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Erin is fond of sunny days and beach parties. Underground caverns that run around magma pools are a very different beast. She can't imagine living around here. Hot baths are one thing, but living on a giant bath tube of a city? Hardly a good place to live in.

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"Let's do this quickly." She motions forward.

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The kingdra has been released so recently she's still adjusting to their surroundings, so she struggles for a little while being able to follow her trainer.

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Erin had prepared their stage, of course. A bottle of water freely sprayed, seemingly into plain air; a simple

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Mission: Elevator Entanglement

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Erin shrugs. She never notices the man's reaction to her meowth, busy as she keeps herself overlooking his performance. By the time she turns back to check on him, she only sees an expression difficult to pinpoint. Something between surprise and disappointment is what she'd choose to take it as.

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"Not as exciting as you were hoping?"

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Recent trends in engineering in general have taken a turn toward user friendliness and simplicity. Would there be any benefit in all these processes being designed differently, with more security locks? Probably, but then again she's pretty sure they sell master keys for fire service panels online.

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Just before leaving, she presses one last button that would notify the manufacturer to send a technician as soon as possible, whenever the power returned permanently, and pushes the lid as closed as she can manage.

[break][break]

If someone happened to go inside the elevator before the technician made it there, they at least wouldn't bump themselves against the metallic lid. Unless they stupidly tried to walk in without looking, at any rate.

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She calls her meowth back before he can trip over himself and steps outside the elevator. The flame lighting up the charmeleon's tail offers a decent enough source of illumination for them to find their way to the closest stairs.

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Mission: Elevator Entanglement

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Erin hums, considering the man's question. "No klefkis, no." Unfortunately so. The key ring pokémon was definitely in her to-get list, though it happened to be in its lower tiers. Facial recognition and key cards had replaced traditional keys in most of her everyday routine.

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"I do have this boy though." A red beam solidifies in the form of an alolan meowth. The cat's claws are long and sharp when he expands them; perfect for lock-picking.

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That is, if the meowth had any experience with it to begin with.

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"24K, that right there is your job," she says, pointing at the keyhole in question.

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The meowth is just the right height to reach it comfortably, so with doubtful eyes it introduces one claw inside and turns. And turns. Erin stares at the meowth impatiently, which only helps make him even more nervous. Her passive-aggressive "We're counting on you," doesn't help either.

[break][break]

He tries going at it the other way: counterclockwise rather than clockwise. Another turn and something seems to lock in place. The meowth has a better feeling about this. He turns to his trainer. Somehow, by sheer luck, whatever it was he did got them a result.

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"Wow, you actually did it. Good job, 24K." Erin offers him a pat on the head before doing her part. She wastes no time trying to consult her decision with her companion in distress. "Let's see. Push to stop first, then..."

[break][break]

Her eyes scan the list of buttons indicating each of their available floors. The first floor would be anyone's first guess, but the one immediately below them would probably be safer. From there, they could simply take the emergency stairs down to the first floor. She presses it.

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Mission: Elevator Entanglement

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The lid slides open thanks to the charmeleon's precise work. There's a variety of buttons in this newly unlocked panel. It's not a airplane flight deck, but there's enough buttons to give a headache to someone not acquainted with how they work. Thankfully they're also labeled.

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In the middle of the panel, a keyhole painted bright red stands out. She supposes most of the functions in this panel would be locked unless they had the corresponding key.

[break][break]

A white button labeled

CALL CENTER

also stands out from the silver and black of the others. This one may not be functional, seeing as the cause for the elevator getting stuck was quite clearly a power outage, but they lose nothing by trying.

[break][break]

"Hello? We're stuck between—" she eyes the screen that should have told them their floor, "floors five and six in Lilycove Towers. Can someone help us out?"

[break][break]

No answer.

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Erin turns her attention back to the keyhole, taunting them from its center position. "I don't suppose Rav can pick locks?" she asks, ready to call her own pokémon for help in case the charmeleon couldn't.

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Mission: Elevator Entanglement

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She laughs lightly at the man's comment. "Don't worry, that's entirely on our media industry. In fact, it's exactly why they bolt them from outside now: so that people don't kill themselves trying to escape through them."

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Erin's flashlight turns to the general direction where he speaks from. It's lowered so that she can see him without really blinding him. She tilts her head unconsciously, used to body language adding onto her messages.

[break][break]

"Cut a wire open? We're just going to press the emergency button." Or at least look for it. With elevators it was hard to tell exactly when they were fabricated, and by extension how updated their safety measures were.

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Surely the elevators in Hoenn's largest city would have emergency buttons, right?

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"Hmm... I don't have any screwdrivers on me, but maybe a particularly sharp claw could do it."

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my gacha rampardos to lucius hallows.

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the grotle, ludicolo and espurr from my gacha to @leonardo.

