genessia | Yang? Yang! Yaaaaang! [Action for Jaune and Ren! Also open.]

WHO: Jaune Arc and Lie Ren / Whoever else pops up
WHAT: Ruby's got them running around Everglade asking about the missing Yang Xiao-Long
WHEN: Backdated January 3rd - 3PM
WHERE: The Everglade Area

"Man, sorry you have to get wrapped up in this before you can even find a place to stay. But you can totally stay at my place as long as you need to! It's just getting a little full..."

Jaune sighs. Everglade wasn't the biggest place in the world, but searching for Yang has brought up awful little. Honestly Jaune couldn't think of any reason for Yang to have gone to Everglade unless something had happened - there's not much there to draw a girl like her. Still, Jaune's been asking around regardless, with Ren as another pair of eyes. Armed with nothing much else to go on but Yang's picture and where she'd been a couple days back, the whole thing ended in a lot of "have you seen this girl" questions, and lots of shrugging from faceless citizens who had been of little to no help.

But this was the job! Jaune reminds himself of that a lot. As a deputy guardian, that sort of leg-work is just his thing, right? It's just frustrating that its not getting them anywhere, it seems. It's starting to look pretty pointless - it's not like a girl like Yang is ever subtle. If she was around, someone would've seen her.

"But I guess this is just the kinda stuff that happens around here," Jaune says as he walks the streets with Ren, "For a while this place wasn't looking so bad, but now? Ugh... I dunno, man. I just wanna go home already."

Then Jaune pauses as he reaches a particular back-street nestled in the midst of the city: the so-called "Mystic's Alley." Sure, Genessia was the kind of place to make a guy go out on a little faith, but...

"Aw man... Alright, let's try and get through this place quick, okay?" Jaune instructs, "Mystic's Alley is fulla liars who say they can tell the future. I think it's a load of bull."

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Jaune face-palms at that little tid-bit. Of course Raye doesn't like BJ. He should have known that, considering the guy's attitude. "Ugh..." He drags his hand down his face a bit to instead rub at his jaw in thought. What the heck is he supposed to do NOW?

For a moment he looks to Ren, but then remembers that Ren just arrived so... he's not going to be of any help.

"... Alright, maybe I'll try calling her. Because I'm sure she'll help me out." He says this with no shortage of pride and reaches into his pocket to get his phone. He quickly dials Raye's number and... well hopes to God she'll answer and tell him something. Anything.

Betelgeuse slipped behind Jaune, peering over his shoulder, trying to see his phone. He hoped Jaune and Raye would talk face to face. Hey, the girl might be a sourpuss and not like Betelgeuse very much, but she was still cute!

"Put in a good word for me. Tell her I'm not that bad!" he instructed.

Lie Ren doesn't move closer, but he's no less intrigued. Not least because of Jaune's pride when he claims she will help him out - their leader is.... not the best with women. This certainly is interesting. And something he may have to ask Nora about to see how much she knows. Wait, no, that could take a while. Hmm.

However, he does look at BJ. "Your presence may be unappreciated at first. I would let him got to you before you make yourself known." You know, we'd like her to help.

It was a while before Raye picked up the phone. The monster fight had taken a lot out of her, but there were other things that had sapped her pretty good afterward too.

She just wasn't sure how to deal with them yet.

When she answered, her voice was thick with sleep. "Hey, hero." She was exhausted, but her affection was still audible. If only she'd known there would be an audience.

Jaune broke out into a little smile and a laugh as Raye greeted him so... affectionately. It actually made him blush. "Uh, hey! You sound like you just got up," He says, immediately feeling bad. He knew she'd been pretty badly injured and needed tons of rest.

... When he's done he ought to go over and see if she's all right. Briefly, he looks up to BJ, who's still standing nearby, and tries to usher the guy away and make sure he's FAR out of frame. "Hey,Raye? I hate to bug you with this junk but I'm looking into finding Yang and the only real lead we've got is Bison... Do you know anything about him? He was here longer than I was, I think."

"That CREEP?"

Welp, she was definitely awake now. Still pretty miserable looking, with her long black hair all messy and her face still pale, but the mention of his name was enough to make her sit up, the blanket falling away from her pajamas.

"Yeah, I know about him. A long while back, before you showed up, he kidnapped a bunch of people and forced Harry and several others to fight in order to rescue the hostages. He wanted to see what kind of powers and fighting styles everyone had."

She'd rescued a bossy talking cat herself, but as Sailor Mars, not Raye Hino.

"You think he took her?" Raye rubbed at her eye, some of her anger fading to be replaced with weariness and concern.

Betelgeuse listened to her from out of sight, wishing she'd cough up something useful. He supposed it didn't hurt to have confirmation that the guy was a jerkoff, but hell. A lot of people thought that about Betelgeuse, too...namely Raye, so far as he could tell. He shifted impatiently, barely keeping from demanding specific information.

Keep your stripey suit on, Beets, Jaune's working on it!

Honestly he's surprised at how spirited Raye gets about Bison. Maybe he shouldn't be so surprised, but he is. "Yeah, we think he took her... Any idea where he usually hangs out?" He gets right to the point then, because BJ is being a little... antsy. "We want to look into what he's been doing. I think we've got someone who can get in there and check things out - we just need to know where to look."

Raye leaned back, looking thoughtful. "I'm not sure...but there's a guy on his payroll that takes bribes. He might be able to tell you. If you can get him an autograph from someone famous, and make it look inconspicuous when you trade it for information, find Balrog. He'll do anything for money."

She still remembered the big burly boxer, who'd intentionally thrown the fight for the sake of Sailor Mars's autograph. A strange fight, but she couldn't rightly object since she'd been able to rescue Salem.

"Wait, this guy takes autographs as payment? Or money... Wow," Jaune didn't even know what to say about something like that. But that left him with some tasks: find Balrog, and have something to bribe him with.

"Well that's something..." He says, looking over to BJ (who Raye totally can't see), "... You know anybody famous?"

"Uh, back home I do sure. I know plenty of famous ghosts. I could forge a signature or two," Betelgeuse assured him.

"Yeah, he's more loyal to his bank account than to Bison," Raye sighed, leaning back again.

Until she heard a certain ghost's voice.

Suddenly she was sitting straight up, covering herself completely with the blanket, and staring DAGGERS at the viewscreen. "That had better not be who I think it is," she growled through grit teeth.

Jaune practically jumped as Raye turned into a ferocious she-beast of rage yet again - this time at Betelgeuse's presence. He looked to Betes, then back to the phone a couple times. "What? Well, I guess it depends on who you think it is--" Jaune began to answer, but then looking to Betes again, he kind of got all flustered. "Uh, hey, look at that! I need to go. Investigating to do. A Guardian's work is never done!"

He smiled brightly and waved to Raye. "Bye! Try not to push yourself too hard!"

He hangs up the call then quickly, and lets out a breath. "Well, I don't know anyone famous here either, really... Since this place is just, you know, it's own place..." He says, turning his attention fully to the ghost. Then he got to figuring...

"Say... you any good at acting?" He asks, cocking a brow, "You might not be famous here... but you can pretend, right? If we find this guy, we can totally lie our way to victory - right?"

Yang? Yang! Yaaaaang! [Action for Jaune and Ren! Also open.]

[Ring-ring, Raye!]

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