Ninetales1
Japan-flavoured Europhile
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"All right, Sorciere, Alice, Gold... Golden Fox?"
At that point, Ringo saw his Alakazam lying on his grandfather's bed, sound asleep.
"Right, of course, it's way past your bedtime. Don't worry Golden Fox, you need not be interrupted until the sun comes up."
With that, Ringo returned Golden Fox to his Pokeball. His Pokeball was easy to tell apart from the others--it was the Luxury Ball. Alice was kept in a Dusk Ball, and Sorciere was kept in an ordinary Pokeball. (Maybe the reason why Sorciere tended to be so flashy is because she had the least flashy Pokeball?) Ah well--after all, Sorciere was the first Pokemon his mother captured after a long break from Pokemon training in her youth, but for a long time afterward, she was also her best Pokemon. Sorciere had shown an unforgettable attitude, style, and flair in contests and battles alike for as long as Yamiko could remember (or at least as long as she was a Mismagius). It could also be noted that the Dusk Stone that evolved her to Mismagius was a present Lupin gave to Yamiko shortly after meeting her, making this event extra special. Ringo really ought to have been proud of bringing two Pokemon here that had such interesting trainers and interesting histories in themselves. It was these characteristics that Ringo thought about very frequently in his spare time.
"Now," Ringo continued, "what else shall we do until twilight breaks?"
Alice looked up at him abruptly, awakening from her short beauty nap. She then yawned and shook her head. It really was embarassing for her to doze off in the middle of the night...
A pause.
"...Don't worry, I got a few things planned. Come on, you two. It's time for another night adventure. Sorciere, I hope you'll enjoy this."
I already am, Sorciere thought, a mischievous smile on her face. Absorbing aural energy from people or stray Pokemon was fun, but what was it like doing something else...?
A while later, Ringo was out on the streets again, Alice walking in front of him and acting as a scout. She often did this while walking around with Lupin, but she felt slightly uncomfortable this time because all the streetlights "ruined the darkness" that she so loved. It had nothing to do with the fact that it was Ringo instead of Lupin, although deep down inside she wondered about the possibility of Ringo being "less experienced" at sneaking around in a place like this. Anyways, fortunately, nearly all of the neon signs were unlit so late at night, although a few streetlamps were still lit. After all, when more electrical devices are on, it costs more money and presents the (although very small) risk of deadly short circuits. So Ringo was finally able to see properly without his sunglasses.
Within a few moments, Ringo lost track of Alice. For a split second, he was worried about where she'd gone, but then he remembered his father mentioning that Alice occasionally "found something of interest" and stayed out of sight for a while. So maybe Alice found something suspicious, some little gadget in a hole small enough for only her to fit through... Anyways, Ringo decided it must be best to just continue on with whatever he was doing. Perhaps Alice would find some way to return to him...? Ringo wasn't sure, so he just figured that if his father often did it, it was okay for him to do it too. So he continued walking, searching for a place of interest...
The first place Ringo came to was a large parking lot filled with trucks and a few workers. This was the back of the grocery store, and there were people out and about restocking it. Ringo even managed to snatch an apple from one of the trucks before disappearing into a dark area behind the store. (An apple--how appropriate, since his name meant apple.) After a short amount of thought, he took two apples, and gave one to Sorciere to hold. At that point, Sorciere was invisible--Ringo had told her to stay that way so as to not stand out. So all of a sudden, one of the apples seemed to vanish into thin air...
This wasn't the place Ringo was interested in though. So Ringo wandered around the side of the building, to a place across the street where there was a very narrow alley-ish space between the buildings. Hmm, this seemed to lead somewhere... Anyways, as Ringo crossed the street, he could see the ex-Silph Co. building--from now on he would use this as a landmark because it was the tallest building in the city. Nobody was on this street, not even a guard or anything... Anyways, Ringo was about to make his way into the narrow dark space, when the faint outline of Sorciere's eyes appeared next to a wall.
Hmm... it appears this space is guarded a different way.
