Scene #8047: Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water...these elements are fucked yo

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Ishirou	The Calamitous Lands... Aptly named so because some calamity has wrecked the world's balance of elements. Massive Earthquakes, wildfires, hyper-violent storms, and angry seas have ravished this world. Many people are nearly reversed back to the cave-seeking days because only the most solid of structures survive...and even THOSE can betray them. So Ishirou, thanks to Paladin's R&D, is trying to set up a scientific solution to the problem. That solution is a deployment of special 'Pylons' to help stabilize a small region against the raging elements themselves. Creating a small pocket where civilization can flourish. The Downside... Well, they have to survive said elements and activate them before they can actually do this. This is why Ishirou has called for help, because the Land itself is trying to rebel against him, seemingly targeting him specifically. Or rather, seemingly sensing what the pylons he is trying to drop are going to do. Right now he's in the flight unit, trying to fight against the hurricane-strength winds to even get to the area he wants to set down.
Sylvi	With the elements in screaming flux, it's no wonder that people would be blasted back to begging for shelter. Against the unrelenting fury of endless storms and ground-shattering geological events even caves cannot save the people from the onslaught. So Ishirou shows up. A Paladin, and a genius technician, able to operate an advanced flight unit so well-machined and weather hardened that it could brave a world-ending series of events. The approach to the caves is as eventful as flying through a hyper-thunderstorm. Ionic discharge goes off like bombs of energy that complicate the flight profile. Heads-up displays and sensors can guess at the detonations with good accuracy, but random forks of rippling energy set off dangerous chain reactions and equipment-frying cascades. The Calamitous Lands are a place at the brink of collapse - even the very atmosphere splits and cracks like a churning sea of danger.
Staren	Staren's solution to dealing with the wind is to be big and heavy. To that end, she's brought... actually, no one here has seen this one before. Instead of the Star Hawk, Staren's in a... somewhat doofy-looking humanoid robot half as tall (20'), with a sort of dome-head, that doesn't look specifically designed for combat. The Samson's TW-converted railgun (it fires bolts of telekinetic force) is holstered like a sidearm; for the giant robot it's like an SMG rather than a longarm. Which is good because the NG-V10 Super Labor Robot only has one hand -- the left is instead a giant claw with a cutting laser. (If Ishirou asked about armaments, Staren mentions she's added mini-missile launchers to the legs for travel through monster-filled wilderness, but it's more of a just-in-case thing today.) Staren makes her way along the ground, slower but steadier. Lightning comes in, and of course it can't be NORMAL lightning that can just ground through the armor plating. She's good if she keeps her distance, but the energy forks are unpredictable. Staren speeds up, being a bit less careful about footing to try and get through the storm faster. "C'mon..."
Alexis	Big and heavy is a good way to deal with the strong wind. So is something with exceptionally good footing and traction, and just in general being tenacious and stubborn. Which would be why instead of one of her usual faster and flighty Pokemon Alexis was riding on the back of a large goat-like one, who's horns conveniently curved back to be gripped like handlebars, and had a thick coat of green that was closer to moss or grass than wool. While Alexis herself had her protective goggles on, and her hoodie pulled up to cover her head. "Whoo boy, glad we didn't try to fly, this storm is wicked. Dunno how Ishi is pulling it off, even a dragon would have trouble in this."
Ishirou	Ishirou is barely doing it, that's the truth to this. He waves over for help to the other two, motioning towards the cave itself. "People are in here, but if we can set up a pylon inside, and then around the mountain itself, we might be able to create an area of calm and normalcy in this area. Then it's a matter of spreading them out.." "Then we can start addressing the problem itself, but getting a foothold, and a safe haven is the most important thing first. If we can't even do this then the only choice is to get the civilians and run." As he says this the air itself blasts him. Gritting his teeth he pushes forward. He says this, but he's not willing to give up without a good long hard fight. He's already pushing towards the first point where he is preparing to deploy the pylon.
