SIDEQUEST; Investigate the mountain!

[stahlflugel]

Log Deputy: Bat (holeinmysoul) and Jan (cantito)
Participating Characters: Eren Jaeger and Jean Kirstein
Date: Saturday the 15th of March
Plot Description: Newbie Rangers Eren and Jean investigate the mysterious signal jam in the high mountains. WHAT WILL THEY FIND??? And will they be able to work together to solve the problem?! (Probably not)
Warnings/Notes: None at the moment.

It was an easy enough assignment. There was warp band network interference in the high mountains. Go there, figure out what it was, and, if possible, fix it. Eren is accompanied by Blitz the jolteon, Matilda the scraggy, and Victor the lombre (somewhat hungover from his bar adventure the night before). Eren didn't want to risk being unprepared and unable to warp any of his Pokémon in if he needed their help, so he'd selected some of his strongest.

The hike up the mountains is mostly uneventful. Eren turns to Jean, "Do you think we should split up?"

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[With the device active, the interference is completely clear, looks like this is it.]

[stahlflugel]

Eren smiles at his now working Warp Band and turns back to Jean.

"Look! It works! We found it!"

[sturzflug]

Jean sighs in relief. Hopefully with that, they can be done with it without having to piss off any more pokemon.

"Great, let's go home and call it in!"

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The Glaceon eye both of you suspiciously. One of them jumps down and goes up to the device. It bats at it with a paw. And then again. And again. As it knocks it further from the rock, the signal interference slowly starts returning.

[stahlflugel]

Eren is ready to go home and take a hot shower when the interference comes back. He turns to see the Glaceon batting at the device.

"Hey!"

{Leave that alone, will ya? Just... don't touch it! It's not a toy!}

Eren snatches the device and places it back next to the rock.

[sturzflug]

"Cut that out, huh? What do you think we came all this way here for?!"

Jean approaches-- he'll set down his own device if he has to. "Step off, will ya?"

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One of the Glaceon giggles.

If you're going to leave a tribute before the Sacred Stone then we're going to play with it.

[stahlflugel]

{Tribute? It's not--}

Eren pauses. Wait. They can use that to their advantage. He turns to Jean. "They think they're tributes to their sacred stone. I got this!"

Back to the Glaceons;

{Ah, well, these tributes are really important, ok? They're only good tributes if they're RIGHT NEXT to the sacred rock. Like, as close as possible.}

Matilda rolls her eyes. She wanted a fight, dammit! She kicks a bit of snow and wanders off to go find some other poor innocent ice types to smack around.

[bravenewmods]

Why's that?

Looks stupid.

[sturzflug]

"They look like they ain't buyin' it."

To put it lightly. Jean can't understand pokemon, but he knows that look, man.

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Eren growls, turning back to Jean. "Well, genius, you got any better ideas? I'm all ears!"

Matilda is sick of this shit. She comes stomping back, kicking Eren in the shins as she does. {Both of yas are a couple'a morons. I'll show you the only fucking way these bastards are gonna quit fuckin' with our shit.} The scraggy marches up to one of the glaceon, adjusts her pants, and grabs it by the dangly ear bits.

{You listen here, you prissy poncy PEST. We ain't got time to pay respects to your stupid rock! Either you leave those little devices alone, or I'll beat ya into a pulp and make new pants out of your skins. Izzat really crystal fuckin' clear, my fuzzy mountain friends?}

Eren just sort of stands there with his mouth open.

[bravenewmods]

Oh. Oh. It's on now.

You and what army, chump?

Yeah, you and what army pantsless wonder?

[stahlflugel]

{I don't need an army, bitches! I'm a ONE WOMAN ARMY!!!}

"Matilda, don't!!"

But it's too late. Matilda yanks down on the Glaceon's head danglies and headbutts it with all her might.

[sturzflug]

Poor Jean, standing on the sidelines-- he'd been kinda wondering what all the shouting was about when Matilda had to go and antagonize the damn ice eevees.

"Hey, what the hell are you doing!? We didn't come here to start a fight, do something Eren!"

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The Glaceon takes the headbutt full-force and staggers a bit, before lashing back with its own bite, its fangs covered in ice. Meanwhile, the other one darts behind Matilda and launches an Ice Beam at it.

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"She's impossible!! We're going to have to break up the fight!" Eren says, shifting.

Matilda takes the bite without so much as flinching, retaliating with a powerful brick break attack with her legs. But the ice beam catches her off guard and freezes her tail to the ground. {GAH! YOU CHEATERS!!}

Eren intervenes with an iron head attack on the rear glaceon.

{Cut it out, all of you!}

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The Glaceon scatter, regrouping on the rock. They're both snarling angrily, their eyes tinged red with feral fury.

[sturzflug]

"Oh, for Savior's sake!" Jean curses, glaring at Eren and Matilda. He really hates to pick needless fights with wild pokemon. He'd be pissed if two dumb humans came into his home, too.

"Alright, Apollo, you go on the offensive. Kiki, back him up-- you'll be good cause you're steel."

And don't think Jean would make the mistake of letting those Glaceon hit first again. This time he gives Apollo the go ahead to attack first, and the Fletchinder releases a powerful ember, its strength amplified by Jean's Mastery of Battle. (Even Apollo's a little upset about that Ice Beam earlier, ok.)

[stahlflugel]

Hey, why are you glaring at HIM, Jean? Eren didn't do anything! It was his dumb lizard!

Who Eren is pointedly not chipping out of the ice. She needed the time out. Eren himself aims to blow the glaceons away with a whirlwind.

[bravenewmods]

The Ember sweeps across the Glaceon and the Whirlwind slams them into a nearby wall. Both of them are downed, but slowly stagger to their feet, breathing heavily.

LEAVE! THIS IS OUR HOME NOT YOURS!

[stahlflugel]

Eren gets between them and Matilda, at the very least. He pushes the anti-interference device close to the rock, then uses his warp band to send Matilda home; chunk of ice and all.

{Ok, I sent her away. I'm sorry she attacked you! She's... rude. Rude as hell. I shouldn't have brought her, I'm sorry. We really didn't mean any harm!}

[bravenewmods]

The Glaceon are still snarling, but at least they aren't attacking?

[sturzflug]

"Look, I dunno what's going on here, but we need to put these things around that rock so we can use our Warp Bands, alright?"

Jean has no clue what Eren's squaking about, but all he really knows is the Glaceon are fucking stuff up.

"We don't wanna destroy your rock, so we gotta leave these shits here, got it?"

[stahlflugel]

"I'll translate, I guess..." Eren says, looking back at the Glaceon. And then telling them, in Pokémon, exactly what Jean just said. Curses and all.

[bravenewmods]

The Glaceon back away a bit, watching you both warily. They don't look like they're going to oppose you putting your thing there, but there's no guarantee they'll leave it alone if they leave. They know you're strong but they don't exactly like you.