The Maltese Talonflame Chapter 1: The Cerise Letter

[DemICE]

"Oh please, madam, these were highly dangerous individuals, we did everyone a favor by clearing this place of them.  Now if you could also do us a favor and disperse towards whatever important business you all no doubt have?  Because i do not see any benefit from what you are trying to cause." 

[Yours Truly]

On 4/19/2018 at 10:08 PM, EXLink32 said:

(6)

Frostbite saw his trainer get covered in string which he would go help with but he noticed a creature within the trees. Eh, his trainer could probably get himself out of that bind or one of the folks with him could help. So he decided that it would be best to get that creature out in the open. He quickly and silently when over to where he last noticed the creature and if it is still there use ice shard to blast it out into the open. If it isn't there, try and locate where it is.

 

Meanwhile, with Aster, you could hear faint muffling which a few curse words could be made out if one tried. He tried struggling out of the bind but he couldn't so he tried to move the hand in pocket to grab his pocket knife and try to cut the sticky substance himself. Also, if he broke his nose because of this the culprit will regret ever messing with him.

((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. 

[Anime]

Adara almost spaced out before snapping back to reality. "We're missing some people here. I haven't seen Aster for a while, last i heard he was heading towards the nearby woods with Kayn, and Jaden, and he doesn't answer even his Xtransceiver.. I'll go look for him, he's most likely in danger and I'm not about to just sit and wait," She said, in a serious tone "If anyone wants to tag along feel free" She started to walk towards the Ilex forest. She did not want to waste more time, if anyone wanted to come they could just follow her.

[Newt]

"Crap!" Kayn wasn't paying too much attention after all that boring silence, and couldn't imagine something like this could happen.

"Zaru, give me cover!" Said Kayn, who rushed to Aster, to try to remove the strings from his face (2), while Zaru, who was on his shoulder, was paying attention to the surroundings, ready to protect Kayn if something happened (5).

[Aurorix]

The weasel growled as the spider create jumped and bite into him. He took his sharp claws and tried to dig them into the bug trying to throw the thing off him and into the trunk of a tree before summoning a flurry of icicles to crash into the creature.

 

Meanwhile, Aster still was tied and and now his face was being smashed in by some woman.  "As soon as I get out of here I'm going to beat the ever loving shit out of you!" The boy roared still trying to waggle his hand to that knife in his pocket to cut this damned string.

[Yours Truly]

14 hours ago, Newt said:

"Crap!" Kayn wasn't paying too much attention after all that boring silence, and couldn't imagine something like this could happen.

"Zaru, give me cover!" Said Kayn, who rushed to Aster, to try to remove the strings from his face (2), while Zaru, who was on his shoulder, was paying attention to the surroundings, ready to protect Kayn if something happened (5).

Kayn's attempt at removing the string shot from Aster's face, while well intentioned was rather unfortunately a bit misguided as he soon found himself accidentally scratching at Aster's uncovered face in a way that rather painfully popped the man's broken nose somewhat back in its place. 

Zaru could barely perceive anything in the not very well lit room they two of them soon found themselves in, but luckily enough his eyes adjusted to the dimmer light quickly enough to spot the Zubat as it rapidly flew towards his companion, and he barely managed to slap the damned thing away from the two of them in time before it could get close enough to snap its wicked fangs shut on anyone's slightly exposed throat.

12 hours ago, EXLink32 said:

The weasel growled as the spider create jumped and bite into him. He took his sharp claws and tried to dig them into the bug trying to throw the thing off him and into the trunk of a tree before summoning a flurry of icicles to crash into the creature.

 

Meanwhile, Aster still was tied and and now his face was being smashed in by some woman.  "Ash shoon ash I gehtk khout ofk khere I'mh goingh tho beat the ever loving shit out of you!" The boy roared still trying to waggle his hand to that knife in his pocket to cut this damned string.

(9)
Frostbite managed to use the Ariados's speed and ferocity against it as it basically impaled a part of itself on the Sneasel's wickedly sharp claws, (5) but rather unfortunately his attempt to slam the much heavier and stronger Pokemon into the tree quickly turned into an attempt to slam the much heavier and stronger Pokemon into the tree with him, causing the two of them to potentially let out a slight cry of pain as Frostbite's claws dug in just a tiny bit deeper...before the Sneasel took the opportunity to (10) slam down a flurry of icicles down onto the creature he found himself stuck to, causing it to let out another cry of pain as it in all honesty was starting to seem as if it was on its last legs.

(5) Aster successfully managed to reach his pocket knife with his improved and adrenaline powered agility. (3) Although his attempt at intimidating the woman could have used a lot of work...as the tone affected to his words by his broken nose caused him to come off as being desperate and slightly pathetic instead of defiant and dangerous.