Sylvi	Through the thick detonations that split the air into a green-yellow tinged superstorm, the group of interested stormrunners drop through the thick soup of danger to bid for the ground. Deeper through the clouds, it turns orange, then red, and then-- A cracked and ravaged range of 'mountains' that sickeningly work and grind with a visible movement-of-clouds momentum that the rational mind ill-likes to calculate. The tectonic forces in overdrive shoot great gouts of steam and molten earth up like geysers at the bases of obsidian and molten rivers. The ground bleeds flame red and cracked black, screams in pressure and steam, and shifts in bubblingly trackable jointage and slips of rock. Ishirou's scans begin to resolve a layout of the first zone: one of the largest plates in the area slipping at the top like an arch-piece over a gate, as the surroundings all pucker and push together and down. It sits like a raft atop the depression, the tectonic eye bathing the underside with a thick caldera-steam. It is, of course, the island in the center of the active volcano, requiring either extreme climing, masterful flight, both... Or a particular heat tolerance.
Staren	Staren nods on the video transmission, in response to Ishirou explaining the plan. "Do you have a place for them if it comes to that? Last group of refugees that went through my territory actually found... damn it! Hang on." A close call of a lightning strike doesn't hit her, but her transmission goes fuzzy for a bit and the robot jerks slightly. Staren warps in support gear, bits and bobs with gems and wire appearing on the robot's feet and projecting a magical field of enhanced traction, and charges for where she projects the next pylon deployment place to be. Two at once should get them some breathing room, right?
Ishirou	"No Staren, I just plan to do things without a plan, and just suss things out by my feelings!" Ishirou says, then adds in, "If you couldn't tell, that was sarcasm! Yes, I have a plan and a place for them. Focus on the current situation, and not 'if we fail'." Jeeze, Staren, not right now. Now is the worst time to second guess his decision-making processes. Coming over the crest of the mountain itself, he sighs. Of course, it's the island in the middle of magma. "Alright, the center of that. We just have to place the first Pylon there. It'll sink into the ground and deploy the first stabilization field." The flight unit dives in, trying to get to the island in the magma ocean. It's hard, but right as he gets there his POD detects a burst of steam and magma. Ishirou banks to the right, getting glanced at by the aforementioned elements, but...well a glancing hit from magma is still /very painful/. He hits the ground hard and comes to a stop, placing the first pylon. He'll need help getting this into position.
Staren	Deeper into the storm, the hazard goes from wind, lightning, and visibility, to... heat? And the land breaking apart. Geeze, she hasn't seen land this messed up since the Volatile Wastes, and even that wasn't usually QUITE so directly hazardous... The robot can stand some heat, but being next to open lava is A Problem. Ishirou's scans point the way forward: The center of the volcano. "Guh. Why couldn't this one be dormant, too?" Okay. OKAY. The lightning has stopped, at least, so just... take it slow. Not TOO cautious, but just focus on the next place to position that claw and the feet. Climb carefully. The occasonal misstep still leaves the feet of her robot scorched and blackened, ruining the traction gear. Ugh. Ishirou's sarcasm provides a moment of levity, and she laughs lightly, although she cuts it off when he says 'if we fail' like that. "I didn't mean to... ugh." At least once they get there, her robot is designed for stuff like Positioning Heavy Pylons, lending its strength to holding it in place while it's deployed.
Alexis	Well, they got up here, that's a start. Her Gogoat looks grumpy but that's because he's a goat, they're always grumpy looking. The heat isn't as much of a bother, Alexis spends a lot of time around volcanoes and deserts and geothermal formations. So it's mainly the wind and the bizarre storm that's constantly pelting them, and the fact that the volcano is bleeding lava all over the place. Ishirou has a plan, and the more technical stuff is going to be up to him and Staren. And while he doesn't mind the heat a magma bath probably isn't very good for her Gogoat. That's okay. Alexis picks a different pokeball, pointing it towards the volcanic crater and releasing. The energy actually dips into the magma for a moment, but skims across the surface as it takes the form of a large almost lion-like beast with rocky ridges jutting out of his back. Being a master of volcanic environments the Entei has little trouble wading up onto the island to help. Which he does by digging his paws into the ground and using geokinesis to form the terrain up around the base of the pylon to help stabilize and anchor it.
