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[Dragoncat]

This topic will be used for stuff like oneshots, short little things. Post comments in this thread.

Let's start with some Pokemon villains, hell yeah! Based heavily on the Turf Wars RP I run.

Team Lore/Studies

 

Team Rocket
Boss: Giovanni
Admins: Archer, Ariana, Proton, Petrel
Origin: Kanto

Most known for their takeover of the Johto radio tower, Team Rocket can appear like bumbling idiots, but the higher ups are sneaky, successful criminals. They’ve done murders and trafficking of illegal substances.

Their boss was once a gym leader in Kanto, and he balanced that with his criminal enterprise shockingly well. He once had a lover: a redheaded Silph Co secretary named Roselle. She did a good job of hiding the relationship from her coworkers. But when she became pregnant, she knew the secret would be out if she didn’t act fast. She quit her job, fled the city of Saffron, and changed her name to Scarlet. Giovanni allowed her to live with him in his mansion. He actually looked forward to having a child, someone he could train to follow in his footsteps someday.

The child was born with his mother’s fiery colored hair, and piercing silver eyes from a more distant ancestor, so he was named Silver. But Giovanni thought the eye color came from elsewhere...he thought Roselle/Scarlet had cheated on him. The resulting rage from him made her take the baby and run. She fled to Johto and settled in Cherrygrove, where Silver grew into a troubled teen due to the lack of a father figure in his life.

The highest ranking admins are Archer and Ariana. Archer is Giovanni’s right hand man. Cold and calculating, he comes up with quite a few ideas for heists that Giovanni likes. The infamous Lake of Rage incident with the red gyarados was his idea. Ariana has the men in the team wrapped around her finger. She’s a femme fatale type who can make a male Rocket grunt do anything she wants with just a sultry gaze and a command. It only works on the grunts though, Giovanni’s immune to it and Archer will just try to argue with her the majority of the time.

Ariana's act normally works on Petrel because he's somewhat gullible and dimwitted, and worked on Proton just once, but not any more. Proton is almost constantly trying to stop Petrel from letting her manipulate him. It's unknown why Giovanni keeps Petrel in his rank, but he must have his reasons.

Team Magma
Boss: Maxie
Admins: Tabitha, Courtney
Origin: Hoenn

Team Magma is a small nuisance to law enforcement, they haven’t done anything more major than robbing banks and stealing vehicles. There are rumors of them being violent, but they have yet to be proven.

Their boss is a sharp dressed business man, but surprisingly, he began life in the Fallarbor countryside as part of a farm family. His parents expected him to inherit the farm, but Maxie was more ambitious. He went to college and got a degree in enviromental studies. Meanwhile his parents’ farming business went under, they couldn’t afford to keep it going with the rising prices of everything.

It was then that Maxie started the team. His main dream of expanding the landmass goes along with his rural roots. If there’s more land, there will be more space and opportunity for the agriculture industry. This is in direct opposition to Team Aqua. The two teams clash and sometimes they get violent and there has been a few fatalities.

Admin Tabitha is a man with a temper to match his height. Maxie often uses him as someone who “gets rid of obstacles”, meaning he sends him out to deal with people who become direct threats to the team. He’s loyal like a mightyena, complete with the “fangs”. The other admin is a woman named Courtney, who is well educated like Maxie and helps him with the tech, blueprints, etc. She’s loyal too, but prefers to let others do the dirty work.

Team Aqua
Boss: Archie
Admins: Matt, Shelly
Origin: Hoenn

Unlike their rival, Team Aqua is a good sized nuisance. They act like pirates, terrorizing anyone on a boat or in the water and sometimes they use force to steal a boat they like. The coast guard has to deal with their antics.

Their boss, Archie, is a rough and tumble former sailor. He grew up in Slateport and fell in love with the sea. All life comes from the sea, so he wants to see it expanded, and despite his underlings stealing fishing boats, he's pro fisherman. He seems to go back and forth on the welfare of sea pokemon, however. He calls things like tentacools and anything that steals fish from nets "pests", wailmers are "big and stupid", but sharpedos are "noble predators".