 

(7) While the woman didn't notice Aster's attempts to break out of his bindings, she did notice that there was in fact another head she could kick to cause him to potentially pass out, and to put it rather simply and tastefully, Aster would perhaps find himself struggling against the urge to cover himself as she prepared to kick him in that exact same spot again and yelled out, "SURRENDER NOW!." Although a part of Kaynus and Aster would perhaps find themselves asking, 'To you and what army?' as she honestly seemed to be here by herself.

[Newt]

"Zaru, Sand Attack, on the woman!" As he said this, Zaru gets down from his shoulder, and starts throwing sand at the woman with its tail (2). Unfortunately for Kayn, who was trying punch her in the face (11), gets hit on the eyes by the Sand Attack, and ends up tripping on Aster, falling together with the woman on the ground, right after punching her. Kayn feels.. something soft on his face.

"W-Wha..."

[Yash]

As Elias finally made his way towards the exit, his teammates got into an argument with the civilians. He lay the girl on the ground got Lizzie out to sit on top of the girl and keep her slightly warm so that she doesn't die from the attack on her. As Adara starts walking towards the forest, he calls out to her. "Hey, are you planning on walking? You realize this isn't a video game right? That you can't just walk all the way to the forest. It's really really far from the city. Just wait for the ride the agency is sending. We'll drop these guys at the office and I'll accompany you onwards to the forest."

 

As the group waits, Horace, having successfully dispelled the group by showing them the team rocket uniform of the criminals ((9)), it takes about 15 minutes, before they see, slightly down the way, a speeding Ponyta driven carriage. As it gets closer to them, the driver shouts at the pokemon, and pulls on the reigns really hard, causing the carriage to swing from the momentum and bump up onto the curb, nearly running over Adara, before it finally stops 2 inches from her face. The red headed driver jumps down from the carriage and pulls out his Xtransceiver, looks at it for a second before scanning the group's faces and then, in an Irish accent says, "Ye lot from the Agency, ain't ye? Well, hop in. I haven't got all day, ye know?" He starts mumbling before he jumps back onto the driver seat waiting for the group. The group sees that the driver is a portly man, in his mid 40's, dressed in blue jeans, a little too tight for him, with a white shirt, and a green, tweed, flat cap, with green suede loafers.

 

Elias, lifts the unconscious girl and starts moving her up onto the carriage. "Ah, lady problems eh, young'in. I know them feels. ALRIGHT HURRY UP YE LOT, I'MA LEAVE YE BEHIND." The driver starts shouting at them for no reason. "THE NAME'S AULEY, AULEY O'CALLAGHAN."

 

After staring at the driver, and then looking at Horace with the expression of "what the fuck" on his face, he places the girl on the carriage and climbs in, helping the others up as well.

[Anime]

After pondering the thought for a bit, Adara realized that she didn't even know where Aster could be. "I guess, i should trust in his abilities, he'll return sometime soon" She mumbled to herself, as she turned around and walked the short distance back to her comrades. As she walked, a speeding Ponyta driven carriage headed towards her. All what she could think of was taking a few steps back, as she noticed the carriage's rider pulling the leashes and urging his Ponyta for a stop. Without a word, she continued her way,and noticed that the crowed from earlier had dispersed. Much to Adara's dismay, the Ponyta carriage was in fact, the vehicule they had been waiting for. " Oh joy, now i have to deal with his irish attitude... I guess i'll just try and stay silent until we get to the Agency. She awaited until Elias had put the Rocket girl into the carriage, then climbing up. She slipped in before anyone could climb, looked at Horace and said in a cute way "Ladies first"  Elias helped her to climb into the carriage which proved that at least he didn't hate her, like she thought. "Thank you, Elias. You're sweet." She said, as she sat in the rather comfortable seat of the carriage.

[Aurorix]

Not wasting a single moment Frostbite quickly launched shards of ice a blinding speeds to hopefully make this spider faint before it could get any other wise ideas. Plus, this was pay back for the tackle it gave him earlier.

 

Aster didn't actually see what happened but he did hear the commotion and felt whatever she had to his head away from it. Taking advantage of this moment he too use the serrated edge of his pocket knife and started sawing through the string sticking him to the wall. He was pretty impressed at Kayn, didn't knew he had the balls to throw a punch or two.

[Yours Truly]

((5))
Well on the bright side the Ariados is now unconcious and potentially bleeding out, but on the other hand its last action (7) was to spray a peculiarly thick webbing directly on Frostbite's face, attaching him to a nearby tree trunk as the Ariados slid on the damp tree trunk and plummeted down onto the cold and hard forest floor.

(8)

Aster quickly freed whichever hand he was holding the knife with and his right leg before anyone could try to stop him from doing anything. 

