Isaac and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day [M]

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Isaac and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day [M]
POSTED ON Jun 26, 2022 17:10:21 GMT
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[attr="class","skullbody"]Disaster was coming to the Hoenn region. Everyone was sure of it by this point. It started with the tabloids reporting Absols showing up all over the region, but when weren't rambling about some sort of nonsense? Anyone else remember when they kept insisting that Zubat Boy was real?

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After the tabloids came the radio talk shows. And after the radio talk shows came opinion columns in the newspapers. By the time it made mainstream news, it was impossible to ignore all the buzz about Absols. And people started to notice them everywhere. Even the sleepiest, most peaceful parts of the region now had Absols darting through the shadows and balefully glaring at travelers.

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Worse still, they were starting to get agitated. The furiously pawed at the ground and tested their blades against tree trunks and cliffsides. Travelers gave wide berth wherever they left these signs, as if afraid the marked areas were cursed. Their yowls rang through the nighttime air, making it hard for the people of Hoenn to get some shuteye. At times, they even charged travelers, sending them running for the hills until the Absol decided to stop the pursuit.

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The closer you were to town, the closer to safety you were. Or, at least, that was the case at first. Now even the outskirts of peaceful Littleroot were reporting Absol sightings. That news was what brought Isaac to Route 101. He and his trusty Totodile, Watson, walked through the pleasant path, looking from side to side to try and find any trace of Absols. Maybe if they could find one, they'd have at least have an idea about what was going on. But where would they even-

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THUD! One second, Isaac was walking. The next, he had tripped over seemingly nothing. Isaac's first thought as he landed face-first was ow. His second thought was that this had to be a sign of some Absol luck. His third thought was that he really, really hoped nobody else saw that.

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Isaac and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day [M]
POSTED ON Jun 26, 2022 19:32:23 GMT
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The news of rogue and rampant Absols was on every station, every bottom line marquee, every front page at this point. Civilians were being warned to stay close to home and not go adventuring, especially after dusk; the Rangers were out on numerous emergency calls, and grainy, cryptid-like sightings of Absol in people’s neighborhoods, roads, and yards were popping up on every social media page.

Something was coming, something bad.

And yet, the world, for the moment, continued to spin. People managed to ignore the signs, such as they were, that badness was about to happen.

Cyg hummed a thoughtful note, fingertips trailing over the scarred trunk of a tree. The mark, a ragged slice through the rough, brown bark betraying the delicate white of the tree, was perfect Absol height and leaking a reddish sap that looked surprisingly like blood.

“Nice touch,” Cyg thought, filing that away in her horror movie idea rolodex.

Most of the trees had been marked up as such. Honestly, all that was missing was the degloved animal, strung up and hanging by its own entrails. She added that to her cognitive idea book, too, and pressed on, Mairen’s heavy footfalls a comforting thump, thump, thump in her wake.

She pushed through a collection of willow saplings into a narrow, but well worn, path, just in time to see some kid eat absolute shit in the dirt.

“Holy shit,” Cyg said, in that wavery tone that suggested she was holding back laughter, “are you okay?” She approached the poor guy, fighting down a grin, but that was just a response to the awkwardness of the situation, promise.
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POSTED ON Jun 26, 2022 19:47:41 GMT
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[attr="class","skullbody"]"Ah, shit," Isaac muttered as he heard a voice coming from behind. He practically sprang up to his feet, dusting his face off to try and protect what little dignity he had left after that whole mess. "Oi, Watson. Gimme a hand?"

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The resulting Hydro Pump to the face promptly made Isaac regret asking that. Rather than a gentle little spout of water he could clean himself off with, Isaac was practically blasted by a fire hose. He blinked a few times in surprise, his bemused Totodile only offering a guilty grin and a shrug in response.

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With a quick shake to dislodge the excess water, and a few runs of his hand through his hair to return it back to his preferred look, he turned around just in time to greet the approaching girl. "Huh, me? Never been better," he said, smirking confidently to try and play off everything that had just happened.

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Was he successful? . . . Let's be nice and say it was subjective.