This eye signal Ringo went over with Sorciere indicated that Sorciere spotted a surveillance camera and has just turned it off. This was a job that Lupin's Dusknoir usually did, but a Mismagius was better because she was smaller and had an easier time slipping through walls and turning invisible. (Whenever "Shinigami", Lupin's Dusknoir, did it, the faint outline of the "face" on Dusknoir's body still showed up. But it often scared people anyways, so...) Ringo smiled at his mother's Mismagius when he passed by the spot Sorciere indicated, and continued into the dark space.
It was such a narrow space, lined with pipes and minuscule electric lights. These lights looked strikingly familiar to the lights at the bottom of the signpost Ringo had seen earlier... did this lead to the same area as a supposed secret door beneath that signpost did? Ringo thought about this as he slipped through the narrow space, thankful that he wasn't a very bulky person, careful to make as little sound as possible. Of course, he happened to wear the quietest shoes of his family, so any sound other shoes might make would not likely be produced by his own. Anyways, at the end of this passageway was a pitch-black hole, in front of which a serious-looking Mismagius floated. Ringo could barely see her in the near darkness, not to mention that he had just recently been in the face of bright lights. Those annoying lights really impaired night vision... Anyways, Sorciere pointed out one thing on the floor by shining a dim light from her orbs: Alice's footprint in a dusty spot. Hmm, it seems that Alice wandered into this very hole a few moments ago...
It seemed safe after all, so Ringo decided to follow, tiptoeing ever so carefully along the solid floor of the tunnel, every single one of his senses alert as ever. If any thoughts had wandered around in his mind, they now were silenced by... No wait, that's not right--that statement only applied to his father. A sudden thought about his great-aunt, Professor Willow, crossed his mind as he wandered through, probably based on a tale about the professor crawling through a log to reach a shiny Shroomish. Anyways, all was fine so far. More electrical signals, a hole too small for Ringo to fit through (but Alice probably went through there), a few wires on the floor, a door that required a card key to get through, a smaller, cupboard-sized door that Ringo could probably crawl through. This door was also locked, but it required a regular key rather than a card key to open. Ah, here we go. Ringo reached into his handbag, feeling around for... an apple? Nope, this wouldn't help. His Pokevice. Not quite. Pokeballs--nope. Something smaller, certainly... Ouch, if he were not wearing gloves, he would have pricked his finger. Ah well, this thin, crooked (ha ha, crook-ed, get it?) sharp-ish (whatever... -.-) object did help, because Ringo used it to pick the lock. This was something he could never be as good at as his father always was, but nevertheless, he managed to open the door and crawl in...
FLASH! BZZZT! Ringo spotted a flashing light in a distant room, and possibly the sound of a short circuit or something going off.
What was that? both Ringo and Sorciere thought. Sorciere, keeping herself invisible, immediately headed over to the source of the light, checking that no grunts or anything were around. After a few minutes, Sorciere turned visible again, and faced Ringo with an awkward facial expression--it consisted of both worry and amusement--in fact, Sorciere seemed to be on the verge of laughter. Then she nodded in the direction of the flash of light, indicating that Ringo should follow her.
What--did something good and bad both happen as a result of that flash? Ringo thought as he headed towards the next room. As he did, he thought he passed by a window above him through which he thought he could see the full moon in a clear black sky. Ah well, he didn't pay much attention to that--he was too focused on the elusive flash.
As Ringo entered the room, he nearly tripped over something soft on the ground. Ringo looked down in the dim light of an electrical device of some sort, to see a little man lying unconscious on the floor. He could briefly make out the Team Havoc symbol on his shirt. The man also had a remote control in his hand, which seemed to be broken. But it was what was beyond this man that caught Ringo's attention--something that Sorciere was staring blankly at. In the centre of the room, among a mess of wires, was Alice, also lying unconscious on the floor.
"Whoa! Alice!" Ringo blurted, though still quietly, rushing over to the little Umbreon to hopefully wake her up. The second Ringo touched her, he pulled his hand back--he had been shocked by static electricity.
Electricity...? Ringo suddenly figured out what happened, and thus turned to Sorciere.
"...Would you mind relieving some of Alice's shock?"
"Miss miss." (With pleasure.)