To Kaynus's credit his sudden tumble prevented the Zubat (6) from swooping down and trying its best to tear out his throat as it crashed onto him  and knocked him off of the Zubat's mistress instead, but rather unfortunately he soon found fighting a losing battle against a stronger and older woman the moment he was bumped off of said woman's woman's derriere (12), a battle that ended with the woman almost breaking his arm after she wrestled him down to the ground on purpose and not because she slipped when she attempted to throw a punch at him and fell on the little man chest first, "STAY DOWN!." 
 

[Newt]

Kayn, even if he had the light body of a child, was surprised by the woman's strenght, but even so, ignored her orders of staying down, trying also to ignore the pain on his arm.

"Sure, Sure... Zaru, again!" Kayn yelled to Zaru, and as soon as it heard him, Zaru used Sand-Attack on the woman again (7), and this time, hit just her, forcing her to close her eyes and giving Kayn a chance to escape.

Kayn jumps up like a kungfu master with full ferosity, and makes a perfect stand, only to hear a whining noise a little away from his left foot. Looking down, he sees Aster in absolute pain, crouched into a fetal position from his arms around his groin, and what strangely looks a pair of shoes similar to those Kayn wears. Tracing the shoes back to the foot, the legs and the body, Kayn slowly realises that the foot crushing Aster's balls is his own.

"Aaaaah! S-Sorry!" 

 

[Yash]

((3)) As the attack hits the woman, it also hits the flittering zubat, which ends missing anybody in the room and vanishes out the door.

 

((1)) The woman, with sand in her eyes moves backward and trips, landing flat on her back, the back of her head hitting a really sharp edge of the wooden chair nearby, causing her to clutch the back of her skull in pain as she rolls around on the floor, unable to do much else.

[Aurorix]

Frostbite quickly sliced apart the spider's web with ease. He went over to the to the ariados to make sure it was down. Once it was confirmed fainted he snicked at the his foe. He took some mud from the ground and used it to draw on the bugs face before leaving it to return back to his trainer. He should be alright, I mean he was only gone for a few moments. (11) He went back up to the trees to try and see what was happening only to see two of the three on the ground in pain, though while leaning forward he slid off the branch he was on and fell on top of fainted ariados. It let out a loud wail of pain because of it.

 

(8) Aster manages to cut his other appendages free from the webs but soon after he does so Kayn just kicks him right his the crotch. He lets out a loud and anger filled, "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!" and then falls to the ground giving into his pain. Not just from his groin but from all the blows he took to the face.

[IntSys]

"... What. O-Okay then," Serra regained her composure and hopped onto the incredibly out of place carriage.

[DemICE]

Horace looked back to Elias with a terrified look,  followed by bringing his hand just above his forehead as he was saying "I will have to ask James some questions".

 

He narrowed his eyes towards Adara, muttering "so much about gender equality"  before pocketing Magnum back in the coat and climbing the carriage.   Although he dared to ask towards his host's direction. "Right... Hello Auley... how exactly are you affiliated with the agency?"

[rustytengo]

Jeanne sighed "I just left the Agency so much for field work." she though to her self as she climbed up on to the carriage regretting not just calling her driver for rides. She pulled out her phone and sent a message to the agency to let them know what to expect once they got there.

[Newt]

"YOU are the one who needs to give up! You are out numbered and there are more of us outside. Just stop fighting and let's have some talk, ok? Why did you attack us in the first place?" As Kayn didn't have handcuffs to arrest the woman, he tried to reason with the her, trying to persuade her to stop fighting (5). Kayn knew that the woman could probably try attack him again, and so he was ready to dodge an upcoming attack, paying attention to the woman and the Zubat (8).

[Yours Truly]

On 4/29/2018 at 10:44 PM, Jeff said:

"YOU are the one who needs to give up! You are out numbered and there are more of us outside. Just stop fighting and let's have some talk, ok? Why did you attack us in the first place?" As Kayn didn't have handcuffs to arrest the woman, he tried to reason with the her, trying to persuade her to stop fighting (5). Kayn knew that the woman could probably try attack him again, and so he was ready to dodge an upcoming attack, paying attention to the woman and the Zubat (8).

"BECAUSE I NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT NO ONE KNOWS THAT THIS PLACE EVEN EXISTS!" she said with a slightly manic tone to her voice as she ran towards Kayn and tried to kick the shorter man down to the floor (6) which succeeded in knocking him back a fair bit, although he barely managed to balance his other foot on Aster's crotch once more. Of course rather unfortunately the woman's Zubat had a much greater amount of luck (11) as it plowed into Zayn at high speeds and sent him flying back for a couple of feet before he finally crashed down onto the floor.