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That said, something seemed off about the girl that had just crossed paths with Isaac. In fact, off was the wrong word. It was more like . . . familiar? Isaac blinked a few times, trying to see if he could jog his memory. "Wait, hold on a second," he said. "Do I know you from somewhere?"

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Isaac and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day [M]
POSTED ON Jun 26, 2022 20:59:00 GMT
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Luckily, the guy jumped up as if nothing had happened, which was great because Cyg was not in any mood to be doing field medical care. Her joy was short lived because he asked his Totodile for help and the little crocodile absolutely wrecked him in the face with a Hydro Pump.

The laugh she’d been holding back burst forward even as she clapped her hands over her mouth. Wow, was this what it was like meeting her? Where everything seemed to go wrong and she just looked like an idiot? Oh, god, her heart went out to this dude. No wonder thought she was a nightmare.

“I’ll bet,”
she said, wiping a stray tear out of the corner of her eye. “Thank you, that was entertaining. Ah, shit.”

She cleared her throat as the guy asked if he knew her from somewhere; she took a better look at his face, his skin reddened from being blasted with water. He was kind of cute, but he also looked like he could be her little brother, in a way. She didn’t know if that was a good or bad thing.

“Work?” she finally volunteered, as it dawned on her that she must’ve seen him around the Rocket sub. It was a vague stab, at best. “I’m Cygne.”

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POSTED ON Jun 26, 2022 21:14:13 GMT
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[attr="class","skullbody"]Welp. It wasn't just anyone he'd embarrassed himself in front of, but a fellow Rocket. And a senior one, too. There went the hope that this was a chance encounter he'd never, ever have to speak of again. But hey, at least she was getting some amusement out of it. A lot of amusement, actually. She actually had a really nice laugh!

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"Yeah. Definitely work," he Isaac agreed. "Probably saw you walking around the sub. Way. Subway, yeah." Was that going to be his go-to cover story now for talking about Rocket's base? Pretending to be a sandwich artist? It certainly made it easier to talk about "the sub" without getting odd looks from potential onlookers. And with Isaac's luck today, he just knew there'd be the risk of onlookers stumbling out of the woods.

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"Anyway, I'm Isaac. And this little guy's Watson. Good to meet ya," Isaac said. The Totodile excitedly waved Cygne's way, greeting her with a few rasping barks. "You guys just out for a nice walk today? Or are you guys also here to check out the Absol rumors? Cause, uh. If you're going disaster chasing, I think you've found one." He snarked about his poor luck as naturally as he breathed.

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Isaac and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day [M]
POSTED ON Jun 26, 2022 22:05:32 GMT
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The subway, he says, and she can’t help but bark another laugh, because, “I was going to say that exact same thing,” and oh, god, they had the same brain, that was terrifying. “Yes, the subway. Good lord.” She hadn’t laughed this hard in a while.

“Hi, Isaac. Hi, Watson. This is Mairwen.” She gestured with an open palm to the Venusaur that lumbered up beside her, then. “And, yeah, we’re Absol hunting. Though I’m not entirely sure what we’re hoping to find.” Crazed Absols? The secret to success? Portal to another world?

It was Hoenn, so, anything was possible.

She laughed again when he called himself a disaster. “God, same. I got stuck to a tree last week. I feel it.”

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POSTED ON Jun 26, 2022 22:38:38 GMT
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[attr="class","skullbody"]Wait, seriously? Now it was Isaac's turn to let out a disbelieving laugh. "Holy shit," he said, finding it impossible to not start grinning like an idiot. "Well, it's always good to bump into another sandwich artist, at least." That just made the laughter flare back up. The worst part was this was a legitimately good tactical maneuver! It just also sounded really, really silly!

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Not that it mattered, really. Clearly, Cygne was also a silly, silly person. The idea of a grown woman getting stuck up in a tree like some lost Sprigatito got him snickering up a storm. "At least you've got Mai over there to help get you out. But how the heck does that even happen?" he asked. "I'll tell you what. You tell me how you managed to pull that one off, and I'll tell you about the time an entire forest's worth of Combee decided to kick my ass. Deal?"

