Age of False Innocence

[worthlesspride]

Who: Oikawa Tooru and Various Pride Memebers and Rescuers
What:Tooru starts to put his plan into motion. First, information gathering.
When: After Lapis Luzali's attack
Where:Pride, the garage Doc Brown took him to once.
Warnings: Pride Records warnings.

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Rescuers

[worthlesspride]

Tooru made his way to the garage the mad scientist took him to that one time he followed him around town. He hoped he would run into the doctor. He had a plan forming, well, he and Squalo had a plan forming. Mostly Squalo. Tooru didn't trust himself at the moment to plan. His plan would involve very flashy things.

So sue him, he's a flashy guy.

He needed to get an idea of who and what these rescuers were. He's only met two. Sugawara and the mad scientist who's name he forgot to get. For the best. That way Santiago couldn't torture it out of him.

"Hello?" he said, poking his head into the garage. "Anyone here? I need help."

[sponsorigami]

There's a teenage boy with dark hair and wearing a plain hoodie, and he looks like he'd be some lazy delinquent. Ivan uses this borrowed, shapeshifted form whenever he's at risk of coming across danger. (If he needs to lose an identity because he got discovered, he'd rather lose the one not connected to how he's earning an income now.)

There isn't any danger in the garage that Ivan knows of, but the path Ivan happens to be taking at the moment does go past the garage. Ivan stops behind Tooru, possibly too quietly and easy to miss. "... What do you need help with?"

[4thdimensional]

There was a moment of tense silence. Doc waited, listened...did he know that voice? And what was there? He inched forward, straining in the dim light...but he knew that musician. He hurried forward to pull him in, closing the door behind him.

"Welcome back---and what can I help you with?"

[warmsetter]

Suga remembered that Oikawa told him that he wanted to meet up in some garage to talk about his plan. He didn't remember seeing the garage when he walked around the city. He trusted Oikawa, he stayed here longer than him. When it came to the time for them to meet Suga put on a causal hoodie and pair of jeans before he walked over to the garage.

He told him that the garage belonged to a mad scientist he met. After everything else he learned since he arrived in Vista City he could believe it. He walked around for a bit before he found the garage and walked in. He looked around for a bit before he looked over when he heard Oikawa's voice and waved at him.

"Hello, I'm here. What's going on?"

Crown of Thorns

[worthlesspride]

"Thanks for coming out for breakfast with me, guys." He beamed at his band as they ate various sweets. "It's been too long since we've done something like this, hasn't it?"

He looked from Aramat to Sariel, to Mai, and finally to Artolo. These people had become important to him. As important to him as his team back home had become. He wanted to protect them.

"As you probably know, I have ulterior motives to this. I wanted to get us out the suite so I can speak more clearly." He looked over at the guards watching them. "I think we should move out of that suite. Permanently."

[iitrebel]

"I had a feeling this involved a stunning lack of self preservation."

Art isn't judging. There's no way for him to judge, really, not with the things he remembers. Then again, maybe a sense of self preservation is only natural when you're forced to live long past when you're supposed to be dead. He's morosely picking at some waffles and eyeing some nearby whipped cream, wondering if he should say 'fuck it' to healthy living. Shades, as usual, are still on. They'll stay on so long as the guards are lingering around.

"This doesn't involve you doing something stupid like throwing a bomb at Lesedi Santiago's head again, does it?"

Re: Crown of Thorns

[psyvampexperiment]

Sariel might be nursing a cup of tea, his pale face grave. He might be dressing down in a grey Housatonic University tee shirt over loose fitting jeans. "I know of a place where I could crash, but... it's probably better if we all stay close, if I'm not mistaken?"

Luci - Text

[worthlesspride]

Hey Luci! ♥ I was wondering if you wanted to have lunch with me!!! (^_^) It's been too long!! Want to meet me at the cafe on the third floor? Say in a half hour?

[stylistic_disloyalty]

If it isn't my little hellion. ♥

Sure, I'm on my way back from a thing, can we make it closer to 40 from now?

Trucy - Text

[worthlesspride]

Hey girl! This is Tooru, we talked when we got kidnapped by those robots. Sorry if this creepy, but I looked up your phone number in the Pride Yellow Pages~

Anyways, I was thinking about Pride as whole lately and realized I should have kept in better contact. Want to get coffee and chat?

Re: Trucy - Text

[magic_to_do]

Nah, it's cool.

[Trucy remembers him. And she's not usually bothered by random texts anyway. And 'Pride as a whole' has her intrigued.]

Sure!
Sounds fun.
Where do you want to meet?

System Crash - Tiger and Pinkie Pie

[worthlesspride]

Tooru didn't know Tiger that well. He seemed like a good kid, though. He hesitated before knocking on the System Crash suite door.

He didn't know the band as whole that well. Trucy and Tiger were the only people in it that he had talked to at length. Kido was part of this band, and then she was part of Manticore. He was vaguly aware of Pinkie Pie.

