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It was 2 hours after the meeting, and Violet could easily tell that Nick was happy to be out on the road. He looked like he was ready to take off in flight. Team Quarry seemed to be enjoying themselves equally. "Finally, we get to actually do something!" Rozz exclaimed skipping along.

Nick gave a roaring laugh, "At laest yer two didn't 'av ter dayle wi' Sergent Pompus al' day an' noight!" Violet knew that Nick and Reuben would probably never get along, but at least she knew that he would at least honor his promise to the guild.

She then tried to catch up to Team Quarry and asked, "So... whereabouts are you two from?"

"We grew up quite far from here," McCartney replied. "Lennon and I are from Moxipool. We stumbled across Rozz here along the way, somewhere."

Violet smiled, "Well I kind of grew up near the sea, more backwoods than most folks, though I think I may have been to Moxipool at some point a few years ago."

"Oh really?" Lennon enquired. "Did you meet anyone there? Just curious."

Violet just shrugged, "I made friends with a krokorok and a scraggy, they helped me out when no one else would."

McCartney spoke up next, "Ah you know them too? Lennon introduced me to them after he evolved and all."

"So, what about him?" Rozz pointed to the delibird and raised an eyebrow, slightly intrigued. "He does seem a bit of an oddball." This caused Violet to freeze up. Rozz stuttered, “I-I mean, he hasn't spoke up much since we left."

Before Violet could answer Nick turned to them and shouted, "Oi can 'ear yer, yer nu?"

Vi sighed, shaking her head. Smiling at Rozz she said, "Don’t worry, he just has some trust issues."

Rozz shrugged lazily, "I'm sure he has his reasons. I won't try and dig it out of him."

He then growled at Rozz, "Cud not tell yer much even if oi wanted ter!” He muttered to himself, “Me memories ain't al' dare anymore."

The Clefairy raised her arms as if she was surrendering, "No worries, no worries."

Lennon and McCartney suddenly stopped. The heads sniffed the air in opposite directions before Lennon asked, "Hey, does anyone smell something like...roses?"

Nick sniffed the air as well, he grinned, "Dare 'as been somethin' on de air since we got in 'ere, but it seems ter be gettin' stronger de further east we go." The group began moving with more caution the further they went. Eventually sounds could be heard in the distance, getting louder. After a while Nick looked at the group, "We're not alone."

A deep voice spoke up in their midst, "Can I help you?" Everyone jumped at the surprise, turning see a small Pancham walking alongside them casually. His mismatched eyes were stern beneath his hat. He stopped expectantly, arms behind his back.

"And who might you be?" McCartney asked leaning his head in close to the small bear.

The Pancham suddenly stopped, turning on his heel and took off his hat in a formal matter, revealing what looked like surgical scars on parts of his head and the rest of his body. He smiled, his deep voice not suiting his body and said "Ah where are my manners, my name is Fritz. I am the assistant of the Doctor."

Lennon looked in his general direction, "Doctor?"

Fritz placed his hat carefully back on his head, "Doctor Emilia Von Strauss, member of the researchers guild." He looked at everyone expectantly, "She had said that we shouldn’t be expecting visitors for the next while, so I wondered what you’re doing here."

The Zweilous stepped closer and smiled, "You see, we're on an expedition to make sure these here caves are safe for the others. I hope it's no biggy for you guys."

After everyone traded introductions Fritz bowed, "If you want, I can show you the way to the door." He then began walking forward at a great pace, almost leaving the others behind completely. He then turned around, "If you will follow me, please?"

The group, still taken slightly aback by the Pancham's sudden appearance, realized they were still standing around. Rozz shouted, "Oh, yes! Lead the way!"

The further they followed Fritz through the rocks, the stronger the stench in the air seemed to get. After an hour of walking they came upon a large wooden door, which seemed to be surrounded by a dark red moss. Amongst all this they found a medium sized green tent sitting just to the side of it. The sound of cheerful humming could be heard in the air while small plume of smoke coming from a hole in the top.