Sorciere was a twisted little fiend--any kind of pain excited her, no matter how much damage it did. Ringo obviously knew her too well. Even Yamiko was occasionally hesitant to let Sorciere hurt herself, so this was an honour indeed. But anyways, what pain? Well, Sorciere floated over to Alice and touched her, feeling a similar jolt of static electricity that Ringo did. She kept doing this until the shocks came no more.
Well... it doesn't... hurt as much as... a needle... Sparks flashed around Sorciere during the pauses in this thought of hers.
"Really, that was brave of you," Ringo commented afterward. Okay, so Ringo was worried--he just hid it.
"Come on Sorciere, let's get out of here, and fast," Ringo commanded after picking up Alice. (He had to free an Umbreon claw stuck in one of the wires.) After Ringo shook her a bit, Alice finally managed to open her eyes, but she still felt very weak.
"Miss..." Sorciere felt quite a bit disappointed that her first nighttime venture with Ringo had ben cut short, but she ended up following Ringo out, slumped over a bit while she floated by. On the way out, though, a nearby surveillance camera caught them--well sort of. It only caught two passing flashes of dark clothing, too close and blurry to identify.
"...Um bree on..." Alice mumbled, cradled tightly in Ringo's arms. Ringo was sitting against the wall of the alley next to the club where the battles were held, giving the poor little Umbreon a sort of massage. Mum had made a discovery that this type of "touch therapy" worked well with both aches and small injuries, and also tension. Electrical shock certainly counted as a type of "tension", because tension is caused simply by nerve impulses in the body. Alice was starting to feel a bit better, but she still felt as if a fire had burned her from the inside and left no burns but the same amount of pain.
"Oh right," Ringo remembered, "I have here..."
After a bit of rummaging around in his handbag, Ringo took out a tiny bottle of a yellowish liquid, with a spray on top. A Paralyse Heal. Spray, spray, spray... fidget fidget fidget, wince wince wince, fidget fidget fidget some more...
"Ummm..." Alice squirmed around in Ringo's lap and did something that felt like a shiver, then stood up and tried to walk. She succeeded, but occasionally limped on random legs.
"It's all right," Ringo reassured. "I think you'll be fine if you rest a while."
Back into the Dusk Ball Alice went. Anyways, when Ringo re-entered the street again, he noticed that all the lights were out...
Ringo spent the next few hours wandering a bit around the city (the lights came back on after fifteen minutes or so), watching the fountain in front of the mall, and having a little picnic with two apples and a few biscuits he found near the hotel where everyone else was staying. After this, he entered that hotel. Pretty much everything was closed inside of it, except for the front desk, where the receptionist yawned as he passed by. But this didn't mean that he was alone--soon enough he spotted Takuya wandering around the hall that led to the training centre. Ringo waved faintly to Takuya as he passed, then stared at him uncertainly. Ringo had been meaning to talk to him for quite a while now, but after the excitement of tonight, his mind went blank with ideas of what to say. Finally, before Takuya got the chance to shrug or say "What?", Ringo backed away, hinting that they'd talk sometime later, and wandered around the hotel some more. He spotted the training centre, a swimming pool, a lobby with a TV, a row of hotel rooms, a dining hall... nothing particularly interesting at the moment. That is, except one particular locked door that was located near the entrance to the dining hall... Ah well, he didn't want to try anything while Takuya could possibly see him, so Ringo just left the hotel.
Eventually, a few hours later, Ringo stood outside with his three Pokemon (Golden Fox had just woken up) to watch the sun rise.
"And so," Ringo said after a while, "another night comes to a close. Now it's nearly time to await the next night. Soon we shall rest until..."
"Umbre umbreon..."
"Oh, right, thanks Alice. ...Until the opportunity for trouble arises again." Hmm, Team Rocket's motto used to be "prepare for trouble", right?
Alice was feeling a bit better, but she would probably feel even better after a good day's sleep. She was limping less and less as time went by, and still felt a little weak at times, but it wasn't as bad as when she was initially shocked.
A while later, after the sun got a good distance above the horizon and the neon signs came back on, Ringo returned to his grandfather's old house and, along with Alice and Sorciere (Golden Fox kept watch near the front door), went to sleep an hour early.
