The Maltese Talonflame Chapter 1: The Cerise Letter

[Aurorix]

"No, not really." Aster responded taking the boy's hand to help pull himself up. He couldn't help but bend his knees inwards due to the pain coming from his groin region. He glared at the unconscious woman,  "So what are we going to do with this bitch here? I say we take her in for questioning or just to make her life hell and let her rot prison. Either way I'm fine with." Frostbite also makes his way towards the cabin. The dark type sort of just leaves the bug to wallow in it's pain. It'll be fine on it's own, right?

[DemICE]

"Here, let me help you with the baggage", Horace said to Elias, seeing as he was probably the most physically fit there for this job.

[Yash]

"I'm fine with this one, why don't you bring the weird man along with us? Let's head inside guys." Elias puts the rocket girl over his shoulder again in a fireman's carry and makes his way inside the building. Upon entering, he sees James at the desk, talking with Emilia. Walking all the way up to them, he grins at James again and says, "Thanks for arranging the ride, James." in as sarcastic a tone as possible before adding, "Here, I got you a thank you gift for your effort." He then proceeds to dump the rocket girl directly on top of James' desk. He crosses over to James' side, gives him a big hug before he smiles at Emilia, who then proceeds to walk into the stairway near the elevators.

[IntSys]

Serra's face had regret written all over it. The ride itself was so bad that she wished that she had walked back here on foot, even if that meant walking through Ilex Forest. After arriving, she stepped into the doors and ran up to Emilia, with the suitcase in hand. "Is Oak still here? Or is he done waiting?"

[DemICE]

Horace wondered how did it escape his mind that there were two criminals that needed to be carried, before proceeding to agree with Elias' suggestion and carry the male Rocket into the building.  He stifled a laugh as the girl was dumped on James' desk and wished there was more space for him to dump the guy too. Instead he settled for dumping him on the side of the office and saying  "Interesting personell you guys got here. With such standards it's no wonder that all of us got accepted in the agency.  By the way these two will need interrogating, and ... I can't believe you sent us out there without  at least providing us handcuffs."

[Yours Truly]

On 5/14/2018 at 1:47 PM, EXLink32 said:

"No, not really." Aster responded taking the boy's hand to help pull himself up. He couldn't help but bend his knees inwards due to the pain coming from his groin region. He glared at the unconscious woman,  "So what are we going to do with this bitch here? I say we take her in for questioning or just to make her life hell and let her rot prison. Either way I'm fine with." Frostbite also makes his way towards the cabin. The dark type sort of just leaves the bug to wallow in it's pain. It'll be fine on it's own, right?

Aster would at first find very little of interest within the cabin's slightly dusty and dark confines, and he might have even considered giving up the search after he stepped on something that could only be described as 'Zubat Litter', but his tiny companion would find themselves having a lot more luck as they almost immediately manage to point out the exact location of what appeared to be a trap door in the time it took for Aster to complain about his shoes and pants being ruined by a sudden spray of...ech.

 

James meanwhile, was not at all amused at the antics of the rest of the group as he quickly started to spray literally everyone with what appeared to be a very medicinal smelling perfume, and he was still pinching his nose with a vaguely annoyed look on his face when he replied to Horace's question with, "Did you even stop to requisition some? Or did you just immediately head out to Arceus knows where to arrest...who are these people supposed to be again?".

[DemICE]

"We just got employed here, did you really expect any of us to have our own handcuffs or something? It should have been pretty much routine procedure to provide new staff with some basic stuff before sending them on their first mission without them asking." Horace answered, bottling up his exasperation or trying to. "As for these guys, they are quite obviously members of Team Rocket, and they are related with our suitcase case.  Serra should have more info to share regarding the suitcase itself, because she took it with her for investigation while i kept these guys occupied."  He finished on a professionally neutral tone.

[Yours Truly]

James had a bit of an odd look on his face as he stared into Horace's eyes and asked, "Pun intended?," to try and leave a slight awkward silence as he motioned for some of the guards to drag the Team Rocket members over to one of the interrogation rooms. It took quite a while before he finally decided to continue with "Well I don't know about you, but I expected at least one of you to have gotten one from prior investigative or recreational experience, but that was too much to ask apparently, I'll make sure to call the armory to requisition some for the rest of you to pick up... after the five of you take a shower and get a change of clothes, we're not operating a sweat shop ladies and gentlemen," as if to punctuate this point Katie immediately picked up the bottle of perfume that James had placed back on the table and sprayed the party with its contents once more.

