[private/action]

[dachopunk]

Mother

I'm writing this to you as a human
Which is weird
If you thought our natural bodies were sort of weird and gangly it's nothing compared to this

Anyways now I'm eating something the guy in the place with the big glass containers called a sandwich
He asked me to give him something in return it but i don't have anything like that so i just took the sandwich and ran out of the store
He tried to chase me but he should have known better than to try and run as fast as one of our kind
I still haven't found Samus Aran but I think I'm getting close
Or I guess I don't really know but she has to be somewhere on this planet right
Unless she just dumped her gunship and got a new one or something but I don't think she would do that not the way you described her
When I meet Samus Aran I wonder what she will call me
I am proud to be what I am but my name is not as impressive as Samus Aran
My name is not as impressive as anything since I don't think I really have a name
Maybe I will try and come up with my own name
I will keep sifting through this footage I downloaded and I will write you when I find her

Your child

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This is a lot easier with fingers, the Dachora in human guise thought to herself, as she sat in the scraps of what was left of the pod that took her to this planet. It had been a long journey, and the small, old craft was definitely done for when it came to transportation, but she needed a place to plug in. Said fingers flew across an alien keyboard. She had already been through the security tape footage of several large institutes nearby, including banks, bars, and most interestingly, schools. Though many of them had yielded nothing interesting, once she landed on Smash Academy, she began to notice a short, sullen looking blonde woman frequenting the footage. Something about her pinged in the Dachora's mind, she matched her mother's description of what Samus Aran looked like.

She couldn't be sure until the sudden flashing appearance of the familiar physiology of the Power Suit dashing across the screen during one of the schools (many) moments of crisis.

So was this the place she would have to stake out in order to find the woman she was here to find? Within the school's database, the woman was impossible to tap down. No billing address. She was good. She supposed the gunship, if she could track it down, would be a good place to start. And maybe, she thought while continuing to watch explosions and attacks flash across the footage screen, this school would be a good place to start looking for some adventure.


[Starting today, you will see a little green bird poking around the campus every once and a while. Sometimes, she has a scrap of bread in her mouth, but she never sticks around for long.]

Comments

[ action ]

[idealisms]

[ oh, a little birdie! how cute. it seems to be able to eat bread, but what about fruit? did it like fruit? ]

Hello there. [ he speaks in a tender voice, dropping to his knees and fishing an oran berry out from his pocket. ] Are you hungry?

[ action ]

[dachopunk]

[The bird studies the blue berry in N's hand for a moment before trotting over and poking at it with her beak. Good to eat? She's never seen it before. In fact, N himself was something new. She was still getting used to seeing humans everywhere.]

[ action ]

[idealisms]

[ oh, what a precious dear. at least she seems to be fine with the food he's giving her! as a result, N sets it down, allowing her to go full throttle on that beast of a berry. ]

Here you are. I do hope you like it. I'd just picked it this morning.

[ action ]

[dachopunk]

[Further investigation suggested that yes, she did in fact enjoy it. Thank you, long haired man. She looked up at him with big red eyes and squeaked.]

[ action ]

[idealisms]

[ oh, what gorgeous eyes! N really can't help but gape for a moment. he's never even seen a gorgeous little guy like this one before. ]

I don't suppose you are able to communicate somehow? [ he can understand Pokemon, but not actual animals... ]

[ action ]

[dachopunk]

[Well, she could understand N perfectly. But to refrain from turning human would be to keep a valuable secret under her hat. She turned her attention back to the berry with the mental note to seek N out in the future.]

[fluffyhearted]

[ A little green bird? Maisy's never seen one of them before. Not green like this one, anyway! When the Mareep spots her, she looks at her curiously for a while, before trying to approach. ]

Mareep?

[dachopunk]

[Unfortunately, because a Dachora was not a Pokemon, she was unable to communicate with Maisy the way another Pokemon could. She tilted her head at the odd creature, lightly peeping in response. She took a couple steps backwards, not quite sure if the alien was friend or predator. She was confident she could outrun it, if it were the latter.]

[fluffyhearted]

[ An unfortunate thing no communication was. Maisy watched the little creature moved back and heard its little tweet, a sound that was nothing more than it was. That wasn't too surprising - there were a few creatures here that weren't exactly like Pokemon that Mareep knew, ones that flew in the sky and ignored everyone seemingly for the most part. And the things that looked like littler Meowths. They didn't want much to do with Maisy either.

But this one didn't just walk off with its tail in the air (not that it had much of one...), and that made Maisy confident. It just seemed wary... and Maisy didn't want to scare it.Hm, how to make it feel safer? ]

Maaa.

[ Letting out a most non-threatening sound, Maisy sat herself down onto the ground, her front legs next to her face. She was bigger, and maybe that was scary, so trying to shrink herself seemed like a good idea. She only wanted to be friends! ] Ma?

[dachopunk]

[The show of submission is pretty universal, and so even without a common language, the Dachora could see the Maisy meant no harm. She allowed herself to move closer and examine the Mareep. Interesting. Since she had never seen a normal sheep in her life, she had no frame of reference. She peeped again. Leaning down to look into the other creature's eyes.]

[fluffyhearted]

[ The striped tail waved from side to side when Maisy saw that the little bird-type creature approached her. Her eyes, she kept them on her acquaintance, only leaving her in the moments the Mareep blinked - and she did blink a few times when the little one leaned in to them, but only due to what it did to her sight for a second.

