Act 5: Questions Aboard The Ship

"Ah! wha?! Where!?" Quil is bewildered by where they are now, he can't even process the fact that they got teleported just now. 
"You...you two don't have to stop the investigation just because of me." Joshua said, having noticed that Loona was not happy with that outcome, especially when this seems to be happening because of him." The Buizel has his hands tied, I'm sure he won't get far, you can catch up to him no problem still. And if you still need me to go...one hand less is not an issue."

"No. You are coming with us." EIlumi says sternly. "Reborn Illuminate Proclaimation #28.9, subsection b: All non-hostile humans that are not registered citizens with allied factions, or aligned with enemy factions or bandits; are hereby under the protection of the Reborn Illuminate for the purpose of the preservation of the human race. Yeah, I know you have fellow humans back home in your universe and everything, but as long as you're here in THIS universe, that applies to you." 
"And besides" Nine says. "As Eilumi said, we only need one anyway. Brain scanners can only take one subject at a time, and it'd be pointless to scan them both. Except to fill the quota. And we can do that other ways." "Besides.... we have a POW here as well." He looks at Luca. "And I'm just dying to see this Guy's memories."

"'Preservation of the human' huh? i guess something like that could have been of use to us." If they are insisting, then he won't press the matter. "So, about my hand, how are we going to get it reattached?"

"Yeah, Khaun will have to put you under sedation, and then he'll work on it." Eilumi informs him. He looks at Quil with disdain. 
"Meanwhile, THIS little shitbag's" He says as he grabs his 'hair' and yanks it back and fourth "Is going STRAIGHT into the brain scanner." "And I'm going to finally see how the brain scanner works from the outside!" Loona said. "Well, actually, you don't have a neural jack, so you won't see anything." Eilumi replies flatly. "Awww." She groans. 
"And as for Nine... you stick our other guest in the brig, and await further orders. make sure he pulls no funny business. If he even as so much as ATTEMPTS to break free of his bonds, You have my permission to use any non-lethal methods necessary to get him under control. And I do mean. Any. Non-lethal. Methods. Necessary." Nine gives a salute. 
As they reach space, an object appears in the distance, and gets closer and closer as they approach it.

The Quilava whimpers. "L-look, i will do whatever you want, just please let me go!" He begs. "Why don't you go back and take Zel instead?!" 
"And make sure he is properly secure." Joshua began, just feeling like it's better to inform them thoroughly. "Lucario are very competent fighters capable of manipulating aura, those spikes of his are not for show either, they are made of metal, not bones. Without a portable way to capture pokémon, keeping them locked up often proves a challenge..." 
Pikachu comes walking in, he wanted see if everyone was okay but when he saw Joshua missing a hand he just...got scared at the sight of the blood. "Aaahh...aaahhh...! Y-your hand!" 
"...I will live, don't worry." He tried to reassure the electric mouse.

The ship comes into full view. They dock with it, and they are teleported out of it into the main ship.

"My entire outer body is made of solarium-infused durasteel. It might look like I am half machine and half organic, but in reality, my organic parts are all internal, not external. This fur you see is synthetic." Nine explains. "He will not be able to penetrate me." Nine says as he takes him away. 
"Besides, it's not like he can really go anywhere anyway. Except out the airlock. Into space. Where he'll die." Eilumi adds. "Well, unless he can breathe in space somehow." 
"Mr Joshua, if you will come with me, I will put you under sedation and then begin operating on your hand in the Biolab." Khaun instructs. Eilumi hands him the hand 
"What should I do?" Loona asks. "Hmmm.. You can't really see shitbag #1's memories, so that's pointless. And Nine's busy guarding Shitbag #2. And Khaun's busy with Josh." Eilumi looks at Loona, and then at Pikachu, then back to Loona. "Why don't you... take Pikachu here and ... do something?" 
"Like?" Loona asks. 
"I don't know." Eilumi shrugs. "Something to keep him busy, and to make sure he doesn't accidentally find his way out the airlock. I would almost suggest you show him the holodeck, but since neither of you have a neural jack, and since we only have one adaptor suit, well, that won't work. Hmmm..."He then gets an idea. "Why don't you take him to the bridge? Show him the stars? I'm sure he'd like that." 
"That ... would work." Loona says. She offers her hand to the Pikachu. "Come along little guy, Lemmie show you what the stars looks like from up here."

He has to admit that this place does look bigger and more advanced than the ship they were in previously.......quite a shape it has though. "Yes let us get this underway, Khaun. I hope i'm not too biologically different from your humans to the point that it can't hinder your work." With that said, Joshua agrees to come, Khaun just has to show him the way. "Also how is the food around here like?" 
"Okay." Pikachu holds her hand and waits for her to bring him along. "You don't really mind having to take me along...right?"

"Yeah, this will be a sinch" Khaun says as he leads him to the bio lab. "As for the food... we'll have to wait on that."  Once they enter, there is a gurney, some computers, and some very sciency looking stuff, plus some upright green body tubes. 
"Okay, let's see here..." He reaches into a cabinet and takes out an auto-injecting needle. "You're going to have to be not-awake for this part, josh. Don't worry, when you wake up, you should have your hand attached good as new."
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"Of course not!" Loona says sweetly, as if she were around Veera. She leads him to the bridge of the ship. Where there is a big window that they stare out of. Outside, there is a big blue and brown (But mostly blue) round thing, a grayish round thing in the distance that one could easily reconise as the moon, the sun in the far distance, and all the stars, in their unhindered glory. "And here we are. Quite beautiful, isn't it?" She says as she sits down. "You know, Shia gave me my name when I evolved. I always had a certain... fixation with the night's sky. I don't know why. So he called me 'Loony Loona' once, and the name kinda stuck. It's been sort of an in-joke between the three of us since." She sighs as she remembers her two other friends.
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"Get in that chair." Eilumi orders, pushing  Quil into the medbay room (which is NOT the Bio lab). "I said move it, shitbag!" He directs Quil to an upright chair sitting in the back end of the room.

The human looks upon all the things around him, he can understand some of the things, and he can tell what a computer is, but even some of the thing here might take some time for him to understand in full. "That's alright. For how long i am expected to be asleep?" 
--- 
When they got there to the bridge, Pikachu got mesmerized when he saw what is out there, all the stars shinning light years away, and the moon being so close. "Wow...this...this is beautiful." Then he looked down a bit. "I...i really hope you are able to find your friends." 
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The Quilava groans as he gets pushed forward. "You don't have to push!" He complained. then he looked at the chair, it looks....ominous. "What's with this thing?!"

"At least an hour or so. Possibly several." Khaun says. "Now lie down on the operating table there, and I'll inject this sedative into you, and I can get started." He says as he dawns a mask and glove, and some other protective gear.
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"Yes, it is, isn't it?" She sighs happily ."Seeing the world from up here, it looks so beautiful. It almost makes you forget what it's like down there. ... Almost." She says. "I want to find them. Find my friends, bring them up here, and hopefully they too will join me in exploring the stars. Far... far... far away from this horrible world. I don't know what all is out there, but it has to be better than this planet, at least."
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"That's a chair. There's nothing remarkable about it. Except for the straps. Speaking of." Eilumi deadpanned.  He undoes his binds, then forces him into the chair. He quickly straps the Quilava into the chair, using build-in metalic cuffs, which he ties as tightly as possible.  He then looks up to the ceiling. Suddenly, something comes down from the ceiling. Something that looks like a pair of wide binoculars on a ceiling mount. "It's THIS thing you need to worry about." He says with a malicious grin. "This is the brain scanner. It's going to scan your every memory, from the first non-forgotten memory of your mother's crib, to the very moment you were strapped into that chair. All. Of. It. And you will get to ride shotgun as you relive your whole life." He says. "In accelerated time, of course.  Should take about an hour or two, tops. Depending on your age. Me, being at least a couple of your planet's centuries old, it would take several hours."
He roughly jams the business end of the device onto Quil's face, locking it in place with straps. 
"And in case you're wondering, yes, we did in fact use this on Loona. It's how we learned her language. It's how we learned about what happened to her. And..."
He whispers into his ear.
"It's how we learned about YOU."
"And now we're going to use it to help us smoke out a yellow rat holding a kid hostage." Eilumi says threateningly. "Whether you want to or not. So strap in, and enjoy the ride, shitbag."
Quil sees darkness. Then, light....
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In the brig, Nine finishes tying Luca to the walls via durasteel chains. 
"This will hold you untill you're ready for your brain scan." he says to the as of yet still unconcious Luca. Luca is relieved of weapons, and is tied to both walls via tight chains attached to cuffs on his arms on either side. The cuffs are above the spikes, the spikes ironically enough, helping to hold the cuffs even more in place. Not that they aren't tight enough to do that on their own. HIs feet are also chained, but to the floor.
The protogen takes a quick look at the ceiling, and as if on command, two miniguns on ceiling mounts pop out of the ceiling. A laser on the side of them turns on, and at that moment, both minigun turrets are trained on Luca.
Nine is taking no chances whatsoever here.

