RP

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Note frowned. "Donetello was with her..." He walked out of the lab and poked his head into the battle arena.

[loafingdragon]

Vivian had gotten sniffed at the drips of blood Sherman had left and cringed. "I bet he woke up and is bring her to the lab some other way." She looked down the hallway. There was a trail of tiny dots of blood.

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Don looked at the trail pensively before looking at Vivi. "Let's follow it... Stay close," he murmured, before following the trail.

[loafingdragon]

Dr. Cherri looked a little irritated. "Well there's this one, I suppose." She took EV's Pokéball off the machine when it was done. "We ran several tests, but there are a few more I can run on this one alone. I need the other one soon, though. Please go after it. And don't ruin anything. Oh-!"

She left the lab for a while and returned with two Team Magma hoodies, giving one to Tunes and one to Joey. "You two, go get it. You-Note? Stay here and assist me."

Joey pulled the hoodie over his head and looked at Tunes, uncertain.

"Well, get going already!"

Vivi followed the trail with Don, seeing that it was going deeper into the facility.

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Lemondrop let out an indignant squeak as Tunes pulled the hoodie over her pocket. Tunes looked apologetically at the tiny Pikachu and then turned, gesturing for Joey to follow her as she went looking for the others.

Note shifted his weight uneasily on his feet. He held out his hand for Vivian's Pokéball. "Can I have her back? She hates strangers."

Donetello continued to follow the blood trail, glancing around warily as he did so.

[loafingdragon]

As they left the room, Joey looked down at his whimsicott. She had been put on the machine, but she was asleep still. "Tunes... I'm uh... really sorry."

"SHE is the one I need to study." Dr. Cherri laughed. "I've handled aggressive Pokémon before." She picked up the fire proof clothing from the counter and slid it on over her own.

As they came around the corner, Don bumped into Sherman. The scientist flinched away, blocking his face with gauze wrapped hands. "Ah!"

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Tunes sighed. "It's okay, Joey... You didn't mean it," she murmured, though she did not meet his eyes.

Note bit his lip. "Y-Yeah, but... that's not going to..." He trailed off. He had a feeling that Cherri was far too proud to heed his warning. Vivian's fire attacks were never purely fire. In fact, the Dark-type aspect was often more harmful than the Fire-type.

Don jumped back in surprise and growled at the techie. "Found him," he muttered. "So where's your friend?"

[loafingdragon]

He still felt ashamed. It seemed he hadn't helped in any way since this began.

"Well, if your concern is for me, then we could always paralyze it." Dr. Cherri said, as she pulled on some suprisingly thin gloves. "Tell me all you can about it. That would make my job easier. How did it evolve this way? How were these scars inflicted?"

Vivi sniffed at the startled human. "He's seen my trainer!" She said." Maybe he gave Margot to her and let her go!"

Sherman watched Vivi, trying to figure out what she'd do next. Hopefully she wasn't as aggressive as the jolteon who had somehow knocked him out was. For all he knew, he had permanant nerve damage. He still couldn't feel his fingers. He was slowly backing away from the pair of Pokémon.

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"No, you don't have to do that," Note said quickly, his gaze anxiously fixed on Vivian's Pokéball. "I don't know how she evolved. I ran into her in a forest in the Hoenn region. She's been shot... twice. She has a limp because of it. She loves water, but she uses fire and dark-type moves, and she's got a wicked temper. She doesn't trust people, I think she was horribly abused before I met her... please give her back."

Donetello's eyes shined. "We have to get him to take her to her then," he decided, taking a step toward the wary techie.

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Joey looked up in time to catch a semi-familiar face coming around the corner. He ducked behind Tunes, pulling his hood over his face and trying to hide Whimsy. Alex walked by, pausing to look at Tunes. "Are you two new around here?" She didn't seem concerned about thier age at all.

She smiled sweetly, which seemed suprisingly unbsettling. "Maybe we're lucky enough that the poison has lasting affects. Paralysis, I mean. It happens occasionally. More than not, really, if you take them off the machine early." Cherri didn't seem interested in returning EV to him at the moment.

"Oh- Wait a minute." She turned and sprinted back to the doorway and returned a few minutes later. She dropped Ruffle Jay's Pokéball in front of the Techie. Sherman was hesitant to pick up the ball, glancing cautiously at the Pokémon as he picked it up. Vivi's tail waved. "Well, open it!" She knew he didn't understand her, but still...

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Tunes stared up at the woman blankly for a moment before blinking and trying to look like she knew what she was doing. "Uh... y-yeah," she replied with a slight nod.

Note stared at her anxiously. "She could be paralyzed permanently?"

Donetello watched Vivi curiously, and then up at the Pokéball.

[loafingdragon]

Alex looked at Tunes for a moment, but she seemed distracted. "Take this." She said, handing the girl some sort of detection device. "An agrressive Pokémon is somewhere loose in this portion of the facility. It's an electric type, so this should lead you to it. I don't have time to deal with it; I have to check on a devlopement in the Lab." She turned on her heel to leave.

"Maybe," Dr. Cherri released EV onto the examination table. "If it is, maybe I can fix it. Time will see." She walked around the table and pulled a sensor off the back of EV's neck.

Sherman looked closely at the Pokémon in the Pokéball, and finally released it. Ruffle Jay hovered in front of the man. "Vivian, dear~ What is it you want me to tell?" Worry was in her voice, but it only slightly marred the altaria's naturaly occuring singing.

"Karla, show him Karla, please!" Vivi said. "I don't know if you can... put he looks smart, right?"

"Very well..." She let off the sharp beeps Vivi was familiar with, but would startle most dog-Pokémon. Sherman seemed confused at first, but the noises struck up a train of thought in his mind. He lifted a hand in silent triumph. "Oh-that's-!"

Ruffle Jey stopped as he pulled out a communicator, and it took him several minutes to download something then he looked up expectantly.

She started again, and Vivi smiled as she saw his thoroughly impressed expression as the picture was built pixel by pixel on his screen. But he loked suddenly pale when he realized that it was Karla.

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Tunes stared, dumbfounded at the device in her hands as Alex walked away. She wited until Alex was gone before she turned slowly to Joey. "What should we do with this?" she whispered.

EV tried to get up, glaring viciously at Cherri. Note took a step toward her. "Vivian, it's okay," he said soothingly.

The mutant turned toward him suddenly. A look of relief and frustration flashed across her face but she did relax a bit at the sight of her trainer.

Donetello jumped in surprise at the noise and cringed. "What is she doing?" he asked Vivi.

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Joey looked back at her, just as much at a loss as she was. "I can't help but feel like... we ended up working for these people anyway..." The machine was slowly beeping, a fuzzy dot in its top right corner.

Dr. Cherri dusted a few hairs off of the device and pressed one end of it into a machine. What looked a bit like a topographic map showed up, different areas in different colors. "Outstanding!" She said in delight.

"Telling that guy what our trainer lookes like." Vivi said, feeling quite clever.

Ruffle Jay finished the series of noises after severl minutes, leaving Sherman to decipher the message. He looked completely amazed. "This... is that trainer?" He knew that these Pokémon had come in with someone who had stood in thier way. "He quickly turned and started walking with a destination in mind.

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Tunes frowned. She nodded agreement rather sadly.

Note stared at the map blankly. His gaze shifted from it, to Cherri, to EV warily.

Donetello perked up. He trotted after the techie.