Team Snagem HQ (Mt. Silver)

[Darksol88]

Blizzard120

Atlantis_Darts

Darts is dozing on the couch in front of the television, his chest lightly rising and falling as snores issue from him. "Snrk.... money money money.... huaaahh coffee coffee coffee...."

I found my way into the main room, Weavile piggybacked on me for the most part. It was another day; well, as far as this headquarters is concerned. I winced when I heard the snoring and the sleepy banter of Darts. "....." Work to be done around this place and he's on the couch sleeping. I took a look around the room then tapped Weavile's claw, then pointed down towards Darts. Weavile hopped down and got on the top of the couch. I gave a counting gesture...3...2...1...

Darts would soon get the wake-up call of the century, courtesy of Weavile's ear-shattering Screech attack.

It has to be said that even when one knows something's coming, watching as everything happened, it never fully prepares anyone when the final result occurs. Amaranth would jump at the Screech and clasp her hands around her ears, but she was sure it wouldn't be anywhere near as high as Darts did.

A confirmation she would soon see after Darts' reaction... and promptly forgotten about as soon as she saw the TV. Unable to hear a thing from it, however, she'd walk over and raise the volume. Whatever it was seemed important enough to not let it go in silence.  

[Requiem of Whyspers]

“Jeez, if Inwanted to hear a banshee shrieking, I’d go find Freth and piss her off...” Lykas stared, announcing his presence as he entered the main room to find a small collective of Snagem’s already forming around the couch. He arrived a bit late to see Darts’ reaction to Weavile but the aftermath was hilarious. “I get the feeling both of you deserved whatever just happened, somehow, but I think that’s a little more important.” He said to The Giratina hybrid, pointing at the television just as Amaranth turned the volume up. He couldn’t quite hear it but Blizzard requested a volume increase before he got the chance.

“I’d have to agree with Lykas on this one.” Odd’s voice pitched in, the Channeler appearing from the elevator with Entr’Acte behind him, the Doublade looking ready to fight. “I was getting something over the radio earlier but I wasn’t paying attention to it, really. This might be the same thing!” He was watching intently, preparing himself for something big to suddenly become apparent.  

[Atlantis_Darts]

The icy fist rocked the Giratina hybrid back on the couch a little, leaving little burning sensations that abated as the crystals transitioned from ice into water droplets, running down his golden crest. "Th-thanks Blizz..." He moved to raise the volume on the TV per several requests but that would turn out to be unnecessary as the volume went up to eardrum blasting and then back down to a listenable volume. Snagem plays television?

"...a series of disturbances is being reported from Viribank City westward." The anchorman was saying, adjusting his notes. "We have sent Missy Hisakawa to investigate as our number one reporter in the field so details are still sparce but people are reporting an influx of and I quote: 'strange speaking and odd dressing foreigners' in the area moving people around and disrupting the locals in that area. We have one very poor quality photograph... if we can just get that up on the screen, there we go."

The image which was blurred due to a very big and obvious hand covering most of the camera lens nonetheless left enough to reveal a shiny reflective red pair of sunglasses on either side of one of the fingers as well as bits of red clothing worn by whoever was attempting to stop this photograph from being taken.

"Now, we obviously are a bit sparse on details but we will update you as we get more information involving this strange turn of events in Western Unova." He shuffles his notes, getting ready to move on to another topic before receiving some bit of information in his ear piece. "What's that...?" He asks, raising a hand to his ear, brow furrowed in concentration as he listens to some higher up in the news company feed him a bit of breaking news.  

[Requiem of Whyspers]

Lykas’ eyes narrowed the second he saw the photograph on screen. “Lysandre’s making his move! I’d recognize that tacky fashion sense anywhere!” He said, more to himself than the others.

“And it sounds like he’s invading Unova with his Flare goons.” Odd added, brow furrowed in concentration. “They haven’t had any major problems since the PlusPower incident years ago, have they?” He asked, trying to remember if anything big had gone down in the interim since then. That he could recall, the region had been fairly quiet until now. Which meant this could either go incredibly smoothly for Lysandre or it could backfire spectacularly. “Should we do something now or wait and see what happens?”  

[Atlantis_Darts]

The newscaster on the screen looks back towards the camera. "It appears now that we are getting vivid confirmation from our reporter on the ground, Missy Hisakawa that she has breaking news involving the Unova situation let's go over to her now." The screen cuts to the young asian woman reporter older Snagems would recognize as having taken a very long ride on a very unstable rocket back in Hoenn.

"Thanks Tom," She says, rows upon rows of Flare grunts evident in the background, herding people to and fro in some sort of harbor area of a city. "I'm coming to you all live from Virbank City here and it seems like Western Unova is becoming flooded with Team Flare members sent here by Prime Minister Lysander for as of yet unspecified reasons." In the background, a Team Flare Admin spots her and begins heading towards her quickly, white outfit lashing back and forth as he does so. "This is a clear breach of several inter-regional peace treaties and is a dangerous, risky move following the events of the past few months involving Orre-" The Flare Admin arrives and the camera pans out of the way as he ferociously shoves the camera aside.

"Hey lady, I don't know what you think you're doing here but you can't be fliming."

"I am a member of the free press and as such I have every right to expose the actions of the Kalosian government-"

"Well dunno if you've heard." The camera, which had briefly gone to static and a view of the water out over the harbor, slowly pans back to the Flare Admin and Missy arguing, almost nose to nose as she shouts at him. "But freedom of the press has a tendency of getting you in trouble in Kalos and seeing as you're standing on new Kalosian territory I'd say you're getting yourself in a lot of trouble." He grabs her by the arm and attempts to pull her off towards the other ranks of citizens before Missy slaps him in the face, breaking free of his hold and running off towards her cameraman who decides the shot isn't worth it at the moment, turning to flee with his reporter. The last thing before the audio cuts off is the Admin shouting "Stop those two!" And the distinctive woosh of Pokeballs opening to release Pokemon.

Darts sits up, frowning below his crest as he takes in the events on the TV, Ter's outburst about his homeland, and then the disturbing news presented by Sub involving the king in exile and Cipher. "Well. We definitely don't have the manpower to go to stop both of these. Splitting up is as likely to get us killed and or captured by these lunatics as anything else. I don't think this is going to be something we can rush into. We need to put this to a democratic vote." He looks around at the group, seriousness etched into what they can see of his face behind his golden mask. "Where are we going? Kalos or Unova?"

MAJOR RP DECISION BRANCHING POINT - Where does Snagem go on the first team mission? Kalos or Unova?  

[Darksol88]

Bad timing, indeed. Both situations looked to be pretty pressing; so much so, that Amaranth had a feeling that sending two teams off would result in both teams coming up short. "Either one could be good for us... but I don't think we can handle both matters. At least not at once..." Her words trailed off as she tried to gather her thoughts, and she wondered if this was yet- no, she knew this had to be one of the reasons for the call to prepare all those months back. She didn't want to think back to one of the other reasons, or the nightmares it brought to mind. But dealing a blow to Cipher sounded like one of the best ideas in some time.

"King's son or not, giving Cipher a piece of our mind still sounds more tempting. If... that thing isn't around again, anyway," she spoke up, suddenly less sure about her decision that they should go to Kalos.