Stuck In Paradise [Zenobia]

[balendin]

Instantly, Balendin found himself standing in the middle of Lavaridge Town. It had been some time since he visited the town. Despite it being in the middle of a violent war zone, this town remained a major Lux vacation spot. Since Balendin tended to never take vacations, it was not surprising that he rarely visited this town.

Balendin removed his hand for the Alakazam's shoulder, but his other hand remained holding that of the little girls. Suddenly a number of Lux security was rushing forward. They surrounded the newcomers pointing rifles at them. Balendin figured he must have violated some sort of local law or something by teleporting without warning into the town. Balendin was quite impressed with their response time. It looked like the admin here was doing a fine job.

He made sure he had a firm grip on the girls hand in case she tried to bolt or freaked out due to the situation, but he was careful not to hold it so hard as to hurt her hand.

"State your name and affiliation," demanded one of the guards.

"Balendin. Sentinel. My Lux ID and sentinel badge are in a pocket on the inside of my overcoat. Do not be alarmed. I am heavily armed."

[zenobia]

One minute she's standing in the ruins of Lilycove, her hand being eaten up by the not so scary man's hand. The next, she's somewhere else. But it isn't really a minute, it's faster than that, faster than the time it takes the little little hand on the click to move from one space to the next - almost faster than she can comprehend, like a blink, or the time it takes an eyelash to grant a wish when you blow it off of your finger - and then everything is suddenly too hot in the wake of the city's chill.

She does not have a name for this new place, this warm place with the small buildings, but she does have a name for what she feels when the angry men with the guns start running toward them - scared.

Her body trembles with fear, and she tries to burrow underneath the not so scary man's coat as best she can, hoping it till turn her invisible until the yelling stops and the bad men go away, but the not so scary man keeps her hand in his and it makes it hard to wiggle all the way underneath his coat, so half of her ends up sticking out, and she knows that they can see her.

She clutches kitty's love ball tight to her chest with her other hand, trying to hide it beneath the bit of coat that she's managed to commandeer, and hopes that they won't see it.

[balendin]

Balendin's Lux ID and Sentinel badge started to float out of the coat and make their way towards the guards. Although his Alakazam did not appear to be doing anything, it was the one responsible for this. It was an old trick that the Alakazam had mastered long ago. Had the guards decided to open fire, they would find their guns to be jammed or they would miss by a long shot due to interference of Alakazam's psychic power. It was not the first time Balendin had teleported and found himself surrounded and it would probably not be the last.

It was not long before his ID was confirmed and the guards were on their way. Balendin made sure to suggest that they obtain ghost or dark type pokemon for the future. Last thing Lavaridge needed was Nox teleporting in with dangerous psychic types and taking out its brave protectors.

"Little girl, do you want to come out from under the coat so we can go to the pokecenter?"

[zenobia]

The angry men have angry voices and, as the not so scary man makes to remove something from his coat, Zenobia coveres herself with more of it until the only visible bits of her are the tip of her nose and an arm that peeks out only to be swallowed up by one of Balendin's massive hands a few inches later. He hasn't let go of her and that should scare her, but right now he's one of the only things that doesn't scare her, and she presses close against him as a few of the angry men come closer to observe the floating ID.

Zeno wonders about that, wonders how it floats like that. Magic, she decides after a moment's consideration,. it's like the stuff the wizards on her favorite tv show can do, the kind of magic that only wizards and pokemon have, and she peeks up at Balendin from beneath the folds of his coat, eyes wide and filled with awe.

She's still staring up at him when the ID returns itself to his pocket and the mean men finally decide to leave them alone and go back to wherever they came from. "Little girl, do you want to come out from under the coat so we can go to the pokecenter?"

Zenobia's expression goes from awed to worried when Balendin mentions the pokecenter. Suddenly, all she can think about is kitty, hurt, and crying, and crammed into the tiny pink ball that she's still clutching to her chest like a lifeline.

The coat bobs once as she nods, but it takes some time before she actually emerges from beneath it all the same, because she has to be sure that the scary men have gone away for good, that they aren't going to come back and get her. And, once that's taken care of, she pops out and looks up at him, her head tilting to the side, questioning. Kitty's ball remains tucked safely against her chest, her knuckles turning white against it.

She tugs once at his hand as if to say 'let's go' and waits for him to lead the way, but once they start walking, she glances up him periodically, chewing at her bottom lip. There's a question burning in her eyes. She wants to ask him if he's a wizard after all, but the words wont come.

[balendin]

Having finally managed to get the girl to come out of hiding, he began to lead her to the direction which the pokemon center should be located while his Alakazam floated after them from behind. If he remembered correctly the pokemon center was sort of in the North central part of town next to the hot springs.

"Have you ever been to a pokemon center? You are going to need to hand your pokeball to the nurse and she will put it into a machine. The machine will then flash a bit and your meowth will be healed. Modern medical science for pokemon has reached amazing levels. If Lux could only convert such technology for human use I can only imagine what good we could do."

Balendin stopped in front of the pokemon center. He nodded to two saluting guards at the entrance as he went in. Apparently his arrival had already been spread to the guards around town. That was good. It would be easier to commandeer a few of them to have them run certain errands for him.

Balendin led the girl up to the counter where the nurse waited.

[zenobia]

Shouldn't a Poke Hospital be bigger? The one in Lilycove was huge. The one here seems so tiny in comparison that she wonders if maybe it's the child of the other, bigger Poke Hospital, the one that she and daddy took the Weedle to, after Michael kept hitting it with a stick, because she wouldn't stop crying until he agreed to save it. She'd chased Michael away all by herself too. He hadn't liked it when he was the one being hit by a stick. Served him right picking on things that were smaller than him! Zenobia was smaller than him too, but not as small as the Weedle was, so it'd been her job to protect it, even if bugs were kinda gross.

The Weedle hadn't made it. When they reached the lady at the counter, she'd frowned and said that he was 'bleeding internally' from the blows. Daddy had later explained it to her, and she'd wished she could do that to Michael for the longest time - hit him until his squishy bits burst open...except the killing part, she didn't really want him dead, she just wanted him to know how it felt so he wouldn't do it again. She hopes that kitty's squishy inside bits are okay.

When they step inside, Zenobia's eyes widen, the lady at this front counter looks like the lady who works at the Lilycove Poke Hospital, and Zeno wonders if they're sisters, because they have to be sister if they look alike, and they really do like alike, as though they were dolls sitting on a shelf instead of working the counter at two Poke Hospitals, each one made to look just like the other.

She reaches up to tug at Bale's sleeve and points at the woman when they reach the counter. She knows that she probably has to give kitty away to the pink haired twin lady for a bit so that he can get better, but she still has to ask, because she doesn't really want to let him go. Not unless she absolutely has to.

[balendin]

Balendin walked into the pokemon center. It seemed that the girl had either not understood his previous comments on how the pokemon center worked or she was reluctant to give the pokemon up. Balendin guessed this was a matter of leading by example. The thing was none of his pokemon were in need of a pokemon center. He had slipped in and out of Lilycove with minimal reliance on pokemon since they would have drawn more attention then necessary. Balendin glanced at Alakazam who had been quietly floating behind them. The psychic type seemed fine. He had only done one teleport.

Balendin returned him to his ball anyways and handed it to the women behind the counter.

"You need to hand over your meowth. Otherwise they cannot help him," Balendin said to the mute girl gesturing to the lady behind the counter.

As he did he caught sight of the PC in the corner of his eye. These were dangerous times and it could be beneficial to provide this girl with a pokemon or two. Something with a little more power then the meowth. It was something to consider for the future.