The Great Cookie Capers!

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

(...) My love, its time to get up now. I was going to let you sleep in, but several things have come to my attension recently, and none of them are good. First, though, eat this meal I prepared for you. Bad news is best handled with a full stomach, after all.

*grumbles tonelessly, but eventually turns around in bed to face their thieving fiance* "Hmmm... Good morning... "

Silverline is rejoiced his Master is awake and safe and chirps happily at the Cookie Thief while glancing at him. The Espeon wasn't very happy as he told sometime during night that appearantly someone has been spying their house, but he said he drove them off, so... Also Master promised that we'll pick up Spades from the Daycare today. Hooray!

*sits upright in bed and puts on glasses to see the suroundings clear again, before giving Windos a dear smile, before noticing...all the food...they prepared...?* "My, my, you again. Toast for breakfast is actually all fine for me... But you know as well that I enjoy your cooking skills especially on free days's mornings." ... ""Oh, and your dressed in more than underwear. That's good... Not like the last time~" *insert a slight, roguish, blushy and reserved grin here*


*thankfully accepts a plate of the Blueberry-Thingie and digs into it, taking care not to leave the bed filled with crumbles* Describing the taste as 'good' was understatet. In fact, this was delicious like hell and pleasantly energizes the spirits.

At some point though, slowly but steady, the Chief Ranger's expression faded as the mulled over the words their partner were saying formerly... "Wait a moment... You mentioned 'bad news'? Oh damn... What's wrong this time? Tell me what happend my dear, will you?" Farewell, quiet free day - you have barely started, but you'll be filled with hopefully-not-too-troublesome-problems soon enough.
 
The unfamiliar black feather with a hint of electricity flooding through it was still laying on the bedroom's windowsill. Let's hope it does not casue too much distress upon finding it and where it seemingly originates from... And why it's inside the house, at all.

[Lord Windos]

(...) My love, its time to get up now. I was going to let you sleep in, but several things have come to my attension recently, and none of them are good. First, though, eat this meal I prepared for you. Bad news is best handled with a full stomach, after all.

*grumbles tonelessly, but eventually turns around in bed to face their thieving fiance* "Hmmm... Good morning... "

Silverline is rejoiced his Master is awake and safe and chirps happily at the Cookie Thief while glancing at him. The Espeon wasn't very happy as he told sometime during night that appearantly someone has been spying their house, but he said he drove them off, so... Also Master promised that we'll pick up Spades from the Daycare today. Hooray!

*sits upright in bed and puts on glasses to see the suroundings clear again, before giving Windos a dear smile, before noticing...all the food...they prepared...?* "My, my, you again. Toast for breakfast is actually all fine for me... But you know as well that I enjoy your cooking skills especially on free days's mornings." ... ""Oh, and your dressed in more than underwear. That's good... Not like the last time~" *insert a slight, roguish, blushy and reserved grin here*


*thankfully accepts a plate of the Blueberry-Thingie and digs into it, taking care not to leave the bed filled with crumbles* Describing the taste as 'good' was understatet. In fact, this was delicious like hell and pleasantly energizes the spirits.

At some point though, slowly but steady, the Chief Ranger's expression faded as the mulled over the words their partner were saying formerly... "Wait a moment... You mentioned 'bad news'? Oh damn... What's wrong this time? Tell me what happend my dear, will you?" Farewell, quiet free day - you have barely started, but you'll be filled with hopefully-not-too-troublesome-problems soon enough.
 
The unfamiliar black feather with a hint of electricity flooding through it was still laying on the bedroom's windowsill. Let's hope it does not casue too much distress upon finding it and where it seemingly originates from... And why it's inside the house, at all.

*Roughsly waggles at their eyebrows at his lover*

Oh, don't pretend that you would not love it if I were even less underdressed. It delights my heart you love my cooking as well! Feels like centuries since I actually bothered to cook a meal, instead of just stealing it or just ordering out! Ohohoho!

*The Cookie Thief's smile then diminished, as he got to the 'bad' news part of the morning*

*Sighs* Your former ranger Xenoic has finally come out of hiding, and is the most troublesome of ways. His blasted Sableye has entered the city to do some sort of unknown task, doubtless to make our lives much harder in some capacity. Somebody was also kidnapped from the hospital-not sure who yet, but my Ghosts trailing Agent Dragonstrike will soon uncover the particulars of that situation. I'm not sure these two incidents are connected, but my intuition points towards that possibility, and it has never lead me astray. Into trouble occasionally, but never astray!

*A moment of realization flashed across the Thief's face, before they rubbed the back of their head*

Oh yes, do you remember my newest rival? Well, we are having diner with them at the Rosmarinous tomorrow. Its mostly an outing for all of us to learn more about each other respectively, but its likely we'll be discussing our respective business in the city now that this happened. Sorry for informing you of this so suddenly and without preparation, but I believed it best for all of us to become acquainted in some manner.

