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The echoes of steel-platted foot-falls ricocheted off the hallways' walls with the soft-padding of smaller paws following closely behind as an agitated flame-haired grunt ran down the halls of the underground 5th floor with her eevee at her heels.
"Veeeeee!" the stitched-up pokemon protested.
"We are not lost!" Addison countered over her shoulder, oblivious to the loud squeak of paws skidding across tile behind her as she suddenly took a sharp turn. "Just need to find one of those robotic-dudes to tell us which hall it's in!"

Tucked snugly under Addison's arm was a tightly secured box of gelignite; otherwise known as blasting jelly. Being the fairly new grunt in the Demolition Department, it was expected of her to run most of the errands between the 4th underground floor and the storage floor. However, she didn't realize that being the fairly new grunt and having access to more floors meant she was more likely to get lost. Why did this place have to be so bloody huge?!?

"Eeeveeee," came the disconcerted moan in response. Patches' loyal nature normally didn't argue against his trainer's ideology of not admitting how lost she was. However, it was the fact that this place carried the strange feeling of pokemon experiments that made him uneasy... no doubt pertaining to the mismatched appendages strewn over his body. That, and it was a little distressing that Addison was literally running around with blasting jelly near rooms filled with beakers, glasses, and chemicals.

Yeah, this definitely wasn't the right floor.

Addison skirted down another hall, just in time to-- GREAT SCOTT! Was that a person with an Altaria on their head?!
Oh, no- wait, that was just their hair.
...Regardless.
The taller grunt flailed her free arm around in exasperation before pointing to the other Rocket. "Ffffff- ahh, you! Person!!" she exclaimed to get the smaller woman's attention, although it seemed she had already noticed her. Addie came to a sudden stop when she came in range of the other grunt, causing the eevee to bump into the back of her legs.
"You don't know where the demolition sector is, do you?" she asked anxiously.

"Ugh, seriously?" Addison moaned in annoyance. Not at the scientist, but at the fact that she'd be walking all over the place for nothing. Well, better go find the lift rather than take the box all the way up another flight of stairs.
At the girl's inquiry, she looked down at the eevee, whose eyes were welling up at this point at being called a 'this', as if he weren't even a classifiable pokemon anymore. "Oh, Patches? He's uhhh... umm... a Umbre-espy-jolte-flar-...leafy-- ... He's an Eevee."
"I think."

Addison watched bewilderingly for a moment as Patches squirmed under the scientist's gaze before the other woman simply stood up and dubbed him a "failed experiment." She and the eevee exchanged a confused glance as the white-haired girl began to walk away. "Oi, oi! Hold up!" she called after, the loud clunking of her boots picking up again as she began to follow the scientist. Namely because she had to go that way as well, but she hadn't come across anyone before that told her what Patches was. "Whaddya mean 'failed experiment'? How'd you know? Was he one of ours?" she asked bluntly as the sulking Eevee began following in pursuit yet again.

Well, obviously he wasn't naturally-born... but she didn't know where in Kodo he could've came from. "Well, I mean, I don't know." she huffed, waiting for the elevator as well. "I mean, for Arceus' sake, I thought he was a stuffed toy when I saw him just laying around Makko! Maybe he escaped from here or another lab... or somethin'."

Patches waited quietly at Addison's side, choking back muffled sobs at words like "messed up that bad," and "it" and "stuffed toy."

"Huh," she murmured, dragging a gloved hand through her soot-smudged hair as she gnawed at the tip of her toothpick in thought before slipping inside the elevator. "Non-functioning, eh? That would x'plain why he's only got standard attacks like tackle... and tail whip." she droned, extending a finger to press the '04' button, before quickly correcting herself and choosing '4' instead. "You'd think that he'd be able to conduct some electricity, 'cos he's got part Jolteon him? But, nah, he can't. Not that I tried.... Intentionally." she muttered under her breath, making sure Patches got through the door before it closed on him. "You like... a vet-tech or bio-engineer down here or somethin'?"

"Ohh, very cool. I'm Addison." she introduced in return before leaning back against the cool steel wall as she listened to Nyx note off the dangers of Patches' predicament. She stole a glance down at the distressed-looking eevee, feeling a little bad for the misfit and beginning to wonder if he was ever a normal eevee at one point, or just purely lab-based. Putting things together wasn't her area of expertise, only destroying things via large and flashy explosions. "That'd be good. Wouldn't want him goin' all leprosy on me and start fallin' apart at the seams." Literally. She had wondered if his limbs were detachable, but never actually tried it before.

"All-righty then, very righteous." she mused with a wry grin, giving the number on the paper a look-over before folding it and slipping it into her pocket. "That's fine. I need ta get this blasting jelly to the boys up in demolition anyway before they send someone after me."