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    It's been a few weeks since each of you were captured, each of you were changed, by the people running this facility.

    For the most part you haven't been treated... too badly, except in that you've been experimented on against your will.

    Other than some tests of your new forms, they mostly just leave you alone in your cells: Two large arrangements, not unlike a drunk tank, segregated by sex on either side of a hall, cell doors a mixture of steel bars and some kind of plexiglass. You may or may not have gotten to know your cellmates in this time.

    Suddenly, there's quite a commotion about, alarms going of, the sounds of people running around you, a guard says something about a raid while another speculates about a Trevanant attack.

    Suddenly, there's a massive explosion from somewhere below you, it shakes the entire building, tiles fall from the ceiling...

    And the doors to your cells look awful loose... Shouldn't be too hard to force them open.

    Crouched down don't the floor of the women's cell, Violet looks at the shaken door inquisitively.
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    Rogue the Rockruff Hybrid

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    Subject appears to have reduced height compared to previous dimensions, while the limb circumference appears unchanged. Skin, while appearing unchanged at distance at close inspection is made of flakes of overlapping micro-sheets of silicate. Hair appears to have formed into similar hard substance of two colors. No advanced aging detected,the white segments appear to be marble-like. Similar ridges of marble appear to have grown on all limbs.

    Clothing of previous form allowed for subject as it appears to keep him docile. Common cave-explorer outfit. Khaki. Marble ridges appear to have damaged right arm and left leg of clothing.

    Face has been morphed to canid archetype including fangs. Documented more in document H.33.T during project V. Pupils and Iris retain human structure, both brown instead of the expected manifestation of heterochromia.


    Rogue, for most of the rest of those present has preferred to keep himself alone. It mostly just feels right, it helps him try and remember the before. There are still mostly gaps, but the others would know his... former self? was there looking for missing persons. The weremon didn't quite reject attempts at communication though, being nice enough, though aggression or pushing too far too fast would cause him to, snap for lack of a better word.

    It wasn't pleasant when the scientists kept trying to pull out this behavior consistently. This, now, however, is the opportunity they need. The experience of the past him reaching out through. Rogue walks over to the door and signals for the others to come over with a wave. He's planning on putting his new stone shoulder into tackling open the door, but hopefully someone will help. Metal is still metal and he doesn't know his-self enough yet.
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    Alex Morgan

    [INTRUDER ALERT]
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    [ALL ENHANCED UNITS STANDBY FOR ORDERS]

    Alex groaned and held his head - well what his head now was. He had no ears to cover, not that would make a difference as the messages were blared directly into his brain. He was being bombarded with defense protocols and theoretical tactical data from the computer wired into him. It took most of his willpower to try not to get lost in the overload of information.

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    A large explosion interrupted the alarm for moment before continuing.

    [FACILITY STRUCTURE COMPROMISED]
    [FACILITY STRUCTURE COMPROMISED]
    [RISK OF CONTAINMENT LOSS DETECTED]

    Alex looked around his cell. Really, with how his eye was designed, he couldn't not look around his cell. He had to manually turn off the camera in his head, something he had to learn after a couple sleepless nights before he was taught how to literally get some shuteye. Not that sleep came much easier afterwards with his normally restless mind being assisted by an unrelenting AI. Still, even with his mind under assault, he could see that the cell door war jarred slightly in the the explosion. Escape was an option.

    He could see his cellmate trying to shove open the door. They never tried to talk to each other much, Alex had trying to understand his new self and the shame of having worked with the very people who did this to everyone as excuses, while he was sure 'Rogue' had his own reasons for keeping quiet. Still, working together would be the best thing to do.

    "Here, let me try something," he said raising his hand towards the door. Magnetism was something that he had gained from the experimentation and while the training he had him do nothing but move a few coins around, he could try to unlatch the bolts holding the door.

