Kaida flinched as her partner explained...alternate methods of feeding the new Pokemon, expecting backlash or horror. Instead, they got wide eyes and a hurried nod. "Oh, ok...I-I'll try and make sure it stays healthy then." The Hoothoot looked to its new owner, said owner waved with just a bit of trepidation, and patted it on the head.

It looked like it might work out?

---

"Thank you." Kaida spoke outside the store, looking at the new pair through the window, "I didn't want to mention prey because most humans hate the idea...they like to think Pokemon only eat kibble. I guess they're changing."

Her own Pokemon satisfied themselves, only recently had she started buying lots of food, preparing for the inevitable shortage and attempting to reduce her team's effects on the wild populations.

Note: First time Heal Bell mission

Vasi Harper

TO WORRY - OFFICER - DEFEND[break]
FT. Kaida Adachi Josh Devlin

"...You're right, people hurt Pokemon all the time...I don't have parents, I can't say anything about evil in that matter." She could label them evil, she certainly wanted to. She was much too tired to label long gone parents of a stranger.

"I need to stick with the humans that at least listen a little." She didn't care how strange she was to their eyes, but here, she could do something with people. She could tear then away from Pokemon they'd harm. She was a Ranger. It was something for strange her. Under her breath, she continued, "At the very least, I nevertheless someone who killed me in the League."

She glanced over at her partner, suddenly aware they had been working a while, "Are you OK? We can rest a moment. We have time."

Note: First time Fire Fighter mission.

amaryllis karneva

Kaida gazed sadly at the captured Pokemon, jerking back into reality as she remembered she couldn't just leave Josh by himself. "Keep those Pokemon on hand, we're going to drop them off at a Ranger station...can't let them run wild if they're getting desperate enough to attack supply vehicles." Everything was getting very bad these days.

Now there was only a matter of said supply vehicle, spinning its wheels on the ice. A super strong Pokemon? She couldn't help her smile as she stepped forward. No doubt Lae could help, but with the Pokemon she had in mind, he wouldn't even need help.

"Kjoll! Lift the truck and bring it forwards!"

An Onix burst from the Pokeball, both long enough to avoid the ice yet big enough to have the strength to pull the truck. With a gentleness that contrasted his size, the giant Pokemon leaned forward, grabbing a sturdy part of the truck like a kitten before lifting it up and out.

All in all, it might need repairs later, but their supplies would reach the destination.

"Thank you." For a moment it might be hard to tell she was talking to Josh, "You were a great help, thank your Pokemon for me."

Notes: First time Defend mission.

Josh Devlin

Kaida locked eyes with Josh Devlin , only barely just remembering that he had been present. A small look was tossed Guillermo Marceliño's way, in what she hoped was recognized as a non-hostile (for once) gaze. I will speak soon.

People had lost sight of themselves, their memories, and all kinds of parts of their personality there. Losing simple shame had been a lucky stroke, she likely had remembrance that quite a few people didn't have.

So as Josh finished his harrowing tale, Kaida suddenly stood up, stretching like a lazy feline.

"Thank you Josh...I know that kind of bond with a Pokemon, please, try to protect it." She firmly emphasized the word, not knowing the other Ranger enough to know pure admiration from simply wanting to capture the subject of his love. The gods were finicky things, bringing her to life one moment, battling her the next. Admiration should be careful, and understanding of their will and power. Instead, she focused on her own thoughts of the event. "I remember. I was there too, so was Memo. Someone else too, but he's not a Ranger. Let me try to add where Josh forgot."

Was it wrong to bring him into this conversation without asking? Maybe. The Rangers needed all the information they could get though. She could specify Alexei if needed, but for now, she thought it only important to get the Ranger's account.

"Everyone there, that person Maldacena told us that everyone there would be responsible for that future...or should I say futures?"

She brought a finger to her head, continuing to speak, "Parts of ourselves started being taken away when we were there, but I was lucky enough to only lose my...my shame. My memories were the same. So I remember. I remember what was said, and every Hoenn, everywhere in every...um...dimension? It'll all be destroyed, and it's supposed to start now...this meteor. Stopping it, I mean, makes everything be destroyed."

She swayed in place a few seconds, as if to sit down, then abruptly remembered she probably shouldn't leave such grim news in the air.

"It's ok, I don't believe it, much. And at least now we know, right?"

TLDR: Listens and recognizes the events that Josh Devlin describes and adds in her own account, recognizing that she was lucky to neither lose her memories or important facets of her personality, and thus has a good account of what happened.

Kaida found she was good at keeping her mouth shut in a rage, at least in human matters. Callousness was to be expected among people, thought she rolled her eyes at paxton concordas mentioning Petalburg's "Double duty". Thin lips and a flash of white in her teeth betrayed her remark "Don't do work then complain about having to do work" Internal, however, she could never say it out loud, not here. This was supposed to be Lars' family, and it was important to her to help him keep it.

All in all, she thought humans were supposed to care about other humans.

When Laurence Anderson spoke back up, she sat up. The speech was completely lost on her, if only cause she understood working with someone she hated (that Fernando multiple times and now Guillermo Marceliño). She disagreed with...many people, didn't mean they weren't the important family she had to protect.

"Thank you, Lars. I will do my absolute best in protection. I will make sure everyone else does too."

