Pokemon RP: The Spiral of Shadows, BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BE THE VERY BEST. Options

[Kratour]

"Oh for crying out-fricken-loud." Hearth mumbled as he took a hopping step out of the van. Without waiting for the others, Hei decided to just storm off and alert everyone to exactly what was going on, which was definitely going to make it easier to infiltrate the base. "Come on people-" he said as he plucked a poke'ball from the belt at his waist, then released Snow in a brilliant stream of white light, "Looks like Hei's volunteered to be the distraction. Let's go on and sneak by while the guards are preoccupied." Funnily enough, the young trainer didn't give much pause before taking off himself, the Ninetails keeping a steady stride alongside him as he went. Some might even say that this made him into something of a hypocrite- but then, those people should be punched in the face for being jerks. ... So yea.

Unlike his gun-ho companion, however, Hearth brought himself to a halt right before he rounded the wall that would have put him in sight of the guards. "Snow, think you can take care of them? The pokemon are battling, so they shouldn't give you much-" "Nine, nine." The fox replied, rolling her eyes at such an obvious question. I mean, who did he think he was talking to? She wasn't just some two - bit Vulpix wannabe. Oh no, she was paragon of fiery beauty. A being who's soul burned with such searing passion, such overflowing grace- "Snow!" The fox jumped a bit as her train of thought was cut off by Hearth who now giving a bit of a sigh. He just lifted his arm and pointed at the guards, "Okay, I get it. You're awesome. Now could you please take care of business? Seriously, it's cold out here."

Snow gave a bit of a huff, wondering at the nerve of her supposed master. But after a second, she gave a bit of a shrug and padded out around the corner. With stealth that would have surprised anyone that was familiar with her, the fox quickly crept along the shadows, which eventually brought her within a few feet of either guards. For a silent moment, she looked between them- then her eyes took on a curious blue sheen and a strange distortion seemed to shoot along the air, first colliding with one guard, and then the other. They both shook their heads a bit, but otherwise seemed unaffected. Or at least, they appeared that way until Hearth stepped out into the open and easily made his way past both of them. The curious thing was really that they never even seemed to notice the trainer as he walked within several feet of the pair.

"Good job with that Confuse Ray Snow," he mumbled, smiling at the pokemon before turning back and motioning towards where he assumed the others would be- it was pretty hard to tell given the lack of light out away from the entrance. "Now... Think you can keep 'em confused until the rest of the group get past?" Without thinking, the sleek white fox barked an affirmative- though she quickly began to hope that she was right.

[Ryuga]

Grey used Hearth's opening to knock the guards out by hitting them on the head with the van's travel toaster. The trip here was enough time for him to return to nearly normal physical condition. The injuries, other than the cuts from Sneasle, were rather minor, as proved when Grey got out of bed to get his Sneasle.
"Well, that went easier than expected," he remarked as he bent down to take the poke-ball's the the guards. "Sorry guys, but since you took my Pokemon, I'm just going to have to make do with yours."
Just saying that line was enough to get Grey to think about his Sneasle. Sneasle had calmed down quite a bit over the road-trip, but refused to respond to anything Grey did. Grey sighed. His objective way of raising Pokemon had finally done him in. It was about time he passed Sneasle onto someone else. If anyone could get Sneasle to open up again, it was the trainer ahead of him, Hearth.

Grey gave a thumbs up over to his companion with the Ninetails. "Sorry about steeling your Thunder there Snow. But now we don't have to worry about these guys snapping out of the confusion."

[Xamusel]

(OOC: Uh, guys, I was hoping that Hei would fight the guards on his own, but oh well, no sweat off my back. By the way, I had Shadow Pokemon be against him as an ambush on his part in this raid. Hopefully, it would be a good fight scene, but I have limited knowledge with what sort of moves would be useful against what. Anyway, back to Hei fighting. I might as well hope Nicsp allows the notion of back-up guards.)