    The combat protocols the of AI kept running in the back of his head. While it was distracting, perhaps there was something in the stream of information that could help them escape?
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    Pendra the Kabuto Hybrid

    Previously Pendra has shakily introduced herself to her fellow prisoners if asked, but has kept to herself otherwise. Most of her time in the cell has been spent trying very hard not to think about what happened to her, because every time she does she starts to scream, cry, or both. The fact that there haven’t been a lot of distractions hasn’t helped.

    But this is a solid distraction. Pendra peers down the hall after the explosion, trying to see what’s going on, and thus doesn’t immediately see the other Rock hybrid’s wave across the hall dividing them.

    Eventually she notices the movement however, and, suppressing a cough from both the newly kicked-up dust and her dried-out gills (the scientists had determined this to be nonlethal, just uncomfortable) starts paying him more attention. So she is watching when the boys start messing with the door to their side, and as much to keep her mind off everything else as to actually escape, does the same on the girls’. She’s not certain of her strength in the new body either, so she checks the locks, hinges and other points where the door is attached to the wall, and pries at them experimentally to see if they come free.
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    Rachel Nightley, Nidoran Female Hybrid
    Rachel has kept to herself. Whoever this Kabuto-hybrid was didn't need to associate with a criminal like her.

    She bolts up, her big nidoran ears twitching at the loud noises.
    "...Is it?"
    Blaring from a distance comes a message complete with pre-recorded music, as if by loudspeaker:
    "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
    PREPARE FOR TROUBLE!
    MAKE IT DOUBLE!
    TO PROTECT THE WORLD FROM DEVASTATION!
    TO UNITE ALL PEOPLES WITHIN OUR NATION!
    TO DENOUNCE THE EVILS OF TRUTH AND LOVE!
    TO EXTEND OUR REACH TO THE STARS ABOVE!
    ["Rachel!"] ["Lizzie!"]
    TEAM ROCKET BLASTING OFF AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT!
    SURRENDER NOW, OR PREPARE TO FIGHT!

    This pre-recorded motto recitation brought to you by: Too Many People Attacking Us While We Recite it and our Bosses deciding this was more efficient."
    Her eyes dilate in fear.
    "Aw shuckle, it is!"
    She immediately unsheathes her claws, ripping through her rocket gloves as she does and begins scratching and slicing at the weak points in the cell doors to try and get out. She'd recognize that pre-recorded Team Rocket Motto anywhere. She contributed to its recording by shouting her name, the rest of it was just some random grunt reciting the rest of the motto in the most threatening voice as a template for the rest of the duos to fill in the parts relevant to them. No one in Team Rocket did the actual performance anymore. She had to get out, she had to get away before its too late.

    They were coming for her.

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    She commands the grunts around her as they send out their ratattas, ekans and koffings and begin pouring the big hole they blow in the building.
    "Alright! You four are with me! The rest of you, cause chaos, steal anything valuable whether it be pokemon, medicine, pokeballs, other tech I don't care what. I'll be handling the search and interrogation of Rachel myself. I've questions that need answering and only she can answer 'em. And remember if any of you come across the Snag' Em machine, take it and pull out, that our objective we are not staying around, anything else is secondary."
    Lizzie knew that Rachel had failed, getting captured like this. Failure was not taken lightly in Team Rocket. She was her partner though, and she had to deal with this herself. She knew if it was anyone else, they'd treat Rachel far harsher. As the grunts around her sent the facility into confusion with smokescreens and supersonic screams from their zubats she runs forward, with purpose and determination. She was going to find Rachel, and there was going to be answers, one way or another. Lizzie must not fail this!

    She is coming for her.
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    Rogue the Rockruff Hybrid

    Rogue was at first content to let Alex work on the door for a bit, however time's up when he hears the music start playing. His ears twitch, face hardens, and he gets that look in his eyes again. The Team Rocket chant had awakened shadows of memories for the Saffron native. Unfortunately it is mostly rage and hate without context.

