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i used to dream in the dark of palisades park

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wicked [m]

POSTED ON Jun 8, 2021 20:24:47 GMT

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A mirror image of last month's excursion into Slateport. Clearing out an abandoned safehouse, making sure it was up to code before moving in. Sootopolis was far more humid, surrounded on all sides by volcanic activity. By water that was warm even under the surface, even away from the sun's glare. It was unlike anything he'd ever felt.

Giona had a camerupt crush hanging out of a lip. He took apart a lighter, and used the pin to jiggle the inside of the lock with a bandaged left hand. As risky as it was, it was so much easier than looking for the key, or swinging open the steel shutter that covered a fifth of the building. Sweat from his brow worked its way into the sides of the fresh undercut.

Ribbons of smoke trailed from his face. He wore his trenchcoat like a cape to keep the sun off, with a grey mesh jersey and basketball shorts to keep the heat and moisture from clinging to his skin. If anyone looked closer at his left shoulder and bicep they'd see a series of lightning bolts curled around the muscles, like a tribal-pattern tattoo. Between that and his greying black hair, he looked as much as a boy could look like the woman on the Crazy Town cover.

Giona heard footsteps behind him, and already began mentally rehearsing his cover story and assumed name, since he couldn't just brain someone in broad daylight. He turned around slowly.

"Oh! It's you."

Giona stepped forward and grinned weakly. He opened the carton of Camerupt Crushes in one of his coat pockets and offered an unusually fat cigarette to Killian, alongside a reassembled black plastic lighter.

He'd remembered his face well enough, but he struggled with names. Always did. Nonetheless, this was someone who he trusted on an assignment that could've killed them all. "Welcome back, homie. It's been a while. I just picked the lock."

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POSTED ON Jun 12, 2021 20:02:47 GMT

"Jonah, right?" if Killian recalled correctly, and he did, Jonah was one of the Rockets involved in the excursion near Fortree City. The same one that helped net Killian his promotion to admin. In some small way, he had Jonah to thank for that.

A hand waves away the offered cigarette. "I'll pass. I'm trying to cut back." and he wasn't nearly as stressed as he had been in Fortree.

"It's been a while indeed. What have you been up to?" there's a casual smile on Killian's face as he steps up to the door. "You sure you got the door unlocked? It looked like you were having a bit of trouble."

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POSTED ON Jun 12, 2021 21:33:40 GMT

Giona stuffed the cigarette into his pocket alongside the lighter, out of respect. He pinched the sides of the Crush he was smoking, to put a slight mintiness in there. This was the admin that he'd trusted to take the lead on a potentially life-ruining mission. It certainly took its toll on their mysterious radio contact, Chryssa.

"Well, I did a stint in jail, didn't name names. Got sprung out, and I saw the inside of the tunnel made by Phantom Force. It was... beautiful and hard to look at all at once. Like an oil painting of a man crying. So... What have you been up to?"

He'd followed Killian up to the door, and jiggled the handle. The door swung open, and he looked down at his wrapped left hand. Inside was the smell of a tiled room that hadn't been touched in too long. 3 months, maybe? The sub-flooring would be fine, but every inch of it looked dusty. "I didn't have a hard time with the door this time. A couple days ago, I did the lighter trick to get it open, and lost the fingerprints on my left hand. They'll grow back, eventually!"

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POSTED ON Jun 15, 2021 2:05:49 GMT

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"Ah, I'd heard something about you getting captured." nothing about his break out. "Fortree, right?" a lot had happened since then for the both of them. Giona's side of things sounded about as wild as Killian's too.

"I've mostly been adjusting to the new position." there were a lot of moving pieces in Rocket. Keeping track of them all could be difficult at times, even for him.

"Speaking of," he shoots Giona a nod, "Thank you for having my back. I appreciate you stepping in to help when the league had me surrounded."

If memory served, Giona hadn't brought the strongest Pokemon with him either. Yet, he'd still charged headlong into danger. That was the kind of loyalty Killian appreciated.

Once the door opens, the scent of stale air and saltwater hits Killian's nostrils. It burns, makes him want to frown, but he keeps his composure.

"You did good, but the lighter trick? That's dangerous." Giona had already found that out for himself. "There are better ways to pick a lock." admittedly, this was more Alexandra Briarwood's territory than his. But he'd picked up a few of her secrets over the years.

"Who taught you?"

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POSTED ON Jun 15, 2021 2:58:33 GMT

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"Yeah, it was after Fortree. There was that forest fire, and we had to go our separate ways so you all could evade capture."

Giona pinched the Crush so tightly. He looked like he was scared it'd slip from his grasp. Just blasted himself with a vague medley of mint oils, which blended together into one cool taste. A shoelace-thick line of ash fell off, landing between his shoes. There was a pause.

"And... it's nothing personal. I knew I wouldn't win if she actually fought me, I was just so lightheaded after the air got thin. I got mad when she talked down to us, like we were kids and we didn't know exactly what we were doing."

He dropped a kohl-black ball with a red R printed on it to the floor. It fell with a satisfying 'tink', and a crested bird slipped out. It noticed a window just out of reach towards the back, and made a beeline to it, shoving it open. "There are better ways to pick a lock, sure. It's a fun parlor-trick. I'll stop doing it when it stops getting a pop. Anyways, I'm gonna have Unfezant pull the smell out."

Giona balled up his violet scarf, and passed it to Killian in case he needed to cover his face for a minute. He took as long a drag as he could, as if he were chugging a drink. He pinched his own nostrils, as the crested bird whipped up a cool breeze to carry dust particles out of the warehouse. This'd also put his cigarette out, carrying ribbons of smoke out with it.

He then bent over and picked up the pokeball, calling Unfezant back with a red ribbon of light. Giona shrugged his shoulders, turning to face Killian. "My older brother did. He works at the power plant now. He also showed me how to open a beer by hitting a table without leaving a pile of broken glass on the ground."

Giona then paused, and grinned a little. He decided to circle back. To ask an open-ended sort of question that a parent would pose to their adult child. "So, what's your new job like?"