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 Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 10:01 pm
Jen almost yelped and started when she nearly ran into Will at the bottom of the stairs, but was swift to catch herself and keep her composure.
Raising an eyebrow at Will's fidgeting and Nyx's dripping sarcasm, the grunt playing bodyguard chose to stay silent for the time being. She had very little idea what went on between these two beforehand. Rambling yapper, as such, was not a good thing.
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Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 10:07 pm
Will let out a long sigh.
"Look... I'm already in a lot of trouble, all right? I know about the mix up, and I've taken responsibility for my error. I must have misread the label or was given the wrong number. I don't know. But uh... that's the least of our worries."
His skin looked slightly pale and his palms were sweaty. The grunt knew that this would not go over well at HQ.
"There was a scheduled dump of old, unused DNA samples the other day. Apparently the legendary sample was among them."
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Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 10:19 pm
Suddenly Nyx matched Will's pallor.
"W-what do you mean dumped? Where was it dumped? This is horrible! What do we do!?" Her hands gripped large tufts of her white hair and threatened to pull them out in her panicked state.
Beaker looked at her human with concern.
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Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 10:23 pm
Jen, too, was worried. But she wasnt about to panic until it was too too late. Right now, they were on the borderline of no hope.
"Hey Dude...Will...whoever you are." Jen glanced at the nervous male as well as her two pokemon. "Has the dump happened already or is it going to start soon? If it hasnt happend or if it hasnt been destroyed already...well, maybe you can show us where it is."
Oddly enough, rational thought in a stressfull situation wasnt her forte.
"Maybe we can find it or find out where it went."
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Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 10:39 pm
Will grimaced at Nyx's obvious despair.
He then looked to Jen as she spoke up. ... Wait. Didn't Nyx have a man with her the last time? Panther was his name, right? Huh.
Again he sighed and shook his head. "Trust me, if it hadn't already happened, I'd be taking every measure to stop it right now. Its too late, it was completely disposed of. Or so I was told." After a long lecture, ranting, and threats ranging from a dock in pay to demotion, and so on.
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Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 10:45 pm
Nyx was almost hysteric. Nadja would kill her. She'd be demoted, kicked out, and killed. She just knew it. Who would she give her pokemon to? What would Newton do without her?
She looked at Jen helplessly. "I'll miss you..."
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Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 10:53 pm
Jen let her jaw drop at the both of them in shock; already they were giving up?! And who was to say the uppers were telling the truth!
She was about to say something else when Nyx's words reached her ears and angered her to no end. Marching over to her friend, Jen raised her hand and...
SLAP!
The sound of hand hitting face rang out in the empty space. But she wasnt about the stop there, oh no; she turned and glared at the two of them.
"Honestly? Do you honestly want to drop everything right here and now!? To give up?!" She spat on the ground. "This isnt like you, Nyx! And you..." She pointed at Will only to have thw words trail off a bit. "I swear! Just because the uppers said it happened doesnt mean it actually did!" Throwing up her hands in disqust, Jen stood there and pondered for a moment before looking back at Will. "Personally, I would rather see if it is gone or if there's anyway of salvaging anything from the debris before I drop to my knees in dispair!"
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Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 10:58 pm
Will was partially slumped over at this point, rubbing his forehead. This was certainly not a good situation for any of them.
However, he suddenly straightened up, stunned at the sudden slap that Nyx received from Jen. Then the grunt tensed as her words were then leveled on him.
There was a moment of silent pause before he spoke up.
"I suppose you have a point. But then, I wouldn't even know where to look. I'm not a scientist." His gaze then went to Nyx. "An attempt to find it might lessen the punishment? Perhaps?" ... Not likely, but it might be worth a shot.
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Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 11:15 pm
Nyx was stunned by the slap, but it did calm her down.
"Oh... okay... Um... Lets check the labs... see if they have a dedicated waste disposal or just a trash... Or if it was even thrown out..." She wasn't very sure this would work, but she wouldn't say so, just in case Jen would slap her again.
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Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 4:41 pm
Jen leaned against the wall behind her and stared at the two paniced Grunts infront of her, pondering what Nyx was suggesting while scratching her pidgey on the head.
"Special waste first. I doubt they're going to just toss valuable DNA samples into the trash, even if they were old or outdated. If that doesnt turn up anything, we check the regular garbage." She then grinned. "I hope they have spare rubber gloves. Having stuff stuck under your nails sucks like no tomorrow."
Thats when she turned towards Will. "But what would help is something about the DNA itself; ID number, serial number, what pokemon it was, etc. That way we know what to look for, instead of going completely blind."
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Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 7:29 pm
Will sighed and simply drew a piece of paper from his pocket.
"All I have is the number that was on the label. You should know by now that important information isn't given to us grunts unless absolutely necessary."
He handed over the piece of paper to Jen to let her have a look.
It held one long number.
TRSS612259147418171514
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Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 7:39 pm
Nyx started heading down the tunnels towards the outpost's lab. It wasn't hard to remember the way.
"Lets get looking. The longer we take, the less likely we'll find it." She seemed to be less disparaging.
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Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 7:43 pm
Jen took the paper from Will's out-stretched hand and glanced at the number a few times to grill it into her brain before giving it back to him. "You would think the identity of this DNA would be classified as "important", even for Grunt knowledge."
Following Nyx down the halls towards the lab, she kept silent though pondering possible ways to find their objective. Hopefully there wouldnt be any unwanted surprises in store.
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 7:26 pm
Will just shrugged his shoulders and followed after them. He didn't dictate what his superiors did after all.
His mouth was set in a grim line, not looking especially optimistic.
"I am on duty, so I can't look for too long." The red head said with a sigh. He was in enough trouble as it was.
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 9:30 pm
Soon, they were in the lab. Nyx looked incredulously at Will.
"We've lost important LEGENDARY DNA and you're worried about being on duty? Come on, man! Priorities!"
Nyx found the biggest trash-can looking receptacle in the room and started digging through it. There were probably a few more scattered around, maybe even ones that said "bio-hazard".
"Look for something in a tuuuube... Ew." Nyx was glad she was wearing gloves.
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