Sylvi	The first, and most important task in the gambit is simply making a place for people to 'be'. With the very '''ground''' the party approaches being a floating island in the center of a mountain made out of other lesser broken peaks. Yet! Ishirou has a plan, with Paladins R&D's latest in crisis environment stabilization dialed into an environmental disaster at grand scale. Thanks to the scans, he knows exactly where to go, though it might be obvious were the party to stand there (in a death storm only held off by the massive geological pressure curtain pushing it up and away while feeding it), and get a good idea of the (rapidly changing, shattering, and reforming) landscape. Instead, they speed-run mount doom, heavy robots, flight units, and dog-like deity of fire carrying them through past lethal spurts, up a crumbling and morphic crust, and down into a lava-drenched hell. Ishirou places the first pylon, and with Alexis (and Company) and Staren's deployed power armor's combined oomph, jam the stabilizing pillar deep into the crust. The whole platform rumbles and sinks, molten rock spilling atop the edges and sticking the archway-piece in the chamber-mouth of the great volcanic peak. More Force is applied. The plate sinks further. It pulls down, yaws on the world like a curtain-piece, and the trio (plus Company and Equipment) begin to fall. Faster, and faster, until the guided earth-cap is falling faster than the free-falling group unless they cling to the hurtling plate. Liquidfalls of air-cooling molten rock spill down atop the party as the cap falls, falls, falls, and settles with a great rumbling kraka-THOOM And there is a stillness, down the chamber. Above, the whole mountain has been pulled taut to the earth, the plates all spread out from the pull-down point, the arch-way of the world recompleted with a pin down the center to hold it. Great! Wonderful! One down. And all the pressure, the steaming screaming that held up the hands of the sky release, with a sigh. So all across the world, it immediately begins raining. All of the raining, thick and dark and full of a chemical-primoridal chaos from what had been let loose into the atmosphere. After falling, down down down, it rains. And the rains come, heavy, and pour down the sides, and now you all have a Very Different Problem.
Ishirou	The pylon goes in. Alexis and Staren help secure it. Things look like they might hold just a little longer. Then the top of the mountain collapses, dropping them into the center of the volcano. This is probably because this would drain the magma chamber quickly, which means that there is nothing in the center. Ishirou moves to try and keep hold onto the side of the falling plate, only to have a piece of debris smack his hand at the last moment, and fling him off. This is followed by the rushing water that smacks him to the ground again, staggering and stunning him. Pulling himself up again, shaking his head. Shaking his head clear of the stars he looks up. Now they have a very different problem. "We have to get out of here before this thing floods us," he says, offering a hand to Alexis to help fly her out if she doesn't have a way out, but if she does he goes for broke to escape. At the same time, he looks for the second point. They need a way forward before this weather blocks the way forward."
Staren	They're... sinking? What? Is there a collapsing caldera under here? Staren's not a geologist, she's not sure if that's a thing! As they go into freefall, her instinct is to fly and slow her fall -- but this robot isn't equipped for flight. Well, she can MAKE it equipped, though it'll be a bit clunky. Thruster packs warp in attached to the robot all over, slowing its fall... ...But it turns out that, while focused on that, she didn't include enough maneuverability to dodge half-molten rocks. The labor mecha lands hard but in one piece, but is covered in scorched, warped, heated dents. There's a sizzling hiss as water contacts the chassis. Staren looks up. Her cyber-HUD has switched to a 360-degree external camera view for a moment. "I don't wanna know what's in that rain... But I think I can keep us from getting submerged." A panel opens in her robot's palm, and begins to deploy a rising pillar of concrete to stand on... Oh right the others can fly. Alright then. And she just added flight to this machine, so... Up it goes, slowly at first, then gaining speed. She tries to pull ahead and use the robot's bulk to stop the others from getting rained on, at least. Once above what used to be the volcano, she deploys flying drones to spread out in all directions and extend Ishirou's sensor coverage. Maybe he can find a place to put a third pylon at the same time... but then again, after what just happened maybe sticking together is the better plan.
Alexis	With the Entei on the case, there's not really a need for Ridge anymore, and that's fine with the Gogoat. He prefers climbing mountains that aren't about to violently explode, and as soon as Alexis is off his back he nudges his own pokeball to recall himself. "Looks good guys. So now wha--" Then instead of exploding everything stabilizes in the most violent way possible, and the platform starts to drop into the center of the chamber. While it starts to rain what probably isn't technically entirely water. Though that's going to cause issues as it hits hot magma and cools, creating more rocks to fall with them. Alexis grabs Ishirou's hand, if only long enough to get him back on his feet and then push him on his way. Either she doesn't need help, or is just worrying more about someone else than herself. It's probably both. Because the Entei grabs her by the back of the hoodie and with a flick of his great head tosses her onto his back. Then as she hunkers down amongst his spinal ridges he runs to the edge of the platform and leaps off. Broad paws collide with the downward spill of magma, and Wildfire is using Extremespeed to run UP the spilling flows, just slamming his way through any rocks of rainy debris that falls towards them. Better he takes the abuse headon, literally, than anything harm his Trainer. Battered and bruised he vaults over the lip, still running at the phenomenal speed the Legendary Beasts all posess to cross the land to make for more stable ground. Relatively speaking. Ishirou already had plans where to plant the pylons after all. "We ain't got time to slow down. Just aim for the next spot and hit it!" Wildfire nods, shifts course a bit, and lets loose a mighty roar. A roar that sends a massive ball of divine flame blasting from the great beast's mouth, aimed to blast open a large clear space on the ground for another unit to be deployed.
