Genecyx's Invitation

As you sit in your quarters, a gentle knocking at the door causes you to answer. A smartly-dressed waiter smiles politely at you, introducing himself as "room service." He strides into your room and places a silver platter on a nearby table. Raising your eyebrows in surprise, you protest that you have not ordered anything from the menu, and that there must have been some sort of mistake.

Ignoring your protests, he simply smiles and leaves the room, saying over his shoulder, "Enjoy." And before you have a chance to say anything else, he is gone, just as soon as he appeared. Curious as to what's inside, you pull the top from the platter to get a look.

However, there is no meal on the platter, just a note.

Neatly written and embroidered around the page, it appears that whoever wrote it is definitely one who practices a great deal of class and elegance. Staring down at the words, you follow them along the page, almost in complete disbelief of what you read.


Only characters who would have chosen the Dark Path should be posting here. If you chose the Light Path instead, you should be posting in the Light Path section of the story arc, which is located in another thread.

Simply respond to this thread as if it were 11:45 at night, and you were making your way to the cargo hold to meet the mysterious writer of the note.

Annoa was sitting at a table in her room reading the note over and over. She was looking if she could get anything out of it. "What should i take out of this note Alexis? What if it were the Geisha's?" Annoa said scared. She took a deep breath and calmed down. Alexis looked at Annoa. "Purr, Purrlion, Lion." Translation: Well if it are the Geisha's i will protect you as much as a can. Annoa understood this perfectly. She was trained in understanding pokemon. As a hostes in the shop she had to understand the language of the pokemon to make the trainers and the pokemon feel as welcome as they can. If she didn't understand it and would go into the backroom, she would get hit again.

Annoa took a shower and put on her Geisha dress and her hair accesories. Annoa looked at the note one last time as she was about to leave the room. As she exit the room she walked in the perfect straight line with her head yet again in the perfect angle degree. She had her fan just up to above her nose. The man that were walking by looked at her with nearly had a drewling face. People say that the power of a Geisha is to seduce people with their looks and perfectness, but Annoa knew better.

Alexis was walking next to her. She rolled her eyes as she saw howmany male heads she turned...there was even a female head. They walked towards the cargo hold of the Airship. As she walked towards the Cargo Hold Annoa couldn't get something out of her head: Have power you have never had a chance to wield. The words that were in the note. She was wondering if that could help her save the Geisha's. She knew that Alexis was good but not strong enough. Maybe this person could help her. Annoa wasn't afraid of the person that wrote the letter. She was rather more interested.

She knocked on the door that went towards the Cargo Hold. It didn't say in the note what she had to do. Knock or Walk in. But she remained her manners and to wait and see. She knocked on the door. The knocking wasn't to soft that it couldn't be heard, but it wasn't so hard that it would disturb people. Annoa hated that she did that but it was just 'Hit' into her.

Word Count: 403 = 300 PokeDollars

Ashley scanned over the note she had received only once before deciding what she was going to do. "Let's go," she mumbled to Pride, who had been laying on her bed lazily. He opened one eye and looked at her. With a short yawn and a quick stretch, he jumped from the bed and followed after his trainer. Ashley slipped the note in her pocket and then left her room, locking the door behind her.

Even though they had left slightly early, Ashley still wasn't the first to arrive at the Cargo Hold. Standing at the door was a beautiful lady and Purrloin. She held a fan over her mouth and wore a beautiful dress. Ashley looked down at her simple white dress and flipflops, instantly feeling under dressed, even though the note didn't say anything about this being any sort of formal meeting. And even if it was, Ashley had no fancy clothes to wear. She shrugged it off then approached the woman and her furry friend.

Naturally, Pride was the one to speak. "Buizel!" (Who are you?) He crossed his arms and looked at the sly cat that stood beside the woman.

Max had arrived early, only because his room was in relative closeness to the Cargo Hold that he was to meet this mystery man and take over the ship. It was an interesting goal, and a large one. Taking over such a massive ship would no doubt prove to be a challenge that should not be taken lightly, especially if the gym leader – Clyde – was mounting a counter attack against this plan. This mystery man would either have to be severely powerful, or have a lot of henchmen working him. Max grunted at that word: “henchman”. Is that what he was becoming reduced to? Being some lowlife grunt that obeyed a leader with elusive goals. Max rolled his eyes. This better be worth it.