Joshua looked at the gashes in the fingers of the hand he still has, hopefully those can get mended too. Now comes the act of lying upon the operating table, which he does it carefully and hopes he fits in it well given how big he is. "I am doing this right?" 
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 "hhhhmmmm..." This talk of friends is reminding Pikachu of something. "...You know this i want to leave that world too, much like i always ran and ran, but i never thought that would actually happen. I even ran away from my friends..." He doesn't sound very happy about this though. "I am the ultimate coward...ain't i...?" 
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As Eilumi's harsh words kept on coming, Quil began to feel more and more scared, specially when that thing came down from the ceiling and got put in his face. When Eilumi was finished explaining to him he was on the verge of screaming his head off before the brain scan kicked in. 
Quil's earliest memories is that he was raised by a bunch of bad Pokémon, he was a Cyndraquil at the time and was known as Cy. He and these pokémon did things such as stealing food from other pokémon or extorting money from them, but the severity of their crimes and their foolhardiness raised together and eventually they were chased off after the other pokémon had enough of them, the group disbanded shortly afterwards. This doesn't stopped him from doing misdeeds though and eventually he evolved into a Quilava and changed his name to Quil. He decided to get partner so he could have someone to help him, his first one was a Scrafty, who eventually betrayed him once when he just left with all of Quil's money and was never seem again. The second one was Pawniard youngster who was okay with him, he even remembers her name, Niar; regardless Quil didn't wanted to be betrayed again so his solution was to do the betrayal first, so when they were escaping after a successful robbery on the town he ditched her so the guards would be too busy apprehending her to go after him. His third and final partner is a Buizel known as Zel, he is the one who gave Quil the idea of raping pokémon in the dungeon, Quil didn't had much issue with it, he always wandered how having sex was like...and he enjoyed it greatly. They did this quite a number of times, sometimes bringing along someone else with the same goal as them to help them find more victims to rape, one of these is that Raichu known as Rai who lives in a house in Dynamo Sands, one of his most recent escapades is him, Zel and Raichu targeting a group of three Pokémon, a Linoone, an Eevee and a Shinx, who they cornered in a death end. Everything was going according to plan, they subdued those three and began having fun with them, Quil took the Linoone, Zel took the Eevee and Rai took the Shinx. Them they were attacked out of nowhere by someone, he doesn't remember who because he lost consciousness pretty fast thanks to their surprise attack, but when he and Zel woke up their badges were gone and everyone else was nowhere to be seen. After that they decided to lay low for a bit, maybe pick their targets more carefully...the rest is history 
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The still unconscious Lucario is in a kneeling position with the chains around his arms preventing him from falling down to the ground. There is still a bit of blood dripping down from that wound Joshua gave on the side of his head.

"Yes, perfect." Khaun says as he takes the auto-injector of the table and comes over with it. "Now, lie back, and relax. When you wake up, you will have your hand back on. Hopefully." He presses the auto-injector against Josh's neck, the tube draining of liquid as it injects the sedative into the human's body. 
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"A little." Loona says. "I mean, I can understand why. You couldn't fight Iron. There wasn't a whole lot you could do. And... I would be a little of a hypocrite for saying yes to that. I realize that now." Loona sighed. "I mean, I tried to get those three mons who rescued us to go after Shia... but they didn't. Instead I just went with them to Sandstone. And... well... that turned out to be a disaster. Then... they found me." 
--- 
Nine maintains his vigil on the still unconscious Luca. He's easier to manage this way. Suddenly, he gets a message. He nods, and approaches Luca, unchaining him from the wall, and binding his hands and feet behind him again. He throws the lucario over his shoulder, and heads to the medbay. 
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"Rise and shine, shitbag. Rise. And. Shine." Eilumi says as he unhooks the brain scanner device. "Wow, you sure have a long list of shit, don't you?" He says. Quil is still tied to the chair.

The human relax just as she instructed and then closed as eyes as the sedative got administered into his system. Now Khaun can probably get to work on patching him up. 
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Pikachu nods. "...So you are called Loona right? I don't really have a name, i thought others would give me one but it never really got to that point..." He sighs. "And i didn't gave myself one, figuring that there is no point since i don't really 'meet' anyone..." 
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When Nine was heading for the medbay, Luca began waking up. He groaned and opened his eyes. His head still feels like it's pounding. 
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The Quilava blinks, still hyperventilating from the trip that was the brain scanner. "Was...was all of that...?"

Khaun goes to work on the meticulous process of reattaching the human's hand, with the medical equipment the Avali have on board this ship. (We will not see any further of him for some time) 
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"That's my name, yes." Loona replies. "Shia gave it to me... kinda. I've always had a fixation of looking at the moon, you see. So Shia, my male shinx friend, kinda teased me, but in a friendly way. Called me 'Loony Linoone Loona'. So the last part of that name just kinda of stuck." A very small, barely noticable blush forms on her face when she mentions Shia. "I'm sorry to hear you never really had a name, or friends." She says sympathetically. "Well, if you're going to stay up here with us though, we can't have you running about with no name! How about we try to come up with one here and now?" 
She thinks. 
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"Oh, you're finally awake." Nine says. "You were caught trying to cross the border right? Walked right into that stormcloak ambush, same as us, and that thief over there...." He hears Luca's confused grunt. "Sorry, Captian Eilumi says I'm obligated to make that joke." 
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 "That, my little shitbag 'friend', was you reliving your whole entire life in fast motion." Eilumi says, putting a leg talon on his lap. "Yeah, you're as big of a shitbag as I thought you were. Not entirely your own fault, but... it's not like you ever made an effort to be better or anything. Pity. You know, Nine, IE big dog guy, doesn't exactly have a clean past either. But the difference between you and him? He spends every waking moment of every day trying to repent for sins he was forced to commit by perverted alien monkeys. You on the other hand...." 
Eliumi balls his claws into a fist. 
"You REVEL in how much PAIN-" 
Eilumi punches Quil in the stomach, HARD. 
"-You cause, DONT YOU?!"

"I-if you want, I guess we could." He begins trying to think too, he never really considered having a name but if she wants him to have one he is okay with it. 
--- 
When the Lucario got enough of his bearings to see what is the situation he is in, the begins struggling to try to escape from Nine's grip. "Let go of me! now!!" 
--- 
Quil whimpered as the Avali monologues to him. And when he saw him getting ready to punch he panicked and began trying to pull his arms out of the restrains, but of course that didn't worked. When that punch landed, the Quilava felt a strong pain around the point of impact, made him let out a pained yell. "W-why are you still hitting me...?! I don't know anything else, i swear!"