Still, just because he wasn't close to anyone in the band didn't mean they didn't deserve to get out of here. He went over his pitch in his head again, hoping they were both home.

[sailorlaughter]

Pinkie's the one to answer the door. She generally is, these days; it's not like she could really stop anybody if they came to take Steven or one of the others away, but she feels better doing it.

"Oh!" She's obviously a little thrown by the presence of this total stranger. But that's okay! He must be another musician, right? "Uh, hi!" She smiles, trying to cover her moment of surprise, and reaches up to try and adjust the headscarf wrapped around her hair. It looks rather hastily tied, like it could easy fall off if she moved too much. Normally she doesn't bother with them in the house.

Manticore - Roy and Jecht

[worthlesspride]

This was Squalo's band. He wondered if he should leave this to the other cellist, but in the end, he decided to do it himself.

He and Roy had fought together against Santiago when rescuing Octave. He owed it to Roy to talk to him personally.

He raised his hand and knocked.

[sublimelymagnificentblitz]

The wrong person answered the door. One elbow propped against the wall, Jecht arched an eyebrow as he tugged it open. "So where's the pizza?" he said, by way of a lame joke.

Junkyard Carnival - Yuffie and Xanxus

[worthlesspride]

Tooru knocked on the door to Junkyard Carnival's suite.

Yuffie was for sure on his list to try to convince to escape with him.

Xanxus, well, Tooru wanted to rescue everyone, but Xanxus was someone he knew was a liability.

He liked Xanxus. He thought the other man was hilarious, but he did drugs. Like a lot. Tooru wasn't against weed, but he'd never touch the heavy shit.

And that's not counting Xanxus' famous temper.

Still, Squalo made it clear Xanxus was his priority, and without him Squalo wouldn't help.

He knocked again and waited.

[cleartranquil]

Yuffie appeared at the door, in a sweatshirt that was far too large for her and a pair of shorts. She looks like she hasn't been sleeping much and is tired as hell, but she lights up when she realizes who is at the door.

She'd honestly expected it to be someone yelling at her, but finding a friend instead makes her smile broadly.

"Tooru!" She grinned at him and stepped aside to let him in.

"What's the 'sitch"

Terry

[worthlesspride]

Cosmic Indulgence had fallen on hard times. Garnet was hitting big and everyone but Terry disappearing. He wondered if the other man felt left behind.

He took a breath and knocked on the suite's door.

It was Cosmic's Indulgence's Mei that got him started on this path. Well, he and Mai talking back in March about remembering friends that didn't fit in their memories started it, but his conversation with Mei and his disappearance afterward was what made Tooru start thinking about escape

He was convinced that conversation is why Mei was taken. He owed Mei to save his band mate. That and Terry had been part of the mission to rescue Octave.

"Terry-kun? Are you in?" he called out and knocked again.

[traumatizing]

Terry comes to the door eventually — oddly it's one of the hardest parts of this whole situation to get used to, not having four other people around who can answer the door if he's busy.

When he does finally arrive at the door, it's with a mug of coffee, a sweater he's practically swimming in, and the bleary-eyed look of a man who isn't getting nearly enough sleep.

"Hey," he gives Tooru a briefly suspicious squint, they haven't spoken since that whole Secret Basement situation, and he's a little worried it's about to come bite him in the ass again, "everything okay?"

Demyx

[worthlesspride]

Okay, now Tooru had talked to at least someone from every band except Flashstep today.

He wasn't sure if it was worse the effort to go to them. Jamie was a dumbass brat, too stupid to put aside his feelings to focus on what was important. He could hate Tooru all he wanted; he just needed to pull his head out his ass so they could work together.

Whatever, not his problem.

He turned a corner and saw Demyx.

One door closes another door opens.

"Ya-hoo!" he called out to the other man. "You're Demyx, right? You got a minute to chat about the world tour?"

He knew less about Demyx then he did about just about anyone else. He did know the boy band member had a lazy streak a mile wide, though. Maybe that would help.

[melodiouspacifist]

He had a lazy streak and he'd been on a fairly self-destructive path as of late. Despite the mess at the concert, things had gone terribly. He hadn't met Tooru, in fact, he hadn't been paying much attention to the other Pride musicians at all.

Demyx had had his head in the clouds about his former comrade. He hadn't been expecting to be run into. His expression melted into a smile however and he held up a hand in greeting.

"Yeah, I'm Demyx. What's up?"

He asked, it was Tooru's chance really because he was in relatively good condition right then.

Squalo - Text

[worthlesspride]

Squalo~ Let's go get dinner!! I'm hungry and want something Japanese. There's a Ramen place I know that's nice~

[sharktrash]

do they serve fish

Garnet

[worthlesspride]

Tooru was texting Squalo when he bumped into someone.

"Oops~ My bad~" He looked and beamed. "Oh, Dr. G~" he singsonged. "What's up?"

[twoscompany]

"Hm?" Garnet blinked. She'd actually been paying attention, but only to her front. She turned to see= "Oh, hey, Tooru. What's up?"