The smell of roses had now become almost pungent, to the point it was a bit painful to breathe. Lennon and McCartney, grimacing, covered their snouts with their fur-covered 'wings', "Well that doesn't smell of roses at all!"

Fritz pulled out a handkerchief from under his hat and covered his nose as well, "I couldn't agree with you more.” He waved his hand dramatically, “This moss seems to only smell good from a distance, and that seems to have gotten the doctors attention." He looked up, "That and the strange rocks we found."

Nick raised an eyebrow, "Rocks?"

Fritz pointed at a small pile of rocks near the tent, "Spoolstone, I think it was called."

"Hey Lennon, isn't that one of the resources the guilds asked us to get?" McCartney turned to his other head, who replied, "I think they did say that, Macca."

The humming suddenly stopped and a new voice asked, "Fritz is zat you?" The zipper of the tent opened, revealing a large amount of unkempt hair, "Was it anoser one of zose Barbroach's coming to boser us again?"

Fritz turned walked over to the tent, letting loose a long set of glowing claws, "Doctor, we have company, you need to look presentable." Using his claws like a makeshift comb, a wild eyed cinccino was revealed.

All of the sudden it jumped out of the tent and bounded over to the group.  She grabbed Rozz by the arm and shook it vigorously, "Vell vell vell, greeting and salutations!"

The Clefairy did her best to keep up with her handshake, "Umm, nice to meet you! I-I'm Rozz!"

The Doctor let go of her and smiled, speaking in her heavy accent, "My name is Dr. Emilia Von Strauss. A pleasure to meet you all'

The rest of the group introduced themselves to Emilia. "Can we call ya Emily fer short?" Lennon asked.

Emily tilted her head in deep thought, "Everyone seems to, I vonder why? Anyway, I see you'fe all met my fine assistant Fritz." She began to walk amongst them, muttering notes to herself about each of them, “A genuine fairy type, odd I don’t see wings on zis one. A psychic, don’t see zem often enough. Also Quadruped with multiple brains? Must test zat theory later. "

As she walked past them, Lennon whispered over to McCartney, "She's quite the character, eh?" Macartney nodded, "Yeah, I kinda like it."

She suddenly stopped in front of Nick, "You? Nicholas vat are you doing out here, and vat's happened to your face?"

This caused the delibird to step back, a dumfounded look on his face. “Um, do oi nu yer?”

She ran up to him till they were only inches away from each other, “You should, I’ve known you for years!”

Violet tapped her on the shoulder, before dragging her off to the side. “Nick doesn't remember much of his past anymore. When I found him he was really messed up. Did you know him from back then?”

Emily stopped in her tracks, “Wow this is interesting! Never actually done testing in telepathy before. You must tell me how this works later on.” She winked, “If what your saying is true, yes I know who Nicholas is, but let’s let the dumpkoff figure it out for himself.” They briefly exchanged a nod before joining the rest of the group.

“Never mind about zat last bit everyone, Before I forget, why are you out here anyway?” Emily asked.

"We're out on an expedition through the caves, to make sure they're safe," Rozz responded.

Emily began to laugh, "Vell other zan the curious moss, and zee stones over zere is only the door, vich is locked.” She turned towards her assistant, "We haven't actually found a key yet have we Fritz?"

Fritz shook his head, "No Doctor, though the Barboach keep showing up. So a way to open it must be close by."

With that Violet and Nick walked over to the door. Violet placed her hand on it. "I can definitely sense someone on the other side of this."

While she did that Nick began examining the lock with a keen eye, "Old model, single mechanism, slight rust buildup so smashing is an option."

Violet gave Nick a worried look, "Not in front of the others"

"Oh really? Why not just bust down the lock then?" Lennon, with McCartney keeping up to his stride, approached the door, staring blankly at it.

Nick shook his head, "Naw nade for dat, watch dis." He opened his tailbag, revealing what looked like a small hooked piece of gold wire. Quick as a flash he slipped it into the lock and within seconds of jiggling it about the lock hit the ground with a loud thud. He held his wire aloft shouting, "Ta-dah!"