Sylvi	Up, up, and up, the group bids, because otherwise they'll be drowned! Earth, Air, Fire, and now Water are all in tempestuous rebalancing around the enormous well that has been struck deep into the ground by the firmly planted pylon. 'Stability' required equilibrium. Equlibrium required... First the land unparches itself, the great smoke-filled clouds booming out the heated get of geologic time and pouring down, now, saturated. The rain falls, and washes down great rivers of mud and cooled hardened magma, burying the pinned-in pylon under enough junk that it would take a further exposing event to even get at, much less adjust. But why adjust it? Why not be right the first time? From that point, pulled taut to frame and smoothed out, the whole world has rippled out and cleared. Dark, pooling seas of brown and red and green, of colors that simple water is not. Islands, once peaks and mountain ranges, weather down under a relentless barrage of rain. Visibility closes down to nothing - what sensors can find in the soup, and the ring of safety from Entei's sacred flame and the projected field Staren's mecha creates. Mess, and greater than, elemental bedlam, has calmed in one polar point at the world. Sensors now declare you are at the '''North''' (South???) Pole of this place, such that there -was- no geomagnetic pole before, of either kind, and now there is one. For now, Ishirou's highly-tuned sensors find what's left to do now: lash down the point. Another expedition to the other side of the world will be required to fully transplant an artificial second pole in. Four locations -- a box-grid around the sunken caldera-cap around the greatest mountain that now isn't. Three islands -- and one location in a fault underwater. Of course, as a box grid: You'll have to divide and conquer if the party wishes to extend their operational time in the extreme weather, debilitating pain-bow rain, and 'minor' (relative, it's still as major as an active fault-area) tectonic settling.
Staren	Staren lands on the nearest mountaintop while they plan. Her screens fill with artificially-colored map data, as the view from external cameras is completely useless right now. They discuss where to go -- she's concerned about operating underwater. If Alexis's pokemon can protect her, that seems like the best choice, but Ishirou says he's got it. Truthfully, for all she knows his armor has a Water Mode she hasn't seen. <J-IC-Scene> Ishirou says, "Here take these. Strike the earth at...this and this location." Staren's mech takes the pylon in its hand. "Alright. Keep in touch... I'll keep deploying sensor drones and try to spread them between us." With a roar of all the thrustors powering up again, the robot flies to the island indicated by Ishirou.
Ishirou	The extreme shift from hot to cold was /rough/, but thankfully Ishirou's machine was equipped to handle such a switch. Though it wasn't without strain. The armor buckles and the internals strain...but the engineering skill of Blemishine and his own skill at measuring and precision save his bacon here. He'll have to give her a huge hug the next time he sees her, he thinks. Assuming that they can pull this off... Though right now, he can see that things are going wild in a new way...the new North/south pole was going wild. They'd have to strike the next ones down together, or risk failing and spiraling what they got today into the drain. Okay...deep breath. These points should fix it, according to the napkin math, and accelerated scans he can get off. He hands a pylon to Staren and Alexis, and points them to the right coordinates...and makes it clear they have to be precise. No room for error now. Ishirou takes to the skies once more, flying towards the ocean, before decoupling the flight unit, to instead replace it with the Hydro Unit. Diving into the water he has to brave the depths. Thankfully, the machine should be able to handle this much depth...or at least that's what they measured out! He dives, before switching from mobility mode into humanoid mode again, and lands at the spot...he does some last-minute calculations and then finds the spot. Even as his armor strains, he slams the pylon down. 'Please work please work please work...' he says, knowing it /will/ but also worried that he might have made an error somewhere. He holds his breath, before raising once more towards the surface. Either he was right... Or this world was fucked.
