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It was just another quiet day at the HQ, quite early actually. Most of the grunts and agents would be still fast asleep at this hour. But there was one exception in this case; Cal had been out to get an early start on the day. Lots of training and odd jobs for her and her Pikachu, Skye. She had taken an exceptionally long shower -a plus of getting up early- and was headed back to her dorm to get properly changed into street clothes. Her hair was pulled back in a messy bun with strands of it sticking to her damp face. The sweat pants she wore clung lazily to her body, since it was a bit big on her, but her tank top fit nice and snug revealing a bit or her belly.

She draped the towel around her shoulders, finally reaching her room when she realized that something was amiss. The door had to have been closed when she left. A flicker of movement caught her eye. "Hey! Come back!" Cal kept her voice to a low hiss as she ran down the hall to reach Skye. He had let himself out of their room and was fiddling with the elevator buttons. A quick ding announced that he had pushed the button and the doors closed. Cal anxiously watched the lights above the elevator is silence. The lights stopped at the first floor. She made her way down the stairs as fast as she could to catch up with him.

"Skye, please!" She desperately called after her Pikachu who ran through the halls. She didn't want to get caught by any of Elites that might be roaming around, especially with her pokemon being on a rampage. Skye made a sudden turn into a room that Cal had only passed a few times before. She stopped in front of the room that read 'POKEMON INFIRMARY' taking slow, cautious steps inside.

Skye took a second to analyze the situation, waltzing up to the green eyed Pikachu and sitting beside him. "Pika." He smirked, locking his blue eyes with the Pikachu's green eyes. ["Nice to meet ya."]

"Good morning," she managed to croak out in between labored breaths. She made her slow approach toward the the group seeing that Skye had made himself comfortable next to the other Pikachu. She silently cursed him under her breath seeing his smirk and casula demeanor.

The struggling Pidgeot soon grabbed her attention, this must have been a pokemon from the raid. She looked over to the blond who was at the pokemon's side, she didn't recognize him from around HQ, but she usually wasn't paying attention when wondering around.

Not knowing the blond's status, she decided to play it safe, "Would you like any help... sir?" She sounded a bit uneasy as she looked over the Pidgeot.

"You called me in here just for this?" Came an agitated voice from the room next to the one Hayes inhabited.

"Its important!" Nikki insisted, scowling at the red haired doctor who just pushed up her glasses and sighed.

"Yes yes, but a nurse could have handled it just fine."

The blond girl huffed indignantly while a large black Pidgeot looked unimpressed as he was scrutinized by Dr. Reyard.

"It looks like he's due for a beak coping and talon trim anyway. But honestly, I could teach you how to do this yourself."

Nikki's eyes brightened a little bit. "Yeah? That would be good."

"First thing's first..." and the doctor pulled out one of Darkfeather's wings to look it over. Then with an expert hand, she took hold of a broken blood feather and yanked it out.

"GEEEEOOOOOOT!" The Pidgeot shrieked, suddenly barreling out of the room and running amok in the lobby, screaming as if he had been mortally wounded. Leaving a few small blood spatters here and there as well.

The green-eyed 'chu planted his paw in Skye's. A little spark ran between them; the Pikachu version of a handshake. "Piika." He waved lazily at the two exam rooms. "Chuu, pi pi chu pi-" "Pipika!" He broke off in alarm as Darkfeather came careening towards him and his new acquaintance, dodging a wickedly taloned foot with an oath best left untranslated. A second later he poked his head out from under the safety of a chair against the wall. "Pikachu!"

Darwin started at the sound of the other Pidgeot. He'd known that smug bag of black feathers was next door the moment he'd heard Nikki's voice, and that had certainly contributed to his aggression, but when Darkfeather burst into the lobby screaming bloody murder the other bird's feathers slicked close to his body and he drew himself up in alarm. "'dgeoo.." he started, hackles raising; Hayes reached for the Pokeball at his belt.

"Damn it," the nurse huffed as the last suture snapped free. "What the hell's going on out there?" This was directed at Cal, the only one capable of intelligible speech in the lobby.

Skye jumped back, narrowly avoiding a sharp talon to the cheek. He hid behind Switch with a fierce glare at the bird pokemon. "Ka chu PI!?" [What the hell was that for!?] He glanced at the green-eyed Pikachu who looked ticked off as well.

Cal shrugged uneasily, shifting out of the path of destruction and chaos. The room was aflutter with and angry Pidgeot's wing beats. "I need to get out of here before I end up in the infirmary myself..." She shot death glares at the pair of Pikachu but sighed; at least he was getting along with another pokemon.