Thread: Split Ends: Start-Up

OOC: Wait, did everyone hear that last bit?

OOC: Only some of them did. I don't care which, but not all.

OOC: Okay, then.

"Eh?!" Lindsey said. "Psychic... slime... girls... Was that you?!"

"Not I." Rina stated. Mia shook her head.
"Nope. I didn't either."

"Who are you?" Zero asked.

Emily struggled to keep her footing as the psychic feedback just grew in intensity. The windows had all smashed, leaving glass-bordered holes in the wall. "OZIAS! TURN IT OFF!" He either didn't hear or didn't care. The Virizion Merge was blasted off her feet and out of the window frame.
"Emily!" Ozias leapt after her. She was hanging off of an open window. "Hold on!"
"I am!"
"Good! I'll be right back!" He clambered through the window.
"Don't you leave me here, mister! Ozias!"

Foster got to her feet. "Blast. He's slippery, that one..." She opened a wall behind her desk, revealing a machine emitting an eerie green glow in a hidden room with but one handle. "It seems that we'll need to go into premature labour..." She pulled the handle out of it.
"INDUCER ONLINE."

Roger dropped what he was doing. He felt extremely ill. But before he could even start moving to the bathroom, a bulge began pushing out of his stomach. "What the...?!" An Egg popped out. And worse, it was beginning to hatch.

That's unimportant. But, if you really wanna know, I can tell you.

"Please do," Kuroi nodded.

"Get off me! Get off!" Emily screamed, kicking at the pair of arms trying to pull her into the building.
"Emily! It's me!" Ozias yelled back.
"Oh. Sorry."

My name is Aramis. I am the head of the Project. Satisfied?

OOC: Aramis=Virizion
Virizion=Emily

"Yes. Thank you," Sophia looked around, unsettled. Kris, Kuroi and Zero seemed the same.

"Come on! She's activated the pills! We need to shut them down again!" Ozias ran out the room with Emily in tow, heading for the basement.

OOC: I had the name picked out before Emily was Merged.

Should we follow, Ozias? Rina asked.

OOC: I figured.

No need, I got this! Hopefully. Keep them busy! He burst into the janitor's closet he'd hidden in earlier.
"It's a closet..." Emily observed.
"Not just a closet! They keep a spare Inducer in here! I can shut it down, I have a capsule!" He opened the wall up, and sure enough, there was a large machine behind it. Ozias pulled some cables from it, then split the capsule in half, discarding the half with the chain and connecting a tiny wire inside it to the cables.
"Why do we need to stop it anyway?"
"If we don't, it'll force emaciation on its victims, they'll all die! Bingo!"
"INDUCER OFFLINE."

"INDUCER OFFLINE."
"Is that him again? Oh, you clever boy," Foster smiled, "Let's try this, then."
"INDUCER ONLINE, DOUBLE STRENGTH."

"INDUCER ONLINE, DOUBLE STRENGTH."
"Nononononono!" Ozias yelled, "That's bad, that's really bad!"
"Ozias," Emily told him, "Calm down. Tell me what you need."
"I need... I need a second capsule. But I just have the one, they're all going to die!" Emily just smiled and produced her pendant. A large grin of relief spread across Ozias's face as she handed it to him and he connected it.
"We stopped it! We did it!" Emily cried, hugging Ozias, "Arceus, you've gotten thin! Are you eating properly?"

Foster tried in vain to restart the broken machine. "What just happened?" Penny asked.
"I believe that Ozias Wheatley just happened," Foster hissed in anger.

"I can provide assistance." Sandy's voice buzzed over the comlink.

"No, it's fried. He's destroyed the entire network. He must've used those damned capsules. No matter. The Eggs will hatch soon and then we'll have an army of infants."

"But will we have the necessary amount of time to nurture and train them? My method is still available, you know."

"Remember that this is but a test. I am in favour of yours over mine. I would have used Celebi to do this in another time, but, as you know, Celebi is... lost."

OOC: I can explain what she means through PM if you like. It's part of that larger arc I mentioned.