Robberies weren't really her style truth be told, she didn't have all too much interest in things like material wealth or jewels, not unless those jewels were something that could make her stronger. But it had been a while since she had caused a little bit of chaos with the man known as Kouji Matsubara and as much as she claimed she didn't need or want friends, she couldn't help but enjoy the presence of someone just as unhinged as her.
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"It's called being fashionably late, had to rob a different store to pick up a suit for this shindig." This wasn't true in the slightest, but she didn't think either of them really cared about things like that. Fiction served as a fine enough truth in a pinch. Her attire isn't all too different from Kouji's, a solid white suit to contrast against Kouji's black, her hair dyed black and a checkered scarf wrapped around her neck and covering her mouth and nose.
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"I'm never rusty Matsubara, I'm always brand fucking new like a revolver fresh off the factory floor. You case the joint already or are we going in blind? I don't mind either way, surprise is one of my favorite spices~"
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"Ooh, you wanna make it a date huh? I dunno, I'm feeling like a classy bitch tonight, you sure you can afford me?" There was definitely something different about him compared to the last time, maybe he had gotten wrapped up in that Galar mess like she had. Didn't matter either way, everyone is a different person every day, she liked change in the end. She releases her Gothitelle from its Pokeball and snaps her fingers, a quick read of her trainer's mind and she knew the score top to bottom in a matter of moments. Then she's right back into her Pokeball, ready and waiting for the chaos to start whenever they so chose.
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"Well then, ladies first~" Xenon trills as she waltz right to the front door and opens it on up. It's a classy ass store of course, lots of ladies in their fancy Sunday dresses looking at necklaces they were going to buy with their hubby's money, a nervous office worker looking at a diamond ring and wondering if he could afford it for his wedding, three bored looking security guards locking their eyes onto her as she walks through the door. She stands out in her white suit, but they're used to the eccentricities of the rich so she's smoothly glossed over as their gaze moves to Kouji. If he was by himself he'd probably get a very close scrutinization, maybe even get asked to the security room to "talk about why he's here." But standing close to her, the two fly under the radar just enough that they can properly case the place.
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"You hear the word about Slateport? There's some rumblings that "the company" is gonna be opening up office here soon, like they had back in the old days." The girl comments as she bends over a little to stare at a set of Alexandrite rings, emerald by day and ruby by night. More complex than your bog standard diamonds and pearls, it changed depending on how you looked at it, she appreciated something that could change depending on your point of view.
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"Mm, I'm trying to establish a foothold in Lilycove, been making a big splash too. But hey, the board wants what the board wants I guess." Xenon throws out noncommittally, though truth be told she was rather annoyed with how little progress she had made in Lilycove as of now. She set the entire Arceus damn route on fire and she didn't get any fucking attention from the admins, she's gotta do something big if she wants them to turn their eyes on her at this point.
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She sneers at the pearls as she moves over to look at them with Kouji, appraising eyes looking them over to see if they were worth snatching first or better left behind scattered on the floor in case a guard wanted to play hero. "They'd look drop dead sexy on me like anything else in this store, but I'm better than that. Pearls are the white bread of jewelry." The emerald that Kouji had skimmed over though, that really interested her. "They say that emeralds give you the ability to predict the future. I can see why they'd be popular, a lot of people are scared of the future they can't see."
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Xenon smiles as she says this, brushing her thumb against the glass and sighing. "Emeralds are for weaklings. Real power is knowing the future because you established it, changing the course of the river yourself instead of relying on a compass to chart the tides of fate."
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"Content to follow along? How boring." Xenon remarks coyly, shaking her head with a smirk. It was never that easy, followers were just stepping stones to the future and she would die before she let herself be used as a stepping stone towards anything but her own future. She wasn't delusional of course, she still wasn't in the position she needed to be to make that jump to the big leagues like she wanted to. But she could see the road forming as she sprints forwards, Lilycove would just be one pit stop along the way, Slateport too if she had to get dragged along.