Max stood in the shadows as he leaned against the wall of the Cargo Hold. He had tried knocking a mere twenty minutes ago, but none had answered the door, so he simply waited for this mystery man to come here and address Max and whoever else showed up. Unfortunately, his isolation was short lived. Soon, a well dressed woman approached the door and did just as he had – she knocked, only she hand a much gentler way of doing so. Max's yellow eyes scanned the woman up and down. She wasn't a bad catch, but she definitely wasn't his type. Too high class, too stuck up, too pretty. He crossed his arms and closed his eyes, but once again, a person interrupted his train of thought. A blonde haired girl and a Buizel approached the much nicer looking girl. Though the blonde didn't speak, her Buizel had an awfully loud and overconfident voice.

Max realized that he wasn't going to be able to enjoy the silence any longer and decided it best that he at least learn something about his teammates. With quiet steps, he left the comfort of the shadows and approached the two girls. Naturally, he was far taller than both of them and far paler. He looked at the blonde and then the woman, though he didn't speak. He didn't need to. All he needed was for them to speak then he could get an idea of what type of people they were.

(375 words. 200 pokemoney gained.)

She heard the foot steps coming towards her. Annoa smoothly turned around, and lowered her paper fan. Annoa saw a blond girl and her Buizel coming towards her. She bowed towards her. "Hello." Annoa said. After that she wanted to say. 'How can i be of your assistance today?'. That is what she normally had to say. This is just one of the very small things that she had driven away from her mind that was thought to her. It was one of the easiest to do so becuase when she saw a pokemon.

"I'm Annoa and this is my Purrlion, Alexis. Who are you?" Annoa said to the Buizel with an inviting smile. Whenever she introduced herself she made that inviting smile, she just couldn't help it. Alexis looked at the Buizel. She didn't really look all that interested in the Buizel. "Purr, Purrlion." Translation: Nice to meet you Buizel. She said staying nice. She walked around the Buizel investigating him.

When she was have a look at Buizel she saw a man standing in a dark corner. She looked at the man stepping out of the shadows. Annoa looked at the man and greeted him the same way that he did against Ashley, she bowed. "Hello, my name is Annoa, pleasure to meet you." Annoa said greeting the man. He looked at the man, he was different then anyone she had ever seen. But then again someone like Annoa wasn't seem much either in a place like this.

Word Count: 250 = 100 PokeDollars

The time is now exactly midnight. The metal door to the Cargo Hold slides open as a dark-suited figure wearing a dark hood emerges. Beside him is a rather vicious-looking Absol, who wears a constant scowl on his midnight-blue face. He snarls furiously when he notices someone staring, but his trainer manages to calm him down with a gentle stroke on his brilliantly white fur. Genecyx scans over the faces standing outside of the hold carefully, but with a hidden smile on his face. He appears to be pleased with the cards he has been dealt, and seems proud that such young, up-and-coming trainers have stepped up to do their part.

"Welcome," says a voice laden with authority clearly in your head. Although you could not see it, his mouth had not moved since opening the door to the hold. Despite being a mute, Genecyx appeared to have been gifted with telepathic abilities... "If you are here, then you are no doubt responding to my note, and are ready to stand with me to take this ship. I cannot thank you enough, and you have all made the right decision. Our time has come."

He slid his hood off to reveal a handsome face, with his soft, silver hair slightly obscuring his cat-like eyes. He smiled warmly at the ones who had chosen his path. Each one was different, with something to contribute to his plight. He loved that. "I plan to get to know each of you on a more personal level, but for now, we must focus on the task at hand. That self-righteous fool Clyde is likely setting up a counterattack as we speak, so we must move swiftly and silently if we hope to succeed."

His mouth still unmoving, he carried on with his speech, ignoring everyone's disbelieving stares. He must have been used to shocked expressions. Unus, his Absol, glared at each of the tiny pokemon at his feet, wondering how in the hell they would take this ship with such a rag-tag group of misfits. Still, he had seen enough to know to trust his master, which kept him silent.

