☠ Still here like a cheap threat

Kyanna watched them take their leave, keeping her gaze locked on the two until they disappeared out of her sight. Then, she turned back to her green-haired companion and shook her head with a sigh.

“I’m so sorry you had to go through that, they’re.. they’re good people, I promise.” Of course she couldn’t speak for everyone in Team Skull, and maybe she was biased but she did strongly believe that none of her fellow teammates had a truly bad bone in their body, even if they tried to. Not even the locals took them seriously, just saw them as an annoyance and little more, looked down on them even. 

“I guess you could say that, I’m no admin or anything like that but I do bake a lot of cookies and stuff. That’s something they appreciate about having me around, I guess…”  

Liah’s gaze softens as Kyanna defends her fellow grunts with an almost motherly air, nodding slightly as the tall Skull woman looks after their retreating figures. Previously frightened by the aggressive encounter, the empathetic Lady feels her heart twinge with sad sympathy. How many of these Grunts have families, or even love, in their lives? When Liah glances back up at Kyanna again, there’s an understanding smile on her face. 

She pressed onward, vaguely certain she was going the right way. Damn place was a maze like something out of a video game: completely unreal, and yet here they were. 

She only stopped in her tracks when Liah asked a question she, admittedly, wasn’t sure how to answer. Caught off guard, she remained silent for a moment, long enough to come up with something that would be vague as to not unload her entire life story on someone she just met not long ago.

“Well.. I had a gig somewhere else first, but it didn’t really... work out I guess? Heard about a bunch of troublemakers makin’ themselves at home in Po Town and I guess I was sort of.. drawn there.” She explained, sparing the details of why and hoping it was a sufficient answer.

She then turned around and offered a reassuring smile, as she wasn’t really bothered by being asked these things at all, there were just some key details she preferred to keep hidden away from others.

She rolled her eyes in response, now somewhat regretting even bringing up her old connections from home sweet home. This wasn’t going to get her anywhere, go figure, but she felt like she’d dug herself too deep to just turn around and leave. That, and she wasn’t about to let this guy get away with insulting her dear friends and accusing her of being a thief. Sure, that last bit may have been true at one point, but she never stole entire Pokemon or anything like that. Mostly lighters, small stuff she could conceal easy and get away with.

Oh, bleh!

The nerve! The absolute buffoonery of it all! Faba shudders more violently with growing disbelief and detestation for the situation that he’s been dealt. But she couldn’t have said it better herself– it’s nothing short of an honor to dispose of such an obscene blot from an otherwise perfect premises.

“…With such foolishness, one might think that you don’t know either,” Of course, there is a simple, scientific explanation for her challenge, one that perhaps, many would be able to presume with little information given, but even so, Faba still doesn’t bend, recognizing the situation to be one that benefits from minimal arrogance.

Although, it is difficult to manage, so he grits his teeth some before resuming his lecture.

No, that wasn’t good enough. She needed something more to go on, and she wasn’t going anywhere until she got what she wanted. Boy, was she desperate if pure spite alone was enough to make her hang around her arguably least favorite place in all of Alola.

Liah breathes a little easier when Kyanna voices her disapproval, stepping to the side as the tall Skull Grunt inserts herself into the confrontation. The two aggressive thugs immediately change their tune as well, wincing childishly upon receiving a motherly scolding from their apparent superior. When Kyanna refers to her as a friend, Liah can’t help but smile with surprise–the pink-haired leader seemed to be trustworthy after all, a needed ally in a strange encounter…

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Kyanna watched them take their leave, keeping her gaze locked on the two until they disappeared out of her sight. Then, she turned back to her green-haired companion and shook her head with a sigh.

“I’m so sorry you had to go through that, they’re.. they’re good people, I promise.” Of course she couldn’t speak for everyone in Team Skull, and maybe she was biased but she did strongly believe that none of her fellow teammates had a truly bad bone in their body, even if they tried to. Not even the locals took them seriously, just saw them as an annoyance and little more, looked down on them even. 

He finds it easy enough to play along with her tripe, much more so than sizing her up. My, oh my, how intimidating! But… in a place like this, the cards remain in his hand, as far as invulnerability goes, so he offers instead, a half-hearted shrug, with a flouting gaze upward, “and what an honor it is… Tell me, did you bring any of the others? How unfair it must be that you get to have all the fun.”

But she glances over his taunts to announce that she is there on her own volition, tailing someone else, and it elicits a frown from Faba.

Well, no matter. There is more than enough fun to be had with just the one Skull Thug all on her own.

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She rolled her eyes in response, now somewhat regretting even bringing up her old connections from home sweet home. This wasn’t going to get her anywhere, go figure, but she felt like she’d dug herself too deep to just turn around and leave. That, and she wasn’t about to let this guy get away with insulting her dear friends and accusing her of being a thief. Sure, that last bit may have been true at one point, but she never stole entire Pokemon or anything like that. Mostly lighters, small stuff she could conceal easy and get away with.

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It was weird for Kyanna to be seen at Aether Paradise, it wasn’t really somewhere she spent too much of her time. Frankly, she felt out of place, being there kinda still made her skin crawl no matter how many times she told herself nothing shifty is going on around here anymore. It was just an irritating, nagging feeling in the back of her head she couldn’t silence.

It was cool though, she’d be fine once she found who she was looking for, got what she wanted, then she could be on her merry way. If they were around at least, though people from Ultra Megopolis were sort of hard to miss.

Kyanna took the elevator to the conservation area, relaxing just a little more when she stepped off and took in her surroundings. She liked this part of the foundation, if only because the Pokemon were all pretty friendly.

She had barely gone far when she felt one of the pokeballs on her belt start to tremble, and without even so much as touching it, her Primarina appeared in front of her in a flash of light.

“.. You’re looking to play with the others around here, aren’t you?” Really she didn’t even have to ask, the look the water-type was giving her had already made it quite obvious, and while she really wasn’t keen on sticking around long…

“Alright, but we’re not overstaying our welcome, ‘kay?”

Why, without such clearance to do as he pleased, Faba found himself in a rut; one that seemed thousands of feet deep at least.

As unfulfilling as it may be, the work really wasn’t so bad; it was easy enough, when of course, it didn’t find a way to mercilessly humiliate the defamed man of science. Reduced to feeding and cleaning up after the Pokemon… Pah!

But he swears it’s of no matter, and resigns to his fate of spreading more feed for the Slowpoke nearby. He’d find a way with due time.

“Oh…! Just hurry up and eat already!”

Entirely oblivious to his vexation as they were, the Slowpoke only continue to mingle rather than eat. 

Easy, stodgy work for easy, stodgy Pokemon.

... Oh no.

“You had me worried sick, mister.”

The reunion of Baby and Kyanna was so warm that Liah felt all of her uneasiness melt away. She had to smile as the intimidating woman dropped to her knees and readily picked up Berries–behind her playful scoldings, the pink-haired rebel seemed to care deeply for her Pokemon. Although they had only spent a short time together, Liah could feel her perception of a Skull Grunt shifting towards a more positive light. Still, surprise flooded her features when Kyanna glanced up and offered her some kind words of thanks–and a favor. Had the locals completely misjudged these outcast youths, or what? If not, Kyanna was the exception to their rule–breaking stereotypical molds every second.

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Kyanna finished picking up the berries that were still in good shape and let Baby hop up on her shoulder before she got back up again, basket in hand.

“Oh for sure! I’ve still got plenty of these things left thanks to my little buddy here, but I have to warn you that I only vaguely know my way around that place.” She admitted, “though sometimes I find it’s getting out of there that’s the hard part."