    The weremon tackles his way through the twice-weakened door and scans the hallways around him, shrouded in the dust and smog of the attack. He growls "Rocket."
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    The cell doors break under pressure and you all burst into the main hall.

    One of the guards is still present and he reacts by shouting "damn it, not this on top of everything" in a thuggish voice. He draws out a Pokeball and shots "Go, Ratata!"

    The Ratata takes one look at all of you, then turns back to its trainer with an 'are you kidding me' expression and then turns back to you seemingly resigned to its fate.
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    Pendra has heard of Team Rocket, of course, who hasn’t? But she had no personal experience with them, never having been a Pokémon trainer or been unlucky enough to be in a place they were attacking…until now, apparently. She was dimly aware they were a gang of interregional thieves, terrorists, and generally Bad News who focused on Pokémon and Pokémon-related crimes…

    …which put her and everyone else here on their radar. This was not a rescue. Not that a rescue would do much good at this stage anyway - …don’t think about it, don’t think about it, don’t think about it…

    But between the explosion, and the frantic scratching of her cellmate, it looks like the lock was damaged.

    Scoot over for a second,” Pendra gently shoves her way to the lock, knocks out a loose chunk of plexiglass and reaches through to undo the deadbolt. The next blow promptly knocks the door open, and probably would have given Pendra a bad scrape if not for her new tougher-than-human hide.

    She’s about to ask something along the lines of ‘what next?’ - arguably the most coherent sentence she’d have managed since waking up in that fish tank a few weeks ago - when she catches sight of the security guard coming back from break. So instead what comes out is a slightly panicky “Guard!” and a mouthful of gravel. ((Sand Attack))
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    Rachel gets out of the cell thanks to her cellmate only to find that she is now in the same hallway and as an enraged were-rockruff growling "Rocket" and the security guard. Her nidoran instincts were screaming at her two things: FIGHT!/WIN!/STRONGER! and PREDATOR!/RUN!/SURVIVE! and her higher brain functions recognizing she still had the uniform on agreed with the second of those urges and decided to bolt away in the opposite direction of the guard to let the two other focus on him so she can keep out of the rockruff's sight....at least until she calms down.
    "Rev it, rev it, rev it, rev it....."
    A part of her does feel oddly guilty at leaving her "fellow mouse-mon" to getting beat up like that though. Stupid nidoran instincts. She'll instead look about for any other cells not unlocked and cut them open. At the very least they can give her enemies more targets other than her to escape.

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    Rogue the Rockruff Hybrid

    Not being able to see the fleeing prisoner's uniform clearly reads to the hybrid not as a fleeing criminal but as her making a break for it. That brings out a different instinct mixed with the human base thinking. He's got to clear out the hallway so they could all make it out.

    Luckily for the poor Ratata it isn't the biggest obstacle. Rogue instead goes for the guard, [Tackle]ing them with all the force the limited amount of space would let him build to.
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    Alex Morgan

    When the Team Rocket motto resounded through the facility, Alex was actually thankful for the distraction. Gave the computer in his head something to focus on rather than blaring alarms in his head. He knew the basics that the computer was telling him. A Kanto based gang of criminals and thugs that while technically disbanded, pockets of them were scattered across the globe. "Team Rocket, huh?" he muttered. "At least it isn't any cultists or megalomaniacal corporations."

    However, his cellmate seemed to have a different opinion on the gang, incensing him to charge into the door before he could finish manipulating all the bolts. Still, it seemed that his tampering was enough for the door to be knocked down by the Hybrid.

    [CONTAINMENT LOST]
    [ALL UNITS ARE CLEARED FOR COMBAT]


    "All units, huh?" Alex muttered a smirk. He looked at his hand and focused on his store of electricity. Sure enough, lightning started to arc between his fingers. More important however, was potential access to some of the command protocols that were installed in him. The GPS Troop Tracker would be useful to avoid any patrols during their escape.

