What's Up Danger

character's curry entry

thread summary: Matt is practicing how to use his Extreme Speed with his Arcanine, Nana. He's practicing to try and better himself and prove to Josh Devlin he isn't some dumb kid trying to master racing! During the practice, he falls into the river, and along comes Isaac Merlo. The two are a odd brand of frenmeies, on some weird mutual understanding of each other. After some playful jabs at each other, Isaac and Matt have a deep talk about why Isaac is in rocket, which makes Matt start to question his belief on things.why is it important?: Matt has a very black and white view of things. Isaac is helping his character develop and see things are grey! Along with him having to understand not everything is as it seems.

Isaac's words made sense. Heck, he was sure he heard some of Nico's words in there. Fuck, he had to tell nicodemus unken what happened. Fuck. Would he even tell him to keep going? Or tell him to quit? What was he going to do? This was all so much for his head. He wasn't even old enough to be facing this much stress, man.

"What if I got him in trouble?" He groaned, realizing just how bad he actually made this. "Fuck." He slammed his fist into the tree behind him.

"They're probably going to fire me too." Thinking back, Matt wanted to punch himself. "Kind of took it far." Maybe he shouldn't have insulted Razz... no fuck that guy. "Urgh." Taking a deep breath, he leaned his head back against the tree.

Looking towards Isaac, he frowned heavily. "How am I supposed to protect people? We're going to teleport a rock to go kill thousands of innocent people, or kill all of us. I don't know. It's so much." Letting his shoulders lump, he looked up to stare at the stars that flickered between the trees.

"Just looks like nothing is a good option and the only way to even get out of this to either fuck off and live life day to day or just fall into a cog of the machine."

Isaac Merlo

Matt looked up at him, hoping, for something, anything, hell the snide remark might have even helped him out. But no, he got... sympathy. It made him want nicodemus unken. To bury his face into his boyfriend's chest and feel all is safe and right for once. That the one thing that won't leave him is in front of him, safe, in his arms. But he has Isaac for now... and it was worth every minute.

"I don't know. I walked outside cause things got tense and... yeah. I needed to catch a breather, came inside to Josh yellin' at some... one eyed fucker. Called me a coward for leaving, then insulted Josh... Got pissed, said fuck all them, and walked out to a pie being thrown at me."

His eyes went downcast, staring at the grass at his feet. Feeling small compared to everything else around them. It felt like his world was in a full blown meltdown. "I know I had to have embarrassed Josh... I'm such a fuckin' idiot." He slapped his head. "How can someone be smart and a moron at the same god damn time." The frustrations were growing, but he still looked just sad.

"I just wanted to protect people, not... this."

Isaac Merlo

MAtt ironically had a thought back to one of Nico's close friends; Aki. Whenever she got upset she talked a mile a minute. Usually Matt either yelled or brooded until it was over. Not this time, he was visually upset. His face looked strained, as if he aged from the whole thing.

Right, right. Calm. Try to speak clearly, like how Nico does even when he's a little miffed. Always had this way of just, talking.

"They are the rangers." Breathing a long exhale of a breath, he ran his hand through his hair. "We had a meeting. It... went terrible." Honestly, yes, his pride was hurt. Maybe Razz was right. That made him angry again, feeling his skin itch.

"I hate this."

Isaac Merlo

If the thoughts hadn't been so loud in his skull, he may have heard the noises that didn't belong to the forest. Honestly he had about given up on him showing up, as it was starting to get dusk. But soon, that voice came ringing to his ears. Matt jolted his head up, managing to smack it against the tree trunk, only thing he made of it was a grimace.

"Yeah, got called a coward, a pie fucking thrown at me, saw one of my good bros insulted, by some fucker who needs to be shoved off a cliff."

Matt said that so fast and pissed, it would be a surprise if Isaac heard him at all. Pushing himself off the ground, he went to lean back against the tree. "Nothin's right. Everything is wrong. They... they aren't.." Saying it out loud sounded wrong. He knew Josh wasn't this way, it wasn't what Josh would do- but it made his guts want to explode.

"Feel... lied too."

Isaac Merlo

The speed started to relieve some of the tension that built up. He spurred Nana to go faster; the dog picked up speed. Letting her form go blinding down the road, she was almost tempted to use her extreme speed, but she wasn't. But the canines caught sight of- Josh? That had her slowing her sprint to a jog, then a tort.

They slowed in front of Josh. Matt looked over, mentally... he cursed. He wasn't sure if he was able to talk to Josh right now with all that's happened. "Hey.." he offered, trying to push back his own personal feelings right now.

"How'd everything- er, go?" Then he glanced at the arcanine he was on. "When you get one of those?"

Josh Devlin

Demu looked around, sniffing as she peeked around the corners. Seeing the ladybugs having their little rituals, but a ear perked at the sound of beating wings- yelpin gat the bird that came coming out of no where. Demu dashed and went barking back to Matt, whining and ducking behind his legs. Matt stepped forward, half in front of Nico.

