Recover, Regroup - (1-4)

Rachel · Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 10:21 pm

Jack smiled at Tank, she didn't know who this doctor was but if he was willing to help, fantastic. Little did she know he was the madman behind Hoji's costumed persona. Jack frowned a bit at Hoji, and was about to reply when Sheffer had beaten her to it. When he went quiet, Jack lowered her head, tipping her hat down a bit, she took a deep breath and let it out slow.

Target rubbed his metal head, which had metal hair on top. "Well I lost my body, like, completely. All they found of me was my Intelladrive and scrap metal. But you meat-bags don't get second chances though..."

"Hoji," Jack said, deciding to ignore Sheffer, she simply didn't want to think about it. So she looked up again at the 'super hero'. "You honestly don't want to find these rocks that could level entire cities? You don't want to stop another Yellow Desert from happening? You just think we should let them be wherever they've ended up? Are you out of your mind?!"

psikeout · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:06 pm

OOC: In case anyone wonders why I haven't been posting for the past day or so, it's because I'm pretty much done with my involvement in this thread, and waiting for character stuff to be sorted out so we can start the next one full-swing with some new bad guys and all that good stuff. But, I'll just go ahead and close out my involvement for now.

"Wherever you need to go," replied Rock to Rekk pretty brightly. "Me, Jam, Ace—We're gonna do whatever we can to help get this mess sorted out before it gets any worse."

They were rumbling and rolling on their way out of the lot in no time. "I know you got four-star generals on speed dial, but still," he said loudly, almost having to shout over the noise of the engine and air. "You know what we can bring to the table, too."

Sheff · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:30 pm

"Can I just say that the chances of the emeralds being in populated areas are not very likely?" interrupted Sheffer. "I mean, those things could be anywhere. We're not even sure some of them are even in the same dimension as us right now. Who knows where that portal of Eggman's was sending them. Most of them could just be pointless to go after, for all I know."

Before Jack had a chance to turn her frustration towards him though, he kept going.

"But, you do have a point. They could be in spots like your town... even though we pretty much popped up there with it in the first place. My main priority, though, is to find Eggman first. I have some... hard feelings for him at the moment."

He shrugged then. "And hey, if we take care of him right off the bat, he probably wouldn't go nuking everyone again."

Greens · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:48 pm

Tank did little more than close his eyes, cross his arms, and expel a gentle puff of air from his turtle-y nostrils at the hedgehog's inquiry concerning the explosion. It seemed whatever answer he had in mind was not one he felt like sharing.

"Thee sher-iff is, corlect," he went on with little change in attitude. "Thee dawktur eez not our on-ly potential foe. Theese, emaralds... are far too powerful to be trlasted exposed een any manner. You hahve seen thees farst-hanned." His eyes opened, and his steps took him closer to a nearby window with his massive shell facing the others. "Our mii-shun, as prlotectors ohf thee populace, ees to en-sure that they are safe flom all threats. Eef hwee give Dr. Eggman special treatment now, there will shoorly be a dohzen more dangers to slip flom our grasp."

On those last words, he turned about to face the people he spoke to. Everything about it was surprisingly, respectably dramatic-- even the light and shadow cast on his face from outside. He seemed like he had one more thing to say--

--and then took one last massive, sloppy chomp from his burrito.

Seafarinhare · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 2:08 pm

Well, it seems everyone had the opposing opinion to him on the matter, and it was starting to look like his point of view may have been flawed after all. He looked at Tank, and opened his mouth as if to say something. Then sighed. The burrito thing distracted him.

He looked at Jack, "Seeing another Yellow Desert is the last thing I want. Grabbing an emerald and waiting for him to attack is what happened last time, so hopefully we're better prepared next time..." then shook his head, "But you're right...the emeralds are far too dangerous to leave lying around...

David · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 8:13 pm

Toby wolfed down the easy to swallow mashed potatoes first, downing them with a generous swig of his chocolate milk.