    [ACCESS DENIED: INSUFFICENT CLEARANCE]

    "Of course it couldn't have been that easy," he muttered. Still, he had some basic combat software, including a HUD to help him aim and manage his energy reserves. He knew he still wasn't much of a fighter, but this would be his only chance.

    He stepped out into the hallway to see a guard and his Rattata engaged with some of the other escapees. He reached his hand out towards them to try and stun them with electricity.

    [FRIENDLY FIRE PROTOCOL ENGAGED]


    His HUD gave a blue overlay overlay to the guard and his partner Pokémon, while his fellow escapees were outlined in red. The sparks in his hand were cut short. "Arceus judge it!" he cursed. He need another way to fight and while he was certainly augmented, he would still be outmuscled by the guard. He needed to find a way to help without activating the IFF. He tried to remember the minimal training of his abilities. Then it struck him, he needed to think of his time training his own Magnemite and find the overlap. And sound didn't care about being aimed and at the right volume and frequency it would disorient someone long enough for an opening. He activated his voice modulator and bellowed.

    "GET OUT OF OUR WAY!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kareeah_Indaga View Post
    Pendra has heard of Team Rocket, of course, who hasn’t? But she had no personal experience with them, never having been a Pokémon trainer or been unlucky enough to be in a place they were attacking…until now, apparently. She was dimly aware they were a gang of interregional thieves, terrorists, and generally Bad News who focused on Pokémon and Pokémon-related crimes…

    …which put her and everyone else here on their radar. This was not a rescue. Not that a rescue would do much good at this stage anyway - …don’t think about it, don’t think about it, don’t think about it…

    But between the explosion, and the frantic scratching of her cellmate, it looks like the lock was damaged.

    Scoot over for a second,” Pendra gently shoves her way to the lock, knocks out a loose chunk of plexiglass and reaches through to undo the deadbolt. The next blow promptly knocks the door open, and probably would have given Pendra a bad scrape if not for her new tougher-than-human hide.

    She’s about to ask something along the lines of ‘what next?’ - arguably the most coherent sentence she’d have managed since waking up in that fish tank a few weeks ago - when she catches sight of the security guard coming back from break. So instead what comes out is a slightly panicky “Guard!” and a mouthful of gravel. ((Sand Attack))
    Well, the Ratata now has sand in it's eyes.
    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Raziere View Post
    Rachel gets out of the cell thanks to her cellmate only to find that she is now in the same hallway and as an enraged were-rockruff growling "Rocket" and the security guard. Her nidoran instincts were screaming at her two things: FIGHT!/WIN!/STRONGER! and PREDATOR!/RUN!/SURVIVE! and her higher brain functions recognizing she still had the uniform on agreed with the second of those urges and decided to bolt away in the opposite direction of the guard to let the two other focus on him so she can keep out of the rockruff's sight....at least until she calms down.
    "Rev it, rev it, rev it, rev it....."
    A part of her does feel oddly guilty at leaving her "fellow mouse-mon" to getting beat up like that though. Stupid nidoran instincts. She'll instead look about for any other cells not unlocked and cut them open. At the very least they can give her enemies more targets other than her to escape.

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    A shortening of a curse known as "reverse it!" referring to Giratina's reverse world, commonly thought to be some form of hell in ancient times, this along with things like "arcforsaken" "arcrevit!" and the like are common curses in the region where Rachel is from, shortening things like Arceus to "arc" to sound shorter and more abrupt.
    There do no appear to be any other cells on this level. Heading in reverse takes you to a dead end.

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    Rogue the Rockruff Hybrid

    Not being able to see the fleeing prisoner's uniform clearly reads to the hybrid not as a fleeing criminal but as her making a break for it. That brings out a different instinct mixed with the human base thinking. He's got to clear out the hallway so they could all make it out.