[Anime]

Adara felt so horrible and thought that she should consider some of her life choices, then she walked towards James' desk where Elias had dumped the Rocket girl, and stood there, listening to Horace talk to James before Katie sprayed them with the same perfume bottle that James had used just a few minutes ago. She sighed and headed towards the gym, hoping to take a shower and remove the horrific smell of that carriage from her hair, and to rub salt on the wound she was even sweaty, it was all thanks to that damned carriage, as it was so small, air didnt have much room to circulate.

As she stepped into the gym, and saw Elias entering the men showers. She headed toward the girls showers, and began cleaning herself from all the horrible smells that stuck to her during the day.

[DemICE]

Horace coughed after the cloud of perfume surrounded him. "That was.. *cough* pretty redundant,  as we were going to shower anyways...  We don't like this filth either, naturally!"   He coughed once more as he went to pick a blanket, shampoo, and a change of clothes and headed towards the showers.  Someone else was already occupying one. He went to another one and started thinking of how the day had gone, which led to him letting out a pretty audible sigh. Though some part of him figured he also enjoyed parts of it a little. He raised Magnum, who was also getting a shower treatment to his eye level and said. "Is it bad that I enjoyed some parts of the mission a little? ...Who am I asking though, you sure enjoyed it even more than me!"   Magnum rolled his eyes in an "I don't know what you're talking about"  way,  to which  Horace replied with  "Yeah, right..."

[Yours Truly]

On 5/19/2018 at 12:32 PM, IntSys said:

Serra's face had regret written all over it. The ride itself was so bad that she wished that she had walked back here on foot, even if that meant walking through Ilex Forest. After arriving, she stepped into the doors and ran up to Emilia, with the suitcase in hand. "Is Oak still here? Or is he done waiting?"

Serra quickly realized that it would have taken quite a bit of detective work to find Emilia in the first place as the conference room she and Oak were in when they first left was rather conspicuously locked. Although she just as quickly realized that there were in fact two other people here who could tell her if Oak was still somewhere inside of the office, and Katie would rather quickly point out that neither Emilia and Oak were in the office, as the Professor had a radio show to attend to and Emilia was heading out to...do something or other I guess, she wasn't quite sure.

[IntSys]

"Fan-freaking-tastic," Serra groaned. She rushed upstairs, dumped the suitcase at her cubicle, and swiftly hit the shower rooms with the provided gears. After a good half hour, she reemerged from the shower, without the unbearable smell. Finally, she returned to her cubicle, took out a pair of headphones, and just, napped in the sound of some 90s karaoke song.

[Anime]

A few minutes later, Adara was done with her shower, but as soon as she started to wrap a towel around her, she heard the unmistakable sound of a man's groan. "YEET!" Adara tripped on her foot and fell, but luckily she was able to regain her compusure and stand up before anyone sees that she fell. She quitely tiptoed towards the room that she thought the groan came from, and the sound grew louder.

[Yours Truly]

The intern would rather curiously find herself seated in an uncomfortable metal chair in what could be best described as an interrogation room, the lights in the room are dim and the entire place seemed to give off a feeling of disuse if the musty smell in the air is any indication. Thankfully you don't seem to be tied down to anything right now, but who knows what could be waiting to ambush you just behind the metal door lading out of this room?. Although whoever they are they could be watching you right now through the big glass viewing screen, so whatever it is you were planning to do... you might want to plan it around the possibility that they know exactly what you are doing right now.

[Jeane]

PRESENTING: MISS CUI-QUAN

IN A STARTLING DEBUT ... 

IN A SUDDEN CHANGE OF SCENERY ... 

 

Under extraordinary circumstance, "Celeste" often caught herself contemplating in code name. 