After the guards were knocked out by Grey and Hearth's Ninetails, Snow, Hei was going to remove his mask when he heard yells coming from within the guardhouse. Despite not being able to hear the muffled yells, he could tell that Grey and Hearth's antics caused the rest of the guards to react. Quickly, he ordered, "Saito, Vine whip the ground at three o'clock!" Turning to Chiaki, he said, "Chiaki," then looked at the opposition. Apparently there were five grass types there, and no way for them to dodge. He then finished his line of thought, by saying, "use a Mass Flamethrower(1), okay?" With a nod from Chiaki, Hei turned to Pai, and said, "Pai," and looked at her opposition. He noted three water types, but none of them were close enough to each other to make a Mass Hydrocannon(2) work, so he opted for a strategy that hardly ever worked on normal Pokemon... then again, these weren't normal, anyway. "Force them together and make them wet with a Mass Hydrocannon, okay?"

Fortunately for Hei, the foes didn't hear what he was ordering, so he had the element of surprise going on, and he yelled loud enough for the enemy to hear, "NOW!!" He rushed towards the guardhouse, with Saito following, knowing that coordination with Hei was important, and then they heard the Pokemon busted down, at least not Chiaki and Pai. Chiaki already took care of her foes, now all that was left of the two was Pai getting the enemy blasted with-

"SQUIRTTLE!!"

Pai managed to get her foes just in time, apparently. Now all that was left was Saito's part. With a gesture of his fingers, made to look like a gun firing off, he ensured that Saito whipped the ground just when the guards were storming out. Saito looked rather pleased with himself, having helped Hei do his job. The ground in front of them was, for lack of a better term, hollow, mainly because of the fact that there were tunnels underneath, and one such tunnel was caved in at the spot that was made the new home of the guards. Of all the morons to come out, only one was left. Hei decided to use his knowledge on Kung Fu to knock this guy out, and then got ready to get back to the rest of the group.

He was almost there when he heard a voice say in the shadows, "You know, you seem to be rather interesting, Hei."

(OOC: Who's the mystery person that is talking to Hei? I'm going to reveal it later, guys. As for what I have in mind, I think you need to wait and see. Hell, even I don't know most of what I think until it's time, anyway.)

Meanwhile, Mao and Yin were riding in the car that Hei bought, and with Volt driving. The night was going to be long, and they needed to find Hei. Hopefully they'd find out where Hei went... he'd probably be hungry soon, anyway.

(OOC: For those of you that didn't understand why Hei was concerned about food, it would seem like he has a Tape-worm, but it's actually a huge metabolism on his part. That was a mirroring of Hei from Darker than BLACK and this Hei. Before receiving his Contract, Hei was really hungry a lot of the time, and this serves to explain about the hunger. You may even use the knowledge against Hei at some point.)

[Naridar]

C'mon guys!, Igor shouted to his pokemon, "Vavantis, check the base from above. If there are any escape routes, don't let those goons use them! If they're too powerful, don't take risks, retreat. Okay?". The Salamence nodded and raised from the ground, understanding its' master's command.

"Follow me!", he waved towards his other two pokemon, Rodope, the swampert, and Toto, the houndoom followed suit as he stormed towards the base.

[Nicsp]

Howard followed the rest of the group with a sigh. So much for discretion. Entering the base, it could be noticed that it seemed to be some kind of factory, the only way in and out seemed to be the entrance which the group had just stormed through. Howard approached the building and examined the door, it was a heavy steel doorway, apparently locked by a security card as one could deduce from the panel next to it. Howard scratched the back of his head, thinking of a way to get in. He then noticed that there was a small window covered with some grids not too far from there. There was no way a human could crawl through those openings, however...

Howard called out V, and picked her up with both of his hands. "All right, V. Listen up, i'm going to lift you there and through the window, once you're inside, try to find a a way to open this door, all right." V nodded cheerfully in response, Howard replied with the same movement. After a moment of preparation, Howard gently lifted V up so she could make her way to the window. V squeezed it's way past the grates and jumped inside the building.

Once inside...