Archie once saved the life of a shipwrecked man who washed up on the coast of an island outside of Slateport. He found him unconscious and arranged for him to be airlifted to the nearest hospital. The man didn't remember where he came from, but he remembered his name was Matt. Matt figured he owed Archie his eternal gratitude and is now an Aqua admin. He works beside Admin Shelly, a fisherman's daughter who has always been a rebel at heart.

Team Galactic
Boss: Cyrus
Admins: Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, Charon
Origin: Sinnoh

A team that focuses on space, energy, and the like. They're viewed mostly as a "weird cult" and aren't usually taken seriously. They steal pokemon and can get violent, but mostly they just do rituals to appease their "dark lord Giratina", which sometimes, but not always, require a sacrificial pokemon victim. Some people think they sacrifice humans, but this has yet to be proven.

Their boss was an orphan, and has always been antisocial. When he was growing up in foster care he spent the majority of the time holed up by himself reading about the wonders of the universe. As an adult, Cyrus is still interested in outer space and the energy that comes from it, solar energy etc. All the electricity Team Galactic uses comes from solar panels. They scoff at coal and even wind power.

When someone gets an admin role in Team Galactic, they get a code name related to space. The highest ranking admins are Slater "Saturn" and Marion "Mars". Their son Merc, short for Mercury, is closer to his parents than to the Galactic boss, but that's expected, Cyrus has never liked kids, even though Merc is a teen now.

Mars is the dominant one in the relationship, her temper can be short and she's generally not as calm as Saturn or even their son. She was promoted first and bonded with Saturn over their duties and his way up the ranks. He's more passive, but has a slight ego. His talent speaks for itself, he was made an admin for that sole reason.

The other two admins are Charles "Charon" and Jewel "Jupiter". Charon is the oldest, older than even Cyrus by a decade or two. He's bitter at having "young whippersnappers" being the higher ranked admins, but perfectly fine with Cyrus where he is. He spends most of his time doing anything science related and normally leads the research projects. Jupiter keeps to herself mostly and it's clear that she and Mars don't get along, rumored to be because she was interested in Saturn and didn't get him, but they clashed even before that.

Team Plasma
Boss: Ghetsis
Admins: Zinzolin, Gorm, Bronius, Rood, Giallo, Ryoku
Origin: Unova

Team Plasma claims to be against pokemon cruelty, saying it's cruel to be a trainer, but they are trainers too. In reality they're just saying "nobody but us should be allowed to train pokemon". People see them as the hypocrites they are. They steal pokemon and attempt to spread their propaganda through intimidation.

Their boss is a sly one with many layers. He once adopted an orphan and named him Natural Harmonia, N for short. Ghetsis raised N to believe he was his birth father. The boy was pampered and his head was filled with the false goals of Team Plasma, the liberation of all pokemon. In reality Ghetsis was aiming for world domination, being the power hungry man he is.

N eventually found out the truth, fled the team, and was labeled as a traitor. He aims to help pokemon in his own way. Ghetsis doesn't pursue him, he doesn't see him as enough of a threat, just a disobedient little scamp who's not worth it.

Ghetsis, along with the admins, were once called the "seven sages". N was the leader before he left, or rather he was being groomed to be. Out of the remaining six, Zinzolin has the most authority and acts as Ghetsis' second in command. He shares his sly and manipulative nature.

Team Flare
Boss: Lysandre
Admins: Xerosic, Aliana, Bryony, Celosia, Mable
Origin: Kalos

A team with a big ego, they aim to "make the world beautiful" and shun anything they find ugly. According to them, some people are better/more beautiful than others. The best kind of people in their eyes have light skin and bright, exotic looking natural hair colors. Reds and oranges are the best of the best. Nobody who doesn't fit those standards can join, and there's also a high entry fee.

