Scrapyard Fiasco

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Location: Truesdale Scrapyard
September 21st. 12pm. Thorn and Edison for now.

It was a sunny day. Not one of Edison's favorite weather, but it beats going to the scrapyard in the rain!

Anyway, he made a new friend two days ago, and his name is Thorn Amethyst. They got acquainted over the unfortunate potato incident where he can still feel the soreness of his nose. Edison did ruined some of the things in Thorn's workshop. To make up for it, Edison decided to invite Thorn to the local scrapyard, where, in Edison's opinion is a pile of treasure trove if scrapyard owner isn't such a stingy person.

Fortunately, money isn't a problem at the moment, Edison happen to bring quite a sum of cash with him just for this occasion. He hoped that he could get something useful out of this trip.

At the moment, he just waits for Thorn at the entrance of the scrapyard. He didn't mind the waiting, after all he did arrive a few minutes earlier.

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Thorn had come running up to the entrance rather excited, despite how many times he got hurt in the scrap yard he did enjoy hunting down scrap and parts that could be of use, well that was what he was thinking in till he tripped on his own boot, landing face first in the dirt not to long after, he got back up though, made his way over to Edison a bit slower. Course what the ground did was less damaging then what a flying potato did by knocking one of his front teeth from his mouth.

"I'm okay, eheh~ So! ready?" Thorn asked cheerfully as he brushed the dirt from himself.

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Edison looked kinda shocked when Thorn tripped and fell, but looked relieved when he got back up and walked to him.

"Are you alright?" He asked, a little concern. He nodded when Thorn reassures him that he's fine. "Yeah, let's go in then."

He started walking into the scrapyard with Thorn.

When they got in though, there are just piles and piles of junk, scrap and parts lying around. Edison went to inspect a small pile nearby.

"Ooooh, I think I found an engine." He said as he pokes at something.

Unbeknownst to them, a group of thugs had made camp in the scrapyard.

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Thorn had started looking around the junk yard, mostly looking for smaller things like cogs, springs and such. Saul had likely made him wear full fingers gloves due to his clumsiness."Does it still work?" he asked looking back at Edison. He was unaware of a the thugs, but something was telling him to be cautious. "Your face still doesn't hurt does it?" he added.

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"I'm not sure, I need a good look at it..."

Edison started pulling out a part that looks like an engine, this cause an small explosion of dust which makes him cough a bit.

"Gack!" He squinted his eyes and made a face. When the dust cleared he started to inspect it. "Hrm... it looks alright, but it needs to get cleaned...." He turns to look at Thorn when he asked about his nose. "Oh, it's still a bit sore but it'll be alright... what about you?"

One of thugs decided to take a stroll from the group and notices two people in the scrapyard. He grins and stayed out of sight, the thug decided to observe for a while before he went to inform his group leader.

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Thorn went over to see if he could help and get it out, but the explosion of dust caught him, and started sneezing violently an hacking. "Aaack!" once it cleared, he could finely breath, but was still waving the dust away.

"Some cleaning would definitely do." he agreed with a slight chuckle. "Well, my mouth isn't bleeding anymore, but it's alright...weird having a gap there now."he chuckled. unaware of the fact they where being watched.

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Edison puts on his goggles to stop dust from getting into his eyes, ever again. He should done that before scavenging for the part. Ugh, how silly of him!

"Well, we should see if there's anymore parts." Edison said as he puts the engine in the box he carried with him into the scrapyard. "Ouch...." Edison wince. "Well, at least that's one less tooth you'll have to worry about falling off when you get old!" He jokes when he picks up the box.

The thug noted that they looked quite rich. He turn to go back to his group, but me accidentally made a part crash from it's pile. The noise was quite loud, and the thug swore silently, but he manage to get away before anyone saw him.

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After the dust had cleared, Thorn had slipped his own goggles down for any future dust explosion events that would happen in the scrap yard. "Lets, an while that is true, My elder brother still flipped out over it." he chuckled as he followed Edison. Looking around at the scrap piles as they walked.

