Escort Quest [Jasper, Mod]

[Olive]

Mal's screech worked out this time. Both of the Ekans, and Raptor, quivered at the terrible banshee-like sound. The snake moving toward Morgan shook off the move and continued with its maneuver, luckily, Raptor was there to save the day. He charged in with his peck and knocked the creature to the ground just before it got to Morgan. Thanks to the lowered defense, the Ekans took the hit pretty hard. its partner hissed at the bird Pokemon and fired another Poison Sting in his direction this time.

The two trainers were finding out that this tail was not going to be even remotely easy to peel off. The skin was rough and scaly, and probably did more harm to the trainers' fingers than they were doing to it. Now read to participate, the two rabbit-Pokemon jumped in to help the doctor and began biting into the tail with all they had. Then, Morgan felt a sharp pain shock her hand, and the creature released its grip. The tail slid back into the underground and an ominous hiss echoed from the hole. Jasper watched as two terrifying yellow eyes blinked red, and then vanished.

It probably wasn't going to come back. Ferals enjoyed a challenge just like any other, but when hunger struck, easy prey was the way to go. Still, it hadn't left without a parting gift. There was a purple spine embedded into the palm of her hand. It was nearly half the size of her pinky in both length and width, and from how lightheaded she was getting, it probably carried a bit of venom as well.

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Mal's Screech was successful! Ekans and Hoothoot's defenses are lowered.
Raptor Pecked Ekans 2 and knocked it down!
Ekans 1 shot a Poison Sting at Raptor!
The creature disappeared.
Morgan's been... poisoned?

[Morgan Lysandre-Fay]

MORGAN

It took Morgan a moment to do anything but stare at the spike in her hand, disbelief overwhelming her common sense. When she finally came to, she removed the spike from her hand hastily and shouted down the hole, "Nique ta mère, vous fils de salope!" After that, she turned around--still kneeling, though she ended sitting on her rear in the middle of the path. When she tried to use her hands to support her as she turned, she found that her right hand was incredibly tender from the sting. Well... actually, the tenderness was entirely credible, given that was probably normally intended for Pokémon who were, for the most part, much more resilient than humans. Huh. 

...Right. "Raptor... Do... that thing you just did again." Pain was making it hard for Morgan to think. "Mal, go... Knock Off. One of them." After giving her best approximation of orders, Morgan squeezed her eyes shut and just... sort of sat there, holding her right wrist in her left hand, unintentionally cutting off some of the blood flow with how tight she was gripping it.

Meanwhile, Raptor doesn't take the time to nod before going in to use Peck again. Mal floated to the other end of the same Ekans and lashed at it with... whatever a Shuppet uses to achieve Knock Off. Does it really have limbs? ...Why was Morgan wondering about this now, of all times? 

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Party:

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• Morgan curses and insults the mysterious feral's mother
• Raptor attempts to Peck Ekans 2
• Malcontent attempts Knock Off on Ekans 2

[+1 TP for Tirtouga (25 tot.)]

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[Jasper Stone]

Jasper was lucky to have reacted when he did, least his eardrums be forever ringing at the very least of it all. It was ironic in a way that he had just been talking about what Screech could do to one’s eardrums and—….this wasn’t the time to be thinking about this. Dropping his hands again and making to claw at the tail at his leg, Jasper couldn’t help the rising agitation. In a split second, he remembered he had a knife in the bag that he was carrying- used more as a medical scalpel mind you, but a knife ever still. Twisting to try and snag it from his bag, Jasper found it harder to do so than expected- though thankfully it seemed the rabbit pokemon were doing something to help with the situation considering they’d been the ones who’d initially been deemed protectable enough for a doctor and a mercenary to jump in Nature’s way. Jasper was mildly regretting that but considering they were trying to help too, he pushed the thought away.

As the tail released his leg, Jasper was all too quick to shove himself back a little, his ankle throbbing and keeping him from standing just yet. Thankfully the tail had not seized direct skin but rather pressed up against his pant leg, though his hands still hurt a little from the anxious demand to be released. The hiss earned a small leer from purple eyes before they reflected that whatever it had been had vanished for now. Jasper bit his lip and glanced at Morgan briefly as she shouted in some language he was unfamiliar with. At a different time, in a different place, he might have asked what she said. However, her tone at the moment was more than enough to assure him that it wasn’t good whatever it was. The doctor’s head jutted sideways as he caught sight of the small stinger that had been yanked, and all too quickly Jasper was looking over Morgan trying to find where it’d come in.