"Hey..."

Next came the pulled-pork sandwich, heavy laden with barbecue sauce.

"Toto, can you slow down for two seconds?"

Toby swallowed hard and took another swig of milk. "...Oh maaaan, I so needed that." He turned to his sister. "So, if everybody came, who have you guys got watching the garden?" The kangaroo rat lifted up the peach and took a bite.

Frankie got up from her seat, walking over to a nearby trash can. "Digit and Skid are taking care of things for the moment." She began to pull the can closer.

Toby choked at the girl's comment, coughing up a piece of peach. "...You guys let Skid watch the garden?

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Meanwhile, at the Emerald Town Chao Garden...

Digit sat near the lake, calmly feeding the chao. "Here you go, little guys..." She patted one on the head. Out of her periphery, she saw a mass floating through the sky. "Oh no..." The girl whipped her glasses off and cleaned them, quickly returning them to her face. Unfortunately, her fears were confirmed when she checked the sky again.

There in the air was Skid Marconi, tied to countless chao, flying slowly upwards.

"SKIIIID!!! THIS IS NOT OKAY!!!"

"CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!

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She shrugged. "Desperate times." Fankie moved the can right next to her brother.

Toby took another drink of his milk. "...S'the trash for?"

"Let's just call it an "I told you so." She smirked.

Rachel · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 8:39 pm

Jack patiently listened to everyone's point of veiw on the subject. Then Hoji spoke up, her eyes narrowed a bit, but she wasn't looking at Hoji. She took a step from the group, towards where she could smell food. It hadn't been a big thing on her agenda but Tanks messy meal and the smell wafting from the cafeteria was drawing her towards it. With a heavy sigh she turned to look at the group from over her shoulder.

"We didn't wait for Eggman to show up." She said in a cold voice. "Some reckless idiot decided it'd be a good idea to hide a weapon of mass destruction on their person in the busy police station." Her glare wasn't at Hoji, it was at Sheff. Clearly she was holding him responsible for his mistake in not to tell her about the rock, and the resulting devastation. But because she wasn't unreasonable and she understood that he probably was ignorant of just what he was doing at the time. Eggman however, would shoulder the full weight of her true rage over the Yellow Desert incident.

"Come with me." She said, her gaze softened as she looked towards the group. "Tank's made me hungry. We'll have to sit and talk about this, and I don't like clogging up the lobby of a hospital."

As Jack headed towards the cafeteria, and sure enough there was a generous amount of food and the rodent she was glad to see in one piece. He was horfing food down as quickly as he could shovel it into his mouth. Jack shook her head but respected the forethought on the lizards part by dragging the trash bin over.

Jack didn't spend a lot of time picking out food, she grabbed herself an apple and went to join Toby. "Mind if we join you?" She asked, she slipped into a seat across from the boy. And while Toby stuffed himself (and the likely emptying as well) she waited for the others to sit and pull another table over. She briefly went over what they'd talked about. "...and I don't want to get you involved again, especially after what happened in the desert, and I don't like the idea of any of us putting ourselves between Eggman's cross-hairs again, but I don't see how any of us can ignore what's happened. Or what's likely to happen if those rocks fall into the wrong hands."

Kazz · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 11:15 pm

Mako, by this point, had long since quietly, stealthy abandoned the group... in favor of shoving what was currently the third sandwich into his toothy mouth, his sister trying her best not to be seen with her... worrying brother, and half-hiding under the table.

"You're disgusting, Marcus," the seven-year-old shark remarked of her brother, eating a pudding cup slowly, delicately, as though watching Mako had made her quite sick.

Mako grinned, popping the rest of the sandwich into his mouth as he pushed his chair back to stand up, looking over as Jack and the rest had entered. "Uh, I think I've business to attend to. Move not, Meemz!"