 

Intuition told her this was not normal procedure, but also that this was a place she wanted to be-- accurately, it was a place she didn't not want to be. For
whether "Celeste" recalled the set-up for being seated here was irrelevant to the girl; she was made anxious by the prospect of being the only person seated there, therefore implying a sort of spotlight on her. That in itself implied she was playing the goddamned PI for once-- she didn't want to get into why she wasn't already. It would spoil her mood.

             Were detectives supposed to be detached? There weren't many ladies heading noir films, so she didn't have much of a basis. Regardless, her impulsivity sometimes bothered her, and while she was measuring the fundamentals of investigation, and while she had no impetus for proactivity, she could be the cool and collected Lady Celeste. The PI in powder-blue who always knew what to do.

 

The goal was simple: to find a chain hanging, or a switch on the wall. The obscurity of the room made it indeterminate to recognize anything about it. Though, from whatever distance she was positioned, she managed to make out a door. (Why would she want to leave so soon?) 

 

She was, temporarily, proud of herself for keeping her head. She had even managed to sit still for a solid minute. All she needed was a cup of coffee and she could be like Emilia or something. ...but she had been selfish. 

                 "Oh, shit." On one hand, she loathed the dependency. On the other, losing an entrusted sidekick left a sense of terrific emptiness. 

 

Celeste waves at the reciprocal mirror in a broad sweeping gesture. "Hey, excuse me? Yoo-hoo! I've heard too many changing room horror stories to know somebody's gotta be watching me right now. 

                   "I left my drink upstairs in the cubicle area, seventh floor of the PDA building. (Gosh I hope this is the PDA building.) Could you, like, grab it for me? Before, you know, whatever." 

 

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Spoiler

Merry sought out a light switch. 

Merry asked anonymous personage behind the mirror (@ Cronos5010) to retrieve a cup from her office space on the seventh floor of the Pokemon Detective Agency. 

 

Edited June 4, 2018 by Jeane

[Yash]

Elias after dumping the girl on James' desk, and getting sprayed with the perfume by him and Katie, makes his way up to the showers with a set of cloths to change into, a towel and some toiletries. He also drops Lizzie of at the fire pokemon habitat room so that she can rest. He showers, and while showering, just massages his muscles to get rid of some of the exertion. During this time, he hears a strange yelp of sorts, and a thud. Thinking somebody fell and may be hurt, he shuts the shower and wraps his towel around his waist, opening the door to see what happened. He comes face to face with a towel wrapped Adara. "Hey, are you alright? I heard somebody fall. Was that you?"

 

 

~~Announcement over the PA system~~

"All new members who have returned after their first investigation, please meet Samantha in the Bullpen once you are ready."

All of the people could hear the relatively familiar voice of James, albeit slightly muffled, over the PA system.

"I repeat, all new members, please meet Samantha in the Bullpen."

 

~~Serra~~

Having her headphones in and slightly asleep, Serra doesn't hear the announcement. However, Samantha sees Serra, and after not recognizing her, she understands that Serra is one of the new kids. She goes over to Serra's desk, and sits on it quietly, waiting for her to wake up, and the rest of the group to come to the bullpen.

[Anime]

Adara is surprised by Elias' sudden appearence and she says "Yeet! yeah that w-was m-me...wait why are you here?! i thought this was the ladies' showers,  WAIT why am I here.." she takes a few steps back, shocked, and kinda dizzy from seeing Elias' muscles up close. She had a perfect view, so she kinda stared a bit too long than she intended, as she basked in the glory of his perfect armpits and glorious muscles.

[rustytengo]

Jeanne having wandered down to the showers like a few of the others was just getting ready to  head back up to see what the next plan of attack so to say was next. Though as she was about to exit out of the room she heard a squeak an thud and them some voices. And then the announcement to meet in the ball pen. Figuring she add some time or maybe just her curiosity getting the better of her she slowly walked towards where she heard the voices from after all eat kind of investigator would she be if she didn't investigate. 

 

Turning a corner a bit she spots Adara wrapped in towel standing in front of a door occupied by another Elias whose own privates where covered by a towel. Adara was standing there staring at Elias smiling to herself Jeanne pulled out her phone getting it ready to snap a picture of what she could only guess was a dalliance in progress. After all you never know when you might need some dirt on you coworkers is what her father had always told her.