“We need to clean that wound,” he stated finally catching sight of the small hole, and all too quickly doctor mode was on. The bag he had been fumbling with but a second ago was surprisingly easily opened as Jasper whipped out medical supplies. He knew not what exactly had shot the attack but wasn’t going to take any chances with an open wound regardless. Fishing out the alcohol and a rag, Jasper quickly dabbed said rag into the alcohol and ended up pressing it onto the wound not bothering to ask permission. What kind of poison… his mind ticked with various remedies but considering the path normally wasn’t filled with Ekans of all things Jasper found himself faltering. No. Think. he mentally ordered himself.

It was in that strange moment he thought to release Aurora again. She could at least stand guard at this point least whatever it was come back. Fishing out the pokeball he had been considering releasing for a while now, Jasper released it causing the small blue dog to take form. “Aurora!” was the order causing the Riolu to bristle startled at the tone. “Keep on guard,” Jasper ordered. Keep on guard? Keep on guard for what? Where were they? She’d been taking a nap! Rubbing her eyes, the Riolu made a small yip sound before nodding looking around sharply for anything or anyone.

[Morgan Lysandre-Fay]

MORGAN

Blink. Blink blink. "Oh, uh, thank you," Morgan said somewhat belatedly as she realized Dr. Stone was tending to her hand. "I... apologize. For, er... being rather poor at this--guard...ing...thing." There was barely room in her pain-addled brain to be mortified at her lack of words. That's the best you can do, Morgan? On the other hand, it wasn't just pain, the light-headedness was... Significantly worrying, come to think. ...Welp.

[nothing significant happened aside from reacting to Jasper so I'm not doing an end-post thing here, not even for TP.]

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[Olive]

The Ekans that had been knocked down barely had a chance to make another move before it was hit by the double attack. A slight hiss came from its mouth before its head dropped to the ground. One down. Unfortunately, Hoothoot's lack of dodging caused him to be hit by a rather nasty Poison Sting from the other Ekans.

Before giving the two domestics time to react, said Ekans managed to swivel around to the Shuppet's side. n, Then, with a speed that shocked all viewing, it jumped up, rings and eyes blazing red, grabbed the ghost with its hyper-extended mouth, and brought it to the ground. Mal's entire head, well body, was in the snake's grasp, the Pokemon could easily swallow the ghost whole, or perhaps do the more effective task of just biting down on her as hard as it could. Yikes.

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Ekans 1 fainted! Raptor & Mal gain 5.5 EXP each!
Ekans 2 hit Raptor with Poison Sting!
Ekans 2 has Mal by the head!

[Jasper Stone]

Jasper paused as Morgan spoke, his purple eyes regarding her features that looked paler than before. Trying not to grit his teeth, Jasper couldn’t hide the look of worry that was flickering across his face. He should have brought Antidote or even Anti-venom, but again the thought that Ekans were on this route make sense. Where had they come from? “Are you feeling alright?” Purple eyes glanced up the road. They were still far from New Pallet, and as purple eyes flashed backwards, he regarded just how far away Port City was. “You’re blanched…” he noted after a moment glancing forwards again. “We should try and get back to Port City.”

Meanwhile with Jasper distracted, Aura was left standing there- up until she noticed the battle transpiring, anyways. O-oh that was what Jasper meant? In a sudden battle cry that caused even Jasper to bristle briefly and glance back, the Riolu charged into the fighting. They were fighting the uh… snakes or something right? They didn’t look domestic or? Uh… Yeah she’d go with that. Shifting into her fighting stance more readily, Aurora waited for but a moment turning her foot the correct number of degrees necessary to ensure she didn’t hit an ally. As the Ekans jumped and managed to get ahold of Mal, the Riolu came barreling straight at it with sudden self-ordered Quick Attack- effectively making to kick the snake when she got close enough rather than hit it with her full body. That was Aurora, for you, though.

[Morgan Lysandre-Fay]

MORGAN

Morgan was only barely paying attention to the battle, but when she saw Malcontent be grabbed by the head she at least was able to process that that was very bad. She cried out, something that sounded a bit like either "No!" or "Mal!" but it was hard to say which, and struggled to get up despite Dr. Stone's attentions to her hand. 

Luckily, Mal was as calm as ever. She couldn't hear her trainer? That wasn't a problem, she'd taken her own reigns before. From per position inside the Ekans' slimy mouth, she opened her own--maybe nothing's gross to a ghost who's only half-here?--and let out another powerful Screech. 