"Hmmm, you're a piece of shit that loves to run around causing as much misery as possible. Gee, why would I hit you indeed? Such a mystery." Eilumi responds. "Well, that, and it's easier to take you back to the brig if you've got a bit of pain in your belly. Keeps you from resisting, you see. Speaking of which..." 
He undoes one hand, and then the other, and forces both behind quills back and ties them while his feet are still bound. 
"You know..." He says in a solomn tone. "In a very, very twisted way, I suppose I should thank you. Were it not for you and your shitbaggery, we would never have met the lovely Linoone you ruined the life of. I will confess, I am... quite taken by her, you could say." A small blush forms on his alien bird-raptor cheeks. 
A malicious grin also forms on his lips. 
"Oh, and thanks for squealing on Rai. I'll make sure to let him know you were the one who revealed his location... not that I suspect it will matter all that much." 
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"No can do." Nine responds to Luca. "I have orders to bring you directly to the medbay for your brain scan. Besides..." 
Nine tightens his grip on Luca's struggling form. 
"It would do you little good anyway, as there is no way off this ship save for the teleporter, which is something only crewmembers with neural jacks can operate." A small smirk appears on his 'face'. "Or at least, none that involve you escaping alive. The only other way out is the airlock, but that would only result in your very painful, yet very quick death. And an indeterminate amount of time floating around in space."
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"Hmmm" Loona thinks. "Pik? ... No no, too simple. Piki? Pike? Spike? Chew? ... Or, you know, we don't have to follow our world's silly naming conventions. We could go way off and come up with something really nice. Like Jones or Bob or Casey or something? Or... I know, we could give you an avali name!" 
She smiles at that last suggestion, then frowns a bit, as she realizes she doesn't know how avali names work, and it's not like she can just ask any of them as both are busy at the moment.

Quil could feel his heart almost jump when Eilumi said he is going to tell Rai. "W-wha...?! Y-you asshole! If he finds out he will kill me after he is done with you!" 
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"Shut up!" The Lucario doesn't really understand what Nine is on about, nor does he believe him...probably. What he does know is that he is a prisoner and he is not very happy about it. 
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"uuuhh...Pika?" He tried to suggest but then stopped himself. "Wait that sounded like a female's name." He sighs before trying again. "Spark...?"

"Oh, I don't think that's going to be a problem...." Eilumi says darkly. "He's going to have his own problems when we get ahold of him. And as for you... well... The jury's still out on what we intend to do with you, shitbag. But one thing's for sure..." 
He leans in close. 
"Say goodbye to your home planet. Because you are never going back." At that moment, heavy footfalls approach them before he can continue. Nine appears in the door, carrying his lucario captive. 
"Ah, there you are." Eilumi says as nine enters, and the door closes behind him. "And I see the blueberry is awake. Good, I was afraid I'd have to slap him awake." 
"Yes, he quite lively. You may need some assistance in putting him in." Nine comments above Luca's shouts and struggles. 
"I presume you have the location of this 'Rai' person?" Nine questions. 
"Yes, yes we do. All thanks to our little shitbag here." Eilumi says. "And believe me, he's quite the smelly little turd." 
Nine simply changes his expression to a disapproving frown at Quil. Eilumi undoes the leg clamps. 
"Now shitbag, go sit in that corner, and for the first time in your abomidable life, be a good little boy. And MAYBE we won't throw you out the airlock." Eilumi orders Quil. "Otherwise, we might have to break limbs. That would be... unfortunate." 
He turns to Luca "And that goes for you too, blueberry. You're almost a hundred miles above your planet, and you're not going back unless we say you are. So cooperate, and maybe your stay won't be quite so bad. Unlike with shitbag here."
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"Well, these are all good suggestions" Loona says. "But, which do you like best? I mean, it is going to be your name, after all."

"You...you fucker..." Quil whimper and went to stay on the corner as he was told to. 
Luca on the other hand still has plenty of fight in him. "You think you can get something from me?! I would rather die than tell you anything! And Where's the human?!" 
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"Really, you think so...?" Pikachu takes a moment to reflect on this decision. "I thinking Spark but...what do you think"?

"I think it sounds nice... Spark." Loona says encouragingly. 
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"First off, where he is, is none of your concern." Eilumi says. "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you have a choice. You see, we are going to scan your brain, which will tell us everything without you even needing to utter a syllable. Just ask shitbag over there." 
Eilumi smirks. 
"You said you wanted better than iron, and you wanted oppression? Well, here you go." 
His smirk goes back down to a serious frown. 
"Looks like it's going to require the two of us to tie him into the chair." He looks at Nine, who nods. "Feet first, then hands." 
Nine tosses him into the chair as he wiggles and tries to get free. But nine's cyborg body is far too strong. Even with one hand he's able to keep him pinned into the chair. Even as the chains on his legs fall away, Luca only gets a moment to struggle as his legs are grabbed. One by the Avali, and the other by the protogen, and forced into two of the straps at the bottom of the chair.
"next, hands."
They nod to each other, and undo the bindings to his hands. Luca tries to throw a punch towards Eilumi, but he skillfully dodges it, and grabs his captive's arm. Nine grabs the other, and forces it into the chair's bindings which closes shut, tightly around his cuff, above his spike. Eilumi struggles with his arm however.
"Little help?" Nine nods, and goes over to the other side, and the two of them force the other arm into the bindings. Eilumi pants a little, somewhat winded by this. 
"Okay, Nine..." He pants. "Can you... take this one?" Nine nods. He will be doing the brain scan this time.
Eilumi turns to Quil, who he grabs by the shoulder 
"Up with you."

"...Alright then." He puts on a brave face. "Spark, my name is going to be Spark." 
--- 
Even Luca was left tired after all that struggling, and he realizes he can't break free from these, so he is decides to focus on getting prepared for whatever torture they plan to subject him through. "....I am not as easy to break as your past victim. Whatever you do, I will NOT crack."
Quil shivered when Eilumi grabbed him. "W-what now...?"

Eilumi roughly grabs Quil. "You're going to the Brig as we figure out what to do with you. Then... I'm off to see Loona." 
He hauls Quil away, as Nine grabs the brain scanning device from the ceiling and straps it onto Luca's head. Nine, unlike Eilumi, does not taunt Luca, just starts the process and lets it go. 
--- 
"Well then, Spark. Glad to have you aboard." Loona says warmly.

"Look, I promise i will be nice okay? you don't have to punch me again or anything." Quil said as Eilumi dragged him off to the brig. 
--- 
"Y...Yeah! My name is Spark!" Having a name, and having others acknowledge by such a name feels rather nice. "Oh uuuh, sorry i think i got a bit too excited. I just...hope i get to use this name well, it's pretty much the first one i ever got so..."

"It's fine, Spark." Loona says happily. "I understand completely, and I think Josh will like your new name too." 
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"Yeah yeah. Keep walking." Eilumi walks to the brig with Quil in tow. Once they reach the cell, he pushes a button and the door opens. "Get in there." Eilumi orders.

"Does feel like he will care i think." He nods. "Speaking of him...what do you think of Joshua? He is very big..." 
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 "Okay okay..." The Quilava doesn't make any fuss and just walks in through the door to get in the brig. Seeing how the space is kind of small doesn't make him very happy too. "Seriously?"

"He sort of reminds me of Nine." Loona answers. "I'm afraid I don't know much of him beyond that. He does seem to care deeply for you, though, so he's alright I guess, for a human." 
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"Well what did you expect, a fucking palace?" The door slams behind Quil seemingly on its own. "Anyway, you'll stay in there until we decide what to do with your sorry ass. Although, I will say... I wouldn't have a lot of hope if I were you, and it's all your fault. But, no matter. Cya later, shitbag." Eilumi hums as he goes off to find Loona and Pikachu.

He remembers the first time he met Joshua, it's still scary to thank about it but he got over going into a panic attack at the thought of it. "I uuuh, never really been much of a religious sort, but when i was about to get raped i was praying to be saved, and he showed up like if the dungeon itself answered my prayers...and was very angry to boot."

Loona is a little jelly. "I wish he was there when me and my friends were raped... then I wouldn't have the need to hunt down my rapists, or have to rescue Shia." She sighs. "I mean, I know Veera kinda talks to the dungeon or... something. It's hard to explain. It's normally how we found our way around but... Yeah. Instead, we got 'saved' by a trio of guildies. Well, me and Veera did, but Rai ran off with Shia after striking one of them with that Iron blade of his. We tried to ask them to help hunt them down, but they refused. Fuck, one of them, some Riolu bitch, said that if we were savages, we deserved to get raped." 
She is unaware of a feathered figure coming up behind her. She jumps as a pair of claws are placed on her shoulders. 
"And if we ever find her, I'll make sure to put a foot up her cunt for you." Eilumi says as he begins to rub her shoulders. 
"E-EIlumi! Don't scare me like that!" She snaps. "Aww, sorry Loona." He says while rubbing them. "I just wanted to surprise you with a nice shoulder rub." 
"I will admit." She gives a light moan into his rubbings. "This feels niiice."