Their boss, Lysandre, was born to a rich couple who owned multiple cafes in Lumiose. He was an only child because his parents had fertility issues, and he was two months early and tiny and weak. His parents spoiled him rotten and he grew up believing he could do no wrong and the world should bow down to rich people such as himself.

He only had one close friend, Xerosic, who also had rich parents. That was until they made a business deal with someone from Johto. The plan was to joint own their company and both sides would get a profit, but the Johto native ripped them off and they no longer own the company and get no profit from it. The incident made Lysandre and Xerosic begin to see other regions' natives as slimey, untrustable, inferior people.

Team Flare mainly operates in Kalos and attacks tourists, sometimes with words, sometimes physically with anything from fists to knives to guns. They have an interest in going elsewhere, but see their home region as the most beautiful.

Team Skull
Boss: Guzma
Admin: Plumeria
Origin: Alola

The least organized team, it's more like a group of troublemaking street urchins than anything. They do vandalism, shoplifting, sometimes drug dealing, and assaults.

Many members come from broken homes and foster care, but some are just rebels with a "f the police" attitude. The only admin is the daughter of a biker who gets in trouble with the law himself at times. The leader had a rough childhood, with an alcoholic father and a mother who was too meek and passive to do anything to make the situation better. Guzma and Plumeria met at an early age and have always been close.

Guzma started the team in his late teenage years as a way to lash out at everyone who had made his life miserable: his parents and the authority figures who constantly called him things like "rotten kid" and "little punk". He made Plumeria his second in command for obvious reasons. Their relationship is strictly platonic. He expressed an interest in her once by using a stupid pick up line, but she was seeing someone else at the time. She's single now but he just sees her as a trusted ally these days.

You might have noticed an OC in there...if not, reread the Galactic part. Okay, so maybe Silver's mother looks like an OC, but she's not, she's just there. The said OC, I created as an example for a contest I came up with on GTS Plus. Contest theme was make an OC who's the child of a villain team leader and/or admin. Only got one entry but I liked him enough to keep him. And you'll see him in action below.

Numbskulls in Space

Spoiler

WROOOOOOOOOOoooooOOOOOOOO

INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT!

ROOOOOOooooroooooOOOOO

If it wasn't the alarm that woke him up, it was his trusty growlithe howling at the top of his lungs along with it. The teen's eyes flicked open and he jolted, conking his head on the wall and landing on the floor in a writhing heap. His growlithe stopped howling for a moment to tilt his head at the sight.

"Merc, take Rex and get out here now!" A man's voice. "The intruder alarm is going off! Actually, get the rest of your team too!"

The growlithe, once he was certain his trainer was okay, went back to the door and continued howling. Merc freed himself from the blankets and groggily, but hastily, gathered the pokeballs that contained the rest of his team, along with his backpack. He had fallen asleep fully clothed, which was a good thing.

Rex scratched the bedroom door, then ran out bristling and growling when it was opened. He sat down beside the blue haired man, who gave his son a proud look. "That was fast! I'm impressed."

Merc didn't want to tell his father he had actually fallen asleep in his clothes. Catching the intruder or intruders was more important. The alarm was still blaring. He felt sorry for everyone who had their rooms closer to it. From where he was, it was loud, but not overly.

"Your mother has already gone with Jupiter to scour the north side. We are to cover the south. We will meet in the middle if necessary." His father paused to chuckle. "Honestly though, I don't know why the boss always makes those two work together, they're like oil and water."

Merc nodded. "I'll take southwest and you can take southeast?"

His father nodded back. "Sounds good."

----

"Agh!" A young man dressed in a T shirt, floppy shorts, and with a bandanna covering most of his face, covered his ears. 

"Come on, keep going!" His companion grabbed his arm and pulled him. She was wearing a tank top and short shorts, and also had the face covering bandanna.

"That alarm is so loud and annoying!"

"Thank you Captain Obvious!" The young woman rolled her eyes. "But hopefully by coming in the middle of the night, we caught their boss with his pants down!" Awkward pause. She huffed and rolled her eyes again. "It's just a saying! You know you're the only one I'd ever want to see with their pants down."

