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Archer resigned himself to accompanying the woman. It wasn't as if this little side quest was particularly taxing or that he had anything better to do with his spare time other than loiter around and pass the day by in the hopes that somebody in Team Rocket might find some sort of a use for him. At least like this, he could fool himself into thinking that he was doing something worthwhile that wasn't going to bring misery to others.
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As he was introduced to the woman's pokemon, it occurred to him that his own ghostly companion had managed to skip the introduction. "Well, you've met Dizzy." He pointed towards the Dusclops, hanging a couple of feet away from him. She raised her hand and waved enthusiastically. He didn't bother introducing her to his others, safely stored away in their pokeballs. His team was... well, they weren't exactly the sort of pokemon which were typically a welcome sight around children. In fact, if anything, they tended to scare them. Itsy in particular. No, given the already slightly complicated nature of the situation, it would be best if they were kept hidden.
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Archer took note of the note and the single word "doctor". Huh, fancy. The doctors he knew were of the more questionable variety the likes of which found their place happily among Rocket's ranks. Somehow, he doubted that his new acquaintance was the sort to use her skills for some of the "experiments" he'd heard whispers of.
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He kept his gaze fixed ahead of him as his companion stammered some form of an explanation or apology - he wasn't too sure just what it was. "What are you apologizing for?" He questioned, still focused exclusively on his destination. "It's not a bad thing. Most people are just looking out for number one. Been a while since I met someone who wasn't." In the long run, he doubted that it would do her any favors. He was taking advantage enough of her kindness and he didn't even have any particularly malicious intentions in mind. Hopefully, his pokemon who seemed to be a little bit sharper would be able to steer her away from the worst of people.
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Archer glanced around, checking out the location that they had found. It was indeed a place that he was somewhat familiar with. There weren't many places in Slateport that he didn't know pretty darn well. Such were the benefits for wandering the streets aimlessly for as long as he did. "Never tried giving out ice cream before." The young man answered with a shrug. "But there tend to be lots of kids around here. They're bound to want ice cream, right?"
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Archer was in the process of raising a hand to refuse the ice cream when out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Dizzy rushing forwards, hands outstretched. He moved quickly, wrapping an arm around the dusclops' waist and hauling it off of its feet before it could reach the ice cream. "You've had enough!" His pokemon let out a defeated sigh but stopped her attempts. He released her a moment later.
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[attr="class","rosepost"]Archer would have run, if there weren't so many darn people around here. The crowds which he usually relied on to go about unnoticed now had their eyes trailed on the curious spectacle that he and his victim were providing them with. Guilty people ran, so he wouldn't. Not right now. Not if he wanted to be able to show his face in this neck of the woods any time soon. Archer folded his arms stubbornly across his chest, raising his head disdainfully. "Look Lady, what could you possibly have that I would want?"

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Money. Money that would mean food. Food that would mean that he and his little group of pokemon wouldn't be spending the night hungry as they were sometimes forced to. That he kept to himself. "How do you expect me to give you vertigo anyhow? I know I'm not a people guy but I don't usually have that effect on them!" Please let Dizzy keep her head down for once. Archer was too preoccupied to risk casting a glance to try and see just where the Dusclops had gotten herself off to.
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"I was just passing through." He spoke with a shrug of his shoulders. "Which I'll get back to if you'll let me."

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Archer tensed up and grunted, silently resigning himself to Dizzy's limpet like hold. She would release him... Eventually... He should probably have been grateful for the company. Arceus knew his existence would have been a lonely one indeed were it not for his small and somewhat mismatched band of pokemon. The young thief kept his attention on Aubre, watching her carefully in the hopes of trying to make out just what might be going through her head. He still was a little bit uneasy about the whole situation. Whenever others were seemingly "kind" to him, Archer generally found himself searching for alternative motivations before he immediately accepted that they were just kind-hearted individuals.

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There was something of a lump in his throat when he watched the stranger sign a cheque. It wasn't as if Dizzy had decided to go for a swim in liquid gold but still, he imagined that it wasn't cheap. Certainly it was more than he could ever hope to repay. At least repay honestly, he would have to pick a lot of pockets and somehow he doubted that the stranger would appreciate such ill-gotten gains.

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He was shaken out of his thoughts by the woman approaching him. He would stare at her as if she was some manner of alien, still anything but accustomed to people being nice to him and constantly looking for an ulterior motive. The fact that he couldn't immediately think of one did little to comfort him. He stared at the tubs of ice cream that the woman had bought. It was certainly more than any one person could possibly eat. He frowned slightly, "Archer." It was all of his name that he would risk giving.
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"You must be running for some sort of sainthood." The young man remarked at her intention to drop off the ice cream and give it to some local children. He took a step forwards, finally shaking off Dizzy's hold. He almost said "it's not like I have anything better to do". He held off from it however, figuring that if he had nothing else to offer the young woman, he had might as well be polite. "Sure, I'll help. Besides, I owe you." After all, he was the cause for this whole mess.