"Ooh, nice! Now we can go in!" McCartney exclaimed.

Emily clapped, "Stupendous, your wings are always so dexterous." She then suddenly turned around, "Why do I smell smoke?"

"DOCTOR YOU LEFT THE BURNER ON AGAIN!" bellowed Fritz. They all turned to see that the tent had begun to burn. Fritz ran to Emily and held her back, "It's not worth it, Doctor."

She cried, "We need to save my notebook at least.”

"Here, let me try something," Rozz stepped forward, waggling her finger. Suddenly, a bright flash of light engulfed her, and sparks bounced around her body. The short discharge of electrical energy came and went, as the Clefairy stood there, dumbfounded. "..uh, I was hoping to call a water-type move, to put out the fire..."

Violet shook her head, “Leave this to me.” She vanished using teleport.

Nick growled, "Vi what are ya doin?" He got as close as he could and let out an ice beam. The flames seemed to dissipate slightly but a lot of steam began to form.

"Ah screw it, we're going in!" Lennon and McCartney dashed into the burning tent. Through the flames and smoke they eventually found her stuck under a plank, holding onto a large book and a large glass vial for dear life.  Though they tried to free her, things seemed to only get even worse as the roof began to fall towards them. All of the sudden, the ground beneath them fell out, and they landed in a hole.

"Well zat was almost to close!" Emily said laughing, "Has anyone seen my left leg?"

"Found it!" McCartney lifted his head up, holding what looked like a wooden peg leg in his mouth. "At least, I think this is it?"

Lennon was a bit confused, "Wait, you leg detaches from your body? What are you, anyway?"

She draped a bit of her long hair over his nose, "Can't you tell I'm a Cinccino?" she laughed, "I lost my left leg in an accident a few months ago, still adapting to the new one.'

The right head replied, "Ah, I see. Well, I couldn't tell because I'm blind, y'know." He then gestured towards McCartney, "He can see, however, albeit near-sighted."

She giggled, "Fascinating..."

It was then they noticed that Violet was trying to push the two off of her with all that she could. "Oh, sorry!" Emily shouted when they got up and climbed out of the hole, helping Violet onto her feet.

Emily looked at her wreckage of her tent, "Well zere goes two days of work." She then turned to the psychic, “Pray tell why didn’t you just teleport yourself out of the fire?”

Violet’s eyes seemed to cross like she was in deep concentration, no matter how hard she tried she remained silent. She pulled out a pen from within a part of her hood and wrote in the notebook, “I overused my powers for today, they burned out. Hope this and the bottle are yours.”

After reading suddenly tackled her in a tight hug, "You saved it and my formula! I can now continue my guild work!" She got up, dusted off the book and handed it to Fritz, who managed to strap it to his back, while she stuck the bottle in her coat. She struck what she thought was a dramatic pose "Well zen, it seems that Fritz and I have no reason to stay here anymore, so collect zee spoolstone and come find me in the next room. ONWARD!" She then darted through the door without looking back.

Team Quarry and the Lionhearts looked at each other. "Well then, should we go after her?" Rozz asked, picking up as much of the spoolstone she could.

Fritz was busy taking his own samples, "The doctor may seem a bit off, but she has taken a shine to you all. I have to go after her anyway."

Violet and Nick loaded the stones into his tail bag as best as they could. Nick gave Rozz a sly grin, "Innit yisser guilds duty ter protect others while 'eadin' through thease places?

Team Quarry rubbed the back of their heads with their forelimbs, "Eheh, yeah, we should go make sure she doesn't get into trouble."

After loading up properly, they all entered to find their new comrade.

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Picking up an odd pair, the group is complete, and the journey continues.

Collab with  Blackyraquza1.

Previous:Basalt Halls Collab: Band on the Run Part 2 Next: Basalt Halls Collab: Band on the Run Part 4

The teams involved:
Team Quarry
The Lionhearts
Mad Science!