"Guess so." He huffed, soon grabbing another ball and releasing Dagger. "Alright dagger, we got some trouble. Ready?" Daggers looked around, trying to access the scene, seeing the bird coming for the other bugs. Red eyes narrowed, giving a cry as he rose his paw that was suddenly having a hand shape in front of it, as it smacked the bird with a Force Palm.

Not that it was by any means a super effective move, but it did get the bird to change it's path and caw in rage towards the group below.

nicodemus unken

Skullface

Hey
You free?
I need to talk to you
I'm so pissed the fuck off
Fuck everything right now man
Can you meet me at Fortree
ground floor away from the houses
watch out for bugs

Matt was waiting for Isaac, leaning against the base of a tree as he stared off with a hard expression. His whole body was tense and he felt stiff. Muscles did not want to move right. Brain literally felt like it was pulsing in his skull. Rubbing his temple, he gave a heavy sigh. Expression changing softer, if not upset.

The whole situation.. it did not sit right in his soul. It hurt. Felt bitter. Wrong. Disgusting.

Was he a fool? He sure made a fool of himself. But the way they acted... was he actually a coward? Perhaps he was. Shoulders slumped and he placed his hands to his face. No, no emotion. He had to be strong. A stupid chip on his shoulder, to be impressive to a man who didn't even deserve his attention. But it was still important to him.

A family to protect. From a hurling fucking rock. Or kill thousands- god it made his stomach sick. Sliding down the base of the tree, he settled between the roots. Simply... waiting.

Isaac Merlo

Matt just never got over the meeting. It still itched, it burned, whatever. Just whatever. Sigjing as he leaned into Nana's mane, burying his face there for several moments. Breathe. Breathe. Woosa. Fingers tripped the fur tightly, feeling his knuckles begin to white over from how tight he held her. Nana glanced over her shoulder, staring at her training with mournful eyes.

Seeing him so upset like this was odd to her. Sure, Matt had his moments, but this felt different. It felt like Matt was struggling with a inner battle, one that shook his core. It baffled the canine, but she understood her trainer needed time. So she would wait until he gave her a command. After a moment, he let out a deep breath.

He needed to text Josh...

Urgh he didn't feel like it. Honestly he just felt like throwing himself into a ring of poachers and beating the hell out of them. Or Razz. Grumbling, he let go of Nana and furiously rubbed his face, trying to snap him out of it. Nothing was working. Alright. Fine.

"Nana, we're training. Time to see if we can handle that speed."

Nana looked at him with concern in her eyes, questioning him if that was really a good idea. He huffed at her, crossing his arms. "I'm the trainer, aren't I?" The dogs face went to a bland, motherly expression. "Don't look at me like that. Can we at least practice you running?" Nana gave a nod, as she turned to go back towards the main road, making sure it was open.

Now she waited.

"Let's go."

She took off in a sprint!

Josh Devlin

Matt would have been more than happy to keep cooing Nico over, until the sound was heard. Frowning, that wasn't a good sound at all. He looked at Nico, giving him the blandest of faces. "You bein' real white right now, babe." He teased, poking his forehead. "But as a ranger, I suppose I should check it out." Oh now he was using the title like it was important, silly Matt.

"But lets be safe, eh?"

Pulling out a pokeball, he let out Demuu. "Go check out the noise over there, girl. Bark once for okay, bark twice for us to come in." Demuu looked up, her ears perked, blinking at him innocently, before looking back towards the darkened forest... and quickly she was dashing off in a ball of fluffy fur. "And there she goes."

nicodemus unken

Right... the space rock...

Everything felt weird now. Something didn't taste right in his mouth. The ranger took the paper, going to put it into his pocket. Brows arching up at that statement. "Who knows, considering space is tryin' to kill us." A shrug, before a small sigh. "But... yeah, thanks, for answering."

It did mean a lot he did, because it started the gears in his head to turn. How that whole announcement felt... wrong. All wrong. But. Bah! He needed Nico to talk too. "I probably should go. Nico gonna worry."

He may have loved using Nico as an excuse to scurry away a little to much.

Isaac Merlo

One would think after Matt's many attempts at diving, he would be used to water. But the deep ocean? On a milotic? No. He hated every minute of this with a passion. But he had Nico, Nico was good about it..

"Are we almost there?" He asked, sounding like he was actually pouting about this. "We need a flying type." A huff. "Or I do. Half my mons can't swim out in this. Or would sink." Kazzy would sink to the bottom and Nana would rage. He didn't think Gauntlet or Dagger were strong swimmers, and they were small..

Demuu definitely not.

"Why are we heading out here again, babe?"

nicodemus unken

Matt lifted a brow, watching Tekka come out and then just fuck off like she usually did. "She's always so rude." He shook his head, never understanding how Nico even got this moody umbreon. Though he turned to look at Ace, who had stopped eating, just staring at Tekka with wide eyes.

Blinking several times at her, he picked up the rest of his treat, walking over slowly... so slowly. Like he was stalking her. Before setting the apple down, nudging it towards her. "Solll?" He called, Nico could see that weird sword tail of his wagged slowly behind him.

"Ohhh boy."

nicodemus unken