[Xenoic]

*Sable at this point in time has weaved at least 50% of the sewers with the unstable metal, it had already finished polluting the river of fecal matter which caused the river to take on a more ghostly appearance. Now the next step was to finish weaving the metal into the walls, in strands that flow through the old brick's cracks. But it had felt something somewhere at the edge of its mind. Due to being a ghost-type it had a great affinity for sensing other creatures. living and dead.*

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"Mr. Fuji, I see you are done with the DNA hopefully, after seemingly never-ending days of work, (Xenoic has been working almost literally 24-7, only taking 4 hour's worth of sleep) it will have linked the Luxelong and Human genome. We will need most likely a few more days to confirm it has bonded however. Now, Mr. Fuji I understand that you have far more experience with fabricating a body than I do, can you help explain to me the process while we are examining the spliced DNA?"

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

"Yeah... Like stealing food from me.~ How often was I bringing home some new invested cookies from our Developing Sector and as soon as I was out of the room for more than a few minutes... They were all gone like magic."


*mulls over the bad news for a while, in comfortable silence, while enjoying the rest of the breakfast prepared* Usualy the Chief's fine with either Toast or plain black coffee on the way to the RU... But 1. their partner preapred all this lovingly and 2. this will be anything else than the quiet day that was actually planed...

The next words were more spoken to herself, with a hint of sorrow dwelling between the lines... "It's be better if I'd never had hired Xenoic, right...? First the Chaos on high sea, involving the Tandor Pirates... Even YOU were in danger, not even speaking of my true loyal Rangers... Now this... Hell..." She double-facepalms then. Blaming herself? Maybe.

*faces him again, somewhat...mournful* "Anyway... Looks like we got a new archnemesis beside from, well, 'you as the Thief robbing our RU'. Well..." *places the foodplate down and makes moves to get out of bed* "...better find my HM Fly quickly, gather Spades from the Daycare and pay the hospital a visit, right?" Hospital... Currently, there was only one Ranger of hers in hospital... Oh, this doesn't sound great. Not. At. All. "Ah, right... Sure we can meet your new rival tomorrow. No shenanigans, though, alright?"

As she frees the bedroom window from its lilac curtain and takes a look outside the bedroom window - still in lavender nightdress with a Klefki imprinted below -, the first thing the Chief Ranger notices was not that her orchid was bloomng again. Neither that it will be a bright and nice day. It was...

"Eh... Dear... You don't own a Yatagaryu, do you? For how long have your Ghosts protecting my house? They...must have...realised..." If she remembers correctly, Xenoic owned one of those Thunderdragons. And used it to kidnap her from her office... Baaaaad omen. He wouldn't dare trying the same stunt from her home, wouldn't he? Oh, Hydreigon would love sinking his teeth into that Thundersdragon's neck...

[Lord Windos]

*The Cookie Thief sighs, before leaning over and putting a hand on her shoulder*

You couldn't have known that Xenoic would be such a right bastard to you and the RU; from what I heard, he was a model ranger before he turned traitor for whatever Arceas forshaken reason. Don't Beat Up yourself over this mess, alright sweetie?

*Places a kiss on Phantom's lips, before taking their empty plate and setting it aside on the nightstand by the bed*

Before you doing anything and rush off to complete these task, make sure to dress yourself properly. I normally don't have to remind you, but the last time you got into a hurry, the Ice Cream Sunday Incident happen, and you couldn't show your face in the public for weeks! Pace yourself, my love.

*Gives them another smile, this time of assurance*

Agent Dragonstrike will not be a problem. He has a dark fire burning within him, but whatever he does, he tends to do the just thing in a given situation. Even if the methods he employ to accomplish a task are sometime....wanting to those of higher moral sensibilities. Not exactly a noble hero, but I rather have an Anti-Heroic rival anyway!

*When Phantom walked over and noticed the Yatagaryu feather, the Thief visage cloud with anger for a moment*

That bastard has been snopping about our home, now has he? My ghosts must have driven his pet dragon off, but the next time he tries to invade our privacy, he's going to experience a nasty surprise..... And no, I don't own a Yatagaryu. Never liked the line of dragons, given their holier than thou attitude. Much rather prefer Dunsereph myself!

[Lord Windos]

"Mr. Fuji, I see you are done with the DNA hopefully, after seemingly never-ending days of work, (Xenoic has been working almost literally 24-7, only taking 4 hour's worth of sleep) it will have linked the Luxelong and Human genome. We will need most likely a few more days to confirm it has bonded however. Now, Mr. Fuji I understand that you have far more experience with fabricating a body than I do, can you help explain to me the process while we are examining the spliced DNA?"

Mr. Fuji, unlike Xenoic, actually tried to get at least 8 hours of sleep per nights, so he didn't nearly looked as tired as the beleaguered geneticist did. At the same time, though, he didn't possess the same passion that drove them to work so fervently. "Yeah, I'm done with that task. Tricky as hell to splice the DNA of several species of Pokémon with the Human genome without some sort of template to work with, which is only compound by the fact that what we are doing is essentially creating one from whole scratch. Making Mewtwo wasn't this difficult, given my goal was just to create an improved and more combat oriented Mew, and I was only work with one set of DNA at that! Still, the delicate work is finally done, and now we have to wait and see if the sequence DNA build for the Poke-Human hybrid doesn't collapse on itself."