The map:  pmdunity.org/dungeon/view/2/12…

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It was 2 hours after the meeting, and Violet could easily tell that Nick was happy to be out on the road. He looked like he was ready to take off in flight. Team Quarry seemed to be enjoying themselves equally. "Finally, we get to actually do something!" Rozz exclaimed skipping along.

Nick gave a roaring laugh, "At laest yer two didn't 'av ter dayle wi' Sergent Pompus al' day an' noight!" Violet knew that Nick and Reuben would probably never get along, but at least she knew that he would at least honor his promise to the guild.

She then tried to catch up to Team Quarry and asked, "So... whereabouts are you two from?"

"We grew up quite far from here," McCartney replied. "Lennon and I are from Moxipool. We stumbled across Rozz here along the way, somewhere."

Violet smiled, "Well I kind of grew up near the sea, more backwoods than most folks, though I think I may have been to Moxipool at some point a few years ago."

"Oh really?" Lennon enquired. "Did you meet anyone there? Just curious."

Violet just shrugged, "I made friends with a krokorok and a scraggy, they helped me out when no one else would."

McCartney spoke up next, "Ah you know them too? Lennon introduced me to them after he evolved and all."

"So, what about him?" Rozz pointed to the delibird and raised an eyebrow, slightly intrigued. "He does seem a bit of an oddball." This caused Violet to freeze up. Rozz stuttered, “I-I mean, he hasn't spoke up much since we left."

Before Violet could answer Nick turned to them and shouted, "Oi can 'ear yer, yer nu?"

Vi sighed, shaking her head. Smiling at Rozz she said, "Don’t worry, he just has some trust issues."

Rozz shrugged lazily, "I'm sure he has his reasons. I won't try and dig it out of him."

He then growled at Rozz, "Cud not tell yer much even if oi wanted ter!” He muttered to himself, “Me memories ain't al' dare anymore."

The Clefairy raised her arms as if she was surrendering, "No worries, no worries."

Lennon and McCartney suddenly stopped. The heads sniffed the air in opposite directions before Lennon asked, "Hey, does anyone smell something like...roses?"

Nick sniffed the air as well, he grinned, "Dare 'as been somethin' on de air since we got in 'ere, but it seems ter be gettin' stronger de further east we go." The group began moving with more caution the further they went. Eventually sounds could be heard in the distance, getting louder. After a while Nick looked at the group, "We're not alone."

A deep voice spoke up in their midst, "Can I help you?" Everyone jumped at the surprise, turning see a small Pancham walking alongside them casually. His mismatched eyes were stern beneath his hat. He stopped expectantly, arms behind his back.

"And who might you be?" McCartney asked leaning his head in close to the small bear.

The Pancham suddenly stopped, turning on his heel and took off his hat in a formal matter, revealing what looked like surgical scars on parts of his head and the rest of his body. He smiled, his deep voice not suiting his body and said "Ah where are my manners, my name is Fritz. I am the assistant of the Doctor."

Lennon looked in his general direction, "Doctor?"

Fritz placed his hat carefully back on his head, "Doctor Emilia Von Strauss, member of the researchers guild." He looked at everyone expectantly, "She had said that we shouldn’t be expecting visitors for the next while, so I wondered what you’re doing here."

The Zweilous stepped closer and smiled, "You see, we're on an expedition to make sure these here caves are safe for the others. I hope it's no biggy for you guys."

After everyone traded introductions Fritz bowed, "If you want, I can show you the way to the door." He then began walking forward at a great pace, almost leaving the others behind completely. He then turned around, "If you will follow me, please?"

The group, still taken slightly aback by the Pancham's sudden appearance, realized they were still standing around. Rozz shouted, "Oh, yes! Lead the way!"

The further they followed Fritz through the rocks, the stronger the stench in the air seemed to get. After an hour of walking they came upon a large wooden door, which seemed to be surrounded by a dark red moss. Amongst all this they found a medium sized green tent sitting just to the side of it. The sound of cheerful humming could be heard in the air while small plume of smoke coming from a hole in the top.