Alexis	With debris cleared out of their way, Alexis and her Entei make a headlong dash for one of the remaining locations. Despite the beating he's already taken Wildfire shows no sign of slowing down, the same stamina that allows the trio of great beasts to cross the lands repeatedly still pulling him through. When Ishirou hands off one of the remaining Pylons Alexis lets loose her Flygon to grab it and bring it to them. The weather is still less than cooperative, but the Flygon has the speed and grace that allows her to fly through raging sandstorms to push through with, even as primordial rain ripples against her buzzing wings and dribbles off the lenses covering her eyes like protective goggles. Impacts against the ground forces Wildfire to veer a bit to avoid him and Alexis getting crushed as the terrain is still seizing between boiling magma and cooling rock, skidding to a stop near their appointed location. Even as she's jumping down from his back Alexis grabs the three other pokeballs she hadn't used yet to let the rest of the crew out. "Scorch, Slosh, Siege, go!" Thus we get the blazing badger Typhlosion, the stout and slippery Quagsire, and then the gleaming metallic serpentine Steelix looming over them all. The last one she points off to the side. "You, give us some cover!" So in this case Siege ends up doing the opposite of his name, laying his length out in a ring around the location to give them some windbreak and blockage against the elemental chaos around them. Alexis turns back to the others. "I don't care how, just dig, and fast!" No one is in the mood to disagree. Scorch superheats his front claws and uses them to tear into the ground, after Slosh slams down with his secondary Ground type to shift the earthly structure to make it easier to pull apart. Alexis looks up, sees Mirage coming in fast. "Give her some room!" The digging isn't perfect, but it's loosend the ground enough for the Flygon to dive down and drive the base of the pylon into the ground with the momentum, wedging it in as far as possible. "Now, Slosh. Muddy Water! Scorch and Wildfire, flash dry it!" The Quagsire's cheeks bulge up briefly, and then a stream of mud and mire is spewed out around the base of the pylon. From either side Typhlosion and Wildfire breath their intense fire, drying the muck back into hard rock. All they can do is hope it's enough and in time.
Sylvi	Extreme condition requires extreme action. Splitting up the final tasks means Staren and Alexis both have one to handle -- and Ishirou, the mastermind of this particular 'environmental cleanup' operation with the help of Paladins R&D, Alexis and her Pokemon... And NORTHERN GUN!!! (ft. Staren) Split among the islands, Alexis and Staren use their skills to plant their 'flags' - the stability pylons - within the buckling and shifting ground beneath them. As they plant, stake their claim, the pylons glow in sympathy. The land smooths further, safety ensured by techno-magic. Protean islands slough off layers of dreck and soot layers and acid-etch clean in the storming rainfall. The third pylon goes down, and the chop gets worse in the nascent seas. Ishirou purges the Flight Unit and switches, diving into 'surf'. Rainbow-slick with effluence of every kind and color, it is an underwater gauntlet of fluid pressure, current, and nebula-like ungravity zones. Down to one, sunken point, vibrating and flapping. Obvious to the naked eye. Like a tarp yet to put the last pin in. A corner of the bed-spread out of order. One more pin down. One last pylon, and the Terra-Forming towards stability finally... Creaks the zone... Still... Ishirou will still have to get out of the protean sea, the Hydro Unit torn to near-flinders, to find the two members of the improptu expedition. However: Mission 1, "Strike The Earth": Successful? ? ?
Ishirou	Just a little more... Ishirou trying to get to the surface...or at least high enough to not be shattered. Just a little more..! He can hear the Hydro unit strain and start to fail. He'll have to eject it, then try and see if the flight unit can cover the rest of the distance! Just with that, the hydro-parts of the unit eject and are reabsorbed into his dimensional pocket. The flight unit is reconnected. Please start..! For a brief moment, he holds his breath... Ishirou is out, sputtering up just enough to break the surface and arch himself towards the beach. He crashes onto the beach and rolls around. Face up as the area of calm forms around the mountain...a place of normalness in a sea of chaos. A place for people to come in from the rain...and a place for them to start expeditions to see why this happened. Ishirou closes his eyes. Ow.