[Aurorix]

(3) Frostbite tried to get the jump on the girl attacking his trainer by throwing a chunk of ice at her from the shadows. However, this shot was not the greatest as he tripped on a root sending the shard in the opposite direction. Another scream from the Ariados can be heard as a seemingly random chunk of ice falls from the sky and hits it in the face.

 

Aster continues to writhe in pain on the floor as his nads get a shoe full once more. He already needs a vacation.

[Newt]

(10) Kayn tries to get the Zubat away from him, while screaming in pain "AHHHHHHHHHHH, GET OFF ME", while Zaru is unsure if he should help Kayn or attack the women, and decide to do the latter (2) jumping and trying to use Astonish, but trips on his own tail an falls right in front of her.

[Yash]

"I'm one o'ye seniors at the agency. I've been a detective since the last 23 years or so. If yer lucky, you'll get ta work with me. If not, well, I don't really care then, do I." He pulled the reigns on the Ponyta and the carriage started moving ahead at an astonishing speed. It seemed that the Ponyta was using Agility to travel even faster than cars on the roads. Auley was silent for a large part of the journey, concentrating on guiding the speeding carriage and pokemon.

 

Elias was tying the arms of the rocket girl so that when she woke up, she wouldn't create an issue. "Anybody care to help me? I'm not good with tying people up. We should have taken handcuffs for this."

[Yours Truly]

On 5/5/2018 at 7:40 PM, EXLink32 said:

(3) Frostbite tried to get the jump on the girl attacking his trainer by throwing a chunk of ice at her from the shadows. However, this shot was not the greatest as he tripped on a root sending the shard in the opposite direction. Another scream from the Ariados can be heard as a seemingly random chunk of ice falls from the sky and hits it in the face.

 

Aster continues to writhe in pain on the floor as his nads get a shoe full once more. He already needs a vacation.

 

On 5/6/2018 at 6:21 AM, Jeff said:

(10) Kayn tries to get the Zubat away from him, while screaming in pain "AHHHHHHHHHHH, GET OFF ME", while Zaru is unsure if he should help Kayn or attack the women, and decide to do the latter (2) jumping and trying to use Astonish, but trips on his own tail an falls right in front of her.

After being thrown and badly beaten by a very scared child, the Zubat seems content to simply lie on the floor in front of Kayn and writhe in pain a little bit. Although while he presumably didn't know what a vacation was, he definitely looked like he could use one, especially after his trainer (8) free style kicked Zaru directly onto the Zubat's fragile, fragile body before she started to make a run for it.

[Newt]

Kayn gets up after taking the Zubat off, and checks out Zaru, who seemed to be ok even after the woman's kick. "Okkkkkk, get ready!"

Kayn gets Zaru, and throws him at the woman like an Olympian would do (11), and Zaru hits her with a well done Astonish (8), sending her down to the floor, fainting.

"Well, that's take care of it. Are you okay there, buddy?" Kayn says to Aster, extending a helping hand.

[Yours Truly]

@DemICE @Amine Chankey3ft7@rustytengo  @IntSys

@Yash

(5) Elias would rather quickly realize that he is just not cut out for this as he crudely ties the woman up in a way that is neither aesthetically pleasing and uhhh...okay so you shouldn't have pulled that knot since she'll have more than a bit of trouble with breathing, and you get the feeling that untying her later will be a bit of a hassle, but it all should be fine, not like you're gonna be showing that knot to the local boy scouts association anyway.

@DemICE @Amine Chankey3ft7 @rustytengo @IntSys

The ride over to the agency itself was surprisingly uneventful actually, as no one dared to interrupt the blue and green leprechaun or his surprisingly fast carriage, and other than a couple of odd looks and questions about exactly why you decided to bring in two rocket posers you don't get much flak from Auley for interrupting his schedule. Although of course the ride was in all honesty about as comfortable as being trapped inside of a rather large washing machine as a malfunction causes it to attempt to vigorously spin and dry you at the same time, and you get the feeling that Auley's previous passengers weren't the most....sanitary sort as Serra's feet would find herself stepping foot in an as yet unidentified sticky and warm substance for a brief but disturbing moment.

Auley simply waved at all of you after you all stepped out of the cramped sauna you had found yourselves in for the last 30 to forty minutes and got a breath of cool and fresh air. Just before the man rode off once more he made damn sure to tell everyone to not 'be strangers'....although some of you would find yourselves wanting to never do that again in your life. 

Of course the five of you would have been better off without having read the previous three paragraphs, as in all honesty the only one that really mattered was the following scenario:

You are all standing on the sidewalk in front of the doors that lead into an almost fully air conditioned office, and now the first three people who run towards the doors will presumably not have to lift the prime suspects you had semi legally arrested/assaulted/kidnapped earlier into the office. Which one of you will be the first person to get the hell in there and leave the others in the lurch? And much more importantly...what are you going to say to the people inside?