The smell of roses had now become almost pungent, to the point it was a bit painful to breathe. Lennon and McCartney, grimacing, covered their snouts with their fur-covered 'wings', "Well that doesn't smell of roses at all!"

Fritz pulled out a handkerchief from under his hat and covered his nose as well, "I couldn't agree with you more.” He waved his hand dramatically, “This moss seems to only smell good from a distance, and that seems to have gotten the doctors attention." He looked up, "That and the strange rocks we found."

Nick raised an eyebrow, "Rocks?"

Fritz pointed at a small pile of rocks near the tent, "Spoolstone, I think it was called."

"Hey Lennon, isn't that one of the resources the guilds asked us to get?" McCartney turned to his other head, who replied, "I think they did say that, Macca."

The humming suddenly stopped and a new voice asked, "Fritz is zat you?" The zipper of the tent opened, revealing a large amount of unkempt hair, "Was it anoser one of zose Barbroach's coming to boser us again?"

Fritz turned walked over to the tent, letting loose a long set of glowing claws, "Doctor, we have company, you need to look presentable." Using his claws like a makeshift comb, a wild eyed cinccino was revealed.

All of the sudden it jumped out of the tent and bounded over to the group.  She grabbed Rozz by the arm and shook it vigorously, "Vell vell vell, greeting and salutations!"

The Clefairy did her best to keep up with her handshake, "Umm, nice to meet you! I-I'm Rozz!"

The Doctor let go of her and smiled, speaking in her heavy accent, "My name is Dr. Emilia Von Strauss. A pleasure to meet you all'

The rest of the group introduced themselves to Emilia. "Can we call ya Emily fer short?" Lennon asked.

Emily tilted her head in deep thought, "Everyone seems to, I vonder why? Anyway, I see you'fe all met my fine assistant Fritz." She began to walk amongst them, muttering notes to herself about each of them, “A genuine fairy type, odd I don’t see wings on zis one. A psychic, don’t see zem often enough. Also Quadruped with multiple brains? Must test zat theory later. "

As she walked past them, Lennon whispered over to McCartney, "She's quite the character, eh?" Macartney nodded, "Yeah, I kinda like it."

She suddenly stopped in front of Nick, "You? Nicholas vat are you doing out here, and vat's happened to your face?"

This caused the delibird to step back, a dumfounded look on his face. “Um, do oi nu yer?”

She ran up to him till they were only inches away from each other, “You should, I’ve known you for years!”

Violet tapped her on the shoulder, before dragging her off to the side. “Nick doesn't remember much of his past anymore. When I found him he was really messed up. Did you know him from back then?”

Emily stopped in her tracks, “Wow this is interesting! Never actually done testing in telepathy before. You must tell me how this works later on.” She winked, “If what your saying is true, yes I know who Nicholas is, but let’s let the dumpkoff figure it out for himself.” They briefly exchanged a nod before joining the rest of the group.

“Never mind about zat last bit everyone, Before I forget, why are you out here anyway?” Emily asked.

"We're out on an expedition through the caves, to make sure they're safe," Rozz responded.

Emily began to laugh, "Vell other zan the curious moss, and zee stones over zere is only the door, vich is locked.” She turned towards her assistant, "We haven't actually found a key yet have we Fritz?"

Fritz shook his head, "No Doctor, though the Barboach keep showing up. So a way to open it must be close by."

With that Violet and Nick walked over to the door. Violet placed her hand on it. "I can definitely sense someone on the other side of this."

While she did that Nick began examining the lock with a keen eye, "Old model, single mechanism, slight rust buildup so smashing is an option."

Violet gave Nick a worried look, "Not in front of the others"

"Oh really? Why not just bust down the lock then?" Lennon, with McCartney keeping up to his stride, approached the door, staring blankly at it.

Nick shook his head, "Naw nade for dat, watch dis." He opened his tailbag, revealing what looked like a small hooked piece of gold wire. Quick as a flash he slipped it into the lock and within seconds of jiggling it about the lock hit the ground with a loud thud. He held his wire aloft shouting, "Ta-dah!"