He pulled her close to him, eyes twinkling. "After we're done here, I can arrange that." She didn't pull away, instead returning his nuzzle. An angry bark interrupted their moment. They turned to see an orange, black, and gray dog pokemon baring his teeth at them. Standing behind the growlithe was a teenage boy of about average build. His hair was blue and his eyes were red and full of rage. He wore jeans and a shirt with the Team Galactic logo printed on it, and he had major bedhead.

"You're not going any further." Merc said. 

"Says you and what army?" The male intruder taunted. "Aren't kids like you supposed to be in bed asleep at this hour?"

Merc said nothing, just took a plastic card out of his pocket and thrust it into a slot on the wall. A net fell from the ceiling and closed around the two intruders. They squirmed and cursed, but the more they moved, the more tangled they became. Merc gave them a sinister grin and put the card back. "How do you like Team Galactic's booby traps?" The alarm had stopped wailing. "Once a trap is triggered, the alarm stops. Can't be wasting electricity, you know?"

He then pulled out a small radio transmitter. "Junior Admin Mercury, calling in from sector S2 to base. Two of the intruders are in a net. Sector S2 clear."

"Boss Cyrus from base. Sending someone to retrieve them. Base clear." The voice on the other end was devoid of emotion, almost tired sounding.

"Later, losers!" Merc waved at the trapped intruders as he continued down the hallway. Rex followed, not going around the net, but over and onto it. His blunt claws jabbed the intruders' faces, into their noses and under their eyes. "Have fun meeting my boss! Don't try to joke with him, he doesn't understand humor!"

He didn't run into any more intruders, just a few Galactic grunts, until he reached the tall woman in the short shirt and the leggings. Her tattooed belly was exposed, and her hair was long and yellow, or was it pink? She had obviously dyed some of it but he couldn't tell which color was dyed on. Long locks of hair protruded from the bandanna on her head. She looked at him and smirked. "Oh, aren't you cute! Sorry, but we'll have to take those legendary pokemon off your hands."

"I'm a Galactic admin in training!" Rex growled and barked in agreement as Merc glared up at the woman.

"Yeah, whatever you think, sweetie. I'm sure Team Galactic doesn't give kids that important of a position, but it's good to have goals." She reached for a pokeball and opened it. A pokemon resembling a slime pile with eyes, arms, and a mouth appeared. It was purple, then pink, then blue, then yellow...it was cycling through those colors rapidly. "Use sludge, Trashy!" The woman commanded, pointing at Rex.

The slime pokemon opened her toothless mouth and shot out a stream of filthy liquid. The filth hit Rex in the face, squelching the flames that were starting to form around his jaws. The growlithe gagged and shook himself off. 

"Try fire fang again!"

Rex lunged at his enemy and bit down with his flame covered fangs. The slime pile made a noise that was surprisingly similar to that of a wounded dog, so much that Merc thought it was coming from Rex at first. Where the fangs had hit, the slime was charred and black, not cycling through the colors, and the entire pokemon had smoke rolling off of her.

The woman clenched her fists. "Don't let the boy think he's won! Use sludge again!"

With a loud whoosh, a blue green metal object flew from a nearby room. It stopped in the path of the sludge attack, and the filthy liquid just rolled off, doing no damage. The bronze bell pokemon made a taunting ringing sound.

"Use extrasensory, Sputnik!" Galactic Admin Saturn ran out of the room the bronzong had come from.

Merc pulled Rex back, shooting an appreciative smile toward his father. He probably had it covered, but backup wouldn't hurt.

The bronzong shook and rang loudly. Merc normally got a slight headache when Sputnik used his psychic powers, so he knew the attack had happened since the familiar throbbing in his head was there. Such a thing was common, but people could learn to cope with it, and some people didn't get the headaches at all. But if the attack had happened and that was a muk, a weird looking one at that, why was the muk still standing? Or whatever it was...muks had no legs. The psychic attack should have done major damage since it was a poison type...but it looked like it had no effect at all.