Spark was about to talk further but even he did not noticed Ellumi approaching since his guard was down, when the Avali touched Loona's shouders the Pikachu jumped a little. "Oh, h-hi. You scared me too." Giving him a scare is not really that difficult though.
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Luca's earliest memories is of a time he was living with his mother, a Lopunny that called herself Pun, she was a good mother to him, but he never met his father...she didn't wanted to tell him about it either but in the present Luca can guess that rape had something to do with it given how much she avoided the subject. Luca himself was a Riolu and his name was Rio. 
They usually moved from place to place because she was aware of how sought after mons like were, her for her looks and her son for his potential. Though eventually they had run in with the mon who captured them, they tried to run, even find a way out of the region...but that Zoroark was more cunning and persistent. Lucas remember how he tried to protect his mother, the fox didn't even needed to use iron, nor a move, to bring the Riolu to near unconsciousness before moving to do the same with his mother to rape her. 
After their capture they were sold off separately, Luca was sold off to a noble that wanted a fighter capable of using Aura, his mother was not seen since. life under that Houndoom noble was not easy, he wanted to beat Luca into submission, it wasn't easy to resist, specially after the pain that was becoming sterile thanks to a blade...though Luca managed to get his revenge by the killing to noble with a sharp piece of iron to the top of the head right between the horns, then he escaped to avoid the consequences. 
After running far he became part of a guild who in hindsight were looking for the same thing as the noble...but they were 'nicer'. Working under this guild he met someone else who became a good friend and partner of his, a Kirlia named Lia, they did many jobs together that were questionable since they involved harassing the 'savages' of the dungeon, but Luca had friendship which he didn't wanted to let go, so he just stomached it and kept working with Lia until his bond with her made him evolve and he officially began using the name 'Luca' from there. 
Some time later one of the next jobs they had was proven to be the last for Lia, as rival guild saw to it that they 'accidently' were surrounded by more dungeon pokemon that they could feasibly deal with...and these pokémon were very much wanting revenge against guildies. A brutal fight ensued, Lia was killed in the fighting which was enough to push Luca into a fury to slay the rest of them until he was the only one remaining. He didn't came back to the guild after that, he didn't knew what to do with himself, he either wanted to make someone pay or put him out of his misery, he settled for the former. 
He then joined up with another guild, one of the most clandestine ones, and he climbed the ranks ever since. turns out they have plans to stage a revolution against the nobles too, and Luca here is in on this plan, he knows quite a bit, such as what nobles are important enough for their plan (Gaben is not one of these btw) through either cooperation or death. They just need something to make this revolution work...something that can rival iron. Now how he ended up following Joshua was from hearing of a job that was constantly getting more and more infamous in a short span of time due to how many guildies were not coming back from it...being an Ace he figure it should have been worth his time...

"Oh? I'm sorry, did I scare you little guy?" Eilumi says as he shoulder massages Loona. 
"His name is Spark." Loona tells him. 
"Oh? I thought he didn't have a name." Eilumi said. 
"He didn't. The two of us chose a name for him." Loona replies. 
"Oh, that's great!" Eilumi says, patting her head. He even leans in and gives her a small kiss on the top of it. Causing a light blush on the Linoone's head. "Eilumiiii!" She says, playfully swatting him away to which he responds with a small laugh. 
He then turns his attention to Spark. "So little guy, Spark's your new name huh? It's a nice name. I bet your human friend will love it."
 ---- 
Nine, unlike Eilumi, is more professional in dealing with Luca. He is silent as he takes the brain scanner off of Luca. It retreats back into the ceiling for now. 
"The brain scan is now done. However, I am not yet authorized to return you to your cell. And letting you out of the chair is too dangerous at the moment, especially given what we have just seen. Perhaps we may chat for a while? Especially since you do not have very many other options."
---- 
In the biolab, Khaun nears completion with Josh's hand. Josh remains under sedation however, and will be for some time yet.

He tried not to laugh at Loona's reaction to Eilumi's kissing. "So you like the name too huh? I'm glad!" Spark says, happy that his name is working out well. 
---- 
After all that memory trip, remembering his past so intimately, it left even Luca stunned, with a mixture of sadness and anger. "What do you want now...?" He sounds too pre-occupied with his emotions to argue with Nine.

"Why, yes. It fits, and hit has a nice ring to it." Eilumi says to Spark. "Besides, calling you 'The Pikachu' all the time got a little... ehhh..." he searches for the right word. "... Tiresome? At any rate, good to see you and Loona getting along so well." 
"Soooo" Loona says. "I take it the brain scan on that shit-for-brains quilava is finished?" 
"Yes." Eilumi replies. "We know where to find your friend now. Rai's fall is only moments away." 
Loona's eyes brighten up. She gets up, and hugs Eilumi now. 
"T-Thank you. Thank you so much! You don't know how much this means to me..." She's nearly to tears. Eilumi pats her on the back as she hugs him. A blush forming on his own cheeks. 
"Woah woah, it's nothing. And... save the thanks for when we have said friend aboard, and this 'rai' guy is in our brain scanner. There's still some business to be done up here." 
"Like... what?" "we still need to discuss what to do with the shitbag... and the blueberry. Nine should have finished up the scan on the latter by now. Plus, Khaun is still working on Josh's hand. Once he's done and Josh is awake, we shall meet to discuss what to do with him." 
"I hope we kill him." Loona says darkly. 
"Well, I support your decision on that." Eilumi says just as darkly. "But I should tell you... there are things in this universe worse than a quick death." Loona thinks about this, and a wicked grin spreads across her face.
Eilumi looks at spark. "Oh uh... sorry, I hope we aren't creeping you out with this." 
---- 
"For what we want with you now... that has yet to be determined." Nine replies. "We will need to discuss this in light of the information you have just provided. It is... much to digest. Personally, while I completely understand your hatred for these 'nobles', as they remind me somewhat of the miniknog, I cannot support your plans to enslave the so-called 'savages'. Like Ms Loona. That said, however. I am sorry for the loss of both your mother and your friend."

All things considered, it is creeping Spark out a little, but he can't say anything against it, Loona looks like she really wants this...and on top of that she has a friend to save too. "I-it's alright, just be careful when saving your friend okay? you gotta make it back here alive..." 
--- 
His eyes open wide. "How...how do you know about that? i did not told you anything."

"Oh, don't worry, we will." Eilumi says reassuringly. "After all, he's just one Raichu, against a whole group of alien soldiers. And one Linoone with a vengance streak." Eilumi teases Loona. "Heh. You're not wrong." Loona says. 
--- 
"That device that was around your head is called a 'brain scanner'. We use it mostly for the purposes of scientific data gathering. Although in some cases, such as yours, we use it in leu of more messy interrogation methods. You did not just re-experience these memories yourself. They were on display for everyone here to see. Well, everyone with a neural jack anyway. Such as myself.... What else did you want to ask?"

"I'm not sure if i can be of use for you there...i might just get in way so...sorry if i don't come along. But i guess Joshua can help you too, he seems to really want to do that." 
--- 
So they pretty much saw everything? Then there doesn't look like he is of much use to them. Now Luca looks like he is just about ready to accept dying since he expects to be disposed off now that they got everything they wanted from him. "......Will it be quick?"

"Yes, it... might be better if you stay behind." Eilumi says. "Sorry Spark. Anyway... I think it's time for some lunch. Don't want to start this thing on an empty stomach, after all. And I'm sure Spark here is hungry."
Loona nods, she takes Spark by the hand, and follows Eilumi to the kitchen. 
--- 
"Will what be quick?" Nine questions. Then he understands. "As I have said, we have yet to decide on what to do with you. In the short term, you will remain aboard the ship, In the cell. A place where you can do no possible harm. And where no possible harm can come to you. Self-inflicted aside, of course. Personally, I do not see of a reason for your death, as my own history is by far worse than your own. And yet, here I am.

"It's okay don't need to be sorry, I understand. So...what was up that pokémon you brought along? that one that was big and blue?" 
--- 
Luca gazes at nine with some curiosity. "...What do you mean? what could you possibility have done to be worse than me?"