[Yash]

Elias notices Adara staring at him and steps back into the stall. "Uh, these are the showers. Where else would either of us be if we were going to shower. As far as I know, there are no gender specific showers. Also, if you're going to stare like that, you may as well get in." he tells her, in a flirty yet strangely brusque way. Behind her, he sees Jeanne with her phone out, pointed at him and Adara. Turning to face her, he winks and says, "That invitation is open to you too, by the way. I'm much better in person than in a photograph." With that, he steps back into the stall, shutting the door but not locking it and starts his hot shower again.

[DemICE]

In the meantime, Horace, who was in another shower, was listening with interest all this, even Magnum seemed interested.  Hearing something about a photograph was enough reason for him to not dare step out of those showers.

[Anime]

Adara realized that she stared longer than she wanted to, and not wanting to firther embarrass herself, she said "thanks, but i'll pass, it seems we're not alone.." she said as she turned, slowly, towards Jeanne and then she lunged at her hoping to snatch away the phone, but she was too slow and mistakenly groped something else. She stood still for a second, trying to realize what just happened and what she just groped. She raised her face, and realized that her hand, instead of snatching the phone, was now resting on Jeanne's left chest.

She quickly took her towel, went back to the shower, and closed the door.

[Yash]

Having heard the announcement, Elias stepped turned off the shower, dried off and quickly changed into a fresh pair of clothes before stepping out of the shower and hurrying to the bullpen. Seeing Adara and Jeanne not having left, he said "Hurry up Adara, Jeanne. Duty calls," making the statement seem intentionally vague and flirty. He left the  shower area, stepping into the elevator heading to the fire pokemon habitat room to pick up Lizzie. After picking her up, getting a snack for Lizzie and himself, he makes his way to the bullpen. There he sees Serra, asleep at her desk, and a woman sitting on her desk. Assuming her to be Samantha, he waves and walks up to her. "Hi, I'm the intern, Elias. You must be Samantha?" She nods and as Elias comes closer, gets up from the desk and gives him a hug. "So nice to meet you Elias, I'm Samantha." That is when Elias notices it. That feeling you get when you come across somebody who is truly happy and cheerful. The sudden dread of existence and an urge to step away from the happy people. He quickly moves closer to Serra and wakes her up. "Hey Snorlax. Wake up. Did you even hear the announcement?"

[rustytengo]

Jeanne rolled her eyes at Elias' words he wasn't winning any points with her that way he was basically a walking sexual harassment suit and she didn't get any good dirt from it either.  So once he walked back into the stall Jeanne was about to head out until Adara lunged at her phone. She moved phone slightly out of the lung which caused Adara to miss and continue on towards her chest. it took Jeanne a few moments to realize what happened as Adara groped her breast. Jeanne's face lite up in a small blush as Adara ran back into the shower all Jeanne could do was stand there. 

 

Once Elias exited the shower and told them to head up to the meeting Jeanne finally snapped out of her daze. Shacking her head she walked over to where Adara hid at  "You know you should at least take a girl out for dinner first if you're going to feel them up." She said in a jokingly flirty voice "Now hurry up. I'll walk up with you. We don't need you wandering away and grabbing someones else's hmm....equioment I guess you can say." She finished as she leaned on the wall waiting for the other girl to get ready to leave.

[Anime]

Adara blushes and she feels warm, the last few minutes were hotter than she expected. She finished her shower, dried up herself and wore a pair of fresh new clothes. She was about to head out, when Elias told them 'not to be late' she sighed at his statement, if he was trying to flirt that was no way to win a lady's affection. She made her hair into a ponytail, as Jeanne spoke. Jeanne's words made Adara blush more than she expected, but she tried to get a hold of herself, and get to working, there would be time for that later she thought.

Jeanne leaned on the wall near where Adara was showering just a few minutes ago. "T-that...w-we'll talk about it later, lets go and show Elias that women are superior"

Said Adara as she started to walk out of the showers, headed towards the bullpen.

[rustytengo]

Jeanne smiled at Adara's words "Yeah maybe we can talk about it over that dinner sometime. After all, you should make that up to me at some point. Shouldn't you?" Jeanne said with a giggle. But yeah let's show him what women can do." she finished as she followed a bit behind Adara.