"We will need to strike three different locations at once, my friends. First, the Main Deck. We must keep the population still and quiet. The last thing we need are stragglers trying to be heroes. My assistant, Jethro, will ally with someone to present a stronger image. Next, someone will need to find the Core, which should be located in the center of the city. There is a failsafe switch there that will unlock every door in the ship. If we don't activate the failsafe, we won't be going anywhere. And lastly, we will need to attack the Cockpit. I will accompany someone there personally to make sure this goes smoothly. And with that, the final phase of our operation will be in play..."

Genecyx's eyes glinted excitedly. "...the entire city will be escorted from the ship, and the ARYAA-701 will be ours."

Unus roared in agreement, startling several of the pokemon.

However, Genecyx frowned, staring over the faces standing outside of the Cargo Hold once again. "Now...my question to you all is...who shall I send where? Any volunteers? Who will go to the Main Deck with Jethro, who will activate the failsafe, and who will go with me to the Cockpit?"

Ashley looked up passed the shoulder of the woman as the metal door creaked open and revealed a hooded man and a magnificent Absol at his side. The Absol, however, seemed to have some anger problems, because when he saw Ashley staring, he began to growl lowly. Though she wasn't very intimidated, it wasn't nice being growled at. Thankfully, the man stroked the Absol's fur and managed to calm him down. Then, he spoke in a haunting, but authoritative voice. He then slowly took off his hood. He definitely wasn't hard on the eyes, that for sure, but Ashley was too intent listening to him to take in his appearance. What she did notice was that he seemed to be speaking without moving his lips. Was he using telepathy? How could anyone... Ashley shrugged it off and continued listening. He spoke about splitting up to take on different tasks. Ashley wasn't too fond of splitting up, but he was the boss.

Pride crossed his arms and huffed at the Purloin near him, but quickly moved his eyes to look at the intense glare coming from the Absol. Pride grunted and made an attempt to match Unus' glare, though he couldn't really hold a candle to the Absol. With another soft grunt, Pride closed his eyes and turned his head away.

"I'll take the Core," Ashley spoke just loud enough to be heard. Just as she spoke that, there was a flash of black fur by her feet and out from behind her stepped an Absol that appeared to be identical to Unus in all ways. Ashley's hand dropped to pat the Absol's head.

Max nodded a quick hello to the pretty woman. He knew that she was the type of person who put manners before everything, but the way she spoke suggested otherwise. Though her tone was welcoming, there was just the faintest hint of straining. Perhaps she had been drilled too hardly when she was taught to be polite. As for the blonde, she didn't speak at all. She was the silent type, but for what reason? A troubled childhood? Was she mute? Max would have to look into it a bit more.

Before Max could read into the two girls anymore, the metal door to his left slowly swung open. Standing in the doorway was a hooded man. It was the mystery man who had sent the letters, no doubt. At his side stood a proud white and black Pokemon with a brilliant white coat of fur that seemed to glow under the moonlight. It was truly a powerful looking Pokemon, and it seemed to be proud of it's power. Upon noticing a look from the blonde, he began to growl lowly as if to intimidate her in anyway possible, though the calming hand of his trainer calmed him into silence.

Then the man spoke. His voice was unlike a normal voice. Anythings voice always had an origin that one's ears could trace, whereas, this man's voice was clearly only present in Max's mind. Was this some sort of trick? Or had Max finally slipped into insanity? When the man slipped off his hood and finally showed his face, his lips made no effort to move, and yet he spoke on and on clearly inside of Max's head. He glanced to see if the other two were experiencing the same thing. With expressions filled with shock and/or disbelief, he would say so. He brought his attention back to his leader and listened intently as he spoke of the three duties that needed to be done. Naturally, attacking the cockpit stood out for Max. He would love to test out Aetos' and Alena's newfound power as soon as possible, and this seemed to be their chance. The man asked for volunteers. Max was never one to go first, so he stood in silence until the blonde spoke in a tentative whisper. She asked for the chore of activating the failsafe. Max's eyes moved down just in time to see a flash of black fur and an Absol step from behind the girl. Max raised an eyebrow. Absol were medium sized Pokemon, so Max would've surely noticed the Pokemon before hand. This must have been some trick.