"I don't rightly know" Eilumi replies as they make their way to the kitchen. "It appears as if he was trying to capture Josh. For some reason. We will have to review his memory scan to see fully. But it appears as if he was trying to capture Josh for the purpose of creating advanced technology for his faction." 
--- 
"Are you SURE you want to know?" Nine asks.
--- 
Khaun is now done with the hand. There is still some time left before the sedatives wear off

"Hhhmmm..." He sighs. "I hope Josh is alright, his hand...was..." Spark shivers. 
--- 
"What do i have to lose? Just tell me."

"Actually, I just got the message that Khaun has successfully attached his hand." EIlumi informs them as he starts the soup. "Hopefully they should join us shortly." 
---- 
"... Alright. Here it goes." Nine tells his backstory about the Miniknog facility, how he was essentially a slave there that was forced to rape rebel POWs until Eilumi and crew came in with a bunch of rebels and destroyed the facility, and how Renali saved him from a Rebel firing squad despite her pack's, and his own instance to the contrary. For the more advanced version, see Star Shia Chap 4: Lament.

"Oh! really? That's really good! i-i never knew it was possible to do that!"
----
The Lucario listened to everything, though for a moment spoke. ".......Sounds like a story that would come from the slaves of a noble. These 'Miniknogs' sound just like nobles to me."

"Maybe not on your planet, but now you're on an alien ship, with aliens, with alien technology. Yeah, we can do that." Eilumi says as the soup comes to a boil. It's only a few more moments before he puts the soups into bowls and serves it, and sits down with them to enjoy it.
---
"Indeed." Nine speaks. "There does seem to be an overlap. As I have said, we do not begrudge your intents to depose of these so-called nobles infesting your planet. In fact, there is a reason why most other civilized species no longer have nobility past a certain point. Then again, The Avali have never had nobles in the first place, as their pack structure makes it outright impossible." Nine realizes he's going off on a tangent. "What is the problem is the world you, or rather, your guild, would create in its wake. One where you enslave the dungeon dwellers instead of trying to uplift them and include them into your society. It sounds to me like your guild does not simply want to dispose of the nobility as a concept... they want to become the nobility. They want to take power so they can do what the nobles do now. Just like the Miniknog."

"Wow...!" 
--- 
"I don't hate the dungeon dwellers, I don't hold anything against them for what happened to Lia, just the ones who did it...we just see them as a means to an end, we need numbers to go up against whatever forces the nobles can muster. And that human...that human could be what we need to have assured success."

"Indeed." He says while he eats his soup. "In fact I've had limbs replace myself at least a few times by now." 
--- 
"Why the fixation on the human? You are fixated on one human while you are literally being held prisoner by a group of other aliens that not only possess advanced weaponry, interstellar travel meaning there's more of us out there, and not only that, more advanced technology?"
 Suddenly his expression shifts for a bit to a blank, but only for a split second. 
"... I'm sorry. I must escort you back to the cell now. I do hope we are able to continue this conversation at a later date. The rest of the crew shall review your memories later. RIght now, we have... other priorities to attend to. I am going to release you from your bindings, I do hope you will not resist as I take you back to your cell. Make no further attempts at resistance, and I will promise you that you can spend your time in your cell unrestrained. It would be... unfortunate if I were to take more extreme measures to keep you from attempting escape. An action that most assuredly end in your death, as, I had explained earlier but you were not paying attention at the time, there is no way off this ship outside of the teleporter which you cannot operate, or the airlock, which leads straight to the cold void of space, and with it, a quick but very painful death."

"O-oh...so you got hurt pretty badly before?"
---
That statement catches the Lucario by surprise. "So...all this i see was not made by humans?" Well it doesn't look like he is struggling a whole lot anymore, or struggling at all really. "Alright then..."

"Yeah. I've been in quite a few battles." Eilumi says. "By the way, how's the soup?" 
--- 
"No, it is not. The human is... well, the human. From an unknown empire in another universe. We, or rather, my two feathery packmates are the Avali, a space-capable species from this universe." Nine says as he undoes the straps. "Come along then."

The electric mouse bring his head down to the soup on the plate and laps some of it with his tongue, that's...kind of how he always drank think. "It's...tasty water? It's nice." 
--- 
So all of this isn't the humans? Luca thinks to himself in silence. When he Nine released his bindings and told him to come he just got up slowly to follow him, without trying any funny business.

"Here here here" Loona says calmly, taking his hand into hers and putting a spork in it "try using this. You'll find it easier."
----
"And here is the cell" Nine says. "I do apologize for having to share it with a very unpleasant serial rapist. Do not worry, that will change fairly soon." Nine says reassuringly. "While I do not know what exactly my packmates wish for you in particular, I can almost assure you that his stay is almost at an end. Now, I must return to my packmates. If I can, I will return with some food for you shortly."

Spark looks at the thing she handed to him, it doesn't look very...awesome compared to all he has seen thus far. "Is this some sort of weapon? it has pointy bits..." 
--- 
Luca steps in the cell and sighs. He looks over to the other Pokémon that is in here with him. 
Meanwhile Quil is hugging the corner as much as possible because he doesn't want to be this close to the Lucario. "H-hey...you....uuuuuuhhhh, damn it now it feels like it's gonna be a little cramped in here...."

"No. I mean I guess you could use it as a weapon, but it wouldn't be very effective, and it would make you look really silly." Loona replies. "You use it to eat food. Here, like this." She uses the fork part of the spoon to pull out some of the noodles, then eats them. "See? Much easier."
They wait for Spark to eat some of his noodles.
---- 
"Very good. I'll take my leave now." Nine leaves to rejoin the others. "I... Look forward to conversing with you again." he adds before he disappears. 

Spark is feeling a little tense by their gaze, are they expecting to do this well? He is getting some stage fright. He dipped his spork into the noodles, lifted a bit too soon which made all the noodle slide back down, he tried a gain and got some of it to stay in the spork this time. He brought the spoonful of noofle to his mouth and ate it. "..." 
--- 
Luca looked back at the door when he heard Nine say that. ".........Me too....for what it's worth...."

"Well, how is it?" Loona asks. 
Nine makes his way to the kitchen. "Oh! Hello Nine!" Loona greets him cheerfully. 
"Hello Loona." Nine greets back. "You are sounding in good spirits." 
"I... well..." Loona replies. "I just feel a bit better right now. Had a nice conversation with Spark here." 
"Spark?" Nine asks, his visor shifting to a 'curious' expression, with one 'eye' halfway closed and one open with the 'eyebrow' raised. 
"Yes." Loona says as she motions her head to the pikachu. "We finally gave him a name." 
"That's great." Nine says, his expression returning to a 'happy' expression. "I believe Josh will like it when he wakes up... which should not be long." 
"How long?" Loona asks. 
"Actually." Eilumi replies. "I just got the message that the sedative should be wearing off, so it should be any moment now." He nods to nine, and nine goes over to the pot, pouring two additional bowls of noodle soup, and setting them on the table. 
"I will keep the big beanbag chair open for Josh." Nine says.

Spark took another spoonful to his mouth...and another, and another. "It's really good!" He looks to Nine now. "Yeah, my name is Spark now!" 
--- 
"So...who are you?" The Lucario asked to the smaller pokémon in the corner. 
"Q-Quil...my name is Quil." He responded. "Look you said you were an Ace right? So you must already be planning a way out here, can you bring me along?" 
"...There is no way out of here." Luca responded lamely. He then went over to the other corner, pressed his back against it and slowly slid down until he was sitting. "It's over." 
Quil gulps. "Don't say that crap, look, maybe we can go out through this window!" With some hope that he can escape, he goes over that that window on the end of the cell, he must admit the night looks...pretty from here, there are so many stars. After shaking off this distraction he looked down to see how far they were from the ground...what he saw was instead the planet. "Wha...?! I...! Where the fuck did they took us to?!?!"

"Ah, that's good to hear. " Eilumi says cheerfully.

Just about now the sedatives ease off enough for Joshua to regain consciousness. So this was it? the procedure is done? the bring his hands over to his own field of view to see how they are doing.

"Welcome back, Josh." Khaun says with a grin. "As you can see, the proceedure was a success. You should be able to move and use your hand, just like before. You may feel some stinging on touch for a while. This is perfectly normal."