Raptor, having not heard anything that even had the semblance of an order, took action on his own as well. His situation didn't demand anything in particular, also decided to do his own thing--this time in the form of a Tackle aimed at the Ekans' raised neck/upper body portion. He didn't know exactly what effect he was aiming for, aside from 'let go of my friend you butt' but that seemed like the way to do it, to him. 

Morgan calmed down a bit when she saw and heard her Pokémon were doing...well...enough on their own, but still struggled to get up. "No, Doctor, I'm... fine. We can't go back now--and--I need to help my Pokémon an--"

She paused in the middle of a word. "I, I have a Full Heal in my bag, do you think... that would work? On a human, I, uh, that is? It's... poison--venom--something--from a Pokémon, so it totally..." She never quite finished her sentence, dropping back down to her knees to dig into her bag with her left hand, looking for that Full Heal.

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Party:

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• Malcontent (Shuppet) attempts Screech on Ekans 2
• Raptor (Hoothoot) attempts Tackle on Ekans 2
• Morgan is digging in her bag for a Full Heal

[+1 TP for Tirtouga (26 tot.)]

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[Jasper Stone]

The cry from Morgan caused Jasper to flinch, and as she started to get up, he set a hand on her shoulder quickly. “Please stay back down if you are poisoned it will only spread quicker if you move and cause your heart to pump faster,” Jasper didn’t even take a breath in the entire sentence the worry still very evident in his voice. By this point he was sure she’d been poisoned, however. It was not an if so much as a when. As she continued to struggle to get up, he frowned. She was not fine, and --- Full Heal? “Yes that would work it has antivenom to various pokemon poisons along with,” Jasper would have continued the discussion of the miraculous powers of such drugs but paused. “Humans can take it,” he stated aloud.

[Olive]

As the Full Heal (which belongs to whom I'm not sure) was applied to Morgan's hand, a deep purplish-red began to ooze out. The consistency was.. different than blood, but... What was it? The dizzy symptom was beginning to lift ever so gradually, but her eyes seemed to be bloodshot, like, extremely bloodshot. She'd be fine to continue on now though.

The remaining Ekans was no match for the triple attack, even if it held one in hostage. Which, honestly turned out to be not such a great idea at all. Shuppet's scream rattled the snake's head badly enough to take it out alone, but with the combination of Aurora's physically boosted attack and Raptor's peck, the poor thing was fried. Ekans subconciously spat out the ghost before collapsing to the earth in a coiled position. Its rings and eyes flickered red, then faded.

Buneary and Bunnelby peeped their heads out from behind the trainers to see that their predators had fainted. With a couple of whispered squeaks to each other, they began to sneak away from the humans before darting off in their escape.

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Ekans 2 fainted!
Aurora & Raptor gain 3.3 EXP
Mal gets 3.4 since she was almost eaten.
The bunnies are attempting to sneak away!

[Morgan Lysandre-Fay]

MORGAN

Morgan stared at her hand as her [it was hers] Full Heal was applied by Dr. Stone. Oh... oh god, did the venom do that to her blood? Or was that something else? What else could it be, Morgan, of course that was fouled blood. She turned to her left and started gag-coughing, trying to keep her hand still as her friend worked on it and... rather failing, really. 

Her head was feeling better, though. That was... a start? Even if now her stomach was turning itself over. She... hadn't had breakfast, had she? That was actually a good thing to have forgotten, for once, or else... Well, surely Jasp--Doctor Stone--dealt with vomit often enough anyway but still, Morgan was very glad to not have to deal with that issue, especially given her nausea was (...probably?) less from the venom and more from her own weak reactions. Also, it was just gross and while her pants were already nasty and muddy that was an entirely different matter from being puke encrusted, the least of which being it didn't smell and... So, yeah. Good thing she hadn't eaten. Of course... she might not have reacted as strongly to the venom if she'd not had an empty stomach... 

Oh, well?

When she finished coughing, Morgan managed to finally notice her Pokémon ambling about next to their proverbial kills, and the bunnies sneaking off into the distance. "We... should probably catch those. I... I do have two Pokéballs in my bag. Let me..." She took her right hand back from Dr. Stone, though only used it to hold open her bag by pinching the fabric between her index finger and thumb, doing the actual digging with her less-deft left hand. "After last time I, ah... Interfered... I thought it would be a better idea to catch the aggressor rather than the victims. Do you want one of the Ekans? It doesn't matter to me, so long uh, as they are caught, who takes care of them..." Morgan wasn't sure if her shortness of breath was from lingering venom effects or her coughing spurt, or maybe just... shock in general. 

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Party:

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• nothing moddable happens

[+1 TP for Tirtouga (27 tot.)...assuming we're still doing post-TP?]

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