"Ha! Looks like you're not familiar with Alolan varieties!"

"I am well aware some pokemon look different in Alola!" Saturn snapped. "What kind of sorcery makes a pure poison type completely immune to psychic?!"

"Newsflash! Alolan varieties also have different types!" The woman narrowed her eyes into slits and grinned. "You just used a psychic attack on a poison AND dark type!"

Saturn's jaw dropped. Merc stepped in front of him. "Fire will still work, even if it isn't a weakness!" 

"I'm not going to waste time discussing type matchups with you!" The woman returned the muk to her pokeball and turned and ran. Rex barked and bristled. He wanted to pursue her, but his trainer had to give the okay first.

Merc looked at Saturn. "She said she was after some legendary pokemon, Dad. Do we even have any here?"

"Those idiots!" Saturn facepalmed. "They're in the wrong place and fifteen years late!" Merc gave him a blank stare. He proceeded to explain. "When your mother was pregnant with you, we had Uxie, Azelf, and Mesprit in the hideout in Sinnoh. You know, the lake legendaries? But we don't have them now. We don't have ANY legendary pokemon now."

"I bet having them led up to the boss disappearing into the Distortion World, right?"

"Right."

----

"Yo, what's the big idea? You tied up my homies Nick and Cora? What'd they ever do to you? Uncool! I don't think they mind being tangled up together, being the lovebirds they are, but still!"

Cyrus was getting a strong urge to attack this guy with his pokemon. He hadn't shut up since he found his way into his office, and he had barged in calling himself "destruction in human form". And now that the Galactic grunts had brought in the two that got trapped on a wheeled cart used for transporting heavy objects, he was even more loud and obnoxious.

"All intruders get treated the same way. It's their own fault."

"Yeah? Well YOU need to stop being so stingy and share your legendary pokemon! There's three of them! I'll pick one and get out of here...maybe!"

Cyrus raised an eyebrow. The messy white haired man stomped the floor like a kid throwing a tantrum. "Don't play dumb! I know you got those lake guardian things here! I bet they're like big water snakes or giant swimming bugs or something! I like bugs!" He paused, then his eyes widened and he grabbed his head and shook himself. "Oh man, what if they're all bugs? I might have to take them all! 'Cause you know, your boy Guzma can't not have ALL the legendary bugs!" 

"They're not bugs! They're not snakes either! And they're not here!" The sheer stupidity of this guy was giving Cyrus a headache. "Now leave! Before I make you wish you were never born! And take your gang of idiots with you!" 

Guzma smirked. "Okay, one, I've wished that lots of times, I'm used to it. Two, there's a few of my people who can't leave, 'cause they might be, I dunno, TIED UP IN A NET!"

A loud buzzer sounded, and then a voice came over the intercom. "THIS IS AN EMERGENCY ALERT. CODE PURPLE. A BOMB HAS BEEN DISCOVERED AND WILL GO OFF WITHIN FIVE MINUTES. ALL PERSONNEL PLEASE FOLLOW STANDARD EVACUATION PROCEDURES IMMEDIATELY."

Guzma had grabbed the cart and wheeled it out of the office as fast as he could right after the third sentence. The two Skull grunts held on for dear life, shaking in the net and yelling. The intruders all scattered toward the hideout entrance and outside into the night.

They were so focused on escaping the building that they didn't notice they were the only ones doing so. Cyrus found his admins and junior admin outside his office, all sitting on the furniture and with varying amounts of a tired look. "Well." He said. "The fake bomb threat protocol that Admin Mars came up with last month will stay."

"I thought 'code purple' would make it too obvious, but it looks like I was wrong." The elderly Admin Charon commented. The rest stared at him, surprised. Charon never admitted he was wrong about anything.

"That was Team Skull, wasn't it?" Mars said. "I wouldn't expect them to know there's no such thing as a code purple anyway..."

