of course they would get a call for porygons when he was trying to get his nails painted. it fucking sucked that he was going to have to go solve a crisis with half a hand painted but he also knew that thanks to silph co porygon were few and far between. so that meant his party of two was going to have to get some work done. again. joy-con and sprite were going to have to help with whatever chaotic bullshit was going on.

entering the lab he'd realized he'd never really been in this part of the base. there hadn't been any real reason for him to since most of his work was shitty grunt work that sometimes he ended up doing extra stuff for. like downloading information from the slateport aquarium. all of that data had been sent off by joy-con to one of these labs and to someone else. but he was excited to see a porygon-z in person. even if it was glitching the fuck out for some reason.

"hello, i heard you need some porygon assistance?" releasing joy-con and sprite from their pokeballs they joined the other synthetic pokemon in the line, figuring that was where they were supposed to wait. "someone did a nasty with these computers. gross."

Lulu Flint

"be good you two." he added an extra warning to lulu's instructions. joy-con had a habit of downloading everything it could get it's data center on and he was still trying to get a feel for sprite. it was a new addition to his team and while he was always grateful for a porygon in his possession he knew that some of them had a little bit more bug than coding on the inside. his pokemon disappeared into the computers as they were apt to do, phasing in through some miracle of technology that for some reason they had been designed into. he didn't know how it fucking worked and he wasn't about to question it.

he noticed that the lab leader looked tired and wondered if it was because her brand new darkrai buddy was keeping her up at night. it was entirely possible after all. wasn't it the nightmare pokemon or something like that? but he didn't think that now was the time to ask about the legendary. "glitch, unironically i mostly work with tech and information." it was the first thing that people thought of when they heard his name. how funny it was that he worked with that sort of thing. but it was a tired joke and he liked to nip it in the bud as soon as he could.

Lulu Flint

he was used to people being judgemental about his name so the side eye from lulu meant absolutely nothing to him. he liked his name and that was what mattered. it was better than the weird and unfitting name his parent's had chosen after all. glitch also had absolutely nothing to say about the smoking. everyone had their vices and he knew better than to ask her about hers. or judge her. throwing rocks in glass houses and all that or whatever that saying was. whatever. he didn't care. "information theft and infiltration mostly. i recently downloaded the slateport aquarium inventory and stock list while pretending to be a volunteer there. the information was uploaded to one of the labs i believe."

meaning she should have seen it somewhere if it was worth anything. which he knew it was. the slateport aquarium was just waiting to be robbed. "i also caused the power outage at one of the the slateport casino blocks to reset the machines so people would lose games and bonuses accumulated." he'd had a partner on that one but really that guy had been pretty well useless to his own personal plans and had nothing to do with the fun parts.


Lulu Flint

you could do any matter of things with information. sell it. use it. just, containing it. he'd never met someone else who had the urge and craving to just hoard whatever information they could get their hands on and tuck it away for later use. or maybe not even for use at all. just simply to have it. digital hoarding he supposed it was. but that was just the fun of it. having everything at a fingertip away and no one to stop him. it was the biggest of thrills. "and i plan on doing more as soon as i can." any job he went on he would try to get whatever he could out of it.

"i was bored with regular school so i taught myself something more interesting. you can find how to learn to do anything with just a little nudge." it wasn't that hard really. all you had to do was be able to work through the math and walls of it all. and that was the fun part. "i stole my porygon shortly after i left school and my porygon2 was a difficult find." since usually people wanted to know where and how getting those pokemon came about. "you can do anything with information." and he was ready to do anything and everything to get and use it.


Lulu Flint

he loved the idea of having access to a mass amount of information. after all, what was the point of hoarding it if you didn't use it? and sometimes share it. and if lulu was willing to share this information then he was absolutely down for it. after all the more he knew the stronger he would get. the stronger he would get the more he could do whatever the hell he wanted. and really that's all he wanted out of life. to do what he wanted. "i'd love to have a look. after all there's probably loads to learn from that sort of cultivation." both in technique and content. he wanted it all.

"my parents forced me to go to a trade school fair after i dropped out, one of the directors brought a fresh batch of porygon to show off to all the lowly children who were going to be factory workers. i started a fire and stole it in the chaos. i'm sure they looked for it but we were long gone and it hadn't been assigned an internal id yet. they never expected something like that to happen." it had been better than sitting through those boring demonstrations about how great all these millionaires were to work for and how all of them needed to be excited about a future on a factory line. there was no way in hell he was going to subject himself to that. "it's a little bit broken because of smoke damage i think since it tries to download anything and everything it can get near. it's why i had to tell it no downloading when it went in."

as much as he wanted the information hidden in the deeper part of the servers he wasn't about to bother with it now. not when it could be traced back to joycon on stealing it.


Lulu Flint

scribbling down his email he heard a ping on his cellphone. it was the ping that joycon had found something interesting but was waiting on instructions. he loved having his little guy connected to his phone. "oh, i would like that! but some of its little quirks are fun to work with." digging out his cellphone he showed lulu the notification. "see, this means it found something and it's waiting on instructions." it was a little icon of a porygon dancing on his phone. cute and functional. the two things he loved the most. "means it might have found the signature of whoever dropped the rotoms or the source of them. or information it thinks i might like to have." sprite wasn't hooked up as internally to his equipment as joycon was. he hadn't had the porygon2 quite as long as the original by any means. the original little guy would always be his number one tech buddy.

Lulu Flint

he was glad that she could appreciate the fact that he worked hard on the design. it was one of his favorite things to do was make things cute and functional. that meant that he wasn't taken seriously most of the time which was fine with him. if he played the dumbass then people were generally more forgiving if he made "mistakes" to get them to lower their guard around him. but part of him was also glad that lulu saw that he was actually extremely useful. "as soon as i get the information i'll send it your way. though if they can get their hands on this many rotom i'd want to know where they came from." after all he could use one of the little electric weirdos for his work. even if they were tiny. he recalled sprite back to it's pokeball when it came out but joycon settled into his bag once more where it usually was. he'd download the information from them later on when he was back in his dorm room. "i'll see you around then ma'am. let me know if you need any more of my porygons for work." with that he gave a small and cute wave as he turned on a heel and headed back to his room to decompress and let his porygons rest and recharge.

Lulu Flint
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