    Luckily for the poor Ratata it isn't the biggest obstacle. Rogue instead goes for the guard, [Tackle]ing them with all the force the limited amount of space would let him build to.
    "Wait, dat's not ho w it's supposed ta—"

    And the guard is tackled. It's super effective. Guard fainted.
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    Alex Morgan

    When the Team Rocket motto resounded through the facility, Alex was actually thankful for the distraction. Gave the computer in his head something to focus on rather than blaring alarms in his head. He knew the basics that the computer was telling him. A Kanto based gang of criminals and thugs that while technically disbanded, pockets of them were scattered across the globe. "Team Rocket, huh?" he muttered. "At least it isn't any cultists or megalomaniacal corporations."

    However, his cellmate seemed to have a different opinion on the gang, incensing him to charge into the door before he could finish manipulating all the bolts. Still, it seemed that his tampering was enough for the door to be knocked down by the Hybrid.

    [CONTAINMENT LOST]
    [ALL UNITS ARE CLEARED FOR COMBAT]


    "All units, huh?" Alex muttered a smirk. He looked at his hand and focused on his store of electricity. Sure enough, lightning started to arc between his fingers. More important however, was potential access to some of the command protocols that were installed in him. The GPS Troop Tracker would be useful to avoid any patrols during their escape.

    [ACCESS DENIED: INSUFFICENT CLEARANCE]

    "Of course it couldn't have been that easy," he muttered. Still, he had some basic combat software, including a HUD to help him aim and manage his energy reserves. He knew he still wasn't much of a fighter, but this would be his only chance.

    He stepped out into the hallway to see a guard and his Rattata engaged with some of the other escapees. He reached his hand out towards them to try and stun them with electricity.

    [FRIENDLY FIRE PROTOCOL ENGAGED]


    His HUD gave a blue overlay overlay to the guard and his partner Pokémon, while his fellow escapees were outlined in red. The sparks in his hand were cut short. "Arceus judge it!" he cursed. He need another way to fight and while he was certainly augmented, he would still be outmuscled by the guard. He needed to find a way to help without activating the IFF. He tried to remember the minimal training of his abilities. Then it struck him, he needed to think of his time training his own Magnemite and find the overlap. And sound didn't care about being aimed and at the right volume and frequency it would disorient someone long enough for an opening. He activated his voice modulator and bellowed.

    "GET OUT OF OUR WAY!"
    Not only does the Ratata have sand in it's eyes, not only is its trainer now unconscious, but it's also now really, really fricking dizzy. It somehow manages to bite itself, than spins around, throws up, and faints.

    While all of this is happening, Violet looks at the guard, at the rest of you, and at Rachel fleeing the opposite way and decides that it's dangerous to go alone and follows after the nidoran hybrid.

    Besides, they're the only two poison types present. Eventually, Rachel's gonna want human contact and unless cybernetics make you count as steel type Violet is the only one who can give it.
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    Rachel
    Rachel turns around and sees Violet, sees the rockuff hybrid tackle the guard into unconsciousness. Her brain, seeing that fleeing blindly is now out of the picture, now calms down a little begins thinking about to survive this using more subtle and sophisticated methods. So she throws an arm around Violet's shoulder to ake sure they are close together and says
    "Hello new friend! My name is Rachel, Rachel Nightly. Probably Former Rocket Grunt. Whats yours? Anyways, everyone, you might be wondering about why Team Rocket is attacking. Well I have only bad news for you: they're not here to rescue me. Long story short: I botched the delivery on some goods Team, got captured by these corp goons, got turned half-nidoran, now they're probably coming to get the info on where the goods went outta me. Violently. But uh, I think its obvious from our current states that they're gonna smell an even better opportunity for profit just by looking at us. So uh, we should be getting outta here. But I understand if after this none of you like me and don't want rockets chasing after you as well as the corp goons, we can go our separate ways once the sitch isn't so hot and we can all take a breather, capiche?"
    She says keeping herself close to Violet so that Rogue hopefully doesn't attack her.
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    Pendra spits out the last of the gravel and looks a tiny bit horrified at the mess the Rattata is in. She hadn’t meant to help hurt it.

