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 Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 12:29 am
Artie peeked into the doorway, smiling his crocodilian smile. There was only one human in this room, a scientist (by the looks of her) he had never met before. Sparks flew from contraptions on the walls and he was pretty certain he heard a muffled 'Help... me... from a dark corner, but it could have been his imagination playing tricks on him. From his vantage point, the scientist looked like a giant, but she was probably only about as tall as Liam, which didn't seem to be very tall compared to everyone else around here...
There! Something shiny glinted on a lab bench, luring him into the room. He sidled along one wall, trying to stay out of the scientist's view before jumping up on a stool and finally onto the counter where the shiny was. He didn't know what it was, but it was tall, full of a pretty liquid (it was an even brighter blue than he was!) and seemed to smell nice, too.
Artie reached forward slowly, mumbling 'Tototototo,' under his breath, before grabbing the tube in one webbed paw... Unfortunately his lack of opposable thumbs and the wet texture of his skin got the better of him and the test tube (not that he knew that was what it was called) fell to the counter and then the floor with a loud crash. Artie froze.
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Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 12:54 am
Nyx spun around, a beaker in rubber gloved hand, a test tube in the other, and her magnifying goggles pulled down over her eyes. She saw the frozen Totodile... and some broken glass.
Nyx turned around slowly, set down the things in her hands, and turned back to the monster on the counter. She looked down at the shattered glass and liquid splattered all over the stone floor.
Blue. Bright blue.
"AHHH! What did you do!?" She had been working for a week on that! Granted, it was a vitamin drink for pokemon, but it was still important.
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Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 1:35 am
Artie waved his hands in the air, attempting to pantomime the circumstances of his being here... and the liquid he was afraid would start bubbling at any moment.
"To toto totodile, totodi, toto to to di-to!"
His little paws moved faster than could be deciphered, but he continued anyway, the pitch of his 'totos' getting higher and higher.
Meanwhile, Liam ran from hallway to hallway, poking his head into random doorways whenever he heard voices. His normal meek personality was set aside as he rushed to find his lost Pokemon. He knew Team Rocket was all about stealing Pokemon, but to take one from one of their own was going a step too far.
"E-excuse me, have you seen a Tot- Oh, ok then, thank you!"
"Have y- OH MY ARCEUS I'M SO SORRY M-MA'AM!"
Finally, he turned a corner to see a little blue tail disappear into an open doorway. Aha! he thought, So he just ran away... Well, that's better, right?
He dashed into the room sure he'd catch the Totodile trying to steal snacks from a machine only to discover it was already occupied by a... scientist? The labcoat certainly suggested that, but you couldn't be quite sure in Team Rocket.
And there was Artie, standing on a counter over a broken test tube and a strange blue liquid.
"I-I-I'm so sorry ma'am!" he cried, quickly bending down to scoop up as much glass as possible. Of course, this resulted in several small cuts on his hand, but he was able to get most of the larger pieces and dump them in the trash.
"I-I-I-I hope that Artie hasn't been too much t-t-trouble..."
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Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 1:50 am
"This thing is yours?! AHH! Don't do that! Don't pick up that glass oh dear." Nyx scrambled over to the supply shelves and grabbed a small hand held broom and dustpan next to them.
"Here." She held them out to Liam. "Have the... Artie, sweep that up." She eyed Liam's cut hands. "What would possess you to clean up broken glass with your hands. Especially glass soaking in a mysterious blue liquid? Don't you have any sense of self-preservation? You're lucky that is mostly non-toxic... Newton!"
"Floon?" Came the sweet reply from someplace in the lab-room.
"Bring me the first-aid kit, please."
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 8:29 pm
Noticing the cuts on his hands, Liam's eyes began to fill with tears.
"O-o-oh my!" Liam said, sitting down hard on the tiled floor. "I-I-I..."
He saw the dust pan and broom in front of him, but didn't do anything to take them, just hissed Artie's name under his breath.
"P-please Art-"
Artie leaped forward, grabbing the broom and dustpan before wiggling into Liam's lap and giving him a big wet kiss and spraying his hands with water to wash off the small amounts of blood beginning to well out of the cuts.
"To-totodile!"
He leaped down and started sweeping up, making sure Nyx didn't have to worry about anything other than his trainer.
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 9:38 pm
"Huh." Nyx noted the boy's stuttering. She opened the first-aid kit and pulled out disinfectant, tweezers, gauze, and some tape. She wasn't a doctor, but pretty much the closest thing you got without going to the medical ward.
"Oh, thank you." She nodded at the Totodile and then looked back up at the trainer. "So, who are you?"
