031 [Video/Action for Olivine]

[soggypastry]

I said get out of the way!

[Morning, Johto. Enjoy your very early morning wake up call. No, seriously, it's early. The sun's not even up-early. Lightning normally sleeps through this time of day, so why is she on the network? ...Well, she's not exactly on it by choice. Her Pokemon have the gear again, and it's showing that a nurse is trying to stop a very pale and rather shaky Lightning from leaving the Center, but considering she's dressed and with a pair of Lucario's at her side, she's not going to be stopped. At all.]

Miss Farron, if you'll just calm down--

Calm down? I just spent the past six hours puking my guts out while you ran around like headless chocobos trying to fix a problem that shouldn't have happened, and you expect me to calm down? [She scoffs at that, moving to shove past, but the nurse bars her passage yet again.]

Miss Farron, the poison is still affecting your body. If you'd sit down and let us help-

[Now Lightning snarls, and it's still rather intimidating despite looking like she's going to fall at any second.]

Help? Like when you somehow didn't notice someone go into my room in the middle of the night and let this happen? I don't need your help. I can handle this myself.

[The nurse aims to protest again, but Lightning doesn't listen and she goes around, hobbling out of the Center on crutches while not looking back even as the feed shorts out with a startled "Pika!". It never comes on again, but those who go out looking for her will find her on the porch of Minnie's house, sitting on one of the chairs with her head in her hands, that pair of Lucarios and a Pikachu nearby so she isn't alone. She really doesn't look well, either, so their concern is probably warranted.]

[ooc: due to plottings, Lightning spent the night badly poisoned and is now rather freaked out because, well, no idea who did it! :3 My thanks to both Cobra-mun and Kimblee-mun for this plot, it's been fun!]

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[video]

[snapandscoot]

[[Emmy sees the rather distressed transmission, and she's quick to open the feed.]]

Is everything alright, Lightning?

[video]

[soggypastry]

No. The IV the nurses had me on was poisoned somehow, and I'm not sure if it was an attack or not.

[Hence why she's so spooked. If it was an attack, they left no trace or sign. That's something she didn't think Rocket was capable of.

And pardon her looking like crap, Emmy. She feels it right now and can barely be bothered to keep her voice steady.]

[video]

[meatysoviet]

[He's really got to get in the habit of not, the Russian tuning into this ranting and raving still half asleep and barely out of bed, however, he got two things;

It's Lightning.

and she's been poisoned. In hospital.

He is far too tired to use text, or even go anon this time Lightning, he's just... There.]

You need to learn to breath woman- being hysterical makes these things work quicker.

[video]

[soggypastry]

[Hysterical? He hasn't seen her hysterical yet, and he still won't. She's actually fairly calm...if the shaking of her hands and paleness of her skin can be ignored, anyway.]

I was given an antidote over an hour ago. This is just the remains working their way out of my system.

[Experience colors her tone; this isn't her first trip into Poisoned-land, and it's doubtful it'll be her last.]

video

[her_mouse_jesty]

Lightning?!

[she's up at once, in her frilly pajamas, grabbing the gear and making a run for it.]

I'll be right there!

video

[soggypastry]

Don't bother. I'll meet you at the house.

[The gear captures her back as she walks, one of those aforementioned Lucarios holding it now, and the camera shifts to show Sen's worried face as he whimpers. Lightning's not slowing down at all, either; at this rate, she'll reach the house not long after Minnie's left it.]

[Video]

[infinitejustice]

[Good thing this guy has learned how to run on less than six hours of sleep. He's actually up.]

Poison?! What the hell happened? Are you sure you'll be all right?!

[Video]

[soggypastry]

[Well, that's a plus. At least someone isn't half-asleep or running on adrenaline. Someone needs full control of their mental faculties in this mess.]

I'll be fine. It's not the first time I've had to deal with poison, and I was given an antidote already.

[Oh, the things she could tell you people about her world...you'd never sleep again.]

[anonymous text]

[scientificflair]

[Descole recognizes that name being shouted across the feed; what he does next does come with some hesitation, and he imagines this individual won't be too pleased with messages coming without a name attached, but at the same time...]

I understand the need to feel less vulnerable after something like that. But you're not doing yourself any favors.

[anonymous text]

[soggypastry]

[Won't be pleased at all, actually. She's not fond of not having at least a name or signal attached to things like this...especially after events such as this one.]

I'm aware of that, but I have things under control.

[video] This can only end well

[used_fireblast]

Jesus.

[Just kind of stunned silence for a moment, because holy shit is this way darker than most things that he's seen on the gear network.]