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[attr="class","rosepost"] Archer was quick to get back to his feet. On the ground he was vulnerable, at least now he had a chance of running should the need arise. As it was, he wasn't all that worried about the stranger managing to catch him should he decide to flee. Given how they seemed to be staggering around, he doubted that she would have been able to keep up at any rate. That meant in his mind that there was still a chance for him to get out of this.

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"What are you talkin' about? You bumped into me!" A lie of course but one which he hoped would be enough to at the very least fool any onlookers. "You drunk or somethin'?" She could have been, at least to those who hadn't witnessed the incident. He would move back, desperate to keep out of the stranger's grasp.

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"What?" Archer didn't know if it was possible to barf on command but he most certainly wasn't about to put it to the test. Right now, he was all of five seconds away from cutting his losses, calling out Rook and taking to the skies, desperate to forget about today. "You stay away from me, Crazy!"

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[attr="class","rosepost"]Score. The confuse ray made contact. Archer knew that he wouldn't have terribly long to act and so went for the - figurative - kill.

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He wasn't expecting a roundhouse kick. Perhaps years and years of pulling off the same stunt and it almost always doing so with some degree of success, he'd dropped his guard a bit. Usually, if there was trouble it was from someone else, after he'd stolen from his target. Then he might have to run. He wasn't too sure what manner of demon didn't feel the effects of Dizzy's confuse ray but this woman most certainly didn't. What Archer would say was that he most certainly did feel was the kick.

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It was Archer who would go crashing into the dirt curtsy of a kick to the ribs. Dazed. With an alarmed cry, Dizzy was quick to rush over to his side. It only took him a few seconds to pull himself together. He would look up indignantly towards the person responsible:

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[attr="class","rosepost"]Another day, another scam. Well, Archer wouldn't have called it a "scam" as such. More of a "heist"... Heck, it wasn't even that. It was stealing some random passerby's wallet and hoping that there was enough in there to mean that they wouldn't have to repeat the whole routine an hour later...

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The young man contemplated the two new pokeballs that he had in his hands. He'd been given them not that long ago but hadn't really had much of an opportunity to use them. Already, he dismissed any notion of using Araquanid. A one meter eighty water spider was not something he wanted to be calling out in the middle of Slateport park unless it was absolutely unavoidable. The Scrafty however could potentially be useful. For the time being however, he would stick to the tried and tested method he'd been using for so long now. He cast a brief glance towards Dizzy. As usual, the dusclops stubbornly refused to be where she was supposed to be; that was to say her pokeball. The pokemon had been watching those present in the park for a while now, staring intently at them with her single large cyclops eye. Seeing her partner's interest, the ghost-type would point towards a figure in the crowd. "Them?" Archer questioned. "You sure?" He got only a nod from his accompanying pokemon. "Well, then, you know what to do."

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It was a tried and tested technique. One that they had more or less perfected over the course of their time on the streets. Archer would begin to move, drawing in a little bit closer to their target. At the same time, Dizzy would follow them from afar. Then, when Archer was close enough to be able to move but not so much as to appear suspicious, she would let loose a little confuse ray. If it made contact, their victim would soon fall victim to its effects, staggering around. At which point, Archer would sneak in and help himself to their wallet and whatever they might have in their pockets.

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The man decided to be quiet for a short while and to let his rescuer do the talking. It felt strange to have another taking his defense. Usually, most people were rather more inclined to do the latter and to dump him in it. He found himself to be scanning the woman's features, an effort which he doubled she smiled at him. He felt convinced that he must have known her or at least that their paths must have crossed at some point in the past for her to have taken his side like this. If they had encountered one another, he only drew a blank. Could she be a good samaritain? Did such things still exist?

Even now, Archer opened his mouth to protest at being called a thief or rather that someone might accuse him as being a believable thief. Somehow, in his head, despite the fact that he spent his days pickpocketing, the term "thief" still struck him as an insult, especially coming from someone who seemed to have such a good heart.

Dizzy hopped up and wrapped its arms around her human partner's neck. The man struggled to keep his balance and avoid tumbling forwards, dragged down by the weight of his pokemon. "Don't you worry... I'll keep my eyes on her from now on." The young man narrowed his eyes towards the ghost-type, giving it a very simple but silent message. Never again. Somehow, they seemed to have made it out of this one but the next, they might not be so lucky.

Archer watched with wide eyes as the woman paid for him. Panic, began to take hold. He sincerely hoped that she wasn't going to expect him to pay her back. He didn't know exactly how much it would all come to but he knew that even if it was more than a few dollars, he wasn't going to have it on him. Somehow, he doubted that she would take well to him asking her to wait for a little while whilst he went to see how many wallets he could snatch over the next half hour.

The man was drawn out of his thoughts by the pokemon tapping his leg. He read the message, a little surprised to be being presented with it to begin with. He rolled his eyes, letting out a frustrated sigh. "Yeah. I know."