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"In any way, huh?" she muses, though really she's not too focused on Lucius's offer. While it's true that he may prove useful in the future, at the moment she has no need for a personal slave. She could, however, keep him as the puppy she always wanted to replace her alolan meowth for. The idea amuses her.

[break][break]

"Try not to destroy my arm or download any viruses." Erin gives him a pointed look at this. She's not directly looking at the screen, but she knows the mobile computer's interface very well. She did use her own preferred operative system for it, after all. She can infer that he's already trying to download something on it.

[break][break]

Her eyes drift down the suite. "That's payment enough."

[break][break]

Lucius looks and sounds pretty pleased with the new appendage, which means they could start wrapping up. Erin disappears down her makeshift lab to fetch one more gadget for him. Her voice echoes in the otherwise quiet room.

[break][break]

"A few add-ons for extra utility and minor optimization; nothing you can see yet."

[break][break]

He actually could see the beginnings of her research sitting across the arrangement of tables in the room. A study on the lightning-attractive property of togedemaru, plans for an inner cooling system. They're ambitious as much as their results are unpredictable. Whether he'd know what to make of them—unlikely.

[break][break]

When she's back, she hands the man a pair of peculiarly ordinary sunglasses. At least, that's what they look like. "The arm itself can't record your surroundings—couldn't find a good position for the camera—so these will have to do."

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Mission: Elevator Entanglement

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Erin isn't trying to eavesdrop, but it's hard not to hear a conversation going on within feet from her, in a closed space where the hard surface of the walls helps sound bounce and echo. She finds it curious, how two people could happily ignore another's presence when caught up in a conversation.

[break][break]

"Bad idea. Escape hatches are bolted from the outside nowadays. Trying to pry that open will only destabilize this box."

[break][break]

There is barely any light shining down on her inside the elevator, what with the other man's flashlight being directed away. The possibilities of them not having noticed her at all are quite high. Luckily, Erin could fix that pretty easily.

[break][break]

From inside her purse comes a small but potent portable flashlight. She flicks it on towards the panel on the wall, searching for a lid. Her hand finds it easily—it's right below the buttons panel. "Now this will be easier to open. Care to give me a hand?"

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Wild thread: Route 101

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"Oh? And I'm guessing you are?"

[break][break]

Erin isn't too interested in learning about the dull lives led by the residents of Littleroot Town, but she can't simply let a comment like that pass, either. She tilts her head ever so slightly; a challenge to the woman in front of her.

[break][break]

"That's quite a strong assumption, miss."

[break][break]

An exeggutor dangles its long palm leaves next to them. Erin pays it no mind, though a swirlix seems to catch her meowth's interest, if only temporarily.

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The feline follows lazily, long claws threatening to cut a piece of it but never quite managing. The sight is very much that of a predator playing with its prey.

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Mission: Milking Miltanks

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Leonardo's questioning is valid. Each question tackles the problem at hand assuming nobody has any idea of how these machines work. Erin has never seen or touched a pasteurizing machine in her life, either, but she has a basic understanding of how it works just from watching all its parts and how they are placed.

[break][break]

No piece is fortuitous. The machine may look a mess, but each of its tubes serves a purpose.

[break][break]

When the machine is turned back on and the screen that's supposed to show the milk's temperature stays blank, it's not hard to tell which part is malfunctioning. "Try checking the thermocouple."

[break][break]

Her comment may come as a surprise—may turn a few heads. If it does, she ignores them. She's speaking only to the League officer.

[break][break]

"Most industrial machines nowadays are built on a principle of safety first. If it can't read the milk's temperature, it will surely stop functioning at all. That said, I think these valves shouldn't all be closed." Erin's standing right next to the pipes in question, one colored valve atop each one.

[break][break]

The user manual he'd asked for earlier would probably include a troubleshooting guide that explained something to the same effect. If asked, she'd shrug and say, "Double engineering degrees."

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Mission: Milking Miltanks

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Everything was falling in place. Each piece shifting according to her wishes. Albeit a good half hour too late, she's now thankful for Leonardo's arrival, without whom such a scenario would be impossible.

[break][break]

"Erin," she answers simply. If he opted to only give her a first name, so would she. He would have to earn her last name, if he managed to convince her not to go to their competition for her dairy needs. When they sealed a contract, that is.

[break][break]

The tour begins at the stinkiest place Erin's ever set foot in. Erin would have liked to inquire further about this League business Leonardo had been smart not to detail—he'd told her barely enough to not have said anything at all, but the smell is so strong it's distracting. It makes her pinch her nose, rush for the face mask she's being offered and sigh in relief.

[break][break]

Thankfully, they breeze through the area. Their next stop is cold and sealed off from the miltank. A series of huge tanks stand in the middle of the room, imposing. Metal tubes come and go from them to a control panel. Perhaps most remarkably, they're all turned off.

[break][break]

"Seems we found our problem."

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One of the problems, at any rate. Clearly, the staff have management issues as well as technical ones.

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