Staren	Staren lets out a breath she doesn't realize she was holding, when the ground begins to stabilize. She adjusts her seat back, takes off her helmet (worn just in case of cockpit breach) and takes a few breaths. She turns towards the others (according to the map) and switches back to visual when she remembers that should be clearing up. Ooh, look at the fog rolling away. It's a pretty cool sight! <<"Everybody okay?">> she transmits. She has sensor coverage to check, but it feels more polite to ask, to show concern even if the concern is already addressed. <<"Geeze, that was rough.">> I hope the people we came ehre to save lived through it... <<"...Are a lot of your zones ...in this condition?">>
Alexis	Tense moments follow as the group is gathered around the base of their pylon, partially shielded from the raging instability around them by the armored serpentine length coiled about the site. They had no real way of knowing the others succeeded or not.... until the pylon syncs, and the chaos at least on the mountain starts to die down. Alexis didn't realize she was holding her breath until she released it. "Good job, everyone." Wildfire grunts softly, and she reachs over to ruffle a hand in his smokey mane. "It's okay. That was scrambled on a fundamental level, even you couldn't of calmed that volcano on your own. You were able to help this succeed, and that's what's important." Alexis recalls the rest of the group for a rest, save Mirage, whom picks the Trainer up to return to the others. With their relative vicinity having calmed down she buzz along the surface without struggling against the winds, so moving about is a breeze once more. Alexis flicks open her Poketch comm. <<We're roughed up from the excitement but fine. Things within the 'box' seem to be settling down now.>> It'll be interesting to explore. Later. Even she's in no hurry to move on after that endeavour.
Ishirou	For the first time in ages... Some sun starts peaking out behind clearing clouds. For this small part of the world, the balance was restored. From inside the mountain, people start nervously stepping out. Villagers in antiquated clothing, noblemen in torn dress, and children now dancing out to jump in the water. The armor disappears, back into Ishirou's dimensional pocket. "Oh, so you've seen a...more or less theme to the lands I've been picking up. Yes, territories that are troubled, strange, or potentially dangerous. To help them to rebuild, explore, contain, or protect. If we can't even do this, then what's the point in even being in Secundus? I said I got interested before to learn how to better administer.." "Well, I also want to learn how to better help people who need it. To better provide for them not just help today, but help going forward. The Paladins can't just dive in and stop the problem today. They have to solve the problem going forward. To heal the hearts of the people, and to protect them from not just other people who would exploit them, but from any danger." He watches the children play, and Ishirou...while hurting, smiles. "If I can't do it here where my weight means more because of the resonance...then I might as well give up on it completely."
Staren	Staren leaves the robot, flying over to the others on her broom, watching the people come out and the children play. She nods. "It's a good reason to come to Secundus. Thanks for letting me help." She looks thoughtful, holding a hand to her chin. "Maybe we can sort some things out in a couple of my zones, as well..."
Alexis	The Flygon comes down to land by Ishirou, setting Alexis on the ground as she does. Though at first she looks back towards the cave, seeing people step out into clear weather for what probably feels like forever to them. Then she turns back, and pats a hand on Ishirou's shoulder. "Hell of a lot more organized than I am, just exploring whatever strange environment catches my fancy. You've got a fine goal." She nods to Staren as she arrives by broom, then turns to gaze out past the mountain, past their stabilized boundry where the rest of this world is still utter chaos and metaphysical breakdown. "Maybe it'll be enough to find out what caused this world to crack like a rotten egg..."
Ishirou	Ishirou shakes his head, "No problem, thanks for helping," he says stretching his neck out. God, it was sore...much sorer than he thought it'd be. He smiles at Alexis when the hand came to his shoulder. "There is nothing wrong with your goal either. This is just mine. Maybe these lands will be more stable when the next shift happens, and maybe they can unify properly. That's my hope, that they have at least that." He pauses, still looking at the group before turning his eyes to the sky itself. Their island of peace...but far enough out there the elements still rage. A reminder that work still needs to be done. "I think our first place should be to ask the inhabitants what they know...but I want them to enjoy this peace first, before reminding them of what happened." "There might still be more out there that need to be brought in, maybe even more that know what happened. Maybe it'll be enough to know, but knowing without doing is just indolence," Though Ishirou realizes that might be what he's doing in regard to Indus. One thing at a time, he thinks to himself.
Alexis	"That's a good idea. Let them have their time to finally relax a bit. Don't need strangers poking in their business, even if they are probably grateful for it." Alexis walks back to her Flygon, this time climbing onto Mirage's back properly. She holds one hand up to the side of her head with thumb and pinky extended in mimicry of an old fashioned phone receiver. "Give me a buzz when you're ready to explore more of what's going on here." She gives Mirage a nudge, and buglike wings flit back into a frantic buzz to lift off and head back to their own territories for the time being.