Max moved his eyes to look at his new leader. “I'll wipe out the Cockpit.” Max smirked as he already began to form a plan, also as an added bonus, he would be going with this man. This would give Max more time to learn about this man and see if he had what Max really wanted – power. Though he carried himself in a way that suggested he had power, Max had already learned not to be fooled by one's appearance.

(527 words. 400 pokemoney gained.)

Just when Genecyx had given up on the fire of his followers, a girl in the back spoke up tenderly, offering to take the Core. He took a moment to scan her appearance. She didn't exactly look the type to be preparing for a hostile takeover of an entire city, but Genecyx was well aquainted with the phrase, 'Looks can be deceiving.' She was wearing a lovely white dress, and was carrying a sketch pad. Interesting...another artist...

Unus seemed to have noticed the Absol at the girl's side. After all, it was like seeing a mirror image of himself. His previous snarl turned into a snicker at the pokemon's obvious imitation. It was the highest form of flattery, after all. Still, Unus knew something was off about the other Absol from the moment he had laid eyes on him, although the resemblance was astounding. "Absol..." (Nice trick...) He said dryly, shaking his head with a small smile.

Genecyx strode over to the girl and laid a hand on her shoulder gently with a smile. "I can't thank you enough. I'm glad someone finally stepped forward." He turned away from her and looked out over the rest of the ranks filed outside of the Cargo Bay. "Will no one else come forth?"

Just as he finished speaking through their minds, another spoke up. A boy. He spoke with confidence, obviously looking for a chance to prove his power. Genecyx was pleased. It would not have been so easy to fight with someone who doubted their abilities. Judging from the tone of the boy who had just spoken, lack of confidence would not be a problem in the slightest. "Very well. We will go together, then."

As both of the other jobs had been filled, that only left one remaining: crowd control. An entire city on the verge of collapse would no doubt descend into complete chaos, with civilians running this way and that. Despite his desire for control, chaos amongst the city was definitely not what Genecyx wanted. If the plan was to be carried out cleanly, quickly, and efficiently, he didn't want thick masses of people running freely about the ship. Mayhem was not acceptable.

He turned to the last girl, obviously some sort of Geisha. She had remained silent during the entire briefing. However, Genecyx knew this was not necessarily a bad thing. From being a mute himself, he had come to learn that silene was true power. "That would leave the final job to you, my dear. Make sure that the Main Deck remains...stable."

(WC: 429)
(+300 Money)

Envy (aka, the faked Absol) frowned a bit when the true Absol seemed to have saw through his disguise. Still, he kept up the mockery. He bowed his head slightly in respect to the obviously stronger Pokemon and mumbled, "Sol.. Absol..?" (You... Found me out so easily..?" He brought his head back up, holding it tall and proud just as Unus did.

Ashley looked up at the man as he approached her and gingerly put a hand on her shoulder. Naturally, she flinched at the physical contact, but not enough to make a scene of it. Meeting his eyes with her light blue eyes, she returned his smile silently. Once he turned to look away, her smile faded and her gaze lowered just a bit. She could tell that he thought less of her. She wasn't too sure why. Probably because of her voice, or something. She would have to prove to him that she was more than capable for this job.

Pride opened one eye to look up at the man as he touched Ashley. Instantly, Pride began to growl faintly, but he caught himself and simply glared up at the man. Who did he think he was? He had no right to touch Pride's trainer. Pride grunted then moved to stand beside Envy, who was currently mocking Unus' appearance.

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(Gee Thanks for Waiting for me D: I was skipped by two people :'( )

Annoa saw the Cargo Hold door sliding open. She wans't shocked or anything in that direction about what the man looked like, back in the shop she had seen weirder men. She also saw an Absol walking next to him but the one that had more attention to it was Alexis. She stared at it with, a nearly drewling face. Annoa knew what that look ment but she didn't want to intrude in whatever the man was about to say. She saw that he was scanning all of them, but she didn't know what to think about what he was thinking, did he think she was weird, or interesting, different. She decided that she didn't want to think about it right now.