Fuji took off his glasses for a moment, cleaning them off out of a nervous habit he built up, before putting them on once more. He moved over to were the cloning tank was, currently filled will the blood of who knows how many Luxelongs and humans. "Making bodies and various cloned body parts isn't that difficult of a task, surprisingly. Complicated as hell, and requiring that you damn well know genetics and Pokémon/Human Biology like it burned into your skull, but its not hard to do in practice. You pretty much take some stem cells and an zygote from a recipient that closely match to what you are trying to create, craft a Virus delivery system with the Pokémon you wish to create/clone, then infect the whole batch with them.

"The virus will reprogram the zygote to produce the desired Pokémon or being, while the stem cells do the important job of constructing the body while keeping the developing fetus from being subject to typical genetic abnormalities that plagued old cloning. After everything is set up, you then artificially start the gestation process of the egg in an incubation or cloning tank, and just wait for the body to construct itself in time. You have to moniter it the whole time to make sure the clone doesn't deteriote or have its body breakdown due to their immune system going haywire, but its not too difficult to correct those problems. You understand, kid?" He doesn't like having to retread memories regarding cloning, but he is the most knowledgable person in the world on that field. If he doesn't make sure process goes smoothly, who will?

[Xenoic]

*Sable had called in Yatagryu to hide beneath the sewers until ready, Yata only agreed on the condition if she can get some the famous Carrot Wine later. Sable had run out of metal at around 72% of the sewer being infused but it was enough for what it has planned. The sewer walls has started to shroud the entire sewer in a dark misty fog that concealed Sable and Yata from even the most heightened senses. Yata was tucked away along the wall of the sewers while Sable is figuring out which gadgets it wants to use*

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"That is actually an excellent idea Mr. Fuji. My original plan was to individually replace the DNA in all the stem cells and let it develop which of course is going to take forever and some luck. We already have the tank prepared yes? We shall begin dissecting the cadavers for the parts we need then."

[Dragonstrike]

It didn't take long for Gallade to pinpoint the presence of Windos's ghosts. They weren't trying to hide from him currently, apparently.

"Alright, you ghosts. Make sure your master tells his fiance that one of her rangers has gone missing. I need to meet with her ASAP to discuss this situation with her."

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Meanwhile, in the sewers, the agent's Gastly had been investigating a strange presence it had felt while it had been skulking around the shadows on the surface.

It quickly found what appeared to be metal, humming with energy, laced into the walls.

And a little farther down the tunnel, was Sableye. The two ghosts just stared at each other for a moment...and then Ghastly slipped back to the surface to inform its master of the sableye's location as the fog began shrouding the tunnels...

[Xenoic]

It didn't take long for Gallade to pinpoint the presence of Windos's ghosts.  They weren't trying to hide from him currently, apparently.

"Alright, you ghosts.  Make sure your master tells his fiance that one of her rangers has gone missing.  I need to meet with her ASAP to discuss this situation with her."

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Meanwhile, in the sewers, the agent's Gastly had been investigating a strange presence it had felt while it had been skulking around the shadows on the surface.

It quickly found what appeared to be metal, humming with energy, laced into the walls.  

And a little farther down the tunnel, was Sableye.  The two ghosts just stared at each other for a moment...and then Ghastly slipped back to the surface as the fog started shrouding the tunnels to inform its master of the Sableye's current location...

*Sable was annoyed at how quickly it was found, assuming the ghost was part of Windos' team, Sable had used the mist to secretly weave a strange glyph consisting of metal and raw energy onto the Ghastly's tongue (On the underside of the tongue). The glyph was Sable's signature trap that enrages the victim into assaulting everything sight once activated. It was unknown how Sable activates the glyphs, even to Xenoic himself*

[Lord Windos]

It didn't take long for Gallade to pinpoint the presence of Windos's ghosts.  They weren't trying to hide from him currently, apparently.

"Alright, you ghosts.  Make sure your master tells his fiance that one of her rangers has gone missing.  I need to meet with her ASAP to discuss this situation with her."

*A Mimikyu popped out right in front of Dragonstrike, and handed them a message, before waving at them and disappearing*

The message was short and to the point: "My rival, meet me and Phantom in front of the hospital. We will meet you as soon as the Chief has had time to prepare."

%Back to the Cookie Thief!%

*The Mimikyu appear in front of Thief, and relayed the information*

...That son of a bitch! Phantom, its worse than we though about the hospital: the person abducted was EeveeBailey. We need to hurry up and get ready now. I will not tolerate another thief in my city, especially not a bloody police snatcher! Bolluck to that!!!

*The Thief rushed to get the rest of his attire in order, and wrote a message for his Mimikyu to give to agent, all in a state of extreme anger. Uh oh.*