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OOC: Whoa, that was a long post... Ah well, so much can happen in one night.
At that point, Ringo saw his Alakazam lying on his grandfather's bed, sound asleep.
"Right, of course, it's way past your bedtime. Don't worry Golden Fox, you need not be interrupted until the sun comes up."
With that, Ringo returned Golden Fox to his Pokeball. His Pokeball was easy to tell apart from the others--it was the Luxury Ball. Alice was kept in a Dusk Ball, and Sorciere was kept in an ordinary Pokeball. (Maybe the reason why Sorciere tended to be so flashy is because she had the least flashy Pokeball?) Ah well--after all, Sorciere was the first Pokemon his mother captured after a long break from Pokemon training in her youth, but for a long time afterward, she was also her best Pokemon. Sorciere had shown an unforgettable attitude, style, and flair in contests and battles alike for as long as Yamiko could remember (or at least as long as she was a Mismagius). It could also be noted that the Dusk Stone that evolved her to Mismagius was a present Lupin gave to Yamiko shortly after meeting her, making this event extra special. Ringo really ought to have been proud of bringing two Pokemon here that had such interesting trainers and interesting histories in themselves. It was these characteristics that Ringo thought about very frequently in his spare time.
"Now," Ringo continued, "what else shall we do until twilight breaks?"
Alice looked up at him abruptly, awakening from her short beauty nap. She then yawned and shook her head. It really was embarassing for her to doze off in the middle of the night...
A pause.
"...Don't worry, I got a few things planned. Come on, you two. It's time for another night adventure. Sorciere, I hope you'll enjoy this."
I already am, Sorciere thought, a mischievous smile on her face. Absorbing aural energy from people or stray Pokemon was fun, but what was it like doing something else...?
A while later, Ringo was out on the streets again, Alice walking in front of him and acting as a scout. She often did this while walking around with Lupin, but she felt slightly uncomfortable this time because all the streetlights "ruined the darkness" that she so loved. It had nothing to do with the fact that it was Ringo instead of Lupin, although deep down inside she wondered about the possibility of Ringo being "less experienced" at sneaking around in a place like this. Anyways, fortunately, nearly all of the neon signs were unlit so late at night, although a few streetlamps were still lit. After all, when more electrical devices are on, it costs more money and presents the (although very small) risk of deadly short circuits. So Ringo was finally able to see properly without his sunglasses.
Within a few moments, Ringo lost track of Alice. For a split second, he was worried about where she'd gone, but then he remembered his father mentioning that Alice occasionally "found something of interest" and stayed out of sight for a while. So maybe Alice found something suspicious, some little gadget in a hole small enough for only her to fit through... Anyways, Ringo decided it must be best to just continue on with whatever he was doing. Perhaps Alice would find some way to return to him...? Ringo wasn't sure, so he just figured that if his father often did it, it was okay for him to do it too. So he continued walking, searching for a place of interest...
The first place Ringo came to was a large parking lot filled with trucks and a few workers. This was the back of the grocery store, and there were people out and about restocking it. Ringo even managed to snatch an apple from one of the trucks before disappearing into a dark area behind the store. (An apple--how appropriate, since his name meant apple.) After a short amount of thought, he took two apples, and gave one to Sorciere to hold. At that point, Sorciere was invisible--Ringo had told her to stay that way so as to not stand out. So all of a sudden, one of the apples seemed to vanish into thin air...
This wasn't the place Ringo was interested in though. So Ringo wandered around the side of the building, to a place across the street where there was a very narrow alley-ish space between the buildings. Hmm, this seemed to lead somewhere... Anyways, as Ringo crossed the street, he could see the ex-Silph Co. building--from now on he would use this as a landmark because it was the tallest building in the city. Nobody was on this street, not even a guard or anything... Anyways, Ringo was about to make his way into the narrow dark space, when the faint outline of Sorciere's eyes appeared next to a wall.
Hmm... it appears this space is guarded a different way.
