Team Snagem HQ (Mt. Silver)

[Reno Vantas]

Reno would make to raise his hand before realizing his upside down position basically meant he would need to put it through the fridge for this to work. Instead just simply waving his hand a bit, he would speak. "Well....it might be best to take someone able to escape from captivity easily for a tribute if thats the way we go. That or take one of my arms. We stole the original from there and I still have it above the work bench. Just don't ask for Wikstrom's helmet. That bad boy is mine."

Slowly picking himself off of the fridge with his arms, Reno would look towards Aile. "Hostages should be hybrids, channelers, or somebody crazy enough to escape anything they end up in. Tech or other such things should be SNAGs or anything we pilfered from their country. That sound good?"  

[Requiem of Whyspers]

Long after the other members of Team Snagem filtered out of the main room, Lykas headed downstairs. Away from the sea, the salt and smell of smoke and burning corpses, he wanted to enjoy a bit of calm water in the pool downstairs. About the time he walked into the pool room and released his Pokemon to join him for his swim, he heard a voice both familiar and intruguingly new.

“Your friends are an interesting lot, Big Brother.”

“Excuse me?” He asked, turning around rather quickly, looking for the source of the voice.

“They’re going to need more power to handle the enemy you’re facing now, though.”

“Who are you and how do you know about us?” Lykas demanded of the seemingly empty room.

“I’m your baby sister, Big Brother. Don’t you remember me?”

“I don’t have any brothers or sisters.” Lykas asserted, crossing his arms as his Pokemon started to look around as well, attempting to find the speaker.

“None that you know of.” Another voice chimed in, this one sounding much younger than the other voice.

“Look, I don’t know who either of you are but you’re starting to piss me off.” Lykas finally snapped. “So either show yourselves or get out of here and don’t ever come back.”

“Looks like we don’t have much choice, Taryn. Big brother demands to meet us face to face.”
“I guess you’re right, Myrn. Big Brother’s so impatient!”

The owners of the voices finally made their appearances, a young girl with blue hair rising out of the pool and climbing up onto the floor around it. She was followed by a younger boy with bright red hair. What made the two of them most stand out however was the the girl was covered in blue and white scales and fins sprouting from her arms and legs with a familiar three-pointed crest on her head. The male possessed bright red hair and patches of purple scales across his body, almost but not quite perfectly blending in with his purple-toned skin. He also possessed fins sprouting from his body in places, though they weren’t as obviously fins as the girl’s were. “Do you recognize us?” The female asked.

“Not in the slightest.” Lykas responded, signalling his Pokemon to come to his side as he did. “Who the ~/~ are you two?”

The female hung her head and shook it slightly. “Our big brother doesn’t recognize us.”
“It’s heartbreaking, Big Sister!” The male replied, tears springing to his eyes already.
“It’s alright, Taryn! We’ll take him to Mother and she’ll make everything right.” The female replied to the younger male - the one named Taryn.
“You mean it, Myrn?!” Taryn asked, his tears starting to dry up as fast as they had formed.

“Cut the act, you two. I already told you I don’t have any brothers and sisters so stop calling me your brother!” Lykas snapped, starting to get irritated.

“Oh, but you do! You didn’t think Mother only had a child with Wallace, did you?! Oh no, Mother has a legacy to leave behind, a history worth leaving for the world to discover!” Myrn retorted.

Taryn snickered. “Mother has many children Big Brother! But you’re her favorite.” He assured, nodding enthusiastically. “Would you like to meet her?”

“Mother would be very pleased to meet you, Big Brother!” Myrn agreed, beginning to nod just as eagerly.

About that time, an alarm would sound throughout HQ, drawing as many people as possible to the pool room. “Good luck getting out of here now.” Lykas told them, determined that his friends would prevent these two from escaping. Maybe somebody else could threaten them enough to make them stop speaking in riddles.  

[Darksol88]

Amaranth would end up catching wind of the conversation just in time for Sub to mention about killing Reno, but not in time to notice the air quotes that came with it. Before she could ask about why Reno was about to be killed in what had to be horrific fashion, she'd hear the alarm and Sub's request for someone to check it out. "Um..."