Hell's bells, are you-

...you gonna be all right?

[video] clearly. hopefully he's grown sick of foot-taste by now.

[soggypastry]

[He's stunned, she's shaky and has shot nerves...they're quite the pair today. Yikes.]

Yeah. This isn't the first time I've dealt with poison.

[video]

[will_to_burn]

Poisoned?!

[ And her concern is rapidly rising, brows furrowing as she grips the communicator that much tighter. It's very quick to write itself all over her face. ]

Lightning-san, are you okay? What happened?

[video]

[soggypastry]

[Hikaru's concern is plainly visible, and it only takes one look for Lightning to sigh and shake her head.]

I'm not sure. My IV was poisoned, but the nurses aren't sure if it was deliberate or accidental.

[Though she does have her theories. And they aren't pretty.]

[video]

[paladinlost]

...How, when and where were you poisoned, and what sort of poison was it.

[Cecil sounds terrifyingly calm and serious. Not the good kind, either.]

[video]

[soggypastry]

The Center, sometime after midnight, and someone put something into my IV. The nurses aren't sure what it was, but the only antidote that worked was one for Pokemon based toxins.

[She's...grateful for that calm, actually. Enough people have been freaking out on her already and that does not help her regain her wits at all.]

[audio]

[ex_aeroga402]

[It's dark enough in Mt Moon that Ven doesn't bother with video, but his voice makes it evident enough that he's worried]

Poison-? Light, what happened?

[audio]

[soggypastry]

[It's evident that he's worried, and it's evident that Lightning is still shaken, no matter how she tries to hide it.]

I'm not sure. I was fine when Serah and Minnie left when visiting hours were over, but poison got into my IV somehow. The nurses aren't sure if it was deliberate or not.

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[ex_cashcow493]

[ Poison? Immediately Saber's mind thinks of foul individuals like Kayneth and Tokiomi. Even in Johto, she remains wary of magi from her world. Logic begins to seep in shortly after though; there's no motive for them to attack her. So instead, she'll just offer what aid she can. ]

Do you need anything, Lightning?

audio;

[soggypastry]

[What's worse is that this wasn't done by a magi...not that either of them knows that at the moment. Whoops.]

To figure out who did this. I can't leave the city yet.

[No matter how much she wants to up and hide in a cave or something, she knows it'll put others at more risk. Not a chance she can take.]

[Action-ish] I still have no idea what I'm doing, but w/e it's been days.

[chasingstorms]

[While all the hubbub is happening, Serah is curled up in her bed, fast asleep. When she wakes up, she's going to mentally beat herself up for not being there when her sister needed her - for now; however, she's just going to sleep and dream about Snow... yet again. So if Lightning should decide to check up on her, Serah is sleeping with a smile on her face. Probably while cuddling an eevee egg or two. Who knows?]

[Action-ish] We can figure it out~! <3

[soggypastry]

[Being that Lightning has no desire to wake her sister even after that fight they had, she doesn't bother going into the room she knows Serah is sleeping in. She'll be inside the house by the time Serah wakes up, and will be seated at the bar in the kitchen while nursing a glass of ice water and trying to stop any lingering shakes. It's a hard task, and she's not doing so well, but...at least she doesn't look very freaked out?

...Though considering how Lightning internalizes almost everything, that may not be a good thing.

[video]

[ordalias]

[ Frowning so hard at the screen right now. ]

Lightning, you shouldn't. You really don't look so good.

[video]

[soggypastry]

[Enjoy the view of her back, Xion. Sen's got the gear right now and she's not stopping.]

You don't stay in one place when there's been a threat to your life, Xion. That just puts you in more danger.

[Well. That and she's spooked that someone got her in a place that was supposed to be safe, so...zoom zoom.]

[video]

[tapestodiane]

_{[Well, he was alarmed right away, naturally - he's met Lightning a few times and she's never looked quite like that before. But the mention of 'poison' makes him pay attention, and even moreso what Lightning says after it. Of course, he's seeing this video a bit later - but he still makes sure to connect to the feed, when he sees it.]}

Lightning. Are you okay?

_{[Measured, professional, efficient, all of that - but still undeniably concerned and definitely worried.]}

[video]

[soggypastry]

[She looks a bit better by the time he connects; she's had time to get somewhere she feels is safer and let herself calm down a bit, but the paleness and shakes are still a thing. It'll be a while before that fades, sadly.]

Fine. This isn't the first time I've dealt with something like this.

[Except she's clearly not fine. But she will be! ...Eventually. Once her stomach stops doing the flamenco.]