Seventeenth Move

[king_of_flames]

[Action, Celadon City]

[Roy walks out of the gym triumphantly, a Rainbow Badge in his hand. He turns around and waves to the women who gathered outside the front door, all of them calling "good-bye, Roy" and "Come back soon!"

However, this means he isn't watching where he's going, and so something bounces off his leg. He turns around and looks...

...and sees an Eevee. A familiar looking one, at that.]

Hey...Elsie?

[At the sound of her name, the Eevee runs up and begans rubbing up against Roy's legs, looking utterly distraught.]

...no...

[Roy was at a loss for words...and for just about anything else. He sands there, frozen, for a while.]

[Text]

To those who knew Brigadier General Maes Hughes: he has disappeared. I have his Eevee and his Alakazam. If you received any of his Pokémon, let me know so we can account for them.

Comments

[text]

[explosivecombat]

[The text you're getting is unusually terse, Mustang, given the source. Kimblee had suspected something like this; he doesn't like it.]

None of his Pokémon - some of his belongings, however, possibly relevant to the situation at hand. I can't say for sure at this point.

1/2

[usedwrench]

[WHAT?!

Did her heart just stop beating? What's that thing people call breathing?

...

No. Lies. Liar. Hughes couldn't be... He was just... ...He...

Pokémon. What? Right, maybe Winry should check. Just in case. Sure.]

[TEXT]

[glaciates]

Cacturne. I found it in my box this morning.

[Isaac hesitates for a minute, and then a second text follows.]

It's a shame he's gone. He'll be missed.

[He's not entirely sure what else to say; he knows Mustang and Hughes were close. This must be hard on him.]

[video]

[paladinlost]

...I think I might have his Gyarados.

[The fact that it's the same Gyarados he fought during the garbage incident is a little alarming, in his opinion.]

[text]

[exeggutorhead]

[Huh, so Hughes is gone. That's...kind of frustrating actually. Even if he is definitely feeling some spiteful glee that Roy's life probably sucks right now.]

So that's where this Haunter came from.

[Text]

[tearsofademon]

I've got his Lampent with me. I'll take good care of her.

Didn't know he was a Brigadier General.

[text]

[sculpted]

I

[[Oh dammit, sorry Roy; it's hard for him to see the screen through these damn tears.]]

Apologies, Colonel; I have his Honchkrow.

[text]

[snapandscoot]

[[Roy will soon get another text.]]

I received his Combee this morning.

[Text]

[anignorantfool]

[Ed hasn't really used this thing yet, so it's awhile before his response comes through. Hughes had been there when he first arrived only a few months ago - which had been a shocking discovery - but that didn't make the fact that he was gone any easier to take, either.]

disappeared?