Thorn perked hearing the noise, looking over to where it came, not seeing the thing person that caused the noise, but only the possible object. "Edison are we the only people here?" He questioned, he also questioned himself if that was a stupid question to ask.

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"Ah, over protective isn't he?" Edison said as he walk towards another scrap pile and inspect it. He looked up when he heard a crash.

"I...I'm not quite sure." Edison answered Thorn's question with uncertainty. "But it might just be something that gotten too close to an edge and the wind blew it off." Edison continues with a shrug, before resume inspecting the pile, preferring not to jump to conclusions.

The thug had ran back to his group, and told them of what he saw. The group leader, Cadfer, is a medium built man with short red hair and a scar across his left cheek. He grins at the news.

"Looks like we're getting ourselves some fat lambs tonight..."

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"..Ahh Likely, and yes my brother very much is." Thorn Laughed as he turned back to Edison. "But I love him none the less~" Thorn hummed. Yes, no matter how much of a pain in the butt Saul was, or how much he complained about him, Thorn was very grateful to have him. "Hmm, know any good places around here to find cogs?"

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Edison smiled as Thorn laughed when mentioning his brother. "I have too much brothers..." He said, it was quite competitive in his family... not to mention sometimes rowdy.

"Hrmm, probably over there." Edison pointed to a pile not far away when Thorn asked where to find cogs. He's not sure himself actually, just pointed to a general direction where he found cogs last time.

Cadfer riles up his group and henchmen, and made their way towards Thorn and Edison.

They would have surrounded them by the time they realize it. Cadfer walked up to them first, grinning, and making no effort to conceal the saber and gun strapped to his waist.

"Hello there boys, looking for something?"

Edison looked up and around him, before staring at the red haired thug near them. "Oh dear."

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"Eh? how many do you have if it's okay to pry?" Thorn replied as his mind wondered, then Edison pointed out the area they could likely find cogs, causing Thorn to give a smile. He had started digging though a pile looking for cogs by time the gang had gotten there. Unfortunately when he realized they where surrounded he felt like he had swallowed a rock.

He slowly made his way back over, he was nervous about being attacked and the sight of the saber did not help that, he had left any form of self defense at home as he did not need it much to his knowledge. "Er..just..mechanic parts is all.." Thorn mumbled, keeping close to Edison.

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"I have 8 elder brothers and sisters." Edison replies. He loves his family, but living with such a large crowd under the same roof is a little too much for him. "And, if I start telling you each of their quirks and silly behaviors, it'll be sunset by the time I finish." Edison joked, feeling at ease with Thorn while scavenging for parts at the moment.

But that feeling didn't last long.

Edison stayed close with Thorn and glances at the people surrounding them, he counted, 12...no 15 people? This is quite a large group....and it doesn't bode well for either of them.

"Y-yeah... we're just looking for parts. We paid the gatekeeper too!"

Cadfer drew his saber, and idly balance the back of the blade on his shoulder. He raise an eyebrow and made a sly smile. "Really? Didn't the gatekeeper tell you that this is our turf?"

Several of his men snickers, but other wise surrounding Thorn and Edison and watching them closely.

"You know, you can't just come scavenging without our permission. However.... we could turn a blind eye this time, providing you have this." Cadfer said as rubs his index finger and his thumb together.

The gesture is obvious, he wants money.

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Sadly Thorn couldn't reply to Edison as they had been surrounded after he said that, watching the man play with his saber made him more and more nerves, and was starting to have thoughts about if this is what it was like when his parents faced the pirates that would later... He had started trembling.

His mind was to far lost now to even comprehend what the man was telling them, his mind was more lost in the thoughts of how long would it be before Saul, Crash, Anita, or even Sarina knew he was even missing? and by then would he be dead? not to mention Edison, would anyone even be looking for his new friend? talk about a terrible timing..

Poor Edison was alone with doing the talking for now, as Thorn was to deep in worst scenarios of what could happen to them.