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When Luka started asking questions of his own, Sachiko dropped her microphone and began to sniffle again, tears welling up in her eyes once more.

"You don't...you don't like my first question?" she squeaked, ready to start bawling again. "Passerby Analytics HQ said they were good questions...you don't...*sniff*...you don't like them?"

((Finally, Sorry Jump, my interwebz were shut down for the past couple days sweatdrop ))

Takamaru's disappointment was evident, his sigh and slumped shoulders enough to show this. However, his disappointment was gone as quickly as it came, the youth now standing straight, clenched fists, a fire in his eyes. Determination seeping from every orifice on his body.

Takamaru started off at a jog down the ally, quickly by passing N. on his way by he'd turn around, now jogging backwards in place. "Thanks N." it was a simple statement, but it was pretty obvious that Tk was over joyed to have any lead at all to lancer's whereabouts's. the twinkle in his youthful eyes, and wide smile said this well enough.

and with that he was off, searching the surrounding alleyways, calling Lancer's name about every 15 seconds or so. Not staying in one spot for long, he was but a silver blur to any on lookers, Making sure to check just about every nook and cranny. He'd turn this entire city upside down if it ment finding his Karrablast.

((:O oh my gosh. this needs to be fixed, now.))

Blaze kept one eye one the teen whom was attempting to wake his trainer. he didn't growl nor stand at her approach, he knew her scent. anyone else however, stayed plenty far back. the large canine slowly started wagging his busy tail back and forth, he anticipated a battle.

with a snort, the boys eyes slowly opened, seeing the outline that was Henrietta. at first glance he took her to be takamaru, what with both of them being in such close proximity to the ground and all. Hiba raised his arms above his head, his bi-ceps flexing as he stretched, his mouth open, gulping in air in a long and dawn out yawn. "Go..good morning, Henrietta." He finished, using the back of his fist to wipe the sleep from his eyes.

'Why's every one gotta wake me?'

(( sweatdrop ))

Hiba looked Henrietta up and down, raising one of his eye brows in a curious manner. To him Henrietta did not look like the battling type, especially not that type to challenge a person to a battle. but according to Takamaru, she's capable of handling herself in a battle. He was curious as to see just what kind of people Tk was hanging around with.

"yea, i don't see why not!" his blood was pumping now. Standing, he'd walk out toward the pier, standing so he was facing in a parallel direction to said pier. giving him and Henrietta plenty of battling room.

"alright then, your the challenger, so what be the rule's?" Hiba stood straight, arms folded, a determined look in his eyes, and an excited grin. behind him assembled Blaze, Jaws and Appu. blaze standing behind him to his right, appu sitting on his back. and Jaws standing just in front of him, so his left.

((Artemis! Where you at?))

Sachiko shook her head and furrowed her brow. "No you *sniff* didn't, you-you just said it was horrible! Is it *sniff* because I f-forgot to say answer Yes or No?"

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Jump grinned and put his hands on his hips, taking a step back to size up Wayne. "I gotta tell ya, you're in for a real hell of a fight if you wanna step to Bronius. Did you see another guy from Team Plasma dressed in Sage robes? Super huge dude? That's Gorm."

The Interpol Agent held up five from one hand and a peace sign with the other. "He, Bronius, and that Goatsis guy who's always spittin' Plasma bullshit are part of the Seven Sages of Team Plasma. I heard Goatsis found them from all over the world, and that they're all famous scholars or something. Also if they're anything like Gorm, they're tough as hell. He even gave Artemis and your old man a hard time. Fortunately-"

He did a hurricane kick and flicked his nose with his thumb upon landing. "I was there to save the day. Anyway, I like your attitude, but do you know what you're in for? For real?"

"Pfft..."

Wayne looked away. Aside from their group, the park was empty. Even Yana had disappeared. He'd been training all morning, slowly getting stronger even as the rest of the world came and went.

"I never know what I'm in for until it happens," he said, "dude, that's just life. All I wanna do is get my pokémon back from these guys. They could murderers or rapists or whatever - I don't give a s**t. It doesn't change a thing."

He looked back over to his pokémon. Petilil and Solosis hiding behind Hitmonlee.

"I had it bad myself, but I was lucky enough that there were people out there willing to take care of me, to protect me like I was real family. I just..." Wayne sighed, tussling his hair as he got his words together, "I let the family I made get broken apart, and now I have to fix it. That's my responsibility. And I'm not gonna let anyone get in my way."

He blinked. "Or somethin' like that, I dunno. Whatever. I just wanna learn how to fight like you and da-- Zack. We can go with Zack. I only call him dad so I don't have to dip into my life story every 2 minutes. Any idea how annoying it gets telling the same shitty story over and over? Blah. So yeah. How do you move so fast anyway?"

So Henrietta was up first? Hiba was being a gentleman and that was cute, but Henrietta was a serious battler. The moment it was called in that they were starting her expression changed. No longer did it hold that timid embarrassment for her outfit, it held determination.

"Create a spark," Henrietta told Socant as he skittered forward. Stopping, he nodded his head. He'd been practicing in the desert for some odd hours, right? How well could he control it now, in a stable environment?

The ball of electricity sparked to life instantly, there was no trouble, no difficulty. His ability to stabilize it in previous conditions had helped him master the form. The Electro Ball was launched toward Croconaw - Jaws - at its weakest level, if only because of their closeness in speed.(no levels so we run off of base stats unless people show that they're training individually stats logically)