"Yessir," Mimi said with a mock salute, pulling a handheld game console out of her shorts as though she had been awaiting this moment for ages and quickly became engrossed in it as her brother approached the sheriff.

The older shark rubbed the back of his head, nabbing a fruit (he didn't see what kind) as he passed and walked up behind Jack, listening to her from behind. "We're not goin' on one of those big-ol' hunt things, like in half-baked fantasy novels, are we?" he asked slowly, before he added, "We're not going back to the desert, are we?"
He definitely seemed a lot more concerned about the latter point.

David · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:49 am

Toby turned to the griffin, smiling. "Sure!" He wolfed down another bite of his peach... and all of a sudden, something didn't feel quite right. There was a disturbance in the force, the force being the boy's stomach. "...Urgh..." Toby tried his best to pay attention to what Jack was saying, but just as he was about to respond, the poor boy latched onto the trash can and....

"HUUUUURRGGGHHH!!" There went the lunch he had just been working on putting down.

"Told 'ya so." It served him right, but Frankie couldn't help but feel a little bad. She rubbed Toby's back comfortingly. "...I'll get you a soda..." She walked off to the fountain to pick up the home remedy.

"Uh... oh man..." He breathed a bit. "Milk was a bad idea..." He wiped his mouth off with a nearby napkin and looked back at the griffin.

"Sorry about that..." He took a few steady breaths. "Guess I'm not used to... you know... eating any more." He took a few more breaths, and took the soda as his sister handed it to him. After a sip or two to clear the taste, he formulated his response. "...One of those emeralds was a giant pain. I can't imagine what could happen if he got 'em all." He paused for a moment.

"Can't let that happen. I'm in for whatever you need me for."

Sheff · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 3:33 am

Sheffer had sat down at the table, looking between the members of the now sizable group. Toby definitely didn't seem to be holding up well, seeming to have gotten in the worse condition back in Yellow Desert for a reason still unknown to the hedgehog. He hoped he could get more answers out of them later, but right now, there was still the main issue to address.

"Even though you guys only seem to want to go after the emeralds..." he began, but just stopped there. He had already managed to get his own motives across, Eggman still on his mind. "Well, I'm still going with you. You're going to need me."

"Remember, I'm immune to whatever those things give off now. I haven't had anymore side effects next to... you know." In a small demonstration, he raised his left arm. From his elbow suddenly protruded a greenish crystal, shooting up his forearm and encasing it and his hand within the rock. Flexing his hand into a fist for a moment as he studied his arm, he looked back to the others. "Might come in handy sometime, but something worse could happen to any of you."

With that, the crystal dropped from his arm, having broke the concentration he had given onto the substance. It clattered to the table, Sheffer really not knowing what to do with it. Guess the hospital staff could take care of it later...

Rachel · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 9:21 pm

[]OOC: this would be my attempt to close out this thread.[]

Target picked up a mint and joined the party, standing behind Jack with a hip cocked to the side and a hand planted upon it. When Toby's food came back for one last hurrah he tossed the mint onto the table in front of him.

Jack listened to everyone and nodded slowly. she glanced at all of the young people around her, all of them willingly putting themselves in harms way.

"Mako, I don't recken there's anything left in the desert. So I think it maybe safe ta say no." She said, before she looked to Toby, then to each of the others. "I ain't going to ask any of ya to come with me. But I fig'er that I can't stop you boys if you decide to do this anyway, and I'd feel better about that knowing we where together... All of ya have to know that this ain't goin' to be easy. Next time we might not be so lucky. But like Tank said, my obligation is to protect people. Justice for Eggman can wait if it means saving lives."

She looked at Sheffer, and at the pile of crystal on the table. she stood up, and used an arm to shove all the crystal off the table into the trashcan Toby had finished contributing to.

"Anyone who recken's they can put up with me long enough ta get what needs done, done. Let's finish eatin', sayin' our goodbyes, and move out. Eggman's gotta head start on us..."

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