone other than Aster seemed to be content with expectantly waiting for the cabin's occupants to make their response known. Those few moments of silence slowly doubled, and then tripled in duration as they waited, and waited, and waited for someone... anyone to say something in response. (13) But of course those few moments of patience finally paid off when someone inside of said cabin finally said something in response, rather unfortunately said response was, "String Shot," causing a rapid stream of string to rather painfully attach Aster face first to the cabin's door with enough force to bring the entire damn thing down with him, causing a small Zubat to quickly fly in to try and bite away at him, (5) Only for it to fail to find purchase on the man's string covered body. Aster, your face was just smashed into a solid wooden door and you are having a spot of trouble with breathing or looking in any other direction. Kayn and Jayden, you just saw your colleague get viciously attacked by a bunch of string that seems to have been shot from somewhere above the tree line, you don't exactly know where or what shot it but you do manage to get a glimpse of a multicolored creature jump towards another tree. (3) Horace would perhaps find himself getting a little bit annoyed, perhaps by all of the odd looks the gathering crowd was giving him, or perhaps by the fact that his phone rang for a peculiar amount of time before his call was finally answered by that one odd fellow named Jim, wait no I meant Jimmy...or was it Jamesssss?. "Yes hello this is James speaking, how can I help you today uhh..Whoreace?."

Jun gave Leo a bit of an odd look from inside of her helmet before she said, "Perhaps they simply realized that the ship and its cargo hold was completely and utterly undefended, and that no one else seemed to be volunteering for the task of securing the only ticket out of this place? And actually judging by how open and vulnerable your ship looked I honestly think that we should bring your sniper some coffee as they probably haven't gotten much sleep in the past couple of days, at least if they're as paranoid as I am anyway." She took a deep breath and started to walk towards the town gate before she continued with, "And we should honestly try to be careful around the Weatherlight if your sniper is anything like me they would have already turned the area surrounding the damned ship into a deathtrap, just to pass the time."

Prediction Move Up 1 hs Buster 5 hs Move Down 1 hs Move Up 1 hs Buster 2 hs [Custom Screen]

Observation Select: Fire Sword R [Move Right] 2 hs [Buster 1] 1 hs [Fire Sword R] 3 hs [Wait] 1 hs [Move: Down] 2 hs [Buster] 1 hs

Radovan flashed a warm and inviting smile in Jenny's direction before he looked her in the eyes and said, "Miss Jenny tell me, what was it like to live among the blind and deaf? For surely everyone else in your life must be blind to not have noticed your beauty, and they would surely be deaf to have not found themselves to be charmed by the sound of your beautiful voice." He took a step forward to be just a little closer to Jenny as his hands ran through Zeta and Cathode's hair, "And you don't have to promise me that you will do your best from now on miss Jenny, because we both know that you already do." He left a brief pause as his warm smile widened just a tiny bit right before he jokingly said, "Except for today of course, but we all have our off days now don't we?"

Jun slowly straps her rapier to her waist before she said, "Well we wouldn't have to go very far to find one, Tattletale said that there was a cluster of floating islands right above the village as we speak... she also said that you brought a trained sniper with you on the weatherlight, and that she is likely to shoot anyone who approaches it without your permission."

Jun had arrived back in town with a half baked plan forming in the back of her mind, a whole lot of information that is largely irrelevant for said plan, and an actually good reason to meet both the Dryad and the Guide once more. She was quite disappointed when she learned that the woman was presently unavailable, but her feelings of disappointment was soon replaced with that of pleasant surprise when she learned from Toshiro that the only thing that went wrong with their attempt at crafting a rapier was the amount of complaints it generated from the more moderate minded people in the group. The fishman also mentioned something about a vision he saw that involved the rapier and several other weapons being brought to the altar, and she found herself gesturing at her plasma sword and asking, "A blade of light? So something like this then?," after the man spoke of one. She also mentioned how she could feasibly see someone knap a blade of ice from one of the particilarly dense shards of ice they obtained from the Borean Strider as she slowly tried to segue the conversation into an aspect of the fishman that she was particularly interested in, and that aspect was of course, 'Whether or not he could beat her in a fight.' This of course led to an improptu sparring session that ended just as abruptly as it started when Leo walked in and asked the two of them if they wanted to head to the sky island today... just before any of the two could land the deciding blow.

@Yash @DemICE@IntSys@Amine Chankey3ft7 @rustytengo The five of you all make your way back to the entrance of the Goldenrod underground at around the same time with all of your prisoners in tow. The light of the sun is just intense enough to cause both Horace and Elias's eyes some discomfort as they had spent more time running around in the underground without exiting than everyone else, and Serra is in all honesty quite exhausted by the constant running back and forth up and down the cavernous halls of the Goldenrod underground. @DemICE It took you some time and a whole lot of effort, but you finally manage to convey the fact that you wanted the only conscious team rocket grunt to follow you after the man finally stopped shivering in fear for long enough to be read your lips...although of course he didn't actually follow you until after Magnum spurted just a little bit of ink on the man's face of course. Your trip back up to the entrance was surprisingly uneventful when you consider the fact that you were constantly coercing a half deaf man who was obviously in great distress into moving where you wanted him to move; perhaps people are just too used to seeing suspicious behavior these days... or maybe they just wanted to round the corner before they call the police on you. @Yash Your trip back to the entrance was a series of close calls and dirty looks that finally ended when you had a sudden burst of inspiration and outright declared that you were bringing her to a nearby infirmary. Of course that was a blatant lie, but no one seemed to recognize it as one until you rather foolishly walked past an actual infirmary, and you found yourself having to cover your retreat by ordering your Pokemon to use a smokescreen and getting the hell out of dodge. @IntSys As a semi respectable looking woman who was carrying a briefcase and being guarded by dangerous looking Pokemon you....ran into a spot of trouble along the way as a hoodlum jumped you with a knife and a vicious looking Kanto born Rattata inside of an alleyway you tried to use as a shortcut. Although in the end of the day the trouble proved itself to be nothing that you couldn't handle yourself as your Klefki quickly taught the would be mugger a lesson that he would never forget...that Steel types are always resistant to Normal type attacks, no matter how well trained the Normal types are.