    Glancing around uncertainly, she pats its unconscious head awkwardly before it occurs to her it should go back in its ball. She steps over to the KO’d guard to locate the ball and (with obvious lack of practice) fumbles with it until the Pokemon is back inside, then drags the man into the less damaged of the cells.

    She takes a minute to search him for keys, passcards, or really anything useful (and regretfully notes that there probably isn’t time to strip him - she’s really tired of this flimsy hospital gown) before closing him in and barring the door as best she can manage with the battered locks.

    "Hello new friend! My name is Rachel, Rachel Nightly. Probably Former Rocket Grunt. Whats yours? Anyways, everyone, you might be wondering about why Team Rocket is attacking. Well I have only bad news for you: they're not here to rescue me. Long story short: I botched the delivery on some goods Team, got captured by these corp goons, got turned half-nidoran, now they're probably coming to get the info on where the goods went outta me. Violently. But uh, I think its obvious from our current states that they're gonna smell an even better opportunity for profit just by looking at us. So uh, we should be getting outta here. But I understand if after this none of you like me and don't want rockets chasing after you as well as the corp goons, we can go our separate ways once the sitch isn't so hot and we can all take a breather, capiche?"

    Pendra’s eloquent response to this was to blink, her glowing red eyes remaining steady. She thought she’d remembered the Rocket uniform looking somewhat different, but that was definitely a giant ‘R’…

    ((And if there isn’t a giant R on the current incarnation of the Rocket Grunt uniform, let me know and I’ll edit.))

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    Rogue the Rockruff Hybrid

    With the guard completely out and the others actively backing away from him, Rogue snaps out of combat mode and for a second he tries to form a coherent picture of what's going on while the dust settles around them. He can't remember why exactly the team rocket thing set him off for now. Just add it to the pile of confusion.

    What helps is that Rachel appears to be protecting the others, although that is a little distressing about Rogue's own condition. Rogue takes a deep breath trying to get out of fight-or-flight mode before answering,

    "Rogue, but I only remember that's a nickname," he replies finally. Even before, he was the thinking while acting type so all of the implications of the rocket information will have to come later. "Then we get out of here. There were missing people, but I think we ended up being them, but we should try and free anyone we come across."

    His eyes scan across the collective group. "Who here is comfortable defending themselves?" Then he's locked on Rachel. "Against everything."
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    Alex Morgan

    Alex stood stunned that his attack was the thing that knocked out the Rattata. "That was - whoops."

    He turned off his voice augmentation. "That was more effective than I expected," he finished in his more subdued manner.

    He saw that the other escapees [CONTAIN THE SUBJECTS] clean up after the fight and formally introduce themselves. The Nidoran hybrid, Rachel, seemed at least somewhat responsible for the Team Rocket interference. While his cellmate, Rogue the Rockruff hybrid, asked about being able to defend himself. "I'm Alex Morgan. I used to work for these Spawn of Darkrai before I got too nosey and they turned me into this." He knocked on the side of his head with a clang to reinforce his point. "They were interested in my research on non-biolobical Pokemon. I guess the shadiness and the suspiciously generous paycheck should have tipped me off, but nope, had to blunder in on them torturing someone to get the message."

    He sighed and addressed Rogue's [CONTAIN THE SUBJECTS] question. "I was a decent trainer before I got caught and had my fair share of encounters with thugs in my time. I don’t have much fighting skills myself, but these augments are give me similar abilities to that of a Magnemite. Thanks to my partner Theta, I know most of what I'm capable of."

    He trailed off in thought. Theta... His Magnezone, and all of his other Pokemon has been stolen from him. Arceus knew what had happened to them. He knew enough about the Enhanced program that they wouldn't be stripped for parts for another experiment, but he knew they were rare and powerful enough that they couldn't just get rid of them.