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The young man picked himself up off of the floor. He groaned with disgust as he felt the sticky wetness that came with a coating of rapidly melting ice cream, curtsy of his pokemon. "Urgh... What were you doing? Swimming in the stuff?" He was going to have to change and until then, people were going to assume that he was either dying or had killed someone. Although maybe the splatters of other colors would throw them off.
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Archer would only gawk at the woman and her Pokemon. He wasn't quite used to people taking his side in an argument or coming to his defense. Usually, they were only too keen to do the precise opposite. As such, he wasn't entirely sure how to respond to the intervention. A "normal" person would probably have thanked her or at least told her that he could handle himself. As it was, he found himself to be just confused. He tilted his head to one side, as if trying to work out just what could possibly motivate a stranger to take his side. So he just stood there staring at her dumbly.
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Slowly, Archer got to his feet, briefly wondering if he might not be able to slip away. He was stopped when the woman turned back to face him. He folded his arms. "I didn't steal." He informed her bluntly. "I just turned my back for a bit." It wasn't even a lie. His eyes fell upon his Dusclops as the pokemon was licking what remained of the ice cream off of her hands. He let out an exasperated sigh. "She gets hungry." It wasn't much of an excuse, it was all that he could really offer.
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The vendor, wasn't quite done. "That's all good and well but who's going to pay for all this?!"

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[attr="class","rosepost"]Archer walked steadily. His hands were in his pockets. He moved along steadily, eyes scanning over the landscape in search of the fabled Miniors. Some part of him wondered just what else he could have been doing with himself right now if it weren't for this mission. Likely he would have just been wandering the streets passing the time. In that respect, he assumed that he should have been grateful for being given some sort of purpose.
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It took a few minutes, but eventually from the sky above came a cry. Archer glanced up, spotting the flying type circling above a nearby spot. The young man altered his course, heading towards it. Sure enough, he found a small crater. Cautiously, he got a pokeball out from his pocket. Whilst Archer had never actually used a pokeball, he of course understood the basic principle of them. Given that these creatures were apparently dying, he supposed that he didn't need to worry about weakening them. That would be overkill.
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With a deep breath, he readied himself. This should be simple enough, right? He tossed it in the direction of the pokemon which promptly vanished inside. "Think that qualifies as a first?" He couldn't help but question Dizzy. This didn't quite fit his definition of a typical catch. The Dusclops presented with him with a thumbs up and perhaps Hunter felt a bit better for it.
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They searched for a while longer before going to meet his human companion once more. "Just the one." He would offer her the pokeball, having no real use for it.

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[attr="class","rosepost"]Archer came close to hopping backwards when he spotted the face in the rock. Next time, he would most definitely pay closer attention to the mission brief, if for no other reason than to spare him the embarrassment or any potential nasty surprises in the future. He considered himself lucky this time, these things he'd been taking for inanimate pieces of rock seemed to be inoffensive enough. Another day, he might not be so fortunate.
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"Huh..." He made an effort to sound unimpressed by it all. "I wonder how they survive up there." The man raised his eyes to the starry sky above, losing himself there for a couple of moments. Space was a very alien concept to him, he couldn't quite wrap his head around it more than "it's cold and you'll die if you go up there" and so he didn't waste too much time pondering it.
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He would only nod in response to Yumi's suggestion. He pulled out his remaining pokemon and called it out. Rook appeared before him in a flash. The large bird pokemon stretched, before turning to face him. It tilted its head to one side, awaiting further instruction. "Clops!" Nearby, Dizzy waved a hand, waving in greeting towards her travel companion as if she hadn't seen him in years. "I need you to fly up overhead." Archer instructed. "See if you can spot any more of these rocks. Okay?" With a nod, the Corviknight took to the sky, it's dark feather's and armor almost vanishing into the night's sky.
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"Dizzy, come on. If they're out here. We'll find em." Obedient for once in her life, Dizzy crossed the small distance separating herself from Archer in a run before slowing to walk next to him as both scanned the area in search of more pokemon.

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[attr="class","rosepost"]Archer folded his arms, contemplating the rock from afar, still unwilling to get to close. "If they know so much about em', why do they need this one?" He couldn't help but ask the question, although in truth, he didn't expect much of an answer from her. Although who knew, maybe it was just him who failed to see much of the purpose of their presence here. "How can a rock even die?" Rock pokemon, he could comprehend dying. Their bodies might have been made of rock but inside there was still a living creature, how could a regular space rock be alive?
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The idea of having to lift such a weight, especially with a time limit wasn't an appealing one, especially when he didn't have any pokemon suited for such a task. The young man rooted around inside of his bag for a moment. Inside, he still had his five pokeballs which he hadn't even contemplated using yet. "Here." He handed it to Yumi, trusting that the woman would be able to make better use of it than he ever could.
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Archer glanced around, taking in the surroundings. With the exception of Dizzy and Kiba, they still seemed to be alone out here. Good. With luck they could be here and gone before anyone noticed...

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