"Ooh, nice! Now we can go in!" McCartney exclaimed.

Emily clapped, "Stupendous, your wings are always so dexterous." She then suddenly turned around, "Why do I smell smoke?"

"DOCTOR YOU LEFT THE BURNER ON AGAIN!" bellowed Fritz. They all turned to see that the tent had begun to burn. Fritz ran to Emily and held her back, "It's not worth it, Doctor."

She cried, "We need to save my notebook at least.”

"Here, let me try something," Rozz stepped forward, waggling her finger. Suddenly, a bright flash of light engulfed her, and sparks bounced around her body. The short discharge of electrical energy came and went, as the Clefairy stood there, dumbfounded. "..uh, I was hoping to call a water-type move, to put out the fire..."

Violet shook her head, “Leave this to me.” She vanished using teleport.

Nick growled, "Vi what are ya doin?" He got as close as he could and let out an ice beam. The flames seemed to dissipate slightly but a lot of steam began to form.

"Ah screw it, we're going in!" Lennon and McCartney dashed into the burning tent. Through the flames and smoke they eventually found her stuck under a plank, holding onto a large book and a large glass vial for dear life.  Though they tried to free her, things seemed to only get even worse as the roof began to fall towards them. All of the sudden, the ground beneath them fell out, and they landed in a hole.

"Well zat was almost to close!" Emily said laughing, "Has anyone seen my left leg?"

"Found it!" McCartney lifted his head up, holding what looked like a wooden peg leg in his mouth. "At least, I think this is it?"

Lennon was a bit confused, "Wait, you leg detaches from your body? What are you, anyway?"

She draped a bit of her long hair over his nose, "Can't you tell I'm a Cinccino?" she laughed, "I lost my left leg in an accident a few months ago, still adapting to the new one.'

The right head replied, "Ah, I see. Well, I couldn't tell because I'm blind, y'know." He then gestured towards McCartney, "He can see, however, albeit near-sighted."

She giggled, "Fascinating..."

It was then they noticed that Violet was trying to push the two off of her with all that she could. "Oh, sorry!" Emily shouted when they got up and climbed out of the hole, helping Violet onto her feet.

Emily looked at her wreckage of her tent, "Well zere goes two days of work." She then turned to the psychic, “Pray tell why didn’t you just teleport yourself out of the fire?”

Violet’s eyes seemed to cross like she was in deep concentration, no matter how hard she tried she remained silent. She pulled out a pen from within a part of her hood and wrote in the notebook, “I overused my powers for today, they burned out. Hope this and the bottle are yours.”

After reading suddenly tackled her in a tight hug, "You saved it and my formula! I can now continue my guild work!" She got up, dusted off the book and handed it to Fritz, who managed to strap it to his back, while she stuck the bottle in her coat. She struck what she thought was a dramatic pose "Well zen, it seems that Fritz and I have no reason to stay here anymore, so collect zee spoolstone and come find me in the next room. ONWARD!" She then darted through the door without looking back.

Team Quarry and the Lionhearts looked at each other. "Well then, should we go after her?" Rozz asked, picking up as much of the spoolstone she could.

Fritz was busy taking his own samples, "The doctor may seem a bit off, but she has taken a shine to you all. I have to go after her anyway."

Violet and Nick loaded the stones into his tail bag as best as they could. Nick gave Rozz a sly grin, "Innit yisser guilds duty ter protect others while 'eadin' through thease places?

Team Quarry rubbed the back of their heads with their forelimbs, "Eheh, yeah, we should go make sure she doesn't get into trouble."

After loading up properly, they all entered to find their new comrade.

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Picking up an odd pair, the group is complete, and the journey continues.

Collab with  Blackyraquza1.

Previous:Basalt Halls Collab: Band on the Run Part 2 Next: Basalt Halls Collab: Band on the Run Part 4

The teams involved:
Team Quarry
The Lionhearts
Mad Science!

The map:  pmdunity.org/dungeon/view/2/12…