    Alex shook his head. No use dwelling on it now, there were more important things to attend to. [CONTAIN THE SUBJECTS] "The bad news is that they stuck a computer in my head that keeps yelling at me to attack you guys and throw you back in your cells. For all I know, they're watching you through my eyes - eye, and I don't know if I can do anything about it! By the Spirits, for all I know, they stuck a bomb in there too! I know they were working with Voltorb."

    He took a deep breath and sighed. "We can help it. We also can't just stand around, they know we broke out of the cells. We have to get out of here. Hopefully we can find a control center or something and sever my connection to the network."

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    Rachel:
    Okay, Rogue wasn't trying to attack her. That is a win in her book. However now her fighting ability was being doubted. She lets go of violets shoulder and walks forward.
    "This ain't my first scrap, and you'll need me if you want to fight through the Rockets, cause I know of them better than you. They probably got koffing for smokescreens, zubats for supersonic, so we want to avoid any place the sounds screechy or full of smog. We get caught up in the tactics to cause chaos, it'll be trouble. and I know I got one advantage you don't: I'm poison. Not only anyone I touch or shoot with poison sting could get hurt but I'm immune to the poison myself cause Rockets use a lot of those. So don't underestimate me because my new venom-bunny instincts made me dart about capiche? And don't worry- I don't have any love for other Rockets. Greed tends to lead to a lot of backstabbing."
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    "and yeah I'll agree to severing the connection. Less potential problems later the better."
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    "Uh, I'm violet... I think. I uh... Don't really remember much from before this. I remember what I learned in school but I don't remember school, if that makes sense."

    "I... I can poison metal. I don't think that defending myself is a problem, it's not going too far by accident."


    There's another explosion from below you.

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    Pendra had finished with the guard and just nodded jerkily in agreement, fidgeting in place; the long introductions were making her increasingly nervous that more guards were going to show up and round them all up any minute now, but at the same time she wasn’t feeling quite brave enough to interrupt – or, Sky Dragon forbid, take off on her own – just yet.

    So she skittered over to the exit, glanced out, and compared the signage to what she remembered of the layout from previous trips to and from various tests.

    The hall to the right had been the labs, and while she mostly remembered going down, there was an elevator in there.

    The hall straight ahead lead to the bathrooms, break room, offices, and she gathered from the scientists’ chatter there was a mess of cubicles down there too for people who didn’t rate an office. She hadn’t specifically seen a way out but surely there was a fire exit? Did evil megacorps obey fire codes?

    The hall to the left, as far as she was concerned, was a complete unknown.

    She turned back to her fellow experiments and asked, "Which way?"
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    So it looks like everyone's on the right page for now. It strikes Rogue that Rachel seems less trustworthy the more she goes on. In fact it seems like everyone's operating on little trust for various reasons. It seems that despite everything he may have gotten off easy in term of sadistic experiments.

    The ground rocking takes his focus but Rogue does not lose his footing. "If we find anything on the way out then, but we have to go now"

    Rogue will take the front, hopefully Rachel being the other potential muscle will have his back instead of stabbing it.
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    She follows along right behind Rogue. Let Rogue not trust her for now. She wouldn't trust herself in Rogue's position. But survival was key, and while some would argue the action to ensure your survival was to screw others over, that only worked short term. Long term survival was about having allies. Betray too much, and no one trusts you, and they betray you first.
    "Agreed, any direction is better than no direction."
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    "Will you shut up," Alex muttered, tapping his own head.