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Yeah. If Absol were attracted to bad luck, then these two were about to be a pair of very potent magnets. But frankly, Isaac was already having so much fun that he didn't even mind. By this point he was fully settled into the conversation, leaving Watson to serve as his eyes and ears. The Totodile clambered up Isaac's back, perching onto his shoulder in order to serve as a lookout. With his tail extended to serve as a counterbalance, and a tiny claw currently blocking the sun from getting in his eyes, the Totodile eagerly committed to his duty.

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POSTED ON Jun 26, 2022 23:21:10 GMT
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She could kind of see where his brain was going with this and she wanted to shut it down-- if he was going to get the correct impression of her, he needed to have the full story.

She held up a hand. “Not stuck up a tree. Stuck to a tree. With honey. Sticky, sticky honey.” And then Felix had come to rescue her and it had been one of the most embarrassing things that had ever happened in her life. Which was already a pretty long list.

Getting blasted in the face by your own Totodile would probably be up there as well.

“Yeah, it was easier than you might imagine,” she said, watching Watson clamber up his trainer like he was a tree of his own. “I just leaned back against it and bam, stuck.” And the more she talked the more she realized that Isaac was kind of right and the two of them were Absol magnets.

Oh, the horror.

“Let’s walk and talk,” she said, stepping up to join him and Watson, “if you can manage without falling on your face, that is. I wanna hear about the bees.”

Mairwen lowed to let them know to go on without her, she’d catch up.

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POSTED ON Jun 26, 2022 23:38:22 GMT
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[attr="class","skullbody"]Oh. So he had misheard. She didn't get stuck in a tree like a common Sprigatito, but instead stuck to a tree like an Ursaring that bumbled through a Beedrill hive. Wait, did she think that gave a better impression of her, or a worse one? Either way, Isaac couldn't help but laugh. "Legit? Just, one second, lean, next second, oops, stuck?" he asked. Already, he could imagine her flailing and trying to get unstuck. It was hilarious. "Well, if trouble comes to you that easy, then we're gonna have a real easy time finding these Absol."

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It'd be rude of him not to reciprocate, though. Even if he snorted at the barb she offered up in turn. "Oh, please. Do I really look like that much of a sap?" he asked, knowing exactly what he was doing with that word choice. "Buuut anyway, the bees. You know Ceri? Over at Submay's science team? Can-do attitude, always smiling, questionable opinions on sandwich safety?"

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"Yeah. She asked me to give her hand on Combee research. And let's just say it's not for my brains or dashing looks," he continued. "Soon as we get there, she has me standing in the middle of a flower patch, then hoses down the whole thing in her Ivysaur's Sweet Scent. Before I know what's going on, all that mist's getting Gusted all over the place. Pretty sure if the Combee didn't get there first, the whole damn forest would've been on my ass."

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"On the bright side, she got a lot of field research done." Isaac laughed a little, before sighing and rubbing the back of his head. "Science, I swear. Not even once."

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Isaac and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day [M]
POSTED ON Jun 27, 2022 0:00:15 GMT
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Listen, she knew what she was about. She didn’t want anyone to be getting the wrong impression and thinking of her as-- as intelligent, or anything. She liked to surprise people with her dexterity and ability to not get stuck to trees on a regular basis. Also, he had tripped and fallen on his face and then invited his own Totodile to blast him with Hydro Pump. He had little room to gloat, here.

“Yep, just tip back, and boom. Tree ornament, and not the holiday kind,” she said, shrugging. “And I like to think that trouble doesn’t find me, but I find trouble.” Yeah, that sounded cool. She was really good at this socialization thing.

The sap-honey thing still made her laugh, even if it was at her own expense. It did draw her attention back to the mutilated trees that were surrounding them, evidence of why they were out there in the first place.

“I haven’t met her,” Cyg said, “but I know of her.”

She listened as he recounted the tale, giggling where it was appropriate.

“Oh, that’s actually kind of scary,” she said, still mid-snicker, “you could’ve gotten really hurt.”

