[closed] some get dealt simple hands

[belowthesea]

Who: Jack and friends!
What: Catch-all for Jack's quests and adventures in April (come poke me at necromantica if you'd like a starter!)
When: April
Where: Bottlecap Bay and the surrounding areas
Warnings: Cartoon-to-graphic violence, otherwise will update as needed! Jack's usual warnings may apply.

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[belowthesea]

Right. Right. Okay. Jack's fur fluffs up as he shakes himself off, and moves on to another Ditto. He's still in the process of absorbing that... he doesn't need to wait until they're dead, knocked out is fine. Even if it makes his hackles raise when he moves past a Ditto who's breathing shakily while unconscious.

Another Ditto gets a little too close to Emporio and Jack grabs one of the unconscious Ditto to Fling it at them. Which... misses, but at least startles them enough to give Emporio an opening.

[seacub]

Oh huh, Jack knows Fling too...

He barely has the time to process one ditto slamming into the other before he realizes his window is closing, bone club ready to deploy as such. The tool is flung much like he would any other projectile, but Bonemerang has always been its own thing and that thing is something that can at least hit multiple Pokemon. It strikes across the Ditto that got flung, but also bounces off it to hit the one behind it, and then comes along back to do the same in reverse.

The cubone nods as both therefore go down. "That's a few others down for the count..!! How many left..."

[belowthesea]

Jack stops to watch the Bonemerang flying around, and his tail starts wagging excitedly. That thing... is so cool, and he wants to figure out how to do that. For the first time in a while, he really wishes he had his research camera.

But- okay, yes, focus. He glances around, and... the Ditto are starting to look less interested in fighting, or at least less willing to risk it with these two. One of them ventures closer, but takes off running as soon as Jack turns his attention toward them.

"...Safe?"

Hopefully???

[seacub]

And gone, and gone, and gone-

The remaining ditto are certainly wobbling a lot more...nervously, and so Emporio takes a chance to look at Jack. Just in time to see that one ditto manage to run before it even has the chance to get weak and goopy, wow.

...

Oh!

"Uh! Yeah, I'm fine I think! I think we might be done here, actually..."

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hey what's that weird vibrating in the ground

[belowthesea]

Jack is just starting to relax when the ground erupts right underneath Emporio, shooting heated rocks up toward him. Jack lets out a startled bark, and scrambles over to try and help... which does not happen in time, he's still incredibly slow.

But he manages to pounce on the Ditto that attacked, and spends a few seconds dealing with it. After that, when it slips back into being pink goop, he feels better about checking on Emporio.

[seacub]

"UGh..." Slowly, and dizzily, Emporio sits up.

...And...stares. The other ditto, needless to say, are tearing off as fast as possible. How the remaining goop isn't dead is honestly a good question, but it's sort of inching and slinking away whatever the case.

Emporio for his part is slowly blinking wide, wide eyes at the whole thing, and gradually turning to look at Jack.

"...What did you do to them..?"

[belowthesea]

Jack needs a moment himself, to remember where he is and get back into the present. It's odd... he expected some of these lapses in time would go away now that he's not technically a splicer anymore (he thinks??) but he's starting to think this is just... what he's like.

Although he supposes he's not sure what's normal for a human, anyway.

"Didn't kill it."

Which... he's sort of looking at Emporio for confirmation on whether that's a good thing. He still feels like maybe they should be killing these things - they're dangerous, after all.

[seacub]

After a few seconds, far too long to let any answer sink in, Emporio nods. ...Is he...alright? Emporio might not be alright.

Still. He nods again- "...Oh. That's...That's good! Yeah. ...Thanks for not doing that," he manages to stammer, watching the last of the ditto clear out.

"They're retreating now it seems, at least..."