But she was happy to see that she was being investigated, and she tried not to move for them to get as much as a look at her as they wanted. It let her get a good look at them back, the colour of their body and their shape. ]

Maareep. [ With the company closer, Maisy decided to say hello, or hoped that it would get across as a greeting. Or even just as something friendly. ]

[dachopunk]

[The dachora decided that this odd fluffy animal was definitely worth getting to know better. How interesting! Maybe she would make a note in her field journal. She lowered into a sitting position, chirping happily.]

[fluffyhearted]

[ Happy sounded happy, and that was what Maisy liked. She gave another 'Mareeeep!' in response to the chirping, delighted for the progress received with the little one. With them sitting in front of her, and hoping that they wouldn't mind it, Mareep moved her head a little out to take a sniff of the bird, to see if it had the same scent as anything that she knew. ]

[gricklegrass]

[Hello, little green thing. There is another little green thing following you around.]

[dachopunk]

[Every few steps, Dachora would look over her shoulder at the little pixie, truly one of the oddest creatures yet. Why was she following her? She started trotting.]

[gricklegrass]

[And Celebi buzzed along a little faster, never too far behind.

UNTIL SUDDENLY SHE WAS GONE.

Er. Well. No. She was hiding behind that bush, but it wasn't very effective when the foliage was mostly missing....]

[dachopunk]

[Oh, yeah right. Like you were going to pull the weird Mareep feathers over this one's eyes. She growled in Celebi's direction. Come out and let her examine you like the weird aliens you all are!]

[gricklegrass]

[Celebi growled right ba-- Okay no she didn't she just giggled.]

Hee hee hee.

[GIGGLED INTO YOUR BRAIN as she poked her head around the branches.]

Hello!

[dachopunk]

[YIKES oh my goodness. The dachora froze in place.]

... Hello.

[icequeen_aran]

[It was getting much colder. School was not quite near its winter break which meant Samus frequented the campus for various reasons, hustling back and forth like a ghost on the wind, her bike often not even leaving a trail on the cold ground to follow. A modern convenience, really. She'd expect snow soon, and she'd managed to squeeze her ship inside the firehouse she called a home, hidden in the thick of the woods and away from prying eyes. Whenever the weather decided it would change, she wouldn't have to waste hours in the bitter cold scraping off ice frozen to her ship's hull, like she did many years ago when she first arrived here. Another great convenience.

However, she'd work so hard to make things easier and more convenient on herself that she'd eventually reach a point of singularity where there was nothing much left for her to do. Leave it to Samus to find something to fill her time with, however--even if it were as simple as hunting and gathering.

She had just finished picking up a myriad of food from one of the local markets in FDC and very precariously strapped the bags on her bike, and was hovering back through the woods. It was dark, she was (of course) going fast, and it was a little too late before she noticed the flash of green feathers darting in front of her...]

[dachopunk]

[Another night, another failed day of looking for Samus Aran. After her run ins with various people in FDC in her human form, the Dachora had made a habit of staying a bird, poking around town and in campus only when it was convenient. She was on her way back to her pod, crashed in the woods, and was completely taken by surprise when a giant, roaring monster of metal very nearly took her head off. As it was, she was only grazed, and she tumbled to the side much like a ragdoll, lamenting the loss of a couple feathers, but very aware that she was still alive. Coming from where she did, "Always look both ways" wasn't really a virtue her mother instilled in her.]

[icequeen_aran]

[Meanwhile Samus had somewhat overreacted; not wanting to hit the innocent creature and would instead, as typical for her, sacrifice herself instead. She made a sharp and sudden turn, sending the entire bike into a barrel roll barrel roll right up and over the bird, just barely grazing its head, and then something of a somersault once it inevitably hit a tree. Samus was quickly dislodged and hit the ground rolling, also not unlike a ragdoll. There's a heavy thud and a crack as her momentum is also stopped by a tree, and it hurt like hell.

Say nothing for the groceries that went flying everywhere else, like food confetti.

The poor bike was now toppled over and rested on its side, smoking and motor humming ragged before automatically shutting off. The dim emergency lights kicked on, slowly pulsing red.

The blonde woman laid face down in the grass, tasting copper and lamenting her life choices while fighting off unconsciousness with a groan. She rolled over, arm heavily following and slapping the ground as if this were just an annoying inconvenience rather than a serious, near fatal crash. Nope. Nothing seemed broken. That was good.]

Of... all the nights...

[The forest seemed eerily silent after all this, save for her sluggish movement. She blinked away blurring vision and could see the section of the tree she hit--it's indented to a point it looked like it would almost snap.

Any normal human being wouldn't have survived a crash like this.]

...I forget to wear my fucking helmet...

[dachopunk]

[The dachora was kind of flipping the fuck out at the sudden impact of human body and tree. Lit only by the emergency lights on the motorcycle (somewhere, Jin was weeping), she cast her gaze over to the figure groaning and bleeding a distance away from her. She fought her natural instinct, and sprinted over. Her first week here, and she had already killed someone. She leaned a shivering head down to better examine the woman.]

[icequeen_aran]

[Samus craned her neck to spit a wad of blood then rolled her head back towards the pitter-patter of little feet. From her view, she saw a pair of upside down talons and green feathers. The animal she almost it? It stuck around? Was it alright?

With a little more effort she rolled her head further back and was able to see more of the upside down bird. And she almost couldn't believe what she saw...

No way--it looked just like a...]

...Dachora...?

[dachopunk]

[Woah, this bloody lady knew what she was.

Woah... this bloody lady... how did she know that? Could she possibly be... the one the bird was looking for?! She started hopping around excitedly, squeaking loudly.]