For science, though. She mock-shuddered.

“That’s why I’m a mechanic. It’s like science but less guesswork.” Gear meets rod meets force means engine. It was simple, easy, clean. She could do chemistry, as was evidenced by her work with , but it wasn't her favorite of the applied sciences.

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Isaac and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day [M]
POSTED ON Jun 27, 2022 0:26:26 GMT
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[attr="class","skullbody"]"Damn right you do. And you don't leave a single root unturned," Isaac teased. "Still, trust me. I get it. You go looking for trouble, you get your hands dirty sometimes. And it's all laughs until it turns out you stumbled into just the right place at just the right time. And then, boom. You're the one that gets to do the gloating."

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It was clear from Isaac's grin that this was his favorite part.

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At the mention of safety, Isaac shrugged. "I trust my team," he said. "Ceri might be kinda Much, but she wouldn't let things get bad. And if we did get in over our heads, my Pokemon'd have my back, anytime. Right, Watson?" Ooh, that was a little pointed. Watson flashed that guilty smile again as the Hydro Pump incident replayed in his mind. " 'Sides, if anything really went wrong, she'd totally owe me one. Never a bad thing to have a favor in your pocket, if you ask me"

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That said, it appeared Ceri wasn't the only egghead Isaac was getting to know lately! "Huh! Really, a mechanic?" Isaac asked. "Most I get my hands dirty is when my motorcycle's acting up on me. But I can totally get the appeal. There's something weirdly relaxing about it, y'know?"

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"What kinda stuff do you like working on?"

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Isaac and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day [M]
POSTED ON Jun 28, 2022 14:09:57 GMT
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You get your hands dirty sometimes. Cyg shrugged, eyes casting down to the crunching dirt beneath her boots; working with Elisa didn’t feel like getting her hands dirty, but she was sure there were a number of… ahem, deliveries, that didn’t go towards the best of reasons. She wondered when she’d stopped caring. She wondered if that bothered her.

But that was a heavy thought for a light moment.

“I… guess,” Cyg allowed, struggling with the idea of trusting another human being enough to let them cover her with bees. She’d let do it. “But that’s-- that’s a hell of a risk for a favor.”

Isaac, she decided, was entirely too trusting and needed to be protected.

Oh, no.

“Yep, went to school for it, and everything,” she said, shoving that weird thought to the back of her head and smiling again. “Well, electrician’s school, but, I’ve always been pretty good at both.” It’s the only thing she’s ever been good at, actually. “I used to work for Mauville. Fixing the city, you know-- junction boxes, splicing wires, basic maintenance. Like a little hive of bees.” Her voice became a little strained, before flattening out. “Now I just… tinker on anything I can get my hands on.”

Motorcycle. If she’d had animal ears, they’d have perked up.

“What kind of motorcycle?”

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Isaac and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day [M]
POSTED ON Jun 28, 2022 14:36:45 GMT
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[attr="class","skullbody"]Isaac shrugged at the concept of risk. When he was already a walking disaster area, such concerns dodn't really process. "I mean, it's not the biggest mess I've gotten into to do a friend a solid," he pointed out. "You think that was chaotic, just wait til you hear about the time I went babysitting."[break][break]

Its funny. Once you got to know someone, it was hard not to want to support them. Even if if meant bees or swarms of feral children. Stupid conscience.[break][break]

Something about the way Cygne's voice wavered got an eyebrow raising. Was she . . . okay? Something about the old electrician days seemed to be getting her mind wandering, and not in the good way. Noticing this, Isaac snapped into action the one way he knew how. "Oh, no, not the bees," he deadpanned. "Of all the metaphors to use. If I didn't know any better, I'd think you were trying to tease me." Boom. Classic deflection. Now she could laugh about it and get those worries off of her mind.[break][break]

Besides, she had a really nice laugh.[break][break]

Hopefully, that would break some of the ice, because now they were going to have to fit a motorcycle through it. "Y'know those big clunkers from Orre?" Isaac asked. "The ones with all the pipes? Barely any wheel on them, so they pretty much hover over the sand? Yeah. Managed to get my hands on one of those bad boys." Isasc couldn't help but grin as he spoke about it. "It's funny. I always wanted to have one, but it always seemed like it'd be out of reach. Talk about perks of working at Subway, huh?"