    Alex brought up the rear of the their eclectic group, not sure what would he could do to help. With some his abilities still tied into the computer in his head, he wouldn't be able to do too much. He knew he was a liability, he didn't even know if it would be better to turn off his eye and stumble behind the rest of the group rather having security able to spy on them through it. Doing so would slow him down quite a bit though, and they needed to get out of here ASAP. At the very least, he would be able to give his support and see what sort of systems he had access to. Compass and automapping should be within the suite of features, but he didn't know how to turn them on. There was only so much exploration of his abilities he could do while running and they could wait. He at least knew what abilities he had for combat. He should be fine for battles, as long as he kept an eye on his energy reserves.
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    It seems that other than your own guards, everyone else in the building is either bunkered down or rushing to deal with one or more emergencies that are going on, you don't run into anyone, though you do hear or feel the aftermath of explosive blasts every few minutes.

    Eventually, you find a map on the wall with a general layout of the building. The floor you were on is labeled as "storage."

    Tere's a central computational room two floors up, but an exit to the outside of the facility only one up. Both are lily to be guarded, but leaving out the front door might not be the best idea right now.
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    Pendra (who had shamelessly snatched a jacket and hat out of someone’s office during the last leg of the escape) eyes the map uncertainly.

    "Is that computer room likely to have control over the power? If we get there, we could try cutting the lights to cover our escape. I have night vision," she adds, since she figures that is relevant.

    She also wonders if Alex’s control systems are there. She doesn’t like the idea of Alex being used to spy on them, but Rogue isn’t wrong about needing to leave ASAP, and she hopes this isn’t going to set their little group to arguing when they really can’t afford to.

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    Since electronics generally don't do well when exposed to repeated explosions, if they want to mess with the computer system it would have to be fast. Rogue turns to Alex, "You had a plan?"

    He is sort of unaware about if his current situation changed his vision much. Maybe the computer that will hopefully blow up soon has information, but they're not likely going to stick around and get all the info.
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    Alex took a look at the facility map. If he had control of his own computer systems, he would have had all this information already. The [ACCESS DENIED INSUFFICIENT CLEARANCE] got annoying quick. "'Storage' huh?" He said glancing back towards the cells that had held the group. "I guess that is one way of putting it. It might be a good idea to root around for supplies. They might have potions or pokeballs or something lying around. "

    At Rogue's question, Alex shrugged. "Not really. I'm a biologist who specializes in inorganic life, not a computer technician. I'm no hacker, in fact it would more likely lead to the computer hacking me instead."

    He sighed. "My electricity and magnetics would reck havoc on the hardware, but I have no idea what the consequences would be. Best case scenario, it severs me from the system with full control of my abilities. Worst case scenario, my computer is too integrated into both the system and my body so when the system blows up, I keel over dead."

    He looked up to the ceiling. Really, the best case scenario would be direct divine intervention from Arceus himself and worst case scenario would be that this was already an unending nightmare from Darkrai, but invoking the gods wouldn't accomplish much. "I would much rather not commit suicide. But we need to at least try to get to the computer control to see what my options are."

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    "Lets go to the computers first then. Don't know till we try. For supplies we'd need a bag or something to carry them in so we'd have to look for that in storage as well if we go do that, and the longer we stay with Alex's programming being a problem the longer they might be able to track us while we take stuff. Classic heist rule: disable security before taking anything."
    She will go up the stairs first to the next floor, claws bared, seeing if there is any fight up there and will signal to others that the coast is clear if there is none to be had.
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    Rogue thinks for a moment that unplugging the thing would do just as well if they're that worried about it. Until Alex gets some results or gives up the weremon will look around the room. There may be some kind of monitor or security setup. If they can see what they're up to that's something. Hopefully they can at least see what their captors see.
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    Pendra checks her new pockets on the off chance they might contain a security badge, keys or anything else that would help get them through doors or access things they weren’t supposed to.

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    Pendra has a security badge!

    On the way to the computer room, you encounter a Scientist. He is very panicked, but when he sees you his only response is "Ah, Crud. Go, Muk!" and tosses a Pokeball.

    A Noxious stench fills the room as a living pile of liquid pollution infested with virulent bacteria blocks of the hall. And from what the map said, there's no other way around.
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