This eye signal Ringo went over with Sorciere indicated that Sorciere spotted a surveillance camera and has just turned it off. This was a job that Lupin's Dusknoir usually did, but a Mismagius was better because she was smaller and had an easier time slipping through walls and turning invisible. (Whenever "Shinigami", Lupin's Dusknoir, did it, the faint outline of the "face" on Dusknoir's body still showed up. But it often scared people anyways, so...) Ringo smiled at his mother's Mismagius when he passed by the spot Sorciere indicated, and continued into the dark space.
It was such a narrow space, lined with pipes and minuscule electric lights. These lights looked strikingly familiar to the lights at the bottom of the signpost Ringo had seen earlier... did this lead to the same area as a supposed secret door beneath that signpost did? Ringo thought about this as he slipped through the narrow space, thankful that he wasn't a very bulky person, careful to make as little sound as possible. Of course, he happened to wear the quietest shoes of his family, so any sound other shoes might make would not likely be produced by his own. Anyways, at the end of this passageway was a pitch-black hole, in front of which a serious-looking Mismagius floated. Ringo could barely see her in the near darkness, not to mention that he had just recently been in the face of bright lights. Those annoying lights really impaired night vision... Anyways, Sorciere pointed out one thing on the floor by shining a dim light from her orbs: Alice's footprint in a dusty spot. Hmm, it seems that Alice wandered into this very hole a few moments ago...
It seemed safe after all, so Ringo decided to follow, tiptoeing ever so carefully along the solid floor of the tunnel, every single one of his senses alert as ever. If any thoughts had wandered around in his mind, they now were silenced by... No wait, that's not right--that statement only applied to his father. A sudden thought about his great-aunt, Professor Willow, crossed his mind as he wandered through, probably based on a tale about the professor crawling through a log to reach a shiny Shroomish. Anyways, all was fine so far. More electrical signals, a hole too small for Ringo to fit through (but Alice probably went through there), a few wires on the floor, a door that required a card key to get through, a smaller, cupboard-sized door that Ringo could probably crawl through. This door was also locked, but it required a regular key rather than a card key to open. Ah, here we go. Ringo reached into his handbag, feeling around for... an apple? Nope, this wouldn't help. His Pokevice. Not quite. Pokeballs--nope. Something smaller, certainly... Ouch, if he were not wearing gloves, he would have pricked his finger. Ah well, this thin, crooked (ha ha, crook-ed, get it?) sharp-ish (whatever... -.-) object did help, because Ringo used it to pick the lock. This was something he could never be as good at as his father always was, but nevertheless, he managed to open the door and crawl in...
FLASH! BZZZT! Ringo spotted a flashing light in a distant room, and possibly the sound of a short circuit or something going off.
What was that? both Ringo and Sorciere thought. Sorciere, keeping herself invisible, immediately headed over to the source of the light, checking that no grunts or anything were around. After a few minutes, Sorciere turned visible again, and faced Ringo with an awkward facial expression--it consisted of both worry and amusement--in fact, Sorciere seemed to be on the verge of laughter. Then she nodded in the direction of the flash of light, indicating that Ringo should follow her.
What--did something good and bad both happen as a result of that flash? Ringo thought as he headed towards the next room. As he did, he thought he passed by a window above him through which he thought he could see the full moon in a clear black sky. Ah well, he didn't pay much attention to that--he was too focused on the elusive flash.
As Ringo entered the room, he nearly tripped over something soft on the ground. Ringo looked down in the dim light of an electrical device of some sort, to see a little man lying unconscious on the floor. He could briefly make out the Team Havoc symbol on his shirt. The man also had a remote control in his hand, which seemed to be broken. But it was what was beyond this man that caught Ringo's attention--something that Sorciere was staring blankly at. In the centre of the room, among a mess of wires, was Alice, also lying unconscious on the floor.
"Whoa! Alice!" Ringo blurted, though still quietly, rushing over to the little Umbreon to hopefully wake her up. The second Ringo touched her, he pulled his hand back--he had been shocked by static electricity.
Electricity...? Ringo suddenly figured out what happened, and thus turned to Sorciere.
"...Would you mind relieving some of Alice's shock?"
"Miss miss." (With pleasure.)