"Yes, that's good." He sits himself up, still looking at his hand being back where it is. "stinging? why?"

"Well, reattaching nerves and tendons and muscles and everything. " Khaun replies. "Don't worry, the stinging should be slight and very temporary. Like, only a day or few." 
"Anyway," Khaun continues, "Everyone is now up in the dining area. We should join them." He motions for Josh to follow him.

"Right, it won't be an issue." He moves his hand in various ways just to get a feel for it. "Alright, coming." He got up on his feet and followed Khaun.

Everyone is in the kitchen, there are already two bowls of avali noodles waiting for them. Still hot 
"Ah, Khaun. Good of you to join us. " Eilumi says cheerfully. 
"And I see you are doing very well yourself Joshua." Nine adds. 
"Of course, the operation was a complete success." Khaun boasts. "Of course, the outcome was never really in doubt." 
"Of course not." Eilumi replies a bit flatly.
"Well, now that everyone is here, I have some news." Eilumi announces to everyone gathered. "We were able to extract the memories from both the shitbag and the blueberry. And from the former, we have ascertained the location of Rai's place of residence. In a few short hours, we will assemble a team, get in, Kick that sorry raichu in the rear, grab this 'Shia' person, and get back here before dinner." 
"Then what are we waiting for?!" Loona says impatiently. "Let's get down there and get this over with!" 
"Yes, I know you are eager to get going. And so am I." Eilumi says sympathetically to Loona. "However, there are a few... outstanding issues that need to be addressed first. Namely, the fate of our two... guests. " 
"I don't particularly care about the Lucario," Loona responds dismissively. "but I say this: The Quilava dies. I will accept nothing less." 
"Oh, I fully agree." Eilumi replies to her. "But, before we decide on a vote, we need to review what we've found. And go over the possibilities. I will say this, regarding the latter: There are things in this universe far worse than death." 
"Liiiike? " Loona asks curiously. 
"Eh, we'll get to those later." Eilumi says. "First, let me summarize what i found." 
Eilumi summarizes what he found inside of Quil's memories, laying the details bare for the assembled council.

Spark and Joshua are currently eating their share of noodles. 
"Hey Joshua." The Pikachu said to get his attention, he has something to tell him. 
"Hhhmmmmm? What is it, Pikachu?" He thinks it's nice to see that he isn't very scared of talking with him anymore, he didn't heard any stuttering from him either. 
"I have a name now! It's Spark!" He happily said. 
"Ah, so you picked yourself a name? That's very good, i take it that talking with everyone here must have helped you feel more confident about getting an identity." The human then looks over to the other's talking. "Hey. I know these are noodles, but what were they made with?"

"Piru" Eilumi replies to Josh. "The human equivalent would be wheat. Anyway, back to the topic at hand. Now that we have all seen the 'Quilava's' backstory. Allow me to present the options." 
"My vote remains unchanged." Loona says. 
"Yes." Eilumi replies. "But as you'll see, there are multiple ways to go about it. And multiple alternatives. I will present them now." 
He takes a breath before continuing. 
"First, there's the option to simply throw him back on the planet-" 
"Absolutely not!!" Loona shouts. 
"I concur with Loona." Nine says. Khaun says nothing. 
"Of course that's not an option any of us here are willing to choose." Eilumi adds. "I'm simply bringing it up for completeness sake"

Joshua decides to come over to this little council going on, he isn't quite finished with his meal so he brought his noodles along. "Are you gonna throw him into the sun then?"

Eilumi laughs a little bit, while Loona smiles at that suggestion. 
"We'll add that to the suggestion list." Eilumi says. 
"Anyway, next option... is to turn him over to the Peacekeepers." 
"Peacekeepers?" Loona asks. 
"intergalactic police. The last remnant of the human Protectorate, even though it's not run by humans anymore." Eilumi explains. "We turn him over to them, and they throw him in jail... well... hopefully" Eilumi says, then sighs. "unfortunately this is an unregistered planet, and he's not an assigned bounty, and they aren't what they once were, so there's a chance they might not take him. Which leads me to my next option...." 
He pauses before continuing. 
"Marooning him on an uninhabited alien world. A place where he can do no possible harm to anyone. He will survive, but he'll be in forever isolation. Alone, and with only his hand to keep him company. Now this carries a variety of possibilities. We can maroon him anywhere where from a nice little ocean or forest world, to something guaranteed to drive him insane and/or kill him. Like a penumbra world, lightless sphere, irradiated world, or worst of all, Atropus world." 
Everyone winces a bit at the last one. Except Loona and spark, who who don't know what those are. 
"Do I even want to know?" Loona asks. 
"Not really. " Eilumi responds. "suffice it to say, when I said that there are things in this universe that are worse than death, that's what I was referring to. To be blunt: Being stuck on a atropus world means thousands upon thousands of years of unliving death." 
He pauses again. 
"And finally, there's our last option. We cycle him out the airlock. Quick, clean, efficient. We let space itself kill him in seconds." He looks at everyone. 
"Well, those are the choices. Let's vote." "Well..." Loona says. "I would have preferred to be a little more... hands on. But those are good choices. Except for those first two. I vote for.... the airlock."

Josh waited for everyone to said what needed to be said before speaking something on the matter. "Why is being more 'hands on' not an option on the list though?"

Eilumi shrugs. "Efficiency. I mean, when it comes right down to it, there is very little difference between cycling him out the airlock, and beaming down and putting a bullet to the back of his head. It all ends up the same anyway."

"Right. Airlock." Josh didn't had to think too hard on it, as long as the rapist dies he is happy really.

"I see very little reason to draw this out any longer than necessary. Airlock." Nine replies. "Airlock" Khaun simply replies. 
"So it seems we are all in agreement." Eilumi replies. "Once we figure out what to do with Blueberry, we will fetch him and send him on his final journey." Eilumi says. Loona, Nine, and Khaun all nod. 
"And speaking of the blueberry, we will hear what NIne has dug up on him." 
Nine stands up, and recalls what he saw in the memory scan for them. 
"Before we go on, I would like to propose, and vote for an alternative to the listed fates." Nine interjects before the voting begins. 
"I propose that we hold him for a while, talk to him... I believe that in time, he may be pursuaded." 
"Heh." Eilumi chuckles. "Channeling your inner Renali?" He jokes. 
"Who... is Renali?" Loona asks. 
"ER..." Khaun replies. "We'll tell you some other time. Suffice it to say she is no longer with us. If souls exist, bless hers." 
The crew gains a solomn look, and takes a moment of silence, before continuing. 
"Okay, Josh, since you were the one he attacked, Let's hear your opinion first." Eilumi says.

"Hhhhhmmm." Now he looks like he wants to give this some thought. "It is my fault he got tangled up in this mess anyway, he could sense my aura for over half a mile away when he 'caught the scent'. But i think he can change, his beef is ultimately against the nobles, no one else. Please talk to him."

Loona simply shrugs. "This has nothing to do with me, or my friends. I abstain." 
Khaun shrugs. "Well, if Nine thinks he can change, I see no reason to second-guess him. I also vote for continued imprisonment." 
"I see. Then it's decided. He will stay with us on the ship for the time being." 
"Aright, that's a wrap. Nine, fetch the shitbag. Tell him nothing about what we're going to do though. We will meet you at the airlock." 
Nine nods, gets up, and goes to the noodle pot. 
"Erm, what are you doing?" Eilumi asks as he gets up. 
"Just getting Luca some food." Nine replies.
Nine reaches the cell with the bowl in hand.

Joshua never saw such a method of execution being performed before, only hypothesis. "So...you mind if i go watch too?" 
---- 
In the Cell the two Pokémon are still mostly separated, with Quil still at the window trying to make sense of where they are while Luca's ears picked up the sound of someone stepping closer right outside of the cell.

"Of course" Eilumi replies. Khaun and Eilumi go towards the Airlock, Loona follows them. 
--- 
"Hello Luca." Nine says as he enters the area. As if on its own, the door opens for him. "I have this for you. I thought you might like something to eat." He gives the bowl to Luca. 
He looks with distain at Quil. 
"None for you, however. Your stay here is at an end. You are to come with me. Immediately."

