4898/Catching Up Again

Catching Up Again
Date of Scene:	18 December 2016
Location:	Foxtrot Ranch
Synopsis:	Catching up between Pokemon and Digimon
Cast of Characters:	Alexis, Duke

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Alexis has posed:
"Typhlosion." < I don't know why you had to change the vacation dates, > Scorch grumbled as he plopped down the sack of pokechow he had carried in. < We could of just avoided all this madness. >

"Yer just upset you have to wait until after christmas to go bikini watching," Alexis retorts with a bemused snort as she sets down the two sacks she'd been carrying over her shoulders. "But while I may be staying out of this 'new faction' craze that's going around, I can't just ditch out on people that might honestly need the help. Where *I* want to help."

< Pff. I would of rather of spent impending doom on a sunny beach, > Sassy chimes in from whatever rafter of the barn the Glameow is lazing on.

"And for the last time, the beach is NOT one giant litter box."

< Maybe not to your small human mind. >

Nope, not a lot has changed around here.

Duke has posed:
There was a knock on the barn door, before it cracks open. Perhaps he heard her voice before entering, but a voice calls out from outside, before making himself known, "Alexis?" The Knightly Digimon then enters a bit more into he barn.

He still has a minor bit of damage on his armor from a recent battle a week ago, though it has all but healed. There was also a few claw marks on his other arm, but hard to say from what those could have come from. "I am... Sorry I have not been..."

Alexis has posed:
Alexis glances over her shoulder at the knock and the door creaking. Waves off the half-finished apology. "Yeah, I know, no need to explain. Multiverse having a spacial seizure kinda does that."

Lifts a foot and puts it against one of the chow sacks to push it onto the pile. "And you should know by now that you don't need to knock Duke. Barn's always open for ya."

Duke has posed:
Duke's teal blue, with a edge of gold looks down at the barn floor, before he closes the door behind him. "It is out of respect, if nothing else." The Digimon admits, before he starts to walk toward her. "I was also unsure what your condition might be with... Everything going on. It has been, well, highly confusing."

Alexis has posed:
Alexis pffs, rolling her eyes. "Hardly the first multiversal WTF I've been through. A little shaken and disoriented at first but nothing worse for the wear."

< Can't say the same for all the refugess they needed to find places for. > Scorch leans over to poke at some of the marks remaining in Duke's armor with a stubby claw. < Looks like you've seen pretty of shenanigans yourself. >

"There's some sodas in the minifridge with the beer if ya need some help patchin' that up." Alexis rubs the side of her head with one hand. "I'm assuming there's still a mouth under all that helmet."

Duke has posed:
"There is." Duke says to Alexis and he looks at the Fire type Pokemon, "And I have. There are... Digimon out there that still want to see me dead and with me unable to De-digivolve, I am unable to hide myself."

Duke admits as he walks over to the mini-fridge, kneels down, and looks inside. His eyes examine over what is within and debates if he really wants anything or not. "This is... My first one, really. There are so many people shaken, disturbed, and unsure. It is... suffocating really."

Alexis has posed:
"It must slow your recovery down too. I mean, more data to process and all, or however that works." It was explained to her once about how their lesser forms conserve energy. "Yeah. People get shook up and displaced. It'll take time to get everything settled again." Alexis walks over to the furnished stall she leaves set for when the various Digimon swing by, though just leans up against one of the support posts and folds her arms. "It's okay, I was never really into the 'soldier' thing, anyways."

Cat paws can be heard on the rafters as Sassy slinks closer to the conversation, the Glameow's coil-like tail hooking a vertical beam to help hold herself. "Myaao" < She's turned down every offer by one of the new establishments. >

Duke has posed:
"Yeah, you never striked me as the soldier type." Duke responds looking over his shoulder, as he decides to pull out a soda and then gives a sheepish look in his eyes. "Do you have a straw?" He could probably remove the face-mask, but he doesn't want to, for whatever his reasons.

He looks over at the new Pokemon that shows up and then back to Alexis, "Oh? You did?" He looks down at the ground. "I see, but again. I can't blame you. I don't think... I could ever go back to my old life either. In some ways... I wish it would leave me alone."

Alexis has posed:
"Typhlosion." <There's straw all over the floo--ow!> the wisecrack is cut short as Alexis reachs over to whap the back of Scorch's head lightly. "That's not what he meant and you know it." Then turns to shout upstairs. "Hey, someone bring down some straws!" May as well just leave a box down here if Duke is going to need them regularly now.

As she turns back to the conversation and resumes leaning on the post Alexis just shrugs her shoulders a little. "Things where different back then. It actually meant something. -Accomplished- something. And us Trainers wanted to stick together, having just come out of that whole Missingno fiasco."

Duke has posed:
When given the straw, Duke accepts it and places it in the drink. He then plops down on the couch and drinks the soda, closing his eyes as he does so. Listening for the moment and not saying to much, before he pulls the straw away. "I don't think you ever told me about that. I am curious to hear the story."

Alexis has posed:
Once Duke has a straw Alexis sets the rest of the box atop the minifridge, then flops down on the couch as well. Folds her hands behind her head and exhales softly. "You already know what happens when one powerhungry nutjob tries to destroy a world with a monster. Team Rocket tried to capture Missingno, a thing that is -not suppose to exsist-, and use it to do the same. Stupid cosmic abominations."

Duke has posed:
"Yeah... Yeah they are pretty stupid." Duke replies with an, almost nervous laugh, before he goes back to drinking the soda. There was once more long silence from Duke as he rests the soda on his lap. "Alexis... I have to confess the other reason I haven't been around. The real reason."

Alexis has posed:
Alexis raises a brow. "You mean other than the touching but needless worry that you need to keep away things that would have to be -incredibly stupid- to try and attack a ranch full of highly capable elemental critters and one very grumpy kaiju to try to get at me?"

Duke has posed:
"Other than that, yes." Duke says with a soft chuckle. He rolls the can between his palms. "Actually... Its me that you have to worry about." Duke explains. He looks around for a moment, maybe checking to see if Beelzebumon's bike is anywhere or /any/ Digimon is around.

He isn't worried about the Pokemon, presay, but he does look at a few of them with some concern in his eyes. At last he looks back down at the can in his hands. "Yggdrasil. Yggdrasil is... is in my head. As whispers, faint, but they sometimes become loud if I let my emotions get the better of me. He has, somehow, established connection with me and... And I can't do anything about it."

Alexis has posed:
Alexis reachs up to poke-tap a finger on the side of Duke's helmet head. "And I spent nearly three years working with a Shadow Pokemon. Which other than the demented god whispers is pretty much the same thing. Besides." After that she drops her legs back to the floor and gets up to go to the minifridge for a drink for herself.

"If anything it's better you flip out around me or such, instead of putting some innocents at risk unintentionally." Pause. "Or he intentionally making you." Lightly lobs one can to Scorch, then pops another open for herself. Smirks a little. "Never doubt my willingness to beat sense back into you if required."

Duke has posed:
Duke mms softly as Alexis says her peace. He doesn't argue, he just drinks his drink. He can't say much but somewhere after finishing the can, placing off to the side and resting his head back--- the former Royal Knight has fallen off to sleep.

Perhaps because in truth, this is the only place he feels safe at anymore to just... Heavy sleep like this.

Alexis has posed:
Food and sleep. If only more of her own creatures could recover so easily.

Granted it won't do much for Duke's -other- problem. But Alexis isn't that worried. She's had to deal with a lot stranger things in her time. "Com'n, let him have his rest." She doesn't need to be an expert in digimon to realize how much the dino knight probably needs it.