Saturn smiled. "Because you outsmart just about everybody, babe." He gave Mars a quick peck on the cheek. Merc's eyes nearly rolled out of his head, the typical teenage response to parental displays of affection. Jupiter gave them a dirty look, and Cyrus turned and went back into his office. 

"I'm going back to bed." Charon announced. He got up and walked away, muttering something about young ones and their strange sleep schedules. The "young ones" were actually right behind him, going back to their beds. Even Merc had had enough excitement for one night.

Inspired by a remix of the Aether employee battle theme on youtube that started with an intruder siren. Skull and Galactic are my two favorites. It was fun to throw them into the same place and see the chaos that resulted, lol.

Edited March 26, 2017 by Dragoncat

[Dragoncat]

 Fleshed out a certain OC's backstory and had to write a thing about him causing mischief as a kid.

Snowed Inn

Spoiler

The Beartic Paw Hotel was in the heart of Icirrus, and quite popular with tourists. Most people came to see the Dragonspiral Tower, which was just a hop, skip, and a jump away from the city. Pamphlets describing it and other Unova attractions were kept by the entry doors.

The clock had just struck nine when a couple with a small boy entered. The bellhop greeted them with a smile. "Do you have reservations?"

"We do." The man was blue haired, and his silver eyes had faint circles under them.  His wife was a redhead, red eyes as well, also looking like she was having trouble keeping them open. The kid looked like he could fall asleep on his feet, he appeared to be around four or five years old. These people clearly needed a bed for the night.

The kid pulled on his mother's arm. "My feet hurt."

"You're welcome to sit down while your parents get things settled, little guy." The bellhop smiled down at him. "Those chairs over there are free for everyone."

The boy perked up at that offer. "Say thanks to the nice man." His father prodded.

"Thanks." 

"No problem!" The bellhop watched the kid settle himself in the biggest, comfiest looking chair in the lobby. It was nearly too tall for him, but he managed to climb up and sit down. 

As soon as the adults were occupied, a little girl appeared. She bounced around the lobby and stopped in front of the big chair. "Hi!" She squeaked, always happy to see someone her own age. The boy looked at her and yawned. She giggled. "My name's Ava! My mom and dad run this place!"

All he could say was: "Why aren't you tired?"

Ava tilted her head. "Dunno. But I like saying hi to people when they come in, and that usually doesn't happen until night! If you find me in the morning, I'll show you the pool! What's your name, anyway?"

He opened his mouth to reply, but his mother answered for him. "Merc, come on! We've got our room!"

Merc was slightly disappointed about having to leave the comfy chair. But he was also too tired to talk to Ava. He got up and followed his parents to the elevator, occasionally trying to hitch a ride on the luggage cart so he didn't have to walk. But alas, getting a comfortable enough ride was easier said than done and more trouble than it was worth.

His stomach woke him up at six in the morning. He rolled over and tapped his snoring father, who woke up with a snort and gave him an annoyed look. The sun was coming up, so there was enough light to see, but just barely. "I'm hungry, Dad." Merc said.

"You should've eaten more of your supper."

"Too late for that."

Merc's father let out a long sigh. "Well do you remember how to get down to the lobby?" Merc nodded. "Then take one of the room keys and go get yourself some breakfast. But don't wake your mom up, and go straight there and stay there! Nowhere else!"

"Not even the bathroom?"

"You know what I meant. I'll be down there in a bit."

Ava greeted Merc at the breakfast bar. She had a bowl of cereal. "Your mom and dad let you come down here by yourself, huh?"

Merc sat down with a bowl of maple oatmeal and some orange juice. "My dad did. He said not to wake up my mom..." Ava laughed at that. "Your mom and dad seem to let you go where you want."

Ava rolled her eyes. "Hey, don't you remember? They own the hotel. I pretty much know my way around, all the people who work here know me. My mom and dad are busy most of the time."

Merc nodded in understanding. "That must be nice."

"Kinda. I don't get to see my mom and dad as much as I'd like." Brief pause. "The pool here is awesome. There's a hot tub too, but only grownups like those-what are you doing that for?"