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Time to get to work. "Yeah, let's go with the rubies I guess. Rubies aren't too bad, I'm feeling a red mood today." That's the last thing she'd say before the smoke screen drops, using that last second to pinpoint every guard springing to action, more importantly the guards moving for their Pokeballs the fastest. Her hand snaps backwards as she lobs the Pokeball holding Hafnium straight at a guard's head, knocking him off balance for half a second while the psychic releases into the room and starts connecting with every mind within their vicinity.
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An instant mental map is formed using the viewpoints of a dozen different people scattered across the room, a millisecond later it's been snapshotted to Kouji and Xenon's mind, two guards coming from the left and right, one releases an Alolan Sandshrew and the other a Trumbeak of all things. "Jeez, they need better security for this shithole, can't even afford fully evolved." The ultramodernist laughs as another Pokeball flicks out of her hand, Gengar releasing from his home and rapid firing a scatter shot of Thunderbolts at the Trumbeak to strike it and its trainer down. She'd warn Kouji of the Sandshrew's Metal Claw coming his way, but why waste her breath? He got the same snapshot she did, he should have taken care of the thing before it even hit the ground.
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More Pokemon are getting thrown out as the guards start to pour in, must have had some more in the break room or something, either way it would be a pain to deal with them all and get away with the loot. Hafnium hypnotizes a woman who was about to make a break for the door, she collapses mid step and smashes her head against a glass case, the crack of her skull against reinforced glass rings through the room in a sickening manner, snapping others out of their reverie and summoning up more Pokemon to deal with.
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Or it would have been more, if Kouji didn't decide to wisely chime in and summon up that getaway route he had planned for them. "Don't tell me what to do edge lord." She's of course moving towards him even as she snaps back, it's just the way things work out between them as Hafnium and Argon move in tandem to cover her escape, releasing waves of psychic and paranormal energy at the approaching wave to hold them off.
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"But nah, this place is already played the fuck out. Your fashion all sucks by the way!" She yells as she hops through the phantom force portal, one second in Slateport, the next halfway across the fucking country in Sootopolis with hardly even a scratch. Her only regret is that she couldn't kill anyone, but some days are just meant to be boring. Maybe that bitch who smashed her head would end up in a permanent coma, she'd have to swing by sometime to find out.
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"What can I say, the entertainment was pretty lackluster and we don't even get to keep the party favors." It was just another job, not a memorable one, not an unpleasant one, but a job nonetheless. Call her a romantic, but she liked to think she should wake up looking forwards to work, making it an art whenever she put her talents to use in the field.
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All the glory of rocket crap didn't mean jack or shit to her, if the League had been willing to take in a morally bankrupt psychotic with an obsession with the future then she just as easily could have tagged along with them, though maybe not considering her distaste for the laws they upheld in the first place.
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"Oh, whoring yourself out on the first date huh? I love it when a man offers up his body so casually~" Xenon purrs as she faces Kouji with a lascivious grin. If they didn't know each other so well it would have been unexpected when Xenon immediately threw that haymaker right into the man's jaw with her prosthetic claw, cold metal impacting against scarred flesh as the Ultramodernist lets out a cry of exuberant violence. Maybe the night wouldn't end on such a shit note after all?
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"Thanks, I got it after our little trip to Galar. Legendary ice cuts like a bitch it turns out." Even with all the talk about how much she wanted to kill someone during that little jewelry heist, she isn't really feeling that bloodlust now as she squares up against Kouji. Maybe it's because she enjoyed his company more than she liked to admit, but the idea of ending his life right now just didn't appeal, at least for the moment.
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She's expecting him to go for a return punch to the jaw, having her legs swept out from under her is a welcome surprise as her back hits the floor and a jolt of pain shoots up her spine, but there's no time to acknowledge that. The ultramodernist is already rolling out of the way as his foot slams into the floor with a loud THUD, pushing herself back up to her feet and ramming her body into his gut in a spear tackle to try and knock him over in turn, of course making sure to lead with her right shoulder to thrust that metal into his body once more.
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