Annoa heard a 'Welcome' in her head. But yet again she was freaked out or astonished. She once had a person in the shop that could only speak by putting stuff that begins with a letter in the right order. Like for example: Something the begins with a H and then put something that started with a E and then something that started with a Y it would spell out HEY. It took a while before he could take his order, but Annoa had to stay patient with him, she was to afraid what would happen is she said that she would come back. Annoa heard his first few words in her head. He seemed like a boss that wasn't a tiran, he seemed like a reasonable man.

As he slid of his hood Annoa looked closely what he looked like. He seemed like someone that knows what he was doing. As he said that he would like to know everyone on a personal level he heart skipped a beat. She was thinking what she should say when that time came. She didn't know if he should tell him about her past. She took deep breath to calm herself down. And thought that she would say whatever she wanted whenever the time came. She started to listen closely to her head again.

As the Absol was staring at all the pokemon Alexis quickly looked away to not show her blush. Annoa had a small smile on her face of how Alexis acted around the Absol, Annoa never seen her like that she thought she wasn't the type to fall in love so easy but appearantly she was wrong, or was this Absol special to her in some way?

Annoa listened closely to the tasks she possibly would have to do. The Main Deck, to keep the population still and quiet. Finding the Core, to find the Failsafe and activate it. And attacking the Cockpit so everything goes smoothly. She thought that she would be good for the first job, Go to the Main Deck to keep the population still and quiet. It shouldn't be all that hard for someone that used to entertain people.

As Genecyx asked who shall do what Annoa wanted to say that she would do the Main Deck, but do to her training she was to afraid to say anything before anyone else made their choice. The girl behind her said that she would take the Core, Annoa didn't have any problems with that. And the other man said that he would do the Cockpit, witch only left the Main Deck left, and that was what Annoa was aiming for. She saw that Genecyx turned her way.

"I will. I'm trained in keeping people entertained and busy. And i'm sure Jethro will help whenever necessary." She said to the man. "My name is Annoa, pleasure to meet you sir." She said bowing to Genecyx. Now that she thought of it she didn't catch any names when she introduced herself. Alexis lowered her head to the Absol instead of Genecyx. Whenever Annoa would introduce herself to a person she would introduce herself to his or her pokemon if there is any. "Pur-r, Purrloin, Loin" Translation: Pleas-sure to meet you. She said with a stutter she was very tensed speaking to the Absol.

Word Count: 676 = 500 Obtained

Suddenly, a man dressed in a similar coat as Genecyx came out of the cargo bay. He was noticeably taller, although his face was shrouded in the darkness of his hood. Stepping beside Genecyx, he leaned over and whispered something into his ear, his hands behind his back rather officially. Genecyx paused, listening intently for a moment, then nodded his head several times. His mouth still closed, he spoke telepathically to the group of people standing in front of him.

"My assistant, Jethro, believes it to be prudent to focus a majority of our forces and attention on the Cockpit and Failsafe. Although I had planned on trying to find more followers amongst the crowd, the time for that will come. What's most important is that we take this ship. With that said, Jethro will instead accompany the one who goes to the Failsafe, to assure that nothing goes wrong." Jethro remained as silent and still as a statue as Genecyx mentally relayed his thoughts.

Genecyx went over everyone's duties in his head. So far, the geisha could control the Main Deck, the girl in the white dress would accompany Jethro to the Failsafe and deactivate all the locks, and finally, he, Genecyx, and the headstrong boy would take the Cockpit and take control of the ship. Everything was beginning to unravel...

Turning to the girl who appeared to be a geisha, he smiled and bowed back to her, his eyes glinting mysteriously under the dim light of the hall. "For a woman of your profession, it should be rather simple for you to captivate the Main Deck alone. We merely need you to keep them distracted while the coup is underway."

Unus had noticed the Glameow at the geisha's side. A part of him wanted to merely ignore her, but the stronger side of him rose before he could stop it. Briefly showing his fangs and leering at her, he dismissively turned his attention back to the crowd, his eyes staring off into space.

Genecyx once again focused his eyes on the entire group as a whole. "Now...before we begin, I believe introductions are well overdue. What are your names?"