TLDR: Is used to working with disagreeable people, so agrees with Lars

The Pokemon froze solid, but judging by the way the ice wriggled, they were not being given a breather for long. At the beginning of the fight, Kaida had thought these were Rocket Pokemon sent to steal from them. Motionless in ice, she suddenly became aware that these Pokemon were too thin, too ragged to possibly be from Rocket. If anything, their Pokemon had to be healthy physically to battle.

"Catch them!" Her yell was accompanied by the throw of a Pokeball, nodding in satisfaction as one of the Trapinch disappeared within, wiggled once, then stopped with a ding. Wild Pokemon then.

Without waiting for Josh's answer, she prepared another Pokeball.

Notes: First time Defend mission.

Josh Devlin

As Lars takes the center of the meeting, Kaida sits up, almost smiling at the familiar face but aware this was likely a serious issue. She was right. The meteor. Supposedly the same meteor that would plunge all life as they knew it into nothingness if they diverted it.

Her thoughts quickly switched to the present as a snarl tore her face. It seemed she still had some leftover aggression from previous events. If nobody else was going to say it, she would. She was just a nobody with a snake, might as well use it!

"Are you serious, Lars!?" She sorta forgot he was their boss, and not her friend here, "A flying sanctuary in Fortree, and we have to defend something!?" She had many problems with the idea already, namely the amount of Pokemon that would likely be hurt in the process, but with the humans present, she figured they wouldn't care. Speaking of not caring...

"Wait, no...I know, they don't care, not about the Pokemon." Her head lowered bitterly, then suddenly rose, "At least let me be there, I know it, I-I know the Pokemon."

Notes: Kaida is being a little to familiar with Laurence Anderson, and protests the Fortree location on account of the giant amount of Pokemon present.

Idunn rushed forward immediately, plucking up pieces of trash and misplaced items. It was as if they were dropped and forgotten about. Kaida stepped over a discarded plate, gathering it as she went. To clean was to make a good habitat, a survivable one. She could do that, to keep a fellow Ranger from becoming sick.

"I'm sorry." The barely audible voice nearly shocked her, but she managed to stay calm, nodding in response.

---

Some time during the cleaning, Kaida lowered her voice so that she wouldn't be heard.

"...Why was he sorry?" She'd seen the eyes he had on her Pokemon sometimes. After her death, the Pokemon that had been present could hardly move for the next few weeks. Their eyes had been the same, trapped in a grief and held down by a hand she could almost see.

Note: First time Medic mission

annalise henderson

"...I hurt my hand doing that. I'm too small." There was a sort of bitterness in her voice, some kind of longing for strength, and then she swallowed it away. In that moment, she had been strong enough, and that was good.

It would be fine, a patrol like this.

---

So of course she found a problem almost immediately.

Around a warehouse, vegetation was trampled. She would almost think it was Pokemon footsteps, but she knew the area and Pokemon here too well. This was a flying-type sanctuary, and many were species that were frightfully territorial. This could neither be their work or some mischievous wild Pokemon.

"...Memo? The south warehouse, something's here."

And with that vague informing of the man, she guided her Yamega down, already spotting attempts to cover footsteps. Thrown dirt, sliding steps, and leaves thrown over differently colored dirt. Actions no Pokemon would take. A snarl started in her throat.

Guillermo Marceliño

As the Sandslash leapt away, shaking painful frost from its spines, Lae bellowed to Kaida. Josh's Dragonair was approaching, and he yelled a plan. The strong Rhyhorn preferred her trainer in safety, and even not understanding much, she understood the end result. Freeze all of them...for a moment, she almost didn't relent. The tires might freeze, but it would be fixable, stolen supplies weren't.

Hooking her arm around the Dragonair, Kaida was lifted up, ready to return her Rhyhorn in the instant needed.

"Do it!"


Notes: First time Defend mission.

Josh Devlin

All at once they were under attack, a heavy hand landed on her arm and Kaida wrenched away violently. The dead eyes of the controlled human couldn't even glare, more a robot than person. Her sleeve ripped as if caught in a vice, and her Ormr hissed futiely at the fearless attackers.

They were going to be torn to pieces if this kept up.

"I'm sorry!" She yelled at Greyson in advance, "Cover your ears!" As if sensing her intentions, her serpent steadied himself on her shoulders. If Glare paralyzed one of the humans, then paralysis could still stop them. It would be a ghastly affair, though.

"Rattlesnake." As her own hands smashed over her ears, the Z-move roared over the crowd, the very sound knocking a few over. Rooted to the ground, Kaida looked to Greyson to free the controlled humans from their puppeteer.

Pokemon: Ormr, Ekans, Male, Shed Skin. Bite, Glare, Acid Spray, Stockpile, Giga Drain, Swallow. Has Z-move Rattlesnake!

Greyson Connors

Eating by her lonesome and waiting for the news Laurence Anderson wanted to give, Kaida was one of the many immediately struck by curiosity and opening her envelop, tilting her head at what was within. All locations she knew, but what could their connection be?

Before she could even try and decipher it, supposedly good news struck. Promotions, a happy affair, a good affair. They were becoming important people. Kaida wondered how such a promotion might feel, then quickly decided she'd hate it. Being in front of that many people, assigned to one city rather than find her way to help across the region? Not her thing.

Clap. Clap. Clap.

Given the two people, she tried to strike a balance between total disinterest and actual celebration. annalise henderson was good, she knew she was good, and deserved this...she couldn't strike a celebration with Guillermo Marceliño , however.

...The result may have looked like and incredibly pissed off mafia boss...