She grabbed the tweezers and studied the boy's hands. It was handy having magnifying glasses for goggles, a few shards of glass had gotten stuck in his hands, but she tweezed them right out.
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 10:05 pm
Liam winced at the sight at tweezers but he had to admit that it was a step up from needles, and for that he was grateful. He had nothing to wipe the tears away with so he just let them dry on his cheeks as Nyx worked on his hands and Artie diligently swept up the glass he had no doubt broken.
"M-m-my name is..." he stopped, wincing as she removed a piece of glass from his hand, "L-Liam, ma'am. A-and thank you."
He smiled his best smile, tears still stinging his eyes, but he was already calming down, taking note of the fact that the cuts weren't that bad at all.
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 10:17 pm
"Well, I'm Nyx." She put the tweezers away and took out some disinfectant. She rubbed her hands with it and grabbed a tube filled with some sort of cloudy goop. With one finger she rubbed the goop on the cuts, then placed the gauze over the spot where his hands were cut most, followed by the white medical tape.
"Alright. you don't have to keep that on for long, but it might be a good idea while you're running around outside your room, give them time to close up. Also."
Nyx paused and looked sternly at him. "Keep an eye on that thing, especially down here. You're both lucky I wasn't working on anything dangerous. Not that I don't sympathize with you. Newton is a handful some times."
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 10:29 pm
"Th-th-thank you again, Miss Nyx. I'm very sorry for Artie's... breaking your- OH YES! Wh-what was in that in the test tube, ma'am? I'm not g-g-gonna grow another..." He swallowed, feeling a lump growing in his throat at he idea of being poisoned by that strange liquid, "a-arm? ... On my back?"
he had heard rumors about the things that went on down here, but he had to hope that he wouldn't be subjected to such things by accident.
"A-a-and Artie's just a handful. He's a lot... faster than me..."
Artie looked up, seeing a purple balloon Pokemon bobbing around above his head.
"Toto-totodile!" he cried, trying to get its attention so he could play. He made a mess and he cleaned it up. As far as he was concerned, he had paid all that was due of him and it was time to have more fun.
"TOTODILE!"
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 10:35 pm
"Oh no you don't. No more playing in the lab!" Nyx grabbed the little Totodile under its arms and picked it up. Newton shook his body in a gesture that would have been shaking his head if he had one. He knew better than to play in the lab.
"No, you won't grow any limbs. It was a vitamin drink I was concocting." She informed him, while trying to keep a hold on the squirming reptile.
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 10:43 pm
Artie was not pleased by being restrained by this new person, and the Drifloon wasn't even trying to help him!
"Totototo!" he called, trying to get either Liam or the other Pokemon to free him of Nyx's grasp.
Liam was amazed Nyx hadn't suffered a blast of water to the face or some finger 'nibbling' from the struggling Totodile.
"I-if you don't mind, I'll take him. I promise he won't be any more t-trouble. Will you, Artie?" He held his hands out so Artie could come back to him, noticing the fresh bandages with a twinge of sadness. It had, after all, been Artie's fault he had tried to clean the glass up in the first place. he had been trying to teach his first and only Pokemon to behave for several weeks already and he wasn't having much luck at all, it seemed...
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 11:04 pm
She handed over the crocodile-shaped bundle of energy.
"I'm sure you'll get the hang of it eventually. If not you could always see about medication." Nyx stood up.
"Just be thankful he can't pass through solid objects." Her face became rather irritated as she looked at Newton who moved his tassels in a 'who me?' type gesture.
"Uh. Do you know your way out of the labs? Some people get lost."
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 11:11 pm
Liam grabbed Artie and squeezed him tightly, making sure he didn't wiggle free again and run amok in the labs.
"Th-th-thanks again, ma'am!" said happily, before he realized something... "Well, I, uh... took a left, then a left, and, uh, went down three or four floors on the elevator... So, uh, no ma'am, I don't know exactly how I got here. But I'm sure I can find my way back if you need me to leave?"
Artie stretched his paws towards Newton, calling out to him. "Totooo, totooo!"
All of this not being able to run around and play was starting to get on his nerves.
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 11:19 pm
Newton grumbled and floated down into paw's reach of the little lizard. If it would get the thing to settle down, he'd put up with some playing until they weren't in the labs any more.
Nyx helped him up and nodded. He'd get lost.
"Alright. I'll show you to the elevator. What did you come down here for, anyway?"
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 11:38 pm
"I, uh... Well, I saw Artie running around. I-I don't know how he was able to use the elevator, but he got all the way down here by himself." He glanced down at his Pokemon, who was now poking playfully at the Drifloon, as he spoke.
"B-but thank you, that would really helpful. I'm sorry to be such a n-n-nuisance."
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