Merc was shoveling the oatmeal into his mouth like he was in a speed eating contest. "I want to go to the pool before my dad gets down here."

"You can't go in regular clothes. Against the rules."

Merc frowned. That was one detail he'd forgotten. "I'll have to sneak back up there then..."

"Maybe your dad went back to sleep?" Ava said with an ornery smirk.

She was right, surprisingly. Merc stepped out of the elevator in his swim trunks and waved his towel like a victory flag. Ava had changed into her own swimsuit while he was getting his. She didn't have a towel. "There's towels there. You didn't need to bring your own."

Off they went. Ava led the way. But when they reached the pool area, the door was locked. "Oh, I can't believe I forgot!" Ava stomped and scowled. "Pool doesn't open until eight! I'm so stupid!"

"So we changed for nothing?"

"Duh!"

Merc let his gaze wander to the large window. The snow outside was fresh and sparkling, and there were a few big drifts. "I have a crazy idea."

----

The red haired woman knew something was up. She never got to sleep past seven-thirty. Not with her "little comet" around. Her husband had come up with that nickname, and it fit.

A lot had happened in the past five years. Life had been hectic in Team Galactic, but she had been promoted to admin status. And so did someone else. She had admired her comrade's skill and confidence, and even found him attractive. Once at the end of a particularly stressful week, the two seeked each other out and one thing led to another...that one night of romance had set off a chain of events that changed everything. First she wound up pregnant, then her boss was thrown into the Distortion World when her son was barely a year old, then she married the boy's father so people wouldn't judge them when signing up for the hotel rooms. It was much easier to make reservations as a married couple, no doubt a few eyebrows would raise otherwise.

She would've married him anyway, he was quite handsome and she did love him, she just didn't expect it to happen as soon as it did. They hadn't told their son about the missing team boss. The boy didn't know anything other than constant traveling.

"Slater! Where's Merc?" She used her husband's birth name because it tended to really get his attention. In the team, they were known as admins Saturn and Mars. They still used the names Slater and Marion outside of it, but not to each other often. The man knew this was out of the ordinary, and sure enough, he was alert in an instant, his silver eyes wide and blank. 

"He woke me up at the crack of dawn and said he was hungry. I sent him down for the free breakfast they have here."

"By himself, Slater?! He's only five!"

He stared at her. "You can call me Saturn now, it's just you and me. But I think he can handle it. He knows how to push the elevator buttons and he knows where the lobby is."

She scowled. "I've been an admin longer than you, you know. I'm sure I can take away your space name and make you a grunt again if I have to."

"Actually I think only Cyrus can do that."

"And do we know where Cyrus is? No we don't!" She swiped at him, attempting to cuff the top of his head, but he moved in time to dodge.

"I told him not to go anywhere else and that we'd be down there soon." He blinked, holding back the urge to tell her to calm down, because he knew from experience that never worked. "Now would be a good time to do that."

But once they reached the breakfast bar, Merc was nowhere in sight. Saturn flinched and moved swiftly over to the lady at the counter. Unfortunately, Mars followed with a look on her face that suggested she was going to kill him.

He forced himself to ignore her. "Excuse me, ma'am." The lady looked up. "Did a little boy with blue hair come through here?"

"I think I saw him. But I don't know where he went after he ate."

"I saw him." An elderly man sitting at one of the tables piped up. "I know you two have to be his parents, his hair is the exact same shade of blue, and the kid has the brightest red eyes I've ever seen. Just like yours." He tilted his head toward Mars. "I saw him head for the pool with a little black haired girl. They were both dressed for it too."

"Oh, that must've been little Ava, the owner's daughter." The woman at the counter said. "She's always getting guests her age to play with her. The girl's got charisma, that's for sure."

They thanked the old man for his lead. On their way to the pool, Mars spoke in a sharp tone. "How could we BOTH miss him changing into his trunks?" Saturn threw his arms up in an "I don't know" gesture. She smiled. He had the most dumbfounded look on his face. "Okay, you're cute when you give me that look. I can't stay mad at you. But still...what were you thinking?"

