{Animus}

[adstring_npc]

[ there is a static hum on everyone's PCD, as the screen goes black. it starts to whisper, before ghostly voices seep through the communication lines ]


look out

and over there

you can never be _too c a r e f u l

we won't let you

Comments

[masked-elite.livejournal.com]

....that's not funny.

[Deep breath, god, he feels like a child again.]

It's not.

[iceandivory.livejournal.com]

Yes!

[adstring-npc.livejournal.com]

you snuck one out

we want them all

[masked-elite.livejournal.com]

[Deep breath.]

Y-yes sir.

[Resolve, he can have it.]

You... you either, okay?

[caped-elite.livejournal.com]

How am I supposed to know any of this?! I've just arrived here and some thing just told me that they ate my friends, something supposedly all-powerful and all-knowing! It isn't a stretch of the imagination to assume that it's possible!

[adstring-npc.livejournal.com]

we can't hear the birds

for not seeing us

[caped-elite.livejournal.com]

You'll get my last dragonite over my dead body.

[iceandivory.livejournal.com]

That's why I'm telling you now.

[caped-elite.livejournal.com]

... I will extract as much information as necessary in order to figure out what they are.

No more than that.

[AKA: He won't go kill something. Yet.]

[adstring-npc.livejournal.com]

that's not a good trade

[masked-elite.livejournal.com]

Hey- how could she have picked up something from another dimension? That isn't fair-

[ELITE FOUR WRATH TIME.]

I'll find you- and I'll make you give them back. Sir Lance and I both will show you- [He sort of weakly tapers off there.] -we'll... we'll show you...

[caped-elite.livejournal.com]

[Well, he can't argue with that. He presses his fingertips against his forehead for a moment to calm himself before making an annoyed 'tch'.]

It's noted.

[And he's off to go make sure Will isn't hyperventilating or some shit. Goddammit.]

[adstring-npc.livejournal.com]

we can't protect you either

[caped-elite.livejournal.com]

What would you find suitable for trade, then?

[Not that he'd consider it. He has to take care of Will and shit. But to know that it's possible... is tempting.]

[masked-elite.livejournal.com]

I'll try, too.

[Still a little shaky.]

But- you don't really think that they could have- ...

[flameandpassion]

... so you're going to make us hurt ourselves?

[adstring-npc.livejournal.com]

it's not fair

be careful
or we'll take the last

[iceandivory.livejournal.com]

...Ah. [Siiiiiigh. Stupid animus.]

[masked-elite.livejournal.com]

[Oh fuck no, you did not just threaten his baby.]

If you so much as touch her-

[STAY STRONG FOR LANCE.]

...how, then? How do you take them? Where are the others?

[adstring-npc.livejournal.com]

another sun
we're still cold

[iceandivory.livejournal.com]

Tch.

[Baibai now. Gotta make sure Lance doesn't die of cardiac arrest.]

[adstring-npc.livejournal.com]

from everything

[masked-elite.livejournal.com]

That's not an answer.

[adstring-npc.livejournal.com]

not make
just facilitate

[caped-elite.livejournal.com]

[Hear that sharp intake of breath, Animus? That is Lance fighting the urge to utterly flip the fuck out. When he speaks, his voice is unusually cold and tight.]

Leave. My Charizard. Alone.