"Alright then." he follows them there too. 
The Lucario looks at the bowl that Nine left in his paws, it does looks appetizing. "...What is this?" 
the Quilava looked back when he saw Nine come in. "W-wait...so you are saying that you are letting me go?"

"It is Piru noodles. I do hope you enjoy it." Nine says to Luca. 
He looks at Quil "In a manner of speaking, yes."

Quil isn't being too trusting though. "What is that supposed to mean?! W-will you bring me back home or what?!"

"Come with me. Now." Nine says, a little annoyed. "Or else I will drag you to our destination by force."

"No!" Looks like he is going to be difficult about this. "You are up to...something, i don't know what but since i got here you fuckers did nothing but hurt me!"

"Very well." Nine replies. He wanders straight up to Quil, picks him up, by the throat, and punches him, in the gut, hard.

With his throat constricted all he managed to let out was a very loud whimper, but the pain was strong enough to bring him to tears.

Nine switches his grip, so he's got Quil by the scruff of his neck. He turns with his prize in hand.
"I am sorry that you had to witness that." Nine says to Luca. "But believe me, this one fully deserves it."

He is not struggling anymore, that's for sure. Luca sighs. "It's fine, really." 
He can tell that something is going to happen to his other pokemon judging by the fact that Nine fed him while the Quilava is getting the short end of the stick, but he doesn't care about him. 
"..................Thank you."

"You're very welcome, Luca." 
The giant protogen takes the doomed Quil out of the cell, the cell door closing behind him as he leaves, as he makes his way to the airlock. 
"Sorry this took so long, but, it seems he caught on." Nine says once they arrive at the airlock., as the first part of the airlock opens. 
"Hmph." Eilumi says. "This was supposed to be a surprise. But no matter. Toss him in." 
Nine roughly tosses him in. The first airlock door closes behind Quil.

Joshua is just watching in silence, with much attention because he wants to see every detail, for science. 
After getting tossed in there and looking around and seeing how barren and smaller this 'room' is, Quil gets mad. "R-really?" He still sound very pained from that blow to the stomach. "You put me in an even crappier cage...?! You are a bunch of assholes...!"

"Well, since you're in there now, there's no more point in hiding our intentions any further." Eilumi says. "... Any last words, shitbag?"

"What...?" His last words...does this mean that...? "W-wait! no! don't kill me please!" Quil starts to begging...alot. "I will do anything okay? T-there is some stuff you don't know! I could suck your dick! ANYTHING!!!" They can hear he is banging his paws against the airlock door too.

"Pathetic." Loona says. 
"Quil. The time has come for you to call in account for your actions." Eilumi announces. "For your countless rapes, and for the countless lives you've ruined without a care or regret, this tribunal sentences you to death by ejection into space." 
"Least he could do is face his death with some courage." Khaun comments as he sees him beg, cry, and plead. 
"Loona." Eilumi says solomnly. "You were the one he hurt. Well, one among countless many others that cannot join us here today." He points to a button. "You may have honors." Loona looks at Quil through the glass with pure repulsion and disdain, and reaches out for the button that Eilumi is presenting.
Loona gives him a determined look, and slams the button. 
Immediately, the other door opens, revealing the blackness of space. Before he can even react, Quil is sucked straight out of it, into the depths of space. He tries to make a grab for one of the walls but it is futile. The last thing his eyes register is the large ship from the outside, in full view. He cannot breath, and the air is sucked out of his lungs, like a miniature airlock. The coldness of space stabs at him like a thousand icy spears, as his blood evaporates, and his blood begins boiling. HIs heat type doesn't help, in fact, it only makes things worse. His body swells up, but doesn't explode. As his internal fire quickly dies however, he freezes over, his corpse now little more than an extraterrestrial object floating in space. 
By chance, he manages to float by the window of Luca's cell, some distance away. 
"Well... that's that." Eilumi says.
"It was... well... " Loona sighs. "I feel... underwhelmed. Yet... content. He won't hurt anyone else, that's for sure." 
They nod. "Now... enough of that. We have a Shinx to save." 
"Shia..." Loona says to herself. "We're coming for you. We'll save you. And then, we'll put that rat that hurt you down, either in the ground, or out there."

After watching everything as best as he could, Joshua just...hhhhmms as he thinks about it. "Did he drowned? Why did he swelled? Is the temperature out there low?" But he stops himself, he can't be getting distracted when something important is at hand. "Sorry. So, are we going to deploy back at the planet to go after Rai?" 
--- 
Seeing the dead body of the Quilava out there in space, Luca just blinks and groans with some discomfort at how it looks. And like Joshua he takes a guess that he must have drowned too, but decides to just look away and now dwell on it.

"Yes. We will go to the armory grab some equipment, and deploy via the dropship to the surface. Josh, Loona... anything we should know about Rai-chews before we deploy?" Eilumi says.
On the way down, Nine gives one more visit to Luca, while the others load up on ammunition, and more flashbangs. Since those worked well the last time. 
"Hello, Luca. " Nine says, getting his attention. "Thought I'd check upon you one more time before we head out on our mission." Nine notices Luca looking out the window, and see the floating body of Quil. "I see you've already saw what became of your cell mate. I... hope you weren't close."

"A Raichu gather electricity with their tail, they gather it from the atmosphere or the ground. Their tail also protects them from their own voltage power. They can store over 100,000 volts of electricity and should not be taken lightly." The human explained. he also looked over at what there is the armory. He considered taking the Lucario's swords but he also wants to see if there is anything else useful for him if they allow him to touch it. 
--- 
"It's...fine, he was nothing to me." Luca began. "Just hope he doesn't linger there for too long, it's.......disturbing, it looks like he drowned and was frozen all at once."

"We'll need to take special care then." Eilumi says, he discards his trench coat and puts on a special armor.

"Nine especially will have to be weary, as that amount of electricity is far more than enough to fry his cybernetics. We may be better off attacking at range." Eilumi plans his attack in advance. Then, he wonders something. "I wonder why he even needs a sword for?"
"It's... hard to explalin." Loona says as she looks over the weapons. "Pokemon attacks, no matter how hot or how deadly, can not kill another pokemon. Only cause them to faint. Even if, say, a buizel was hit by the full force of that hundred thousand of volts or whatever, it would only cause them to faint. Now Iron on the other hand, actually kills a mon." 
"That... does not even BEGIN to make sense." Khaun replies flatly. 
"Well, that's how it is." Loona says. 
"Regardless, we are NOT pokemon." Eilumi adds quickly. "So I am going to theorize that the same rules do not apply to the four of us." 
---
"I'm afraid there is very little we can do about it. Outside of attempting to shoot it with one of the onboard weapons. That however, might have unintended consequences, especially if we miss." Nine says. "I just wanted to inform you that we have indeed decided to keep you here, unharmed, for an extended period of time. It appears as if we will be spending more time together." 
He pauses a bit before continuing. "Anyway, we are now headed out, on a mission to save a shinx from a rogue raichu guild member. We believe he's got him as a sex slave." Nine informs him.

"Really now...?" The human thinks about that fact about pokémon attacks, and then Iron. "I suppose that is how moves were suppose to be, i know it's hard to explain, but it boils to something similar to the laws of physics. Anyways, is there some weapon in here that i can borrow?" 
--- 
"Another 'rogue' guild member or someone using a badge?" Luca's ears raised for a moment before lowering back down. "Hhhhmmm...doesn't matter, same difference. Be sure to kill him..."

"I'm afraid the ranged weapons are all bio-chipped, so I would not advise trying to take one of them." Eilumi responds. "Though then again, without an in-built hud system, you couldn't even really aim the things anyway. The melee weapons however are not chipped, so help yourself." In addition to the melee weapons shown, there's also an array of knives, avali swords, non-avali swords, etc. 
"Yeah, I just spent the better part of an hour putting your hand back on" Khaun adds in relation to the bio-chipped guns. "I'd rather not spend another several trying to make a cybernetic replacement."
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"Another?" Nine asks. "Does this happen often?"