"I was thinking I wanted to sleep longer. And that he'd stay in one spot..."

"But you said it yourself, he's always on the move. Like a comet. That's why he got that nickname in the first place."

"Sorry, when I get woken up that early, apparently my brain is still asleep."

The pool door was locked. A dark haired man in a suit was standing nearby. "Twenty more minutes, folks. And you can't go in in your clothes, you'll have to change into swimwear." Both Mars and Saturn had horrified looks on their faces. "What? It's not too unreasonable!" And then there was a thud as snow hit the large window. The face of a small girl with the same dark hair as the man in the suit appeared for in the window for a second, then moved out when she saw the three adults.

"Wait a second, that's my Ava! What is she doing out there?"

"Wait for us!" Mars called as she and Saturn ran after the man. "We've been told our son was with her!"

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"Mama and papa beartic is getting boring!" Merc said. "I'm a weavile now! And I know ice beam!" He flung a snowball at Ava, but missed and hit the window instead.

Ava looked at the window, then screamed and moved. 

"What are you supposed to be?"

"My dad saw that! He looks pretty mad!" Ava looked upset. "I'm cold anyway, I'm going in! Bye!"

Merc watched her head for the door that led inside. She was fast! She'd make a great weavile...beartics were cool too, but only when they were attacking and stomping around. Pretending to hunt and fish for imaginary cubchoos was lame. Why did girls always have to include babies somewhere?

With what he considered all the agility of a weavile, he darted over to a nearby bench and stood on it. His enemy was in the snowdrift below him, it was time to use night slash. 

"Merc Plato Halcyon!"

He only ever heard his full name when he was in trouble. Startled, he slipped and fell into the drift. When he got up, his parents were right in front of him. They both looked like they absolutely couldn't believe what they were seeing. 

"Swimming in snow? You think that's fun?" Saturn was trying not to laugh.

"This isn't funny!" Mars scolded. "Do you want him to get hypothermia? Or do you want that girl to get it too?" They had just passed Ava, and the girl was wearing nothing but a yellow ruffled swimsuit. Merc stepped out of the snowdrift, revealing that at least he wasn't skinny dipping in the snow.

"The pool was closed." Merc didn't know what hypothermia was, but he was too afraid to ask.

"So you thought THIS was a good idea?" Mars grabbed Merc's arm and pulled him. He squirmed. "Ow, Mom!"

Saturn figured he better do something to try to help. "You come with us this instant, young man!"

"I want to stay here, do we have to leave?" Merc whined. "Why can't we just pick a town and stay there? I want it to be this one!"

That made both Mars and Saturn flinch. They exchanged a glance, then Saturn nodded and let Mars speak. "Once we're inside, we'll...talk about it. But you're still in trouble."

The time that the "princess" of the Beartic Paw Hotel pulled the most outrageous stunt ever with the help of a tourist boy would be talked about for years. There came a time when Ava wished it would be forgotten, but at the same time, she wondered where the boy was and how he was doing.

 

Edited April 6, 2017 by Dragoncat

[Anacybele]

So they went to the snow because the pool was closed. lol That works. From what I know, hotel pools don't open until 8 AM in real life either. Good job. XD

[Dragoncat]

Yeah, I had to come up with something. I've been in enough hotels to know the pools are never open 24-7. 

Apparently 5 year old Merc is more social than 15 year old Merc. Ava was an interesting enough character imo, too bad she's just a one time show. Idk, but she might've had a little kid crush on him lol, hinted by the "mama and papa beartic". Or it could've just been nothing, but I know sometimes kids that age do have crushes. 

Also, the middle and last names. Plato was both a greek philosopher and the name used for the player in the screenshots in the Platinum instruction manual. Halcyon just sounded good.

Edited April 3, 2017 by Dragoncat

[Anacybele]

Yeah, sometimes kids have weird little crushes. lol

Yeah, I know where the name Plato comes from. But I didn't know at all what Halcyon meant. Nice. :P