V landed succesfully on the other side, she scouted around her surroundings, it was a bit hard since all of the lights were off, making it hard for her to see anything but a few lights in the distance down the corridor, regardless, they were not her preocuppation at the moment. She turned to look at the door and noticed a guard sleeping on a chair right next to the door. V's eyes went wide as she noticed the security card sticking out of the guard's pocket. She slowly made her way closer and took the card from the guard with her mouth. She then quickly, but stealthily made her way back to the window, she spat the card out through the window, but just as she was about to make her own way back through the window, she was suddenly grabbed by the collar.

The guard from whom she had taken the card from had woke up just in time to see her trying to climb her way out. The guard stared at V for a moment and grunted. "What? Another one that ran away from the lab, i don't think so bud, back to the laboratory with you." V flailed herself around, although to little use, trying to free herself from the man's grasp.

Back outside...

Howard grabbed the card and smiled, he waited for a few moments in there, waiting for V to come out, but she didn't. He let out a short sigh of worry but proceeded back to the door, he set the security card in the slot and the doors quickly slid open, he walked inside, squinting his eyes to try and see through the dark, only being able to see small lights in the distance, further into the facility. "I can't see V anywhere..." Howard was starting to get seriously worried but he took a deep breath and then continued. "Considering the whole place's dark i'll bet the real base is underground, i think we should follow the light and be on the lookout for more goons."

(OOC: Just so y'all know, this place is basically an old abandoned power factory, feel free to do whatever any of you need to do to prepare before we go to it's lower levels.)

[Xamusel]

Hei turned to who was speaking to him, and noticed a face that he never thought that he'd see again....

"Huang."

"Yes, kid, it's me. Now, then, what made you a Pokemon trainer instead of a cold-blooded killer this time?"

Honestly, Huang can get on Hei's nerves so much, but he decided to leave it be. He realized that Huang would still hunt him down to the ends of the earth, but that didn't matter now.

"Huang-" Hei started before the doors to the base opened up. He looked back to the group, then to Huang, and said, "I'm going to be seeing you in a few days, Huang. I have work to do."

With that, Hei left for the base doors.

(OOC: I'm running short on time here, and I would rather wait till I have the time to expand on it.

Anyway, on to what I meant in my last post:

(1) That means multiple FlameThrowers, and (2) means multi Water Cannons.)

[Kratour]

Snow stared at Grey for a few moments, weighing his sincerity, considering rather or not she should grant him forgiveness. Finally, however, she just gave a foxy smile and nodded, barking her acceptance of his apology. I mean, it was troublesome trying to keep two guards confused at once, so hey. Hearth gave a bit of a chuckle, finding Snow's antics a bit amusing- though he hushed himself almost instantly as the fox shot a death-glare over his way. "Er... Yea, uh..." Hearth began, clumsily I might add, "Good job there Grey- nice use of... toaster."

[Ryuga]

"Gotta make do with what you have right?" replied Grey as he tossed the toaster aside. "Looks like Lee and the others are just running in guns blazing. Maybe we can use the ruckus to sneak into other areas unnoticed?"
The two, plus Snow, made their way around unconcious guards, careful as to not alert more of them of their presence. Grey eventually lead them down a different corridor than Hei, evident by the lack of bodies. When they reached the end, Grey peeked around the corner to find grunts transfering crates into vehicles, he presumed to be desguised as regular delivery truck.
Grey signaled for Hearth to come see. "So what do you make of this?"

[Kratour]

After having looked over the situation for a couple of seconds, Hearth simply shook his head. "I dunno, it's hard to say what's going on without knowing exactly what they're loading up. Given who it is though, I'm willing to guess that it's pretty illegal... What do you think?" He turned, questioning Snow of all people. She peeked out for a moment, then managed a bit of a shrug, "Nine- Ninetails nine, nine... tails." Her voice was hushed, and whatever she said certainly made Hearth think. After a moment, though, the young trainer simply returned the foxes shrug, "We'll deal with that if it comes up- for now though, what do you... ... Ah, never mind. So Gray," he turned back to the breeder, "What do you think we should do? We could break this up, though that would take time, and there's no telling how long we have until things start falling apart. Either way though, I'll stick with you. I'm sure we'll be able to handle things just fine if we work together." "Nine?" "... Yea, you too Snow, you're part of the team as well."

This post has been edited by Kratour: Feb 26 2011, 10:35 AM