"That is alright, i wouldn't like cybernetics either, it is a long story but...my body would reject them, or other complications." He picked up one of the swords. "So how do these...work? Do they cut?" 
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"It is a case by case basis." The Lucario turns his head to look to Nine. "Sometimes a criminal gets lucky enough to find iron and kill a guildie and take their badge, sometimes a guildie becomes a criminal and deserts when they feel they are about to get caught...or they do something that make even the other scum nauseous enough to not want to associate with them for one reason or another. "

"Yes, they do cut." Eilumi explains. "They're also self-sharpening, and self-repairing in case they break off. In fact, it's kind of a feature." He says. "Shards break off in the skin, causing massive bleeding. Then the blade 3d prints a new one." 
--- 
"... Like leading a bunch of citizens into a maze to rape a bunch of other mons, and take sex slaves?" Nine asks. "It's what the Raichu we're pursuing did. It's what happened to the Linoone. he motions towards Loona, who is currently looking at the weapons, in particular some swords, having just been warned about the guns And.. yes, that Quill-Lava outside was part of that group."

"A weapon that fixes itself huh? Are they maintenance intensive?" 
--- 
"....Yes, that does sound like one of the things they do." Luca doesn't sound like he like this particular category of mons that he is talking about. "Don't show any mercy to him, just like you did with him." He points to the dead Quilava out there in the vacuum of space.

"A little bit, they do require refilling the material every now and then." Eilumi said. 
--- 
"Perhaps you would like to administer this justice yourself?" Nine proposes. That gets the attention of the others however, that look at him. "... Come again?" Eilumi asks incredulously.

"Ah, i see." He thinks it's a rather interesting concept, but he is sure the material it must us is not a thing where he comes from so he is not very sure he could bring it back home, but he didn't even asked if he could do that to begin with so he refrains. "I think i will just take one, i don't want to carry more and accidentally give the enemy a chance to arm himself with a weapon that is better than he already has." 
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"I..." That caught Luca off guard, is Nine serious about this? Does he really put this much trust in him? "Are you being honest...? Hhhmmm...yes, of course i would like to, that's not an opportunity i ever let pass me by."

"Are you being serious, Nine?" Eilumi asks, getting the attention of everyone else. 
"I am being serious." Nine replies back. 
Everyone is silent for a moment. 
"Can we trust him, though?" Eilumi asks. 
"I faintly remember you asking the same of me when Renali first took me out of there." 
"....." Eilumi says in response. "Fine, Nine. But he turns on us, I'm holding you responsible."

Luca wasn't expecting things to turn out this way, neither was Joshua really, he still not sure how the Lucario is after all that happened. 
"If you are able to trust me, I can come along." The Lucario said to Eilumi. "I do not judge you for not trusting me given the circumstances..." 
"What of your mission then?" Joshua asked. "You were tasked with killing me, and then capture me when you find out what I am...are you going to abandon this?" 
"...Yes." He sighs. "I do not care about another stain on my record, I don't do what I do for pride or money, I just want to see the place where I live be better...no matter what. I still do not know what to think of you, what I do know is that I would rather die fighting where I was born than dying out here, wherever this is." The Lucario explained. "So...i giving in this mission in as a failure, the assassin i was chasing escape out of the region...that's the story i will have to tell."

"Very well." Nine says, opening the door. "I was hoping to see more of you after this mission. But if you must report back after this, then so be it." 
Loona looks at him suspiciously. 
"You'll have to excuse her." Eilumi explains once he notices Loona's discomfort. "She... has bad experiences around the so-called 'Guildies'. And I'm not simply talking about the Raichu." 
"That's putting it very mildly." Loona says sorrowfully. Eilumi pats her back comfortingly. 
"He is from a different Guild." Nine says reassuringly. "Luca here has no affiliation to that Pignite from the Sandstone guild." 
She nods slowly. Besides, she has nothing to fear as long as her alien allies are by her side. 
"Very well. You'll find your blades over there." Eilumi points to them. 

Luca shakes his head. "Reporting back to my guild can wait...since you gave me the opportunity to live, I want to back you back somehow, a favor let's say..." 
So this Ace is cooperating with them fully right now huh? Joshua can't avoid the fact that this pokémon might know more about life in that world...especially how he is. "Alright so while you are here, you know the most out of those nobles that you hate so much. Do they have no opposition at all? do they rule with an iron fist." After a moment of saying that, he blinks, realizing that kind of walked into a pun there. "...Sorry." 
"...Sorry for what?" Luca didn't notice it though, that really is a good description for it...at least it's what the nobles would have everyone believe. "Yeah they got 'problems' that they take 'seriously'. I'm talking about the Wallbreakers."

"Wallbreakers?" Eilumi asks. He turns towards Loona, who simply shrugs. "Don't look at me." She responds. "I'm just a dungeon dweller... well, Ex-dungeon dweller now, I suppose." She adds with a shrug. "I don't know anything about these 'Wallbreakers.'"

"They are a bunch of anarchists, for all intents and purposes something like this doesn't last long but...they are persisting. Their intent is pretty self-explanatory, they want a revolution and their methods that we have seen so far have been less than amicable...they have iron and they are not afraid of using it." Lucas explained. 
"...So why doesn't your guild work together with them?" Joshua asked. 
"Because the guildmaster is no fool." He sounds almost insulted by what Joshua just said. "Yes, we also want the nobles to go, and we are not sure about the dept of their methods other than 'driving iron into who they dislike', they let themselves be known for what they are while in the eyes of everyone else we are still an upstanding guild and we plan to use that to deal with the problem in covert manner, not the head-on violence we see the Wallbreakers practicing."

"I... See." Eilumi says. "So basically just a bunch of unusually well equipped adventurists?"

"Yes, unusually well equipped...We once managed to capture them too. No matter what we tried he didn't crack...our attempts at making him talk ultimately killed him. But I remember how much hatred he had, I could feel it." He sighs. "The conclusion we gathered from that is that they got some serious hatred toward the nobles and anyone who works for them. If they are acting at someone's orders, i would say they must try to recruit those that have a very vengeful disposition against the nobles and the guilds." And with that Luca finishes that long explanation. "........but despite that, me and my guild can thank them for existing, with the nobles worried about the Wallbreakers, they don't suspect us going behind their backs."

Upon hearing "those with a vengeful disposition against the nobles and the guilds" Loona looks off to the side. "Sounds like they would have tried to recruit me." She says. "Had Eilumi and his pack not gotten to me first." 
Eilumi pats her back, and she looks over, and smiles at him. 
"Well, I for one am glad your here." Eilumi says. "And I don't mean to scratch my own ears, but I think you got the better of that deal." Loona gives a very small blush. 
"Hmmm, that is odd." Nine comments once he is done, thinking. 
"At any rate, is everyone ready to go? We got a Shinx to save." Khaun says, interrupting everyone. "And I might remind everyone that this 'Rai' guy is most likely raping the poor guy as we speak." That sobering thought gets everyone back on track. "We can continue the conversation once we're underway. Right now, we got to make sure we got our gear in order." 
"Well I'm ready. Got more flashbangs, they seemed to have been quite effective last time. Got a pistol ready to go, and my shortblade and knife. Don't need much more than that." Eilumi says. 
"I'm surprised you don't want anything heavier." Khaun remarks. Eilumi shakes his head. "We're dealing with a hostage situation, so I'd rather not have unaccounted for ordinance flying around." 
"I'm taking the pistols too. No need to overcomplicate this." Khaun reports "We're facing one electric rat, not a whole Occasus army." 
"I've got my hammer, and I'll bring this rifle just on the off chance we need any longer range firepower." 
Nine responds. 
Loona holds up a spear. "I've got this." 
"Long, simple to use, and quite effective. There's something to be said there." Eilumi comments. 

They are right, Joshua is putting his own need over someone that is probably being raped, he is going to be beating himself for this for some time in the future. "Alright, we move now then." The human got an Avali sword for his own use in the upcoming battle. And to help the Lucario arm himself, he gave him his swords and badge back. 
Frankly Luca is more comfortable with these, he has used these swords for a long time. He straps them over his back and is ready to go.

"Alright, everyone to the teleporter room, and we beam onto the dropship." Eilumi orders. "We can't beam directly down due to interference. We do NOT need another Ordian 6." 
Khaun and Nine look to the ground briefly upon mention of that, while Loona is a bit confused, but says nothing. Everyone goes to the teleporter room, and they are beamed onto the dropship, which takes off and heads back to the planet.