4th Words: Passing Engine's Rider

[virtualbirdwatching]

Who: Atoli and OPEN
Where: ALL OVER TOWN
Summary: Atoli cannot motorcycle to save her life.
Warnings: Mass panic and somewhat cartoony violence??


Atoli’s alarm clock had awoken her just a little too late. The way things were, she wasn’t going to get to her little meeting with Kotoha on time!

But as she ran down the stairs, one more option presented itself to her: her steam bike, which had sat there for months unused. It should still work fine...

Welp. Here goes nothing, she thought, as she got on and took off.

Not two minutes later she’s careening uncontrollably through the city, since video game vehicles are rarely designed to be practical. She doesn’t exactly consider this, though, and to be quite honest hadn’t.

You hear a faint, high-pitched screaming of “SOMEONE HELP ME STOP THIS THIIIIIIIIIING”, and may notice a light coming straight towards you.

[No, your character won’t be injured if they’re run over. Try anything.

Definitely inspired by this log.]

Comments

[unbroken_chain]

Okay, Operation Have The Jackal Wrestle The Bike is a no-go, and Solar Logos doesn't exactly have feet or...anything else Kotoha can hang off of...

This might be difficult.

...oh wait. Kotoha takes a length of rope out of her bag and quickly fashions it into a lasso. Releasing Tesla again, she fastens the other end of the rope onto its primary antennae and cinches the lasso around her waist. As Solar Logos puts on a burst of speed, flying just ahead of the bike, Kotoha jumps off his back towards Atoli and the bike.

[virtualbirdwatching]

She hits Atoli in the face. The shock throws her off even further, tipping the bike over completely; its tire casings drag along the ground with a horrible grinding noise.

But it's still moving.

[unbroken_chain]

Tesla hovers up the instant Kotoha makes contact, the Trainer wrapping her arms around Atoli so that the pair of them are lifted off the bike. Tesla floats down low enough so that Kotoha can let go of Atoli.

"Tesla! FLY!"

With that, the Trainer-and-Pokemon pair zoom after the bike. Solar Logos lands from his flight and makes a sort of tired-sounding buggy rumble, almost like he's complaining to Atoli.

[virtualbirdwatching]

Eventually the bike slams into a wall, with no visible damage to it or the wall, and it just keeps running despite not actually getting anywhere.

"...I'm definitely going to have to get that looked at."

[unbroken_chain]

Kotoha just sort of hangs from the rope like a sack of potatoes, blinking, as she stares at the bike.

Solar Logos rumbles in complaint again.

[virtualbirdwatching]

"I... think you can drop us now," she says, more to Logos than to Kotoha.

[unbroken_chain]

It doesn't take much time to get everything situated - Tesla and Solar Logos returned to their Pokeballs, the rope untied, Kotoha and Atoli standing like normal people.

"Okay so! You wanted to talk to me about something?"

[virtualbirdwatching]

"I really should have mentioned sooner, but..."

She draws out her Pokéball and releases her Taillow, Rustica.

"ever since I fought that giant robot duck, Rustica's been acting a little oddly."

Indeed, she turns her head away from Atoli almost immediately.

[unbroken_chain]

...

"...robot duck?"

Run that by her again?

[virtualbirdwatching]

"Oh, right, I haven't told anyone... Remember that one week that was all the same day? Two other people and I were suddenly taken to some weird place to defeat the monster that was causing it, and that was the duck."

She won't mention the other things she got from that just yet.

[unbroken_chain]

Kotoha continues to stare blankly for a little bit before suddenly clapping her hands together.

"Clean cup! Move down! New topic!"

With that, she draws a Pokeball from her belt and releases Zoroark.

"Zoroark can act as a mediator - find out what's troubling Rustica and then tell us, since he's capable of human speech. That work for you?"