She take her SNAG out and go to check about what the alarm was for, but in the process, she'd see a message about something else entirely:

[HQ Gains for: 8/7/2017 to 8/27/2017]
No growth? Odd.

Shrugging, she'd just dismiss the global message and resume checking about whatever the alarm was about.  

[Reno Vantas]

Reno would open his palm and watch the holographic display pop up. "The...pool room? Are we being invaded by some tiny Remoraid?" Reno questioned, slowly moving towards the pool even as he stared bewildered at the reading the display was giving him.  

[Requiem of Whyspers]

"We have no intention of leaving without you, Big Brother." Myrn assured Lykas, crossing her arms and waiting patiently.

"We'll stay as long as we need to." Taryn agreed, though he began to pace back and forth between Lykas and the pool.

"You two had better start making some kind of sense before my friends get here or I swear you're going to be on the receiving end of something incredibly unpleasant." Lykas warned the pair, his eyes beginning to glow black as he prepared a Hex for them.

"We're making perfect sense if you'd bother listening. Our Mother wants to meet you, our Big Brother, who she believes to be the inheritor of her legacy." Myrn replied.

"And I told you I don't have any siblings. And I've never met my mother before! She left me when I was an infant. How would she even know who I am any more?!" Lykas replied, demanding some answers.

"Mother's been watching you for your whole life, Big Brother." Taryn replied. "Always watching you, whether you knew it or not."

"She even tried calling you home once before, a long, long time ago!" Myrn added, a mischievous smile on her face.

The other Snagems should be arriving around this time. How much they'd hear depended on just when exactly they arrived.  

[Reno Vantas]

It would take Reno a moment to assess the situation. how he assessed it was to basically pop into Lykas' brain and grab a few quick thoughts of his from the last few minutes. Taking advantage of the perspective he was granted from this, Reno would release two Pokemon to accompany the Wynaut lounging in the pool and the Reuniclus that was...somewhere. "Tesei, Ice Beam." Reno called out, the Cloyster firing the Ice Beam over the pool and coating it in a sheet of ice. Glancing over at Nalu, Reno would stretch himself out before facing the two others in front of him. "Only the pool alarm went off and you managed to sneak up in Lykas in this room. Tells me you probably came in through the water somehow. Also tells me you won't like the electricity. So now talk." Reno growled out, finger tapping against his leg as he awaited some response from the twins in front of him.  

[Requiem of Whyspers]

"Not in the slightest." Lykas replied to Terashi, glancing over at him for only the briefest of moments.

"Oh, we've been here for a while." Myrn responded to Aile. "We've been keeping an eye on Big Brother from outside until very recently." She explained.

"We decided to come in while you all were out taking care of whatever it was you were doing not long ago. Mother decided it was time Big Brother came home!" Taryn added, exciteably. "We're here to take him to see her!"

"But he won't listen to us." Myrn pouted, giving the older hybrid a look like he was simply breaking her heart. "But I bet he doesn't know Mother called him home a long time ago. He just changed his mind before he answered the call." She smirked at this statement, as if it should help Lykas remember.

"Years ago. In the Sea of Lights! Before you changed..." Taryn added onto Myrn's attempted reminder, pointing to the small of his own back.

Lykas faltered for a brief moment, glancing toward the small of his back for a moment. How could these two know about that? The only person other than Odd and Mykel could have known might have been Sub, given how much he knew of his team mates. Not even Erika knew what had happened out there.

When Reno appeared and froze the pool, Taryn shivered slightly but Myrn didn't seem to be bothered by it. "We came in through the front door, actually. Big Brother let us in, whether he knew it or not." The younger hybrid explained, holding up Lykas' SNAG. "It let us in and we never even got questioned who we were!"

"How'd you get that?!" Lykas demanded, preparing to release the Hex he'd been holding back until now, distracted once again from his reflection.

"You dropped in in your rush to leave before. We saw it fall out just outside the door and decided we'd wait in here." Myrn answered, tossing the device to the hybrid.

"We've been very patient Big Brother but Mother has much to tell you! We need you to hurry!" Taryn urged. These two didn't seem to be feeling very threatened in here. "We're not here to fight. We just came to get you and take you home."