Sorciere was a twisted little fiend--any kind of pain excited her, no matter how much damage it did. Ringo obviously knew her too well. Even Yamiko was occasionally hesitant to let Sorciere hurt herself, so this was an honour indeed. But anyways, what pain? Well, Sorciere floated over to Alice and touched her, feeling a similar jolt of static electricity that Ringo did. She kept doing this until the shocks came no more.
Well... it doesn't... hurt as much as... a needle... Sparks flashed around Sorciere during the pauses in this thought of hers.
"Really, that was brave of you," Ringo commented afterward. Okay, so Ringo was worried--he just hid it.
"Come on Sorciere, let's get out of here, and fast," Ringo commanded after picking up Alice. (He had to free an Umbreon claw stuck in one of the wires.) After Ringo shook her a bit, Alice finally managed to open her eyes, but she still felt very weak.
"Miss..." Sorciere felt quite a bit disappointed that her first nighttime venture with Ringo had ben cut short, but she ended up following Ringo out, slumped over a bit while she floated by. On the way out, though, a nearby surveillance camera caught them--well sort of. It only caught two passing flashes of dark clothing, too close and blurry to identify.
"...Um bree on..." Alice mumbled, cradled tightly in Ringo's arms. Ringo was sitting against the wall of the alley next to the club where the battles were held, giving the poor little Umbreon a sort of massage. Mum had made a discovery that this type of "touch therapy" worked well with both aches and small injuries, and also tension. Electrical shock certainly counted as a type of "tension", because tension is caused simply by nerve impulses in the body. Alice was starting to feel a bit better, but she still felt as if a fire had burned her from the inside and left no burns but the same amount of pain.
"Oh right," Ringo remembered, "I have here..."
After a bit of rummaging around in his handbag, Ringo took out a tiny bottle of a yellowish liquid, with a spray on top. A Paralyse Heal. Spray, spray, spray... fidget fidget fidget, wince wince wince, fidget fidget fidget some more...
"Ummm..." Alice squirmed around in Ringo's lap and did something that felt like a shiver, then stood up and tried to walk. She succeeded, but occasionally limped on random legs.
"It's all right," Ringo reassured. "I think you'll be fine if you rest a while."
Back into the Dusk Ball Alice went. Anyways, when Ringo re-entered the street again, he noticed that all the lights were out...
Ringo spent the next few hours wandering a bit around the city (the lights came back on after fifteen minutes or so), watching the fountain in front of the mall, and having a little picnic with two apples and a few biscuits he found near the hotel where everyone else was staying. After this, he entered that hotel. Pretty much everything was closed inside of it, except for the front desk, where the receptionist yawned as he passed by. But this didn't mean that he was alone--soon enough he spotted Takuya wandering around the hall that led to the training centre. Ringo waved faintly to Takuya as he passed, then stared at him uncertainly. Ringo had been meaning to talk to him for quite a while now, but after the excitement of tonight, his mind went blank with ideas of what to say. Finally, before Takuya got the chance to shrug or say "What?", Ringo backed away, hinting that they'd talk sometime later, and wandered around the hotel some more. He spotted the training centre, a swimming pool, a lobby with a TV, a row of hotel rooms, a dining hall... nothing particularly interesting at the moment. That is, except one particular locked door that was located near the entrance to the dining hall... Ah well, he didn't want to try anything while Takuya could possibly see him, so Ringo just left the hotel.
Eventually, a few hours later, Ringo stood outside with his three Pokemon (Golden Fox had just woken up) to watch the sun rise.
"And so," Ringo said after a while, "another night comes to a close. Now it's nearly time to await the next night. Soon we shall rest until..."
"Umbre umbreon..."
"Oh, right, thanks Alice. ...Until the opportunity for trouble arises again." Hmm, Team Rocket's motto used to be "prepare for trouble", right?
Alice was feeling a bit better, but she would probably feel even better after a good day's sleep. She was limping less and less as time went by, and still felt a little weak at times, but it wasn't as bad as when she was initially shocked.
A while later, after the sun got a good distance above the horizon and the neon signs came back on, Ringo returned to his grandfather's old house and, along with Alice and Sorciere (Golden Fox kept watch near the front door), went to sleep an hour early.
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OOC: Whoa, that was a long post... Ah well, so much can happen in one night.