There and Back Again

[makeitquick]

Log Deputy: Void
Participating Characters: Melaka Fray
Plot Description: Melaka would like to go back into those deep Iron Mines to see if she can't find that Aggron down there that she met during this adventure and see if he's still alive/doing well. And hopefully have her Aron (Tiny) learn something about being a steel reptile thing from it. Possibly break out of being a somewhat chubby dork.
Warnings/Notes: ??? Not much I think.

[ So Melaka has taken off from patrolling properly this week or scouting out new areas to do some intensive training. While he main goal was to get the relative newcomers of her team more up to the level of her oldbies (which seems to be going at some success, given Willow's recent evolution and attunement to her warp band as a result) there is one of the older ones who is a bit bothersome. Tiny.

Tiny the Aron's gotten kicked off the main five team of the ones she has regularly attuned to her warp band, mostly because he really seems to want to do little more than goof off and eat. Melaka doesn't necessarily mind this, but since she got him a consistent iron supply he's also been putting on a little weight. And so, remembering the big metal thing that looks like it could be an evolution for him she encountered while getting supplies with Sollux, she's decided to head back down to the Iron Mines with the little metal reptile at her side to see if she can't find that guy. ]

Comments

[bravenewmods]

[The Aggron grunts.]

Your Aron needs better training.

[makeitquick]

He's stronger than he acts.

[ But she knows, yeah, he does. The guy's too much of a happy lark to really listen all that well now unless he's being pushed hard.

But as if the answer this, having found the scent of iron, he's not going to be digging over here]

[bravenewmods]

[The Aggron rolls its eyes.]

Strength in thought is the same as strength in action.

[makeitquick]

[ ... She can't help it she thinks that was like something a poet would say why on earth is a big pokémon like this saying that. The minute after she thinks that she hopes it doesn't go through the connection here ]

Yeah, his personality's something he's gotta work on. I actually fig'd you could help him on that, s'why I'm down here.

[bravenewmods]

Perhaps I could, given time, but it's not really my job.

[makeitquick]

Yeah, it's not. Also fig'd I'd make sure you weren't being beat up again.

[bravenewmods]

I am in no danger. Enemies that can't tunnel through the earth like cowards are no threat.

[makeitquick]

Hey, for all I know, that metal driller came back while you were under.

[bravenewmods]

The Aggron shrugs.

If he does he does. Young punks don't have any respect.

[makeitquick]

-If you don't mind me saying, you looked near for dead last time. If it disrespects again y'might not make it.

[bravenewmods]

And you might keel over tomorrow from one of those deadly diseases you filthy humans keep around. Everyone dies. If it's my time to go, it's my time to go.

[makeitquick]

[ Holy shit, that's... deep. She didn't think of it like that, but to a pokémon, maybe that's how they all talk. She itches the back of her head, and he mind can't help but flash back for four years ago - when Harth was killed. When she fell to her near-death. How she only barely survived. She has no idea how much if any of that broadcasts, or the swirl of emotions she feels for it. But... ]

Makes... sense.

[bravenewmods]

Of course it makes sense. You humans are just too weird to figure it out.

[makeitquick]

[ She's not sure if she should be insulted by now but you know what she's talking to a giant metal thing. So ]

So you're one of the older guys down here, or that's just the way it is?

[bravenewmods]

Both.

[makeitquick]

So here's home for you. [a beat] Like it?

[bravenewmods]

If I didn't I'd have moved years ago.

[makeitquick]

Hey, for all I know you can't eat outside've here. [ or know anywhere else to go.

But yeah makes sense. She can't conceive of living anywhere but where she was born ]

[bravenewmods]

If we couldn't eat outside areas like this we wouldn't have been around as long as we have..

[makeitquick]

[ Well she wouldn't :T ]

So where else have you lived? Or did you mean like... all steel lizard guys?

[bravenewmods]

Did a stint by the beach a few years back. Didn't really like it, too much humidity.

[makeitquick]

You were on the beach.

[bravenewmods]

The pamphlets were definitely exaggerating a few things, but that's what you get from trusting a Panpour.

[makeitquick]

[ "what's a panpour"? But-- ]

Wait, wild ones make pamphlets?

[bravenewmods]

Well duh, what do you think we are? Mindless animals?