This world is inhabited by creatures that we call pokemon. People and pokemon live together by supporting each other, but now the scourge threatens the safety of the entire region. Kohaku has become a dangerous place, where children stay at home and only brave souls go adventuring.
Welcome to KOHAKU. Come for the nightmares. Stay for the tea and crumpets.
The season is SUMMER. It is easy for survivors to forage for food from the land, as there are entire abandoned farms ready for harvest. On the downside, you can smell the corpses.
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She frowned at the bathroom. "Do you even know what a laboratory facility looks like from the inside? Get away. Shoo."
Neo shoved Batin aside (although it was honestly up to him if he actually moved anywhere or not). She closed the bathroom door and tried it for herself.
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Grudgingly, Neo looked up at Batin, just to say, "I like this place."
Batin didn't move when Neo shoved him. He was, after all, a creepy villain.
"Huh," he said. "The Land must like you too. Do you need anything else, or is it all magicked up in there?" He looked over at Heron's corpse. "Do you want to grab him or should I do it for you."
Neo swept into the laboratory. She waved a hand in the air, dismissive. "You grab him."
That was a dumb question, Batin. Heron was hardly any shorter than Neo and made of steel to boot. How's she supposed to pick him up?
She cleared a surface for the corpse, covering a tabletop with a sheet of thin plastic. Absently, Neo started humming a song to herself as she set up beakers and a burner. She had four carefully packaged tubes on her, each of them filled with one dose of the eos vaccine. Unceremoniously, she broke the tubes open, setting their contents into test flasks.
She set the last beaker aside and filled it with a clear liquid.
"Four days for the amberwell water to distill completely. That's the key ingredient. Alternatively, you can get me an eos vaccine. I have a four already that I can process to isolate the amberwell water. I need a fifth to have enough for a successful cloning. Or we can wait for this distillation to complete itself."
She didn't bother looking towards Batin. Her focus was on her work now. He barely existed.
"Cypress has the most. I don't recommend trying unless you have a deathwish. His pokemon will catch you."
That was the unrealistic option. The actually feasible ones followed. "More luck with eos researchers. Alia Karimi is in Sol City at the moment. Do not mention Decima Town. Do not speak ill of Melchior. Firstly, she will kill you. Secondly, I will kill you. Alternatively, Nima Faraday. Lost track of him a while back, but he's had little dealings with the scourge. I have his number, shouldn't be too hard to track down. Bit of a headcase though."
Lastly, "Dream World, pokemart. Costs a pretty penny. Aurora Casino has a few too, if you're lucky." Neo clamped a bunch of thingamajigs down. She stopped to cast a rather cynical stare at Batin. "Don't try the casino. Your luck is shit."
Off to Sol it was. He debated warning Neo again about leaving the suite--if she had to die, he definitely didn't want her dead before she cloned Heron, but he wasn't sure if she would even hear him.
For that matter, she looked so engrossed he wasn't even sure if she would move while he was gone.
Neo had a shiny scourge lucario to cut up. Plus, she had the laboratory of her dreams for a new playground. She wasn't going anywhere.
Which didn't mean that she'd forgotten that she was deep in enemy territory. She needed to find a way out, but one thing at a time. For now, she had to clone a scourge pokemon. Considering that scourge corpses decompose all too fast, Neo didn't have time for other concerns just yet.