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Isaac and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day [M]
POSTED ON Jun 28, 2022 19:39:16 GMT
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“Yeah, you’re waaaaaay braver than I am,” Cyg confesses, giving a fake shudder at the mention of babysitting. “Urgh, children.” She’s thankful Elisabeth has never roped her into anything like that. Maybe she just… picked better friends than Isaac.

The deflection worked, and maybe because she used humor to de-escalate tense situations all the time (it was, like, her only coping mechanism) she didn’t even recognize it. “No, completely intentional,” she said, laying the sarcasm on thick. “But also, very apt. Mauville is just… one big illusion. Greater Mauville Holdings is the queen. The rest of us? Rank and file worker bees. Brainless drones.” She rolled her eyes, because here she was droning on. “It was just the sort of job that sucked the life out of you day by day and that’s why I started working at Subway.” She snickered.

She can’t quite stop herself when he tells her what kind of motorcycle he has, though. “Oh my god noooooooooooo,” she gasps, covering her mouth but not in time, “those are so ugly. Isaac, no.” He looks so proud, too.

She reaches out and puts a gentle hand on his shoulder.

“You are so, so brave,” she says, voice a reverent whisper, but the smile sneaking its way onto her lips reveals the mockery beneath it.


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Isaac and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day [M]
POSTED ON Jun 28, 2022 20:22:20 GMT
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[attr="class","skullbody"]"Not just any babysitting," said Isaac, the cadence of his voice matching that of a man telling spooky campfire stories. "Babysitting an entire slumber party. You wouldn't nelieve how many times I had to sing Let it Go to keep the peace over there."[break][break]

He laughed a little, sighing warmly at the memory. "Hardest mission I've ever been on. But it was kinda fun," he admitted. "Not every day you get to be a hit singer, a gym leader, and a walking hat rack in the same day." Isaac seemed surprisingly good at seeing the bright side despite his constant snark. Sometimes, he even surprised himself.[break][break]

At least Cygne was comfortable opening up some now. Apparently her old job just needed brainless work while her company reaped the reward. He gagged a bit in solidarity. "Hey, c'mon. I'm sure that's not true," Isaac said. "Clearly you were a very brainy drone instead." The half-compliment, half-dunk. Isaac was experienced at roasts indeed. "As for me? I never really got that far to begin with. I always just kinda wandered around Hoenn getting by on odd jobs and bets. Subway's been so much more stable than that whole mess. Sure, I'm still running around doing a bunch of whatever for people. But now I get paid for it."[break][break]

How much? Enough to buy an, apparently, very ugly bike.[break][break]

The good news was Cygne was laughing again. The bad news was she was laughing at him. The other good news was she already had been, so not much had changed in the grand scheme of things.[break][break]

"What? No way, it's not-" It was, Isaac. It was like you slapped three clunky engines to a broken UFO. It was two weird floaty bits away from being a podracer. "I mean, the ugly's totally the point! Makes it look like it's got grit. Like a Dreadnaw." Not that Drednaw was very popular, either.[break][break]

A gentle hand on his shoulder and some fond mockery answered his attempts at saving face. Isaac rolled his eyes, but turned to Cygne and smirked. "That's right," he agreed, "basking" in her "reverence." "Braver than any League official. All 'cause I've got the guts to ride an ugly bike. Though, once we're done here, would you wanna check it out? A drone's eye view on how to keep the speed but get some style could come in handy."[break][break]

What was it they were even doing here, again? Looking for some kind of disaster? And when did the dirt start feeling so loose?[break][break]

"Hey, does the ground feel kinda weird, or is it just m-!!!" One second, Isaac was brainstorming. The next, the ground beneath hin and Cygne had given way! It wasn't a very long fall, and it ended in a cushiony net. But the pit was deeper than either party was tall. How rude!

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